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University Daily Kansan, November 19, 1960
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Gas company requests rate increase
An Overland Park accounting firm will examine a 4.4 percent rate increase requested by the Kansas Public Service Commission to City Commission announced last night.
The commissioners voted to let the firm, Drees, Dunn and Lebow, act as arbitrator between the gas company and the city. The commissioners referred the request to the firm because they said utility increases were too complex to discuss at Commission meetings.
THE DECISION by the firm, which has arbitrated utility increases for the city several times, will be binding to the city's commissioner. The two will split the cost of arbitration.
Lewis McKinney, 1230 W. 28th Court,
complained that the increase would
discourage energy conservation
because utilities request rate increases when people try to conserve energy.
"What benefits are there to users when they use less?" he asked. What benefit and what happens? Those of us who save energy end up paying more."
McKinney said that his 1979 gas bill was $228 more than his total 1969 gas
The increase would raise the gas bill for most homes by about $1.45 a month.
The Commission also voted to allow the Lawrence Arts Center to serve liquor at social functions, which is now prohibited on city property.
THE CENTER wants to host wine-and-cheese parties and will not serve mixed drinks, said Arts Commissioner Bonnie Wells.
Commissioner Don Binns disagreed
with the decision saying it would not be fair to allow wine to be served at the Arch Center when a city ordinance prohibits consumption in city baseball parks.
City Manager Buford Watson said that beer was banned from baseball parks last year when people complain about problems with beer drinkers.
The Commission also voted to consider using some solar energy heaters in houses refurbished in the city's rehabilitation program.
The commissioners listened to a report from Carl Thor, 1021 Missouri St., on the Community Development solar heating project. The project installed experimental solar heaters in four Lawrence homes in October.
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