University Dallv Kansan. November 11. 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
KU freshman struck by car driven by another student
Suzanne Simons, Paradise Valley, Ariz., freshman, was struck about 12:18 a.m. yesterday as she was walking across North College Drive north of 11th Street. The KU police said she had suffered scalp lacerations and a possible concussion.
A KU student was in satisfactory condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital last night after being struck yesterday morning by a car driven by a KU student, who was later arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
The driver, a 19-year-old student, told police that he was driving about 5 mph along a driveway when he saw a girl a foot in front of his car. He said he was unable to avoid hitting her, and police said the student had stopped the car and called an ambulance.
A hearing in Douglas County District Court was set for 4 p.m. Nov. 15.
He was released from Douglas County tail on $500 bond.
Missing bodies discovered in ditch
KINGMAN — Deputies yesterday found two bodies missing for $4\frac{1}{2}$ years buried in a Kingman County ditch, and officials said suspects in Wichita and New York City were arrested in connection with the deaths.
Donald Henry Earl and his wife, Norma, of Clearwater, are thought to have died as the result of homicides, Sedgwick County officials said.
Sheriff Johnnie Darr speculated that the two victims were strangled in Sedgwick County and buried in Kingman County in the middle of the night, but said that the cause of death would not be known until after an autopsy was completed.
National group to honor speech prof
Richard Schiefelbusch, distinguished professor of speech and drama, said the national service award was an acknowledgement of the quality of KU's child-research program. The program combines special education, human development, psychology, speech and language bearing.
The Association for Retarded Citizens of the United States will give its highest award to a KU professor at a banquet in Detroit today.
"The emphasis on interdisciplinary training creates a functional relationship which can provide great human service," he said. "This award pleases me the most because it relates to human service. It reflects an effort to help people."
Encore board deadline announced
the application deadline for at-large members on the Encore advisory board is Wednesday. At-large members take part in deciding general policies for the variety show.
Interested students can pick up applications from the Board of Class Officers' headquarters, B110 Kansas Union.
Today is the last day for submitting scripts for Encore. The directors of the different skills will give oral presentations to judges Monday
Sexual harassment to be discussed
A conference on sexual harassment in the workplace will take place from 3 to 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
The conference is sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri, the KU office of affirmative action, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Association of Human Rights Workers and KU Women In Law.
The sponsors will discuss the impact of sexual harassment on the victim and the workplace environment, the courts and sexual harassment and grievance procedures as outlined by the EEOC.
Conference to help students set goals
The theme of the seventh annual KU black student-alumni career conference will be "Pursuing Your Goals." The conference is scheduled for March 26-29.
the conference, which is sponsored by the KU Black Alumni Committee, is designed to assist MU students in their academic pursuits and provide a network of alumni.
The conference will include workshops, lectures and discussions among KU students, staff and alumni. Kermit Phelps, Kansas City psychologist, will speak on interpersonal communication. Carl Boyd, research and planning communications director of the Kansas City
The conference will also include workshops on resume writing and interviewing skills. Also, Vernell Spearman, director of the office of Minority Affairs, will discuss resource identification at KU.
The conference is
'Day After' piece to be shown Sunday
The CBS-TV show "60 Minutes" will present a segment about the television movie "The Day After" at 6 p.m. Sunday.
The movie, which premiered in Lawrence Oct. 12, depicts the catastrophe of nuclear war. Several hundred KU students and Lawrence residents worked as extras in the movie, which was filmed in and around Lawrence.
Ed Bradley, a CBSA news correspondent, came to Lawrence Oct. 23 to talk with students and Lawrence residents about their attitudes toward
The "60 Minutes" story is expected to run about 12 minutes, and will deal with the political ramifications of the film and current views about nuclear war.
The film is scheduled to be shown the following Sunday as an ABC Theatre production.
CPR training to be given tomorrow
Tomorrow has been designated "CPR Saturday," and the Douglas County Chapter of the American Red Cross and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity will sponsor two cardiopulmonary resuscitation training sessions.
The sessions will be conducted at 8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at the football stadium at Haskell Indian Junior College.
