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Tuesday, August 2, 1977
City expected to delay car wash, club zoning
Two items previously dealt with by the city commission might be deferred from tonight's commission meeting until next week, when all commissioners are expected to have returned from vacations. The items are the Westridge planned commercial development and an amendment to a commercial zoning ordinance.
The planning staff has reviewed and recommended denial of a revision to the Westridge development at Sixth Street and Kasold Drive.
A request for a change in the development's completion to allow construction of a car wash on the site has been controversial. The car wash was not included in the original site plan approved by the planning staff.
The owner has requested a one-week deferral.
will come before the commission for a second time.
An amendment to the Lawrence City Code to permit private clubs or lodges in C2-8 will be passed.
Commissioners had sent the amendment
proposal to the planning staff for a reevaluation of C-2 zoning, but the staff returned it, explaining that the amendment evaluation must be considered separately.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager,
said yesterday that a C-2 zoning revaluation was under consideration because wording in the zoning ordinance was not strict enough regarding allowable commercial usage.
A second site plan to come before commissioners proposes construction of a raucetball club near Sixth Street and Crestline Drive. The planning staff has recommended approval of the site plan to city commissioners.
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Wilden said the zoning item might also be deferred until next week.
At the 7 p.m. meeting on the fourth floor of
the First National Bank Tower, Ninth and
Mass Ave.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 87.No.170
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
By DONNA KIRK
Staff Writer
Social Security fund isn't secure
University of Kansas students who will pay Social Security taxes in new jobs after graduation probably won't get that money when they retire about 40 years from now, according to a legislative assistant in Sen. Dole's, R-Kan., D.C., office.
The assistant, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday that the Social Security system will run out of money; next year. The deficit would mark the beginning of a deficit that is projected to reach $66 billion in 75 years.
"CONGRESS HAS GOT to do something or there simply won't be any money there," he said. "People have paid into it and expect to get something out of it later."
He said that a zero balance was projected for next year's trust funds, that disability insurance funds would run out in 1979 and cash benefit funds would be depleted by 1980.
He said Congress was considering revisions of the Social security system, would improve the security system's requirements or that would increase the security tax, a process he called "deforestation."
Among changes considered are adjustments in present retiree's benefits from those of future beneficiaries, a larger share of former retirees' benefits change in the automatic cost-of-living-in
crease that was passed by Congress in 1972, the assistant said. Under that provision, social security recipients automatically get increases based on inflationary increases in the money supply.
DOLE SAID YESTERDAY he didn't like the idea of withholding Social Security benefits until a recipient reaches the age of 65. He had discussed as a possible choice to help put the system on firm financial ground. The present retirement eligibility ages are 62 for males and 64 for females.
Dole didn't offer specifics, but he said that the government must provide fiscal soundness and insure that recipients receive the benefits they have earned.
Thomas McCaleb, assistant professor of economics at the University of Kansas, said that government money would keep Social Security programs afloat.
He said that Social Security was intended to be a self-financing program but that added benefits and programs legislated by Congress out a strain on available funds.
HE PREDICTED that Congress would raise the Social Security tax rate to above the present 11.7 per cent of the $5,000 wage package, annually with the growth of average wages.
However, Congress has no definite proposals now to consider and probably won't have any until later this year, according to Alison O'Neill, caseworker in Sen. James Pearson's, R-Kan, Washington, D.C., office. The Senate recuses Aug. 5 and
probably wouldn't have enough time to consider acting on proposals before the recess after the November election, she said.
President Jimmy Carter's proposal to finance Social Security from general revenues was voted down last week by the Senate Finance Committee, she said.
'ONEILL ATTRIBUTED THE deficit to an increased number of people in the work force who make more money than the first one, so they begin paying into the system in 1835.
"People who built up the fund then didn't put in much, because they didn't earn much in the Depression or as much as people earn now." O'Neill said.
