Boy hustlers stake out Kansas City streets
Staff Reporter
By RICK JONES
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Under the pallid orange glow of downtown streetlights in Kansas City, Mo., there is a two-block square near 10th and McGee streets that is located inside the Mice Department Unit calls the "meat locker."
The car, followed by a widely-spaced slow motion procession of other cars, circles the block twice. On the third pass, the driver steps in front of one of the cars, pushing the finger window and calls out, "You are working hard!"
Boys dressed in tight jeans and T-shirts—the "meat"—hang in on groups on the sidewalk, their hair immaculate, their tanned faces appearing even darker in the orange light. They clown and joke on the sidewalk. A late model car slowly drives by, its driver cranning his neck to look at the boys.
One of the boys steps over to the car, waits for the door to be opened and hops in. The car drives away, and the boys on the sidewalk, many of whom are not yet 18 years old, begin clowning again.
Torn, from Independence, Mo., gives us as 21, who comts his comrades he is 16. He says he has been an Army soldier for 30 years.
"I got a friend with a car, and we come down here around eight on weekend nights," he said. "We usually turn about three tricks and leave before it gets too late."
He said the tricks usually took place in a car, in a parking lot or a dark street within a mile of down-
The customer, almost always a middle-aged man, would park, say what he wanted and how much he would pay. Customer and solicitor might then hangagel with them if performed, the boy would be driven back downtown.
"The Johns don't usually do a whole lot of talking." Tom said, "and they don't usually argue much about prices. They know we know they got the money, so they don't try to start any trouble."
He said the price for a normal trick was about $20, but that the boys could usually tell when they cooled down.
He said that if a man wanted something unusual, like a whole night in a hotel room, or two boys at once.
"When the dudes are real nervous, they're going to hit up for more money," he said. "I gave 80 bucks to the guys."
"The most ever made was 200 bucka," he said. "I spent the night with a guy who was into some very
Julian Juliette, commander of the Vice Unit for the Kansas City Police Department, said his squad did not stop a vehicle.
"We don't get any complaints, and they don't cause nearly the trouble the women hookers do." he said. "We haven't had reports of any strong arm crimes or assaults for a long time."
He said, however, that he doubted the customers would report a crime even if one had occurred.
"The johns don't want to come in here and report that they had a wallet stolen by some kids they picked up."
Detective Carlisle Walker of the Juvenile Division
said the department did not have the time or money to keep close tabs on the kids.
"It's a widely known fact that they're down there." he said. "Anybody driving around Oak and 11th can get it."
"We were able to pay the guys overtime to go out at night and pick some of the kids up," he said. "We had five or six guys working the area, and they'd each bring in one or two kids every night."
He said the officers would go out in plain clothes and cruise the block in unmarked cars. If a boy jumped in the car when they stopped by one of the groups, the cop would drive him to the police station.
He said that last summer the police department had received some money from the federal government through the Safe Streets Act, allowing them to devote a little more time to checking on the boys.
"Most of the time," he said, "the kids would go to court and get convicted of soliciting for immoral punishment."
stay for about three weeks of counseling and then go home."
Walker said that some of the kids would wind up hustling downtown again, but that most of the time their parents would keep a tight rein on them.
One of the kids who had been caught, and who was back on the street hunting, said he had noticed that the girl was running.
"Usually, the parents wouldn't have any idea what their sons were doing at night," he said. "After they d'find out, the kids' lifestyles would change pretty damn fast."
"They send a guy through once in a while, but they haven't cracked down like they were doing last summer," the boy said. "They know we aren't pulling any slit--like beating people up and taining their money—so I guess they don't feel like it's worth their while to mess with us."
He said that none of the boys that he knew was working for a pimp, because they didn't need the
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Towboat rivers
Jackie Barrer, captain of the towbar Brownville, plots his vessel up the Missouri River north of St. Joseph, Mo. The tow stretches almost 600 feet from the front to the rear.
the jackstaff with its flag at the head of the tow. Even though the Brownville is called a towboat, she, like all towboats on the rivers of the United States, usually pushes her cargo. See story page six.
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Lab insulation contains asbestos
Bv JEFF KIOUS
Staff Renorter
A recent test by a Chicago laboratory revealed that asbestos is present in exposed insulation at the Kurata Thermodynamics Laboratories on West Campus.
The insulation was found on the floor of the laboratory earlier this month. The building's architectural drawings indicated that the laboratory's ceiling had been sprayed with astestos insulation one inch thick.
A sample of the material found on the floor was sent to Walter C. McCrane, Association for Nursing.
