THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 38
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Wednesday, October 17, 1979
See story page 11
Oread opponent
C. R. Negley makes a point as he speaks against the downing proposal for the Oread Neighborhood area at last night's city council meeting on Monday.
three landlords with property in the Oread Neighborhood who spoke against the issue. The proposal passed by a unanimous vote.
ID cards delayed again
By DAVE LEWIS
Staff Reporter
Shipment of the new KU student idem-
net unit is delayed until Oct. 20 to be
caused by a manufacturing issue in
manufacture of the IDs, a spokesman for
Maclox Plastics, Inc., of Garissa, Md, said
The company's spokesman said the cards would arrive.
Edward Julian, University director of special programs, said the defects had been corrected, but he was not sure when the cards would arrive.
The company's spokesman said the cards would be sent by truck, but he did not know when the shipment would arrive at the University.
The IDs have been delayed twice since
Sept. 15, the original date the cards were scheduled for delivery at the University
The uniform IDs will be used to check out books in KU's new library system.
Jain said the delay occurred when production changes had to be made after the switch was properly by the Optical Character Recognizer, a part of the Watson Library system.
The 26,227 IDs for undergraduate and graduate students will be tested at Watson's new computerized system before distribution.
IDs for the University staff will arrive later this year, he said.
admissions and records, has said they could be distributed in two shifts at the Kansas Union, Satellite Union or Wesco Hall. Students with names beginning with a letter in the first half of the alphabet could pick up a letter in the first day, and the remainder the next day.
Once the cards arrive, Gil Dyck, dean of
THE IDS WERE ordered by the University June 13 and were scheduled to arrive Sept. 15. After the defects were removed, the cards were expected to arrive Oct. 10.
Temporary identification cards, which were issued at enrolment, expired Sept. 17. However, KU officers have said that the cards were valid because no replacement has been issued
But Julian said the processing of the cards again was delayed because the University wanted to be sure that the cards were not defective.
City approves downzoning
By ANN LANGENFELD
An overflow crowd that lined the walls and stretched into the walls at last night's parade came from a group of unanimous vote by the commissioners to downsize the section of the Neighbourhood.
Staff Renarter
A second unanimous vote to implement the downsizing ordinance by the end of the week rather than in the usual two to three weeks was recreated by even louder apause.
About 100 people were in attendance during the five-hour meeting at the First National Bank Towers, 910 Massachusetts St.
The section, known as Area One, was downzoned from multiple family units to residential duplex. The section is bounded on the south by 11th Street, on the west by Missouri Street, on the north by Ninth Street, and on the east between Illinois and Mississippi streets.
Residents at the meeting favoring the downstairs said the section should be downzoned because the current high density building is locked parking, noise and privacy problems.
GAIL REBER, 916 Alabama St., said that she and her family were committed to Lawrence and the Oread Neighborhood, but that the current zoning was not acceptable.
Judy Roltman, 1227 Ohio St., said the present zoning allowed developers to construct multiple dwellings in a neighborhood.
Roitman told the commissioners, "If you deny the downsizing you show that the only thing you care about is profit and that you care nothing about people's livelihoods."
Arguing against the downzoning, Rodney
Lang, 941 Alabama St., said he thought the downsizing would hurt both property values and the development of off-campus housing for University students.
C. R. NELEY, 715 Tennessee St., who also opposed the downsizing, said the commissioners should consider the energy prices and cost of housing in campus could wait instead of驱车 to class.
In voting for the downsizing, the commissioners concurred that the rezoning of the 129 lots would provide of predominantly single-family dwellings. Of the 129 lots located in the area, 88
Mary Barker Clark said that when the area was zoned in 1966 for multiple-family units, it had been projected that of campus housing for students would develop in that
"It DID NOT happen," he said, "and if there is any area that is a classic example of the need for downzoning this area is it."
The commissioners asked that the zoning be effective immediately to prohibit the construction of multiple dwellings, like that on the east side of the 1900 block of Main Street.
Last Friday Douglas County District Judge Ralph King Jr., ordered that a building permit for an eight-plex apartment be given to Mistlewood, owner of the 3'3 lots on Main Street. The city staff had wanted to keep the permit until after tonight's meeting.
A temporary restraining order halting construction was issued late yesterday in Douglas County District Court when an employee requested an injunction to stop the construction.
THE CONCERNED residents must post a
$10,000 bond by 10 a.m. today to keep the restraining order in effect.
