Cheap Housing May Be Dangerous
Kensan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
Kauaan Staff Reporter
Editor's Note: This is the first of a two-part series on low-income housing near the University of Kansas campus.
today but the temperatures will be in the mid 30s with a low in the teens tonight.
(inexpensive housing fulfills financial and social needs of many students, but it also can cause health and safety hazards.
Spring is Here?
Yesterday was the first day of spring but the weather was still wintery with freezing temperatures.
One student, who lives in an old house that has been divided into rooms on the 1200 block of Ohio Street, pays $85 a month rent. He has to walk through a bathroom to get to his one room.
"I live here because it is cheaper than I can get someplace else," he said recently.
Another student renter who lives on the 1200 block of Tennessee Street pays $75 a month.
He said, "Students need a place to live that's relatively invincible. Most of us don't just have a lot of money."
A student who lives on the 1300 block of Ohio Street and pays $89 a month rent for a three-room apartment said living there was "a matter of convenience." He said he had to take care of his school and class every day and didn't have to pay any parking fees.
Of the students interviewed, more than 50 who rent apartments and rooms in old houses agreed they needed expensive housing. They also said they liked living near campus and near their friends.
"ALSO," HE SAID, "I like the social area. Most of my friends live nearby and the barn is just down the street."
However, most of the students said their apartments and rooms were bug-infected and had fire and other safety hazards.
"I've got cockroaches all over the place," one student said about his $3 a month room on the 1200 block of Ohio.
Another student who lives on the 1100 block of Ohio Street and who pays $115 a month for a four-room apartment with a kitchenette.
A RESIDENT OF THE 1300 BLOCK of Tennessee Street who pays $85 a month for a three-floor apartment said plaster was coming off his ceiling, the tile in the bathroom was up and flat on the floor and a cabinet in the bathroom was open, off the wall.
"My bedroom leaks, too, but I have an ingenious way of fixing it," he said, so the water runs out the window.
The student who lives on the 1300 block of Ohio Street in **984-a-month three-room apartment** said "everything" was going well.
"The place will leak," he said. "There's toilet paper and stacks of old magazines in the basement. There's an open, unvented heater down there to keep the pipes unfrozen. Gas fumes come up into the apartments from it.
"A COUPLE OF TIMES THIS WINTER I had a glass of water out and it tiffen. I've not heats now, though.
Ed Covington, city minimum housing inspector, said,
"Buildings are not constructed for the safety of people."
He also said the styrofoam bed had melted where wires to a ceiling灯 had touched it in the apartment next door.
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He said it was his responsibility to inspect inferior housing in Lawrence to find "dangerous, unsafe items." Then, he said, he must order the landlord to repair the house to comply with city minimum standards. If repairs aren't made, or if the house is in very poor condition, Covington said he must declare the house uninhabitable.
Thursday, March 21, 1974
84th Year. No.10
Anne Unharmed by Gunman
LONDON (AP) — A gumman fired six bullets into the car carrying Princess Anne and her husband last night, wounding their heads. The woman, but bovine, the royal couple unscathed.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Home Secretary Roy Jenkins told a hushed House of Commons hours after the shooting that the incident was part of a plan by her brother, Charles, who is the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II.
Jenkins said a man had been arrested and was being questioned. The man wasn't even a British citizen or an Englishman. There had been a report carrier that a man with an Irish accent telephoned a newspaper in Belfast, saying "I'm a British citizen" and "assistance" was responsible for the shooting.
EDWARD SHORT, majority leader in the house of Commons, a radio reporter, and a political commentator.
Watergate Transfer of Jury Report Delayed
H. R. Haldeman
The appeals court scheduled a hearing for 10:30 m. today on whether to grant a delay in the delivery of the materials or to stop the transmittal altogether.
The petitions were filed by lawyers for H. R Haldean and Gordon Strachan.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorneys for two of the Watergate cover-up defendants asked the U.S. Court of Appeals yesterday to prevent federal Judge John J. Siraca from sending the Watergate grand jury's Nixon order to the House impeachment committee.
A study done for the Senate Watergate committee recommended that Congress bar the attorney general from advising the President on the President's legal problems. The report was written by the Academy of Public Administration.
