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The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, September 22,1982 Vol.93,No.23 USPS 650-640
KU may hold back the heat
By STEVE CUSICK
Staff Reporter
Despite the unseasonably cool temperatures of the past few days and the prospect of chilly weather ahead, the University is not ready to turn on the heat. KU officials said yesterday.
Officials normally start the heaters Oct. 15, but that move may be delayed until early or middle November this year to help cut utility costs, said William Hogan, associate executive
Hogan estimated that the University could save a minimum of $100,000 by turning on the university's electricity.
The average daily temperature would have to dip below 60 degrees before the University would begin pumping heat to campus buildings, Hogan said.
but that day may not be far off.
PAUL FRANTZ, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Topeka, said
temperatures from mid-September to November should be below normal.
Hogan said he already had received a complaint that one building, Haworth Hall, was not warm enough.
Earlier this month, officials curtail the air conditioning in many campus buildings to cut the utility bill. That move came a month earlier than usual.
Several students and faculty members complained because of warm temperatures in classrooms for a few days after the air conditioning was turned off, he said.
He said KU already had saved $50,000 by turning off the cooling units early. He said that was a conservative estimate.
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS are scrambling for ways to cut utility costs because of a $187,000 cut in the school's utility budget last summer.
That cut was in response to Gov. John Carlin's call for a 4 percent reduction in the budgets of some state agencies.
In addition to the cuts last summer, the Kansas Legislature cut the University's proposed utility budget request by $1 million last spring officials said.
So the University is facing a $1.2 billion shortfall in its utility budget this year, officials said.
The University also faced a shortfall last spring when it was forced to turn off the air conditioning in many campus buildings for about six weeks.
THE LEGISLATURE had refused to grant KU supplemental utility funding to cover the shortfall.
Officials say the University needs to show a good faith effort to conserve energy this year if it wants to ask the Legislature for supplemental utility funding next spring.
Officials in buildings that still have the air conditioning turned on now are being notified that the cooling units will soon be turned off, Hogan said.
Frigid winter expected for Lawrence
By Staff and Wire Reports
If woolly bird caterpillars, mountain fogs and National Weather Service forecasts are any indication, colder weather will hit Lawrence soon.
A meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Topeka said yesterday that the Lawrence area could expect lower than normal rainfall and above average precipitation this fall.
Fall begins 3:46 a.m. CST tomorrow. And although meteorologists will not attempt to guess on how the winter forecast is shaping up, Mother Nature has already made up her mind, according to folklore weather seers across the nation.
The fog on Crab Orchard Mountain in Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau makes the island a popular hiking destination.
For it seems that woollybird caterpillars, hornets, katyids and dogs agree — the nation could be in for a lousy winter. Cornshucks concur.
THE WOOLLY WORMS in Missouri, be leagged by a wet spring and summer, are too
waterlogged to care, though their sorry state could forebode a lot of snow.
Helen Lane predicts the weather from her home on Crab Orchard Mountain on the west side of the island.
She heard her first katyydi July 11, indicating the first frost would come by Oct. 11.
"My diary shows 28 fows out of 31 days in August. That means nature's odds are 28 to 3 that we're in a hundering of a winter that should be much more difficult, where I live, much too much of it," she said.
She also said hornetes were buildings nests close to the ground — so close a friend of hers tripped over one. That, she said, "can only mean a winter of snow and ice ahead."
ALVA WATSON, 91, of Rosiclare, III., counted nine heavy fogs in August. That means nine big snows this winter, his daughter, Pat Lamar, said.
"He said the trees were heavily leaves, more than usual, and that is a sign of a bad winter," she said. "He also said the corn shucks were thick and says that's a sign of a hard winter. I noticed that, too, as I was getting sweet corn ready for freezing."
Helen Wohlschlaeger said she had not found
any woolly worms herself so far this year and it might mean a repeat of last winter's heavy snows.
it is a little unusual," she said from the Fenton Feel Supply in Penton, Mo. "My son found one and it was the tiniest, puniest thing I ever seen in my life."
She said other people had brought in a few of the fuzzy critters and they apparently had been scared.
"THE POOR THINGS just looked rather
wetlegged," the said.
She said she believed the moisture would continue through the year, possibly as heavy
And dogs who show up for grooming at the shop have thick coats — meaning a cold winter. L.C. "Dick" Frymire of Irvington, Ky., uses a Japanese marmalade tree for his predictions.
1" study the leaf structure, limb structure, bark and mold on the bark for a long-range fence.
Frymire says winter will be fairly mild for Kentucky and surrounding states until the first of January, when the first week will be extremely cold.
See COLD page 5
Todd Gochenour, Wichita sophomore, looks as if he could have been riding a big over-the-road motorcycle, but he was actually driving up to campus on his moped. See related story, page 9.
City commission votes to table video-game fee
Staff Reporter
Bv DOUG CUNNINGHAM
The Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously last night to table an ordinance that would have required those owning or operating video games to pay a license fee.
