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University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Wednesday, February 10, 1982
Vol. 20, No. 93 USPS 650-640
Gleason will call again for Watson's dismissal
BySTEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Lawrence City Commissioner Tone Gleason said last night that he would fire city manager Buford Watson in a special closed session of the city commission at 3.30, Feb. 18.
"I don't know what else I'd do," he said
Watson's dismissal would have to be approved by a majority of the five commissioners.
The commission decided to hold the executive session while they were in another executive session during last night's regular commission meeting.
the commission also decided that there would be an informal meeting every three months for discussion of the city manager's progress in
complying with the terms of his yearly evaluation
The special session Feb. 18 will be one of the quarterly discussions of Watson's progress.
But Comquerer Barkley Clark said, "I think this one will be different. I feel need to make a change."
Watson would not speculate on the outcome of the next executive session.
Commissioners called last night's executive session in response to the disclosure last week that Gleason had written a letter to Watson asking that he resign.
In response to Gleason's letter, a group that includes two former city commissioners has submitted a bill to change the definition.
Clark said he thought the upcoming executive
session would be the decisive one and that Walters outwardly have to face the possibility of being in danger of ever running away.
"If a decision is made to retain the city manager that creates a pretty good presumption, it should be a matter of law."
Clark said Gleason's letter to Watson was not discussed in the executive session.
"I bit my tongue tonight instead of talking about Gleason," Clark said. "I thought his action was a rebuke to his fellow commissioners and his peers." He added books for the commission on matters of this kind.
" in duuruit had followed Gleason's advice and resigned, we would have had a city manager resign on the basis of an act by a single commissioner."
In his letter to Watson, Gleason said, "I have not discussed my decision with my colleagues on the commission, but I would not be willing to make the motion if I did not feel it would be
Clark said, "certainly hope he doesn't have three votes in his pocket."
Gleason said last night that his motion to fire Watson at the coming session would be a way of "dealing with Watson's apparent inability to respond evenhandedly to a diverse community. And as communities go, Lawrence is certainly one of the most diverse."
Gleason's letter said that Watson's continued employment had become controversial and risky.
The letter also said, Your employment itself continues to be a central source of contention both on the city commission and among
Mayor Marci Francisco said the commission did not review Watson's job performance last night because it was unfair to take such action without officially announcing it first.
She also said that the commission decided to standardize its procedure for evaluating the city
Commissioner Nancy Shontz said, "Once a year we will have a through evaluation. Each commissioner will produce a written document."
Watson said, "I'm very happy with the city commission saying they'll look at these progress reports."
Bitter cold fails to deter fans
By DAVE McQUEEN
Sports Writer
The rowdy throng sitting behind the KU bench at last night's KU-Missouri game was definitely not a bunch of fair weather fans.
In fact, most of them braved several hours of one-chilling cold just for the privilege of sitting under a table.
And despite KU's disappointing 42-11 loss to the Cavaliers, the fans' spirit and enthusiasm remained his base.
By the time the northeast doors to Allen Field House opened at 6 p.m., several hundred cheering, cap-gun shooting students stood in a long, winding line that stretched to the Parrot Athletic Center. They whiled away the time by doing nothing from studying to playing basketball.
"We had a group that was down here at 9:30 and we've been here ever since," Kipp Woods, Garden City sophomore, said. Woods, along with many of his sophomores, were standing at the front of the line.
Woods said that he and several others living on his floor in Ellsworth Hall had spent the day taking turns standing in life saving seats for everyone else on the floor.
Although the temperature was in the teens and a strong wind was blowing, Schauerd didn't seem to be swaying.
"I did it last year and it was cold out," Schueler said. "It was worth it."
The cold didn’t discourage Lloyd Hemingway, Wichita senior. Hemingway also was saving his mind.
Most of the people in line said they'd been doing it for years. To them, the sacriice was worth it. However, Tom Kayzius, Wheaton, Ill., sophomore, was starting to have his doubts.
"It was cold three years ago when I stood out seven hours for the K-State game," Hemingway went on.
"No, it's not worth it," Kayzis, who had been standing in line for 45 minutes, than 90 minutes, said.
Although the Jayhawks have been struggling all year, and Missouri had recently been knocked out of the number one spot in college basketball, the fans' enthusiasm for the game did not seem
*Missouri* and Kansas has always been the game of the year. Lonnie Dillon, Lawrence
"I wish we were the ones to beat them first." Ed Morrison, Lake Bluff, Ill., senior, said.
Weather
Tomorrow's high will be in the low 30s.
Today will be mostly cloudy with a high in the low 28th, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Skies will clear tonight. The overnight low will be 5 to 10. Winds will be from the southwest at 10 to 20 mph.
Despite the encouragement from Tim Henderson, Pratt sophomore, and thousands of others, the Jayhawks fell to Missouri last night, 42-41. Henderson and a friend painted their faces red and blue for the occasion.
Drug paraphernalia still prevalent despite law
By BECKY ROBERTS
Staff Reporter
Shops in Lawrence still sell bongs, pipes and rolling papers seven months after Kansas passed its drug paraphernalia law.
Last June the Kansas Legislature passed a law making it illegal to sell "drug paraphernalia." Drug paraphernalia was defined as all materials used or intended for use in planting, producing, injecting, ingesting or inhaling a controlled substance.
