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University Daily Kansan, February 9, 1983
Industrial park backer planning new park site
By NED STAFFORD Staff Reporter
One of the promoters of the proposed industrial park site that Douglas County Commissioners voted down last week said yesterday that he was developing a proposal for a new site.
Howard Heck, a partner in the Lawrence Industrial Park Limited Partnership, said he would meet with the landowners and might be ready to present details of the new project, the commission late next week.
The new site would be slightly north of the old site, which is situated along U.S. 24-59 Highway about one and a half miles north of the Kansas Turnpike entrance in North Lawrance.
Heck said the new site would be about 350 acres and would have fewer problems than the previous site.
HECK, TERRY SUTCLIFFE and Jack Arensberg. Lawrence businessmen, had formed the limited partnership to promote and develop the 275 acres of land north of Lawrence as an industrial park. The county commission cited drainage, traffic safety and cost to taxpayers
as reasons for not allowing the city to annex the site.
Heck said the new site would answer the commissioners' concerns. Drainage from the new site would flow west into the Kansas River and not affect north Lawrence, and the park would not require a railroad crossing on U.S. 24-59 Highway.
Heck said he owned part of the land at the new site and would be working as a real estate broker with a broker firm to offer a package of land to a developer.
Heck discussed the new site before the county commission earlier this week, but commissioners said it would make valid comments about it.
"IT WAS NOT very specific material at all that he mentioned," Commissioner Nancy Hiebert said. "I'd really have to see the site before I be able to comment on it intelligently."
mongoleng. Chairman Bob Neis said, "There are still too many things up in the air."
The Lawrence City Commission sent the proposed annexation for the old site to the county commission last month for consideration. The city approved the site's approval because the site does not block Lawrence city limits.
Demand to free activist deplored by the Soviets
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union said Tuesday that Britain's demand for the release from prison of Jewish activist Anatoly Shcharansky was "blasphemous" and designed as part of an anti-Soviet campaign.
Shcharansky, 35, was convicted in 1978 of being a spy. He declared a hunger strike last fall for the right to receive letters and visitors.
British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym summoned the Soviet ambassador Monday to demand Shcharansky's immediate release on humanitarian forces.
"Are the absurd fabrications and wailing over Shcharanars's hunger strike not of those who are directly responsible for the death from hunger
of inmates of the Long Kesh concentration camp and other jails in Ulster," said the official Soviet news agency Tass, referring to Irish Republican Army prisoners who died from fasts.
IT SAID PYM pressed for Scharansky's release to "galvanize a provocative anti-Soviet campaign" to coincide with the arrival in Britain of U.S. Vice President George Bush.
Since his imprisonment, appeals from around the world have been submitted regularly to the Soviet Union and former computer specialist's release.
Shcharansky is serving a 13-year prison and labor camp sentence. His mother and brother were refused permission to visit him in early January on the grounds that he was on hunger strike.
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IN HIS REPORT to the board, he attributed the Union's problems to the economy, but said, "In general our operation is holding up surprisingly well."
Actions to accommodate the trends, such as cutbacks, will depend on revenues in January and February, he said.
Kansas Union officials say they are optimistic, despite trends of lower sales and higher costs that are affecting almost every area of the Union.
Inflation, falling sales hurt Union
At this weekend's meeting of the KU Memorial Board of Directors, the Union's governing board, the Union management reported that the first half of fiscal year 1983, which began in July, had been harder than expected over the last two years. But they said they hoped current trends downward would level off.
By JENNIFER FINE Staff Reporter
The board of directors includes KU
"It doesn't surprise us that certain problems are popping up," said Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union.
administrators, Union officials, Student Union Activities officers, alumni, students appointed by the Student Senate and faculty appointed by the Faculty Senate.
The Union bookstore's income for the first six months was up $6,688 from last year, largely because of an increase in the volume of sales.
He said SUA hoped to increase attendance at the films this semester by showing more popular commercial films.
Although the bookstore books and KU concessions did well in the period from July to December 1882, the food department; building, maintenance and administration; recreation; and SUA suffered losses.
