University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Cost control expert to speak
J. Peter Grace, chairman of W.R. Grace
& J. co., and head of the President's Private
Party on Cost Control, plans to
speak at 8 tiong Woodruff Auditorium
of the Kansas Union.
Grace became well known in 1984 with the publication of the Grace Commission issued
His commission of 2,000 business executives recommended to the President that the federal government could reduce taxes on businesses $425 billion over a three-year period.
The report drew criticism as being impractical or exaggerated.
Court asked to rule on order
The Kansas Supreme Court was asked Friday to rule on the legality of a cease securities order issued by the state securities commission. Culture Farms Inc., a Lawrence company,
'John Wurth, the commissioner, said he petitioned the Supreme Court to regate a waiving order issued against him when it accused a case and desist order from being enforced.
Shawne County District Judge James Buchele, who granted the restraining order, said Wurth's order was unconstitutional. He said that Wurth should have provided Culture Farms Inc. and Activator Supply Co., Las Vegas, Nev, with an opportunity to defend themselves at a prior hearing.
Student wins service award
Kirstin Myers, president of KU Democrats, received an award yesterday for outstanding service at the Douglas County Committee's Bidnational Dinner for Winner.
David Berkowitz, committee chairman,
said the committee never had given the
award to a KU student who had worked
only in one election.
"I 'But," he said, "Kirstin has done an outstanding job and a great amount of work on the local, state and national level."
Native American to speak
Alfonso Ortiz, a Pueblo Indian and renowned speaker on the American Indian culture, plans to speak today as part of the 1984-85 College Lecture Series.
Ortiz's lecture, "Trends in Native American Studies," is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Expert on effects of TV to talk
[This year's lecture series, "Native Americans: Continuity and Change," honors the Haskell Indian Junior College Centennial] (1884-1984).
An expert on the effects of television on viewers plans to discuss sex and violence on television at 11:45 a.m. tomorrow at the Christian Ministries, 1204 Orcad Ave.
Aletha Huston, co-director of the Center for Research on the Influence of Television on Children and professor of human development, has studied and written several articles and chapters about television and children.
Huston recently has completed a review of the literature on television violence and aggressive behavior for possible publication.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high in the mid to upper 70s. Winds will be from the southeast at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear. The low will be in the low to mid-50s. Tomorrow will be sunny. The high will be around 80.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, stories in yesterday's and Friday's Kansas incorrectly identified some KU employees as being represented by Classified Senate. Some facilities operation and housing employees are not represented in Classified Senate, but are members of the AFL-CIO instead.
Compiled from Karen staff and United Press International reports.
Officials praise, criticize tax exemption
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Officials yesterday had mixed reactions to the Kansas Legislature's decision Saturday to exempt the Adams Alumni Center from paying taxes.
The Legislature approved a bill that would grant tax-exempt status to state-owned property. The bill included an amendment that extended the exemption to alumni association buildings located off state-owned college or university property.
The bill must be signed by Gov. John Carlin before it becomes law.
Don Gordon, Douglas County tax appraiser, said that if the bill was approved, Douglas County taxpayers would have to make up for taxes that would have been paid by the Alumni Association on the alumni center, 1286 Oread Ave.
"I HATE TO see any erosion of the tax base," he said. "The county will have to make up that difference by raising the mill tax rate and increasing the more other taxaverses have to pick in."
The Alumni Association owned $63,832 in real estate and property taxes for 1984.
In December, the Alumni Association paid half its taxes — $24.661 in real estate taxes and $7.249 in personal property taxes — as law allows when a taxpayer pays under protest.
That money will be refunded if the governor signs the bill.
State Sen. Paul Burke, R-Leawood, and sponsor of the amendment, said the tax exemption of the alumni center would not burden a burden for Douglas County tax-payers.
"It's not a tax loss because it was never taxed in the past." he said.
suffer if the Alumni Center were tax-exempt because the University of Kansas contributed a substantial amount of money to the county's economy.
"Without the University, Lawrence would be a very depressed area." he said.
But State Rep Betty Jo Carlton, D Lawrence, voted against the amendment and said yesterday that she thought the center should not be tax exempt.
"I think the law is that if property is used exclusively for educational purposes then it's not on the tax roll. I went there a week ago for dinner and drinks. That's very social. The Alumni Association is an adjunct to the University, but that property is social."
The Alumni Association had been exempt from paying taxes until it moved from the Kansas Union — state property — to its present location in 1983.
ACCORDING TO STATE law, buildings located off state property are not tax-exempt
unless they are used solely for religious or educational purposes.
If Carlin approves the Legislature's bill,
the Alumni Association would be tax-exempt
under its own rules.
He said he was pleased that the Legislature had passed the amended bill.
Brad Smoot, attorney for the Alumni Association, said he had suggested the amendment so that the Legislature could clarify the law stating that all institutions used exclusively for educational purposes from paying personal and real estate taxes.
