UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, March 8, 1994
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School site selection goes on without vote
By Cheryl Cadue Kansan staff writer
By Cheryl Cadue
The site selection for a second high school in Lawrence continues even though residents have not voted yet to build another high school.
John Tacha, Lawrence school board president, said the site selection would better inform voters about the proposed second high school when they cast their ballots this fall.
"It's important for the public to have all the information that we can give them, so they can make a responsible vote," he said.
Tacha said the school district selection committee had narrowed down the choices to seven possible sites. The choices include the No.1 recommended site, located on West 15th Street about a mile west of Wakarusa Drive, named on a 1989 list compiled by the district.
Ron Hurst, committee co-chair, said the committee members hoped to have their recommendations to the school board decided by the first week of April.
"The process is moving slower than I thought it would," he said. "I'm not 0%ly concerned about that because
we're still moving forward."
Tacha said the committee was doing a good job of finding sites that achieve a socioeconomic and racial balance.
Community response to the committee has been very positive, Tacha said.
Bob Walters, committee co-chair,
said the committee would continue to
advertise for suggestions from developers,
land owners and the public.
"We want to get it done so it won't drag on and on," he said. "We want to be thoughtful, careful and expeditious."
Developers and residents will have a final opportunity to suggest sites at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Lawrence School District Service Center, 3705 Clinton Parkway.
Suggestions for the site selection must meet the following guidelines:
The site must be 50 acres or more.
It must be within Lawrence city limits or close enough that annexation of the land would be possible.
It must have the potential for improved streets or roads.
It must have water and sewer services available at a reasonable cost.
It must have space for expansion.
Victims of the Flood of '93 learn to go with the flow
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Some days, Tommy Tucker feels like he's still fighting the Great Flood of 1983.
The Associated Press
Other days, he's so exhausted he just gets silly. Like the time a customer asked if she could have the frog he'd just found in his shop — and he filled out a receipt so she could prove it was hers.
Tucker's been able to redo his interior design studio, but comments "It's a damn hard way to get home improvements."
His shop is in the old Valley Junction area — now a section of arts and crafts shops and restaurants — that is smack in the middle of the flood plain for the Raccoon River. In July, it was flooded three times, with the worst round bringing water up to 6 feet deep.
Three miles downstream, the river poured over the levee protecting the Des Moines Water Works plant, knocking out water service to the city of 250,000 for 12 days.
Throughout the Midwest, the 1993 flood caused an estimated $12 billion in damage and was biased for 48 deaths in nine states: Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota,
South Dakota and Wisconsin.
The flooding forced Tucker from his shop for more than fourmonths.
A Corps of Engineers report issued Feb. 22 said just 91 of the 204 levees eligible for corps repair in the nine flood-stricken states have either been fixed or have work under way. Only 26 have been completely rebuilt. An additional 1,500 levees don't qualify for repair by the corps.
Part of the studio is refurbished, with burlesque purple walls, antique furniture and chandellers, but Tucker still carries pictures of the devastation in his briefcase and his file cabinet has a folder of news articles about the flood.
"When I get depressed because things aren't developing fast enough, I look at this and see how far we've come," he said.
Across the street at the 2AU jewelry and art shop, owner Ann Wright Aku keeps her jewelry displays on wheeled cars, partly for the look and partly in case they need to be moved quickly.
"Some people thought I was really cool to fall come down here," she said. "But I don't feel foolish. This is a great area. It will survive."
State Senate kills bills debates smoking issue
The Legislature got off to a slow start as it began its ninth week of the 13-week session.
in an unusual twist, a bill to strengthen enforcement of laws that prohibit minors from buying cigarettes was opposed by health organizations and supported by the tobacco industry at a House Federal and State Affairs Committee hearing.
"We don't want to create new smokers from the youth market," said Alan Alderson of the Tobacco Institute.
Opponents of the bill said the only people who started smoking were adolescents.
Health organizations, including the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, were overwhelmingly opposed to the bill because it contained a section that would prohibit local governments from enacting their own anti-smoking ordinances.
"Practically no adults today start smoking," said Steven Potsic, director of health for the state Department of Health and Environment. He said teen-agers were a major target for cigarette advertising.
State Rep. Don Smith, D-Dodge City, said the bill was ridiculous.
A minor who violates the bill's provisions could receive a fine of up to $1,000 or up to a year in prison, or both.
In the Senate chamber, bills to prohibit automobile dealers from opening on Sunday, require the elderly to buy hunting and fishing licenses and require sheriffs to have five years of law enforcement experience officially died.
The Senate did not debate those bills last week when a deadline passed for considering most bills in the house of origin. Senate Majority Leader Sheila Frahm moved to strike them from the debate calendar. This was the final act of killing them.
The bill to prohibit automobile dealers from opening on Sunday is an industry fight between dealers who don't want to open on that day but fear loss of sales, and dealers who say it is a free enterprise issue. The bill had won the endorsement of the Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee.
The bill repealing the exemption for those over 65 from needing licenses to hunt and fish was part of a Department of Wildlife and Parks proposal to generate some $4 million a year in additional revenue. That revenue would be used to rebuild the state park system and improve other programs.
McDonald's flirting with not-so-fast food
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — McDonald's is considering offering its customers a different kind of break today: sit-down restaurants that serve home-style dishes such as roasted chicken, meat loaf and mashed potatoes.
The new chain would be called Hearth Express and would cater to families looking to pay about $5 a person for dinner, according to Crain's Chicago Business, which attributed the information to unidentified sources.
It signals a shift in strategy at the fast-food company, which has been trying unsuccessfully for years to develop a dinner menu that could pump up evening sales at McDonald's outlets.
McDonald's spokesman Chuck Ebeling said yesterday that Hearth Express is a "test concept." He declined to elaborate.
According to Crain's, McDonald's will open the first two Hearth Express restaurants as early as this summer in Chicago's suburbs.
The concept is similar to Boston Chicken, a fast-growing chain that specializes in rotisserie-roasted chicken and home-style side dishes, said Sharon Olson, president of the Olson Group Inc., a food service consulting firm in Chicago.
Hearth Express would face intense competition from Boston Chicken and other family restaurants.
"There's only so much growth you can get out of the mature U.S. market," Olson said. "Most companies are looking overseas for growth."
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