University Daily Kansan, February 4, 1985
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school, he helped water the football fields with Lonborg.
"He was an institution," Leslie Nesmith said. "He had done a lot for the University
"Dad went to the Olympics with him in the '60s. He probably has known Dutch longer than anybody around."
Upon learning of Lonborg's death, Chancellor Gene B. Adugid said, "Dutch never said no to the University of Kansas. He had an unsurpassed record of unselfish service. He will be missed by the thousands of people whose lives he touched over the years."
TOM HEDRICK, instructor of radio,
television and film, and former director of
the KU sports network, was in graduate school when he met Lonborg.
"He was quiet, honest, full of integrity and he had a great sense of humor.
"Everyone would echo this. He did things quietly, never cheated and wouldn't tolerate cheating. His game plan was simple. Hire good people and let them alone."
"When I wanted to know what was going on around Allen Field House, I'd talk to Lonborg. He made more sense than any of them. And he'd say it in two sentences.
skills was being able to manage three strong personalities: Bill Easton, track coach; F.C. "Phog" Allen, basketball coach; and Jack Mitchell, football coach.
HEDRICK SAID Lonborg was most proud of the fact that he never had to be a coach in 14 years as athletic director. One of his great
"He was so well known around the country. You'd go to UCLA and John Wooden would ask 'how's Dutch?' He was the most popular guy on our staff." Hedrick said.
Don Pierce was sports information director at KU for nearly 20 years, and Hedrick said he once heard Pierce say in defense of don’t believe a job is win national championships, hire good people, have a good time and make money. I think he’s doing a great job."
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kept him from getting on the Student Rights Committee.
"I was the only senator who did not get my first choice," he said.
Feldman was affiliated with Frontier. Foubert, who ran as an independent, campaigned for the & Toto Too student body essential and vice presidential candidates.
STUDENT SENATORS will have the opportunity to approve committee appointments at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Big Eight room of the Kansas Union.
Feldman said she was not sure whether she would protest the appointments then. She said she wanted to talk to other people before making that decision.
William Easley, student body president,
said personality and coalition conflicts
already had created problems this year.
He said the students and overcome these differences, he said.
"What's happening is that's not happening, " he said.
Easley and Jeff Polack, student body vice president, are non-voting members of the committee board. They ran as Frontier candidates in the November election.
Polack also said he noticed the split in the board.
"It seemed to me from time to time that there was a definite split in committee board positions."
BUT FOUBERT said he didn't think the split was the result of coalition hostility. The rift is developing among older members of Senate, he said.
It is the "old guard divided against itself," Foubert, a second-year senator said.
Foubbert, a seventh-year senator said.
Foubert said he had been a fair
fair-bearer in the conventions.
"I made sure that no one group was the majority," he said.
In making the committee appointments, the board read through applications and assigned students to their first choice committee when possible. Foubert said. Student senators were placed on the committees that needed them the most.
"We did not want to put senators on a committee and bump off students." Foubert
THE ACT OF balancing coalition members and students and senators led to the controversy over Epstein's appointment, he said. The senator students serve on Senate committees.
Epstein and another senator wanted to be on the Student Rights Committee, he said. Both had listed the Minority Affairs Committee as second choice.
Foubert had he talked to the other senator, who was interested in the Student Rights Committee. He said another board member volunteered for the position rather than be placed on Student Rights but that
he was more interested in a committee chairmanship.
The committee board discussed assigning Epstein to a committee during a morning meeting on Jan. 19. All board members were present at that time, he said.
FELDMAN SAID the board voted at the meeting to place Epstein on the Student Rights Committee. Foubert said board members had discussed committee appointments, but no vote was taken at the meeting.
Foubert said he and two other members of the board met again that afternoon. At that time the board voted 3-2 to put Epstein on the Minority Affairs Committee.
The other two members at the meeting are members of the & Toto Too coalition.
The 'no' votes of Feldman and LaDale George, another board member, were counted even though the two were not present at the meeting. Foubert said.
He said he thought Epstein would be a good choice for the Minority Affairs Committee because he had been on that committee last year.
Milton Scott, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator and member of the committee board. agreed with Foubert.
"We placed him on the Minority Affairs Committee because that's where he was last year and he could offer the most experience," Scott said.
"Since we started buying the police package, we bought one transmission, no alternators, no motors and four batteries for the whole fleet."
transmissions, one motor or part of a motor,
two to three alternators and six batteries per car in a two-year period to get it to 60,000 to
70,000 miles.
