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Thursday, June 14, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Security Deposit Gripes Prompt Three Lawsuits
By CAROLGWINN And DARRYL SERPAN
And DARRYL SERPAN
Three separate suits against the Ridgle Apartments, now Front-Ridgle Apartments, were filed last March by the Kansas Attorney General's office, the Douglas County Attorney's office, and Lawrence where the apartments are at 524 Front Road.
Kansas Photo by A.B. SOLSKY
Complaints Center on Security, Damage Deposits
The Douglas County Attorney's office has filed a criminal action suit for unlawful deprivation of property against Integra and the former owner of the apartments.
The suits resulted from complaints by students last spring that they were not receiving damage and security deposits after they vacated their apartments.
MIKE MALONE, assistant county attorney handling the Ridgeline case, said that he would try to postpone the hearing set for June 18 until fall with a 60-day continuance because some of his witnesses and his client were not in Lawrence for the summer.
A spokesman at Vision Investments, formerly part of Intone Corporation, said in a phone interview that the corporation had announced that its investments were new owned by another company.
A Lawrence legal source said that he had doubts that the Intron Company ever
A spokesman at Frontier-Ridgle said that the new owner was Talley Commercial Properties in Wichita. However, a Wichita telephone operator said that there was no connection.
Ralph Lavat, manager of Frontier-
Ridgeline, refused to comment on the bill.
RUSS READ, attorney for Lawrence Legal Aid, said that there was a good chance students would get their money back
Read said it was possible that his civil suit would be dropped if the Ridgley Apartments were destroyed.
had not yet received their damage deposits call Ridgale to get the name of the prospective buyer, and send the buyer their names, who had received their deposit of the deposit they had paid.
Raoul Berman, board member of the Consumer Protection Association (CPA) and former co-manager of the University of Kansas CPA, estimated that more than 100 people and $7,500 might now be involved in the delayed payments.
He said that he had received 27 written complaints about unreturred security procedures.
BERMAN SAID that a possible suit against Ridgeline by the Attorney General's office would deal with the referral system through which former tenants received
their deposits and an additional "finder's"
referred a new tenant to the
apartments.
The CPA has reason to believe the referral system is a direct violation of the antitrust law. It is against Berman. This act prohibits the use of any chain referral agreement in which a buyer is induced to buy merchandise that costs more than the price of the item, provided that the taver owner receives a cap on purchases.
Berman suggested that tenants talk with their managers before leaving their apartments if the lease read that the deposit would be returned with in a reasonable amount of time; to make sure that the deposit money would be received within six weeks.
Postal Council Discusses Change
The Lawrence Postal Customer Council met Wednesday, for the first time since 1969, in the Council Room of the Kansas State University to discuss future changes in the local postal service.
During the first part of the meeting, customer service representatives from Kansas City, Mo. and post office officials met on Tuesday for lectures on changes in the postal service.
Jack Harris, Lawrence postmaster, said the purpose of the meeting was to obtain an exchange of ideas between the postal department and Lawrence industries and organizations that either send or receive large volumes of mail.
THE PERSONS who lectured were Paul
"Much of the postal authority that originated in Washington, D.C. will now be originating in the districts," said Neidhardt.
Neidhardt, customer service representative; John Hurst, customer service representative; Don Wetzel, Lawrence assistant postmaster; Edward Eiffert, Lawrence buk manager; Ciancian Chancelor president; President Jack Harris, Lawrence postmaster.
"It was on the district level that express mail between the cities and the get-your-mail-in-early campaign first developed. We started by sending a program for cities with large airports."
HARRIS SAID the get-your-mail-in-early campaign had reduced dramatically the
Weekend Book Sale at Library To Market 8,000 Donated Items
A variety of prices for 8,000 books and records on sale Friday and Saturday at the Lawrence Public Library, Seventh and Vermont, create a book buyer's paradise. The sale is the first annual Carnegie Library sale at the Lawrence Library (CALL) book fair.
The works, which CLL members collected during the spring, will be sold on the south and east portions of the library from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 a.m. Saturday.
Lawrence Mayor Nancy Hambleton will discuss increasing women's involvement in city government here at a joint meeting of two women's groups tonight.
