The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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KANSAN
Monday, February 14, 1983
Vol. 93, No. 97 USPS 650-640
Colleges debating JuCo bill
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
Community college administrators are up in arms about a bill introduced in the Kansas Senate Friday that would put their schools under the control of the Board of Regents.
However, regents and other officials seem content to let the Legislature decide on the position.
"No, we don't think we ought to go under Board of Regents control," said Edwin Walbourn, director of the Kansas Association of Community Health in Topeka. "We have opposed it, and opposed to it, so opposed to it."
Wayne McElroy, president of Fort Scott Community College, said he thought the present governing system, in which the State Board of Education supervised community colleges, worked well.
"IT HAS WORKED very effectively over the past several years," McElroy said. "I'm not sure what would be gained by switching over."
The bill, introduced by State Sen. Paul Hesl, R-Wichita, would affect 19 community colleges and some vocational technical schools. Haskell Indian Junior College, the Bureau of Education, would not be affected.
Walbourn said the individual needs and special programs of each community college might be different.
Community colleges are governed by boards of trustees, he said, who know more than the college administrators.
HESS, CHARMAN of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said the bill would allow the Legislature to review the budgets of community colleges the same way it examined Regents
Placing community colleges under the control of the Regents would also be a step toward a more centralized system of governing state colleges, he said.
Hess said he thought Walbourn was over reacting to the proposal.
Community colleges receive one-third of their support from the state, he said, and should be under the same scrutiny as other state-supported institutions.
Reaching to the proposal
"I think that's scare talk" he said.
See JUCO page 5
Robin Comp, Fort Wayne, Ind., junior, holds the phone while messages over the telephone. The group does this to raise money for members of the Music Therapy Association sing Valentine's Day the Related Arts Therapy Symposium, scheduled for March.
Today will be mostly cloudy with a high in the mid to upper 40s. Winds will be from the northwest.
Tonight will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain and a low in the mid- to
GILBERT GREEN, spokesman for a local chapter of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees, said that Congress was urging the shortage in funds for Social Security benefits.
Employer and employee contributions to Social Security went into the government's general fund instead of a separate trust fund. Employers must contribute $500 to the general fund to cover benefit payments.
More than 100 people out for Slattery's forum at Washburn University. Many were retired federal employees protesting the government's influx of federal employees into the Social Security system.
Slattery urges cooperation on OASDI
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
"Our country is facing the most perilous economic times since the Great Depression," he said. "We're all in that big boat together. I don't care whether you're 62 or 82."
Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kansas, Saturday urged those attending a Topeka forum on Social Security issues to rise above single-issue politics.
Slattery is chairman of a task force established by freshman Democrats to develop policy
He said that interest derived from investing Social Security funds in government securities
Owners watch Kaw take land, farmhouse
By DAVID SWAFFORD
Staff Reporter
Ten years ago, drivers on Douglas County Road 34, about two and one-half miles northeast of Eudora, would have seen some of the richest farmland in the county.
Today, the land and the road are gone
But William Johnson, associate professor of geography, disagrees with the bridge theory.
The Kansas River has washed about 100 acres of what local residents call the Weaver Peninsula, at val at about $1,600 an acre down the river. It was officially closed by the county on Oct. 28.
"A lot of people think that the land north of Lawrence was too rich to build an industrial park on so they haven't built on it, but this land is prime farmland and nothing is being done to save it," said Eugene Haley, who owns 230 acres adjacent to the river.
EXPERTS HAVE several theories for the erosion.
Wakefield Dort, professor of geology, said that the acute erosion, which is the worst case anywhere on the river, could be caused by the added current of the Wakarau River which empties into the Kansas River about a quarter of a mile up from the bend.
Another theory for the erosion is the "bridge theory." In 1964, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a concrete bridge over the Wakara River north of Euburia. The bridge's construction involved excavation in the Wakara's speed, Dori said, giving the river added eroding strength at the bend.
saying that the bridge's columns could not cause that much anitation in the river.
