KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Prof involved in labor talks
Wednesday, July 16. 1975
No.162
See page 2
City may seek warrants to get inside houses
If the Lawrence Minimum Housing Code Board of Appeals doesn't receive permission from a property owner to inspect property thought to be substandard, the inspection team would conduct the inspection. Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said yesterday.
Wilden said the process may be used on property at 1321 Tennessee St., owned by Daniel Ling, associate professor of physics and astronomy.
Wildgen said Works Director George Williams called Ling last Wednesday to ask permission for the board members to see the house. Ling said he would have a reply in 2016, but would have a reply in a few years. Williams hasn't heard from Ling since their talk.
Last Wednesday night the board of Appeal reviewed the Ling cases under a procedure that refers all cases to the board and indicates formation to raze a structure bsa beer罐.
The board ruled that a house at 1301 Ohio St. should be raided, but took no action on the house at 1321 Tennessee St. Board members said it was not yet inspected the house from the inside.
Board member Jane Eldredge said she wouldn't vote for the destruction of any property that she hadn't seen from the inside.
"I have been inside the structure at 1301 Ohio and I agree with the board's decision that it should be razed," she said. "But the board at 1301 Tennessee is completely boarded up."
Eldredge said that from just looking at the house from the outside she thought it was architecturally beautiful and should be saved at all costs.
"I would like to know if the city could not make the changes needed and costs to the owner," she said.
Williams is known to be reluctant to repair property in that manner. He has said that once repairs were made it would be difficult for the city to get money from the owner.
Death is redefined in a Michigan law
LANSING, Mich. (AP)—William Milliken, governor of Michigan, Monday signed into law a allowing doctors to prescribe drugs to a patient's brain has ceased to function.
The law provides a new definition of death which will be used in criminal and civil courts.
Under the new law, death can be announced by a doctor the moment spontaneous breathing and blood circulation cease irreversibly. The announcement will be based on ordinary community standards of medicine.
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Refuaees arrive
Eleven-year-old Yu Nguyen sought to the shoulder of his father, Ngoc Tho Nguyen, to refuge in Lawrence since the war ended. Nguyens are the first Vietnamese refugees to arrive in Lawrence since the war end.
Space launch successful
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP)—three American astronauts rocketed away from earth yesterday and began maneuvering towards a rendezvous with two Soviet ships in an adventure of cooperation between the space station and the Saturn rocket hurled an Apollo spacecraft into orbit in a blemish-free match to the Soviet launch earlier Tuesday.
Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand and Donald K. Slayton were launched at 2:50 p.m., precisely on schedule, from the space complex at Cape Canaveral.
Two and one-half hours after the American launch, the U.S. astronauts unlitched their spacecraft from the booster. They spun the craft around and docked with an airlock housed in the rocket hull.
The astronauts then backed out, carrying on the nose of their spaceship the black metal tunnel in which the spacemen of the two countries will meet Thursday morning.
powerful service propulsion engine on the Apollo craft for less than a second in the first of a series of maneuvers that will carry the crew to the rendezvous with the cosmonauts.
A few hours later, the astronauts fired the
For the first time, an on-board television camera showed the astronauts' faces as the
At ignition, the astronauts could be seen shaking while the rocket rumbled momentarily on its nest before beginning its streak toward space.
Some of the first words spoken by Stafford after the launch were Russian: "Mee what?" Stafford said.
The successful day in space began at 7:20 a.m. when Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov were launched into orbit on April 19, 2003, mid-atmosphere in a stark desert, in central Russia.
Only two small problems blesthem the otherwise perfect beginning of the Soviet Society.
As the spacecraft soared upward, the Soviet control center reported a "slight
overload," or acceleration force, greater than expected.
Later, the cosmonauts said one of four television cameras aboard the spaceship wasn't functioning. The spacemen began trying to repair it. The malfunctioning camera blocked a planned telecast showing the cosmonauts as they soared into orbit.
