Mike Royko
Columnist joins Kansan lineup
Opinion, p. 4.
The University Daily
KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94. No. 118 (USPS 650-640)
High, 40. Low, 20.
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Tuesday morning, March 20, 1984
Storm adds a day to break but cuts power for many
By GRETCHEN DAY and MATT DeGALAN Staff Reporters
Winter staged an icy finale yesterday
Winter staged an icy finale yesterday — leaving thousands of Lawrence residents without power and extending spring break for KU students — in its refusal to bow out to spring's official debut today.
Freezing rain coated Lawrence Sunday night, causing tree limbs laden with ice to break and knock down power lines. More than 8,000 homes scattered throughout the city were without power during the night, said Fred Bryan, division manager of Kansas Power and Light Co.
AS RAIN CONTINUED to fall and a threat of snow loomed in the forecast, KU administrators decided Sunday night to cancel yesterday's classes.
"The decision was reached based on conditions at the time and the prospects of what was going to occur overnight," said Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor.
The weather should improve later today, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The temperature will be in the 45s today, melting ice on the trees.
Temperatures will reach 50 tomorrow and 60 on Thursday. No precipitation is expected for the rest of the week.
Bryan said power was restored to about 7,000 customers, but additional power outages yesterday left about 2,000 people without service.
2,000 people
Power may not be restored to all customers until late today, he said.
Crews had been working through the night Sunday to remove fallen trees from power lines and to repair circuits.
HE SAID CREWS would return to work early this morning to try to restore service to the city. One crew worked last night to take care of high-voltage wires.
high-voltage wires Jim McAvee, Lawrence fire chief, said the fire department received 114 weather-related calls Sunday and yesterday. Small fires broke out when icy branches fell on power lines.
Throughout northeast Kansas, homes and businesses suffered power outages.
More than 100,000 residents and businesses in Kansas City and 7,000 people in Topeka were without power yesterday.
Fred DeVictor, director of the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department, said forestry crews had been working since Sunday afternoon to clear fallen limbs from streets.
See WEATHER, p. 5, col. 1
Doug Pettijohn, Kansas City, Mo., senior, walks beneath ice-covered trees north of the Campanile. Pettijohn commutes to Lawrence from Kansas City and did not know westerdar's classes had been canceled
Larry Funk/KANSAN
Brown finishes first season with success and frustration
LINCOLN, Neb. — A mixture of frustration and relief was evident on Larry Brown's face. Brown had just watched Wake Forest University eliminate the team he coached from the NCAA tournament Sunday.
The Jayhawks won 22 games this season. But the team was not a Larry Brown product, which led to a season of some discomfort for the first-year coach.
KU test to Wake Forest 69-59, and a big reason why was they couldn't play Larry Brown's style of basketball. And in the end, that was the reason the team could not stay with the Deacons.
Because of the personnel Brown inherited
JEFF CRAVENS
Sports Editor
RC became a zone defense team that ran a lot of set plays — both foreign to Brown's coaching philosophy. And it came back to haunt him. He could just shake his head.
from Ted Owens, he was forced to abandon the man-to-man defense and fast break, wide-open offense characteristics of the other teams he's coached in his 12-year career.
"I AIN'T EVER going to play like this again."
Brown said after Sunday's game "You live by the zone and die by the zone. It is frustrating to get behind because it is hard for us to come back."
"When they had the lead, they were very patient, and we had to chase, and it is very hard."
The problem was not one that Brown ignored throughout the season. He tried to make the Jayhawks play a man-to-man in the early part of the season, and the team struggled.
Brown, certainly not stubborn enough to suffer
through losing season, compromised his
solo success.
He realized that with 6-foot-7 Kelly Knight and 7-foot Greg Dreiling, KU was not quick enough to play pressure defense. And, after Cedric Hunter became ineligible, the guard combination of Mark Turgeon and Calvin Thompson
was not exactly proficient on the defensive end either.
So Brown went to assistant coach Bob Hill, who helped build the KU zone defense under Owens. Over the Christmas break, Brown worked the team through two weeks of two-a-day workouts.
"WE GOT A BREAK in the schedule where we didn't play for them." I said. "And what did I ask of them I was trying to ask of them."
In the conference season, KU disrupted more than a few teams with its match-up zone defense — a defense that mixes man-to-man and zone principles.
