University Daily Kansan
Monday, June 25. 1977
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Trailers Offer Investment Return
By LIZ EVERITT
Kansas Staf Writer
Mobile homes can be an inexpensive, comfortable and convenient form of student housing.
Mobile homes are becoming a common sight across the country and in Lawrence, but little has been said about their potential as housing for college students.
There are many reasons a student might consider buying a mobile home. It can be cheaper than renting an apartment. In a dorm room, you don't have to downstairs neighbors to worry about.
ONE FACTOR is mentioned by almost everyone who owns a mobile home. When the student is out of school he would have something tangible besides a pile of rent receipts. A mobile home can be sold or moved if the student wants to take it with
A new mobile home may be purchased in than $10,000, Jerry Baze of Ridgeview Mobile Home Sales, said Wednesday. Used homes may be purchased for almost any price, depending upon the year and the condition.
It may be difficult for a student to establish credit for a loan, but, if he can, the student should have from $0 to $150 per month, over a 5-10 year period. Baza said, Banks, dealers and loan companies ask for some indication of credit that would enable the student to pay off the loan.
LOT RENTALS vary, depending upon the extras provided by the mobile home park. Some parks include up to two utilities in the rental, some have swimming pools and clubhouses, some have fenced-in yards and simply provide the space for the home.
The lot rental ranges from around $30 to as much as $65 in Lawrence.
If a student wishes to rent a mobile home he may do so through a private rental or through one park in Lawrence that is in the business of renting mobile homes. Terry Ladage of Country View Mobile Home Estates said he rents 2- and 3-bedroom
mobile homes for under $150, including lot rental.
Lawrence has 13 mobile home parks, with total space for approximately 1,500 homes. The majority of the student mobile home owners are married, but the homes are becoming more popular with single parents. W, Belshe, manager of Mobile Village.
Other parks do not have as many students but said that they had no complaints about the schools.
Most park managers ask to see prospective tenants and spend some time with them before agreeing to a lease. The managers said that they did this to get to know the tenant, rather than having just a nodding acquaintance.
STUDENTS LIVE in about 35 per cent of the mobile homes in parks. Gaillight Village, Mobile Home Estates and Mobile Acres seem to be particularly popular with students, each having a student population of 40 per cent, according to the managers.
MOST MOBILE home parks do not require a security deposit. Belsa said that they could do this because most mobile stores do not offer the security they knew the owner owed the park money.
Several mobile homes were severely damaged June 16 in the windstorm that was clocked in Lawrence at ninety miles an hour. Bill Webster, part owner of Mobile Acres South and owner of Webster's Mobile Network, were not tied down or "anchored."
None of the parks in Lawrence require tie-innets. Webb said that he had mixed gauge systems.
"SOMETIMES PEOPLE can't afford the extra payments," he said. He said that they tried to sell tie-downs to everyone buying a car, and that he didn't think he could force them to.
Webster said that he did think Lawrence would consider requiring tie-downs more closely because of the damage from the windstorm.
"Eventually, whether the law is put into effect or not, I'm sure that the insurance
Odysseus took 10 years in his attempt to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Students, staff and friends of Pearson were present in this peace fall after only a year's absence.
Arrangements for the second annual Pearson Odyssey are progressing with a similar sense of adventure and far less travail than Ulysses experienced, James Brooks, assistant director of Pearson College, said Friday.
Plans have been expanded this year to include a trip to Italy for some of the 175 EU members.
Pearson Organizes Greek, Italian Tours
BOTH GROUPS will fly by charter, departing DC 27, 1793, from Kansas City
Painting, Repair Of Chancellor's Home Finished
By DON ASHTON
Kansan Staff Writer
International Airport and returning Jan. 11, 1974, during semester break. Costs for the 16-day trip have been estimated at $450 to $500 per person.
Several trees and bushes have been planted on the grounds around the house, and some of the overgrowth taken out. The trim on the outside of the house has been painted. Nichols said that Building and Grounds did the painting and planting.
"We hope it is in good condition for the Dykes family," she said.
Renovation of the KU chancellor's residence has been completed, according to Clyte Nichols, the chancellor's wife. She was commencement activities were held there.
The house has been redecorated in gold. On the first floor, the carpet is a soft gold, with the walls painted in a soft gold. The first floor is the only floor of the house that is furnished by the state, she said. The furniture has been cleaned, as well as the wardrobes and third floors have also been recarpated, painted and thoroughly cleaned.
The redecorating began last fall and Nichols said that this was the first time the three-story house has been renovated there. She had always been people living in it.
Brooks said the plane was filled a month before departure last year and referred to it as "a bit of a mystery."
