University Daily Kansan
Thursday, July 19, 1973
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Nature Seekers Find Inflation Land Boom Hits Douglas County
Bv DON ASHTON
Kansan Staff Writer
Country dreamers, leaf-treaders, soil-
tanners and sea-creatures your visions are
mindful of.
The value of farm land is at its highest level in 22 years, according to a recent report. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said
Nationally, farm real estate values jumped 13 per cent in the last year. Douglas
Max Good, owner of Brown Real Co., has been dealer in local farm properties since 1974.
"That's about right for here." Good said. Values are probably up from 10 to 13 per cent.
IT'S NOT NEWS to students that rental properties in the country are scarce. Good said they were almost a thing of the past. But the trend has been from a within-10 to 15-mile radius of Lawrence;
City Wants to Stop Private Trash Hauling
Bv JOHN A. KING
By JOHN A. HANE
Kansan Staff Writer
Private trash haulers in use city..jo
poachers of Watson JR., city in
Houston.
State law provides that the city shall have the right to have exclusive service or to contract out to private haulers, said Watson.
He said the city of Lawrence did not contract its trash hauling. There are city trucks to haul trash. The city has eight trucks, on eight routes in the city, which haul 100 tons of refuse each day, said Watson.
HE SAID that the private haulers did not pay their fair share for disposal. The landlord said he would never pay.
The city commission was concerned that the collection service run by Richard Davenport, $35 Lyons, was getting too much. He wasistant too many customers, said Watson.
The city has ordered a $6,675 scale, which it will use to try to institute changes in the rates for weight and bulk, said Watson, of using estimation for the last 15 years.
MOST OF THE private trash hauling operations in the city, said Watson, stemmed from arrangements that were made when the city annexed an area.
Dennis Kallen, assistant city manager,
met with Davenport in March and told him
that he had been on the verge of
death.
He said the city had considered buying Durex equipment, which includes Duracare trucks.
Watson said he had no idea of how much it would cost the city to buy Davenport's equipment. He said it would depend upon what the price was, but it was used and the condition it was in.
Watson said that people could hail their own trash but that it was illegal for private companies to do so.
Western Electric to Pay For 3 Student 'Vacations'
Workers at Western Electric's Kansas
Works plant in Lees Summit, Mo., went
through the process of building a new
plant.
Research papers became part of the job
work for three University of Texas
physicists. I practiced this summer.
Before this summer vacation meant a vaccine without pay to summer employees. According to Phil De La Torre, one of the three students, this summer Western Electric decided to pay their summer employees for the vacation if they would write a research paper on a topic related to electrical engineering.
All three of the students received their summer job through SCGMRME, Student Council for Recruiting, Motivating and Educating Black Engineers.
The other two KU students, Darmon Parker, Kansas City, Mo., senior, and Jonathan Parker, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, to stay in Kansas City to research. De La Torre, Chanute junior, decided to return to KU to do his research.
De La Torre said that he was doing a paper on hysteresis, a phenomena of residual magnetism that remains in a metal after a magnetic field is removed.
Western Electric made a $10,000 contribution to SCMREME in 1972 to be used over a three year period and is contributing $250 this year for the development of
SCOREMEB brochures, Charles Lockhart, president of SCOREME, said.
According to Lockhart, the three students were chosen from a list of seven students who showed an interest in working at Western Electric. Western Electric hired the students on the basis of recommen-dation from the team and recommendation from SCmMEBE and an interview and tour at the Western Electric plant.
"You don't see too many farmers buying more land," Good said. "They can't afford it. The average farmer has been priced out of the market."
Getting back to the land is even getting to be an expensive proposition for farmers.
LAND, LIKE ANY other commodity, is worth what people will pay for it. There is only so much land. The supply is constant because crops need to grow, mostly for small crocidilands.
BOKONON has gone bananas BIZARRO SALE
New Shipment of Original Hawaiian Silkies Refried Jeans and Other Things
BOKONON
Recycled Clothes
819 Vermont
LAND BORDERING the Clinton area is going for about $800 an acre. The Clinton Lake project has inflated prices in many areas, Good said.
Average prices can be misleading, however. The cost of a piece of land will depend on what you want to do with it, how much it and how much you can afford to pay.
Other real estate brokers, like Good, have watched the suburbs expand from the metropolitan areas of Kansas City and awards Douglas and surrounding counties.
He said upland farms now sell for about $400 to $800 an acre, pasture land from $300 to $500 an acre, bottom land from $800 to $1200 and timber land for up to about $400 an acre.
1973 Present
AMONG THE REASONS given for the growing exodus to the country are high city taxes, heightened interest in leisure activities, investment potential and urban squeeze. Even trailer parks are running out of room.
Locally, the demand for rural property is greatest west of Lawrence and south, around Vinland. Suburban growth has raised the value of property in West Lawrence. Acreage in Vinland Valley has increased significantly in historical and visual appeal, good roads and proximity to the University of Kansas and Baker University.
Although land prices vary locally, depending upon the current state of the economy, the location, acreage, improvements, availability of services and agricultural or recreational potential, Good quoted some average figures.
"The Taming of the Shrew" Directed by Jerome Kilty
July 19,20,21
University Theatre Murphy Hall Curtain 8:00 p.m.
Ticket Prices: '2.00 — Students '1.00 Reservations: Telephone: 864-3982
Refreshments and Entertainment in New Murphy Courtyard at 7:30 p.m
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We also have a watch repair and electronics department. WE SERVICE WHAT OTHERS REPLACE.
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