For the first time in history, a Soviet countdown and launch was broadcast live to the world.
The telecast, showing two hours of prelaunch activity, was viewed by thousands of Russians gathered around television sets in their homes and stores.
The telecast showed Leonov and Kubasov arriving at the launch pad. They smiled, waved and traded quips with the crowd of shirtless officials standing by.
"The crew of Soyuz is ready for the joint
wheel with the crew of spacepack Apollo
L4em. Leona"
Purchase of garage site stalled
A Russian voice called out "good luck" and Leovon replied with the traditional Soviets word.
By LYNN PEARSON
The city has reached a dead end in negotiations to purchase land for the city maintenance garage at 12th and Haskell,县 commission told the City Commission last night.
The land on which the garage is to be constructed is owned by Orvile Ray, 918 East 12th, and is north of Ray's Salvage Yard, 1146 Haskell.
Ray's refusal of the city's offer forced the commissioners to start condemnation proceedings to acquire it. They approved on October 25 that property for construction of the garage.
Watson said it would take about 60 days to acquire the land through the condensation
Judy Lumy, president of the Far East Lawrence Improvement Association, asked the commission whether there was a city where they could screen the south side of his salvage yard.
The screening of the salvage yard, either by a solid wood fence or by evergreens, was part of the plan that swayed many members of the association to endorse the placement of the city maintenance garage in their neighborhood.
Mayor Barkley Clark told Lemon that he was confident the entire commission was committed to effective screening of the salvage yard.
Watson said no such ordinance was in effect.
Commissioner Donald Binns said, "We should be able to make a man screen a junk yard. I think that we should remind Ray that there are other laws that can hurt him.
We could put him out of business in 3 years if we wanted to."
Ray's salvage yard is situated within a residential area.
The commission also set an Aug. 26 hearing date on property at 1301 Ohio. The property is owned by Daniel S. Ling, associate professor of physics. At that time, the commission will decide whether it should be demolished.
Ling has refused to repair the house and
Housing of Appeals has recom-
mended that the house be repaired.
“It’s a question of demolishing it or leaving it boarded up,” said Clark. “A few boards on the windows make a house a mansion. We have to get it out of the neighbor.”
In a discussion on the minimum age required to run for city commissioner in Lawrence, Commissioners Carl Mibbeck and Binns went on record as supporting the state law, which requires the candidate to be 18 years old and a registered voter.
To change the city's election requirements to a minimum age of 21 would allow voters to run for public office.
"You'll never get a 4-1 vote because Carl and I both believe that if a person is
qualified to vote then he's qualified to hold office ." Binns said.
The commissioners authorized Clark to appoint an ex-officio member to the Housing Authority Board. This non-voting member will act as liaison between tenants and the housing authority. During meetings, receive minutes and acquaint the board with tenant complaints and opinions.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager,
told the commission that the city had
the authority to eliminate immediate safety
hazards such as uncovered, unused wells,
especially in residential areas. The cost of
inheriting these hazards, Wilden said, will
be added to the owner's tax assessment.
Removal must be initiated by a complaint,
be said.
In other action, the commission allowed Steve Allen, pastor of the First Assembly of God Church, to keep a mobile home on church property to house Sunday school classes during construction of the addition to the church.
The commission also decided to allocate $2,400 to the 1976 summer band concert program, $800 more than it allocated the past years. The increase will help the concert program to operate within its budget, said Bill Kelly, the band's director.
State seeks cost cut for $50 million clinic
Refugees aim for self-sufficiency
By STAN STENERSEN
By KELLY SCOTT
Kansan Staff Reporter
Although small and apparently vulnerable, the members of Lawrence's first Vietnamese refugee family insist that they must speak English so make enough money to support themselves.
NGOC THE NGUYEN, his wife, Nghia,
and their four children arrived Monday
night at the home at the host family, Mr.
