40-acre marijuana crop near Lawrence cut short
By BILL CALVERT
A big marijuana harvest at a ranch near Lawrence was cut short last week when 40
The owner of the ranch, norm or Lawrence, who asked not to be identified, is planning for replace the renegade grass with a higher quality of grass more suitable for raising cattle.
Before the mower cleared the field, drove of marjuanja harvesters had been on the scene attempting to cash in on the free weed. Although the ranch ran the harvesters off his land occasionally, he said Saturday that they didn't worry him.
"I if I had cattle down there, they'd be a pain. They leave the gates open and crawl through the fences and stuff like that," he caused the problem because of the haryesters was a jail.
"THEY LEAVE TRASH all over low
temperature bags, bottle bottles,
bottle thirsts."
had been fallow for a number of years after the cattle that used to graze it were moved because of insufficient foliage. After the cattle weeds, dominated by marijuana, took over.
Some people may have had some big plans for the marijuana. The rancher said that one day he bid a big rental truck drive through the marijuana field to the marijuana field. He followed the
Before the weeds were mowed, they had been sprayed with a weed killer, which was insufficient to kill the hardy strain. The rancher said he decided to mow the weeds because it seemed to be the only way to get rid of them.
"THEY WERE CUSSING and yelling out their windows as they drove by," he said. "I guess it was about harvest time when we mowed. We messed everyone's plans up."
The field where the marijuana took root
The rancher said he received many nasty comments from passing cars as he mowed
High on the hill
See MARlJUANA page two
Bank Mulvihill. Wichita junior, mows a 40-acre field of marijuana to make room for cattle to graze. The marijuana already survived weed killer. Mulvihill said
Staff photo bv DAVE REGIER
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, September 20,1976
Vol.87 No.20
'Little man gone blind' honored through plaque
See story page three
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Carter in KC
between 1,500 and 2,000 people gathered to hear the former Governor of Georgia.
Democratic Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter greeted well- washers outside the Missouri State Office Building. A crowd of
Carter makes whirlwind KC visit, says GOP taxation favors the rich
By COURTNEY THOMPSON
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter brought his campaign to Kansas City and visited that included a reception and rally.
Carter took the opportunity to assure voters that the Democratic party wouldn't raise taxes for the working people of America. He disputed the Ford campaign attack on his recent tax reform proposals by waving a four-vOLUME copy of the income tax bill in favor a Republican instrument to favor the rich, corporations and special interest groups.
AS CARTER'S JET, Peanut One, arrived at Kansas City Municipal Airport, the
rainstorm that residents had been hoping for finally materialized. Reporter, photographers and well-wishers who came early quickly improvised makeshift raim gear.
Carter left the plane and made his way toward the crowd, as several persons
Others carried placards proclaiming
Carter's motorcade left the airport for the Hilton Plaza Inn, where he told those at a $100-a-person reception that he was deeply saddened by the death of Kep. Jerry Litton (D-Mo). He urged those running for public office to shape a common effort to shape a better America.
CARTER STAYED at the reception about 80 minutes before leaving for a rally at the campus.
REPRESENTATIVES FROM the Missouri Pro-Life organization were present in full force, and one of the leaders encouraged open debate on the abortion issue while waiting for Carter to arrive. Another group of voters on abortion were at the airport and the reception, but obviously concentrated their efforts on the downtown rally.
s carried placards proclaiming
CARTER page two
The crowd there of about 1,500 to 2,000 people wasn't discouraged by the rain that fell earlier or by the continually threatening skies. Carter supporters and nonsupporters were walking inside a upper level of the parking garage, waiting to catch a glimpse of the Carter smile.
Ten sorority houses fail state fire inspection check
See CARTER page two
By MARY MYERS
of the 10 University of Kansas sorority houses inspected since Sept. 7 by the state fire marshal fail to meet the standards of the Kansas state fire code, according to evaluations filed with the state fire marshal's department.
Paul Markley, fire protection technical adviser, said Saturday that most of the violations concerned improper exiting facilities.
The state fire marshal's department has stepped up its inspection of fraternity and security houses because of a fire that killed six students in a baker University fraternity house.
The state fire marshal probably will resume the KU inspection next week and will tour the two remaining sorority houses and the 22 fraternity houses.
MARKLEY SAID the department began inspecting fraternity and sorority houses across the state before the Baker fire. But because of a lack of personnel, the department has relied largely upon local fire departments of first-class and some second-class cities to inspect private residences, he said.
HE SAID the major portion of the last two years' fire code violations of fraternities and sororites had been reported to the deans of men and women, but some them were not.
For some of the older houses, Stemmerman said, it is either physically impossible or too expensive to make the house appear sturdy. It was the state code, which was adopted in 1973.
THE STATE FIRE marshal department's evaluations of the houses state that four houses' fire escapes don't provide a safe path, assisted, sate path of travel to the ground."
At least three of the houses' fire escapes are ladders, and Markley said the state code states that fire escapes must be staircases.
The evaluations said six of the houses didn't have proper fire and smoke-containing doors enclosing all the stairways.
According to Markley, the department might not be able to instill upon enclosed
Med Center changes suggested
Staff Writer
Bv JIM COBB
The Regents voted to recommend to the state budget division and the Kansas Legislature that the expenditure ceiling for hospital revenue be removed and that Med Center civil service job classifications be changed by the state division of personnel.)
The Kansas Board of Regents made two recommendations Friday that could substantially alter budgeting and employment practices at the KU Medical Center.