FERGUSON SAID the food department was not having one of its better years because of a decrease in staff and management within the department.
According to the financial report, the food service lost about $9,850 for the first six months compared to a $14,753 profit for the same period last year.
Ferguson told the board of the financial status of each Union department: KU concessions; food; recreation; building, maintenance and administration; the bookstores and Student Union Activities.
The report stated that food service
Sales volume for the total Union operations has increased by about 3.7 percent, while last year it increased 6.9 percent and declined about 33,600 from last year.
The recreation department, which includes Jawbow and video games, had higher sales, but high one-time costs and promotion caused a loss of $4,849.
The building, maintenance and administration department, which includes utilities, insurance, repairs, and supplies, had a greater loss than last year. The reason said for the loss was not unacceptable because of variances in utility bills.
was not expected to break even for the fiscal year.
THE DEPARTMENT has a loss of $41,607, compared to $23,904 at the end of the first six months of the 1981-82 fiscal year.
SALES IN KU concessions were up 19.4 percent over last year and expenses were down 2.4 percent, causing the net income to be up by about $23,900. Last year at this time, income was down by about $22,000.
SUA had a loss of $23,729 the first half of the fiscal year, compared to $3,477 last year, and it is not expected to meet its fiscal year budget.
In other business, a resolution was read naming the Satellite Union the Frank B. Burge Union in honor of the former Kansas Union director who
Harvey Rudy, treasurer of SUA, also said that SUA was feeling the effects of economy, adding that entertainment and radio to be given up in tough economic times.
The board also unanimously approved a recommendation that a petition to ban the sale of magazines considered to be "pornographic" be denied because no city, state, or local law was being violated, and the sale of the magazines was similar to other retail operations.
He said that SUA films had suffered the most because of competition from University Film Series and Home Box Office, forcing the number of films to
be reduced the equivalent of one film a week.
Also, the magazines on sale at the Union are displayed so that little of their covers show.
Addition of Malone lowers judicial load
By DON HENRY Staff Reporter
The case load on Douglas County District Court judges has decreased since Mike Malone was appointed as an additional district court judge last year, Judge James W. Paddock said yesterday.
"He's helped a lot," Paddock said. "Our back-ups have definitely lessened.
"Overall, court cases are becoming more manageable."
Since Malone's appointment in July, the number of cases each district court judge hears each month has dropped from 112 to 95 cases, according to statistics released yesterday by the Douglas County District Court. These figures do not include traffic violations.
"THE COURT WAS clearly overburdened before," Malone said. "I don't know how they heard the cases.
"There used to be a four- to five-month wait in civil cases. Now it's
It is important to hear cases promptly, Malone said, because witnesses sometimes forget important facts when a case is delayed.
Malone said the main benefit of lessening the court load was that cases were handled more efficiently.
Before he was appointed, Malone said, certain criminal cases were delayed almost to the point of violating laws guaranteeing a speedy trial.
"Some cases were heard the day before the limit." he said.
PADDOCK SAID the reduction in the number of cases each judge heard had allowed judges to write opinions more
carefully in cases that required them.
Malone said, "What irks me most about the heavy case load is that I don't have enough time to write opinions. I am not going to wait two months to get a decision."
carefully in cases that required them. But he said some of the cases have the imperative opinions.
Paddock said Kansas law required that judges' opinions be completed within 90 days after the case was heard.
Paddock said he wrote most of his opinions at home on weekends.
Judges spend most of their time on cases out of court during pre-trial proceedings.
the tip of the iceberg," he said.
Satnae said he was hearing all the limited civil cases — those involving less than $500 — and had succeeded in decreasing the backlog.
"HEARING THE case in court is just
Paddock said he didn't think the court would require another judge.
According to court statistics, the number of criminal cases rose dramatically from 1891 to 1892, from 766 in the first year to 903 in the last in months of 1892.
Malone is now hearing cases in a courtroom that has room for only a small audience and no jury box, Paddock said. He will eventually move to the basement where a courtroom will be built soon.