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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
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 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
Housing to move i
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 office within 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
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 linger in the murky depths.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident. "He was Kaaf." "When they that big男 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 hopes of catching a 60-pound trophy and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked up on a wall of lignigas Bait Shop. Second floor has a large east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
Sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this
loudn't another tale about the big one that
hasn't been told.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish drowned
in the ocean; she weighed 16 pounds, said
Billy. "It feels like a vacation."
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 36-pound catfish would be about 800, 800 crunchy, lightly battered fishfats.
The lure of landing a big one drew lawrence residents in Rustell and Russell to the property.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully cut through the cool air and plunked into
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 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.
"I 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 from the state general fund, almost $4 million
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"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Harvey Haster, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 651 E. 29rd 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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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.
" only keep 'em when they weigh more than two pounds." 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.
"People just don't catch 'em, so they yew." he said.
"I didn't do it," Higgins said. "I didn't want to tangle with 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 didn't."
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came back.
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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 U.S.count 'gross lie'
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ICOW — The Soviet Union accused the n administration yesterday of "a gross its missile count and of pursuing a erous policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's cart or a general that European Ensigns誓 that the U.S. administration
wishes neither the arms redress 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 detente. He said his 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 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 572 medium-range U.S. missiles in five international 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 dismiss the threat from them of nuclear harming the American lead in other nuclear warheads. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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