University Daily Kansan October 24.1983
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NEWS BRIEFSEm From Area Staff and Wire Reports
SW Bell to ask KCC today for record utility rate hike
TOPEKA - Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. goes before the Kansas
Corporation Commission today to ask for a $213.7 million rate increase
Because of the size of the proposal and the ramifications it would have on consumers in the aftermath of the divestiture of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the commission is closely scrutinizing Southwestern Bell's case, said KCC Chairman Michael Lennen.
Formal hearings start today in Topeka. In addition, the KCC has scheduled eight hearings across the state to take comments from the public. The hearings will be held in Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, Goodland, Dodge City, Parsons. Salina and Johnson County.
The KCC staff, which recommends to the full commission which portions of an overall rate hike proposal should be approved, has suggested that Southwestern Bell receive a rate increase ranging from $82.7 million to $103.8 million, said KCC spokesman Tom Taylor.
Today's hearing will come just three days after AT&T announced it was seeking a $23.6 million increase in the rates it charges Kansas consumers. AT&T said it requested the increase, in part, to help pay for the cost of providing the data that will want to charge long-distance carriers such as AT&T, Sprint and MCI.
All or nearly all of the rate increase granted to Southwestern Bell should be in the form of access fees charged to long distance carriers, the KCC staff recommends.
If the low end of the staff's overall recommendation, $82.7 million, was accepted by the KCC, no increase in basic monthly charges for residential customers would occur because it would all be carried by
If the high end of the staff's recommendation, $103.8 million, was accepted, basic monthly service would increase by about 65 cents a month, Taylor said.
New evidence found in Hobson case
OLATHE, Kan. — An attorney representing an Overland Park woman convicted of arranging the murder of her 13-year-old stepson said Saturday that he had new evidence that indicated his client had not been involved in the slaving.
The Kansas Supreme Court last week denied Sueanne Hobson's appeal of her conviction in the 1980 murder of Christen Hobson, who was charged with killing a local girl.
A. Johnson County District Court jurv heard Hobson's trial.
JOHNSON COUNTY JUDGE COURT JUDGE
Following the Supreme Court rulng, Hobson's attorney said he had obtained an affidavit from a prisoner who had been sentenced in the case. The affidavit says that Hobson was not involved in the slaving.
The attorney, Scott Kreamer, said that Ed Merrick, an inmate at the Kansas Correctional Institution, recently told Hobson about the conversation. Kreamer said he had talked with Merrick Oct. 12.
Merrick and Hobson are both jailed at the Lansing prison.
Hobson's son, James Crumm, and his friend, Paul Sorentino, are also serving sentences in the boy's slaving
Johnson County District Attorney Dennis Moore told a Kansas City newspaper that he had obtained an unsigned, undated affidavit from a
Johnson County District Attorney Dennis Moore said that his office would look into the case if the affidavit was filed in court. Kreamer said that he would file a motion for a new trial today, based on the evidence contained in the affidavit.
4 coalitions expected in Senate race
Four coalitions are expected to file applications for all 57 elected Student Senate seats by today's 5 p.m. filing deadline for the student elections
The elections are scheduled for Nov. 16-17.
The coalitions include the Costume, Priority and Freedom coalitions, which have registered presidential and vice presidential candidates.
Kevin Walker, who tried unsuccessfully to file for president of the Momentum coalition last week, said that students representing the coalition would also file today.
Students interested in filing for a Senate seat must submit a 50-signature petition or pay a $3 filing fee when they turn in their application at the Senate office in the Kansas Union
Fifty-seven Senate seats representing the various University schools and the Nunmaker Honors center are up for election.
Pit bull dogs maul woman to death
HARPER — Authorities plan to file the most serious charges they can against the owner of two pit bull dogs that mauled to death an elderly woman Saturday. Police Chief Ed Starks said yesterday.
Starks said that he, the Harper County sheriff and county attorney were to meet today to discuss charges to be filed against David Reynolds, 19, who lived several houses away from the victim, 67-year-old Grace Parsons.
"There are going to be charges filed," said Starks. "We just don't know how far and heavy we can go. We are going to go to the maximum of anything we can do because of the negligence involved.
Starks said that he was called to the woman's house at about 8 a.m. Saturday by a neighbor who said she saw what appeared to be dogs mauling a human body in the front lawn of the victim's house.
Starks said the woman, though cold from lying in the morning chill for about two hours, was still breathing. She was taken to Harper Medical Center, where she died about 9:30 a.m. The neighbor who reported the incident told police that she saw the victim go outside, apparently to pick up her newspaper, about 6 a.m.
