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The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Wednesday, July 20, 1977
Water plant bonds passed by just a trickle of voters
Lawrence voters yesterday overwhelmingly approved the issuance of $8.4 million in general obligation bonds to fund the Clinton Reservoir water treatment plant.
The bond issue was approved in all of the city's precincts scattered throughout six wards, sometimes by margins as wide as 150 to 5.
Fewer than 8 per cent of the city's registered voters turned out to approve the bond issue unofficially 2,312 to 296, almost a 7 to 1 margin. Official results will be released tomorrow after a routine check by county commissioners and the county clerk.
The favorable vote means that construction on the water plant could begin within a week. The law companies are satisfactory. The lawcouncil commissioners last night at their regular weekly meeting authorized Aug. 9, when they will bond after they heard the election results.
The planned 10 million-gallons-a-day capacity treatment plant has been designed to serve Lawrence and three rural water districts. It would supplement the existing plant at Third and Indiana streets. City officials have said the plant would increase the water supply than the existing plant, which takes its water from the Kansas River.
The completion date of both the new plant and Clinton Reservoir has been projected for
Yesterday's voting was the second such election for issuance of the bonds. The first, held last March, was declared invalid after the city's Kansas City, Mo, bond attorneys found an error in the publication dates of the election notice. Voters had approved the bond issuance by a 4 to 1 margin at that time.
Marnie Argersinger, mayor, attributed the poor turnover for yesterday's election to the fact that the bond issue had overwhelmingly been approved the first time.
"I was hoping that it would pass by that much again," she said last night, "but the sad thing about this is the number of voters."
Delbert Mathia, Douglas County clerk,
agreed, "i anticipated nearly 4,000 voters,
but obviously I was wrong," he said last
week. "Only bodies care—they've already
 voted once."
Mathia estimated the cost of the special offer at about $0,000, or slightly more than $2 a voucher.
Argeringer said the city would have gone ahead with the new water treatment plant and would be able to defended the general obligation bond issuance time. Commissioners have said they considered the new plant vital to the city's water supply because the existing plant can't be expanded.
The advantage of general bonds is that overall interest charges are less, resulting
in a possible $5 million savings over the 20
years of the bond issue, Argersinger said.
The $8.4 million in bonds approved yesterday still leaves no money allocated to the plant. The increased cost of the plant. Gradual increases in sewer and water rates over the next five years will help make up the difference, as well as increase operating costs at the new plant.
Now, the main concern of the city commission is to find a new buyer for the bonds, one that can provide as favorable interest rates and lower debt levels after the bond sale after the first election.
After that election was declared invalid, the city had to return the initial payment to the bank.
Unofficial results of the election were :
First ward: 1 and 4th precincts, yes, 75,
no, 25, 3rd and 3rd, yes, 146; no, 20, 7th.
First ward: 1 and 4th precincts, yes, 75,
no, 25, 3rd and 3rd, yes, 146; no, 20, 7th.
2 second ward: 1st and 2nd preincincts, yes,
02; no, 17, 3rd, yes, 199; no, 14, 4th and 8th
wards.
Third ward: 1st prescript, yes, 28; no, 8,
2nd,yes, 102; no, 13, 3rd, yes, 16; no, 7, 4th,
75; no, 9, 5th, yes, 144; no, 8, 6th and 8th,
yes, 69; no, 10, 7th, yes, 160; no, 10.
Fourth ward: 1st and 2nd, yes, 155; no, 29,
43; yes, 43; no, 23, 4th and 5th, yes, 67; no,
Five ward: 1st and 2nd, yes, 50; no, 33.
Sixth ward: ves, 45; no, 28.
Budget details studied in session
BvROBERTGODFREY
Staff Writer
City commissioners held a study session yesterday to iron out budget details before
the budget adoption deadline of Aug. 15.
Parks and recreation, revenue sharing and acquisition of a city counselor-prosecutor highlighted the session.
Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
Natural bather
When the temperature rises above 95 degrees, who cares if you have a bathing suit. The problem doesn't seem to bother Klimber Wiednkieler who played, along with Jeffrey Witham, in the grounds and maintenance sprinkler system. Both children are from Hilltop Day Care Center.
