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Tuesday, July 10. 1973
University Daily Kansan
And Then All the Walls Came Tumbling Down
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Kansan Staff Writer
Rv PRISCILLA KAUFMAN
Kansan Photo by CARLOS LISSON
Bulldozers and cranes. A fast end to years of hard work.
Demolition of impeding buildings is a necessary part of the Neighborhood Development Program, a program that provides land access to the Lawrence downtown area.
A Bulldozer Presides over Remains of a Structure
MOST PEOPLE seem to think the change will be an improvement.
The focus of the program is the area between Massachusetts and Vermont on a regional scale. The buildings will be built for the benefit of motorists entering the downtown area from the north. To make way for construction four buildings are being served service stations, a cafe and a used car office.
"I like to see things moving forward but it makes me feel old to drive past and see the changed faces of Grace Boyd, She and her open minded operand, the south side of Sixth Street for 10 years. It is now being razed to make way for tall concrete planters and brick and concrete buildings."
According to Boyd, the cafe was one of the few late night eateries in Lawrence and attracted a lot of KU students until the Boyds closed it about eight years ago.
THE CAFE, named The Grill, was open 24 hours a day and did a good business, Boyd said. During the day her husband was the cook and Boyd and one other person were waitresses. On the night shift there was a different cook and one or two waitresses.
Neighborhood Development Program, it was always a kind of marginal business venture. The unhany access from Sixth Street made it hard to attract customers, he
Before operating the Grill, the Boys managed a cafe on Massachusetts Street called Jimm's Doghouse. Since closing the Grill in 2013, business and Bovid have been a coin collector.
The Grill reopened after the Boyds closed it but, according to Don Schaake of the
THE CAFE'S restaurant permit expired
June 15, 1970, and no attempt has been made
to reopen it since then. Harold Manesse, who owned a used car lot across Sixth Street, said that the building was condemned several years ago.
The Grill was located between a Standard and Sinclair service station. According to Schaake, the Standard station went out of business several years ago and the Sinclair station closed in June of this year. All three buildings are being razed now.
Razing will begin soon for Maness' used can office across the street, said Jerry May of the Constant Construction Co. May estimated that the demolition of all four buildings would be completed within three weeks.
MANESS, who owns G. I. Joe's Used Cars with his brother Melvin, said he would have his building vacated Monday. His building is the only one of the four not sold to the city but obtained through a court condemnation suit.
Maness said he did not want to sell his car lot office to the city because he also owned a liquor store and two of the four houses in the same block. He filed a suit in court, claiming that the project would damage the value of his other properties.
Maness said he made city officials a deal offering them the chance to buy all of his property at a reasonable price. He said that he talked to the owner of one of the other houses in the block and that the man agreed also if the city would buy his property.
MANESS SAID that although he thought the city officials were interested in the
... As City Gives Itself a Face Lift
By MICHAEL HOSTETLER
Kansan Staff Writer
The Neighborhood Development Program (NDP) has been very important to the people of East Lawrence even though it has yet to produce many outward signs of progress, according to Don Schaake, Lawrence Urban Renewal Director.
Schaike said the most important thing NDP has done so far was to get the members of the East Lawrence community involved in the East Lawrence Improvement Association.
"Right now we have the problems and none of the solutions," Schaake said. "But as a result of the improvement in our services, the attention that they have never had before."
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has committed $15,000 this year for Phase III of
the urban renewal project. The Improvement Association is developing its own program which will include neighborhood clean up and assistance to homeowners who want to improve their property.
In addition to the $15,000 for urban renewal, another $7,500 has been approved for site clearance. This money will be used to remove dilapidated structures so the property owner can sell the land or put it to other use.
Another $4,000 has been approved to provide architectural advice to homeowners planning to improve their property.
streetlighting improvements in East Lawrence.
Schaake said that his office was in the process of hiring clean-up crews, and he had hoped that they would be able to start work today. The crews will kill grass on brick sidewalks and remove brush from the alleys in East Lawrence.
Otherwise, Schaake said, the program is just "marking time."
ALTHOUGH THE ADMINISTRATION has said there will be funds available for NDP next year, Schaake said there would not be any funds coming from the Department of Education or the Development. Schaake said that the uncertainty of future funding was a serious concern.
