The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, March 11, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 113 USPS 650-640
Linda Jackson (left) and Jo Dalquest, both employees in the Douglas County Clerk's Office, tally the final results of the city commission primary last night.
Newcomer runs away with primary
Bv PAM HOWARD
Staff Reporter
In contrast to last November's chaotic election, the Douglas County Courthouse bore a subdued air last night as quiet candidates and a few well-wishers stood in the City Commission primary and school board elections.
The top six primary finishers, who advance to the April 7 general election, in order were Nancy Shontz, Barkley Clark, Tom Gleason, Nancy Hambleton, Bob Schumann and Mike Amyx. Three commission seats are up for election. Clark and Schummm are incumbents.
Amyx, the sixth finisher, be seven-th place Nesbitt by more than 408 votes, 2.01 to 1.10.
A quiescent crowd, including Amyx, candidates Sherri Diert and Jerry Riding, gathered in the county courthouse lobby, ringing a large white board which rested on two drinking glasses. The jury preset totals, Jo DaLques, 1418 Clare Court, covered the board with black, war pencil numbers.
ACROSS THE ROOM and behind the counter of the County Clerk's Office, a clerk drowned figures to the tune of an adding machine. The machines sang a ringing of phones, bustling and crowded confusion.
After the last precinct total had been recorded, an anxious crowd followed Dalques across the room as she carried the board to the white counter of the Clerk's Office. Peering at the board, Dalques read the precinct figures for each candidate. With more clicking of the adding machine, the numbers were solidified into 13 totals, for the 13 candidates.
The final vote totals were:
- Nancy Shontz, 3,227.
- Tom B. Gleason, 2,634
- Nancy Hambleton, 2,603;
* Nancy Shapiro, 2,236;
* Mike Amyx, 2,011;
* Nick Abetsch, 1,002;
* Sherri迪尔, 1027;
* Pat Slick, 538;
* Jerry Riley, 420;
* David Frye, 390;
* Chester Schiertmund, 377.
A few blocks away from the courthouse in the City Commission meeting at City Hall, other candidates awaited the election results. Barkley clark nervously rubbed his rib and Bob Clark nervously rubbed his papers in front of him. Both had been at City Hall, and the strain of a hard day showed in their faces.
in the audience, Gleason fidgeted in his chair, often balancing on the edge of it, crossing and uncrossing his legs. Shonz nervously towed with her back. Nessitt sat on an orange sofa, looking relaxed.
In the county courthouse, there were no shouts or cheers after the final row of black numbers were recorded on the board. The solemn crowd soaked in the names of the six victors and then walked off the court, asking for knowing. Amyx and Ruling remained, talking to friends and reporters, Dietz left quickly.
RLING, who had been nervous white the votes were counted, looked disheartened.
Amyx looked dazed, as though the realization of his victory had not penetrated him.
"It went as I already well expected," Filing said. "I thank the people who voted for me."
"I really feel good," he said. "The race starts tomorrow. I have some ground to make up, so I can prepare."
Commissioners Clark and Shumm, aware of the room that filled the room, remain relatively quiet.
vote tally circulating around the room on several pieces of paper.
"This is my third campaign," Clark said later, "I've been on the commission since 1973, and I'm sure that everyone has not agreed with every vote and action that I've taken."
"But I think the people of this city also realize and appreciate how much time I've put into this lot."
SHONTZ LEFT THE commission chambers after she saw the results and stood in the lobby numerous welcoming congratulations from numerous wellwishers attributed her watery eyes to a lingered creeper.
"I'm very thrilled to be in the top six," Shontz said. "I just hope that everyone who came out and voted for me today, plus many more, will come out and vote again on April 7."
After five minutes in the lobby, she returned to the meeting, a widie smile creasing her normally pensive face.
Gleason later joined Shontz in the lobby to shake hands and slap backs. He heartily尝
"I was cautiously optimistic about getting out of the primary, and I remain cautiously optimistic about winning the general election," Gleason said.
NESBITT, who had been outside in the lobby when the totals were passed around, calmly and patiently answered.
"Ah, the power of positive advertising," Nesbitt said. "I didn't do much advertising—1 ran one ad in the Journal-World. I refused all campaign contributions.