Students in the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program and their parents have priority for seats on the aircraft, but students, faculty and staff of the University are invited to join the group if space is available.
"Last year we still had a waiting list when we left," he said.
THE PEARSON Odyssey is designed as a direct educational experience, not a vacation. Regularly scheduled classes will be held at bases in Orvieto, 40 miles north of Grazia, Greece, where students may live in local homes, if current plants bear fruit.
Numerous and frequent excursions are on the itinerary for both groups, including journeys to Athens, Delphi, Hacia and Izmir, the ancient museum, Florence, Assisi and Perugia in Italy.
companies will enforce a tie-down requirement." he said.
"It's (anchoring) something that's worth-
while," Webster said. He said that frame
anchoring did not do any good, but that it
only held the frame while the body of the
home was blown off. Hurricane bands, or
the-theop straps, do the most good, or
Students who participated last year were granted two independent study credit hours.
HE SAID MANY insurance companies
pleased ask that a mobile home be tied-
down.
"WE BELIEVE in the direct experience of things," he said. "To see the character of places and experience a foreign culture is very illuminating to students."
Dennis Quinn, director of the humanities program, said the trip "simply confirms and extends the knowledge students get in the reading of books."
Pearson faculty members will accompany both groups.
During the fall, several short programs will assist students in preparing for the trip. Among the programs will be sessions in Greek folk dancing, lessons in conversational Greek and Italian, and lectures in classical architecture.
Jerry Shaw, Kansas City, Mo., junior, was one of the Pearson humanities students who responded enthusiastically to Greece last fall.
Some parks do require skirting, both for the appearance value and as some protection against wind. Skirting also helps keep heating and cooling costs down, besides helping to prevent pipes freezing during the winter.
it was fantastic," Shaw said. "The trip brought the readings of Homer, Plato, Tirpustus and Socrates."
Mobile homes are available in a wide variety of sizes and floor plans. Bazaed that most of their sales been at 14k84 feet two-bedroom models. Most mobile homes are 20k84 feet, there are also smaller models, as well as bare-wides," which may be as wide as 28 feet
Although the civil rights story of the Truman administration is one relating mainly to blacks, "Quest and Response" focuses on the poor Indians, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Japanese-and Chinese-Americans and Jews. The authors examine the alliances that were forged among the three races during labor, and political and religious liberals.
"Some 35 Pearson students already have
experimental interest in going to Greece."
Minority Awakening Book Topic
HEATING AND cooling costs may be higher in a mobile home than in an apartment, but few mobile home owners said that this had been any major cost factor.
The civil rights movement began during the Truman administration, according to Donald McCoy, professor of history, and Michael Quentin, professor of history at California State University. The authors of "Quest and Response: Minority Rights and the Truman Administration."
Walter Gravenstein of Todd Moll Homes said that most of the sales he made that involved students occurred when a teacher was working for his children to use while at school.
The quest of minority peoples for civil rights was a scattered, meager movement until the beginning of the World War II, McCoy and Rueten said. This situation changed to an unprecedented extent during the years between 1945 and 1953.
began to crumble, and the campaign for better housing included forward.
McCoy and Ruetten said that under President Harry S. Truman, the executive branch of the federal government listened to minority groups as never before and often responded to their entreaties and pressures. Civil rights victories were won in the courts. Education rose and employment opportunities increased. Legal segregation
McCoy was Fulbright Professor at the University of Bonn, president of the Kansas History Teachers Association and received the Byron Caldwell Smith Award for documentary work. Ru腾 was Research Associate of the Harry S Truman Library Institute during 1967-1969 and is currently a member of the editorial board of The Historian.
Copies of their book cost $12.
IN A MOBILE home a student can have more options than in an apartment. Often, with the permission of the park manager, he may plant a garden. He can decorate the house with plants.
A mobile home has another advantage for out-of-state students. If the home is registered in the student's name in the state of Kansas the student will pay property tax to Kansas on the home and may be legally classified as a resident for tuition purposes, but as a parent in another state is not providing more than half the student's income.
WEBSTER IS president of the Kansas Manufactured Housing and Recreational Vehicle organization, which he said had taken a leading role in making fire escape windows mandatory on all new mobile homes. He said that at their meeting this month they would discuss
Cheryl Ridway, Kiowa senior, has lived in a mobile home for two and a half years. "It's good as a temporary place to live. I have been able to live forever, but for now it's great," she said.
Janet Harsha, wife of a former student, said that she and her husband moved from their 1250 mobile home because their son was getting too big.
"It was fine when he was born, but after
he had gotted toys it was just getting too
hard."
"We really liked it until we ran out of room."
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