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Kansas City tops Toronto 2-1 as the 1985 season begins. See story on page 13.
Cloudy, warm High, 63. Low, 42. Details on page 3.
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
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 that it would increase than those 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 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 curbed cut.
"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 s to move in
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
A new director of housing has been picked to succeed J.J. Wilson, who is retiring this year after 30 years in the position.
Kemeth L. Stoner, associate director of residence halls at the University of Tennessee-Krooxville, has been chosen to replace Wilson, the office of student affairs announced yesterday.
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.
Stoner was one of four finalists, all of whom visited the University in the past two months
Fish tales on banks o
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
A whale of a tale lurks in the Kaw River across from the old Rowersock Mill.
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that were caught by jaws larger than their own.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the river. "I thought you would have to fight 'em; 'til they give up."
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in Covington, where the trophy and perch have a few minutes of fame.
seums kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this isn't another tale about the big one that we've been talking about.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked up on a wall of Iuggis Bait Shop. Second floor, above, lies east from Lawrence Riverfront Park
The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Brian Foster.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged into the bait shop weighed 61 pounds, said Jury Huitzins, the店's owner.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be worth $800 crunchy, lightly buttered fishtails.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully swirls around the planed into the depths of the river.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
floor, it's harder to get them reinstated in the conference committee."
State tep. 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."
For KU, the House approved about $80,000
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Notice there is no comma before and in the series. This is common style nowadays, but some publishers use a comma here, too.
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Parentheses help you pause quietly to drop in some chatty information not vital to your story. Despite Betty's daring spirit ("I love robbing your piggy bank," she often said), she was a terrible dancer.
to prepare for an expression needing strong emphasis: I'll marry you — if you'll rob Torkiata with me.
Do not use commas if the word grouping is essential to the sentence's meaning: Girls who interest me know how to tango.
7. Use a comma in the direct address: Your majesty, Your mayor, a whisper with panthesis, with an examination point, direct address.
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9. And to separate elements of geographical address: Director Sneed comes from Chicago, Illinois, and now lives in London, England.
Generally speaking, use a comma where you'd pause briefly in speech. For a long pause or completion of thought, use a period.
If you confuse the comma with the period, you'll get a run-on sentence: The Bank of England is located in London. I pushed right over to rob it.
Semicolon :
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The catfish congregate by the dam, said Ernest Higgins, Lawrence resident, because it is their nature to swim upstream and the dam blocks their path.
I keep crying when they weigh more than two pounds" he said.
"People just don't catch 'em, so they grow." he said.
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 fatheads, he said.
"I didn't do it," Higgins 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."
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam," Judy Higgins said. "But they were not sure."
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Basket and Tackle, 951 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.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line," Russell said.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
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 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.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
okers spent 15 hours this weekend
reshmen Melinda LaRue and Heidi
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day night the four men walked to all the Daisy Hill and asked for newspapers, but were told that the papers were saved to be to the Boy's Club paper drive.
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nought that they had enough to finish
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did the room.
four began working again at 5 p.m and finished at 3 a.m.
oviets call S.count 'gross lie'
ed Press International
COW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross its missile count and of pursuing a policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call or a return on deploying military assets. CROW — the administration.
wishes neither the arms reduction nor the renunciation of the arms buildup" sought in arms control talks, the official Tass news agency reported entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gerbache announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt deforestation. SB-20 missiles targeted on 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 him of using nuclear warheads. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
See SOVIET, p. 5, col. 1
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