The local Red Cross chapter has trained more than 200 people in CPR and other lifesaving techniques during the years it has been in Lawrence.
ON THE RECORD
PEYOTE WORTH ABOUT $500 was stolen sometime between 7 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Wednesday from a motel in the 2500 block of west Sixth Street, police said. Police said entry was made by forcing open a window. The peyote, 'a hallucinogen, in a brown suitcase and belonged to an official of the Native American Church who uses the peyote for ceremonies, police said. A tape recorder worth $200 and a beaded eagle and hawk and pleasant feathers worth $1,000 were also stolen. The police have a suspect.
A BLUE FOX coat worth $1,000 and an antique coffee-maker worth $500 were among the items stolen sometime between 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and 5:30 a.m. Wednesday from a residence in the 1200 block of Ohio St., police said. Police have not determined how entry was made. The value of the items stolen, which also included an amplifier, speakers and an AMFM unit, totaled $3,350.
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Drought loans approved for 35 counties
By Staff and Wire Reports
Dole, R-Kan, said the Farmers Home Administration had reviewed and approved all but six counties seeking federal disaster assistance. He said he expected a decision on the six others — Butler, Cowley, Crawford, Marion, Morris and Wilson — within two weeks.
beans was eight bushels an acre, compared with an average of 30; the expected yield on corn was from 15 to 20 bushels; compared with an average of 83.
In early October, Douglas County agriculture officials estimated the crop damage based on talks with farmers and on early harvest reports. Jackson George, district director of the Fmila, cattle rancher, agriculturals offered the worst damage.
The federal government has approved low interest disaster loans for farmers in 35 Kansas counties, including Douglas County, in the wake of one of the worst droughts in state history, Sen. Robert Dole said yesterday.
THE ESTIMATED yield for soy-
The Agriculture Department's latest estimate of the corn crop was based on a survey taken Nov. 1, when the harvest was 65 percent. The crop was 65 percent average for early November.
Nationwide, the drought, combined with a record acreage cutback, reduced the nearly harvested U.S. corn crop to 4.12 billion bushels. That is less than half of last year's record level and 3 percent below the October estimate.
In a statement released in Topeka, Dole said he was grateful that the agency had "acted promptly" on the requests for drought aid. The statement directly contrasted sharp criticism that the agency had been less aggressive Reagan administration the past several weeks because of what Carlin said was needless bureaucracy delay in granting aid to farmers.
THE STATE requested the aid Oct. 13. At that time, Carlin said the drought had caused $220 million in damage to sorghum and soybean crops in the state.
Carlin urged the Department of Agriculture to act quickly, he said, because many farmers needed the equipment they finance winter-wheat planting.
The disagreement between Dole and Carlin over whether the government acted as effectively as it should have in granting relief continued yesterday.
"We're very pleased that the USDA has finally granted the governor's request for disaster assistance for 35 Kansas counties," said Mike Swenson. Carlin's press secretary. "If it took a bit of prodding and pushing to finally convince them that Kansas and other states are in dire need, then so be it."
relief in the next week for up to 30 counties in central Kansas that are considered "borderline cases" in terms of their eligibility for disaster aid.
SWENSON SAID that Carlin would make an additional request for drought
Farmers who suffered at least a 30 percent crop loss because of the drought are eligible to receive loans at 5 percent interest on the first $100,000 and 25 percent on the balance up to $500,000. They can find credit elsewhere. Dole said.
The regular FmHA interest rate is 13 $ _{34} $ percent.
Other Kansas counties approved yesterday were Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chase, Chauntauqua, Cherokee, Clay, Cooney, Doniphan, Elk, Franklin, Geary, Greenwood, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Labette, Leavenworth, Linn, Lyon, Greenwood, Jackson, Jefferson, Neosho, Noashe, Osage, Pottawatomi, Riley, Shawnee, Wauaunese, Woodson and Wyandotte.
AURH president defends extra $1,300 expense
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
The president of the Association of University Residence Halls last night defended a decision by the AURH Executive Board to exceed by more than $1,300 the budget for "Haunted Hall on the Hill," a Halloween festival.