Mars. Harold Siegler, 908 W. 20th Ter.
They needed some help, Mrs. Nguyen said
vestderay, but "only a little, not too much."
BOTH NGUYEN AND his wife read and write English as a result of their jobs in Saigon. Although they speak very little English, they were open in their efforts to describe their recent experiences in Saigon by refuge camps on Guam and in Florida.
Conversational English came easier to the Nguyen children, who blithely introduced themselves to reporters before entering Stegist yard to play with a litter of kittens.
Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor,
said building codes didn't make clear
whether fireproofing of the steel truss
members was necessary if conventional
fireproofing was used in all floors and
ceilings.
University administrators decided yesterday to investigate the possibility of eliminating some fireproofing on the new facilities building at the KU Medical Center.
LIKE MOST OF Saigon's citizens, the Nguyens were surprised by the swift fall of the Vietnamese government and they had to abandon almost all their possessions to get on a helicopter as the Viet Cong closed in on the city.
Nguyen was an associate professor of physics at the University of Saigon, and Nghia summarized captured Viet Cong documents for the U.S. Defense Attache. She lost her job when the United States pulled out of Saigon.
They intended to leave the country when they became apparent the government would become the government, Mrs Nguyen said. Her job with the government necessitated that they leave or risk their lives.
The move would save an estimated $2 million to $3 million on the building. Bids on the construction, opened last week, were $4.5 million over the architect's estimate.
Thousands more wanted to leave but didn't have the means to evacuate, she said.
The Nguyens left saiigon by ship on April 23, the last day citizens were able to leave.
The Nguyens spent more than a month in a settlement camp on Guam until they were flown to Eglin Air Force Base near New York, where they worked for about three weeks, Mrs. Nguyen said.
Her government job paved the way for the evacuation, Mrs. Nguyen said.
State architects will look at two or three hospitals with construction similar to the
MRS. NGUYEN SAID conditions at Eglin
university taught her and her
nineunteers taught her and
her nineunteers taught her
Although most of Mrs. Nguyen's relatives have resettled in Philadelphia, where her younger brother attends school, Mr. Nguyen's relatives have remained in Viet Nam.
THE FOUR NGUYEN children, whose ages range from 6 to 12, will learn Lawrence schools this fall. They know little English, and most of them don't. They attended French schools in Saïon.
Mrs. Nguyen said she never planned to return to Vietnam. She said she hoped to become a naturalized U.S. citizen in a few years.
to evacuate all of the refugees on Guest because of the approaching typhoon season.
supporting Siergist said. The family will move to the apartment in three or four days.
Although he said he was qualified to physics and electrical engineering or to hold a job as an electrician, Mr. Nguyen said in order to become anything in order to become self-supporting.
Mrs. Siegrist has taught English to children of all nationalities and to foreign countries.
MRS. NGUYEN said she hoped that once their children started school and began speaking English they would help their parents' understanding of the language.
Siegstrat said that Mr. Nguyen planned to start work at Lawrence Memorial Hospital Monday. He will work in the housekeeping department.
Mrs. Siegrist will tutor the children in English. She said she hoped they would have a 1000-word English vocabulary when they started school.
The Nguyens ran a restaurant in Saigon after Mrs. Nguyen left her government job
IT MEANT SPEEDING up the placement of the families in homes, he said, so there will be room in the resettlement camps in this country.
A FOUR-ROOM APARTMENT in the Edgewood complex at 1600 Haskell Drive has been rented for the Nguyens. Since the Nguyens received a reduction in rent.
Local Lutheran church congregations will pay the Nguyens' rent until they are self-
Parkway may be funded for 1977
By THERESE MENDENHALL
Kansan Staff Reporter
Construction of Clinton Parkway may begin soon enough to receive federal funds for fiscal year 1977 if the project consultant accepts the proposal and denote their parts of the preliminary work.
