University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, May 2, 1973
1950s
Stations to Curb Campus Traffic
July 8, 1962—The inevitable has arrived for the traffic-congested University of Kansas campus. Traffic control stations definitely will regulate the flow of vehicles onto the campus during the peak daylight period starting next fall.
The project is aimed at bettering pedestrian safety. Most faculty, staff and students now have parking permits for main campus area will retain these permits.
Keith Lawton, head of KU physical plant operations, today said, "We have never had any deaths, and only three minor accidents, in the last 15 years. But we cannot continue such a fine record with the increasing number of students and vehicles on the campus.
"We feel we have arrived at the time when the simultaneous 'collision' of students and vehicles every 50 minutes (between classes) on Jayhawk Boulevard is no longer tenable. The automobile must give way to the students."
KU asked for the $30,000 necessary to
install the stations from the state legislature. But the lawmakers, although they approved of the measure, said funds were not available now.
But Lawton said the University considered the project important enough for pedestrian safety to go ahead with the original plan to operate the stations next fall
KU will use parking fine money for the project. The funds are normally used to
"This will delay building of an additional parking lot next year," Lawton said. "We can
The parking lot is scheduled for the Sunnyside area. Lawton said there was a great need for such a lot in the area, but it might would not be built until 1963-64 or later.
There will be little change in parking from the present system. Handicapped persons will have access to the main campus, and administrators now parking on campus.
The project will control traffic on the
The 1851 flood inundates the Kaw Valley at Lawrence. From the air the valley looked like a lake, but when it rained, resembles areas of the Mississippi delta in Louisiana. People were rescued from their
Drug Traffic Rumor Denied
A Tonganoxie minister also charged
Sadat right there were narcotics traffic in
that city.
July 3, 1951—The possibility that Lawrence is a station for area narcotics traffic appeared extremely remote today after the Tonganoxie city marshal stated yesterday he believed drug peddlers were operating in his city from here.
The Rev. Delbert Vaughn, pastor of the Tonganoxie Friends Church, told a church audience that marjiqua cigarettes were selling in Tonganoxie for 50 cents each.
Informed of the minister's charge yesterday, Fred DelBondia, Tonganoxie city marshal, said, "We know there is drug traffic here, but we haven't been able to get it out or prove the evidence." He said he believed narcotics peddlers were coming from Lawrence.
No Lawrence officials contacted subscribed DelBondo's claim about the city's plans to build a new bridge.
noxie.
DelBondo said that recently a Lawrence woman had been arrested in Tonganoxie and when 'shaken down' it was found several marijuana cigarettes were in her possession. She was selling them in that locality for 50 cents each.
"We think there are several other persons whose possessions all belong to our operating lawyer," DellBombard said.
Travis E. Glass, Douglas county sheriff,
said, "Our last narcotics arrest was some two and a half or three years ago. We turned that pair over to federal agents and although there have been rumors since, we've never been able to substantiate any of them. Naturally, any time we hear a rumor we plan to check it."
"They take marijuan weed—it grows wild most anywhere—soak it in whisky or coffee, and has first dried, dry it out again. grind it up, and then make cigarettes," he said.
narrow main campus thoroughfare. It will eliminate unsafe unloading and delivery of materials.
Public transportation, taxis and emergency vehicles will have the same access as now. And out-of-town visitors and bona fide guests will be welcomed, Lawton said. The 30-minute parking restriction on the north side of Jayhawk Boulevard will be lifted and the bus for guest parking. The restricted parking on the south side will remain.
The five stations will be managed by KU patrolmen from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. There will be no control on Saturday, Sunday or at night.
The stations, to be placed in the center of the street, are now being designed.
Construction of the stations and traffic lanes will begin this spring, and are expected to be completed after July 15. The construction period before full operation for the fall term.
The setup probably will call for traffic lights at 13th Street and Oread Avenue, and at Sunflower Road and Sunnyside Road for better traffic control, Lawton said.
Danforth Chapel Has Been Scene Of 350 Weddings
April 3, 1951—Danforth Chapel is officially almost 5 years old. Dedication ceremonies were held April 2, 1946, and the building was accepted on behalf of the state convent of Mt. St. Helena (an all-student convocation). Actually, the chapel was in use before it was dedicated.
The chapel, which is open day and night, has been the setting for more than 350 weddings, the first of which was on March 20, 1946. That wedding took place even before the carpet was laid. The first baptism in the chapel was in April 1947.
The building was made possible by the combined efforts of students, faculty members and volunteers.
W. H. Danforth, chairman of the board of the Rialston Purina Co. of St. Louis, made the initial gift toward building the chapel, and wife also gave a marble baptical font.
Edward Tanner, head architect for the J. C. Nichols Co. of Kansas City, Mo., designed the structure as a memorial to his mother. The architecture of the KU department of architecture.
R. Q. Blewster, professor of chemistry,
business and management that presented $865 to the building fund.
Dances, Christmas caroling parties and many other functions were sponsored by various student organizations, with proceeds going into the chapel fund.
