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Wednesday, April 4, 1979
University Daily Kansan
The sting
Staff photo by TRiSH LEWIS
Mary Neiner, Chesterfield, Mo., senior, willingly underwent the minor pains of giving
blood yesterday. The American Red Cross set up operation in the Union Ball Room, collecting blood donations from KU students and Lawrence residents.
Blood donor turnout increases
The turnout of students today for this semester's KU blood drive was nearly double that of Monday, but a spring snowstorm may have kept many students away. Jonelle Birney, chairman of the drive, said yesterday.
"The Red Cross people told us that if the weather was really bad or if it was really good, we wouldn't get too many people," she said.
Birney said 171 people gave full pints of blood yesterday and six others gave partial pints. Eighteen persons were not allowed to give blood for medical reasons.
Yesterday's results brought the total for the two-day-old drive to 264 pints, six partial pints and 32 deferrals.
Panhellenic Association and the interfraternity Council.
Burney said the totals were considerably less than the goal of 500 points for the first two days set by the drive's sponsors, the
"They told us to set the goal high rather than low," she said. "The reason they told us was that it was better to set a high goal than not, so we reach it, then to set a low goal and beat it."
Although the number of donors has been low, the number of volunteers helping with donations has grown.
"There's been no problem getting
volunteers," Birney said. "We've had approximately six per house."
Birney said the amount of time most people took to give blood was 30 to 35 minutes.
The final day of the drive is today, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union
The total goal for this year's drive,
"Blood is the Lifeline for a Lifetime," is
750 pints.
Therapy center machine installed
Staff Reporter
By PATRICIA MANSON Staff Reporter
Workers installed a $1.5 million radiation therapy machine at the University of Kansas Medical Center yesterday, but it only worked for three months before the machine is used.
A 24-foot tube, the part of the machine that
carries X-rays, was placed in the wall of a therapy room. The rest of the machine was assembled in the room, which is in the Med Center, a center, a five-story underground building.
Carl Mansfield, the center's director, said that although the machine had been installed, it would take three months to adjust its parts.
"Once it's installed and calibrated, we have to get it working." Mansfield said.
He said the crew finished installing the machine just a few hours before it started to snow. Snow twice had forced delays in installing the machine.
THE MACHINE originally was scheduled
The radiation center was scheduled to open in February, but two cement shortages and the January snowfall caused Med器 officials to delay the opening until Mavr.
to be installed in January, but heavy snowfall halted work on the radiation center's roof. Snowfall last week made the machine too damp for the machine to be installed.
A crew from a Kansas City Mo., moving company installed the machine. The crew was supervised by an official from CGR, the French company that manufactures the steam turbine from Atomic Energy of Canada, which markets the machine in the United States.
THE MACHINE arrived from Paris in late December and was stored in downtown Kansas City, Mo., until it was installed yesterday.
The machine, a 40-million electron volt accelerator, can treat patients with the deep-seated tumors. It is the fifth of its kind in the United States.
A second therapy machine is scheduled to arrive at the Med Center today.
Mansfield said it would take two months to adjust the parts of the second machine, a
A six-million electron volt accelerator and a Cobalt 6 machine, already owned by the Med Center, will be moved into the radiation center this month.
The Med Center bought the second machine for $728,000 from Varian Medical Center.
County to go ahead with reappraisal plan
By BRUCE THOMAS
Staff Reporter
Douglas County is moving ahead with its own program to reappraise property in the county even though a reappraisal bill failed in the county last year. In Gordon, county appraiser, said yesterday.
Gov. John Carlin had threatened to veto the bill, which would have raised taxes for the military.
One supporter of the bill, State Rep. James Braden, R-Wakefield, called Carlin's move "politically motivated" because the governor with many property owners in the state.
Braden said many of the representatives did not vote for the bill because they knew it would be weak.
"Heapparcell is always politically unimpressed," she said. "Our representatives were saying Monday, 'What's the use of getting all bloodied over something that is not going to pass'."
*APRAISAIL IN KANSAS is a shambles. We have property that has not been reaparished, but we are in need of new houses that pay twice and three times as much property taxes as owners of older homes.*
The last reappraisal of property in Douglas County was in 1964.
