KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, April 16, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 134 USPS 650-640
Search for killer continues
BY CINDY CAMPBELL AND TIM SHARP
Staff Reporters
Baker Carl, Overland Park union, answered a knock at his door in Jayhawk Towers early yesterday evening. Two policemen, one in a car, stood outside, were standing in the doorway looking in at him.
"Before I knew what was happening, they were flashing badges and asking me questions about my roommate," he said. "I didn't know what was going on."
What Baker didn't know was that the two KU police officers were following up on one of the only remaining leads in the March 20 double murder by lying at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
That lead is a description of the assailant's car that was given to police by hypnotized witnesses.
THE OFFICERS ASKED Baker questions about his roommate, Brad Wille, also an Owner of the Lodge.
"They asked me if he had short hair, if he owned any firearms, if he wore a wig, did he ever go into Kansas City and other questions about his description," he said.
Detective Sergeant Michael Riner and Patrol Officer Steven Mooney, both by the KO Police Department, eventually explained to Baker that an officer shot and killed Mr. Mooney, described by witnesses of the Med Center murders.
The witnesses, who volunteered to go under hypnosis so that police could obtain information, had been instructed not to leave the building.
Nova, according to Gerald Darner, Lieutenant of detectives of the KU police force at the Med
Willie drives a 1972 dark green Chevrolet Nova.
AFTER QUESTIONING Baker, the officers went to the gas station where Wille worked to question him.
"A guy in a dark blue suit asked me one question and left. 'Wille said.' I got so nervous that I can't even remember the question now. I must not have fit the description, though, because he didn't even stick around or look at my car.
"It just scared me most of all."
So far the checks have been futile.
DARNER SAID THAT after running a computer check of Kansas vehicles, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation found that there were more than 300 '71 and '72 Novas in the 50-mile
The investigation covers Lawrence, Kansas City, Kan., Kansas City, Mo., Bonner Springs, and will soon include Topека. Local police are cooperating with the KBI in the investigation.
Police have checked out more than 200 Novas to come up with any leads yet, according to Darner.
"It's a matter of elimination, really," he said.
"It's the only thing we have to go on now. We're no further now than we were when we started driving. We're just checking out every possible avenue."
DARNER SAID investigators had pursued about 200 leads but had narrowed them down to checking out cars matching the description.
He said the KBI had no reason at all to suspect a KU student.
The killings occurred when a lone gunman entered the emergency room of the Med Center with a shotgun and fired two random shots into the room, killing a doctor, Marc Beck, 25, and a female bystander, Rugh Tybolt, 54. Both were from Kansas City, Kan.
Several other shots were exchanged between the assailant and the police in the emergency room after the shooting.
"The whole situation took only 10 to 15 seconds," Darner said. "We've tried to run down every person that could have possibly been around at the time, but you've got to understand that that emergency room is like Grand Central Station."
Police released a composite drawing of the suspect March 31 based on witnesses' descriptions, adding that he was 25 to 30 years old with a small build, dark complexion and dark brown hair.
AFTER THE SHOOTINGS, witnesses described the killer as being 6 feet tall with medium- to shoulder-length dark hair, a mustache and several days of beard growth
JVJ decides not to appeal zoning veto
By DALE WETZEL
Staff Reporter
Lawrence's long-running suburban mall issue has apparently reached the end of the track-for now.
Jacobs, Viscisons and Jacobs, which recently had its rezoning application for a 61-acre south Lawrence law unanimously rejected by the City Commission, will not be pursuing the matter in court, according to Richard Zinn, JVJ's Lawrence attorney.
"I don't think there'll be an appeal—no, there
won't be an appeal." Zinn said yesterday. "I don't think he will be any different from yesterday as far as I am aware."
Zinn and Don Jones, JVJ vice president for mall development, had refused to discount the possibility of legal action after the commission, which was hearing, vowed 5-0 to deny JVJ's rezoning request.
THE CLEVELAND firm had sought to rezone the 35th and Iowa streets tracet so the firm could develop a $55,000-square-foot suburban mall at the site.
JVJ, which, according to Jones, had invested
$300,000 in the rezoning bid, had contended that the mall would create 700 to 850 new jobs and between $11 and $14 million in new wages, in damage to Lawrence's downtown retail district.
The contentions were disputed, however, by the city planning staff. In a voluminous report, the staff contended the mail would seriously interfere with the area, cause urban sprawl and strain city services.
Jones could not be contacted for comment yesterday, but Zinn said, "I'm sure he'll merely echo what we've just told you.
See JVJ page 5
University workmen were kept busy along Jawahawk Boulevard this week as they attached Kansas Relays banners on the light poles. This year is the first time the banners are being used to advertise the 56th annual track meet.
Maha Dyuti Dasa, a member of the Krishna Consciousness movement, chants and plays kuraataisa (hand cymbals) while another devotee plays a Mrdanga, an Indian-style drum, in their Lawrence apartment. The Lawrence chapter of the Krishnas sponsors a free vegetarian lunch every day at its headquarters at 934 Illinois St.
