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The University Daily
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.
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 Senate approved the measure, then those 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 tighten some of the lost money on the House floor.
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 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 shift. 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
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that were known to live in the sea.
A whale of a tale lurks in the Kaw River across from the old Bowersock Mill.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the Mississippi River. "I used to have you to light 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 the heart of the city, trophy and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
sounds kind of isfy, doesn't it? But this isn't another talk about the big one that I wrote.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked on a wall of Hippies Bait Shop. Second floor, which overlooks Bask east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged to the bait shop打捞 61 pounds, said Mr. Cormier.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 18-pound catfish would be 40 ounces, 380 crunch, lightly battered fishsticks.
The lure of landing a big one drew
awareness residents. Russell and
Paul Kearney had their way in the
fair.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully sweeps into the depths 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 the state general fund, almost $4 million less than Carlin's general fund appropriation.
Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver is located on the southern shoreline of British Columbia. It's an area of extreme beauty, that's known for extraordinary fishing and skiing. Vancouver combines the advantages of a big city, with the sports activities of a large resort. Or as one tourist pointed out, "There's point to do and it's really different," it kinda' like going to a foreign country."
Palm Springs, California
For sun and fun in the desert, Palm Springs goes up to do like tennis and golf. And as a matter of fact, Palm Springs is considered the "Golf Capital of the World" boasting 99 grass courses, and attracting many of the "beautiful people!" So if you can easily star struck, you could conceivably spend your entire spring break starting, polishing and drooling.
Baja, California (Mexico):
Enserada, Rosarita Beach and Mazadan
These three resort towns are scattered on the Pacific side and offer the unbeatable combo of surf and much bumpy time. Mazatan is by far the most popular of the three and the oxodus has been affectively named: "The Raid on Mazatan." Mazatan has outstanding deep sea fishing, and even better trolling on the beach. And getting around most places in Baja is no hassle, because speaking
Lake Tahoe, Nevada and California
Lake Tahoe is, in fact, two cities divided down the middle of the lake, with the more popular one being on the Nevada side, where night life has its place at 4:00 a.m. Lake Tahoe rests at an altitude of 6,000 ft. and is true, blue water beauty, or as one world traveler puts it: "It's so beautiful, you'd swell somebody poured a bunch of @** it!"
Aspen, Colorado
This former mining town is Colorado's #1 ski area. But
there's a lot more to do in and around Aspen than just
one regular at Little Nell's points out: "It's better to keep one sport separate from another. Like skiing and tr hiking really aren't as much fun as they sound."
ing to riding trails to trout fishing. Aspen seems to be.
Steamboat Springs, Colorado Other than incredible amounts of deep powder, Steamboat is known for its natural hot springs, for which it was named, the "hemiotic" value, especially
Taos, New Mexico
D. H. Lawrence wrote: "I think that the skyline of Taos the most
on Wednesday, when bathing
suits are optional. But don't try
any funny business in there,
or you may find your cooling
your heels, and other parts
of your anatomy, out in the snow
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 61.6 E. 23rd St, said the catwere were large because they were old and could find plenty of food in the Kra to eat, such as small fish, frogs, crawdads and snakes.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
" 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.
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 yow." he said.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam." Jay Higgins said. "But they didn't."
"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."
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came back.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell, Lawrence resident, bats 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 Hills and Power Co., Sixth and New York streets. Russell caught a bass for a lot of nibbles and a five-inch chopin, which he tossed back.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
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shmen Melinda LaRue and Heidi
took about two hours last night to
pered
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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 sine them in."
I said they hit a dry spell where they it find enough papers. The only thing was to go to the source. Duffy and called the Boy's Club but no one They drove to the paper drop at St. St, and filled their trunk with pers.
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 she asked the women to return the paper drop the paper drop after they the room.
ur began working again at 5 p.m.
und finished at 3 a.m.
oviets call S.count 'gross lie'
ed Press International
OW The Soviet Union accused the administration news that "a gross its missile count and of pursuing aous policy" by dismissing Soviet officials from the U.S. leum on deploying missiles in Europe, embezzling that the U.S. administration
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally haldefficially dismantle the US$20 missiles targeted on Western Europe.
witness neither of the arms' redoubt nor renunciation of the arms' walls* sought in incident reports, nor did this news agency said. The talks entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gernachex 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 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. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
See SOVIET, d. 5, col. 1