If the requested stay is not granted, the material must be delivered to the House Administrator.
Haldeman's lawyers, John J. Wilson and Frank H. Strickler, asked Sircus to suspend his order which said "delivery to the committee is eminently proper, and indeed, obligatory." The judge refused suspension but granted a 24-hour delay until this alf-
Witnesses said a man jumped from the sedan and fired six bullets into the black limousine, wounding the bodyguard and chauffeur. A nearby policeman who tried to intervene and a newspaperman in a passing car were killed. Their wounds were described as serious.
Meanwhile, there were these other Waterate developments:
-Atty. Gen. William B. Saxbe said at a news conference he had no objection to the nomination of Mike Huckabee for President Nixon's Watergate defense team and returning later to the department.
—C. G. "Bebe" Rebozo, Nixon's friend
seen. It was a very long letter demanding a ransom."
Witnesses at the scene said they saw police overpower a man after the shooting, OLAND YARD said the man under investigation to court for arrangement this morning.
Police said a white Ford compact sedan forced the royal limousine to the curb on a tree-lined mall just 150 yards from Buckingham Palace as Princess Anne and her husband, Capt. Mark Phillips, were returning from a movie at about 8 d.m.
testified behind closed doors before the Senate Watergate committee.
—House Judiciary Committee lawyers, defending their attempts to get White House documents, said their requests were thoroughly understood and fully understood by Nixon's attorneys.
The lawyers, representing both the Democratic and Republican members in the committee's impeachment inquiry, said the repeated charge by the White House that the committee wanted to "back a truck into the house" and cart away its files were unfounded.
ward VIII drove by. No shot was fired, but the man was sentenced to jail for "producing a revolver near the person of the king, with intent to alarm his majesty." The king III later abdicated to marry an American divorcee, Walls Warfield Simpson.
A pistol was found later in the street, police said.
The remarks of John Doar, chief counsel,
and Albert Jenner, chief minority counsel,
Dutchess of Kent as she was driving away from her London home. She was unhurt. Authorities later found a sawed-off shotgun nearby.
Three years earlier, a man in a crowd was arrested and sentenced to one year in prison for stealing a bag of money.
at a committee briefing prompted Rep. Jerome R. Waldie, D-Calif., to accuse the White House of trying to stall the investigation.
The White House attacks on the committee also led to sharp criticism by Rep. Walter Flower, D-Ala., who as one of the three southern Democrats on the committee is regarded as a potential swing vote in any impeachment balloting.
"On the one hand we hear on television about full cooperation and the desire for an expeditionary inquiry, but we see developing the intricate maneuvers of a strategy to limit this committee and confuse the issue," said Flowers.
A man with an Irish accent called the offices of the Belfast Newsletter and said: "This is Cap, Jones of the Catholic Defense Department," a responsible for the shootout in the mall."
Police said there was no way to check the truth of the statement. No organization by that name has been known to play any part in the conflict in Northern Ireland.
After the attack, the princess and her husband were put into a backup police car that had been following the lousine and were whisked into the palace.
Princess Anne is fourth in line of succession to the throne, following her elder brother, Prince Charles, and her younger brothers, Andrew, age 14, and Edward, age
THE ATTACK came when most of the royal family were outside the country. The Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, who are on an official visit to Indonesia, were immediately informed of the incident by cable.
This was the first time anyone has shot at a member of the British royal family since 1849.
Pickup Order Issued In Med Center Strike
A pick-up order was issued yesterday for striking University of Kansas Medical Center service employees who were violating prohibiting strikes at the medical center.
The order was issued by Wyndette County District Court Judge William J. Burns and applies to anyone who fails to report to work. The original injunction was issued by Burns when the workers' union struck at the center for four days in January.
The union scheduled a meeting for last night to discuss what its next step would be in seeking a 25 per cent across-the-board pay increase.
William O. Rieke, executive vice chancellor for the medical center, said yesterday that he and also issued a show-cause order which requires union to appear before Burns tomorrow to show cause why they shouldn't be held in contempt of court if they continued
MEMBERS OF THE UNION went on strike Tuesday to press for a pay increase. The Kansas Board of Regents had approved a request for a 5 to 10 per cent increase at their January meeting, but the request has not been stalled in the state personnel director's office.
