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University Daily Kansan, July 18, 1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
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News briefs from staff and wire reports
Voters hurry to register to be eligible for primary
The county clerk said that 467 people registered to vote yesterday — the last day, to register before the Aug. 7 primary elections.
Patty Jaimes, Douglas county clerk, said that she hadn't noticed more women registering since Geraldine Ferraro was chosen as the Democrats' candidate for vice president.
"I don't think the women here were scared to register before," she said.
"We've had about 125 per day, pretty well split up between day and evening days." James said.
But more people have registered since July 11 when the clerk's office started starting, open until 9 a.m. James said.
As of June 18, there were 30,791 registered voters in Douglas County. Jaimes said that she would have a total of registered voters by next Monday.
"You have to remember that some of the people since June 18 just needed to get their registration up to date — they're re-registering," she said.
Man charged with weekend rapes
A Lawrence man was charged in Douglas County district court yesterday with two counts of rape in connection with two attacks that occurred last weekend.
Terry Walling, 26, who gave police no address, was arrested Sunday by a Lawrence police officer who saw him near Meadowbrook Apartments and noticed that he matched the victims' description of the rapist.
The first victim, a KU architecture student, told police that a man knocked on her door in the 2400 block of West 25th Street late Friday night and told her that he was a neighbor and asked to use her phone.
He asked her to give him a ride to where his motorcycle had broken down, but when they got in the car, he forced her to drive out 25th Street and raped her in her car. He drove off with her car, which was recovered later, police reports said.
In the second case, a 22-year-old woman told police that a man raped her in her apartment in the 1700 block of West 24th Street at about 5 p.m. Saturday.
Walling's preliminary hearing has been set for July 25.
Prosecutor wants new testimony
The prosecutor in a rape case against a KU football player has asked Douglas County District Court Judge Ralph King to allow a woman other than the complainant to testify that the defendant also raped her.
Bill Ronan, assistant district attorney, said that the woman, a KU student, told KU police that she was raped by Roderick Timmons on October 5, 1983 but that she had never pressed charges.
October 9, 1930, was the day that the Kansas Supreme Court had ruled that such testimony had been correctly admitted as evidence in a similar case.
King said that he would consider the motion after Ronan had submitted a brief.
King said that he might ask the jury to leave the room during Timmons' trial, which begins next Monday, while he heard the other woman's testimony. Then if he decided that the testimony was admissible, he would call the jury back to hear the testimony and cross examination.
Timmons was charged March 20 with rape, aggravated sodomy and unlawful restraint. The complainant told police that the incident occurred March 2 at Jayhawker Towers, 1603 W. 15th St.
Two armed men rob Burger King
Two armed men made off with about $2,000 in a robbery at Burger King, 1301 W. 23 St., early yesterday morning, Lawrence police said.
The men forced an employee who was emptying trash at 2:40 a.m. to let them into the building. The men told all of the employees to lie face down on the floor while they forced the assistant manager to give them the money.
The robbers escaped after they shut the employees in the walk-in cooler.
None hurt in Packer Plastics fire
No one was hurt in a fire at Packer Plastics, 2330 Packer Road, which filled the building with smoke early yesterday morning, according to Capt. Richard Barr of the Lawrence Fire Department.
the plant's automatic sprinkler system extinguished the fire which started about 1:56 a.m. Barr said.
An injection molding machine caught on fire when hydraulic oil spilled on the machine, which operates under intense heat, Barr said.
By the time fire trucks arrived all 20 employees had left the building.
Firefighters searched the building twice for people and for fire that might have spread to other areas. They vented the building and allowed employees to return at 4:09 a.m.
CORRECTION
Because of a reporter's error, the Kansan incorrectly reported that Lois Orth-Lopes, a KU student who is running for the State Board Of Education, will earn her master's degree in 1987. Orth-Lopes expects to earn her master's degree this fall, and then plans to enter a doctorate program.
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Play remembers Earhart and the 99's
By LORI ELIOTT
Staff Reporter
Before Amelia Earhart disappeared during a flight over the Pacific in 1937, she helped to forge the way for women in aviation. She still lives in the memories of her associates as well as the actress who will portray her in the play "Daughters of Heaven."
