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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 95, No. 127 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, April 9, 198F
University budget approved in House
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The Kansas House yesterday approved a fiscal year 1986 budget for the seven Board of Regents schools that further reduces the increases requested by the governor.
The House approved by a 101-21 vote the budget recommended by its Ways and Means Committee last week to commit to further increases that approved last month by the Kansas Senate.
The $645 million appropriations bill now will be returned to the Senate, which is expected to reject the cuts made in the schools' proposed budgets by the House Committee. The Senate then would ask for a conference committee made up of members of both chambers to reach a compromise on the budget.
HOUSE MEMBERS who opposed the reduced Regents budget decided to wait for the conference committee and not tight to some of the lost money on the House floor.
State Rep Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said opposition to the Senate's budget by the Republican majority in the House made it right on the floor to restore the budget cuts.
"We have hopes that some of that will be restored in committee." Branson said. "We decided that it would be risky to try to get it amended on the floor.
floor, it's harder to get them reinstated in the conference committee."
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said some of the reductions were made to give the House a position to bargain with the Senate in the conference committee.
"IT WOULD HAVE been a tactical error to make those changes on the floor," Solbach said. "We expect some of the cuts to be restored in the conference committee."
"This kind of vote comes down on a partisan basis. If they get defeated on the partisan basis."
For KU, the House approved about $80,000 from the state general fund, almost $40,000 less than Carlin's general fund appropriation. But the appropriation passed by the Senate.
Including money from the general fees fund, the University would receive $170 million in the budget approved by the House — less than the $173 million proposed by Carlin and the $171 million approved by the Senate.
Money for the general fund comes primarily from state taxes, and money for the fees fund comes from student fees and tuition.
THE HOUSE ALSO approved $13 million for capital improvements at the University. About $2 million would come from the state's educational building fund, and $11 million would come from federal and private sources. Robert Dole Human Development Center
If the appropriations package goes to conference committee as expected, disagreements are likely to center on the different recommendations for the Regents
Up to their necks in newspapers. Dan Ruettiemann, Morris Plains, N.J., junior, left, Ian Duffy, Gattherrams, Md., freshman. Tom Smart, St. Louis, sophomore and Bryan Pearce, Kansas City, Mo., junior, sit in a room in Hashinger
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Hall. The four practical jokers spent 15 hours this weekend filling the room of Salina freshmen Melinda LaRue and Heidi Denison with newspapers. It took about two hours last night to clean out the newspapers.
Hashinger room gets papered
Housing suic to move in
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON
A new director of housing has been picked to succeed J.J. Wilson, who is retiring this year after 30 years in the position.
A search committee composed of faculty representatives, housing office personnel and presidents of student housing organizations read applications and interviewed applicants for the position. The search began in December.
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Fish tales p on banks of the Kaw
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
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A whale of a turek趴 in the Kaw River across, from the old Bowersock Mill.
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that linger in the murky depths.
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in the wooded creekbend of the trophy, and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the river. "And you have to fight 'em; 'til they give up."
Buggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
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snapshots of grimming fishermen proudly posing with their ketty catches are tacked up on a wall of Hughes Bait Shop. Second floor, which is east from Lawrence Riverfront Park
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinks and worms, gracefully cut through the cool air and plunked into
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example one 35-pound catfish would be about 100 crunchy, lightly buttered fistfocks.
LAST YEAR, the biggest fish dragged into the butt shop weighed in pounds, said Katherine McFarlane.
The lure of landing a big one drew
lawrence residents Jim Russell and
Tony Koehler.
His reminiscing was interrupted by the first catch of the evening. Russell reed in a five-inch channel catfish and tossed it back into the river.
"You know, you never forget your first fish," he said as he stared in the dark water. "It was so embarrassing. I couldn’t it on the grass, then I stepped on it."
puffing on a cigarette with his pole beside him.
"I only keep 'em when they weigh more than two pounds." he said.
"I didn't do it," Hughs said. "I didn't want to tangle with no fish in the water. They have rough teeth like a man's wiskers. They can tear a man's hide off."
But many years ago, fishermen dove into the water with large locks lashed to their wrists to try to snare the big catfish, also known flatheads, he said.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam," Judy Higgins said. "But they
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came back.
"People just don't catch 'em, so they grow," he said.
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 61.9 E, 23rd St., said the snake were large because they were old and could find plenty of food in the Kaw to eat, such as small fish, frogs, crawdads and snakes.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
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Jim Russell. Lawrence resident, baits his hook in hope of catching something to fill the frying pan. He was fishing Easter day on the Kaw River dam across from the Bowersock Mills and Power Co., Sixth and New York streets. Russell never caught the big one. He had to settle for a lot of nibbles and a five-inch channel catfish, which he tossed back
iends but none of them unlocked the door, y chance, he said, he tried his own key in e lock. It worked and the mission began. Friday night the four men walked to all the ons Dasy Hill and asked for newspapers, i every one they got a few newspapers, but y were told that the papers were saved to mate to the Boy's Club paper drive. I started crumpling papers they hadathered at 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit atnight.
"We kind of had a system." Duffy said. One person would be unfolding the paper and the others would be crumpling them up and tossing them in."
Duffy said they hit a dry spell where they couldn't find enough papers. The only thing) do was to go to the source. Duffy and mart called the Boy's Club but no one answered. They drove to the paper drop at the St. and filled their trunk with newspapers.
Each time they gathered a load of papers, ney thought that they had enough to finish filling the room. The project was completed fter 18 trips to the paper drop. Smart said he asked the women to return the papier paper the paper drop after they leamed the room.
The four began working again at 5 p.m.
unday and finished at 3 a.m.
Soviets call U.S.count a 'gross lie'
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union accused the Reagan administration yesterday of "a gross lie" in its missile count and of pursuing a "dangerous policy" by dismissing Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a moratorium on deploying missiles in Europe.
"It itse that the U.S. administration wishes neither the arms robuled nor the renunciation of the arms buildup" sought in arms control talks, the official Tass news agency said. The talks entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt deployment of Soviet war-takeoff SS-20 missiles targeted on Western Europe.
Gorbachev said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in western Europe.
BUT THE WHITE House quickly dismissed the move as "not enough," citing a 10.1 Soviet superiority in medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe.
The deployment of 752 medium-range U.S. missiles in five European nations began in late 1983 as part of a 1979 NATO plan to counter the SS-208. The United States said the Soviets had 444 SS-208 operational, two-thirds of them aimed at western Europe.
Tass said yesterday that U.S. officials used "stale arguments" of Soviet missile superiority to reject Gorbachev's proposal and accused them of ignoring the American lead in the war against Sinai. U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
See SOVIET, p. 5, col. 1