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Tuesday, September 26, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Uphill climb
Staff Photo by ALANZLOTK
The climb between Haworth and Wescoe halls always looks worse when one is halfway up. Tran Hung, Vietnam junior, didn't seem to mind the long climb on his way to Watson Library yesterday afternoon.
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City to increase property taxes
Bv BILL HIGGINS
Staff Reporter
Property taxes for Lawrence citizens will increase slightly in 1973, according to figures released yesterday by the Douglas County budget office.
However, many KU students probably will not be directly affected by the tax increase because they do not pay property taxes.
Darlene Hill, county budget director, yesterday completed figuring the tax moll levies for the city and county governments and for the Lawrence school district.
The 1979 mill levy will be 109.10 for tax unit one, which includes meat Lawrence and his family.
Last year's levy was $19 for tax册
the increase over last year's levy is 1.13
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A MILL IS $1 of tax for every $1,000 of assessed valuation of property. Thus, the 1979 tax will be figured at $109.10 for each $1,000 of assessed valuation.
Property in Kansas is taxed on the basis of its assessed value, which, according to state, law, is supposed to be equal to 30 percent of the property's market value.
Ruth Verrynck, county treasurer, said last week that many KU students did not have to pay property taxes in Douglas County.
She said few students owned real estate in
couglas County and many of the students' automobiles were registered in another county or state and thus were not subject to Couglas County tax.
The three biggest groups of taxable property in the county are corporate-owned land, non-incorporated land, and public land.
Don Gordon, county appraiser, said taxable personal property consisted mainly of automobiles, motorcycles, mobile homes, travel homes and airplanes.
VERYNCK SAID personal property probably was the biggest taxation category
Gordon said that personal property was assessed at 30 percent of its market value and that the market value for automobiles was determined by a data book.
Next year's tax of 109.10 mills would be applied toward 30 percent of an automobile's value if tax were paid on the car.
A car with a market value of $5,000 would have an appraised value of about $1,500. Next year's mill levy of 109.10 would mean a tax of about $184 on the $5,000 car.
VERYNKY SAID HE thought most KU students had cars that should be registered
"According to, 'Kansas law, after you reside in a county for 90 days you should register your car in the county,' she said. "You can register your cars in Douglas County, but many don't."
City to consider flood rule
An important item on the Lawrence City Commission agenda tonight is an ordinance that would require landlords to inform their tenants of the entitled property is in the Flood Plain District.
Commissioners said they thought the landlords had a responsibility to tell possible tenants about areas that may be flooded.
The ordinance was prompted by heavy flooding last summer in the Four Seasons No. 5 residential development area that damaged many houses and renters' property. The development area is located
near 28th Street and Brush Creek Drive in southwest Lawrence.
Also on the agenda is the approval of a public statement offering $1.9 million in Public Building Commission revenue bonds to be used for the construction of a New City
The commissioners will also consider bids for renovating houses at 1203 New Jersey St. and 1217 New Jersey St., and for other city developments.
The PBC was created by the commissioners to fund the construction.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The meeting will be at 7 a.m. in the four-
th floor conference rooms of the First National Bank
of Pittsburgh.
Police Beat
Compiled by Henry Lockard
Billfolds missing
University police yesterday reported that three students' billfolds were stolen last week from lockers in Robinson Gymnasium.
One woman reported the theft of her billfold, which contained $30. credit cards and identification. She told police she was in the shower Friday afternoon. She was in the shower Friday afternoon.
Two men reported the thefts Thursday of their billfolds from locked lockers. The billfolds were in the men's locker room.
One man reported he lost about $20 in one theft. The other man said he lost $15 cash and two football tickets worth $23 each.
Both thets occurred between 8:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. while the men were playing handBall.
City and University police received several reports of thefts and one report of vandalism over the weekend.
Police investigate vandalism, 2 thefts
A late model Pontiac, valued at $5,000 was taken from the garage at Ellis Motor Company, 1844 Massachusetts St.
