THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
CHILLY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88. No. 68
Wednesday December 7,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Women's sports seeking state aid
By MARY HOENR
Staff Writer
Women's athletics representatives last night launched a letter-writing campaign to the governor and state legislators to push for legislation. Women's Intercollegiate Athletic program.
The representatives of several women's sports are encouraging women athletes to write to Gov. Robert Bennett in the next 10 days to urge him to recommend to the Kansas Legislature an allocation of $84,000 for the women's program.
Whether Bennett recommends state funding of women's athletics to the legislature, the representatives decided they would start writing to Kansas legislators before the legislature reconvenes in January.
THE WOMEN'S athletic department is seeking state financial support after the Student Senate voted last spring to eliminate its athletics from its budget to fund the athletes.
The Student Senate voted to end funding of the women's athletic program, according to Steve Leben, student body president, because it was viewed as the University's responsibility to fund intercollegiate athletics.
Leben had said it was the University's responsibility to comply with the provisions of Title IX, which takes full effect for athletics July 21, 1978.
THE LETTERS, according to Nancy Lambros, St. Louis senior and representative of the field hockey team, are an at-attention athletics show to their support of the program.
Title IX says (Section 86.41) that "equal athletic ability for members of both teams may be provided."
"It should be the most effective means of affecting the governor," Lambros said. "I just hope the legislators listen and take heed."
The letters are to include a description of the development of the program, a statement about increasing operating costs and comparisons to other regional state
The letters also include an explanation of KU's grant and aid program set up by the Williams Educational Fund, a resource that helps make men's and women's sports equitable.
This year the Williams Fund provided $30,000 in women's athletic scholarships. The amounts will be increased over a five year period to a total of $150,000 or an amount equal to funding of KU men's nonrevenue sports.
Mary Stauffer, Topea sophomore and tennis representative, suggested distribution of a fact sheet on women's athletics at women's basketball games as a means of gaining public awareness of the program's financial situation.
Legislature to delay retirement plan action
Staff Writer
Bv BRIAN SETTLE
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes told SenEx members yesterday that they should not expect the Kansas Legislature to take final action on a proposed early faculty retirement plan during the coming legislative session.
Dykes appeared before SenEx with Del Shankel, executive vice-chancellor, upon invitation from William Westerbeke, SenEx chairman.
"It would be very difficult for the legislature to get proposals through the various committees and digest the issue before it can make a final decision by then." Dykes said.
The Kansas Board of Regents has proposed a plan that would begin faculty retirement at age 62. Mandatory retirement age at KU is now 70.
KU FACULTY MEMBERS have rejected the Regents plan, and Facex, along with the Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responses. They have also emphasized a new resolution for early retirement.
Under the Regents plan, a professor retiring at arce 62 would health insurance coverage and 60 per cent of his former income for only one year following his retirement. After that, according to the plan, he would receive benefits from an insurance fund and another investment fund to which professors contribute about five per cent of their annual salaries.
In early November, the University Faculty Council approved resolutions opposing the Regents plan, calling it a possible financial penalty for retiring instructors. The resolution also called for staged partial retirement and continuation of health insurance coverage to age 70.
THE RESOLUTIONS, drawn up by the FRPR Committee, were forwarded to the Council of Presidents, which comprises the head officials of the Reegens institutions.
Dykes told SenEx that no formal action had been taken by the Council of Presidents concerning the early retirement plan, but the KU plan had been received favorably.
Dykes told SenEx that one reason for the slowness in acting on the plan was the concern the University had for developing the best possible retirement plan.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Nine charged in organized crime
CLEVELAND—An FBI agent says the indictment of nine alleged Costa Nostra members could be "the most significant action that has been made to date against any single organized crime family in the United States." The nine individuals have been charged with racketeering, for hire, aggravated arson and engaging in organized crime. See story page two.
Nuclear foes suggest alternative
TOPEKA- In an effort to stop the construction of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant, the Mid-America Coalition for Energy Alternatives has asked the Kansas Corporation Commission to convert a Kansas Gas & Electric Co. plant to an electric power plant. The coal would be about the same as building a new plant. See story page two.
