CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 13, 1984
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Henry Webster, Leavenworth junior, aims his rifle during preliminary tryouts for the U.S. Olympic Team. Webster, with other members of the K.U. Rifle Club, competed yesterday in the basement of the Military Science Building against marksmens from six other colleges. The competition is one of 25 across the country and is sanctioned by the National Rifle Association.
Coffeville continues budget cuts
By United Press International
COFFEEVILLE — This small Kansas town has a gritmest winter on the Dallop Mountains.
Coffeeville, a community of about 16,000 just north of the Oklahoma border, is laying off workers and offering services to save itself from bankruptcy.
It's the town where the Daltonts got ambitious on Oct. 5, 1892 and tried to rob the First National Bank and the C.M. Condon & Co. bank at the same time. They failed. Four good guys and guys were killed in the process.
More recently, City Manager William A. Snell declared Coffeyville in a state of financial crisis on Jan. 23. He says the town must slash $776,000 from its 1984 general fund budget of $3.4 million or face bankruptcy by 1985.
TO DO THAT, THE CITY SHUT DOWN one of two fire stations, laid off nine firefighters and will send pink envelopes to more municipal employees this week.
"It's not really a lot of fun to come into a community and tell people. 'Hey, we're going to do away with your job,'" she said, "because the chances of the city," "Snell said recently."
He arrived in Coffeyville in December after serving as city manager in Sidney. Neb.
"I really feel badly that this even has to be done. I wish there wasn't a deficit. If you can't afford something, you have to down to what you can afford." he said.
LABOR UNIONS FOR CITY WORKERS and firefighters don't believe Snell. They think he has a personal vendetta against them.
"I think he's down here to break the unions," said Howard Barrhart, business manager of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 240 in Chicago, who goes anywhere he wants to and write his own ticket as a union breaker."
If the cuts go as expected, Mayor Jack Anderson said Saturday, firefighters will take longer to arrive at fires in some parts of town, the processing of utility bills will be delayed, street and alley work will be slowed on and maintenance on city buildings will become less frequent.
RANDY ARNDT, A SPOKESMAN
FOR THE NATIONAL LEAGUE of Cities in Washington, said cutbacks like those in New York and Boston more common across the country.
A recent survey of cities indicated half expected to reduce services within
a year, he said.
Coffeyville's problems began when three of its biggest firms — Halliburton, Western Publishing and Sherwin-Williams — either shut down completely or laid off more than 1,000 workers in 1982. Shutdowns like that mean the cities can no longer collect taxes from the firms, Arndt said.
"It requires some tough calculations if all of a sudden you've got a surplus of city employees and a shortage of funds," Arndt said. "You've got to say, 'This is the real world, something's got to give.'"
Firefighter Dale Green was one of nine men handed a layoff notice Friday afternoon. Like many other residents before him, he may have to leave town.
The unemployment rate in Cofeffville and Montgomery County regularly tops the rest of the state, and jobs are hard to come by.
"This town's gone to the dogs with the current management," Green said. "As soon as I can find something else, I'm gone."
LAWRENCE REPORTED a1 of an inch of rain Southeastern Douglas County had heavier rains and some hail County and Franklin County douglas County/Franklin County line
Kansas Power & Light customers in the north central part of the city without power for about an hour, beginning at 5 p.m., said Fred Bryan, KPL division manager. A wire, loose from its bracket, stopped electrical service.
Lawrence reported a high of 67 degrees on Saturday. Bills said that mostly pea- and marble-sized hail, and some goldball-sized hail, was reported in the line of thunderstorms. No damage was reported.
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
Warm spell causes storms
In other parts of the state yesterday, skies were mostly sunny during the late morning and afternoon hours Sunday, except for partly cloudy to cloudy skies over much of the eastern and north central sections of Kansas.
Abundant sunshine pushed mid at
atternoon temperatures into the upper
40% of the day.
The tornado season was inaugurated in the Land of Ahs this weekend as wicked winds and rains, encouraged by hurricanes, brought to life or at leastATURES, swept across eastern Kansas.
Temperatures this week are expected to remain above normal in the Lawrence area and could linger into the winter. The neurologist in Topeka said yesterday
Yesterday the KU Weather Service said the temperature today should be near 60 degrees. The low tonight is expected to be 34 degrees.
A tornado also touched down Saturday evening in Independence, Mo. The tornado broke some windows at a bank, damaged stores and deprived a convenience store and damaged several cars.
THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE for this time of year is about 42 degrees. Late Saturday afternoon a line of thunderstorms developed south of Topea and moved eastward producing the first tornadoes of the season, said Phil Bills, the National Weather Service meteorologist.
Tornadoes damaged a house and barn northeast of Chanute, Bills said.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch at 3:30 p.m. Saturday for eastern Kansas and later cancelled the storms that thunderstorms moved into Missouri.
along with a barn southeast of Uniontown and a house and barr east of
BILLS SAID THAT ALTHOUGH tornadoes were rare in February, they aren't unheard of.
Since 1950, he said, only four February tornadoes have been reported in Kansas: two on Feb. 17, 1961, and two on Feb. 18, 1971.
A surface low in northwestern Kansas and warm gulf moisture sweeping from the south into the eastern part of the state produced the unseasonably high temperatures and thunderstorms. Bills said.
Information for this story was also supplied by United Press International.
A thunderstorm passing through Lawrence Saturday left about 2.500
Senate buys a computer to help with accounting
By the Kansan Staff
The Student Senate has entered the computer age.
Senate officers last week began arranging the installation of a Zenith 100 computer, which will be used for accounting and word processing.
The Senate last spring allocated $10,000 of its 1984 budget of $55,163 for a computer. The Senate decided to purchase two terminals and two printers through a state contract with Zenith.
Mark Bossi, Senate treasurer, said Thursday that the new computer would make accounting easier and faster and would enable the treasurer to provide monthly reports to student organizations that the Senate financed.
The treasurer now does the accounting manually. Bossi said, and representatives of student organizations are the treasure to find out their balances.
TERRY FREDERICK, SENATE administrative assistant and a former Senate treasurer, said that several majors would design a program for the
Senate's accounting needs
Bossi said they hoped to have the computer program finished and functional by the Senate's next fiscal year, which begins July 1.
But, he said, accounting will have to be done both by hand and on the computer for at least a year in case problems with the program arise.
Frederick said that the Senate had planned to install the computer last semester, but the problems with the system made it impossible for an essential election had delayed the plans.
BOSSI SAID HE HOPED THAT after the election on Feb. 29 and March 1, the new treasurer and administrative accounting changeover to the computer.
"The computer will be a valuable tool if it is put to work," he said. Frederick said the computer also will help the treasurer make budget projections.
Each year, he said, the treasurer provides the Senate with estimates of income and expenditures based on expected enrollment figures and predicts what the treasurer has calculated the predictions manually, which takes a long time.
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Court to hear 'radio-phone' wiretap case
TOPEKA — State prosecutors will argue before the Kansas Supreme Court tomorrow that conversations on a cordless telephone picked up by a neighbor's radio should not be subject to wirestapping laws.
Timothy and Rosemarie Howard of Reno County were charged with possession of cocaine and conspiracy to sell marijuana after neighbors said they heard conversations from a neighbor who was on a wireless telephone on their clock radio.
The neighbors recorded one conversation, then told the police. They later made several tapes on a laptop in the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
THE RENO COUNTY DISTRICT Court suppressed evidence that was seized in a search of the Howards residence, saying the search was the result of an illegal telephone interception. The Howards were acquitted of the charges.
GEOPHYSICIST OR TECTONOPHYSICIST
Universitv of Kansas
KU seeks applications for a tenure-track faculty position in geophysics. Candidates should have research interests in crustal geophysics. The successful applicant will be expected to teach undergraduate and graduate geophysics courses, develop an active research program, advise students, supervise graduate student theses and dissertations, and provide service through administrative and professional activities. A Ph.D. in geology with specialization in geophysics is required although applicants who will complete the Ph.D. within the first year of employment at KU will be considered. The position is at the assistant professor level with a salary commensurate with qualifications. Although the closing date for the nationwide search has passed, the closing date for local applications is extended to Feb. 13, 1984. The starting date for the position is Aug. 16, 1984. Sand vita, transcripts, a brief statement of research interests and courses the applicant feels qualified to teach, and three letters of reference to G.H. Giry, Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045. The advertised position is contingent on continued state funding. For additional information contact G.H. Giry or phone (913) 864-4974. KU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer. Applications are sought from all qualified people regardless of race, religion, color, sex, disability, veteran status, national origin, age, or ancestry.
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JOB OPPORTUNITY 1984-85 ACADEMIC YEAR
RESIDENT ASSISTANT
Naismith Hall announces that applications for RA positions including job description and requirements are now available at the Naismith desk between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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Contact Naismith Hall at 843-8559 with any questions concerning the position.
Deadline for submitting applications is 5 p.m.Fri., Feb.24,1984
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