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KANSAN
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. The committee had proposed smaller increases 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 tight 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
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.
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
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE WORRALL
A whale of a tale lurks in the Kaw River
arrows from the old Rowsock Mill.
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in the vicinity of the Tampa trophy and perhaps a few minutes of tame
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster sized catfish that ate salmon.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat" said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the Mississippi River. "You have to fight 'em, 'til they give up."
LAWRENCE'S GIANT fish could mean big bucks for Mrs Paul. For example one 85-pound crush would be worth $34,000, lightly battered fishlets.
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The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Derek Hancock.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged into the bait shop weighed 61 pounds, said Jury Hizimir, the shop's owner.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are locked on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, the cabin cove east from Lawrence Riverfront Park
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully swung out and plumped into the depths of the river.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
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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 calm when they weigh more than two pounds" he said.
"People just don't catch 'em, so they yrow." he said.
But many years ago, fishermen dove into the water with large hooks 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 Hutgine said. "But they did not."
"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."
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
According to an old fishman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came back.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bank 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.
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.
oviets call S.count 'gross lie'
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OW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross missile count and of pursuing a policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a war on deploying missiles to Ukraine, as the administration
sums that the U.S. administration wishes neither the arms reduction 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 defence spending. 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 Asia.
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 international nations began in late 1938 as part of a 1979 NATO plan to counter the SS-20. 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 international pressure against their bombs. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
See SOVIET, p. 5, col. 1