However, Michael Hickman, certified public accountant in Lawrence, said he thought the deficit was caused by administrative costs to run Social Security programs and by people living longer and older, which insure insurance benefits and retirement income.
"Actually, Social Security was originally designed to supplement retirement income, not provide complete income," he said recently. "If that's all people have to live on, I don't know what they're going to do when the system goes bankrupt."
ALTHOUGH HE SAID he thought many of the programs were beneficial to recipients he said he wanted to divest himself of having to pay into Social Security funds. Hickman said that he had a private retirement account but that people should
Social Security should be mandatory for everyone, Ronald Radford, supervisor of the Social Security Administration.
have a choice of paying into Social Security or forming their own private retirement account.
"The people who need Social Security the most wouldn't take it," he said. "And when they'd reach retirement age the taxpayers would be more difficult toough welfare. That would be very expensive.
HE SAID HE THOUGH Social Security payments bought excellent benefits, including programs for hospital insurance, maternity care and survivors' and dependents' benefits.
"On the open market you couldn't get near anything like social security for the old."
"People are people—they have the money in hand and they'll spend it while they have it rather than putting some towards retirement."
He recommended that Congress increase the payroll tax to close the deficit gap. He said that high unemployment in recent years affected the amounts of money paid into Social Security by employees and employers.
Bock Rochford, supervisor in the district Social Security office in Topeka, said that the Washington Social Security office suggested changes for Congress to consider but that the Social Security office had no say in determining legislation.
'Son of Sam' takes another life
NEW YORK (UPI) - A 20-year-old woman who, along with her date, was shot early Sunday in the latest attack by a psychopathic killer who calls himself "Son of Sam" died last night. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and 100 more policemen into the manhunt.
Police said they were no closer to catching the killer, who uses a 44-caliber gun.
The woman, Stacy Moskowitz, who suffered mass brain wounds, died at 4:22 P.M.
**THANKING THOSE who tried to comfort the family, the girl's father, Jerry Moskowitz, said, "Although we lost a friend, we gained many friends."**
Robert Volante, who was in a parked car with the woman when "Son of Sam" attacked, lost his left eye, but was reported in good condition at the same hospital.
The killer managed to elude intensive police patrols during the weekend to carry
"Son of Sam," as he calls himself in notes to police and to a newspaper columnist, has now killed six young people and injured seven since his first attack on July 29, 1976.
BEAME ORDERED that 25 detectives be added to the special 50-man "Son of Sam" task force and assigned another 75 officers to help the 150 on special patrol at night and on weekends in selected areas. Police also appealed to the public for help.
"We're no closer to catching him today than we were last week." Chief of Detectives John Keenan said. "We have more eyewitness descriptions than in the past, but we still have no idea of the killer's identity or his location."
out a threat contained in the last note to
the necessary security of his first strike with
new bloodhead.
Police concentrated their efforts in the frontx and Queens, where the gunman had come. The police were able to stop him.
"We now have an entire city to protect." Deputy Inspector Timothy Dowd, who heads the special homicide task force, said. "Sam is now telling we he will strike anywhere."
INSTEAD, "SON OF SAM" struck in Brooklyn for the first time.
The gumman pumped four bullets through an open window of the car along a waterfront where Moscowitz and Violente were fighting. The gun had gone to a movie on their first date.
At a news conference yesterday, Keenan issued a new description of the killer, which has led to speculation that he might be dead.
KEENAN SAID the gunman was 25 to 35 years old, was a stocky 5-foot 7-肘, 10 blue denim pants, a gray long sleeve shirt or a blue denim jacket and had light, disheveled hair. Police also might wear a wi.
Keenan said, "I'm addressing this appeal to women who are particularly observant about articles of clothing ... surely somewhere they have a friend or a member of their family who was wearing these clothes Saturday night or Sunday morning."
Keenan said detectives had kept 12 suspects under surveillance during the weekend, but Sunday's attack knocked them from the list.
"But we still have a number of people to check out," he said.
