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Wednesday, August 20, 1975
University Daily Kansan
CITY INFORMATION
Knowing who to contact in the city government to get something done about a problem or to start city services such as water, wastewater and garbage pickup can be helpful.
Clip this box and staple it to your book book or bulletin board. You never know when you might need to call one of these offices for information or assistance.
The Water Department is on the fourth floor of the city office building at 8th and Massachusetts streets. This is where you go to pay your $15 deposit to start water, sewer and garbage pickup services from the city. If you have a problem with billing or with garbage pickup this is the first place to call. If you don't get a satisfactory response from the water department staff, call George Williams, director of public works, or Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, at the same time.
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE-843-4600.
CITY CLEARENS OF FORT HOPKINS
The City Clerk's office is on the third floor of the city office building. This is the place to register to vote, to buy dog licenses and various other city licenses. Vera Mercer, city clerk, is a good source of city information.
PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT—843-4600.
This department takes care of the maintenance of all city parks and plans an active recreational program for Lawrence citizens. If you have questions concerning either the parks or the recreational program, Fred DeVictor, director of the parks and recreation department, is the person to call.
POURCE DEPARTMENT - 745 Vermont St.-831-64131; Crime Alert - 842-8467. If you live off campus, you may need police services. If you see a crime in progress or are a victim of a crime, report it to the Lawrence police immediately. If you live on campus, call the Campus Security and Parking Department, 843-8516.
HOUSING INSPECTION-843-4600.
CITY COMMISSION meets at 7 p.m. every Tuesday on the fourth floor of the city building. The commission deals with many issues that affect students and all city residents.
The city minimum housing code inspector's office is in the Public Works Department on the third floor of the city offices building. This is the place to call when you want to complain that a house is dangerous. Except in the Hill Target Area east of the campus, all housing inspection is done on a completion basis and the homeowner will be notified if some are being reinspected. To complain of housing code violations, call the housing inspector or George Williams, director of public works, in the city building.
City officials blast airport, propose that it be renovated
By MARK PENNINGTON
Lawrence Mayor Barkley Clark has called the city municipal airport a "miserable facility" and said the city would have to spend money for its main-
MANY KANSAS COMMUNITIES smaller than Lawrence have better airports. Clark and
Stanford
Clark also commented on how the airport affects the city's commerce, such as the problem of the airport's accommodating larger airplanes flown by industrial com-
"I want Lawrence to be a first-class class in every respect," he said, "and we already are in areas such as educational facilities, parks, roads and soon in bridges."
Clark said many people in the city had told him how inadequate the airport was. Yet in the last city bond vote a year and a half on ago whether to expand the airport's facilities, the proposal was soundly defeated.
He said that he didn't foresee another bond vote for improvement of the airport, but that the city would explore other ways to finance the project.
Lawrence Airport . . cut out of a cornfield
THE CITY WILL,receive little aid,if any.
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Free State Opera . . .
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council, the Merchants Association and the Commercial Club."
THE JOURNAL-WORLD'S report concluded, "The audience loved me. Mr. Krenn told us we were voracious."
But the days of the silent screen gave way to the era of the talkies and the Bowersock Opera House was sold to a Mr. Dickinson, who cashed in on the entertainment boom in the 1920s by adding the Lawrence theatre to his string of 16 in Kansas.
The community and student crowd frequently attended the Dickinson Theatre
Ads promoting the showings of the "comfortably cold" Dickinson, which was in competition with the Patee, Granada *end* Orpheum theatres, would read:
Children would see Saturday matricies for
less as little a dwarf and students would pay 25
dollars per week.
"MAKE A DATE! Take her where she'd rather go to the spacious and luxurious DICKINSON, King of Theatres, where you will courtesy with a smile."
Blondell and "300 Glorious Girls in Busby
Berkley's World-Warrior Galaxy of axes
and goggles"
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers would dance their way into their hearts in movies like the "Gay Divorce." The little tramp, Charlie Chaple, was re-run often. And Shirley Temple took people's minds off their troubles singing "The Good Shift Lollipop."
Except for a short period when Hallmark Cards took over the building and when the University of Kansas put on theater productions before Hoch Auditorium had been erected, the building was designed for moviegoers.
"HIGH NOON" WITH GARY COoper was
renamed Hyattway, they're in the 1950s.
But in the '80s a transformation took place. Gone were the Saturday matinees and popcorn. In came the rock bands and beer,
The theater seats and screen were removed and replaced with a dance floor. The stage was remodeled.
The predecessor of the Free State was a
place where students could go to drink beer
(it had the largest draught beer account in
the state) and dance to the music of Arlo
Black Oak Arkansas and Flash
Gadilla.
SOMETIMES 2,000 music loving students would squeeze themselves into the Red Dog at $2.50 a throw. The building with the grinning red dog on the front began to acquire a reputation. Rowdiness and excitement was the rule rather than the exception.
When the Red Dog Inn was sold and Robert Gould and Roger Aldis became companions in 1974, the atmosphere changed once again.
The dance floor was refurbished. And marble and stained glass windows that had been painted over were restored to their original appearance.
NOW A VARIETY of music, from hard rock to soft folk to swinging jazz, is heard.
What the future holds for this venerable old building can't be known. But if the past is any indication, the future of the building in Massachusetts may be that young people at play.
However, Clark said, the Revenue Sharing Act is scheduled to be amended this fall. One possible result of these amendments, he said, could be that revenue sharing funds might be used to match other government spending under the airship, not belong in the city.
from the federal government for such a project, Clark said, because the land the airports is owned by the Kansas University Endowment Association. The government downsizes funds for excavation of this type used the land is owned by the city, he said.
"We'll be waiting to see what happens during the amendment process," Clark said.
The pilot was convinced there wasn't enough runway for a safe takeoff, Watson said. The representatives were driven to the municipal airport in Kansas City, Mo.
He said the airport runway, which is 3,000 long, was long enough for big commercial jets.
BUFORD WATSON, CITY manager, said that representatives of an industrial firm had recently landed at the airport for business, and when they were ready to leave the pilot refused to take off with them in the airplane.
"Certainly it's been a negative influence," Clark said.
The airport land is leased to the city for 25 years. Watson said, at $1 a year.
THE CITY HAS budget $23,000 for the resurfacing of the airport runway in the 1976 budget. The total maintenance and repair budget for the airport in 1975 was $17,450.
"THE ONLY THING we're going to do now is overlay the taxway this summer and then we just put it in."
"The endowment association is willing to sell the land," Watson said, "and, had the bond issue passed, we would have bought it." The real question is how to runway and build the necessary facilities.
Any program to lengthen and widen the airway runway, Clark said, won't be ready for delivery.
Center and chairman of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce aviation committee, said the airport facilities were "pretty poor."
"I know the airport is not on a par with what many other communities in Kansas have." Walters said. "I've been in enough airports that they have better facilities than we do."
Walters said the runway needed to be extended 800 feet and widened 25 feet to help insure the safety of passengers using the airport.
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HE SAID THAT there were items in the defeated airport bond proposal that would have financed safety features to help pilots land in bad weather.
City Commissioner Carl Mibeck also criticized the airport.
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Referring to the story told by Watson, Mibeeck said, "Those company representatives were going to landed that airplane. But what to do about the problem is a tough question because we don’t own the airport land and the people of it want to want to pay for an improved facility."
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He said it was hard to tell whether present airport facilities had kept any industry from adopting the new system.
Robert Walters, manager of research and facilities at the KU Space Technology
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