Milstead did not attend the commission meeting and was not available for comment yesterday.
Clark said yesterday that part of the zoning codes stated that a building permit was legal once it was issued.
The commissioners asked that the planning commission consider an amendment to the ordinance that would remove the statute of legality of an approved permit.
Clark, KU professor of law, had said legal precedents set in Kansas indicated that a downizing ordinance would negate the state's law on building permits that had not been noticed for a building project.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the commissioners granted sign variances to the following towns: Vermont St., F.W. Woolworth Co., 911 Massachusetts St., Otsaca. 1012 Massachusetts. The commissioners also hold Hookins Volkweg. 5252 Iowa St.
The commissioners set a time period of one year for removal of the Malls Shopping Center sign, 711 W.20 St., a dayshawk office, 360 W.25th St., a dayshawk office, and a sign at the Hallway Inn. 1280 Iowa St.
S.I.C. Credit Co., 946 Massachusetts St.
has until the end of the year to remove its nonconforming sign.
All businesses must comply with the city sign ordinance by Oct. 22 or request a variance from the city commissioners to allow the sign to remain.
The sign ordinance requires that signs conform to specific guidelines, such as size and number of signs allowed by a business.
Homecoming concert canceled
Bv AMY HOLLOWELL
Staff Reporter
KU's annual homecoming concert was
the event where the Alumni Acctu-
tations after the concerts' promote-
Productions. Springfield, Mo., failed
to meet yesterday's 5 p.m. contract deadline,
and KU was fined $20,000.
This will be the first time in recent years that homecoming will not end with a Saturday night concert.
Negotiations begin last May, but several Nega-
tions have not been resolved. A signed
signed because of schedule conflicts and
regulations concerning the use of Allen
Field House, Duke Divine, USA special
officers, and others.
After negotiations with several promoters failed, Divine said, he contacted BFR in September and proposed a 6% rock festival in Washington, Ifwell, In Butterfly and the Grass Roots.
However, Divine said, the agencies representing the bands were "shuffled around," kicks on the show were confused and the bands schedules were not coordinated, which contributed to negotiation. The band forced the cancellation of the Oct. 27 show.
"IT IS PRETTY well impossible to put together a show now, this week," he said. "I'm depressed and I feel really had about letting the students down."
Albaugh Divine said SAU contacted BPR with the concert proposal in mid-September. Rick Reynolds, vice president of the event, notified of the proposal only two weeks ago.
Reynolds said that if he had been given more time to put together the show, he could have given SUA exactly what they wanted.
"You've got to know months in advance in order to get a coordinating date for a show," he said. "We have had these three bands now, but I would have lost $1,000 to $1,000 flying them all into theaters."
REYNOLDS SAID he offered Divine an alternative '60s reveal show with the Monkees, the Association and the Grass Bowl team. In ceremonies, Divine declined the offer.
"I've got this strong show that I'm going to take on tour. I don't know what else he wants." Revnolds said.
He said Divine didn't like the groups and thought BFR had taken too long to arrange the concert.
Several promoters had been involved with the homecoming show since May, but all had been unable to sign the acts that Divine wanted.
Under SUA policy, acts are booked through a promoter to avoid financial risks. However, most of the profits go to the promoter.
ONE REASON FOR the loss of potential acts, according to Divine, was the University's policy prohibiting the suspension of objects from the ceiling of Allen Field House. Many attractive bands must be suspended from the ceiling that must be suspended form the ceiling.
The same bands could not perform in Hoch Auditorium because they would draw large crowds, Divine said.
Another problem, he said, was the general slump in the record industry and the tour circuit. The larger bands that have recording contracts tour only to the bigger metropolitan areas while the smaller bands are not recording and cannot offer tour, so they lose.
Kansas State University also canceled its homecoming concert this year because they could not schedule a band.
Silver outshining gold on market
By JENNIFER HOLT
Staff Reporter
Gold is not the only game in town these Americans in recent numbers are caballeros. They can meditate such as jewels, land, houses and, increasingly, silver, according to several sources.
Today the face value of $1,000 in pre-1965 today and dimes still is equal to what it would have been 40 years ago. Drastic increases in the price of silver, the silver content of those coins now is worth $10,000 to $13,000, according to Howard Sacks, the author of *Silver and Antiques*, 731 New Hampshire St.
