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Thursdav. February 1, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Legal services program to begin at KU next week
By CAROL BEIER
Staff Reporter
A long-awaited prepaid legal services program for KU students will become available early next week, according to Mike Harper, student body president.
"I'm glad we can finally see the end of the nightmare," he said recently.
The program was originally scheduled to start at the beginning of this semester, following the hiring of an attorney. Harper the attorney would be hired by the end of January.
nowever, he now anticipates another delay.
"THE LEGAL Services Board will meet Thursday to interview the last two applicants for the position," Harper said Tuesday. "I expect to have their recommendation and to be able to hire someone by early next week."
The board received 24 applications for the $15,000 to $18,000 a year lawyer's position. The attorney and legal services staff will be required to have 600 allocated last year by the Student Senate.
Harper said that finding office space for the program had been a problem. Legal Services will be housed in the Kansas Union until space becomes available in the United
Ministries of Higher Education building, 12th and Oiread streets. An office should be located on the left side.
THE PROGRAM will eventually have its permanent office in the satellite union. The new union is scheduled for completion in August.
The administration has approved Phase I of the Legal Services program to provide
- Preparation, drafting or review of legal documents.
- Conferences, correspondence, or negotiations with adversary parties before birth.*
- Notarial acts.
- Incorporation of KU student organizations for non-profit purposes.
Harper said he was confident the administration would approve Phase II of the program, which provides for expansion of his office. He also represented a representation by the legal services attorney.
"IF WE MANAGE this program properly, we will have the courtroom services by July 31."
"Once we prove the need for this program, the Board of Regents and the chancellor will recognize it as a viable service." Harper said.
By BRUCE THOMAS
Walt Stort, of Palmrys Township, was snowbound for five days after a nine-inch snow hit Douglas County on Jan. 13. His house was only one-eighth of a mile from a backpack road, but Palmyra did not clear the snow to his house.
Snows strain Palmyra budget
Staff Reporter
Palmya, one of nine townships in Douglas County, has had a hard time clearing snow from its roads this winter, according to Howard Deay. Palmyra treasurer. He said the county should invest the township's budget in a bind for the rest of the year.
Deay said Storz was one of about 25 persons in Palmyra who had been stranded for five days by the snowstorm. Palmyra township, which includes Baldwin City, is southeast of Lawrence.
Palmyra has 180 miles of roads, more than any other Douglas County township. It has had to hire private contractors three times this year to clear snow from township movements.
"I've been telling my neighbors and some of the other people that these snowes have cost the township so much money that we might have to shut down work on the roads this summer." Dea said.
DEAY SAID Palmery had spent about $2,500 to hire private contractors last winter. He estimated the township had spent $6,000 this month for extra help to clear the roads. Palmery's total 1979 road budget is $99,000.
Three sources of revenue make up the Palmyra road rant: township property taxes, a gas tax allocated by the city, and land taxes.
Residents vote on the special road fund every two years, the maximum mill rate allowed by the county for this fund is $12.50 per person a month.
The mill rate represents the number of dollars each property owner must pay for each thousand dollars of his
Deay said the special road fund could be used only to pay for the roads. He said the township overcamped last year.
"I can have a lot of money for rock, but if I don't have the money to haul it, I can't use it." Dee said.
Rock is used to fill potholes and build road entrances.
THE TOWNSHIP with the largest budget in the county is Wakarusa. Its road budget is more than double Palmyra's, but it has less than half the miles of road Palmyra has.
The Wakarusa township, which borders Lawrence on three sides, has many businesses that lie outside the town.
These businesses will pay most of the $133,347 the township will receive in 1979 for property taxes, according to records in the County Courthouse. The biggest taxpayer in the township is the Kansas Power and Light Co.
William F. Bradley, Wakarusa trustee, said his township had not had to hire private contractors to remove snow this year. He said he had not received any reports of damage.
In addition, Wakurawa was able to clear its 85 miles of roads without working its four full-time employees the day before.
Of the other County townships, only Leptompson reported that people had been stranded for as long as
TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS in Lecompont, Marion and Willow Springs said they did not think they would spend over their budgets unless more heavy snow fell this winter.
The other townships in Douglas County are Eudora, Grant, Kanwaka and Clinton.
Deay said the budget difficulties of Palmrys had been caused by this month's unusually heavy snow.
"Most of the old-timers can't remember a winter when we have had so much snow." he said.
Dey said he had talked to county officials last year to see whether he could increase the township budget, but had been told it could be done only by appealing to the Kansas Legislature.
"If only one little township the Legislature for more money, you little know that we wouldn't have much of a farm."
"If we run out of money and can't maintain the roads, then everybody will just have to drive over rough roads."
