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KANSAN
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 approved last month by the Kansas Senate 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 Reeders 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 bill.
"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 M. L. Stoner, associate director of residence halls at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville has been chosen to announce 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.
State Rep. John Sobach, D-Lawrence, said some of the reductions were made to give the House a position to bargain with the Senate in the conference committee.
Fish tales on banks
floor, it's harder to get them reinstated in the conference committee."
"ITWOID 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 $800,000 from the state general fund, almost $4 million
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
A whale of a tale lurks in the Kaw River acres from the old Rowsock Mill.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with snorkers and worms, gracefully twirled over the river and plunked into the depths of the river.
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster sized catfish that
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-foot cat" said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the bank of the Kaw. When they were that big
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example one its pound catfish would be 100 pounds of 300 crunchy, lightly bitterned fishbites.
Snapshots of grunting fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked on a wall of Hughes Bait Shop. Second floor features a deck east from Lawrence Riverfront Park
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dangled at the bait shop weighed 10 pounds, said Chris Perry.
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in the city's central park, trophy and perhaps a few minutes of fun.
counts kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this
pat 'n't another tale about the big one that
means there's a fish.
"I only keep em when they weigh more than two pounds," 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 drown into the water with large locks lashed to their wrists to try to snare the big catfish, also known flatheads, he said.
"I didn't do it," Higgins said. "I didn't want to tackle with no fish in the water. They have rough teeth like a man's wiskers. They can tear man's hide off."
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came back.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line," Russell said.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 963 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.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam," Hylfgang said. "But they didn't."
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell, Lawrence resident, bails 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.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
ers spent 15 hours this weekend
shmen Melinda LaRue and Heidi
took about two hours last night to
pered
but none of them unlocked the door-
ness, he said, he tried his own key in
it.
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started crumpling papers they had
at 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at
kind of had a system," Duffy said. person would be unfolding the paper others would be crumpling them up sing them in."
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four began working again at 5 p.m
and finished at 3 a.m.
oviets call S. count 'gross lie'
ted Press International
COW — The Soviet Union accused its administration yesterday of "a gross missile cost and of pursuing a rous police officer by dismissing Soviet officials" (Gorbunov).
Rikkei government deputy minister in Europe
meets that the U.S. administration
wishes neither the arms 'reduction not renunciation of the arms build-up' sought in the editorial Has news agency. The talks have their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt defense spending. S-20 missiles targeted on Western Europe.
sourtaches said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of Persian 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 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 accuse him of providing nuclear other 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