University Daily Kansan, March 29 1985
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Stephan defends use of state funds in suit
By United Press International
TOPEKA — In a letter to a House subcommittee chairman, Attorney General Robert Stephan reacted angrily to charges that his office acted improperly when it used state funds to defend Stephan against a sexual harassment lawsuit.
"I resent the attempt, for partisan political gain, to warp the concept and right to legal representation for all state employees who become the subject of lawsuits in their official records. I think the case in a letter to Rep. David Louis, R-Shawne, chairman of a House Ways and Means subcommittee.
Stephan was sued for $750,000 in 1982 by Marcia Tomca, a former secretary in his office who claimed she was fired after she objected to what she said were Stephan's responsibilities to her. Also named in the action filed in U.S. District Court in Topeka were Stephan's former first deputy,
Robert Alderson, and former executive assistant, Betty Johnson.
Stephan said criticism of his decision to use state money to hire outside legal counsel for his defense was a "baseless attack." The attorney general said using his own staff for the defense would have been a conflict of interest, and included with his letter to Louis a nine-page list of other cases in which outside counsel was hired to defend a state official or employee against a civil suit.
Louis, who heads the subcommittee charged with reviewing the fiscal year 1986 budget for the attorney general's office, yesterday told reporters at an impromptu news conference that he found nothing improper about the $12,000 in state funds used to defend Stephan in the lawsuit.
Although Stephan agreed to settle Tomson's lawsuit out of court, the attorney general continues to maintain he is innocent.
ABOUT $10,000 OF equipment,
including 16 electric motors, two
air compressors, a 1984 Big Red
Honda three-wheeler, cutting
torch and portable welder were
stolen between 5 p.m. Tuesday
and 7:30 a.m. Wednesday from
Greenwood Resources, two miles east and one and three-quarter miles south of Baldwin and U.S.
Highway 56, the Douglas County
sherriff's office said yesterday.
Greenwood Resources is an oil company based in Colorado. So far, police said, 56 items have been discovered missing.
A 14-KARAT GD necklace
with a one-tenth ounce
Krugerrand African coin, valued at $200, was lost or stolen between
March and April of 2007.
block of West 10th Street, Law
police said yesterday.
ON THE RECORD
TWO VALVE COVERS, two
trombo oil-filler caps, eight spark
plug wires and eight wing nuts for
the valve covers, with a total value of $196, were stolen between 7 p.m.
Monday and 5:30 p.m. Wednesday from a car parked in the 1200 block of Prairie Avenue, police said.
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A Haskell Indian Junior College student was struck by a car Monday as he was riding his bicycle on the duetsetts street, Lawrence police said.
Vermont Street when a black 1948 or 1958 Camaro pulled up beside him. Someone in the car told the cyclist to "off" and throw a glass of water at him.
The student was taken to the Haskell Junior College Clinic, where he was treated for cuts and bruises, and released, police said.
The student pursued the Camara on his bicycle to find out why the water had been thrown at him. The student climbed up and sat at Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
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Local, state jobless rates decline
Unemployment in Douglas County declined 0.3 percentage points in February because of an increase in manufacturing, trade and farm jobs, a manager of the Lawrence Job Service Center said yesterday.
played in construction, compared with 800 last year.
The jobless rate in Kansas fell 0.2 percentage points in February to 5.6 percent. In February 1984, the rate was 5.5 percent.
From mid-December to mid-January, students leave town and quit jobs. Mills said. Their return includes a retail trade and service business.
The local unemployment rate, 4.4 percent, improved from a 4.7 percent in January, said Edson Mills, the
February's warmer weather caused an increase in jobs for construction workers, Mills said. Nine hundred workers were em-
January is normally slower than February for farm employment because of the weather, he said.
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