FBI Continues Hunt for Twelve 'Top Ten' Fugitives
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Ten Most Wanted" list is currently overflowing its quota of desperate individuals are beginning to take a place on its rolls.
The FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list now has 12 names. When the list was first published in March 1950, 10 criminals were considered the most dangerous to the public were placed on the list, Paul Young, special agent in charge of the Kansas City, Mo., division of the FBI, said recently. The list also contained more than 10 names because of the nature of various crimes, the viciousness of the criminals and the danger to the public.
THE FIRST woman to be put on the "Ten Most Wanted" list was Ruth Eisemann-Schier, charged in the Barbara Jane Mickle kidnap case. She was
placed on the list Dec. 28, 1968, and remained there until her capture by FBI agents at Norman, Oklahoma, on March 5, 1969.
Marie Arrington, charged with the manslaughter of her husband and the murder of a lawyer's secretary in Florida, was the second woman to be put on the list. She was placed on the list May 26, 1989, and then she was removed from the list reduced the present list to three women.
The fugitives on the FBI's list have several characteristics and habits in common. They will travel as far as possible and will use numerous disguises.
After a person commits a criminal act, he wants to get as much mileage as possible between himself and the scene of the crime. Young said. The Top Ten Crimes that were arrested an average of 966 miles from the point where the crime for was committed.
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JAMES RINGROSE holds the record for direct distance traveled from the crime scene by a Top Ten fugitive. He was apprehended March 29, 1967, in Osaka, Japan, 7,015 miles from New York City, N.J., and sought for interstate fraudulent checks.
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case of California prison escape and bank robber Charles Gove, who was executed on November 14 in a Murray Grass thrash on Bourbon Street in New Orleans about 1,900 miles from the escape site. He was arrested Feb. 16, 1966. He was also added to the "Ten Most Wanted" list.
YOUNG SAID a person could be placed on the "Ten Most Wanted" list and the assistance of the FBI could be requested by local authorities when some evidence has been obtained. State lines to avoid prosecution for murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, mayhem, burglary, rape, kidnapping, extortion accompanied by threat of death, or attempting to destroy property attempting to destroy property by fire or explosion, inciting a riot or an attempt to
commit any of these crimes. The FBI can also be brought into action to find a fugitive who flees across state lines to avoid giving testimony in a felony conviction, or to confine him after having been convicted of any of the previously stated crimes.
THERE HAVE been 315 fugitives on the "Ten Most Wanted" list since it was first published. A total of 293 of those fugitives have been arrested. Of those apprehended, 177 have been arrested by FBI agents, 69 have been arrested by local authorities, 36 have been joint arrests and 11 have been sent to prison for suicide and process was dismissed on 10 because their cases were no longer prosecutable.
No criminals, originally on the "ten Most Wanted" list are among the present
fugitives, Young said. The last man removed from the original list was Henry Mitchell, wanted in connection with a Williston, Fla., bank robbery. The federal police station where Mitchell was dismissed on July 18, 1986, when one hundred ONE HUNDRED and one Top Ten fugitives have been apprehended as a result of information provided to local authorities or the FBI by alert citizens, Young said. These arrests resulted from publicity concerning the fugitives, which appeared in newspapers, magazines, on radio programs and from the wanted posters distributed nationally by the FBI.
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82nd Year, No. 112
Friday, March 31, 1972
Erich Segal, Jim Ryun Run In Lawrence
Kansan Photo by MARC MAY
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Two-Way Traffic Called to Halt
Traffic Control Plan To Alter KU Streets
One-Way Streets Proposed
Jayhawk Boulevard will be one-way and have parking meters . . .
BY RICHARD COOLEY
Korean Staff Writer
A new traffic control plan which would turn Jawahry Boulevard and Memorial Drive into one-way streets and place four to five hundred parking meters on campus currently being formulated by the University of Kansas Parking and Traffic Board.
Some of the major changes included in the proposal are making Memorial Drive one way west from Mississippi to West Campus Road, making Jayhawne Boulevard, was east from West Campus Road to 1410 St., and installing a 25-call tent mile at
Robert Malinowski, assistant director of the library and chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board, confirmed Thursday the plan was being formulated, but said details would not be released until next week.
Family Fights State School Funding
By KAREN KLINKENBERG
The Serranos in California and the Caldwells in Desoto Kansas have something in common. They both do not like the state methods of financing public school funds, but Supreme Court said the method of funding education by local property taxes was unconstitutional, in desoto the debate has just begun. If the same ruling comes in Kansas, it would be a case that could alter the character of public education today.
In Serrano v. Priest the California Supreme Court said, "A public school financing system which relies heavily on individual students from among individual school districts in the amount of revenue available per pupil for the districts' educational grants." It discriminates against the poor and less privileged. Fourteenth Amendment." In other words,
they said that a child's education could not be based solely on the property his parents owned or on their wealth and that when local property taxes funded the largest part of public education, many children were deprived.
