University Daily Kansan, April 9, 1985
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Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Firefighters hose down the smoldering roof of a house at 3422 W. 10 St. Terrace. No one was injured in the fire at the residence of John and Cindy Gress on Friday, but the fire caused $63,000 damage.
Electric blanket cord sparks bedroom blaze
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
A Good Friday fire caused $63,000 damage to a two-story house owned by John and Cindy Gress, 3422 W. 10th St. Terrace.
The Gresses and their two children were not present at the time of the fire.
Fire Cap. Monte Pearson of Fire Station No. 3 said Friday that an electric bedroom cord in a basement bedroom was responsible for igniting the blaze. The fire was reported at 9:52 a.m. Friday.
Three fire trucks responded to the fire, and firefighters had the blaze under control by 10:08 a.m.
After starting in the basement, the fire broke through a window and spread up the front of the house. Fire Chief Jim McSwain said. The flames damaged a portion of the roof and attic on the front of the house.
Fire damage was confined to the basement of the house. McSwinan said, but the entire house suffered smoke and water damage.
An attached garage, containing a new car, received only minimal smoke damage.
Eagleton is comfortable after attack
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., suffered a mild heart attack during the Easter weekend and is recovering at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, his office announced yesterday.
The senator said the incident had prompted him to kick a heavy smoking habit.
Eagleton, who has announced he will not seek re-election, is 55. His term expires Jan. 2, 1987.
A statement from the senator's office said Eagleton, 55, was admitted to the coronary care unit of Bethesda Naval Hospital Friday evening after experiencing severe pains in his upper back.
On completing his term, Eagleton will have spent 18 years in the Senate plus four years each as Missouri's lieutenant governor, attorney general and St. Louis circuit attorney.
The senator's office said Eagleton would remain in the hospital for observation for 10 days. After that, he planned to participate in some of his Senate duties for four to six weeks, his office said.
Eagleton was first elected to the Senate in 1968 but is best known for being George McGovern's first running mate in the 1972 presidential campaign against President Richard Nixon.
The senator's office quoted Dr. Bruce K. Lloyd, chief of cardiology at the hospital, as saying Eagleton suffered an "uncomplicated mild pneumonia" in 10 p.m. Friday. He is resting comfortably and in excellent spirits."
John Austin, a spokesman for the senator, said Eagleton frequently had been calling his office and was generating a lot of work.
However, two weeks after he had been selected, it became known that he had undergone shock treatment for depression.
After first insisting he was "1,000 percent" behind the Missouri senator, within two weeks McGoyen yielded to the insistence of campaign leaders and asked Eagleton to withdraw. He was replaced by R. Sargent Shriver.
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KCC blasts Wolf Creek builders
By United Press International
TOPEKA — The staff of the Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday said utilities building the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant should pay the price — more than half of their investment — for "presidence" in continuing work on a plant that should have been hailed in 1981.
staff working on the Wolf Creek case, estimated the cost of the nuclear plant would rise to $3,000 billion if he were not in charge which he indicated is not certain.
In testimony pre-filed yesterday, the KCC staff declared that less than half of the investment in the Wolf Creek Generating Station should be borne by ratepayers. Staff attorney Robert Fillmore told a news conference that meant utility shareholders should bear the cost, even if it meant reducing dividends.
Fillmore, coordinator of the KCC
"IT IS OBVIOUS the final cost of the Wolf Creek Generating Station will exceed the current $2.9 billion obligation date for the plant is uncertain."
The KCC staff, which is employed by the Corporation Commission, generally is to represent the public in utility rate cases.
The commission has scheduled hearings next month on Wolf Creek and the rates of the three utilities that own it — Kansas Gas and Electric, Kansas City Power and Electric, Kansas Electric Power Cooperative.
KGE AND KCPL declined comment, but KGE said that the full facts of the matter would come out in KCC hearings.
KGE and KCPL each own 47 percent of the plant. Preventing them from recovering costs from ratepayers would result in a shift of that burden to shareholders. Kansas owns 6 percent, has no shareholders, so the amount is to be shifted from consumers is limited.
BECAUSE ADDITIONAL, testimony remains to be filed in the rate cases, staff spokesmen said it was impossible at this time to predict how much would reduce the proposed would reduce the rules proposed by KGE, KCPL and KEPCo.
KEPCo is seeking a one-time increase of $27 million - a 40 percent increase in wholesale rates to its 25 member rural electric cooperatives.
Jackson protests foreclosure
By United Press International
PLATTSBURG, Mo. — A protest led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson failed to halt the foreclosure of a northwest Missouri farm, but the presence of the civil rights leader sent optimism to the hundreds protesting the sale.
"We must rise above white race and black race and save the human race," Jackson told a racially mixed farmer in support of farmer Perry Wilson Srl.
Despite a 2%-hour pre-sale rally, the Kearney Trust Co. purchased Wilson's farm in an auction outside
"We may not be brothers and sisters in the law,but we are brothers and sisters in survival."
the Clinton County Courthouse,
where a month ago the sale of
Wilson's other farm land turned
violent.
Farmers from a six-state region, union labor members, ministers and urban blacks from the Kansas City area, attended the sale and rally Monday. Some watched the peaceful street protest from their cars or storefronts, while others joined in the rallies from second-floor windows.
PLATTSBURG IS about 45 miles north of Kansas City.
After the sale, Jackson, flanked by Wilson and his wife, led hundreds of people, arm-in-arm and singing, through downtown streets of the tiny community to protest the sale and symbolize urban and rural unity.
"I say keep the grain, save the farmer and export Reagan," he said, drawing cheers from the crowd. "We draw cheers from the farmer. We cannot do without the farmer."
JACKSON CRITICIZED Reagan for refusing to supplement the farmers and for asking for millions for the MX missile.
During the sale, a few in the crowd attempted to outbid Kearney Trust, which holds a note on the Wilson property and made the first bid of $75,000. But because no one came forward with the cash to buy the property, they gave more than 120 acres and a farm house, the bank trustee declared the auction over and sold the property to Kearney's last bid of $95,000.
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april 9 JACK BRIAR - Speaker 7:00 pm, Parlor C, Union
april 16 LOCAL OFFICER ELECTIONS 7:00 pm, Union
april 19-21 STATE CONVENTION Lawrence Holidome
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