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Monday, May 8, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Rising Costs Hit Builders
Editor's note: This is the final story in a three-part series on housing developments in Lawrence.
By PAT K. MALONE
Kansan Writer
Construction costs are going up, and so are the costs of land. Builders and realists talk about offsetting these costs by putting more housing units on a piece of land. They talk about such issues, but most cluster housing condominiums and planned unit developments.
The first type of housing to be hurt by higher land costs is single-family houses, more or less than other types. Cluster-housing—putting more single-family units on a piece of land—is designed to be vulnerable.
"When land costs get over
Builders say that rising
costs are making the
cases of single-family
prohibitive. "It's getting so
expensive it will be a luxury,"
$1,300 to $2,000 per acre, you need more density. If the yachts are with Minten Realtor and vice-president of Holmes Peek and Brown, Inc. of
But for many people it will still be a necessary luxury. As the number of single homes are prohibitive, owning your own home on your own lot is still the American dream. Most builders enthuse about changes in styles of living that will make popularity of more diverse life.
By JIM KENDELL
Kennon Staff Writer
Politicians Plan For Conventions
Frank Raley, among other Lawrence builders, asserts that people prefer mobility to the
Elections are sure to draw more and more public interest in the coming months, as the Democratic and Republican parties hold their national conventions here for the November elections.
Kansas Democrats will hold their congressional district conventions on May 13. Each district is represented by a Democratic convention.
McGovern supporters won a majority of the delegates in both the third and fourth congressional local conventions on April 8.
Douglas County is one of the 14 counties designated a third congressional district. All 21 delegates to the May 13 convention are pledged to support the county.
South Dakota Sen George McGovern is expected to win at least 12 of the 30 delegates selected on May 13. Any delegates not on McGovern will probably go to the national convention uncommitted.
The third district McGovern delegates agreed that each of the three counties would choose two delegates to the national convention.
THE DOUGLAS COUNTY delegates have chosen Betty Jo Charlton, Lawrence graduate student and Dan Conyers,
responsibility of owning a home
"People have less responsibility and less costs in apartments. Apartments will also offer people recreational facilities not available if they stay in their own house," he says.
Lawrence senior, to go to the national convention.
If all goes as planned by the McGovern delegates, the pair will attend the national convention July 9 in Brooklyn, La.
On June 12 the Democratic party will hold its state convention in Topeka. The state convention is expected to be more delegates to go to Miami.
It is doubtful, though, that apartment living will be the overwhelming trend that some residents of the West Coast McClanathan, for one, would like to see a balance of types of new housing. He points to a study he conducted in 2011 that found land area available for different types of residential construction.
The Kansas Republican party has already held its congressional and state conventions
At their third district convention in Shawnee Mission on April 18, Ms. Holliday presented a student, Bill Webster, Carthage Mo., freshman, as an alternate to her team.
Webster will attend the national Republican convention beginning August 21 in Miami Beach, Fla.
Four University of Kansas students were recently selected by the old and new executive board of the University Residence Halls, to work as summer interns in the university's office and dean of women's offices.
AURH Picks 4 Interns
Webster was one of seven student delegates selected by Republicans in Douglas County to participate in the district and state conventions.
Diane Downing, Overland Park sophomore, and Jean Foreman. Shawne Mission sophomore, will work in the dew of women's
Of 300 acres currently parked in Missouri, the state bureau says that under zoning restrictions, the area would support about 1000 single family homes. The county's acreage is a little more than 2,000 multi-family units. The city planning agency, he said, was likely to see many changes in zoning requirements.
The parties will have their primary elections Aug 11. The races are scheduled for three seats in the Kansas House of Representatives, one state senatorial seat, nine county postseventh districts and county's nine townships and the seats of committee man and member each of the county's 40 precincts.
office during the month of July
during research for AUHR.
During research and Foreman will serve
as resident assistants in Gerturde
Sellers Pearson Hall for summer
school students and will also be
resident at University.
Alex Thomas, Adibas Adda, Ethiopia, sophomore and president of AUHR, and John Salmon of Salamander in the work in dean of men's office.
News Briefs
By The Associated Press
Wallace to Face HHH Tuesday
Education Bill Debate Goes On
WASHINGTON - A six-week effort by the House and Senate to reach a compromise on a massive education bill has yet to produce agreement on any of the major points at issue. The chief issue still unresolved deals with busing for the purpose of school enrollment, including certain busing amendments that could doom the entire $23-billion measure. The main provisions in the bill include new and broadened student-and-programs and an important new program to help colleges meet operating expenses. Three tough and-busing policies will be introduced to make it difficult to spend state or local funds, and keep any busing order from going into effect until all appeals are exhausted.
