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Leaders stress value of economic growth
By KATE DUFFY Staff Reporter
Community leaders should continue to work together to promote economic development in Lawrence, which would insure low taxes and stable city services in the future, the chamber of commerce president said Friday.
President Martin Dickinson told city, county, business and educational leaders at the chamber's annual community planning meeting, held at the Kansas Union, that increased economic activity would also increase jobs and promote a high quality of life in Lawrence.
Dickinson presided over the four-hour meeting, which was attended by 28 representatives from the Lawrence City Commission, the Douglas County Commission, the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, the University of Kansas, Lawrence Unified School District 497 and Haskell Indian Junior college.
PARTICIPANTS AGREED that economic development was important, but did not specify what it meant.
improve the local economy. Mayor Marci Francisco expressed doubts that simply attracting new industry would solve the problem of a sluggish econo-
"Industry is laying off, and industrial expansion is important, but we don't want to feel the roller coaster effects like the rest of the nation," she said.
"The educational system is still Other communities want industry, and how many are there to go around?" Francisco asked.
Francisco also said it was important to support existing businesses, as well as new ones.
Tom Gleason and Nancy Shontz, city commissioners, agreed during the discussion that they would like to see a high-technology research park established in Lawrence as a primary form of economic development. Research parks generally have been associated with the design and development of electronic equipment and with other light industry.
BUT SHONTZ EXPRESSED doubts expansion new land for industrial expansion
"I think we have all the land we need within the city limits for industry," she
The chamber recently canceled plans for an industrial park north of Lawrence.
Gary Toebben, executive vice president of the chamber, discussed a study saying that research parks were most successful in areas with a strong, nearby waterfront; not necessarily necessary for Lawrence's stability that the city keep attracting new industry.
Currently, Toebben said, Lawrence industry pays the city between $3 million and $4 million a year in property taxes.
City Manager Buford Watson stressed that it was everybody's job to attract new businesses, especially retail, to downtown Lawrence. He also mentions participants to "be positive and tell developers why we want down town business."
"Next week is Industry Appreciation Week, and I bet half of the people in this room don't know that Aeropidm manpower or what Color Press prints, he said.
Watson also said rising transportation costs were critical to Lawrence's future. Most eastern cities pay 60 percent to 90 percent of their public transportation costs, he said, and there was a chance that county could finance a fixed-route bus system.
LAWRENCE'S ONLY PUBLIC bus system, financed by KU Student Senate, will probably not expand any further and may be cut back in the future, David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, said.
Ambler said that although KU's enrollment had increased over the years, the number of students using the bus system had remained the same.
About three weeks ago, the city commission appointed a Transportation Advisory Board, whose task, Transco said, will be to assess what Transportation currently exists in the city and consider ways to add to it.
"One concern of the board is to coordinate existing transportation services for special populations and find out how the existing system, including the KU bus system, can be augmented." Francisco said.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—With the deadline for ratification only 23 days away and their hopes for victory fading, more than 40,000 proponents of the Equal Rights Amendment marched and rallied yesterday here and in three other states considered essential to victory.
Thousands rally for $ER^{A}$
Demonstrations were held in Illinois, Florida, Oklahoma and North Carolina, although North Carolina's fifth time to table the proposal.
The ERA, which would-guarantee equal rights for women under the U.S. Constitution, has been approved by 35 states, and needs three more to win ratification. The campaign is concentrating on the four states in which its leaders think it has the best chance.
Former first lady Betty Ford; Sharon Former rockeeller, first lady of West Virginia; and Chicago Mayors Hugh Carey and Elaine Illinois rally, which began with a
religious service honoring seven women festing for the amendment.
In Washington, D.C., which has no voice on ratification, more than 1,000 women participated in an ERA vigil at the National Cathedral, and most of the 1,500 delegates to a YWCA convention in Washington fasted yesterday in support of the ERA effort.
More than 10,000 people, a "conservative estimate," police said, marched a mile-long route to the Florida statehouse in Tallahassee.
"It's been a long, long time. It's been a hard battle. This is our last mile. We are one mile from home." He turned to the burying ceremony. Dade county NOW president.
Gov. Bob Graham, who called a three-day special session of the legislature June 21 to consider the amendment, led the speakers.
A crowd police estimated at 11,000 rallied in Oklahoma City for Oklahoma to reconsider ERA.
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