"Government is like a bowie for me. It like a Tuesday night bowling. I am a terrible bowie, so we play."
Winners of school district No. 472 band elections were Mary F. McGhee, Lorraine Michel, Rodger Pine, J. Howard Rytting, Bob Davis and Jim Dwyer.
Rep.says politics killing tenure bills
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
two tenure bills initiated by State Rep. Joseph J. Hoagland, R-Overland Park, are facing a premature House Ways and Means subcommittee death because of underlying political ties, a member of that subcommittee said yesterday.
State Rep. Loren H. Hohman, one of three members of the subcommittee and the minority leader of the House Ways and Means Committee, said that political factors might make the difference between the bills' success or failure and that at the moment the bills' future looked grim.
The bills were scheduled on the Ways and Means calendar for a vote today by Ways and Means Chairman Mike Hayden. But another member of the subcommittee said that all that would be given today was a subcommittee progress report.
State Rep. Bob Arbautnot, R-Haddam, said that it would be unlikely that the bills would be voted on because the subcommittee had not finished its studies on the bills.
ARBUTHNOT, HOHMAN said, was one of the subcommittee members that was considering killing the bills because of political maneuvering.
The maneuvering involving Arbuthnot has to do with House Speaker Wendell Lady's desire to get the tenure bills out of committee quickly. According to Hohman, Lady wants the bills to succeed so that they would reflect favorably upon Hoagland.
Arbuthton, however, is "farting around" on the bills, Hohman said, because he is part of a House "coalition" that is considered to comprise Lady's opponents.
"The speaker is trying to give Hoagland a cumb with what he does himself." Hohman man that was in the cumberland.
Of the three members of the subcommittee, Robman and Arbautnot said they thought that Stellar Rep. Harold Dyck, R-Hesston, chairman of the committee, was the staunstein supporter of the bills.
"Rep. Dyck is really caught between a rock and a hard place," Hohman said. "On one side he has to go along because while the speaker and the chairman are applying pressure to get the bills out, Arbuthnot and I are blocking him from doing so."
Arbuthnot, however, disagreed with Hohman.
HOHMAN SAID that the fact that Arbuthot was on the side against the bills was unusual, because he thought that Arbuthot in other circumstances would be in favor of the bills.
"Right now, although not all of the information is in, I really don't see where any legislation on this issue is needed." Arbuthnott said. "I am convinced that we are beginning to look like all this is really necessary."
Arbuthnot said that he had taken to tour
Holman and Dyck, but did not want to speculate
on the possibility.
Arbuthnot said that if the evidence, after it was all collected, still showed the bills as superfluous, then he and Hohman would have to talk with Dyck to work out how to send back the bills.
"Just because the two of us are against the bill does not mean that they will be reported on unfavorably." Arbuthnot said. "The reason why this might be so is because the strongest supporter for the bills is the subcommittee's chairman.
"What we will have to do is to sit down with Derek and try to get on their thinking. I hope that they will be able to explain it."
Kansas concert rescheduled
Staff Reporte
By DEBBY FOSTER
Staff Reporters
Kansas will perform in Allen Field House on
Sunday, April 12. The team planned and the
basketball team is in good health.
Tickets for the concert, originally scheduled for last Sunday, will be on sale again at noon today in the SUA office. They will probably be available at area outlets by tomorrow, Duke Devine, SUA special events chairman, said yesterday.
Tickets sold for the cancelled performance will be honored, but if a ticketholder cannot make it to the event, the performance may be canceled.
Ruffles are available at the SUA office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. during regular business hours.
The concert was cancelled when a band member, whose name was not previously released, became ill. A spokesman for Beaver Productions, concert promoters, said yesterday that the band member was Steve Walsh, keyboard player.
There were few problems getting the concert rescheduled, Devine said.
"The band is really up for the show, and they want it to be perfect," he said.
SUA will not lose money because of the cancellation, Devine said, but Beaver Productions will.
He said the company would bear the cost of building another stage, advertising and work done by Facilities Operations in preparation for the concert.
However, Beaver Productions does not seem upset about the additional costs.
"It's just one of those everyday business problems," Beaver Productions spokesman said. "We need to get a specific loss figure, because of competition from KU, everything has worked out fantastic."
