THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87, No.155
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, July 6, 1977
Artist's dream reflects justice
See story and pictures page four
Inspector upgrades city buildings
Staff Writer
By JANE PIPER
Always on the look-out for dilapidated houses and unsightly accumulations of junk that may constitute health hazards, Sandy Francisco, Lawrence environmental inspector, is one of many professionals who work to ensure safety.
Rosetta Davis fell through a rotting back porch twice before she and her husband, Claude, sought advice from Legal Aid Society, Inc., about dealing with a negligent landlord.
They lived in the small house on New Jersey Street for five years and had put up with other problems too. The wrench threw off sparkes, several windows and screens were shattered and falling tree limbs had twice knocked holes in the roof.
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Legal Aid turned the problem over to Sandra Francisco, city building inspector for minimum structures, or environmental inspector. Such problems are typical for her. She responds every day to complaints involving substantial housing accumulated trash, abandoned cars and overgrown weeds.
"I GET KIND OF TIRED of trash, believe me," Francisco said recently. "All I ever see is unk."
During the week, Francisco makes daily rounds, which cover up to 30 houses. She cruises the alleys and carefully notes addresses where problems exist. Much of her work is responding to complaints—both from unsatisfied tenants and from neighbors concerned with potential fire traps.
But not all of her outings are in response to complaints. She is just as likely to find violations of city ordinances or violations of public safety laws.
HER INSPECTION OF THE DAVIES' house was a year ago. She found enough violations of the city code there to condemn it. It took the Davieses about two months to find another house to rent in North Lawrence, and the New Jersey Street house was promptly "tagged" after their departure.
A tag identifies a house as unfit for human habitation. In such a case, it must either be brought up to city standards or removed.
She checks all complaints to determine their validity. If a violation is found, the first step is to notify the owner by phone or mail that he is in violation of a city ordinance. At that point, she can issue a notice up it, or be can request a hearing from the city commission.
Most of the houses examined by Francisco during the summer months are checked only on the exterior, she said, because the majority of interior complaints are heard when KU students start school in the fall.
The landlord is responsible for rental property, she said,
and where the lease states differently.
If the violation is not taken care of within the given time, or sometimes during a continuance, the case is turned over to an independent person.
"THERE HAS TO BE A DIRECT violation before we can anything," Francis said. "I am not about what ought to happen."
She said most people when first contacted didn't realize they were in violation of a city ordinance. They assume that
if it's private property, they can do what they want with it,
she said.
However, city ordinances amended this year prohibit litter on private premises when it is "dangerous to public health, safety or welfare or constitutes an unrightly to the adjoining property, the neighborhood or the city."
EVIDENCE USED IN THE COURT cases generally consists of images showing the debris. Taking the jury into consideration,
Should the home owner lose in court, penalties range from a $25 to $100 or payment to the city for clearing the
TRAINING AS A REHABILITATION specialist in Coffeville helped to prepare her for the Lawrence position, she said. The inspection program is housed under the city's Community Development department, and some work is shared with the city's plumbing, electrical and housing inspectors.
She said the worst house she had seen was one in which the bathroom appliances didn't function and the plumbing was clogged.
Paving to wait for drainage study
The house hasn't been condemned yet—she is waiting until the family can find somewhere she to live. It's cases where the family wants a vacation.
"I think I enjoy the job," she said, "but I'm getting awfully tired of junk, trash and stench."
Drainage problems in the proposed Westdale Road area after last month's storms prompted the Lawrence City Commission last night to postpone plans to pave Westdale Road until a study of water drainage in the surrounding area iscompleted. The study will be in the area between Crestline and Centennial roads and Hoover and Orchard roads.
Residents in that area expressed concern at the meeting that the paving of Westdale Road would create more drainage problems than the area had had in recent storms.
Commissioners moved to table plans to pave the road and instead proceed to form
Proposed antibiotics ban on feeds may cause meat price increase
Staff Writer
By DEENAL KERBOW
A proposed government ban on the use of antibiotics in animal feeds would cause the size of farmers' herds to decrease and the price of meat to increase, according to Earnest Peterson of Sunshine Feed and Seeds, Eudora.
