University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, October 10. 1978
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Deposit box thieves hit Salvation Army
By ED FENSHOLT Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Salvation Army's Lawrence extension has long been plagued by persons who have broken their cellphones or have local deposit boxes, but little can be done to stop the thefts, the director of the local library said.
"I know we have had a problem of people getting into the boxes," Leanna Swiger, director of the Salvation Army Store, 16 E. Ninth St., said yesterday."I'm always running somebody out there, but they just turn right around and come
Swiger said on that Sunday she noticed a pickup truck parked next to a box at Ninth and Rhode Island streets, just a few feet from her store.
"There was some furniture stacked outside the box," she said, "and they were just loading it up."
But Swiger said people did not just steal items left outside the box.
"THEY CRAIL, right down inside to get the clothes," she said. "There's an old man who lives down the street — he reaches down in them with a stick and pulls things over."
Swinger said local police and some area stores had tried unsuccessfully to help
"There's not much the police can do about it," she said. "They can chase them on patrol."
"Some of the stores around here will call me up and say, 'there's somebody in the box.' But there's really nothing I can do."
Swiger said the problem was compounded by her store's lack of storage space, forcing her to rely almost entirely on the deposit boxes.
"We have to people put the clothes in the deposit boxes," she said. "We tried to figure out how we could store, but the fire marshal said it was a fire hazard, and our fire insurance went."
SWIGER SAID she could not ever remember seeing a KU student taking anything from the boxes.
"It's usually the kids and the older people," she said.
Though most of the thefts occur at night and on weekends, some people steal from the boxes in broad daylight. Swinger said
Swiger said she was frustrated by the thefts, because of the lost revenue and the damage to her items in the boxes. But she said she could understand why some people stole from understanding why some people stole from
"It's frustrating to get calls from people who say, 'I'm not going to put things in the boxes because people are digging in there,' she said. "But if a person really needed something, and then he was going to dig it, she would hand his taking it. But to take things, and then sell them at a garage sale—I don't think that's right at all."
The Douglas County Commission yesterday approved the final contracts for the remodeling of the Douglas County Courthouse.
The final two contracts were for draperies and for moving the county offices back to Lafayette.
The remodeling contract for the final part of the project had stipulated a deadline of 60 days.
However, the county's architect on the project told the commission that the courthouse might not be ready for the movers to begin until the last week in Oct
Jim Williams, partner in the architectural firm of Peters, Williams & Kubota, which was hired to coordinate the project, gave the equipment he used for the draperies and the office moving.
THE COMMISSION approved both contracts unanimously.
The moving contract was awarded to Ehman A. Smith Moving and Storage Inc. 12345
Final courthouse contracts signed
Smith Moving also won the contract for moving the county offices, the courts and the sheriff's department into the Douglas Downtown Damment Center when the center opened in 1978.
The first moving contract cost the county $ 44.40 and took two weeks to complete.
The contract approved and signed yesterday by the commission was for $4,588. Only the county offices will be moved back on Friday. The county allows seven days to complete the move.
The move will not begin, however, until the courthouse has been inspected by the
architects, and the contractor has made any corrections found necessary by the in-
The contract for draperies for the courthouse was awarded to Jan's Interiors Inc. 2851 Four Wheel Drive. The drapery contractor, who signed it, was also signed by the commission on the yearend.
**WILLIAMS SAID** his firm would inspect the top two floors of the courthouse tomorrow morning at 10. After that, he said, the electrical system required the mechanical and electrical systems.
Williams and these contracts should be the last ones needed for the remodeling project.
Yugoslav to teach at KU
According to Gerald Mikkelson, chairman of the department of Slavic languages and literatures, Popovic will be on campus for a one-day visit by the visiting curator. His seminars will be open to the public and free of charge. He will spend spring semester at the University of Pittsburgh.
Popovic was selected to lecture in the
Lectures by Bogdan Popovic, a prominent Yugoslavian literary critic and Fulbright-Hays exchange scholar, will highlight a new book by Anatolij Kornac on contemporary Yugoslavian literature.
