University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 21, 1988
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Future of historic town at stake
By Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA- The Senate Ways and Means Committee is considering a bill that will allow the state to acquire the historic area of Quindaro in Kansas City, Kan.. as a state historical site.
The 80-acre parcel of land on which the pre-Civil War town sat was leased to be made a landfill by Browning-Ferris Industries of Kansas City, Mo., in connection with African Methodist Church and Kansas City, Kan.
A bill sponsored by State Sen. William Mulich, D-Kansas City, State Sen. Eugene Anderson, D-Wichita, and State Sen. John Strick Jr., D-Kansas City, would allow the state historical society to acquire the area by gift, purchase, condemnation proceedings or through the power of eminent domain, which is the power of the government to take private property for public use upon payment of compensation.
The committee began considering the bill Tuesday after about 60 supporters of the proposal packed into the committee hearing room.
John Peterson, a lawyer representing Browning- Ferries Industries, said that the company had
already spent more than $2 million in preparation of the site and would expect to be repaid.
as part of the original lease agreement, it company also hired a private firm, Environmental Systems Analysis, Inc. to complete an archeological survey of the site. Last summer, excavations exposed the foundations of the old town and a community effort to save the site began.
Peterson said the company already had taken many artifacts from the site that had been preserved and donated to the African Methodist Church.
Quindaro, established in 1857, by white abolitionists, freed slaves and the leaders of the Wandot Indian who owned the land, was the only safe port of entry for abolitionists on the Missouri River. The town also was known as a "station" on the underground railroad for escaping slaves.
In late January, the Quindaro Town Preservation Society took petitions with about 3,000 signatures to the Kansas State Historical Society and asked them to acquire the land as a historical site. The society authorized a site appraisal of the land that will be forwarded to the Legislature.
Fred Whitehead. secretary of the preservation
society, testified before the committee. "Quindaro is deeply linked to the great figures who made this state," he said.
He said that Charles Robinson, later the first governor of the state, was the town treasurer, and that Samuel Simpson, who later helped establish the University of Kansas, was the secretary.
"We cannot allow Quindaro and her proud traditions to disappear under thousands of tons of garbage." Whitehead said.
The proposed landfill would be only a short distance downstream from the main water intake facility for Kansas City, Kan.
Lee said that pollution of that water supply could occur from leaching of poisonous and cancer-causing chemicals that are the end result of much industrial and household waste.
Gerald Lee, a physician practicing in Kansas City, Kan., told legislators that he opposed the landfill because of the threat of contamination of the public water supply.
The manager of the water department for the Board of Public Utilities, Ervin Sims Jr., agreed.
No matter how well constructed, no one can guarantee a landfill won't leak. "Sims said."
Police charge suspect in grocery bomb case
By a Kansan reporter
A 28-year-old Lawrence man, accused of planting a bomb on a shelf of a Lawrence grocery story Wednesday, is being held in Douglas County Jail on a charge of attempted aggravated arson.
Bradley D. Tate, 1614 W. Sixth Terrace, was booked into the jail Friday morning and accused of planting a bomb at JL's Westridge grocery store, Sixth Street and Kasold Drive.
The bomb, which a store employee found Wednesday morning, was defused by Lawrence police in the store, police said.
The store's manager, James Karasek, said that Tate had worked at the store for about six weeks but was suspended from the
job about two weeks ago. He did not give a reason for the suspension.
Police said they began to suspect Tate after interviews with store employees and a search of Tate's residence, which turned up materials similar to the components of the bomb.
In their investigation police said they also found evidence that linked Tate to an arson attempt and burglary on Aug. 14 at the O'Connell Ranch, Rt. 2. Felony counts of attempted arson, burglary and theft were filed in relation to that incident.
Tate was being held in lieu of a $90,000 bond in the Douglas County tail.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Thursday.
7 p.m. — Water Safety Instruction Class, last of nine classes. Lawrence High School.
8 p.m. — Lecture, "Caxton, Filippo Strozii and Charles the Bold: The Arrival of the Printed Text in Yorkist England." Martin Lowry, University of Warwick in England, Kenneth Spencer Research Library Auditorium.
8 p.m. — Recital, with Daniel Pyle,
harpischord; Catherine Burl, barque
flute. St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631
Crescent Road.
