University Daily Kansan, April 23, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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City discusses grant money
By MIKE GREEN Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission last night took a first step towards deciding how to allocate more than $800,000 in Community Development Block Grant money by meeting with the city's trustees about the group's recommendations.
Community Development Block Grant money is used to finance such things as social service programs and street and sidewalk repair.
This year the advisory committee made its recommendations for financing on the assumption that $803,447 would be available. $723,000 of that would come from the federal government.
The Community Development Block Grant Advisory Committee was formed by the City Commission last summer to make recommendations which programs should receive money and how much they should receive.
COMMISSIONER ERNEST Angino asked the group what would happen if federal programs were cut.
He said he had heard rumors that the program might be cut by 10-20 percent in the future.
Advisory Committee Chairman Bob Moody said the 10 percent wouldn't be cut from this year's budget. He said next year's committee would have to answer that question.
Commissioners asked several questions about the advisory committee's recommendation that $6,731 be allotted to Women's Transitional Services. The group provides help to battered women and their families.
Women's Transitional Care Services originally had asked for $14,507. Moody said the reason the recommended allotment was so much better than what they said that the committee thought some of its services could be consolidated.
RIC SILBER, a member of the advisory committee, said he hoped the commission would award more to Women's Transitional Care Services than the recommended amount. Angino said he wondered where the commission would get the extra money.
Now the commission will meet in a study session with the city staff to discuss the recommendations. The commission then will compile a list of its proposed allocations and make it make its final decisions in a commission meeting.
At its regular meeting tonight, the commission is expected to consider officially assigning two proposed downtown redevelopment projects to the newly created Urban Renewal Board.
The Urban Renewal Board was created last January by the commission. Among its powers is the right to condemn land in the designated project area. The board also acts as a project coordinator.
At a study session three weeks ago, the commissioners expressed interest in having the board act as a leader and proposed downtown mall projects.
The Town Center Venture Corporation has proposed building a mall in the 600 block of Massachusetts street Lawrence Front Mall, frontfront Mall, and frontfront build a mall east of City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
Smoking policy may get review
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
A petition to ask KU officials to work with students to re-evaluate the campus smoking policy was approved last night by a Student Senate committee.
The Senate University Affairs Committee voted 11-4 to favorably recommend the petition to the full Senate. The Senate's next meeting is 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Party Room of the Burge Union.
The committee also passed by an 8-7 vote a petition asking the Athletic Department to withdraw a proposal for basketball season ticket holders
to contribute $750 to $5,000 to the Williams Fund to acquire choice seating in Allen Field House.
The smoking petition asks Caryl Smith, dean of student life, to establish a committee of faculty, students and administrators to look at problems related to smoking, such as ventilation and health.
Steve Vogel, committee member and architecture and urban design senator, said approving the petition would be the first step in a process that could be beneficial to the student body.
"I think it is a problem that needs to be dealt with," Vogel said.
The petition asking the Athletic Department to withdraw its proposal
concerning season ticket holders says season ticket holders should not have to make a contribution to the fund in order to buy tickets.
In other action, the committee unanimously approved a bill requesting $10,000 for a study of ways to improve campus lighting.
Last month, Ronald Helme, director of architectural engineering, completed a study showing a correlation between campus lighting and night crime. The money requested in the bill would be used to make specific recommendations for improving lighting based on his study.
Earlier this month, the bill passed favorably out of the Senate Finance Committee.
Finance committee OKs box bill
The Student Senate Finance Committee last night approved a bill requesting more than $4,000 to build our distributing student publications.
regulating distribution, scheduling and duration of use.
areas of campus. Student groups wishing to use the boxes to distribute materials would be able to do so on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The bill, which still must go before the full Senate, calls for eight wooden boxes to be built in heavily trafficked
Members of the student groups that publish In the Streets, Graduate Student Newspaper and Praxis would form a management team,
The Student Senate Executive Committee would appoint three members of the Senate University Commission to act as mediators if problems arose.
Court OKs plan to lure GM plant
By United Press International
TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court yesterday approved the legality of a multi-million dollar package of inducements offered to lure a $775 million General Motors auto plant to Kansas City, Kan.
In a one-page interim ruling, the high court upheld the constitutionality of statutes to allow a property tax exemption for property purchased with industrial revenue bonds and proclaimed the legality of the IRB and tax abatement package the city is offering GM.
The ruling, written by Chief Justice Alfred Schroeder, said that the one-page document was issued because of the urgency of the matter, and that a formal opinion would be filed when it was completed.
SIX JUSTICES voted in favor of
the ruling, with Justice Harold Herd dissenting. In addition, a notation on the brief order said Justice Tyler Lockett concurred, which indicates that he supported the ruling, but possibly for different reasons that would be made clear when the full ruling was filed.
Wyandotte County District Attorney Nick Tomascic brought the case to the high court, challenging Kansas City, Kan., attorneys in a friendly lawsuit over the bond and tax break package.
GM proposes building the auto assembly and stamping facility in the Fairfax Industrial District, in what has been labeled the largest single industrial project in the history of the state GM insisted the court rule on the legality of the inducement package before the automaker would commit to the deal.
had told the justices that the agreement to provide millions of dollars of incentives, including more than $775 million in tax-exempt loans, violated several provisions of the Kansas Constitution and state law.
