Glover trades statehouse for courthouse
Bv BLAKE GUMPRECHT
Staff Reporter
FREDONIA--Mike Glover was standing in the town square of his new home proudly pointing out what this southeastern Kansas community of barely 3,000 has to offer.
There was the new town hall in the center of the square, a plush bauble a couple of thieves away from the building.
complete with five replacements and the city of orlando.
This town even has two newspapers, he boasts.
Instore event managers helpers headlms.
He exchanges greetings with a couple of new found friends and he hello to strangers as they pass by his office in the inverted bank on the southwest corner of the square.
"I could spend my whole life in a place like this," begin Glover, who had spent the past 22 years in Chicago. "We're not the only city as one of the city's legislators for four terms." "I don't see how anybody could have trouble living in a town like Chicago."
Life has changed dramatically for Glover—"Martijana Mike," the left-wing Lawrence Democrat to his critics in the Legislature before his resignation last month.
He net it wearing cow boots or a Stetton just yet.
And his office sterner isn't tuned to the local country
"I like the environment here and I like the job," he says. "That's what's important."
**JUST** A month since he moved herepermanently, a friend of a friend, Glover appears to have a adjusted to small living.
Glover, an alumnus of KU and a 1979 graduate of Washburn University's law school, is a member of the only twoattorney law office in Fredonia. He has also been appointed to a district judgment in Wilson County.
His partner, Laurel McClellan, does most of the pre-trial preparations while Glover makes the court verdicts.
"I like to think of myself as the trigger man," Mike says. "I'm the guy who goes out and duels Wyatt
Glover might be exaggerating just a bit. Most of his case, however, is commercial and financial, investment, juvenile and misdemeanor.
STILL, HE insists the job of small town lawyer is more litigation than legislative work.
"I think I'm more directly affecting people's lives than I was as a legislator," he explains. "You have three branches of government, 164 members of the House and 8 hard to see any tangible effect that you're having."
"You feel an immediacy or need and a direct
Glover's colorful career, during which he acquired a reputation for championing the cause of the underdog, began in 1969 when he was 22 and he ran unsuccessfully for the office of state representation.
dependence on your ability to persuade you. You can't afford to make a mistake. In the Legislature
After a two-year stint in the Army, he returned to Lawrence to run for the House in a new district created because of the beginning of the 18-year-old vote.
THE STATE'S 44th District included most of the city's student population. Glover's progressive ideas, particularly his drive to change the drug laws, helped protect him in 1972 at age 25.
Republican challengers failed in three succeeding elections to drive him from office.
But frankly, he says, after spending seven springs in Topeka, the whole job was getting a bit boring.
In Ispock, the university teaches year after year, he says. He would fight for the University's budget requests, sponsor bills to lessen the penalties for possession of marijuana and lobby on juvenile issues.
"When I started out back in 1968 I felt as if I were to be a great servant of the people," he says.
"The whole legislative process is so damn slow. They never seem to want to make a hard decision—they're more interested in following than leading. They figure it easy just to out something off."
"But it's really hard to see any effect you're having on the society."
"FOR A lot of them the entire session is just one party right after another."
Glever says that the Legislature's sluggishness was caused in his constant pushe to ease the state's drug laws.
“Most of the legislators recognized that the laws were pretty absurd,” he explains. “I think it was more a fear of a public backlash than a fear of the law itself that prevented a change from being made.”
During the 1977 legislative session Glover was the subject of a court civil inquiry after admitting publicly that he had smoked marijuana regularly for several years and that pot was his "cocktail."
"I think put it could be decriminalized within the next 20 years," he says. "But I don't think any legislature will make the decision. They're too worried about reelection. The courts will make the decision."
IT WAS Glover's growing dissatisfaction with the Legislature, his desire to spend more time at home, and his own struggles.
from a friend" to join the Fredonia law firm, that triggered his resignation, he says.
"It was a factor," he admits. "But it wasn't the overriding element involved."
He denies, charges by some Democrats that he quit largely because he realized that he would have had little hope for re-election after legislative reapportionment shifted district lines considerably in
Glover says he had thoughts of seeking higher office before his resignation, but maintains that he had been a hard worker. He has denied rumors that he had his eye on the President, and said he seat now held by Republican Bob Cox of Alabama.
BUT HE says that he will remain active in the Democratic Party and is interested in helping both Gov. John Carlin and President Carter in their reelection bids.
"I think I'll always have the public service bag in me though. Who knows, maybe in 20 years or so I will have it and I'm going to keep my family life is squared away and I've built a base of legal friends—I'll run for attorney general or governor."
KANSAN
Friday, January 25, 1980
Vol. 90, No. 78
free on campus
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
USSR, Britain react to speech
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Shadow washer
JEEF HARBING/Kansan staff
Unusually warm weather yesterday allowed Lawrence area residents to spend more time outdoors. Some took advantage of
the comfortably cool weather by washing her car as she did a woman did at the East 21st Street Car Wash, 720 E. 31st St. Her car was shaken up and was crackling with steam.
