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NEWS
TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2001
Thefts from area meters leave city shortchanged
Amount of money stolen adds up,but police leads do not
By Julie Carter Kansan staff writer
Money continues to disappear from city parking meters, and Lawrence police have no leads.
Police reports show that someone has stolen nickels, dimes and quarters from about 130 meters within the last few weeks.
The problem was first noticed when about 50 downtown parking meters were empty or contained very little money June 17. About one week later, about 80 other city meters were missing money.
"We have an idea of how much money was stolen, but we aren't real sure." Patrick said.
The city collects an average of $25,000 each month from the city parking meters, said Ed Mullins, Lawrence finance
director. From December to May, Lawrence collected $157,290 from city parking meters, he said.
The police do not know how the meters are being opened, said Sgt. Mark Warren.
"The person may have some sort of homemade key," Warren said.
The meters do not appear to have been tampered with until they are opened, Pattrick said. Because the meters aren't checked every day, police cannot tell exactly when the thief has emptied them.
Other meter thefts have been reported in the city in recent weeks, but different methods were used.
"Two of the meters had the heads cut off and stolen," Warren said.
Topeka also has dealt with money disappearing from meters. Lawrence police said they were not sure if it was the same person who had struck in Lawrence.
Near the Capitol building, 28
"Two of the meters had the heads cut off and stolen."
Mark Warren
Lawrence Police Sgt.
meter heads were severed from 14 meter posts. All but two of the meter heads were found near Lake Perry, which is between Lawrence and Topeka, with the money still inside.
However, the University of Kansas, has not noticed any money missing from its meters, said Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office.
Carter can be reached at 864-4810 or writer @kansan.com
Architect featured in museum's new gallery talks
Spencer features local artist
By Mark Hansen Kansan staff writer
The Spencer Museum of Art is currently featuring mid-century works and contemporary prints in connection with its ongoing gallery talk series.
Charles Marshall, architect for the state of Kansas from 1945 to 1952, was the subject of Thursday's lecture by Bill North, senior curator at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University. North gave a lecture on Marshall's impact on the Kansas Federation of Art. The lecture connected to the exhibit, "Charles Marshall: Artist on Site."
"He was very interested in getting art into the hands of Kansans," North said.
North said that Marshall and others' work was sent to England on an exchange program and was praised for bold strokes and lacking over-sentimentality.
He said an English reviewer said he expected Kansas to be a land of arid waste before he saw
the prints.
The Kansas Federation of Art was a grassroots effort led by state artists. It filled high school cafeterias during events and print sales.
After originating in 1916, the federation became dormant but regrouped in 1932 and peaked in the late 1930s and 1940s. However, it slowed to a crawl by the 1960s and officially ended in 1984.
Cori Sherman, curatorial assistant at the Spencer museum, said that no organizations like this existed today.
Marshall was born in Atchison in 1905 and died in 1992. In Lawrence, he designed West Junior High School, Smith Hall at the University of Kansas and additions to Lawrence High School.
Duncan Friend, manager of Internet services for the Kansas Department of Administration, said he came to the lecture because he works in a Toppea building designed by Marshall Friend appreciated the lecture.
A new exhibit, "Sum of the Parts: Recent Works on Paper," opened Saturday and features recent developments in prints.
The exhibit includes three
"It's probably the most contemporary show we've had in a while."
Stephen Goddard
Spencer Museum of Art Curator
prints by Robert Rauschenberg and screenprints of shotgun-splattered wood blocks and text by William Burroughs.
"It's probably the most contemporary show we've had in a while," said Stephen Goddard, curator of prints and drawings. "It's refreshing, even for those of us in the museum, to see what we've done in acquiring."
The Marshall exhibit is in the North Balcony Gallery ends Sept.
9. "Sum of the Parts" is in the Kress Gallery and ends Sept. 2.
Gallery talks are at 7 p.m. each Thursday, except this Thursday, throughout the summer academic term and are free and open to the public.
Hansen can be reached at 864-4810 or writer @kansan.com
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