The result was that the Jayhawks became a good defensive team, although Brown never stopped airing his distaste for the zone defense. But, he said. it was in the team's best interest.
The Jayhawks were successful, finishing second in the Big Eight regular season race, then winning the post-season tournament to earn an automatic berth in the NCAA playoffs.
BUT THROUGH IT ALL, Brown made it clear that he was not comfortable coaching a "zone" team. After beating Missouri, a devout man-to-man team under coach Norm Stewart, Brown said, "We won't play them like that here very much." I'd like for us to play like Norm's team play."
Quickness will become the rule rather than the exception.
Next season, the Jayhawks should become a Larry Brown team that Smith would recognize. Brown will have more players who fit his style of play with the speed and ball handling abilities of recruits Danny Manning, Tyrone Jones, Milton Newton and Altonian Campbell.
At a press conference Saturday Brown was asked if he got a scouting report on Wake Forest from his close friend and coaching guru, Dean Burke. He said the band of of coaching under Smith at North Carolina
But Sunday, Brown could only watch in despair as the team he coached ended its season. It wasn't his team in style of play, but Brown still engineered a 22-victory season. Not bad for a coach who was uncomfortable all season.
"I called him on Tuesday to congratulate him, but I didn't think it was fair for me to ask him about Wake Forest," Brown said. "Besides, I'm sure if he said how we play he would be able to learn."
Meese confirmation threatened by loan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department began an investigation yesterday into a $15,000 interest-free loan Edwin Meese failed to report, and a key democratic senator urged President Reagan to withdraw the "tainted" nomination of Meese as attorney general.
"I believe the president would be better off if he solicited someone who was not shrouded in controversy," said Sen. Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, a moderate Democratic member of the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee...
DeConcini said Meese has been "tainted" by suggestions of impropriety.
suggest their application in AN OTHER DEVELOPMENT, George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf petitioned the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor in the Meese case immediately.
The Justice Department began an investigation yesterday of a $15,000 interest-free loan Meese received from a friend who later got a government job.
Decomci expressed much the same view. "It doesn't look good for Mr. Meese," he said. But he said he had not decided how he would vote and added that Meese "is entitled to a fair
MEESE FAILED to report the loan on his financial disclosure statements and the issue, coupled with other controversies, prompted Senate Democratic leader Robert Robert Byrd to say,
Judiciary Committee Chairman Strom Thurmond, R.S.C., told a news conference in
hannafn, who is challenging the administration's failure to appoint a special prosecutor to look into how Jimmy Carter's briefing papers got to Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign, he would file suit if a special prosecutor is not appointed to investigate Meese.
Columbia, S.C., "Up to now there's been nothing I've come across that would damage Mr. Meese."
Earlier yesterday, Thurmond declared. "If President Reaganumman the man, then he
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said, "The president stands solidly behind the nominee and wishes him confirmed. He's hopeful that he will be confirmed."
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS declined to comment on particulars of the preliminary inquiry under the Ethics in Government Act, which could lead to the appointment of a special prosecutor — called *Mike* — to pursue allegations against Meese.
Reagan announced Jan. 23 that he wanted Meese to succeed Attorney General William French Smith, who plans to leave the government.
Mondale needs victory in Illinois, prof says
By LORI DODGE Staff Reporter
Illinois is the kind of state Democratic presidential hopeful Walter Mondale must win to maintain attraction as a candidate, a KU political science professor said yesterday.
If former Vice President Mondale does not win the Illinois primary today over the other two survivors, Colorado Sen. Gary Hart and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, his chances of party nomination will be greatly damaged, said Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science.
David Berkowitz, Douglas County Democratic Party chairman, said the Illinois primary was a significant battle because the race so far had been back and forth between Hart and Mondale.
"IF HART GETS anywhere close to Mondale,
"people will start questioning Mondale's capacity
to lead."
Illinois is considered to be the first test of a Midwestern industrial state — judged to be the most efficient.
some strength in the primary today, Hart and Mondale would have to fight it out.
"Mondale has to do well or he'll be in serious trouble, though," he said.
Sherry McGowan, national Democratic Party committee chairman for Kansas, said that Hart made good showings in primaries but that Mondale was faring better in state caucuses.
he said that although Jackson would have
"I don't think the primaries are particularly more important," she said. "It's whoever gets the most votes."