TUESDAY
4 p.m. — Dance film series, "Mary Wigman: Four Solos" and "Ruth St. Denis by Baribault." 155 Robinson Center. Sponsored by the department of music and dance and the School of Fine Arts.
an Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center workshop. Centennial Room, Kansas Union.
7 p.m. — "Women's Constitutional Issues: Perspectives for the Future,"
WEDNESDAY
7:30 p.m. — Linguistics colloquy,
"Voice Acquisition in Quiche Mayan."
Clifton Fry, 207 Black Hall.
8:30 p.m. - KU Fencing Club meeting. 130 Robinson Center.
6:30 p.m. - Campus Christians meeting. Daisy Hill Room, Burge Union.
■ 9:30 a.m. — Master classes with
Claude Frank, piano. Also at 1:30 p.m.
Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.
■ 11:40 a.m. — University Forum,
"Zarbe as the Cultural Center of the
Socialist Republic of Croatia." Naima
Bali. Call by noon, March 22 for luncheon
reservation.
THURSDAY
7 p.m. — Study Skills Workshop,
"Preparing for Exams." 4034 Wescoe Hall.
Presented by the Student Assistance Center.
7 p.m. — Public Relations Student Society of America and Women in Communication meeting, Speaker Barbara Barickman, promotional director at the J.C. Nichols Co. in Kansas City. 100 Stauffer-Flint.
4 p.m. — Dance film series, "The Men Who Danced." 155 Robinson Center. Sponsored by the department of music and dance and the School of Fine Arts.
7 p.m. — Campus Crusade for
Christ meeting, Jayhawk Room, Kansas
Union.
7 p.m. — Fair Housing Seminar with a presentation by the Human Relations/ Human Resources Department of Lawrence, Gallery East, Kansas Union. Sponsored by the legal services for students and the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
FRIDAY
7:30 p.m. — James Gunn Science Fiction Presentation featuring the screening of the pilot show to James Gunn's television series, "The Immortal," complete with the TV adds from that era. Gunn will speak about the field of science fiction following the screening. 300 Strong Auditorium. Sponsored by the department of English.
8 p.m. — Humanities Lecture Series, "Perceptions of American Culture: Ecological Concerns". Wendell Berry, poet, literary critic, teacher-scholar, ecologist and farmer. Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union.
Noon — Brown Bag Series With an International Flair, "Austria's Contributions — An Attempt at Contemporary Evaluation." Mechtild Fritz, visiting professor of law from the University of Vienna, Austria. Alcove C. Kansas Union.
6:30 p.m. — Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship meeting, Pioneer Room.
Burge Union.
7:30 p.m. — Greek Archaeological
7:30 p.m. — New Archaeological Work in
Thebes; New Evidence for the City's
Archaic Past.; Vassilis Aaravantinos,
member of the Greek Archaeological
Service, Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union.
For more information call the department
of classics, 864-3153.
SATURDAY
9:15 a.m. — YMCA Fit For Five
$K Run. Race begins at 10 a.m. YMCA.
$21 Van Buren, Topeka. Entry fee $8
received by March 12, $9 late registration
tion fee. Each participant will receive a T-shirt. Awards given to top three winners.
2 p.m. — Innovators of American Illustration lecture, Milton Glaser, illustrator-designer, Spencer Museum Auditorium. Reception following in the Central Court.
Archeologists continuing Kansas mammoth search
SUNDAY
Tom witty, state archeologist with the Kansas Historical Society, said he hoped the Lane County site east of Dighton will become the first in the state where a mammoth — a genus of elephants killed by pre-historic humans — can be documented.
The Associated Press
DIGHTON, Kan. — A hill on a Lane County farm has revealed some tantalizing clues, but not the answers sought by archeologists hoping to find evidence of extinct elephants.
The hill, which includes farmland owned by by Vance Ehmek and his father, A.W., has been a favorite spot for the family to search for arrowheads and spear points.
Last summer the family found a mammoth's molar. The Ehmkes contacted Witty, who brought four other
The five men worked three days combing the hill for clues. Although Witty said evidence is inconclusive, it suggested he could help him from abandoning his search.
The hilltop site is about 14 acres, and Witty said the campsite the men were searching for probably was no longer than 30 square yards in diameter.
archeologists to the site last week.
Some of the points represent 12,000-year-old cultures that would have been present at the same time the mammoth roamed the area.
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