The insulation had been falling to the floor of the laboratory since last winter, according to George Swift, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.
Swift said that since the latter part of the spring semester, he had been asking students and laboratory personnel to stay with him and give him tools to get tools or equipment from within it.
"The heavy snow and water had loosened the insulation and caused it to fail," he said near the base of the staircase.
SWIFT SAID he suspected that the insulation contained asbestos. He submitted a request in May, through his department, for training and repair by facilities operations.
"The department of health will determine the necessary actions to correct the exposed patient."
a letter to Tuesday to the State department of Health requesting that the department
He said the laboratory tests are only one part of a total evaluation procedure that should be run on the building where the asbestos was found.
Exposed insulation may not necessarily be a health hazard, according to John Winnell. The National Association of Inspectors recommends
Four of the eight points that would apply to the evaluation of the laboratory would be asbestos content, water damage, condition of the material and exposed surface area.
Rodger Oroke, director of facilities operations, said yesterday that he had sent
THE EVALUATION procedure is based on an eight point exposure assessment panel.
school buildings published by the Environmental Protection Agency.
U.S. trade with Japan leveling, official says
The government has not yet set a percentage standard for asbestos hazards, according to Jody Crane of the EPA office in Kansas City Mo.
McCrone's analysis found that the insulation in the thermodynamics lab contain
"There has been no minimum standard set," she said, Tuesday. Some people have
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KANAS CITY, Mo.—During the past four years, the U.S. trade deficit with Japan has grown steadily. But according to Iaru Murata, deputy general of the Japanese Consulate in Kansas City, Mo., things are beginning to level out.
In the past two years, the United States has purchased $9.6 billion and $11.6 million more goods from Japan than it has sold to that country.
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Murata said that during the first quarter of this year, for the first time in four years, Japan recorded an international payment deficit.
He said that until the early 1970s, when Japan first started showing a surplus in arms exports, he would not have been able to
Murada said that after World War II, the United States told Japan it must modify its trade. Japan did, he said, and for nearly 25 years it bought almost all of its imported goods from the United States. It also began to steadily export goods to the United States.
goods in the world. He also said that Japan now was the biggest importer of many U.S. goods.
John Mathews, executive assistant to the consulate general, said he thought American businessmen were responsible for the imbalance in trade between the countries.
"In order to survive after World War II, we had to buy nearly everything from the United States," he said. "But we worked hard to buy transportation, and the hard work has paid off."
"AMERICAN TRADERS need to take the
United States' advice to Japan after the war," he said. "They told Japan to be aggressive in their trading, and now that's what the U.S. traders need to be."
“U.S. traders simply haven’t learned how to deal with Japan,” he said. “There are language and cultural barriers, among other factors, that businessmen have neglected to consider.”
He said that in an effort to balance trade, Japan had imposed a voluntary restriction on the amount of oil exports.
Grant Goodman, professor of East Asian studies agreed with Mathews.
GOODMAN SAID he thought the idea that made in Japan' products were inferior to those made in China.
*Toyota*, Datsun and a number of other
Japanese-made products suddenly began to
soll in about 1865," he said. From that point on, Japan was a country to be ruled by the Russians.
He said he thought the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 had a great deal to do with the sudden increase in tourism.
"Japan received a lot of television coverage in the Olympics and America suddenly began to view Japan in a different light," he said.
Robert Fluke, professor of economics,
said that although Japan was making efforts
to balance the trade between the two
countries during a long time before
trade actually would level off.
"They have made promises to try harder to balance the trade," he said, "And I do think things will get better. But you can bet it will take awake."
Commissioners study city codes
By ROBIN ROBERTS
Staff Reporter
Lawrence city commissioners were faced with two recurring facts of governmental liability.
One is that codes and ordinances do little good without strict enforcement. The other is that more enforcement means more money.
Two separate agenda items at the commission meeting brought these facts to light. One issue was the proposal of a uniform mechanical code to regulate installation of air conditioners in buildings. The other item was a discussion of enforcement for an environmental protection ordinance.
Discussion of environmental protection code enforcement was brought up in relation to a controversial decision on the Oread neighborhood. Last week the community recommended to down-zone the Oread neighborhood in order to reverse a trend of dense population in the area. Oread Neighborhood Association members have told the present multi-family zoning had led to dilapidation of the neighborhood.
BUT CITY COMMISSIONER Robert Schumm said Oread's dilapidation could be prevented through strict enforcement of a permanent protection code adopted last year.
Bufard Watson, city manager, said the city enforced the code in the Groad area.
