University Dally Kansan, June 20, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
News briefs from staff and wire reports
Sales tax to be decided in county vote August 7
Voters in Douglas County will decide whether a new half-cent sales tax is needed in the county on the August 7 ballot.
The three-member Douglas County Commission voted unanimously yesterday to put the issue before the voters.
If the proposal is approved, it will generate money to make up for tax revenues lost when the Kansas Legislature repealed the tax on farm equipment and business aircraft.
The tax would raise about $1.5 million for the county.
A half-cent city sales tax is now collected in Eudora, Bouldin and
Lake County.
Kansas law requires that the money be distributed among the county and cities within the county, based on population in the cities and tangible tax revenues. Lawrence would receive about 63 percent of the revenue if the proposal was passed.
Javcees host the Christv Minstrels
The Lawrence Jaycees will present The New Christy Minstrels at 8 p.m. tonight in the Central Junior High School Auditorium, 1400 Merrill Ave.
Proceeds from the show will be donated to the Kansas Jaycees Cerebral Palsy Ranch in Augusta, Kan., and to other Jaycee charities.
The New Christy Minstrels first came to public attention in 1961 with the song "Green Green," which sold more than three million copies. The group is also famous for its mid-60s television program "Halloween." They are the recording artists as Kenny Roogers, John Denver and Kim Carnes.
The original Christy Minstrels were formed in 1842 as a traveling minstrel show throughout the Midwest. After breaking up in 1921, the group re-formed as a six-piece singing outfit in 1961 and later released three successful albums.
The Missouri Board of Curators announced yesterday that C. Peter Magrath, president of the University of Minnesota, had been named president of the University of Missouri's four-campus system.
Magrath will succeed James C. Olson, who will retire on July 1 after eight years as president. Magrath will assume the post on January 1, 1985. Melvin D. George, vice president for academic affairs, will serve as interim president.
Magrath, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been president at the University of Minnesota since Sept. 1, 1974. Before going to Minnesota, he was president of the State University of New York at Cornell and member and administrator at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Magrath's said his goals for the university included improving its financial support from private and corporate sources.
Theatre announces summer plays
The Kansas Repertory Theatre, which includes actors and actresses from the University of Kansas and the Lawrence community, has announced its summer schedule.
"The Fantasticks," a musical written by Tom Jones, with music by Harvey Schmidt, will be performed July 5, 8, 14, 20 and 22. "Goodbye My Fancy," a 1940's comedy by Fay Kanin, will be staged on July 12, 15 and 21. The final show will be "Daughters of Heaven," a historical drama by Shelley Fitze. It will be performed on July 7, 13, 19 and 22.
All performances will take place in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy hall.
Tickets can be purchased in the Murphy Hall box office. Students and senior citizens receive a special discount.
Exceptions may apply.
UPS center will open in Lawrence
United Parcel Service opened a new service center this month in North Lawrence at 331 N. F. Industrial Lane.
The center, located off North Second Street south of the Kansas Turnpike, will handle pickups and deliveries for Lawrence and the surrounding area. Before the center opened, UPS service for the area was provided by centers in Topeka and Lenexa.
shipped out the same night they are brought to the facility
Hours for the center will be 4:30 to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday.
UPS hoped to have the center in operation by January, but construction was delayed because of the cold weather in December and the wet spring.
Search in lake for body goes on
Jefferson County sheriff's deputies were still checking the surface of Lake Perry yesterday for the body of Anthony Reichard,
Reichard was reported missing Saturday evening, according to a dispatcher at the sheriff's office.
Jennerson County sheriff's deputies, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Kansas Fish and Game Commission all helped drag the lake Saturday evening. Sunday and Monday, the dispatcher said.
Date set for hearing on rape case
The preliminary hearing for a 32-year-old man charged with the June 10 rage of a KU student has been set for June 22.
Mayo Feliz, 1772 W. 24th St. the man charged with the rape, died on June 11 of yellowstone County jail after failing to post a $1,500 bond after his June 15 arrest.
ON THE RECORD
KU POLICE FOUND 36 signs belonging to various municipalities, counties and businesses when they answered a call from KU housing and maintenance Monday. The signs, which are usually valued at about $25 to $35 each, were next to Ellsworth Hall's trash dumpsters, according to KU police. The police have notified the signs' owners.
THEIVES BROKE THE window of a car parked on the 500 block of Tennessee Street and stole a tape deck worth about $350, according to Lawrence police reports. The owner discovered the theft of the stereo and several tapes Monday morning.
LAWRENCE POLICE WERE still looking for a 1975 Delta Oldsmobile belonging to Alpha Leasing, Inc., 706 W. 9th St., yesterday morning. According to Delores Bryant, manager, a man rented the car for June 12 and gave a false address. Police are also looking for a 1975 Chevrolet half-ton pick-up rented for June 12 and 13 and never returned, according to Bryant.
