The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, March 23,1983 Vol.93,No.119 USPS 650-640
Commissioners decide to stay with downtown plan
By NED STAFFORD Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission last night, after a lengthy discussion and sometimes heated comment from the public, decided to continue with a specific plan for downtown redevelopment between Massachusetts and Rhode Island streets and from Seventh to Ninth streets.
The commission unanimously approved a resolution that authorizes Sizerler Realty Co. Inc., Kenner, La., to continue as the developer of record for the redevelopment project, which is expected to involve the demolition of some buildings and the relocation of several businesses.
The commission also decided to hire an appraiser to determine the cost of buying land for the redevelopment. Only Commissioner Tom Gleason dissented on that vote.
THE PLAN, known as Scheme 4, calls for a
department store on the northeast corner of Ninth and Massachusetts streets and pedestrian walkways and stores on and around what is now New Hampshire Street. The present New Hampshire Street would be rebound to within 40 feet of Rhode Island Island.
However, the commission attached several recommendations and reservations to its approval of Scheme 4. Sizeer should address those problems, the resolution said.
The commissioners said they wanted to avoid the prospect of a shopping mall in a suburban area of Lawrence, which they would do great harm to the downtown retail market.
The city now has 60 working days to sign a so-called implementation agreement with Sizeler, which was selected in September 1982 as developer of record for the project.
THE AGREEMENT WOULD set forth the city's and Sizeler's responsibilities that would lead to a final redevelopment agreement for
construction. The final agreement would not be signed for 15 to 18 months.
The cost to Sizerel for construction of the project's buildings is expected to be $21.5 million. The cost to the city for such things as parking ramps, land acquisition and utility relocation is not yet known. Construction would not start until mid-1985, at the earliest.
THE RESOLUTION ALSO SAID that Sizeler had fulfilled its obligation under the agreement to accept the offer.
The implementation agreement would cover such topics as final architectural plans and formal negotiations with department store companies for leasing in the shopping complex. The agreement also would determine which department store would finance, and which Stapler would finance.
Two property owners who would be affected by the design told the commission that they agreed with downtown redevelopment, but said they had not been consulted on the project.
The city staff will meet April 6 with property owners of the affected area to discuss the plans.
Lance Burr, a local attorney and owner of the Dynamo Ballroom, 737 New Hampshire St., said, "All we are saying is, give us some input. I feel powerless right now."
BURR HAS PROTECTED several aspects of the city's plan for downtown redevelopment in the past, including the way that land would be condemned for the project.
He said the Sizeer plan would destroy too many buildings without consideration for future needs.
"I would like to present a plan to the
business, as is what I like. Do you
want to accept our use?"
Commissioner Barkley Clark said, "The public has been involved in this since day one."
home has been involved in this since day one. Clark said that the project was essential to Lawrence but that it had to meet with the approval of the public.
"We're going to have a basin center if we don't do anything," he said. "You better believe it."
DAVE MILLSTEIN, owner of the Carabah Dell, 803 Massachusetts St., and Sunflower Surplus, 804 Massachusetts St., told commissioners he did his part in developing a kind of development set in Fourche Suite.
"The city needs an urban developer, not a builder of enclosed mails." be said.
City Manager Buford Watson, responding to Burr's criticism that property owners were not consulted, said that the city had not known which property owners would be affected by redevelopment until the commission approved a particular plan, such as Scheme 4.
Discussion about redevelopment lasted almost two hours. Commissioner Don Binns said that work on the redevelopment should continue quickly. More modification of the proposals is unnecessary and would harm the relations between Sizeler and the city, he said.
Jobless aid threatened despite bill
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House last night approved a compromise $4.6 billion jobs bill, by rejecting a key procedure for distributing money, threatened unemployment benefits in 27 states and the District of Columbia.
The House voted 329-46 in favor of the bill — a compromise of separate bills approved by the House and Senate — but 277-132 against the targeting formula.
THE SENATE WAS expected to take up the House bill last night and either approve it or send it to the Senate.
Sending the bill back could delay final congressional approval until late today or
Included in the bill is $5 billion to revive a bankrupt federal unemployment insurance trust fund that lends money to states that lack the funds to pay jobless benefits. Twenty-seven and the District of Columbia depend on the fund, which originally was to have run dry last night.
But the Labor Department kept the fund alive and said money was available through at least $40 million.