She said Hart's early wins had stirred an electorate that had been getting bored with the political process. Hart's surprising showing and Mondale's swing back had produced an exciting race
"If Hart looks like he can really build the momentum, he'll pull those people in," she said.
IF THE CANDIDATES went neck-and-neck right down to the wire, she said, the convention would be wide open, and noncommitted delegates would decide who won the party's nomination.
Pat Lehman, state Democratic Party chairman, said she didn't think the Illinois primary would be the end for any of the three candidates
Hurt's chances of winning the nomination are known
would be the case.
But what people have overlooked is the fact that Mondale is ahead in number of delegates, she said.
But if Mondale continues to win, she said,
those delegates will stay uncommitted until
sue said.
After the weekend primaries, Mondale had a total of 491 delegates, Hart had 261, and Jackson had 60.
Kathleen Sebelius, state coordinator for the Hart campaign, said it was a miracle Hart was in the race after the predictions that Super Tuesday and Super Saturday would be the major turning points.
"But now we're in for a long haul," she said, referring to the upcoming battles in the West where Hart's natural strength is supposed to be. The Rev. Eddie Mayer, co-chairman for the Douglas County Community College, said that the county is good for Jackson to make a good showing in Illinois, thus improving his chances in the Kansas caucus Saturday and in other caucuses and primaries across the nation.
Kansas racing could follow Nebraska lead
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
Every season the Nebraska racing circuit, which begins in March in Grand Island and moves to Omaha, Lincoln and Columbus, draws horsemen and racing fans to the Midwest for private revenge by several million dollars.
OMAHA. Neb. — What began as harness racing in 1919 has matured into a multimillion-dollar business of horse racing in this state.
several BEN competition for the best horseman and for racing fans' dollars has increased as more states legalize pari-mutuel betting, an official at AK-SAR-BEN race track last week. Iowa, Oklahoma and Minnesota have all passed pari-mutuel bills in the last year.
The Kansas Legislature is now considering a resolution on pari-mutuel wagering that would amend the state
WITH SENTIMENT INCREASING among some Kansas legislators to legalize pari-mutuel betting, Nebraska racing officials are speculating on the possible effects gambling in their racetracks would have on their business.
See NEBRASKA, p. 8, col. 4
Dave Tolle escorts his horse Federal Case out of its stall at his ranch northwest of Topeka. Tolle has been racing horses for 18 years. He is working with Kansans for Pari-Mutuel, a group trying to legalize pari-mutuel betting in the state.
Larry Funk/KANSAN
Kansas races missing big-money attraction
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Almost every weekend from now until the end of the year; Albert Hogoboom will be on the road somewhere between Kansas and California, driving to horse-racing tracks to watch his quarter horses run
In the nine years that Hogoboom has been racing horses, he has parlayed those tiresome travels into a reputation across Kansas as the owner of one of the largest and most lucrative horse-racing operations in the state.
Gobogom owns about 35 of the 80 horses that are trained and bred on his 910-acre ranch southwest of El Dorado. A big General Motors truck he owns pulls a trailer that hauls as many as 14 of his horses at once from El Dorado to race tracks in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Nebraska, Arizona or California — six states where pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing is legal.
Hogoboom and other Kansas horsemen spend so much of their time hauling their horses to other states because pari-mutuel betting is illegal in Kansas.
HOSE OWNERS AGREE that their businesses can be profitable only if their horses race for large purses. Without some form of betting, race
tracks cannot consistently raise such large purses solely from entry fees.
Part-mutual is a system of betting in which all the money wagered on each race is pooled and then divided among the winners according to the amount invested in management subtracts a percentage of the pool to pay for operating expenses.
Because pari-mutuel tracks collect purse money from bettors and not solely from entry fees paid by the horse owners, their purses are bigger and more attractive than non-pari-mutuel tracks.
In the last 10 years, horse owners and horse-racing fans in Kansas have been pressuring the Legislature to pass a bill to allow Kansans to vote on legalizing pari-mutuel betting on horse races
This year, Kansans for Pari-Mutuel, a group based in Topeka, is leading the field of pari-mutuel supporters who want the Legislature to approve a bill that would legalize pari-mutuel. The group has claimed that pari-mutuel would create 8,000 jobs statewide and generate $200 million in tax money and money from out-of-state bettors over the first five years.
IF APPROVED by two-thirds of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, voters will decide whether to
See RACING, p. 8, col. 1