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Tuesday, September 9, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
KCC mulls Trailways service cuts
By COLLEEN SIEBES
Staff writer
The discontinuation of Trailways bus service to most of Kansas would have a detrimental effect on the state, said Steve Menaigh, spokesman for the Kansas Corporation Commission.
Trailways Inc. recently advised the KCC of its intentions to stop all routes in Kansas except one running along a Kansas City-Lawrence-Topeka-Wichita route.
The KCC will take action tomorrow on the request which was filed Aug. 29. Menaugh said the proposal was not filed properly and expects the KCC will request that Trailways resubmit a proper petition containing reasons for their intentions.
The Kansas City-Lawrence-Topeka Wichita route will continue to run because it is profitable, said Roger Rydell, spokesman for Trailways Inc. in Dallas.
Rydell said routes in Kansas were not producing sufficient revenues and were a financial strain on the company. The cost of operating in Kansas is higher than the amount of money made per mile.
Rydell said the decision on restructuring their service was based purely on economics.
But Menaaugh, former public relations director for the Kansas University Endowment Association, said earlier that he believed Trailways actions were based on other elements.
"The commission has been critical of the bus regulatory act of 1962," Menaugh said. "The result is rural Kansas is being left without bus service."
The bus regulatory act of 1892 gives Trailways the right to appeal decisions of the KC to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Menaugh said the KCC had asked Sen. Nancy Kassebaum for legislation that would revise the bus regulatory act to ensure service to small cities.
The KCC will decide whether to approve or deny Trailways' request by weighing the economic factors against the public necessity and convenience. Menaugh said.
Public response will be considered, he said. Before the KCC makes a decision, notices will be sent to affected cities to allow them a chance to respond.
would appeal to the ICC if the KCC denied their request
The ICC weighs their decision more heavily on the profit aspect, Menaugh said. The tendency has been for the ICC to overturn decisions of the KCC.
In addition to hindering passenger transportation, Menaugh said, a lack of bus service would prevent the transportation of freight to rural areas in Kansas.
"It will affect the livelihood of the farmers," said Jo Botkins, Trailways commission agent in Topeka.
Scott Stucky, Chief Medical Technologist at Pratt Regional Medical Center, said it used Trailways several times a month to send blood to nearby hospitals.
Stucky said it wouldn't affect their blood supply because the American Red Cross in Wichita guaranteed them shipment of blood.
Stucky said for extreme emergency situations, the hospital relied on the highway patrol to transport blood quickly to other towns.
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Director celebrates 25 years at KU
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Warner Ferguson has seen many changes at KU in the last 25 years
He was here during the Vietnam War protests and the burning of the Kansas Union. Ferguson has seen the population of the University of Kansas more than double during his tenure.
This month, he is celebrating his silver anniversary with the KU unions.
Ferguson, associate director of the Kansas unions, has worked for KU since Sept. 18, 1961. He was hired as the head of the Union accounting department by Frank Burge, who was then union director.
Ferguson, a 1957 Washburn University graduate, was promoted to the associate director position in 1973.
"A lot of things have changed."
Ferguson said. "The major
changes I've seen have been in the students' attitudes toward society."
The students are one reason that Ferguson lasted this long. Ferguson said he was impressed with their cooperation and enthusiasm.
"I'm pleased to be working in the University environment," he said. "I've had the pleasure of making a lot of friends and being involved with students."
"It was a very fine honor," he said. "There were other fine candidates, and I really appreciate it."
Ferguson won the University's Unclassified Employee Award in April 1983. The plaque now hangs on the wall of the Kansas Union business offices.
Ferguson commutes daily from his native home of Silver Lake.
Warner Ferguson
Office awaits bids for lighting plan
He also is interested in amateur investment and does income tax
Ferguson said KU was one of the best universities in all areas—the high quality of the curriculum, the beauty of the campus and the faculty and students.
By SALLY STREFF
returns on the side
The University of Kansas has completed plans for the first stage of campus lighting improvements and probably will choose a contractor within six weeks, the director of facilities planning said yesterday.
Construction should start, at the latest, by January 1987. said Allen Wiechert, the director.
"We're looking forward to getting it started," Wiechert said.
Wiechert's office finished the plans last week and sent them to the state purchasing office in Topeka. The state office will accept bids and give them to Wiechert's office, which will choose one.
Wiechert said he thought the state office would collect the bids within six weeks for the project, which would place brighter lights on campus.
The start of construction depends on who receives the bid and how soon they start working. Wiechert said.
The construction shouldn't take more than 90 days to finish, but that depends on the weather, he said
Greg Wade, a landscape architect for the University, said he thought the construction could start as early as 2014.
The plans call for new lights on Jayhawk Boulevard from the Chi Omega fountain to Bailey Hall, including the area around the Vietnam Memorial.
Wade said the project would cost about $100,000.
Jackson will speak at rally in Wichita
The Associated Press
Darryl Gray, state coordinator of the Rainbow Coalition, said Jackson would speak at Henry Levitt Arena on the WSU campus at the 1 p.m. rally
TOPEKA — The Kansas State Rainbow Coalition announced yesterday that the Rev. Jesse Jackson would visit Wichita on Friday to address a voter education and registration rally at Wichita State University.
He said he hoped Jackson addressed such issues as low minority political participation, the political isolation of Kansas Indians and the grievances of black football players at Washburn University in Topeka.
At a Statehouse news conference were the Rev. James Saiz of Wichita, a co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition in Kansas, and Curtis Pitts, president of the Black Student Union at Washburn, which is supporting five football players who quit playing in a protest over their situation on the lechabod football team.
Gray said their separation from the football team was the result of blatant discrimination and said he had requested a meeting with Washburn President John Green to discuss the episode. He also said the Kansas State Rainbow Coalition steering committee would investigate the situation.
Twenty-eight players boycotted practice last week because of what they said were "broken promises" on scholarship agreements, lack of a
tutorial program and the coaching staff's player evaluation system. After discussions, 23 of the players returned to the team, which opened its season Saturday with a 16-14 upset of the University of South Dakota
Gray said the Rainbow Coalition also planned to ask Democratic governor candidate Tom Docking why he had not divested his stock in IBM, a company which does business in South Africa, and to ask Republican governor nominee Mike Hayden why he could not, as speaker, get a bill out of House committee which would have required Kansas entities to divest their stock in such companies.
He said the group also planned to ask Docking and Hayden to visit the Potatowati and other Kansas Indian reservations so they could learn for themselves how politically isolated Indians were.
Gray said the coalition was planning a state conference for Sept. 20 in a city to be decided Friday.
Jackson founded the national Rainbow Coalition of minority groups.
Concerning Jackson's appearance at the University of Kansas, David Epstein, KU student body president, said he would find out today or tomorrow whether Jackson would speak at KU this fall.
Jackson's secretary told Epstein last week that Jackson might cancel his Midwest speaking engagements, which dealt with farm issues, so he could focus on South African issues
A Kansas reporter contributed in formation to this story.
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