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Thursday, July 24, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Children's home request passed
By MARK PENNINGTON
Kannan Staff Reporter
Villages, Inc., a non-profit group home for dependent and neglected children, has stepped over one more hurdle in its bid to build a community 41-acre tract of land south of Lawrence.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission yesterday passed a request by the group for a conditional permit to use the site as a new site of the original site atop Pleasant Ridge.
The last hurdle for the group will be the Douglas County Commission meeting on August 13. If the commissioners pass the proposal, they will win a race. However, if the commissioners receive a complaint signed by 20 percent of the owners who have land within 1,000 feet of the proposed site, a unanimous decision instead of a simple majority will be adopted.
Both county commissioners Arthur Heck and I. J. Stoneback reserved comment on how they would vote on the group's request. Mr. Heck, in bright light said he would support the request.
"I supported the program the first time around and I support it even more now," he said. "The program has found a nice site in our work and I believe it has a lot of merits."
The original plan was withdrawn in April in the face of heavy opposition from neighbors. The planning commission had unanimously approved the plan.
Lance Burr, Douglas County project director for Villages Inc., said the original site met with some criticism so it was changed to avoid further problems.
Burr said that the new site was very secluded so one could see the river from nearby.
"This is one of the most beautiful areas in Douglas County," Burr said. "We're asking permission to make a lot of young kids very happy."
Burr said the children that would be placed in the residences weren't juvenile delinquents but kids whose parents were not present. In other cases, illnesses, were unable to take care of them.
"In some cases these types of children are sent to the boys' industrial school simply because there is no other place to put them," Burr said. "These kids should be as social outcasts. Their only crime is not having parents that can take care of them."
Burr said the cottages would cost about $100,000 apiece.
"These cottages will be beautiful from an architectural standpoint," Burr said. "They'll be very well constructed and have fine landscaping. Nobody should worry about these cottages devaluing adjacent buildings, anything, the property value will increase."
However, Burr said the residences courts or a swimming pool for the children.
"There will be very few recreational opportunities for the kids," he said, "because we want them to use the same facilities as kids in town do. We want these kids to live as near the same type of life as any other kid."
W. M. Lucas Jr., commission member,
told Burr he was concerned with the type of sanitation system the cottages would use. Burr said the project would utilize a lagoon system instead of a regular septic tank.
"We have determined that' the lagoon system is what we want because it is economical and less trouble than the standard septic tank," he said.
Lacus was told that the waste seeping into the ground would be purified after flowing 150 feet. The nearest house to the proposed lagoon is 800 feet away.
Vern Dow, a consulting geologist for the Villages Inc., said about eight borings were made in the area of the lagoon and all were dry except one. This, he said, would indicate that there was no swelling through the soil and causing a pollution danger, it would sink into the hill.
"We feel this is a very stable area to construct the lagoon," he said. "We made far more drills than were necessary to provide a safe spot for the location of the lagoon."
Two or three members of the audience attending the meeting objected to the site plan for various reasons. One of the most vocal was William Jennings, a local farmer who has 400 acres that adjoins the Villages site.
Jennings said his main complaint was that the water from the lagoon would keep seeping into the cabin.
"They say the water won't seep through, but I know for a fact it will," he said. "I can show you places right now where ditches have been created in my fields from the last rainfall. It's coming down from the hill and that lagoon will just increase it."
Clinton bill goes to Senate floor
Lansan Staff Reporter
By THERESE MENDENHALL
A bill appropriating $10 million for projects like Clinton Parkway was reported out of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Tuesday and will be considered by the Senate next week.
"It can be safely assumed that the bill will be approved by the Senate the same day it reaches the floor," said Bob Dowen, a legislative assistant for Senator Bob Dole, R-Kan.
The bill appropriates $4.19 billion for the Department of Transportation for fiscal year 1976, which began July 1. Local officials hope that $4.13 million of the $10 million provided for the construction of late airways will be allotted for Clinton Parkway.
After the President signs the bill, allotment of the funds will be the responsibility of the president. Werner Siems, director of public affairs for the highway administration, said the administration would establish criteria for distributing the funds after the bill became law.
After the bill passes the Senate it will be sent to a conference committee where differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill will be resolved. The committee will send the revised version to the President.
Werner said that Clinton Parkway's
priority over similar projects in other states, as established in the legislative history of the bill, would improve the parkway's chances for receiving the full amount requested for it. The parkway's priority was established as part of the bill's history in the House of Representatives when Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., addressed the House during a debate on the bill that way had been given priority when the appropriation was authorized in 1974.
Dowen said Kansas Senators Bob Dole and James Pearson would establish the
parkway's priority in the Senate by making a similar arrest to the Senate when the bill goes to trial.
Downen said Kansas Congressmen weren't sure whether the federal funding would be applicable to the right-of-way acquisition for the parkway, which was scheduled to begin in the fall of 1978. Werner said he thought since the parkway was open and available for use, it would be eligible for federal funding for right-of-way acquisition, too. Most projects eligible for the funding on one count are eligible on both counts, he said.
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We have never said that graduate students should be turned away from the classroom. We have no knowledge in their particular areas. We have said, however, that graduate students who have no experience in the classroom will help from their more senior colleagues.
This is to respond to a letter from Bob Chovietti criticizing some of the work of the Commission on the Quality of Classroom Instruction. If you cut through the tacky innuendos and gross oversimplifications, Bob has raised two very serious pedagogical issues that have been debated for many years.
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To the Kansan Editor:
There are several other issues which have been raised by others who haven't understood the work of the commission. These questions accuse the commission of being one-sided in education or teaching or even encouraging communication of obsolete materials.
Our emphasis has always been one of adjusting the balance between research and teaching, not doing one to the exclusion of the other. I sincerely believe that everyone recognizes fact that some of the great successes of tomorrow are graduate students today.
I have answered these objections by stating that the commission is composed of two members at the freshman-sophomore level, three at the junior-senior level and two who are members of the graduate school. It doesn't favor levels or disciplines.
-LETTER TO THE EDITOR-
Now to the two points that I believe Bob was tring to raise.
First, I think Bob was telling us that teaching is the communication of fact. To the commission, this is but a very small part of teaching, and to limit ones to this definition is indeed very narrow. I think that if Bob would step back for a moment and consider the great teachers they have had, then we can expect them to communicate facts, but that they also have had a significant effect on his values, morals and ethics in general.
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The questions the commission is raising do not concern the elimination of research, graduate education or anything of the like. But they do, in very general terms, demand a true commitment on the part of the University to improve classroom teaching.
We also must keep in mind that many of our excellent teachers also write books for them.
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WASHINGTON (AP)—Secretary of Interior Stanley K. Hathaway said he was tired and depressed and offered to resign last week, but President Ford encouraged him to seek medical care instead, a White House spokesman acknowledged yesterday.
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Hathaway, who has been in office less than a month, entered Bethesda Naval Hospital for psychiatric treatment eight days ago.
A White House spokesman said Hathaway met with Ford on July 15 and told the President that he was extremely tired, that he was suffering from mild depression and asked the president if perhaps he should leave.
There was no immediate indication how long Hathaway will be hospitalized, but a spokesman for the Interior Department was briefed that the secretary is expected to recover fully.
Ford told Hathaway that his first concern was for the secretary's health and sent him to Dr. William Lukash, the White House physician, who recommended that Hathaway be hospitalized, the spokesman said.
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