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Monday, November 4,1974
University Daily Kansan
Ohio St. partially uninhabitable...
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1974, 115 houses had been brought up to the 40 per cent still in violation of the code.
Daniel S. Ling, associate professor of physics and astronomy, may face a court action brought by the city over his suburban home. A judge will consideration by city attorney Milton Allen.
According to landlords, it is expensive to maintain rental properties. Brown said that although she kept her houses in good condition, she still had to spend about $500 for outside work after the city housing inspection.
Glen M. McGonigle, laboratory supervisor and purchasing director of physics and astronomy, and his wife, Josephine, own about five rental houses in the target area. According to McGonigle, he barely breaks even.
"We haven't raised rents in the last several years," McGonnie said. "The city rates have gone up, utilities have gone up, the recarpet and re carpth things constantly."
The McGonigles said they thought that it was wasteful to tear down old homes that were structurally safe. They repair them with new materials of good shape for student tenants, they said.
Besides day-to-day maintenance, major outlays of $2,000 to $3,000 for new roofs or total rewiring of the house come as the house gets older. Most of the landlords estimate that they require accurate estimates of the annual maintenance costs involved in their properties.
Although McGonigle said he would like to see everyone maintain his property, he said that compliance with the housing code was better between property owners and the city.
A news program called "The KANU Almanac" will be broadcast for the first time at noon today, Bill Redlin, news director of KANU, said yesterday.
"The biggest thing about Almanac is its flexibility," Redlin said. "The big emphasis is going to be on news. People are interested in news."
The program will broadcast both edited reports and carry live accounts of newsworthy happenings, Redlin said. He said the show would have programs about music or art, consumer interest, weather and people's opinions of current events.
Alamacan will be merely a public almanac. A professional version of the University of Kingston, Regina, is the University of Kansas, Rural
He said four or five years of experience in broadcast journalism had made him able to tell what projects would be of legitimate interest to a news program like Almanac, and what projects were merely looking for good public relations.
"For one thing, in my experience, the interesting things we've had on the air have been things that we've sought out," he said. "One of them is given to you, a red flag ought to go up."
KANU begins flexible concept in newscasting
Almanac is part of a series of changes in the news of KANU. A few years ago, he was the head journalist consisted of what was given to them over the corrupted Press newspaper, and weather news.
"We've got a lot more sophisticated in terms of what we do locally." he said.
The advanced broadcast journalism students previously worked for KANU, Redlin said, and so the station has been able to cover most of the newsworthy happenings in town. With the advanced broadcast journalism concentrating more on television, KANU has been forced to be more selective in its local news coverage, he said.
"Now we're really trying to work for more quality of the product than quantity."
To ensure the fairness of housing inspection guidelines, a minimum housing standards advisory board was established this summer.
"The code is uniformly established and it should be uniformly enforced." McGonigle says.
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According to the advisory board chairman, S. A. McManness, the board has the final say on all appeals of the code's enforcement.
backgrounds. McManness is the only landlord on the committee.
McManness said that before the board's establishment, there was no place for people who felt wronged by the inspection system to turn.
"We use common sense in granting variances of the code," MMcMann said. We're working on a set of guidelines for lawmakers that fits the housing of Lawrence."
George Williams, director of public works for the city, said that the advisory board was a milestone in Lawrence. This is the first time that the landlords and home owners have had a place to appeal the buoting inspectors' demands, Williams said.
The seven-member advisory board is composed of citizens from different parts of the city.
"For example, an elderly person comes into the board and says that he doesn't have the money to change his plumbing, but it would be highly hazard involved, we would probably agree to his leaving his house as it is," McManness said. The committee meets every third Tuesday of each month and further delineate housing inspection guidelines tailored to Lawrence.
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