Johnson said the companies excavating between Bonner Springs and Topeka could be causing the problem. His theory is that the more water he pours, the pump pull from the river, the faster the river flows.
DORT AND JOHNSON, who have been researching the problem at the Eudora bend.
After the rain rains, Dort said, the Corps opens the dam gates at Clinton to keep the Kansas River from flowing more than two-thirds full. That controlled level of water going into the Kansas River every spring may be a cause of erosion at the Eudora bend, he said.
have not ruled out Clinton Reservior as a cause of the erosion.
Taxes stay as land goes downstream
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER
Staff Reporter
William Lothbite is paying taxes on land that has wasted into the Kansas River. But by asking to have his land reassessed periodically, he pays a nominal tax on the eroded land.
However, other riverfront landowners are paving high taxes on their eroded land.
Lothbolt owes about 130 acres along the river in Douglas County, about two miles northeast of Eudora on the Weaver Peninsula. The peninsula is experiencing the worst erosion seen on the river in the last 15 years. Lothbolt has lost to 60 to 90 acres to the river.
He is paying a nominal tax on the land that washed away so that he will own the land if the water recedes.
ABOUT THREE YEARS ago Lothholz lost an old farmhouse to the river.
stop it." The land on the peninsula is worth about $1,500 an acre.
"There's nothing else you can do." Lotholz said. "It doesn't warrant the expense to try to
Lothholz has met with the county tax appraiser four times in the last nine years to have his property reassessed.
In the past 18 months, the river has worked its way up to property owned by Eugene Haley and Wayne Hairy. Neither have had their property registered and hold full taxes on property that has eroded away.
Normally the county tax appraiser would make no move to correct the situation unless contacted by the landowner. About every five years the appraisal office reissues riverfront acres for conservation Service to get an accurate report on how many acres have eroded into the river.
"WE HAVE A limited staff and we can't afford to spend the taxpayers' money to check the river every year," said Don Gordon, Douglas County tax appraiser.
"If someone wants it, done more often they
"If it gets into the old creek channel, you might as well kiss the whole Weser peninsula goodbye."
Still, the Kansas River continues to eat away at the land. Bend farmers said the clump of water is inundating the area.
Both professors said, however, that the erosion at the bend had started before Clinton was built.
WILLIAM LOTHIOLTZ, another landowner at the Eudora bend, has lost about 30 acres, including an old farmhouse, to the Kansas River.
He said he had tried to divert the river, but stopped trying.
"The Corps and the Water Resources Board of Kansas are now in charge of the river," he said. "You can't do anything to the bank now without their permission.
"We used to dump rock and put car bodies out there and cable them together. It would work pretty well if the river was high enough. But the river was low a few years ago when they took control of the river.
"Now we aren't able to do anything to the bank except watch it erode."
"THEY SHOULD have built bank stabilization along with the reservoirs, but they didn't," he said. "We were just going to try."
Lotholz thought that the reservoirs the Corps built near the Kansas River during the past century would be safe.
He said that after the rain springs, the Corps opened the d闸 gate of area reservoirs to lower the water level.
"When they keep the rivers at that level, it just erodes the dickens out of the banks," he said.
and that his land had suffered most
See ERIOSION page 5
After 19 years, Beatles still stir strong memories
By JIM BOLE
Staff Reporter
John, Paul, George and Ringo were in their 208.
Vietnam, civil rights. Lee Harvey Oswald and Guantanamo Bay filled the front pages.
It was February 1964, the month the Beatles came to America. They flew across the Atlantic and into the hearts of Americans like no other group of musicians ever had.
But the Beatles brought more than long hair,
British accents and "I Want to Hold Your Hand." They left a mark on American culture that endures even now, 19 years later.
The Beatles are still popular. "She Loves You"
still blasts over the radio. People still buy
Beatles' albums. They still have fans.
FEB. 9, 1964. The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show and draw 60 percent of the U.S. viewing audience. Seventy million Americans see the British group that would soon have the
1964. He has almost all the Beatles' records, he said.
"The Beatles were the last effective musical statement that the U.S. has had," he said.
