Housing authority organizes project
Individuals may be building the future slums of Lawrence with some of the mobile trailer homes that exist here, said Bill Barr, assistant dean of faculties. He spoke before the Faculty Forum in a luncheon meeting Thursday at Westminster Center. A professor of mechanical en-
A professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Kansas, Barr is a member of the
Local Housing Authority of Law-
rence. The five member board is
appointed by the mayor and city
council, Barr said.
There is no such thing as really low-cost housing, Barr said. The authority is presently organizing a plan for low-rent public housing to be located at 19th and Haskell, he said. Construction allowances will range from about
$10,000-19,500 and the monthly rates for occupants from about $42-64, based on past figures from a Topeka housing project.
To determine who will live in the housing projects, the type of income through welfare or salaries will be considered along with the type of housing the people live in now. Some houses in Lawrence are condemned, Barr said, but people are still living in them because they have no place else to go.
Hutchinson and Poplar Bluff, Mo. The housing authority interviewed 16 architects before choosing one, Barr said.
The housing authority has taken the responsibility of improving the community and among other things providing the needed living conditions in locations appropriate to the neighborhood and the city. It will also make a study of the persons who will be living in the developments, Barr said.
Barr commented that the housing authority has received extremely good cooperation from the city.
Rep. Winn to appear
Larry Winn, Republican congressman from Kansas' fifth district, will put up a trophy and present it personally to the winner of the oen three-mile run at the Kansas Relays Saturday.
Charles Oldfather, associate dean of the law school, reported on the Senate Executive Committee.
Council hears reports from its committees
The University Council heard reports from its committees Thursday afternoon in 108 Blake at the council's last meeting of the year. Mail ballots which will elect the new council will be counted Monday.
Bill Ebert, Topeka junior and vice chairman of the Academic
US aid asked by Cambodia
PHNOM PENH (UPI) — Cambodia appealed directly to the United States Thursday for arms and assistance as the government's effort to drive Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops out of the country moved toward the crisis point.
A pound of bacon contains about 3,000 calories.
An American embassy spokesman said Friday the appeal was received Thursday and passed on directly to the State Department in Washington. Other Western nations were understood to have received similar appeals of aid.
The Cambodian call for help came as Communist troops attacked Takeo town early Thursday in the first reported Communist assault on a Cambodian provincial capital. Informed sources said Cambodian troops killed 15 Vietnamese prisoners during the assault.
The embassy spokesman said the appeal for American arms aid was not "a shopping list."
Kansan makes mistake regarding who presided
There was an error in Thursday's Kansan concerning Bill Ebert, Topeka junior and new student body president, presiding over the Student Senate meeting Wednesday night. Dave Awbrey, Hutchinson senior, and not Ebert presided over the meeting.
Winn, from Leawood, Kan,
was co-chairman of the student
relays committee in 1940 while
an undergraduate at KU.
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Barr showed slides of many homes in Lawrence, along with pictures of low-housing developments in Lee's Summit, Mo.,
Procedures and Policies committee, reported the year's work of his committee, which dealt mostly with hearing petitions from students for the elimination of various graduation requirements. Ebert said next year this committee would make a thorough study of the present grading system.
The council will hold a reorganizational meeting on April 30. At this meeting the council will elect its chairman for next year. Newly elected members, both student and faculty, will be grouped into committees for the next year at this meeting.
William Lucas, associate professor of architecture and chairman of the Planning and Resources committee, said his committee had appointed subcommittees and was waiting for their data to come in.
CYD to host issues seminar
The statewide CYD Issues Seminar hosted by the University of Kansas chapter of Collegiate Young Democrats will be held in Lawrence Saturday in the Kansas Union.
Mike Dickeson, president of the KU-CYD, announced the keynote speaker as Bob Brock, Topeka lawyer and businessman and former Kansas campaign manager for Robert F. Kennedy, who will initiate the day's agenda with a 9:30 speech. The seminar will end at 4 p.m.
Topics of discussion include sessions on tax reform, race relations, prison reform, party reform and consumer protection.
Regents, Faculty to retreat
A retreat for the Kansas Board of Regents and faculty, plus student and administrative representatives from the six state schools is scheduled for this weekend in Rock Springs, said Jess Seward, Wamego regent.
Stewart said the purpose of the retreat is to "discuss issues in an informal setting."
Charles Oldfather, professor of law, said KU faculty representatives are Ronald Calgaard,
associate professor of economics, and Russell Bradt, professor of mathematics. A third faculty representative will be chosen later this week.
Student representatives from KU are Bill Ebert, Student Senate president-elect, Greg Thomas and Dave Awbrey, Student Senate president.
Awbrey said issues concerning "the whole range of the university" will be discussed by panels.
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