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KANSAN
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Vol. 94, No. 119 (USPS 650-640)
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Wednesday morning, March 21, 1984
Mondale downs Hart in bitter Illinois primary
CHICAGO — Walter Mondale defeated Sen. Gary Hart in the bitterly fought Illinois primary yesterday and grabbed a big lead in the Republican nomination, win the Democratic presidential nomination.
The former vice president, rolling up a large vote in Chicago and its suburbs, put together many elements of the traditional Democratic coalition — old-line party voters from the Chicago machine, union members, the elderly and ethnic minorities.
His victory in the first big industrial Midwestern state primary of 1984 came despite a huge black vote for civil rights activist Jesse Jackson.
Although the popular vote was close, Mondale won most of the 171 Illinois delegates at stake to widen his edge over Hart in the battle for the
n nomination. He also took an early lead in his home state of Minnesota, where 75 more delegates were at stake in caucuses.
Mondale's come-from-behind victory came at a critical time in the 1984 primary season and gave him an advantage on Hart going into the state and Pennsylvania primaries early next month.
"Obviously I'm pleased with the results," said Mondale, at home in St. Paul, Minn. "I came out in the final round."
But Hart is still favored next week in Connecticut and is far out of the race, which could last all the way to the Democratic National Convention in July.
"I think the arguments are mine; I think this case is building and my position is strengthening. But I'm under no illusion that we're in anything but a long tough race."
With 88 percent of the precincts reporting in
Illinois, Mondale had 483,424 votes or 42 percent, Hart had 415,107 votes or 36 percent and Jackson 223,921 votes or 19 percent. Jackson's showing was close to his previous best popular vote performance in the campaign — 21 percent of the vote in Georgia on March 13.
Before Illinois and Minnesota, Mondale had 542 delegates, more than a quarter of the 1,967 needed for the presidential nomination, while Hart had 318 and Jackson 79, with 268 uncommitted.
In Washington, Hart congratulated his rival for winning but said, "Our victories will be added to very shortly." Looking down the road, Hart said he be and Mondale "do agree on one thing. This race is not over. It will be a marathon."
But Hart said the Illinois race strained the limited financial resources of his late-blooming campaign.
Chicago Democratic machine "performed very well" for Mondale.
Jackson talked as if he had won.
"The message of new leadership will continue to be heard and received and accepted by a majority of the voters in our party," he predicted.
Hart did not have time to file complete delegate slates in all 22 congressional districts, assuring Mondale of grabbing most of the convention delegates at stake in Illinois.
"I am delighted," he said in Chicago. "It was a tremendous showing. People have made a major statement about my candidacy. I am proud of the way Chicago responded to my campaign."
Asked about his poor showing among white voters, Jackson said, "That's not my fault. That's the fault of the white voters who still have some difficulty."
Mondale won despite Jackson's impressive
showing in Chicago where the rights activist polled nearly 75 percent of the black votes. In previous primaries Mondale had to split the black vote with Jackson to defeat Hart.
Hart was putting together the same coalition that won him victories in other states — the young, affluent, women and independents. But his vote in the suburbs, especially around Chicago, was not as heavy as it was in other states.
Kathleen Sebelius, the state coordinator for the Hart campaign in Kansas, said that the results demonstrated Hart's strength but that he would not have it without he would do in the Kansas caucuses Saturday.
Senate rejects school prayer amendment
"My sense is that the second-place finish will not do anything to deter the momentum in Kansas," she said. "It demonstrates that the team can be unstoppable." Another winner. No one primary will be the deciding one."
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate soundly defeated a constitutional amendment yesterday allowing children to pray aloud in public school, dealing a major political defeat to President Reagan and the religious right.
"The issue of free religious speech is not dead as a result of this vote." Reagan said in a statement. "We have suffered a setback but we have not been defeated. Our struggle will go on."
The 56-44 vote fell 11 ballots short of the two-thirds needed to pass a constitutional amendment. It was one of the rare occasions when all 100 members of the Senate showed up for a vote, and then lined the chamber waiting to see what the final count would be.
When the defeat was announced, Sen. Jesse
Helms, R-N.C., a conservative, rose on the floor
of the legislature.
"WE HAVE JUST begun to fight. Round one is over but so long as I'm in the United States Senate, there will be many more rounds to come," said Helms, adding that he will pursue the Supreme Court of jurisdiction over issues like school prayer busing and abortion.
"The Constitution is safe for at least one more day," the triumphant Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., who led opposition to the amendment during two and a half weeks of debate.
