Norwood considers himself person, not package
Bv BRYANT GRIGGS
Staff Writer
If anyone hasn't heard yet, Darnell Valentine, the state's most gifted basketball player, will attend the University of Kansas next fall.
But here already is Valentine's coach from Wichita Heights High School, Lafayette Norwood, who officially became basketball coach Ted Owens' assistant judge.
Norwood is working this week as an assistant coach for youngsters in Owens'
His coming to KU is one of a number of factors a fans hope will be reversal in the trend.
In the past five years, KU lost much of its hold on the Big Eight basketball title and some of its traditional basketball prestige. But it was difficult to believe it would to resolve the turnaround
WHEN FORMER BASKETBALL aids Sam Miranda and Docan Reid unexpectedly resigned April 28, the crisis seemed to erupt. Days later Norwood was signed.
So rumors were circulating that the KU Athletic Department obtained Norwood in the first round.
And if that's the case, few fans can be heard complaining.
Norwood said that he had heard a few comments about being chosen to influence Valentine's signing, he heard more of how he became known because of his accomplishments.
There have been several recent instances of a high school coach and his top prospects attending the nationals.
A year ago, Kansas State University hired Mark Reiner, coarn of Carnesia High School
in New York City, an assistant coach and signed his stars, forward Cartis Redding and guard Tyrene Ladson. Former KU basketball star Terry Anderson, the high school coach, to the Jayhawks together five years ago from Lincoln, III. BUT NORWOOD DOES NOT see himself
"We both have challenges," he said of his and Valentine's insults. "I realize there is a job to be done and I plan to perform that to the best of my skills. I'm sure Darnell has the same intentions. That's the way you win games."
Winning games is what the Jayhawks didn't do in 10 out of their 28 confrontations.
"I don't know what the people here want. Is it that you win or how much you win by?" Norwood asked. "Eleighen and ten is not that bad a season."
Norwood said the most he could contribute to the program would be to "enhance to the tradition that it already has."
"AT OUR PLACE WE ran more pressure-type basketball. We did a lot of running, used various pressure defenses and put the ball in the air on multiple passes, coaching niloshoopy at Wichita Heights.
In his eight years at Wichita Heights, Norwood compiled an overall record of 112-5, including three city league championships. Last season the Wichita Heights Falcons finished 23-0 and won the Kansas 5-A State Championship.
"Our philosophy always has been to get the most out of each other. The teams we've had in the past have always been teamwork," she said, a tendency to win with that approach.
"With Ted's philosophy and mine we will be Owen we will be Owen that decides what we do."
Like Valentine, Norwood also grew up and played on the ball courts of Wichita. He described himself as a "typical player," having been a forward in the basketball by simply "playing all the time."
Norwood graduated from Wichita East High School in 1982. He was an all-league high school guard and lettered two years for the football and basketball standout for KV.
Although these are not bad or credentials for a "typical player," Norwood describes Valentine as a "much better player than I was."
After high school, Norwood, now 42, played two years at Arkansas City Junior College and was a junior college All-Academic student to Southwestern College at Winfield.
Yet if the two are equal in anything, it's "they门 enter Allen Field House together for the first time for their first KU game." And then the next year. "Newwood said. 'We have good individuals here and it should be very exciting.'"
Married and a father of two (Cory, 12,
and Seth, 6) Norwood said the transition from Witchia to Lawrence has been
strenuous, but not a series problem.
"But I'm pleased to be at Kansas University and part of this tradition-rich university."
Laughing Lafayette
Staff photo by RICK PAODEN
The newest man on the University of Kansas basketball coaching yesterday while working with kids attending the Ted Owens staff, Lafayette Norwood, assistant coach, will all smiles basketball camp.
KANSAN
Student works as harvest hand
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, June 15. 1977
Vol.87.No.144
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Commissioners schedule new water bond election
By JANE PIPER Staff Writer
Lawrence voters will go to the polls on July 19 as a result of city commission action that night for a second election involvement. Clinton Reservoir water treatment plant.
Commissioners gave final approval at last night's meeting to an ordinance setting the new election date in mid-July and the new bond sale on August 9.
The new election is necessary because of a mistake in the publication of legal notice of the March 8 water-bond election. The mistake rendered the first election invalid.
The city's bond attorneys announced last
week that they couldn't approve the $8.4 million in bonds sold after the first election.
THE MX-UP INVOLVES a provision in the state's bond-election laws that requires that notice of impending bond elections be made by Wednesday or consecutive weeks on either Wednesday or Thursday. The city clerk inductively directed that the first week's publication be for the State.
Because of the one-day difference, the bond attorneys last week declared the March 8 election invalid. Voters in the election had approved the issue of general obligation bonds for the new water treatment plant by a 4-1 margin.
