Grad School Key To City's Future
Bv Rov Miller
The KU Graduate School is handed the key role in the future economic development of Lawrence in the first of a series of six preliminary reports on the future of the city.
Wednesday, May 22, 1983
The first report, "Economic Base, Population and Land Use," was presented to the Citizen's Advisory Committee last night in a meeting at Lawrence High School by John Cofer, who heads the Lawrence development project for Harland Bartholomew and Associates of St. Louis.
"Brainpower has become the principal source of future welfare of our cities," the report says. "The cities which assemble brainpower will thrive; those which do not, will languish.
THE 49-PAGE REPORT says "brainpower" is needed to create new jobs and new industry in a community.
"The bainpower which can develop new products and processes and, thus, new sources of income, will flow mainly from the graduate schools."
In discussion, Cofer, who had headed projects in the university towns of Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State University) and Columbia, Mo., said he thinks research work could be best accomplished on the KU campus.
"THE IMPORTANCE of the University of Kansas to Lawrence, particularly its Graduate School, is at once apparent. As it turns out, men who receive doctoral degrees seldom stray far from the place where the degree was conferred."
The report predicts that the population of Lawrence will reach 75,000 by 1985. This figure includes a student population of 20,000.
"The assumed leveling-out of student population at around 20,000 may be completely in error, but is based upon current opinions as to the optimum size of an institution of higher learning and the probability that other institutions will be expanded, or new institutions established, to handle increased student loads if they occur," the report says.
Cofer said 2,300 acres would be added to the city by 1985 to include this population growth.
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS have estimated the enrollment here will reach 20,000 by 1975.
- THE REPORT SAYS that the most intensive treatment should be devoted to the New Jersey area. Rehabilitation of the area for residential, commercial and industrial use through a General Neighborhood Renewal Plan (GNRP) is suggested by the report.
The report discusses the possible initiation of an urban renewal program in the New Jersey area and indicates a later report will deal more fully with such action.
"The first urban renewal project in Lawrence could include a part of the central business district itself," the report says.
The next project should be in North Lawrence, though it is possible that conditions there may be so improved by other means, code enforcement and the like, than an urban renewal project may prove unnecessary."
THE REPORT POINTS out that there has been discussion of an urban renewal program between the downtown area and the KU campus. The report says the area does not qualify for urban renewal and adds:
"Thus, for the time being, this key area must remain at the disposal of the condemnation powers of the University, presently difficult to justify in application since the University already owns large quantities of vacant land to the west.
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University Reaction
Three University officials who heard the presentation of the preliminary report on the economic base, population and land use of Lawrence last night seemed enthusiastic in interviews following the meeting of the Lawrence Citizen's Advisory Committee at Lawrence High School.
"It looks to me like they've done a lot of thorough study here and it seems to be a good spring-board for future planning," Keith Lawton, vice chancellor of operations, said.
"IT'S AN EXCELLENT beginning." George B. Smith, vice chancellor of institutional planning, said.
Both Lawton and Smith praised the flexibility of the report.
All three University officials said the development of research or or off the KU campus depends on the type of industry.
Lawton called it a "wait-and-see" proposition.
In a discussion at the meeting, Lawton asked if the report would make recommendations regarding the Lawrence airport. John Cofer, a representative from the St. Louis firm and director of the project here, pointed out that the next preliminary report will include a study of transportation.
After the meeting, Lawton said an improved airport would be necessary for the city if it grew as predicted in the preliminary report.
SMITH QUESTIONED the report's prediction on the future growth of KU enrollments. The report said enrollment would reach a peak of 20,000 by 1970 and then level out.
Smith said he thought KU might grow beyond 20,000 students.
"I would be the last one to question the growth of the University as far as necessary," Smith said. "I'm not criticizing his (Cofer's) estimate, but I'm praising the continual adjusting that apparently is provided by the report."
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But some Democratic congressmen, especially those from nonfarm areas, were disgruntled over the defeat of the administration's wheat program.
"The farmers have made their choice," said Rep. Frank Thompson Jr., D-NJ. "I warned them. A lot of my colleagues warned them. The President warned them and all the national farm organizations except the Farm Bureau warned them.
"Democratic leaders will fall all over themselves to enact new legislation," said Rep. Charles B. Hoeven, R-Iowa, top GOP member of the House Agriculture Committee. "They couldn't do anything else."
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has been moved to the KU Medical Center in Kansas City for hospitalization and treatment of what is believed to be a slipped disc in his neck.
Farmers Vote Down JFK Wheat Proposal
"THEY COULDNT leave the wheat farmers hanging out on a limb with the $1 a bushel prices" which Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman predicted, Hoeven said.
Generally fair skies and warmer temperatures are forecast for tonight and tomorrow. The low tonight will be 35 to 40. The high tomorrow is forecast to be 65 to 70.
The final Agriculture Department tabulation for the record turnout was 597,776 votes against the administration plan and 547,151 in favor. There were 73,675 challenged voes to be counted later.
THE REFERENDUM results in Kansas showed 28,269 voting yes and 53,210 voting no, with 41.8 per cent voting yes. Only five of the 105 Kansas counties gave the administration's wheat plan the local two-thirds affirmative vote it needed nationwide.
The 1964 crop will be grown without marketing quotas and no fines for overproduction. Price supports will drop from the present $2 a bushel to $1.25 and will be paid only to growers who stay within their acreage allotments.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The nation's wheat farmers, rebelling against federal controls, today dealt President Kennedy a major farm policy defeat by overwhelmingly rejecting his 1964 wheat program.