The rejection was a sharp blow to Reagan, who lobbed intensively for the amendment, which would allow spoken prayer in public schools without saying who will pick or lead the prayer. It also says no child may be forced to participate.
"Like those of ancient Israel who cried out to
THE MORAL MAJORITY'S Jerry Falwell said that the religious right would respond by defeating politicians who did not support vocal praver.
See PRAYER, p. 5, col. 5
Senate to act on bill aimed at utility costs
By ROB KARWATH
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — A Senate committee yesterday sent to the Senate floor a bill designed to ease the hefty rate increases predicted for customers of the utility companies building the Wolf Creek
Under the amendment, companies that have borrowed money to pay dividends to their stockholders while building plants would be prohibited by the Kansas Corporation Commission from passing additional costs on to their customers.
But the Transportation and Utilities Committee released the bill to the full Senate only after adding an amendment that may force many utility companies to pay more for the funds they finance in the form of future power plants.
A spokesman for Kansas Gas and Electric Co. of Wichita, the principal builder and operator of Wolf Creek, said last month that GOLD had agreed to divide dividends to its stockholders while building Wolf Creek.
However, some financial experts have criticized consistent heavy borrowing to pay dividends, saying the practice could sink utilities deep into debt or even bankrupt them.
UTILITY COMPANIES WANT to keep their stock dividends high while building plants so investors will buy their stocks and provide the companies with money to finance their projects.
Last month, Lyle Koerper, K&G E spokesman,
said his company had borrowed money to pay
dividends to their common stockholders for the last several years.
But after the committee's decision yesterday, Koerper said he was not certain whether the money KGKE had borrowed actually had paid
See WOLF CREEK, p. 10, col. 1
Sheaths of ice remained on power lines yesterday morning after without electricity. Although most of the ice melted yesterday Sunday's ice storm, which left thousands of Lawrence homes afternoon, about 2,200 homes are still without power.
Jim McCrossen/KANSAN
Outages remain despite spring's official arrival
Yesterday, forecasters with the National
By ROBIN PALMER
Staff Reporter
"In terms of damage to the system and the cost to repair it, this may be the most costly ice storm that Kansas Power and Light Co. has ever experienced," said Hal Hudson, a spokesman for Kansas Power and Light Co., in Topeka.
Despite yesterday's sunshine that melted the ice left from Sunday's devastating storm, many Kansans spent the first day of spring in the southern United States, with about 100,000 Kansans without power.
And Utility company officials say that 78,000 residents in the Kansas City area may have to wait until Monday before their electricity is restored. Kansas City, Mo., authorities also discovered the bodies of an elderly couple in their powerless home.
In Lawrence, about 2,200 students without electricity might have to wait until Thursday
Weather Service in Topeka were predicting sunshine for Lawrence today and did not expect anymore snow or rain for the rest of the week.
PAUL FRANTZ, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said that temperatures between 45 and 50 degrees should help Lawrence continue to thaw today.
Temperatures should remain in the 40s and 50s for the rest of the week. Frantz said.
Fred Bryan, division manager of Kansas Power and Light Co., Ninth and Tennessee streets, said that power lines yesterday morning had still been falling under breaking trees and branches laden with ice. Those additional broken power lines were slowing the restoration of power to some Lawrence residents.
Monday night's snowfall left Lawrence with two inches of snow that covered the ice from Sunday's winter storm. Topeka had an inch of accumulation.
Between 12 to 14 crows are working around the clock to restore power in Lawrence, Bryan said, but the crews must repair the broken piping and fix the cracks from the generating plant to many cus-
THE WEST BUILDINGS in Meadowbrook Apartments, 101-T Windsor Place, lost power yesterday afternoon at 4 p.m., Bryan said, but the power was restored last night.
See WEATHER, p. 5, col. 1
Cities thaw out after ice, snow paralyze Kansas
By STEPHANIE HEARN Staff Reporter
Warmer weather forecast for this week should help cities in Kansas crack the ice of Sunday's storm, which left many cities crippled with serious power outages and tree limbs strewn in city streets.
Not all of Kansas suffered adverse effects from the ice storm that many are calling the worst March storm in memory. Still, some parts of western Kansas received up to a foot of snow.
For most cities across the state, where power lines are still drooping under the weight of the ice and workers have been busy restoring power for people without warm homes, conditions are beginning to return to normal.
