The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, November 15, 1982
Vol. 93, No. 61 USPS 650-640
Poles rejoice at Walesa's homecoming
By United Press International
GDANSK, Poland—Solidarity leader Lech Walessa returned home after 11 months of detention yesterday to a triumphant and tearful reunion with his wife and seven children and jubilantly halted 1,500 well-wishers with cries of "we shall win."
"We will need strength . . . We won't be down on our knees and we will have to operate with courage and thoughtfulness."
From the window of his six-room apartment, he raised his hands, with fingers forming a "V" for victory, and shouted, "Obviously we will win over you, and about it. But to win does not mean to destroy."
"Lech, Lech, Lech," shouted the crowd in return as Walessa, the 30-year-old leader of the August 1980 shipyard strike that gave birth to a national wave of anti-communist working-class suburb of Zaspa about 4:30 p.m.
Supporters who kept a vigil ahead the Walesa apartment for hours before his arrival roared approval, raised their hands in victory and chanted "There is no freedom without Solidari-
NOT ONCE did Walisa mention the name of Solidarity — which was outlawed Oct. 8 — but he pledged he "will not depart from the road or betray the ideals of August."
"I哭ed when he came in but the children didn't," his wife, Damata, said in a telephone
"It has been an enormous experience. There has been tremendous joy," she said. "Now I would only wish to be with him alone."
WALESA HAD been interested since the imposition of marital law Dec. 13, and in recent months, had been held in a government-owned estate. A government-controlled village of Arlamwa, near the Soviet border.
The crowd sang the Polish national anthem and cheered Walesa, who looked heavier and had longer hair since he was last seen before his arrest.
Charlie Gray, Lee's Summit, Mo., stridhed up Jayhawk Boulevard in route to a second-place finish in the 10-kilometer run of the Maupourt Fall Classic Sunday. Paul Schultz, an ex-KU runner from Lawrence, recorded the best time for men in the 10K Run at 30:33:56. Mary Shaffer, Kansas City, Kan., had the best time for women at 38:34:50. Chris Currie, Topeka, won the 5K Run with a time of 15.56.97. Margaret Hertstein.
His homecoming relieved the anxiety of his supporters and family, who had no word of his whereabouts since authorities said he left the hunting lodge early Saturday.
The mystery surrounding Wales's release became even more puzzling Saturday night when Polish television editors, with no explanation, canceled the broadcast of a 40-minute interview with Wales filmed Saturday just before he left the lodge.
Cape Girardeau, Mo., was cuckooed by 1853. Orff joined them among the bohemians. In the 5K Team Run, “Let’s Take Our Shorts Off” finished first among male university living groups with a time of 96.14.62. Sellards Hall took first for the female university living groups with a time of 121.57.12.
Leaked excerpts from the interview had quoted Wales as endorsing "national agreement," but "not on my knees."
See POLAND page 5
Odd Williams, KU benefactor, dies
By BONAR MENNINGER
Staff Reporter
Odd Williams, well known in Lawrence as a community leader, supporter of the University
Odd Williams . . 1971 photo . .
of Kansas and former state legislator, died early Friday morning of a heart attack. He was 56.
Williams was stricken about 5:30 a.m. at his home at 700 California St. He was rushed to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead about 7:00 a.m.
a memorial service for Williams will be held at 11 a.m. today at the Plymouth Congregational Church. He will be crenated. There will be a memorial service in the ceremony, in Lawrence before the memorial service.
With his father, Dick, and brother Skipier, Williams helped found the Outland Fund, which raised over $2 million for athletic scholarships between 1949 and 1973.
IN RECONGNITION of the Williams' service, the name was changed to the Williams Educational Fund in 1973, and it continues to provide private monies for athletic scholarships.
Williams' many interests in the community and University left a road of friendship and accomplishment behind him, particularly in the area of KU athletics.
