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Monday, April 13, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
How cow documentaries are made
All members of the new Lawrence City Commission agree. They say that the next mayor should be an experienced commissioner.
Commissioners want experienced mayor
Bv PAUL BELDEN
Staff writer
That narrows the field to three, because tomorrow Mike Rundle and Dennis Constance will meet as commissioners for the first time. Sandra Praeger, Mike Amyx and Bob Bray have experience on the commission.
Constance, who agrees with Rundle about the necessity of experience, said he also thought the new mayor should be someone without the anti-mail label. He said he thought Amyx or Schumm would be the next mayor.
Praeger, who is mayor now, and Amyx have been commissioners since 1855, and Schumm served on the commission from 1979 to 1981.
Rundle said, "I certainly wouldn't want to be mayor right off the bat. I think we need somebody experienced."
Amyx, who was mayor from 1985 to 1986 said, "I'd be honored to accept the position and be more than happy to be the mayor again if the commission wanted me to."
He said that having a mayor with commission experience would help the new commission operate more efficiently and smoothly. The may-man responsibility is presiding over the weekly commission meeting.
Schumm received the most votes in Tuesday's election and has commission experience. The four other commissioners considered him a good candidate for the job of mayor.
"I would be inclined to accept the position if the commission indicated that that was what it wanted," Schumm said.
Praeger said that because she was just finishing a year as mayor, she would like to see someone else have the job.
"Whatever the commission wants to do, whatever the other commissioners believe is the best direction for our work and that support that wholeheartedly," he said.
"Mike Amyx is a good candidate, and I think Bob Schumm, while not a current commissioner, has the neces- tion to take on it," she said. "I would take the job if no one
else wanted it."
Vera Mercer, Lawrence city clerk, said that in the past the tradition in Lawrence was to have the mayor's seat rotate among the commissioners.
But this year there is no incumbent commissioner who has not been mayor or governor.
In an election year, she said, the mayor's job would go to the incumbent commissioner who had not yet been mayor. The year after that it would go to the highest vote-getter in the election.
"It's kind of up for grabs at this point," Praeger said. "There's no policy or tradition that would preclude any one of us from being mayor."
Father should get Baby M custody, poll says
Recent survey indicates that most U.S. residents support the judge's decision
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Almost three out of four U.S. residents support the judge's decision in the Baby M case give the child of a surrogate mother to her father, according to a poll published yesterday.
The New York Times-CBS News
Fifteen percent said the child, known in court as Baby M. should go
Poll reported that 74 percent of the 1,045 adults interviewed by telephone from April 5 through April 8 said the baby should go to the biological father, William Stern, whose sperm was used.
Whitehead signed a surrogate contract with Stern and his wife Elizabeth, but changed her mind after birth.
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Friday reinstated Whitehead's right to visit the baby she calls Sara for two hours a week, pending a decision on her appeal.
to her surrogate mother, Mary Beth Whitehead.
A New Jersey judge stripped Whitehead of parental rights and
ruled that Stern should have custody
of the baby to take the abc
whom he named Melissa.
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