University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 27, 1988
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Cost of gas in Lawrence up
Prices higher due to market in other cities
By Daniel Niemi Kansan staff writer
Trapped between a gasoline war in Topeka and a competitive Kansas City Mo. Lawrence will emerge as an island of higher gasoline prices.
"It's a distressed market in those two areas," said Milton Brown, owner of University Philip's 66, 2434 Iowa St. "Everywhere there's a gas for a gallon of gas. They're selling it cheaper than I can buy it."
Brown was charging 97.9 cents for a gallon of unleaded gasoline
Elsewhere in Lawrence, the average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline was 89.8 cents. The average price for a gallon of leaded gasoline is usually 1 cent lower.
"For the past five years, Lawrence had lower prices," said Mike Royer, manager of Westside 66 and Car wash service station. "Now they're allowing Lawrence to make a reasonable profit."
In Topeka, the price spread depends on the willingness to compete with the Hypermart USA Convenience Center. Hypermart consistently has charged the lowest price for unleaded gasoline in Topeka. Yesterday, it charged 70.9 cents a gallon, and Mark Lamparter, manager of Hypermart's convenience store.
Darrrell Colhour, owner of Darrell's Service in Topeka, said he was selling unleaded gasoline at 79.9 cents a gallon.
"We're selling product at cost because that idiot out at Hypermert is selling below cost," Colhore said.
Colhouer said that he made less than 2 cents profit a gallon when customers paid cash and that he lost money if they paid with a credit card. He said the company received a fee in a fee a credit card was used.
Merie Commons, Lawrence resident, is paying more for gas in Lawrence than consumers in Kansas City, Mo., or Topeka. The average cost for a gallon of gas in Lawrence was about 89.9 cents yesterday. Commons was filling up at the Apco-U-Pump-It station at 602 W. Ninth St.
Excluding Hypermart, the lowest price for gasoline was at University Standard in Topeka, which is one of the world's forsals for a gallon of unplaced gas.
Ir. Kansas City, Mo., heavier competition forces gasoline prices to fluctuate more than in smaller cities, said Dave Abshear, head of government and public affairs for Amoco's district office.
Gasoline prices in Kansas City yesterday rose to an average of 88.9 cents a gallon. Earlier in the week they were 5 to 7 cents lower.
said. "If there are lower prices, you can bet any competitor will come down to that level.
"Also, you can raise prices. If it doesn't work, you have to lower them."
"Gas prices are determined by supply and demand." Abshear
National search to begin for new KU dean of law
A nationwide search will begin soon for a replacement for Michael Davis, dean of law, who will step down from the position.
By Katy Monk
Kansan staff writer
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday that the KU School of Law's reputation warranted a national search. He said he planned to seek an attorney at the law school faculty as soon as he could arrange a meeting.
Davis announced his intention to faculty and many alumni during a banquet on Oct. 7, and wrote to Brinkman soon after that, stating his intentions. University Relations announced the planned resignation Tuesday.
Davis' announcement of his intent to resign after his ninth year as dean surprised few.
But, Brinkman said, "He'll be leaving office at the peak of his performance, and I'll hate to see him go."
Chancellor Gene A. Budig yesterday praised Davis' performance as dean
Davis said he had intended to stay in the position of dean for seven or eight years but decided to remain through this year to complete his part in the law school's Campaign Kansas fund-raising efforts.
"He has given the school extraordinary leadership over the years," Budig said. "He will be difficult to replace. The reputation of the School of Law is excellent; we are among the strongest schools of law in the country."
"Because of his many and effective efforts, the position of dean here is an attractive one."
Al Johnson, associate dean of law, agreed.
"I frankly am sorry to see him go, but he's leaving a
healthy school behind him," he said.
Brinkman said he did not anticipate trouble filling the position by the time Davis steps down.
Davis, who will leave his office on the ninth anniversary of the day he assumed it, said he had decided to leave because he had completed his goals. He said turnover was important in the job.
"These jobs are best done by people who are full of energy and full of new ideas." be said.
Davis said he planned to remain at the law school as a professor. He has applied for a sabbatical for the 1989-90 school year and will return to teach in fall 1990 if the sabbatical is granted.
A law school faculty member since 1971, Davis has taught courses in property and land use and co-taught seminars in the law and religion. He plans to return to those courses.
If a sabbatical is granted, he said, he will spend the time developing a new course for graduating students and expanding other courses. He also plans to write and teach them after being out of practice during his tenure as dean.
Davis became dean in 1980 after six years as University general counsel. He said his goals upon taking the post were to improve the quality of the student body, to retain young professors who were likely to be raided by other universities, to broaden and deepen the fund-raising base and to raise the law school's visibility.
He said he thought the law school had achieved the last three goals and had seen an improvement in the quality of the student body, but not as much as he would have liked.
Student studies church's past
He is most proud of retaining the school's outstanding teachers and recruiting 10 to 12 of the most talented young faculty members in the country, he said.