Tomasic argued that the industrial revenue bond agreement would result in $136 million in property tax abatements for the automaker, as well as $241 savings from sales to builders. It would be incurred in construction of the plant.
IN A HEARING April 2. Tomasic
The district attorney said the tax breaks violated constitutional provisions that prohibit favoritism in taxation.
Tomasic pointed to reports that GM might buy a portion of the bonds itself, indicating the corporation did not need the money for the project, but merely wanted the tax abatement.
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Steadman hopes that as more volunteers join, the group can start telephone solicitations, eventually building into national telehones and fund-raising concerts from country musicians willing to dedicate time to the cause.
The way the group will raise the millions needed still is unsure, Steadman said. His first step has been to contact local news media to get the word out about the program.
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Although Steadman lacks money and a strong organization at this time, he does seem to have plenty of enthusiasm.
Citizen plans to aid farmers
do," Steadman said. "There's just one plain heck of a lot of work to do."
By United Press International
WETMORE — A hardware store owner, tired of seeing the suffering caused by the depressed farm economy, is trying to build a non-profit organization to provide food for workers facing foreclosure or bankruptcy.
Guy Steadman, who owns Wetmore Hardware Store, said yesterday that his lawyer had started legal proceedings to regain the trust he had with the Kansas Secretary of State's office as a non-profit group.
As Steadman envisions Help the Farmers, the group would provide no-interest loans to farmers facing closure or bankruptcy.
He said he hoped the group would grow into a national organization.
Steadman, whose hardware store serves primarily farmers in this northeast Kansas community of 300, decided to try to establish the Farmer after seeing the sufferer depicted by the depressed farm economy.
ALTHOUGH STEADMAN has toyed with the idea of forming the group for about a year, "the last couple of weeks I just got to the point that I had to do something," he said.
"I've just seen more and more people getting hurt — losing everything they ever really wanted in life. This farmer, all he wants to do is be a farmer. He doesn't want to get rich at it. It's a way of life for him."
Under Steadman's plan, the group would pay the farmer's overdue loan payments and then ask the lender to provide the farmer with enough money to plant his next crop.
Help the Farmers also would provide financial advisers to farmers who needed business experience to make their operation profitable.
The farmer would have to pay back the loan to the group, but payments would not start until the farmer would afford them. Steadman said.
A FARMER WHO accepts a loan from Help the Farmers and then decides to sell his farm within two years would have to pay back the loan without interest from the proceeds of the sale, he said.
Steadman, 39, who has only five volunteers for the organization so far, admits that Help the Farmers now is only a concept, and millions of dollars will be needed to make it an effective organization.
There's a lot of organizing to
"I willning to sacrifice everything I have to make this program work," said Steadman, who is divorced and has three children. "I don't have much, but I'll give what I've got."
Steadman doubts the government will be able to help the 25 percent of United States farmers some economists say will go out of business unless economic conditions change for the better.
Steadman, spurred by encouragement from people in and around his community, says he has faith in people's generosity.
UNIVERSITY THEATRE IS DOING ANNIE' AND THEY'RE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE FROM LAWRENCE AND KU TO PLAY OUR DADS!
LEAPIN'
LIZARDS!
The University of Kansas Theatre Announces Auditions for Kansas Summer Theatre '85 and the musical production of
Saturday and Sunday.
April 27 & 28 1985
Pupil Call
Opium Pray for "Annie"
and "Orghams"
Annie
1. 5 p.m. Saturday, April 27, 209 Murphy Hall Open to *Girls ages 8-13*
Open Call for Company and Community 1-5 p.m.
Sunday, April 28, Crafton-Preyer Theatre
Callbacks for All Casting 7 p.m. Sunday, April 28.
Crafton-Prever Theatre
three-minute time limit (2-minutes + 1-minute song) or cold reading material will be provided. All auditioners should plan to sing something, but there are no singing roles in *Angie*. Girls唱.
open to anyone who wants to be involved in this fun-filled musical preparation, and prepared material with a
there are non-singing roles in Annie.  *Girls auditioning for the roles of "Annie" or "Orbans"*
Kansas Summer Theatre '85 will present Annie in mid-July featuring a cast from the Lawrence and KU communities. Rehearsals will be held in the evenings beginning in late May. Auditions are
holding on to the orchestra Arrise as should bring one prepared song to sing; music
Jared song to sing, music from Annie is acceptable.
Take the stage this summer and become part of this heart-warming musical for kids of all ages.
AUDITIONS
SENIOR COOKOUT!
Here's your chance (it may be your only chance) to order a free burger cooked by KU's deans—exclusively for the senior class.
The Adams Alumni Center's north terrace and parking lot will be cleared so that seniors can party with free burgers, free beverages, good tunes and good times—all served with gusto!
You'll also want to tour the inside or the Adams Alumni Center, check out the records system that will follow you the rest of your natural life and consider the many benefits of alumni membership at a discount for seniors.
You must present your senior class i.d. card to prove that, indeed, rank doth have its privileges. (If it rains, we'll move indoors.)
Thursday, April 25 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Adams Alumni Center 1266 Oread Avenue
Sponsored for the Class of 1985 by the KU Alumni Association