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University Daily Kansan, March 4, 1981
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Associations offer free paint
By PAM HOWARD Staff Reporter
Besides being laborious, house painting is also expensive, but two neighborhood associations are making affordable for some Lawrence residents.
The Oread Neighborhood Association and the East Lawrence Improvement Association, backed by Community Development funds, will each choose a project to receive free pain, Lynn Goodell, community development director, said.
Renters as well as homeowners are eligible for this program, Nan Harper, Oread Neighborhood Association director, said. Residents who want their house painted should contact the owner.
"The owner is the one who will apply and will receive the paint," Harper said. "He may not be aware of the program."
KATE DUFFY, East Lawrence Improvement Association VISTA supervisor, said that renters needed only to receive the permission of the owner if they wanted to paint their house.
Harper said that residents who were interested in the program should contact ONA. The ONA board plans to choose a block this weekend.
The block to be painted will be chosen
on the basis of need, interest of residents and visibility, she said. ONA is seeking a block that would be highly visible.
Duffy said that her group also was looking for a highly visible block.
"We're going to try to get a block on Connecticut Street that is the most traveled block in east Lawrence," she said.
UNDER THE PROGRAM, community development inspectors will look at houses before paint is given to the owners. Harper said.
These inspectors will consider whether the house has been painted in the last three years, whether the surface would be hard to paint and what repairs need to be made before painting could begin.
Owners or residents would be responsible for doing the painting or hiring someone to do it, Harper said, and a time limit would be set.
"It will be either 60 or 90 days," she said.
Duffy said that the Community Development Board had approved painting in six neighborhoods for next year at a cost of $15,000 or $16,000. He says before the Commission for approval within the next two months.
Harper said that the painting probably would have to be done between April and July because the paint was already properly in weather that was too hot.
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Bill to raise speed limit killed in House
TOPEKA-What was probably the last of the speed limit bills to pass through the Legislature died a natural death on the House floor yesterday.
Along the path of its defeat, the bill was amended, denounced, reamended and rejected to the point where even its supporters refused to vote for it.
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
If the bill had passed it would have raised the speed limit in Kansas immediately after Congress had raised the national speed limit. The bill was defeated resoundingly on a voice vote and stiffened from the House calendar.
"I was very much against the bill," House Speaker Wendell Ladv. the main
"It may take people longer to get where they are going, but at least they will be alive when they get there."
opponent of the bill, said. "I really don't think that we should increase the speed limit at the risk of people's lives.
LADY SAID THAT he thought that the bill was the last the Legislature would see this year on changing the speed limit.
Earlier this session, the House Transportation Committee reluctantly recommended a bill proposed by State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, that would have eliminated the 10-mph grace limit on speeding violations.
Charlton, who did not vote for the bill,
said that she would have voted if the bill
had been amended to 60 mph on four-
ways and always 55 on two-lane highways.
Three major moves led to the demise
of the bill. First, Lady gave an impassioned speech on the thousands of lives saved by the lower speed limit.
The crowning blow to the bill was an effort by State Rep. George Dean, D-Wichita, to amend it from 65 mph on all highways to 55 mph on two-lane
The driver told Webb that when the speed limit was 70 mph, similar accidents happened almost daily.
State Rep. Darrel Webb, D-Wichita,
said that he had been in a tow truck
when he passed the scene of an accident.
After trying to help the victims,
the driver of the tow truck told him that such serious accidents had happened only three or four times a month since the speed limit was lowered.
Then another member of the House spoke on how he had witnessed an accident that killed one and injured three college students.
"The speeches, I think, changed a lot of minds," she said. "Also, when the amendment made by Rep. Dean passed, a lot of the representatives felt it was too fast on one side and too slow on the other side."
Lady said that now that this bill had been defeated, any change made by Congress would be handled by the or the secretary of transportation.
highways and 65 mph on four-lane highways.
Charlton also said that she thought the strong speeches against the bill led many representatives to vote it down.
"That was what probably killed the entire bill," State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said. "Once it was amended, its supporters did not like the bill and its opponents still would not vote for it."
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