University Daily Kansan, September 30, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Law provides for training of youth, unskilled adults
The Job Training Partnership Act, which will establish training programs in Lawrence and across the United States to teach trades to youths and unskilled adults, goes into effect Oct. 1.
The act, called JTPA, is financed by the federal government. Once established, JTPA will offer both classroom and on-the-job training.
The program is specifically targeted at people who are economically disadvantaged and at people who have problems entering the labor force because they lack education.
O'Connor confirms KU speech date
Douglas County Commissioners and JTPA officials are tentatively planning a training seminar for area employers and others interested in the JTPA program. The seminar would begin at 9 a.m. on Nov. 9, and would last about 90 minutes.
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has confirmed March 5 as the date she will speak at the University of Kansas.
O'Connor's speech, part of the J. A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture series, is tentatively set for p. 8 of her recently announced yesterday. The speech will be
President Reagan named O'Connor to the Supreme Court in July 1891, she became female justice on Sept. 25, 1981, when she took the office of chief of offices.
Before her appointment, O'Connor was a judge in the Arizona Court of Appeals and a majority leader in the Arizona Senate.
NOW vice president to speak at KU
The executive vice president of the National Organization for Women will be a discussion panelist and will speak at a conference Oct. 8 at Green Hall.
Barbara Timmer, NOW vice president, will participate in a discussion on constitutional law and will deliver the closing speech of the conference. The conference, titled "Women and Law," will begin at 9 a.m.
Timmer's visit to Lawrence will mark the beginning of a membership drive by the newly revived Lawrence NOW chapter. The organization was founded in 1967 as an effort to
Expanded bus route plan is on hold
The Student Senate Transportation Committee decided at a meeting last night to wait until further figures are presented before deciding on adding additional bus service to West Campus.
Paul Buskirk, transportation chairman, said that he wanted to get a cost-benefit analysis for increasing service to the area to see whether the route would be feasible. Buskirk also questioned the effect the additional service would have on present routes.
The proposed route, which would include the area directly across from the Daisy Hill residence halls on Iowa Street, would offer service
The committee decided that if the new route was approved, it should begin next semester to avoid any conflicts which could arise by changing existing routes this semester.
ON THE RECORD
THIEVES STOLE five lug nuts and four valve stems from a car sometime between 8 p.m. Monday and 6 p.m. Tuesday from Parking Lot 125 west of Quigley Field and south of Allen Field House, KU police said. Police have not determined how the nuts and stems were removed.
BURGLARS STOLE an amplifier and other musical equipment sometime between 7:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Wednesday from the 1000 block of Ohio Street, police said. Entry was made by forcing open a window. The equipment was worth $1,500.
BURGLARS STOLE a guitar and $35 in cash sometime between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. Wednesday from the 160 block of Edgehill Road, police said. Entry was made by opening an unlocked window. The guitar, which had Roman numerals on it, was worth $175.
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Lawrence developer third to submit plans for downtown redevelopment
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
A Lawrence developer is among three directors of the newly formed Town Center Venture Corp., which entered the downtown redevelopment arena Tuesday as a third potential developer.
Duane Schwada, president of Mastercraft Corp., 1927 Moodie Road, is an interim director of the Town Center Venture Corp. The company's other two directors are "Hyllis Wolf, an architect at Mastercraft and Richard Zimp, a legal attorney."
Schwada was not available for comment yesterday.
The City Commission received a letter from Zinn Tuesday night requesting that the group have the
opportunity to present its downtown plan
Incorporation documents for the company were filed Tuesday at the Kansas secretary of state's office. The documents were filed as part of the process a company must go through to incorporate.
THE PRESENTATION IS scheduled
for Hall, Sixth
and Massentation streets.
The three directors will serve until the corporation's first annual stockholder's meeting or until successors are elected.
The corporation will issue a maximum of 100,000 shares of stock at $10 a share.
Zinn yesterday confirmed the names of the directors and the details about the formation of the corporation, but he would not elaborate further on details
TOWN CENTER IS the third group to become involved in downtown redevelopment. Sizeler Realty Co. Inc., Kenna, Lau, has been working with the City Commission since last year. In March, the commission accepted a plan to develop a shopping center between Seventh and Ninth streets, east of Massachusetts Street.
about what kind of redevelopment proposal the company would make.
Sizeler was named the developer of record for downtown redevelopment in March, but that agreement expired in July and was not renewed.
Last month the City Commission announced that it would wait until Oct. 18 before naming a new developer of record, and asked interested local developers to come forward with plans to compete with the Sizerel plan.
Woman in Kenya dies from rabies
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The victim reportedly was told at the time that she received the diploid vaccine last year that additional doses would be necessary to achieve her rabies. The additional shots, however, apparently were not given.
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