Chancellor Gene A. Budgi said of Williams, "He was a rare human being. He made good things happen. He was one of KU's best friends. He stood for progress. He believed in this
"Significantly, he left this community a better place, then he found."
TED EOWENS, KU basketball coach who had known Williams for 23 years, said, "He was a great friend in good times, and a great friend in bad times. He was everything you could want in life."
University, and its potential for service. He will be missed by all of us on Mount Oread.
Football coach Don Fambrough called Williams' death a tremendous loss to the state, the University and, in particular, the athletic department.
"He was a great one," Fambrough said. "It was a loss for me because we were in school together and I've known him all these years. He was a close personal friend."
Williams was a resident of Lawrence all his life. He was born Sep. 2, 1926, graduated from Culver Military Academy in 1944 and entered KU where he graduated from the School of Business
HE GRADUATED from the School of Law in 1952, entered the United States Air Force that same year and rose to the rank of first lieutenant.
By DIRK MILLER
State group predicts $61 million deficit
Staff Reporter
A group of economists Friday confirmed the state's troubled situation when they predicted a $61 million deficit in the state's general fund if the state continues on its present course.
See WILLIAMS page 3
The projection, by the state's 13-member Revenue Estimating Group, is tied to a projected increase in the national economy that is expected after January, said Darwin Dacoff, KU professor of economics and a member of the group.
Last year's projections also were tied to a projected rise in the national economy that never occurred, Daicoff said. The projections led the state into budgeting $153 million more than the group predicts the state will collect in taxes this fiscal year.
Gov. John Carlin announced that he would initiate an allotment system to help cover the state's projected deficit. Final plans of the allotment system are expected to be released by
AN ALLOTMENT system would require state agencies to justify their appropriations. The system would allow the state to make selective cuts in agencies' appropriations, said William Bunten, R-Rossville, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Bunten said that cutting state appropriations to cover the $61 million projected deficit would
"The $61 million estimate just gets you even, it doesn't leave any balance at the end of the year," he said.
Lautceil said the $61 million deficit was projected only after depleting all of the the
Bunten said the state probably would have to cut at least $91 million from state appropriations to leave it enough money to pay its bills at the beginning of next year.
MICHAEL SWENSON, Carlin's assistant press secretary, said that the governor's plan included not only the allotment system but also a change in the way the state collected revenues and a "looking in" of voluntary cuts made this year to state agencies as permanent budget reductions.
Swenson said that changes in the state's cash flow patterns would help boost state revenues. The state's quarterly collection of withholding taxes, which had been frozen, collection under Carlin's plan, Swenson said.
He said that the allotment system probably would not affect state agencies that had already installed the technology.
"AT THIS POINT, if the governor's plan is fully implemented, the governor's intention is not to go back to those state agencies," Swenson said.
Bunten said he thought the state probably would be able to prevent more cuts from Board of Regents schools.
"I think we could probably do that. Higher education has already taken a 4 percent cut," he said.
Advisers overestimate; state revenue falls short
Bunten said that more cuts in appropriations were not the only means the state had of covering the project deficient. The state could overcome revenues rather than cutting appropriations.
By DARRELL PRESTON
Staff Reporter
Since inflation and recessions became facts of life, leaders have depended on advisers to foresee future economic conditions.
Although the advisers are not always right, they give leaders a base from which to work on them.
Kansas lawmakers depend on a group of economic advisers, unofficially known as the economic consensus group, to forecast how much money the state will collect.
The estimating group is composed of representatives of the division of the budget, the department of revenue, the legislative research department and two economists, one from the University of Kansas and one from Kansas State University.
The group met Friday to revise estimates for the current fiscal year and to make new changes.
THEY SAID that the state's financial reserves could be depleted by Jan. 1 because the state had budgeted $133 million more than he had received in taxes so far this fiscal year, prompting Gov. John Carlin to announce an allotment system of budget cuts Saturday.
