The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 94, No.152 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students at the University of Kansas
Warm
High, 90
Details on p.2
Friday morning, June 22, 1984
Rains swamp Midwest,but skies clearing
From Staff and Wire Reports
The first day of summer brought more flooded basements and soggy clothes than sunny skies to Lawrence, but the clouds did break up and relief from the downpour is in
A spokesman for the National Weather Service in Topka said that the flash flood warnings issued for yesterday afternoon had a 20 percent chance of more rain last night.
See related stories pp. 5,8
Today's skies should be partly cloudy and warmer with a forecasted high temperature.
AGRICULTURE OFFICIALS in Kansas said that 454,000 acres had been damaged
In Missouri, five northwestern counties were declared federal disaster areas by President Reagan while the 254 residents of Bremen were moved for the raging Missouri River to recode.
TWO PEOPLE DIED on Wednesday in the Missouri flooding.
Larry Weaver/KANSAN
The Army Corps of Engineers said that 37.7 million acres of farm land had been damaged in Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and South Dakota.
The extended forecast for Saturday through Monday calls for fair and mild weather, with lowes in the 60s and highs in the 80s according to the National Weather Service.
A truck slowly wades south on Louisiana Street, near Broken Arrow Park. Louisiana Street was closed yesterday because the Wakara River overflooded, covering nearby
Rain causes flooding on campus Many KU buildings' basements fill with water after recent rains
roads and fields. The truck bypassed a road block and drove more than one-half mile through water that ran about four feet deep.
By KAREN MASSMAN Staff Renorter
In Stauffer-Flint Hall, where the rain caused the most damage on campus, water was running in as fast it could be pumped out, Gary Mason, associate professor of journalism said. Mason and others worked all day to remove an estimated 200 gallons of water.
Although other areas reported more severe flooding yesterday, KU buildings and Lawrence businesses and homes were not affected by high water caused by early morning rains.
THE FLOODING OCCURRED in the basement of Stauffer-Flint which houses the photography lab. It was the worst situation Mason had seen since a water line broke a few weeks ago and he insisted he said, Two or three inches of water were present at the lowest level of flooding.
The problem was aggravated by debris plugging a storm drain, which caused water to overflow into the building, said Bob associate director of facilities operations.
"It is a unique situation, not a Sunday
situation. It's causing problems."
Portsea is
Facilities operations also received reports of flooding in Sudler House where a clogged pipe was probably responsible for water in the basement, Porter said.
FLOODING ALSO OCCURRED in the basements of the Chancellor's Guest House, the student lounge in Watson Library, Malott Hall, the post office in Strong Hall, McCollum Hall, Green Hall, the Lindley Hall annex and the Military Science building.
At Nichols Hall, flooding occurred in parts of the building that were below ground.
"I'm supposed to be on vacation, but the University comes first." Porter said.
Water was also reported leaking in an elevator shaft in Shake Hall, the fifth floor men's restroom in Watson Library, the fourth floor in Field House, and the fifth floor in Green Hall.
Classrooms in Murphy Hall, the University Relations Center, Malott Hall, Marvin Hall and Smith Hall also reported water because of leaks in their ceilings.
While workers were busy at KU trying to remove the water, so were many people in
MARIE KAULAITY, 2614 Louisiana St., said that her basement was flooded and that half of her street was covered with rapidly running water.
The water that plagued Kualaity and her neighbors also transformed the playground at Broken Arrow School, 2704 Louisiana, into a small lake.
Edna Conrad, Conrad Electric and Plumbing, 616 Arizona St., said that their business had been swamped with calls, and hadn't even had time to help her son or one of the company's plumbers with their problems.
"Just better pray it doesn't flood when everything is full of surface water and no place for it (the water) to go." Corrand said. "Just an act of God - nothing you can do with it."
Anderson said that they were trying to limit each customer to using the pumps on four levels.
Anderson Rentals, 812 New Hampshire St. Had 41 people on a waiting list to use their pumps, including watered pumps and new pumps from the shelves, Hazel Anderson, power.
Jim Lewis, a custodian in Stauffer-Flint Hall, uses a wet-vacuum in the basement of the building to remove the water that flooded the building.
Congressional negotiators raise Medicare premiums
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — House-Senate negotiators agreed last night late to cut $6.5 billion from Medicare by raising premiums for doctor visits — a move that is expected to cost $40 billion, a package of taxes and spending reductions aimed at trimming the federal deficit.
The agreement calls for Medicare recipients to pay higher premiums in the next two years to get the federal insurance for doctor visits = $14. 40 a month or a total of $16.80 in 1986 and $2.70 a month or $2.40 a year. Charges are assessed for hospital care
The cuts from the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly were among the most controversial provisions of the deficit-reduction package, which also is expected to raise about $ 50 billion in taxes. The Senate wanted to cut $ 9 billion from Medicare in the next three years, because the House voted to limit the cuts to $ 1 billion.