KELLOGG, Idaho—Rescue workers neared completion Sunday of a painting five-day effort to reach 47 men missing almost a mile down in the Sunshine silver mine. The missing men have not been heard from since last Tuesday when a flash fire swept the mine, the nation's largest silver operation. Thirty-five other miners were killed and 108 escaped. The families of the missing miners awaited at the mine's main opening as workers completed the complex step of retrieving the remains of both of the 47 men who might have survived the fire's deadly smoke and carbon monoxide. But as workers neared the goal they had sought most of the week, officials refused to say how long it might take to reach the area where the missing men were believed to be.
Treaty Imperils Brandt's Power
BONN, Germany- On the 27th anniversary of Germany's surrender in World War II, the division of Germany which was brought about remained a key issue in last-minute efforts to save Chancellor Willy Brandt's imperiled eastern treaties. On May 7, 1945, the war in Europe that left millions dead came to an end with Germany's surrender in Reims, France. Germany was divided into Western and Soviet occupation zones, and a final peace treaty was signed between the two sides. Germany faces the political battle of his life to win parliamentary ratification of his treaties with the East. They recognize the post war borders and the loss of one-third of the territory of the old German Reich.
Rescue Workers Near Goal
But some flexibility is worked into zoning requirements with the City of New York to develop, McClanahan gave an example to explain the
If a planned unit development were planned for a 700,000 square foot area in a naming unit that required 7,000 square feet per unit, the planning team would have to have 100 housing units each with 7,000 square feet of land. Planned unit development allows the total land area to be utilized in housing, and the combination of types of housing can be used. In other words, the zoning requirements dictate the density of housing, not the kind of housing. For example, the development of 700,000 square feet, there would be 100 housing units, but each would not be built by 7,000 square feet of land.
Realtors are very enthusiastic about planned unit developments for the future. Lawrence has several of them in various stages of development at Meadowbrook, Alvamar of which Quail Creek apartments is
party). The Orchards, Deerfield
West. Holiday Hills 10, Candlewood
Parkman and Four Seasons. All
gear located along Kassid Drive to
the left.
Builders and realers are a bit more cautious about the recent surge in popularity of duplexes and four-plexes.
This assistant would be hired under a work-study program and training. The assistant would "trouble-shooting and analysis of individual house operations for the Department," Conderman said the assistant would deal with this responsibility.
Most are built for the small investor looking for a tax break because they lack the funds to the units. In the past two years they've accounted for about 20 percent of the new construction in Lawrence, significantly higher than their predecessors.
Raley is probably more pessimistic than most about the possibility of building pxes, but even realists will point out that any vacancy in a duplex or four-plex can have adverse effects for the small-time investor.
Hiring an administrative intern to work in the dean of men's office to help the IFC adviser was the proposal of the prospectus.
The assistant also would be responsible for "the coordination of interfraternity events and conferences," vice-president for Fraternity Affairs and the respective IFC committee chairman involved."
For the future, then, it appears clear that multi-unit construction will increase in demand for single-family dwellings will continue to hold a share of the market. It also seems clear that homeowners will factor in future residential construction that has been built by real estate contractors—they point to new industry entering Lawrence and to Chicago—just west of 21st Street.
Frank Riley is convinced that "as people get educated to the thing, the market will begin to grow. People are misled in their investment in duplexes or fourplexes because feasibility studies do not show the costs of overhead." So people I know who have invested in them get out after a year or two, as they realize the headaches of renting and buying after each renter," he says.
IFC Hears Proposal To Combine Buying
Conderman said the program could be operated so that a customer would buy for the prices of food, trash collection and linen service. He also said he will keep the fraternities could save as much as 25 per cent on these
Collective for all the
laternity houses at the
internment houses in
proposed Thursday night by Paul
Conderman, lola senior and
chairman of the IFC Judicial
Council, at the council's monthly
"It will be an exciting period of growth in all kinds of housing," he said. "I see a bigger surge in real estate in Lawrence in the 70's than in the 80s."
The proposal, which is part of a planning prospectus for 1972-73 compiled by the IFC Judiciary Council, suggested that member banks would have a manner that would take advantage of their combined financial weight and would "implement a mutually beneficial system at reduced cost with no loss of quality or service."