KANSAN On Campus
TODAY: A YOM KIPUPR SERVICE will be at 1 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union, COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION SEMINAR on computer instruction in chemistry by Alfred Lata will be at 4 p.m. in the computer services department. BY MARK VOLLEYALL MANAGERS MEETING will be at 5:15 p.m. for recreational league and b.p.m. for competitive "A" league in the south gymnasium of Robinson Gymnasium.
TONIGHT: KU AEA will meet at 7 in 303 Bailey Hall SU BRIDGE will meet at 7 in the Pine Room of the Union. OPERATION FRIENDSHIP, SPONSORED BY THE Baptist Student Union, will meet at 7 at 1629 W. 18th ST. COLLEGE REPUBLICANS will meet at 7 at 1629 W. 18th ST. COLLEGE REPUBLICANS will meet at 7 at 1629 W. 18th ST. COLLEGE REPUBLICANS will meet at 7 at 1629 W. 18th ST. COLLEGE REPUBLICANS will meet at 7 in the Jawhayk Room of the Union. CURT T. SCHNEIDER, Kansas Attorney General, will deliver a speech at 8 in the Jawhayk Room. His appearance is sponsored by the College Republicans and the Young Democrats. CONCERNED STUDENTS IN THE INTERNACTIVE ROOM OF the International Room of the Union. WIND ENSEMBLE RECITAL will be at 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murray Hall.
TOMORROW: KANSSA SAVINGS AND LOAN LEAGUE CONFERENCE meets all day at the Union.AUDIO-READER SEVENTH BIRTHDAY PARTY will be at union. A social lifefare LECTURE. Could you attend in Human Services, "by Arabia Martinez, assistant HEW secretary for human development, will be at 2 p.m. in the Jayhawk room of the Union.INTRAMURAL VOLLEYBALL MANAGERS MEETING will be at 5:18 p.m. for conference league in the north gymnasium of Robinson Gymnasium. SCIENCE FICTION CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room at the Union. There will be a CARLILLON RECITAL by Albert Gerken at 7 p.m. KUAD CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk room at the Union. There will be a CARLILLON RECITAL by Albert Gerken at 7 p.m. KUAD CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk room at the Union. There will be a CARLILLON RECITAL by Albert Gerken at 7 p.m. KUAD CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Wainnut room of the Union.
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Three residents complained to the commission about their assessments at last week's meeting. Two of the residents asked for a reassessment by the city.
Jim Backman, one of the residents, said last week that he did not think he should pay his total assessment because his house, built in 1924, was too large to be planned, later was added to that neighborhood district. He said he wanted the teacher to bear a larger proportion of the cost.
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Some Lawrence residents, upset with the amount of taxes they have been assessed to fund construction projects in their neighborhood, will be on the tonight for a reduction in the assessments.
Eight neighborhood districts are being considered for streets, sidewalks, storm fronts and floodplains.
THE COMMISSION also plans to discuss whether to apply for an Urban Development
Action Grant to partially fund the redevelopment of the area at Sixth and Ninth Sts. NYC (NYC STS)
The grant is issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The grant requires that there be a commitment by a business firm to build in the redevelopment area, Buford Watson, city manager, said. The city has considered Mauntour, an travel agency with headquarters in Lawrence, to make the commitment.
Watson said in a letter to the city commissioners last week that the city was interested in redevelopment of the downtown area that it was a good time to file for the grant.
The commission will meet at 7 p.m. in the conference room on the fourth floor of the First National Bank Tower 910 Stets St. The meeting is open to the public.
Page Edwards, an international mime,
will perform tomorrow night at 8 in the
Hashinger Hall theater, Ame Abrams,
program coordinator, said yesterday.
Hashinger hosts mime in series
The program is the first semester in the Hashing Hall Guest Artist Series, which is funded through a grant from the Cultural Enrichment Committee, she said.
The Guest Artists Series was suggested by several Hassinger residents after a request by the Pearson Committee for ideas on how to enrichment and development of KU Students.
