KU vs. K-State
Rivals meet for the 81st time
Sports, p. 16
The University Daily
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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 40 (USPS 650-640)
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Friday morning, October 14, 1983
Reagan to nominate his security adviser as interior secretary
By United Press International
"He is a God-fearing Westerner, fourth-
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that he would nominate William Clark, his national security adviser and aide, to succeed James Watt as secretary of the interior.
William Clark
generation rancher and a person I trust." Reagan said in his announcement at a meeting of evangelical Christian women. "And I think he will be a great secretary of the interior."
Reagan also paid tribute to Watt, saying Clark would be "succeeding a very fine secretary of the interior." Watt announced his resignation Sunday after controversy over his characterization of the members of an advisory panel as "a black . . . a woman, two Jews and a cripple."
REAGAN SAID CLARK, 51, was selected from more than two dozen candidates. His chief spokesman, Larry Speakes, said 22 names, including Hispanics, had been considered by Reagan aides.
In the end, Reagan chose a trusted associate — a friend and political ally who served on his staff when he was governor of California and was one of the first judges in Court in 1981 to become deputy secretary of state.
Clark, in a written statement, said he was "pleased and honored" by the nomination. "As an American who believes in our society, I pledge that if confirmed I will do all that I can to preserve and enhance our natural heritage," he said.
Watt said, "Bill Clark is a fantastically fine guy, couldn't be a better appointment. In my judgment, just a prince of a fellow. I just think 'the world of Bill.'"
THE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME as a surprise.
Speakes said Reagan consulted his top advisers
See CLARK, p. 5, col. 1
NEW ORLEANS — Firefighters battle a six-alarm fire in the French Quarter. The fire located in the 200 block of Bourbon
United Press International
St. damaged at least three buildings. No injuries have been reported. See related story p. 2
Discussion heats up on developers, site and selection method Consultant says downtown process is 'out of order' Plans debated at public hearing
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
Lawrence appears to have gotten its downtown redevelopment out of order, a city consultant said yesterday.
Teska was instrumental in developing a master plan for downtown Lawrence in 1980. As
Bruce Heckman, an executive vice president for Robert B. Teska Associates Inc., Evanton, Ill., downtown consultants for the city, said the way downtown development led the way down town development had started.
the city's downtown consultant, the company was hired to advise the city on redevelopment. But the firm has not been consulted in several months. Heckman said.
THE NORMAL PROCEDURE for downtown redevelopment, Heckman said, was to select a site, then a developer and then a plan.
But city commissioners will have to do all three of those things if they hope to meet their self-imposed deadline for choosing a developer by Tuesday.
Only two firms are being considered as developer — the local Town Center Venture Corp. and Sizezer Realty Co. In., Kenner, La.
Town Center has proposed a retail shopping center in the 600 block downtown, stretching from the alley cast of Massachusetts Street to the intersection of Massachusetts Street to be closed in the 600 block.
The Sizerel plan proposes putting a shopping mall in the 700 and 800 blocks downtown, east of Massachusetts and rerouting New Hampshire Street to the east.
IF THE CITY picks either Sizeler or Town Center Venture Corp. Tuesday as developer, they will inherit both a site and a plan, too.
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
See SIZELER, p. 5, col. 4
About 40 Lawrence residents, including many who have spoken out about downtown redevelopment in the past, debated the newest redevelopment plan last night at a public rally.
Duane Schwada and his associates from Town Center Venture Corp. showed the public their plan for a retail shopping center in the 600 block of North Third Street. The plan would close the 600 block of that street.
Schwada's group also urged the Lawrence City Commission to name Town Center the developer of record when the commission makes its decisions. Tuesday as the deadline for naming a developer.
THE CITY COMMISSION met yesterday morning with the other developer vying for the plan. The developer, Sizerler Co. Inc.
bought the property in the 700 and 800 blocks of Massachusetts Street.
At last night's hearing, Ron Holt, local architect and developer, and Lance Burr,
See HEARING, p. 5, col. 3
Charles Bolling checks on the press run of the Fort Scott Tribune. The Kansan is highlighting the Tribune today and tomorrow during the annual Editor's Day observance by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
Tribune seeks to meet needs of Fort Scott News can be sensitive in small communities, newspaper editor says
EDITOR'S NOTE: For the third consecutive year, the University Daily Kansan is publishing a profile of a Kansas newspaper as part of the William Allen White School of Journalism's annual Editor's Day program. This year the Kansan recognizes the Fort Scott Tribune.