Gordon said that when newer houses were built they were assessed at 30 percent of their saleable value, as required by state law. A property assessment is used to determine how much the owner will pay in property taxes.
But because of inflation, houses assessed in 1964 may be worth twice as much now, even though their assessment has not changed. Gordon said that had caused a situation in which two owners could have property of the same value, but the owner of one house might be paying twice as much in taxes as the owner of the older house.
DOUGLAS COUNTY'S plan to correct this system of taxing is called equalization. It will have the same effect as reappraisal because had if the bill had been signed into law,
Despite the mandatory 30 percent assessment of new property, Gordon said, the average assessment in Douglas County for urban, single-family dwellings is 11
percent, multi-family units, 15 percent,
commercial property, 11 percent; vacant
In the equalization plan, the county commissioners will "qualify" all property that would not be represented at that although all of the data have not been collected, property probability would be collected.
CONSEQUENTLY, THE property owners that will be the hardest hit by the equalization plan will be the farmers and owners of vacant lots.
Owners of apartment buildings and other multi-family units will receive a cut in their taxes. Gordon said, but he said he did not know if the would be passed on to apartment renters.
The reappraisal bill would have required that an appraiser be hired for each 6,000 parcels of land, and that the state reimburse the counties for the new appraisers' pay.
The equalization plan, which began when Gordon became appraser in April 1977, should take four more years to complete, he said.
Douglas County is going ahead with plans to hire new appraisers to implement the equalization plan, although the county will not receive any state funds.
Gordon said it would cost the county more than $70,000 in salaries for the new appraisers, who would keep property assets on hand after the equalization plan was completed.
Because the reappraisal bill was sent back to committee, it will go before the House next year. Braden said One way or another the reappraisal will be implemented in the state.
GORDON SAID the cost for the equalization plan would be between $75,000 and $100,000. It is worth implementing it. That is roughly equivalent to the amount of money needed to fund Gor
"There is no question it will go through; it's just a matter of when. If the governor or the Legislature don't have the guts to do it, the courts will," he said.
If the Kansas Supreme Court mandates reappraisal as the Missouri Supreme Court has, Briden said, it would cost nearly twice as much as it would have to be done by private appraisers.
Members of the Women's Coalition, a student organization for women, tentatively decided last night to sponsor a rally early next month.
Group tentatively decides to sponsor rally on rape
The University Events Committee must approve the May 2 rally before it can be held.
A member of the coalition, Jana Svoboda, said last night that she probably would present the proposal to the committee by next week.
The group tentatively decided the rally would focus on rape. Speakers on the radio were the main participants.
and other topics are being scheduled,
Svoboda said.
The free speech rally a few weeks ago helped to inspire the women's rally, Svoboda said. People seem more willing to come out and show their support, she said.
"The rally wouldn't be a feminist rally or a radical activist rally, but just a chance for women's groups to come together," she said. "We have unhesitable众爱 among the women on campus."
"All the small minorities on campus are speaking out," she said, "but the largest minority on campus, women, are doing nothing."
Hiring of secretary, office opening delayed
Steve Ruddick, KU's legal services attorney, doesn't want to open his office without a secretary, but he can't get a copy until some red tape is cut in Topkea.
Carl Dell, personnel technician for the state personnel division, said this week that the application for the new secretary would include the Carlin's guidelines for hiring were official.
Dell said Carlin's guidelines would describe the types of positions that could be filled. He said they would apply only to new positions.
"The governor said that we were to hold up any action to the agencies that applied after the first of April," Dell said. "Since the legal application was kind on the edge, it
would probably be a couple of days before we talk to the personnel office in Lawrence.
The KU personnel office signed the application on March 28 and the office in
Ruddick said he did not know what he would do without a secretary.
"I'll pick two law students this week to work, so maybe I can hire a few more to answer the phone," he said. "Maybe I can hire somebody on an emergency basis.
"I don't see how the law students, who come in a couple of days a week, can help
Ruddick said that he had planned to open his office at the end of this week, but that the delay in hiring a secretary probably would delay the office's opening.
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