WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 2006
NEWS
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"Most people were not comfortable with anyone that was different from them," Greenberg said. "What Bob and Gladys did, it was hard. It was a really, really rough time in Lawrence. There were still a lot of problems between the two communities."
Petey Cerl, another Lawrence resident, donated the money to pay for the Sanders' lawyer, James W. Paddock, now a retired District Court Judge for Douglas County
"My mother was vigorously opposed to segregation, but I guess that's news to no one," said William Dann. Cerrs son.
Paddock said the restrictive covenant for Indian Hills conflicted with the new fair housing ordinance for the city.
"This is why the builder was reluctant." Paddock said. He said the builder was afraid of offending the other residents of the neighborhood.
"I didn't want to sell them the house," he said.
The builder, Russ Jones, said he didn't remember racial restrictions in the covenants of Indian Hills.
He said he had built a lot of homes in the neighborhood and felt like he "owed it to his previous customers" to refuse the sale.
"It was a period of racial tension," Jones said.
Because it was sold through the realtor, Jones said, any legal problems came from the realtor, but he didn't remember any.
The case never went to trial
Paddock said he called the realtor and told him he couldn't keep the Sanders' from buying the house, and that it was against the law in Lawrence to discriminate based on race, even if a white woman had called for their appointment and misled the realtor. He then wrote a letter to the builder, and eventually the case was dropped.
The Sanders' moved into the home in June of 1968. Gladys said the next door neighbor, who she suspected of informing the builder that the Sanders were black, never spoke to them the ten years they lived there.
"He was retired military, so I was surprised he was so racist," she said.
The military had been integrated since the Korean War.
Gladys said when her daughter, Sylvia, and son, William, would ask why the neighbor wouldn't talk to them, she would have to say he just wasn't nice and that they weren't bad children.
She said he had pretended they didn't exist, even when her children would say "hi." The neighbor's wife and son would speak to them, but only if he weren't around.
They've moved three times since then. Now they live in a bigger, newer home in west Lawrence, a significant improvement from the Sunflower Apartments and their first home in Indian Hills. This time, thanks to their previous efforts, they had no trouble purchasing the home they wanted.
Smuggling ring busted
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— Edited by Kathryn Anderson
Attorney Stephen Murphy of the U. S. Department of Justice speaks Tuesday at the Windsor, Ontario, headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Murphy revealed details regarding an international ring which smuggled people from several countries both ways across the Canada-U.S. border. Fourteen people were arrested in Toronto, Windsor, Detroit and New York.
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Rally
The University has offered six meeting dates for the spring, but the GTAC doesn't want to meet during those times. Lynn Bretz, University spokeswoman, said the coalition had declined to meet over winter break and spring break, a time when the GTAs are still being paid.
The previous contract expired last spring, and the coalition declined to meet over the summer to negotiate a salary increase, which is when the University plans its next year's budget, Bretz tax. GTAs have received
a 10 percent increase in their salaries each year for the past three years.
Arizona said the proposed consecutive meeting dates over spring break would do nothing because time is needed between meetings for research and communication. GTAs also have conferences that week, he said.
This is the third GTAC rally since last spring. The coalition will continue to operate under the previous contract through the Kansas Association of Public Employees until a new one is negotiated.
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"It's going to take more than this ordinance we have before us this evening," Commissioner Mike Amxv said.
closely.
Schauer said, "This is kind of a 'feel good' ordinance that doesn't really give police much more."
Highberger said, "If someone wants to commit a violent act, this ordinance isn't going to stop it."
Tyler Torneden, door manager for Abe and Jake's, said the club hadn't had any weapons problems, but he had heard of other drinking establishments having problems. He said this ordinance was definitely something that should be looked into more
If the ordinance was violated, the person would be expected to pay a fine of no more than $2,500, spend one year in jail or both. It is equivalent to a class A misdemeanor under Kansas law and is the penalty established by K.S. A. 21-4201 for criminal use of weapons, according to the ordinance.
The section regarding the firearms of the City Code was originally adopted in 1984. It prohibited the possession of firearms, knives with blades longer than three inches and other deadly weapons in close proximity to a business that serves liquor or cereal malt beverages.
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