CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 29, 1985
Page 10
Costs of Stephan lawsuit to rise
By United Press International
Taxpayers will be spending far more than has been publicly acknowledged for a sexual harassment lawsuit that named Attorney General Robert R. Blythe the chief defendant, the Wichita Eagle-Beacon reported yesterday.
Nearly $15,000 has been paid to private attorneys whom Stephen hired for his defense. Neil Woerman, a key Stephan aide, earlier this month told legislators that taxpayers would be charged $12,000 to $14,000 in legal fees associated with the lawsuit.
The Eagle Beacon, however, reported that Woerman's estimate did not include the cost of paying the salaries of at least four assistant attorney generals who worked on the case between late 1982 and this spring. In addition, the estimate did not take into account the work by
private attorneys involved in the case between mid-1984 and this March.
STEPHAN IN March announced that he had reached an out-of-court settlement with Mareia Tomson, a former secretary in his office who in 1982 fitted a $750,000 sexual harassment case to him and two members of his staff.
Neither side has disclosed the specifics of the settlement. Stephan insists that he did nothing wrong and that the lawyer was used to pay for the settlement.
The Eagle-Beacon reported that it would be impossible to determine how much time the assistant attorney generals spent on the case, because Stephan's office does not keep detailed records of such work.
Woerman told the newspaper last week the $12,000 to $14,000 figure is not complete. He said he did not know what the ultimate cost to taxpayers would be, but said that the amount would be known soon.
BECAUSE THE suit was resolved out of court, Stephan did not have to detail for legislators the nature of the charges against him. A lack of information would be made public.
Former Attorney General Vern Miller said it was not unusual for the attorney general's office to hire outside legal help. Miller, a longtime Stephan ally, briefly represented the former judge in the Tomson suit.
"The reason is that you just don't have the staff to handle the necessary duties and litigation that takes place." Miller told the newspaper.
MEANWHILE, HOUSE Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, and Senate President Robert Talkington, R-Iola, say controversy surrounding the settlement is prompting them to take a closer look at running for the Republican nomination for governor in 1986.
Stephan is considered a likely candidate for the GOP nomination.
By United Press International
TOPEKA - Despite chopping more than $80 million from Gov. John Carlin's budget, the 1985 Legislature received guarded praise Saturday from the governor.
"School finance and educational funding aside, for all practical purposes this Legislature adopted my budget," Carlin said.
New state budget satisfies Carlin
The Legislature approved a number of Carlin-backed plans, including proposed constitutional amendments for property tax classification and liquor by the drink. Other Carlin-supported proposals adopted by the Legislature included a bill to begin a long-overdue statewide reappraisal, legalization of multi-bank holding companies, a state water plan, and a ban on the under
ground burial of hazardous wastes.
TWO SORE SPOTS for Carlin in the 1985 session were a school finance dispute and the demise of a program that would have used state tax credits to encourage lenders to reduce interest rates on loans to hard-pressed farmers and school finance.
Carlin affirmed Saturday that he would carry out his threat to once again veto the Legislature's school finance formula.
After Carlin vetoked an earlier school finance bill, lawmakers came up with a second plan that would allow most school districts to increase their budgets by up to 5 percent next year. Poorer districts could increase their budgets by up to 6.5 percent.
Under the school finance plan sponsored mainly by the Legislature's Republican majority,
districts could raise property taxes by nearly $44 million statewide. Along with the Legislature's $30 million in additional aid for school districts, the plan would teach teachers raising averaging 7.2 percent.
LATE IN THE session, after he veiled the Legislature's first school finance bill, Carlin backed off from his original proposal to set budget limits at 6 and 12 percent. That Carlin plan, combined with a requested $60 million in new state aid to schools, would have provided raises for teachers of an average 9.5 percent.
While the Legislature worked to come up with a second bill, Carlin said he would sign a measure setting the budget limits at 5 and 8 percent, if $$10 million in additional state aid to schools were added into formula.
Rain causes washout, forces train off tracks
By United Press International
DURHAM — Washed out train tracks, deluged with more than 7 inches of rain, caused the weekend derailment of three locomotives and 4) railroad cars, officials said. Two people were injured.
Railroad salvage crew from far away as St. Joseph, Mo., and Tuba, Okla. worked through the weekend to clear the cars and locomotive of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway station. An expected cleanup was expected to take a week.
The deraliment occurred at 12:20 a.m. Saturday in central Kansas between the tiny Marion County communities of Durham and Tampa, a rural area 50 miles north of Wichita, shortly after the area was drenched with heavy rains, officials said.
THE NATIONAL Weather Service reported more than 7.5 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m., and more than 6 inches fell late Friday and early Saturday.
"This was an unexpected occurrence," said Jim Johnson, spokesman for the railway. "We had no forewarning of it."
The 69-car train, traveling at 50 miles an hour, originated in Los
Angeles and was bound for East St. Louis, Ill., on the Cottonbelt route.
"The engineer saw up ahead that the under portion of the track had been washed out." Johnson said. "He was watching it and, but, was unable to stop the train."
Two crewmen inside the lead locomotive were injured when it rolled onto its side.
Engineer William Bosley was admitted to Herington Community Hospital with a broken collarbone and brushes on his back and chest. AD Swift was treated at the hospital for cuts and brushes and released.
THE DEREAILED CARS were hauling various types of freight, including copper, automobile parts, butter, carrots and frozen vegetable.
"We don't know how much of the lading can be salvaged," Johnson said.
He said company railroad crews from Hutchinson, Herington, Topeka and Kansas City, Kan., as well as crews from railroad derailment services were using heavy equipment to lift the locomotives and cars back onto the track.
"We term it as a washout," Johnson said.
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