Carter's draft proposal draws varied reactions
From Kansan Staff and Wire Reports
After hearing of President Carter's plan to resume registration for the military draft, one KU student replied, "It's time to take out the old hockey skates."
Another jokingly said his whole fraternity had decided to go to Canada.
But many reacted soberly to the news, saying that, although they did not reish the thought of the draft, the country might need it.
Carter, in his state of the Union address Wednesday, said he would send legislation and budget proposals to Congress next month to "revitalize the Selective Service
The draft has been in mothballs since 1975. President Gerald Foley halted the draft because he was yesterday that preparations for registration of 18 million young American men could be completed.
The president also has said that any German conscript would be "fair" and would not include exemptions for college students, many of whom the披斯曼战 Army had defeated the Japanese.
Carter did not say whether he intended to register women and administration officials have said that was an "open question." But Mr. Carter underlined the answer to service Act 73.
CONGRESS IS expected to quickly improve funding for a resumption of registration as the president already has
strong backing on registration from key congressional leaders, including Senate Democratic Leader Robert Bryd and House Speaker Thomas O'Neill.
House Republican Leader John Ribbons of Arizona said Carter had the "overwhelming support" of Republicans on the issue.
Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas said he was not surprised by Carter's announcement.
"I thought it was listening to a Republican for there a while," Dole said. "There was
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nothing exciting, nothing new. I think he will have the support of Congress in beeing up defense."
But while Carter's speech was greeted warmly by defense-minded legislators, it was denounced by civil liberties groups across the nation.
Jeff Friedman, eastern director of Students for a Libertarian Society, said true patriots would resist the tyranny of draft registration.
AND THE National Organization for Women attacked Carter's plan, charging that it was the first step in bringing back the "sexist and racist" draft.
Eleanor Smale, NOW president, said her group could not support any mandatory registration because of our long-standing relationship with the firm, with our determination to end discrimination.
"We favor the voluntary armed services, and we know that statistics prove that the
voluntary armed service is of higher quality than the drift service, and would be even more so if it were free of discrimination against women and minorities."
Barry Lynn, spokesman for the Committee Against Registration and the Draft, a religious and religious groups, promised picketing and demonstration if registration became a
IN LAWRENCE, the leader of the Kansas Anti-Draft Organization, Kerri Mummer, Topека senior, said she had thought the registration issue was dead.
"We're very upset that he's bringing back registration for the draft because the next step is the draft," Mommer said.
Art Williams, Wichita senior, said he also was opposed to registration.
"I think it's designed to get us into another war and to strengthen Carter's position before the upcoming election," he said.
Jim Scaley, administrative assistant to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, was a Conscientious Objector during the Vietnam War. He said he was opposed to "strictly military draft," but suggested that a form of national service system be enacted which would permit women between 18 and 22 years old to serve the country in some way for two years.
"When I was growing up, registration
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Local women to boycott hospital
By ANN SHIELDS
Staff Reporter
Boycott organizers said yesterday about 30 or 40 Lawrence women already were seeing doctors in Topeka and the greater Kansas City area.
Opponents of a Lawrence Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees' decision to not install a baby room say they will begin a city-wide boycott of the hospital today.
Jane Betty, who traveled to Topka Jan. 10 to have her child, Isaac Joseph, said she was annoyed with LMH's refusal to meet her needs.
"The Lawrence delivery room is just like an operating room," she said. "It's very cold and there are a lot of machines."
"But the birthing room was more like a hotel room. It was much less anastere, and it wasn't so mechanical. They didn't haul us out until we were ready to leave the room until 14 hours after I had the baby."
The LMH Board of Trustees approved the room when it was first discussed last year but changed its position when obstetricians questioned the room's safety.
The board defeated the birthing room proposal for the third time last month, asking doctors to study the proposal and present their findings in May.
**BUT KATYH Morris and Sue Elkins, cochairpersons of the Birthing Room Support Group, refuse to surrender.**
Elkins said her organization would work for the room "as long as people keep having babies."
Half of the patients of one of the Topeka doctors commute from Lawrence.
But Bob Campbell, community relations director for LMH, said the maternity ward was not a money-making operation.
enough pressure financially for the hospital to change its position."
"Women, if they need any major surgery or medical treatment, are going to back to the hospital where they had a good experience," she said.
The obstetricians said they opposed the room for safety reasons but would not elaborate.
Morris said, "We hope there will be
However, Elkins said the boycott could include more than childbirth.
They said that although a majority of the LMH medical staff $\mathrm{d}1.4\%$ 'oppose the room, the proposal was continually defeated by them in favour with LMH obstetricians' recommendations.
YET MORRIS and Elkins are skeptical about the proposal's chances before the board in May.
