University Daily Kansan, November 1, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports Attorney accuses Missouri of segregating KC schools
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri government mandated a dual, or segregated, education system for blacks and whites, and the state should help pay for integrating Kansas City schools, an attorney said yesterday in federal court.
Other defendants include nine suburban districts, the state of Missouri and the federal government.
Opening statements were presented to U.S. District Judge Russell G. Clark on behalf of two of 11 suburban school districts, the Kansas City School District and the plaintiffs — seven black and white school children — in the 6-year-old case.
The lawsuit, filed in 1977, seeks reassignment of students between the Kansas City School District and 11 suburban districts in Missouri. Also named as defendants were the U.S. Departments of Education, of Housing and Urban Development and of Transportation.
Attorneys expect the trial, which may involve up to 500 witnesses, to last through the end of the year.
KU athlete faces trial on assault charge
Charge C. Heeney, a KU baseball player, will he tried on an assault charge on Dec. 23, Lawrence Municipal Court. Heeney, Lenexa junior, will be charged in District of Columbia.
Sgt. Don Dalquest of the Lawrence Police Department said that at about 9:15 p.m. Oct. 19, Heeney went to Pladium Plus, 901 Mississippi St., to try to see an employee there.
When Heeney tried to enter, Dalquest said, the doorman refused to let him in unless he showed identification or a ticket. The men got into a scuffle and the doorman said he was kicked in the thigh. Heeney told police that he was choked during the scuffle.
An assault charge is a Class C misdemeanor. Conviction of the charge carries a sentence of not more than one month in jail and a fine of not more than $500.
Local man dies from stairway fall
A 31-year-old Lawrence man died Sunday from injuries he suffered 15 days before when he apparently fell down a flight of stairs.
Larry D. Rayles, 111 Pawnee Ave., died at 10:50 p.m. Sunday at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He was treated at the center after he was found about 2:30 a.m. Oct. 15 at the bottom of a flight of stairs at an apartment complex, police said.
A woman walked into the apartment and saw Rayles lying on the floor with his head pointed toward a north exit and his feet on the stairs, police said. She later called an ambulance. He was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and then was transported to the Med Center.
Firm to do county renovation work
A Lawrence construction firm next week will begin the remodeling of a Douglas County ambulance service building.
Douglas County commissioners yesterday signed a contract with the B.A. Green Construction Company, 1207 Iowa St., for the renovation of the ambulance building at 1839 Massachusetts St. The commission selected the firm last week for the project.
According to the contract, B.A. Green will finish the work in February 1984.
The entire renovation will cost $75,355. B.A. Green's base bid was $61,500, with the cost of four alternate items such as new windows and wider ambulance entrances making up the difference.
Accident victim listed as improved
A 29-year-old Lawrence woman was in serious condition last night at the University of Kansas Medical Center where she was being treated for injuries suffered after she was hit by a car Friday. She had originally been listed in critical condition.
Police said Eleda Bryant, 133 Pawnee Ave., was crossing 23rd Street near Haskell Avenue when she was hit at 11:47 p.m. by a car driven by Roger Walter, 36, 742 Ohio St. Police have not cited a citation.
ON THE RECORD
THEVES REMOVED a steering wheel from one car, an Army fatigue uniform from another and three fishing rods from a third car sometime between 3 and 11 p.m. Sunday while the vehicles were in the parking lot of TRF, 2400 Packer Road, police said. Two of the cars were unlocked and burglar entered the other by breaking a vent. Other items, including a wrench set and chains for a chain saw, were taken from the cars. The value of the stolen items was about $450. There are no suspects, police said.
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Judge says Bell's confession can be used in trial
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Bryan Keith Bell's statements to police officers will be admissible as evidence during his second-degree murder trial for the death of Frank Suerer Sr., Douglas County Associate Judice Judge Mike Elwell said yesterday.
Ewell made the ruling after hearing more than an hour of testimony from four officers who spoke to Bell several times before he was arrested on Aug. 15.
officer, had testified at a preliminary hearing in September that Bell had told Harmon that he had stabbed Seurer two or three times.