He said they were significant because they captured the nation's imagination and changed culture.
"They were a good way of rebelling," he said. He said he let his hair grow like the Beatles when he was in high school, and some (football players) tried to hold him down and cut his hair
FEB. 11, 1964 The Beatles bring 10 inches of snow and take a train from New York to
Illustration by Bill Hosford
Monday Morning
Alan Luecken taught a course titled "Rock and Roll History" from 1979 to 1981 when he was a graduate student at KU. He, too, has almost every record made by the Beatles.
Washington, D.C., to give their fist, public concert in the United States. Seven thousand screaming teenagers cram into the Washington Coliseum to hear them. Bumper stickers proclaiming "The Beats Are Coming" adorn telephone poles, cars, and bathroom walls.
He said the Beatles were the most important band of their era because their music was well-crafted and featured many different musical styles.
He said the Beatles were important to the generation that now has many members in the
He remembers hearing the Bastiles on the radio when they first hit the United States.
"It was fresh and full of energy; it outstripped anything else on the air," he said.
FEB. 12, 1964. The Beatles perform at Carnegie Hall before 2, 000 fans, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono. (AP)
Tom Gleason, Lawrence city commissioner; was 16 in 1964. He saw the Beaties in August 1965.
The Beatles came at the urging of Charles Finley, who then owned the Kansas City Athletics. He paid the band $150,000 to play at Municipal Stadium.
"There was so much screaming, it was hard to hear the band." he said.
Gleason said on the back of his ticket was the slogan, "Today's Beatle fan is tomorrow's."
GLEASON, WHO was a drummer in several rock 'n' roll bands in college, said many factors combined to make the Beatles great.
"They were like friends we never met," he said.
The Beatles came to America with a bang. Everyone in the United States was swept up in bealemania. They joined fan clubs, saw Beatles films and bought albums, T-shirts, buttons and caps.
In May 1970 the Beatles released their last album and film, both titled "Let It Be."
"All Together Now," a Beatles discography, lists hundreds of Beatles recordings, legal and boottet, albums and singles; 22 films; and a bookshop display. The discs, sales,disc histories and commemorations
They had 38 gold albums, more than any other group.
LEE, OF KLWN, who is now 36, said post-Beatle generations were not as devoted to music as his generation was.
Current music, he said, "does not make a statement or reflect today's generation, it only reflects what we're doing."
Because now radio stations are directed to narrow audience groups, Lee said, a band like The Beatles would be more successful.
Gleason, who left drumming for a law practice and city politics, said the Beatles were at the right place at the right time, and that the likelihood of another band matching them was
East digs out after blizzard; 65 people die
By United Press International
The sun helped East Coast cities yesterday begin the multimillion dollar chore, of clearing tens of snow from a blizzard that killed at least 65 people in Arkansas. It was the resion's worst storm in 40 years.
Cleanup along the coast was aided by sunshine that slowly melted the top layer of snow, which
off the Virginia coast, the Coast Guard called off a fittle search yesterday for nine of the 33 crewmen from a coal ship. They died when the vessel capsized early Saturday in a gale that kicked up 12 to 15-foot seas. Only three crewmen escaped.
The massive shoveling was expected to cost many millions of dollars, officials said. Hard-hit New York City prepared for yet another storm on Monday, with a weather service predicted a possible snowstorm for tonight.
COAST GUARD crews aboard rescue vessels scanned the frigid waters with spotlights throughout the dark, early morning hours, then called in another helicopter at dawn.
"We are suspending the search," Petty Officer Barbara Smith said yesterday afternoon. "We will continue."
Twenty-four bodies were recovered Saturday, but by yesterday rescues had given up hope of finding survivors and were just looking for bodies floating in the choppy waters.
The 655-cell Marine Electric, loaded with 27,000 tons of coal and 147,000 gallons of fuel, was purchased from the US government.
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