The Salina Journal from Salina, Kansas • Page 12

Pg 12 Salina Journal Sunday Jan. 17, 1971 City moves mobile homes up to new respectability By KAHEN LAMUUUT Two proposed ordinances set for public hearing in February would make broad changes in i regulations for mobile homes ami pave (he way for upgrading mobile home courts. The ordinances, nearly a year in preparation, represent the only major revision of such regulations since the era when mobile homes were "tin scorned as residences. The city made some changes in its gas and electric codes, applicable to trailers, and established requirements for anchoring trailers when they were used as homes. But generally, the ordinances did not keep paqe.with the growing popularity of mobile home living.

Salina does not have adequate safety or environmental standards for mobile homes or parks. "A mobile home is a residence," said Tom Darnell, city planner. "Jt should be a man's retreat after a day's work. He deserves the environmental quality as someone living in a conventional home. Darnell said the city's ordinances did not establish park requirements, set only bare minimum standards for safely "and did not even nod to the fact that a trailer could be someone's A public hearing on the proposed ordinances will be at 4 pm Feb.

2 at Government Center. The ordinances would establish zoning regulations for mobile home parks; set design and construction requirements for new parks and expansions of existing parks; establish safety standards and licensing requirements and provide enforcement provisions. Existing parks and their operators will be exempt from the i regulations xiiuler a grandfather clause, 1 said. But they will be wibject to other provisions If they expand or admit new mobile homes to (heir parks. "The city's problem is to insure equal safety, quality nnd durability in manufactured housing as in conventinnnllv built homes," Darnell said; "We don't mobile home factory construction (o insure these standards, as we do for homes built in Salina." "Escape hatch" Darnel) said the mobility factor was an escape hatch from minimum housing and safety requirements and environmental standards.

"These ordinances will make mobile homes conform to the minimum standards we impose en conventional homes, We have also tried to set standards for, the yurd and park surroundings, This is a problem when the homeowner docs not own homesile." Mobile home owners rent a stand and yard space on the park operator's property, "These ordinances are written to serve people living in mobile homes which ihey intend to take with them when they move," Darnell said. "Just because a home is mobile will no longer mean it Is exempt from some minimum standards." Darnell said there is between mobile homes, which move with their owners, and manufactured homes which are moved once from the factory to a permanent foundation. Existing ordinances already cover such housing. "Our first problem was dealing with mobile units and their place in the texture of the com- Darnell aald. ''We have where mobile homes would be tried to establish zoning require- clustered, rather than placed ments wliich will protect both side by side.

The homes would the mobile home owner and residents in adjoining neighborhoods." The zoning ordinance establish a new housing district A-mh, or single-family mobile home. Applying only to expansions or new parks, it estab- lislies minimum park height, density and open space requirements. New park developments will be a minimum of 7 ,4 acres. In conventional parks, where mobile homes stand on adjoining linear lots, the zoning ordinance will require the same minimum lot and yard dimensions as for single-family dwelling zones. Can be clustered The ordinance also will permit planned unit development parks, yards but also communal open have private would share space.

The most significant ordinance, from the homeowner's view, will establish minimum safety and design reqidrements for outside utility connections, water and sewer lines, drainage, soil cover and trafficways. The proposal will give the city inspection powers for any electric, gas or plumbing alterations while the home is in Salina court. The ordinance also will require that utility lines to new mile homes be underground. For basic safety "These are basic safety re quirements to protect the mobile owner, just as con venllonal Iwmeowners are prff- Darnell The city has foind that some of SaHnu's 10 mobile home parks do not meet minimum safety standards, "Some pork operators are voluntarily upgrading, however," said. The ordinances will be presented to city commissioners after the public hearing.

