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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 Senate increased that approval 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 measure.
"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 i
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.
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
Staff Reporter
A whale of a tale lurks in the Kaw River
access 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 awky boy who grew up on the barks of the Kaw. "When they’re that big you 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 their own neighborhood, supply and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
Sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this isn't another tale about the big one that gets away — there's proof.
Snappishes of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked up on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop, Second Avenue east, cast east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged into the bait shop weighed 61 pounds, said Judy Higgins, the shon's owner.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be about $40,000, 80 crunch, lightly battered fistbacks.
The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Paul Schaffer to Snoqualmie.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully sweep the river and plunged into the deaths 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 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 $80,000
from those general fund, almost $4 million.
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"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam," Judy Higgins said. "But they were coming from all directions."
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
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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"You, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
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"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."
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.
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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 throw." he said.
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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.
kers spent 15 hours this weekend
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died at 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at
kind of had a system," Duffy said. person would be unfolding the paper e others would be crumpling them up using them in."
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b time they gathered a load of papers, bought that they had enough to finish the room. The project was completed 16 trips to the paper drop. Smart said she asked the women to return the papers with the paper drop after they id the room.
four began working again at 5 p.m.
y and finished at 3 a.m.
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**COW — The Soviet Union accused in the administration yesterday of “a grass” its missile count and of pursuing aerosol policy” by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev’s call for an onion on deploying missiles in Europe.
ovietse call .S. count 'gross lie'
Mikhail 'Gorchenba' on deployment on missions in Europe.
administration
nies neither the arms reduction nor the renunciation of the arms buildup" sought in arms control talks, the official Tass news agency entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally designate Mr. Warhead II 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 oepayment 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 threat. The United States also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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