Plans for a new mobile home park, such as the one shown here at 22nd and Harper Street, were approved by the Lawrence City Commission Tuesday. The new mobile home park will be on Maple Lane.
Mobile home park planned
By CHARLENE MULLER
Kansan Staff Writer
Plans for a mobile home park on Maple Lane were approved by the Lawrence City Commission Tuesday.
Mayor Clark O. Morton Jr, who voted affirmatively, said the park in question would be the last one to receive his approval until changes were made in the city's mobile home park situation.
"I am not opposed to mobile home parks," Morton said. "They are necessary. But the park operators are granted special permits which they are abusing."
Recreation areas of about 200 square feet, he said, are required by a city ordinance concerning mobile home parks to lie adjacent to each trailer. Park operators instead fill the recreation areas with electric poles and gas connections so that other trailers can be crowded into the space, he said.
Morton said the commission was checking into rumors that a person could not rent a space in certain parks unless he bought the trailer from the park owner.
Morton said another violation being checked into was that mobile home owners were removing the wheels from their trailers. This, he said, is strictly forbidden by the mobile home ordinance.
The commission is checking into the amount of revenue mobile home owners pay to the city. Mobile home parks create situations in which new schools might have to be built, Morton said. If this is the case, someone must be paying enough revenue to provide this.
"An equitable system of revenue must be established so that mobile home owners pay personal property taxes to the city comparable to the amount residential home owners pay," he said.
The commission, Morton said, needs to examine and revise the present ordinance so that the most desirable standards for mobile homes, mobile home parks and their locations be established and enforced.
The only commissioner to vote against the mobile home park, James Black, said he thought the
planning of the park was excellent but he did not think it was fair to put a stipulation on the park operator to pave the public road lying adjacent to the west side of the park. The park owner he said, should have been able to petition the city to do this.
"The street should be paved," Black said, "but the stipulation on the park owner now holds him responsible to pave the street. It isn't fair to enforce the responsibility of paving adjacent public roads to park owners in one area and not in another."
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Examinations given not contraceptives
By KAREN KLINKENBERG
Kansan Staff Writer
Watkins Hospital has been asked to give contraceptives to any girl requesting them. Doctors feel they should act like any hometown physician who lets the decision rest with the patient and doctor. The hospital does give such medication to married Students with consultation.
A report by the Student Health Committee of the Student Senate said of the present operating policies of the health center, "At the present time, the medical staff finds the prospect of a contraceptive clinic untenable."
"Staff members have stated that their resignations would follow any attempt to force them to comply," the report said.
The heath center does provide information and educational material on sexual problems when requested. Premarital examinations and advice are provided whenever possible and any decisions reached are between the doctor and patient.
The report also said, "The Board of Regents and the chancellor have not issued any direct orders in regard to the health service concerning contraception."
"It is implied," the report continued, "that all medical services provided by this institution will
be in compliance with the laws of the state of Kansas and the accepted rules of good medical practice. The medical staff must make their decisions within the above limitations in terms of the patients needs and the dictates of their consciences."
The state provides a source of contraceptives for all persons 18 or older at the Douglas County Health Unit.
Watkins Hospital is short of doctors and space.
The report said, "Doctors are nearly unobtainable at the salaries permitted by Civil Service." The last physician position remains unfilled at the present time.
The report concluded by saying, "It must be obvious to all that even a few resignations would be tantamount to a closure of the health service itself."
A resolution presented by Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student Wednesday night asked individual practicing physicians at their individual discretion, to prescribe oral contraceptives and other birth control devices to requesting female students and that such contraceptives be available at the health center." The resolution was dropped by von Ende after consideration of the doctors' threat.
Nuclear weapon pact signed by U.S., Soviets
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States and the Soviet Union gave life Thursday to the treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons and voiced hope that their historic arms-control negotiations starting next month would further lessen the threat of nuclear holocaust.
President Nixon and Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin, who formally proclaimed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty "in force," said they looked forward now to a general agreement between their governments at the strategic arms limitations talks beginning April 16 in Vienna.
The nonproliferation treaty, ratified so far by more than 45 nations, forbids nuclear powers to give fissionable materials for military use to non-nuclear states, which in turn are prohibited from accepting or developing nuclear weapons.
Nixon and Kosygin presided at ceremonies in Washington and
The President, speaking at the State Department, hailed the treaty as "the first milestone on the road which leads to reducing the danger of nuclear war." He said the "next milestone will be the limitation of nuclear weapons"
With the full adherence of the United States, the Soviet Union and Great Britain, which had deposited instruments of ratification last year, the treaty officially went into effect. Six other nations also completed the ratification process Thursday.
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Moscow during which the two countries officially completed ratification of the pact.
Communist China and France, the two other nuclear powers, still have not signed the treaty and disarmament experts acknowledge that their absence diminishes the force of the pact substantially.
A number of other countries believed capable of making nuclear weapons also have not yet ratified the treaty. These include West Germany, Japan, Israel, India, Argentina, Pakistan and Australia.