CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, June 20, 1984
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DIC members pleased with first newsletter
By CINDY HOBSON Staff Reporter
A pleased Downtown Improvement Committee unveiled its first newsletter at its monthly meeting yesterday. DIC members agreed that future newsletters should try to clear up misconceptions that the council will have about how much they will pay for downtown redevelopment
"There is a misconception that the public is going to pay $20 million to $20 million." Max Lucas, DIC member, representative of Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission, and dean of the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design, said. "We need to dispel this impression."
DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT, in developer Town Center Venture Corporation's proposal, would cost approximately $41 million. Of that, the public would pay 6 to 10 percent if an obligation bond were passed in a general election, Lucas said.
The public should be willing to
pay, Lucas said, because a downtown mall would cause the tax base to go up, benefiting everyone.
Hank Booth, chairman of the DIC, said that he thought the newsletter, which was funded by the city, was a "great start."
The newsletter outlines the history of downtown development since 1961. Booth asked Nancy Hambleton, head of the public information subcommittee, to have the next newsletter out by early July.
JOHN NAUGHTIT, DIC member, said that he had recently attended an East Lawrence Improvement Association meeting with Duane Schwada of Town Center.
Residents want the area of Rhode Island and New Hampshire streets between seventh and eight streets made residential instead of commercial in the redevelopment. Residents want it to be residential, Naughtin said, because downtown would be helped.
By MICHELE HINGER Staff Renorter
Members of local Southern Baptist churches seem to be as divided on the issue of the ordination of women into the ministry as the voting body at the convention in Kansas City was this week.
Local Baptists disagree on female ministers
The Southern Baptist Convention voted to oppose women's ordination, 4,789 to 3,460, but the decision does not bind local churches.
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JIM HERRON, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church in Eudora, said that he personally supported the ordination of women, but Hazel Ferris, the messenger from his church, prevented, opposed women as ministers.
"I'm very supportive of women being ordained ministers," said Herron, who is a new pastor to the church. "I have a real problem with women I have prohibited to be ordained."
But Farris favored a ban on women's ordination.
"I think it's just wonderful," she said. "I'm kind of old-fashioned, I guess. I just think that being a woman is the best place. Women have another place."
The convention is the third Farris has attended since the 1950s, and she said the meeting gave her a "wonderful feeling."
"THERE WAS SUCH a huge building with so many people all of one faith," Farris said. "I was thoroughly enthused, blessed and proud that I was a Southern Bastist."
Farris said that she did not feel women had particular weaknesses that would prohibit them from being ordained ministers.
"I just feel that women already have a full-time job at home," she said.
Farris said that the Eudora congregation probably would not approve of a woman minister, but if she was one, she would still go to church.
"This is our home," she said. "I don't think I'd quit going to church just because a woman was minister."
Geography is a link to the degree of conservativeness, Herron said. Southern Baptist churches have been in Kansas only for about the last 30 years, while in some states, the churches date back 100 years.
"THE NEWER churches are not ruled by tradition," Herron said. "The real strong Southern Baptist areas in the deep South traditionally are more conservative and more closed-minded."
Herron, who considers himself conservative, but not ultrconservative, said that he didn't
Sixteen million travelers are attracted to Kansas each year for their vacations, Mary Ellen Reese, assistant director of Tourism for the travel agency of Tourism of the Kansas Department of Economic Development, said recently.
Tourism in Kansas is a $1.5 billion industry that provides more than 42,000 jobs, generates $47 million in state tax revenue, ranks as the state's fourth largest industry, and ranks 2nd nationally in total expenditures brought into a state, Reese said.
Kansas tourism a big source of jobs, revenue
The $1.5 billion expenditure represents the 46.5 percent increase in tourist dollars during the past five years, up from about $20 million pledged by the tourist division in 1981.
RESEE ATTRIBUTED the growth to the fact that the state has increased tourism promotions nationally as well as in Kansas. There are many organizations formation centers, providing hospitality and assistance to travelers.
For the first time an advertising campaign is taking place outside of the state, mainly in Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma and Colorado. Rex Allen, former television cowboy, is the spokesman for the ads.
know how the Eudora church as a whole felt about women in the ministry.
"In Kansas we're a little unique in that diverse areas do a good job attracting tourists." Reese said.
Every county benefits from tourist travel. The minimum amount a county receives in expenditures each year is $13 million, the average is $13 million, Roosevelt and
By KAREN MASSMAN Staff Reporter
TOURISM IN DOUGLAS county ranks 12th in the state in expenditures, bringing in $30 to $35 million and providing 1,000 jobs, said Terry Johnson, assistant to the director of tours and Vistors Bureau in Lawrence.
"Kansas has a great deal to offer to the outdoor enthusiast," Reese said. "Some areas don't have any tourism except hunting."
In addition to 20 state parks, the state park system has many lakes and reservoirs that attract people. Reese said.
Rick Clock, director of the campus ministry Baptist Student Union, said that he wasn't surprised at the outcome of the convention.
Although the summer months attract the most visitors to the state, travelers in Lawrence are most abundant in the spring and fall house of the RU schedule and number of conventions. Johnson said.
Bob Yeoman, general manager of the Holiday Inn Holdome in Lawrence, doesn't consider the Holidome a tourist hotel. He said that tourists only accounted for 20 percent of their business but conventions and business people account for the rest.
"Southern Baptists traditionally have been conservative," said Clock, who attended part of the Kansas City convention.
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Ordaining women has been addressed in the Southern Baptist denomination for the last 10 years. Herron said. The convention has followed the country's conservative swing for the past five or six years,
Clock said that the separation between church and state should be maintained, but that communication between church heads was needed.
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