Tuesday, January 27,1981 Vol. 91, No.82 USPS 650-640
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Customers in Lawrence Liquor stores are paying more attention to signs such as the one in the above photo. In many of the liquor stores across the state, large windows have been installed to alert customers.
Barrand Retail Liquor Store in the Southwest Plaza, Bob Wind, Lawrence senior prepares to check the identification of Jon Frobish, Lawrence senior.
Fake IDs perplex liquor store owners
By TIM SHARP Staff Reporter
The liquor store clerk looks at the customer and his quart of beer, then looks again at the driver's license he was given to examine.
"Looks old enough," the clerk thinks to
him, and the description fits, so I guess he
can buy it.
The customer pays for the beer and leaves.
The clerk waits on the next customer.
FIVE MINUTES LATER, in a scene repeated several times in Lawrence this month, a policeman comes into the store with the customer. He arrests the clerk for selling alcohol to a minor, a class B misdemeanor. The customer had a fake driver's license.
The clerk is held on a $250 bond. If convicted, he faces a $200 fine, and he will not be able to work in a liquor store for 10 years. Temporary or revocation of the store's license is also possible.
The minor is charged with the purchase and possession of alcohol. He faces a $20 fine or 30
The Douglas County District Court is prosecuting eight minors for purchasing alcohol and five liqueur store clerks or owners for selling them. A local club owner has also been charged.
THE ARRESTS have been made sinec Jan. 15. All involved the use of phony identification. Liquor store owners are not happy with the arrests.
"We should be able to get a good source of identification to help us do our jobs," John Webb, manager of Green's Liquor, 802 W. 23rd St., said.
Webb said Green's policy had always been to check a customer's identification if there was a problem.
HE SAID he didn't like the implication that people in the liquor store business were doing it.
*Why would I risk my license and my store's revenue to sell a ship-pack to someone who wasn't on the deck?*
*What should I do?*
Webb said Lawrence police had been watching his store from around 9:30 AM Street with binoculars.
"They're just looking for me to do something wrong." he said.
HE SAID once police parked in his parking lot
the ID of someone who had just bought
seats.
"that really hurt my business for about an hour," he said. "Nobody wants to come into a hotel."
Webb said that no one in his store had ever seen the police to a minor and that the police had not changed.
William Strukel, chief enforcement officer for the Alcohol Beverage Control division of the Kansas Department of Revenue, said knowing that customer was of age or not was not the question.
"The fact that the sale was made, knowingly or unknowingly, is all that matters," he said.
A CLEKER at Jim Owens' Liquor Store, 620 W. 99th St., said the police also had been watching his store.
"They park across the street or in the gas station and wait for people to come out, then they go inside."
harassed by the police is Charles Boone, of Boone's Retail Liquor, 711 W. 23rd St.
He said another clerk at Owens had been arrested for selling alcohol to a minor.
ANOTHER LIQUOR store owner who feels
"I'm getting pretty goddamned tired of it," Boone said.
Boone said one Sunday night his son was working in the locker store on wine orders when a customer approached.
THE SON, Steve Boone, a junior at KU, let the nolleman in and locked the door behind him.
Two of his clerks have been arrested and each time the minor had a fake ID, he said.
Boone said the policeman wanted to know what he was doing there. Boone explained, but the police were not ready.
While his son was on the telephone telling him about the trouble, Boone said, the policeman let him go.
"One of them was dressed in civilian clothes and one carried a shutton," he said.
According to Boone, the officer didn't say why his son was in trouble. He said the policeman walked around the store and into the back room to look around.
AFTER ARRIVING at his store, Boone said he and the policeman argued about his son working on Sunday. Boone finally told the policemen to get off his property, and they eventually left.
By GENE GEORGE
He said that because of the incident, he had a police car to note each time a policeman came to the store.
Staff Reporter
"They drive into the parking lot and turn off their cars, he said, then they catch my wagon at the customs."
"If this keeps up, I'm going to file an injunction for harassment," Boone said.
Strukel said, "The youth don't realize that they can be arrested just for attempting to buy liquor or selling it."
Death penalty bill to Senate today
TOPEKA-After yesterday's brief hearing on a death penalty bill, members of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee appear ready to pass the bill on the full Senate today.