BEIRUT, Lebanon—A studied silence has been Syria's only reaction to Egypt's announcement that it was seizing diplomatic relations, but Iraq accused Egyptian President Anwar Sadat of trying to throw the Arab world into a state of war. A second move could be breaking diplomatic ties with Moscow. See story page two.
Arabs decry Sadat's latest actions
MANHATTAN—Some Kansas State University students are unhappy with plans to build a student-funded recreation center on the north end of campus, a site the students say is too distant from the central part of campus. Petitions are calling for building a new field house on the site and turning Ahearn Field House into a recreation center. University officials, however, are opposed to that idea. See story page five.
KSU students oppose center site
Locally...
About 20 miles from Lawrence, around the small community of Centropolis, live a group of gentle, traditional and devout religious people commonly known as Dunkers. Covey Wray, an 80-year-old native of Boston, is one such person. In his Baptist Church there, is one of the believers in church's orthodox teachings. See story, photos page six.
Wray
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Standing outside his business, Gene Johnson takes a look at construction of the new Kansas River Bridge to the south. Johnson has lived in North Lawrence, most of his life and thinks that "his" side of town is ready to make a comeback
Neighborhood stays distinct as it changes
By JANE PIPER Staff Writer
Staff Writer
Proprietor
Connected to Lawrence only by the Kansas River Bridge, North Lawrence is characterized by many low-income families and "a significant share of elderly, handicapped and minorities.
Once a bustling hub along the Union Pacific railroad tracks, North Lawrence today stands blighted, yet proud. It has remained distinct from other areas of the state as wide as the Kansas River that separates them.
A drive through the community of about 2,000 people reveals deteriorating houses side-by-side with industry, grain elevators, railroad tracks and garden plots. Almost 20 per cent of the streets are in poor condition and sidewalks are nonexistent in many areas.
Yet, a closer look shows ongoing renovation in the small commercial district along Locust Street and a growing number of new or rehabilitated homes. A slight change, perhaps, but enough that some North Lawrence neighborhood leaders say things might be changing.
"NORTH LAWRENCE is beginning to lose its stigma," Heather Rice, 746 Locust St. said. She had appeared before the city commission to report that the city rumped by water from rust-encrusted city lines.
According to Muriel Paul, leader of the North Lawrence Planning Council, the changes are a result of the difference in the people now setting in North Lawrence.
The challenge of buying a house for less than $40,000 has driven many young and retired couples to North Lawrence where prices are considerably lower, Paul said. Even though the young people often leave when they have moved in, the effect on the neighborhood is still positive, she said.
Although a recent housing survey assessed 90 per cent of the houses in North Lawrence at less than $15,000, current real-estate listings indicate that prices are much higher, often in the $20.000 to $30.000 range.
THE PRICES EXIST in an area where 43 per cent of the houses are in some stage of deterioration, according to the same survey. Thomas Galloway, professor of architecture and urban design and a researcher on the survey, attributed the poor condition of the homes to age, flood damage in 1981, poor quality of original construction and a lack of upkeep by low-income occupants.
North Lawrence has been home to an industrial working class since its earliest years. After William Clarke Quantrill, pro-slavery raider, razed much of Lawrence in 1863, mechanics, laborers and working men of all races filled North Lawrence.
Its early growth came with the establishment of sawmills and a lumber trade in 1865, shortly after the land was purchased from the Delaware Indians. The railroad had the greatest effect when it came through in 1864 and brought new people, homes and industries. A small business district sprang up with grocers and a retail market and a newspaper office. The district, historically called North Lawrence, thrived until it was destroyed during the flood of 1903.
See NEIGHBORHOOD page 12
Schneider delays candidacy announcement
Bv DIRCK STEIMEL
TOPEKA—Kansas Aty. Gen. Curt Schneider said last night that he was "probably planning" to run for governor in 1978, but that he would withhold his candidacy announcement until after the first of the year.
Staff Writer
Schneider said that he had important reasons for withholding his candidacy announcement and was not holding out merely to draw attention to his campaign.