County commissioners met with representatives of the state Highway Commission and the consulting firm yesterday to try to shorten the 500-day period planned by the consultant to complete preliminary survey and engineering.
County commissioner Pete Whitenten said the parkway project would have a better chance of receiving federal funds for fiscal year 1977 if local officials could show they would be ready to use the funds in that year.
John Frazier, managing partner of Finney and Turnipseed Consulting Engineers, the firm which will plan the parkway, said last night the period could be shortened if highway officials could review the firm's plans quickly.
"if we don't know how long they will take,
we have a hard time scheduling the work in
a timely fashion."
The preliminary engineering will be done in three stages, each of which must be
approved separately by the Highway Commission, said Whitenight. The consulting firm must wait for the commission's approval before it can proceed with the next stage.
A. D. Moret, field engineer in the Secondary Roads Department of the Highway Commission, said the department would wait for the consulting firm to determine time needed to complete the first stage before scheduling the review for that stage.
"There are too many variables to set a definite date vet." he said.
Frazier said the first part of the schedule may be ready next week.
Whitenight said if the preliminary work went as quickly as possible, local officials might award the contract for the construction of the parkway sometime between January and June of 1977. He said he hoped the following schedule could be kept:
Aug. 20—Public hearing on the parkway project;
Sept.-Completion of the three engineering and stage stages by the
Aug. 1, 1975 -Completion of the air quality and sound analyses by the Highway Council
April 15, 1978-Completion of the environmental impact study by Finney and Tinker
Jan. June-Awarding of the construction contract.
consulting firm and of their respective review periods by the Highway Commission, and beginning of the right-of-way purchase process;
Kansas rapist faces charge in Nebraska
A July 21 trial date has been tentatively set in Lincoln, Neb., for Al Byron Johnson, who was accused of assault with intent to rape.
If the bill passes and is signed by the President, an appropriation specifically for Clinton Parkway will have to be approved by the Department of Transportation.
The U.S. Congress is now considering highway appropriations for fiscal year 1977. The House of Representatives has passed a bill which appropriates $10 million for projects like Clinton Parkway. The Senate has consented its version of the bill next week.
Johnson is serving 5 to 20-year sentence in Kansas for a rape conviction. He was sentenced Nov. 8 in Lawrence after he threw a stone at a police officer. Two similar charges were dismissed.
clinical facility to see whether the beams have been fireproofed, he said.
Discussion at the meeting centered on what caused the unfavorable bids, said Lucas. The scarcity of bidders for the general construction contract created "unfavorable conditions" for good bids, he said.
Only two firms submitted bids for the general construction contract.
Lacas said the size of the project might have caused apprehension or misunderstanding on the part of bidders and potential bidders.
“This is a huge building,” he said. “If you turn a page a minute, it would take you seven hours just to get through the plans. Contractors concerned about the magnitude of the job and the time constraints involved are likely to be wary.”
Bidders probably had the expiration of labor contracts in 1977 on their minds as well, according to Lucas. If progress on the building were slowed, a contractor could be caught in a costly strike and costly wage increases.
Lucas said the meeting produced no definite plans to revise plans, cut costs or resubmit bids. Another meeting will be held next Tuesday.
Not all the bids at last week's opening were over the architect's estimate. Bids for elevators, electrical work and mechanical work were even with or below estimates. Lucas didn't say what, if anything, had been decided about these bids.
Initial construction of the clinical facility is already under way. Contracts totaling over $16 million have already been awarded.
Lucas said the present snags might not seriously delay its anticipated completion in time.
The clinical facility is the most expensive building ever planned for a Kansas campus. Its estimated cost is $50 million. When completed, it will add 700,000 square feet of space. The Med Center and will increase the hospital's capacity from 800 beds at present to 800.
The building will also contain a new emergency room, laboratories, diagnostic and treatment areas, outpatient facilities and other intensive care units. A "surgicenter" is planned that allows patients to have minor surgery and go home the same day.