He also said detectives had received
Local history is buried in Pioneer cemetery
Bv JANE PIPER
Staff Writer
Nestled in a small park on West Campus is a cemetery where about 85 of Lawrence's earliest settlers are buried. The marble tombstones have weathered and worn thin over the last 100 years, and the hand-carved lettering is barely legible now.
Pioneer Cemetery, known as Oread Cemetery before 1929, preserves a piece of Lawrence history. The two-acre plot contains the graves of five of the victims of Quantrill's Raid, which occurred in 1863, 18 members of a Wisconsin infirmary killed by an attack by a mob of other Lawrence settlers, mostly children, dead from scarlet fever and diathera.
According to Elmer Brown, a reporter for the Douglas County Historical Society in the 1930s, Pioneer Cemetery was founded in 1855, shortly after the settlement of Lawrence. It was the city cemetery about the time that the first recorded burial was that of Joseph April 1855. Brown said, there could have been unmarked burials before Campbell's.
The underbrush and prairie grasses have long given way to maintenance by the Buildings and Grounds Department, and the grounds are a well-cared-for look, unlike its earlier days.
Some of the graves symbolize the mood of Kanasha before the Civil War. The tombstone in a memorial in the city depicts
The small cemetery nearly was filled after William Clarke Quantrill's raid on morning, 1863, engraved as "that memorable cemetery, the most famous of them. However, many of the victims were moved to the city's newly acquired Oak Hill Cemetery, estate of Lawrence, in 1872. About the time of his death,
Neglected and overgrown with weeds at the turn of the century, Pioneer Cemetery underwent a general cleanup in 1928 in the direction of Mayor Robert Rankin. In 1934 they were hauled out of the then skincare site, seedlings were planted and a fence was built.
However, even after the cleanup, a sign,
saying "Firearms, slingshots prohibited
here; Rowdythm not tolerated," remained
over the gateway throughout the 1930s.
Buffum, a free-state martyr, was killed by border rifflers. The engraving on his stone reads, "I will amning to die for the cause of freedom in Kansas."
reminder of the Kansas-Missouri warfare over slavery.
Rankin chose the name Pioneer Cemetery, and an inscribed boulder, now buried under evergreens, was placed at the entrance.
Despite the city's best intentions, the cemetery apparently deteriorated again. The Lawrence Democrat in 1938 called for increased city attention to the site after reporters discovered cattle had been pastured there. Another cleanup followed.
The attempts in the 1900s to preserve the cemetery were not unique. An early as the mid-1800s, the Lawyer's government military markers on the graves of 18 soldiers of the
The cleanup marked a turning point in upkeep of the cemetery, and parties and volunteers were invited.
Smith, writing a short history of the cemetery in the 1930s, took note of the earlier times and said, "Drinking and carousing parties were frequently held there, and an occasionalWiener roast and melon feed by church crowds."
13th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, who died in 1862.
The soldiers, stationed in Lawrence, reportedly died of a cholera outbreak, but no one is charged.
Historians later said the probable cause was scarlet fever.
Scarlet fever and diphtheria also accounted for the large proportion of children buried in Pioneer Cemetery. The funeral route, now lined with residence halls and homes, was a long one in early days when their children to the cemetery for burial.
E. Freeze, a young resident of Lawrence,
described her impression of the cemetery in
1987.
She wrote, "Every now and then, not unlike the white houses that cropped up here and over the countryside, rose the individual white stones of the graveyard proper --modest, square-cornered, stone shone white in the morning sunshine."
The whiteness Freese described has disappeared over the years, but the smooth marble still shines in the sunlight, and the polished finish is timeless. James Baldwin's stone, dated April 30, 1863.
"Remember friends as you pass
As you are now so once was I
As I am so must you be
Prepare for death and follow me."
City officials transferred the land to the Kansas University Endowment Association in 1953. They stipulated that the cemetery be placed on a foundation and for any purpose other than as a cemetery.