Krishnas introduce beliefs with low-key presentation
By EILEEN MARKEY
Staff Reporter
On an unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon in early April, the 900 block of Illinois Street is filled with the sights and sounds of neighborhood residents.
Bicyclists pedal by on the uneven pavement, and joggers trot on the cracked sidewalks. A man pushes a manual lawn-mower, as its blades whirl through the grass leaving behind paths of neatly trimmed green carpeting.
Across the street, inside a new, light-grey building, three men sit cross-legged on the carpet of a sparsely furnished apartment. A small tuff of hair crowns the top of their otherwise clean-shaven heads, and they are all clad in nale, peach-colored garments.
Playing musical instruments, the men begin chanting, "Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare."
THE MEN are devotees of the Krishna Consciousness movement, which advertises in the Kansan personals and offers free vegetarian meals with "no strings attached." They have been operating in the Lawrence area since March 1, the group's leader said.
Maha Dyuti Dasa, a 32-year-old devotee and leader of the trio, said yesterday that the free meals were a means of introducing Krishna philosophy and to vegetarian food.
"We are trying to re-awaken people's God-
consciousness," he said. "People have foretold God."
Visitors to the apartment are ugged to contribute money to the movement, which is supported by the rent.
Eight or nine people usually attend the free lunches each day, and between six and 10 participate in each weekend feast, Maha Dyuti said.
"Some people come to lunch almost every day and never donate a penny," he said.
ALL THREE DEVOTEES attended college at one time, but they don't like to discuss their past. Maha Dyutn has been involved with the organization for 50 years. He grew up in the Pacific Northwest.
The three devotees advertise free lunches during the week, and two feasts during the weekend. The advertisement does not mention the Krishna organization Maha Dyuti said, because he fears it would scare people away.
"People are scared to death of us. I try to be more low-key so I don't frighten them," he
"In the earlier days of the movement we were much more overbearing. Since then, we have learned to be more patient."
Although the lunches are more casual, visitors attending the weekend feasts are exposed to the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. The mantra frees the mind from the anxieties of life in a material world, Maha Dyati said.
SUNDAY the four outsiders at the feast
KE KRISHNAS NAP page 5
Coaches say papers may spur gambling scandals
Bv TRACEE HAMILTON
Associate Sports Editor
Many big-city newspapers may be contributing to collegiate athletic gambling scandals by printing the daily betting lines, according to several coaches.
"Some people see the lines, and that triggers the idea," Marv Harshman, outgoing president of Nationals, National Coaches, and reteeder, "People who regularly gamble can get the spread from their bookies.
Harman, head coach at the University of Washington, said that perhaps the easy access to football was part of the problem.
"But the papers say that there's people who bet occasionally. They say the demand is there."
HANSIMAN SAID the NABC had asked the Basketball Association to express its disapproval of papers that run betting lines.
writers usually promised to do so, Harman said, but nothing was done about it.
"In the two games they are talking about, the point spreads were beaten in both of them," he said. "It's when people come in under the spread that they get upset. The spreads in those games were printed beforehand—everybody knew what had happened and they had any idea unless they were printed."
Missouri coach Norm Stewart also commented on the availability of gambling information in a statement made after Missouri was named in a possible FBI investigation into "possible irregularities" in several Big Eight basketball games.
Harsman said that while he did not know the number of alleged point-shaving cases the FBI investigated, he said that he thought the number was high.
"We asked a member of the FBI in the area to come speak at one of our meetings." Harshman
said. "Listening to him, it seems it's very widespread, and the point spread is the area where the manipulation could occur."
That's exactly what is rumored to have happened in the Feb. 6 contest between Missouri and Iowa.
Athletic Director Bob Marcum has denied there is an FBI investigation into the Kansas-Missouri game. Stewart calls the alleged investigation into MU's Feb. 21 game with Nebraska a "witch-hunt." The Big Eight Conference can't confirm or deny any of the rumors.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association did say that the FBI had requested information on the MU-NU game and also the Oklahoma State-California game Feb 14. The Big Eight Conference has affirmed that no requests were made concerning the Kansas team.
No matter. Whether point-shaving or game-fixing actually occurred in Big Eight games, the
problem is as widespread as the love of sports itself.
THE POINT SPREAD is the margin of victory the favorite is supposed to have. The favorite covers if it wins by more than the spread. The favorite fails to cover if it loses or wins by less than the spread. If the team wins by exactly the screwd one wins.
As of now, the only procedure that anyone is sure the FBI is using is the viewing of game screens.
The NABC was asked by the NCAA to view game films and offer opinions on "possible irregularities," the FBI put it. Harshman said his group voted to do so.
mig to the ground.
"I don't know what to look for," he said. "I've never looked at a film for that purpose. It would be difficult to base a case just on the films."
PETE AXTHELM, a Newsweek columnist and gambling writer for Inside Sports magazine,
See GAMBLING page 10
Weather
It will be most cloudy today with a
morning shower, and a good chance of
morning showers.
Winds will be out of the southeast at 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight skies will be clear with a low
cloud and winds will be out of the south
at 8 to 16 mph.
Tomorrow will be mostly clear with a high around 80.