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Tuesday, July 19, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Tree Frog
Tree Frog, a Lawrence-based band plays throughout the Midwest, use country-rock songs, often with three- and four-part vocals. They're also known as "Frogman."
Staff photo by RICK PADDEN
Tree Frog is finally out of the swamp
Staff Writer
By DAVID ALFORD Staff Writer
building, 12th, and Eric Older streets. The band members are, from left to right, Erie Elder, Lynn Piller, Gary Durett, Scott Piper
These tree frogs don't croak at night.
These tree frogs don't crowd in the way that other tree frogs do, and they feel good. Tree Frog is a Lawrence-based band that plays throughout the Midwest. Three of the members are KU
Their repertory consists of country-rock music that includes many original songs with three or four-part harmonies. Four out of the members write songs, and four of them sing.
It's a life that keeps them on the road much of the time as they travel throughout Kansas and six other midwestern states. Each night it's a different setting, ranging from a small-town tavern to last Saturday's job at the Kansas City Country Club.
Tree Frog had never played at a country club dinner dance before, and they were not used to the quiet reception from the audience.
"Let's finish our drinks and start out the next one (set) with 'Horsey A at Hoot Owl,' Scott Piper, guitarist and 1973 KU graduate, said. "That will get them going."
The party goers stopped eating and started dancing when Tree Frog sang:
started dancing when Free Prog sang
"I don't know what to do right now
"I don't know what to do right now Wish I was with you right now Don't you know I just want
Don't you know I just want to be with you
I'm hankering for a kiss
From a sweet country miss
never thought 0et this wav.
In step with the music, women hiked up their long skirts to dance in a country reel. A private party in a neighboring room lost its way and they were lost. The lively music and polished dance floor.
Piper said he liked the traveling life, but it sometimes was a "grind."
"It was important for us to mature and learn to go along with each other," he said.
"A musician has to be pliant in the group situation.
"We've been playing together for 51½ years, so we are musically intimate and respond well to each other. Since we made music for 51½ years, we've remembered to remember that it's a creative process."
The band was formed when Lynn Pillar, Eric Elder and Jim Fey began playing at fraternity and barn parties around Lawrence. Piper and drummer Gary Durrett joined the group later. Despite a heavy touring schedule, three members of the band had gone to bachelor's degrees in English, and Pillar has a bachelor's degree in biology.
The band practices at the Lawrence Musicians Guild building, 12th and Oregon streets. The building is a gathering place for music practice and storage. The practice and locker for storage.
Hard work for $ 5^{1/2} $ years is starting to pay
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Fred De Victor, city parks and recreation director, said last night's game was an effort to expose the community to beep baseball.
- First Ward: 1st and 4th precincts,
Pinckney School); 2nd and 3rd precincts,
Douglas County Bank, and 5th precinct,
Deerfield School.
- Second Ward: 1st and 2nd precincts,
Community Building; 3rd precinct,
Hillcrest School; 4th and 8th precincts,
Allen Field House; 5th precinct, West
Junior High School, and 6th and 7th
precincts, Sunset School.
—Third Ward: 1st precinct, Central United Methodist Church; 2nd precinct, Cordray School; 3rd precinct, Church Addison; 4th precinct, Templeton terminal School; 5th precinct, Rusty at 23rd and Louisiana streets; 6th and 8th and 9th floors; 7th and 7th precinct, South Junior High School
Fifth Ward: 1st and 2nd precincts, New York School.
Fourth Ward: 1st and 2nd precincts, Central Junior High School; 3rd precinct, Heights School, and 4th and 5th precincts, Kennedy School.
—saxth Ward: Woodlawn School.
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Vassallo presented a "Sultan of Swat" award to Thomas Groene, who represented the Rotary Club, for hitting the beeping bell the farthest in a batting contest before the pitch.
Charles Vassallo, Lawrence graduate student and president of the National Beep Baseball Association, said, "We bave this season a summer tradition in lawrence."
There are five other beep baseball teams in Lawrence. They represent the Jaycees, the Optimists, the Fraternal Order of Police, the Douglas County Amateur Radio Club and the Lawrence Education Association.
Games are played every Tuesday night at 6
and 30 ever. Thursdays night at 6 and 7
thursday.
Besides Vassallo, members of the Raiders are: Nancy Steinhauser; Charles Hallenbeck, professor of psychology; Gary Hirsch, Jess Layton, and Loren Buntenmeier.
off for the band whose promotional posters feature a hair attired in a t-green hat and chaps. A radio station in Wichita is playing one of their songs and the group's first album in nearing completion. Tree Frog is finally out of the swamp and sitting pretty.
Vassallo said that 80 blind players from across the country will be in Lawrence Sept. 16 to 18 for the National Beep Baseball Tournament.
Small claims court used frequently
Most of the 1,042 pleadings that have been filed in the small claims court since its inception four years ago have involved the plaintiffs in a case brought by Joyce Burns, a clerk at the court.
A $5 fee and an hour in a courtroom without lawyers has proven beneficial to hundreds of Douglas County residents who have taken their complaints about landlords, tenants, restaurants and other businesses to the Douglas County Small Claims Court.
One case last year, she said, involved a claim for $19.86 against a restaurant for overcooking chicken.
However, Burns said that there had been some unique cases, too.
Burns said that the plaintiff took the food home with him and froze it. When the hearing was held, the plaintiff removed the food from his freezer, thawed it and presented it as evidence against the defendant.
DESPITE THE PLANTIFF'S efforts,
the case was dismissed, Burns said.
"The cases are never dull," she said. The small claims court, which hears
Staff Writer
By DAVID WALSH
PACK IT ALONG
Neither the plaintiff nor the defendant in a hearing can be represented by a lawyer. Each side must present its own case within 30 days of receiving the notice. Mike Ewell, associate district court judge,
EACH SIDE PRESENTS its version of what happened and is allowed to call witnesses. If a witness refuses to appear at the hearing, the court will subpoena him.
After listening to both sides in a small claim hearing, Elwell often asks questions that he said might help him make a decision. Elwell said he often had to draw upon his own background and experience in making a decision.
Often the hearings amount to the plaintiff's word against the defendant's word, Elwell said. But he said that didn't reduce the court's effectiveness.
"For the most part it works," he said.
"Most people tell the truth—about 95 per cent. About five per cent try to abuse the court."
A small claims court decision can be appealed, Burns said. An appeal is filed before the district court, she said, but that the case will require more complex and more expensive.
In a hearing Friday, Elwell dismissed a case involving damages sought because a patient was terminated for not reporting.
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cases involving $300 or less, is designed to reduce legal fees, Burns said.
Elwell, who during the hearing said that he was fairly familiar with pump sumps, said that the plaintiff had failed to demonstrate that the pump, which was installed months ago, had been installed improperly by the house's original builder.
"It would be necessary for each side to
take an umbrella to just to file the necessary
papers," she said.
was flooded did not work during recent heavy rains.
Burns said that the parties involved in a hearing were usually well behaved.
BURNS SAID THAT AN individual was allowed to file five claims in the small claims court each calendar year, and may be a resident of Douglas County, or in some way be connected with the county, be eligible to file a claim in the Douglas County Small Claims
"Usually the people conduct themselves pretty well," she said.
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Bob Davis, board member, said, "A communication from the public deserves a quick answer. Delays cause problems. We need decisive action."
The board set the public hearing on the 1977-78 budget for Aug. 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Administration Center, 2017 Louisiana St.
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The total budget will be $13,935,379,21 and an increase of $1,036,135 from the 1976-77 budget. The mill levy to finance that budget will be 30.83, an increase of .78 mills.
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