University Daily Kansan, October 5, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Elections for Hope finalists to be today and tomorrow
The senior class will hold elections today and tomorrow to choose five finalists from a field of 11 semi-finalists for the 1983 Hope Award.
Polls will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and will be located at Fraser and Summerfield Halls, the Kansas Union, and on the 4th floor and front steps of Wescoe Hall.
Another election will be held Oct. 11 and 12 to decide the award winner.
The recipient will be announced at the KU-Colorado football game Nov. 5.
The purpose of the fair, she said, is to prepare students for the advising period in mid- or late October.
The University of Kansas will have its first Academic Fair today, in which representatives from KU's schools and departments will be available to answer questions that students might have about majors and academic requirements.
The fair, sponsored by the office of academic affairs, will start today at 10:30 a.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom and in parlors A, B, and C, and will end at 2:30 p.m.
Representatives from every department and school will be available to answer questions about majors, academic requirements, course prerequisites, electives and anything else students might want to know before seeing advisers for pre-enrollment.
"The fair is like a talking catalog," Carol Lessler, of the office of University Relations, said yesterday.
With the aid of an interpreter, Petro Gryogrenko will give a public address titled, "Stalin's Policy in the Ukraine in the 1930s and the Holocaust: A Personal Perspective."
First Academic Fair is set for today
Soviet ex-general to speak tonight
Grygorenko was stripped of his citizenship in 1978 following numerous protests against the Soviet government and was granted political asylum in the United States.
A former Soviet general who was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1978 for dissident activities will speak at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
asylum in the United States The program is sponsored by the Maria Palij Memorial Fund, which is administered by the department of history and the Soviet and East European studies program.
Search for woman in river resumes
LEAVENWORTH — The Coast Guard resumed its search yesterday for a 20-year-old North Carolina woman who fell in the Missouri River.
A Coast Guard spokesman said boats would search along the riverbank as far south as Parkville, Mo. a distance of 20 miles, for suspicious objects.
Meighan and a male friend fell into the water from a boat dock at Leavenworth's riverfront park about 4:30 a.m. Monday, Police Capt. Mitch Boyle said.
Meighan and a group of friends had gone to the park following a going-away party that had been held in her honor. She was in Leavenworth to help open a new pizza franchise.
The Coast Guard spokesman said officials were not optimistic about the woman's survival since she could not swim. He said her chances would be slim after three hours in the 60-degree water.
Ten to vie for freshman presidency
Ten students will have their names on the ballot for freshman class president in an election today and tomorrow.
Frank Bucero, Board of Class Officers president, said polls for the election would be in Robinson Center and Fraser Hall, in front of and on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union, in the front of Wescoe Hall.
The students running for freshman class president are: Curt Baxter, Salina; Randy Bryson, Overland Park; David Epstein, Prairie Village; John Fewlury, Tonganoxie; Mark Hanna, Kansas City; F. David Kowal, Tonganoxie; Matt Meyers, Kansas City; Kan; and Leonard Wesley, Wichita.
Sophomore class officers will run the election
State Farmland refinery to reopen
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Farmland Industries, Inc., today announced plans to reopen a north central Kansas refinery in Phillipsburg, creating jobs for about 40 people at the facility, which has been closed since last October.
The plant reopening resulted from an agreement between Farmland and Tamko Asphalt Products, Joplin, Mojin., said Kenneth M. Harrald, of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture.
Tamko operates a rooftop shingle plant in Phillipsburg, a community of more than 3,000 people about 60 miles north of Hays.
The Phillipsburg plant is scheduled to reopen Jan. 1 but will operate at less than full capacity levels.
Nominations open for faculty award
Nominations for the 1983 Chancellors Club Career Teaching Award, to be presented at the Nov. 19 Homecoming football game, are now being accepted.
acceptance. The $5,000 award is designed to recognize contributions made to the University by faculty members who have served the University for 15 or more years.
Students, faculty and alumni may submit nominations to the office of the vice chancellor of academic affairs by Nov. 4.
Resumes and departmental and school endorsements should accompany nominations if possible. Nominations still on file from last year may be reactivated by a letter of request and new supporting information may be added.
ON THE RECORD
ABOUT $100 WAS STOLEN sometime between 6 p.m. Friday and noon Monday from a locked office on the third floor of the Kansas Union. Entry to the room was made with either a pry tool or a key, KU police said.
AN AMFM CASSETTE PORTABLE RADIO and a tennis racket were stolen sometime between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. Friday from a car parked in the 1600 block of West 23rd Street, police said. Entry was made by forcing open the passenger door. The radio was worth $300 and the racket was worth $200.
