Ling house under 10-day deadline
Wednesday, August 27, 1975
By THERESE MENDENHALL
Daniel Ling, professor of physics and astronomy, has 10 days to make required repairs to a vacant house he owns at 1301 Calio, or the city will take action to destroy it, the city commission unanimously decided last night.
The commission's decision followed a three-year battle between Ling and the city over whether the house met the city's housing code. The demolition was recommended by the Minimum Housing Board of Appeals on July 2 and it was the first to be prerived by the commission, although the commission amended three other houses for destruction.
City Manager Buford Watson said the house at 1301 Ohio had been inspected and a fence was put up.
Ling's attorney, Ed Collister, said he
would argue that he would appeal the
Board's decision.
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In a public hearing at the commission meeting, Collister said Ling never had been specifically informed how the house had been set up. The state law required by state law. He said the inspectors' report had specified that the house ground for dekinglaying the property was not legal grounds for dekinglaying the property.
Watson said the inspectors' report had described the house as 'substandard, unfit for occupancy'.
Collier said 14 of the 15 violations listed by inspectors dealt with electrical and plumbing defects, which couldn't be counted. The utilities and the utilities had been disconnected.
Commissioner Marne Argeringer said the house was dangerous to passers-by, and Carl Mibek, the only commissioner who managed the area, said it was dangerous to neighborhood children who were dangerous to neighbors.
If the house is a danger to the public, Collister said, it can be made inaccessible.
He said a building that formerly housed a restaurant near the intersection of 23rd and Iowa streets had been boarded up for years, and had not been ordered demolition.
Collier brought two witnesses who were experienced in the construction industry to testify.
"The house could stand for many more years," he said. "As far as the structure itself and whether it will blow or fall down, it is not a dancer to the public."
George Collier, an employee of Craig and
Robert J. Green, president of B. A. Green Construction Co., Inc., said the house wasn't safe for tenants, but the steps were safe and the roof was sound.
Associates, Topeka, and a construction worker for about 30 years, said the house was in need of repairs.
Mayor Barkley Clark said the house had a history of attracting vandals. He said boarding up the house was unsatisfactory because an unattended house was potentially "much more dangerous in a high-residence area."
Milton Allen, city attorney, said case histories show no evidence of this duplication.
Clark also said the state statute didn't distinguish between what was dangerous for the general public and what was dangerous for tenants.
Clark said Ling had done little to repair the house in the three years since it first was built.
"It would be hard to argue that we have moved with great quickness against the enemy."
razed and demolished if they didn't. Mibeck seconded the motion.
Speaking for the first time in a city commission meeting in defense of his property, Ling discussed another of his housing board had ordered repaired
"I've run out of money. I just do not have the money to do the things the city wants done. But I think I have hit onto a scheme that the house at 121 Tennessee," Ling said.
Ling said he would give the Tennessee Street property to Jane Eldridge, a member of the Minimum Housing Board of Morris County. He said he sidederred the house architecture beautiful.
He said Eldredge could have the house for a price of $1,100, which is the current balance of the mortgage, if she would restore the house to its original architectural charm and to Lawrence C. Gifford, who would be required to maintain the architectural beauty while renting it to students for 10 years.
"I am prepared to negotiate," he said. Eldridge, who didn't attend the meeting, said later she could not respond to the offer vet.
Commissioner Donald Binns moved that its commission order repairs to begin when the agency's budget is approved.
"My comments were addressed to the exterior of the house. I don't know anything about it."
Students can expect steady beer prices
By DAVE GOSSER
Staff Writer
If you're a beer drinker you'll be happy to know that beer prices aren't expected to increase at retail liquor stores, grocery stores or restaurants least for the remainder of this semester.
Clifford McDonald, president of McDonald Beverage Inc., Budweiser distributors in Lawrence and BILK Kennedy, manager of Lapka, Inc., distributors of Coors, said no beer price increase is expected in the near future.
McDonald only the time they raised
premiums and the Budweiser Brewing
company in Skokie, Illinois.
"Bush is Budweiser's popularly called beer," McDonald said. "A housewife with $5 to spend at the grocery store can get more Busch for her money than Budweiser or
"Sill, Michelle sales have increased even more than Busch's even though Michelle costs more. Budweiser has increased but not to the point of Michelle or
Cora hasn't increased in price since last spring but Kennedy said that if Budweiser gets its way, the company could do it.