Michael Savage, 1911 StewartSt., lost a CB radio when it was stolen from his locked car, which was parked at his home.
A CB radio also was taken from George Temple, 1719 W. 20th St. The radio was taken from his unlocked car, which was parked at his home.
Two citizen band radios were stolen between Saturday evening and Sunday morning, city police reported.
The police said the thief had pried the locked garage door.
There were no leads yesterday
James W. Calvert III, a company employee, discovered the theft Saturday morning.
David Climer, an employee at the station, told police that the theft occurred sometime between Thursday night and Sunday morning. He said the thief apparently used a screwdriver to remove the doorks from the jeep.
two canvas doors were taken from a jeep that belonged to Keith Lawton, 2326 East Drive. The jeep was being serviced at a service station at 23rd and Louisiana streets. The value of the doors was estimated at $175.
Five steam-heating radiators worth an estimated $1,000 were stolen from behind a building at 1410 Massachusetts St.
One burglar was reported. City police said a burglar entered the home of Scott Bramham. B12 Mississippi St., through an door and took a television and $27 cash.
David Hammil, 1735 Learned土
owner of the radiators, told police
the theft occurred sometime between Sept.
17 and Saturday afternoon.
Randall Brungardt, Galesburg senior, 2433 West 10th St., reported that someone was using the glass sliding object through the glass sliding door of an apartment rented by Charles Webb, a
Branham told police the burglary occurred sometime between 1:30 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. Saturday.
City police also received a report of vandalism to a KU student's apartment.
A window in Joliffe Hall and a window in Watson Library were broken sometime between Friday morning and early Sunday morning. Police said they did not know how the windows were broken.
University police yesterday reported that two windows of campus buildings were broken during the weekend.
All reports are being investigated.
2 windows broken
The estimated costs to replace the windows were $55 for the Watson window and $25 for the Jollife window.
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--from Unified School District No. 497 in Lawrence. The tax increase will be 4.47 for the schools. The increase is partially the result of a referendum passed last August, which allowed a mill levy increase greater than that allowed by state law.
She said it would be impossible for her office to keep track of the transient student population and how many of its cars were not registered in Douglas County.
"We know that, but there isn't anything we can do about it."
EVEN IF THE RECORDS were current, she said, it would take several days to count the number of registered automobiles that had out-of-count tags.
An employee in the KU Parking Services office said last week that the records for KU automobile registration had not yet been brought up to date.
However, for those residents who do own taxable property the tax increase will be
The biggest increase in the mill levy came
The school's increase will include payment for a raise in salaries for teachers and other school personnel.
The city government levy will increase by 0.12 mille to a total levy of 36.90 mills, but the county government levy will decrease by 1.18 mille to a total of 22.77 mills.
Rise in Towers rent tied to lease clause
HILL SAID the overall increase in the tax rate could be attributed to a total county property evaluation that was slightly lower than projected.
By PHILIP GARCIA
Staff Reporter
"There is an escalator in our lease that allows for rent increases due to extra utility."
Residents of Jayhawk Towers Apartments, 1603 W. 15th St., who question the recent rent increase should refer to a clause in their leases which justifies the increase, Barbara Fendley, manager of the apartments, said yesterday.
Garnett Wrigley, of the Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association, said although few inquiries about the rent increase had been made at the association's community office, there were reports of a number of complaints concerning about the valuation of the increase.
Under the clause, the Towers management can raise the rent for each apartment $10 a month during the lease period. The amount of the rent increase depends on extra utility costs for the complex.
"We computed our utility costs compared to the same time last year and they were about $10 per unit."
THE AVERAGE INCREASE in rent for each apartment in the complex was about $5. Fendley said. A letter explaining the increased was sent to each apartment.
The figures on the increases in utility costs from last year to this year were not affected.
A spokesman for the Kansas Power and Light Co. said the company had no jurisdiction over the policy of passing extra utility costs on to the tenants.
