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Kansas City tops Toronto 2-1 as the 1985 season begins. See story on page 13.
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Vol. 95, No. 127 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, April 9, 1985
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 Regents and Gov. John Carlin.
The House approved by a 101-21 vote the budget recommended by its Ways and Means Committee last week. The committee had proposed smaller increases than those approved last month by the Kansas Senate.
The $645 million appropriations bill 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 fight to restore some of the lost money on the House
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said opposition to the Senate's budget by the Republican majority in the House made it difficult to fight 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.
"This kind of vote comes down on a partisan basis. If they get defeated on the
Housing to move in
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON 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.
Kenneth L. Stoner, associate director of residence halls at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, has been chosen to replace Wilson, the office of student affairs announced yesterday.
Stoner was one of four finalists, all of whom visited the University in the past two months
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.
Fish tales on banks o
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
A whale of a tale lurks in the Kaw River across from the old Bowersock Mill.
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that are so scary they can be seen in movies.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up around big animals. "They're bigger than you have to fight 'em 'til they give up."
In warm weather, fisherman gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and the town's main street, in hopes of catching a 60-pound opgy and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their kefty catches are tacked up on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop, Second Street east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
Sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this isn't another tale about the big one that gets away — there's proof.
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LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be more than a dozen, 800 crunch, lightly battered fishbites.
The hire of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Teresa DeVore.
"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."
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
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.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully flies over the air and plunged into the depths of the river.
floor, it's harder to get them reinstated in the conference committee."
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"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 651 E. 23rd St., said the catfish 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.
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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.
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oviets call S.count 'gross lie'
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COW — The Soviet Union accused the in a administration yesterday of "a gross its missile count and of pursuing a erous policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a prism on deploying his mission in a administration
wishes neither the arms reduction nor the renunciation of the arms buildup" sought in arms control talks, the official Tass news agency said, 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 development. SS-20 pushes targeted on Western Europe.
Gerbacher said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of 2 cruise and 2 missile missions 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 572 medium-range U.S. missiles in five European nations began in late 1983 as part of a 1979 NATO plan to counter the SS-20s. The United States said the Soviets had 414 SS-20s 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, as he said. U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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