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State law requires retail liquor stores to make a profit on beer sales, Kennedy said. The state also regulates prices on wine and limon.
Roy Kitt, owner of Kitt's Liquor, said some Saturdays he sells 150 to 200 cases of beer and about 30 to 40 kegs, even with the raised prices of last spring.
Several liquor store owners in the city said beer prices hadn't been raised since the last distributor increase and probably wouldn't be raised until the next one.
Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk café,
and John Wooden, owner of the Wagon
Wheel and Harbour, are still selling the
new chairs for the same price as they
did last spring.
That situation, however, could change without a distributor price increase and without a new supplier.
"We sell beer by the pitcher in Lawrence cheaper than it is sold in Manhattan or Kansas City," Wallace said. "I don't know how much longer we can keep on doing that." I certainly don't expect a raise this summer. I don't know about next semester."
McDonald said it was cheaper for students to purchase beer in liquor stores than it was in bars. He said his sales to liquor stores had increased. He said he believed it was because students wanted to save money.
There have been rumors that Olympia beer, brewed in Olympia, Wash., and extremely popular in the West, would be sold soon. McDonald said that was just rumor.
"I think it will be late in 1976 before Olympia gets here," McDonald said. "As far as I know, Olympia hasn't even applied to the state for the right to come in."
"People who want Olympia now are getting excited for nothing."
Phone system uncertain
Staff Writer
By RODNEY HOFFMAN
Plans for a system of emergency telephones for the prevention of rape and other crimes on the University of Kansas campus. The university's Office of Security University officials have met with the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. to discuss which areas of the campus should be served and how much the system would cost, according to the department of the University Information Center.
Hoggard, who's active in the program for
State conducts kimberlite tests
There might be diamonds in Kansas.
There might be diamonds in Kansas. The State Geological Survey at the University of Kansas is drilling test holes in Winkler to test water, to test kilberlee structures, Dabb Assistant director of information and education at the survey, said last week.
However, Schobelmish, what's interesting about the kimbira in Winker that it has a similar structure to the kimberlean productive diamond mines of South Africa.
Kimberlite is an agglomerate of igneous rocks and metals which occurs in tubular forms in the earth. It's yellow on the surface, but white in the center where it's often referred to as blue earth.
It's part of a continuing program of research of Kansas rock structures, he said, coordinated with a study begun several years ago. Brookins is professor of geochemistry at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Brookins was a professor at Kansas State University.
Rod Hardy, director of information, said the drills in Winkler were part of a larger study in Riley County which included five other sites.
Geologists from the survey will be drilling test holes 250 feet deep during the next few months.
Hardy said if diamonds were discovered the survey wasn't in any position to gain the best knowledge of them, study Kanaas' subsurface. The study of klimberite structures is one of the best ways to do it. Klimberite is the purest example of what Kansas is like under the surface, he
rape prevention and counseling, said Monday estimates from Southwestern Bell Telephone for equipment and monthly service fees were reasonable. She said each phone would cost the University about four or five dollars a month.
"We also want to emphasize that diamonds haven't been discovered," he said. "We don't want some kind of a gold rush."
The consultant rated KU's campus as one of the most difficult in the nation for which to provide security. Extensive wooded areas and tree-lined, poorly lit sidewalks are common features. Recommendations for improved security phones for a system of emergency phones.
After a security consultant visited the campus last fall, the Student Senate Rape Prevention Task Force asked the ad-hoc team for installation of emergency telephone.
All emergency phones would be marked by a blue light on a tall pole. Each phone would automatically connect with the automatic voice dispatcher when the receiver is lifted.
Harry Buchholz, director of physical plants, said the department of buildings and grounds was estimating the cost of phone installation.
Proposed sites for the emergency phones are: Potter Lake; the 14th street traffic control station; X zone, west of the Union; Daisy Hills; Y zone, south of Flint Hall; the Kansas Union; O zone, north of Naismith Hall; and GSP-Corinbon Hall.
"The major cost will be for the University to install the phones and to provide stations that would be protected from the elements and visible to the public." Howard said.
Though progress is being made, Hoggard expressed doubt about how quickly the system would work.
Mike Thomas, director of security and parking, said reports would be sent to William Bailour, vice chancellor for student affairs for final action.
"I honestly don't expect that we'll see any phones before next spring," she said.
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