Photo by Mike Radencich
Mobile homes like this one at 3040 Iowa are becoming increasingly popular among married students at KU. Trailer living offers the advantages of privacy and convenience, often at less expense than an apartment.
Woodruff Auditorium opened with reception
The Laurence E. Woodruff Auditorium was formally opened to the public with a reception in honor of Professor and Mrs. Woodruff Sunday in the Big 8 Room of the Kansas Union.
The auditorium, which is across the hall from the Big 8 Room on the second floor of the Union, was completed in December of 1969 and seats about 600, said Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union. The auditorium has been in use since January. Burge said
that 34 events were scheduled in the auditorium in the next 20 days.
Woodruff is a professor of biology and entomology. He was registrar from 1942 until 1946, dean of men from 1947 until 1953 and dean of students from 1953 until 1967.
As dean of students, Woodruff was on the Union Executive and Operating Committee when plans were made for the auditorium in 1964, Burge said.
12 KANSAN Mar. 9 1970
In 1964, the estimated number of illegitimate births in Kansas was 1,864.
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Approval by the Lawrence City Commission of a new mobile home park on Maple Lane demonstrates a growing popularity for trailer living. The new park will be the sixth in the Lawrence area.
Marvin Keith, Overland Park senior, and his wife, Nancy, Bern senior, who live in the Ridgeview Court Mobile Home Village at 30th and Iowa, said it was less expensive in the long run to live in a trailer.
By CHARLENE MULLER
Kansas Stiff Writer
"We pay $50 a month rent besides making payments on the trailer," Keith said. When the trailer and our furniture is paid off, we'll have something to show for our money. If we decide to sell the trailer, we'll take only a small loss and will have furniture to take with us."
Mrs. Keith said the difference between monthly mobile home payments and apartment rent could be spent on other important things.
Mobile homes popular
Steven Lukert, Sabeth senior, and his wife, Carolyn, said the privacy of mobile home living is a major advantage.
"You're close enough to the next trailer not to be isolated, but far enough to have quiet and individual privacy." Lukert said.
"My husband and I love gardening and working outside," she said. "We are planting a vegetable and flower garden, which we couldn't do in an apartment."
Rodney Angle, Medicine Lodge graduate student, and his wife, Karen, live in the Mobile Home Estates at 22nd and Harper. Mrs. Angle, who is expecting their first baby in May, said, they got much more space for the money than they could have gotten in an apartment. Their trailer, she said, has three good-sized bedrooms.
Large fenced-in yards are provided to each mobile home owner, Mrs. Angle said.
The Lukerts installed their own air conditioning units but the Keiths bought a trailer with central air conditioning already installed.
move it. However, if a man is transferred to another city by a company, his moving expenses are usually paid for by them."
Mrs. Angle said another reason they chose to live in the Mobile Home Estates was because they were allowed to keep pets outside. This is not allowed in all courts. Other advantages, she said, were a storage shelter and a swimming pool.
The Lukers said they moved to the Ridgeview Court from another court where they were dissatisfied with the park operator. Promises
The way mobile homes are constructed," Lukert said, "you feel all "boxed-up" in hot weather unless you have air conditioning.
were made that were not kept, such as the building of a park for children and storm shelters, Lukert said.
Both the Keiths and the Lukerts praised their present park operator. They said he provided them with a free clubhouse, swimming pool, basketball court, central television hookup, trash collection twice weekly, paved roads, storage shelters, storm shelters, car ports and fenced-in yards.
Lukert and Keith said residents were provided with a list of rules requiring them to mow their lawns and keep their yards free of trash. Dogs are not allowed outside because they bark at passers-by.
A major disadvantage to trailer living, Lukert said, is that air conditioning is a necessity in the summer.
Another problem with mobile homes, Lukert said, is the cost of moving them outside the city.
"If you are moving a long instance," Lukert said, "it might be more profitable to sell the trailer since it costs about $1 a mile to
Mrs. Angle said the home owners in their park would like the operators to put in storm shelters and paved streets.
"Last year during the tornado season," Mrs. Angle said, "we were always having to run to a friend's house to seek shelter."
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