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Friday, February 8.1980
University Daily Kansan
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Defense citing Pinto fault fails
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—A woman was convicted of manslaughter in connection with the collision and ensuing explosion of a Ford Pinto that killed two people.
The Greene County circuit jury took five hours late Wednesday to find Nita Dahlgren guilty. She was then sentenced to three years in prison for the August 1979 collision that killed a passenger in the Pinto, Mary Lee Scheidt, 25, of Springfield.
Testimony indicated Dahlgren, 49, had been intoxicated at the time of the accident, a rear-end collision at high speed. The Pitto, which had stopped at a
Defense attorney Jim Kelley tried unsuccessfully to convince the jury in his final arguments that the Pinto itself was defective and therefore Ford Motor
House launches 3.2 beer bill
TOPEKA-A bill to raise the legal age for drinking 3.2 beer from 18 to 21 was introduced yesterday in the Kansas House by Rep. Richard Harper, R-Fort Washington.
This would be the same as the existing legal age for drinking stronger beer and other alcoholic beverages.
Harper said he had been asked to introduce the legislation by a magistrate judge in his hometown.
"He gave me a documented list of 19 cases in the last year of alcohol-related
involvement young people between the ages of 13 and 17, inclusive,
Harpman."
"Most of the cases involved 3.2 beer given to the younger persons by youths in the 18-20 age bracket."
Harper said there was also a problem with youths who came to Kansas from Missouri to purchase beer.
"The minimum age has always been 21 in Missouri," Harper said.
Senate approves usury change
TOPEKA—After two hours of debate, the Kansas Senate unanimously passed a bill yesterday that changes the state's 11 percent usury limit on home loans and replaced it with a floating lien to an inflationary economic indicator.
The bill comes to the floor.
Senate leaders said afterward that bipartisan support could be expected for the measure in the House.
A handful of senators who proposed several unsuccessful amendments to the bill ultimately voted for it.
The lid is connected to an economic indicator designed to raise or lower as changes occur in the cost of money for mortgages. The indicator is the interest rate on a fixed-rate loan.
Topeka Goodyear lays off 150
TOPEKA—A diminishing tire market, a result of reduced auto sales, has prompted the lay off of 150 workers at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plant
The employees will be laid off next Wednesday, bringing to 450 the number laid off by Goodyear since September, plant manager Jerry Wolf said.
Goodyear, Topeka's third largest employer after the State of Kansas and Santa Fe Railroad, had about 3,500 workers before the lavas formed.
The most recent layoffs will be based on seniority, Wolf said, although some salaried and supervisory personnel will also be included.
United Rubber Workers Local 307 vice president Allen Smith said the union had applied for a trade readjustment allowance with the U.S. Department of
To qualify, the union and Goodyear must prove the layoffs occurred because of foreign imports. All eligible workers will be compensated with up to 70% of salary.
The plant manufactures tires for American-made cars and giant earth-moving equipment.
Bundy gets third guilty verdict
ORLANDO, Fla. — Theodore Robert Bundy, already sentenced to death for stiving two university security sisters, was found guilty yesterday of killing 12 people in a shooting at the University of Florida.
The jurors had been sequestered since testimony began two and a half weeks ago after two weeks of jury selection.
Bundy was given the death sentence for the January 1978 murders of two Ohio Omega students officers at Florida State University. He also has been charged with six counts of assault and robbery.
Rock Island may get more aid
WASHINGTON—Rep. Tom Railsback, R-Ill., said yesterday he thought the war administration should press more days to preserve freight service on the Rock Island Island Railroad.
Railshack said he thought Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt "has reconsidered and is now seeking solutions to prevent a shutdown of service."
A meeting will be held in Railsback's office on Tuesday to learn the administration's views on the railroad, he said.
The Interstate Commerce Commission has notified the Kansas City Terminal Inc., which is operating the Rock Island at government expense, that this authorization will not be valid.
...mann said he thought the ICC would reconsider its stand if the administration backed a plan to maintain service on the Rock Island, which has an active ICC presence.
Railback said the administration might support a bill like the one Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, R-Kan., is sponsoring. Her bill would extend directed service for 30 days and furnish a $150 million fund to keep the Rock Island running.