The opening act for the concert will still be the group Loverboy.
According to Beaver Productions, about 200 tickets were returned out of the 8,000 sold. Beaver Productions rescheduled the concert on a Saturday night before the event and bought tickets can attend the postponed concert.
According to John Conrad, KLZR program director, the station received more than 200 calls about the cancellation and received about as many concerning the concert rescheduling.
The station began releasing the information yesterday morning about twice every hour after 10 a.m.
New parking lot at City Hall would be unsafe,prof savs
By AMY S. COLLINS Staff Reporter
The ghost of the Bryan Anderson building has returned to haunt the Lawrence City Commission.
John Morris, KU assistant professor of architecture and urban design, questioned the safety and cost of the parking lot designed for the downtown restaurants streets, where Anderson once had a building.
ACCORDING TO MORIS, the existing lot design puts both the entrance and exit to the lot in the blind corner at Sixth and New Hampshire streets. He said cars would have to make an 180-degree turn directly through inbound and parking lot traffic and the first lane of westbound Sixth Street traffic.
His building was condemned by the commission last year. The commission had it demolished and planned to use the site for additional City Hall parking.
The lot was designed by Peters, Williams, & Kubota for european-type driving. Drivers exit on the left side of the parking lot and enter on the right.
In his presentation, Morris stressed two major problems with the proposed lot design. He charges that the entrance and exit were unsafe and hard to access, and that cost effectiveness of the lot was low.
Morris said that pedestrians crossing from the lot to City Hall would be a hazard. He said that a comprehensive study of the site alternatives and cost had never been done.
Morris said it would be hazardous for drivers to exit left, around the 180-degree corner. Morris said he would be forced to turn into two lanes of traffic, increased risk for cars being hit broadside by 51st street traffic.
IN ITS PRESENT CONDITION, Morris said, the lot should not be developed for about five years. He questioned the city's need for a 28-space parking lot.
George Williams, director of public works,
admitted that the city's draft of the lot was indo-
red.
If you could only swallow your pride and realize you can only get 15 spaces in, there not 20.
He said crowding 28 spaces in the parking lot would make it impossible for cars at the end of a driveway.
Weather
See MEETING page 5
Tonight will be clear with a low of 32.
The wind will be from the west at 5 to
10.
It will be sunny today with a high near 60. Winds will be light and variable from the west.
Tomorrow will be clear with a high in the lower 60s.
Carter bids adieu to commission seat
By DALE WETZEL Staff Reporter
Ed Carter, his sky-blue pinstret suit and knee-high boots, dressed day, stared binary-eyed at the questioner.
"Twenty times? Geez. Well, let's just try to get this thing over with," he said.
It had been especially trying yesterday for the mayor of Lawrence. On the heels of several morning engagements at his job at Southwestern Bell were three almost unbroken hours of fielding complaints, questions and comments from citizens seeking a slice of Lawrence's federal Community Development funds.
FOLLOWING THAT, Carter had barely 20 minutes to down a box dinner in a room adjoining the City Commission chambers before commission's regular 7 p.m. Tuesday meeting.
It was primary election night, and slips of paper bearing the latest returns circled the room as Barkley Clark and Bob Schumm, two of the primary's candidates, alternated between nervous fidgeting and impassive looks that seemed a bit forced.
Carter's seat was also up for re-election. However, as the mayor lifted a torn sheet of yellow legal paper to read the final vote tally, he had to admit that the afflicted amusement rather than nervousness.
"Congratulations, you rascals," he announced to the winners. Laughter rippled through the room as Clark and Schumm, who had been on the list, broke into relieved smiles.
CARTER HIMSELF had no worries. On the 13-member primary election ballot, his name was nowhere to be found. Carter had wanted it that way.
Ed Carter
BOB GREENSPAN/Kansan staff
The commission meeting, already two
"I never had any intention of running again," Carter, whose term expires in April, said. "And I don't regret it one bit, although the time Ive spent on the commission."
hours into its eventual four and one-half hour duration, was in temporary recess. As the primary winners and their supporters talked excitedly around him, Carter stood in the blue-carpeted City Hall tower. Swathed in the
See CARTER page 5