The bill would be the first significant legislation this year aimed at overcoming the effects of 10.4 percent unemployment and an increase in housing costs, the deepest slumps since the Great Depression.
Last December, when the Democrat-controlled House proposed a similar $5 billion bill to create jobs and the Republican-led Senate threatened a veto, the measure was dropped.
THE BILL APPROVED by House and Senate negotiators late Monday would provide jobs repairing federal property from prisons to parks, and includes job retraining funds and emergency assistance for recession victims.
- $1 billion in community development grants,
with 50 percent allowed for public service work.
- More than $700 million in mostly rural water development, flood control and soil programs and $122 million for mass transit.
- A formula targeting about $2.1 billion to communities with the highest unemployment.
- $217 million in job training, $27.5 million for jobs for the elderly and $50 million in college work-study grants.
- $100 million aid to pregnant women and infants and $70 million in emergency health care.
- *$125 million to extend unemployment benefits for 10 weeks for railroad workers with less than 10 years seniority.
- $120 million in military housing construction and $150 million to weather-proof homes, schools and hospitals.
- $100 million in grants for cities to attract new businesses.
*$94 million in health, housing and education programs for Indians.
Light snow is expected today with possible accumulations of 1 to 2 inches. The high will be in the mid-30s. Winds will be from the southeast at 10 to 28 mph.
Tennight will be cloudy and cold with a chance of snow flurries. The low will be 20. Tomorrow will be cloudy and cold with a high in the upper 30s.
Bert Rowell, professor of geology, takes a break from making plate copies of thin sections of rocks. Rowell, 53, recently underwent heart surgery at the University of Kansas Medical
Center. He was one of the first participants in a new Med Center rehabilitation program for cardiac patients.
Recovery is KU explorer's next quest
By MICHAEL BECK
Staff Reporter
He rested on the bus stop bench, his arms heavy on the stacks of books at his sides.
Bert Rowell, scientist, adventurer and outdoerman, had climbed mountains and been to Antarctica. But now he was stranded, in a sort of limbo.
He later convinced himself that the pain was merely a pulled muscle, perhaps from last night.
A dull, persistent pain lingered in his chest. He felt a sense of urgency.
But a physical exam, necessary for a return
urp to Antarctica, spawned his doctor's concern. The doctor referred Rowell, who is also a KU professor of geology, to the University of Kansas Medical Center.
A CARIAC CATHETERIZATION confirmed the doctor's suspicions that Rowell, S3, had a coronary occlusion. An artery that supplies blood to the heart was clogged.
To Rowle, it made no sense. Although he smoked, he was healthy — healthier than most his age. Yet, doctors at the Med Center in December 1982 had scheduled him for a bypass operation, where an artery from his leg would replace the damaged coronary artery.
"When people think of the heart, they think of
the emotions," said Barbara Gill, a nurse at the Med Center.
Howell's wife, Margery, said. "I think have an operation on the heart would be more traumatic than on something else."
YET ROWELL SAID, "Western civilization seems to think that the heart is the source of all things.
"I guess the only thing I felt was that if something went wrong, that would be it. If they operate on your kidney, it's not so bad because you have two. You can live without one kidney. I suppose having an operation on your brain would be about the same as your heart, maybe worse."
"It's not that I'm any closer to my heart."
See ROWELL page 5
AURH victors won unfairly students say
By WARREN BRIDGES
Staff Reporter
Bob Dowdy, Coffeeville special student and the incumbent, said no details of the matter would be released until a meeting this Friday with the candidates and the AURH election committee. The time and place of the meeting have not yet been arranged, he said.
Allegations against two candidates in the recent Association of University Residence Halls election have postponed the instalment of the new president, and the incumbent was reported yesterday.
James Jeffley, one of four presidential candidates in the March 7 and 8 election, said yesterday that he had filed a complaint March 10 with the election committee, citing two violations of AURH election procedures and one violation of state law.
JEFFLEY, A KANNSA City, Kan, sophomore, said the violations included bribery, illegal electioneering practices and the possession of linor on state property by a minor.
He said his complaint charged that on March 8, Dewayne Nickerson, Raytown, Mo., sophomore, was working at an election table in Hashinger Hall, and offered a bottle of rum to Chris Bell, Shawnee junior, and Roy Vickery, Lenexa junior, in exchange for their votes for Alan Rowe, Emporia freshman, the winning presidential candidate.
Jeffley said Nickerson was Rowe's "right-hand man" during the campaign.
