University Daily Kansan, February 12, 1985
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County commission backs turnpike study
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
Although some Douglas County residents say it is a waste of tax money, Douglas County commissioners yesterday endorsed a study to determine whether a new Kansas exchange is needed in the county.
The commission voted to split with the city the cost of the study, expected to be about $15 000.
The commission voted 2-1 to help Lawrence finance a study to decide whether a new interchange would economically benefit the city and county.
At its meeting tonight, the Lawrence City Commission is scheduled to consider paying for half of the cost of the study.
David Hopper, county commissioner, said he thought the study would renew turnpike officials' interest in building a new Douglas county currently is served by interchanges in east and west Lawrence.
WARREN RHODES, THE county commissioner who voted against the study, said that a 1980 study financed by Lawrence and Douglas County had sufficiently determined the feasibility of a new interchange.
The 1980 study proposed an interchange at the intersection of the turnpike and Lecompton Road in north-central county. The official official lodge act referred to the shing.
On Thursday, the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce asked the county and city to finance an updated study to renew interest in building another Lawrence interchange. The chamber asked that the interchange be built north of County Road 13 to provide access to Clinton Lake.
The interchange also would provide access to the Santa Fe Industrial Park and the proposed University Corporate and Research Park, at 15th Street and Wakarua Drive. It would decrease traffic on overloaded
Lawrence streets, the chamber said.
A NEW STUDY was not endorsed by all county residents. About 30 Lecompton area residents attended the meeting, and some voiced support for it.
Howard Duncan, representing the residents, said a new study would duplicate the one done five years ago and would be a waste of tax money.
Duncan said the Lecompont Road interchange, proposed in the 1980 study, would allow access to either U.S. highways 24 or 40. He also said construction of the interchange near Duncan would not destroy existing homes.
Lawrence would benefit from the interchange proposed by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said Dean Burkhead, a lawyer representing some of the Lecompan lawyers in its new interchange because it would promote the industrial and corporate research marks, he said.
"WE'VE TIRED OF Lawrence always getting its way. The residents of Lecrompton want their part," he said.
A new study, he said, would make the location proposed by the chamber look better and would do nothing for the Lecompton area.
Steve Glass, a member of the chamber, said turnippe officials would not build a new interchange unless it could support itself. He said study showed the interchange near a acceptor would not be self-supporting.
Howard Duncan, a Lecompton resident, said the 1980 study showed the interchange would be feasible. A new study was not needed, he said.
"If the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce wants to do another study, let them finance it," Duncan said.
Glass said that if the county and city agreed to a new study, turnpike officials would hire a company to conduct the study and not be involved in the study, he said.
Bill would drown drinking specials
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
Happy hours and all-you-can-drink specials may disappear, but Lawrence private club and tavern owners said yesterday that it was a fair price to pay to pave the way for liners by the drink in Kansas.
Liz Anderson, manager of The Jazzhaus, 926% Massachusetts St., prepares a drink for one of her happy hour customers. Drinking specials, such as last night's happy hour at The Jazzhaus, would be illegal (if a drink was in the stock) for the evening.
And they overwhelmingly favored a proposal to toughen penalties for those who attempt to buy alcohol illegally.
Terrv Burkart/KANSAN
Last week the Kansas Senate passed a bill to prohibit promotions encouraging excessive drinking. The bill was part of a package designed to sway key senators to vote for liquor by the
BESIDES PROHIBITING the two-for-one, all-you-can-drink
A second bill in the package would strip driver's license privileges for one year from minors drink or attempt to buy alcohol.
"If we can get liquor by the drink before the voters, then club owners can live with that," Ace Johnson, owner of The Sanctuary. 1401 W Seventh St., said of the club on all-you-can drank specials.
THE SANCTUARY OFFERS all you can drink on Wednesday nights.
But Johnson said he resented the characterization of these fixed-price specials as "drink-and-drown."
"Our industry does not advocate drink-and-drank," he said. "99 percent of all club and tavern owners abhor that terminology."
He said The Sanctuary mainly relied on food specials to attract customers and no longer had a happy hour. The Senate bill does not prohibit the use of food specials or entertainment to attract customers.
It does ban, however, a long list of promotions that encourage people to drink to excess, according to supporters of the bill.
and happy hour specials, the bill tells club and tavern owners that they cannot serve free drinks, serve more than two drinks at one time or serve drinks at reduced prices.
In addition, it prohibits drinking contests or contests with drinks as prizes and forbids increasing the amount of alcohol purchased proportionately increasing its price.
Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., said the purpose of promotions was not to increase consumption.
and to compete with other clubs," Wallace said.
"The idea is to build patronage.
The Hawk's most successful special, a schooner of beer that can be refilled for a dollar, probably would not be affected by the proposed law, he said, because the price always stays the same.
WALLACE SAID HE supported the provision banning all youcan-drink specials, although he said he thought something like a code of ethics among tavern owners in the state was preferable to legislation. He said local members of the Tavern League of
Kansas discontinued drink-and drown specials because they were bad for the taverns' public image.
rick McNeely, owner or ... Jazhauus, 92% Massachusetts St. when asked of any possible effect of his music. He answered, "Does it prohibit music?"
THE JAZZHAUS DOESN'T' rely heavily on promotions, he said, although it does have a happy hour.
"A lot of the other bars have to do that in order to make their bars unique, so that people will go there," McNeely said.
Young heart recipient asks for stuffed toys
At a news conference yesterday, the parents of Grant Reser, the boy, said he wanted to know about his stuffed animals when he awoke.
Saturday's heart transplant for a three-year-old Topeka boy at the University of Kansas Medical Center took about five hours, but the tiring experience didn't dampen the boy's curiosity.
Reser, the sixth Med Center heart recipient, remains in critical condition in the Med Center's intensive care unit.
The parents said Reser knew about heart conditions because his grandfather had had heart trouble. But when Reser was told of the surgery, he asked whether he would have two children following the transplant operation.
Reser suffered from restrictive cardiomyopathy, a condition that
hinders the heart's pumping because the muscles of the organ thicken.
His replacement heart came from a donor in the upper Midwest who was similar to Reser in body size and height. Nancy Miller, hospital spokesman.
The procedure for transplanting a child's heart does not differ from adult heart transplants, but the equipment used is smaller, Miller said.
She said Reser could expect to live a normal life with his new heart. The heart should grow at the same rate as Reser's body, Miller said. Only one person can be or mountain climbing, are discouraged they could cause heart damage
The fifth heart transplant recipient of the Med Center, Donald L. Moore, continues to be in good condition, she said.
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