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City Blamed for Substandard Area
By JILL WILLIS
Kantan Staff Reporter
City leaders, not landlords, are responsible for the bad condition of apartments near the University of Kansas campus, Doug Bothe, an apartment maintenance specialist at the apartment owner Daniel Ling, associate professor of physics and astronomy.
Six of Ling's houses were recently placeted by the city as substandard. Unless repairs are made on the houses, the tenants will have to move. Buehe said Ling's maintenance crew had begun making the repairs.
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Bueche accused the "money-grabbing bankers and the city commission" of trying to destroy an area they didn't know anything about.
"They wouldn't even think of driving through it," he said. "Most people on the council are so wrapped up in trying to find a way, they would never think of improving it."
Sanitation workers especially are careless, he said.
Baehe said garbage had accumulated for almost a year in several areas in the alley where the fire was extinguished.
It's no mystery that the tenants don't take
care of the houses, he said, when trash is
lying all over their yards.
"We pay the city to pick this up and yet they don't do it," he said.
James Engnehl, assistant foreman for the city sanitation department, said yesterday he would leave a note for the trash to be picked up.
Mark Creamer, one of Ling's tenants, said Sunday that the street sweepers were using a tool called
"And then they turn around and call it a bad area," he said.
Cremier said he was told the city couldn't clean the streets because parked cars were broken down.
He tried to get no parking signs installed so that the street could be swept and was told by the city commission that it would be done within two weeks, he said.
Creamer said that he went back to the commission after a month to find out why the signs hadn't been installed but that no one would talk to him.
if the street cleared to cut
down an elm tree, they can do it. But
to an oak tree, they must build a
wall.
Arnold Wiley, the city street department, said yesterday that the city
cleaned the streets in the area near campus when the students were on vacation.
Workers have gone in a number of times to hand-clean Ohio Street. Wiley said.
"We have to clean it up when the students aren't parked there. Normally Ohio Street
He said it would be a problem to install no parking signs because there was already a car in the lot.
Buethe said many of the tenants were neclectic in the care of their houses.
Both Bustee and Creamer said they had seen tenants throw garbage out of the
"One of the major problems with the
housees are the exterior. If there's 20 garage
cars, only 2 will have garage in them," he
adds.
Buhee said student renters didn't think to take care of day-to-day maintenance problems before the problems turned into major repair jobs.
They'll clean a frying pan, but they'll never think of cleaning the oven, he said.
"Then they'll call us and say the stove doesn't work," he said.
These students will abuse their houses beyond belief, he said, "then they'll pick their books up and go on the hill and be the elite of the world."
Playboy Will Publish Spiro Agnew's Novel
NEW YORK (AP)
publish the novel
President Spirt A
Agnew's agent said
YORK (AP) - Playboy Press will
the novel that former Vice
Spiro T. Agnew is writing,
its agent said yesterday.
4 Colleges to Present Plays at KU In Regional Theater Competition
By CAROL GWINN
Kansas Staff Reporter
Regional competition for the American College Theater Festival is taking place this weekend.
Four plays, which have been judged the best productions of colleges and universities in the Central Region of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, will be presented at 8 p.m. tonight through Saturday in the University Theater.
Tonight Meramec Community College, Kirkwood, Mo., will open the festival with "110 in the Shade," a musical comedy adapted from "The Rainmaker." It is about a woman's romance and a town's hope for rain during the 1930s dumb bowls.
Tomorrow night Kansas State College of Pittsburg will present "The Serpent" by Jean-Claude van Italy, which centers on the Adam and Eve story. "The Serpent" is in the environmental theater style, which tries to create a more substantial rapport between the actors and the audience by bringing the play out of the audience.
Friday night Fort Hays State College will present "Aftermath," an original play about euthanasia written and directed by David Shelton.
"The Three Penny Opera" by Bertol
Brecht, an East German existentialist, will be presented Saturday night by Webster
College, Webster Groves, Mo. The play is a
tale of the adventures of Mackee
Messer of "Matilda the Knife" in the 1920a
Berlin underwater
After each play, said Tom Rea, associate director of theater and coordinator for the Central Region, two guest critics, Robert Darling, whose specialty is scenic design, and jerome Kilty, an author and director, with queens们with anyone enrolled in the festival.
