The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, November 18, 1982 Vol.93, No.64 USPS 650-640
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Joe McGowan, Overland Park Leawood freshman, checked outside the Kansas Union for Senate elections. Ballot boxes.
freshman, left, and Scott Jury,
identification cards yesterday
students voting for the Student
will be at the Kansas Union, at
Wescoe, Lindley, and Green halls and on the sidewalk between Summerfield and Haworth halls. All polls will close at 4:30 p.m. today.
Militia leader denies role in killings
By United Press International
JERUSALEM - the commander of an Israel-backed Christian militia denied yesterday his forces took part in the massacre of Palestinians, saying survivors had been to see his troops' imagination.
Mai, Sad Haddad told an Israeli commission investigating the Sept. 16-18 massacre that survivors were confused because Christian killings were being killed were similar Israel-supplied uniforms.
"Some people said, 'We saw Maj. Hadj. himself inside the camp.' What kind of story (is that)?" Haddad told interrogators who are now in their fifth week of hearings.
HE SAID NO members of his "Army of Free Lebanon," who are supplied and paid by Israel
and based in southern Lebanon, were in the two Beirut refugee camps at the time of the slaughter.
He did acknowledge that three members of the civil guard, which he said was organized by Israel and was loosely under his command, went without his permission to West Beirut on a private visit, but were far from the Sabra and Chatila camps.
EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak said yesterday he would welcome Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat to the United Nations and assured the need to address the Palestinian issue.
Haddad, a feared renegade Christian Lebanese army major, has controlled a strip of land in southern Lebanon on the Israeli border since the beginning of the war. The Jewish state from Palestinian guerrillas.
Mubarak told a six-man U.S. congressional delegation that Egypt was still committed to the Camp David peace process with Israel, but that it had been undermined with the participation of other countries.
Israel has been highly critical of Egypt's attempt to help the PLO diplomatically following its expulsion from Beirut, but Egyptian officials brushed aside the Israeli objections.
He said a similarity in uniforms would explain how his forces could be confused with the Phalangists, who are widely believed to have casually out the slaughter of old men, women and children.
In Tel Aviv, Foreign Ministry officials said yesterday they expected preliminary talks on Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon to begin as early as next week, Israel Radio said.
Weather
New work brightens holiday job outlook
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Staff Reporter
There will be a 30 percent chance of showers today with the high in the mid- to upper 70%, according to the National Weather Service, which will be from the southeast at 10 to 15 mph.
Lawrence's traditional Christmas season increase in unemployment may not be as large as usual this year because of the opening of two business colleges, director of Kansas Job Bank, under yesterdays
Tonight will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers. The low will be in the
Ed Mills, director of the Lawrence branch of the job service, said agriculture and construction layoffs usually pushed the unemployment numbers up in Lawrence. But the opening of Wal-Mart, now under construction at 27th and Walmart streets, will help the Grand Opening of Aeropilot Corp., 2901 Lakeview Road, will create about 150 jobs in the community, he said.
It will be partly cloudy tomorrow with showers ending in the morning. The high will be in the mid- to upper 50s.
"THAT'S QUITE substantial," he said. "We've got about 1,400 unemployed people — 150 new jobs would take up quite a bit of that. One new job helps."
Lawrence had 4 percent unemployment in October, he said, and that figure should remain steady.
Draft evader argues causes for resisting
The Lawrence economy is pretty strong in light of the country's situation." he said. "Unemployment might be a little higher than it has been other years, but it is not all that bad."
DARWIN DACOFF, KU professor of economics, said the that the unemployment rate in Kansas was much lower than the national rate of 10.4 percent, but that this was traditionally true.
Christmas season hire and the newly created jobs should help stabilize unemployment during this period, which usually is accompanied by a half percentage point jump in the jobless rate.
"The structure of our economy is different from those of other states," he said. "We don't know."
Philip Cawrey, vice president of the Gustin-Bacon division, said his company had decided to expand its operation in Lawrence because of the strength of the Kansas economy.
"The business situation in California was not as good as it is in Lawrence," he said. "California has higher labor costs and a very high turnover rate. Kansas is much more stable."
"We get a very warm feeling from Kansans,
"blood is running, head bracing,"
Cawrey said most of the 50 jobs his company's expansion would create probably would go to local people, but some salaried people would be transferred to Lawrence. Most of the positions will be hourly, as openings for spot welders, heavy press operators and some sheet metal workers.
By BONAR MENNINGER Staff Reporter
he said. They're a good, hard-working people,
and they do well, the Kansas economy is not doing well
Our airline industry is in serious shape, and the farmers are really suffering from the low commodity prices," he said.
AS THE NEW year approaches, the airline industry should improve, he said, because of lower interest rates, which will boost sales, and the effect on the third phase of President Obama's plan.
But the farm industry is a different case, he said.
"The farmer is being hurt by the price in other places," he said. "The rest of the world has to improve its ability to buy American commodities to the United States improving economy."
FARMERS ARE BEING hurt by the international strength of the dollar, he said, because the prices in other countries are lower than those in the United States. Although no immediate relief is in sight, a turnabout in the economy as a whole will eventually help the farmer, he said.
A Mennonite who has been indicted for refusing to register for the draft said yesterday that the military institution in the United States has become entrenched to the extent that any criticism of it results in calls of "subversive" and "communist".
Senate approves allocations in final meeting of semester
Staff Reporter
By DON KNOX Staff Manager
Charles Epp, a philosophy student from Bethel College in Newton, spoke as part of the University Forum lecture series to a group of architectural Christian Institutes building on campus.
The 1982 Student Senate, in its final meeting last night, spent more than $32,000 of its reserve money in a little more than three hours.
It was by far the most money allocated in a single night this fall by the 66-member Senate, which approved a supplementary budget of $150 million to essentially strapped Recreational Services program.
