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University Daily Kansan, January 13, 1984
Weather
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The Southwestern storm stirred ground blizzards in New Mexico and closed part of U.S. Highway 67 for several hours.
DESPITE BLOWING SNOW that hampered searchers using snowmobiles and a snowplow, rescueers found two brothers missing overnight on a wood-cutting trip in the northwest New Mexico mountains.
The National Weather Service said a storm system centered on the Oklahoma-Texas area was expected to hit the Northeast today.
Temperatures plunged to minus 21 degrees at Concord, N.H., and to minus 12 degrees at Williston, N.D.
Caribou, Maine, temperatures fell to minus 20, and National Weather Service forecast Wayne Weeks suggested Florida and Alaska as warm vacation spots.
“This is the time to go to Florida,” he said. “While New Englanders froze solid, Alaska is melting.”
The Southwestern storm stirred ground blizzards in New Mexico and closed part of U.S. Highway 87 for several hours.
DESPITE BLOWING SNOW that hampered searchers using snow-mobiles and a snowplow, rescuers found two brothers missing overnight on a wood-cutting trip in the northwest New Mexico mountains.
The National Weather Service said a storm system centered on the Oklahoma-Texas area was expected to hit the Northeast today.
Temperatures plunged to minus 21 degrees at Concord, N.H., and to minus 12 degrees at Williston, N.D.
Caribou, Maine, temperatures fell to minus 20, and National Weather Service forecaster Wayne Weeks suggested Florida and Alaska as warm vacation spots.
"This is the time to go to Florida," he said. "While New Englanders freeze solid, Alaska is beginning to thaw out."
The Boston chill took its toll on car batteries, and auto clubs and service stations were swamped.
"WE CAN'T KEEP up," said Steve Mussler, an attendant at Pat's car in Caribou. Maintain w/o Van Buren Road 't is 38 below. I wish it was 38 about us.
North winds created single-digit readings in the New York City area, sending record numbers of homeless people to shelters.
city-operated shelters and hotels, said Jack Deacy, spokesman for the city's Human Resources Administration.
Three overnight fires, including one blamed on a portable heater, forced almost four dozen people into the chilly Boston air.
A woman and her four children died in a New York City fire as the cold hampered firefighters' efforts there.
"FIRE AND ICE is one of the worst combinations a firefighter can face," said Assistant Fire Commissioner John Mulligan.
"I ice plays hob with anything mechanical, adds weight when it freezes, coats everything — ladders, hoses, apparatus, buildings — making footing extremely dangerous, and it debilicates, wears you down." Mulligan said. "It makes a dangerous job even more dangerous."
Problems haven't been as severe in Kansas since December's cold set 16 new record lows in Lawrence.
But road cranes in Lawrence and at the University are preparing for a harsh January.
KU's Facilities and Operations has 110 tons of sand stockpiled for the heavy雪 expected in January and February, said Jim Mathis. KU's assistant director of landscaping.
In December, workers dumped twice as much sand on KU's streets as is usual that month.
Nearly 15,400 homeless people were housed Wednesday night in
Three overnight fires, including one blamed on a portable heater, forced almost four dozen people in the chilly Boston air.
city-operated shelters and hotels, said Jack Deacy, spokesman for the city's Human Resources Administration.
A woman and her four children died in a New York City fire as the cold hampered firefighters' efforts there.
"FIRE AND ICE is one of the worst combinations a firefighter can face," said Assistant Fire Commissioner John Mulligan.
coats everything — ladders, hoses, apparatus, buildings — making footing extremely dangerous, and it debilitates, wears you down." Mulligan said. "It makes a dangerous job even more dangerous."
Problems haven't been as severe in Kansas since December's cold set 16 new record lows in Lawrence.
But road crews in Lawrence and at the University are preparing for a harsh January.
KU's Facilities and Operations has 110 tons of stockpiled for the heavy shrops expected in January and February, said Jim Mathis, PO's
In December, workers dumped twice as much sand on KU's streets as is usual that month.
Lawrence has 220 tons a of sand and salt mixture and 200 tons of salt.
Stay of execution given to Hutchins
By United Press International
RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal appeals court judge granted a stay of execution for James W. Hutchins early this morning, less than six hours before he was to die by lethal injection for the murder of three law enforcement officers in a drunken rage.
Judge J. Dickson Phillips confirmed to UPI that the defendant issued a stay, 'pending further orders of this court.'
The state of North Carolina immediately appealed Phillips' order. Deputy Attorney General Dick League said that Chief Justice Warren Burger agreed to hear the appeal. Burger handles all appeals that come from the 4th Circuit.
