DREARY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 87, No.137
Articles detail Nixon interview
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Monday, May 2, 1977
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Tending shop
Taking time out for a little catch-up reading, Pearl Mathias of Ottawa sits next to her paintings on display in Sunday's Art in the Park festival. The festival in South Park drew
an estimated 10,000 people. Mathias was one of 120 artists who displayed their work.
Art in Park success despite threat of rain
Cloudy skies did little to dampen the spirits of about 400 people who turned out for a blackout. Park visitors.
After finding scarce parking places, spectators were drawn by the smells of hotdogs and popcorn and the strains of marching music into the carnival-like atmosphere of the 16th annual Lawrence spring art fair.
More than 120 Douglas County artists exhibit their original works in the Park under Fund and other grants.
The rain never came, but kids, parents and dogs did; to make what has become a broken heart.
The exhibits, this year limited to the east side of the park, included a wide variety of art: from sand paintings and handmade jewelry to stained glass windows. Prices ranged from a $1 ceramic vase to a $400 cherry desk set.
"IT'S LOTS of fun just sitting here watching the people go by," Golda Albury, Lawrence, said. "After a while you feel left out if you don't come."
Albury, who has displayed her oil paintings in the park for the past eight years, typified the average exhibitor in that profession as a hobby rather than a profession.
Although there are always more lookers than buyers present, most artists agree that the chance to show their work publicly was worth the efforts they make each year.
"Mostly I paint just for my own enjoyment," Albury said, "but it is very gratifying when somebody buys. It's nice to know somebody likes what I do."
Many onlookers stopped by the gazezo while strolling from table to table to watch
local bands perform. The City Union Band, directed by B Kelly, started the festivities at 12:30 p.m. They were followed by Down Home, a bluegrass band directed by Jay Dolan, the KU Symphonic Band, directed by Robert Foster, and the KU Jazz Ensemble.
THE KIDS, both those hoisted on parent's shoulders watching the performances and those running freely on the parkgrounds, were among the most enthusiastic par-
They spent their time filling up at the concession stands, playing in the fountain and taking free rides in a hot air balloon owned by Morris Wilden, 1121 Louisiana
Art in the Park is sponsored each year by the Lawrence Art Guild and the city's parks
and recreation department. A 10 per cent commission from all items sold goes to the Art Guild and has been used in the past for scholarships and contributions to the Lawrence Art Center. Last spring appi- tions in artwork was sold during the afternoon.
FOR SOME artists, such as Will Owedal,
539 Alabama St., Art in the Park is the first
in a series of many summer art shows in
which he participates.
Orvedal, a wood crafter, was one of the few exhibitors there who depends on his craft as a means of livelihood. He is a member of the Woodcrafter's Guild at 401 Elm St. and has displayed his work in Art in the Park for four years.
show my work to a lot of people in a short amount of time," he said. "I can sell a lot of
JUDY BAILEY, who does sand paintings, also displays her work in art shows in the area. She said the spring fair was a good place to demonstrate sand painting techniques to the public and at the same time to sell her work.
Most exhibitors said that although the profits vary each year, most artists would take their advice seriously.
"Art in the Park is a good opportunity to
Art in the Park is only once a year, and many Lawrence residents look forward to it because it means them the chance to see and learn from their community in a post-winter community gathering.
Liquor tax increased twice in 24 hours
TOPEKA (UP1)—Less than 24 hours after a bill increasing the tax on liquor gallonage and imposing a $500 brand label registration fee became law, the Kansas Legislature Friday repealed portions of that law and increased the gallonage tax even more.
A House vote of 94-19 sent to the Senate the session's second bill to increase taxes on liquor gallonage. The bill also would repeal the $800 brand label registration fee.
Gov. Robert Bennett had allowed the original bill, which increased the tax on alcohol and spirits from $1.50 a gallon to $2.25 a gallon and imposed the $500 label fee, to become law without his signature Thursday.
The new bill substitutes an additional tax of 25 cents a gallon on alcohol and spirits
The new law, passed to offset a revenue loss from a new sales tax exemption for prescription drugs, was expected to generate about $4.03 million. The brand label registration fee was designed to raise money for the alcoholic treatment centers.
Although the 1977 legislature had already raised the alcohol and spirits tax in the original bill, House Majority Leader Patrick Hurley, D-Leavenworth, said the brand label provision had into con- dential administrative and revenue problems.
raising the tax to $2.50 a gallon, for the repeated label registration fee is order to raise about $800,000 for community-based alcoholic treatment centers.
"We've already made the commitment to raise the revenues." Harley said, "but the brand label approach may have contributed to our anticipated revenue may not materialize."
