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The Inside Front
Wednesday July 7,1999
News
from campus, the state, the nation and the world
CAMPUS
ECM invites donation offers meatless lunch
It's not exactly a free lunch — a $2 donation is suggested — but it is home-cooked and 100 percent meatless.
For the duration of the summer,
all are welcome to stop in for a
plateful of vegetarian fare between
11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. every
Thursday at the Ecumenical Christian
Ministries.
Volunteers prepare the meals, and the menu varies. For more information, call Rebecca Welch, 843-4933.
Lied Center menu lists 'cafe' of song, dance
The Lied Center of Kansas will present "Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller" at 8 o.m. Oct. 27.
Tickets are available through the Lied Center Box Office, 864-ARTS; 864-2777/TTY, Murphy Hall Box Office, 864-3982; SUA Box Office, Kansas Union, 864-3477; KU Medical Center Bookstore; and any Ticketmaster outlet, 234-4545.
The event is part of the Lied center's Cultural Countdown 1999-2000: African-American Influences project.
Kansan staff reports
BB gun accident claims 12-year-old boy's life
STATE
NORTON — A boy was killed in a BB gun accident during the Fourth of July weekend, Norton police said.
Police said Matthew was in the backyard at a friend's home where somebody had a BB gun. Matthew was hit in the head, possibly by a ricocheting pellet from the gun, but police would not say how the gun discharged.
Matthew T. Ward, 12, of Norton, was pronounced dead Sunday evening after being flown to Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Neb.
Entertainment writer, K.C. resident dead at 88
LENEXA — John Quinn, who covered entertainment in the Kansas City area for Variety for more than 60 years, has died. He was 88.
Quinn died Saturday at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
As a writer for the international show-business periodical since 1938, Quinn frequently attended movie screenings and opening nights at local theaters. He continued to file occasional theater reviews despite Variety's reduced coverage of local and regional news.
Through the decades Quinn covered nightclubs, the movie exhibition business, the regional music scene and local television and radio.
He was born in Omaha, Neb., and majored in journalism at the University of Nebraska, where he began writing for Variety.
Quinn, who lived in Lenexa, is survived by his wife of 55 years, Betty Quinn.
NATION
Hot dog-eating contest tastes foul to runner-up
NEW YORK — Is he the weiner, or nothing but a hound dog?
The second-place finisher in Coney Island's annual hot dog-eating contest said he was robbed of the coveted Mustard Yellow International Belt.
Videotape showed Steve Keiner cramming a frankturer into his
mouth just before the gun went off to start Sunday's 1.2-minute food-fest.
Keiner, a 317-pound electrical inspector from Egg Harbor Township, N.J., won by swallowing 20 and one-quarter Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in the allotted time.
Charles Hardy finished a bite or two behind, at 20 franks. He demanded a Labor Day rematch after seeing a videotape by cable news station New York 1. The tape shows Keiner with his lips wrapped around a dog toward the end of the countdown that preceded the word "Go!
Contest organizers say videotape reviews are barred by International Federation of Hot Dog Eating rules.
Keiner denied making a false start.
"Although it appears that Keiner jumped the gun, the decision of the judges is final," Nathan's spokesman George Shea said.
NEW YORK — Inspiration for stylish design often comes from seeing objects in a museum.
African-American crafts highlight museum shows
Two exhibitions at the American Craft Museum in New York highlight African-American contributions to contemporary craft.
On view through Oct. 10 are "Stop Asking/We Exist: 25 African-American Artists" and "Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary Quilts by African-American Artists."
"It has taken a long time to be reminded to look in other places and to be a bit broader in the vision of what is happening," said David McFadden, co-curator of both shows and chief curator of the American Craft Museum.
It's a first showing for many of the artists.
"it's a good first step. Now that it has happened — in the best of all
possible worlds — we won't have to do shows that are ethnically distinctive but will be able just to show the work of those who make quilts and furniture and so on," McFadden said.
Teamsters go on strike protest unfair practices
WASHINGTON — Dock workers and truck drivers at the Overnite Transportation Co. are on strike at six terminals to protest unfair labor practices, a teamsters union representative said.
