University Daily Kansan, November 15. 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
KU freshman wins crown of Miss Kansas USA 1984
Elizabeth Johnson, Overland Park freshman, was crowned Miss Kansas USA 1984 Sunday night in Overland Park after a three-day competition.
"I don't think it's hit me yet," Johnson said yesterday after her crowning at the Doubletree Inn. "It's a great honor."
She will represent Kansas at the Miss USA pageant in May.
Johnson said that unlike competitions for the Miss America state representatives, the Miss USA representatives did not have to compete in a talent contest. Miss Kansas USA contenders were judged on the basis of three days of interviews.
The final competition was a 60-second personal statement that each woman had to give in front of the judges.
"I had mine memorized," Johnson said, "but when I got up there I changed it."
Runners-up were first princess, Jami Ulrich of Winfield; second, Debbie Holzer of Shawnee; third, Mary Morgan of Manhattan; and fourth, Amy Varney of Prairie Village.
Ballot-counting changes considered
The Student Senate Elections Committee chairman said yesterday that he was considering several different procedures that could be used to count ballots for upcoming student body elections.
Jim Clark, the committee chairman, said that he had received several complaints from coalitions running in the election about the way the ballots had been counted last year.
In the 1982 election, ballots were counted by election committee personnel under the observation of a staff member of the office of student organizations and activities.
For this year's tallying, Clark said he was considering using employees from a local temporary-job agency. Clark said that he also might ask faculty members to count ballots, but that he thought they would not be interested because of the time involved.
Clark said that the old system would be used if no alternative could be found. But he said that several students who were not members of the committee would be asked to help count ballots.
Sociologist to speak on civil rights
A leading black sociologist will speak on "New Challenges for the city's Movement" at 7:30 p.m. to tomorrow in the Jayhawk Room of the Kungsfan University.
The lecture by William Julius Wilson, Langston Hughes visiting professor at the University of Kansas, is part of the pragmatism Hughes lecture series.
Wilson, a University of Chicago professor of urban sociology, is working on a book that analyzes the condition of the black poor since
He also has said that he was working with other black leaders to develop a national industrial policy that would concentrate on economic growth.
Wilson is best known for his book "The Declining Significance of Race," which Norman Yetman, KU professor of sociology and American studies, called "the most provocative and significant book dealing with the state of black America in the 1970s and '80s."
Judge picks kin over Supreme Court
TOPEKA — Kansas Court of Appeals Judge Corwin C. Spencer says any aspirations he might have had to sit on the Kansas Supreme Court were brushed aside to fulfill his plans to retire and spend time with his family.
Spencer, 66, announced his retirement from the bench yesterday amid praise from his colleagues on the appellate court and the state Supreme Court. Spencer said he wanted to return to his hometown of Oakley to be near his children, two of whom are practicing attorneys in the small, northwest Kansas town.
Any aspirations to sit on the Kansas Supreme Court would have interfered with his retirement plans, said Spencer, who was 60 when he was appointed by Republican Gov. Robert Bennett to the Court of Appeals at its inception in January 1977.
"I felt that if I were to make myself available for the Supreme Court and if by some remote chance would get the appointment, I would feel committed to serve out the term," he said. "I think that would have been expected by the bar and the governor, for that matter."
Supreme Court Chief Justice Alfred Schroeder and Court of Appeals Chief Judge J. Richard Foth praised Spencer for his dedication to the judicial branch of government. Schroeder said Spencer's opinions for the court of appeals rarely were reversed by the Supreme Court.
Board votes to assume lift-bus costs
The Student Senate Transportation Board last night voted to assume the administration's share of financing for the KU lift-bus. But the board said that it would finance the bus at $1,000 less than the administration said would be needed for the system.
Mark Bossi, the board's chairman, said the board voted to assume the administration's share, which was used for dispatching costs. However, Bossi said the board would assume payment at $4,000 instead of the administration's request of $5,000 for the system.
Bossi said that facilities operations, which had been responsible for the bus, had estimated the cost of the dispatching service at $4,000.
He said that the board also had agreed to pay for $645 in outstanding maintenance costs for the bus and that the board had wanted the administration to agree to purchasing a new lift-bus within four years.
The administration in July stopped paying its share of the costs of the bus, which is used to transport handicapped and injured students between their homes and classes.
William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor, said last week that the University had stopped financing the lift-bus because of budget cuts made last year by the state Legislature.
He said that the University was obligated to run the system, but that KU would have lost money if it had continued to pay its share.
The student was released on $2,000 bond Saturday from Douglas County Jail. He is scheduled to appear at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Douglas County District Court.
Hogan said that because of federal regulations, the University had to continue the bus service because bus transportation was provided to other students.
