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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
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Monday, January 29, 1979
Vol. 89, No. 82
Lawrence. Kansas
Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
Time to relax
After a long afternoon sliding by Potters Lake, Rynn Polacca, 11, left, Mike Jimbo, 11, center and Lauri Scott, 9, decided to
call it a day and head for home as temperatures remained bitterly cold yesterday.
Kay says GOP strong at KU
By PATRICIA MANSON
TOPEKA-The Republican party is alive and well on the KU campus, according to Morris Kay, a Lawrence businessman and president of Topeka Valley College.
"I believe the professors, staff, administration and students at the University of Kansas all traditionally have leased toward Republican views," Kay said yesterday. "Without question the people have looked to the Republican party for political leadership."
The Republican party gains much of its support from students and educators, Kay said, because "historically in Kansas, Republicans have been the backbone of support for education at all levels."
ECONOMIC ISSUES will be important to students and educators in the next few years, he said. The Republican party's fiscal programs will help control inflation, so education costs will not increase; better opportunities for jobs and housing for students, he said.
Kay, who ran unopposed, was elected state chairman Saturday at the Republican party's annual Kansas Day in Topeka. Kansas Day traditionally is the time the Republicans elect new officers and make plans for the next state elections.
Kay, 46, is a Lawrence insurance agent and was the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1972. He helped organize the state's Republican primary in 1980.
OTHER OFFICERS elected Saturday were irene franzen or Merriam, vice chairman; Milly Johnson of Johnson, secretary; and Peter Koehler.
election won and enough new party members were elected so that the House of Representatives now has a Republican majority.
As the Republican state chairman, Kay will be responsible for fund-rasing, recruiting candidates and organizing campaigns. Kay said that the party would urge everyone to become involved in the elections and that he thought the Republicans would be successful.
"We're going to encourage everyone to participate in the party of his choice," Kay said. "I believe people will look at the record of the Republican party and see its quality programs and will turn to the party."
Du Pont spoke to about 600 people, including such Kansas Republican celebrities as Sens, Nancy Landon Kasebaum and Robert Dole, Rep. Larry Winn, Keith Sebelius and Jim Jeffries and former Roger F. Bennett.
THE VIRTUES of the Republican party were also the topic of Pierre du Pont, the Republican governor of Delaware and the guest speaker at the rally.
The 1978 election was the first election since 1932 to be fought on economic issues, du Dont said, and the many Republican victories demonstrated the voters' disillusionment with government interference in the economy.
"We were successful because the American people are getting tired of where we've been," du Pont said.
Carlin, 2 economists say recession in state unlikely
By TAMMY TIERNEY Staff Reporter
Although most economic forecasters predict that the U.S. economy could suffer a recession in the next year, at least two economists agree with Gov. John Carlin that it will not hit Kansas hard.
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Speaking Friday at the annual conference on the economic outlook for Kansas, Carlin and Walter Heller, a noted economist, said the Kansas economy could weather a recession with little difficulty.
And yesterday, Darwin Daifloch, director of the KU Institute for Economic and Business Research, said he, too, saw little cause to worry.
"It has been a historical record in Kansas that the state economy should be relatively unaffected by the nation's economy," Daicoff said.
"1 SEE NO reason for alarm in a downstreet of the state's economy and, really, no reason for alarm on the national level. Any excess
In his address at the Kansas Union, Carlin said he was satisfied with Kansas' economic growth in 1978.
He said that unemployment in Kansas last year was 3.6 percent, compared to a national-average of 6.1 percent. Personal income increased by 11.3 percent while wages and salaries increased by 11.5 percent. Both numbers were above the 8.1 consumer price index.
He also said that prospects for strong economic growth in 1979 were slim and growth would be modest.
Keeping Kansas economy stable, Carlin said, will take a joint effort of the state's government and businesses.
HOWEVER, he said, the Kansas economy has the potential to be immune from national business swings. Development of that potential, he said, would depend on national events and the way the state handled its resources.
Daioff agreed with Carlin's predictions and said the governor's forecast of 4 percent unemployment and 9 percent increase in labor force growth was a good idea.
Carlin also pledged he would recruit new businesses to Kansas.
upgrade the skills of the Kansas work force and monitor national farm policy.
Following Carlin's remarks, Heller, former chairman of the federal council of economic advisers, and the nation's economic problems rested on two issues: whether the economy was undergoing another inflation would go higher than its current rate of 7 percent.
HE SAID the nation's recovery from the recession of 1974 was showing no signs of age and that good sales in the last part of 1978 were continuing.
Heller predicted that after a strong start this year, business would slow to a growth rate of about 3 percent. The chances of a breakthrough were low.
He also said a recession would be short-lived and would not equal the severity of the 1974 recession
Daicoff, however, said there would be "no way in the world that national economic growth would be 3 percent." He said he thought 2
He attributed the current rate of inflation to the "cost-push" at wages and prices.
Heller said that even if Kansas escaped the impact of a nationwide recession, it could not avoid inflation.
"HOURLY COMPENSATION is rising at 8 percent a year, production is rising at 2 percent. That leaves a 6 percent rise in production."
Calling President Jimmy Carter a "penny-pinching populist," Heller praised his voluntary wage-pricing policy because it was
However, Dioeff said he thought Heller might be over-optimistic in saying the new policy would work.
"He might be quite positive and feel there'll be cooperation with the program, but I don't have much hone for it." he said.
"We're still the most affluent economy in the world, and the dollar is still the most sought-after currency," he said. "We have the money."
Men 'live' for a weekend
Heller told the group of 175 businessmen at the conference that he thought there was too much hand-writing and badmouthing about his business.
