KANSAN
Monday, June 14, 1982 Vol.92, No.147 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Photo by Susan Page
About 200 pronounces of nuclear disarmament march down Massachusetts Street on Saturday morning before gathering for a peace rally in South Park.
200 join demonstration
Marchers support disarmament, peace
By STACEY LANE Staff Reporter
A girl in a sandwich board stepped to the rhythm of the drums and headed east on Seventh Street with about 200 other supporters of nuclear disarmament.
"Stop The Arms Race, Not The Human Race," her board read.
The Saturday morning march was in recognition of the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament II, which began in New York last Monday.
The parade stretched for two blocks as it moved down Massachusetts Street. People held sign that read, "Arms Should Be For Hugging," and "Peace, Back By Popular Demand." A mult-colored cloud of balloons lobbed over their heads.
PEOPLE IN THE DOWNTown shops waved at the smiling marchers, and children on the sidewalks danced to the beat of the percussion band.
The stream of marchers was on its way to the gazeebo in South Park where the Brown Rice Cow People led a sing-along and two speakers delivered speeches to the crowd.
"This is only a tiny step in a long, long walk."
John O'Brien's associate professor of geology and sociologist at the University of Utah.
"We've got to stop them, because they're going to kill us, they're going to kill our children," he said of nuclear arms.
Harry Schaffer, KU professor of economics and Soviet and East European studies, asked, "What kind of total insanity is it when we are told that the cost of nuclear weapons up more and more and more nuclear weapons?"
"THIS CAN'T BE the only way this world can live! It is total nonsense," he said.
The march was sponsored by the Daughters of the Earth and the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, which also co-sponsored Ground Zero Week last April.
Tom and Anne Moore, founding members of the coalition, were not at the Lawrence march on Saturday. Instead, they joined about 700,000 disarmament supporters in New York City.
usion misrepresented in a news report that New York was the largest nuclear arms protest in the nation's war.
"It was enormously successful," Bettina Corke, a spokeswoman for the group that organized the huge New York rally, said yesterday.
"We now have the strength to consolidate the issue nationally and internationally."
Shontz and State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, were a part of the gamut of marchers in Lawrence.
THE NEW YORK march included people from all walks of life, as did the Lawrence demonstration. Children, parents and teachers marched together in protest of nuclear arms. City Commissioner Nancy Ginsberg
The Coalition for Peace and Justice also sponsors a silent vigil on the first Sunday of each month at 12:30 p.m. in front of the Douglass Center, where it will hold a meditation and praer for nuclear disarmament.
"It the vignet) is a kind of thing it's hard to say no to. "Allan Hannon, a member of the coalition," said. "It's a about peace as opposed to war, life as opposed to death. It's hard to be in favor of murder."
"I'm a lot more hopeful now than I was a year ago," Hanson said. "It's stuff like this, the grassroots movement, that is changing minds in Washington."
MANY OF THE marchers were purple armbands the insignia of those opposed to nuclear weapons. The trees lined the堤坝 with black branches, and their decorated with strins of purple cloth for the demonstration.
Hanson said he thought that the most concrete thing a citizen could do to spur nuclear disarmament was to petition, write or talk to his representatives and senators.
An opinion poll concerning nuclear disarmament is scheduled to appear on the Douglas Institute's website.
County baltimore in November.
"The people are going to speak through the ballot," Hanson said. "That's going to be a beautiful thing."
KU pay increases sought by Regents
By CANDICE SACKUVICH
Staff Reporter
After hearing budget requests from KU officials at a special meeting Thursday, the Kansas Board of Regents announced Friday that it would request salary and operating expense increases from the Kansas Legislature for fiscal year 1984.
The Regents settled on the following salary increases;
- 10 percent for unclassified employees, who are mostly faculty members, including a 9 percent salary increase and a 1 percent increase for the faculty retirement fund.
- 7 percent for classified employees in the form of a recommendation because their salaries are set by state guidelines and are not a part of the Bergens budget.
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CHANCELLOR GENE A. BUDIG said KU's fiscal 1884 request for program improvements was $1 million less than the request submitted a year ago.
He said that two-thirds of the requests for additional resources on the Lawrence campus were denied.
"It is a pared and reasonable proposal that we believemts strong support." Budig said.
Keith Nitcher, director of business and fiscal affairs, said that one factor in the lower budget request was a drop in enrollment of 476 students between the fall of 1980 and the fall of 1981.
"Because our credit-hour production was less,
we can give up $77,478 as an enrollment
adjustment."
THE NUMBER OF students enrolled and the number of credit hours generated help determine the amount of money KU will receive each year from the Legislature.
In the past, the Legislature has trimmed back the faculty salary increases proposed by the Regents. This year, however, the Regents are considering a reduction in members, than last year in hopes of avoiding a cut.
James Pickert, Regent from Emporia, said, "Last year we felt 13 percent was justified, and we did our best to defend it. We ended up with an approval of 7.5 percent from the Legislature."
See Budget page 8
Weather
today will be partly cloudy, with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The high will be in the low 80s, with winds from the south to southeast between 15 and 25 mph.
mph.
Tonight, it will be cloudy with a 60 percent chance of thunderstorms, with a low in the mid-60s.
1 tomorrow will be cloudy and cooler, with the temperature ranging between the high 70s
The extended forecast for the rest of the week is partly cloudy and pleasant, with the highs in the mid-70s and the lows in the mid-to- upper 50s.
