University Daily Kansan, April 11, 1984
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NATION AND WORLD
Living trends moving back toward homes
Baby-boom kids deserting condos, city dwellings
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The baby-boom generation proved that condominiums and rehabilitated city dwellings were a hard-times alternative and not the wave of the future in housing, the U.S. Savings Institutions said yesterday.
The league's latest homeowner survey showed that when lower interest rates and prices provided the opportunities, the wave of home buyers who were forced to wait out the recessions single-family houses on their own lots.
"The baby boom is going home, going back to the kind of homes they were born in," said league chief economist James Christian.
"In previous 1979 and 1981 surveys, it appeared condominiums were going to be the wave of the future," Christian said.
In the Northeast, for instance, condominium purchases dropped from 14.6 percent of the market in 1981 to 7.9 percent in 1983.
"They were just temporary accommodations to the affordability of their own care."
High interest rates early in the decade made it harder for people to move out of their old houses and into something new, locking people out of the traditional first step from an apartment to an older home.
But while still favored by retirees, condominiums are in excess supply in many parts of the country, with new units vacant for months in some Sun Belt locales, housing analysts said.
Changes in Home Buying
New and Existing Houses
The House 1983 1981
Cost...$65,000 $72,000
Age...11.6 years 8.5 years
Size...1,451 sq. ft. 1,450 sq. ft.
The Buyer
Minimum Income...$35,987 $39,196
Monthly Payment...$709 $816
Mortgage Rate...12.4% 14.2%
United Press International
All figures are medians except for Minimum Income
WASHINGTON — The baby-boomers are going home again, returning to traditional patterns of U.S. suburban home ownership and away from condominiums, according to a study released yesterday by the U.S. League of Savings Institutions.
but last year that changed and the recycling process surged.
"Houses that had been held off the market because the seller couldn't move up were available again," Christian said.
"It was a return to traditional mechanics about how first-time engineers must work."
Forty percent of last year's buyers were acquiring their first house, a record high percentage created by the backup of frustrated buyers from 1980
In 1981, only 13.5 percent of the basement was used to into their own house for the first time.
"We've got a general upward trend already locked into rates." Christian warned, with a new crunch on home buying likely after July unless Congress this year slices a large amount from the projected 1985 deficit.
Savings associations made a record $137 billion in mortgage loans in 1983
The league's survey, which differs somewhat from Census Bureau findings, shows the median cost of a house dropped to $65,000 last year from 1981's $72,000.
"I think we could see a real slowdown in the fourth quarter without a deflation."
The largest decline in median home prices occurred in the South. In the West, prices continued to rise and they fell only slightly in the Northeast.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Shirley MacLaine, exhausted from a night of celebration, basked yesterday in the first Oscar in her 69-year movie career.
"It's nice waking up in the morning to see that you've got the Oscar for your movie," she said.
By United Press International
MacLaine triumphed Monday night by winning the best actress Oscar for her performance as the over-protective wife of a wealthy millionaire, which won five major Oscars at the 56th
MacLaine finds Oscar endearing
The actress danced the night away at the post-Postoc party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where she received a host of awards when she made a belated appearance.
annual Academy Awards presentations.
Jack Nicholson, who won the award for best supporting actor as MacLaine's amorous ex-astronaut neighbor, said he hoped to return to Colorado to ski, a pastime he interrupted Monday to attend the awards.
The ceremonies captured the largest share of the television audience Monash University said.
unan the previous year's show, according to ratings released Tuesday.
The awards drew an average 32.1 rating, or 54 percent of the television audience, in 11 of the nation's largest retail markets, Arbort Ratings Co. said.
The three-hour, 45-minute show was broadcast on ABC.
In New York City, the Oscars logged the highest viewer rating, with 62 percent of the market share. In Boston and San Francisco, the show was watched by 56 percent of the television audience.
Women hold one-third of all management jobs
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Women held almost a third of management, administrative and executive jobs by 1890, up from 19 percent a decade earlier, the Census Bureau said yesterday.
Women made gains in almost all fields of management between 1970 and 1980, the census study showed. They held 30 percent or more of the management jobs in public administration, finance, personnel and labor relations, education, medicine, real estate and mail.
The bureau said, however, that there was little change in the breakdown in occupations traditionally dominated by one group or the other. Women still hold few jobs in construction and craft, 7.8 percent, and only 1.2 percent of America's secretaries are men.
A fourth of the nation's legislators, chief executives and general administrators were women by 1880, compared with a handful in 1970, the bureau said.
Other changes over the decade include:
- Women almost tripped their share of judgements, from 6 percent to 17 percent, and the proportion of women grew from 5 percent to 14 percent.
*Among writers, artists, entertainers and athletes, the proportion of women grew from 33 percent to 42 percent. Women held 49 percent of the editing and reporting jobs by 1890, compared with 42 percent in 1970. And 45 percent of the nation's authors were women in 1980, compared with 30 percent a decade earlier. But the proportion of women musicians and composers fell from 35 percent to 30 percent.
- Women increased their share of jobs in all the health-diagnostic fields, but still make up only a small percentage of the total practitioners. The proportion of women physicians is 18 percent to 7 percent, dentists from 4 percent to 7 percent, and optometrists from 4 percent to 8 percent.
University Dance Company Spring Concert
april 13 at 8 p.m. april 14 at 8 p.m.
featuring new dance to new music "danses electroniques a la jazz"
$2.50 general admission $1.50 k u students
premiere of works to be shown in italy and switzerland
240 robinson dance performing lab university of kansas
this activity supported by student senate funds
--prepared piano sonatas by john cage
'84-'85 COMMITTEE
KU's concert production group is on the way back up. .growing stronger. .and continuing its tradition of bringing quality entertainment to the Lawrence community. Be a part of the new legend..a'84-'85 Special Events committee member. Interviews for these positions will be Thurs., April 12:
USHER DIRECTORS (2)
PUBLICITY DIRECTORS (2)
LIGHTING DIRECTOR (1)
SECURITY DIRECTORS (2)
STAGE DIRECTOR (1)
PHOTOGRAPHER (1)
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR (1)
Apply and sign up for an interview time at the SGA office,
4th floor Kansas Union. Deadline is Wed., April 11, 5 p.m.
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Downtown Lawrence
749-1347
Guardsmen stalk, catch two escapees
By United Press International
After capturing the two fugitives, 500 civilian law officials and military police stopped two trains and pressed the manhunt into wooded mudlands near the village, where the remaining fugitives conked killer Gary Sanders, 30.
Gregory Smith, serving a sentence for murder, surrendered after stopping at a home near Fort Pillow to eat lunch.
FORT PILLOW, Tem. — National Guardsmen and police with blood-hounds yesterday stalked and captured two of four convicts who staged the second major break in two months from the escape-plagued Fort Pillow Prison.
Romans 8:31, 32
A prison dog handler and two National Guard screens tracked down Danny Riverer and Tony Waysy. Seen in Lost Creek near the Hateful Riverer in
"... If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all - how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?"
Mustard Seed Fellowship 256 N. Michigan St.
Pastor: 843-1185
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4:00 Maria (Mexico/Colombia)
7:00 The jackal of
Nahueltoro (Chile)
10:00 Spanish Subtitle
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