KANSAN
Monday, July 12,1982 Vol.92, No.154 USPS 650-640
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Auctioneer Loren Freeman called the bidding on the items at this Saturday auction.
Buyers check auction to find perfect sale
Staff Reporter
BY ANDREW de VALPINE
He was looking for latex jockey shorts,
without success.
"They're always gone by the time I get them," the disappointed auction-geer said Saturday.
Auctions are frequent events during the summer in Lawrence. The hunter of a sale need look no further than the Friday want ads to see the announcement: Public Sale.
Some people go to auctions just to watch the parade of humanity, with no intention of buying.
STILL OTHERS WANT to see what is available to fulfill their particular need.
"You'd be surprised at what people will
Monday Morning
buy." Elena Baranov, 634 Greeter Terrace. said
"There are people who will buy rusted out coffee cans," she said.
Whatever the reason, hundreds of people turned out Saturday for an auction at 1746%
Loren Freeman, 237 Anderson Road, auctioneer, scheduled the auction for 1 p.m., but by 12:15, about 100 people had already arrived and they were waiting the times scattered through the yard.
SEVERAL LONG, green tables, laden with
household miscellany, the center of attention. People strolled up one side and down another side.
Freeman said that more people would arrive by auction time. At 12:45 the yard was empty.
Freeman began auctioning seven or eight years ago, without ever having attended
Freeman picked up his technique by listening to other people, he said. Because he is in the second-hand business, with a focus on sales, he said, he has spent a lot of time at auctions.
"Not too many of the local auctioneers went to schools," he said.
"Having a big mouth and lots of guts as got what me into auctioneering," he siad.
INSIDE THE EMPTY house, Freeman's wife, Marjorie, distributed tickets to prospective bidders. She recognized many of the faces from previous sales.
Local institutions may face inquiry about recall campaign contributions
*Lots of people come in as sale-goers,
*like like there are dance-goers or anything
else.*
The Kansas Attorney General's Office has been asked to investigate a possible violation of the state's campaign-contribution law by two local savings and loans institutions.
Mrs. Freeman said that all sales at the auction were on a commission-only basis.
A IN JULY 16 letter to Attorney General Robert Stephan, Tim Miller, 935 Ohio St., asked Stephan's office to check for possible violations of a law that requires corporations from making political contributions
Anchor Savings Association, 900 Ohio St., and Capitol Federal Savings and Loan Association, 1025 Iowa St., contributed money to the Lawrence Committee, an organization that supported an unsuccessful recall attempt of Lawrence City Commissioner Tom Gleason last spring.
"We charge 15 percent normally, or 20 per cent,
case by case. We have to get every
customer the said."
The percentage they charge depends on the amount of work they have to do to prepare for a job.
The statute states, "No corporation carrying on the business of a bank, . . . shall pay or contribute in order to aid, promote or prevent the nomination or election of any person to public
"We spent two weeks getting everything
See page 18.
See Auction page 8.
According to a list of contributors released by the committee in May, Anchor gave $7, and Capita gave $10.
MARSHALL BIGGERTAFF, Anchor Savings vice president, said Friday that he had not known Anchor's $75 contribution was against the law. He said the contribution was solicited by Dick Holmeister, a vice president of Capital Federal Savings and Loan Association.
office, . . . or to influence or affect the vote on
any question submitted to the voters."
Carlin wants pay raises cut for some Regents employees
Gov. John Carlin is expected to ask the Kansas Board of Regents tomorrow to reduce slated salary increases for fiscal year 183 for用来促进这一领域，a spokesman for the governor said Friday.
Steve Holsteen, special assistant to the governor, said, "We'll meet with the Regents to try to find an equivalent way to be consistent about unclassified as well as classified employees."
The Attorney General's Office received Miller's letter July 7, and both Stephan and Assistant Attorney General Brad Smoot will begin to investigate whether he is a friend, a secretary in Stephens' office, said Friday.
Staff Reporter
"He called me up and said he was asking banks and the other savings and loans to give money to a political advertising campaign," Biggerstaff said.
Carlin last week ordered a freeze on the 1.25 percent merit pay increase plan for Kansas classified employees. But their 6.5 percent cost-of-living will be implemented as planned, Holstein said.
HE SAID the salary increases for Regents unclassified employees, who are most faculty members, were on a separate appropriations bill and not part of the Merit Pay Pool.
Biggerstaff said he had viewed the ad campaign as a way to slap Gleason's hand and had made him look like a conspirator.
Carlin cannot order salary frees for agencies outside his direct control, including the Resents.
Holzmeister was unavailable for comment.
See Contributions page 8.
"In the area of salaries, if they go ahead and grant a percentage increase to anyone, that's an ongoing expenditure they're committed to and reduces flexibility for any future cuts."
"We don't tell the Regents how to run their business," Holsteen said. "But we might have to tell them that revenues aren't in as high as anticipated, and that they'll have the option to make cuts in different ways to meet an overall target.
BY CANDICE SACKUVICH Staff Reporter
IN APRIL, the governor and Legislature had approved a 7.5 percent faculty salary increase scheduled to take effect July 1. Carlin's recent proposal would trim that to 6.5 percent.
