Thursday, September 14, 1978
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County phones still malfunctioning
By BILL HIGGINS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The telephone system at the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center still was malfunctioning yesterday, and police said another company representatives said yesterday.
The building's phone system, which is run by a computer, was repaired at 6:30 Tuesday night, but yesterday morning the city-county switchboard was receiving complaints that its number, 841-7700, could not be reached from outside phones.
Paula Knight, manager of Southwestern Bell's public office in Lawrence, said yesterday that the phone system, a "Dimension PBX" had been repaired.
"THE PROBLEM was in a rectifier in the second cabinet of the cabinet, but that would make it worse."
The system is housed in two cabinets, each of which has a rectifier, or power pack.
Although a worker at the Law Enforcement Center said the system had been repaired Tuesday, many people who called the Law Enforcement Center yesterday
Francisco Sierra, a switchboard operator in the county, said that some callers even get discharged.
received a reorder tone, which sounds like a fast busy signal.
KNIGHT SAID the problem with incoming calls was not the fault of the Dimension system. She said there was a malfunction in the equipment at the central phone office downtown and workmen still were trying to find the trouble.
Some calls destined for the city-county offices number were not going into the right
China tour reveals arts are re-emerging
Although the system gave county employees trouble when it was first installed, most of the early problems were attributed to the people using the system.
Charles Eldridge, director of the Helen Foreman Spencer Museum of Art, opened a small black notebook and began discussion his trip to China.
BV EVIE LAZZARINO
Staff Reporter
trunk line and were being given a reorder signal, she said.
Eldridge said he saw some of the changes that occur when a country is beginning to industrialize.
"During this period of re-emergence in the arts, the Chinese have a great pride and vitality about their art, music, and dance," he said. "They have been suddenly released from intellectual and sometimes physical abuse."
The trip seems very long ago and "far" that I am back in Lawrence," she said recently.
Eldredge and 26 other educators, deans and museum directors were invited to spend part of July and August visiting art museums and teaching institutions in China.
ROBERT NEIS, county commissioner,
said. "Up until last week we really hadn't
had any problems with the students'
problems at first, but that was mostly
because people didn't know how to operate
HE SAID THAT although the Chinese were enjoying more artistic freedom, they still were more restricted than Western artists.
"You won't see art that resembles Jackson Pollock or Elsworth Welyk in China," Eldridge said. "But the cultural rewakening is still a dramatic change."
He said the Chinese had been exposed to only three Western writers—theodore Duret, Louis Meyer and Ernest Hemingway.
"If you translate that to art, it can be assumed that the Chinese haven't been used in art. There is no evidence."
Eldridge said the Chinese seemed to have been influenced by Frans Hals, the 17th
century Dutch painter who depicted peasant life.
He said he also saw paintings at the Kwan Chow School in Canton that beat rebellion by painting.
"THERE was a row of still lives with the spirit, if not the finesse of Cezanne," he said. Eldredge said the quality of art schools in China was improving. Entrance examinations are being required at some art schools, he said.
At the Kwan Chow School, 30 students were admitted this fall, after 9,000 students and 46 teachers.
"The student enrollment at Kwan Chow is 100, with a teaching staff of 100," he said. "Even if they reach their enrollment total of 500, with a pretty class student to teacher ratio."
Students are given a continuous dose of Maisti theory, according to Eldredge, and are encouraged to spend summers working in the fields.
"THAT DOESN'T really seem any different from American students spending summers working in factories and on construction crews, though." Eldredge said.
He said students at Kwan Chow were taught oil painting, sculpture, handicrafts,
He said the print making often resulted in Chinese posters of Mao seen everywhere in China.
Eldredge also visited the Central Art School in Peking. He said it was the only school the group visited that taught art history.
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"It was an upper level course in ideology, skills of creation, aesthetics and art"
Eldredge said group members were given demonstration artworks made for them at the museum.
"We distributed them in a battery among ourselves the last night," Eldridge said.
The Dimension PBX at the Law Enforcement Center was the first phone system of its kind to be installed in Lawrence.
The Dimension equipment, its installation and the connecting trunk lines cost the county $4,761 in December 1976. In addition to that cost, the county pays a regular monthly charge, which for the first eight months has averaged more than $4,300 a month.
The Dimension system is owned by Southern Bell, which leases itn use to the city.
Knight said there were six Dimension PBX systems in Lawrence.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital, the Quaker Oats Company, 700 N. Iowa St., and several banks are among those using Dimension PBX's.
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