President Reagan insists spending cuts must be coupled with tax hikes in the effort to make a "down payment" on the deficit this year.
"I THINK THIS HAS been a cooperative agreement to work out something that is very fair," said Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan, leader of the Senate conFERences. "I think this goes a long way toward dispelling any misconception, administration has a stress problem."
Overall, the contesters settled on about $11 billion in spending reductions, including the cuts in Medicare and some savings in Medicaid, the health program for the poor. In return for the cuts, House
conferences got agreement on allowing more working women to qualify for Medicaid and persuaded the Senate to drop some tax credits for businesses.
Conference leaders predicted once the Medicare cuts were settled on, the rest would fall into place more quickly and the full House and Senate could act next week.
"Once that is in place, I'm sure there will be a great deal of movement," said Rep. Rostenkowski, D-Ill., chairman of the conference.
THE MEDICARE AGREEMENT frees for 15 months the amount of reimbursement doctors can get from the government for treating Medicare patients, saving $2.9 billion. The agreement does not prohibit the physicians from charging the patients more than the government will pay.
The confeees held out a carrot to the doctors, however, saying that if they agreed to take only what Medicine would pay for the present, they could recover the excess later, when the fees were increased.
Another part of the Medicare agreement provides that when one member of a married couple is working and the other is retired, the worker's employer must also offer health insurance coverage to the non-working spouse. That would mean Medicare might not have to cover the retired person.
Earlier, the conferences agreed to continue the "generation skipping" tax on estates that pass directly to grandmother. The Senate had wanted to repeal the tax
The Senate negotiators also agreed to scrap tax breaks they wanted to give businesses that have soil and water conservation expenses.
Jackson's concert tour draws millions of fans and dollars Concert promoters may profit from ticket losers Area fans scramble for tickets
By MICHELE HINGER Staff Renorter
The promoters of the upcoming Jackson Victory Tour opening in Kansas City July 6 will assuredly rake in an unprecedented amount of money from those lucky enough to get tickets.
Staff Reporter
"IT'S NOT UNCOMMON for promoters to put money from mail order ticket applications into money market or certificate of deposit accounts and collect the interest earned in the month the money sits in the bank," said Dan Faggard, of Feyline Productions in Kansas City.
But even the money from fans who weren't blessed with tickets for the concert, projected to be the biggest moneymaker in concert history, may earn the promoters some extra cash before it's returned to the owners.
The money from mail order tickets for the 1981 Rolling Stones concert in Kansas City, which grossed almost $1 million, was placed an interest-bearing account, Faggard said.
It's also not illegal, said Faggard. He said that many promoters had collected interest on mail-order ticket sales.
"That's sure what I'd do with it, considering the money that concert will make," he
The Jacksons ticket application, which requires that no more and no less than four tickets be purchased, stated that ticket winners, whose applications will be selected at random by computer, would receive the first one, one week after the application deadline.
The collected interest didn't end up in the promoters' hands, however — it was turned into a game.
The deadline for ticket applications, which
appeared in the June 19 issues of the Kansas City Star and the Kansas City Times, is June
However, fans who don't receive tickets were instructed to wait four to six weeks for the $120 to be refunded.
IN THAT FOUR to six weeks, the huge amount of money sent through the mail could bring in additional thousands of dollars for the concert promoters. Faggard said.
Ticket sales for the Kansas City concert alone are expected to gross $4.2 million, with souvenir sales bringing in an additional $1.5 million
Faggard did not know if the Jackson concert ticket money would be put in an interest-bearing account, since Feyline Productions was not sponsoring the Jackson
The exact amount of money available for
See TOUR, p. 5, col. 1
By CINDY HOBSON Staff Reporter
While Kansas City prepares for the Jacksons' Victory Tour, Lawrence fans have been buying money orders and newspapers in the hope they will receive tickets.
The Jackson's will open their national concert tour July 6, 7 and 8 at Arrowhead Stadium. Order forms for tickets appeared in the Kansas City Star and Kansas City Times.
A money order for $120 for four tickets and an order form from one of the newspapers must be sent to the concert promoters in New York. A computer will select lucky ticket winners, who will be notified on July 3. Those winners must be refunded must wait four to six weeks for a refund.
BILL LAWRENCE, assistant postmaster of the post office at 454 Vermont St., said
there had been "quite an influx" of people buying money orders.
Between Tuesday morning and 1 p.m.
Wednesday, he said, the post office had sold
310 money orders. They normally sell 70 in
that amount of time.
But the large number of money orders being sold was no burden. Lawrence said.
Join Sunniet, assistant district manager of the Kansas City Star and Kansas City Times circulation office in Lawrence, said Law Lundberg 500 extra copies of Tuesday's newspapers.
People are still coming into her office to get copies, she said.
ART HALLENBECK, owner of two LOWER-71 11 FOOD Stores, said, "we sold the heck out of the Kansas City Times. We were in town for a month to amount we normally sell, and all were sold."
See LAWRENCE, p. 5, col. 1
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