"I think it's kind of stupid," Peterson said yesterday. "It's going to really hurt a lot of farm people, especially who produce dogs," are really susceptible to disease."
Don Harris, manager of Farmers
Elevator Co., Eudora, said. "Hogs are kept on
the farm."
Appraisals for the city's burden of cost is expected before the first of next year. A similar county appraisal should follow within 60 days.
Carter seeks rationing power
Wednesday
WASHINGTON—President Carter is going to ask Congress to approve a comprehensive gasoline rationing plan that he could invoke in any energy emergency, administration sources said yesterday.
About 4,000 Malaysian troops crossed into this border area Monday for the first time since April. The guerrillas this year. Malaysia and Thailand have agreed to jointly fight the 1,000 guerrillas of the banned Communist forces of Malaysia hiding in the border jungles.
These sources said Carter envisioned a consumption cutback of at least 25 per cent should rattoning be imposed and equipment such as the 1973 Arab oil embargo.
A spokeman for the West German Embassy here said West German official Anders Dahlgren, identified as Eduard Roeschmann, 69, might not if taken into immediate custody. He indicated that the embassy was in charge of the Argentinian military government handlers.
The sources said examples of developments that might prompt rationing are a new embargo or war in Syria and the US-backed disrupt tanker shipments to this country.
BETONG, Thailand—Communist guerrilla bands are fleeing from their strongholds in the jungles around this southern Thai town in the face of a big Thai-Malaysian offensive, security officials reported yesterday.
Under present law, the President has limited standby rationing authority. The sources said Carter wants Congress to remove restraints now in the law so he could declare an emergency and impose rationing without delay.
Commissioners also reviewed more than 30 proposed amendments to the city personnel manual, which will be reconsidered before readied for publication.
Brig. Gen. Hassan巴 Mohamed Salah of Malaysia said the bands, some numbering as many as 100 men, were attacked by gunmen in clashes and bombarded by artillery units.
Commissioners also approved an agreement between the city of Lawrence and Douglas County for funding of Clinton Parkway.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-A German who allegedly commanded a Nazi dead camp where 40,000 Jews were not been arrested, police said yesterday.
7,000 Thai and Malaysian involved in the operation, said guerrilla resting places, supply dumps and other facilities were being uncovered.
Guerrilla bands uncovered
Under the agreement, the city would pay no more than 50 per cent and the county no more than 60 per cent of parkway construction costs.
The amendments cover a wide array of personnel rules, including sick leave, insurance charges to employees, grievance committees and employee involvement in staff.
Nazi suspect's escape feared
Hassan, deputy commander of about
"If he knows about the publicity of the case, perhaps he will disappear," the spokesman said. "We asked for extradition, and we were discreet on the case up to now because, of course, we did know about the knowledge about the whole procedure."
among them than cattle that are out running loose.
Today will be hot and humid, with temperatures passing the 90-degree mark. Skies will be partly cloudy, with a 0 per cent chance of rain to the National Weather Bureau in Topeka. Temperatures will drop tonight to the 80s.
However, Argentina's military government said yesterday it had not agreed to extradite Rothmann, one day after a commune saying it would do so.
"I've seen a whole herd of hogs get sick.
And, if they don't have any antibiotics to prevent this, it'll lower the number of hogs, and the consumer will pay the price."
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Harris also said that feed companies could currently control the amounts of antibiotics livestock receive but that if the animals were not injected to injecting their herds with antibiotics.
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At the prompting of Lynn Shapiro, 2000 Indiana St., who reported fire damage to
a storm drainage plan for the benefit district. The plan would consider long-range storm sewer construction in the area, which residents would pay for.
In other action, the commission passed ordinances to establish a 15 m.p.h. speed limit on Edgewed Lane; to decrease allowable residential density and building in RO-2 zoning districts and to construct sanitary sewers in Quail Ridge East.
"And farmers tend to overdose," he said. Harris said many farmers would double the recommended dosages in order not to give injections so often.
Commissioners also authorized Margie Argersinger, mayor, to sign a water sales agreement between Lawrence and Rural Water District No. 1. Under the 40-year agreement, the county of Lawrence would sell water to 1,000 households per 1,000 gallons to the water district.
He said, "You know. If five's good, ten
will be better," or, if I give him enough,
I will be better."