Before 1965, dies, quarters and half dollars were 90 percent silver. Because of a worldwide shortage that year, silver was reduced from 90 percent to 40 percent in half dollars. Today the value of the silver in the U.S. is downed much meltdown than the face value of the coin.
In 1940, silver cost $1 an ounce and a year ago the price was between $7 and $8 an ounce. Today an ounce of silver is worth $17.
A year ago silver was traded on the New York Commodities Exchange for about $7 an ounce and the silver content in $1,000 coins was worth $4.275. Monday at the close of trade, that same silver sold for $17.57 an ounce and $10.00 worth of coins sold for $12.050.
In fact, in the last year the value of the silver coins has almost tripped, while the price of gold, which has received the most publicity, has only doubled.
As gold increased in value from $250 an
ounce in the past few months to as high as $447, silver increased proportionally, Boyd said.
So why are people raving about gold when silver prices have skyrocketed?
Boyd, who has been in the coin business 25 years, said that although he heard past references of the mint's silver—particularly in the past month—had made them more aware of silver's potential.
ACCORDING TO Boyd, gold is a metal with charisma and romance, comparable to diamonds, while silver is just silver.
"People are realizing the value of old coins," he said, "if they don't cash them in for money, they hold on to in case the price goes higher."
In 1967 there was a tremendous increase in the price of silver, Boyd said. He bought
See SILVER page six
Solbach plans to push for self-help tenant bill
By TONIWOOD
It's the familiar struggle between landlord and tenant that is the 1. problem dealt with by the Consumer Affairs department and the Associated States of Kansas.
Staff Renorter
Drops of water fall incessantly from a broken pipe into a bucket of water. Soon the bucket will be emptied by an irritated student who has lived with the drip for
The student has called his landlord about the leak, but the landlord's regular plumber is too busy to fix the broken pipe.
Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, will keep trying to deal with the problem during the 1980 legislative session.
SOLBACH INTRODUCED a bill during the 1979 legislative session that is still in the House Judiciary Committee.
Last year, ASK requested that Sabbach sponsor a bill to revise part of the landlord-Denant Act.
Solbach's proposal is sometimes referred
UNDER CURRENT LAW, if the landlord does not repair something as required by the rental agreement or by state laws, the landlord may be issued a notice after he has given the landlord 30 days notice, or he can make the repairs himself and try to collect money by sending the landlord a bill.
to as the "self-help" bill because it would allow tenants to make their own repairs after giving landlords seven days notice.
"The tenant can call his landlord and say, 'This is the problem. Will you repair that?' In most cases, the landlord will comply. But in some cases, the problem was taken care of soon enough."
Clyde Chapman, administrative coordinator for the local Consumer Affairs department, faces problems for a couple of months. And any number of fairly serious things could have happened.
current legal methods for tenants were not clearly defined.
Laurence M. Rose, an associate professor of law who works with Legal Aid, said
ROBERT BINGAMAN, executive director of ASK, said, "As long as there are landlords, and as long as there are students, it a problem we'll have to deal with."
Members of ASK have lobbed in the Legislature to revise the act during the last several years.
"The Landlord-Tenant Act is five years old and it needs to be refined," he said. "It should clearly spell out the responsibilities of landlords and tenants."
Sobach's bill, House bill 2550, would allow tenants to make their own repairs after landlords were given sufficient notice.
The tenant would then take a receipt for the money and moves for a motor car to the district street. The county count would be set up. An escrow account would allow a third party to control the
The landlord would have a chance to contest the repair, but if he did not, the cost of the repairs would be subtracted from the
rent, and the remainder of the payment would be sent to the landlord.
SOLBACH SAID that under the current system, tenants who made repairs and then sued landlords in a small claim court were not guaranteed of being reimbursed.
"They may get the judgment, but that doesn't mean the money is collected," he said.
Solbach said the system only would tie up the money long enough to cause the landlord and tenant to take action.
See LANDLORD page five
"The escrow account takes money out of both pockets, he said. "It's not a good situation. It's one that both parties want to settle."
Solbach said his bill would clarify solutions for tenants and protect landlords because a tenant could no longer make an unjustifiable repair.
"People say there was a delicate balance adopted in the Landlord-Tenant Act. But the current law is tipped very much in favor of landlords."
Stick it
KU's Elen Jaskot moves the ball past an Emporia State University defender in yesterday's field hockey game at Holem Sports Complex, Teammate Izayle Lowdon, behind the Emporia State player, trails the action in the first of two wins for the Jayhawks, now 3-7. See story page 10.