University Daily Kansan, July 10, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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News Digest
From staff and wire reports
KU student killed in car accident
Kimberly Emack, Hutchinson sophomore, was killed Thursday in a traffic accident when the car she was riding in overturned in a ditch along Kansas Highway 17, about 15 miles south of Hutchinson. She was 19.
According to a report from the Reno County sheriff's office, the accident occurred at 2:50 a.m. when the right tire of the car in which Miss Emack and the driver, Travis A. Gracey, Cheney, were riding went off the right side of the road.
Larry Leslie, patrol captain for the Reno County sheriff's office, said Monday that the driver then overcorrected when pulling the car back on to the roadway and slid across the west side. The vehicle then flipped onto its ton in a ditch next to the road.
Miss Emack lived in Hutchinson all of her life and graduated from Hutchinson High School.
Services took place Saturday at Elliot Chapel and burial was at Memorial Park Cemetery, both in Hutchinson.
She is survived by her mother and stepfather, Patty and John Hindman, of the home; her father, James W. Emack; Hutchinson; two brothers, Chris Albright and Jeremy Emack, both of Hutchinson; a stepbrother, Eric Hindman, Gardner, Mont.; a sister, Julia Emack, Hutchinson; a stepister, Kirsten Newburn, Hutchinson, her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs., Barbara Broom, Bool, Mo.; and her maternal grandson, Jason Grosvenor, Hebesson.
The family suggests memorials to the Hutchinson High School Booster Club.
Church dedication to be this weekend
Dedication ceremonies for the new Corpus Christi Catholic Church,
1100 Kassid Drive, will be at 3 p. m. Sunday.
The Most Rev. Ignatius Strecker, archbishop of the Kansas City, Kan., and vice president, and representatives of the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi are scholars.
The parish was founded in July 1981 and for the past four years, members have been meeting at the First Baptist Church, 1330 Kasoid Drive, and the auditorium of West Junior High School, 2700 Harvard Road. The first formal services in the new building will be Saturday and Sunday.
State aid available to help pay utilities
The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services on July 2 started the summer cooling phase of the Low Income Energy Assistance Program, which last year helped 355 Douglas County households with their cooling bills.
Jane Garcia, LIEAP supervisor in Topeka, said the $2.8 million statewide program was in its fifth year, providing assistance to low-income people over 65 years old and to the disabled. She said $31 900 was needed to help residents fill hills for July through September. The average household received $90.
Services scheduled for accident victim
Memorial services for Gilbert Booth, 88, 2239 Melbouli Drive, will be 2 p.m. tomorrow at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1245 New Hampshire St. Booth died Monday afternoon at the University of Kansas Medical Center in City, Kan., from injuries suffered in a June 18 automobile accident
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Booth was traveling north on U.S. Highway 90 south of Lawrence when his car rammed into the back of
He is survived by his wife, Bett, of the home: two sons, David Booth, Los Angeles; Mark Booth, New York; a daughter, Jane Berkley, Tescott; a brother, Wilbur Booth, Iola; a sister, Mary Lafley, Garnett, and three grandchildren.
Weather
Today should be sunny and hot with a high of 93. Tonight will be clear with the low in the mid-60s to low 75s. Tomorrow is expected to be sunny and hot with the high forecast at 55. The extended forecast for Friday through Sunday calls for a slight chance of rain. Highs will be in the upper 80s or low 90s. Lows are expected to be in the 60s.
Publicity, controversy drawn to wall
Commission says painting not art, stripes are a sign
By Shawn Aday Staff Reporter
The red, white and blue striped wall of Big Bob's Used Carpet Shop. 738 New Hampshire St., has been condemned by the city as a blatant, eye-catching sign. But the wall itself might never have attracted as much attention as the controversy that has surrounded it.
The painted wall of Big Bob's Carpet has created quite a controversy in Lawrence and has brought unexpected publicity to the business, according to co-manager Jim Griffin.
Since the Lawrence City Commission in late April declared the three broad, horizontal stripes on the south wall of the building an illegal sign, the flashy paint job has gained unexpected publicity for the business.
"We spend a lot on advertising, so we always make a point of asking customers where they heard about us," Jim Griffin, co-manager of the store, said recently. "They all say, 'We heard about your sign trouble.'"
