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Tuesday, September 27, 1977
University Daily Kansar
Sound building
The building is 180 years old, but the audio equipment inside is upgrade. Ed Pownal, who own two companies in Housetown.
says the building's natural acoustics make it well-suited for use as a recording studio.
Music rings in old German hall
By KEVINKIOUS
Staff Writer
Turnbale, a meeting hall built in 1890 for the German population of Lawrence, today contains bits of razed University of Kansas buildings amid modern recording-studio
Audio House, which makes recordings for record albums production and Audio Systems, which sells professional recording equipment to occupy the building, at 780 North Eirth St.
Ed Down, owner of both companies, said recently the building needed some restoration work when he moved into it in 1965. He said it had been damaged by fire. He had former business, among them a chicken hatchery and an appliance repair business.
"I feel we've done a lot to bring the
deterioration," he said. "Further
determination." he said.
New steps leading from street level to the basement were built out of stones from old Fraser Hall and mounted with ornate lamps from old Blake Hall, he said.
THE STEPS were built by a friend of Down's who he said had a "love for the preservation of old Fraser Hall.
"There's a lot of history in this old building," Down said.
Down also sealed off the stone walls and ceiling of the lower floor with plastic.
"It contains the dust," he said. "The barred-year-old dust contains mold.
The building is in good shape for its age. Down said the frugal nature of the Germans who built it had caused them to build a simple, strong structure that would last a
takes up most of the second floor of the building, still appears to be perfectly level.
The gymnasium was the focal point for the Verein, the German society organized in Lawrence in the 1856s to promote physical fitness and socializing.
HUGE SPEAKERS, used to create echo effects for recording work, now dominate the gym once used for athletic club workouts and town dances.
"They had some of the best parties this town has seen," Down said. "This was the place to be on New Years Eve."
The gym also was used as a theater. On one end of the room is an elevated stage. On the opposite end is a balcony used for plays and gymnastic meets.
The Verein was modeled after the Vereins in Germany, who used physical exercise as an excuse to meet and discuss politics. The Verein stressed exercise over politics.
Most of the activities in the building took place inside the basement. It played the game from the second floor to the top.
Two bowling lanes at one time ran the length of the basement. That area now is covered with recording equipment and an acoustic system for drummers during recording sessions.
The bar has been replaced by a grand piano as the prominent fixture in the room.
THE FORMER beer storage room, also in the basement, still has an important role in the activities of the building's tenants. It is now the master disc room where prototype records are made. The room is below ground level, and though it is well suited to beer storage, the humidity can interfere with recordings.
Student's stereo stolen
A stereo valued at $200 was stolen yesterday between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. from a resident's room in Eldsworth Hall, KU police said yesterday.
the room was locked at the time the theft occurred but that the lock was faulty.
Terry Selby, owner of the stereo, said that
"It's like rain," he said. "It gets really thick down here."
KU police said they were investigating the incident.
He said that air conditioning now is used in the house, but that he didn't know how the Verrerie copied it.
KJHK pleads no contest, gifts
Notice to All Organizations WISHING TO APPLY FOR FUNDING FROM THE STUDENT SENATE/STUDENT ACTIVITY FEE:
These requests must be completed and returned to the Senate office NO LATER THAN SEPT. 30, 1977.
Paid for by the Student Activity Fee.
Budget Request forms for Fiscal 1978 are now available in the Student Senate office, 105B Kansas Union, Level 3.
JKHR station is not sponsoring a promotion for Royals game tickets or other prizes, despite phone calls to at least two companies. The station manager did Bill Kemphis station manager said yesterday.
Two persons were contacted by someone identifying himself as a "KJHK representative." The caller told the persons that he was on the station-sponsored promotion, Kempin said.
If the station sponsors such a promotion at a later date, Kempin said, it will be advertised in the Kansan.
"The lobbying efforts of the oil and gas industry on deregulation of natural gas prices itself shows how the special interests are trying to enactment of the entire energy program."
The player, Jerome Holwell, also charged in the rape, testified at a preliminary hearing for Ken Lovely, Nate Woodfin and Woofin in Riley County District Court.
MANHATTAN-A Kansas State University football player and a former teammate were implicated yesterday by a K-State coach of the college of a K-State coed at an athletic dormitory.
