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Wednesday, August 31, 1988 / University Daliv Kansan
This house at 1106 Rhode Island is being considered for inclusion in the state historic register, despite opposition from its present owners.
House offered historic status
Owners refuse membership because of building restrictions
By Janell Good
Kansan staff writer
Douglas County Commissioners decided Monday to table the nomination of an East Lawrence house to the state historic register after the owners declined membership, commissioner Warren Ibodes said.
The commissioners also voted Monday to have the city ask the owners to clean up the property to meet city environmental codes.
The Rhody Delahulty complex, 1106 Rhode Island, was nominated to the historic register by a neighbor of the Rhode Island Street Preservation Committee. The group, which began in the fall of 1987, is an organized group of citizens interested in the Rhode Island East Lawrence neighborhood.
Caviness said that the house should be placed on the historical
Paul Caviness, 615 1/2 Indiana,
submitted the nomination to the
state historical society, which
oversees the state register.
register because of the significance of the people that lived in the house and the businesses that developed there.
Caviness said the house was built in 1870 by Rhody Delahunt, an Irish immigrant. Delahunt worked on the railroad that was being built across Kansas more than 100 years ago. He later made a transfer and moving business of his home from 1870 until 1930.
"Delahunty had a fleet of wagons and his company had one of the first heavy motorized trucks." Cavess said.
Caviness said that the house was structurally sound, but still needed repairs, cleaning and repainting.
"Some of the neighbors consider it an eyesore." he said.
Shelley Miller, 936 Pennsylvania, a member of the preservation committee, said that the nomination process developed into a controversial issue.
candidate." Miller said. "But if the owners don't want this, we won't pursue it."
"After reseARCHing the house in detail, it was found to be a good
The house has been owned by Brian, Doug and Raymond Barland since 1964 when it was purchased from the Delahanty family. The Barlands use the house as a garage and storage place.
Dou Barland said that there were too many rules and restrictions that would be placed on him. The judge has placed on the historic register,
"Any extensive repairs must go through the historic register board and it can't change the structural design of the house," he said.
Barland said that he bad plans to
ix up the house, but he didn't want
o follow the register's guidelines.
Fee payment may change Plan for mail-in system will take coordination
By Laura Woodward
Fee payment.
Pcc pay note:
If George Carlin had been a student at KU, he would have added it to his seven dirty words.
But a fee committee has spent two years developing a system that they will help eliminate the need to come in with books in wait in lines with checkbook in low.
“It’s our oldest system by far,” said John Young, the fee committee and director of the office of student records. “And it obviously the one that needs upgraded.”
Within the next two or three years, committee members expect to be able to bill tuition statements to students who need no need to come back to school early
The system will be implemented in three phases, with the first phase consisting of training institute members anticipate the second and third phases no earlier than.
Thompson said that the first phase was the most difficult to complete and that the whole process was time consuming. The last of the loose ends they have to tie up.
"It's sort of like a building," he
said. "You first have to build a good foundation before you can do anything else."
The first phase involves reprogramming the way that tuition and fees are processed
Thompson said that only graduate teaching assistants would notice a change.
"Instead of having to wait in a fee adjuster line before paying their fees, they'll be able to get their fees on the same pay for them in one line," he said.
"Most students won't see a difference at all," Thompson said. "It will affect the people working with the payments."
The second phase involves two projects.
A computer will automatically apply financial aid to a student's tuition. This eliminates footwork. Students won't have to pick up a check at one table and carry it to another.
Committee members also plan during the second phase to work on an address management system.
Thompson said difficulty in organizing a list of accurate student addresses is one of the reasons for the delay in the use of the system.
"We're trying to develop a system
to maintain an address file of students. Thompson said a student could change the address at the library but student records might not get it. We'd like a database to contain the address.
Although it will take the least programming, the third phase will appear to be the biggest change, Thompson said.
The third phase eliminates manual fee payment. After updating the student address file, committee members that students will be billed by mail.
"Our primary intent is that we will be able to pay fees by mail," said Brower Burchill, fee committee member and the associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. "A main benefit is that we will be able to deal with people who are coming back to KL so we can cancel their enrollment and know how many spaces are available in classes."
Thompson said that students would have a choice of either paying at one time or paying in installments.
New laws speed up banking
"Students will be able to pay on August first or August first and October first," he said.
By Mark Faqan
Kansan staff writer
definitely expedite the process."
Students who casually endorse checks at the Kansas Union or their bank may soon find themselves in trouble.
Under the provisions of the Expanded Funds Availability Act, which goes into effect tomorrow, all check endorsements must be made a specified section of the check. If not, it may be returned to the bank.
Stricter check endorsement rules are one portion of the act that will require a signature from the owner and the availability of funds to bank customers, said Janet Owens, a check collection supervisor at the Bank of Kansas Reserve Bank in Kansas City, Mo.
Under the act, all endorsements must be within a one-and-a-half inch from the back of the check behind the left side of the check's face. It is the traditional place for face-to-face interviews.
"Congress passed the law to help speed up the process," she said. "It will probably take awhile for some institutions to comp. but it will
A check will be uncollectible if the first endorsement exceeds the allotted space. The remainder of the check must be collected several banks in the collection process.
Local banks have made a concerted effort to educate the public about mortgages, because babies would not charge customers for any mishaps early on, said Jean Milstead, senior vice president of Doughty County Bank. Ninth and eleventh-grade students
Larry Schmidtbruder, business manager of the Unions, said that students would be charged a $5 handling fee — the same as for a 4-year contract — for any check that was returned because of improper endorsement.
"It will go abaead and accept the "we'll educate and educate the individual who depends the check," she said. "We'll educate and continue on with the education."
Schmitterherr said students who used the Union banking centers had already begun adjusting to the new rules and had not had any problems.
"I think they're doing pretty well," he said. "We've really been doing this for quite some time, so it's no real change."
The Union business office has posted notices outside the banking centers to notify students of the rules. The Union also customers of the endorsement change.
"I would hope that after they've cashed a check or two they will have caught on," Schmidtberger said.
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