State agency and public school budgets may be cut so that Kansas falls fiscal 1983 with a balanced budget, which is mandated by Kansas law. And the estimates may affect the size of the severance tax Gov. John Carlin will request next year, state officials say.
The group made its estimates last year under the assumption that the economy would be strong, and its assumptions for next year project an increased growth rate.
SINCE 1974, spending allocations for state agencies and projects financed by the state's general fund have lived and died by the group's efforts. The State Legislature and Legislature use for allocating state funds.
The estimates are important, state leaders say, because if actual revenues are less than
estimated, the state must adjust its spending in the middle of a fiscal year, as it did this year.
When the group met in March, it revised its estimate for total revenue for fiscal 1983 down from $1.45 billion to $1.2 billion.
The error in revenue estimates this year was the worst since the group formed, said Jarvin Emerson, professor of economics at Kansas State University and a member of the consensus
BECAUSE OF the error, revenues were 47 million short in the last quarter of fiscal 1982 and prompted Carlin to ask state agencies to reduce spending 4 percent for fiscal 1983.
James Bibb, associate director of business affairs at KU and formerly Kansas budget director for 27 years, said some people might be unaware that they are immune to the rest of the country's problems.
"I didn't participate in making the original predictions, but I know that the predictions were for a good or better economy," Bibb said. "But I can't explain what we thinking. I wonder why we are as optimistic about the future performance of the economy as they were."
"We may have developed a mind set in this state that it couldn't happen here. But, of course, it can happen here."
DESPIEZE LAST year's overestimation, the group expects slow recovery in Kansas early next year. If the recovery does not come as expected, he has to have to be expected as soon as it was last summer.
Carlin asked the Kansas Board of Regents, which oversees the budgets of state universities, to absorb about $11.2 million, which was about 50 percent of the $22.5 million reduction.
In the process, KU reduced its budget by about $3 million. However, Regents schools were not expected to be affected by the allotment system announced Saturday.
In recent interviews, members of the group said they had not expected such a lackluster national economy when they had made predictions for this year.
"We expected that by the second half of '82
See RUBGET page 5
Weather
Music therapy strikes chord with senior citizens
Today will be fair with a high around 50 according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be from the south at 15 to 25 mph
By DAN PARELMAN Staff Reporter
Tonight there will be increasing
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a high in the mid- to upper 50s.
In the front row, Anne Maxwell, Jewell Hall, Alberta Huston and Rosa Sims cradle their country-and-western guitars and stare at their music stands.
The Senior Scholar Band sits poised.
The back row singers sit patiently
Arlene Schaub, a singer, sits up.
Monday Morning
"Our first number is 'Amazing Grace,' she says.
ke, a singer, stands up.
Alicia Gibbons, KU's music therapy director,
plays the first notes on the piano.
"Audrey, on three on," she says, turning to Audrey Jones.
The band was entertaining the Pioneer Club, a senior citizen service and recreation group, at the Mint. The band played for over 100 hours.
ALL OF THE band members are over 60. Each signs up for free instruction and practice.
Gibbons has directed the band since its inception six years ago.
"Our next number is 'Side By Side,' " Schake says.
A man in the audience gets up, and supporting himself on the buffet table, dashes off a little soft
After "Side By Side" ends, the audience applauds the band and the dancer, who bows.
Gibbons said that although the band had fun, it took its music seriously. She said the band was "extremely unhappy with 'poor-quality products.'"
"They'll holler. 'Hey, we're not learning anything,' if the band is running through a new song."
MOST OF the members did not play a musical instrument when they joined the band, she said. Before she began teaching the band, Gibbons did not think most people over 60 could learn to play
"... You made me you, I didn't want to do it.
I didn't want to do it."
Anne Maxwell sings along as she strums a red country-and-western guitar.
Maxwell said she did not know how to play
SEE BAND page 3.
Jim Evans/KANSAN
All eyes are on Bo Abella as he conducts the Senior Scholar Band during a performance at South Park Recreation Center.