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Thursday, February 25, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Benefit concert will help needy
By Kevin Dilmore
Kansan staff writer
Organizers of a rock and blues concert are hoping that KU students and Lawrence residents will warm to the idea of donating money to the needy.
The Winter Warm-up '88 is scheduled for 7 p.m. March 3 at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., said Rich Swartzel, one of the event's organizers.
Four area acts will appear at the benefit: the Homestead Grays, the ACA Band, Lonnie Ray and the Blues All Star, and jazz musician Tommy Johnson.
Swartzel said each band was donat-
ing its time and talent to the funda-
rs.
The money raised by the concert will go to the Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen, or LINK, and Warm Hearts. LINK is an all-volunteer organization of churches, businesses and community groups that helps feed the needy. Warm Hearts is a community committee that helps pay utility bills for those who cannot afford to pay them.
Robert Thursby, a member of the Art Band and an organizer of the concert, said he and others had been working on the Winter Warm-up concert since September. The concert is his way of paying back the
organizations that helped him in the past, he said.
"We're musicians, and the concert is our way of raising public awareness of these organizations," Thursby said.
Swartzel said the concert was a painless way of soliciting contributions.
"A lot of times, people are more willing to contribute when they can get something tangible in return, entertainment or otherwise," he said. "If we make it fun for people, it becomes a win-win situation."
Arthur Wolf, lecturer in journalism at KU and chairman of the Warm Hearts committee, said that the committee never had been involved with a fund-raising concert but that he had high hopes for the project.
"I've heard this type of benefit is a good way to raise money," he said.
Wolf said that Warm Hearts was in dire straits.
"About ten days ago, we ran out of money," he said. "We are desperately seeking any kind of funding for the program."
Warm Hearts has helped about 300 households with heating bills this year.
Donna McCall, director of LINK,
said she was pleased by the effort
said she was pleased by the effort. "It's fantastic," she said.
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When Roma Tesch arrived at the house, she found a cocker spian tied in the garage. The garage opened to the north and afforded the dog little protection from the wind.
ay Cory Powell Special to the Kansan
Tesch, manager of the Lawrence Humane Society's Charles Ise Memorial Animal Shatter, 1805 E. Washington St., that the animal was abandoned.
Humane Society a watchdog for animals
"Normally, I would have left a note for the owner, but since it was so bitterly cold, we picked him up and brought him to the shelter," she said.
The cocker spaniel is one of the many dogs Teach has encountered that has suffered from neglect over the winter.
During the winter months, Tesch said, dogs are in greater danger because they are often tied outside and cannot reach shelter. Cats and some other pets have greater freedom of movement and therefore are more capable of helping themselves.
Many people forget about their dogs when they are getting ready for winter, said Sgt. George Unitel, department's Animal Control Unit.
"It's like people who wait until after the first snowstorm to put snow tires on their car," he said.
This winter, complaints to the Humane Society about animal neglect have almost doubled. Since October, the society has received an average of 14 complaints a month, v.55 percent increasex.
After the first few cold snaps, the number of complaints police
receive decreases, Wheeler said. He said he thought that this was because people began to realize what precautions should be taken to care for their pets during the cold months.
But this winter, complaints to the Humane Society have almost doubled. Since October, the society has received an average of 14 complaints a month, a 55 percent increase over the average number of complaints during the nine previous months.
Tesch said she thought that some people would continue to neglect their animals until someone confronted them about it. Even then, some people are still reluctant to change.
"People don't like to be accused of not taking care of their animals." she said.
Tesch recalled one incident in which the dog owner was particularly disinclined to change.
The incident involved a husky that was tied in a yard and could not reach shelter. Tesh found a doghouse behind the house, but it was filled with trash and was out of the dog's reach.
She contacted the owner and recommended that he put the dog near some shelter. The owner said the dog had shelter at night, when he was kept in the cab of the owner's truck as a watchdog.
Tesch, unconvinced, decided to drive past the house at night, and she saw the dog still chained without shelter. She returned to the house the next day and told the owner to clean the doghouse, put some blankets or straw inside and move it within the dog's reach. She even delivered a bag of straw to the house.
She did not visit the house for a few days. When she did, she found that the bag of straw had been placed in a shed but was unused. The doghouse was still on the other side of the house.