An autopsy conducted by Sedgwick County Deputy Coroner William Eckert indicated that the woman had died of "severe hemorrhaging" from her wounds. Starks said.
Harper County Coroner Ralph Bellar said the woman had been severely clawed and bitten on her arms, throat and head.
Short in extension cord sparks fire
A short in an electrical extension cord sparked a fire early yesterday morning in the attic of a residence at 337 Funston St.
Dan Hardtarter of the Lawrence Fire Department said that the fire, which started at 2:10 a.m., was confined to the attic of the residence and was extinguished.
No one was injured, fire officials said.
ON THE RECORD
FIFTY-TWO TICKETS for a concert by the musical group the Police were stolen sometime between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday from Omni Electronics, 540 Fireside Court, police said. The tickets, worth $15 each for a Nov. 24 concert at Kemper Arena, were taken from a sales room. The blue tickets were for rows F through K.
TWO 14 KARAT gold bracelets and two 14 karat gold earrings were stolen about 10 p.m. Friday from Briman's Leading Jewelers, 743 Massachusetts St., police said. Entry was made by breaking a window. The jewelry was worth $329.
The twelve TURNTABLES were stolen sometime between 5:30 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. Friday from Ichabod's, 1510 North Third St., police said. The turntables, worth $180, were stolen during business hours.
A BAG OF QUARTERS was stolen sometime between 12:30 a.m. and 7:45 a.m. Friday from Cogburn's, 737 New Hampshire St., police said. Entry was made by prying an front door. Police have not determined the amount of money stolen.
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'60 Minutes' seeks opinions from 'Day After' participants
Ed Bradley and CBS" "60 Minutes" came to Lawrence yesterday with spotlights shining and cameras rolling.
By CHRISTY FISHER Staff Reporter
Harry Moses, a producer of the show, said "60 Minutes" crews came to Lawrence to find out what the city meant about the ABC movie "The Day After."
"60 Minutes" wanted to get a preview of what will happen after the film is broadcast Nov. 20. The "60 Minutes" broadcast will be shown Nov. 13.
Ed Bradley, "60 Minutes" anchor, interviewed people who were extras in the movie and who saw the film's premiere.
Jeff Lymn, Lees Summit, Mo., senior and an extra in the movie, said he was apprehensive about the interview about the plot of *The Pupation* for putting people on the spot.
But, he said he was surprised by how Bradley out him at ease.
"60 MINUTES" interviewed Lynn, Anne Thingalsted, Shawne sophomore, and Chris Murray, Tonganoxie junior, between Wescoe and Stauffer-Flint halls about how the movie affected their outlook on nuclear war.
Lynn said the film made him think more about the nuclear of nuclear
"After the movie, it made me more aware of politics," Lynn said. "I now read more and research the issue so that I can sort out my confusion."
Both Thingstalstad and Lynn said that they had never been interested in politics and that the movie was not going to cause them to change.
Donald Stull, associate professor of
"ALTHOUGH THE MOVIE was a very graphic portrayal, I don't think the movie looked as bad as it would be. " Stuil said. "It would probably be in darker terms aftermath and the social disorganization were not depicted in the movie."
After a "60 Minutes" interview at the South Park gazezo, Stull recounted what he had told Bradley about the movie.
anthropology who plays a farmer in the movie, and his 12-year-old daughter Erin, who plays one of the main characters, classmates, also spoke with Bradley.
He said the film also had an emotional impact on him.
"60 Minutes" also attended a Young Americans for Freedom meeting.
"I haven't had any nightmares but I have been left with flashbacks about the movie that periodically recur," he said.
Bryan Daniel, state chairman for Young Americans for Freedom, said he doubted that ABC did not have political intentions in broadcasting the film before the beginning of the distribution of Pershing II missiles in Europe.
At the meeting, Bob Bearnes of the Citizens Preparedness for Greater Kansas City, Inc., said there were some inaccuracies in the film.
The movie left the impression that there was no hope for survival in a murderous society.
DURING A DISCUSSION, Jerry Keating, Axellsen expert, told Bradley, "ABC repeatedly denied their political intentions. But the fact that a nuclear war began, itself suggests to the public that a policy of deterrence is a failure."
Ed Bradley interviews students who have seen or participated in the movie "The Day After." He and the film crew from "60 Minutes" were in Lawrence yesterday.
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