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Friday, August 29,1975
University Daily Kansan
Spears sendoff
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Bluegrass musician Billy Spears opens presents Thursday afternoon during a retirement ceremony in the Kansas Room at the Kansas
Union. Spears is retiring from his job as assistant manager for Union food services. ___
New lane adds speed, confusion
Follow the yellow striped road—that is if you want to make a left turn on 23rd Street.
Students returning to the University of Kansas may notice that the center lane on 23rd street from Louisiana Street to Ridge Court has been painted with yellow stripes. According to Leonard Hoover, city engineer, some new and returning students
The new lane, which was painted near the end of July, is intended to speed the flow of traffic on the hour on the increased 23rd Street and will increase since the expansion of K-10 and will probably continue
don't know about the center lane. Some students have been trying to make left turns in traffic.
StudEx defended . . .
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power. Roffs said this would be fine as long as the bill went through a Senate commit-
"A thing like that needs a lot of con-
sistance and shouldn't be acted on in one
way."
Steve Segebrecht, chairman of the health board and a StudEx member, said StudEx had probably acted legally. Its method, he said, was to shoddy, he said, and deserved criticism.
"It acted hurriedly and under pressure," he said.
Adrienne Hyle, graduate student and StudEx member, said StudEx had acted to correct an error made by an uneducated teacher in the spring of 2014, the April 30 meeting had not only caught the Senate unprepared, but had colored everything towards abolishing the rider.
The board didn't even tell anyone before
the meeting that abolishing the rider would be proposed, she said.
"They didn't tell StudEx a thing," Hyle said.
Werner said that if StudiEx had done a poor job, it was only because the whole process was wrong. Not only was the Senate uneducated and StudiEx ignored, he said, but there was no insurance policy holder on the board and no public hearings.
The board, Woner said, did a shoddy job itself.
"The committee did a very good job," he said.
Segebrecht, however, disagreed.
The board decided not to have a public hearing because of past experience, Siegbeck said. He said only one or two meetings were planned for public meetings two and three years ago.
Hovered said it was impossible to make and Street six-kill because businesses didn't want it.
to increase during the expansion of Clinton Parkway.
The lane, which is labeled a two-way left turn lane, is reserved for exclusive use of left-turn vehicles and can't be used to pass and overtake other vehicles, he said. The lane may be used by drivers making a left turn trawelling east or west.
Six signs, three on each side of the street between Ridge Court and Louisiana Street, are already posted on the shoulder of the road. They explain the procedure for a lift.
Hoover said overhead arrows would be placed west of Naismith Drive for east-bound traffic and west of Louisiana Street for west-bound traffic.
In addition to speeding up traffic, Hover said, use of the yellow lane should also result in a marked decrease of rear-end collisions. He said studies had shown a decrease in accidents on highways with the special lane.
It is too soon to tell whether the lane has been successful. he said.
Billy Spears will take off his apron today and end 19 years of employment with the Kansas Union to pursue his career as a professional musician.
Spears will be full-time fiddler
By DIERCK CASSELMAN
Staff Writer
Spears, the well-known, country-western blackgrass flicker, will leave his position as assistant manager of the Union Food Department. He will also serve with his five-member Billy Spears Band.
Spears reflected on his career yesterday as he sat in the Kansas Room of the Union, where about 40 friends, mostly Union men, addressed to pay him tribute and save goodly.
Spears said he began to play the fiddle when he was a 12- or 13-year-old in Hartshore, Okla., upholding a three-generation family tradition.
in those early years, Spears said, he
always found a group of other amateur
players in the city.
"My father played and my grandfather played, but it was my uncle who got me interested," he said. "He was a really good player, but never did it professionally."
In the early 1950s, after he had graduated from high school and served in the military, he played professionally for four years. During those four years, he said, he played
with country artists like Ferlin Huskie, Jeanie Shepard and T. Texas Tyler.
Plus
From $29.50
"200 MOTELS"
"2001" to 12:35
"Motels" to 2:40
At Air Seats
$2.00
Hilltop
"At that time, those were some pretty good bands," he said.
Spares said he came to the Union in May and after studying barking at a trade school in Oxford, England.
While attending trade school, he continued to fiddle as a hobby.
Listening to the style of other fiddlers helped him improve his own playing, Spears
"I used to listen to all the western swing music," he said.
In the past few years he began listening more to bluegrass players like Kenny
Baker, Joe Green and Vassar Clemmens, he said.
"That helped me expand my playing," he said. "They've two different styles."
The Billy Spears Band was formed five or six years ago,Spears said, when he began to play with younger musicians who were interested in the country-bluegrass sound.
"We got something going and it just kept growing," he said. "The younger boys think it's gone past the point of just weekend ours."
But no one is more enthusiastic about the upcoming tour than Spears himself.
According to Spears, the band will tour in Colorado, Michigan, California and Texas.
NOTICE
TO: All organizations allocated funds by the Student Senate from the Student Activity Fee
FROM: John House Student Senate Treasurer
2. Sign a CAPITAL DISPOSITION CONTRACT with the Student Senate.
1. Attend a TRAINING SESSION conducted by the Student Senate Treasurer. See the schedule listed below.
3. Obtain ADVANCE WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION for each expenditure from funds allocated to the organization.
All officers who are to be responsible for the expenditure of allocated funds MUST:
No funds will be made available until these requirements have been met.
Treasurer's Training Sessions have been scheduled for the following times:
Tuesday, August 26 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, August 27 2:00 p.m.
Thursday, August 28 2:00 p.m.
Friday, August 29 10:00 a.m.
Tuesday, September 2 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, September 3 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 4 10:00 a.m.
Friday, September 5 10:00 a.m.
Contact the Student Senate Treasurer's Office at 864-3746 to sign up for one of these sessions, or for additional information.
PAID FOR FROM STUDENT ACTIVITY FEE
Fri.-Sat. Dance to MACKENDER-LYNCH
15c Draws Friday 4-9 p.m.
Sept. 4-5-6 THE CLASSMEN
1 3/4 miles North of Kaw River Bridge
Just North of Sirloin