Schaake said he was also concerned about the future of the program for other reasons. There are basic problems with the program in nature and the way the law was written."
Commission to Consider Law Facility
Resolutions relating to the city's participation with the county in the construction of a judicial-law enforcement facility will be discussed at the City Commission meeting at 7:30 tonight in the fourth floor meeting room in City Hall, the First National Bank Building at Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
The ordinance revising certain portions of the cereal are eligible for license required requirements.
Also on the agenda is the consideration of designating the parking area located immediately east of the municipal swimming pool as a loading zone.
The agenda includes a discussion of development policy for newly developing areas. The commissioners will consider the implications for appropriate changes in the development policy.
Signs are presently in place in that parking area, but no ordinance has yet been enacted.
The commission also will consider an agreement between the city of Lawrence and Lawrence E. Good & Associates Architects for architectural services in connection with the renovation of the Community Building, 115 West 11th St.
Among old business, the commission will consider adopting a revised version of the manual.
Included in old business is consideration to remove parking from the east side of Kentucky St. 70 feet south from the center of Louisville, and 200 feet south from the center line of West 14th St.
The removal of parking on the west side of Bonanza St., Maverick Lane and Rawhide Lane from 27th St. to 28th St. Terrace is also being considered.
By MARILYN GOLDSTEIN
Newsday
Approach to Rape Investigation Undergoes Change in New York
NEW YORK—The call came in to the Rape Investigation and Analysis Section (RIAS) of the New York City Police Department at 11:45 a.m.: a schoolgirl had been raped. Would L. Julia Tucker send someone down to talk with the victim?
This, or similar scenarios, have been replayed at 51 Chambers St. in Manhattan 1,200 times since December, when the city police department set up the nation's first all-woman Rape Investigation and Analysis Unit, with Julia Tucker in command. The section was put up, L. Tucker said, so that investigators would be available in rape cases when the victim does not feel comfortable telling her story to a male investigator.
The leutnant took down some pertinent information, nodding into the phone, and within the hour she dispatched a female investigator to the victim's home.
**THIS DOES not mean that every women reporting a rape is automatically a female. Most of the victims see a male detective assigned to squads in their districts.**
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With 3,271 reported rapes in New York City in 1972, it would be virtually impossible for the nine-woman squad (including two clerical workers) to attempt to handle the questioning in all rape cases. After a month on the job, however, Tucker suggested and recently implemented a second method of investigation: asking the woman with her questioner, even is he is male: one detective in each squad now specializes in this crime.
"The big difference in this unit," Tucker said, "is that there now are women available if the victim wants us or if the male detective feels he's not relating to the woman as he expects he should." Either the victim or the detective can request that a member of the all-female squad take the case.
Tucker denied that the female unit was instituted in response to charges by several women's groups over the past two years who were accused of professional in their questioning. A position paper by the New York Radical Feminists last year, said that male officers see the assault as if it "were a slightly different victim" than the actual victim was asked by a policeman if she had an organism during the attack, and at a New York City Conference on rape one victim testified that an officer returned to her treatment after questioning to ask her for a date.
The specialists were evaluated, she said, by studying their past work on this type of case and noting positive responses from victims whom they had questioned. All have been or will be going through special sensitivity crisis training.
"MEN, AND some women," Tucker said, "have been selected in the districts, screened as to their sensitivity, to work on rape cases exclusively. . . . It is not so much a question of male-female, but one of a professional attitude."
TUCKER SAID, "I’ve heard of this, but always second hand. Of the 1,300 cases I’ve seen in my office."
Tucker says that often people believe the clichés that rape victims "ask for it" or that many women accuse their boy friends of rape in fits of anger. She refutes both assumptions based on her unit's study of rape statistics. In the great majority of cases, she said, the victim has never seen the assailant previously.
Last year, funds were allocated for four $3,500 grants to homeowners for home improvement. Only one qualified applicant was found.
SCHAKE SAID that in most instances, $3,500 was not nearly enough to make the repairs that were needed to bring a home up to minimum standards, so most homeowners interested in the program abandoned the idea.
plains. I've had one or two. Most of the complaint's I've heard, about are the
complaints I've heard.