"But we're regulated on how much antibiotics we can use. I believe we a lot of them."
According to the Mother Earth News, Kennedy told a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee, "The benefit of using these drugs routinely as an alternative to help animals grow faster than outweigh the potential risk posed to people."
her home from Fourth of July fireworks, the commission proposed an ordinance to ban the use and sale of bottle rockets in Lawrence. Commissioner Barkley Clark (D) said that boring projects boring cities be checked to see how the problem has been dealt with elsewhere.
Donald Kennedy, a Federal Food and Drug Administration commissioner who is a strong advocate of the ban, has said that antibiotics in feeds are increasing the number of drug-resistant bacteria in the environment.
The water district would be guaranteed 10,000 gallons a day from storage in Clinton RI.
If small amounts of antibiotics are continually ingested by the animals, Lee said. He pointed out that those antibiotics. He said the theory was that human infections caused by these bacteria then might not be helped by these antibiotics, he said, and would have lost their powers against the bacteria.
Ron Lee, veterinarian at Eudora Animal Hospital, said in a telephone interview yesterday that, theoretically, it was possible to strains of immune bacteria to develop.
But despite this theory, Lee said, "I hate to see it regulated. It's going to hurt the farmers, and they have both hands tied behind their backs now."
*Farmers are having a real hard time of showing any profit at all, and it will be tough to get them off the ground.
Bradley said he feared that meat from an animal that had received an antibiotic might be eaten by a person who had an allergy to that antibiotic.
But, he said. "It's probably a good thing. It's time we eliminated all possibilities of it."
The commission also authorized Watson to sign engineering agreements for Prairie Meadows No. 6 and 7 and Westridge Heights.
William Bradley of Bradley Veterinary Hospital, 953 E. 32rd St., agreed that the ban would hurt farmers and would probably increase meat prices.
Buford Watson, city manager, said the agreement might place some customers who live along the Clinton Parkway route on the Lawrence water system in the future.
The Lawrence Asphalt Company's low bid of 444,959 was authorized by commissioners to widen the Kasold Road and 6th Street intersection.
Bradley said that even though animals must go through a 30-day withdrawal period prior to slaughter, he wasn't sure all tracers were safe. He asked the animals' systems before they were attached.
Watson said the rural water district would pay for reservoir water storage and treatment at the city's planned water plant to be built near the reservoir.
See ANTIBIOTICS page three
Staff Writer
Law school completion set back
By JANET WARD
Casson Construction Co., Topeka, has been granted a second extension to complete the University of Kansas School of Architecture, state architecture, announced last week.
Krueger's office said the latest extension was granted by the Casson crews had to clean mud and sand that washed into the wells of the building after recent heavy rains.
The contract has been officially extended to July 13. The first extension moved the originally scheduled completion date of May 25 for the $5 million building, east of Irving Tower Roads at 15th Street and Irving Hickow Road, to a completion date of June 7.
The extension also means the company
MAX LUCAS, DIRECTOR of facilities planning, said the extension wouldn't affect the building.
won't be subjected to *a* $500 fine that the state could levy for each day the building isn't done after the contracted completion date.
"We've been planning all along that the building would be complete by mid-July," he said. "It appears that the upper floors, the lower floors, and the floor floors, will be complete by that date."
Plans made at a meeting of representatives from the law school, academic affairs and facilities planning will have law school classes starting in old Green Hall and moving to the new building around the first of October, Lucas said.
It is hoped that this plan will cause the
least disruption for students and for the moving of equipment to the building.
Denaell Tacha, associate dean of the School of Law, said that the new equipment, which would be delivered to the chairs, wouldn't be delivered until the first of September and that the move would take about two weeks. After this, she said, the old institution and the law school library will be moved.
The initial extension was grenaded some of the panels that form the outside of the building were found to be defective and the walls, roofs and floors caused the company to lose several days.
Construction of the building began in March 1975. The building's 95,000 square feet of floor space will accommodate an average of about 25 students and last semester's enrollment.
Ride to the roof
Staff photo by RICK PADDEN
Workers who began retarring the roof of Watson Library Tuesday had to be lifted by a telescoping crane to reach their loftv work site.