University Daily Kansan, November 30. 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Funeral services to be held today in K.C. for KU junior
Funeral services will be today for Sally Howe, Kansas City, Mo. junior, who died Monday at North Kansas City Memorial Hospital.
Services for Howe, 21, who was majoring in psychology at the University of Kansas, will be at 11 a.m. today at St. Theresa Catholic Church, Parkville, Mo., said a spokesman for McGilley's Antioch Chapel, Kapel, City City, Mo.
Services will also be conducted at 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. Augustine's Catholic Church, Milo, Iowa. Burial will be at Belmont Cemetery in Milo.
She is survived by her parents, Rita and Charles Howe, and two brothers, Scott, of the home, and Dave, of Rome, New York.
Gas supplier's rate increase rejected
A price increase in natural gas rates that was expected to be passed on to Lawrence residents by the company that supplies the area with gas was rejected yesterday by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The increase had been expected in early December, but William Salome, president of Kansas Public Service Co., the local gas company, said that it is "not yet ready" to begin.
Northwest Central Pipeline Corp, which is the wholesale supplier for KS, had asked for an increase of 9 cents per thousand cubic feet of water.
The rejection will have no effect on KPS's request to increase gas rates 18.87 cents per mcf. The Lawrence City Commission passed on the local request to an arbor. The commission regulates KPS rates but does not control "pass-through" increases by Northwest Central.
An official from the energy commission said the request was rejected on a technicality.
House fire kills woman, injures son
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 28-year-old woman was killed and her 5-year-old foster child was hospitalized in critical condition from injuries suffered in a fire at their house about 6 a.m. yesterday, fire officials said.
Authorities arriving at the scene said they saw Charles Williams standing on the porch of the house screaming that two people were still there.
The man's wife, Delores Williams, was carried from the house with the boy, Donald W. Williams, who is in critical condition in intensive care at Boston Medical Center.
Investigators are attempting to determine the cause of the blaze, said Capt. Joe Galetti, a fire department public information officer. Damage to the house was set at $20,000 with $10,000 in damage to the contents.
Hutchinson representative to resign
TOPEKA — State Rep. John L. Myers, D-Hutchinson, said yesterday that he would resign his legislative seat next month to work in the state budget office as one of three policy analysts.
Myers, 33, was appointed to the House in 1977 to first an unexpired term and then was elected to his first full term in 1978. He presently is a member of the U.S. Congress.
The representative said he expected to leave his House seat Dec. 12 and to begin his new $31,000 job the same day. He will be responsible for various general policy areas and will report to budget director Lynn Muchmore.
Myers, who now is a consultant in community education, said the move to Topeka would help him more easily complete his doctorate in education at Kansas State University and would also be a career advancement.
Democratic precinct committee members in Myers' district, which includes the Hutchinson area, will choose a successor to fill his House seat.
Injections against hepatitis planned
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — Students and employees at James Elementary School will be inoculated this week against infectious hepatitis, a disease that was diagnosed last week in a dining room worker, health officials said.
The disease, an infection of the liver, can be transmitted by food contamination, said Gerald Hoff, chief of the Kansas City Health Department.
However, the school's principal, Eugene Wolley, said the woman only supervised children during lunchtime and did not prepare or handle
While the faculty and the 400 students may have been exposed, officials were concerned about people who attended a Parent Teachers Association meeting Nov. 19, when the worker apparently helped prepare food.
The woman, who was not identified, was diagnosed last Wednesday. The illness is most contagious before the appearance of the symptoms, which include an upset stomach, jaundice and discoloration of urine or feces. Hoff said. The illness has a 15-day incubation period.
Panel to discuss education report
The Associated Students of Kansas will sponsor a panel discussion tomorrow afternoon in the Kansas Union about improvements in prison reform.
Area legislators and educators such as State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Rawrence; State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-DLawrence; Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan.; Carl Knox, superintendent of Lawrence Unified School District 497; and Wendell Lady, member of the Board of Regents, will discuss changes that might be proposed to the legislature during its next session.
The panel will discuss increasing class requirements and increasing teachers' salaries as recommended in a government report.
"A Nation at Risk," the National Commission on Excellence in education report published in February, is the main inspiration for the fora established by the UN.
The educational controversy has dragged on since the report was released, he said, but this forum was planned as "an end of the cycle."
The discussion will be at 5:45 tomorrow afternoon in the Kansas Room of the Union.
"The conference will be a resource tool so the legislators will know how people feel about the issue." Edmons said.