Railbacks took a rival plan sponsored by David Doreen, D-Doka, was not as joad as the Kassaebum bill because it would extend service until August. He
Leavenworth relocates inmates
LEAVENWORTH-A second group of 74 prisoners arrived at the federal penitentiary yesterday from the riot-torn New Mexico State Prison hours after a shooting.
"The 10 remaining have been designated for the federal penitentiary here for now," Luttrell said.
"They will undergo the same procedure," said Mark Luttrell, administrative assistant to the warden. "We try to get them out of here as quickly as possible."
Of the 47 prisoners received Wednesday, 64 were bused out yesterday. Thirty-seven of the federal pentagonal at Torre Haule, Ind., and 28 to the U.S. Navy.
The New Mexico inmates are processed in a maximum security section separate from the other 998 inmates at Leavenworth.
Lutrell said the hospital facility at Springfield also housed prisoners not in need of medical care, and prisoners sent there were not necessarily in bad
He said the prisoners received yesterday appeared to be in good shape and that no medical problems were anticipated.
Kennedy seeks place on ballot
Mary Ritter, assistant secretary of state for elections, said the petitions arrived by mail yesterday. They were made Wednesday from Wichita.
TOPEKA—An official of the Kansas secretary of state's office said yesterday it would take a few days to determine the validity of signatures on petitions to place Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's name on the ballot for the Kansas April 1 presidential primary.
Kennedy's name will not be officially placed on the ballot until the check of the petitions is completed. One thousand signatures are needed to place a candidate.
Ritter said the Kennedy organization would be advised in plenty of time if there was doubt about the verification of signatures so that supporters could enter Kennedy's name by paying the alternative $100 filing fee. The filing deadline is noon Tuesday.
In another election move, Rep. Elaine Hassler, R-Ahlene, said a bill she is sponsoring to move the primaries for Kansas elections from August to September would reduce the "wearing, hectic campaigning" for both candidates and voters.
However, Rep. Vie Miller, D-Topela, said he thought the bill would favor incumbents because "it will make it tougher for people to challenge them."
Bani Sadr attacks rebel stance, bans them from broadcast media
By the Associated Press
Khdafad, who released the release of the hostages from Afghanistan, said the source of the paper, which did not identify the source of its information, said the number of militants at the embassy had been reduced from 400 to 200.
With tough talk and stern action, Iranian President Abdelhaman Bassani Sadr hammered away yesterday at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, where his American hostages might be freed soon.
For the second straight day, the new president blasted the young Moslem radicals publicly as "rebels against the government." The Revolutionary Council, led by Baki Sadr, then decided to restrict the access to national radio and television.
It appeared Bani Sadi tried to undercut the militants' status as revolutionary heroes so that a resolution of the hostage crisis could be worked out behind closed doors.
A Kuwait newspaper, the weekly Al
It said U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim was trying to persuade Bam Sadr to “pressure the students to leave the emirate when they were replaced by regular Iranian troops.”
U. S. officials were cautious in commenting on the Kuwaiti report.
Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher said on NBCVT's "Today" show that the situation was "somewhat promising." Spokeman George Sherman
said the State Department had no evidence to confirm the report. Holding Carter, chief department spokesman, said, "I do not see any imminent release of the hostages."
Carter said the U.S. government was still uncertain about Iran's terms for release of the hostages, who spent their 96th day in captivity yesterday.
Waldheim has tried to work out an arrangement whereby an international commission would be established to investigate the alleged crimes of the deposed shagra's regime, in return for release of the hostages. But U.N. officials said the time has come for the commission to begin its work or after it is completed, unrest unsettled.
Adding to the confusion, some Iranian
officials still say they think the hostages cannot be freed until the ousted Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is returned to Iraq. Pahlavi has been the militants' demand.
In other developments:
"The State Department said the formal application of new U.S. economic sanctions against Iran was being delayed while it would attempt to obtain the release of the hostag.'s.
— Panamanian President Aristides Royo said the shiah could leave that country anytime he desired. Panama's foreign minister has said in a television interview that the government has been prepared for obvious reasons" and that Panama was, in effect, a jail of the oston monastery.
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