"Nickerson was in no official capacity to be at the table. He was seen and heard offering the brie." he said.
Nickerson said Dowdy told him not to comment on the matter. Both Vickery and Bell ordered comments.
Jeffrey that Nickerson was seated at the election table during the polling, which violated
DOWDY QUOTED AURH Campaign Procedures and Offenses as stating, "It shall be unlawful for any person to fraudulently procure ... his/her election to office by means
Dowdy would not say whether the rules were violated, but said the rules stated. "Electionering, distribution of campaign literature and participation in any polling place," is hereby prohibited."
pictures of Jeffley said that Richard Hill, one of Hashinger's security monitors, had observed the alleged bribe.
Hill, Berkeley, Mo., junior, refused to ELECTION page 5
Info job, bids unresolved
AD faces more choices
By ANDREW HARTLEY
Staff Reporter
Athletic Director Monte Johnson has more decisions facing him in the next 10 days than choosing a replacement for head basketball coach Ted Owens, who was fired Sunday.
But Johnson must also choose a new sports information director, decide whether to sell the exclusive media rights to KU football and basketball games and possibly have to answer to allegations resulting from the National Collegiate Athletics' preliminary investigation of KU athletics.
A nationwide search has begun for a new coach. Applications will be accepted for two weeks and a new coach could be named in three weeks.
JOHNSON SAID YESTERDAY that the athletic department received more than 35 applications for the position of sports information director, which Sid Wilson left Feb. 25.
Wilson is now assistant athletic director for media relations at the University of South Carolina, where he will be working for former KU athletic director Bob Marcum.
Johnson said that the application deadline was last week and that a new director could be
named next week. Interviews will take place this weekend.
The athletic director said he was pleased with the interest shown in the position and with the high quality of the applicants. He said that several of the candidates had been with the department before and that some of them were KU graduates.
Johnson said he was looking for someone who had previous experience as a sports information director and who had worked with television contracts.
WILSON, IN ADDITION to running the KU sports injury department, in was charge of recovery.
Johnson would not comment on whether the present sports information staff would be retained. The acting director is Dick O'Connor and the assistant director is Barbara Zeff.
Johnson said that the present staff did not need to be replaced and that ideally they would be removed.
Another decision facing Johnson in the next week will be whether to choose an independent radio station to broadcast KU football and basketball games during the next three years.
Although Johnson has declined to say whether Tom Hedrick, the Voice of the Jayhawks, would be retained as an announcer, a decision to sell
See OWENS page 5
Hondurans renew hostilities at Nicaraguan border station
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Nicaraguan officials claimed yesterday that Honduran troops twice fired mortars and machine guns at a base in the back an invasion by 1,200 right-wing exiles.
By United Press International
The accusation, in a foreign ministry protest note to Honduras, said that the attacks occurred late Sunday afternoon at Vado Ancho in the northwest province, about 80 miles northwest of Managua.
The note did not report any casualties.
The protest note said, "These are acts of provocation that fully correspond with interventionist and warlike plans of the government to destroy the Niracaragu revolutionary process."
The leftist government earlier nationalized the distribution of flour, sugar and cooking oil and threatened to impose marital law to help repel the exiles operating from bases in Honduras.
Sergio Ramirez Mercado, speaking for the
Police said they seized a Coca-Cola bottling plant late Monday, accusing its former Nicaraguan director, Adolfo Calyso Porocarrero, chief of the agency's Frontal de Fonquenga, of funneling money to the rebels.
nine-man Sandinista junta, said Managua may invoke "economic and social emergency laws and emergency military law."
stercarde called the invasion a "new phase of aggression" designed by the U.S. to draw Nicargara into war with Honduras and open the way to oust the Marxist-led regime.
Nicaragua, he said, "has sufficient capacity to put into practical means necessary to assure the defense of the fatherland, and through that, theater, education and volunteer organizations on by Yankee imperialism."
In Washington, the Defense Department said it bad not given any assistance to the rebels.
But congressional sources said that former guardmen of the late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza had received U.S. funds from a donor in Negroponte, U.S. ambassador to Honduras.
The sources called attention to reports that rebels had parachuted into Nicaragua.
One source said, "I don't recall the Somoza forces taking any airplanes with them when they attacked."
NICARAGUAN EXILE LEADERS in Honduras say they received money and supplies from Sumoza loyalists who fled to south Florida when the leftrist Sandinistas came to power.
See INVADE page 5