University Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 14. 1974
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Six Ling Houses Declared Unfit City Says Tenants Must Leave
The city isn't "playing games" anymore with landlord Daniel Ling, associate professor of physics and astronomy, Ed Doyle, city housing inspector, said yesterday.
six houses owned by Lang were "rendered uninhabitable" by the city and were placarded Monday with signs saying it was a misdemeanor to live there.
According to Covington, the houses, which are in a four-block area near the University of Kansas campus, must be vacated.
Long will then have the option to repair the houses. If the houses are still vacant and unrepaired after six months, the city will be asked to act, possibly to condemn them.
The inspection of the houses was part of a house-to-house survey begun in January 1972. Of the 182 houses canvassed in that year, 56 were approved with the city's renovation housing code.
Most of the tenants in Ling's apartment houses said he was a good landlord.
He doesn't make the tenants pay rent if there is something substantially wrong with their apartments, said Deb Bowman, Ferguson, M., adj. of 1131 Ohio St.
A former Lang tenant, who asked not to be identified, said the plumbing in his apartment broke frequently and the wiring was damaged. The company until these problems had been corrected.
"Repairs were made but we had the same problems over and over," he said.
The former tenant said he didn't move out of the apartment because it would have been too much of a problem in the middle of the school year.
"We learned to live with it since it was free," he said.
Sharon Mayer, a KU buildings and groundlights护士 of 1245 Louisiana, said she would have problems finding a new apartment at this time of year.
By CAROL GWINN
Kansas Staff Reporter
Love, Valentines Remain Popular
More people have filed for divorce than for marriage licenses in Douglas County during February, which may indicate that adults aren't all that different from children, at least during the Valentine season.
Mothers and teachers are still coercing children into giving Valentines to all the (ugh!) boys or (ugh!) girls in the class—even to the gushy members of the opposite sex, properly scorned by any self-respecting grade schooler.
But while adults are still marrying and getting divorced, they aren't doing it on account.
"We have issued 12 marriage licenses this month," Pat Gattenhine, deputy clerk of the Douglas County Probate Court, said yesterday. "That ought to give you some money." But there are already getting married on Valentine's Day, June and December are the big months."
Hill said he thought younger people were beginning to send more cards, especially birthday cards.
"It's. I love you, you're sweet" only in Jonathon Livingston Seagulls' term." Hill said. "It's more straightforward. Youth aren't buying fancy lacy cards.
"Older style cards still have a place," Hill said. "The majority of Hallmark cards are bought by middle-aged America, mostly women."
such as key chains and plaques also seemed to appeal to younger people.
amount of cards produced and the profits grossed, according to Roque Hill plant division.
He said that most of his customers were of high school and college age.
He said that about half the time . . .
Valentine cards couldn't be distinguished from regular cards until the cards were read.
"There's a lot of photography these days," Hill said.
diamond ring sales. Valentine's day doesn't have that much of an influence. It isn't that important to me.
HILL SAID new Valentine gift products
Kay Owens, who works at Owens Flower Shop at 84 Indiana St., said Valentine's Day and Mother's Day were the biggest Owens' Flower Shop, except for Christmas.
Dick McQueen, owner of McQueen's Jewelers at 89 Massachusetts St., said that although his store had an increase in sales, he thought most of it was in the nature of small jewelry a boy and girl might exchange.
"I really don't think there's an increase in
SHE SAID THE MOST popular flowers for Valentine's Day were red roses, thenoses of other colors, and finally red carnations.