Chairman Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth, scheduled a vote on the bill for today's meeting. Last Thursday, the committee voted 7-3 to introduce the bill, which reinastes the death penalty in Kansas and is similar to the one vetoed last year by Gov. John Carlin.
Debate at yesterday's hearing followed the same lines as past hearings on the issue the opponents saying the death penalty would not deter crime, the proponents saying it would.
THE BLL calls for death by lethal injection for a person convicted of premeditated murder or murder in connection with rape, sodomy or kidnapping. It also allows for sentencing in a separate hearing and provides for automatic appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court.
Defeted U.S. senatorial candidate John Simpson praised Kansas as a "beacon of enlightenment for not having a death penalty" unlike many other midwestern states.
The Salina Democrat has supported the present parole system called convicted murders, but if state lawmakers wanted a change, he would have to introduce a new murder must wait for parole from 15 to 28 years.
BRINKEL REFERRED to a study that showed that most convicted murderers in Kansas did not get into serious legal trouble when on parole, while other convicted felons did.
Robert Butler, a Topope resident whose daughter was stabbed to death several years ago, died in his sleep on Tuesday.
He said the death penalty would show criminals that the state meant business.
"I demand protection," he said, thumping on the鞋er's stand for added emphasis.
THE STATE can not sit idly by and watch high crime rates move in on Kansas from major cities, he said.
"I don't want anyone killed, I want this crime wave brought under control." he said.
Simpson said, however, that when the state carried out an execution, all citizens shared
Topека Police Capt. Frank Davis, head of the department, said the bill would help control serious crimes.
Davis said if the state had a death penalty, he would not have unsecured manchester man Saturday night, not have burgers.
BILL MCCOY, 51, was found dead outside his Jefferson County trailer. McCoy was killed by a burglar who feared McCoy could identify him, Davis told the committee.
By KATHY MAAG
Staff Reporters
Bill Lucero, Kansas area coordinator for the DEATH nare 5
A trend born of high interest rates and skyrocketing home costs could make apartment living for KU students very expensive indeed.
Condominiums—mult-unit 'buildings similar to apartments—are the rage in many parts of America. The living arrangement is similar to apartments, but condominiums are owned rather than rented by the resident.
Building maintenance is usually done by managers, which allows more leisure time for the residents, according to Andy Galyardt, president of Kaw Valley Management.
CITY COMMISSIONER Marci Francisco is one who draws drawbacks to extensive con-
tinue of the city.
"The city's done a lot for homeowners with our recent issue of mortgage revenue bonds," she said. "Why not do something comparable for renters?"
Francisco expressed concern that extensive condominium development could affect available rental housing. She said Lawrence was aware that such buildings fairly high because of KU student demand.
"If condos catch on in Lawrence, it would
be a real rental property property
unwarranted. Francisco."
r francisco and Commissioner Don Binns were outvoted 3-2 last Tuesday on a rezoning ordinance for Wood Creek Apartments, 255 N. Michigan. The ordinance allows the apartment owner, Modern Management Inc., to convert the buildings to condominiums.
Faculty shortage may limit computer science enrollment
The computer science department may limit enrollment next fall because of a large influx of students.
Wallace said that computer science enrollment in the 1979-80 school year had increased by 15 percent over the previous year's enrollment and by 24 percent over the year's enrolment increase would be the same.
"It's a drastic step, but we may have to limit enrollments unless we get more faculty," Victor Wallace, director of the department, said yesterday.
It will be clear to partly cloudy today with a high in the mid 40s and a low in the low to mid 25s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tomorrow will be clear to partly cloudy, with a high in the low 50s. Winds will be light and variable.
In the last six years, enrollment in computer science has increased 85 percent overall, 75 percent on the junior-senior level and 100 percent on the graduate level. During the same period, senior-level faculty increased only 3 percent, Wallace said.
Wallace said the department would be forced to limit enrollment if only one full-time position was available.
He said that the popularity of computer systems had grown out of the high demand in the job market.
"This year, for the first time, senior-level courses and some graduate courses had to be closed—the number of computer science majors is increasing very rapidly," he said.
Eakin said computer science was the only department in the College to be granted a new freshman class.
