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KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
State Dept. advocates caution in assessing PLO agreement
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON—The State Department yesterday urged extreme caution in assessing reports that PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a statement accepting all U.N. resolutions on the issue.
memoirs in congress 'foreign relations committees reacted with some skepticism but generally agreed that the developments, if true, were fayenable.
A PLO spokesman in Beirut, Lebanon, said Arafat signed a statement accepting all U.N. resolutions on the Palestinian issue, including an acknowledgment of the right of all nations, including Israel, to exist.
THE DOCUMENT WAS SIGNED by Arafat at a meeting with a group of visitors U.S. congressmen headed by Rep. Paul McCloskey Jr., R-Calif. the PLO spokesman said.
State Department spokesman Rush Taylor
said, "We understand but cannot confirm, that Yasser Arafat has signed a document accepting all U.N. resolutions relevant to the Palestinian question.
"We would recommend extreme caution in assessing the meaning of this development until it is clear precisely what is involved. The U.S. government's position is well-known. The PLO must accept U.N. Security Council resolutions 242 and 339 and Israel's right to exist."
WHITE HOUSE SPIEMANMort Allin said that United States was studying the reports. The United States has promised Israel it will not talk to the PLO until the organization recognizes
Israeli officials stifled the agreement, calling it a "shoddy propaganda play" aimed at winning a political victory for the 6,000 Palestinian guerrillas trapped in Lebanon.
In an official statement, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said, "nothing clear was ever said that the Israelis were aware of the attack."
THE REPORTS CAME as Israel planes bombed Palestinian targets in West Eretur yesterday for the fourth straight day and guerrillas using artillery and machine guns battled Israeli cities.
aim, which was and remains the destruction of the state of Israel."
Sen. Larry Pressler, R-S.D., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, "If that is true, it is a major breakthrough in working toward peace in the Middle East.
"It depends on what the statement says. What I fear is that they will recognize the earlier boundaries of Israel, but if they recognize the boundaries of Israel, he is recognizing Israel."
THERE IS PROBABLY a “lot of diplomacy involved,” and the statement may be a step toward U.S. recognition of the PLO as a legal entity. The fact that it could could mean a “tally new set of circumstances
Regents reaffirm pay decrease illegal
The Kansas Board of Regents, at a special meeting in Topeka Saturday, reaffirmed its July 16 decision that a decrease in unclassified employment would be made, the Pickett, Regents chairman, said yesterday.
The Regents conferred with their attorney, William Kauffmann, to get a final opinion on the legality of the unclassified employees' contracts. They were signed by Chancellor Gene A. Badigui in May.
See Mideast page 6
GLEE SMITH, Regents Budget and Finance Committee chairman, said Kauffman "reinterrated his previous opinion, only more strongly."
"He did a lot of work on it during the week, and he backed up his opinion with case studies and
research," he said. "He was absolutely positive that any cut would be a breach of contract."
The Regents recently agreed to comply with Gov. John Carlin's request for a 4 percent spending increase.
They also supported Carlin's order to freeze the 125 percent it pay increase plan for fiscal year 2024.
BUT THE REGENTS denied Carlin's request to temporarily defer a portion of unclassified salary increases that went into effect July 1, saving that such action would be illegal.
Smith said the Regents had conferred by telephone with Kauffman, who was on vacation in California.
He said that Carlin had doubted that a legal
question could have been resolved over the telephone.
"But at Saturday's meeting, Kauffman satisfied all of the Regents, even those who would have been willing to make the cut if they could," Smith said.
"IT WAS unanimous Saturday that we could not cut back unclassified employees' salaries." According to United Press International, Budig warned Saturday that faculty salaries must remain intact in order for the schools to remain competitive with universities in other states. He made the remark at a meeting Topека of the presidents of the six state universities.
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Attorney picked for DA post; Carlin must approve choice
Harper, 41, won the nomination on the second ballot of the convention, at the Lawrence Public Library.
Jerry Harper, a local attorney, was nominated by members of the Democratic Central Committee last Thursday night to be the new district attorney for Douglas County.
The committee, which made the nomination, chose Harper from among four candidates. Gov. John Carlin has to approve the nomination before the governor can position Carlin will make a decision this week.
THE ELECTION WAS PROMPTED by former District Attorney Mike Malone's resignation July 15. Malone resigned in the middle of his four years as district judge for the sixth judicial district of Kansas.
According to state law, the district attorney chosen to complete the term must be of the same party as the former district attorney. Because of the potential for administrative Central Committee chose his replacement.
Before assuming his duties as district attorney, Harper said that he first would have to take care of some obligations he still had to clients from his private practice.
Harper said that he would run the office as it had been run in the past but said, "After getting more money, I have to go."
Two of Harper's opponents for the position, Craig Stancille and Harry Warren, were assistant district attorneys to Malone. On the first ballot, Harper had 28 votes, Stancille had 21 votes, Warren had eight votes, and H. Michael Nichols, a local attorney, had two votes.
Harper was elected on the second ballot with 33 votes. Stannifield had 26 votes on the second bailout vote.
Harper said in his acceptance speech that he would continue to work with the assistant district
Warren was selected July 14 to be the temporary district attorney. He will continue as temporary district attorney until December.
"We're all still friends." he said.
Weather
Today there will be sunny skies with temperatures in the lower 90s and southwesterly winds at 10 to 15 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with temperatures in the low 70s.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with highs in the low 90s.
There is a chance for thunderstorms on Wednesday with highs in the mid-80s to 90°F.