By KATE DUFFY
Rains damage East Lawrence
Staff Reporter
Most days Garfield Street is very quiet.
Located between 13th and 14th streets in East Lawrence, it is a friendly block of small frame houses, neighbors who chat frequently across the street and flower garden and a dog named Lamar Gene.
But don't visit there when it has been raining
for very long. Chances are Garrard Street will look more like a lake than a residential block.
Residents say that's just what happened over the Memorial Day weekend when once again they watched their street become a river and their vards, small lakes.
Mary Holl, 817 Garfield, has lived on the block about one year long, enough for her house to be vacant. She's been married since 1954.
The water rose so high her neighbor, Rose Jimenez, 82 Bertalfard, almost lost her small dog, Lamar Gane, when railroad ties supporting a bridge collapsed, the strong currents, trapping him under the shed.
her neighbors' homes were flooded twice that weekend—Friday and Sunday.
"About 15 of us sat up until 3 Saturday morning, watching the water rise and waiting to see if we would have to move more of our possessions out," Boll said.
SHE AND HER neighbors described an eerie
mood with flood waters during
watershed flashages of light in trees.
"It was so dark that it was the only way we could see." she said.
"The current moved so quickly," Bolt said, "it popped the manhole cover off the sewer."
FLOODING IS NOT NEW to Garfield Street residents, nor for the neighboring E13th St.
Cat food corporation and humane societies work together in assisting feline friends
See Weather page 8
By CAROL MILLS Staff Reporter
Tori and her kittens lived in an abandoned car until the property owner decided to clean up the area. so he took Tori and her litter to the Lawrence Humane Society.
Now Tori walks, along with about 40 other cats, for someone to adopt her.
The 9-Lives Cat Food Corp is trying to help, too. In conjunction with humane societies throughout the nation 9-Lives is using its cat food products to promote the adoption of cats and kittens.
IF SOMEONE should adopt a book like Tortie, Morris will provide them a book on cat care, an adoption certificate and coupons for free cat
Fortunately for her, June is Adopt-a-Cat Month, and the staff of the Humane Society, 1805 E. 1910 St., is trying even harder to find a home for Torti.
The National Humane Society declared June to be Adopt-a-Cat Month because this is the peak breeding season for cats, Linda Decielles, manager of the Lawrence Humane
"Not only are we trying to find homes for all our cats and kittens, but we are trying to educate the public to have their cats neutered," she said.
dogs
WE HAVE A regular home-finder report on radio station KLWN, and we do get quite a few calls about the animals we tell about on the air," she said.
involved in the investigation, and she said that, as of Friday, the Society was keeping about 35 kittens and about 50 cats.
The home-finders report is broadcast daily at 1.30 p.m. The broadcast is strictly a public service and not restricted to residents.
and the temperament of the animals housed at the shelter are announced.
The broadcast tells listeners whether the animal being advertised is good with children, whether it is neighbored, the bread of food, or a small yard. A new yard is needed to keep it from straying.
But along with the announcements and the organization's efforts to educate the public the Humane Society also takes responsibility for stray and unwanted animals in Lawrence.
Monday Morning
The treasurer of the Society, Nancy Golden
DONATIONS MAY COME in the form of voluntary donations from people who have not adopted a cat or dog, but who simply want to help the Society.
Patterson, the annual cost of maintaining the shelter was about $92,000 a year.
"We receive about half of that from donations and half from the city," she said. The city contributes budget support because the shelter also acts as the city dog pound.
Or, if someone should adopt a cat, the new owner donates $25 for neutering the cat and $7.50 for shots, which all cats get when they are adopted. Decelles said she hoped that the new owner would give an additional donation to help fund the shelter.
Maintaining a cage and feeding a dog or a cat costs the Society about $5 a day, Decealles said. "So we can't keep them here indefinitely," she said.
"We keep the cats at least three working days," she said. "We may keep them longer. It really depends upon the animals' behavior and temperament.
'Most aren't here more than a month. We
either find them a home or have them put to sleep."
Most of the animals brought in are kittens, particularly in the spring months, she said.
"That's another thing we want to educate the public about," she said. "Not only should owners have their pets neutered, but they should also be aware of their responsibility for the animal's life span."
Some animals had homes before being brought to the shelter. But people get tired of keeping them, Decelles said, or the owners can't afford them anymore.
PREVENTING NEGLECT, as well as cruelty, to these pets, is the responsibility of the Society. Volunteers for the Society have volunteered to clean up areas headed by the Society's president, Chris Long.
On the average, the shelter houses 150 to 200 dogs a month, and about 75 to 150 cats. The Society finds homes for about 21 percent of the dogs and about 27 percent of the cats. Most of the dogs are reclaimed by the owners, but about 7 percent of the cats are reclaimed.
"People who lose their cats don't think of checking with us until a month passes," Decelles said. "It's hard to identify a cat, much more so than a dog."
"We put to sleep about 47 percent of the dogs and about 68 percent of the cats," Decelles said. The reason for the higher percentage of cats is that so many of the cats brought to the shelter are wild and can't be managed by the owner.
"PERHAPS THE LITTER was born somewhere outside of the owner's home and they didn't know about them," she said. "So they grew on wild."
Seventy percent to 80 percent of animals in shelters across the nation are put to sleep, Decelles said. "Our record is much better here," she said.
Photo by Susan Page
Homeless Tori and her kitewalk at the Lawrence Humane Society for someone to adopt them. June is Adopt-a-Cat Month at the Humane Society.
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