"It's been our contention all along that the Alumni Association should not pay taxes, so the bill is consistent with what we said all along." Smoat said.
Photo Illustration by Jacki Kelly and Buddy Mangine/KANSAN
Stores slurp up soft drink business
Gordon said the issue would still have to go before the tax appeals board. If Carlin signs the bill into law, then the board will consider the issue according to the new law.
Staff Reporter
By SHELLE LEWIS
Paula Costello's kitchen contains the usual domestic necessities plus a new concept — the Kwik Kwencher cuboard.
Costello, Ornaha, Neb. junior, and her two roommates have collected more than two dozen of the white plastic tumbler with orange and red lettering.
Costello said last week that she went to Kwik Shop almost daily to get a moneysaving tip.
TIM COLLINS, manager of E-Z Shop, 955 E.23rd S.t., said the bigger drinks attracted customers and familiarized them with the store's name.
"I love it," Costello said. "I think it's the greatest thing that's ever come to Lawrence."
"It gets people to think E-Z Shop instead of Kwik Shop or T-Eleven," Collins said.
The market for large fountain drinks has bubbled up in the last two years because of strong advertising and the growing popularity, according to convenience store employees.
E-Z Shop doesn't offer refillable cups. But Collins said they were on the way.
"Everyone seems to be into them," Collins said.
Mike Williams, co-owner of 7-Eleven, 1909 W. 25th St., said 32-ounce Big Gulps weren't popular when the store started selling them about two years ago.
"Big drinks didn't really sell at first," Williams said. "So we dropped the price down to 29 cents."
"As the weather gets warmer, we'll start selling 1,000 to 1,500 a day. We'll have more soft drink business than we know what to do with."
Lowering the price sent the big drink market on a spur that has yet to run dry, he said.
"We don't even have the Big Gulp glasses out right now," Williams said. "No one is going to buy a 32-ounce drink if they can buy a 44-ounce one for the same price."
THE STORE RECENTLY increased the price of Big Gulps to 69 cents and introduced the 44-count Super Gulp for the same price.
Stephanie Stephens, manager of Kwik Shop at Ninth and Mississippi streets, sales of sales
Kwik Kwencher cups - 32-ounce refillable cups - accounted for 50 percent to 60 percent of the store's business.
The store began selling refillable Kwik Kwenchers about 18 months ago. Now the store also sells Super Kwik Kwenchers, 47-ounce refillable cups.
"IT SEEMS LIKE everyone who comes in,
to buy a new one or getting a refill."
she said.
Customers can buy the 32-ounce Kwencher for 79 cents and get refills for 49 cents. Or they can buy a 47-ounce Super Kwencher for 99 cents and get refills for 59 cents.
But the big business also generates big problems.
Because Williams' 7 Elevon store sold so many soft drinks, its tainton machine had to be changed.
Chad Knapke, Lake Bluff, Ill., junior, said he often went to Kwik Shops to get the drinks because the stores were close and open 24 hours.
"I'm probably in there eight or nine times a week." Knapk said.
"They don't know my name yet, but they will soon."
Money OK'd for research on lighting
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
A bill to allocate $10,000 to pay for a study on campus lighting was approved last night by the Student Senate Finance Committee
The committee passed the bill to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation. The Senate probably will consider the bill in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
William Easley, student body president and author of the bill, said that the $10,000 taken from the Senate unallocated account, would be used to pay two KU workers to investigate which areas on campus needed better lighting. The employees would prepare a proposal suggesting methods for installing a new lighting system. They also would recommend the best type of lights to install.
THE MONEY WOULD be returned to the senate, but the proposal was not completed by Senate.
Last month, Ronald Helms, director of architectural engineering, released a study on the relationship between lighting and night campus crime. His report suggested that a committee formulate a master plan on campus lighting.
The Senate money would allow Helms and Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, to prepare a plan to improve campus lighting.
The office of facilities planning would be involved in the proposal, because it is in charge of operations.
Easley said Helms and Wiechert each would appoint an assistant to work on the plan. Both employees would be paid $5 an hour for their work this summer.
THE REST OF the $10,000 would be used to print the proposal in book form. Easley said. Any money not used for these purposes would return to the Senate unallocated account.
Easley said he thought the proposal could be used to lobby in the Kansas Legislature for lawsuits.
He said Helms previously had completed a lighting plan for the University of Colorado. The plan was presented to Colorado state senators and representatives to raise money to improve campus lighting.
In other action, the committee approved a measure that would ensure that the student body president did not raise his salary without Senate approval.
The bill would amend Senate rules to make salary raises for the president and vice president subject to the approval of the Board and the Student Senate Executive Committee.
Senate rules already require the approval of the two committees for appointed staff salaries. Appointed staff include administrative tenures, the executive secretary, the treasurer.
The bill also will be on the agenda for tomorrow's meeting.
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