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Community center planning halted
Staff Writer
BvSTEVE PARSONS
In a surprise move, the Lawrence City Commission last night ordered a halt to planning on a $250,000 East Lawrence Community Center. The planning halt came after the expected adoption of Plan 59, a 20-billion investment guide for the Lawrence community.
Commissioners faced a major problem in what they considered a lack of enthusiasm by residents for a proposed East Lawrence Community Center.
The center, which would be a recreational and meeting hall for Lawrence residents on Tuesday, will receive with $20,000 in federal Community Development Act funds the city allocated to support it.
Mayor Marnie Argerstein said, "We were pushed to the wall to make that decision (the allocation) because we had to allocate the funds from the Haskell Loop."
THE HASKELL LOOP was a proposed £5 million roadway, strongly opposed by local councillors.
would have carried traffic from 111th Street and Haskell Avenue to Seventh and Convenience.
Last December, the commission voted down the loop and later reallocated the funds to other projects including the new center.
Arigeranger said she was committed to a project such as the center. She said using the money for a community center would benefit more people than would spreading it in small grants for housing rehabilitation, or previously considered by commissioners.
However, the commissioners said it looked as if East Lawrence residents now preferred the money to be used for housing rehabilitation.
Instead of killing the center completely, commissioners agreed to stop the planning for the center for one week until they could be ready. The district would improve Association members wanted.
Improvement Association members want.
They are scheduled to meet Thursday night.
They put the issue of fund usage on next week's commission meeting agenda. By then, Argersinger said, the commissioners should know what Far East Lawrence
BARKLEY CLARK, the city commissioner who wrote the resolution for adopting the plan, said last night that the 700-page document was well-organized but had a few minor problems that could be handled individually later.
LAST WEDNESDAY night, a meeting was scheduled to air ideas for the new center. Several members of the East Lawrence Improvement Association were at the meeting, but no representative of the Lawrence Improvement Association was there.
The East Lawrence group involves residents north of 15th Street. The Far East group is composed of residents in an area south of 15th Street.
The halt by the commission will temporarily end the work of a representative of a Kansas City, Mo, architectural firm, who had been gathering ideas from East Lawrence residents for designing the new center.
PLAN 95, after three years of preparation, was adopted unanimously by the board. The commission's strongest possible endorsement. The resolution adopting it, however, emphasized that the plan was only one and not a set of goals that had to be met.
Also approved by the commission on first reading was an ordinance to specifically state through-truck and delivery-truck routes through the city. There has been a trend toward trucking firms and the police department out which streets could be traveled by trucks.
Commissioners said it was unnecessary to set detailed limits such as those requested because the Uniform Plumbing Code, which governs the requirements of limiting the height of pipe installation.
In other action, the commission denied a request by the Lawrence Plumbing Board to set specific limits on what height plastic pipe can be installed in residences.
The city commission also set an Oct. 25 date to receive bids for equipment for a traffic light on the corner of Sixth and Kasold streets.
New history class searches for family roots
Staff Writer
By EUNICE MAY
Finding out about one's ancestors is more scientific than counting buttons and it isn't as easy as talking to grandma, members of a new family roots class are discovering.
Grandma's recollections are being supplemented for 100 students enrolled in the Gramma's Academy. "Case Studies in Finding Your Own Family Root" The course is taught by Philip Mackenzie, PhD.
Paludan said the course was developed
Venezuelan pleads guilty on drug rap
because of the "Haley phenomenon" and to increase history enrollment. After Alex was presented on television, interest rose, leading out about one's ancestors, Pauladan said.
Juan Jose Rodriguez Iriarte, Caracas, Venezuela, senior, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Topeka to importation of and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, Bruce Miller, asst. U.S. attorney, said yesterday.
Miller said Iriarte would be sentenced Nov. 21. Iriarte could receive up to 15 years in prison and be fined $15,000 for each of the four cocaine was valued at more than $190,000.
HOWEVER, THE COURSE goes further than just tracing the family tree he said, because it also explores the correlation between personal history and the national or world events that occur in his life.
Triarie was arrested Sept. 9 in Lawrence by Federal Drug Administration officials after he transported cocaine in a travel bag from Kansas City International Airport.
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When Iriarte was arrested, the other three grams of cocaine were found in his blood.
The three-hour course is taught Wednesday nights and has guest speakers every week. Time is spent on the theories and problems related to finding one's ancestors.
The object of the course is for the student to see that he is a part of history and not to be distracted by it.
Customs officials at the airport had inspected the bag before it was claimed and found more than 815 grams of cocaine underneath a false bottom. At that time, customs officials confiscated about 812 grams.
Iriarte's brother, Ignacio Blanco Iriarte, Caracas senior, who was arrested with Juan Jose and also charged with possession with intent to distribute and importation of cocaine, did not enter a plea. Miller said. His case was continued until Nov. 21.
EVEN TOUGH IT is too early to tell how well liked the course is, Deanna Stephens, Salina junior and a student in the class, said she found the class interesting.
"I had never thought of history in that way," Stephens said, referring to researching a family history in relation to national史.
She said she would recommend the class to others "only if they could spend the time
A term paper is required in which students present a family history. It can be written a variety of ways; however, it must be compared to national events of the time.
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Telescopes available for eclipse
Telescopes will be available at four locations on campus this afternoon for people interested in viewing a partial eclipse of the sun.
the telescopes, provided by the Astronomy Associates of Lawrence, will be stationed near the entrance to the campus by the Kansas Union, at the information booth across from Bailey Hall, at a spot on Daisy Hill and near Oliver Hall, according to Stephen Shawl, associate professor of physics and astronomy.
The eclipse will obscure the sun's face beginning at 3:06 p.m., reaching a maximum 20 per cent eclipse at 3:55 p.m. and ending at 4:24 p.m. sawlip said.
Shawl emphasized the importance of avoiding looking directly into the sun during the eclipse. She said sunglasses or smoky glasses would be sufficient to filter out the sun's harmful rays.
The Kansas University observatory on top of Lindley Hall also will be open to the public. Visitors can enter by entering through a wall at the rear of the building.
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