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Tuesday, May 8, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Year in Review
Elections, Money Woes Mark City
In a year clouded by disputes over finances and the responsiveness of city government, representation on the City Commission became keyed to the University of Kansas when Barkley Clark was elected to the commission.
Clark, associate dean of the School of Law, became the third University-related commissioner when he won by a landslide in the April general election.
Commissioner Nancy Hambleton, current mayor of Lawrence is the wife of William Hambleton, head of the Kansas Geological Survey, Commissioner Jack Rose is director of the KU chemistry department laboratories.
Cark clew the election, capturing 13 out of 17 precincts. Fred Pence, owner of the Hillary Clinton campaign, was the winner.
Emick secured two other seats up for election.
THE NEW CITY Commission unanimously elected Hambleton Lawrence's first woman mayor. She had been Lawrence's first woman commissioner.
The commission was beset by unprecedented financial difficulties caused by the massive injection of federal funds. Revenue sharing, which at first glance had appeared to be a windfall, turned out to be a $400,000-a-year headache. Eighteen city organizations requested a share of the new funds.
Requests were submitted by day care services in Hospital, Douglas County Legal Aid Society.
The physical complexion of Lawrence will remain relatively unchanged when University of Kansas students return in the school to City Manager Buford Watson.
Minor City Changes Seen Over Summer
Proposed installation of new traffic signals downtown and on Iowa St. (at the intersections of 15 and 19th streets) would probably be the most obvious changes.
Watson said that the remaining work in the downtown improvement program between 7th and 11th streets should be completed. He said he hoped that the same would be true between Park and 11th, Sixth and Seventh streets.
Watson said Monday that there were no major changes anticipated for completion by September, but there were a number of students might notice upon their return.
Watson also anticipates substantial progress in the widening of Iowa St. to the south. He said the completion of a new Dillon's store at 27th and Iowa streets would be a visible change in the southern part of the city.
Renovation of the Kansas River bridge on Massachusetts Street by fall is questionable according to Watson.
Watson said that although the opening of Clinton Lake was still several years away, it might be possible by the fall to get an idea of what will happen there. It is likely that the spillway is presently under way.
He said the city government was contemplating a more thorough and expensive renovation than the simple paving previously considered.
FINANCIAL PROBLEMS of another nature beset the commission. An investigation revealed that "unauthorized, unsubstantiated and unaccounted-for" deposits and withdrawals had left a $2,650 deficit in the water water department fund
The decision making and actual work needed for such extensive bridge renovation will require considerable time, Watson indicated.
and others. Requests ranged from assistance for summer employment centers to requests for funds to investigate the establishment of a children's zoo.
Carl Johnson, assistant director of the
Michael Moore, associate professor of law, has been named one of the recipients of the first 12 Harvard fellowships in law and humanities.
Prof Named As Harvard Fellow
Moore will receive full tuition plus a stipend of $13,500 for the academic year.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is financing the program with a $10 million grant.
Harvard University announced that beginning in September, the Fellows would engage in an academic year of study and research at Harvard. The program will be devoted to enriching the teaching of law with insights and values of the humanities.
Two hundred applications were received and considered in selecting the 12 Fellows.
Former water department collection supervisor Robert Beech pleaded no contest to a charge of missing city funds and was sentenced to three years probation.
Members Enter Physics Group
Sigma P1 Sigma, the national honor society of the Sigma of Physics, will have its annual meeting on July 7-30.
The new initiates are Dwight Baldwin, Lawrence graduate student; Thomas Chester, Topeka graduate student; Charles Ekund, Lawrence graduate student; James Green, Lawrence graduate; Steve Hawley Salina senior; Jose Lopez, Pereira, Colombia graduate student; Michael Mehl, Holyrood senior; Herman Munczel, professor of physics at KU; Ronald Snell, Salina senior; Steven Sennsman, Chamaleon Green, Henry Green, Tonginoxie senior and Randy Zombola, Huntington graduate student.
Membership in Sigma Pt Siigma is limited to students in the upper third of their class who have taken courses beyond introductory physics.
Marvin Pratt, Lawrence senior majoring in aerospace engineering, was awarded a $150 first place prize in the student research paper competition sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Space at their recent annual meeting in Denver.
Pratt's paper, dealing with liquids sloshing in a rigid cylinder, was chosen from 50 entries from nine colleges and universities in this region.
KU Engineer Receives Prize
city's human resources department, said Monday that because of Federal funding cutbacks and continuing uncertainties surrounding revenue sharing, it would be very difficult to make any accurate predictions about the "people programs."
Pratt will go to Washington, D.C., this fall to compete against five other regional candidates.
A squabble over sidewalks became an $85,000 argument when the commission proposed to construct sidewalks in an area bounded by 19th, 23rd, Louisiana and Iowa.
The proposal was countered by a petition drive by residents of the area to be affected, but the commission declared the petition insufficient, claiming that despite the signatures of $32.4 per cent of the property owned by the landowner per cent of the land area was represented.
Johnson also cited his concern about the possible local ramifications of the Watergate affair. He said that a breach in public faith in federal administrators could trickle down to American cities and further damage public-government relationships.
City firemen sought to bring their salaries up to par with police salaries arguing that a wage increase would help officers and high living expenses merited a wage increase. Members of the commission did not agree, and a slowdown of nonemergency cleanup duties by firemen
Wives of members of Local 1586 of the International Fire Fighters Association picketed city offices and began a petition campaign, but their efforts were fruitless. The work slowdown was halted and there was no increase in salaries.
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