WEATHER
Today: Mostly cloudy, chance of thunderstorms,
high will be 80 degrees, the low will be 66 degrees.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy and humid, high of
85 degrees, low will be 66 degrees.
Weekend: There will be a chance of thunder-
storms daily, with highs in the low 90s, lows about 65.
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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-towns for the University. He did these chores unfailingly, seven days a week.
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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 is always smokestack is dying a slow death.
Richard Perkins, associate director of utility management for KU facilities and operations; said demolition began. Jy
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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.
ing than heating," he said.
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
New vice chancellor selected
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
When Ramaley begins her duties Aug. 1, she will be the second-highest ranking administrator on campus.
For the first time, a woman will be the executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas Lawrence campus.
She will replace Shankel, who has been the acting executive vice chancellor for the KU campus since January, when the resignation of
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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.
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.
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.
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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."
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.
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.
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 guests' luggage up to their room, which may be the D.C. Haskell executive suite; the Colonel
Eldridge honeymoon suite, complete with jacuzzi; or the room named for Amos Lawrence, who is the city's nameake.
Each room is named for an important person in Lawrence's history, including former governors Robert and George Docking.
"We're supposed to know them all," said bellman Scott Stutley, a Washburn University sophomore, who admitted he still was memorizing the names.
Plaques, with biographies of the room's namesake, soon will join paintings by eight local artists that already adorn the hotel's walls.
And a 1938 Buick Special limousine soon will be available to transport guests around town.
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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