"We do the same thing in Oread that we do in other neighborhoods," he said. "We react to complaints and to things that are obvious to our inspectors.
"Some people just don't care as much about their property as others do. But we can't go in and strong arm people, and we can't go to door-to-door to check every house."
The city fire department is currently going door-to-door to check fire code enforcement. Fire Chief Jim McSidwain and a team of environmental code violations to the city.
Commissioner Don Bins suggested that senior citizens be hired to do the follow-up.
INSTEAD OF ADDING another inspection official to the staff, the city commission is looking into the possibility of establishing a department's reports and other complaints.
"I think that's an ideal job for some older person looking for something to do," Binns
Schumm also suggested an architectural review board and an ordinance to insure against incompatible structures being constructed in older neighborhoods.
"IF THEY WOULD have been com-
patibility in those structures," he said, "I don't think we would have had the drive for down-zoning."
The commission agreed to discuss architectural review, but dismissed the idea of
ONA members say that dilapidation of the older Victorian and Edwardian houses in the area leads to their replacement with modern four-plexes.
Commissioner Barkley Clark said that the incompatible structures were a main bone of contention on ONA members and the developers in the area.
Another reason the commission decided against additional personnel in the Oread-related matters was that the commissioners had a need to enforce the uniform Mechanical Code.
After a lengthy debate, the commission adopted the code Tuesday. A committee of 15 was formed.
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By VALERIE HOWARD
Committee releases code violation report
The Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee of the KU Chapter of the American Association of University Professors yesterday released a report promoting the rights of students to display banners at public University events.
In the report, presented to the AAUP executive committee Monday, the ad hoc summer committee recommended two action to the University administration.
"We recommend a policy which directs University police to refrain from action against the display of banners unless an officer is authorized by creation of a series of seminars in which faculty, students, administrators and police officers participate on the special role of the
KUBY, A MAY 1979 graduate, charged Chancellor Archie R. Dyke; Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor; Patrolman Wade Rider and Det. Sgt. Pamela Cobb of the KU Police Department; Mike Hill, KU President; Ronald Bornstein University police; with violations of the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and conduct because of his arrest.
The report was compiled in response to a petition by Ron Kuby, 345 Michigan St., following his arrest at this year's Commencement. He was charged with侵入性谋杀。他被判处十年监禁，当他 allegedly refused to take down banner reading "KU out of South Africa."
The charges against the six were dismissed on July 2 by J. Harmond McNish, chairman of the University Judiciary, after a June 27 hearing. McNish's written opinion was based on what he called a long-standing University policy against banners and political advertising at non-political events, such as Commencement. Also, McNish was charged with enforcing rules and policies of the Kansas Board of Regents and the University.
HOWEVER, THE AAUP ad hoc committee disagreed with the interpretation of the University regulations. The committee reviewed Kuby's petition, copies of correspondence between KU AAUAP and the Department of Student Affairs document, "Policies Affecting Student's Rights and Responsibilities," and press clippings related to the incident.
Richard Cole, professor of philosophy and ad hoc committee chairman, said in the executive meeting, "Under McNish's ruling my daughter's T-shape say 'Never underestimate the Power of a Woman' would be outlawed at a football game.
"We don't think the board of Regents 1970 code can be reasonably applied to University policy in this case. They imply that university campaigns, like buttons for caricaturists,"
THE PARAGRAPH IN question in the Regents Code of Conduct reads: "Political office holders and candidates not be introduced or recognized on campus unless they are participating in the campus event by attending a public advertisement shall not be enclosed areas of the campus devoted primarily to instruction, or in other enclosed areas during non-political events. The distribution of political handbills shall be prohibited in those areas devoted primarily to instruction, or in other enclosed areas sites and times of enclosed public events."
Cole said the context of this paragraph made it clear that the phrase "political advertisements" referred to advertisements related to the support of candidates for public office. And therefore this code does not mandate the University's policy forbidding all banners at University-sponsored public events.
IN A LETTER to Srinivasan, Dykes did not say that the policy was a published policy, but that it had been in effect since former Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers' tenure, according to the AAUP report. Chalmers was chancelor from 1690 to 1792.
The report was discussed at the executive meeting and the AAUP executives agreed to compile an amuric curse, or friend of the king, for further deliberation for further deliberation of the Kubu case.
Dykes was unavailable for comment on the report. Jim Scally, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said Dykes had said he wanted to discuss the matter with Shankel before releasing an official report. Because of vacations that have been scheduled, Shankel will be able to meet on the matter before late August.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE also discussed an administrative report from the district office on the quality of work.
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