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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Wednesday November 4,1987 Vol.98,No.53
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
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County residents reject 1-cent sales tax increase
About 60 percent of voter turnout oppose proposal
By BRIAN BARESCH
Staff writer
Douglas County residents said no to higher sales tax yesterday, defeating a proposed 1-cent increase in a special election.
According to last night's unofficial results, 5,676 voters, or about 60 percent, opposed the tax proposal and 3,798 supported it.
Almost 31 percent of the county's eligible voters turned out, which was more than the 25-percent turnout county clerk Patty Jaimes had projected. Jaimes said about 20 to 30 years ago usually in one-issue elections.
Supporters of the tax had argued that road improvements and better human services were badly needed and that the sales tax was the best way to pay for them.
But sales tax opponents had said the tax would be regressive, hurting low-income residents more than it would help them.
Paul Howard, spokesman for the Public Fund Protect Committee, which had opposed the tax increase, said the result showed that voters had compassion for those less fortunate.
Howard said he thought the city and county governments could trim their budgets without cutting back services.
"Usually there is some fat in all governments that can be cut out," he said.
The 1c tax vote
The 1% sales tax failed last night by about a 60% - 40% margin. The sales tax would have amounted to an extra 1¢ in sales tax for every dollar.
The question appeared as follows on the ballot:
Shall the following be adopted?
Shall a countywide retailer's sales tax take the amount of one percent of the county's revenue, County, to take effect April 1, 1987?
Source: county allies LLC
Richard Stewart KANSAN
Don Watkins, spokesman for Penny Power, which had supported the tax proposal, said the demand for human services and road improvements now would be very difficult to meet.
Watkins, who works at the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, 336 Missouri St., said the demand for the center's services had gone up 60 percent in the last three years, while the budget had only increased 18 percent.
"The staff is strained to its limit," he said.
Watkins said that doubts about the national economy's health, especially since the recent instability on Wall Street, have contributed to the tax's defeat.
City and county administrators expressed disappointment last night at the election's result.
Lawrence City Commissioner Sandra Praeger said the tax would have helped the city. She said the City Commission might not have done enough to show support.
David Hopper, chairman of the Douglas County Commission, said such projects as culvert repair and road improvement now would have to wait.
they're going to have to be addressed some day," he said. "The longer they're put off, the more expensive they are."
Hopper said one advantage of a sales tax increase over a property tax increase was that out-of-town visitors also helped pay the sales tax.
Lawrence Mayor Mike Amyx said last night that the tax would have allowed some important improvements, such as to drainage south of KU, but that the voters had said the tax was not the way to finance them.
The state sales tax is 4 cents on $1 and the Lawrence, Eudora and Baldwin city sales taxes are an additional .20 cent
Kansan reporter Valoree Armstrong contributed information to this story.
Senators say Frank Carlucci will face easy confirmation
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senators of both parties predicted yesterday that Frank C. Carlucci, President Reagan's national security adviser, would be easily confirmed as secretary of defense if nominated to replace Caspar Weinberger.
Officially, neither the White House nor the Pentagon confirmed the reports, and both Weinberger and Carlucci declined comment.
wenberger's resignation and Carlucci's selection are likely to be announced later this week, said administration and congressional sources speaking on condition of anonymity.
Sources said Carlucio would be replaced as director of the National Security Council staff by Army LT. Gen. Colin Powell, who is currently Carlucio's deputy. Powell would be the first black to hold that position and would be the sixth national security adviser in Reagan's presidency.
Weinberger, 70, plans to leave because his wife, Jane, is in poor health, suffering from cancer and from severe arthritis, the sources
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole predicted that Carlucci, a former deputy defense secretary under
Weinberger and veteran of other top government posts, "will be well received" by the Senate.
Asked to compare the views of the two men, Dole said, "I don't see much difference."
Sen. Alan Dixon, D-III., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, "I shouldn't think Carrucci would have a problem being confirmed. He's a pretty solid per-
Dixon also predicted better relations between the Pentagon and the Democratic-controlled Congress, saying: "I think Carlucii tends to be more moderate. Cap is your quintessential hawk. He was also fairly confrontational. I think that Carlucii may be a little less so."