The appointment of John Conard, Lawrence, now executive assistant to Gov. Robert Bennett, as Regents executive officer, also was announced.
The decision to ask that the Med Center's hospital spending ceiling be removed would separate the hospital from the rest of the Med Center in budgetary matters. It would allow the hospital to spend all money it made from services.
UNDER THE current system with the ceiling, the hospital can't spend more than an estimate of annual hospital revenue and state appropriations.
'We cannot exceed the expenditure ceiling even if additional revenue is required.'
Dykes said talk of removing the ceiling wasn't new. Because medical care costs have increased rapidly in the last two years, a patient who fell below that ceiling have become seperate.
The budget plan will review the ceiling removal plan and make its recommendations to the governor before the proposal can be made in the legislature.
and more expensive kinds of patient care."
Chancellor Archie Dykes said yesterday.
Removal of the ceiling, he said, would make the Med Center more responsive to demands for patient care and medical care. It is a cost-effective and just more easily to "inflation pressure."
THE REVIEW OF job classifications could result in salaries more competitive with other hospitals in the metropolitan Kansas City area.
Dykes said salaries at the Med Center ranged from 5 to 12 per cent below salaries.
He said that, in addition, the classifications system needs to be more flexible. That flexibility might be achieved through possible new categories in the system for specialized workers, such as medical secretaries, and might allow salary
CONARD WELL enter his new Regents post with broad experience in higher education. He was director of KU's University Relations from 1970-1973 and was named assistant to Chancellor Archie McKay. He joined Gov. Bennett's staff in 1975.
Funds to pay for additional personnel and salary increases could come from increases available in hospital revenues if the ex-operative team is paid or from state appropriations, Dykes said.
changes for some personnel, especially supervisors, he said.
Most Med Center employees would remain within the civil service employment system.
He has received a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's degree in political science from KU and received a Ph.D. in international law at the University of Paris. He taught political science at KU from 1980s and worked in state government.
He later was publisher of weekly newspapers in western Kansas and served five terms in the Kansas House of State, including two years as house speaker.
Conard was an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor in 1968. He will take the place of Max Bickford, who has worked with the governor. Conard will assume Bickford's duty Oct. 1.
THE REGENTS meet Friday undaunted by signs on cars outside their offices in downtown Topeka, apparently the work of members of the Kansas Higher Education Association (KHEA). The signs, which included "Regents Unfair to Pittbury Faculty," apparently were a side effect of a new law that mandated a claim that the Regents had been meeting in secret to discuss faculty bargaining at state colleges and universities*
The Regents denied charges that they had met in secret at Bickford's home.
The KHEA has been the bargaining agent for faculty members at Kansas State College at Pittsburgh. Last year the Pittsburgh students reached a stand-off about faculty benefits.
A staff recommendation that formulas be developed to fund academic programs on an individual basis, rather than equally, as is now done. The proposal would result in
IN OTHER ACTIONS, the Regents approved:
See REGENTS page five
'MAYBE THREE enclosed stairwells is impossible the way the buildings are contained.'
Several of the houses need doors that close automatically. A few of the houses that have these doors keep them propped open, the evaluations said.
Ten girls sleep in the basement of the Alpha Delta Pi house and have no direct exit to the outside. Markley said the sorority would move these girls until a door could be cut.
He said letters informing houses of needed improvements would be mailed thus far.
The department then will ask for plans for correction from each house. Markley said deadlines for compliance depended on the position of the money needed to correct the violations.
IF A HOUSE thinks the requested
corrections are impossible or too expensive,
the department will ask that early-warning
staff be notified.
"We won't be unreasonable," he said,
"but we will follow up."
Stemmerman said the Lawrence fire department had also compromised with Greek houses on impossible or expensive modifications by asking that other measures, including the installation of smoke detectors, be taken.
Most of the houses have made or are now making these compromise modifications, he said. The department has not checked back with houses that failed to pass last year, he said, so he doesn't know whether they are refusing to make the modifications.
MARKLEY SAID that if a house refused to comply with the state fire marshal's order, she would be liable.
See SORORITIES page five
Homeward bound
A member of the Savannah High School band is carried to her bus for the trip home after falling victim to heat exhaustion during the KU-Kentucky football game Saturday. She was treated by personnel of the Emergency Care Unit on the sloped ground at the southwest corner of Memorial stadium.
200 people victims of heat at Saturday football game
The unusually warm day and the excitement of the game took its toll on spectators at the KU-Kentucky football people were treated for heat exhaustion.
The victims, mostly members of high school bands participating in the KU Band Day performance, were released treated by the Emergency Care Unit.
"We were anticipating this," Chuck Belote, director of the unit, said yesterday. "We're usually open by about 10, but Saturday we were open by 10 for the judges."
Belote said that Saturday's humidity and heat—about 86 degrees Farenheit in the stadium at the start of the game and about 100 degrees on the playing field—
combined with the anxiety of performing before a large crowd and the long bus rides to make the high school band unusually susceptible to heat exhaustion.
The heat aggravated one band member's heart condition, Belote said, but the student's band director had alerted Emergency Care Unit personnel to the problem before the game, and the team was treated and released in the afternoon.
From 25 to 30 volunteers of the Emergency Care Unit work at most KU home football games. Belote said, but our program is a game in anticollition of the large crowd.
Nonetheless, the unit was so busy that police were needed to help treat heat stress.