See CITIES, p. 5, col. 1
Judge decides youth won't get extra time Fourhorn accomplice to complete detention at center for juveniles
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
Danny Jo Jennings, who accompanied James Fourhour during a burglary that ended in the murder of a 94-year-old Lawrence man, was told yesterday that no further penalty would be added to the remainder of his detention at a Topeka juvenile center.
The length of Jennings' stay at the juvenile detention center, where he has been held for seven months, will be determined on the basis of his behavior.
JENNINGS, 18. WAS a juvenile when the murder occurred. Fourhorn, who originally was convicted of the felony murder of Puckett, was granted a new trial but pleaded no contest last month to a reduced charge of second-degree murder.
During his original trial, Fourhurn implied that Jennings had murdered Harry Puckett during the burglary last June at Puckett's home, 1109 Delaware St. Fourhurn continued to make that allegation after he pleaded no contest last month.
Jennings yesterday agreed to charges of aiding and abetting a burglary in juvenile court, the equivalent of pleading guilty had he been charged as an adult.
Before the murder trial began, Jennings agreed to cooperate with the district attorney's investigation.
Malone said that his observations of Jennings during Fourhurna's trial had led him to believe that he was of "better than average intelligence" and would be a shame to throw away that talent."
TOM GLEASON, Jennings' attorney, said that his client's progress at the center had been comparatively rapid, although he would not speculate on when Jennings might be released. Juveniles at the center enter a program that measures progression of 10 levels of behavior.
Juveniles at the center enter a program that involves a progression of 10 levels of behavior.
Bernie Duvoy, a spokesman for the juvenile center, said that Jennings had reached level nine status at the center and that he had been cooperative.
Gleason yesterday said that Jennings had expressed guilt feelings about the incident and had said that it might never have occurred if he had accompanied Fourthhorn to Puckett's home that night.
Fourhorn, Jennings' former brother-in-law, asked Jennings to accompany him during the burglary, according to testimony at Fourhorn's original trial.
House approves Regents budget, salary increases
By LORI DODGE
Staff Reporter
The Kansas House yesterday approved a Board of Regents budget that exceeds Gov. John Carlin's recommendations and that has been called encouraging for the university of Kansas fed by the governor.
The measure would increase unclassified faculty and staff salaries for fiscal year 1985 by 7 percent. It also would increase the budget for the Regents other operating expenses by 6 percent.
Carlin had proposed a 6 percent unclassified salary increase and a 5 percent OOE increase, which would go toward purchases and maintenance. The House-approved bill, which now goes to the Senate, also would provide a 5 percent increase in classified salaries, along with an additional $204 a year that would be combined with a 1 percent increase for merit pay.
STATE REP. JESSIE Branson, D-Lawrence, said that the budget recommendations were an indication of the Legislature's support of higher education and recognition of problems caused by a $1.42 million round of emergency budget cuts Carlin made two years ago.
The money saved by the system-wide reductions, called temporary then, helped the state skirt a fiscal crisis and was supposed to be returned to the Regents schools. But it never has
last year the Legislature made the cuts permanent by going along with Carlin's recommendation not to restore the rescissions in the fiscal 1984 budget.
However, KU officials and legislators have called the fiscal 1985 budget approved yesterday to approve cuts.
"I think that the Regents budget was treated very, very favorably this year," Branson said.
The House approved a 7 percent increase in
THE GOVERNOR'S PROPOSAL would be partly financed by a $1.9 million base budget cut and a $2 million salary fund that the Regents would allocate to the schools.
THE HOUSE MEASURE called for a 6 percent increase in other operating expenses. Carlin's proposal was for a 5 percent increase.
unclassified faculty and staff salaries — a recommendation that matched the request made by the Regents and surpassed Carlin's proposal of a 6 percent increase.
"They are also going to help alleviate
The House-approved measure would restore that base budget cut, which Regensburg officials have said represented the elimination of $6 million in expenses, including 19 at KU, with the $2 million fund.
Branson said the recommendations would "do the education — simply from the standpoint of morals."
problems such as oversized classes, and we won't be losing those 19 positions," she said.
Branson said that she was disappointed that the recommendations from the House committee did not include a proposal by the Regents that would have provided for 230 research fellowships of $1,000 each. One hundred of the fellowships would have gone to KU.
"Funding for research would be extremely important in the research institutions, such as the University of Kansas, in terms of recruiting highly qualified research students." she said.
But, she said, the Senate may have the opportunity to add that provision.
A SENATE COMMITTEE Monday voted to approve some recommendations for the Regents based on its own subcommittee reports. Those recommendations will eventually go to the full House and Senate, which are independent committee, which will hammer out any differences between the House and Senate proposals.