Glee Smith, Regents budget and finance committee chairman, said yesterday that he did not favor a reduction in unclassified salaries. "All of our unclassified employees get their salary increases based on merit. They don't get any costy or across-the-board increases," Smith said.
Regents unclassified employees do not receive salaries in the manner of at peer institutions salaries, the country has set.
"We had planned to ask for a 13 percent increase this year to make up for the disparity. We're losing some of our faculty to private industry and other institutions."
"One of the things we've been focusing on most is getting some degree of catch-up for our university."
LAST MONTH, the Regents recommended to the governor a 1 percent salary increase and a 1 percent retirement increase for unclassified employees in fiscal year 1984.
Smith said he thought the recent merit pay freeze for classified employees was a mistake "and I hate to see one mistake compounded by another."
Classified salaries are set by the state and are not controlled by the Regents. Smith said.
A spokesman for the Kansas Association of Public Employees said Friday that some classified employees are reacting negatively to Carlin's freeze on their merit pay increase.
"I'm getting the biggest response from classified employees at the Regents institutions." JoAnn Klesah, executive director, said. "They are upset because most of them think it's unfair for them to be cut if faculty members remain unaffected at all.
"We have to go along with the governor's action because we're so opposed to massive layoffs. We're just glad we shot for the 6.5 percent cost-of-live increase this year, because the governor said he would not put a hold on that."
SOME KU classified employees are among those upset by Carlin's announcement.
Jon O'Neil, president-elect of KU's Classified Senate, said Friday, "I've been inundated today with calls from classified employees here. The people's general reaction is that they are irate the classified employees always seem be the ones to pay when there is a financial crunch."
She said Carlin's MPP deferral was like being hit over the head twice.
"The 1.25 percent was not enough to adequately pay for the program to begin with. Now, it is a fact that I am really pleased."
"I don't think anyone minds contributing his fair share to make up for a state deficit as long as there are also across-the-board cuts for other state employees."
SUZANNE CUPP, clerk V in the School of Education who serves as administrative assistant to the dean, she thought all state em­
pirements have to make up for the deficits in Kapsas revenues.
"I feel that it would be more fair to cut salaries of all state employees rather than discriminating against a small group, such as civil service employees." she said.
"I think that if the governor's going to take part of our salary, we only fair that he reduce his pay."
"State employees contribute to that tax base, and when you cut their salaries you cut the tax base."
Cupp said that she thought the reason for the state's deficit in revenues was that the tax base was low.
"If the governor is worried about the tax base, this seems counterproductive."
Diane Hoffman, clerk-typ II at the Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology, said she thought the MPP deferral would reduce employees' incentive.
"I'm disappointed. It wasn't very large to begin with," she said. "If we aren't going to get our merit raises at all, what's the point of trying to improve our performance on the job?"
"I realize that we're trying to cut costs all over. For example, we did without air conditioning for a while. But, because our 6.5 percent cost of living raise didn't even keep up with the rate of inflation, I feel we shouldn't lose the 1.25 percent merit pay increase now."
Beverly Wetzel, clerk I at Numerake Center, said, "I think it really cuts down on incentive.
Staff Reporter
Library security improving
By JENNIFER YALE
The engineering library is missing $800 to $900 worth of books according to the last inventory, and $1000 to $1200 worth of books.
Library security at the University of Kansas varies according to which library it is. Each one
Cry said that part of an entire section of books on air pollution had vanished because of theft. The shelves were in a very obscure section of the library, she said.
"We have student assistants who try to check all of the bags and library materials that leave the library, but we don't have enough staff." "Cyr can't we check everything that walks out."
Cyr said that people on the school's building committee have talked about putting an automatic detection system in the library, but part of the problem is funding.
FIVE OF THE 12 libraries on campus have electronic detection equipment
Electronic detection systems, costing a total of
The machine is designed to buzz if the magnetic piece of tape hidden in a book has not been loaded.
"We get very few people leaving the library without checking out their books," John Glinka, a professor of history at Brown University.
$50,000, are in Watson Library, the science library in Malot Hall, the music library in Murphy Hall, the document area in Spencer Museum, and the art library in the Spencer Art Museum.
Glinka said that he remembered a time when 30 or 40 students would line up at the exit to the library before classes. There was no way the student assistant could check each student's bag.
There are still people who try to beat the system, Glinda said. During library renovation, he said, he kept some of the windows open for ventilation, and people were throwing books out the windows. But now, with inside storm windows, Glinda said, that is impossible.
For the most part, Glinka said, theft is a minor problem.
The law library in Green Hall, which is not a See Security page 8.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with high temperatures in the upper 80% and southeasternly winds 5 to 10 mph, according to the National Weather Service in
The high tomorrow will be close to 90 degrees. There is a chance of showers and thunderstorms on Thursday and the nights highs in the 90s and lows in the 70s.
Photo by JILL M. YATES
Phillip Beam, Rural Route 2, Baldwin, enjoys the weekend weather while playing folk tunes on his guitar at the corner of Ninth and Massachusetts streets.