But Griffin said he wasn't sure the publicity would make up for the legal fees for fighting the city. Meanwhile, the stripes remain.
The city filed charges in Lawrence Municipal Court against the store and its owner, David Elyachar, Shawnee, on June 17, and a trial has been scheduled for July 31.
The maximum fine is $500 a day. $100 each for three violations. The city contends that the wall is a sign without a permit, it is larger than allowed under the sign ordinance, and it hasn't been removed after prosecution. These violations also are punished by up to 30 days in jail.
Gene Shaughnessy, the city's chief building inspector, said that as far as he was concerned, the fine should be retractive to June 15 when a 30 day grace period to repaint the wall enforced by the city enforces the city's sign ordinance.
During that grace period.
Elychair agreed to repaint the wall in a way acceptable to city officials. But Elychair didn't. And last week he came from the city to settle out of court.
Elyachar said he thought the alternate paint scheme — solid red walls with white and blue doors — was gaudier than the original. The offer to settle, he said wasn't a compromise, but it still stead was an offer to drop the charges if he repainted to suit the city.
Elychar said he thought the city would back down and perhaps grant his business a sign variance.
"I'm very, very scared — personally, professionally and financially." Elvachar said "I've never been to court before.
"I've got to believe that there is a jure of 12 people who will tell the city to go a fly kit, go find something else to do."
Ekaychar said he was fighting the charges because he thought the city was not just regulating signs but insisting on standing on his freedom of self expression.
"If 10 people had come into the store and said, 'We don't like it, we are offended,' I would have repainted."
Eliyah said, "But instead, we've had 400 people tell us to fight because they don't see anything wrong with it."
The commission, however, did see something wrong with the paint scheme when it ruiled during its April 30 meeting that the wall was a sign.
Commissioner David Longhurst that night expressed the view of the commission's majority. He said the committee should focus its purpose — to call attention to itself,
"I feel very strongly that it's enormously objectionable." Longhurst said at the meeting.
May grad drowns while floating down river
Staff Reporter
By Shawn Adav
photograph of Mr. Elsawahli tape to white cardboard His smile was big
"He was a happy person, really genuine," said McGrath, who was Mr Elsawahi's roommate for the past year.
Osama Abdella Elsawah was far from his native country of Sudan when he drowned Thursday in the Wakarusa River south of Lawrence He had lived in this country for only three years, completing his master's degree in architecture at the University of Kansas in May.
Yet he left a wide circle of friends.
By Monday night, three days after Shaun McGratl, 1515 W. Ninth St,
came up with the idea of a memorial collection,
$150 had been dropped into a jar at the Rock Chalk Bar, 618 W.
12th St. Propped against the jar on
the rough wooden bar was a
He said Mr. Elsawahli was comfort table around Americans.
"He knew a lot of people. He was really happy here," McGrath said.
no life preservers or flotation devices.
Mr. Elswalfi died while trying to float about a mile and a half down the Wakarua River from Brown's Grove bridge to the U.S. Highway 59 near Marlborough, New Zealand. Old margar Morawaiz Hiner, 1029 Kentucky St., but they were wearing
Capt. Marilyn Steele of the Douglas County sheriff's department said the river's current was fast that after a storm, and it recently released from Clinton Lake
The pair started down the river at about $3 p.m. and Mr. Elsawahi who experienced trouble, Morawietz-tiner told sheiff deputies. She said she tried to pull him ashore, but he slipped from her grasp.
Mr Elsawala's body was recovered at 10:30 a.m. Saturday far downstream from where he fell during a rainstorm day in the Islamic section of Floral
Hills Cemetery in Kansas City, Mo.
Mr. Elsawahi, who lived in the city of Khartoum, Sudan, was seeking a professional internship to complete his training.
Stephen Grabow, professor of architecture and urban design, had been Mr. Elsawahil's thesis adviser for the past two years.
He said he remembered Mr. Elsawahli as being strikingly alert.
"I always felt he was learning a lot more than most domestic students." Grabow said. "Here was this student from a remote, exotic culture, and he seemed to be absorbing everything at every moment about our culture."
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