Even in mid-afternoon, little sunlight reaches the inside of the new GSP-Corbin parking garage, where workers hope to finish construction within three weeks.
State to end panel repair contract
By PATRICIA MANSON
Staff Renorter
The state will terminate the contract of a construction company that failed to make adequate repairs on the new Bell Memorial Hospital at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Jerry Dickson, an assistant attorney general, said yesterday.
Dickson said the company, V.D. S.Carlo General Contractors, Kansas City, Mo., had not submitted an acceptable plan for the contract but panels that make up the outer hospital walls
Dickson, who was appointed last year to handle legal problems concerning Med Center buildings, said, "I have advised the Court to out a notice to terminate the contract."
Dickson also said, however, that the state might reconsider its action if V.S. D'Arcoitar
"The state of Kansas will listen to any plan they come up with," he said. "You can
Ernest Freemont Jr., a lawyer representing the construction company, said he had not heard of the state's plan to reject the contract and refused to comment.
DICKSON SAID earlier this week that the state might take other legal actions against the company and its president, Vincent DiCarlo.
The state already has withdrawn about $800,000 from Dulce's $1.25 million contributions.
Last May, 140 outliers panels were cracked and broken. DiCiclo was told to
The panels have been inspected three times since then by state and University officials and judged unacceptable each time.
The state last month threatened to terminate DiCario's contract if he did not submit an acceptable plan for repairing the panels.
DiCarlo told state officials last week the
panels would be repaired by April 25. He said he had hired two Kansas City, Mo., construction companies to repair the panels at a cost of about $15,000.
PATRICK HURLEY, Kansas secretary of administration, said the repair plan was not completed.
"We weren't satisfied with their response to our demands at all." Hurley said. "The plan was vague. That's why we considered terminating the contract."
Dicarlo said yesterday that his company had been working on the panels "continually," but that rain had slowed the repairs would be finished on time.
But Warren Corman, director of facilities planning for the Kansas Board of Regents, said he did not think DiCarlo would finish the job.
"He's been so alow we've asked the attorney general either to fire him or make him pay for it."
Committee kills literature policy
By JOHN LOGAN Staff Reporter
A controversial literature distribution policy that sparked a series of demonstrations earlier this semester was dropped by the University Events Committee this week after an extensive review.
Ann Eversole, chairman of the events committee, said yesterday that the review had found that the literature distribution guidelines became exacting guidelines were adequate.
The literature distribution policy, passed by the committee last October, was suspended in January by Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, after protesters charged that the policy violated the right to free expression.
The policy outlined how literature could be distributed on the Lawrence campus.
Protesters were upset about a section of the policy that prohibited the distribution of literature in campus buildings. Members of a protest group, the Academic Action Coalition, deliberately violated the policy by handing out leaflets in several buildings.
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS, admitted that the policy had been a mistake. Eversele said the events committee had tried to condense several existing policies and that they had made some interpretations of the rules that were overly restrictive, she said.
Tim Miller, assistant professor of religious studies who helped organize the Academic Freedom Action Coalition, said he was pleased by the decision.
Eversole also said the events committee could not directly act on the literature distribution policies of other University agencies.
signals a renewed commitment by the administration to free speech."
"I'm happy that they came around to our position," Miller said. "I hope it
HOWEVER, THE EVENT committee plans to organize the existing guidelines into an informational packet. The packet will be made available to students, faculty and staff through the office of student organizations and activities.
The packet will include the literature distribution guidelines of the Kansas Board of Regents, the Faculty and Student Senate executive committees, the Association of University Residence Halls and other University agencies.
Eversole said an open meeting to discuss the packet would be held at 3:20 p.m. April 18 in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
Carlin, Stephan inspect Wolf Creek
BY LYNN BYCZYNSKI
Staff Reporter
BURINGTON-Go. Gov. Carlin and Attorney General Robert Stephan got to the office to discuss power plant yesterday when they toured the Wolf Creek construction site near
Carlin said that the trip "was not a witch hunt" and that he had found nothing amiss at the nuclear plant, which is about 30 percent completed.
"We wanted to get acquainted with the facility so that we can objectively look at any questions that are raised." Carim said.
President Carter appointed an 11-member committee Wednesday to study the accident in Harrisonburg, which released in the release of radioactive gases.
SINCE THE MARCH 28 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Harrisburg, Pa., government officials say there is concern about the safety of nuclear plants.
And last week, the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee asked that a special committee be formed to study the safety of the Wolf Creek plant.
Carlin and Stephan, dressed in cowboy boots, blue jeans and windbreakers, toured the noisy construction site and questioned their tour guides. Officials of Kansas Gas and Electric and Kansas City Power and Light, owners of the plant, and Daniels International, the construction firm, led the inspection.
Carlin seemed especially concerned
about the 3.5-to-7-foot-thick concrete walls in the reactor building.
ALL CONCRETE construction in the reactor building was halted in January when samples of the concrete that form base of the reactor failed strength tests.
Carlin and Stephan were joined on the tour by State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, and Joseph King, chief of Carlin's new Energy Office.