According to Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, the land can be used now for burial of any KU alumnus or for a memorial in a request is first submitted to the university.
The first of the recent burials was Elmer McCollum, a KU alumnus and scientist. His ashes were brought to the cemetery in 1968 in fulfillment of one of his final requests.
countless reports of cars seen in the areas at the time of the attacks, "but at this point, we have not been able to say that any one car belongs to this person, including the yellow Volkswagen" seen in the vicinity of Sunday's shooting.
Off-duty and retired police officers volunteered their time to help in the manhunt, and Westchester County Sheriff Thomas Delaney said yesterday that suburban city and county officers were willing to assist.
Tuesday
From our wire services
U2 pilot dies in copter crash
Powers, 46, was returning from aerial coverage of a follow-up of the Santa Barbara fire disaster when he radioed the KBNC television station that he was running low on gasoline. A few minutes later he heard no near a Little League baseball diamond.
Cameraman George Spears was also killed. Los Angeles city firemen quoted a
LOS ANGELES—Francis Gary Powers, the U2 spy plane pilot who was shot down and captured by the Russians in a drama that led to the collapse of the U.S.-Russian summit conference in 1960, was killed yesterday when his traffic helicopter crashed in suburban Van Nuys.
witness as saying the tail rotor blade of the helicopter fell off as the craft plummeted.
The exact cause of the crash was not immediately determined. Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration converged on the site. No one on the ground was injured and no buildings were hit in the crash.
Powers was shot down by a Soviet missile on May 1, 1900, while flying at altitude of 465 kilometers over the U2 plane. The episode led Nikita Khrushchev to castigate the United States and President Dwight Eisenhower as a dictator. A separate scheduled for May 16, 1900, in Paris.
20.000 steelworkers walk out
PITTSBURGH - About 20,000 members of the United Steelworkers of America union went on strike yesterday in several states in the first union-sanctioned major walkout in the basic steel industry in 18 years.
Most of the strikers, about 19,000, were employed by 12 companies operating
iron ore mines in Minnesota and Michigan. But steel industry spokesmen said enough ore had been stocked by the steel mill to immediately production problems.
The others struck at steel fabricating plants in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, New York and Massachusetts.
LANSING, Kan.-State prison officials said yesterday they believed Jack Bloomor, a convicted killer who disappeared from a prison dormitory yesterday morning, might have floated down the Missouri River.
River searched for prisoner
The search for Bloomer, who was convicted of killing the Wakeeen city marshal in 1962, was confined to the 2,500 acres of prison property yesterday after a trial.
bank of the Missouri River, which borders the prison property on the east. Oliver said someone across the river had broken a log down the river shortly before noon.
But Prison Director Kenneth Oliver said officers had noticed footprints on the
Because Bloomer was not under constant supervision at the prison, officials said they thought he might have gone to a different area of the prison, where he worked as a maintenance technician. Officials said Bloomer was allowed to go fishing, even when he was allowed to go fishing, but was later found in Louisiana.
Death not sought for blacks
DAWSON, Ga. - Prosecutors said yesterday they would not seek the death penalty for five black youths accused of stealing $250 million from a January 1976 store robbery.
Dist. Atty. John Irwin made an announcement, citing the defendants' youth and the fact that they had no criminal records.
one case has attracted national attention because of claims that the defendants, who range in age from 17 to
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Milwaukee 2, San Francisco 3, Montreal
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21, are victims of racial injustice in this southwest Georgia town about 20 miles from Plains.
Local authorities deny the allegations.
Defense attorneys say law enforcement officials coerced the defendants' statements with death threats. The defense has also said the store owner didn't identify one of the youths, who they say was a frequent customer at the store, until several days after the crime.
The weapon has not been recovered.
Weather
temperatures should be in the 90s this afternoon and tomorrow, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Although no rain is forecast, she will be partly cloudy. Lows both nights will be around 65.