The Endowment association presented funds from the estate of Elizabeth N. Watik
The discovery of the fence revealed a whole bed of the same kind of stone. The University bought the fence and the rock bed to use in the chapel.
Leonard A. Axe, dean of the school of business, was largely responsible for finding and procuring the building material. Axe found an old fence of native limestone two miles south of U.S. 40 between Topeka and Lawrence.
Thursday, May 3, 1973
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THE WHITE HOUSE spokesman said Nixon thought the action, taken by voice vote with only five senators present, might have been too narrow in terms of responsibility and integrity" of Elliot Richardson, the President's nominee for attorney general who already has taken over direction of federal inquiries into the mortgage burglary and subsequent cover-up.
The Senate wrangled inconclusively for 20 minutes over the matter Wednesday, and let stand the resolution sponsored principally by Sen. Charles Percy. R-ill.
Ziegler all dies from the White House hives of Halidem, Ehrlichius and Dean Kucinich. He is survived by his wife, Sara
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con Tightens Controls Major U.S. Companies
ITON (AP)—President Nixon higher price controls on the best companies Wednesday in to restrain rising prices, which now says will increase by 4 years.
In a statement on the economy probably would keep rising for as although not at the rate of ihs.
controls require major com-
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cil can suspend the increase or action that it considers justified, mt said. If it approves the introduction take effect at the end of period.
statement also said that the
gest firms would be asked for
jorts on price changes since the
The President announced four new steps under the Phase 3 anti-infection program:
beginning of the Phase 3 anti-inflation program in January and that the council might order reduction of increases that had exceeded the standards.
-The Cost of Living Council will obtain reports on price changes made by the country's largest firms since the beginning of Phase 3 "so that it may order reduction of increases that have exceeded the standards."
If a major firm intends to raise its average prices more than 1.5 per cent above the Jam, 10 authorized level, it must notify the Living Council 30 days in advance.
—Firms not exceeding the 1.5 per cent limit still will be required to report their actions quarterly so that their conformity to price increase standards may be checked.
—"Additional resources will be assigned to insure that these strengthened efforts are carried out fairly and effectively," Nixon said.
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VAL of all traffic control
ening of Sunflower Road as a tite across campus
eration of long-range proposals, reviews mass transportation
systems in view of recent technological advances.
Jane Eldridge of 511 Ohio St., a member of the League of Women Voters, said she hoped that any suggested transportation elements would not be limited to the aging.
"Concepts such as the automated train, monorail, and various bus and tube transport systems might be applied to the city where a major part of town or remote parking facilities and the
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Eldridge said that Lawrence would have to go to a more efficient means of transport. "I don't want it," she added.
Kansan Staff Writer
Mills went on to say that the problem lay in the circusual necessity for persons to acquire a vehicle to permit them to get a job in the first place.
The CAB ruled last Dec. 7 that the special fares were illegal because they discriminated against other air travelers who were not part of family groups or were too old to qualify for youth discounts.
The Lawrence Human Relations Commission Wednesday night addressed two fundamental transracial and transincome questions, transportation and employment.
Fred Mills, manager of the city's job opportunities center, cited the problem of transporting people to jobs for which they might qualify.
The discounts represented by such fares must be eliminated gradually. The first cutback will occur June 1—the second, May 3—and the second will take place next week.
Commissioner Doug Harris, head of the commission's transportation committee, said any successful city action would be validated effort by all Lawrentic citizens.
"I'm not an expert on transportation engineering, 'Mills said. I merely know what it is."
Harris invited comments from an attentive audience.
American energy resources as evidence of the problem's magnitude.
Leroy Mcdermott, University of Kansas graduate student from Welk, Okla., cited
CAB to Drop Special Fares
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Civil Aeronautics Board ruled Wednesday that the domestic airlines must include family and youth fares by June 1, 1974.
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involving spaces, the committee recommends that top priority be given to persons who could demonstrate a need for using their cars during working hours.
Second priority should be based on medical factors, it says.
"In general," the report states, "it is recommended that no students be assigned parking spaces on the central campus area except for medical reasons."
Faculty and staff members who use parking spaces simply for all-day storage of their automobiles should be assigned to the reservoir lots* in O, X and O, the report says.
"Accompanying a decision of priority such as this would be the necessity for the University to provide a free shuttle service to students and the central campus," the report states.
MAX LUCAS, professor of architecture and urban design and chairman of the committee, said Wednesday that the committee had been charged with recommending alternatives for parking and campus traffic flow.
Chancellor-designate Archie Dykes probably will have to decide whether to implement the proposals of the committee, Lucas said.
These short-range recommendations, Lucas said, are intended to ease the tight
Traffic would be routed around the central campus under long-range recommendations by the Chancellor's Ad Hoc Committee on Transportation.
study and analysis, include the closing of Jayhawk Boulevard between the Chi Omega Circle and Sunflower Road and between Sunflower Road and Fraser Hall, the removal of traffic control booths and the opening of Sunflower Road as a north-south route across campus. Short-range proposals include the addition of 50 parking spaces behind Wesco Hill, altered for petrus parking privileges and shuttle bus service from N, O and X parking zones. (Map by Prynn Puckett)