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Thursday, October 6, 1977
University Daily Kansan
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Designers request ideas on new community center
BvSTEVE PARSONS
Staff Writer
The architects designing a new East Lawrence Center still are seeking a vision of what the future will look like as they meet last night at the current East Lawrence Center, 10th and Delaware
Two speakmen of Midgley, Shaughnessy, Fickel and Scott Architects, Inc. of Kansas City, Mo., welcomed ideas from about 30 students to the conference and other ideas be submitted on paper.
They said the ideas could be sent to Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, Room 410 at 910 Mass. St. or the architectural firm, at 20 W. 9th St., Kansas City, M. 64105.
The center would provide recreational and meeting facilities for Lawrence
LAST NIGHT'S discussion on a possible location for the new center that will be designed and built with $25,000 in federal community development funds.
Craig Patterson, one of the architectural firm's spokesmen, showed slides of three sites suggested by the Eight Lawrence Center. The three sites are the current site of the East Lawrence Center, most of a block including New Elementary School and Edwood Park at 15th and Haskell streets.
Many residents favored the two other sites more than the Edgewood Park site because of existing facilities that could be used at the two sites and the closeness to community development funds were set aside for low-income residents' benefit so
the center should be closer to them than to higher- income residents south of 19th
Patterson said he thought the center was to be designed to cater to the needs of all children.
Donald Binns, city commissioner said,
The farther north you go, the fewer people
are in your area.
Patterson also said supervisors of the current center had told him that even people who once lived north of 15th Street and had gone to work on the street frequently returned to the center.
"They are socially a part of this community," he said.
AUDIENCE MEMBERS said, however, that because a community center already was in the Edgewood Park area, another center would cause duplication.
Patterson said he was glad to hear such comments because he needed to learn what I didn't know.
"It's a feeling I'll have to develop. It's a feeling you have that you'll have to communicate."
Other considerations for the center that were discussed were building of a gymnasium, installing a solar heating and cooling unit and including a canning kitchen for residents to can produce from their gardens.
Most of the residents expressed support for a gymnasium.
Patterson said a full-size gym would require about 4,250 square feet of floor space. The funds would also be used to allow much room for other rooms, he said.
Alternatives, he said, would be to build a smaller than regulation size gym or to use the gym at the current or New York School sites. The gym at the New York School site, however, he said, is only about one-half of regulation size.
THE POSSIBILITY for heating and cooling the new center by solar energy was advised against by the spokesmen because of the high cort of installation.
they said that the cost could be covered by a grant from the Energy Research and Development Administration, but that the chances for getting a grant were small and it would take a great mount of time to obtain the grant.
Some citizens expressed concern that earlier plans had included a canning kitchen for the center, but that the spokesmen had said nothing about it last night.
Lynn Goodell, community development director, said the only concern with installing the kitchen would be whether it is equipped and legally be used to install kitchen appliances.
Patterson said that now is the time to mention the kitchen in writing so that the architects could kitchen it as a definite request
One resident spoke strongly for choosing a site other than the three suggested ones. He said that the city should use $80,000 in an estate willled for land acquisition in the area and should buy the land on the northwest corner of 11th and Oregon for the center.
Wildgen said that the land would work well for the center, but that the expense of getting it would be much more than the funds available.
WASHINGTON （UPI) - Transportation industry officials said yesterday that they were outraged at a Congressional report suggesting that buses, vans and carpools may use less energy than mass transit rail systems.
Transit system efficiency defended
"These modes are highly dependent on the most sophisticated right-of-way in the world—Americas's highways. Randolph, a former top airline officer, fortunately, that right-of-way already exists."
Alice M. Rivlin, director of the budget office, reaffirmed the conclusion that new
She testified that the energy used in building mass transit systems may make new rail systems less efficient than bus services using existing roadways.
LOUIS J. GAMBACCI, general manager of the Port Authority Trans-Huson Corp., denounced the report as lacking "real vision" and said it made no effort to assess how mass transit could be used to save energy.
rail transit systems might draw passengers away from more efficient methods.
But Chairman Jemings Randolph, D-W Va., of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, defended the report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that drove motor vehicles were the most efficient users of energy in urban transportation.
"I must express extreme disappointment—even outrage—with the CBO report," Gambara said. "The report, as it was presented to me by the investigator, have a right to expect a better product."
B. R. Stokes, executive director of the American Public Transit Association, said Mr. Stokes' views were not shared by
"Our quarrel with the CBO report is very basic," Stokes said. "We do not believe the truth."
the country had been sharply critical of the report.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland announced yesterday a reorganization of his department, including the elimination of 14 agencies by blending them into new or already existing units.
But he said the USDA reorganization plan, which was checked out with others in the Carter administration and with the Farm Bureau leaders, was not expected to reduce costs.
Although more than one-fourth of the Agriculture Department's 82,000 full-time employees are involved, none would lose jobs as a result of the reorganization, and no mission of the department will suffer because of the shuffle, Bergland said.
"It may not save any large amounts of money, but certainly it will improve the efficiency and delivery system of the department," Bergland said.
THERE ARE 40 separate units or agencies now in the department. That number will be reduced to 26 as the reorganization plan is carried out, he said. Part of the plan is the reactivation of the Office of Inspector General, a post abolished some years ago by then-Agriculture Department. The reactivation time was divided into two agencies, the Office of Audit and the Office of Investigation.
Bergland plans reorganization
Bergland announced that he had chosen Thomas F. McBride, 48, a former associate Watergate prosecutor, to take on the new post. Since October 1975, McBride has been director of the Civil Aeronautics Board's enforcement bureau.
As inspector general, McBride will be in charge of all USDA investigations and audits. Those range over many programs, from the activities of employees to compliance by businesses, industries and individuals with USDA regulations in programs such as food stamps and meat and grain inspection.
THE FARMER Home Administration,
which handles loan and grant programs for
low-income farmers and rural communities, is to be combined with a much smaller agency, the Rural Development Office, to form arms and Rural Development Administration.
Bergland said that action would require congressional approval. But he added that he had talked it over with key farm leaders in the land and had not run into serious objection.
Some major agencies are not involved in the reorganization, including the Forest Service, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Soil Conservation Service, Forest Safety and Quality Service, Rural Electrification Administration.
Bergland said rural development, as embodied in the proposed new Farm and Rural Development Administration, would be a major mission of his department.
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