Shortly before noon yesterday, about 100 members of the union met with Rieke in the
office. At the meeting, Lloyd Rose, the union's business agent, asked Rieke why state officials hadn't replied to the union's demand for the 25 per cent pay increase.
Rieke said the state personnel director had agreed to meet with a representative group from the union rather than the whole union, but this offer was rejected.
Rieke expressed concern for the welfare of patients at the center.
He said attendance by the service employees improved yesterday when only 47 per cent of the employees failed to report to work.
"TM ANXIOUS that there not be any punitive measures leveled against our brothers and sisters who want to impress upon the union that it is an illegal act they're doing, and that we do have sick people in the hospital whose care has to be handled process while we try to resolve our problem."
Rieke said the hospital was continuing to function with volunteer and supervisory personnel taking over the duties of the strikers. The hospital is still admitting patients but has not elected those who are scheduled for elective surgery to postpone
He said the medical center had no plans to close because there were enough volunteers who could help to take over the duties of the service employees.
Deck the Walls ... With Words of Folly
By STEVEN W. LEWIS Kanaan Staff Reporter
Life at KU is like a bridge game! If you have a good hand, you don't need a partner.
Walls and desk tops may be dubious places on which to find profound inscriptions; perhaps that's why so few are found there. Nevertheless, johns and study areas are popular locations for students to anonymously inscribe those bits of profundity that wouldn't be relevant in a term paper but must, nevertheless, be recorded for posterity.
The University of Kansas may be a claibol for profound thought, but its graffiti are inferior to many universities, according to the University of Chicago.
The graffiti at RU are fairly typical, "Hartman said yesterday
he come across very few original things. There is less intelle-
mental stuff."
Hartman said that the graffiti in a john at Tredo is the restaurant at 14 Massachusetts St. tended to be more and more philosophical.
Be Alert! KU needs more lerts.
Arrowhead Stadium should be changed to Wounded Knee.
Several years ago, Hartman he instructed one of his classes at the University of Wisconsin go through Johns there to study graffiti. Politics, sex and religion, he said, turned up most often. Occasionally, he said, there were references to personalities.
The study also indicated, Hartman said, that graffiti are more common in male jobs. He said, moreover, that graffiti tended to be less obscene and less original in female jobs.
Always note it is the latter who made the claim.
Impeach Jesus.
Hartman said he hadn't been very impressed by studies of graffiti because the studies tended to be superficial. Most of the studies, Hartman said, concluded that graffiti are an outlet for aggression because graffiti tend to center on emotional tactics.
Visit $cenic $an Clemente.
Hartman said the earliest graffiti he found in Wescoe Hall was: "This building lacks reality."
Even the most trivial things have their roots in something more serious. Hartman said,
To do is to be: Socrates
Do-be-do-be-do: Sinatra
"Women's restrooms are very dull," Loraine Valdez, Topека senior, complained. "The most you see in women' restrooms is something like 'Mike plus Suzi' inside a little heart. There's no political stuff."
Where's Oswald when we need him?
An official of the department of building and grounds registered a complaint about blight, also. His complaint, however, wasn't significant enough to file an official.
Do you believe in the afterbirth
Odell V. Wiley, supervisor of building maintenance, said graffiti were a continual nuisance for building and grounds.
"I goes in spells," Wiley said. "I'll go along for a period of time and no one will write on a wall. Then every one writes on the wall. I
Hypocrisy is the next best thing to being there.
Wiley said building and grounded restrooms every two years. However, he said many times restrooms had to be repainted.
Hypocrisy is the vaseline of social intercourse.
"We had to redo about three restrooms in one building about every week three years ago," Wiley said. The students responsible for the graffiti would have been charged, Wiley said, if building and grounds could have proved they did it.
"I guess they've graduated now," Wiley said.
Wiley said there was a special building and grounds crew that refinished chairs that had been written upon.
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Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
Many Students Have Left Their Mark at KU