Hambleton will draw upon her own experience in the discussion of political structures, organizations and channels of membership on local boards and commissions.
Bonita Dillard, book fair chairman, said that a wide selection of sale materials, including many classroom books at low cost, be maintained by KU students, would be available.
Interested parties are invited to attend the discussion, which will be at 7:30 in the library of the Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont.
The organizations meeting together are the Lawrence chapters of the National Organization for Women and of the Kansas Women's Political Caucus.
NOW, Caucus Meet Tonight With Mayor
Harris said that changes were coming about rapidly in the postal service, causing much concern.
Last spring at Kansas City International Airport a new mail facility began operation. It handles large bulk mail for the Kansas City district.
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$1 billion will be spent on 21 large bulk facilities and 15 smaller ones, said Harris. Chicago will be the first bulk mail center. Philadelphia will be the first bulk center will probably be completed in 1975.
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The second half of the meeting was an open discussion between the persons who lectured and about 50 persons representing institutions in Lawrence, both on and off campus.
proportions of mail placed in the mailboxes between the hours of four and five p.m.
Girls Elect State Leaders
Life and National Geographic magazine
sets are available and a 1962 set of En-
sign cards is also available.
the new officers, who will take office immediately, are: John Conard, director of university relations, president; Charles Willis, director of the Kansas Color Press, vice-president; and Susan Schott, secretary of the Kansas Color Press. secretary.
The Girls' states, who have been meeting this week on the KU campus, will hear Gov. Warren Buckley speak.
Marguerite Kitchen, of Kansas City, Kan., was elected governor of Kansas Girls' State on Wednesday. Am Carpenter of Wichita was elected lieutenant governor
18Y JAN ERNSTMANN
And KRISTA POSTAI
Kansas Staff Writers
Profs' Study Says, 'Yes
Testifying June 8, in Washington, D.C., on the social and economic effects of military base closings before the House Pensions and Benefits Subcommittee. Darwin Duceau, professor of economics at KU, said that the value of losses in some communities.
When Military Bases Shut Doors, Can Local Communities Survive?
Ducoff, who participated in a study begin in 1964 following the announcement of the closure of 80 military bases in the United States, told the House committee that the state of the economy was the main factor in the decline of a community making an adjustment.
The study, sponsored by the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, was a cooperative project of Diaffo, Ronald Olsen, professor of economics, and Marston McCluggage and Charles Warrine, professors of sociology.
Warriner said that he and McCughage began their investigation in 1966, with a study of the closing of Schilling Air Force Base in Salina.
Schilling was closed in 1964 because the Department of Defense decided there was no need to renew it.
The study of Schilling revealed more of a problem solving situation than a crisis, Warriner said. Salma had the competent answer, but it would have become a crisis, he added.
The former air base now serves as Salina's municipal airport. Some of the
buildings and facilities are now used by aircraft-related firms and manufacturers,
Much of the usual adjustment process is self-corrective, Daicoff said, and according to the study, towns and people faced with base closings adjusted quite well.
The future, however, may not be so
bright, according to Daicoff.
The effects of base clings in 1973 are at this moment unpredictable, he said.
The closing of Forbes Air Force Base will have a moderate impact on Topeka, said the state like Massachusetts and Rhode Island facing possible severe repercussions.
Bonds Needed to Finance Jail
A resolution to be presented to the Douglas County Commission today would initiate action for the construction of a county judicial-law enforcement building.
Heck explained that the building fund, established in 1963 at one-half mill and expanded in 1968 to one mill, could be expanded to 1.75 mills to cover the bond issue.
Commissioner Arthur Heck said that a $2.8 million bond issue would be required to fund the building, but that the bond issue would not require a vote.
This will add only .75 of a mill to present county taxes.
The owner of a house with an assessed valuation of $20,000 would have a $15 insurance premium.
A mill is $1 for every $1,000 of assessed valuation.
The total cost of the building is estimated at $3.6 million, Heck said. Additional costs will be met with revenue-sharing funds from the county and the city of Lawrence.
Mayor Nancy Hambleton said the city commission had agreed to contribute about
$500,000 toward the construction of the county judicial law enforcement building. The city jail and police department will be located in the new building.