Approximately 1,400 union workers went on strike in Atlanta, North Atlanta and Marietta, Ga.; Memphis, Tenn.; Kansas City, Mo., and Indianapolis at midnight Monday, representative David Cameron said.
Ira Rosenfeld, an Overmite representative, said all the service centers in question are open and that Overmite did not expect to miss any deliveries or pickups.
The Teamsters claimed to represent workers at 38 of Overnite's 166 service centers, while Rosenfeld said the union only represented the workers at 21 centers.
Cameron accused the company of intimidating and even firing some union organizers working at Overnite, an assertion Rosenfeld categorically denied.
"We've been bargaining with the Teamsters ... and we will continue to bargain." Rosenfeld said.
Cameron said the strike would end when the workers felt their grievances about unfair labor practices were resolved.
The 300-strong mob blocked a road, chanted abusive slogans and threw stones and firecrackers at the police and troops, some of whom were deployed by helicopter to block the group from reaching the Catholic church along Portadown's nearby Gavayhigh Road.
in Portadown's main Catholic district early yesterday.
Six police officers were injured, suffering breathing difficulties after smoke bombs were thrown near them, a police representative said. Two people were arrested, police said.
The trouble was the most serious in Portadown since Sunday's surprise decision by the Orange Order, Northern Ireland's major Protestant fraternal group, not to challenge security forces who blocked their annual parade from entering the hostile Catholic district.
But it was negligible compared with last year, when thousands of Orange supporters menaced security forces in hopes of forcing the march down the disputed road.
The latest trouble began Monday night, hours after the Northern Ireland Parades Commission banned Orangemen from passing Catholic homes.
WORLD
PORTADOWN, Northern Ireland — Rowdy, drunken Protestants attacked police and British soldiers
Sectarian enmity erupts in Northern Ireland riot
An estimated 2,000 troops and police remain around Portadown to prevent hard-line Protestants from entering Gavrany Road.
The 80,000-member Orange Order stages more than 2,000 parades every summer. Catholics, who resent the parades as domineering and provocative, in 1995 began trying to block parades that go through or near their areas
The Associated Press
ON THE RECORD
AMX Radio Shack amplified speakers and a power cord were stolen between 2:30 p.m. June 19 and 6 p.m. June 25 from a sound booth in the Lied Center, the KU Public Safety Office said. The equipment was valued at $219.
A KU visitor's wallet was stolen between 7 and 8 a.m. June 28 from McCollum Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The wallet and its contents were valued at $127.
A KU police officer was dispatched at 6:46 p.m. June 29 south of Wescoe Hall on a report that a KU student was having a seizure. The student refused to be transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
A Lawrence resident's car rearened a Prairie Village resident's car at 9 a.m. June 29 at Memorial Drive and Mississippi Street, the KU Public Safety Office said.
Two posters were torn down between 1 p.m. June 28 and 2:30 p.m. June 30 in room 6011 Haworth Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The posters were valued at $125.
A poster was ripped down between 5 p.m. March 21 and 1:30 p.m.March 31 in the hallway outside of room 6003 Haworth Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The poster valued $10
was valued at $10.
A Lawrence resident was arrested on suspicion of operating under the influence at 2:21 a.m. July 1 at Gower Place and Tennessee Street, the KU Public Safety Office said. The man was taken to the Law, Enforcement Center.
LAW Enforcement Council
A KU police officer was dispatched at 3:16 p.m. July 2 to Corbin Hall on a report that a KU employee was unconscious, the KU Public Safety Office said. The employee told the officer that she had not eaten lunch and was suffering from low blood sugar. She refused to be transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
A video camera, microphone and carrying case were stolen between 4 p.m. June 18 and 8 a.m. June 28 from room 130 Bailey Hall, the KU Public Safety Office said. The items were valued at $651.
■ A glass door was broken between 11 and 11:17 p.m. July 4 at Oldfather Studios, 1621 Ninth St., the KU Public Safety Office said. The door was valued at $300.
A KU police officer was dispatched at 6:33 July 5 to a loading dock south of Malotl Hall on a report of an open door, the KU Public Safety Office said. A KU faculty member told the officer that the screws had been pulled from the door frame. No other damage was found.
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