E. V. D. MURPHY, director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control AB Division, said he thought several hundred of the 2,245 labels now marketed in Kansas would have disappeared from the state without the revisions made in the brand label fee.
Hurley said industry spokesmen thought lower brands would pull out of the state if they were to suffer.
The bulk of new liquor taxes can be passed directly on to the consumer with the help of a levy.
Budget receives legislative boost
The University of Kansas will receive about $50,000 more than it expected in next year's operating budget, following action by the Kansas Legislature Friday.
Meeting on the final day of the session, the legislature agreed to raise the general allocation of five Board of Regents institutions, including KU, by 7.5 per cent, rather than by 7 per cent as originally proposed.
The legislature approved and sent to Gov. Robert Bennett a total Regents institution fee of $1,600,000.
KU had budgeted for a 7 per cent operating budget increase, and the House had wanted to hold the increase to that figure, but the Senate sought to raise the budget. A request was requested by Bennett. A conference committee brought a 7.5 per cent compromise.
KU WILL receive about $175 million for fiscal year 1978, Cancellor Archie Dykes said yesterday. The Lawrence campus will receive $80 million of that, and the KU Medical Center will receive the remaining $86 million.
The legislature also voted to give a 6 per cent salary increase to unclassified employees at KU, although some legislators had asked for a 7 per cent boost.
The University's budget was planned for a 6 per cent raise, Richard VOn Ende, executive secretary to the chancellor, said. The figure was the one that was considered most likely to pass when the budget was prepared more than a year ago.
Dykes said he was pleased with the legislative decision to approve a $17.3 billion plan for schools.
"The SINGLE most important achievement of this legislative session is the authorization of the two large capital construction projects." Dykes said. "Those two projects were badly needed, and will be extremely overcrowded conditions."
the allocation, which three months ago looked doubtful, will provide first-year
construction funds for additions to Malett Hall and Robinson Gymnasium.
"We've tried very hard to document and justify the capital requests, and its our impression that our University officials have done very well indeed." Dykes said.
justify the capital requests, and its our impression that our University officials have done very well indeed, *Dykes* has approved, of a bill directing the MedCure Foundation to provide a family practice program was another highlight in KU's appropriations, Dykes said.
THE PROGRAM would temporarily place physicians in towns of less than 200,000 population. It was designed to partly alleviate the problem of doctor shortage in rural Kansas by encouraging doctors to practice outside the metropolitan areas.
Dykes said that KU coffers were bolstered by $1.2 million to provide faculty and staff for the larger-than-expected project in 1977, the projected large enrollment in fall 1977.
Also, KU received almost $102,000 to staff Spencer Art Museum for fiscal year 1978; $90,000 for 10 additional custodial and maintenance positions on West Campus; $189,000 for library acquisitions; $134,000 for a water quality survey in western Kansas the Kansas Geological survey; and $25,000 for master programs in human development.
DYKES SAID the University also received nearly $100,000 for the second phase of construction of a radiation center at the Med Center.
The University also was authorized, he said, to sell revenue bonds for the construction of a $2.5 million parking garage at the Med Center. A contract to design and build the garage will be let in late summer, he said.
Regents requests for energy conservation programs were cut from $2.5 million to $1 million, Dykes said, but the legislature made some additional allocations to invest in these projects to the $1 million allocated to the Regents school will be split among the seven institutions.
See BUDGET page five
A list of proposed improvements in recreational facilities at the University of Kansas has been developed by a Student Senate subcommittee on recreational
Subcommittee urges facility improvements
The subcommittee met last week to investigate possible uses of $60,000 the Student Senate had allocated for recreational facilities improvements.
The improvements, listed in descending order of importance by the subcommittee;
-Lighting of eight tennis courts south of Robinson Gymnasium.
—construction of an 86-car parking lot
of the intramural fields at 23rd and
nineth floors
installation of an underground watering system for the eight intramural fields at 296m.
leveling and saddling of five of the fields at 23rd and Iowa streets.
- seeding and fertilization of the three other fields at 23rd and Iowa streets.
fencing of the recreation complex at 23rd and Iowa streets.
--repairing of the tennis courts southeast of Memorial, Stadium.
—resurfacing of the tennis courts at 11th and Illinois streets.
Mike Harber, subcommittee member and
StudEx chairman, said the subcommittee developed its list of proposed improvements without regard for the estimated costs of the projects.
Student Body President Steve Leben, who appointed the subcommittee members, had estimated the costs of several of the proposed projects. He said the extra lighting of the tennis courts would cost about $1,000, new watering about $1,000, the seeding about $500 and the fertilization about $1,000. He said the leveling would cost $1,000 or more.
At the April 12 meeting, the Senate designated that $600,000 from unallocated funds and the additional revenues of a $1.50 commission would be used for improvements in recreational facilities and maintaining the current number of open hours at Robinson Gymnasium next year. Leben said that the recreational facility had become the top priority of the Senate.