Tabling the ordinance means that it is effectively dead, Commissioner Barkley Clark
Commissioner Nancy Shontz, however, said that the ordinance was dead only as long as no regulation was needed. She said there was no legal requirement on the local video game industry by a license fee.
The ordinance cannot be considered again unless the commission specifically votes to consider it.
A number of local merchants appeared before the commission to speak against the proposed legislation.
MARTIN DICKENSON, president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said the chamber opposed the ordinance because it might have made a worse impact than it implemented it than the ordinance would collect.
He also said the ordinance was not needed to regulate crowd control or other problems in businesses that have video games.
Other merchants said the video games were necessary to bring in revenue.
"We don't understand this tax to be a result of a significant amount of concern about crowd control or police calls in the places where these games are played," he said.
Ken Wallace, owner and operator of the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., said, "The cash flow that they generate is a vital part of our overall profit picture. This money that goes through the video games, it doesn't disappear into space. It's funneled back into the city."
"It's not the bonanza that people like to think," she said.
Extra taxes or fees would be too much, she said.
"The prospect of another assessment, of whatever type, is a frightening prospect," she
Elliis Hayden, owner and operator of Ellis's Coin Shop, 1910 Haskell Ave., said a license fee would hurt places that provided good entertainment.
"I guess I represent East Lawrence and the kids in East Lawrence," he said. "I guess I'm the pop and my wife is the mom, I've had mothers and fathers stop in and say thanks. They come down and they compliment me on my place."
William Dann, 2702 W. 24th St. Terrace, spoke against video games.
"THEY WASTE NOT only money but a lot of time," he said.
Bob Schumann, owner of the Schumann Food Co.
said a license fee should not be imposed, because
it is deemed inappropriate.
Many parents across the country are concerned "about what the little ones will do to get at them."
The businesses pay more than $50,000 in sales taxes each year on receipts from the games, he said, and about $23,000 in property taxes.
Video games in the city also have led to the creation of about 55 jobs in Lawrence, Schoum
SCHUMM SAID he and other merchants talked to city commissioners about the proposed ordinance and gave their reasons as to why it should not be passed.
Clark said he had been impressed by that contact from merchants.
Gleason also said that the merchants had persuaded him to reject the fee.
"I have never heard a better or more articulate and focused presentation. It's lobbying in the very best sense," he said.
"We've had such an outstanding presentation tonight by local people that I would like to show some support for it," he said.
MAYOR MARCI FRANCICO said, however, that the city staff should keep the commission informed about any future police or crow control problems due to video games.
Shontz说，“Sium months or a year from now, if we start having some serious problems, we will have to move.”
The commission also discussed the city's policy on special benefit district financing.
The city is owed more than $400,000 in delinquent special assessments. Builders and
developers have used the assessments, which offer a lower interest rate than that commercially available, to pay for improvements, such as streets and curbs, to the land they are
The commission agreed to consider in two weeks a proposal from the chamber of commerce about a future policy on those assessments. Several weeks ago, the commission placed a moratorium on the use of those assessments until a new policy was developed.
THE CHAMBER PROPOSAL would require that developers give the city a letter of credit, cash or a surrey bond in the amount of 20 percent destined cost of the improvements as a deposit.
Requiring such money before the assessments were granted would ensure that developers properly plan and consider the economics of the proposed development, Dickinson said.
Clark said some modification in the present policy was necessary.
re said that requiring the deposit before development was started was a good idea.
Julie Langston, Wichita graduate teaching assistant, relaxed beside the marigolds in a flower bed east of Wescoto Hall
yesterday. Although the weather was cool during most of the day, many students sought the sun's warmth on the last day of summer.
DAVE HORNBACK/Kansan Staff
Slattery sued for work denial
From Staff and Wire Reports
Democratic congressional candidate Jim Slattery is being sued for $400,000 by a woman alleging she denied her job a because she refused to drop a lawsuit against Attorney General
The lawsuit, filed Monday by Erma Officer, is also against Slattery's former campaign manager, Bill Roy Jr. Officer claimed that the two men suggested she drop her case against Stephan if she wanted a job as office manager in the campaign's headquarters in Topeka.
Her sland alleged that the men urged her to "reconsider by strong implication whether she wanted the promised position of employment strongly enough to drop said civil rights suit."
Slattery said last night that he had not reviewed Officer's claims yet but that he and his attorney would be responding with an answer later this week.
nation lawsuit against Stephan and Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Topeka Inc.
Officer, 40, had earlier filed a racial discrimi
SLATTERY REFUSED to comment further, other than saying he did not think the publicity would hurt his chances in the 2nd District congressional race against Republican Morris
"It's too premature to make any comment." Shatterly said. "But no, I'm not worried at all. I just want to be there."
In the suit, Officer said Slattery promised her in June that she could have the job, before "abruptly" questioning her about the case she had brought against the Topeka organization.
See SLATTERY page 5
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and warmer. The highs will be in the upper 60% to low 70%. Winds will be from the south to southeast at 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with lows in the mid- to upper-45s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with highs in the mid- to upper-70s.