The 90-degree weather did not keep thousands of Lawrence shoppers from heading downtown Thursday to get in on the reduced prices merchants offered on their wares at the annual downtown sidewalk sale. Local non-profit organizations sold baked goods and ice-cold drinks to hungry shoppers, who begin arriving before the shops even opened. George Pauley, owner of Natural Way clothing store, 812 Massachusetts St., and a member of the sponsoring organization, the Downtown Lawrence Association, said he viewed the sale "as a way to say thank you to my regular customers."
'Jay-Care' new at KUMC
Staff Reporter
Bv CAROL MILLS
A 24-hour learning center will open Aug. 19 for children of University of Kansas Medical Center staff and students, said Steve Braun, director of the new Jay-Care Learning Center.
"This is the first 24-hour care center the Med Center has had." Braun said. "There is an infant center and a day care for deaf children, but there are no more children, children 24 hours a day. seven days a week."
The Jay-Care Center at 2605 W. 39th St. in Kansas City, Kan., about three blocks west of the Med Center, enrolls children from 18 months to 5 years.
Braun said the five instructors who would work at the daycare center were all trained in early childhood education. One trained instructor and three aides will be on duty for each eight
The fee will be $1 50 an hour. Braun said meals and snacks are included in the fee which will be partially reimbursed by the Child Care Food Program, depending upon the financial need of the family.
The Med Center Auxiliary was the impetus behind the Jay-Care Center Braun said. The chairman of the auxiliary committee, Pat Chapman, had the idea and developed the daycare
"I wasn't the only one involved," Chapman
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This house is one of two on the 1200 block of New Jersey Street that will soon begin a rehabilitation process through the Section Eight Rehabilitation Program, sponsored by the Lawrence Housing Authority. Two others on the block have already been completed.
Photo by SUSAN PAGE
For low-income housing Housing agency helps finance repairs
By KATE DUFFY
Staff Reporter
Six months ago the apartment house at 800 New York St. had chipped and peeling paint, a sagging foundation and charred inner walls from three fires in the past few years.
The owner gave up on the idea of ever renting it again and boarded up the windows and doors.
WEDNESDAY, THE Lawrence Housing Authority, the agency responsible for the renovation, is sponsoring a open house to celebrate the transformation of the building into a freshly painted cream-colored, five-unit apartment room, ready for occupants.
But in April, the boards were pulled off the doors and windows of the turn-of-the-century grocery store-turned-apartment house, and work crews moved in, rebuilding everything from the inside out, including the plumbing, floors, wiring the inner walls.
The housing authority, charged with providing housing for Lawrence's low-income and elderly residents, has been rehabilitating houses since the late 1970s. It also Eight Moderate Rehabilitation program in 1980.
The program was designed to supplement an already existing federal low-income rental assistance package.
"Under the rental program, landlords had no incentive to keep their rental houses in good shape," explained Jack Manahan, assistant director of the Lawrence Housing Authority.
SO TO ENSURE that landlords rent safe and sturdy houses to the low-income participants of the rental assistance program, Congress passed the rehabilitation legislation, providing local governments to assist landlords in rehabilitating the houses to be used in the rental assistance program.
Since 1980, the Housing Authority has assisted local landlords in renovating and repairing 50 housing units, including single family homes, duplexes and apartment houses like the one at 800 New York St., Manahan said. All were rented to low-income families, who pay 25 percent of their incomes for the rent. The Housing Authority nays the rest.
Although the Housing Authority originally had to advertise to get local landlords involved in the program, now landlords usually contact the agency. Manahan said he attributes the landlords' success to the advertising program to both the advertising their agency has done and the recent increase in housing vacancies.
AFTER A LANDLORD submits a proposal to the Housing Authority, a staff member inspections the property and writes up a list of improvements to be made and the cost of each, said Mr. Ferguson.
The Housing Authority then helps the landlord acquire a contractor and get a local bank to finance the project. The costs of the rehabilitation cannot be so exorbitant that the current rent charged will not pay for the loan payment and has some profit for the landlord, said Manhano.
not feasible to renovate the houses and keep them single-family structures.
With the current economy, Dettbarn said, it is
After getting a feel for the house's structure and design, Detharn goes to work, turning 70-and 80-year-old diapidated houses into comfortable and solid dinLEXes.
"WHEN I START to work on a new job."
Dettabn said, "I go to the house and sit in there for a little while and try to sense the original structure's use and function."
August Dettabb, the Housing Authority's in-house architect, said he found working with older houses much more challenging than designing new homes.
UNDER THE RENTAL assistance program, it would take rents from both apartments for the landlord to make the loan payments and make some profit, explained Dettmann.
"When we take interested bankers to see it," he said. "They don't believe it. They've never seen it."
Some of the houses that have been rehabilitated so far have looked before the work started.
Dettbarn said, "Even the HUD representative couldn't believe we wanted to rehab one of the houses we did. "I think he thought we were crazy for attempting it."
THE DEPARTMENT of Housing and Urban
Development is the sponsoring agency for the rehabilitation of low-income families.
Local bankers have played a crucial part in this program, Manahan said. Lardlords who cannot afford to pay for the renovations out of their own pocket may be in need of a loan to cover the costs of the rehabilitation.
Recently, the Lawrence Community Development Department granted $100,000 to the Housing Authority to lend to landlords who could not afford it. The department also rehabilitate even more houses, Manahan said.
Dettath and Manahan agreed that the pro-
grams must be used with other low-income rental programs, with other low-income rental programs.
"WITH THE STRAIGHT RENTAL assistance program, we spent $30,000 to $40,000, not counting land costs and administrative costs to build a new rental unit." Manahan said.
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