IF THIS CALIFORNIA decision is upheld in the State Supreme Court, the entire system of funding public education could change.
But it is significant, according to Richard Hatley, assistant professor of education, that in this decision the court told the legislature that they have two years to create a new system or the court will find one. Whereas in California the
Similar decisions have been reached in other states, and over 30 suits are being heard by the United States Supreme judge panel in the federal court also concurred that such a method of funding education was unconstitutional as it related to the equal protection clause, and that such cases were not upheld.
IN DESOTO, KANSAS, the James Caldwell family has filed a suit of a similar nature attacking the financing of schools in which their children attend school.
courts ruling was referred for a decision to a lower court. It is the opinion of some judges that the appellate court had a possibility of going straight to the U. S. Supreme Court without going through the federal appellate court system because one of the judges on the three-panel committee had been indicted.
Mrs. Caldwell said, "We pay so much here, and we are not getting that much back." The Kansas Association of Teachers would join them in the suit. The suit was filed in behalf of the Caldwell's two children, Michael, a junior high school student and Michele who is in the elementary school. Filed in December 10, 1971, the suit was against the State of Missouri for district, and others named in the petition.
Senate Revives Power Of Publications Board
"The responsibilities of the publications board under the ASC constitution were wiped out when the new Senate came out in 1986 and that was not "asn't been active for about three years."
The Student Senate Publications Board, a body that has existed for years yet has been inactive the past three, will begin functioning again after new members are appointed when the Senate reorganizes next week.
HOUSE, WHO was chairman of the old board, said his board worked with the Communications Committee in preparing the bill the Senate approved.
The bill gives the board the right to oversee the financial management of student publications of groups that receive funds from the Senate.
House said part of the reason the board was being revived was due to the financial crisis.
HOUSE SAID there were "constantly little hassles" involving minor student issues. He said groups oftensigned printing contracts that they did not understand, and that the board wanted to "check its contracts and make sure it was getting a fair deal."
John House, Raytown, Mo., senior, said Thursday that the new board replaced an ad hoc committee created by the old All-Student Council.
The petition, which was filed in Johnson County District Court, stated the complaints in the suit. It alleged that the Kansas Constitution and protection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and sections one and two of the Kansas Constitution of Rights by establishing a school system with "of fiscal neutrality in education" by the financing of public school children's education based upon the wealth of the child's family, his school district or another than the state of Kansas as a whole.
The Kansan receives about one-third of its operating funds from the Senate, and he said the Senate would only look at how its allocation was spent.
Also to be affected by the board is the University Daily Kansan, but House said the board's concern with expenditures by the Kansan would be limited.
The board's membership, as stated in the bill, will consist of five members of the student body and a chairman appointed by the president with the consent of the Senate.
"We want to protect them, but also encourage them to work on their own," he said. "It's not going to be a takeover by the Student Senate."
"The Student Senate bears the liability for any losses by the yearbook, and it took a while to realize that."
Alton Thomas, University architect,
confirmed Thursday that his department
had completed preliminary cost and
feasibility studies on the project and said
the findings would be presented whenever
Malinowski requested it.
A spokesman for the Student Senate Transportation Committee, however, said he had learned some details of the plan and proposed to eliminate it from the campus bus system.
The board would try to get the yearbook table under sound financial control, he said.
MALINOWSKI WOULD neither confirm nor deny the information, but said details of the plan would probably be made public. The student's Office is Student Executive Committee (StudEx).
THE METERS would be installed free of charge and a percentage of the revenue from them would go to the company which is responsible for the payment would go to the Traffic and Security division.
when the Senate passed a bill March 1 that created a new board and made it a subcommittee of the Communications
"Right now students and faculty are assigned to one, and if they can't park there for some reason, they have to park elsewhere. We will welcome you. We hope the new plan will give faculty and students a wider range of courses, and we believe the permit they will purchase," he said.
to eliminate as far as possible the need for special permits."
The plan also calls for changes in parking permits designed to give students and faculty wider choice of parking areas, Malinowski said.
THE PETITION also alleged that under this financial system in 1970, approximately 65 per cent of all Kansas educational revenues were raised from the taxation system and from the system of school financing, the petition continued, school districts created by the state had widely varying amounts of taxable wealth per pupil. In 1970, they adjusted valuation to approximately $4,000 adjusted valuation per pupil to approximately $15,155 per pupil.
Malinowski said the need for the changes had grown out of the lack of parking facilities at Wesoe Hall, the building that was constructed on Jayhawk Boulevard across from Strong Hall. The original plans provided parking space for 150 cars in the building, but because of excessive construction costs the parking facilities had to be scrapped.
As a result of such differences in wealth, the petition stated, the school districts have widely variant expenditures per pupil of similar age and grade levels. These range in Kansas from a low of $1,048 in Salem to $2,144/74 in Mukwau. In Des Moines the average per student is $7,746 and the per pupil expenditure is $608.95.