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Tom Eblen was walking along the brick intersection of Main and First streets in Fort Scott when he heard someone shout his name. He stopped to see him, about half a block away walking toward him.
EBLEN PROCEEDED TO explain that Sen. Nancy Landon Kassbaum would be arriving in Fort Scott to give a speech. Having supplied clarification, Eblen continued to stroll down Main Street, pointing out buildings and shops that sit neatly along the downtown brick streets.
"the governor?" Eblen responded, Eblen,
editor and general manager of the Fort Scott
Tribune.
"The governor isn't coming." Eblen said after meeting the man half way. "You must mean
"Tom," the man shouted, "when is the governor coming?"
The Tribute apparently has been successful in developing that sense of community. Next year will be its 100th year of publication in the southeast Kansas town of 8,938 people. In April, the Tribute will be given by Gov. John Carlin to papers that have demonstrated outstanding community service.
From conversations on the street to answering the phone calls of concerned citizens, the editor of a small-town newspaper has to concern what Edlen described as a sense of community.
"That award meant a lot to me," said Frank E. Emery, who, along with his wife, Sara Marble Emery, became publisher in 1980. "It meant that we were on the right track."
See FT. SCOTT, p. 5, col.1
U.S. responds to Iranian threat
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Any move by Iran to restrict shipping through the strategic Strats of Hormuz would be viewed with "grave concern" by the United States, the White House said.
In another development, the Federal Aviation Administration has warned that aircraft flying over or near Iran's off-shore oil facilities in the Persian Gulf may cause fuel泄漏. From Teheran may be fired on without notice.
Iran, locked in in a three-year war with neighboring Iraq, has threatened to close the straits, through which 8 million barrels of oil are transported. The United States could cripple its Persian Gulf neighbor and enemy.
"We would view with grave concern attempts by any party to interfere with the right of passage of non-belligerent ships in international White House spokesman Larry Soakes said.
MILITARY ANALYSTS said yesterday that Iran was capable of carrying out its threat to close the straits.
Iran can both control gulf airspace and patrol the waterway with its navy, the analysts said.
"Closing the Straits of Hormuz or disrupting the transport of oil is well within Iran's capacity
as long as no third country intervenes," said one
analyst who is well versed in Persian Gulf
He said the United States would consult with its allies and governments in the region on how to respond if such action was taken.
In Baghdad, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said his air force had not taken delivery of five French Super-Etendard fighters-bombers as had American forces, which commanded that France proceed with the delivery.
HUSSEIN TOLD FRENCH journalists that the United States and Britain pressured France to delay the scheduled invasion by Elendard warplanes, seemingly because of concern about Iran's threat to close
the straits if Iraq uses the fighter-bombers
Larry Speakes, a White house spokesman, had little to say on the shipment of Super-Etendard jets to Iraq by the French government and would not say whether the United States sought to discourage the French from providing the planes.
KU/K-State rivalry subsides
By CHRISTY FISHER
Staff Reporter
There once was a time when the statue of Uncle Jimmy Green never weathered a football season without becoming the victim of a K-State prank.
Before 1950, the statue in front of Lippincott Hall never went a year without turning various shades of purple, just as many statues on the K-State campus turned crimson and blue.
Today, only yellowed newspaper clippings and outrageous tales passed down from alumni recall the days of the intense rivalry between "Snob Hill" and "Silo Tech." More than 7,000 tickets remain unsold for tomorrow's first meeting between the Wildcats and the Jayhawks.
WHAT HAPPENED TO the rivalry of
vesteryear?
No one knows for sure, but Howard Baumgartel, professor of psychology, said earlier this week that the study is one of the earliest.
intense because campus life had become more cosmolitan.
"People today seem to have a wider variety of interests." Baumgartel said.
E. Jackson Baur, professor emeritus of sociology, said he thought such rivalties worked in cycles that fluctuated with society's concerns.
"Students today seem more career-oriented. Baur said, "This reflects a seriousness in their purpose and it might mean they're less inclined to get involved with frivolous things."
BACK IN THE late 1920s and early '30s, KU and KState students found it fitting to give free public haircuts to any foe caught behind enemy lines.
But Norman Yetman, professor of sociology,
said that because today's society is more
See RIVALRY, d. 5, col. 3