Tuesday, January 23, 1973
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Mass. Street Changes Proposed
BY DANGEORGE
By Shivaji Kansan Staff Writer
The Lawrence Project Area Committee (APC) will submit its design for proposed Federal Neighborhood Development Project (NDP) improvements to sections of Massachusetts Street at a Lawrence City Commission meeting at 2 p.m. today.
The design calls for the redevelopment of the area south of the Massachusetts Street bridge and the 600 and 1100 blocks of the city, and the commission to improve its reoasal.
"I don't expect any surprises," said Don Schaake, director of the NDP. "Hopefully, they will approve it so the architects can get to work on their ideas. I'm looking for a March 1 hd date."
The plans, originally conceived by consultants of the Lawrence Harpin firm in San Francisco, were developed by architect J. F. Schoenbergen, Connerton, Peters and Williams, a local firm.
They call for the widening of Sixth Street between Massachusetts and Vermont streets and the insertion of several traffic lanes in the intersection of Massachusetts and Sixth streets.
ACCORDING TO the plans, Sixth Street would be widened from four to six lanes. Two islands on Sixth would channel traffic westbound from the Sixth and Massachusetts intersection, and eastbound on Sixth to the intersection.
One of the proposed islands would create a lane flowing right from the southbound lane of Massachusetts Street westbound onto Sixth St.et.
The island would extend west from the Massachusetts-Sixth streets intersection to the west, where it would separate the streets. It would thus separate lane of traffic from other westbound traffic on Sixth. Automobiles in that lane would be unable to make a turn on Vermont from
Several members of the committee
voiced objections to prohibitions the from that lane and suggested that the island be shortened to allow a left turn onto Verde Island to allow off the Massachusetts Street bridge.
"I GUESS IT'S just the Kanan in me," said Schaake, "but I don't like being put into a chute and told to turn on Tennessee or go to the Ramada Inn."
Kubota said that the island had been designed with safety in mind but that it was up to the committee to decide what it wanted.
Another revision suggested by the committee was that the design of the school should be based on a social development model.
intersection be studied and possibly redesigned for truck traffic turning east into Sixth from the northbound lane of Massachusetts.
The committee also decided to study the possibility of closing some curb cuts on both sides of the 600 block of Massachusetts to gain parking space, and to make sure that no parking space would be lost in the 1100 block because of proposed changes in that area.
These revisions will be included in the designs submitted today to the city commission.
LAST THURSDAY, the PAC committee sent letters to the owners of the four tracts
of land along the south side of Sixth Street between Massachusetts and Vermont streets, which the city wishes to develop as a plaza in conjunction with street lighting. It could make the total cost for acquisition, clearance and relocation of the land would be $13,000.
This money would be drawn from the 1973 $500,000 federal grant given to the city. Schaake's rough budget for the project will be based on the amount used this way: $10,000 for administration and legal expenses, $35,000 for planning the 1974 program in East Lawrence, $200,000 for interest and contingencies and $1,400 for rehabilitation projects in East Lawrence.
Prof to Study Mariner 9 Photos
By DIANE YEAMANS
Kansan Staff Writer
Edward Zeller, director of the radiation physics laboratory at the University of Kansas, soon will begin poring over 7,000 photographs of Mars from Mariner 9. He will be seeking to explain changes in Earth's climate.
The study will be funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which awarded the laboratory a preeminary grant of $2,500 last week.
Zeller said the preliminary grant would
be awarded when the principal grant of
approximately $23 million is received.
Zeller, also a professor of geology, physics and astronomy, will attend a meeting of all persons concerned with the discovery of asteroid Aries Research Center in San Francisco.
Earth's climate is changing, Zeller said.
It's possible it will enter another ice age.
HOWEVER, controversy has risen on
KU Will Withhold Request For Funds for Fuel Bills
Chancellor Raymond Nichols said Monday that the University of Kansas would not appeal to the State Finance Council for extra funds to pay for increased fuel oil and natural gas bills unless the University was in desperate need.
"If we can't absorb the increases then we will ask the council for more funds." he
"Because of factors such as possible rate increases, we really won't know whether we will need extra funds until April or May," Nichols said.
Nichols said that the University had spent 11 days on oil heat this winter. The cost of using oil, he said, was $1,000 a day more than that of using natural gas.
The Pearson Integrated Humanities Program will be reviewed at the College Assembly meeting at 4 p.m. today in the Forum Room at the Kansas Union.
KU Assembly To Hear Report On Humanities
The Pearson Program will be part of the report of the Educational Policies and Members will also hear reports from the other three standing committees: Evaluation and Advancement, Budgetary Matters and planning, and Promotions and
Delbert Shankel, associate dean of the College of Liberal arts and Sciences, will present his work.
A therapy program for stutterers will be offered by the Speech and Hearing Clinic at KU. The meetings, for adult stutterers in the community and the KU student body, will be held on Thursday in Room 288 Haworth Hall. The first meeting will be at 7 tonight.
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The Christian Science organization at KU will meet at 7:30 toight in Dornichap廊. The meeting agenda will include readings of the Bible and spiritual advice and spontaneous testimony on healings.
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IF THE PRESENT study proves conclusive, Zeller said, there is a possibility that the mm would burn out or, at least, it could sustain to sustain life on Earth as it is now.
Bible Readings
James Gunn of the KU English and journalism departments will lecture at 7 tonight in the Kansas Union. The lecture will be followed by two science fiction films, "Trip to the Moon" and "Masters of the World."
