University Daily Kansan, January 31, 1984 Page 5
CAMPUS AND AREA
Local jobs are panel's top goal
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
The Lawrence Economic Task Force yesterday made replacing jobs lost in Douglas County since 1880 its top economy, proving the city's economic growth.
The task force plans to prepare a report outlining the specifics of the 10 economic goals it has for Lawrence. The report has been completed sometime in February.
Task force members will research each goal during the next two weeks and submit individual reports to Mike Ammy, task force chairman.
TONY REDWOOD, director of the Institute of Economic and Business Research at the University of Kansas, with other members of the task force, will compile the individual reports into a final report. The final report will be submitted at the next task force meeting.
The first goal is to replace jobs lost in the city and county since 1980. According to the Kansas Job Service Center, Douglas County has lost 1,400 jobs since 2005. The state's law on Lawrence and Douglas County provided about 700-900 new jobs a year.
The second goal is to add an average of $5 million each year to Lawrence's existing property tax base. From 1969 to 1979, the assessed value of all properties in the county increased 4 percent, and the property mill tax levied increased only 4 percent, from 102.97
mills to 106.99 mills.
A mill is 1 aft in taxes for every $1,000 of assessed property valuation.
SINCE 1989, the assessed value increased 8.5 percent, and the mill levy had to be increased 19.5 percent to finance schools and local government
The third goal is to develop high-technology industry in the city. The task force plans to do by stimulating development of a research and research park and encouraging locally based entrepreneurship.
The fourth goal is to work on a rail-served industrial park. Sites now under consideration by the Chamber of Commerce for such a park include a 300-acre tract northwest of Lawrence and a 90-acre area southwest of the 80-acre site adjacent to the Santa Fe Industrial Park, north of Highway 40 on Iowa Street.
The fifth priority of the task force is development of the Lawrence airport in North Lawrence. City Commissioner and task force member Ernest Angio suggested that the group begin work on plans for a new or improved building, and that it begin work to improve the maintenance and hangar buildings.
THE SIXTH GOAL is to improve transportation in Lawrence. Present transportation improvement plans include extending 15th Street east to Wakarusa Drive and widening it to four lanes, improving North Second Street and building an interchange to Lecompton.
The seventh goal is to continue working with KU and local businessmen to finance a new economic development marketing program recently started by the city, the county, KU and the Chamber of Commerce.
The eight goal is to provide assistance to new and existing businesses in Lawrence. The task force did not meet this priority at its meeting yesterday.
The ninth priority is to have vocational education facilities to train employees for industrial jobs. Ken Fisher, assistant superintendent of Lawrence schools and a task force member, suggested using vocational facilities at Haskel Indian Junior College and at Lawrence High School.
The 10th goal of the task force is to continue development of human resources in the city, and to support cultural and arts activities.
IN ITS REPORT, the task force will include an appendix on available financing to businesses. The group decided to wait until after tonight's City Commission meeting to discuss its policy on granting Industrial Revenue Bonds, one tool a business can use for economic development.
Gary Toebben, executive director of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said that he thought the city's support of new and existing businesses was as important as the money it provided them.
"We all know that the industrial park is not going to take off unless the city supports it," he said.
Quiz bowl popular once again at KU
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Eight college students sit behind a long, curved table, staring intently at the moderator. They have their fingers firmly placed on a buzzer, ready to answer a question before their opponents.
James Seaver, professor of history and director of the department of Western Civilization, is the object of their attention.
"Name the first two people to appear on a United States postage stamp," he88.
"Time's up." Seaver said. "The Ben Franklin is George Washington and Ben Frankl."
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THE EIGHT STUDENTS stare at each other with smiles on their faces,
The room erupts in a loud series of moans and laughs as several players strike the floor.
The students were participating in the first round of the 15th Annual
Kansas. Lambda Sigma, a sophomore honor society, and Student Union Activities sponsors the national contest.
During the 1950s, colleges around the country participated in bowls that were televised nationally. Seaver moderated the popular game and, in 1960, brought up KU team to go to New York to play a national version of the College Quiz Bowl.
