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University Daily Kansan, August 18, 1983
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Topped tower heads KU summer news
With most students absent from the University of Kansas this summer, a flurry of news events unfolded in Lawrence that affected the city and University.
In July, the Board of Regents approved $253,000 for planning and building a library near KU's Military Science building.
In addition, the Regents allocated $200,000 for acquisitions for Watson and Green libraries.
The Regents also approved a request for a $2.5 million increase in salaries and fringe benefits for faculty members at Regents schools.
KANU TUNED OUT at the beginning of the summer when its temporary tower, installed after vandals sabotaged it, collapsed. In the spring, topped on West Campus.
On May 24, a portable crane attached to a construction truck on the tower site hit a guy wire that supported the crane. The crane collapsed at KAMU, off the air for three days.
Brad Dick, director of operations, said he did not know when a new permanent tower would be in operation.
KANU is now using a tower borrowed from KCUR, the public station of the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
In addition to the collapse of the temporary tower, the station nearly found itself with large programming holes. National Public Radio, KANU's affiliate network, came within one day of disbanding in mid-July.
A last-minute agreement and loan from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting put NPR on the air. The loan is for $8.5 million.
THE K.S. "BOOTS" ADAMS Alumni Center opened June 27 at 13th and Oread streets, providing larger headquarters for the University of Kansas Alumni Association. A private club open to members of the association who have paid annual user fees will open this month.
IN AN EFFORT to settle a dispute at Pittsburg State University, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled July 16 that the Regents must negotiate with faculty unions about salaries and working conditions.
The court said the Regents could not delegate its responsibility as the public employer of faculty members to university administrators.
Regents negotiations include tenure, salaries, out-of-state travel, promotions and employee access to personnel files, the court said.
Lawrence police and courts kept the beat on crime this summer.
STEVE MCMURRY, former director of KU on Wheels, was sentenced to prison for embezzlement of the bus system's funds.
McMurry pleaded no contest on June to five counts of theft. A Douglas County District Court judge sentenced McMurry on July 10 to eight to 20 years in prison and ordered him to pay $257,061 in restitution to the University.
A 27-YEAR-OLD Lawrence man was ordered Monday to stand trial Sept. 19 in connection with the beating death of Harry Puckett, 94, on or about June 25.
James Chadwick Fourhorn, 824 Arkansas St., has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated burglary.
burgary. Puckett's body was found by his grandson's wife at his home, 1109 Delaware St., on June 25.
DELIVERY IN CITY NEWS, the Lawrence City Commission continued to wrestle with plans for a downtown shopping mall and finally decided to let the developer proceed with planning for the project
The commission authorized Mayor David Longhurst to sign an agreement July 26 that would allow the developer of the proposed downtown shopping mall, Sizerle Realty Co. of Kenner, La., to proceed with planning.
The agreement runs for six months and commits the city to prepare an estimate of costs of necessary capital improvements and to prepare a plan to finance them. The agreement also allows the city to prepare a plan to acquire buildings that would be torn down to make room for a mall.
DOUGLAS COUNTY swettered through its driest summer since 1931, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Only 25 inches of rain, 4.5 inches below normal, fell in the most rainfall has amounted to 51 inches.
Lawrence's highest temperature was 103 degrees on July 27.
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