Malinowski said his committee had been studying budget problems connected with the project and had found that the plan "is feasible as far as budgeting is concerned."
concerning education. Because substantial disparities in the quality and extent of available educational opportunities exist in districts of Kansas, the petition said some children did not receive educational opportunities made available to children attending public schools in Kansas, where they were state.
A second part of the suit charged further discrimination by the financing system. The Caldwells and people in a similar position, according to the petition, are taxed more heavily than other persons upon the same valued property in order to keep them away from education in their school district. In Desoto the general operating mill is 614.93.
THE CALDWELLS and others in a similar position, the petition continues. The judge will adjudicate.
"Our next move will be to present details of the plan to StudEx and SenEx and get their reactions and suggestions," Malinowski said.
The spokesman for the Student Senate Transportation Committee charged that the new plan, if enacted, would seriously impair the ability of students probably kill it. He said as a result of the re-designed traffic flow, bus service would be reduced, costs would go up and the faster traffic resulting from the plan would be reduced in bus boarding and departing from buses.
The Kansas Association of Taxpayers Inc. is the second party in the suit. They are a non-profit Kansas corporation organized to protect their members against theft of taxes and to just legal protection for the property owners of Kansas.
MALNOWSKI ADMITTED the plan would force changes in bus service, but said he did not think it would eliminate service altogether.
"THAT MEANS we're going to have to squeeze all of the people who will be using Wescoe Hall into present parking facilities," Malnowski said. He said the Parking and Traffic Board had realized some time ago that changes were going to be required, and had begun formulating plans.
The Parking and Traffic Board, under Malinowski's leadership, initiated the planning. John Thomas, director of Traffic and Security, and Keith Lawton, vice chancellor for physical plant, were also involved.
"I think buses will be able to adapt to our plan fairly well," he said. "There will naturally be some problems, but I don't think it will eliminate buses at all."
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Malinowski also said bicycle traffic had received top priority in the committee's planning and every effort had been made to facilitate bicycle traffic in all directions.
Malinowski pointed out that one of the problems with parking and traffic control was that there was no state money available.
THE ADDITION of parking meters would not only raise much-needed revenue for the department but also eliminate the system of guest perimia, he said.
Asked about the installation of parking meters on campus, Malinowski said the plan called for "four or five hundred parking units" in campus, from dormitories to the union."
He said the meters would be placed in 'high-turnover guest areas in an attempt
KU Group Debates Insurance Plan
By CATHY SHERMAN Kansan Staff Writer
An optional Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance plan, chosen by the Student Senate Student Services insurance plan subcommittee, will be offered to University students for the second year at fall enrollment.
Options and changes in the current Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance plan were discussed Thursday by members of the insurance plan subcommittee and representatives from Blue Cross-Blue Shield. The final plan is to be submitted to the Senate for review at the end of April, 2015. Topics to promore and chairman of the committee.
The plan most currently favored by the subcommittee is one similar to the University Blue Cross-Blue Shield plan of 1968-69, which would probably increase insurance rates with a few more options, and would cover more student needs. Allen said.
THE FAVORED PLAN would include full coverage in a semi-private hospital room with no deductible charges in Watkins Hospital and $25 in other hospital. The current plan allows $30 a day for semi-private room charges.
Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of
Watkins Memorial Hospital, said that full room charge coverage was preferred, because a $30 a day room rate allowance is required in many other hospitals are much higher.
There would also be full prescription drug coverage in the favored plan instead of a regular prescription.
Bill Seilen, representative from Blue Cross-Blue Shield, said the costs of birth control pills and insulin would also be higher. But many people were not aware of this.
ONE OF THE MAJOR points of dispute in selecting the options in the final plan will be the maternity options, Dr. Schweiger said. Maternity coverage will be contested, Dr. Schweiger said, because any options finally chosen by the Senate would have to be paid for by all students and parents. Schweiger said he thought many students would balk at paying for maternity coverage that they would not use.
The current plan does not have any maternity coverage Dr. Schwegler said, because in the previous year a majority of the student senators had ruled out the maternity coverage and instead couldn't afford it with maternity coverage expenses, he said.
Dr. Schweiger said that some sort of maternity coverage was important,
however, because many students had asked for it.
MATERNITY COVERAGE in the plan would cover hospital and doctor's fees for both infant delivery and abortions, and any pregnancy and delivery complications, depending on which deductible option was chosen.
Alen, said the selection of the options in the final plan would have to depend on the results of the experiment.
Alen said she would like to get more students involved in selecting the insurance plan options. She said it was important for the Senate to be aware of the number of students who would actually benefit from the various options.
The subcommittee will present a preliminary recommendation at the Senate meeting on Wednesday, Allen said, and she also said she hoped that students interested in the insurance plan would come to express their views.
The insurance plan subcommittee was just recently formed and members chosen two weeks ago, Allen said. In previous years, the Student Services Committee selected the insurance plan, but more recently, the plan had been accomplished in a subcommittee devoted exclusively to the insurance plan, Allen said.