University Daily Kansan, February 15, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA News briefs from staff and wire reports
Wichita teller's ruse spoils man's attempt at extortion
WICHITA — A 21-year-old man yesterday telephoned a bank and said that he would kill the head teller's family unless the bank paid him $13 million, police said. But the extortion attempt failed.
The teller duped the man into coming to the Fourth National Bank, where police MaJ, Flayd Powell and two detectives were waiting for him.
The man approached Powell and asked him who he was, Easter said. When Powell said he was a police officer, the man asked for the $13 million. The man did not get the money and was arrested immediately, Easter said.
Man pleads guilty in wife's death
MANHATTAN — A man who said that he accidentally shot his common-law wife while putting away a rifle that he fired during a New Year's celebration has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
Willie Lee Robinson, 37, entered the plea Monday in Riley County District Court for the Jan. 1 slaying of his common-law wife, 35-year-old Alberta Louise Burnett, officials said.
Robinson said that he shot a .30-caliber rifle outside his home several times to celebrate the new year, and that as he was putting the rifle away it accidentally discharged. A bullet struck Burnett in the head.
A charge of second-degree murder was reduced to involuntary manslaughter in exchange for the guilty plea, officials said.
Robinson, who is in the Riley County Jail with bond set at $10,000,
faces a possible two to 10 years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
Hitchhiker robs man at gunpoint
A hitchhiker yesterday robbed a 47-year-old Kansas City, Kan., man at gunpoint near Bonner Springs. Lawrence police said.
The hitchhiker forced the victim to drive through the Wyandotte County area for three hours before demanding that the driver take him to Lawrence.
the police searched North Lawrence, but late last night had no information on the suspect's whereabouts.
The victim picked up the hitchhiker about 2:30 p.m. at the intersection of Kansas Avenue and 42nd Street in Kansas City, police said. The victim was on his wav to Turner High School to pick up his children.
According to police reports the victim, whose name was withheld, did not see the 22-caliber automatic pistol concealed in the suspect's coat.
After being picked up, the suspect pulled out his gun as the car neared the Turner exit, police said. The driver continued west on highway 32 to a rural area near Bonner Springs, where the suspect took the man's money and returned the wallet. The suspect took $293.
ON THE RECORD
HADAR DETECTOR EQUIPMENT worth $250 was stolen from a Lawrence man's car early yesterday morning, Lawrence police said. The police have no suspects.
IHEVES STOLE A typewriter worth $470 and two calculators worth $50 and $4 Monday night from the new *Benney's* store, 1801 W. 23rd St.
A KU STUDENT reported that a painting worth $150 was stolen from the art studio room at the Art and Design Building sometime during the weekend, KU police said. The police have no suspects.
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For other questions or complaints, ask for Doug Cunningham, editor, or Don Knox, managing editor.
The number of the Kansan business office, which handles all advertising, is 664-4358.
TOPEKA — Officers of legislation that would raise the drinking age told a House committee yesterday that such laws would be unfair and that more appropriate measures of reducing alcohol abuse and drunken driving were evaluated.
Mark Tallman, executive director of the Associated Students of Kansas, told the House Federal and State Affairs Committee that increasing the drinking age would make it easier for families would take a legal right old from 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds.
Higher drinking age called unfair
By LORI DODGE Staff Reporter
"Eighteen-year-olds have the same legal status as 60-year-olds and should be treated in the same way."
He said that the Illinois law restricting sales to people under 21 was a stop-gap attempt to solve teen-age alcohol abuse that "boomerang."
age would not be a cure-all for a complex problem.
mittee that public education concerning alcohol abuse and tougher drunken-driving laws were effective deterrents to alcohol-related problems.
Angie Wood, ASK director at Pittsburg State University, told the com
"The bars and pubs of Champaign-Urbana survive as a result of the business generated from the college crowd," Edmonds said. "Hence, no I.D.s are ever checked and anyone can drink if they so desire.
In the past year, she said, university groups have scheduled more "dry" functions as a result of several alcohol-awareness drives.
"The local and state liquor administrators refuse to deal with this situation because of the economic ramifications, or any other consideration," he said.
Bob Storey of the Kansas Beer Retailers Association said that education and treatment were the only ways to reduce drunken driving and that saving the sale of beer to a certain group of people would not tessen the problem.
Some of these functions were nonalcoholic-beverage recipe contests, she said, and some college-town bars and other venues' beverages' best nonalcoholic beverages.
He also told committee members that statistics from Shawnee County showed that 52 percent of the total arrests for
Storey said that during a three-year period in Shawnee County, less than 3 percent of the 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds arrested for driving while under the influence of alcohol among officers, compared with the 9.3 percent of all age groups that were repeaters.
convictions for driving while under the 21-year-old limit within the 21- to 38-year-old age group.
The committee heard testimony Monday from supporters of raising the drinking age. Hearings on bills prohibiting "drink-and-drown" specials are scheduled for the committee meeting today.
He said that those figures indicated that the younger people were more informed about drunken driving and that they had second thoughts about smoke under the influence because of the stiffer drunken-driving penalties.
"Most of these teenage offenders are subject to two courts, he said, 'one
Emulating Greg Nelson and Jenny Gardner of the soap opera "All My Children," Stanley Rasmussen, Pine, Colo., senior, and Jennifer Haase. Belleville sophomore, cut a wedding cake at a champagne reception on the third floor of Noismith Hall. The reception was in celebration of Greg and Jenny's long-awaited marriage.
Chris Edmonds, director of ASK at the University of Kansas, told the committee that raising the drinking
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By MARY SEXTON Staff Reporter
In the world of academia at the University of Kansas yesterday afternoon, one question troubled most minds. It was the topic of conversation in residence halls, in sororites, in the dark confines of the Kansas Union.
Soap fans rejoice as TV couple ties knot
Would struggling lovers Jenny Garland invigorate Nelson take their wedding vows?
At high noon, despite all odds, the
"All My Children" finally tied the
A group of 20 Naismith Hall residents gathered in the hall's third floor lobby to celebrate the imminent nuptials with his bride and the making cake and a case of pink champagne.
The reception was planned to honor the long-awaited wedding of Jenny and Greg, one of the favorite couples of daytime television soap opera fans.
Todd Powell, Overland Park sophmore, and Stanley Rasmussen, Pine, Colo., senior, catered the gala two-hour affair.
Assuming the roles of bride and groom, Rasmussen and Jennifer Haase, Belleville sophomore, clinked their plastic stemmed champagne glasses in a wedding toast and cut the cake trimmed with red sweet-heart roses.
The couple was not showered with rain and they were not honeymoon arrangements were made.
Although the day was sheer splendor
to Jenny, it was nonetheless tarnished
by the heat.
For most, the horrifying story of Liza Colby's assault meant little except for
how it would affect the wedding. While Liza lay in a hospital bed, bruised and battered, Greg packed for his honeymoon. Few were moved by Liza's
Viewers were once again left wont-
her to believe that she would mar
jemmy's wedding day.
Jenny took a walk up the aisle last Christmas to an anxious Tony Barclay, her intended groom, only to have her
vows interrupted by Greg, who stormed the aisle and punched Barclay in the nose.
The December wedding was ill-fated from the start. Jenny still loved Greg, but was convinced that she should have been on a tragic accident left Greg paralyzed.
The December incident was only one in a series of tragedies that have befallen.
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"They've only been trying to get married for two years," Amy Banker, Russell sophomore, said. "It's kind of anti-climacic."
Yesterday no one was disappointed who came to hear the final words, "You must do what you want."
But now a new question haunts the thoughts of faithful viewers: how long will the marriage last?
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