Axe
A taxing issue
KU officials speculate on the effects of the proposed federal tax reform bill that Congress is expected to pass later this month.
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A new air ambulance will transport seriously ill or injured patients to the KU Med Center from other Kansas hospitals starting next week.
Air care
A sprinkle a day
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A few clouds and a chance of morning showers should be followed by warm temperatures today. Tomorrow should be warm and clear.
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Vol. 97, No.14 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday September 11, 1986
Senators defeat effort to remove group chairman
By SALLY STREFF
At its first meeting of the year, the Student Senate voted 19-7 against a resolution asking for the removal of Finance Committee chairman Tim Henderson.
"I am happy about the Senate's action," Henderson said. "But I am still offended and hurt that the matter ever came up."
The Senate also defeated a motion stipulating that revenue code hearings — which give money from the $28 student activity fee to qualified student groups — take place this fall.
The Student Senate Executive Committee decided Aug. 24 to postpone the hearings for one year. Henderson sponsored that proposal.
The resolution asking for Henderson's removal would not have been binding if it had passed.
Michael Foubert, graduate student senator and the sponsor of the resolution, accused Henderson of failing to carry out his responsibilities as finance committee chairman.
Foubert said Henderson had not started preparing for revenue code hearings during the summer although the Senate instructed him to do so in the spring.
"He has a right to debate Senate issues." Foubert said. "But after Senate sets a policy, it is not his place to reinterpret that policy. He has not performed his task. He disregarded his instructions."
Henderson said he had suggested the idea of postponing revenue code
at the July meeting of StudEx. He mentioned it then to ensure that he still would have time to prepare for the hearings if StudEx decided not to postpone them.
At the July meeting, StudEx tabled the proposal until its Aug. 24 meeting.
Michael Anderson, co-chairman of the Senate Student Rights Committee, who voted for the resolution, said, "We have to ask, did he exceed his authority when he failed to start the necessary steps to get revenue code started?"
Anderson asked Henderson whether he had failed to prepare for the hearings because he was confident that, they would be postponed.
Henderson said none of his actions during the summer would have precluded him from finishing the revenue code hearings on time.
David Epstein, student body president, spoke against the resolution, calling it offensive.
"I'm unhappy the thing came up," Epstein said after the vote. "But I think Tim has gotten the message that he has to do revenue code hearings if that's what Senate wants."
Foubert said he was sure that many senators thought Henderson had acted improperly but didn't want to ask for his removal.
Kris Kurtenbach, student body vice president, warned senators at the beginning of the meeting that they should guard against making slanderous statements.
Tradition will end as bar goes private
By KAREN SAMELSON
An opening tradition is coming to a close.
In a month or two, the ritual of opening Johnny's Tavern at 7 a.m. and getting the "1 opened Johnny's" bumper sticker will be a thing of the past
Rest assured, Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. 2nd, won't disappear from the scene entirely, but it will turn into a private club soon, said Rick Renfo, one of the business' partners.
Johnny's will become private because state law will increase the legal drinking age to 21 on July 1, 1987, he said, so he sees no reason to have "just a beer joint."
As a private club, Johnny's won't be able to legally open until 9 a.m., Benfrado said Tuesday.
The profit margin is higher with liquor than with beer, he said.
He also anticipates approval of the state liquor by the drink amendment which will be voted on Nov. 4. It would allow clubs to sell alcohol to anyone of legal age and not just to those owning membership cards.
Patrons will be able to use membership cards to the Up and
The change to a private club will allow people to move freely between Johnny's and Up and Under, said Nancy Cayton, a bartender at Johnny's.
Under, a private club above Johnny's, to get into both places, he said.
But, Cayton said, "I think they're trying to maintain Johnny's as more of a beer and food place."
Cayton said the employees had known about the change since renovation began in July. At that time, more booths and mirrors were added.
Renro estimated that 80 percent of his customers was 21 already, so he didn't think the change would have a significant effect on the clientele.
Shane Langston, Wichita senior and a bartender, said only a handful of 20-year-olds came in, mostly on band nights.
"I'm pretty excited about it," she said, although going private means she will have to be a waitress instead of a bartender because she is only 20.
Langston said the changes might attract new customers and make the
HUTCHINSON — Donald Nelson, St. Paul, Minn., takes a seat operates the ride at the Kansas State Fair. He has been with Royal while waiting for customers who want to ride the YOYO. Nelson American Shows for two years.
See JOHNNY'S, p. 5, col. 1
Thousands flock to 74th state fair
Games of skill thrill rides are family business
Staff writer
HUTCHINSON — Among the smells of cotton candy, grilled hot dogs, bulls and diesel exhaust, thousands of fair-goers continued to celebrate at the 1986 Kansas State Fair yesterday.
By TONY BALANDRAN Staff writer
The 74th annual state fair officially opened Friday with free admission Preview Day. As of yesterday morning, total fair attendance was more than 200,000, officials said.
The fair will continue through Sunday.
And as thousands more are expected to wander through the cacophony of music, sirens and carnies to participate in the festivals, three men living in a trailer on the fairgrounds continue to recognize their long-time attachment to the "Great Kansas Get Together."
For 35 years, a member of the Sedlmayr family has been associated with the fair.
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Their 76-year-old family legacy, the Royal American Shows, has provided the 60 rides, games of skill and side shows to the state fair. From the YOYO to Skill Cranes and the world's smallest full-grown horse, the amusements company offered entertainment to patrons for a dollar or two.
C. J. Sedlmayr, founder of the Royal American Shows, was an apprentice pharmacist in Falls City, Neb., near the turn of the century, said C.J. Sedlmayr III, his grandson and current vice president and manager of Royal American Shows.