K-State students implicated in rape at athletic dorm
"As we depend more and more on energy imports, the special interests should not be
Apparently in an effort to make sure that happens, Carter walked into the press room an hour later and delivered a personal statement before television cameras.
In a brief conversation with reporters as he left the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, Mr. Obama called the committee's vote could be reversed.
Carter defends energy proposal after Senate rejects oil tax plan
All four men are charged with rape in the attack of a Topeka woman in Hollowell's room, although he had his preliminary hearing earlier.
The Senate, meanwhile, voted 77-17 to limit the debate that has prevented a decision on whether to continue federal funding for the nation's education prefers, or to remove them gradually.
Sen. Russell B. Long, chairman of the finance committee, indicated he did not view the panel's 10-6 vote against the crude oil tax as final. He called another committee to consider the tax would be acceptable to the President, the oil industry and a majority of Congress.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Accusing big oil companies of trying to "separatee our energy future," President Carter urged the Senate yesterday to reject "narrow special interest attacks on all segments" of his national energy program.
"I call on the Senate to act responsibly in the interests of the great majority of Americans to reject narrow special interest attacks on all segments of the national economy."
Each of the four is free on $2,000 bond. Lovely, from Dallas, is a starting tailback with the Wildcats and has gained 152 yards in three games. Jones, from Chicago, is a first-round pick. Rams, from Manhattan, and Woodfin, from Topeka, who also are running backs, have left the game.
The Senate's Democratic and Republican leaders called for an end to the filibuster on natural gas. Senate liberals opposed to any relaxation of federal price controls on gas led the delivery of the bill, arguing that the Senate would vote to deregulate prices, as it did in 1975.
The House passed the crude oil tax in basically the form outlined by Carter. In three steps, the price of U.S.-produced crude oil would be raised from the current average of about $8.50 per barrel to the world price, which is now about $14.40.
Carter has promised to veto any energy bill that removes price controls from gas. A majority of the Senate already has sided against the President on one test vote on this bill.
roth said the alternative was an "Alice-In-Wonderland contraption" that would be attacked as a a "welfare program for the big oil companies."
Although the debate-limiting cloture petition approved by the Senate restricts further debate to one hour per senator, leaders of the filibuster promised to use other parliamentary maneuvers to keep the Senate from voting on deregulation.
The vote came after a two-hour discussion of a complex plant grown by the company. At least 12 percent of voters said they
A fifth person, a Kirk Boykin, a running
dog from Houston, is still being sought by
authorities.
Carter spoke in the White House press room after the Senate Finance Committee-rejected his energy plan by force conservation by taxing U.S. crude oil.
All seven Republicans on the Finance Committee teamed with two liberal Democrats and independent Sen. Harry Blyrd to remove Carter's crude-oil tax from the massive energy bill approved by the House.
teepublicans, sensing the outcome, had been pressing for a vote for several days. They viewed the proposal, in the words of W. R. Kroger Del., as 'another rooof of the middle class.'
The most noticeable effect of the tax would be to raise the price of a gallon of gasoline by seven to nine cents. In fact, economists say, the tax would be felt as lessening something, made of petroleum with the exception of heating oil, which would be exempt.
He said earlier he thought the action could be reversed.
howell testified that Lovely grabbed the woman's head while Boykin pulled off her jeans and underwear. But he was later returned, but but later returned and raped her. Holwell said the woman was
allowed to jeopardize our energy future," he said.
Earlier in the hearing, the woman testified that five males had grabbed her, removed her clothes and raped her in Holiwell's room.
She said the attack occurred after she had gone driving with Holwell, Woodfin, and Jones, who had bought and drank some wine. She said she had one drink.
Between 1978 and 1932, the tax would be expected to cost consumers $3 billion. To avoid depressing the economy, Carter proposed that the bank of that state lend $50 million to the income tax system, with about $22 going the first year to each adult American.
She also said she called out the names of Holwell and Jones during the rape but could not identify any of the three defendants as those who were involved.
my first reaction was that I was really
the woman said. "I was cusing and
meaning."
She said she told the men they might as well kill her.
crying and screaming throughout the incident.
were invaded.
The woman said she then returned to the dormitory room of a friend, who took her to her home.
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