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Vol. 95, No. 107 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Monday, March 4, 1985
Wood carver Murien Downing, Lawrence, explains his skill to John Ralston, 940 Rhode Island St., during his wood carving exhibition in the Museum of Natural History. Downing
carves many different varieties of birds, but most of his works shown Saturday and Sunday were waterjowl and a few other local species. See related story on page 7.
Med students mix at the Jigger
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On a street corner two blocks from the University of Kansas Medical Center, a tradition and a legend live in a coy, homey bar just across the Missouri
Traditionally, Jimmy's Jigger, 1823 W 93th St, has served as a hangout for medical school students because of its proximity to the campus and according to students at the bar Friday night.
The bar, which also serves food, draws large crowds, but not because of its interior design. The scarred wooden floors and red brick walls are outward signs of the casual atmosphere of the Jigger. Seats are crowded into nooks and crannies.
Behind the scenes at the red brick,
split-level bar is plump, balding Jimmy Bowers, the owner.
"I was born at the Medical Center." Bowers said with a grin. "See how far I've gotten in the world — two blocks."
BOWERS SAID THE bar opened April 15, 1933. When he went to work at the bar in 1933, it was called The Ringeds Bar and Grill. Two years later, he said, it became the Bigg Jucker.
working two jobs — one as a bank teller and one as a bartender — Bowers scraped up enough money to buy half interest in the bar because he lived in 1967, and the bar became Jimmy's Jigger.
Ernest Cattaneo, a 1965 Med Center graduate and a Mission physician, recalled the effect Bowers had on med students who frequented the bar.
"When I came from Lawrence in 1962, I asked someone about a good place to eat."
he said, "Someone told me about the Bigger Jigger.
"JIMMY SERVED ME a cheese sandwich, and when I finished that one, he made me another and then a third one. We've been friends ever since."
Cattaneo said some med students came to the bar because of Bowers' relationship with them.
"We wanted to talk to someone who told jokes, and dimmy was one who did," he said.
medical school is stressful and you don't have a lot of time for recreation. I went to one movie in four years of med school — that's the rule, not the exception."
Bowers helps med students when they are depressed, Cattaneo said, and even offers to drive them home if they drink too much.
See JIGGER, p. 5, col. 1
Unions' financial status studied
By HEATHER BIGGINS
Staff Reporter
Despite an 8.3 percent increase in sales, the Kansas and Burge unions will have only an average year financially in fiscal year 1985, according to a mid-term financial report reviewed Saturday by the Union Memorial Corporation Board.
Warner Ferguson, associate director of unions, told the board that the unions didn't have "any real sources of income" during the first six months of fiscal 1985. But he said
The report analyzes the financial status of the two unions during the first half of fiscal 1985 compared to the same point in fiscal 1984.
he expected an increase during the next six months.
He said an increase in catering by the union food department, more conferences at the two unions, the publication of a new monthly newsletter about union services and Student Union Activities planned for both unions would be responsible for the increase.
Ferguson said he was concerned with the location of the injuries in the food department and concession.
ATHLETIC CONCESSIONS have brought in $258,528 in the first half of the fiscal year, a 4.3 percent decrease compared with sales during the first half of 1964. Jim Long, director of unions, attributed the concessions decrease to one fewer home football game during the 1984 season compared with the 1963 season.
A $5,000 expense increase in supplies and repairs, and promotions by new management have renewed interest in the Jaybow, which reports a 34% percent increase in sales revenue over the past year. The Jaybow must concentrate on cutting operating costs during the next six months.
The Union cafeteria, which does the most business of all union food services, reported an 11.6 percent sales decrease. Long school year and school year beginning later than last year.
FERGUSON SAID the Union bookstore should exceed expectations for fiscal year 1985 and showed a sales increase of 11.8 percent over last year's mid-term report.
The Burge Union is not doing as well as it
See UNION, p. 5, col. 5
KU purchases gear to remove asbestos
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Facilities operations has bought $14,000 of "state of the art" asbestos removal and safety equipment, the director of facilities operations said last night.
Tom Anderson, the director, said the equipment included new air masks, handling bags, chemical wetting solutions and equipment cost could up to $10,000, he said.
"It's not cheap, and it's not something that you can just go out and buy." Anderson said. "But we are trying to get the very best experience for our customers even have to be imported from Denmark."
Asbestos is a firefir enooping material that researchers may cause cancer.
the purchase of the safety equipment comes at the start of an investigation by the Kansas Department of Human Resources to investigate removal of a boiler at the campus power plant.
ON FEB. 25. A three-member panel from the department began conducting confidential interviews with people involved in the boiler demolition and removal, which began in the spring of 1983 and was completed last November.
The investigation began after facilities operations workers complained that federal safety guidelines for the removal of asbestos had not been followed in the boiler demolition
"I'm devoting all of my time to this issue because it's an important one," Anderson said. "We are trying to get things organized and develop a systematic plan.
"Some people can say, 'Why don't you do this two or three years ago?' But you've got to have a lot of stuff going on."
Some facilities operations workers said they thought the purchase of the equipment GG1305
Seiber said his supervisor had told him that the insulation contained no asbestos.
BOB SEIBER, a facilities operations worker, said he had been told to remove pipe insulation from a vacant bank building at Eighth and Massachusetts streets about a month ago. The building is owned by the University.