Edwards has been in the theatre for twenty years. He first appeared on Broadway in
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"Embezzled Hever," a play starring Ethel Barrimore, Brams said.
The performance is open to the public. Admission is free.
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"I HAVE BEEN absolutely delighted, absolutely satisfied," Popovic said. "Of course, I wanted to come and see the so-called big world."
Popovic was born in Novi Sad, a town in the northern part of Serbia, and grew up in Yugoslavia. He worked for several years as a professor at the University, and then became director of that paper's publishing house. While employed there, he made his application to the exchange office.
He is the author of several books and prepared editions of Yugoslavian literature. His published anthologies include "Laza Kostic," a study of the poems of a Romantic romantic poet, and "Poetry and Tradition," an anthology of modern poetry.
Popovic said he would welcome the opportunity to do research in this country.
"THEE ARE SOME correspondences between American and Yugoslavian literature, Popovic said. "Contemporary English is somewhat somewhat by American and English nouns."
The topic of this lecture, to be held from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., in the Governor's Room of the Kansas Union, will be Yugoslavian literature between World War I and World War II. The next seven lectures, which will cover literature from that period, will place each Tuesday in the International room of the Union from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Mikkelsen said students could obtain one hour of credit in Slavic 760, Readings in Serbo-Croatian, by attending the lectures, and 15 hours of temporary Yugoslavian literature and completing a short research paper. Anyone interested in receiving this credit should contact Mikkelsen or William March, professor of Slavic languages and literatures.
Compiled by Henry Lockard
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Jayhawk Room-Kansas Union
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Actress, writer, and professor, will read from her poetry and fiction on Thursday evening October 12, 1978 in Swarthout Auditorium in Murphy Hall at 8:00 pm.
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Thefts from rooms reported to police
University police yesterday reported that three purses were taken and the £70 cash was seized.
Police said the theft occurred shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday and was reported by 7 a.m. Sunday.
One student reported测试 that she had two pursues stolen from her room in Oliver Hall. 1813 Naismith Drive, while she was visiting friends in an adjacent room.
Each purse was valued at $20.
Police said the theft occurred at 12:40 p.m. Friday.
One student reported the theft of a purse from the cafeteria in Lewis Hall, 1530 Engel Tower.
The purse and its contents were valued at $40.
A student who lived at Joseph R. Pearson
hall, 112 West Carpus Road, reported the
narrative of a fire that destroyed the
ALSO REPORTED Friday afternoon was the attempted theft from a student's locked car parked at the Lewis Hall parking lot of a citizen's band radio.
Police said the radio was not stolen, but the student said it was destroyed and he was charged with theft.
The attempted theft occurred sometime between 1 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Friday.
Lawrence thieves busy over weekend
Lawrence police reported yesterday that several thefts occurred Saturday night and morning.
Paul Wykowski, Chicago graduate student, 1604 W. 24th Terrace, at 6:35 a.m.
Sunday reported an attempted armed robbery.
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Wykowski told police he was approached by a masked man with a pistol while he was at the Zip Card machine at the First National Bank of Lawrence, 1807 W. 32rd St.
He said the man was wearing a rubber Halloween mask, was bald and had gray hair.
Police said Wykowski screamed and ran
and the assailant took off.
Police said that the burglary occurred sometime after 11 p.m. Saturday and that a window apparently had been forced open.
Mark Neuer, Topea senior, 3237 Ruge court, reported the theft of a silver pendant from his apartment.
Both reports came just minutes after midnight Saturday.
Two women reported thefts of $20 cash each from their purses while they were at the mall. They also stole clothes.
At 12:05 a.m. a.m., Sunday, Pattie Hendy, 8316 Yale Road, reported $30 was taken from her purse. At the same time, Rosanna Sweeten, 8316 Yale Road, reported that $30 was taken from her purse.
Victor McDavis, 798 Ohio St., reported the theft from his home of a 10-speed bicycle.
Police said the theft occurred sometime after 10 p.m. Saturday.
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