If commissioner! approve them, Darnell believes Salina's existing mobile home parks, although exempt from some of the provisions, will become more attractive. "I am sure we will see park developments, which will have to conform to al! the terms in the new ordinances," Darnell said. "Naturally, people are attracted to pleasant parks, and anyone with $150 can move his home anytime he wants to. Tha others will meet the competition." count up More than 40 feet of tape, holding coins de- Btined for March of Dimes fund, stretches along sidewalk in downtown business district. Fundraising idea was by Salina Sing-Out Volunteer Sue Gile, 330 Sunset watches as Lillian Campbell, 863 Hemlock, makes contribution.

(Journal Photo) Award nominees named by Jaycees Stuff LAWRENCE Karen Park, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Parkj Oakley, has been selected commander of Aagel Flight for tba apring semester at the University of Kansas.

Karen is a junior at KU. Angel Flight is an honorary women's service organization affiliated with the Air Force ROTC. I Steve Cofftnan, Colby resident former Salinan, will be at the Super Bowl game in Miami, Sunday as a reward for his 1970'sales performance as Standard Oil marketing representa- psychology tive In a 9-county area. study. He.

spent Friday and Saturday company guest in Freeport on Grand Bahamas island. Cofftnan is the son of Mrs. Lorene Coffman, 832 McAdams Road, and the late Sheldon Coffman. BROOKVILLE A left-behind dog waited Saturday at the Brookville Hi-Quality Lo-Cost service station near Interstate 70 hoping his masters would return. The dog, described as "collie- looking" by station manager Bill Nelson, did not appear to be in the best shape.

The "hippie- type" owners were driving a small imported sedan. Nelson said he didn't see what direction they'went. They stopped at the station about 2 pm Saturday. the Highway Patrol said it was seeking the owners. Tlie warmer weather Saturday softened the snow enough for artists to go to work.

Among the snow Figures which children created in Salina was Snoopy, the loveable pooch, atop his dog house cursing the Rec Baron. The sculpture in the yard the Marvin Clements home a Custer. Catholic school board backs innovations Innovative education, which will mean some open classrooms and individualized instruction at all grade levels, has been approved by the Salina Roman Catholic school board. The board recently approved a resolution supporting the administration, faculty and staff of area Catholic schools implementing the new plans. Tndividuah'zed instruction will not be new at Sacred Heart high school, said John Burgess, board publicity chairman.

The school has had a varied program of independent study for the past 2 years and this year, has expanded it to include journalism, for awards have been announced by the Salina Jaycees for their annual Distinguished Service awards program Monday night at 7:30 in the Central. High auditorium. Speaker will be Ronnie Aul of Hawaii, national vice-president of the US Jaycees. Master of ceremonies will be Jerry Simpson, Salina attorney. Awards will go to an outstanding young farmer, outstanding young law officer, outstanding young businessman and outstanding young educator.

Also scheduled are "Distinguished Service and Boss of the Year" awards. The nominees: Outstanding young farmer and other areas of Xew program The high school will begin a new program of teachers-as-advisors during the second semesters. Teacher-advisors will meet Doug Forsborg, James Landblad and Gordon Walle. Outstanding young law officer Glenn Kochanowski, William N. Saylor and David E.

Lambdin, all of the Salina police department, and Gary L. Herman, Kansas Highway Patrol. Outstanding young businessman Dr. Floyd Coppedge, William Siebert and Pat Bolen. Outstanding young educator -Lauranell Anderson, Mrs.

Hilma Demaree, Mrs. Delia Simoneau, Floyd Gwin, Mrs. Joyce Lundeen, Mrs. Alice Reulas, Harlan Rimmerman, Mrs. Rose Hieger, Larry M.

Hays, Leonard Gillispie, Mrs. Karen K. Olson. Mrs. Karol Mobley, Gary Sherrer and Dwight Powell.

Concert agency's phone disconnected Walking away from wreckage Air Force and Air National Guard investigators end probe of plane wreckage near Galva. (Journal Photo) The office telephone of the Jlidwest Performing Arts association in Wichita has been temporarily disconnected, according to Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Efforts to telephone Dave Hudson, Wichita representative of the S. Hurck booking and production agency, also have failed. JEPAA is the sponsor of a 197071 concert series in Salina.