AN 18-YEAR-OLD KU student was arrested Saturday and booked for sexual battery in connection with an Nov. 2 assault of a KU woman outside Javhawk Towers A.
ON THE RECORD
THREE PARKED CARS were damaged about 11 p.m. Saturday in Lot 105 of McCollum Hall when a driver lost control of his car and struck the cars, police said.
The driver was making a turn in the lot, police said, when the right front tire of the car struck a curb. The driver then lost control of the car and struck the back of a parked car, forcing it on top of an eight-foot wide concrete median and into the left front grill of a second car. The driver's car then rebounded from the collision with the first car and struck the rear rear of a third car.
The driver was issued a citation for reckless driving. A damage estimate was unavailable, police said.
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City Commission to consider gas price increase
The Kansas Public Service Co. Inc. will ask the Lawrence City Commission tonight to allow a natural gas rate increase of about 19 cents per thousand gallons.
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
president Bill Salome, closely follows a 12 cent "pass-through" increase by Northwest Central Pipeline Corp., the company's gas supplier. KPS is allowed to automatically pass along supplier increases to consumers without approval from the City Commission.
Local gas rates will increase 4.5 percent monthly if the City Commission grants the request. The commission will consider the request at 7 tonight in its meeting at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
In the past, the city has always used an independent arbiter to negotiate the
THE REQUEST, MADE by KPS
The city regulates the gas company's local charges through a franchise agreement. KPS is one of 12 privately owned gas companies in the state. All other gas companies are under the Kansas Corporation Commission.
Another pass-through increase is expected early next month, according
Salome said the 18.87 cent increase per thousand cubic feet would produce an additional $630,000 in revenue. This would maintain a 13 percent return to investors, an amount that has usually been approved by arbiter in past years.
In a letter to the City Commission,
LAST WINTER the city granted KPS an increase of slightly more than 4 percent after considering a request for a 9.3 percent increase. The total charge for gas last year was $0.09 a thousand cubic feet. The rate dropped in April to $0.06 and stopped buying high-priced gas and passed the savings along to KPS.
a five-year project to eliminate over- flow valves in the city sewerage that send sewage into the Wakarusa River during heavy rains.
In other action tonight, the City Commission will consider an $800,000 revenue bond that would be the start of
The federal government has ordered the city to comply with new federal guidelines for sewage disposal, which prevent sewage overflow into rivers.
The project will be paid for with higher sewer fees, which the city began increasing last year. The total project is expected to cost $7.1 million.
The commission will also be considering a request from the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice to join the National International Christmas Tree for Peace.
Attorney says he's new assistant DA
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
Butler County attorney William Ronan confirmed yesterday that he was hired two weeks ago as a Douglas County assistant district attorney.
Ronan said that he would begin work Nov. 21. Ronan is the second assistant district attorney that District Attorney Jerry Harper has hired to replace three assistant district attorneys who resigned Oct. 3.
However, the Douglas County Commission, which must approve Ronan, had not been notified of the hiring as of Monday afternoon. None of the county commissioners could be reached for comment yesterday evening.
Ronan said that he had been hired before Halloween but that he and Harper had not announced the hiring because they were preoccupied with upcoming trials under their jurisdictions.
HARPER WOULD NOT confirm yesterday that Ronan had been hired. He said that Ronan would not be hired until "the application process was complete." However, he did not specify the steps of the application process.
Although Harper would not say that he had appointed Ronan, he praised Ronan for his work in Butler County.
— even if he is a Republican. "Harper is a democrat."
"He's a hard-charging prosecutor
he said. He's got the experience
and he has the know-how."
Harper also refused to say how close he was to filling the third vacancy on his staff. He said he "would comment in due course" on the matter.
Nov. 4 was the last day of work for the three assistant district attorneys, Jean Sagan, Mary Prewitt and Harry Cohn, who resigned from Harper's staff.
the first vacancy. The position Lindebender-Johnson filled was an entry-level position. The position that required prosecution experience.
"I was looking for someone to prosecute serious cases." Harper said. "And even though we don't have an abundance of serious crime, Ronan is an experienced prosecutor who can do the job."
LAST WEEK, Margaret Lindeberg-
Johnson, a 1982 University of Kansas
law school graduate, was hired to fill
Ronan said one of the reasons he took the job was that he had a desire to move back to Northeast Kansas. Ronan is a native of Overland Park and has bachelor and law degrees from Wash- burn University.
Ronan, 29, was elected Butler County attorney shortly after graduating from college.
"Douglas County offered a lot of opportunities for me. I heard about the opening and I was coming up anyway but not all of it," said, we'll talk about it," Ronan said.
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