CARLIN SAID HE was considering hiring a nuclear expert to monitor construction of the Wolf Creek plant in Colorado, concerns about the sales of the facility.
KG&E and KCP&L say that the tests, not the concrete, were faulty.
Further testing of the concrete has been done since then by the American Portland Cement Association. The tests of those tests are expected next month.
"The people of Kansas should be assured that what we're doing is correct," Carlin said.
King said that he would like to see a nuclear consultant fired but that it would be a difficult position to fill.
"We'd need not only a nuclear expert but a construction engineer and safety engineer. I don't know if you can find all that in one individual." King said.
"It can't be a total re-evaluation of nuclear safety. We could only deal with the key issues at this plant," he said.
Because of cost, a study of Wolf Creek would be limited, King added.
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City to get plan for proposed mall
By PAM MANSON and JAKE THOMPSON
Staff Reporters
A massive promotional plan for "Lawrence Square," a proposed million dollar shopping mall in south Atlanta, is underway.
"It's a bit volume, about two and three inches thick," said Donald N. Jones, assistant vice president of Jacobs, Viscosai and Jacobs Co., a Cleveland development firm that has proposed building the mall.
"The package that we're submitting includes photographs of some of our other mails, a rendering of Lawrence Square, an aerial photography showing the center of campus," she wrote. "We are in the engineering reports and a cost-benefit analysis," he said.
"Our local attorney, Dick Zinn, will bring it to them." Jones said yesterday.
Richard Zinn, a Lawrence attorney who is representing Jacobs, Viscusini and Jacobs and the landowners of the mall's proposed site, said he would be giving the materials to the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission staff.
"THESE ARE materials the planning commission has requested for its staff to use in preparing a report," Zinn
The mall, to be built on 61 acres at 318 Street and Arm-强 Road, which is about a half mile south of K Mart, will cost $11 million to $20 million and will be 400,000 square feet. It will be the first of three major department stores and about 80 smaller shops.
Zinn said the staff would take about 60 days to prepare its report.
He said the mall probably would be completed by spring or fall 1982.
Jones said major department stores had told the company they were interested in having branches in Lawrence.
"Lawrence is a strong market in terms of population and income and education," Jones said. "The department stores we're working with recognized it as a valuable market for their purposes."
"AS A N SAR AS sarning of the department stores at this appartment. I'm not at liberty to do that. We will at this appartment."
Jacobs, Vincasini and Jacobs came to Lawrence in September or October 1577 and chose 13 prospective sites for a small, according to Jones. After site studies, all but the present site were ruled out.
The site, now a field of corn stubble, is owned by Richard A. Armstrong and Betty Grisham.
On February 28, the planning commission recommended that the city among the land. The Lawrence City Com-
Because it annexed the land from the county, the city commission now has the final voice on any rezoning.
Jacobs, Viscusi and Jacobs filed a reasoning request March 7, requesting that the land be rezoned from RS-1, or single family residential, to C-4, the broadest commercial zoning.
Annexation and rezoning have been controversial because opponents have said the mail would harm down-
AN ATTORNEY for the Downtown Lawrence Association has fled a report with the planning commission saying that building a mail would be in conflict with Plan '56, the city's comprehensive growth plan.
The attorney, Jane Eldredge, said in the report, "Our southern boundaries need to be expanded. But these boundaries should not be extended in a piece-meal fashion and we need to have a clear violation of the basic purpose and goals of Plan 56."
However, Jones said the mall would benefit the whole community.
She and other people have said the city could not support two large shopping areas.
"WE DO everything within our own company in terms of the development process, including the construction of the
"In terms of opposition to the mail and how we will persuade the community to accept it, we're simply going to believe that, once the public is aware of what we're talking about, we'll have to tell them, that information in itself will persuade them," he said.
Jacobs, Viscorsi and Jacobs, which has built 19 malls in nine Nine Midwestern and Southern states, will "pretty well control every part of the process" of building the mall, Jones said.
centers." Jones said. "We have our own construction company called Jacob's Brothers Company and we act as a general contractor. All of the work is subcontracted with local contractors and people in the general area."
Jones said the company also would manage the mall itself.
"We operate our malls ourselves," he said. "We have a staff of management, public relations, maintenance and security in each of our centers. Those people live in the community, are part of the community."
Jones said financing for the mall would not be difficult because "our financial ability is extraordinary."
He said, "We would go through conventional bank financing for the construction loan and probably through one of the major insurance companies for the permanent loan.
"AT THE appropriate time we are able and would be happy torench references to the city and people that work there."
Some local people already have approached the company, Jones said, but the company has not decided which
"We don't usually get into conversations on the so-called smaller stores until the project is pretty well along," he said. "But there will be the normal assortment of ready-to-wear, service, food shops typically found in this type of city." He added that he would ready-to-wear—men's and women's clothes, jewelry, and all kinds of specialty shops that complement clothing.
Jones said he had been in Lawrence frequently since pamelling for the mail begin. He said he would be back soon.
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