Seurer's body was found on the morning of Aug. 2 on the kitchen floor of the restaurant he owned, Pop's Bar-B-Q, 2214 Yale Road.
Kevin Harmon, a Lawrence police
During yesterday's hearing, Harmon said that another officer called Bell about 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 17 at Pop's Bar-B-Q and asked him whether they could interview him. Bell worked at the restaurant until he was fired in late June, and worked there after Seurer's death.
BELL GOES ON trial Nov. 7. Besides the charge of second-degree murder, Bell is also charged with aggravated rape and has pleaded not guilty to both charges.
Harmon said that Bell was wanted for questioning because his fingerprints were on two envelopes that were found near Seurer's body.
Harmon said that the interview began at 3:17 p.m., that the Miranda rights were read to him and that Bell signed a written waiver of those rights. He said Bell read the written waiver for about three minutes before signing it.
A CONFESSION WAS taken from Bell about 7 p.m., Harmon said, and a court reporter was called in about 8:20 and Bell was jailed at 9:46 p.m.
Harmon said that he had spoken to Bell the day of the murder at Pop's Bar-B-Q, because Bell had come to the restaurant.
Three other officers also testified that they had spoken to Bell. They all said that they did not read Bell the situation and the situation did not require it.
Department, said that while he and another officer were conducting surveillance of Pop's Bar-B-Q on Aug. 3, Bell walked by the area two times. The second time he spoke to Kern for about 20 minutes. He said that Beli initiated the conversation and that they talked about the operation of Pop's Bar-B-Q
Randy Kern, of the KU Police
Mark Riner, also of the KU Police Department, testified that he interviewed Bell on Aug 8 to learn information about the operation of Pop's Bar B-Q, about members of the police and about one of the employees.
Mike Hall of the Lawrence Police Department said that he talked to Bell on Aug. 12 at the Lawrence Police Department and also spoke to him by telephone on Aug. 13 about Bell's decision not to take a lie detector test.
Son's return from Grenada relieves local family
By GINA K. THORNBURG Staff Reporter
Good news came Saturday night to Mr. and Mrs. James Swanson when their son, Army Pfc. Gregory Swanson, died on Tuesday from four days of fighting in Grenada.
Gregory, 22, a 1979 Lawrence High School graduate, is a member of the 2nd Battalion Rangers unit, which was in active initial phase of last Tuexday's invasion.
Saturday night, Gregory telephoned his parents, who live at 3136 Campfire Dr., from Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah, Ga.
"We're the lucky ones," Evelyn Swanson said. "Our hearts still go out
to the ones who weren't as fortunate as we were."
AFTER LEARNING THAT her son was in Grenada, Evelyn Swanson said, she and her husband watched the game Tuesday for news about the invasion.
Calls from relatives and friends throughout the week helped the Swansons cope with the stress of waiting to hear from their son, she said.
When they did hear from him, "He sounded very tired," she said.
However, Gregory telephoned after being transferred to Fort Lewis, Wash., she said, and sounded better. Her son assumes his military duties at Fort Lewis.
"They go back right into what they always do." Evelyn Swanson said.
"They're Rangers and that's what is expected of them."
Lt. Col. Edward Eidson, KU professor of Army ROTC, said that the Rangers were a special part of the United States military guerrilla tactics and airborne training
Evelyn Swanson said that all of the Rangers had several weeks of airborne training. Because the Rangers parachute into combat zones, she said, they take only as many provisions and weapons as they can carry.
"They go into a place like that only with provisions they take for five to 10 days."
TRAINING FOR THE Rangers is rigorous, said Capt. Joseph Soltas, assistant professor of Army ROTC.
The Rangers' training, which is
divided into three phases, emphasizes counter-raquilla tacas. Solsas said
The nine weeks of training takes the young soldiers into the mountains of Georgia to learn mountainering and rappelling. Florida to learn jungle warfare, he said.
"They try to get a unit where the people are very well trained to fight in just about any environment they would find themselves in," he said. "It's all volunteer. The morale is very high there."
Soltas, who graduated from a Rangers class to years ago, said he thought that the training was more effective in training for other battalions in the Army.
"They put you under as much stress as possible to see how far you can go," he said.
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