THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
A LITTLE COOLER
Vol. 90 No. 30
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
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Midwestern warmth welcomes John Paul
By AMY HOLLOWELL
Staff Renorter
DES MOINES-The early morning sun blessed the collisions counters with autumn and yesterday.
Outside the Des Moines Municipal Airport, the crowd which had gathered hours earlier in the pre-dawn chill.
The day they had all awoken for weeks had finally arived. Pope John Paul II was coming to town.
From as far away as Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha and Kansas City they came, hoping to catch a glimpse of their holy Father as he stepped from his plane en route to a Mass at Living History Farm, west of Des Moines.
"If we just get to see her beanie, 'I'll be excited,' a Topeka woman said. She and four friends drove from Topeka Wednesday, camping in their van overnight one mile from the airport.
Eleven members of a Red Oak, Iowa, family pitied their ruined 60 Ford at 3 a.m. yesterday so they could
"WE JUST HAD to do it." Donald Gits, the father,
said. "Otherwise I would be waitin' another 2,000
Children ran about the grassy area, playfully working off expectant energy for them, too. knew this was an
"The Pope's supposed to be some great, really neat person," a 10-year-old Des Moines boy said between Frisbee throws. "I guess he's kinda like the vice president of the Catholics, you know, cause he's after God."
"Get your pope button here," a bearded vendor shouted, his breath visible in the crisp air. The pontiff image smiled from the buttons, every color and size pinned over row after row to a cardboard sign.
All along the near-mile走 from the parking lot to the airport, vendors selling T- shirts, pens, bumper stickers and program books mixed with eager spectators.
OVER THE chain-link fence and across the runway, members of the press scurried about, reading cameras and notebooks, while senior citizens gathered slowly on the grassy hill behind them.
Trench-coated Secret Servicemen, blank-faced and ice even in the warring sunshine, permitted only appraisal of items.
Nearly a month ago, 150 bandcapped people had been suited by lottery to buy on the runway and edge of greetings.
One of those selected, Mike Sears, a patient at our rehabilition Center, Des Moines, said he was grateful to Dr. A.
"I needed a refreshing moment in my life." he said.
AT 10:30 A.M. airport workers rolled a red carpet onto the runways and the sun disappeared beneath
Back across the runway, in the "un-priveled" area, a 64-year-old retired Omaha pharmacist strolled through the growing crowd, carrying a wooden cross plastered with fluorescent orange "its exciting to be here."
"I just wanted to get a little chuckle and spread some good will" he said.
Although he was not Polish, he said he had many friends who were.
College students played cards and half-listened to radio. Families nibbled bag lunch and nervously talked with friends.
By the pontifex's scheduled 1 p.m. arrival time, a crowd of nearly 5,000 was bouncing energy off one another. By 1:30, they were on their feet, searching the runway in red and white and Trans World Airlines jet, Sheenberd I
MICROPHONES IN place at the end of the red carpet.
Children in place at parents' shoulders. In place at
ceiling.
It was 1:50 p.m. and the sun broke through the cloud mass, shooting excitement with the bright rays through the canopy.
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Pope John Paul II waved to spectators as he stented out of his plane at the Des
Munich Municipal Airport in Iowa. The pope, on his fourth stop of his U.S. tour,
visited the Midwestern city for four bourses before departing for Chicago.
Proud sister
of the caravaner she hiked onboard 4k
of the souvenirs she bought yesterday after awaiting the pope's arrival at the Des Moines Municipal Airport.
Mary Celeste Funaro of Des Moines, Iowa, displayed some arrival at the Des Moines Municipal Airport.
Groups upset by campus crime meet to press for better security
Sally Turner, president of the Commission on the Status of Women, and George Gomer, chairman of the Commission on meeting in response to growing concern about rapes, assaults and vandalism on
By JUDY WOODBURN
Representatives from several student groups and University administers met last night to begin work on a unified effort to improve campus security.
one primary purpose of the meeting, Turner said, was to initiate proposals to University administration for increased security measures.
Staff Reporter
The group's concerns increased lightning at several poorly lighted areas on campus. It was also the case for women who must walk home late at night and increased men's awareness of fire hazards.
"What we're looking for," she said, "are things that will continue after all of us leave KU—lasting action."
SGT. JEANNE LONGAKER, who directs the KU Police Department's campus crime prevention program, said the KU police had
Longeraket met with representatives from Gay Services of Kansas and University residence halls after the meeting to help plan an escort service that could be provided to our student groups until the KU police is able to operate the service independently.
ANOTHER GROUP formed after the meeting to identify spots on campus in need of better lighting. Areas of particular concern included the Gertrude Sellars Pearson Hall and the Joseph Loeph Hall and the areas behind Essex Hall and surrounding the Caramani.
"We have the personnel," Longaker said. "We want to do it, and you want to get the student back and forth. If we want to have a full-fledged escort service, we're going to need a vehicle that will hold us."
been trying for two years to organize an escort service.
"It's really important that we get a budget commitment from the administration on this," said Carla Hanson, senior vice president and a member of the group.
"WHEN SOMEBODY'S about to attack you," one student said, "who has time to run to one of those blue phones?" If the attacker is between me and this phone. I am not going to do that.
Caryl Smith, dean of student life, said that it was important to educate students, especially women, to walk with neighbors or classmates to night and early morning
dissatisfaction with the blue emergency phones on campus, saying that although the phones were useful for reporting vandalism and other crimes, they were not effective in preventing raps or assaults.
