Not just for the birds
KU's Rolling Plains Wildlife Rehabilitation program helps all kinds of wild animals. See p. 7
The University Daily
KANSAN
Published since 1889 by students at the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 147 (USPS 650-640)
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Wednesday morning, June 6. 1984
Mondale nears delegate crown with final wins
By United Press International
Walter Mondale beat Gary Hart in the New Jersey and West Virginia primaries yesterday and declared himself the winner of the election. In 1984 Democratic presidential nomination
Mondale's victory declaration was based on his expectation that he would get enough of the 46 delegates at stake in the final five primary contests of 1984 to reach the 1,967 total needed to clinch the nomination. At midnight CDT, United Press International's delegate count showed Mondale a little more than 100 delegates shy of victory.
But Hart, who won the South Dakota and New Mexico primaries and ran close in early delegate tabulations from California, vowed to win Jackson, running third, also declined to out.
The UPI delegate count, which included projections from partial returns in New Jersey, South Dakota and West Virginia but none from California, gave Mondale 1.865, Hart 1.012 and Jackson 338, with 242 uncommitted.
"EVERY MARATHON HAS a finish line and a winner. Well, this is it and here I am." the former vice president told cheering supporters in St. Paul, Minn.
Mondale put together the same coalition of labor, the elderly and traditional Democrats that won him other big northern industrial cities to sweep New Jersey and West Virginia.
Hart won South Dakota and New Mexico as
With 77 percent of preinceds reporting in New Jersey, Mondale had 236,310 votes or 45 percent and Hart 155,441 for 29 percent. Jackson had 125,354 for 24 percent. In West Virginia, he was ceded with 73,108 votes or 33 percent. Hart had 51,856 for 38 percent and Jackson 6 percent.
expected, but these states together had only three more delegates than West Virginia and could not be regarded as offsets to Mondale's eastern victories.
IN SOUTH DAKOTA, with 90 percent of the vote in, Hart had 28,843 votes for 51 percent and Mondale 20,271 for 39 percent. Jackson had 5 percent
The biggest battleground was California. Network pollsters predicted the race would be close, but NBC projected Monday would win to go over the top, even if Hart won the state.
If Mondale does win enough delegates to claim a first-ball victory, party leaders are expected to clamor for Hart and Jackson to drop out of the race to allow Democrats to unite for the uphill battle against Reagan in the November election.
With 79 percent of the vote counted in New Mexico, Hart led with 70.246 votes for 47 percent to Mondale's 53,917 for 36 percent Jackson had 17.361 for 11 percent.
APPEARING BEFORE CHEEING supporters in a Paul hotel, Mondale spoke
"To all Americans that want a change in Washington, my message is: The campaign is doing what it says it will do."
Early enrollment aids teachers and students
By MARY ALICE LEARY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Despite student complaints concerning long lines, summer enrollment went well thanks to early enrollment held in April, two KU officials said Monday.
"It's been an enormous advantage," said J. Michael Young, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. There was a smaller number of people to deal with and that allowed KU to provide better services to students, he said.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said this was the first summer semester that KU used its new computerized enrollment system.
UNDER THE OLD system, students waited in long lines at Allen Field House while enrollment cards were pulled. Under the system, students were assigned appointment times to enroll
KU changed to the new system in the spring of 1983. It was not used at last summer's enrollment because KU was still using the bags out of the system, Thompson said.
Sheryl Wormly, Junction City senior, said enrollment was pretty easy.
"I noticed a big difference from fall enrollment. It's better with the computer."
Thompson said early enrollment helped things go smooth because two-thirds of the school is open.
Students who waited until Monday to apply for admission were having the most problems. But Young said early enrollment allowed KU to service those students faster.
BRIAN TOLEFRE, Kansas City, Kan. special student, said he was not having any problems with enrollment but had left the line because it was too long.
"I'll talk for awhile and go back," he said. Thompson said students can expect a tuition increase over last summer. Students eligible for Kansas resident fees will pay $40.85 per credit hour, up from $34.85 per hour last summer, he said.
Final enrollment figures will not be available until the end of the summer because some classes will not be starting until later in the semester. Dyck said.
Gil Dyck, dean of educational services, said that between 7,000 and 7,600 students have attended summer school in the past and attended the figure to be about the same this year.
Thompson said students attended summer school for various reasons, but "traditionally, summer school has been very heavy on the graduate student side."
Debra Davis, Kansas City, Kan., special student, said she had been going to William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., and wanted to experience a bigger school for the summer.
An 18-wheeler find a resting place underneath a tree on Sunflower Flower after an accidental roll down the hill. Both the 18-wheeler and another truck's brakes apparently gave out yesterday afternoon while they were
Raymond Brecheisen/KANSAN
parked near the entrance to the KU power plant. The large tanks, used to hold water for the plant's heating system, were dislodged. Two vehicles sustained minor damages in the mishap, but no one was injured.
Driverless trucks hit car and tree
By the Kansan Staff
Two trucks parked near the entrance to the KU power plant rolled backward down Sunflower Road yesterday afternoon. A car spelling a can of red paint on a parked pickup
The drivers of the trucks, owned by Faubion Tank and Manufacturing Co., were not in the trucks when the accident occurred. The drivers of the trucks, owned by Faubion Tank and Manufacturing Co., were not sure of the cause
"We were pulled up the hill, trying to figure
out how to get down it," said Nick Mickelson, who had been driving the 10-wheel loader with empty tanks used to store water for the brakes. "The brakes of both trucks must have slipped."
The first truck to roll, a boom truck, was driven by Chuck Meyers.
Ivan Reutter, supervisor of the KU refrigeration shop, was driving up the hill on Sunflower Road when the accident occurred.