By KATHLEEN CONKEY
Staff Writer
"When that happens, I really would like to give people a lecture and tell them they're really cracked. But, usually I just turn around and go away."
"I went into a pizza place once in Kansas City, Mo., and the manager came out and said, 'I'm sorry, we can not serve you here.' I am the same as you, except I went in a wheelbarrow.
Jeff Hanson had no trouble speaking about the incident but he did have trouble reaching down from his wheelchair to pick up the phone. He was unable to reach under the paper with one hand and
lift it off the ground. Then, reaching down with his other hand, he struggled to open his fingers enough to get a grip on the paper's edge. Finally getting one, he brought the paper to his lap, using both hands. Hanson is an 18-year-old quadriplexer.
THE TWO MEN with him, Bill Bruel, and Ray Hinrichs, 20, have had cerebral injuries since he was as much trouble as Hanson placing his newspaper, and in addition, their speech is hard to understand. They all use wheelies, though Buell has limited experience.
Hanson, Buell and Hirichs were in Lawrence during the weekend as an experiment. They are students in a life skills class at the Cappel Foundation, a private institution in Topeka that specializes in topeks or orthopedically handicapped children.
Linda Lyle, an occupational therapist who created and teaches the life skills class, said yesterday that she saw a need in the three men, who will graduate with a year and a half, that her class could not meet: the need to experience life on their own.
Randy Kitch, 1423 Kentucky St., a Carpper graduate who occasionally teaches at Carpper, offered his apartment for the three to live in for a weekend.
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Moore takes KU contract payoff
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Bud Moore, fired in November as KU head football coach, has accepted a settlement offer that will pay him a lump sum of $78,320, the full salary amount called for in the two years that remained on his five-year contract.
Bob Marcum, director of men's athletics, said yesterday that he had received a hand-delivered letter from Moore during the weekend accepting the offer, which was the second attempt by University administrators to settle Moore's contract.
"I've received a confirmation from him," Marcum said. "He's agreed to the terms of this offer."
Moore was out of town on business yesterday and unavailable for comment.
Moore said in his letter, "I have decided to accept your offer as stated in your letter of acceptance."
Moore had rejected an earlier settlement after calling "considerably less" than the terms of the contract.
Marcum said Moore would receive a lump sum and that the arrangements for the funds would be made in advance.
"I really don't know where it will come from," Marcus said. "I want to get it on my own."
Coach Moore wants it settled by Wednesday."
Marcum said he planned to talk today with Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Mike Davis, University general counsel, about getting the money.
Davis said that he had no idea where the money would come from and that he had not been directly involved with the contract dispute.
It is not known whether Moore intends to seek fringe benefits, but Marcum said payment of the salary would fulfill the University's obligations.
“As soon as we get the financial arrangements made, the matter’s closed,” he said.
Future uncertain for 1858 barn
By SHIRLEY SHOUP
A barn that is possibly the oldest building in Lawrence might be leveled by a developer's builder if no one comes up with an acceptable plan and money to
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The 12-year-old barn, on the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Lawrence Avenue, was used as a studio for 13 years by the late Bernard (Poco) Frazier, former KU sculptor in residence, and a nationally recognized sculptor.
But Arvella and Malcom Frazier, daughter and son of the sculptor, who died in May 1956, may have to save the statue that Joe Grover an early Lawrence leader.
The barn's 118.6-acre-site, now owned by Parkside Investment, Lawrence, was rezoned last week to permit the construction of houses.
"We tried everything we could to keep it," Arvella said. "But when my father died, we lost it in court."
WE WERE going to keep it as a studio. We had dreams it could turn into something really beautiful."
She said that after the barn was sold at an auction, the new owners offered to sell it back to her family for $50,000.
Richard Benton, one of the owners of the barn, said, "We have money invested in the land and we would have to be a very careful buyer side of it, but we couldn't write it off.
"We aren't rich," Malcolm said. "We didn't have that kind of money."
HE SAID architects were divided over whether the barn could be renovated. The only way to find out would be to make the plans and try them, he said.
Robert Gould, a Lawrence architect,
said the cost to preserve the barn
depended on its use. He said the initial
investment would be $40,000 to $50,000
to buy the barn and to get the project
started.
Benton said, "We don't have any plans either way. But it would be expensive to preserve as a house."
However, the owners did meet last week to explore possibilities of saving the barn, which reportedly was a stop on the road. A few years later, an example of early stone architecture that is becoming increasingly difficult to find, according to Anne Claussen, director of the barn.
But there still are no definite plans to renovate the barn.
"It would be nice to just give it away, but I'm not a man of wealth. If we gave it away it would be disastrous financially."
Gould said individuals in his office had
proposed buying and renovating the barn.
"We are interested in seeing it saved, but we haven't gotten too far yet," he said.
He said there were more than 2,000 square feet on one floor and the building had the potential for three floors. Bringing the entire barn up to higher standards would cost much more than the initial investment, he said.
GOULD SAID the proposed plans were to turn the barn into a home with a studio.
Although it was possible the barn could serve as a cooperative where space could be rented to artists, such as some places in California do, Gould said he had not seen any interest for such a project by anyone. He would have to be done by a private investor.
Clausen said, "Whatever is done should make economic sense."
"It would probably be best to have a private individual refurbish it as a home," she said. "Because of its value, I hate to see它去打泥 the drain."
If the barn were not renovated, Benton said, the barn would probably have to be torn down because it is structurally unsound.
Endangered barn
The old Grover barn, built in 1859, on the corner of 23rd Street and
Staff photo by BARB KINNEY
Lawrence Avenue, may be a victim of city expansion unless money can be raised to save it.