But following the demise of the quiz bowl telecasts in the early 60s, the game has become a staple.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, SUA revived the game of academic trivia, and today the game seems to have reestablished its popularity at KU.
Forty teams are participating in this year's bowl — the second largest turnout in KU quiz bowl history. Following the championship round on Thursday, the winning team will go to Kansas City for Feb. 3 and 4, in Warrenburg, Mo.
The date of the national tournament has not been determined yet.
"The bowl is a good form of
immunology for opposed to the usual
form for bakeware."
as a social function in various campus living groups.
"In the 50s, we competed for national prizes and went through very elaborate preparation for the victory," the 65-year-old Los Angeles native said. "The games generate out of the houses and dorms, and it is a lot more fun."
But the spirit of competition still exists.
Seaver attributed this year's high turnout to the resurgence of the game
Teams score 10 points by being the first to correctly answer a toss-up question. The team that wins the throwback team has the chance to win 30 to 40 bonus points.
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The questions deal with a variety of topics, including religion, American history, and social issues.
"It's an intellectual game to show exactly what you know," Seaver said. "Even I have a tough time answering some of these questions."
"It's a little like teaching the Socratic method of question and answer, but a lot more complex."
A construction worker casts an afternoon silhouette upon Malott Hall. He was working on the addition to Haworth Hall yesterday.
Minister protests Reagan nominee
By LORI DODGI Staff Reporter
A Topeka preacher, who last week filed a lawsuit in protest to President Reagan's appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican City, said yesterday he wouldn't have filed the suit unless he thought he could win.
Fred Phelps Sr., a Topeka lawyer and Baptist preacher, filed the lawsuit asking a federal court to stop President Reagan from re-establishing full diplomatic relations with the Vatican. He said a recent action violated the First Amendment.
Phelps, who filed the suit in U.S. District Court Wednesday, named Reagan and William Wilson, both dacomine to the Vatican, as defendants.
Phelps said Friday that the Holy See was nothing but a thousand or so bachelors with titles of monks, priests, bishons and cardinals.
But the Rev. Vince Krische of the Saint Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road, said yesterday that Phelps was out of bounds in his
THE SUT ARGUES that the Holy See, the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church in Vatican City, is not a foreign government but an established church and that Reagan cannot legitimately appoint an ambassador there without violating the constitutional separation of church and state.
“It’s a suit that he filled mis- understanding what the Vatican is and the relationship it has with the United States,” he said.
charges.
Krische said that the Vatican had been an internationally recognized sovereign state since 1929. It even has its own postal system. He said many nations have diplomatic relations with the Vatican.
PHIELS SAID NO U.S. president had tried to set up diplomatic badges.
"He's tearing up the fabric of precedent," Pheips said of Reagan.
Phelps also said that Reagan's action not only was in violation of the First Amendment but was politically motivated as well.
He said that Reagan was trying to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican in order to "to utilize the good offices of the Holy See and the personal, charismatic activities of the present pope to help Reagan in effectuating his foreign policy, and to curry favor with about 25 million American voters who happen to be members of that particular church."
THE POFE WOULD be helpful to Reagan in dealing with the Palestine Liberation Organization and some Arab nations, Phelps said, and that would be advantageous to the incumbent president.
Krische agreed with Phelps that appointing an ambassador to the Holy
See would be advantageous to the United States because of the inter
But Krische said that he did not think the president was trying to get more
He said the president was only trying to make the good relationship the United States has had with the Holy See more official.
"Hopefully the establishment of the ambassador will assist in building a better world in the areas of peace and justice and economic stability, especially for underdeveloped nations." Krische said.
Phelps said Reagan's action also favored one religion over another because the government had never supported romantic relations with any other church.
"HE HASN'T TRIED to set up diplomatic relations with me," said Phelips, a preacher for the last 28 years at Westbrook Baptist Church in Topeka.
Phelps, a civil rights lawyer, was disbarred by the Kansas Supreme Court in 2015 on the ground that he was accused of a perjury vendetta against a court stenographer.
The suit asks the court to declare Reagan's action in violation of the First Amendment, issue an injunction preventing the establishment of full diplomatic relations with the Vatican and award Phelps the costs of the suit and any other relief the court deems appropriate.
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