University Daily Kansan, April 3, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Teaching assistant gets threat
When a teaching assistant asked his students to turn in their homework assignments Monday, he received not only the assignments but also a terroristic threat, the KU police department said yesterday.
Police said the teaching assistant received a note at 2:20 p.m. which said, "You're next. You could be the next victim of a battery."
l. t. Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman, said that a similar incident had occurred last year.
"It's not the first time this has happened," Longaker said. "But it's not something that happens frequently."
Longaker said police would speak with the teaching assistant to try to get more information for their investigation.
The U.S. Committee for UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is taking applications from KU students to fill a new student position in the organization.
The U.S. Committee has started the UNICEF Campus Ambassador program and wants a 1985-86 campus ambassador at the University of Kansas. The ambassador would organize fund-raising and awareness activities at KU.
Interested students may send a resume and a brief cover letter stating interest to Campus Ambassador Program, U.S. Naval Academy, 331 E. III. 801, New York, N.Y. 10016.
Man charged with assault
A 24-year-old man was arrested Monday night on a felony charge of making terroristic threats and misdemeanor charges of assault and disorderly conduct, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Police said David Waddell, 1614 W. 25th SL, had been following his ex-wife and her boyfriend Monday evening.
About 11 p.m. Waddell got out of his car and attacked the boyfriend in the back yard of a house in the 900 block of Illinois Street, police said.
By the time police arrived at the house, the boyfriend and another man and woman had Waddel under control by holding him down on the ground, police
Run to benefit teen program
Waddell was taken to the Douglas County Judicial-Law Enforcement Building where he was booked into jail.
A benefit run for Shelter Inc., a residential emergency program for adolescents, is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on Monday, May 28, 2016. Real Estate Inc. office, 1605 Kassold Drive
Entries for the 6.2-mile race must be postmarked by April 20. The fee is $7 for individuals or $6 for a person registered with a family. No registration fee is required for the one-mile fun run, which is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.
Members of the KU women's and men's basketball teams and staff will participate in the morning's events.
High technology forum topic
One night's free lodging and dinner for two at the Holiday Inn Holidone. 200 North Duluth Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55413.
"KU and High-Tech: Illusions and reality," is the topic of the University forum scheduled at 11:45 a.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1294a
Ed Meyen, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, plans to speak at the weekly luncheon about the developments in high technology that have occurred in the last five years at the University of Kansas.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and very mild, with a high in the mid to upper 70s. Winds will be from the southwest at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thundershowers tomorrow. The low tonight will be around 50, and the high tomorrow will be around 70.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press international reports.
Committee agrees to raise drinking age
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Negotiators from the Kansas House and Senate reached a tentative agreement on a bill to raise the legal drinking age to 21 after two meetings yesterday.
But when the House-Senate conference committee meets again at noon today it still will be deadlocked on provisions of two bills that would get tough on drunken drivers and would enact liquor by the drink if it were approved by the voters.
The committee hopes to shape a compromise on a group of liquor bills, including a resolution to amend the state's constitution to allow liquor by the drink.
Yesterday morning, members of the conference committee agreed to a drinking age bill that would raise the legal drinking age for 3.2 percent beer on July 18, and increase it each year until July 1, 1987, when a person would have to be 21 to purchase beer or alcohol.
BUT WHEN THE committee met again in the afternoon it was not able to reach an agreement on two provisions in a bill to
strengthen the state's drunken driving laws. House and Senate members of the committee also remained apart on a yet-to-be-drafted bill to enact liquor by the drink.
One point of contention is a push by House members on the committee to do away with Class B clubs. Class B clubs operate for profit and can only serve liquor by the drink to members and their guests.
Class B clubs that earn 50 percent of their sales from food may enter into reciprocal agreements with other such clubs that allow members of one club to be members of the
State Rep. Richard H. Miller, R-Wellington, said that by eliminating Class B clubs, voters would have a clear choice they wanted their counties to be wet or dry.
"ALL THE ARGUMENTS have been that the people want to vote." Miller, a conference committee member, said. "We want people to understand that's what they're trying to do."
"If they vote that they don't want liquor by the drink, then all the would have would be involved."
But State Sen. Edward Reilly, R
Leavenworth, and the other senators on the committee have said their opposition to ending the Class B club laws was nonnegotiable.
"The Senate will absolutely not buy the ending of the club law," Reilly said. "If that's going to persist then we'll go home with nothing and deal with this again next year."
There are more than 1,300 private clubs in Kansas, Reilly said, of which more than 900 are Class B clubs. He said as many as 350 have classes that counted against liquor by the drink.
"YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT putting a lot of people out of work and we're not going to be a part of that." Reilly said.
House and Senate members of the committee also disagreed on a proposal to move up club closing hours from 3 a.m. to 1:30.
they also could not resolve differences on the drunken drive measure. The House version of the bill required an automatic 30-day driver's license suspension for first offenders. The Senate members have called for a two-week suspension.
The House version also prohibits drunken driving offenders from entering into diversion agreements when their blood alcohol
content is more than .15 percent. The Senate asked for a .20 percent cutoff.
Miller said efforts to forge a compromise on the drunken driving provisions failed. The Senate members rejected a 21-day minimum suspension period and a 175 percent limit on driving. The House turned down Senate efforts to reduce the 21-day suspension to 14 days.
The drinking age bill endorsed by the committee would also:
*Allow 18-year-olds to work in private clubs.
- Allow 18-year-olds to sell 3.2 beer in grocery stores and to serve it in open containers in restaurants that receive 50 percent of their sales from food.
