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Wednesday June 10,1987
Vol. 97, No.146 (USPS 650-640)
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published by the students of the University of Kansas since 1889
Old smokey will be a missed KU landmark
By PAUL BELDEN
Staff writer
For more than a half-century the tall, slim sexagenarian has worked for the University of Kansas department of facilities and operations.
His job was to remove waste from the number 7 and 8 boilers at the KU power plant. He also helped many out-of-towers find the University. He did these chores unfairly, seven days a week.
He had one vice, however: he smoked quite a bit. . . like a chimney,
in fact.
But University officials didn't need him anymore, so they hired a team of hit men to rub him out.
The work of this gang of tanned assassins can be seen or heard from almost anywhere on campus. Chunk by chunk, the KU smokestack is dying a slow death.
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"One of the boilers can handle most of the summer heat. In winter, however, we'll have both of them up to full operational capabilities, and sometimes a third," he said.
Until then, the two boilers now on line should have no problems handling the work load this summer and fall, he said.
Workers are proceeding by digging out 4-feet-square sections of the smokestack, cutting reinforcing steel bars imbedded in the concrete, then letting the sections fall into the smokestack, Perkins said. The rubble is being dumped at the KU landfill west of Iowa Street.
When Ramaley begins her duties Aug. 1, she will be the second-highest ranking administrator on campus.
Judith A. Ramaley, acting executive vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at Albany, was selected for the job from 55 candidates, said Del Shankel, chairman of the executive vice chancellor search committee.
For the first time, a woman will be the executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas Lawrence campus.
Perkins said that the two boilers receiving new smokestacks should be operable by Oct. 15, depending on the weather.
As of yesterday, about 40 feet of the smokestack had been torn down, Perkins said, but as the stack gets smaller,
New vice chancellor selected
By CARLA PATINO
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the best thing about Kansas was the Holiday Inn, grumbled Michigan Gov. James Blanchard as he left Lawrence after a three-day conference of Midwestern governors in 1983.
But on the subject of Kansas hotels, Rob Phillips, general partner of Eldridge Investors, thinks the Eldridge Hotel, a five-story, 62-year-old brick building at Seventh and Massachusetts streets, is the best.
For more than 100 years, the Eldridge Hotel had welcomed lodgers to Lawrence. But in 1970, its doors closed. For 16 years, the former hotel was a cheap apartment building and home to a bar and several small stores.
Maybe. Maybe not.
"It was a pit," the hotel's general manager, Nancy Longhurst, said recently. But that was before the building's $1.5 million renovation last year.
Now, like a phoenix, Eldridge Hotel has been revived.
"The whole upstairs was just gutted." Phillips said last week. "Except for the lobby, the only original things are the window openings and doors."
But in 1987, beneath a burgundy canopy, a tuxedo-clad valet welcomes and ushers guests from a dusty Seventh Street inside to the hotel's refurbished lobby, resplendent with an ivory-colored grand piano, a fireplace, chandeliers and a goldfish pool.
When the building was erected in 1925, it replaced the second Eldridge Hotel building, completed in 1863. The owners spent lavishly on the lobby but built small, square rooms.
If it's afternoon, a bartender named Frankie Porter waits in the lobby with drinks. If it's Friday, hors d'oeuvres are served and a pianist entertains.
One of five bellmen, sporting a bow tie, is available to carry guests' luggage up to their room, which may be the D.C. Haskell executive suite: the Colonel
Each room is named for an important person in Lawrence's history, including former governors Robert and George Docking.
Eldridge honeymoon suite, complete with jacuzzi; or the room named for Amos Lawrence, who is the city's name-sake.
"We're supposed to know them all," said bellman Scott Stutley, a Washburn University sophomore, who admitted he still was memorizing the names.
And a 1938 Buick Special limousine soon will be available to transport guests around town.
Plaques, with biographies of the room's namesake, soon will join paintings by eight local artists that already adorn the hotel's walls.
Filling the hotel's register wasn't easy. It meant starting before the hotel reopened its doors December 31.
"If people think a hotel is just opening the door and letting the people come and
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