Fred De Victor, director of parks and recreation, came to the session to justify his request for including one part-time and two full-time employees in the new budget.
"We have to have some more help," De Victor said, "or the quality of service is going to go downhill . . . particularly in maintenance."
Two of the additional employees were requested in expectation of expanded hours and services at the planned East Lawrence Recreation Center to be built next year.
THE OTHER EMLOYEE would be assigned to the Community Building.
The commissioners also decided to hire another employee—a city counselor-prosecutor—who would act as a legal adviser to the police department, be a building code inspector adviser and be a city prosecutor, among other duties.
City Manager Buford Watson estimated that the creation of the job would cost the city an additional $17,810 a year, but he said that it would take few years almost necessitated the action.
The Commission spent much of their time at the session studying revenue sharing items, making additions and deletions to the program. The program is one under the program. The people program is one under
See BUDGET back page
Slow vote
The two-precinct polling place, at which 3,721 voters were registered, had reported only 155 ballots cast by the end of the
A poor turnout for yesterday's water bond election left pol-
ticians at Allen Field House time to catch up on their reading.
Two separate land-use items on last night's city commission meeting agenda spurred arguments among commissioners, developers and Lawrence residents.
The first argument involved Children's Hour, Inc., a nursery school which applied for use of a house at 407 Maine St. for its operations.
By ROBERT GODFREY
Mary Palmquist, Children's Hour president, told commissioners that the children would be stipulated by the planning commission, including parking facilities and building fire codes, and that the nursery was important to the families of the 60 children who would stay there.
Staff Writer
However, Robert Mounsey, 414 Missouri St., said he just didn't think it was logical to put a nursery in a residential area. It had been installed by the Children's Hour site, objected to the possibility of toys that he said might clutter rooms. The toys that might be generated by children at play.
In another land-use issue carried over from last week, Jack Rose, commissioner, reported that the city attorney had ruled against the proposed development of the Westridge planned community development at Sixth Street and Kasold Drive, was legal, but that commissioners would have final discretionary powers in allowing such use.
Land use spurs commission argument
Commissioners decided to allow use of the house as a nursery in the condition that Children's Hour would use part of its revenue-sharing funds, which were construed under the land-use issue, to build a six-foot-high room on the lot to serve as a screening device.
'Taking it all off' may depend on where you are, who you're with
According to Mickey Allen, assistant city attorney, Lawrence laws against indecent exposure are based on community standards.
"You have to have some discretion," Allen said. "I do think that a community has to be able to deal with it."
State law does forbid lewd and lascivious behavior, however. If a person exposed his sexual organs in the presence of those who would be breaking the law, Stantillife said.
Several outmoded city ordinances were rewritten and updated earlier this year, including the ordinance concerning indecent exposure.
"I think if the moral climate changes, the law has to be flexible," he said.
It's a temptation for many and a pastime for some to wear as little as possible or nothing at all since the temperatures have been rising in the mid-90's since last weekend.
According to Douglas County ordinance, going naked in public is permissible under certain circumstances, provided that others present don't object.
Nude sunbathers and swimmers at Lake Henry don't have to worry that they will be arrested for indecent exposure, Craig Stancellife, assistant county attorney, said.
Allen said that community values determined to what extent the city enforced laws.
Stancliffe said that because Lake Henry was outside city limits, state guidelines governed what would be considered indecent exposure there.
"If you go out to Henry, you know people be去 to be naked, so you've given your村民
He said there was nothing illegal about skimmy-dipping as long as everyone present
The ordinance forbade men from exposing their "private parts" in public places, but references to women were not included.
Because of the wording in the city ordinance on indecent exposure, city officials cannot require such coverage.
However, a new city ordinance in effect since last fall defends community standards concerning indecent exposure for men and women.
The ordinance states that "any person who willfully exposes his or her person or private parts in any public place shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor."
The Lawrence ordinance against indecent exposure forbids nudity in nonmember clubs. Such bars are considered public places.
But in Wichita, the issue of nude dancing in bars has prompted a proposed resolution. The group has said it will
Introduced last week by Sedgwick County District Attorney Vern Miller and Sedgwick County Sheriff Johnnie Janeh the proposed resolution, which would bring in counseling in local community wards, warm their club.