Several people at the meeting expressed
Other proposals included the formation of jogging clubs or walking pools for late night walkers.
Gomez said the funds for posters and other educational tools might come from Student Senate or KU police budgets.
"BUT THAT'S the easy part," he said, "but really don't take too much, so like lighting, we come from it. It a matter of shifting some of the administration's priorities to campus."
Warning signal in doubt
BY MARK SPENCE
Staff Manager
Federal investigators may never know whether a federal-speed warning device was activated in the ill-fated Amtrak train that derailed Tuesday as it approached
"We may not ever be able to determine beyond any doubt if it worked on the train before the accident," Brad Dunbar, a spokesman for Safety Board spokesman, said yesterday.
Investigators determined that the track portion of the sophisticated "dead man" device, which signals an engineer when his train is approaching a speed-restricted-zone vehicle.
too fast, was functional after they traveled over temporary tracks at the accident scene in the first train.
However, it was not known whether the warning alarm and light in the engine's cab were activated, officials said.
The alarm, triggered by a device implanted in the track led about a mile before the accident, would have been shif off by the engineer or his brakes would have been activated automatically, but the system was not.
"Obviously we hope to learn from the engineer and the fireman whether they received the signal," Dumbar said.
The accident, the second worst in Amtrak
history in terms of fatalities, killed two Santa Fe crewmembers and injured 69 other persons.
Representatives from the NTSB said they were concluding their on-the-scene investigation of the derailment. The team of investigators will remain on the last night to discuss evidence collected during the day pertaining to the safety device, the track-side warning signs and the equipment used.
Doctors have told the NTSB that the engineer, I.H. Graham, 63, Shawne Mission, will not be in a condition to answer
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Classifieds' pay slighted
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Classified employee at the University of Waterloo, who was part of infusion with the most experience in receiving the smallest pay raises, according to data released yesterday by KU office of data management.
The data indicate that some classified employees have kept pace with inflation, while others have fallen behind.
Richard Mann, University director of informational systems, said that only classified employees receiving base salary increases and periodic increases based on merit were able to stay ahead of inflation. Employees with superior employees receive merit increases, he said.
Those employees receiving only base salary increases have lost buying power despite the increases, he said.
Classified employees in each of the 44 civil service categories in Kansas are eligible for merit pay level increases, which are usually based on their job category, there are six pay levels.
After an employee has reached the sixth step, he receives only the cost-of-living information that is provided to correspond to Joseph Collins, chairman of the interim steering committee for the Classi-
sic Committee.
price index rose 48.7 percent. During that time, the number of classified employees receiving cost-of-living and merit increases increased by 57.75 percent.
However, increases in salary for employees receiving only cost-of-living increases totaled only 28.55 percent during the same period.
Collins said that the structure for classified employee salaries penalized individuals who enjoy their work and decide to keep their jobs.
"The Legislature has to understand that employees who have exhausted their step increases are depending on the cost-of-living increases from the Legislature to get by," Collins said. "These employees are the ones who need more." And they're receiving the smallest increases.
Gov. John Carlin will receive classified information from the state Department of Justice regarding his legislative session begins in January, according to Bruce McKelynock, personnel director.
Between 1974 and 1979, the consumer
McReynolds said the department was waiting for the Council on Wage and Price Stability to release President Carter's new guidelines before making recommendations.
"If Gov. Carlin says Kansas will comply with Carter's guidelines, we could be
restricted in the size of raise we could recommend." he said.
The department's personnel division is considering making two proposals to revise pay plans for classified employees, McKeynolds said.
"The main thrust of the proposals is to return the salary system to that one is more tightly tied to merit," he said. "The idea is that you should perform well should be fairly compensated."
He said one of the proposals involved creating subdivisions in existing merit increases. Under this proposal, employees who did not pay half to two times the raise of one of the current pay levels. Employees who did not pay half to two times the raise of only a half-fleet increase, he said.
Another proposal, McReynolds said, involves significant increases in base salaries for a number of categories.
"The rules are not solid yet, so the specific recommendations won't be ready for a month or six weeks," he said.
Collins said the proposal for subdivided pay level increases was worth studying, but added that the state would still have to reintroduce a tax on new homes and have exhausted their pay scale increases.
"At some point the state has to look at what it is going to do with people past the merit step increases," he said.
Sign ordinance angers owners
By ANN LANGENFELD
Staff Reporter
Local businessmen whose requests for sign variances were turned down at Tuesday's city commission meeting exasperated, and anger yesterday about the decision.
The city sign ordinance, which was written to improve the appearance of the city, stipulates requirements such as an signs size and number of signs allowed.
Two weeks ago the city notified the owners of 57 signs, including 11 billboards,
that the signs would have to conform to the ordinance by Oct. 22.
The businesses whose requests were denied Tuesday were given a 94-day to one-year period to conform to the ordinance, *derwinde* in their offense.
Henry's Drive In, 1117 W. Sixth St., was cited for having a 14-square-foot sign. The restaurant had a 28-foot-feet. Jean and Corbett Collins, owners of the restaurant, were given one year to replace
"I THINK WE have been taken advantage of." Jean Collins said. "They're trying to
tell us how to spend our money. If we had several extra thousand dollars we'd spend it for something more beneficial like repaying our parking lot."
She said that she thought a grandfather clause should be applied to older businesses in town.
City Commissioner Ed Carter did suggest at Tuesday's meeting that a grandfather clause be enacted for businesses that had an existence before the ordinance was enacted.
However, Mayor Barkley Clark, express-See SIGN back page