Early in the meeting, the Senate failed to override the supplementary budget veto of David Adkins, student body president. He is now leading a fundraising ban $14,282 after a dropout by the Women's
Transitional Care Services, Inc., a Lawrence shelter home for battered and abused women
Epp was charged on September 22 by the federal government for non-compliance with the draft registration law, which requires young drivers to be designated by the drafting process in the event of war.
QUOTING H.L. MENCKEN, Epp said that people like himself who were resisting the draft were "tossing dead cats" at the icons of the Pentagon and government in an effort to inspire doubt and thought about the philosophical concept of war.
HOWEVER, AFTER volunteers and supporters of WTCS attended the meeting to protest the possible dental of the request, the Senate approved $5,010 in emergency financing for the group.
concept of war.
The 20-year-old spoke for about 45 minutes about the anti-registration movement and the differing philosophical and moral reasons for non-compliance. He then answered questions and responded to comments from the audience.
It was the second time that supporters had spoken to senators about restoring the request of WTCS, which had been denied funds during the 2015 annual supplemental hearings in October.
"My background is Monmonite, so in a way my basic convictions have been shaped by all that."
"It seems that this is a life-and-death issue to us," said Ruth McCambridge, WTCS director. "I urge you to understand that we are dealing with a potentially lethal situation."
Religion is a major factor in the resistance movement. The Mennonite Church has issued a formal statement of support for Epp and another Bethel student and indicted register, Kendall
He said he felt the non-compliance phenomenon had become a recognized and valid method of expressing discontent with the policies of the government.
EFP SAID THE protesters were motivated by concerns of conscience, although the Selective Service had given several explanations as to the reasons behind their actions, including on the part of young people.
lazy to go down to the poor town. "Since the Vietnam war and Watergate, you find a lot of young people who are skeptical and enial about the government's motives."
See SENATE page 5
"I don't think a lot of (the resisters) are too lazy to down to the post office," he said.
"Mennonites have traditionally been opposed to military service and violence as a way of dealing with other people."
WERKS
KIPP SAID MANY Christians found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the teachings of Jesus with the actions of the military system, such as the acceleration of the arms race and the United States intervention into Third World countries such as El Salvador.
Outlining another reason for non-compliance, Epp mentioned what he called the libertarian position, which states that the government has
See DRAFT page 5
City's residents retain small town philosophy
By KATE DUFFY Staff Reporter
It is a city of contradictions. With its population stretching toward 200,000, it is the 93rd largest city in the United States. Although a part of a large metropolitan area, Kansas City, Kan., has retained many of its small town manners:
Outsiders who visit the city say there is not much to do in Kansas City, Kan. There is no night life, no museums and certainly no easily gone alcohol. The mayor himself will tell you that his city is the "biggest small town in the country."
But don't get him wrong, Mayor Jack Reardon loves his city. He likes its size.
"When I get up in the morning, it takes me only three minutes to get to work," he explained.
Kansas City, Kan., has often been referred to as the poor position to its namesake across the state line. City officials will be the first to admit others seem to suffer from an inferiority complex.
"HOW MANY OTHER cities do you know that voluntarily change their own form of government?" he asked, referring to a recent vote to adorn district representation.
And most of all, he likes its people.
“This city has a real image problem,” said Dean Katerndahl, director of economic development “Residents say ‘we’re only a lunch break’; they should weinfit to build a hotel downtown.”
"The city is small enough to be governable and personable, so that the average citizen knows he counts. He knows he has clout. And what's more, he knows he can make me believe it."
Even other Kansas residents ignore the second largest city in their state, Katerndahl said.
A few years ago, Katerndahl found out that other residents were not the only ones ignoring his city.
"They just don't think of us as part of the state." he said.
"When we were trying to attract industry, we contacted the industrial realtors. They told us they hadn't even considered sending companies over here," he said.
That has changed now, Katerndahl said, especially since the city formed a special economic development committee to attract outside business. The city has been attracting an average of $1 million in new business developments every two weeks, he said.
Katerndahl said he thought the city's main problem was its aging industry. Heavy industries such as the auto assembly plants and the meatpacking industry have dominated its work force for years. And those industries have not fared well recently, he said.
This is not a new problem for Kansas City, Kan. In the 19th century, the presence of Kansas City, Mo., just a few miles away, stifled the numerous smaller communities on the Kansas side.
TO GET AROUND this problem, Kansas Gov. John Martin signed a proclamation in the 1880s that merged several of these small towns. The governor renamed the area Kansas City, Kan., under the advice of local bankers and band speculators who held private investors in the East would confuse the two Kansas Cities and direct more money their way.
In the meantime, the communities of Argentine and Rosedale were still separate and developing their own personalities. In Argentine, blocks of saloons and bawdy houses were well visited by the railroad men and smelter workers who lived nearby.
Rosedale developed around the railroads and grain elevators, and the church-going, middle-class community had little in common with its wild neighbor.
TODAY, ARGENTINE, a part of greater Kansas City, Kan., appears to have laved much of its roughhouse image. A mixture of small and large homes on the hilly streets built along the old river bluffs.
At the top of 37th街 in Argentine sits the Cross-lines Co-operative Council. Since 1965, Cross-lines has been working in the city's oldest and lowest income neighborhoods, forming neighborhood groups, a health clinic, retirement homes and anything else the low-income residents need to be more self-sufficient, said program director M. Myron Dice.
Cross-lines' latest venture, Dice said, is a
CITY TV show.
Buddv Manzina/KANSAN
St. John the Baptist Catholic church is an important landmark in Strawberry Hill, a Kansas City, Kan., neighborhood settled by Croatians and Slovenians at the turn of the century. Much of the neighborhood has retained its East European flavor over the years.