Workshops in scenic painting, voice for
workshops, the non-dance actor in the musical,
the dance troupe.
costing and critical reviewing sponsored by the School of Journalism will be conducted for more than 400 participants from area colleges and universities.
Rea said yesterday that winners of the regional contests would go to the national contest.
The festival began six years ago, Rea
theatre to upgrade the quality of collo-
eral theater.
He said that although the exposure to Washington audiences was an advantage for performers, he added that the festival was to share theater experiences with other campuses. He said he thought performers tried harder when they performed before audiences other than him.
KU did not enter the competition this year, Rea said, "primarily because we were hosts." Last year's KU production, "Tango," went to the regional contest, and
in 1871 "Indians" won the regional competition and went to Washington.
Rea said that if KU had decided to enter the contest, last December's production, "The Doll's House," would have been the only one ready in time for the judging. Keeping the scenery intact would have been a lot of trouble, Rea said.
takes to its scenery and costumes.
Rea said the productions were picked on
the basis of the quality of scenic design,
costuming, lighting and acting.
"It's a pretty big undertaking to move scenery," Rea said.
The Mermance play required two large trucks to bring its scenery and costumes.
Ten productions are selected to go to Washington from the 52 plays at the 13 regional competitions. The American College Theater Festival is presented by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Smithsonian Institution.
NASA Urges Investigation Of Fake Skvlab Messages
WASHINGTON (AP)—The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said yesterday it had asked American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to look into reports that fake radio messages from people pretending to be the Skylab astronauts were overheard on at least four long-distance telephone calls.
The fake messages were supposedly between the astronauts and ground controllers. The alleged astronauts said that they had been sent into space, and that the station was falling into the sun.
NASA said the messages were overhearby by persons on at least four long-distance satellites.
A space agency spokesman said one call was between New York and North Carolina, another between Atlanta and New York City, the third between New York City and San Francisco and the fourth between Jacksonville and an unknown city.
the astronauts safely returned to earth Feb. 8.
NASA said it had turned the investigation to AT&T because its Bell System lines were cut.
A spokesman for AT&T said he had heard of the story but knew of no investigation by NASA. That said if an investigation was in progress, the would be conveyed to NASA.
STEREO/QUAD SALE
The Playboy bid was one of five received for the book, Pressed for financial details of the sale, the agent, Scott Meredith, said. The book sold more than $50,000 and less than $250,000.
He didn't name the other bidders for the book, which was rejected last month by Random House. He said movie rights to the book were a political intrigue involving a vice president of the United States, were still open. Publication is tentatively set for early 1975.
Seral rights to the book, whose working title is "A Very Special Relationship," were sold earlier this month to Ladies Home Journal for a reported $100,000.
Meredith said getting the book published was of special personal importance to Agnew, who resigned last October after a contest to an income tax evasion charge.
"It's important to him now to have a personal accomplishment. It represents a challenge to him that he wants at this stage," he said.
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Bogus Kidnapers Arrested In Seeking Hearst Ransom
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 43-year-old unemployed cab driver and his 21-year-old wife were arrested here over the weekend for impersonating the kidnappers of Patricia Hears in an unsuccessful attempt to collect ransom money, authorities said yesterday.
The couple, Nile Dwayne Marx, a transient from Indiana, and his wife, Mrs. Shirley Ann Marx of Columbia, Mo., were taken into custody late Saturday night and booked early Sunday in an investigation of imporational kidnappers, authorities said.
11. Charles Higbie said police were satisfied that the pair had no connection with the disappearance of the daughter of newspaper publisher Randolph A. Hearst or with the Symbionese Liberation Army, which said it held the girl.
He said the couple, who told police they had arrived in Los Angeles a week ago from
Columbia, were arrested when they appeared at the bus station and were confronted by a team of police investigators and the FBI
"It was done by telephone through the Hearts," he said. "During one phone conversation Mrs. Hearst was contacted." Two police investigators said they would seek felony complaints against the Marxes from the district attorney's office, this morning. They are expected to be arraigned today.
They gave no resistance and weren't armed, Highe said.
Higher refused to say whether any money actually was delivered to the terminal or how many contacts were made with the Hearst family.
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Higher said materials were found on the couple that linked them to the telephone.
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