The proposals have been sent to the Office of Facilities Planning for feasibility and cost studies. The proposals will then be reviewed by the National Advisory Board for final approval.
If the proposals are approved, work on the bim-priority projects will begin this summer.
City dwellers work to preserve area neighborhoods
By JANE PIPER Staff Reporting
Staff Reporter
An increasing number of Lawrence residents are turning to neighborhood improvement associations to address needs as diverse as housing rehabilitation and rape prevention.
The number of neighborhood associations in Lawrence has surged in recent years and 11 organizations are now recognized by the city. Most of these groups are made up of bylaws and monthly or quarterly public meetings.
The overriding concern of most associations is the preservation and continued stability of their neighborhoods.
"All neighborhoods are interested in preserving what is already there," Eileen Fitch, president of the Omaha Metropolitan Area Commission.
THE OLD WEST Lawrence neighborhood, bounded by Sixth, Ninth, Tennessee and Illinois streets, arose in 1960 out of fear that the predominantly single-family residential neighborhood was giving way to multitumult apartments. The group's first goal was to preserve their neighborhood as it existed.
Fitch stressed the importance of neighborhood plans to outline the future directions of neighborhood expansion. Old West Lawrence and the Pinckney Association are now working on growth plans they
hope will make their neighborhoods more desirable to investors.
Another association concerned primarily with planning is the North Lawrence Planning Council.
"I used to have the attitude you can't fight city hall, but I don't think that's true any more. They will listen."
"Our primary focus is to think about goals for North Lawrence," Paul said. "We're not a traditional type of
organization because our main concerns aren't with potholes in the street."
BOTH PAUL and Betty Mallonee, a past president of the North Lawrence Improvement Association, have expressed their fears that the city intends for North Lawrence to ultimately become an industrial park. Because of zoning changes in the 1960s, much of the area is now zoned intensive commercial.
The North Lawrence Planning Council uses the knowledge of University officials in outlining plans, Paul said, and is open to everyone with an interest in North Lawrence. The group conducted a housing
survey last year to determine the needs of North Lawrence residents.
Paul said more than half of the 700 houses in North Lawrence were structurally unsound. Because North Lawrence is represented by two neighborhood associations, Paul said, the city uses it as an excuse to limit community development and revenue sharing funds to North Lawrence projects.
THE COMMUNITY development funds have become important to all neighborhoods receiving these grants.
When a particular area has been declared a "target area" by the city, it is eligible for community development funds, as well as housing rehabilitation loans and grants.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said the target areas were determined by census information number of low-income families in the neighborhood, number of recipients and the condition of houses and streets.
There are now four target area neighborhoods—Pinckney, far east, east and north Lawrence. Old William Town is one of the target areas next year and the city commission will make a final decision on that by next March. In addition to the housing rehabilitation eligibility, the city government will receive $3,500 yearly for administrative expenses.
BARBARA WILLISTS, president of the East Lawrence Improvement Association, said the federal and city funds were a tremendous help in making strong neighborhood groups.
Her association, founded in 1972, has spent part of the $50,000 in revenue sharing funds received in 1972 to support staff training and education programs.
"They have done everything they can do to destroy and discredit the organization."
sidewalks, alley cleanup and repair and new trash can racks.
"Housing rehabilitation has always been our first priority." Willits said.
The East Lawrence Improvement Association is concerned with an area bounded by Massachusetts, Oregon and 81st streets and the Kansas River. It has a target area designated by the Lawrence was the first target area designated by the city.
She said the Haskell Loop issue rallied the group last year. Many East Lawrence residents thought a roadway through the area would have an adverse environmental effect on the neighborhood, Willits said. Although the city commission had earlier approved the loop, it later rejected the plan.
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the neighborhood that stopped it, according to Willis.
Most of the association presidents agree with Willis that neighborhood associations have an influence on local politics.
Sharon Sturdy, president of the Far East Lawrence Improvement Association, said, "I used to have the attitude you can't fight city hall, but I don't think that's true any more. They will listen."
The Far East group was formed in 1974 after a group of residents became alarmed about the number of mosquitoes breed in a drainage ditch that ran along Brook Street. Sturdy said several members marched to the police station that had been badly hit by the mosquitoes. The commission agreed to take care of the problem.
OTHER PROBLEMS that have been taken care of are the screening around a salvage yard and the demolition.
Julie Gordon, a member of Lawrence's newest association, the Orland Residents Association, also has worked with the city's police.
Formed in February in response to a rape in the area, the Oread Residents Association (formerly the Oread Police Association) is active.
See NEIGHBORHOODS page 10