The Salina Journal from Salina, Kansas • Page 22

The Salina Journal Thursday, June 17, 1982 Pago 22 EYES ON PASSERBY Although a passing female pedestrian appears to be the target of a lecherous pair of eyes, actually the peepers belong to a sign painted on a fence around a Houston construction site. The sign UPI Photo serves as a lookout for a hotel being remodeled. Fireworks to be highlight of big Skyfire celebration A memorable Fourth of July celebration in Salina is on tap as preparations continue for a variety of holiday events. The annual Skyfire celebration will be highlighted by a fireworks show at 10 p.m. Sunday, July 4, in Ivey Park, preceded by a two-hour concert by the Salina Municipal Band.

The 45-minute fireworks display is expected to be one of the biggest in the history of the four- year-old Skyfire program. funds to support the program are being solicited by the Skyfire Girls, local volunteers who are taking donations at various locations around the city. Other events slated for the holiday weekend: A river race through Oakdale Park. Sponsored by Sportsman Marine, the race will be from 1 to 5 p.m. July 4.

It is open to non-motor crafts and is intended to be "mostly a fun race," according to Skyfire officials. Bluegrass festival. Coordinated by Steve Hanson of S.M. Hanson Music, the event is open to all local "pickers and strummers" throughout the afternoon in Oakdale Park. Church and service clubs will have food booths in Oakdale Park all afternoon.

Skyfire Auto Show. Sponsored by the Mid-America Corvette Association and Midway Antique Auto Club of Salina, the event will be offered in the Bicentennial Center July 4 from noon to 5 p.m., and Monday, July 5, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Entry forms can be returned to the two car clubs, the Chamber of Commerce or the Salina Fire Department headquarters. Skyfire Golf Classic.

This four-man everywhere tourney will be July 4-5 at the Municipal Golf Course. Entry fee is $100 per team, with an 80 percent cash payback. Entry deadline is June 26. More information is available at the golf course. Skyfire Run.

The race will be at 8 a.m. Saturday, July 3, beginning at Jerry Ivey Park. Entry fee is $6 for adults and $4 for those 12 and under. Entries should be mailed to Skip Olsen, 806 E. Minneapolis, Salina (827-8879).

Olympic Torch Ceremony. Runners carrying the Olympic torch from Pikes Peak, to Indianapolis, will pass through Salina. A special ceremony is set for 4 p.m. July 4 at the Government Center commons. School board hears many funds in better shape than expected By KAY BERENSON Staff Writer Salina USD305 Board of Education members got some good news at their board meeting Wednesday.

A number of funds are in better shape than anticipated. Dr. Holland Zier, Title I director for the district, told board members the district had been notified of a five percent cut in Title I funds for next year good news because a larger cut had been Zier said the district would receive $745,000, a cut from last year's allocation but more than the $650,000 the district expected. The funds would be adequate to keep existing Title I programs, including special reading and math teachers in some elementary schools, Zier said. But, he warned, some larger states havo filed suit to force the federal government to use different census figures in allocating Title I money.

That litigation could mean the money will be tied up for some time. The district has enough carry-over money from last year's allocation to fund Title 1 programs for two months at the beginning of the fall term, Zier said. "We hope everything will be settled by then," he said. Summer school doing well Associate superintendent Ed Sherraden told board members summer school is also doing better than expected. "We have over 500 enrolled in summer school and we're operating in the black," he said.

And, while the district's food service lost money this year about $50,000 that figure, too, is better than expected, district business manager Bob Jaggard told board members. Members also heard a preliminary report on the status of the capital outlay fund. Jaggard told the board approximately $685,000 would be available next year for equipment and building projects. That figure includes about $135,000 in unencumbered funds carried over from this year's budget, $500,000 from 198283 taxes and $50,000 in interest revenue. Jaggard suggested a 1982-83 capital outlay budget of $170,000 for instructional equipment, $30,000 for non-instructional equipment, $200,000 for remodeling and repair projects, $100,000 for a reserve fund and $185,000 for special projects including major roof repair, windows and major remodeling projects.

No action was taken on the capital outlay report. Members did approve a proposal to hold high school graduations at the Salina Bicentennial Center again next year and, on a trial basis, to move the Salina Area Vocational-Technical School graduation to the Bicentennial Center as well. Board members also approved a negotiated agreement with maintenance and operations employees, approved contracts for paving at the Salina Vo-Tech and okayed a lease for the Abilene offices of the Central Kansas Cooperative in Education. They accepted resignations from Marlene Merrill, school psychologist at the Central Kansas Cooperative in Education, and from Robin Jankovich, at Central High School. Board studies objectives for 1982-83 Salina USD305 Board of Education members would like to undertake a major study of enrollment projections for elementary and secondary schools in the district to look at possibilities for consolidating schools.