POLICE SAID THE REAR WINDOW of a car was smashed sometime between 11:35 p.m. Sunday and 4:30 p.m. Monday in Parking Lot 102 west of Lewis Hall. The damage was estimated at $250.
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Carlin delays Orient trip; may attend conference
By United Press International
each of the two major wire services interviewed Carlin jointly for 20 minutes. Carlin said his biggest disappointment was that he had to postpone his China trip, but he stressed that he committed to eventually making the trip.
TOPERA—Gov. John Carlin may be able to participate in the Midwestern Governors' Conference this weekend, but vetoes the plan. The governor's week trip to Japan and China
Philip Baker, the governor's attending physician, told reporters at a hospital briefing that Carlin was being treated with antibiotics to help he heal his broken vertebrae.
"The governor is doing very fine this morning," Baker said. "He had a very restful night."
LATER, ONE REPORTER from
Baker said that from a medical standpoint, he was able to make up for the loss for Eakdin after six years.
He said that if Carlin was com-
able in the next few days, he should be able to participate to some degree in the Midwestern Governors Conference in Lawrence this weekend. But the
ship up now, he said, would be too painful
"That's a little bit more involved," Baker said.
Baker also said he did not know how
long Carlin would have to remain in the hospital, but said he might know by Thursday.
Carlin, who is taking oral medication, was in good spirits and was making the best of his situation. Baker said. The doctor, who expects full recovery for the governor, also said the governor's "excellent condition" was making his recovery easier. His fracture should heal in four to eight weeks. Baker said.
FIRST LADY KAREN Carlin, walking with a cane and a bandaged ankle from her own injuries in the accident, conducted a news conference and said that sitting would be toughest for the governor.
"He's not an easy person to keep down," she said.
For at least the next couple of days,
Carlin will run the state from his bed on the eighth floor of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Topeka, where a block of rooms has been reserved for him and more medical assistants, Shirley Allen, who also was injured in the accident.
Carlin and Allen were injured last Thursday just outside Washington, D.C. in a taxicab accident while on their way to National Airport. Both had arm injuries that required for orthopedics and Rehabilitation in Arlington, Va., since Thursday.
Also in the taxi were Mrs. Carlin and a security guard, George Bruce. Bruce returned to Kansas last week and Mrs. Carlin accompanied her husband and Allen Monday. Neither Bruce nor Mrs. Carlin suffered serious injuries.
Chamber urges change in downtown redevelopment agenda
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce yesterday urged the Lawrence City Commission to adjust its timetable for downtown redevelopment.
In a letter, the Chamber of Commerce asked the City Commission to approve a plan for downtown redevelopment on Oct. 18 as scheduled.
But the Chamber of Commerce also requested that the City Commission delay plans to establish a special benefit tax district involving downtown property owners in December. The chamber also asked for a delay of a public referendum scheduled for February.
Jacobs said that the Chamber of Commerce made the suggestion because the Chamber board of directors thought that there was not adequate time to develop the information and present it to the public so that the voters could make an "educated decision" on downtown redevelopment.
Longhurst also said that the schedule was flexible enough so that the commission would not make a decision
Mayor David Longhurst said he was sympathetic to the chamber's request, but said the City Commission would not alter its time schedule.
JOEL JACOBS, PRESIDENT of the chamber, said it would be "overly aggressive" to expect that the necessary information would be available then, and he requested that the City Commission set later dates.
unless it was sure it was right, and that changes could be made in the schedule as needed.
Jacobs pointed out that December was the busiest time of the year for downtown merchants, and said that it would be difficult for them to deal with establishing a benefit tax district until later.
INCLUDED IN JACOBS' list of necessary information is the total cost of the project, the additional property taxes needed, the bounds of the benefit tax district and the additional cost to taxpayers.
Jacobs suggested either May or June as a good time for the referendum.
In the letter, the Chamber of Commerce also said it continued to support the concept of downtown
redevelopment and the City Commission's effort.
ON OCT. 18, the City Commission is supposed to select a developer of record for the redevelopment project. Sizeler Realty Co Inc., Kenner, La., maintained that position from March to July in the effort to work with the city on a downtown plan.
The city has also received a proposal for downtown redevelopment from local developer Ron Holt and Steve Clark, a local real estate agent. The two have proposed development in the 600 block of New Hampshire along the Kansas River.
At 11 a.m. tomorrow the city will look at another proposal for downtown development from a group of developers in Washington, DC, president of Mastercraft Corp.