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Kansas River threatens Lawrence land fill
The professor, Wakefield Dort, has found that a curve of the Kansas River is pushing northward, cutting into a stretch of river in eastern Kansas. The sanitary bank northwest of Lawrences
By LYNN BYCYNSKI
THE RIVER is eroding its banks near the landfill at a rate of 50 feet a year, according to the study Dort, a professor of geology, completed for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Staff Reporter
"The river is not threatening the landfill right now," he said yesterday, "but I wouldn't want to bet on what would happen in 10 years."
Dort said the course of a river could change in a short period of time for no objection.
The Kansas River is constantly changing
the course, eating away the land on one side,
and leaving a bank of mud.
The farmers may soon be joined in their misery.
Farmers along the meandering river have complained for years about the river stealing their soil, but they have learned to cope with their ramblings.
A KU professor has found that the Kansas River may pose a threat to another landowner along its banks—the city of Lawrence.
"WE FOUND that, in a given period, the same stretch of river might not behave the
same throughout," he said. "We have no idea what the controls are."
Dort said he had gathered information about the river's behavior by studying maps dating back as far as 125 years. He compiled the information from the maps into a 41-page book that shows all the channels the river has cut in that time.
DORT SAID he had determined areas of the river that had been shifting in the past two years by studying aerial photographs of the region.
In the last century the Kansas River has snaked through its flood plain, claiming
The most rapidly eroding area is Weaver Bottoms, near Eudora. Last year, the foundation of a two-story house became a cave where gnawing water and collapsed into the river
A second area of concern is Schaake Bend, named for Larry Schaake, a land owner who has lost most of his property to the river.
Fall Leaf, once a small town between
Fall Leaf and Eudora, now is a ben in the
Kangaroo Park.
Dort said he had found three areas near Lawrence where the river was cutting into the city.
SCHAKE WAS BORN in a house on the south side of the river, three miles east of the mouth.
The third section of river that Dort said is eroding rapidly was a stretch of land made up of
gone now. of the 110 acres that Schaake's grandfather bought in 1880, only six remain.
"By then, I would say the Corps of Engineers would get the river stabilized," he said.
The landfill, sandwiched between a levy and the river northwest of Lawrence, is now about 1,500 feet from the river's edge. Dorf said. If the river does not change its course present rate of erosion continues, the landfill will not meet the river for 30 years.
THE UNION of river and landfill would not be a problem in 30 years, according to Chet McLaughlin, a sanitary engineer for the Environmental Protection Agency.
The landfill would have been covered for at least 25 years and all the organic material would have decomposed in that time, McLauzhlin said.
Stabilizing the small stretch of river near the landfill would not be a big job, according to John Turner, a hydrologist for the Corps of Engineers.
ROCK DIKES or riprap—usually chunks of cement or old car bodies—could be used to strengthen the river bank and prevent it from eroding. Turner said.
"If we tinker with one spot, we're likely to cause more trouble than we stop." Dort
the river's natural meandering could cause flooding problems downstream.
However, Dort said any interference with
Turner said Dort's study was an initial project to determine the problem areas along the Kansas River. The Corps will now investigate the stability of stabilizing those areas of the river.
The day of reckoning for the Lawrence sanitary landfill, however, may not be so difficult.
"We'll run an economic analysis based on the cost and benefits of a program, then we'll make a recommendation to Congress in 1981," Turner said.
Max Slimankard, assistant director of public works, said the landfill will be full and expanded.
But new EPA regulations, expected to be announced this summer, may force the city to phase the landfill out of operation before it is full.
MelLaughlin said the new EPA guidelines probably would probit landfills that were on a 100-year flood plain, an area with a ratio of being flooded once every hundred years.
"I doubt the Lawrence landfill will be able to meet that criterion." McLaughlin said. "I would say they're going to have problems."
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Candidates for the city commission are Binns, 1422. Ellen Glenn Drive; Jack Landreth, 1709 St. Andrews Drive; Marci Francisco, 1046 Ohio; Robert J. Schumann, 1720 St. Andrews Drive; and Florence (Danny) Drum, 1906 Marmorve Road.
School board candidates are Charles Oldfather, Route 5; Martha Marsain, 709 Mississippi; Julie Hack, 2216 Massachusetts; Ronald G. Schmidt, 424 Lazybrook Lane; and Mary Louise Wright, 1734 Illinois.
A primary would have been necessary if more than six persons had filed for the commission seats or if more than eight had filed for the school board positions.
This will be the first time since 1951 that a primary has not been held. In 1951 Lawrence switched from a mayor-council government to a city commission.
Five persons filed for three city com-
mission seats and five persons filed for four
city commission seats.
Spring primary not necessary for school, city
The only incumbent in the commission race is Mayor Donald Binns. Commissioners Marrie Arngersinger and Jack Sanders announced that they would not seek re-election.
The city of Lawrence will not hold a primary election this spring because only 10 persons had filed for nine city commission positions by Tuesday's noon deadline.
The KU Sail Club invites all interested people to attend their weekly meeting, Thursday, Feb. 1, 7:30 in the Big 8 Room of the Union.
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