The $1,366.82 expenditure was detailed in a financial report released last night at an AURH General Assembly meeting in the Burge Union.
Most of the expenditure was the result of a last-minute decision by fire inspectors that partitions being used for the festival in Templin Hall were unsuitable, said Alan Rowe, the president.
The partitions were used to construct passageways and tunnels common to the settlement.
Three days before the festival, inspectors disapproved of the partitions, which belonged to the office of housing. The next day, Oct. 26, the budget committee initially allocated money in a regularly scheduled meeting for new partitions.
ORIGINALLY, $1,500 had been allocated for the festival, but after the purchase of the partitions and other expenses had been added, the festival cost $3,161.32. Stefanie Sanders, AURH (president) of the festival for permanent materials used at the festival also increased because of the purchase of the partitions.
$449.50, according to the financial report
Several assembly members criticized Rowe last night for not calling an emergency meeting of the general assembly when the inspectors said that either the partitions would have to be replaced or the festival postponed.
Rowe also heard criticism from the audience last night that fire codes should have been more closely considered.
Revenue from the haunted house was
"We did go to the fire marshal," Rowe said. "We showed our plans before and got approval. Then they said that it wouldn't do. The problem was that the fire marshal had not looked at the partitions being used."
SANDERS SAID that AURH could not have assembled an emergency
"It was either have the party or don't when we got the decision from the fire inspectors. We had to make a decision quickly. And the executive board was authorized by the constitution of the association to make such a decision in the absence of the assembly," she said. "Nobody liked the decision. Nobody wanted to make the decision. But it had to be made, one way or the other."
meeting in time for the festival and that allocating the money without the permission of the assembly was within the power of the executive board.
The inspector's decision, she said, was based on the opinion that some of the partitions were too wobbly and that they had been badly set. He tripped over in the dark setting.
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CONFERENCE WITH NRI Black Community Committee
MAIL-ORDER MURDER — NRA STYLE
On November 22nd it will be twenty years since President Kennedy was assassinated. His killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, had obtained the murder weapon, a cheap foreign surplus military rifle, from a Chicago mail-order house, and the telescopic gun sight on the rifle from a Los Angeles mail-order house. The .38 caliber revolver with which Mr. Oswald killed police officer J.D. Tippit less than an hour later was purchased from a Los Angeles mail-order house with a coupon he found in the National Rifle Association's (NRA) official publication the American Rifleman.
After the murders of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the public finally wrung from Congress the modest 1968 Gun Control Act which, among other things, bars the sale of mail-order guns. Although there are over 200,000 federally-licensed gun dealers and 50 to 100 million guns now in the country, the NRA is backing the McClure-Knopf Federal Firearm Owners Protection Bill because it (the NRA) feels that the bill is "the first step toward repealing the 1968 Gun Control Act".
The McClure-Volkmer Bill would lift the current prohibition on mail-ordered gun sales and, according to the October 7th Washington Post, "destroy what limited federal protection does exist against gun purchases by felons, fugitives, drug addicts and court-adjusted mentally defective people". The Post says that this bill "even ignores findings of the Reagan administration's Task Force on Violent Crime, which included recommendations to strengthen tracing procedures, to record handgun losses and thefts and to ban the importation of unassembled parts for making 'snubbies' — the short handguns used in most violent crimes."
Since 1968 350,000 Americans have been killed with hand-guns. Last month Handgun Control, Inc., Chairman Pete Shields told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the McClure-Volkmer Bill "would repeal most record-keeping requirements for gun sellers . . . (and thus) open the door to increased gun trafficking which can only result in increased gun crime"). Mr. Shields asked the Committee if it really wished "to ignore the recommendations of the law enforcement community, including this Administration's own Force . . . (and) mark the 20th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination by repealing the very provision whose purpose is to prevent such tragedy".
Says the Washington Post: "Instead of stripping away the minimal protections on the books, Congress should be enacting more effective protections against the guns-galore trafficking that contributes to America's unchecked handgun violence". This is why many feel that the McClure-Volkmer Bill will re-institute, in the words of the Washington Post, "Mail-Order Murder — NRA Style".
William Dann
2702 West 24th Street Terrace
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