That same trait worried Sen. Jessie Helms, R-N.C., an early Weinberger critic who turned into a staunch supporter.
"Carlucus has assured me he's just as strong as Weinberger in being vigilant against the people who want to compromise and weaken this country," Helms said. "But you can be assured that he will be questioned closely by a number of senators, including me."
Another conservative, Sen. Gordon Humphrey, R-N.H., said, "I hate to see Weinberger leaving. I would have
liked to have seen him stay through the whole administration and I'm sure he would have, but for his wife's illness. He's been the stauchenck defender of the president. He borne a heavy burden and done it well."
Weinberger was in Monterey, Calif., taking part in a North Atlantic Treaty Organization strategy meeting. At a reception Monday for international dignitaries, his wife sat in a chair and rose only to shake a few hands. When she stood, she supported herself with a cane.
He was ambassador to Portugal during the Ford administration, deputy CIA director during Jimmy Carter's presidency and held the No. 2 jobs at the old Office of Economic Opportunity and the Office of Management and Budget during the Nixon administration.
Carluci, who was second in command to Weinberger at the Pentagon in 1981-82, has held a variety of important jobs over the past three decades.
Weinberger presided over a vast expansion of the Pentagon budget and was, along with the president, the strongest and most vocal advocate of the pledge made during the 1980 campaign by Reagan to "rearm America."
High perch
Marcy Greene, Wichita freshman, read a letter while relaxing in a tree. Greene was waiting for a friend near Summerfield Hall yesterday.
College tightens its policy
Assembly votes for stricter rules
By JENNIFER ROWLAND Staff writer
The College Assembly yesterday passed a measure making it tougher for out-of-state students to be admitted to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The guidelines, passed in a unanimous voice vote, impose new selective admission standards for freshmen. In 2015 the program began with the fall 1986 semester.
Out-of-state applicant must have a 3.0 grade point average or an ACT composite test score of at least 23, or have completed basic course recommendations of the Board of Regents.
The Regents recommend that college-bound high school students take four years of English, three years of math, three years of science, three years of social science and a combination of two years of foreign language, computer science or arts and music appreciation classes.
'All this does is to enable the college to deny admission to certain categories.'
- James Carothers associate dean of liberal arts and sciences
Those out-of-state applicants with GPAs between 2.0 and 2.99 would be admitted according to availability of University resources. Students with the highest GPAs would be admitted first.
Currently, all out-of-state applica-
tions or higher are admitted to the college
Frances Ingemann, professor of linguistics and chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising, presented the proposal to the assembly.
Ingemann said during the meeting that the state open admissions law, which requires Kansas universities to admit all Kansas high school students, made out-of-state admission restrictions the only way to cut down on overcrowding.
"the only place we could control
out-of-state," Ingemann said.
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said yesterday that he thought the new guidelines could affect approximately 10 percent to 15 percent of out-of-state applicants.
"The problem for the college was to decide how to restrict admissions if it became necessary to restrict admissions, and this was the device that was developed." Carothers said.
"All this does is to enable the college to deny admission to certain
"It seems reasonable to limit the number of students we deal with to our resources."
Quantrill's Flea Market offers patrons atmosphere along with merchandise
By JULIE McMAHON
Staff writer
Stepping in the door at 811 New Hampshire St. is like walking into Grandma's attic.
The musty smell of old wares welcomes explorers of the building's ancient treasures.
When visitors begin to look around, they see a cameo pin, vintage baseball cards, a white ball gown, an original Ritchie Valens album with the song "La Bamba," used books and antiques that bring back memories of Grandma.
Quantrill's Flea Market, which is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, has those items and many more. They can be found by exploring the nooks and crannies of the old building.
Past the entrance, shops line a hallway and wind back into the recesses of the building.
"I like the atmosphere and the different types of people," said Hillary Weyt, Chicago, Ill., sophomore. "It's laid back and fun."
Jackie Denning, Overland Park sophomore, said, "There's a big variety of things. I come here for the albums because they are so cheap. I
also get a kick out of these old clothes."