That was just one of a list of suggestions proposed at an open study session of board members Wednesday following their regular meeting. The study session was planned to develop goals for the board for the 1982-83 school year. No formal action was taken on any suggestion, but the ideas proposed are expected to appear on board agendas during the months to come. In addition to the enrollment study, other proposals included: Study ways of grouping grade levels in schools, other than current K-6, 7-8 and 9-12 organization. at amount of class time lost to extracurricular activities.

Study options for food service, including use of an independent contractor. to reduce losses. Investigate additional computer literacy training beginning in elementary school. Develop improved procedures for evaluating teacher performance. Study possibility of rotating principals to different schools on a fixed time schedule.

Improve in-service programs for teachers. Develop a salary schedule for administrative personnel. Develop formal policies and procedures for closing schools and appointing new board members. Consider improving teachers' lounges in the schools. Investigate administrative changes to reduce staff absenteeism.

Review duties of school nurses and consider giving them clerical help. Study ways of involving volunteers and civic groups in operation and funding of some school programs. Find ways of reducing transportation costs for athletic and extracurricular activities. Evaluate the existing programs for gifted students and the curriculum for writing improvement. Consider expansion of alcohol and drug abuse programs.

School notes Russell I-ampton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gypsum, has been awarded a broadcasting scholarship for the 1982-83 academic year at Cloud County Community College, Concordia. ti -tr -fr Maradee Gibson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Russell Gibson, 2043 Marc, has been named to the Dean's Distinguished Academic Honor Ust at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. To be honored, students must achieve at least a 3.8 average on a 4.0 grading scale. Maradee is a senior at Baylor. Local historical policies draft wins approval Salina's Heritage Commission approved Wednesday a draft of policies and objectives of historic preservation. The next step is to present the draft to the Salina Planning Commission at an Aug.

3 meeting. The overall goal, as stated in the document, is "to identify and preserve significant historic resources in Salina as a means of improving the economic, educational, social and aesthetic environment for all citizens." Listed are five principles of historic preservation and five objectives, and 12 policies with which to accomplish them. If approved by the Planning Commission, it will be proposed to the Salina City Commission to become part of the comprehensive plan for existing conditions and future land use. Adoption of the document by the Heritage Commission completes the project agreement with Wichita's Planning Development Services, Inc. It was the Commission's last meeting with the firm's consultant, Tim Hansen.

Salina man guilty of burglary attempt A District Court jury Tuesday took little time finding Ricky Lee Killion, 25, 1720 S. 9th, guilty of attempted burglary. After hearing evidence during the morning, the jury returned after lunch to reach a verdict in about 35 minutes. It found Killion guilty of attempting to break into the Bachelor Inn tavern, 328 S. Broadway, last April 25.

Police officers Tom Miller and Morgan Wright testified they were driving past the tavern early that morning when they saw Killion by the door of the tavern, which had closed for the night. When they circled back, Killion ran, but was quickly captured. The officers found a panel on the front door had been kicked in. Killion, free on $2,000 bond, is to return to court July 12 for sentencing. Members of the jury were: Doniel Bonham 1221 N.

51 Linda Chavez, Salina Rt. Otis R. Gimeson Gypsum; Gerald L. Giroux. 1710 Cloud Circle; Irene Goenner, 834 Scott: Blanche L.

Johnson, 2055 Corsout Court; Sandra J. Kern. 2651 Highland; Gladys E. Moore. 620 W.

Crawford; Carol J. Rice, 1039 N. Santa Fe. Velio Sloan. 1819 Lewis; Roger M.

Turner. 2228 Roach; Ruth Wires. Brookville. Rep. Ott named to interim panel Kansas Rep.

Bob Ott, R-Salina, has been appointed to the Special Committee on Commercial and Financial Institutions by House Speaker Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park, for the 1982 interim session. The committee is studying the structure of financial institutions in Kansas and will examine multibank holding companies, extended service at detached facilities and monitoring federal congressional and regulatory activi- tes which might affect financial institutions in Kansas. Ott serves on two standing House financial committees. Five Salmons joined disarmament rally Five Salinans were among the hundreds of thousands who attended the nuclear disarmament rallies in New York last week. They included Mary Anne Powell, 1022 Funston; Jerald and Mineko Gillespie, 1204 Stapler; Sister Mary Agnes Dreese, Marymount College, and Laura Jackson, Salina Rt.

3. Boyd urges appea of remap decision PHILLIPSBURG The court-ordered reapportionment of congressional districts in Kansas should be appealed to the United States Supreme Court, said McDill "Buck" Boyd, Republican National Committeeman who left for a meeting in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. "I agree that the state party should not appeal," he said. "Time is too short for this election, but far-reaching ramifications are involved, and the Kansas decision will be reported to the national committee for review. If circumstances warrant, and Kansas petitioners agree, the national committee could make the appeal in the interests of all the states." Boyd said that major legal issues are involved.