If the U.S. Supreme Court fails to act before Hutchins' scheduled 5 a.m. CDT execution, the Rutherford County man might win at least another 60 days of life.
Jack Cozort, attorney for Gov. James B. Hunt
Jr., said that under state law, if a stay is issued the convict's case must go back to Superior Court to set another sentencing date.
PHILIPPS ISSUED HIS stay following a meeting in a Richmond, Va., hotel room with attorneys for the state and for Hutchins. Phillips, who was an attorney, tells what arguments led him to issue the order.
But League said that Phillips did it in deference to a court case decided yesterday in Charlotte, in which U.S. District Judge James B. McMillan ruled a prospective juror's view on capital punishment cannot be the main reason for excluding that person from the jury.
The stay climaxed a day-long series of hearings in Raleigh and Rutherforddon during which Hutchins' attorneys had tried unsuccessfully to stop his execution.
THEY WERE APPEALING yesterday's decision by Superior Court Judge Robert Collier that there was no evidence that Hutchins was insane.
But Collier — after hearing testimony from two psychiatrists who examined the wiry, 54-year-old Hutchins only hours earlier — ruled that mental illness is not the same as insanity. North Carolina law forbids execution of an insane person.
Johnson said Hutchins, described by friends as "a good-hearted man except when he was drinking," told him he regretted killing two Rutherford County sheriff's deputies and a highway patrolman "and he wants the families to forgive him."
The deputies were called to Hutchins' house when he began beating his daughter because she had poured too much vodka into the punch she was making for a high school graduation party.
Hutchins would become the first inmate executed in North Carolina since 1961 and the 12th to be executed in the United States since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on executions in 1976. He would be the second to die by lethal injection.
Survey reveals that Kansans would favor education taxes
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Kansans would support a tax increase — although they do not agree on which tax to increase. If the state could not maintain an educational system, a survey indicated yesterday.
Kansas-National Education Association, the state's largest teachers group, released the results of a statewide opinion survey covering such education issues as financing, state control over local boards, teacher salaries and binding in教师-school contract negotiations.
At a news conference to release the results, K-NEA President Nancy Lindberg said that if education was to improve in the next three years the Legislature must recommend that school districts be allowed to raise their budgets more than Gov. John Carlin had recommended.
Carlin recommended for fiscal 1985 that districts be allowed to raise their budgets by 4 percent to 8 percent, depending on how much the school district earns. The second 2 percent are earmarked for teacher salaries.
THE TEACHERS want the budget lids to be
scaled with the same 2 percent
scaled for teacher pay.
"That will bring teachers' salaries almost one-third of the way to the national average in the 1984-85 school year," Lindberg said in a statement.
One finding of the survey was that a majority of those questioned said that they would support a tax increase if there was not enough money available to maintain the current quality of education. We found that 68 percent supported the increase, 28 percent opposed it and 3 percent were unsure.
Another point was that a majority of those surveyed said that they thought a certain amount of the tax money collected should be carmarked for teacher pay. To that question, 68 percent said that they thought the money should be specially set aside, 27 percent said that it
should not and 5 percent said that they were unsure.
ANOTHER QUESTION WAS which tax that surgevent would want to increase to back edu- cation?
Of those surveyed, 21 percent said property taxes, 24 percent said sale taxes, 7 percent said income taxes, 4 percent said excise taxes, 6 percent said other and 10 percent said a combination of taxes. Two percent said that they were increased and 28 percent said they that were unsure.
The survey was conducted by Capital Research Services Inc., which called telephone numbers randomly Dec. 6 and 17. Interviews were conducted with 627 Kansans. The sample error probability was plus or minus five, K-NEA said.
Another portion of the survey expanded the salary question to break down possible vari- ants in the salaries.
TO THE QUESTION OF earmarking money for teacher pay, 62 percent of the Republican respondents, 74 percent of the Democrats and 75 percent of the respondents said that the money should be earmarked.
By age, support for earmarking money broke down this way: 78 percent of those between 18 and 24 years old, 72 percent of those 35-34, 72 percent of those 35-44, 64 percent of those 45-54, 60 percent of those 55-64 and 62 percent of those 65 and older.
The group planned to present the survey findings to lawmakers.
K-NEA, a long-time Carlin ally, is upset with the Democratic governor over his proposed teacher pay plan for fiscal 1985. He has received a 9.75 percent average teacher salary hikes.
K-NEA still supports Carlin politically and has been pleased with the emphasis on education in her school.
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