University Daily Kansan, November 2, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Carlin to join dedication, speak with KU employees
Gov. John Carlin will meet with classified employees and participate in the afternoon dedication of the Summerfield Hall addition Friday at the University of Kansas.
Carlin will be in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to meet with classified employees, said Tom Swearingen. KU Classified Senate president.
Swearring said the governor probably would devote most of the session to answering questions from the audience about topics such as merit pay, state health-insurance plans, the 1984 pay raise and pay proposals and prospects for the next fiscal year.
"We hope we have a big turnout," Swearing said. "This is a chance to hear directly from the governor and to ask him questions. It's a good time for him to come, given the fact that there is low morale and people are very much in question of what is going on."
Man arrested in hit-and-run death
LEAVENWORTH — Authorities arrested a suspect late Monday in the weekend hit-and-run death of a Kansas City, Kan., man.
A 37-year-old Leavenworth County man posted a $500 personal recognition bond Monday night after his arrest and was ordered to appear in Leavenworth County District Court tomorrow, Sheriff's Officer Barbara Adolbush said.
A charge of vehicular homicide was pending against the suspect, who was not named. Adolphson said.
Evidence taken from a pickup impounded by sheriff's deputies at the time of the arrest was sent to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation laboratory in Toneka
George N. Marcus, 48, was killed Saturday night when he was struck by a vehicle as he stood next to his disabled car on Kansas Highway 32 near Tonganoxie.
Authorities Tuesday continued to investigate the accident, Adolphson said.
Early morning fire damages shop
An early morning fire yesterday caused about $15,000 worth of damage to a shop in Palmyra Township, Douglas County Sheriff's Department officials said yesterday.
An electrical short caused the fire, which began at 1:10 a.m. yesterday but caused no injuries.
7 students place in debate tourneys
Seven students from the University of Kansas placed at debate tournaments in Texas and North Carolina last weekend.
Thirty-eight teams competed for the top honors at a tournament at North Texas State University in Denton, Texas.
The KU team of Diane Gregory, Houston junior, and Steve Gray, Buffalo Grove, Ill., sophomore, took fourth place in the senior division. Gray's performance also earned him eighth place honors in individual performance.
In the junior division, the team of Ed Watson, Arkansas City freshman, and George Lopez, Wichita freshman, took fourth place. Mike Dudick, Lee's Summit, Mo., freshman, placed sixth in individual speaker performance.
Forty-two teams competed for top honors at a tournament at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The KU team of Martie Aaron, Wichita sophomore, and John Culver, Overland Park freshman, won the championship. The KU also earned individual honors by placing eighth out of 84 speakers.
The KU debate team will host its 15th annual fall debate tournament Saturday through Monday. Elimination rounds will be at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. The tournament is open to the public.
Four hurt in Coffeville bus crash
COFFEYVILLE — A school bus ran off a curve and overturned a mile south of here after its brakes failed. The accident injured four elementary school students, authorities said yesterday.
An Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokesman said that driver Carl Bryant, 33, reported that the brakes had failed on the bus at the top of a hill on a county road, and that the bus had overturned on a downhill curve. Bryant was not injured.
Cheryl Greenfield, 9, was hospitalized in serious condition with a head injury, authorities said.
Bryan Moore, 11, Monty Rossen, 13, and Barbara Greenfield, 5, all of rural South Coffeyville, Okla., were treated and released. The other 11 passengers were not injured.
Authorities said the wreck occurred northeast of South Coffeyville around 8:15 a.m. yesterday.
KC man arrested for alleged fraud
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 38-year-old Kansas City, Kan. man inducted by a federal grand jury was arrested at his home yesterday for his alleged involvement in a fraudulent check scheme, federal authorities said.
A federal grand jury Monday issued an indictment charging Raymond J. Newton with transporting a $25,000 forged and counterfeited cashier's check, drawn on the Peoples Mercantile Bank from Kansas City, Mo., on June 8, the FBI said.
Newton was scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Calvin Hamilton yesterday, said Robert Davenport, special agent in charge of the Kansas City FBI office. If convicted, Newton faces a possible sentence of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
SW Bell lowers record rate increase
TOPEKA — In a move that would save residential customers $1.95 a month in higher telephone bills, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. has pared its record rate-increase proposal by $9.2 million, a company spokesman said yesterday.