Jobs in his line of work were hard to find so he traveled to Chicago around 1910, he said.
Sedmayr reflected yesterday on his grandfather's founding of the Royal American Shows. His grandfather died in 1965.
While in Chicago, his grandfather became a barker for an illusions show in River View Park.
The midway comes alive at the 74th Annual Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson. The fair opened Friday and will continue until this Sunday.
This led to the eldest Sedlmayr's interest in carnivals.
Because of this interest, he began to loan money to one carnival company in particular - Siegiest and Silben.
"After some time) they couldn't pay him back so they said, "You got yourself a carnival,"" he said.
He obviously could not have kept the name and "Siegriest, Silben and Sedimayr didn't sound quite right so he looked for another name," Sedimayr said.
See FAIR, p. 5, col.
Fairgrounds aflutter with feathered friends
By TONY BALANDRAN
HUTCHINSON — Max La Rosh has many fine-feathered friends.
When visitors of the 1986 Kansas State Fair approach the Poultry Building on the 280-acre fairgrounds, they can hear and smell the ever-increasing sound and scent of his friends.
'We've been lucky so far—it hasn't been so damn hot.' La Roch said yesterday.
La Rosh, assistant poultry superintendent, helps oversee the care for more than 1,500 specimens of 600 varieties of poultry on display by 83 owners at the State Fair.
La Rosh and his two assistant superintendents, Fred Zillich and Francis Novinger, use 280 gallons of water a day to keep the birds cool and 80 bales of woodchips a week to line cages.
Their supplies also have included two tons of feed for the birds so far.
But this is a job that pays off, La Rush said in a room filled with flapping wings, honking geees, quacking ducks, crowing roosters and gobbling turkeys.
One benefit of the job is that the three men get the chickens' eggs free of charge.
"We pick them up and have them for breakfast," La Roch said.
"We also make potato salad out of them and all that good stuff," Zillich said.
The number of eggs laid, however, was "confidential," he said — and it varies every day.
But they don't eat one egg — the green one. The chicken that laid that egg is the Araucana, which originated in Chile and has no tail, La Rosh said.
Although these green eggs are supposed to be low in cholesterol, he said, the theory has not been proven yet.
Tarijuana's popularity in area has dropped, some say
Rv KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
Mark, former Lawrence resident, remembers the early 70s, when marijuana was "as available as soft drinks."
It was the heyday of the drug culture in Lawrence, of "The Big Eat" and the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers.
People who wanted the drug had plenty of sources to go to. They could even choose the level of potency. Mark said. But today, marijuana users only yearn for such conditions.
John, a KU student who also asked not to be identified, said marijuana still was around, but was more expensive and harder to come by. He came to the University just over four years ago and he still smokes it, he said.
"that isn't the case now, other users recently said." "Back then, you could get pot whenever you wanted," said Mark, who says he no longer smokes marijuana. He asked that his real name not be used.
"When I first got to KU, it used to be all over the damn place, but now it's dwindled," he said.
What marijuana dealers offer usually is pretty good, John said, but now costs twice as much.
for that amount
He said he used to be able to buy half an ounce of marijuana for $25. Now, he can get only a quarter of an ounce
John attributed the decrease in availability to the fear of being caught and to fewer people smoking marijuana.
"People just aren't able to handle the high anymore," he said. "They're getting tired of getting high."
Although it is harder to find marijuana in Lawrence, it still is more abundant than in some neighboring cities.
"Booze is legal and it still gets you messed up, so people are turning to it," he said.
"People just partyed all the time," he said. "Pot was real easy to come by.
Mark, who was involved in drugs in Lawrence and on campus in the early 1970s, said marijuana had played a large part in the culture of the period.
"Back then, it was just something that everybody did all the time, and we didn't even think about it."
But despite the casual attitude toward smoking it, peer pressure still prevailed.
"If someone didn't smoke pot, they were weird," he said.
Mark said he remembered parties or smokeouts in residence hall rooms that involved as many people as the room could hold.
"Everybody would be sitting around with a pound of weed in the middle of the room and a girl rolling (joints) as fast as she could," he said.
He said everyone stayed until no one could smoke any more, which was why they were called smokeouts.
Most of the marijuana came from Mexico or Jamaica, but not all of it. Mark said.
"It was real common for people to grow their own," he said. He also said that everyone seemed to deal marijuana in the '70s, although it was unusual to find female dealers. People didn't deal mainly for money then. They dealt so they always would have their own supply, he said.
said. "The Big Eat" is another example of marijuana use during the time, he said. "The Big Eat" was an annual party held on several acres of land west of Lawrence. Mark said a beer truck and drugs were the main attractions of the party.
"in the欺客. Tim Haman, Wichita junior, agreed that marijuana was legal, as prevalent, it once was."
The Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers also were a sign of the times, he said. It was a loosely organized group of marijuana smokers who named themselves after their habits.
He said marijuana wasn't as available anymore
because the government was doing a more efficient job controlling the substance, especially marijuana imported from other countries.
Hamilton said he thought that just as many people smoked marijuana now as in the past, although they smoked less because there weren't as many dealers.
smoked less because the dealer "I think dealers have switched over to cocaine," he said. "Cocaine makes more money, it's a more 'in' drug and its easier to store."
People also no longer consider marijuana a serious drug because of its presence in movies and television programs, he said.
Alcohol is becoming more abused but is not taking the place of marijuana, he said.
partying "There's still a lot of partying at KU — if not as much as in the past, it's very close," he said.
Lt. John Mullens of KU police was on the force in the early 70s. He said marjuana was encountered as frequently now in traffic stops as then. Frequently, officers find a probable cause to search a vehicle after a traffic violation
He said, however, it was not as openly smoked in large
See MARIJUANA, p. 5, col. 2