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Monday, February 13, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Sylvia Porter
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Would-be robber thrown into filling station window
A filling station attendant threw a would-be robber through a glass window and pursued him on foot Saturday night after an attempted armed robbery. Neither the attendant nor the would-be robber were injured.
According to police, the would-be robber, who was identified as Anthony G. Kiossw, 2449 W. 24th Terrace, entered the Kerr-MeeGae station, 930 W. 23rd St., at about 6:45 Saturday night, armed with a starter pallet and used to signal the start of sporting events.
The attendant, Richard, 605 Alabama St., told the police that Klosow was concealing the gun but that he had got a glimpse and realized it was not a handgun.
Richard said that after being ordered several times to give the man the money from the station and lie down, he showed Klossow through the window and pursued
Two men driving down the street saw Richard pursuing Kusow, picked up
heard and continued to pursue Kiosso by car.
The three men saw Kisow hiding behind a house at West 22nd Terrace and Alabama Street. They tackled him and notified the police.
Kiessow, who has been charged with attempted armed robbery, was released from custody after the arrest.
Columnist calls U.S. economically ignorant
Staff Writer
By BRIAN SETTLE
if you have a choice between taking golf
and making economics, you're going to take
golf.
Calling the United States a nation of "economic illiterates," financial columnist Sylvia Porter said Friday that ignorance of economics is the greatest threat to the economy's survival.
Fewer than four of 10 U.S. high schools teach economics courses, she said, and only one has a business major.
"Our illiteracy is a threat to the survival of the system we protest to love so much," she said. "The fear I've always had is that if our system dies, it will be because in our ignorance we didn't know that it was dying or that we were killing it."
Porter was at the University of Kansas to receive the 29th William Allen White Foundation Award for Journalistic Merit. The award is given annually to a journalist who exemplifies White, the former editor of *The New York Times*, professed and country. Clayton Kirkpatrick, editor of the Chicago Tribune, received the award last year.
PORTER CRITICIZED the country's educational system and blamed it for the economic downturn.
The responsibility for giving economies the attention it deserves lies with reporters, editors, broadcasters and leaders of the business and financial communities. Porter
Speaking to about 200 Kansas journalists at a luncheon in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union, Porter urged Americans to protect the free enterprise system by learning more about it and called on journalists and businessmen to lead the way.
Journalists must recognize that stories about jobs, savings and family finance are as interesting as political and other news, and that they may be more important than that their strongest asset is an informed
public, a public that can intelligently powerful role in the economy without government interference.
Besides voluntary wage and price guidelines, Porter said, the nation's productivity rate, which she labeled obscene, must rise and bureaucratic regulations must be reduced to help fight rising prices.
She said the United States would need a tax break, but she criticized President Jimmy Carter's proposed tax cut package that hoodie bodgedge that was too full of penalties.
William Allen White Day guests also heard a tribute to the late Rolla Cromer, long-time editor of the El Dorado Times and one of the three charter members of the William Allen White Foundation, by Clyde Reed, publisher of the Parsons Sun.
also recognized was David Bartel, assistant city editor and city county government bureau chief for the Wichita Eagle and Beacon. Bartel, a 1972 KU graduate, was head of a proposed coal gasification plant in Wichita and won the 1978 Kansas News Enterprise Award for their efforts.
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