Wednesday, November 16, 197
University Daily Kansan
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City to ignore gas company error
Bv HENRY LOCKARD
The Lawrence City Commission voted last night not to go to court against Kansas Public Gas Service (KPGS), which is building a new facility to collect earlier because of a company error.
Staff Writer
The Federal Power Commission had authorized the rate increase last January. In August, KPGS discovered a loss of $78,59.10 because it had failed to charge the
increased rate for a seven-month period beginning Jan. 23.
Milton Allen, city attorney, said the loss occurred because of "oversight, omission or error" by KPGS. Mayor Marie Argersinger called it slowly bookkeeping.
Donald Binns, city commissioner, voted against the opinion. He said that it would be worth the money to take the case to court to protect consumers.
Inspection . . .
But Argersinger said she did not want to
From name one
alarm is required if the building has a 1,000
person capacity or 200 worker employees.
The alarm system in Watson, a manual pull-wish system, in an approved alarm system.
TWO EXITS and an automatic emergency illumination system are required on
Hickman said Watson met those requirements because its emergency exit system was satisfactory and there were at least two exits on each floor.
an emergency exit system is a back-up source of power for use in case of power failure. A back-up system is required by the fire code in all places of assembly, which can be controlled by pneumatics. The system must turn on automatically when electricity is cut.
The adequacy of the back-up system in Allen Field House was questioned yesterday by Larry Laubhan, fire inspector who checked the field house Monday.
Because the field house is a place of assembly, it requires a type-one system, like the following.
A TYPE-ONE system would restore all power to a building for at least one-half hour
However, the field house system is
Senate removes three senators
Three student senators were permanently removed and six were reinstated into the Senate.
Doug Ferguson, Wichita senior; Steve Hamous, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, senior, and Kim Stites, Manhattan sophomore, were removed because of absences.
Another senator, Jim Muehlberger,
Leawood senior, resigned.
Reinstated were Ruth Benien, Norton junior; Paula Bush, Prairie Village senior; Jai Riggs, Prairie Village junior; Dave Dyer, Leawood senior; Debbie Seducorek, Bonner Springs junior, and Tom O'Connor, Overland Park senior.
An appeal was denied last night to con-
sider funding at tonight's meeting for Re-
d. Scott Baird.
KANSAN On Campus
Events
TODAY: Del Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism, will present the FACULTY FORUM, "The Public's Right to Know vs. Personal Rights of Privacy," at noon in the United Ministries in the Higher Education Center. 1294 Oread St.
TONIGHT: Mark Holmberg will present a CARILON RECITAL at 7. A SINGLE PARENT FILM and discussion will be at 7:30 in the Union's Kansas Room. Paul Dibon of the Sorbonne, Paris, will present a CLASSICS LECTURE, "The Dutch Republic in France," at 7:30 in the 19th Century Europe, at 7:30 in the Union's Council Room. The SLAVIC LIFES, "Ashes," will be shown at 7:30 in Bailey Auditorium. Chancellor Emeritus RAYMOND NICHOLS will present a Higher Education Week Lecture, "KU Traditions: Past and Present," at 7:30 in the Union's Forum Room. KU CHAMBER ENSEMBLE will present a faculty recital at 8 in Swarthout AMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN will 7 in the Council Room in Watkins Scholarship Hall.
TOMORROW: University WOMEN'S CLUB will tour the KU Medical Center all day. Adult Lif Resource Center's LUNCH and LEARN SCIENCE will sponsor "The New Homemaker" at noon at the Plymouth St. HALLMARK VISITING ARTIST Leisure Series will sponsor Players, artist and associate professor of art from California State University, who will speak at 14:58 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium. DEL SHAKEL, executive vice chancellor, who recently returned a trip to the University of Nigeria for a discourse exchange of faculty and students between the two universities at 3 p.m. in the Union's Council Room. UNIVERSITY SENATE will meet at 3:30 p.m. in woodruff Auditorium. A PSYCHOLOGY COLLOQUIUM will feature the Price of Education of the University of Nigeria for a discourse exchange of "Assessment of Change in Social Environments" at 4 p.m. in 547 Fraser Hall. CAMPUS VETERANS will meet at 6 p.m. in the Union's Council Room. There will be a SUA BRIDGE TOURNAMENT at 6:30 p.m. in the Union's Kanska Room. KU SAILING ASSOCIATION will meet at 6:30 p.m. in Parlors. KU HONORS STUDENT Association will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Union's Forum Room. PRE-NURSING CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the International Room. Diane Tebeh will perform a STUDENT RECITAL on the horn of the band. KU WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS will meet at 8 p.m. in the Union's Regionalist Room. KU BALLOOING CLUB will meet at 8 p.m. in the Union.
probably a type-two system, which of the lights and exit systems. Laughaham sai
The state code requires that places of assembly that accommodate 1,000 or more persons have type-one emergency exit systems.
The field house's diesel-powered back-up system supplies electricity to nine overhead lights in the arena area and to the exit lights.
spend any more money on the matter in court because KPGS did not want to go to
However, no other emergency lighting is provided on the three floors, corridors or staircases.
ACCORDING TO the code, both type-one and type-two systems require that beacons or other lights illuminate stairs, doorways and corridors.
Llauban he would check with the Fire Marshal's office to see whether the building was structurally sound.
In other action, the commission became the last of three donors to approve local plans for a new elementary school in the Douglas County Child Development Association. The county commission approved the proposal Nov. 7 and the United States Department of Education approved the commission passed it unanimously.
Although the code requires a type-one system for the field house, if the existing system is accepted by the fire marshal, the fire department must declare deficiencies because of the prohibitive cost.