A public hearing will be held August 3 before the county commissioners.
Miller said that he was confident that the proposed resolution would be held conference on May 3. The court in Topeka was found unconstitutional last fall by the Topeka municipal court and the Shawnee County district court, after police had arrested more than 60 nude dancers at a local bar.
The courts said that the ordinance voluted the First and Fourteenth amendments.
Commissioners moved to refer the zoning issue to the planning commission for review and possible tightening of the ordinance's wording.
In other action, commissioners:
—banned the use of bottlerockets within city limits.
authorized refinancing of Lawrence
Memorial Hospital bonds to take advantage of lower interest rates.
--gave priority to the Pincney and Oreda
neighborhood Associations for creation of
the Pincney Library.
—authorized the removal of two deteriorated houses at 1308 New Jersey St. and 1323 Prairie St., the latter having 45 homes, how intent of making improvements.
-- set city budget and revenue-sharing heartfears for Aux 9.
Wednesday
From our wire services
Etna eruption grows intense
CATANIA, Sicily.-Cicily Etna eaṣ a searing stream of lava down its northeast side yesterday, burning trees and rocks in path and behalting forth molten boulders.
rockes were being blasted as high as 2,000 feet and that the fiery ash was falling over a barren area about 2½ miles up from a new crater on the northeast side.
Scientists at the Catania Vulcanology Institute said the latest eruption, which began Saturday and is the largest eruption in two years, was increasing in intensity nearly with roaring explosions of lava and rocks occurring as often as 20 per minute.
unified Communist Vietnam to the U.N. actual membership would be granted by vote of the forthcoming General Assembly session.
The scientists said that the lava and
NEW YORK-The United States Vietnam gun membership in the NRA and said this would create an obligation for the Southeast Asian country to adhere.
In addition, they said, the molten material was slowly building up a new cinder core on the erupting northeast edge that had reached more than 30 feet in height.
So far, no of the villages that dot the lower slopes of the 10,707-foot volcano, Europe's largest and most active, were in danger.
Vietnam membership predicted
Woods IV's 100-acre family estate south of San Francisco.
Donald F. McHenry, U.S. delegate, spoke as the Security Council debated a resolution that recommended admitt ing
OAKLAND, Calif. — A $5 million ransom note and a list of kidnappers were found at the estates of one of three men accused of abducting 26 children and their driver from a school bus at Lake Elmo, Md., about age, according to oprtital testimony.
McHenry's statement was the first remark on public U.N. records confirming U.S. abandonment of the veto clause, which has blocked Vietnamese membership.
Ransom note, victim list found
Alameda County Sheriff's Lt. Edward Vope's testimony yesterday was the first that related directly to a motion for the kidnapping.
Volpe said he opened the note in the bedroom of defendant Frederick Newhall
He said he also found a kidnap plan and list of victims in a china chest in the garage-top living quarters of Woods, who is charged in the abduction along with James Schoenfeld, and his brother Richard.
The children, whose ages ranged from 5 to 15, and their school bus driver, Dr. Ray, were kidnapped on an isolated road where they returned from a summer outing.
Leavenworth inmates escape
LEAVENWORTH-Five inmates armed with homemade knives overpowered and abducted a prison worker and a trusty and escaped in a truck yesterday from the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth.
Weather
Only a small chance of relief from hot weather is in sight today and tomorrow. It will be dark for at least four days, forcasts a 20 per cent chance of rain this afternoon and evening. Temperatures will remain in the mid-90s today and tomorrow and will dip into the mid-70s at night.
The breakout occurred about 4 p.m., roughly the same time two inmates were escaping from the Kansas State Penitentiary in nearby Lansing.
All five of the federal escapers remained at large last night, after abandoning the truck and leaving the prison employee and trust unharmshed at the police station.
Ko Memehain, associate warden, said that each of the escapes was serving lengthy sentences for bank robbery and should be considered dangerous.
The men were identified as Thomas Richard Combs, 34, Hazel Park, Mich; Roberto F. Gallamier, 30, Austin Tux; Terry F. Gallamier, 30, Dayton, Ohio; Leon Johnson, 38, Indianapolis, and Richard Daniel Asoil, 37, Lafayette, Ind.