University Daily Kansan, November 7, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Worker aided fire's spread at City Hall, KC Star says
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A city employee contributed to the spread of last week's fire at City Hall by refusing to allow workmen to use extinguishers and by switching on a huge blower, the Kansas City Star reported yesterday.
Paul L. Morris, president of the firm working on a new roof for the building, said the actions of the worker turned what would have been a minor mishap into a large fire, according to a copyright story in yesterday's star.
A cutting torch apparently was the cause of the fire that spread through the upper five floors of the 30-story building last Thursday, causing more than $1 million damage and forcing the evacuation of the entire structure.
Accident victims listed as critical
Two people were in critical condition yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center after they were injured in a car accident Saturday night at the intersection of Clinton Parkway and Crossgate Drive.
Sarah Carr, 38, Wellington, a passenger in a car driven by Francis Carr, 38, Wellington, and Wayne Hammeryly, 26, Meriden, a passenger in a car driven by Carl Stilley, 21, Lake Side Village, were injured in the accident, which occurred at 9:57 p.m., police said. Carr was taken to the Med Center by ambulance. Hammerly was taken to the Med Center by Life Flight helicopter.
Law students to try national contest
A team of law school students from the University of Kansas qualified this weekend for competition in National Moot Court competition, scheduled for January in New York City.
The members of the winning team were second-year law students Mark Parkinson, Wichita; Matthew Keenan, Great Bend; and Dolph Schmidt, Towson, Md. The three successfully prepared legal briefs and argued a case involving securities fraud in competition at Green Hall on Thursday and Friday.
A team from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, which finished second, also qualified for the national competition.
The KU team was also recognized for preparing the best legal brief in the 14-team field.
ON THE RECORD
A 17-YEAR-OLD YOUTH on Friday night received an 8- to 10-inch cut on his neck that required 15 stitches, police said. About 11:25 p.m. Friday at 1026 Massachusetts St., a suspect approached the victim and asked him to hit him in the chest, police said. The victim hit the suspect, who then fell to the ground. When the suspect got up, he pulled a knife and cut the victim on the neck. The victim was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Police said that the two men knew each other and that the victim did not want to press charges.
POLICE ARE searching for a person who robbed Country Chicken Restaurant, 1500 W. Sixth St., at gunpoint about 10 p.m. Thursday of almost $800 in cash, police said. The robber was a green Halloween store owner and a store clerk told police. No one was hurt during the robbery, police said.
BURGLARS STOLE $4,087 worth of goods, including $1,300 worth of gems and $452 in cash, about 11:20 p.m. Saturday from a residence in the 1300 block of Tennessee Street, police said. Burglarls also stole a home computer, a telephone and four woolen suits. Burglarls entered through a window, police said. There are no suspects.
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Carlin tells state employees their raise is coming
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
Losses the University of Kansas has suffered from recent budget cutbacks will not necessarily be restored even if the state is now in better financial condition, Gov. John Carlin said Friday.
However, Carlin, who was here for the dedication of the new addition to Summerfield Hall, told an audience of about 200 in Craft-Pronery Theatre that state employees could count on receiving the 4 percent cost-of-living raise that was promised them by the Kansas Legislature last year.
Carlin remained noncommitted in his answers to questions about whether the Legislature would approve pay to look at and discuss budget estimates.
"It may not come as soon as you wanted, or as much as you wanted, but I think."
MEMBERS OF THE audience of mostly classified employees raised several complaints about pay and benefit-pay evaluations and bonus benefits.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, asked Carolin whether the budget cuts for 1982 would be considered in the next budget.
Carlin said, "Yes and no. Some of those cuts were beneficial in terms of efficiency. We are literally going to build from where we are."
The losses the state suffered then will be the first to be considered for relief.
IN OTHER MATTERS, Carlin defended the performance of the Kansas Integrated Personnel-Payroll System, or KIPPS, a statewide computer system that the University used for its paychecks for the first time last week.
necessarily be restored. He said the
regents schools had gerrered the
schools.
Several KU employees have complained that their checks were incorrect, and at least 250 checks were corrected by switching of switching to the KIPES system.
improve the system, but that even with the problems the computer system worked better than hand calculation, some state organizations had been in place.
Similar problems were reported when the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina began using the system for its October paychecks.
Carlin said that the Department of Administration was looking for ways to
SEVERAL EMPLOYEES criticized the evaluation system, which was used in determining merit raises. Merit pay has not been financed by the Legis-ration and many employees said they could not point the point of continuing evaluations.
"The evaluation system has proved valuable in helping managers to decide who would be promoted." Carlin said. "We are in one area, but not across the board."
Having a comprehensive evaluation system also keeps managers from having to look outside the agency for managers, he said.
Greyhound strike won't alter Trailways' schedule
By United Press International
Despite a nationwide strike against Greyhound Bus Lines, Trailways Bus System officials said yesterday that they did not plan to add extra bus service to Lawrence.
Because Trailways runs twice as many routes through Lawrence as Greyhound, officials said, the existing routes could easily handle students riding buses home for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
An official for the Trailways Kansas City, Mo., office said that student traffic usually increased Trailways' passenger business by about 50 to 60
percent during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays but that the figure
DRAW OWLEY, MANAGER of the Trailways, Kansas City office, said, "The student crunch is only one day, maybe, at Thanksgiving and one or two days at Christmas. Not nearly as many students go home for Thanksgiving."
Greyhound has only two daily routes
pass through Lawrence, but
Trailside.
The Greyhound routes are not operating during the strike.
In other regions, Trailways added extra runs to accommodate travelers on Saturday and Sunday. Greyhound is the nation's largest bus company.
Trailways is the nation's second-largest bus company. They are the only two bus services that run through Lawrence.
Roger Rydell, spokesman for Trailways, estimated that Trailways was carrying twice the normal number of passengers for this time of year.
Meanwhile, national members of the Amalgamated Transit Union showed no signs that they would accept a two-week grace period that Greyhound had given them to accept the company's proposal. Mr. Shapiro rejected the company's proposal to return in two weeks with a 9.5 percent salary cut.
"I CAN'T LIVE on that," said John Heimke, a driver for 17 years, as he walked the picket line outside the Phoenix terminal."
"They neglect to talk about the benefits we're losing," he said.
He said that national figures were not available, but that during the first days of the strike Trailways run 50 extra miles to Dallas and 25 extra out of Los Angeles.
Ralph Henne, a ticket agent for the Lawrence Trailways depot, 638 Massachusetts St., said yesterday, "We expect business to increase quite a bit over the holidays because of the holiday and not the strike."
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