Wallace said most lower-level courses were not closed because the department found larger classrooms, which allowed instructors to teach more students.
Linda Eakin, assistant to the dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the College would add one permanent faculty position to the computer science department next fall.
More teachers are needed, he said, especially in the senior-level courses.
The department has requested four additional full-time faculty members based on the per-instructor quotas.
"We're constrained by how much money we get and how much we can give to each department."
Proposed bill to require safety seat
BY BRADSTERTZ
Staff Reporter
Each year hundreds of Kansas children die or suffer injury in motor vehicle accidents and each year recovery costs for each child average $7,000 per year.
Yesterday, Branson presented to the House Public Health and Welfare Committee the drought draft that would make up for the safety seats mandatory for children under five years old.
This year, State Rep. Jesse Branson, D-Maine, made a measure that could lower both of these figures.
"The main goal of the bill is to prevent fatalities of infants and young children," Branson said yesterday. "It would also help in addressing head, neck and spine injuries to children."
Branson said that the bill would help lower the costs of health care. She said the $7,000 in recovery costs per child was an average of $1,632, according to minor lacerations in long-term hospital care.
According to statistics from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the fatality rate for infants under six months of age is nearly three times greater than the rate for five year olds.
Further protection of those infants is Branson's oval.
"The American Association of Pediatrics has made its slogan 'make the first ride a safe ride,' meaning use safety devices 'starting the first ride from the hospital.' Branson said.
She said she agreed with the pitch because
Jessie Branson
behavioral studies had shown that safety was important to the child was accommodated to the seats early.
See BRANSON page 5
Kansas' bill was approved for introduction in the House within the next couple of days. It will be reassigned to committees but then it will be transferred to the Transportation Committee rather than
Three states now have child passenger safety acts and 33 others are working on laws. Rhode Island and Tennessee prosecute child exploitation cases in California violators are issued a warning.
ROB STURGEON, employee at McGrew Real Estate Inc., agreed that more extensive condominium development would boost rental prices.
"If too many are converted, it would cause problems, like it did in California," Sturge said.
"With the rate of inflation, I think it's a good deal." Shuikhbayeh said.
Overenthusiastic condo development has created rental housing shortages in parts of Canaan.
Sturgeon said the condominium market was increasing in Lawrence.
Besides being a good investment, condominiums carry other financial advantages, according to Mary Jane Moore, a tax preparer for H&R Block.
"The demand is getting better and better," he said. "Lawrence did lag behind the national trend, maybe because of the conservatism here."
LAWRENCE HAS FIVE condominium complexes, and plans for others are pending. One complex, Applegate, houses a KU student, Reza Shaikhadezah.
Forer to testify at House hearing
Moore said that a landlord might find the conversion to condominiums desirable if "he wants the people in it to have room."
REGULAR RENT PAYMENTS are not deductible.
"A condo buyer is just like a homeowner," she said. "He can deduct his mortgage interest payments from his itemized tax returns, and he can deduct something that's his. He can build equity in his house."
Shakhladeh, -Los Angeles senior, said his parents bought his $32,000 condominium two months ago.
Norman Forer plans to confront State Rep. Joseph J. Hoagland with the allegations Haagland made on the house floor last week against the governor, House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday.
A landlord converting to condominiums would simply realize a cash benefit, she said. Capital gains taxes would be owed if the owner made more money than the apartments were worth.
Last Wednesday, Hoagland, R-Overland Park, gained the floor and censored Forest, associate professor of social welfare, for his "lack of responsibility" in traveling to Iran.
Hoagland said that Forer should not have expected to find his job waiting for him when he returned, and that the only thing that kept him from losing his job was "the cloak of tenure."
Hoagland then set Judiciary Committee hearings on tenure for tomorrow and Thursday. Hoagland is chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
Forer said the purpose of his testimony was strictly to face Holland.
"If he'll stick to his guidelines and not turn the hearings into a kangaroo court," Forer said, "then I'll make him prove what he said on the House floor. I am not going to testify on tenure."
Although Forer said Hoagland was "holding the University hostage because of the actions of one person, he wanted to clear up the situation," he said it was going to defend tenure at the hearings.
"I am going to defend myself," Foresa said. "I am not there to be tried by Joe Hogstad and, in
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