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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.
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 benefited by the grant 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 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
"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
Newsweek On Campus April 1985 Crackdown On Drinking
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.
The hire of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Rob Snyder.
Kenneth L. Stoner, associate director of residence halls at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, has been chosen to present When the office of student affairs announced yesterday.
Bigger, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
WITH PINPOINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully cut through the cool air and plunged into water.
tooer, it's harder to get them reinstated in the conference committee."
"ITWOULD 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."
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.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul For example one 15 pound catfish would be a bit heavier, a 300 crunch, lightly battered fishsticks.
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.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dangled at the bait shop weighed 61 pounds, said Dana Hester.
For KU, the House approved about $80,000 from the state general fund, almost $4 million less than Carlin's general fund appropriation
Effective next year, the minimum age for legal drinking will be 21.
I. D.Must Be Shown
Snapshots of grimming fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked up on a wall of Hughes Bait Shop. Second floor, the back east from Lawrence River front Pack
Fish tales on banks
WARNING!
Sounds kind of tisky, doesn't it? But this isn't another tale about the big one that I wrote.
A whale of a tark bucks in the Kaw River across from the old Bowersock Mill.
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat" said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the Mississippi River. "You have to fight them; 'til they give up."
For years, fishermen have traded
tortoise about monster-sized catfish that
have been trapped in the waters.
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in the area of a popular photography and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
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.
"I only keep 'em when they weigh more than two pounds," he said.
"People just don't catch 'em, so they eyewear" 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," Jay Higgins said, "but they were out there."
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
"I didn't do it," it haggis 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."
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came back.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunger Bait and Tackle, 661 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
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell, Lawrence resident, buits his hook in love 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 it but had to settle for a lot of nibbles and a five inch sauce which he took.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
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others would be crumpling them up using
them in it.
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time they gathered a load of papers, ought that they had enough to finish he room. The project was completed i trips to the paper drop. Smart said i trips to the women to return the papers to the paper drop after they i the room.
our began working again at 5 p.m and finished at 3 a.m.
oviets call S. count 'gross lie'
ed Press International
SWF — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross its missile count and of pursuing a moral policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a turn on deploying missiles in Europe emems that the U.S. administration
renewal 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 the nuclear deal. NS-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 Pershing 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 European nations began in late 1983 as part of a 1979 NATO plan to counter the SS-30s. 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.
Sev SOVIET, p. 5, col. 1