University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1980 Page 15
Landlords
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He said Brand, a local attorney, had good reason to take time out to do his survey.
"He is a paid lobbyist," Solbach said, "and he is very good at it. His job is to see that this doesn't pass."
WHERE ONE side contends the bill would raise rents and the other denies it, Mark Burkaht who works for the firm. Mr. Burkaht will be a consultant in Topeka, the job of the lost find.
Burkham has been sending out questionnaires to some of the states that already have self-help bills. He said he hoped to get answers from the states by early fall and thought the information would show whether apartment rents had been affected by enactment of the laws.
He said he was sure the judiciary committee would propose a bill in the fall that probably would be similar to Sobach's defunct bill.
"The fact that the thing was assigned to a special committee leads me to think something will come out of it," Burkhart said.
ROBERT FREY, House Majority Leader and member of the judiciary committee, was not so optimistic.
"I got the impression that support for any changes in the Landlord-Tenant is slim in the committee," said Ralph Schultz and strongly opposes Sobach's bill.
"Even if something does come out of
there, I don't expect it to be as farreaching as Solbach's bill," he said.
"The support would not be there for passage," he said.
He said any bill similar to Solbach's would not make it through the House.
The landlords and tenants have not been complying with the terms of compromise on the issue. Few said
"I think it is unrealistic to think the legislature is going to work out a contract."
Frey said he opposed self-help-
andword-
Tecnam already favored tenure.
BUT SOLBACH SAID he thought the self-heap amendment would help to balance the law. He said that not all landlords were against self-heap.
Gary Stephenson, manager of Park-25 Apartments, 2410 W. 25th St., said even though he was against Solbach's bill, he would favor rewriting the Landlord-Tenant Act to protect students against "slum lords."
Apartment complex owners, he said,
are in the business for their livelihood
and want to keep their tenants satisfied.
But landlords who only own one or two
renters are better off than extra income do not need to worry about keeping renters happy, he said.
"The people who are doing the bit-
tle," she said. "We've rented
(from slum lords). Stephen's
matter."
A LAW SIMILAR to Sobbach's bill
would be very expensive for landlords,
he said, because tenants would have repairs made by people who would charge more than it would cost the management to do it themselves.
Stephenson said he was afraid tenants would bring in contractors who knew nothing about the building's design and who might damage more than repair.
Solbach said that many courts already operate under an assumption of the self-help principle and there needed more evidence that they were not operating blindly.
“There are attorneys who tell me that some judges treat self-help as a common law right,” he said. “Because of this confusion I think it’s appropriate for the legislature to take the bull by the horns and resolve the issue.”
Solbach said he hoped landlords would not lobby strongly against another self-help bill without first looking at it closely. He said the committee probably would make some changes in any bill proposed so that it would be beneficial for landlords as well as tenants.
THE COMMITTEE WILL consider writing a provision into the bill to make it easier and less expensive to evict tenants, he said. A common complaint in district court is eviction proceedings in district court are too expensive and time-consuming.
Heat...
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much as the lack of rain. The corn
will not grow during the important pollination stage."
Smith said that it did not take much rain to produce a good crop yield, but that most of the rain Douglas County did receive was too early. If it had been spread out over June and July, many of the cross would have produced.
Bill Morry, director of the Douglas County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, said his dedication to disaster aid and for farmers in the county.
"the disaster aid program is part of our 1980 farm program," Morry said. The farmers apply for aid on an individual basis, and the farmers had applied for disaster aid."
Morray said because of the combination of heat and drought, many of the crops were completely lost. The disaster aid does not help the farmers make money. It is intended to help offset the cost of planting. Morray said the aid will cover only 50 percent of the farmers' planting costs.
Both Morray and Smith expressed hope for the milo and soybean crops.
"Milo and beans can hang on longer than corn," Smith said. "If they get a little more rain, they might pull through without major damage."
When asked what affect the drought and heat wave would have on food prices, no definite answer could be given.
Smith said nothing could be known for sure until the largest grain areas were harvested in the fall. He pointed out that some areas in the grain belt included in the drought. These included some with modern irrigation methods.
"I tend to think that grain prices will be higher than last fall," Smith said, "but how much higher, we just don't know."
Rusty Springer, owner of the Rusty's IGA grocery stores, said it was too early to tell how the heat wave would affect the price of certain meats, such as chicken. Arkansas, the second largest poultry product store in the country, has lost millions of dollars of poultry when they died because of the heat.
This summer's heat wave has been compared to the heat waves of 1934 and
1954. Time will have to tell where the summer of 1980 ranks among recorded heat waves, but the death toll alone is as high as in years past.
The national death toll had reached 615 by July 21, 1934, the 31st day of 100 degree-plus weather. By the end of July, 200 people had died in Kansas and Jackson县 was dropping dead in the pastures and crops were burning up in the fields.
In 1934, the heat wave began in May and continued through August. On July 21, 1934, Topeka was the second hottest spot in the nation behind Death Valley. By August 11, 1934, Lawrence had been subjected to 49 consecutive days of 100 degree temperatures; its 81st straight day was its 81th straight day. August 3, 1934, was the "coolest" day of the first two weeks of the month, hitting only 105.
On August 4, 1934, Lawrence received one and one-half inches of rain. It was the first rain of any consequence since June 5.
The drought damaged crops across the entire Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, the soil was too hard and dry to plant seeds.
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