"One truck is coming down the hill backward toward the sidgiral." Reutter said. "Directly, I heard a crunch. He'd run into a
car parked on the side. Then I looked at the truck and saw there wasn't any driver
Reutter said he had become worried when the second truck came toward his own private vehicle, a 1983 Ford pickup, also parked near the curb.
"This thing came down and hit the tree. Heater said, "and then I saw my truck and that broke."
The truck did not hit Reutter a vehicle, but a can of paint was spilled on the side of the truck.
A Dodge Aspen, owned by Miles Cieland,
Baldwin, was damaged by the boom truck.
Iranian bombers shot down by Saudis
By United Press International
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates
Saudi Arabian warplanes, guided by an American-plotted AWACS plane and reeled by a U.S. supplied aerial tanker, shot down eight bombers yesterday in the first clash between Israeli troops in the Persian Gulf war, officials said.
THE SAUDI DEFENSE Ministry, quoted by Riyadh radio and the Saudi Press Agency, said only that Saud jets had scrambled to intercept an "aerial target" when the target ignored warnings and entered air space over Saudi territorial waters.
The Saudi announcement said only one aircraft had been shot down and did not
The Saudis, flying two U.S. built Saudi F-15s, fired two Sparrow air-to-air missiles each hitting and destroying an Iranian F-4. The Sparrows flew on a diplomatic source in Washington said
Both nations then scrambled about 20 warplanes and a tense standoff of several minutes followed before the Iranian jets returned to their base, the source said.
identify it as Iranian. The Defense Ministry called the intrusion a "strange event" and warned, "We hope, in the interests of the region's security and to avoid any new developments, that this incident will not be repeated."
A SENIOR AMERICAN official, however, said Reagan was worried about the Persian Gulf clash because it represented "an invasion in tension and violence" in the region.
The incident seemed to indicate a small increase in the Gulf war, which for the past 45 months has pitted Iraq against Iran. But White House spokesman Larry Speakes, in London with President Reagan, said a reporter who had asked whether the dogfight was an escalation had been taking the incident "10 steps too far."
The diplomatic source said the two Saudi warjets had been directed by an American AWACS plane to the two U.S. built Iranian F-45 near a small Saudi-owned island about
Speaks also said the United States did not consider the use of AWACS in the incident as "direct U.S. involvement — because it is not."
40 miles from the western shore of the Gulf.
At the Pentagon, officials said the Saudi F-15s had been refueled by a U.S. Air Force KC-10 tanker, sent to Saudi Arabia last week along with a shipment of 400 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. The AWACS radar over Saudi territory then spotted the Iranian air force scrambling three more jets. The Saudis also scrambled three more planes, and the Iranians then sent up 11 jets, which remained in Iranian air space.
SAUDI ARABIA SUPPORTS Iraq in the Persian Gulf war, which erupted Sept. 22, 1980.
The Saudi ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar bin Sultan al Saud, said, "We have tried our utmost to find a peaceful solution to this war between Iran and Iraq
"Unfortunately, our sovereignty was violated and we reacted just as we said we would."
In Washington, the Pentagon said the United States had dispatched to Saudi Arabia AWACS planes improved with radar that could spot stationary and moving objects on water, giving them the ability to monitor all sea-going traffic in the Gulf.
'Big Daddy' finishes fast in local race Garlits highlights second annual Jayhawk drags
By PAUL FAZIO Staff Reporter
The swarms of car-loving, beer-drinking fans gathered in the pit area and marveled at the sight of the legendary "Big Daddy" Dan Garlis tending to his dragster — only to watch him blow his engine in the second exhibition race Saturday at the Lawrence Dragway, 1111 Dragway.
Garilis, who raced in the second annual Jayhawk Nationalists, said that he had encountered financial trouble and hard luck after 33 years of drag racing.
"TVE COME ON hard times. It's a multimillion dollar deal. I don't know
See DRAGRACE. p. 5, col. 5
Ravmond Brecheisen/KANSAN
The top fuel dragsters of Frank Bradley and "Big Daddy" Don Garlics charge down the track of the Lawrence Dragway as spectators nearby cover their ears in anticipation of the loud engine noise. Garlics won this exhibition race Saturday but later was defeated in the second race as Bradley set a new track record.
Disputed statute cited in official's dismissal
By MICKI SAMPSON Staff Reporter
No one, that is, except County Commissioners Bob Neis and Beverly Bradley.
Douglas County Public Works Director Mike Dooley was fired last Thursday, and no one is sure why.
THE STATUTE, KSA 68-501,
gives county commissioners
the power to fire public works directors
to vote on June 1 without
cause cut.
Citing a Kansas statute that allows county commissioners to fire public works directors on June 1 without giving a cause, Neis moved to dismiss Dooley during the commission's Thursday morning meeting.
Bradley seconded, leaving Commissioner Nancy Hiebert to cast the opposing vote.
In a similar incident, Johnson County Public Works Director Virgil Holdridge was also fired Thursday, commissioners citing the same statute.
Neither Dooley nor Holdredge were available for comment.
Neis reflux to make public the reasons for Dooley's dismissal but referred to problems that had occurred in the public works department.
"I started digging up stuff about eight months ago," he said, after Douglas County residents com-
Hiebert, responded in an eight-page, prepared statement that she had not found sufficient evidence to merit Dooley's dismissal and that Dooley and the public had a right to know the grounds for his firing.
THE COMMISSIONERS, however,
are under no legal obligation to tell
the public why they fired Dooley.
Neither the original draft of the statute, enacted in 1917, nor the first amendment of the statute, in 1919, gave the county commission the power to fire the public works director without cause, said Mike
See STATUTE, p. 5, col. 1