Some of the concerts were booked through the Hurok agency. Recently, MPAA reported cancellation of two productions scheduled for Salina and said it replacing them with two with students at least once-each luarter and will work with them conjuncion with the guidance department to insure that each ms an opportunity to participate some form of individualized instruction. Changes also have been made year in the SHITS schedule allow for a total academic clay. Under the program, a student can individualize his program to meet his needs and interests. He can attend the Salina area vocational-technical school or take coliege courses during the regular school day, participate in work-study or distributive education programs, or take makeup classes in areas in which he has trouble.

otber concerts. Unable to telephone MFAA, some Salinans have been calling the Central Ticket Agency in Century II, Wichita. Central handled the season ticket sales for the Midwest Performing Arts association. MPAA, will be Federick Hand, a guitarist who is to perform at 8 pm Tuesday in Salina's Memorial Hall. The Wichita State university chorus and madrigal has been announced by MPAA as the replacement for the Vienna Choir Boys here Apri 1 3.

The MPAA opened its series here with pianist Vnn Cliburn followed by "The World's Greatest Jazz Band." On Feb. 14 the Wichita Symphony chambers orchestra is scheduled. Lindsborg's dancers invited to folk festival Lindsborg farmer is top seed grower in Kansas Can't give refunds Mrs. L. 0.

Grindle, Central Ticket Agency told The Salina Journal Saturday that her agency acts only as a middleman and cannot refund money because it is deposited in the Midwest Performing Arts association, account. The Midwest association recently reported the Royal Winnipeg Ballet cancelled its engagement here and in 2 other Kansas cities because of "splintered stage floors, and inadequate lighting." -MPAA also said performances by the Vienna Choir Boys were LINDSBORG The Lindsborg Swedish Dancers have received an invitation to participate in the National Folk Festival Aug. 26-29 near Washington- D. C. The group plans to begin a drive to finance the trip.

The HUTCHTNSON Sidney Johnson, a Lindsborg; farmer, was named the 1970 Kansas premier seed grower at the Kansas Crop I association (KCIA) annual meeting Friday in Hutchinson. Johnson, a former chairman of the Farmers Union Lindsborg, has 440 acres in crop production on his l080-acre ranch 3 miles southwest of Lindsborg. He averages.260 acres in certified seed production in addition to raising corn, milo and alfalfa and running a Polled Hereford herd in-which over half of the animals are registered. Many improvements Johnson remembers many im- since he began arming about 50 years ago. Wheat yields were small then The McPherson county average ibout' 50 years ago was 12 or 13 You will be nappily surprised.

Classified Ads sell old things. dancers hope to have another group of dancers from Sweden visit Lindsborg for a dance workshop in June. The Dancers also may form a group to sing old Swedish reli gious songs at the folk festival. At conference Harold E. Pierce, distric manager of the Metroplitan Lift cancelled due to European com- Insurance company's Salina of 16 5 i lice, was in Chicago last week to The replacement for the Royal the annual meeting Winnipeg Ballet according to midwestern territory managers Pfione-lecture courses offered Six courses will be offered at Alaf-ymouat through the Kansas State university Tele-network's telephone-lecture system, beginiiigi: Monday.

Storytelling and Business Law I undergraduate courses; Speech Pathology in the Public Schools and Introduction to Occupational Education are for undergraduate or graduate credit; and Adult Education is offered credit only. ggji-credit courses are Understanding Current World Issues and Parents' Seminar '70-71. Details about the courses are a a i a from Dr. William Hupp, Marymonnt education dc- iiarfrncnt chairman. Professor dies William Cholla, professor tr special education at Kansas Stale university, died Thursday evening In Manhattan.