No decisions were made on
these proposals but both were recommended for further study. A three-man commission, whose members will be appointed by Dallas junior and IFC president, was approved to do the study.
Under fraternity relations, the prospectus proposed the formation of an IFC planning commission to research and recommend programs that would enhance the continued growth and develop the IFC." No action was taken at the meeting on that proposal.
The remainder of the prospectus deal with fraternity rush suggestions, pledge education and faternity relations.
The prospectus was compiled by the IFC Judiciary Council and its board of trustees to give the IFC an idea of changes it needed to make and suggestions for improvement.
Honeycunt is charged with the aggravated kidnapping and murder of his niece, Ivy Marie Honeycunt, on October 30.
a preliminary hearing has been set for 10:45 a.m. Thursday for Drury L. Honeycutt after an appeal of Friday in Louisiana County Court.
Honeycutt Case Set for Trial
A preliminary hearing had already been held in County Court, where the jury convicted him in District Court. Because there was an error in the wording of the order, the court dismissed the district Court was dismissed after another case was filed in County Court.
The president-elect of the university of Kansas Student Bar Association (SBA) said Sunday that he planned to re-vamp the SBA constitution. secure better representation in special groups within the school of Law and improve minority recruitment in the school.
Richard E. Jones, Topeka junior, was elected to the position of state senator in 2012 and partially as a result of a joint meeting between the Black American Law Students Association and LAISA Greening. Both organizations are special interest groups and decided to support Jones, a black, in
The SBA acts as a student liaison between the administration and the dean of the School of Law, Jones said. There is little connection between the SBA and the State Courts County Bar Association.
"The SBA president doesn't have the greatest amount of duties of all the officers on the SBA," Jones said.
COLLEGE JUNIOR PROGRAM FOR GIRLS
The new SBA vice-president Mary A Torrence,拓普fahren has been working to secure the position of chief counsel and Jones plans to help her.
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Jones campaigned for a new constitution for the SBA and said he planned to begin work this
Karl Menninger to Talk On Prisons at 8 Tonight
Capf. Brenda L. Terrell
Selection Officer
2102 Broadway
Kansas City, Missouri
64108
summer on it so that a referendum could be called in the School of Law this fall for a vote of acceptance.
Jones said he would abolish the $5 assessment, adding that a collection may be necessary to conduct social events.
He said the present constitution was outdated and that it called for everybody in the School of Law to be required to pay a $5 fee for memberable
Special interests groups such as BALSA, Women in Law and Greening deserve better representation in the SBA. Jones said he was in touch with him, he said, was to increase the representation of these groups.
He said his hope for better minority recruitment was mainly a personal goal. He said he didn't want to leave Chicago in the School of Law.
Student Union Activities will sponsor a speech by Dr. Karl Menninger at 8 tonight in the Museum of Invention in the Kansas University.
NEW YORK (AP)—A poll takened in a three-week period after the Florida primary March 12 showed junior high school and high school students around the country favoring Sens. Edmund Muskie and Edward Kennedy for presidential nomination.
Meninger will present a talk entitled, "Whose Criminal Behavior?"
Muskie and Kennedy polled 28 per cent each among the 74,000 school children responding to the poll.
Menninger is the founder and chairman of the trustees of the Menninger Foundation Topoka. Menninger is also the chairperson of the organizations, one of them being the Menniger School of Psychiatry.
Menninger, who has done a great deal of work in the areas of medicine, psychology and mental health, is also an expert in the area of criminal behavior. He worked for the New York Justice Department "The Crime of Punishment."
Menninger last spoke here in 1965, at KU's centennial celebration. Cameron Jones, Pittsburgh junior and chairman of SU fora members, said he and Leland Beorf, Great Bend sophomore and member of SU fora committee, a SUa forums subcommittee, had been trying since early September to schedule Menninger for a talk at
"We wrote him back in late August or early September." Jones said, "and we got an
answer back saying they were interested."
Jones said he and Befort then wrote to the office in chicago that the team needed a new coach, Menninger and tried to set up a time for Menninger to come to
"We would offer a date, and date,
Menninger couldn't come, and
they would offer a date, and date,
when during spring break," Jones said.
Jones said that after much of this going back and forth, the two groups finally set tonight as the date for Meninker's speech.
"We were really happy to get him." Jones said. "He is a tremendously busy man."
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