Friday, August 29,1975
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As an eyesore, city sanitation barn
By IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
Staff Writer
Complaints about the city trash service continue, and the city maintenance garage is shut down.
A relationship between the garage and trash service isn't obvious, but some people think one exists. A city trash service trying to operate without a maintenance garage is much like a river searching for the sea in an outlet, although it isn't as picturesque.
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There is nothing picturesque about the sanitation barn on Fifth and Mississippi streets. In fact, it is an eyesore. However, until the city maintenance garage is built,
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which according to Assistant City Manager Mike Wildgen will be at least a year, mechanics and sanitation workers must work in the barn.
The sanitation barn resembles an enormously large tool shed. Except for a lavatory, which is shared by 40 men, it is a single wide open room.
Any University of Kansas student with ambitions of becoming a museum curator can enroll in a class in museum management this semester.
Biology 701, Special Topics in Museum Management, will be taught by Philip Humphrey, director of KU's Museum of Natural History.
There is no storage space. Mechanic's tools, spare parts, tires and oil drums are scattered throughout the garage. All are stored in the dryers and sanitation workers into the shelter.
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However, one might want to think twice before even calling it a shelter. Superintendent Don Durply calls it an "enclosure." There is no air-conditions. The ventilation is terrible. The roof leaks, and the wiring is messy. It's a potential fire hazard, Purdy said.
Few students set out to become museum administrators, he said, although many of them are not familiar with a museum for teaching and research. Many of those people may eventually find themselves in a museum administration background, he said.
Humphrey said yesterday he was teaching the course to offer management background to students interested in museum work.
There is demand for this type of course at KU, according to Humphrey, because the University has six museums. Between 90 to 100 students per semester, undergraduate work at those museums.
Humphrey said a strong academic and business administration background was needed to become a museum administrator; Humphrey's course is designed to bridge the gap between the academic and administration aspects of the job, he said.
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"Some of these students may want to work in a museum environment or organization," Humphrey said. "It's useful for them to know they can be a social system that provides a service."
The course is designed to teach principles of management with special emphasis on management skills.
"Management is a fight against chaos and disorder," Humphrey said. "Bureaucracy is excessive management that leads to chaos."
"We aren't giving recipes for keeping books or hiring people," he said. "We are concerned with teaching goals, which, in the case of the natural history museum, is serving the teaching and research needs of the community and the people of the state of Kansas."
Humphrey said he hoped his students would be able to establish a median between the chaos of no management and the chaos of excessive management.
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"The University has wonderful museum resources," Humphrey said. "A number of us have been talking about how we can teach our students in different courses by means of different courses."
Nine students are enrolled in the class, he
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said. Of the nine, five are anthropology students, two are art history students, one is a paleontology student and one is a historical preservation student, he said.
David Curry, assistant director of the Spooner Art Museum, is enrolled in the course. He said he took the course to learn how to use the most effective use of a museum's resources.
Humphrey is teaching the course on the basis of his own personal experience. He has been director of the Museum of Natural History and is a faculty member. He was curator of birds at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where he also was chairman of the Department of Zoology. Prior to 1862, he was the assistant curator of birds at Yale's Peabody Museum.
Order awry but home still home
Only the residents, delivery people and a few others notice it, but two house numbers are visible.
Right in between houses number 2200 and 2300, where a house number such as 2250 would be expected, lie homes number 2120 and 2124.
"If I had to change my house number I would have to write all of my friends and tell them my new address," Hird said. "Besides, I'm used to it now."
Orchard Lane residents and the city engineer's office said the mismembering was just an oversight. The city doesn't plan to allow residents to use their numbers nor do the residents want to,
Mrs. Irene Hird, who has lived at 2120 Orchard Lane since 1955, said changing her house number would cause more problems than it was worth.
"Every now and then workmen who come to my house have to stop at a neighbors and call me because the numbers confuse them. But it's really no problem."
Robert Dark, city engineering supervisor, said the house numbers were out of sequence because Orchard Lane was extended beyond the 2100 numbered area.
"When more houses were built on Orchard Lane they were given house numbers that they probably shouldn't have received," Dark said. "If we wanted to change their house numbers we would have to tell everyone else who would need to know residents' addresses of the changes. We don't plan to do that."
building were from the city landfill. Yet, even with all fans going it is hot.
"It's cooler than blue blazers in winter," he said. "Machines have to work while you're on vacation."
Winter is worse.
The area outside the sanitation barn is crowded. The sanitation department must share ground space with the street department. As a result city vehicles are parked in the street instead of on the grounds.
In addition, there is only room to fix one sanitation truck at a time.
Purdy said that yesterday three trucks
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Dennis Smith, an employee and president of the Lawrence sanitation workers union, is scheduled to speak on Wednesday.
addition to the weather, crowded conditions and poor organization, there aren't spare parts. Mechanisms have to get spare parts from a trash heap behind the building.
Purdy said the last two qualified mechanics the city tried to hire refused to work in the sanitation barn. As a result, the city had to hire inexperienced help. It purdy says about five years to train workers, Purdy said, and most don't stay that long.
high school education. The reason for this, he said, was that the mechanics only got the job of keeping up with it.
Supervision is minimal and morale is low, he said. The workers might not be able to wait another year for the maintenance garage. They need some changes now.
In the meantime, the garage is being delayed further by an inability to buy the property around the proposed site. The manager is organizing to try to get better work training. City Manager Buford Watson is taking bids on a private sanitation service.
And the complaints keep coming.
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