A long range forecast issued today predicted temperatures during the next five days would average three to five degrees below normal in western Kansas and five to ten degrees below normal in the eastern section. However, a slow warming trend was expected throughout the period.
The percentage of "yes" votes was 47.79. Kennedy failed to muster a simple majority, much less the two-thirds vote he needed to put his program into effect.
His condition is reported by nurses to be "fairly good." He is in traction and undergoing tests.
Wescoe Is Patient In Med Center
The Chanceller's doctor was not available for comment on his diagnosis, but the neck ailment Chanceller Wescoe has been suffering from over a week is believed to be the result of a slipped disc.
"We moved him to the Medical Center because they have better facilities and he will be more comfortable there." Mrs. Wescoe said.
MRS. WESCOE SAID at her home today that the last word she had heard from her husband reported him "feeling better."
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She said she hopes the Chancellor will be released this weekend.
"The Farm Bureau launched a full scale political campaign. They won the campaign but they lost the war. Congress is not going to make possible the legislation the Farm Bureau promised. ?
Senate Democratic whip Hubert H. Humphrey, Minn., said the farmer's decision "is to be respected. It is now up to the government and the wheat producers, working together, to do everything possible to maintain a fair level of farm income."
Rep. Graham Purcell, D-Tex., chairman of the House Agriculture subcommittee on wheat, said he would try to get new legislation, but "it would be highly unlikely we
would get wheat legislation this year because congressmen from non-farm areas are reluctant to go further into farm legislation."
Churches To Aid Alabama Freedom
By Willis Henson
Five Lawrence churches assembled last night in a freedom fund rally to aid the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which the Rev Martin Luther King, Jr., directs.
The meeting was held at the St, Luke A. M. E. Church, 900 New York St. Rev. Frank J. Brown, pastor of the Ninth Street Baptist Church, presided.
"Men, women, and children need financial assistance," Rev. Brown said. "Freedom is costly and from the very beginning of time, the cost has had to be paid."
REP. W. R. POAGE, D-Tex., second-ranking Democrat on the agriculture committee, said he was "deeply disappointed and disturbed because I fear that wheat farmers will suffer a very substantial loss before any support program is adopted."
A total of $184.78 was collected at the meeting.
"I haven't the slightest idea that the Congress or the government is now going to force any kind of program on farmers who have indicated that they didn't want a program."
Rev. H. Calvin McMillan, pastor of the St. Luke Church, spoke on the subject "Let Freedom Ring."
"A new era is here." Rev. McMillan said, "and it finds us living in a universal conflict—man against his brother."
Rev. McMillan said "we may have forgotten those people because statistics don't bleed, but people do."
"WE HAVE BEEN slow to learn our lesson," Rev. McMillan said. He pointed out that millions died in World War I and World War II.
"This dream of ours has finally come true," Rev. McMillan said, "but now the question is: 'What will you do with what you have?'"
Taking what he termed a "realistic look at what is being done in integration," Rev. McMillan discussed these three types of persons:
- The extreme pessimist.
- The active pessimist.
- The middle man.
The extreme pessimist, Rev. Mc-Millan said, believes "there is absolutely nothing we can do about segregation."
"We believe that all people should be protected." Rev. McMillan said.
REV. McMILLAN said it is true that laws cannot change a man but laws are made to protect the innocent.
"The active pessimist is the most dangerous of all." Rev. McMillan said, "because he is a doubter and savs integration 'won't work'."
One main argument of the active pessimist," Rev. McMillan said, "is that desegration will hurt business." "But that just doesn't happen," Rev. McMillan said.
"IT (INTEGRATION) will mean more money for all of us," Rev. McMillan said.
He said the active pessimist does not fight against integration, but "tries to hold down the dawn of a new day.
"That new day is breaking through, though some would prevent it. Dogs and water hoses will not hold back the new dawn."
THE ACTIVE pessimist would put teen-agers behind reb, Rev. Mc-
Millan said "but putting these children away will not hold back the new dawn.
"It will instead cause these children to come back tomorrow more determined to see the new dawn. They will pull on the ropes of freedom to be heard around the world."
"He should be able to go to schools of his choice, to work in the U.S. Congress, to hold jobs for which he is qualified . . ."
The Negro will not only fight to vote, but in the future he will fight to be voted for, Rev. McMillan said,
Gov. Wallace Defies Court
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — (UPI) —
Fiery Gov. George Wallace, despite the dissent of his attorney general,
today appeared determined to square off against the federal government over the admission of two Negroes to the University of Alabama.
The governor pledged yesterday to stand in the doorway if necessary to block admission of Vivian Malone, 20, and Navy veteran David McGlathery, 26.
Wallace took his fighting stand despite statements by the University
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board of trustees that it ordered Dean of Admissions Hubert Mate to accept Negroes in the face of court action.
State Atty. Gen. Richmond Flowers stood with the board's statement that it had no legal alternative but to accept the Negroes. "When the governor stands in defiance of federal authority, he encourages others to join him—that brings on racial violence," said Flowers.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of acceptance of the Negro students came at a hearing in which Mate was to answer charges of contempt of court for not admitting the Negroes.
Shortly after the announcement, Wallace, who pledged for Alabama at his inauguration last January, "segregation now, segregation to-morrow, segregation forever," called a news conference to make clear his stand.
The governor said that the federal government "might hesitate" to put him in jail because of his position but would not be reluctant to jail lesser officials, including the trustees.
"As governor," Wallace said, "I am the highest constitutional officer of the state . . . I embody the sovereignty of this state and I will be present to bar the entrance of any Negro who attempts to enroll at the University of Alabama."