But an analysis of the insulation by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment last month determined that the insulation contained 20 percent asbestos. Seiber said he had asked a friend to send the sample to the department.
"The only thing that bothers me is that they 'old me that it wasn't asbestos.' Seiber said. "I would have worn some equipment if I would have known it was asbestos."
THE MEMO TOLD employees who suspected the presence of asbestos to contact their supervisors, and a sample would be tested immediately.
On Feb. 20, Anderson posted a memo to all facilities operations shops stating, "Please be let know that we at facilities operations can identify asbestos by sight or feel."
Anderson said he recently had bought two chemical kits so samples could be tested on the spot. He said the tests could not positively identify lead, and also would be taken for complete lab analysis.
Anderson said Bob Porter, associate director of facilities operations, and Lonnie Welsh, assistant director of construction, will seminar this month on asbestos safety.
Anderson said he also was developing a set of facilities operations rules that would require the use of the safety equipment.
By United Press International
5,000 march at Selma to recall 1965 drama
SELMA, Ala. — About 5,000 blacks began retracing the path of the 1963 Selma to Montgomery voting rights march yesterday, commemorating a bloody confrontation with white state troopers that proved a turning point in the civil rights movement.
Jesse Jackson and Coretta Scott King led the marchers in singing "We Shall Overcome" as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On the bridge 20 years earlier, troopers routed blacks in a "Bloody Sunday" rally and enacted an action of the 1965 Rights Act.
Troopers waited across the bridge yesterday as the crowd neared, and a single patrol car picked up the lead of the march with its flashing blue light.
State troopers and police, as well as a private security force organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, turned out in large numbers for the march.
THE ESTIMATED 5,000 blacks and a smattering of whites paused briefly at the crest of the breeze as Jackson built in the steeple of the brewer to begin the five-day, 50-mile march to Montgomery.
New name and old faces set scene at bar's opening
At a rally in the Brown Chapel Church
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Jackson, speaking to the shouts of "Amen" and "Yeti tell it, Jesse," told the crowd inside Faye's that it must never forget the 1965 election. "We're not going to rebirth of the civil rights movement."
Jackson warned blacks that there was still work to do in civil rights. He claimed the federal government was using second primaries, gerrymandering and at-large elections to continue to deny black voters their rights to representation.
BEFORE THE RALLY, a crowd of 300 packed Faye's Furnace Supper Club, a night spot on the banks of the Alabama River, for a unity breakfast.
Chris Feeley leaned against the table he and friends had moved to the driveway east of the Rock Chalk Bar. He smiled and motioned to the crowded front porch and a group playing hacky sack in the driveway.
Despite the improved interior, the 55-degree weather and cloudless sky were
"It's not the name that matters," Chris Greene, Syracuse, N.Y., sophomore, said. "It's the people, and the people are always going to be back."
"There is no question about it," said Feeley, Wilmette, III., junior. "The Crossing is back in action."
After two months of bibernation, the Hawk's Crossing, now the Rock Chalk Bar, 618 W. 12th St., returned Friday, alive and well.
A CRISP, NEW 1985 3.2 percent beer license hung over the bar, a reward for two weeks of spring cleaning. Bill Schultei, the owner, and Ulf Langgard, assistant manager, had spent those weeks making necessary improvements to pass city inspections by the March 1 opening date.
"White oppressors have only moved over and put blacks in their places to do the dirty work" she said. "Twenty years ago, they called us niggers. Today, they treat us like niggers. We are not nearly as free today as we were after the Civil War."
Though the name had changed, most customers agreed that the bar had not.
About 150 people gathered at the landmark bar on its opening day to drink beer, visit old buildings and watch sports.
Hosea Williams, one of the leaders of the 1963 march, wields blacks not to be foiled by his allies, while white people stand.
before the march, the marchers sang "George Wallace needs you Lord, come by here." Wallace is the Alabama governor who ordered troops into Selma in 1965 and won a fourth term with black support three years ago.
too much for customers to resist. Most opted for the front porch.
And when the porch became crowded, customers moved tables and chairs to the driveway. Some played hacky sack, others played upright. The musicians enjoyed the music, the company, and the sun.
Prior to the lavern's opening, Schultes and Langangg made several improvements. They added three homemade, unfinished wood booths, which will increase the capacity of the building. They also hung nifty tiffany lamps from the ceiling, replaced floor tile behind the bar and repaired the plumbing.
Schulteis and Langgard said the free keg of beer that they offered when the bar opened was gone in 20 minutes. By 2 p.m., the bar had served eight kegs of beer.
"It turned out to be a beautiful day," Schultleis said. "The weather was the first thing I checked when I woke up this morning."
Feeley said the bar appeared to be cleaner "It just needs a little character," he said "Maybe a few pictures on the wall or something."
"This bar is special because it's the most convenient one in Lawrence," Kevin Ludwikoski, Lawrence senior said. "The people here are kind and they sit you sit and watch every thing that goes on."
The closing of the Crossing on Dec. 15 left many unhappy regulars. Some found other issues with their systems.
The party starts again at 618 W. 12th St., as the Rock Chalk Bar, formerly the Hawk's Crossing its doors. Friday's
Doug Ward/KANSAN
warm, sunny weather and a free leg of beer helped bring in a crowd to the bar's opening.