Denney said they also hadn't had electrical fires since buying the specially equipped cars.
Denney said. "It would burn out the entire electrical system."
KU police run their cars 24 hours a day and rarely go more than 200 yards without the driver putting on the brakes. The suspension is constantly being worked.
THE POLICE DISMANTLE the old cars, taking off the red lights, sirens and radio equipment. They take the equipment to the Fire Fighters Mobile subsidiary, to be installed in the new cars.
"We're rougher on our cars than most police departments, where we're constantly stopping and starting," Demney said. "A lot of them are doing it in miles and then you have to buy a new one."
"A RADIO TAKES 18 amps. That's a lot of
"amps, and the old system couldn't take it."
The LTD's have the smallest V-8 engine made by Ford. The engines are needed for the heavy-duty electrical system because the
"They also maintain the equipment."
Denney said. "If there's a problem later, then we have a contract with them to service the equipment."
cars don't go fast enough to charge the electrical system that runs their radio and lights. Denney said.
The last two cars are in Topeka, having the equipment installed.
Revenue official endorses half-cent sales tax increase
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By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
Kansas should put into action a half-cent sales tax increase to build a stable tax base, Harley Duncan, secretary of the Kansas Department of Revenue, said yesterday.
Duncan spoke about the need for more state revenue at a public forum sponsored by Lawrence-area state legislators. He said a law that imposes a high stable tax that could be levied by a state.
Sixteen persons attended the forum at the Lawrence Public Library, 70 Vernor St.
Duncan said Gov. John Carlin reviewed the state's fiscal year 1986 budget and decided that an additional sales tax was the best way to generate money needed for elementary and secondary schools and higher education in the state.
Duncan said the tax generated money from about 5 percent of the taxpayers. Solbach estimated that about 3 percent of the taxpayers in Douglas County paid the booster tax as compared to 11 percent in Johnson County.
STATE REP. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said he thought the majority of legislators were ready to let the booster tax expire and instead set an unfair tax to urban areas of the state.
The state expects to lose revenue because an income booster tax is scheduled to expire this year, Duncan said. This revenue needs to be made up somewhere, he said.
Duncan said the exemption of food items from the sales tax had been discussed to lessen the burden placed on lower and fixed income families.
But State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-
Lawrence, said this exemption would take out the most stable part of the sales tax.
Duncan said the governor had considered an accelerated insurance tax but decided against it. The accelerated tax would be a cost of $10 billion to generate as much as $25 million for the state.
BRANSON SAID A survey by the KU Center for Public Affairs showed that 75 percent to 80 percent of those polled said they have an additional sales tax implemented.
"We've worked to make the taxing system
said, we shouldn't go backwards," Solobach
said.
Sobach said he was concerned that the sales tax would be unfair if food were exempt.
"It is hard to build ongoing programs on a one-time tax" he said.
Duncan explained the process of preparing revenue estimates for the state.
A committee consisting of three consulting economists and officials from the Division of the Budget, the Department of Revenue and the legislative Research Department meet to discuss estimates of state revenue in the coming year. he said.
Duncan said the estimates were used to prepare the budget based on current state and federal laws and did not consider future changes that were passed during the year the budget was used.
The cigarette tax is a federal tax that could be passed to the states in the coming year. If this happens, Duncan said, it would generate as much as $17 million for Kansas.
He said the federal government probably would not allow this tax to expire, so the revenue estimates did not include this possibility.
Alexander's lawyer files motions
Donald E. Alexander's attorney on Friday filed motions in Douglas County District Court on his client's behalf, asking for a new trial or accuittal.
Alexander, 19, was convicted two weeks ago of first-degree murder, rape and aggravated burglary in the August beating death of 80-year-old Marguerite Vinyard.
Wesley Norwood, defense attorney for Alexander, said yesterday that he filed the motion for acquittal because the judge should have acquitted Alexander.
"During the trial, I argued it before the court, out of the presence of the jury," Norwood said. "The judge didn't grant it." He was forced to argue for an appeal and plea written in it.
motions that police took an unreasonable length of time to get Alexander's confession, the judge was wrong in granting the search and seizure of evidence and that police did not properly advise Alexander of his rights.
Norwood said the main reasons for the
His motions also called for an arrest of judgment, a ruling that would overturn the court's decision. Norwood requested the judge because of the court's method of jury selection.
"the jury system we have here is wrong," he said. "Here, we get the jury through the voter registration roll. Not everyone votes, so we do not represent the representation of the public on the jury."
The motions are scheduled to be heard Feb. 22.
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