The excess funds were created because the federal department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS) could not meet state and local funds with federal funds.
Shirley Phillips, a representative of the child development association, said the association had $6,400 in excess funds required by year and expected to have $2,520 next year.
She said the association proposed that a scholarship account be established in a local bank. The scholarship could pay one-half the savings for children from low-income families.
The proposal also provided for an administrator to handle the funds. The administrator will be paid from the total funds donated. Phillips said.
The scholarships not only will benefit the children eligible to receive them but also will reduce the number of parents or older students in the school to their jobs to watch a child at home, he said.
After a long discussion, the commission denied a request by Glen Hildebrand, 1515 Stratford Road, owner of Hillcrest Hardware, to rezone an 0.04 acre tract, 150 feet wide and 230 feet deep, in the wedgegier Elementary School, from multiple family to limited-commercial zoning.
Hildebrand said the rezoning was necessary for his business. He said his business lacked space to serve customers in his present building.
He said he needed to move to the new site to meet increasing rent costs and to serve customers.
NOTICE
From: Office of the Student Senate Treasurer
Hildebrand said that his new building would serve as a buffer to the residential district against the development of more undesirable businesses.
To: All Organizations allocated funds by the Student Senate from the Student Activity Fee
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These rules apply to all Activity Fee-funded groups and their officers, including groups who receive mid-year funding and newly-scheduled officers who wish to gain access.
A Treasurer's Training Session has been scheduled for:
Ed Carter, city commissioner, said that the limited commercial zoning desired by him and his prowess in types of businesses and just hardwork also said that the people who bought land in that neighborhood thought that they would suffer against further business development.
The buffer should take the form of duplex apartments or undeveloped lots, not another type.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 7:30 p.m.
INTERNATIONAL Room,
Level 5. Kansas Univ.
Please contact the Student Senate Treasurer's office at 864-3746 to sign up for this session, or for more information.
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Dale Siliex, 2133 Westdale Road, argued against the rezoning. He said that if the commission granted variance to one man, he would not be able to sign the agreement. He said the sum ordinance was an example.
The Oct. 1975 sign ordinance required businesses to have permanently glowing signs and not flashing signs. Variance was given to a food service business on 23rd Street that displayed a flashing sign inside the building the sign was placed so that it was visible to cars.
Orville Voth, 2412 Westdale, the newest member in the neighborhood, said he objected to the rezoning because the area had been decommuted that it would not be zoned commercial.
"How can you deny me?" Sillix asked the commission. "We must prevent nibbling at property owners, preventing chipping into property edges, so we be able to blockade expansion," Sillix said.
Committee recommends Kansan improvements
During a fall review last night, members of the Student Senate Communications Committee suggested three improvements for the University Daily Kansas.
Don Green, Communications Committee chairman, said he would write a letter to Del Shankman, executive vice chancellor, urging that he be on the committee's recommendations.
The committee suggested:
- That more and bigger distribution boxes be provided, especially in front of Wescoe Hoskinson Park.*
- That the Kansan hire a full-time person to serve as publisher and general manager of Kansan.
- That the Kansan be distributed earlier in the day, and that it be accomplished with more efficient use of employees of the farming Service, where the Kansan is printed.
Jerry Seib, Kansan editor, said that distribution boxes either were being
repaired or replaced. Eventually, he said, all of the smaller boxes would be repaired.
Also under consideration, he said, are plans to distribute the Kansan earlier in the year.
"There's nothing we would like better than to have a real morning newspaper, Sahara."
Seib said that the new director of the printing service, John Sayler, had discussed the possibility of adding a work shift that would begin earlier than the current 5 a.m. starting time. The paper then would be printed and distributed earlier, he said.
Dave Dary, current Kansas publisher,
serves as an associate professor of jour-
nalism.
The Kansan possibly could hire a full-time publisher who might also serve as Kansan news advert. Seh said, but if such a full-time publisher existed, it would not be until at least next year.
Bomb hoax delays exam
A managerial accounting test is bad enough news for many students. Throw in a bomb hoax, though, and it may be an evening completely wasted.
KU police evacuated more than 250 people from Summerfield Hall about 8 p.m. yesterday after a bomb threat was made. University operator about 30 minutes earlier.
Faculty, employees and six classrooms of students taking a Business 241 test were told to leave the building, but no bomb was found by three officers in a search of the five-story
--are eligible for the ACU-I Regional to be held in Manhattan Feb. 3-4 (Note: Full-time student status required to qualify for the regional—Anyone can play)
The evacuees returned to the outing about 8:25 p.m., police said.
Lynn Thomas, associate professor of business, had given his class the two-hour test about 7:30 p.m. About 8 p.m., he said, "I'm ready." The teacher announced that the students should leave.
Thomas said he didn't think the threat was a prank meant to postpone or cancel the test, the third such test of the semester and the second said supposedly the easiest of the three.
--are eligible for the ACU-I Regional to be held in Manhattan Feb. 3-4 (Note: Full-time student status required to qualify for the regional—Anyone can play)
SUA DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB Coming Attractions
KU Bridge Tournament
WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 17, 6:30 p.m.
First and second place finishers
WHERE: Kansas Room, Student Union
COST: $2.00 per person
Continent-Wide Charity Game
WHEN: Monday, Nov. 21,
7:15 p.m.
WHERE: Big Eight Room, Union
COST: $2.25 per person
- Computer-dealt hands
- Sectional rating
Expert analyses available after the game
Everyone welcome (No KU affiliation required!)
Come and compare your skill, from players all across the United States!
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT MIKE McGHEHEY (PH 842-7979) OR THE SUA OFFICE (PH 864-3477)