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Thursday, July 26, 1973
University Daily Kansan
View from the Hill
Morning mists hanging over the view from the campus to the east counterfeit a landscape obscured by pollution. Fifteenth Street fades into the haze in the distance.
City Considers Fate Of Library Building
Kansan Staff Writer
By KATHY HODAK
The old library building at Ninth and Vermont streets is becoming more of a white elephant each day. On Aug. 23, the 69-room building will have been standing vacant for one year.
The Lawrence City Commission decided Tuesday to offer the building for sale by bid, in a deal.
The Chamber of Commerce last week passed a resolution asking the city not to tear the building down but to preserve it for use, if economically feasible, as a historical museum.
The city has been unable to determine the fate of the old building ever since the new library at Seventh and Vermont streets opened last August.
MAYOR NANCY HAMBLETON said Tuesday that the city had received two bids on the library earlier in the year, but that the bids had been too low. The property includes the library structure and four lots, two of which are used for parking. The bids came from a construction company and from a doctor.
B. A. Green Construction Company of Lawrence bid $161,106 for the building and all four lots. Dr. Ray Clark Sr., 2139 Kingston Building and the building and the two lots on which it stands.
The commission decided Tuesday to sell only the library and the lots it stands on. The city will keep the adjacent parking lot for at least 10 years.
Sitt Robinson, KU professor of history and a member of the history and traditions committee of the Chamber of Commerce, said the Chamber thought that some of the older buildings in Lawrence should be preserved for their historical value.
THE OLD LIBRARY, he said, is one that should be preserved because it is a distinctive building, incorporates good architecture in its design and has played an important role in the development of the community.
"I can't imagine selling the property for something like a filling station," Hambleton said. "But I wouldn't feel reluctant to tear the building down if a good project that would be a substantial anchor on the downtown were to be proposed."
ARCHITECTURALLY the building is already damaged, she said. An addition to the building has altered the original octagonal shape of the back of the building. The only part that remains the same are the front of the structure and two trees, an Ohio buckeye and a bald cypress, which rarely grow in this region.
Whoever ends up with the property will be getting not only the building and four lots but also problems with the heating system, basement flooding and leakage in the roof.
At one time the city considered using the old library for city offices. The cost for making the necessary repairs and converting the space into office facilities was estimated at $543,180, according to Buford Watson, city manager.
The old library, when it was constructed in 1904, cost $27,412. In 1902, the city of Lawrence secured a $27,500 Carnegie grant to build the library. Andrew Carnegie was founding funds to establish public libraries in communities throughout the United States.
Only two provisions accompanied the grant. First, the library had to be organized under state law as a free public library. Until this time, the library was dependent upon subscriptions for part of its annual income.
THE SECOND PROVISION of the Carnegie grant was that the city assess at least $20,000 for each student.
The 1965 annual report of the Lawrence Public Library indicated that 5,789 volumes were in use then. Based on population size, the circulation rate per capita for the Lawrence library has always been high when compared to national figures.
McLouth Threshing Bee Offers Down-Home Fun
By SUZANNE OLSON
Kansan Staff Writer
When Eric Morgenthaler, a reporter for the Dallas bureau of the Wall Street Journal, wrote his biting article last week, saying that Kansas does not have much to do without excitement, he obviously was unaware of the Clout Threshing Bee to be held Aug. 31.
Three days of festivities in McLouth 18 miles north of Lawrence, will provide a
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variety of exciting events. Daily threshing exhibitions, lumber cutting exhibitions and displays of antique automobiles, antique threshing machines and antique steam engines will be among the entertainments available.
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Members of the Old Time Fiddler and Pickers Association are on the musical agenda, along with the Jefferson County band. The Dale Clark Five, a country music group.
The McLouth Threshing Bee was started 15 years ago, says Mayor Cecil Lueh. H. C. Watson, a local farmer, and the Kiwias bach of McLouth originally designed the Bee to demonstrate to the younger generation how threshing was done in the past.
In 1963 the town formed an association to carry out the threshing bee annual. Fifty-three acres of land were purchased by the association.
In addition to its main purpose of housing the Threshing Bee Association, land has since become a public park, an area for public camping and an area utilized generally for most community activities of McLouth. Lase said.