The bond firm's announcement caught
city officials by surprise and was especially disheartening because they had recently been appointed the president of Continental Bank of Chicago at what they termed a favorable interest rate of 4.97 per cent. At last week's meeting the city commission authorized the return of $20,000 to the city.
THE COMMISSION tentatively decided at last week's meeting to repeat the election they first rejected the option of an upper house, but the hastily drawn up ordinance needed only the commission's approval last night before the election could be called. The approval was
Wednesday
Ray now looks for legal out
From our wire services
PETROTS, Tenn.-The last of the prisoners who escaped with James Earl Ray was recaptured yesterday, but a new bid for Ryan's freedom immediately showed up in the player that he had fresh evidence in the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jack Kershaw, the latest in a long string of Ray's lawyers, said he had obtained an excellent picture of the
mysterious Raoul, the man Ray says told him to purchase the gun that was used in the 1968 assassination of King, civil rights leader.
Meanwhile, Gov. Ray Blanton is fearful Ray may try to escape and, on Monday he asked President Carter to have Ray transferred to a federal prison. The governor said that the federal government had not decided whether to take custody of Ray.
Screams heard during attack
LOCUST GROVE, Okla. -A mother said yesterday that her daughter heard screaming in the dark from the wooded area where three girl Scouts were killed in a sex attack Monday, but adult leaders didn't check on the girls until daylight.
Meanwhile, Neil Hoffman, a medical examiner in Tulsa, said that Doris Milner, 10, Tulsa, was stranded to die and that Michelle Guse, 9, Broken Arrow, and Lois Partner, 9, Tulsa, died of blows he had received. He said all three had been raned.
A police officer said the two younger girls apparently were killed in the tent all three shared.
fully expect to break this case and bring the killer to justice." Wise said.
WASHINGTON—President Carter and the State Department have expressed concern over the arrest and interrogation of Los Angeles Times reporter Robert Toth by the KGB, the Russian secret police, in Moscow. Acting Secretary of State Warren Christopher telephoned an official protest to the Soviet ambassador.
Dist. Atty. Sid Wise said the police were checking every lead, specifically, the man who had anyone with a history of sex crimes had been paroled or released in the area.
US protests Soviet arrest
"I want to impress upon you that we
Toth was arrested Saturday and questioned by KGB agents after he
The action against Toth coincides with what appears to be a general campaign in the Soviet press to discredit dissidents and to attack western democracies for their own violations of human rights.
received a paper on paraphylogy, or extra-sensory perception, from a Soviet scientist. She was then been gathering secret information and barred him from leaving the country
Weather
Hot and humid Wednesday with a slight chance of fog in the morning. Daytime temperatures will range in the 70s and 80s, according to the Topeka Weather Bureau. There is no chance of precipitation.
Baseball
American League-New York 8,
Kansas City 2; Texas 7, Cleveland
2, California 12, Minnesota 9; Boston
7, Chicago 1.
National League—Cincinnati 3, Pittsburg 2; Houston 5, Montreal 0; Atlanta 8. New York 5.
Vera Merca, city clerk, had initially shouldered the blame for the mistake, but the city commission last night placed much of the responsibility on the city's bond firm of Stinson, Mag, Thompson, McEvers & Fizzel, of Kansas City. Mo.
CLARK PREDICTED a new election would cost the city about $7,000. The election is expected to settle the matter. Watson confirmed last night that actual construction would begin in the end of August if the plant is approved on schedule or several weeks from the original schedule.
In other business, the commission authorized Black and Veach engineering firm, Kansas City, Mio., to conduct a study on the suitability of renovating the Closeout Carpet building at the Bowersock Mill site for use as a city hall.
The city has considered for several months the possibility of using the carpet building. As part of the Bowersock contract signed in April, the city has six months to decide whether it will place the city hall on the site after a pending lawsuit is settled.
The study, expected to cost between $7,500 and $10,000, will be compiled by August 1.
If a city hall is built there, the cost to the city for control the land will be $1. If not, the cost would be $10.
A new federal law requires the city to join an unemployment compensation program. Commissioners decided to adopt "rated" insurance for which they would pay 65 per month. The state must cover the unemployment insurance. The estimated cost to the city is $27,000.
AT AN EARLIER meeting yesterday dealing with the new budget, the city commission changed two of the city's policies: one dealing with unemployment compensation and the other with the fire and police department's pensions.
A second change is a merger with the state to help cover the costs of the police and firemen pensions. Only two city employees are covered under the present local plan, which is expected to make the transition easier and less expensive.
Commissioners also discussed several management changes proposed by Watson but took no action. One would place Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, in charge of several departments now under Watson's direction.
The other would place Brent McFall, city personnel manager, in a new position of management analyst. he would generate reports on commission and deal with citizens' complaint.
The Kansan gets under way for the summer
Welcome to the summer term at the University of Kansas and to continued news coverage by the University Daily Kansan staff.