"Following reapportionment in 1960, a three-judge federal panel approved the principle of county division in order to reach the one-man, one-vote ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court. Following the 1970 election, congressional district lines were redrawn under the supervision of a second three-man federal court panel. Again, counties were divided. A legal precedent was confirmed.

"This year, a three-man panel completely reversed the decision of their predecessors without compelling new legal directives; moved 350,000 people from one congressional district to an- other without the approval of a majority of their elected representatives in the House and Senate; and provided for a greater deviation in population than the congressional redistricting." Boyd said that the various legislatures are given prime responsibility for drawing congressional lines to confrom with the one-man, one-vote rule, and that historically, courts have intervened only when such deviations were out of bounds. "Only a week before the reapportionment case was filed in Kansas, a three- judge federal panel in Michigan ruled that a map drawn by the Legislature, and vetoed by the governor, should stand because it was the product of the elected representatives of the people, drawn in conformity to Supreme Court standards," Boyd said. "The three Kansas judges not only went directly counter to this decision under similar circumstances; they ignored the Kansas precedent set and confirmed by two other three-judge panels of equal stature and jurisdiction following the 1960 and 1970 reapportionments when counties were split. "It is surely coincidental that the map drawn by the three judges is almost identical to that proposed by dissident Democrats and the governor after he vetoed the legislated version. But a 'political flavor' is not the issue.

We are all Kansans and political parties must take their chances." Man held in Salina shootout still incompetent to stand trial It may be another three months before a trial can be scheduled for Randall Caris O'Brien, the man accused of shooting it out with lawmen last summer during a four-hour siege of a rural Salina mobile home. Wednesday, Judge David Knudson issued a court order requiring O'Brien to remain at the State Security Hospital, Larned, for an additional three months for further evaluation and treatment. O'Brien, after being found incompetent to stand trial, was committed to the hospital last March. A report filed by the hospital last week told Knudson the defendant was still incompetent, and asked for a further 90-day commitment. Knudson, in his written order, concluded there was "substantial probability defendant will attain competency to stand trial in the foreseeable future." He then ordered O'Brien to remain at Larned for an additional three months, or until he attains competency.

O'Brien has been arraigned on two counts of aggravated assault of a police officer in connection with the July 29 episode at the home of the Terry Hopkins family, Salina Rt. 1, about two miles west of Happy Corner School and within sight of Interstate 70. He allegedly fired at two sheriff's officers, Deputy Pat Endsley and Lt. Al Augustine, with Hopkins' rifle. He had gone into the home while the Hopkins family was away.

When Mrs. Chris Hopkins arrived home with her two sons, Richie, 14, and Jason, 8, she first went to a nearby corral while the boys carried groceries inside. When they came back out, Richie said there was a man inside the house. The sheriff's office was called, and two deputies arrived to find the man sitting inside with Hopkins' rifle. They called for help and soon a small army of deputies, police officers and Highway Patrol troopers was on hand.

They waited until one saw the man apparently trying to light fires inside the home. After tear gas failed, a fusillade of gunfire drove him outdoors. He suffered at least three minor bullet wounds and was kept at Asbury Hospital for a week while he recovered. Planners postpone plat action The Salina City Planning Commission postponed for 30 days the final plat of Albers Industrial Park, proposed for a nearly 32-acre site between Centennial Road and 1-135. Also delayed Tuesday afternoon was an accompanying zoning request for the site.

The commission also heard from the planning staff concerning a proposed amendment to the city code designed to allow restaurant drive-up windows in certain commercial zones. The commission has tentatively scheduled a hearing on the amendment for July 20. While the proposed amendment doesn't define a drive-up window for purposes of zoning, it deletes sections of the code that prohibit business establishments from selling "food or beverages for consumption on the premises in parked motor vehicles" in C-3 (shopping center district) and C-4 (central business district) zones. The amendment would then permit drive-in restaurants in C-2 (neighborhood shop- ing center district), C-3 and C-4 zones as conditional uses. This will allow the Board of Zoning Appeals to consider each application for a drive-up window on an individual basis.

A change in the code was requested by the appeals board after it denied an application by Taco John's, 303 S. Santa Fe, for a drive-up window In a commercial zone which prohibited such uses. JAYHAWKER PINNED George ft. Smith, 854 Kenison received his 50th anniversary pin from Mrs. Robert Cobb, wife of the Kansas University executive vice chan- cellor, at a reunion of the KV Class of 1932 during Commencement weekend in Law rence.

Holding a citation at left is KU Chancellor Gene Budlg..