- Allow Sunday sales of 3.2 beer after 1 p.m. Sunday sales would be limited to carry-out sales and sales at conventions
- Allow the Board of Regents to designate a non-classroom building at each state university where alcoholic beverages could be served.
- Allow beer and liquor deliveries on election days but still would not permit beer and liquor sales while the polls are open.
Culture Farms given permission to operate
By SHARON ROSSE
Staff Reporter
Culture Farms Inc., a Lawrence company, yesterday was granted permission by a Shawnee County District Court judge to continue operations despite a cease and desist order issued against it last month by the state securities commissioner.
Judge James Buchele made his decision after hearing testimony Thursday from Culture Farms Inc. officials and the securities commission.
Buche denied a motion to lift a temporary restraining order, which prevented the securities commission's cease and desist order. Securities Department, 2220 Delaware order, from taking effect.
Neil Woermann, spokesman for Attorney General Bob Stephan's office, said he did not know what action the attorney general's would take in response to Buchelle's ruling.
David Darby, assistant general manager for Culture Farms Inc., said in a prepared statement, "The court found that the commissioner had failed to demonstrate that continued operation of Culture Farms would irreparably harm the citizens of Kansas.
LARRY CHRIST AND Craig Stancliffe, attorneys for the securities commission, and David Plinsky, attorney for the attorney general's office, will discuss tomorrow what action the state will take. Woerman said.
"In addition, the court concluded that if Culture Farms were required to cease transacting business during the pendency of a reorganization, it would suffer irreparable damage."
Culture Farms officials were pleased, but
not surprised by the court's ruling. Darby said.
THE CEASE AND desist order issued by John Wurth, state securities commissioner, last month stated that Culture Farms Inc. and Activator Supply Co. of Las Vegas had sold unregistered securities in the form of activator kits, operated as a pyramid-Poni scheme and made numerous misrepresentations to consumers.
Pyramid-Ponzi schemes, which violate the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, use money from new investors to pay returns to previous investors. They rely on an endless supply of new investors to continue and don't sell any product or service.
In issuing the order, Buchele was granting a request by Culture Farms and Activator Supply Co. The two companies had filed the complaint against Wurth, saying Wurth didn't make a sufficient showing of facts to justify his temporary cease and desist order.
The hearing resulted from a petition by the securities commission to overturn Buchele's restraining order.
Activator Supply Co. sells the kits for $350 to consumers, who then mix them with milk and cheese to grow bacteria cultures in their homes. Culture Farmers, Inc., which employs about 120 people, buys the harvested cultures from companies that supply the kits to Cleopatra's Secret, a Reno, Nev., company that manufactures cosmetics.
Two professors from the University of Kansas are conducting research and quality control work on the bacteria that Culture Farms buys from consumers.
The professors are James Akagi, chairman of the microbiology department, and Delbert Shankel, professor of microbiology.
Shawn Lewman, Hutchinson junior, shows off some fancy Frisbee catching in Pioneer Cemetery. Lewman said yesterday that he and his friends played Frisbee in the cemetery every warm day.
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Consumers warned of 'Watts Line hustlers'
By SHARON ROSSE
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence police department and Consumer Affairs Association have received about five reports this week from people who were called and offered a free trip to Hawaii if they could verify their MasterCard numbers.
Cynthia Harris, Consumer Affairs counselor, said yesterday that a consumer had called her last week asking about a company called Executive Gold Card of Canoga Park.
Harris said the consumer talked by phone to an employee of the company and was offered the free trip to Hawaii if he gave his credit card number and its expiration date.
"We call them Watts Line hustlers," she said.
Detective Francis Alexander, Lawrence police department, said police were not sure whether Executive Gold Card or another company had called the people who had asked police about the offer.
Although Harris said that she had received only one call about this particular company, she said that telephone credit card frauds were not uncommon.
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LAWRENCE POLICE said they also had received complaints from people who had been called by a company offering them an all expense paid trip if they could confirm their credit card numbers.
"It is never a good idea to give out your credit card number," Alexander said. "We just want people to be on the lookout and ask questions before they just give out their
Alexander said police were not calling the offer fraudulent, but wanted consumers to realize that such schemes existed.
ONE OF THOSE who received a call was Rick Rosenshein, KU police department investigator.
Rosenshein said he had received the call Saturday night, but he said he didn't hear the name of the company or the man's name.
"He said he had my name, address and phone number on a computer printout sheet," Rosenshein said. "He said I didn't have to buy anything. I only had to get credit card number and expiration date from the store. I told him I didn'g give that information to anyone."
Neil Weoerman, spokesman for the state attorney general's office, said credit card fraud schemes had grown within the last few years because of the increased use of credit
"At one point, we started to keep a list of every company we found doing this." Woerman said. "We had about 150 names on the list in about six months."
WOERMAN SAID THE companies usually used the same gimmicks to lure consumers into their scheme.
for other reasons.
They usually say you have won some
prize and request the credit card number to verify you as the winner or to cover postage and handling," he said. "But the postage and handling is usually greater than the value of the prize.
"They may say you won a personal computer, and it turns out to be a calculator. Or they say you won a motor boat, and it's a rubber raft with a battery powered motor the size of a hair dryer."
Harris said people would send large sums of money for postage and handling and never receive the prize or receive a low quality prize.
"PEOPLE THINK, HOW can they say this if it's not true?" But once they get your number, they can start charging all kinds of things to it."
"Sometimes the package will come, but it will be weighted down with bricks — and no gift," she said.
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