Dr. Cholln taught the graduate corn-He, "Education of Ex optional Child," nt Marymount during the fall semester nisfaels. County farmers now av erage from 30 to 35 per acre. He went into certified whea seed production in the 1940's. Since then, he said; researchers have improved seed resis-' ance to disease and gotten in- "reases in yields, better milling uality and better straw.

He started certified wheat production when Comanche, Pawnee and Triumph were "Pawnee was a very yielder," he said. 1 "I remember one year I had 160-acre field planted north, of our house, and we had a dry winter arid a- dry "In the first week of May, .1 rode, through that field on horse- jack, and you couldn't have hidden a jackrabbit on 160 acres. 'On May IS we got a good rain, and when I combined that wheat it was only about one foot tall but it made 16 bushels to the acre, "Miracle wheat" "I think that is the year they called it the Miracle Wheat." In the last decade, Johnson has sold over 10,000 bushels of certified wheat seed and 13,000 bushels of uncertified seed. Pilot might Have survived if plane hadn't tipped GALVA Peter N. 'Madelans, Aurora, may have died because he ejected from his Air National- Guard Super Sabre while the troubled plane was flying on its side.

His plane crashed about 6 miles north of Galva Friday afternoon. Madelans and a pilot in another plane were returning to McConnell AFB at Wichita after a train'ng flight over the Smoky Hill bomb range southwest of Salina. John Peterson, a McPherson hunter, found the pilot lying ahout 100 yards northwest of "the Capt. Madelans was apparently alive after striking the ground but died shortly after a helicopter ambulance had arrived. Officers at the scene said the pilot probably -would have survived if the plane had been in an upright attitude so that the ejection seat was fired upward.

The seat, propelled by small rocket; is designed to give the pilot enough altitude to permit his parachute to deploy. A tight circle A farmer, J. C. Alexander, The Super Sabre apparentlj crashed upside down, tall plowing about a 30 foot long furrow before rest of the aircraft hit. Wreckage wai' scattered about 250 years southwest from the impact point! Officers eaid Capt.

Madelans may have tried to bring tht plane in safely, then realized at said the plane was on its left the last minute he could not and side as flew a tight circle ejected. Capt. Madelans was a member around his house before it crashed three-fourths of a mile away. possibility that Capt. Madelans may have ejected sideways at an altitude estimated to fee about 100 feet would menn the parachute would not have had time to deploy.

of the 127th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the Kansas Air National Guard, based at McConnell. Survivors include the widow, Dale, and 3 children. a 1 a i ast of McPherson. Wichitan again will head state Saddle Horse group Western Kansan Roy Fisher gets a top academic job The water's too hard Miss Budweiser is used to a slightly softer form of wetness. But Howard Lichlcnwaltcr, who stopped Friday night in Salina while lowing the boat from St Louis to Seattle, tries out a little of the kind.

The 200-mph racing craft is the reigning 2-time unlimited hydroplane champion of the American Power Boat association. (Journal Photo) Cleo Ray, Wichita, was reelected president of the Kansas Saddle Horse association Saturday at a board meeting in Salina's Holiday Inn. The meeting preceded an association dinner, dance and awards banquet at the inn. Others elected by the board were Art Wilson, Salina, first vice-president; Richard Schmitt, Marysville, re-elected second vice-president, and Robert F. White, Wichita, secretary-treasurer.

Board members named Elected to the board of directors were Bill J. Scott, Spring Hill, a new member; Mrs. II. M. Bruce, Wichita, re-elected; Ger- Sharon Springs man re-elected TOPEKA Howard C.

Wilson, Sharon Springs, Friday was re-elected to a 3-year term on the Kansas State Board of Agriculture at the board's annual meeting in Topcka. Elected board president was Jack E. Bcauchamp, Ottawa. Leaves hospital ANTON (0, Tex. (AP) Former President Lyndon B.