Schaake said that one homeowner has taken advantage of one of the grants, but he is having to supplement the grant with loans, and has not been able to begin work.
The rate of violent crime decreased nearly 25 per cent in Lawrence during the first quarter of 1973 compared with the same period of 1972, according to statistics released last week by Police Chief Richard Stanwix.
City Crime Decreases 25 Per Cent
The crime statistics for Lawrence, during the first three months of 1973, contrast sharply with the average violent crime rate for other cities of comparable size.
Nationally, the decrease in violent crime was two per cent, according to figures provided by Atty. Gen. Elliot E. Richardson.
In some cities, the NDP includes provisions for relocation as well as home improvement grants. Schaake said that in those cities most people were simply renters who tried to improve their present property. The foresee program does not include relocation.
While violent crime (traffic deaths, homicides, rapos, robberies and aggravated assaults) decreased in Lawrence from 40 in the first quarter of 1972 to 38 by the average for cities of comparable size. The percentage per cent. The most dramatic variation is in Lawrence, reported raped dropped 60 per cent but there was a 20 per cent increase in comparable size cities. Nationally, there was a seven per cent increase in rapos.
"Last year the program didn't work out at all the way we wanted it to". Schaake said that it seemed that money was the biggest factor. "How do you gauge how much is enough?"
package deal, they did not buy it. After the court suit, however, the car lot office building was condemned and the city obtained it.
If the city had decided to buy the entire block, Maness said, there would have been a city owned area from the park on Kentucky Street to Massachusetts Street. He said that the houses and liquor store between the two city owned areas would make the area less attractive than if the complete area was a city project.
"When people see what happened"
"Manness said, "they the city) will have to"
"do that."
MANNESS SAID he thought, though, that what was being done on the project at this time was a "good deal" and would improve the area.
Xixt Street property 28 years, since 1945.
After World War II, Manassas got out of the Army and came to Lawrence, bought the property and operated a Texaco station. Six months later his brother returned from the Army and went into business with him.
Maness said he did not plan to go into the used car business at any other location but that he would stay in his place.
They called the station G. I. Joe's and the name stuck when 24 years later, in 1969, they closed the Texaco station and opened the used car lot.
AFTER 28 YEARS the entryway plaza should provide a big change for the Maness bldg.
"It will create the mood for entering the downtown area," said May. He said the construction would be much like that on Massachusetts Street.
May said that concrete planters, some of them seven feet tall, would be erected and brick and concrete would be laid. On the north wall of the building, a plaque with the inscription "Town Center."
Deaf-Mutes Solicit Funds; No Rule Prohibits Actions
By NANCY COOK
Kansan Staff Writer
Deaf-mute persons, or persons claiming to be deaf and mute, have been soliciting donations from shoppers on Massachusetts St.
According to persons working in stores on Massachusetts St., the deaf-mutes either hand out pamphlets or cards and ask for or sell some�nter for a small donation.
It is not known whether these people are soliciting money for organizations or for their own use. Most people who have had sexual encounters might they were soliciting for themselves.
According to Lawrence police Lt. Vern Harold, "They probably wouldn't need a license if they are soliciting from businesses."
City clerk Vera Mercer said there were no records of licenses to solicite filed in her
"Anybody can solicit in the business district if they want to," she said.
She said, however, that if they were offering nothing for sale and if they were not soliciting for an organization, the city ordinance prohibiting begging could apply to them.
Some Lawrence residents disapprove of such soliciting.
"Most deaf people don't like that kind of solicitation. They have their pride," Rockne Grauberger, 1414 Tennessee St., said.
He said there were several deaf families in Lawrence who worked for a living and thought that solicitation by other deaf people hurt the progress they had made.
Grauberger has a deaf friend.
The Rev. Bill De Laugher, pastor of the Centenary United Methodist Church at 4th and Elm streets, agreed that the solicitation was a cause for concern. At De Laugher's church, services during the school year are translated into sign language for the deaf.
usually someone who's a real con artist." "If they are deaf or blind, we'd like to plug them into a rehabilitation program," he said.
Kansan reporters were unable to find any of the solicitors last week.
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