Schneider addressed about 30 reporters and journalism instructors at the Topeka
"I'm doing a lot of soul-searching before I decide whether I'd run for governor, but I won't let anyone talk me into or out of running." Schneider said.
SCHNEIDER SAID HE would not care who might run against him in either the Democratic primary or the general election.
Of the other gubernatorial prospects,
Speaker of the House John Carlin, D-
Smoan, has also delayed announcing his
nomination, while Republican nomination,
while State Sen. Bert Chaney,
D-Hutchison, is the only Democrat to
publicly declare his candidacy for the office.
Robert Bennett announced his can-
demination the Republican nomination early last week.
The main issues of the 1978 governor's campaign, Schneider said, will be tax, efficiency in government and the protection of citizens from crime and bad government programs.
Schneider said he thought the press had been set up in the Joplin incident early this fall, and someone had set him up to hurt his political career.
SCNEIDER WAS thought to be the front-runner for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination until photographs of him with an aerial view of his doppelgänger, Joplin, Moe, motel, were released Sept. 13.
He denied all accusations of wrongdoing in the Joplin case, maintaining that he was the victim.
Schneider said the controversy had influenced his thoughts on campaigning for governor. Immediately after the pictures were released, he wanted to get out of public office, he said.
SCNIEIDER CRITICIZED the Kansas not for being objective in its coverage
of the legislature. He said he was disappointed with editors who often wrote knee-jerk reactions instead of forming reasonable opinions, and with reporters who, be said, were injecting opinions into their reporting.
Schneider said he thought there should be some regulations on the press, but would not support legislative action to regulate press or further such action could be carried too far.
Schneider suggested that a single state political columnist be syndicated across the state to help give Kansans facts and differing opinions on activity in Tooeka.
"Most Kansans have a better sense of what's going on in Washington than they do of actions and opinions in Topeka," Schneider said.
Local farmers have mixed opinions on strike
By CAROL HUNTER
Staff Writer
Hundreds of Kansas farmers left home on tractors yesterday on a drive to Topeka for a farm strike rally Saturday. However, some Lawrence farmers interviewed this week said they planned to stay home and continue marketing their products.
"I have sympathy with it," one farmer said, "but I'm not going to be driving any vehicles today."
Nine of 16 local farmers interviewed by phone said they would not support the nationwide farm strike scheduled to begin Dec. 14. When interviewed six weeks ago, 18 of them supported the strike. Four farmers favor the strike compared with two farmers six weeks ago.
A farmer opposing the strike, Jim
Congrove, Route 4, said, "I don't think it would be effective. There's such a large number of farms and I think such a small percentage would join."
According to I.J. Stoneback, Route 4, a strike supporter, some farmers won't join the strike because it would not provide economic advantage by not participating. If most farmers support a strike, but a few continue to sell their products, the farmers could be held liable for higher prices caused by the strike, he said.
However, three of the four farmers supporting the strike said they thought enough farmers would participate to make the strike effective. They said they would refuse to market products, plant crops or buy equipment.
Their purpose is to secure what they
Other farmers either will not disclose their positions or are undecided.
Woodrow Reed, Route 3, sued. "Farmers are going to have to do something to get a farm out."
consider a fair return for farm products in relation to the goods they buy. Farmers are demanding 100 per cent parity for their crops.
Leroy George, Route 3, a Baldwin dairy farmer, said dairy farmers could not unite in a strike because the differences in their operations with farmers raising grains.
Other farmers can withhold grain and livestock from the market until decreased supply raises prices, he said, but holding milk destroys it.
Four national farm organizations in the past have helped to organize the various types of farmers. But the National Farmers Union, which was formed by the Union and Grange are prohibited by law from supporting the strike movement. It is illegal for an organization to support another organization, although members usually can decide to support the strike.
Even farmers who want to take part in the strike may not be able to survive it, according to Eugene Nunenmaker, Route 4, who does not support the strike. Then the strike would be useless, if ever it succeeded in portaging and raising grain prices, he said.
"If you've already lost your farm, it won't do you a hell of a lot of good," he said.