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NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, January 18. 1984
Page 11
Murder suspect hangs himself in county jail
From Staff and Wire Reports
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A teenager who confessed to the fatal beating of a former Kansas City newsman and two members of his family hanged himself in jail yesterday, leaving notes saying "I haven't killed nobody" and "the good die young."
Jail guards in Indiana's Allen County discovered the body of Calvin Perry, an 18-year-old unemployed high school dropout, while serving breakfast to prisoners just before 6:30 a.m.
Perry's suicide came less than a day after he was charged with three counts of murder and with rape, child molesting and burglary in the store where he was killed. News-Sentinel editorial page editor Dan Osborne, his wife and son.
05BORNE GRADUATED FROM the University of Kansas with a journalism degree in 1970. His wife, Jane, graduated from KU with a degree in business in 1971. Osborne was an assistant business editor of the Kansas City Star before moving to Fort Wavne.
Allen County Coroner Dr. Roland Ahlbrand said Perry had been dead less than two hours when he was found hanging from the bars of a window in his maximum security cell, and of cloth ripped from a mattress cover
Perry had been moved to a maximum security cell block earlier this week at the request of defense lawyers.
Allen County Sheriff Dan Fiegel said that the suspect was not under constant watch and had last been arrested in a.m. during a regular cell check.
"WE HAVE SECURITY," Figel said. "We have a scream alarms. If there is a noise in the cell area, the alarm goes off. We do not have guards sitting in that clock when we have people locked in their cells."
Ahbriand said that, "The man had no shoestrings. He had no belt. He had all the usual precautions which are done to avoid this sort of thing." Ahbriand said, "There isn't a way in the world that anyone, any place, can prevent a suicide if the person is intent upon doing it."
Before hanging himself, Ahlbrand padded, Perry had scribbled "cryptic" messages in pen on the cell walls and with hand writing wrote "something about 'the good die young'" on the floor.
Calvin Perrv
THE CORONER SAID Perry also left a detailed note on legal-sized paper asking forgiveness.
Police have said that Perry, arrested late Jan. 5 after allegedly beating and robbing a 78-year-old woman, confessed on video tape to the Osborne killings, another homicide and a series of break-ins, and assaults and rapes dating back to late August.
Aside from the charges filed Monday in the Osborne case, Perry had been arraigned on two counts of rape, three counts of burglary and one count of child molesting. Prosecutors, who had planned to seek the charge of the Osborne case, were preparing charges in as many as 15 assaults.
Caroline, who wandered in the house for two days before the murders were discovered, now lives with relatives in Lawrence.
A member of the Inter-demonstrational Ministerial Alliance said that he did not believe the sheriff's version of Perry's death and wanted an independent investigation.
Fort Wayne, Ind., Mayor Winfield Moses Jr. says that he wants a grand jury investigation to clear up doubts about the suicide.
Town sees money in radioactivity, again
EDGEMONT, S.D. - Who's afraid of a nuclear-waste dump? Not folks in Edgemont. They say their town needs the jobs and money.
By United Press International
Edemont invited Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc., to look over an abandoned ammunition dump on the outskirts of Brooklyn, where disposing low-level radioactive waste.
After the firm considered another site company founder Lloyd Andrews said, "There are probably better sites but I haven't seen them."
That suited local folks just fine. They were, after all, familiar with radioactivity. The community was once a major producer of uranium.
In fact, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is supervising the removal from Edgement and environs radioactive waste in a milling of uranium. But that's another matter.
A lot of South Dakotaans don't appreciate Edgontem's aspirations to serve as host for a nuclear-waste dump because such facilities have been known to leak radioactivity. They are circulating a petition to put the issue of nuclear waste disposal in South Dakota on the ballot.
FOLKS IN EDGEMONT don't understand what all the fuss is about.
"I don't have any problems with a duck," said Rod Worrell, editor and a
publisher of the Edgemont Herald-
Tribune.
WORRELL SAID MORE than 2,000 people lived in Edgerton when uranium was being mined for top prices in the 1970s. A large population has shrunk to about 1,200.
Ray Lautenschlager, a local farmer, says he fears the proposed site won't be ready until 2016.
He visited a Chem-Nuclear Systems radioactive-waste dump in Barnwell, S.C., and came home to report that he had not found anyone in Barnwell outside the nuclear industry "who had a positive attitude about it."
Worrell and other community leaders visited Barnwell too, at the expense of Chem-Nuclear Systems. He described
Diplomats say U.S. may decrease Chinese aid because Peking didn't fulfill its wheat quotas
By United Press International
PEKING — The United States is considering canceling several cooperative projects with China because of Pekins failure to make good on promised purchases of American wheat last year, diplomatic sources said yesterday.
If carried out, the retaliatory action would affect several million dollars in programs under the U.S. Department of Agriculture export market development program.
But in Washington, Agriculture Secretary John Block said Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang had pledged during his visit last week to fulfill the grain commitment and the department did not intend to halt the projects.
In reference to Ziyang's pledge, Block said, "He assured me that they intended to make up the difference." Block said, "I'm just more than happy about the way the relationship is developing."
A DIAPLOMATIC SOURCE in Peking said that "no decision to cancel these programs has been taken yet." But he confirmed the programs were under review and said a decision was expected soon.
Asked whether the department had threatened to cancel participation in
granary and wheat mill projects, Block said. "We did not threaten them, and we do not intend to cut off our relationship on these projects."
Unable to reach an agreement on a new textile accord, the Reagan administration imposed unilateral quotas last year on the import of Chinese textiles in the United States. China rela-ted by banning purchases of U.S. agricultural products.
The latest trade dispute grows out of an earlier disagreement over textiles.
The two sides subsequently agreed on a new five-year textile accord and China lifted the ban on U.S. agricultural products last August.
BUT THE BAN CAUSED China to fall so far behind in its purchases that it did not meet a commitment to buy a minimum of 6 million tons of U.S. grain in 1883. As a result, U.S.-China trade fell 23 percent.
U. S. officials say they are worried now that China's failure to meet its grain purchase obligations might hurt trade ties in general.
Late last November, a compromise was struck under which China agreed to buy the 6 million tons but delayed it because on some of the grain until this year.
But China, according to diplomats who requested anonymity, has also reneged on the compromise — prompting the Agriculture Department action, which would cancel U.S. participation in the construction of a feed plant in a noodle plant in Shanghai and several training programs and seminars.
THE FATE OF these programs will be determined by the Agriculture Department review, which is trying to determine how much grain China has bought since the November compromise was struck.
Because of statistical discrepancies, the amount of grain that China has bought remains ambiguous, a diplomat said.
Error allows 100 percent tax refund
Dave Baker said yesterday. "When it comes through this office we will audit it and make the correction."
Baker said the media had been helpful in alerting taxpayers to the error.
By United Press International
Baker said the typographical error directed taxpayers to enter a figure on the wrong line, resulting in a 100 percent refund. He attributed the mistake to an error in proofreading.
CANTON, Ohio - An error in instructions on 30,000 city tax forms provides for a 100 percent refund. So how about it?
"I don't think we've had one person who said they're glad they're going to get it all back," he said. "Most of them know they're not."
"Oh, no, no, no," City Treasurer
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Meantime, the federal government is going ahead with plans to dispose of more than 7 million tons of radioactive material from the old uranium mill.
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