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University Daily Kansan, August 24, 1982
Applicants abound but commission job may not be vacant
Although Beverly Bradley, Douglas County Commissioner, does not know yet whether she will be leaving her job, she is sure that those who would like to fill her seat,
The race started last month when Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan, nominated Bradley to the post of regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency. Since that time, several local residents have expressed interest in filling her seat for the remainder of her term on the County Commission.
Warren Rhodes, chairman of the board of First National Bank, said he had considered running for the seat in the 1984 election if Bradley chose not to seek another term. However, her nomination by the EPA post has changed his timetable.
Rhodes, who will be retiring from the bank at the beginning of next year, said, "What we're talking about here is an appointment. If she is confirmed, then there would be an opening, and I would be interested in that opening."
Among others who have expressed an interest in filling the vacancy are Andrew Jackson Armbrister, a former Douglas County sheriff's department assistant, and an insurance stateuate who has run his own insurance agency in Lawrence since 1970.
Petersen said he viewed the job as a business more than a political position. "It's just a job I could do," he said. "It's not like we're sitting up in Washington passing laws. It's just the business of running the county."
Bradley, if her nomination is confirmed, would succeed John Franke, who resigned to take a job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Bradley's job with the EFA would put her in charge of working with the state directors and a staff in Kansas City, where she oversees the administration for the region.
Western Civ sections to open to seniors
In an effort to alleviate the problems faced by seniors who require the Western Civilization course in order to meet their graduation requirements, the administration has authorized several new sections to be opened.
As a result, the Western Civilization program requests that only seniors attempt to enroll late or add
a course in Western Civilization until 1 p.m. Friday, Aug.27.
Priority will be given to December degree candidates and then to May degree candidates. Drops or applications as required as usual during the entire period.
Seniors requiring this course are encouraged to report to the Western Civilization program office at 2106 Wescoe as soon as possible.
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There are several other counties in Kansas that are thinking of using it, he said but Douglas County was much less advanced the system than any other county.
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Michael Watkins, district soil conservationist, said if the county commission approved the system Douglas County is the first county in Kansas to adopt it.
The land evaluation portion would be worth from one-third to 49 percent of the final evaluation of the farmland, he said.
Once the system is set up it will be totally objective, Watkins said, but during its organization each county could choose its own priority lands.
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"It's a fair way to determine which land can be switched to non-agricultural," he said.
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the last five types would be given very low points.
farmland, and that without the initiation of the Land Evaluation and Soil Assessment system the county would lose much more in the next few years. From a government census taken every four years to determine farm acreage.
Because of an average loss of 1,300 acres of prime farmland per year to non-agricultural uses, Douglas County planners and soil conservationists have decided to try a point system to make the rezoning of farmland more difficult, David Guntert, a Douglas County planner, said yesterday.
Guntert the system had been used by 12 other counties in the United States and was being tried in Douglas County because of a need to slow down native agriculture and lead to channel non-agricultural growth into less productive lands.
The system has two parts, Watkins said. The first part is an analysis of the soil on each farm. Douglas County farms have nine types of soil, he said, ranging from very farmable silt to unfarmable rocks. The first four types of soil would be given a high number of points for being prime farmland, and
Watkins said the land evaluation would be finished by November, and the soil assessment could be finished by February.
Gunter said that from 1964 to 1978 Douglas County lost 40,000 acres of
Much of the farmland was lost because farmers sold their land to pay for seed or to pay off debts, Gunter said. The LESA system would not eliminate it, but it would make sure the selling took place in a more organized fashion.
More important is the soil assessment portion, which would measure the worth of farmland on a scale from one to 10 in several categories. He said one question other areas had used was to identify its suitability to an urban area, with more points being awarded if land was farther away from an urban area. Another factor would be what surrounds the land. If the land is surrounded by farmland it would receive fewer points, but if it is surrounded by non-agricultural land it would receive fewer points.
Watkins said the system was a very objective and fair one.
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