Johnson was discharged Saturday from Brooke Army General Hospital nnd doctors" sold was in good condition. he aid Peterson, Shawnee, re-elected; Don Cathcart, Lawrence, reelected; Mary Lou Funderburgh, Wichita, new; Virgil Combs' Wichita, re-elected, and Howard Bevelhymer, Wichita, re-elected. Appointed by the board to fill the unexpired term of H. J. Bullard, Shawnee Mission, who resigned, was Dr.

Corbin Robinson, Lawrence. Saturday night, about 120 association members attended a buffet dinner and dance. Sunday ther will be a general business meeting at 10 am and the awards banquet at noon. Awards for 1970 are to be given the top 5 winners in various events. Burns to death in wrecked car KANSAS CITY AP- Bnice Allen Jones, 24, of Platte County, was burned to death Saturday while a police officer, who pulled Jones' companion from the fiery wreck of his car, was unable to reach the victim.

In serious condition at a hospital with burns over 30 per of her body was Mrs. Charlotte Bye, 19. Police said Jones' car left 400 feet-of skid marks as it left a county road and umashcd a tree, catch'ng into A Western Kansas native who is remembered by one of his college professors as a "friendly, popular" person has been named to the prestigious job of dean the school journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Roy M. Fisher, who was born in Stockton and grew up in Belleville and Mankato, will take the position effective April 1.

Ralph Lashbrook, former head of the journalism department at Kansas State university, Manhattan, was teaching journalism when Fisher was at Kansas State. "One of the best" was a good student," Lashbrook said, "one of the very best." Fisher, currently editor of the Chicago Daily News, graduated from Kansas State college in 19-10 with a bachelor of science degree in industrial journalitm. While at Kansas Stale, he was euitor of the school newspaper and was office assistant and Nat onal Youth Administration assistant to Lashbrcok. Both Fisher and his younger brother were at Kansas State. Low hudjct Since their father was a small- city Methodist minister who was receiving a yearly salary of abcwt $1200, the brothers wnre in school on a low budget, Lashbrook said.

A graduating, Fisher worked for the Hastings, Tribune ond the Pratt Daily Tribune, He served in Ihc Nav, during Wot Id War 2. M. Fisher In 1945, he joined the staff of Daily News as a reporter and in 1948 studied ns a Nicmann fellow at Harvard, returning to the Daily News. In 1960, Fisher was named managing editor of the Daily N'cws and then executive editor of the World Book Kncyclopcd'a. He returned to the Dally News in 1DG6 and was named executive editor nnd vice-president.

Laslibrook visited Fisher In Chicago severs! years ago. "He wn.s friendly niul warm. Most of tlic people he worked with called him hy hifi name," Lashbrook saM. "Kan tttfl "lie did run a light ship, trough. was obvious who was! l.nm.n.

(boss. He is one of our most din-1 tinguished graduates and we'rt ery proud of him." Fisher, who succeeds Milton Jross, acting dean since the re- irement of Dr. Earl s. English ast July, will be the 5th dean in history-of the school, one of Jie nation's largest and best known. As acting city editor of Daily News in 1930, he helped dU rect an investigation of Illinois State Auditor Orville Hodge which exposed the looting of the state treasury and won a Pulitzer Prize for the Daily News.

Church women to Lindsborg LINDSnORG The exccutiv. board and district chalrrrcn ol Lutheran Church Women in Lutheran Church In America Central SUtes Syviod will meet Monday through Wednesday al Bethany college. special Rc.sskm on world missions will precede the opening Monday of iho wies of meet ii-a of the executive board of church women's orRanhntion. After the meeting end on a "Design for I-carninu" workshop Is sched- UlCfl. Mrs.

Christimi Swenson. of first j-Lindsborg, is ronllnnlor of lornl nienls for lious'ng and i hospitality. 'Ihc synod ul UK- In- chiilcK duirclies i.i Kmwis, Oklii- onil moil oj.