The study of the density of atmospheric dust began about one year ago with a $33,000 investment in a lab at Marsh. March. The measurements were placed in outer space to measure the amount of dust in the upper reaches of the Earth's atmosphere. A report on this study will be released in March.
ranges from about 60 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, it does not receive the sun's rays at the same intensity as the Earth, which lessens the rays' warming effect.
If this should happen, he said, it would not lead to the extreme destruction of all forms of life as in the past but would be limited to the equatorial regions. The use of simulated energy, probably nuclear energy, would be required.
The regents also approved a motion made by Henry Bubb of Topeka urging the legislature to increase faculty fringe benefits by one per cent. Gov. Robert Docking has proposed a 4% per cent faculty fee and the Senate has approved a proposal did not cover the faculty retirement program or a disability and life insurance program.
what is causing these changes. One theory suggests that volcanic activity has thrown enough dust into the Earth's atmosphere to create a thicker cloud cover, which is blocking the sun's rays and causing a cooling of the Earth's climate. he said.
At their meeting on Saturday, the Board of Regents authorized all six state schools to ask for extra funds from the Finance Council, if they find it is necessary.
The Earth's cooling climate is evident in the growing size of the polar ice caps Zeller said. The ice cap of Antarctica is extending Greenland's border around Greenland is extending south.
Zeller said he did not believe the volcanic activity was the cause of the Earth's climatic changes though it might have aggrassed the problem.
Bubb's motion also pledged that the regents raise faculty salaries to a level comparable with institutions with which the schools compete.
Nichols said that the regents proposed to raise salaries on a phase basis over a three-year period. KU and Kansas State are among the nation's faculty salary centers in the Bike Eight Conference.
In other action affecting KU, the regents approved a residence hall rental rate increase.
THE SECOND theory is that the basic cause of the changes in the Earth's atmosphere may be due to a fluctuation in the energy output of the sun. Zeller said. If the sun is the cause, then the changes in the climates of Earth and Mars will be parallel.
More than 40 Lawrence and area agencies will be represented at Voluntary Action Day on Friday, said Lacy. Representatives will be in the Union Ballroom to answer any questions that may have concerning the type of volunteer jobs available in the community.
Single room rates in all residence halls will go up 50 and the rates for double rooms in Corbin Hall and Gertrude Sellars Pearson Hall will increase $15 to provide new special education and recreation rooms for residents.
The agency representatives will again be available to talk to interested persons Saturday at South Park Community Building, according to Lacy. A training session for all volunteers, Feb. 4 will be the conclusion of the recruiting activities.
Many students feel the need to get involved with the community off the KU campus, said Patty Evans Great Bend senior and cochairman of the Volunteer Council. "They can benefit most by volunteering their services in the community. Evans said.
The program is designed to make all interested persons aware of what type of volunteer jobs are available in Lawrence, according to Lacy.
More than 200 University of Kansas students are expected to volunteer their services to the Lawrence community during Voluntary Action Day Friday in the Kansas City Public Library, Lacy, Manhattan, Kans, junior and staff member of the Volunteer Clearing House.
Since Mars is farther from the sun than the Earth, Zeller said, the sun's effect is more drastic there. Mars may also act as an albedo for carbon dioxide expected on Earth in the future, he said.
Zelier said he was hopeful that the study of the photographs would yield information about the sun's effect on Mars so that it could be compared to its effect on Earth.
Lacy said members of the volunteer staff expected this recruitment to furnish the largest amount of volunteers yet recruited from the KU campus. This recruitment drive begins Voluntary Action Week, Jan. 28-Feb. 4.
KU Workers To Recruit Volunteers
During Voluntary Action Day, interested students who want to volunteer are able to choose what type of work they wish to do. Students may also interest them most, according to Faculty.
Extensive changes in the climate of Mars and its surface is evident in the Mariner 9 photographs Zeller said. That water probably existed in a liquid form at one time is apparent in what seem to be dried or frozen river beds, he said.
Agencies seeking volunteers are Headstart, Big Brother-Big Sister, Headquarters day care centers, homes for the aged and free schools.
Previous recruits have yielded more female than male volunteers, said Lacy. Many volunteers are also students in the School of Social Welfare, she said.
THE DISAPPEARANCE of the rivers may have been caused by a temperature rise from winter to spring.
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Fire Fighters Extend Slowdown Over Pay
City Manager Buford Watson said Monday that there was no change in the status of negotiations with the Lawrence Fire Fighters Union.
Local fire fighters began a slowdown of nonemergency cleanup duties last week as a protector of a newly approved pay increase below that given to city policemen.
Watson said he hoped to meet with union officials later this week to continue talks, but that no meetings had yet been definitely scheduled.
In the new city plan approved by the city commission last week, the monthly starting salary for firemen rose five per cent, from a range of $30-$80 to a range of $35-$100. In the starting salaries' penalty increased ten per cent from a range of $350-$80 to $397-$70.
Alvin Samuels, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local 1596, announced the slowdown last Thursday. As of Monday, 40 of 62 city firemen were participating in the slowdown.
Watson said the firemen were still answering calls and taking care of essential duties but were neglecting normal house cleaning duties.
Watson also said city officials were unscrupulous about possible disciplinary action.
"We're still trying to figure out whether to take disciplinary action," he said. "No harm has been done to the public, as the men are still taking care of fires."
The commission plans to remain firm about the pay plan, Watson said, adding that he had discussed the subject with the commissioners. In presenting the pay plan the commissioners agreed that the five per cent differential between the starting salaries of firemen and policemen was decided upon because it was easier for firemen to acquire a second job to supplement their incomes than policemen; they work three days and are off three days.
Samuelis said firemen may have a meeting this week to discuss the slowdown, and then move forward.
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