Writings chronicle history of black Judeo-Christian church
By Debbie McMahon
Kansan staff writer
When Elly Wynia-Trey began her honors thesis in religion last spring, the only clue she had was a brief entry in the Encyclopedia of American Religions.
When she finished this month, she had compiled 90 pages of history about the Church of God and Saints, a book that was one of her greatest works.
The Otawa, Ontario, senior's writings are the first to chronicle the history of the black Judeo-Christian move-
"It was really obscure, but I was very determined." measured Jenkins, who followed in lawrence, and I knew something had to be done.
Finding any reference to the movement was the trick. Wynia-Trey said she spent 60 to 80 hours looking before she found anything substantial. She left Watson Library, the Kansas Collection at Spencer Research Library, Watkins Community Museum and the Lawrence Public Library empty-handed.
Finally, by searching through years and years of Lawrence city directories, she found entries with addresses for the Church of God and Saints of Christ. A barnacle stood at 13 E. Henry St. from 1908 to 1913. Another was located at 1239 New Jersey St. from 1913 to 1917. Wynia-Trey said she went to the addresses but found no signs of any buildings.
Wynia-Trey said the movement no longer was active in Lawrence but was popular among the blacks living here. William Saunders Crowdy, the founder of the church, liked to preach on the corner of Eighth and Massachusetts streets and gained a large following. He went on to found the church in 26 other Kansas towns.
The organization reached its peak in 1936 with more than 213 churches in the nation. It celebrates Jewish holidays but uses both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, and its worship churches still are in operation, most on the East Coast.
Wynia-Trey was allowed to visit its headquarters last spring in Belle View, Va.
"They had never let a history be done before." Wynna Treyla said. "They let me take notes during the service That was a first. There had been some articles written that were very condescending. So they closed the doors."
For her thesis, she said she talked to professors in many different disciplines, such as history, religious studies, Afro-American studies and sociology. She said she was especially grateful to Surendra Bhana, associate professor of history, who wrote letters on her behalf to a colleague in South Africa to assist with her the research.
Tim Miller, assistant professor of religious studies, was Wynia-Trey's adviser on the thesis. He said that the work she did would allow others to expand upon the group.
Wellsville may go to the pigs
Kansan staff writer
By Barbara Joseph
The Wellsville Township zoning board may have opted for pigs instead of mobile homes last night.
The board voted unanimously against rezoning land to make possible a mobile home park and kept the possibility that a resident may turn the property into a pig
The vote, however, serves only as a recommendation to Franklin County commissioners, said Pete Nicholson, zoning administrator.
The hearing was prompted by a proposal from John Fisher, a resident of Wellsville, which is 17 miles southeast of Lawrence. Fisher requested a zoning change from agricultural to residential to put a mobile home park on the 40 acres he owned. Last month he threatened to build a pig farm if the proposal was not approved.
"I'm just trying to save this poor, run-down community," Fisher said before last night's
public hearing.
Fisher said he had planned to block parking to the Wellsville City Hall with a truck filled with pigs and pig manure. He said he would have to leave his residents at $5 anniece to take up seat in the hall.
An estimated 100 people showed up, but because the hall couldn't accommodate them, the hearing was moved to the Senior Citizens' Center about a block away.
Feelings about the meeting were mixed. "It wasn't 100 percent peaceful, but it wasn't crackling with animosity." Nicholson said.
Richeson said his next step would be to file the petition with the county clerk. That action would force the three-member commission to resign. The commission's vote would be the final word.
John Richeson, Ottawa attorney, represented 13 families at the hearing. Richeson presented the zoning board with a petition to approve, but the board rejected it as not valid.
Voter sign-up could aid Margin
High KU student voter registration counts could help Associated Students of Kansas in its efforts to lobby for the Margin of Excel-ness and representative of the campus group said yesterday.
Sherri Sweers, KU's assistant director of ASK, said that about 4,100 students had registered to vote through the group's party, which began Aug. 22 and ended Oct. 18.
By David Stewart
She said that the registration numbers would prove to legislators that students were not in compliance.
"This will help us when we go to lobby for the Margin of Excellence," Swears said. "This shows that students have the interest to vote."
Kansan staff writer
Legislators will decide during the next month that the margin will receive funding for its second year.
The Margin is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring Regents schools to 95
Between August 22 and October 18th, 1,535 students registered to vote at Allen Field House. The following is a listing of totals for each party.
Republican... 399
Democrat... 341
Unaffiliated... 795
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percent of their peer institutions in total financing and to 100 percent of peers in
Registration also was high among the rest
Chris McKenzie, county administrator, said that the number of registered voters represented about 69 percent of the county population, which includes the 500 students in residence halls who were added to the census recently.
McKenzie said that the high percentage of registered voters might indicate that the election will be won.
"The (voter registration) numbers either indicate that we are children, or we have a parent."
Of the 4,100 students that Sweeps said were registered in Lawrence, 1,335 students who registered will vote in Allen Field House, the KU polling place.
Of the 40,574 registered voters in Douglas County, 15,917 were Republicans, 10,556 were Democrats, 20 were Libertarians and 14,081 were not affiliated with a party, she said.
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