Summer coverage will include as many things as we can fit in from University and community news updates, with daily news digests from our wire services, to in-depth news and picture features.
The changes would be regarded as promotions for both men.
The format differs only slightly from that of the regular academic year in that there will be no daily editorial or sports pages; instead, students' journals will be published periodically.
Letters to the editor are welcomed but should be typewritten, double-spaced, and should be in italics. The letters are edited and may be condensed according to space limitations and the tone.
The Kansan will be published Monday through Thursday with the last of 29 issues published Aug. 4.
The staff wishes you an enjoyable and productive summer term.
Good Luck,
Julie Williams
Editor
Enrollment total may set record; 9,000 expected
A record 7,876 students have enrolled at the University of Kansas for the summer session, according to figures released by the Office of Admissions and Records.
However, Gilbert Dyck, dean of admissions and records, said he hadn't had a chance to analyze the reasons for the increased enrollment.
"We're still surviving after the first day of enrollment," he said. "We've been working on late enrollments and summer orientation."
Enrollment is expected to reach 9,216 by the end of the eight-week session. Final enrolment for the 1976 summer session was 8,893.
Staff Writer
By JANE PIPER
Oread neighbors get city promise
Lawrence's newest neighborhood association came away from a special city commission meeting yesterday with representatives from funds and attention for their neighborhood.
The Oread Residents Association, formed last February, met with commissioners in an attempt to develop guidelines for solving the residents' housing needs in a high residential density of the neighborhood.
Boundaries for the area are Ninth, 17th,
Massachusetts and Missouri streets, not
through the streets.
ABOUT 40 RESIDENTS turned out to re-emphasize their previous requests for city help in planning, reasoning, environmental inspections and services.
Commissioners promised to get back with the group within the month with an exterior inspection program they said would be an important cleaning up deteriorating houses and yards.
Neil Sakind, association spokesman,
said that neighborhood deterioration could be the fault of landlords, tenants, residents and lack of care help in the past.
The Oread neighborhood group was directed by city commissioners to make efforts in the meantime to organize into an organization with officers and bylaws, so they could become eligible for Community Development (CD) funds.
Once the neighborhood has been declared a target area by the commission, it would become eligible to receive the CD funds and loans for housing rehabilitation.
The neighborhood is an area of high residential density in which the majority of the land is zoned residence dormitory (RD). The population in the area is diverse with many KU students living in older homes that have been converted into multi-unit apartments.
ASSOCIATION MEMBERS have requested that the area be rezoned "conservation zoning." Under conservation zoning, the property is placed when they are replaced — that is, if a single-family house is torn down, it couldn't be replaced by a multi-unit apartment building. The association believes this will缓住 the population of the area, Salkind said.
Commissioner Barkley Clark warned the group that trying to reshape the area would be a controversial issue. He said there would be difficulties in drawing the line between homeowners who had already started on expansions and those who bought them, who thought expansions planned, but had no definite designs.
The commission indicated, however, that no immediate action would be taken on the issue.
Jailed kids beyond courts, state says
Ry the Associated Press
by the Kansai Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services argued in Douglas County District Court yesterday that judges no longer have control over juvenile offenders once they are sent to a detention facility.
The case involves a 14-year-old Lawrence boy found delinquent in the February stabbing death of 48-year-old Baxter, a court Judge. Elwell said he wants the youth to appear in
Elwell said he ordered the boy returned to his court before release because he found that most youths committed for serious crimes were turned loose within a year. He said he doubted they could be rehabilitated within a year.
his court before he was released. The state authorities said they had the authority to order his release.
Elwell, who is also the district judge,
he would rule on the matter in early
Judicial Hearing.
Farmers' picks are season's hits as market opens second summer
By DONNA KIRK Staff Writer
Saturday, like the early morning haze, the Lawrence stirring' market sat sleepily, barely stirring, and waited for activity to rise.
The market had been open since 7 a.m., nearly an hour, and only three vendors and a handful of prospective buyers had come to the marketplace at Eighth and Vermont streets. But it was still too early for crowds and too early in the season to have much
PEOPLE CAME SLOWLY, wandering in,
looking and buving.
produce ready to sell. The market will be open from June 4 to Sept. 24.
Two men stood beside a pickup truck that displayed ripe, round melons to anyone who came to buy. Another man set out cabbages, onions and red potatoes from the back of his pickup. One vendor kept his produce in a camper until more people came.
Later, more trucks and campers pulled into the lot, bringing salads green, radishes, cheese and other goodies.
sold his truckload of potatoes and onions in about three hours, said he was going home early.
Now in its second year, the farmers' market is the growing braincard of Robert Miller, last year's president of the Dowman Research (DLA), which soons supports the market.
Miller said he had read about a city farmers' market two years ago in an organic gardening magazine and had thought the idea might work in Lawrence.
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