The telephone company filed a modified rate-increase proposal with the Kansas Corporation Commission asking for a $204.5 million rate hike instead of the original $213.7 million boost, said Bell spokesman George Regan. The revision came at the start of the second week of KCC hearings on the proposed rate hike.
Regan said the lower rate-increase proposal meant that Southwestern Bell residential customers would pay $7 more a month in basic telephone service rather than the $8.95 Bell was originally seeking.
JEWELRY WORTH $2,260 and sterling silver worth $160 were among items stolen sometime between 11 p.m. Saturday and 1:20 p.m. Monday from a residence in Wakara township, the Douglas County Sheriff's Department said yesterday. Thieves entered the residence after breaking a window. Other items taken included jewelry tools, a 21-inch television, a wood stove and a sleeping bag. The total value of the items stolen was $2,970. The sheriff has no suspects.
sold well by Pearl BEAD necklace worth $2,000 was stolen Oct. 7 from a dresser drawer in the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, 1339 W. Campus Road, police said. They have no suspects.
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Seven people were briefly trapped last night when fire engulfed the rear of a Lawrence house at 1233 Pennsylvania St.
By the Kansan Staff
Gunshots delayed escape from fire, resident says
And one of the occupants said gunshots kept them from leaving through the front door.
The residents were not injured, but a firefighter, Clifford Smith, suffered a twisted knee while fighting the fire. He
Fire officials made no immediate estimate of the damage caused by the fire that began at 7:50 p.m., but the owner of the house, James Caskey, 1516 New Hampshire St., said the house was worth about $20,000 or $25,000.
was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Mai.丹Morrow said.
Loretha Parker, who rents the house, said she, a nephew and five children were watching television in the front of the house when they smelled smoke
coming from the back. He nephew.
John Brockman, went to investigate.
BROCKMAN SAID he went to the office of the business, but that when he opened the door, his eyes were on.
"When he opened the back door, flames hit him in the face," she said.
Parker said the shooting stopped when a neighbor came by and began asking whether all the children had been taken out of the house.
Lawrence police late last night had
not determined whether gunshots were fired. They have made no arrests.
Morrow said three engine companies and one ladder company fought the fire.
The firefighters had originally been given an address different from the one where the fire was. Morrow said the police were asking why they were given the wrong address.
Morrow was one of the first fire fighters at the scene.
Commission to study fuel relief program
By SUSAN WORTMAN
Staff Reporter
The Lawrence City Commission agreed last night to study two proposals that could help residents who have problems paying their winter heating
The Natural Gas Task Force, a group appointed by the commission, asked the city to appropriate $25,000 to start a fuel assistance relief program that would aid both low-income families and individuals.
The city also will consider making the Kansas Public Service Co. Inc. adopt the Cold Weather Hub, a unit of the National Commission, that would prevent utilities from
turning off fuel to households that are unable to pay their winter gas bills.
PAUL BERRY, TASK force member, asked that the city donate the $25,000 from its contingency fund.
Although money for fuel assistance relief is available through different programs in the community, Berry financing has not been increased.
He also said that members of the task force feared that one of the programs, Warm Hearts, might not be continued because of a lack of financing.
People are interested in the task
team's proposed assistance program,
BCR.
"There are people who think it should have been started already," he said.
Last year, city and county assistance programs helped 1,809 households pay
fuel bills, he said. The task force estimated that the number would increase by 14 percent this winter.
"We were fortunate that we had a mild winter," he said, "because we had a great deal of need for funds other than those made available by traditional
THE TASK FORCE'S Cold Weather Rule proposal, if approved by the commission, would extend the Lawrence Gas Co.'s shut-off policy.
The gas company now will not shut off gas from Nov. 15 until March 15. If the KCC rules are adopted, the company would extend the shut-off policy to March 31, said Pat Donahue, a member of the task force.
"We've looked at those last 15 days," Donahue said. "There are usually cold days in that period."
With the KC rule, a customer would be on a payment-level plan, he said. Payments would remain at the same level from month to month.
BERRY SAID THAT the utility company had been working with the task force on the recommendations. The company has already agreed to voluntarily comply with most of the recommendations, so the City Commission would not have to write a formal ordinance forcing them to comply.
Donahue also said that before service would be shut off, a customer would receive a phone call and a written notice. A representative of the utility would also try to call the customer in person.
Commissioners last night questioned whether they could approve such an ordinance.
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