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Friday, April 7, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Homeless person regards life as a catch-22 survival battle
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who called himself Zap said other people could never understand the life of a homeless person.
"Lawrence homeless people live in cellars, old houses and garages." Zan said.
He said he had been homeless in Kansas City, Mo., and was recently found temporary shelter with people in Lawrence.
"I think some homeless people stick together as a matter of survival." Powker said.
Coke Powker, another client of LINK, said he was living with friends in town but had been homeless in the
Zap said homelessness made a catch-22 of his life. To afford a place to stay, he must first get a job.
"It's awfully hard to get a job without an address," he said. "I've had interviews where they ask me where I live. I give my address as the Salvation Army, and that's the last I hear from them."
Zap said he did not believe that city government cared about the homeless of Lawrence. he said.
"If they did, they would have a place to go for us during the summer," he said. "Someplace to sleep and be warm. The city should open up an old store downtown. There's going to be a lot more homeless because people can't afford their rent. If people can t find someplace to stay, they can live in places like under the bridge and the streets."
He said malnutrition, illness and alcoholism were common among the homeless people he had met who live
Patty Bingston, supervisor of LINK, said the kitchen served about 87 people when it was open ever Tuesday. Thursday and Sunday. The number has been as low as 60 or as high 185, she said. During 1888, the kitchen served
under the Kansas River bridge and at the LINK kitchen.
"We want to make sure people have enough to eat," Bingston said. "We see people who honestly have no home. They are the invisible poor."
A kitchen in the basement of the Salvation Army shelter operates all year. It and LINK are the only two kitchens feeding the poor in the city.
Degrees of problem differ
The permanent homeless are people who have given up on a future for themselves. Swall said.
Forrest Swall, assistant professor of social welfare,
said there were three general categories of homelessness:
1. Poor housing;
2. Neglected care;
3. Disability.
Episodic homelessness involves varying periods with or without shelter. Transitional homeless have periods of
Dennis Constance, outgoing Lawrence city commissioner, attended the meeting and said he was aware of the problems.
"Most of the poor are harder workers than most of us because they must survive." Constance said. "The homeless problem is a little like the public safety someone have to get killed before we pay attention to it."
At the end of the spring semester, an exhausted Mr. Mertes and other faculty would go into the boundary of Minnesota to catch fish, Mitscher said.
"He and a group of old-timers have been going up there for the past 22 years." Mitscher said.
"He would sit quietly throughout an entire lecture," Mittscher said. "And at the end, would ask a very hard question, just got to the heart of the matter."
Mr. Mertzes joined the KU School of Pharmacy faculty in 1960, after completing his doctorate in medicinal chemistry at the University of Min-
School faculty depended on Mr. Mertes for more than his characteristic insight. They depended on him for fishing lessons.
Mertes. Mitscher said.
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The family will meet with friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Rumsey Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St. The family requests that memorials be held at the Kansas University Fund at the Kansas University Endowment Association.
ground and materials have to be removed with a crane.
Professor Mathias Mertes succumbs to heart attack
The Wamego missile site is called a "coffin site" because the missile was stored on its side and then raised for firing.
That, coupled with the process of opening the bunker's two-foot-thick concrete door, took 20 minutes or so and the fight ensued. You can be of any value in the event of attack.
"The problem was that the rocket had to be fueled after they stood the missile up." Bramel said.
nesota He served as acting chair man of KU's department of medicinal chemistry from 1974 to 1975.
Ironically, the construction style rendered the facility obsolete even before it was completed, according to graduate student Brian Bramel.
In addition to the 22 fenced acres in land, Dawson got a 60- by 80-foot above-ground steel building with concrete floors, electric motors, gear boxes and controllers of various kinds, electrical wiring, piping and structural steel fixtures, and valves, flanges and piping of stainless steel.
A funeral mass will be laid at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 1229 Vermont St. Cremation will follow.
Mr. Mertzes is survived by his wife, Kristin; three daughters, Leal, Seattle, Cara, New York, and Farrol, Oakland, Calif.; two sons, Brian, New York, and Culin, Lawrence; his mother, Mary Mertes, Lawrence; and a sister, Edith Krogstie, Crown Point, Ind.
The old missile site, which today looks like something from a bad science fiction movie with its huge tanks and miles of stainless steel pipes and giant bundles of wire, was once the home of an Atlas E intercontinental missile. Construction began in 1988, and the site was armed in 1988, and the site was armed in
WAMEGO — A nuclear missile site abandoned in the 1960s was sold at auction yesterday, with a Wichita man paying $145,000 acres and tons of equipment.
He said he will start clearing the site near Wamego soon, and expects to spend four to five months working there.
The Associated Press
Dawson said it it's a lot of hard work to clear sites, and it can be dangerous. He said he expects few problems with this site, saying the danger usually comes if there is a a-silo extending hundreds of feet into the
Old nuclear missile site auctioned for $168,000
The Mechanical Engineering Department at Kansas State University, which owned the site since 1987, will supply it at least $50,000 to $100,000 for it
But the bidding shot up quickly after starting out at $10,900, soon developing into a 20-minute contest between Richard Dawson of Wichita and Frank Manz of Manhattan. The latter dropped out after a bid of $167,000, and the property went to the company that cleans up missile sites for a living.
Dawson, who runs Dawson Sales, said he plans to salvage the large amounts of stainless steel, copper and other materials, then sell the
Woman says ex-lover Bird one who shot her husband
The Associated Press
JUNCTION CITY — Lorna Anderson Eldridge, testifying at a hearing in the 1983 murder of her husband, said yesterday former Emporia minister Thomas Bird was the man who shot him
Eldridge, whose love affair with Bird and the deaths of both their spouses formed the basis for a 1987 television mini-series, was one of the two who testified at the preliminary hearing in Geary-Count District Court.
Bird, 38, who already is serving life in prison for the murder of his wife earlier in 1983, was bound over for trial on the first-degree murder charge in the death of Martin K. Anderson.
He pleaded not guilty to the charge, and Judge Melvin Gradert scheduled the trial for July 5.
Eldridge, 36, pleaded guilty in November to a reduced charge of second-degree murder in Anderson's death. Her assertion then that Bird was the masked gunman who shot Anderson in a field along a highway in southern Geary County led to the new murder charge against him.
Eldridge, who was Bird's secretary at Faith Lutheran Church in Emporia, testified that she gave him money which she said he used to kill Anderson.
Eldridge, who remained in 1985 shortly before being sent to prison on her guilty pleas to criminal solicitation charges in an earlier unsuccessful conviction, is serving an additional 15 years to life for second-degree murder.
According to her account of the killing, she was driving along Kansas 177 in a van with her husband and their four daughters on Nov. 4, 1983 and she pulled over, saying she was sick. She pretended to lose her keys, but when he came back she looked for them, he was shot by the masked man she identified as Burt.
Geary County Sheriff Bill Deppis, who was a deputy at the time of the shooting, said that when he arrived on the scene the then-Mrs. Anderson told him a masked gunman appeared and asked for her husband's billfold, then shot him when he wouldn't turn it over. Deppis said he began to doubt her story by about the next day.
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