Quantrill's is in a building whose history is as long asLawrence's. The building, which once housed a seed company, was rebuilt soon after the original building was burned down in William Quantrill's raid in 1863. The building was a warehouse before it became a flea market in October 1871.
Max Humphrey, manager of Quatrill's, said that when Quatrill's opened, flea markets were a new idea — especially an indoor, air-conditioned flea market as big as Quatrill's, which has 25 shops.
"The shop owners rent space from the flea market and set up their own little shop." Humphrey said. Humphrey sells comic books out of his own shop. "It's kind of a mall in a way — a small countrefilled mall."
He said that at first it wasn't successful, but then it caught on while other flea markets in the area closed.
"Why we're still here I don't know," he said. "I guess it was luck and organization. And we were pretty much the first."
Humphrey said that some of the
flea market's dealers had been there since Quantrill's opened.
Finch hunts for her merchandise at estate sales. She said she looked for something usable that someone else would like.
Erma Finch has operated her shop for 15 years. She said her shop didn't specialize in anything. She deals in whatever she comes up with, which is mainly wooden antique furniture and other antiques.
"People are closer with their money now. They are buying more things that they need, like desks," she said as she pointed to a wooden antique desk
But her customers have changed since her shop opened, she said.
Antiques and collectibles are popular at Quantrill's, but the shops that sell old clothing, costume jewelry and albums are more popular with college students. Humphrey said.
At Quantrill's, young shoppers seem to be fascinated with the very things their grandparents might have discarded 30 years ago.
Jerry Jones runs a shop that sells jewelry from the '30s and '40s and other antiques. She said KU students were a large part of her business.
Evelyn Nelson sells second-hand vintage clothes, including flapper dresses and foreign clothes. She said that she sold many men's topcoats and hats to college students, in addition to dresses.
"College students love to spend there Saturdays and Sundays here. They love to look at the old stuff," she said.
"My favorites are the Victorian white. I just think they are so pretty," she said.
Antiques aren't the only things that sell well at Quantrill's. So do slightly more modern items such as classic rock 'n' roll records.
"I found out it was a good business." he said.
Three years ago Barry Tucker tried to sell his record collection of 700 records to a local used-records store. When the store didn't buy the records, he set up his own shop at Quarrill's.
He said he bought and sold anything to do with rock 'n' roll such as posters, tour jackets, magazines and albums. He is selling a Buddy Holly record for $75 and a rare album by
See ANTIQUES, p. 6, col. 1
KU employees vent insurance concerns
Blue Shield of Kansas yesterday answered questions from University employees who said they were frustrated about new health insurance plans offered by the state.
A representative from Blue Cross &
By MICHAEL HORAK
"They are frustrated because they were not involved in the decision making process and because they don't understand why their prices
Kelly said it was evident from the comments he heard yesterday that many faculty members were unhappy with recent changes in the state's insurance program.
Staff writer
Before Nov. 20, employees have to specify which of the two plans they want for coverage. In other parts of the state, employees will chose from other insurance options.
Mike Kelly, manager of national and special accounts for Blue Cross in Topeka, spoke to about 250 University employees during four one-hour sessions in the Kansas Union. He talked about coverage under Health Maintenance Organization Kansas and Blue Select, the two insurance plans available to state employees in northwestern Kansas.
Several employees attending one presentation said that they didn't like the increased costs but that they were trying to make the best of the choices they had.
Under HAHO Kansas, employees select a principal care physician from a list compiled by Blue Cross. If employees' physicians are not on the list, they have to change physicians to get health care coverage.
are increasing," he said.
Health care costs are lower with HMO Kansas than with Blue Select. Physicians are paid monthly fees to provide care to patients who designate them as principal physicians, regardless of whether the physicians see the patients.
Blue Select requires an employee to select a principal physician but allows a self-referral option. If employees chose physicians who aren't on the list, they have coverage but have to pay more money out of their own pockets.
Some faculty members said that they were still angry about the firsttime user fees the state recently included in their insurance costs. Beginning Jan. 1, an employee with
See HEALTH, p. 6, col. 1