Electricity costs may drop 12%
These savings are directly attributable to Jeffrey Energy Center and our reduction in the amount of oil and gas used for electricity generation," Bryan said.
"But doctors here are much better at their offices," Morris said. "They just show up to catch the baby." Ekins said, "Childbirth is not an illness, but doctors in Lawrence still treat it as a disease."
Morris said she thought the doctors felt threatened because a birthing room could make them reduce their case load.
don't have anything to grab on to." Morris said. "They have never come out and said why they are against the room."
Doctors who use birthing rooms tend to limit their patients so they can be with them through labor until they go home, Morris said.
WOMEN CAN usually go home about six hours after giving birth in birthing rooms.
"The most frustrating thing is that we
Morris said, "Even hospitals in Salina and other small towns have birthing rooms."
St. Francis Hospital in Topeka is adding another birthing room because its first one was so popular, she said.
By CINDY WHITCOME
The reduction would mean a savings of $412 a month for apartment dwellers who use an average of 500 kilowatt hours a year. The project will be managed by a director manager of KPI, said yesterday.
Low production costs and removal of a state sales tax could reduce the average KU student's electricity bill by almost 12 per cent, say Kansas Power and light officials.
Jeffrey Energy Center is a coal-burning
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ANOTHER FACTOR in the reduction is a rate change that charges customers lower rates in winter months, considered to be October through May. In the summer months of June, July and August, consumers one-one-half cent more an hour for electricity.
Besides lower production costs, the repulse last year of a state sales tax on residential electricity will save KPL customers a total of $23,000 next month. Bryan said.
generating plant west of Topela. It started generating electricity in July 1978, and its capacity is expected to double next June when the plant is expanded.
"The concept on the rate change is that you have to stay warm in the winter,
KPL serves 40,000 Kansans in the western third of the state, including Topeka and Lawrence.
but you don't have to stay cool in the summer," Bryan said. "It's designed to encourage conservation in the summer months."
The reduction will not be as great for businesses that are customers of KPL. They will benefit from the cost reduction, but not from the tax relief. Bran said.
ED CHURCH, president of Lawrence Property Management, which owns several Lawrence apartment complexes, said he thought tenants whose utility bills were included in their rent would not receive a rent in rent if the electricity bills decreased.
Students who pay their electric bills directly will benefit from the decrease, but the effect on those whose utilities are paid on the apartment complex is uncertain, said Bryan.
"Our bills are going to go up because of the higher summer rates, especially for air conditioning," Church said. "We're allowed to raise the rent if it utility bills increase and we haven't. So I doubt we would lower the rate." The staff of the university have not noticed any change in the rates.
He said Jayhawker Towers was the only apartment complex he managed that included utilities in the rent.
Landlord-Tenant Act goes to vote Monday
BY STEVE YOUNG Staff Reporter
If more landlords and legislators understood a "self-help" amendment to the Landlord-Tenant Act, supporters say, the bill would pass easily.
But supporters say many misunderstand the bill, introduced by State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, and
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If the landlord objected to paying for the repairs, the tenant would have to file in small Claims Court to be reimbursed.
they don't know whether it will pass when the House Judiciary Committee votes on the measure Monday.
According to Solbach, the bill would give tenants with negligent landlords a quick and affordable legal means to get needed repairs done.
To be reimbursed, the tenant would have to give a receipt for the work, his next rent check and a filing fee to a district court clerk.
Under Solbach's bill, a tenant could have needed repair work done, at his own expense, if the landlord refused to do it.
Under the 1975 Landlord Tenant Act, which defined landlord and tenant responsibilities, tenants were given no right to claim landlord compliance, supporters say.
"There's no remedy for a tenant who's being neglected by his landlord." Sobbach said. "This bill puts a remedy in place for the tenant Act where one does not exist."
SUGH REPAIR costs would be limited to $100 or half a month's rent, whichever is higher. You must also responsibilities in the original act which requires compliance with safety, health
Opponents of the Solich bill say that it would raise rents because maintenance costs will not be given the right to repair property they don't own and that the bill would increase the cost.
State Rep. Vic Miller, D-Topea, said those objections were "just ludicrous."
Miller, a co-sponsor of the Solbach bill and member of the Judiciary Committee, said the bill was intended to enhance the 'essential necessities of living'
And he said landlords who properly maintained their properties would not have to worry about tenants making their own repairs.
The Associated Students of Kansas, the state student lobby, has led efforts in the last two weeks to get the Solbach bill passed.
If it passes, it'll be because of the work ASK has done on it," said Craig Templeton, KU's representative and chairman of the ASK board directors.
TEMPLETON SAID the lobby had thoroughly researched the bill and its effect in the 28 states where similar bills were enacted. The committee contacted each committee member and has asked students from across the state to write letters to their legislators.
ter, who is a past ASK executive
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