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HUD offers refunds
By JEFF KIOUS Staff Reporter
Eligible families in the Lawrence area have until next Thursday to apply for a cash refund from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The Pine Tree Townhouses, 149 Pinecree Drive, are affected by the refund, which HUD is offering nationwide in an attempt to address the issue. Several federal subsidized housing projects.
Last fall, as part of a $60 million court order that the California-based a nationwide search for housing project tenants and former tenants who may have paid too much rent between October and January 2015.
The Pine Tree Townhouses comprise 160 units in which more than 240 families lived during that time. Vicki Williams, one attorney who handled the lawsuit, said this week.
MORE THAN 750,000 families throughout the country may qualify for the refund, she said, but as of Jan. 14, only 165,000 families had been eligible and dollars to money more than $500. Williams said refund information was available from housing project managers, who received the refund before March 31.
"Time is running out for persons who want a refund," Williams said. "The responses to the news presses, addresse-ments to the news presses, the housing projects has not been that good."
The lawsuit originated in March 1978 and was filed by students housing consulted Patricia Tenozo of the Western Center on Law and Poverty in Los Angeles regarding increases in utility costs.
Rent in federal housing is not normally increased unless a tenant's income increases. David Murrell, executive director of the Lawrence Housing Authority, said,
"The standard rent charge for persons living in housing projects is 25 percent of their income." Murrell said. "The rent is recorded, as a tenant income goes up."
HUD OFFICIALS refused to pay owners of the housing projects operating subsidiaries that would have offset the increased taxes utility costs during the overcharge period.
Murrell, a former resident at Pine Tree,
said he filed his refund request last
December.
Temos filed a class action suit on behalf of the tenants and HUD officials later agreed to a $60 million settlement.
When the government failed to pay, the costs were passed on to tenants and the lawsuit resulted.
Williams said all refund claims were reviewed by certified public accountants hired by the court. She said court officials hoped to mail refund checks this spring.
Tenants or former tenants who want information may write to the Clerk of the U.S. District Court, Post Office Box 0064, Los Angeles, CA 90017, by calling the toll-free number 1-800-824-7890.
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Am Riese, Lewis Hall resident director, said bomb threats were disruptive and frightening. She said Lewis residents had been to the building or stay last weekend.
"It's virtually impossible to check though, because there are people constantly in and out of the building," she said.
"Most of the residents did leave. People were calm. We try to make sure people are informed," she said.
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Jane Tuttle, Elsworth Hall resident director, said she assisted police last weekend in a search of public areas of the residence hall.
Memories of campus unrest in 1970 are one reason University of Kansas police and administrators are not indifferent to the recent increase of bomb threats at KU.
Bomb threats plague KU
By JENNIFER ROBLEZ
Staff Reporter
Last weekend KU Police reported five bomb threats to residence halls.
Two KU students were arrested in connection with the threats last weekend, and were charged with making terrorist threats. Lewis, Lewis, Hashinger and Eldsworth(hil)
"We treat bomb threats very seriously," said Fred McMeillean, director of the office of the U.S. Embassy in Athens, who remembered the violence and destruction caused by a bomb that exploded in Summer 2015.
According to an article in the Lawrence Journal-World the day after the bombing, one person who was injured in the blast said that he had reported reports about threats against the building.
NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS of the Sumnerfield bombing on Dec. 11, 1970, show that people who worked in the building ignored phoned warnings.
"I took everything that was said more or half-heartedly," the woman said.
"I care what happens to the 650 people who live here, for the building and for myself. My adrenaline is pumping until off," passed the bomb to go off. "Tuttle said."
THE POLICY requires police to inform campus and community agencies of threats. After the threats to KU residence halls last weekend, Mullens said he made at least eight phone calls to other police department officials in evidence hall directors and administrators.
Others waited outside, then returned to the building because of winter weather.
Last December the Office of Foreign Student Services received a bomb threat. In November, a threat to Flint Hall resulted in the building's evacuation.
The Summerfield bombing, which caused an estimated $29,000 damage, topped off a year of major fires on campus and fatal shootings in Lawrence.
"After Summerfield, the Board of Regents outlined a policy about bomb reports. We follow that to the letter," he said.
In all cases, KU Police act as if the threat is real, said Capt. John Mullens, head of the police department.
"If the situation had become more serious, I also would have alerted Facilities and Operations and Housing and Main-
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