University Daily Kansan, June 27, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
News briefs from staff and wire reports
KU student in Oklahoma drowns in lake accident
Willian Edward Bryce, a 19-year-old KU student, drowned Sunday in a swimming accident in Grand Lake, Okla., near his hometown of Tulsa.
He was buried yesterday at Calvary Cemetery in Tulsa, following services at Christ the King Catholic Church.
Mr. Bryce had just completed his freshman year and he was vice chairman of the Legislative Assembly Coordinating Council of the Associated Students of Kansas.
Mr. Bryce was the son of Ann and Walter P. Bryce, and a 1963 graduate of Bishop Kelly High School in Tulsa.
Trial in battery case set for Aug. 1
The trial for a Lawrence man charged with the June 14 aggravated battery of his ex-wife, near the boat ramp at Eighth and Oak streets, will be Aug. 1 in Douglas County District Court.
The bond for the accused, Randy Lee Williams, 1004 N. Third St., was set at $15,000, and a motion to reduce the amount was denied. Williams has been held at the Douglas County Jail since his arrest June 20.
His former wife testified in the preliminary hearing Monday. William a driver for the Motorsport team.
Williams, a driver for the Yellow Cab Company, was arrested at the Javhawk Motel, which he gave as his address.
A fisherman told police that he found the victim at about 4 a.m. on June 14 at the boat ramp, which is on the north side of the Kansas River and east of the dam.
According to police, the 26-year-old woman suffered numerous head injuries.
Official to speak on human rights
An official who has researched Taiwanese human rights will speak tonight at 7:30 in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
Roger Rumpf, associate director of the Southeast Asian Resource Center in New York, will present "Human Rights and Martial Law in Taiwan." The speech is sponsored by the Lawrence group of Amnesty International.
Rumpf researched human rights violations during a visit to Taiwan in 1983. From 1978 to 1981, he did similar research in Vietnam and Laos. Rumpf has also written several articles on human rights violations in Taiwan.
Spencer Museum receives grant
The Helen Foresman Spencer Art Museum and the Watkins Community Museum have received grants from the Institute of Museum Services.
Spencer Art Museum received a $50,000 grant to help allay its operating costs. Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St., received a $7,900 grant from the institute.
The grants are competitive awards based on the quality of the museums, said Sara Bass, director of administration at the Institute of Museum Services.
Bass said that the grants were used to assist museums in areas difficult to fund The areas include salaries, utility bills, maintenance and education fees, and outreach programs.
"These grants are to be used to assist in the educational role of museums, and to enable them to modernize their facilities." Bass said.
Eastern bypass planned for city
By CAROLYN COLEMAN Staff Reporter
A plan for an eastern bypass of Lawrence will be completed within the next 18 months according to the director of city planning.
The bypass would probably go east of Lawrence from K-10 to the Kansas River bridge on Massachusetts Street, said Price Banks, director of planning for Lawrence.
He said that trucks now traveling from K-10 to I-70 must follow truck routes west on 23rd Street, north on Iowa Street and east on Sixth Street in order to cross the Kansas River at the Massachusetts Street bridge. City ordinances prohibit heavy trucks on other streets.
"You have to miss the neighborhood with it, and if you get too much in the flood plain, the cost of construction gets too high," Banks said.
BANKS SAID THAT the bypass probably wouldn't go through any neighborhoods.
But said Mary Giese, treasurer of the East Lawrence Neighborhood Association. "Boy, they're going to be building on the railroad tracks then."
"Even if it goes outside of the city limits it would still have to come up a) on the tracks, or b) on the river, unless they're going to build another bridge, and that would be enormously expensive," she said.
Giese said that she hadn't heard about the new bypass.
"WE HAD AN East Lawrence Neighborhood Association board meeting Monday night, and it didn't come up," she said.
She said that she would bring up the plan at the next general meeting of the association, which will be the second week in July.
"I haven't heard a word about it," said Nan Harper, a Lawrence City Planning Commission member.
"It's probably been on the back burner since the Haskell Loop failed," Harper said.
"I'd like to see where it's going to go," she said.
The Haskell Loop was a bypass the city proposed eight years ago. The plan was opposed by citizens' groups, including the East Lawrence Neighborhood Association.
PART OF THE East Lawrence neighborhood would have been razed to make way for the loop.
Banks said that the Haskell Loop wouldn't be on the next edition of the city's over-all plan, which will be presented to the public before September.
As in the new plan, the Haskell Loop would have routed through traffic from K-10 to the Kansas River bridge on Massachusetts Street on the east side of town.
Banks said that he was so sure that the Haskell Loop would be deleted that he had already revised the map.
He said that the new bypass would be part of a comprehensive transportation plan.
Granny's quilts are often works of art
By MICHELE HINGER
Staff Reporter
A quilt on a bed makes for good insulation on a cold winter's night.
But a quit on a wall can be a work of art, as are the 25 quilts on exhibit from July 1 through Sept. 23 at the Forest Preserve Spencer Museum of Art.
The quilts — crafted of colorful patterns called "Trish Chain," "Old Tippecanoe," "Chips and Whetstones" and "Drunkard's Path" — were chosen by museum registrar Janet Dreiling from the museum's collection of 200
by women in Kansas, Indiana,
Missouri, Kentucky or Ohio. Some of
the artists are unknown.
MOST OF THE quilts were made
"All these quilts were probably made by somebody's grandmother for somebody's bed." said Drilling
the museum's quilt collection started in 1917 with a donation of about 50 quilts from Sallie Casey Thayer, a Kansas City, Mo., collector. Since then the museum has acquired others, including 13 floral appliqué quilts made by Rosa Kretsinger and donated by Mary Kretsinger in 1971, and the Malcolm-James collection given by Iva James in 1972.
The care taken to preserve them is one factor separating quilts that
hang in museums from quilts that cover beds.
Exposure to light fades quilts, so they usually remain locked away, rolled on acid-free tubes and wrapped with clean white cotton
WHEN THEY ARE brought from the closet for exhibition, the quilts are carefully hung from poles in a dimly lit gallery and kept at a constant temperature and humidity
"Light is the biggest danger for textiles," Dreiling said. "But even if conditions are good, the fibers of textiles are acidic and are naturally self-destructive."
pieced geometric patterns in every color combination made from about 1850 to 1940.
The "Wonder Quilt," an example of the masterful stitchery, was started in 1895 by 80-year-old Martha Haggard. Deleuiling said. The creation took 36 yards of cloth, 24 spools of thread and two years to make.
Dreiling chose only patchwork quilts with visual impact for this exhibit. It is a showcase of intricately
HAGGARD SEWED together 79,950 tiny pieces of red, green and cream-colored material to form the quilt, one of 112 works she completed before her death in 1899.
Many quilts are variations on common patterns such as "Log Cabin" and stars, but are unique because of the fabric, color, and shape of the pieces.
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