ON THE RECORD
TWO INCIDENTS OF INDECENT exposure were reported to Lawrence police Monday afternoon. A 14-year-old girl reported that a man in an orange Pinto with a white interior exposed himself about 3:30 p.m. Monday near Kansas Street and Utah Court. An 11-year-old girl said that a man in a small red car exposed himself about 4 p.m. Sunday in the 900 block of Tennessee Street. Police said that in both incidents the man had asked the girls for directions and then exposed himself. Police think that the same man was involved in both incidents.
A REEL-TO-REEL TAPE recorder worth $2,000 was among items stolen between 8 a.m. Saturday and 8:30 p.m. Monday from a residence in the 1600 block of West Fifth, police said. Burglars entered by by forcing open a door. A cassette tape deck, an amplifier and a receiver were also stolen. Police have no suspects.
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December graduates plan informal ceremony
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
tunity to walk down the hill. Many or they can't come back in May because they live too far away or because they have work obligations, he said.
Staff Reporter
Graduation ceremonies at the University of Kansas this fall might not be what most people would call formal.
But even if graduates wear a bathrobe and a baseball cap instead of the traditional cap and gown, they will be able to say, "I walked down the hill," Stephen Sachs, Prairie Village senior, said yesterday.
"It might be snowy and cold, but when you've been here four years you can endure a little cold weather," said Eileen Hodgson, of the December graduation ceremony.
"If you don't have a job, it's kind of embarrassing." Sachs said. "December graduates kind of lose out on the ceremony. It is like getting a test back four weeks after you took it — it doesn't do anything for you."
OFTEN, STUDENTS WHO graduate in December miss out on the oppor-
The lack of a graduation ceremony in December at KU prompted Sahs to get together a group of December graduates who wanted to walk down the hill such that they would agree to organize an event and the tongue-in-cheek ceremony he said.
"We are doing it for fun," he said,
"but the motives are serious."
Kansas State University invited December graduates to his house every year for a semi-formal ceremony which parents can attend.
"Here you just kind of pack up and leave." he said.
About 25 students graduating in December have said that they would join the staff of the college.
SACHS SAID THAT the president of
Sachs is circulating a petition to coax the KU band to play ceremonial music, but if the students can't get the band to play ceremonies they can easily way to have music at the ceremony.
"We will have our own rendition of pump and circumstance," he said. "I'll bring it to you."
Scott Seyfarth, Oak Brook, Ill., senior said he had decided to participate in the 2014 NCAA women's basketball tournament.
fun. But he said he hoped that in the future, KU would conduct a graduation ceremony."
"We are not trying to put the school down," he said. "We are doing it for fun. That's part of being in college — having fun."
BUT THE CEREMONY will also mean that, even it he doesn't make it back for commencement. Seyfarth will be able to tell his friends he walked down the hill and to show them some pictures of the ceremony.
Sachs said he hoped to find a speaker for the graduation ceremony.
"If it is fairly warm I'll probably get somebody good," he said.
The bathrobe and the baseball cap are required, he said. Champagne is on top.
Hearing to resume on Fourhorn's trial for murder
By the Kansan Staff
A hearing to decide whether the jury acted improperly during the first-degree murder trial of James Chademo, 46, Friday in Douglas County District Court.
The hearing on a motion for a new trial began yesterday, but Mike Malone, Douglas County district court associate judge, continued the hearing on Monday. The motion was filed by Fourhon's court-appointed attorney, Harton Hazlett.
FOURHORN HAD BEEN charged in late June with the first-degree murder of Harry Puckett, 94, and with aggravated burglary in connection with a break-in of Puckett's home on June 24 in a convicted Oct. 23 of both charges.
Hazlett said that some of the jorrs had matched Fourtorn's shoes to some blood impressions on a plywood board from Puckett's home.
Hazlett said that as a result of matching the shoes to the blood-stained shoe impressions on the board, the jurors concluded that Fourhorn's shoes
could have made the impressions. But evidence that the blood-stained impressions matched Fourhour's shoes produced during the trial, Hazel said
"Examination of evidence is fine."
Hazlett said. "Experimentation is not."
He said that Robert Olsen of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation had testified during the trial in October that Fourhorn's shoes did not make the impressions, although Olsen had not conducted any scientific tests.
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the jurors thought it might have made a difference if the shoes had been matched to the impressions while there was weight in the shoes, he said. Because of the jurors questions, such a test was conducted.
The effect of the test, Hazlett said, was to introduce evidence outside the trial that the defendant had no chance to rebut.
Malone said that jurors would be called to testify during the hearing on Friday so that he could determine what tests, if any, had been done.
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