Last year's attendance at the bee was estimated by the Highway Patrol to have been 80,000.
By NANCY COOK
Kansas Staff Writer
Hear No Evil Wiretapping, Bugs Are Little Used in Lawrence Area
Although the use of wireset and bugs is gaining attention as a result of the Watergate affair, there seems to be little of that kind of activity in the Lawrence area.
There have been no cases of prosecution for illegal wristapping in Douglas County, according to David Berkowitz, county attorney.
Dwight Parscale of the Kansas Attorney General's office said there had been no prosecutions on the state level since the execution of abubulating wiretapping were passed in 1970.
UNDER BOTH FEDERAL and state statutes, eavesdropping is prohibited. Eavesdropping includes intercepting telephone, telegraph or other wire communications without the consent of the person in possession or control of the facility, or using a device for hearing, amplifying or broadcasting sounds depending from a private place without the consent of persons entitled to that privacy.
Such activities may be legally carried out only with authorization from a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court or from a district judge. That authorization is given only when there are "reasonable grounds and probable cause" for conducting eawading诵。
Parsecile that there had been only five such authorizations in Kansas in the late 19th century.
"It (authorization) is an awful difficult thing to (get)." Parscale said.
ORDERS OF AUTHORIZATION are granted only to law enforcement officials. Other persons granted immunity from the eavesdropping laws are Federal Communications Commission officials in execution of their monitoring duties and the President of the United States in the interests of national security.
Although dawning播射 is illegal, some transmitted and recording activities are legal. If the persons who are being monitored on a telephone consent to that monitoring, any form of transmission or recording device can be used.
The only legal requirement in that case is that a "beep" tone sounds throughout the system.
Keepall the telephone company could provide an "interfacing device" that supplies the "beep." The interfacing device is necessary to protect the telephone equipment.
representative of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.
"TTS A DANGER to them to have this foreign equipment on the lines," she said. At least one company in Lawrence sells 15,000 of these devices. Electronics, 72 Massachusetts, sells the
"Telephone Pickup," a device which fastens on the back of the telephone receiver by means of a suction cup. The telephone conversations to a tape recorder
If someone suspects that their conversations are being monitored, the telephone company can check it out, Koepel and complaints are actually verified, she said.
"I haven’t run across it myself," she said.
"They’ve all been just false alarms."
WHEN A COMPAINT is made, repairmen are sent to the home of the complaint to check his telephone for if one is found, the repairmen remove it.
"As far as the telephone goes, we don't prosecute . . . Coeppl said. "We could work with that," he said.
She said if it were discovered that someone other than the complainant was using a monitoring device, then that person would be asked to send a letter to the telephone company stating that he would no longer use it.
"If you do use it," she said, "we require you to use one of our interfacing devices." If the person continued to use the monitoring device without an interfacing device, his telephone service could be disconnected. Koepln said.
KEOPEP.SAID THAT interface devices are often used in lawrence by doctors and druggists, who have a recording system instead of an answering service.
The Lawrence police department also uses the device. All incoming calls and all police radio traffic are recorded, according to a police officer in charge of the services division.
One type of recording device that does not fall under the federal and state statutes is
the "body pack," a device carried on the person.
Berkowitz said that use of such insults by ordinary citizens was not prohibited.
"Body packs" are sometimes used in police investigation, but Reeves said the Lawrence police department didn't use them. Lawyers or attorney's office did not use them either.
TAXES CONTRIBUTE TO THE SUPPORT OF ALMOST HALF OUR POPULATION BUT SOME PEOPLE EXPECT YOU TO DO MORE.
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There are those who would increase tax rates more and more solely for the purpose of financing more and more welfare. What "they" want is for you, the taxpayer, to make it possible for a greater number to receive living expenses without working.
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Two people in five either have government jobs (local, state or national) or related tax supported jobs. Add to this the programs for our needy elderly and minority groups and you can see how taxes already contribute enormously to the support of a lot of people. It can't go on. Someone has to work for a profit with which to pay for all of this. Because, without profits there are no jobs. Without profits there are no taxes to be collected to pay for the basic services we need and expect—including appropriate welfare grants.
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