BURGLARS DROVE OFF with a white 1986 Mercedes Benz 300D valued at $17,100 after they broke into the office of R & R Auto Sales. 1001 N. 3rd St., and stole the car key. According to Lawrence police, opened the office door Sunday night by removing its hinge pins.
WHO TO CONTACT
The Kansan welcomes tips, questions, comments and complaints from the public. Readers are invited to call the Kansan newsroom at 861-1810 and talk to one of the following editors:
Larry Weaver/KANSAN
managing editor
JILL CASEY campus editor
Students who happen to be brushing at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, and see a married couple that look like they are on a shopping spree, should look closely.
A security guard is now on display at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.
Life-like forms startle viewers in art museum
SHARON BODIN
"PEOPLE GO UP and talk to the guard, and occasionally we get complaints that one of our guards was particularly rude." Susan Smith, public information officer for the gallery, said.
By PAUL FAZIO Staff Reporter
"Shoppers" is just one of many of Duane Hanson's life-size sculptures that are starting art gallery patrons around the country.
Born in 1925 in Parkers Prairie, Minn., Hanson was the son of a Swedish dairy farmer.
Some of Hanson's other works include a supermarket shopper, a delivery man and a drug addict.
Hanson's last exhibit, which ended last Thursday at Wichita State University's art museum, drew 80,000 people during the seven week period, said Martin H. Bush, director of the museum.
Hanson did not become a successful artist until he was 45 years old. Bush said.
Although Hanson could not be reached for comment, Bush, who has written a book on Hanson, said, "He has become veryclusive."
Duane Hanson's "Shoppers," now on display in the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, are made of fiber reinforced plastic and polyvinylacetate. Hanson created the statues from molds of human models.
"HE STARTED OUT as a decorative artist, but he was never successful. He was a flop," said Bush.
JIM BOLE editor
Bush said that Hanson's first sculpture to be recognized as controversial was an 18-inch figure of a girl who died after an operation.
PHIL ELLENBECKER sports editor
CHARLES HIMMELBERG editorial editor
Bush said that Hanson's sculpture process involved six separate areas. Hanson worked his way from the bottom up starting with each leg before moving to the torso, the arms and then the head.
The sculpture was considered controversial because it displayed
Hanson uses an actual model for every sculpture. Plaster casts are used to cover the model for the original molding. To prevent the paint from sticking to the model, petroleum jelly is placed over the model's body.
Bush explained that Hanson's original motivation for sculpting was to confront visitors and attack them with something.
graphic violence. Hanson's idea for the sculpture was a result of his ambivalence toward shoddy medical practices.
City commission approves lease for air terminal
"Violence got people's attention, but he couldn't sell them because they were too violent." Bush said. "And to make them more subtle."
BUSH SAID that Hanson then began sculpting people who characterized life in this society.
When the cast dries, the hollow moldings are filled with a polyester resin. The separate molds are then removed from their casts and put together
By the Kansan Staff
"His message became the hard existence of their lives," Bush said.
Lawrence city commissioners exchanged sharp words last night as they grappled with two divisive issues: a lease for an airport building and new bonds for the Lawrence Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St.
In its other major action, the commission voted 5-0 to set a July 17 hearing date to consider issuing an order allowing the remodeling of the Opera House.
After heated discussion and accusations of unfair advantages in the bidding procedures, the commission approved 3-2 a leasing agreement between the city and Security Leasing Corp. for the terminal.
Mayor Ernest Angino and Commissioner David Longhurst both said it was inappropriate to bring up the fact that a man in the city had already accepted a bid.
Commissioner Nancy Shontz voted against the lease, along with Commissioner Mike Amyx. Shontz said she did not think the bid accepted by the city was the best, and the group that presented the bid had an unfair advantage over its competitors because the group had started preparing its bid before the commission called for proposals.
"IF THIS IS the way you want to choose your contractors, OK, then choose them that way," she told the other commissioners "It is like someone starting the race before the crowd, and everybody else waits for the gun."
Shontz said she didn't want to imply that Security Leasing Corp had acted illegally.
MAYOR ANGINO and commissioners Howard Hill and Longhurst questioned whether sufficient revenue could be generated from local performing arts groups to keep the Opera House solvent.
But Shontz spoke out in favor of the remodeling.
7:00 p.m. Woodruff Aud.
Tickets $1.50
TONIGHT
coming
The Cranes are Flying
FRIDAY
THE
GRADUATE
One of the most honored Soviet films of all time. THE CRANES ARE FLYING the major awards at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.
Dustin Hoffman is The Graduate
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