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The University Daily
Kansas City tops Toronto 2-1 as the 1985 season begins. See story on page 13.
KANSAN
Cloudy, warm High, 63. Low, 42. Details on page 3.
Vol. 95. No.127 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Tuesday, April 9, 1985
University budget approved in House
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
TOPKKA — The Kansas House yesterday approved a fiscal year 1986 budget for the seven Board of Regents schools that further benefited from the funds awarded 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 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 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 light on the floor to restore the
"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 nativist 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 serve as the 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 hi po
Staff Reporter
A whale of a tale lurks in the Kaw River across from the old Bowerock Mill.
For years fishermen have traded stories about monster sized catfish that jump from the water.
Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat and said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the Mississippi River, that you have to fight them. If they give up
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sxvth and New York streets, in their boat rentals, for photography and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their jetties are packed up on a wall of Hippos Bait Shop. Second floor features a cost load 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.
LAST YEAR, the biggest fish dragged
from the halt shop weighted 16 pounds,
said the company.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big backs for Mrs Paul. For example one is pound catfish would be the equivalent of 1,300 crunchy, lightly
Bigger, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lumped on a rock
WITH PINPOINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His lineheads with sinkers and worms, gracefully slanted over the river and plumbed into the depths of the river
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."
FOR KU, the House approved about $50,000 from the state general fund, almost $4 million.
LIFE/STYLE
Spring break: In March college students' funsey comes to turn to thoughts of Florida. At old-favorite records like Dustin Beach and new hot spots like Sunni Island, they seek warmth, companionship and —almost always—beer. As these Ft. Lauderdale scenes plainly demonstrate, 1985 was no exception.
NEWSWLLK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
than two rounds," he said.
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.
"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 flatheads, he said.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam," Judith Flügges said. "But they did not."
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
According to an old fisherman to take a man dove into the water and never came back.
"I didn't do it." Itigg said. "I didn't want to tangle with no fish in the water. They have rough teeth like a man's workers. They can tear a man's hide off."
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bark and Tackle, 616 E. 23rd St., said the cattails 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.
Brace Waddill KANSAM
Jim Russell. Lawrence resident, batts his book in hope of catching something to the frying pan. He was fishing Easter day on the Raw River dam across from the flowerseed Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets. Russell channel catfish, which he tossed back.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
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time they gathered a load of papers, ought that they had enough to finish the room. The project was completed trips to the paper drop. Smart said id asked the women to return the papers to the paper drop after they the room.
our began working again at 5 p.m.
and finished at 3 a.m.
vieets call S. count gross lie'
d Press International
DW The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a grass's missile count and of pursuing a bus aid policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for an um on deploying missiles in Syria. ADMINISTRATIVE
calls on the U.S. military, but 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.
Gerbache announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt defence spending. SB-20 missiles targeted on Western Europe
Garbache said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of 2 cruise and 2 mission 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-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 truth about the nature of their missiles. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
See SOVIET, p. 5, col. 1