"Amelia was not just flying because she loved it," said Marta Brow, Lawrence, junior, who will portray Earhart in the Kansas Repertory Theatre production."
"DAUGHTERS OF HEAVEN" is about Earhart and other early women pilots who raced together and became friends. The play will be presented Thursday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Crafton-Prever Theater in Murphy Hall.
The play opens with a scene from the transcontinental race for women pilots in 1929. After the race, 99 women decide to form an aviation organization called the 99's.
Lomie Steele, a flight instructor and member of the original 99's, gave the actresses short flying lessons to them pantomime flying in the play.
Steele worked with the actresses by showing them the airplanes' controls on the ground, then letting the actresses do some real flying in a
"Flying is a lot like riding a bike or a motorcycle." Steele said. "You have to blend yourself with the machine."
"THE GALS IN this play have done a super job, and they spent so little time in the airplane." Steele said.
Brow said that after spending so much time studying Earhart and the 99's for her role in the play, she wanted to continue her flight instruction
"I've fallen in love with flying, and I've fallen in love with these forgotten women." Brow said.
STEELE SAID THAT the 99's now had more than 6,000 members. Members must be women pilots who are licensed to fly any kind of aircraft, she said, including helicopters, balloons and airplanes.
"I think that if Amelia died, she died doing what she wanted to do," Brow said.
She said that aviation students could join as associate members called 66's until they were licensed. But the numbers are turned over to 99's.
"We have members from every walk of life: doctors, businesswomen, owners of corporations, homemakers, college students and teachers," Steele said.
"Sally Ride, the astronaut, is a member of the 99 s," she said.
The organization functions as a support group for women in aviation.
"We're here to help any women aviation. It's good to have people who talk the same language," Steele said.
She said the name the 99's was suggested by Earl Hart. Of the 117 licensed women pilots in 1929, 99 of them came to the meeting, Wells said.
"YOU CAN'T TALK to people about aviation who don't know the difference between an aileron and a dipstick," she said.
"She would do something and then let the deed speak for itself. She thought that if she could do it then other women could do it, too."
"Amelia impressed you every time you met her. She had charm and a dry sense of humor," Wells said.
"She was never flamboyant, but you always knew when she came into a room.
"We talked about some silly names like the Ladybirds before Amelia suggested the 99's." Wells said.
Faye Wells, a charter member of the 99's, knew Earlart and described her as a charming, self-confident woman.
Marta Brow, who plays Amelia Earhart in the Kansas Repertory Theatre's production of "Daughters of Heaven," relaxes on the set in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Larry Weaver/KANSAN
'Fantasticks' director Rea dies; service today
By the Kansan Staff
Tom P Rea, associate professor of theater, died Monday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after collapsing a week ago from a heart attack while directing a rehearsal of the "Fantasticks" in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at the First United Methdist Church, 946 Vermont St., following a private burial. Contributions to the Tom P. Rea Scholarship Fund can be sent in care of the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Mr. Rea was born June 23, 1923 in Glasco, Kan. He graduated from McPherson High School in 1944, and then served in the Army Special Services arranging USO tours during WWII.
He received a B.A. degree in 1949 and a masters degree in speech and drama in 1952 from the University of Kansas. In 1962, Mr. Rea received a
doctorate in theater from Tulane University, New Orleans.
FROM 1955-57 HE TEACHED drama at Bethany College, Lindsburg. The remainder of his life was spent teaching and directing at KU.
Mr. Rea began his career at KU as the first actor in resident in 1964. Since that time, he taught numerous courses in play production, acting, musical comedy, television performance and style.
He directed at least one play during the school year and one in the
summer said Ron Willis, chairman of the department of theatre.
His directing credits included the "Fantasticks," "Magic Flute," "Brigadoon," "Music Man" and "Hayfever."
Mr. Rea was a member of the Navy and the First United Methodist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Shirley Ann, sons Tom and Dan, both of Lawrence, a daughter, Nancy Freeman, of Alburquerque, N.M., his mother, Virginia, of Lawrence, and a brother, John, of Stockton, Calif.