The complex uses a master meter to measure the amount of electricity used by
Karen McKinney of Lawrence Property
The symposium will be sponsored by the KU School of Social Welfare, the Kansas
The original deadline was Sept. 30.
Peter Caruso, Mission Hills senior, said he received his increase in rent when a bill dated Sept. 20 asking for an extra $5.88 arrived.
The original deadline was Sept. 30.
Steve Cramer, chairman of the Free
University of Wisconsin, said that the
deadline was extended to allow more
persons the opportunity to teach a course.
"I was expecting the increase to be $10."
"It will be by the end of the year it will probably be $15."
MCKINNEY SAID that if the rent increase was being made just to collect extra payment and not to cover increased utility costs, the price in rent would have gone up more.
So far, it appears Free University will offer twice as many courses as were offered last year, Cramer said. About 35 courses were offered last year.
He said he had lived at the apartments
year and had received a similar increase
in income.
Courses will begin Oct. 29 and a catalog
listing should be available by Oct.
31. Course enrollment
Faculty members of the University of Kansas Medical Center, the schools of Social Welfare, Education and Religion and African Studies will attend an African studies and history will be present.
Applications are available in the SUA office for persons who would like to teach.
Student Union Activities' Free University program has extended the deadline until Oct. 24 for persons to volunteer to teach courses.
KU professors to aid in seminar
Professioners from several schools at the University of Kansas will help conduct a seminar on child welfare and the black child system in Chicago. The Holiday Inn Towers in Kansas City, Kan.
Last year, Free University offered classes such as home beer brewing, beginning in 2014.
the management puts the escalator clause in the lease because it plans to raise the rent, said Sisk, who also lived at Jayhawk Towers last year.
The no-credit Free University classes are free and open to the public.
THURSDAY
is the deadline for
doubles intramural tennis
Apply at Rec Services 208 Robinson
Deadline extended for Free U. sign-up
THE PRICE can be higher if more furniture is requested, she said. All apartments are furnished.
"We expected the rent to go up," Sisk said, and the increase in her rent was about $4.45.
Management, the company that manages the complex, said the base price for an apartment at Jayhawker Towers was between $295 and $550.
Ellen Krieghauser, St. Louis, Mo,
sophomile and she and her roommates
from the University of Chicago.
The increase in rent was $5.33,
but the increase in size was not a very big
increase and did not pose a threat.
"We were told it looked very doubtful that an increase would be made, and that it would be later in the semester if an increase was made," she said.
Susan Sink, Overland Park junior, said the rent increase to cover higher utility costs was not significant.
City Coalition for Black Child Welfare and the Kansas Committee for the Humanities
The Kansas City Coalition for Black Child Welfare is a group of social welfare organizations that provide health, educational and cultural services for black children in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
The Kansas Committee for the Humanities is a group of citizens working with the National Endowment for the Humanities and with other state-based humanities programs in Kansas. Congress has established state-based humanities programs in all 50 states.
KANSAN
On Campus
Events
TODAY: LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEMINAR will be at 9 a.m. in the
Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union.
COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION
SEMINAR will be at 4 p.m. in the Computer
Service Facility Auditorium.
TONIGHT: COLLEGE REPUBLICANS meet at 7 in the Jawhawk Room of the Union. Jim Jeffries, candidate for 2nd district congressman, will speak SUA BRIDGE will meet at 7 in the Pine Room of the Union. TAU SIGMA DANCE ENSEMBLE meets at 7 in the University Club KLU CLUB meets at 7:30 in the Council Room of the Union. ANSU SUA FILM SYMPOSIUM on rape will begin at 7:30 in the Forum Room of the Union.
10MORROW: WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS will have an informal luncheon meeting 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Alcove E in the Union. The meeting is open to the public. A film, "ROLFING; GRAVITY IS THE THERAPIST," will be shown at 7:30 p.m. at 1025 Iowa St. in the Capitol Federal Building.
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