Re-designing is only answer
Iowa Street scene of 40 auto accidents yearly
By CHERYL BOWMAN Kansan staff writer
Four persons have died during the past 13 months as the result of injuries received in car accidents on Iowa Street.
The stretch of highway between 15th and 23rd Streets is the scene of more than 40 car accidents each year police reports indicate. There is no stop light or traffic control in this stretch.
The latest victim was David L. Gore, Pawnee Rock junior, who died last Thursday from injuries suffered in a three-car accident on Iowa, 64 feet south of 19th. Gore's car turned onto Iowa from 19th into the path of a car driven by Danny Jennings.
"People think stop signs are the answer to everything," said Leonard Hoover, Lawrence City Engineer, "but that's not true. If a stop light was put in at 19th and Iowa, right angle accidents
might decrease, but tailenders would increase.
"There is no quick and easy way to improve the conditions on Iowa Street," Hoover added, "or something would have been done long ago."
Hoover said eventually the site would be a major University intersection. He said the street would have to be completely redesigned, the street widened and left turn lanes installed.
The procedure for obtaining a stoplight in any area begins with the city. The City Commission must issue a warrant to the State Highway Commission showing a need for a traffic light. The State Highway Commission will review the situation, and if it decides there is a need for a light. If a light would improve the traffic situation the Commission will approve the warrant and a stop light will be installed.
Hoover said he didn't think the State would approve a warrant
for a stop light at 19th and Iowa. He said the site was a three-way intersection and the traffic was heavy only at certain times of the day and year.
"Every September, 15,000 cars are added to the city by students," Hoover said. "Ordinarily, when students are on vacation the traffic isn't bad. We can't design all streets for twice the usual amount of traffic."
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The speed limit on Iowa Street is 45 miles per hour. Hoover said if the speed limit was reduced to 35 miles per hour traffic hazards would not be reduced. He said the speed limit was set at what 85 per cent of the drivers would normally drive.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Gov. Albert Brewer of Alabama praised Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn., Tuesday for his speech attacking racism in the North, and another Southern politician said that freedom of choice could be the law of the land within 18 months.
Brewer said Ribicoff's Senate
In Mississippi, fire destroyed an all-white school which had been scheduled to open with a desegregated faculty.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Democratic Policy Council urged the Senate Tuesday to reject President Nixon's choice of Judge G. Harrold Carswell for a seat on the Supreme Court.
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The policy council also attacked the administration's economic policies which it said had brought the nation "the cruel reality of inflation and the growing threat of recession."
It also opposed the administration plan for further deployment of the Safeguard Antiballistic Missile and asked for delays in testing multiple warhead missiles lest these actions jeopardize Strategic Arms Limitation SALT talks with Russia.
These new declarations came in a fat document approved at Monday's meeting of the council headed by former Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey.
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speech "was encouraging" to him.
"That a man like this, a senator,
would, in a spirit of fair play,
acknowledge publicly that there has
been a double standard and that
we have been singled out for unusual treatment in connection
with the operation of our schools is encouraging."
"I've driven 45 miles per hour on Iowa." Hoover said, "and I think it's safe. Those who violate the limit at 45 miles per hour would violate it at 35 miles per hour also. People would be mad if the speed limit was lowered."
Ribicoff told the Senate Monday the North has been "as systematic and as consistent" as the South in depriving Negroes of their rights. "The plain fact is that racism is rampant throughout the country.
In Florida, state Rep. Jack Poorbaugh said a constitutional amendment allowing freedom of choice in the selection of schools was the "only sensible way to resolve the school crisis," and predicted such an amendment could be passed within 18 months. He said he and 20 other Florida politicians have begun a drive for passage of the amendment.
The Judiciary Committee of the Florida House of Representatives, meanwhile, approved two resolutions calling for sweeping changes in the federal court system.
"The Supreme Court has become a supreme legislature and supreme executive—it's no longer one nation under God, but one nation under the Supreme Court," said State Rep. Don Nichols, chairman of the committee. "They feel perhaps they're annointed instead of appointed."
The formerly all-white Maben, Miss. attendance center, scheduled for faculty desegregation Tuesday, burned to the ground Monday night—the third Mississippi school to burn since the Supreme Court's "instant desegregation" orders were handed down late last year.
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traffic conditions on Iowa Street except to completely re-design it. He said the city was trying to get money to re-design Iowa under a plan in which the city would pay half of the cost for spot improvements and the federal government would pay the remainder. He said so far the city had been unsuccessful in securing any money under this plan.
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"It's easy to propose things," Hoover said, "but if there isn't any money, there is nothing we can do. Iowa Street is a difficult place to add any constructive temporary improvements. The State is aware of the problem. If there's anything concrete and reasonable that can be done, the State would approve it."
Hoover said he didn't think there was anything constructive that could be done to improve
An accident on North Iowa Street, where Lakeview Road and Iowa form a "Y", claimed the life of Larry Lee Riggs, March 18, 1969. Riggs was driving a Wakarusa Township fire department tank carrier on the way to a brush fire north of the city when the accident occurred. Police said he was driving at 35 miles per hour.
In another Iowa Street accident, Mrs. Jack D. Vanderwoude, a nurse at Watkins Memorial Hospital, was killed Sept. 26, 1969, in a two-car collision at the intersection of Iowa and 25th. Police said Mrs. Vanderwoude's car was struck broadside bv another car.
Alan R. Dringenberg, Galesberg senior, was killed at the same intersection Jan. 26, 1969. Dringenberg was a passenger in a southbound car that attempted a left turn off Iowa Street onto 25th Street and slid into the path of another car.
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