Since the state law was passed in June, two shops in Lawrence have continued to sell items that could be considered drug paraphernalia.
Exile Records and Tapes, 15 W. Ninth St., Bokoton Imports Ltd and Potion Painer, 12 E.
Eighth St., are and operating much as they were last spring before the law passed.
In both shops, pipes, waterpipes and rolling papers are displayed on shelves. Both stores have signs that say the merchandise is not to be used with controlled substances.
Exile Records and Tapes is now appealing a case against Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan. An association of Kansas paraphernalia dealers filed a lawsuit against Stephan not long after the state law was passed.
The owner of Exile, Steve Flack, said he would not comment on the effect the law has had on his business until the court has made a decision in the case.
Mark Williams, manager of Bokonon, said his shop had decreased its inventory but refused to comment further on the paraphernalia law.
Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney, has not changed his opinion of the case.
Malone said in August that he thought the law was unenforceable because of the number of things that could be used as drug paraphernalia. Malone used as an example a grocery store being found guilty of selling paraphernalia because it sold Baggies.
"It was more cosmetic than anything else." Malone said. "It's a basically unenforceable law that the state passed to show they were doing something to enforce drug laws."
Have prosecutor Mike Glover said there been no court cases in Lawrence indictments?
Glover said the law was hard to enforce because some items such as cigarette papers were used for smoking controlled substances as well as tobacco.
"There is a certain amount of unenforceability because there is a legitimate legal use for items in the gray area such as pipes and papers," Glover said.
Some other stores in Kansas are taking more precautions selling smoking accessories.
Mother Earth in Topeka still sells pipes, cigarette papers and water pipes, but tries to sell them only for use with legal substances, store employees said.
"We throw people out of our store all the time when they make a reference in conjunction with illegal consumption," employee Sherry Connell, said.
"Nothing we sell is for illegal purposes.
Everything is for use with tobacco and snuff."
Connell said the store also distributed a sheet that explained the store's rules on
selling items for use only with legal substances.
The sheet says that employees are instructed to ask a customer to leave if they have reason to suspect he will use an accessory with an illegal substance, or if they overhear a conversation concerning an illegal substance. Connell said.
The store takes this precaution so that Mother Earth can continue to serve its children.
Johnson County stores are having a more difficult time selling paraphernalia.
The Chooses Beggar in Overland Park has had all of its authority confiscated by the county authorities.
Almost any item called "drug paraphernalia" can be displayed as having legal purposes.
The store is now awaiting a ruling in a court case filed by the state against the store's
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Defects riddle drug law, reps. sav
By COLLEEN CACY
Staff Reporter
Some local legislators agree that a law passed last year in the Kansas Legislature banning the use of drug paraphernalia is ineffective, but they say the Legislature is unlikely to make any changes in it this session.
The law prohibits the use of all equipment used to grow, manufacture or consume organic food.
"I would agree that the thing is probably unenforceable," State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said Monday. "But I would not expect much to be done about it this session. The Legislature probably realizes it is not right, but this is not the right climate to change it.
"It is slightly ridiculous because many items in a grocery store are considered paraphernalia. I don't see much you could do with more teeth into it. What would you add to it?"
STATE REP. John Solbach, D-Lawrence agreed.
Branson said legislators favored the bill because they saw it as a method of cutting down jobs.
"It's about as effective as it can be," he said. "That was one of those bills that moved through the Legislature like a speeding train. I didn't throw myself on the tracks."
Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney, said he thought the law was unenforceable because of the variety of things that could be called paraphernalia.
the un had nud of popular appeal in terms of the Legislature," she said. "They thought they were acting responsibly in attempting to cut down on drug abuse."
Sobach said the law was designed to provide tools for district attorneys to protect communities from socially harmful conduct.
"Our DA, Mike Malone, has indicated that he doesn't need those tools, that he already has them and that it's not a very useful tool," he said.
Miller said a group of parents angry about the availability of drugs in Wichita, which is
BUT STATE REP, Robert H. Miller, R-Wellington, the member of the House Judiciary Committee who proposed the original bill said the law had good results in community
"It has eliminated a bunch of stuff on the market in my area," he said. "It was enough of a deterrent to those selling it that they've had to sell it." You just don't see the stuff around anymore."
near Wellington, encouraged him to propose the bill.
"They're very pleased," he said. "They're
happy about its results."
"It goes along the lines of the uniform act proposed by the Drug Enforcement Administration," he said. "It's been very well received."
State Rep. Joe Hoagland, R-Kansas City, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said several recent court cases had upheld the constitutionality of the law.
The bill passed incorporated provisions of the Drug Paraphernalia Act, drafted by the DEA.
"It has caused a reduction in retail establishments." Hoagland said. "I suppose there's a black market or something, but as far as the record shops and so-called head shops, it's pretty much closed those places up."
STATE REP, Arthur Douville, R-Overland Park, a member of the committee, said the Legislature might be willing to make changes to make the law more effective.
"If the prosecutor takes the attitude that he'll try to prosecute in the areas he thinks the law is reasonably clear, if he has problems, he can come back to us" he said. "We'd be glad to know where there are problems. We'll try to help him."