It was raining and windy, so Tesch looked for the dog. She found him under a car parked nearby. The dog was dry but had little protection from the wind.
Teshen issued a warning to the owner. She gave him 24 hours to comply with the society's recommendations or be charged under the Kansas Cruelty to Anti-
mals Statute, which carries a maximum fine of $100.
When she drove past the house the following day, she saw that the doghouse had been cleaned, lined with straw and placed next to the door.
Tesch said the Humane Society tried to avoid confrontations such as this. On the first visit to a residence, the society officers usually leave a note identifying the problem and offering solutions and advice. Although people tend to resent it, the problem usually stops there.
If, however, the problem persists, the society either files a police report, which is sent to the city attorney, or has the police visit the residence.
"People seem to respond better to a person wearing a badge."
If the dog's life is in danger, the society can take the animal, as it did in the case of the cocker spaniel.
Dogs not claimed within 72 hours become property of the Humane Society and, depending on their age and temperament, may be put up for adoption. Dogs not adopted are put to sleep.
"Of course, some dogs are neve
claimed, so we're probably doing
the owners a favor by picking
them up." she said.
Black poetry pleases crowd Poets sing, rap in celebration of Black History Month
By Julie Adam
Kansan staff writer
Black poets and a musician received a standing ovation last night after a two-hour presentation of contemporary literature and song.
About 75 people attended the presentation in the Kansas Union's Alderson Auditorium as six poets read and rapped their literature.
The presentation was sponsored by the University of Kansas' office of minority affairs as a way to share the meaning of Black History Month, said Vernell Spearman, director of minority affairs.
Lloyd Daniels, an author who also conducts a radio show in Kansas City, Mo., wrote a piece about a neighborhood association that was
trying to advocate morality in downtown Kansas City, Mo., by using scare tactics to get prostitutes off the streets.
"So you want to clean up Troost?" Daniels asked. "On which end are you going start?"
Most of the poets' pieces were part of a special edition of Cottonwood magazine, which celebrates 125 years of Kansas statehood for black Americans.
Another poet, TYKIM, who is also a singer and dancer, performed a poem titled "The Great Mother Africa", in which she said, "My natural soul faces Africa" and "Behold the flower of Africa blossom and with great beauty."
Sonny Kenner, a jazz musician and guitarist from Kansas City, Mo., performed musical selections and played background music for TYKIM's poems.
Elliot Carmichael, an author from Kansas City, Mo., recited a poem titled "Dear Aunt Clara" in which Aunt Clara wrote to ask him what assets a writer could count while his business-executive relatives were counting theirs.
He replied. "Tonight, I will write six poems, tear up five and know what I got."
Expert predicts strong earthquake east of Rockies in next 2 decades
The Associated Press
NEW VORK - An earthquake at least as strong as the one that damaged 10,000 buildings in the Los Angeles area in October will strike somewhere east of the Rockies in the next 20 years, an expert predicted yesterday.
The expert, Robert Ketter, director of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research at the State University of New York at Buffalo, based his prediction on the history and geology of the region.
The Los Angeles-area quake, which struck Oct. 1, reached 5.9 on the Richter scale. Federal estimates say it damaged more than 10,400 buildings, left about 2,000 homeless
and caused eight deaths. The loss was estimated at $358 million.
"I feel comfortable there will be a (Richter) magnitude 6 or higher within the next 20 years" in the United States east of the Rocky Mountain foothills, Ketter said during a break in a conference on earthquake hazards and construction design in that region.
Ketter said he thought the chance of such a quake somewhere in the region was 95 percent or more, but the risk for any one place was relatively low.
Despite the low probability in any one place, the region's relatively dense population and older buildings make for a "very serious problem" in risk from earthquakes, he said.
Robert Whitman, professor of civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, called Ketter's prediction reasonable, given the history of the region.
The last serious quake east of the Rockies struck Charleston, S.C., in 1886, reaching a Richter reading of 7 and making itself felt as far away as Chicago, conference organizers said. The earthquake hit New York City in 1884 in Indiana, Ohio in 1937, western Tennessee in 1843 and Giles County, Va., in 1897.
The most severe earthquakes in U.S. history struck New Madrid, Mo., in 1811 and 1812, Ketter said. Ranking 8.3 to 8.5 on the Richter scale, the quakes were strong enough to ring church bells in Washington, D.C.
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