University Daily Kansan, October 19, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Grand jury indicts 12 more for drug trafficking in KC
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A dozen people were indicted for cocaine trafficking yesterday by the same grand jury whose drug investigation led to guilty pleas by four 1983 Kansas City Rovals.
Royals majority owner Ewing Kauffman apologized today for the behavior of the indicted Rovals. ...
The grand jury Monday and yesterday had heard evidence from a federal investigation that resulted in guilty pleas from four members of the 1983 Royals and an area attorney.
Mark Liebel of Overland Park was the big target of the investigation, U.S. Attorney James Marquez said after the indictments were returned. His brother, John Liebel of Dallas, was also indicted.
Two others indicted were Randall Ermey and Gregory Carter, employees of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, which includes the state's alcohol and drug abuse services.
Cy Young Award winner Vida Blue became the fourth member of the 1983 Royals to plead guilty to federal drug charges.
HOPE award elections to start today
Seniors will return to the polls today, tomorrow and Monday to pick this year's winner of the HOPE award.
The seniors will choose a winner from five semifinalists who were selected on Oct. 5 and 6.
The winner will be announced Nov. 5 during halftime of the KU-Colorado football game.
The five finalists are: Timothy Bengton, associate professor of journalism; Don W. Green, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering; Louis F. Michel, professor of architecture and urban design; Lawrence Sherr, professor of business; and Erica Stern, assistant professor of occupational therapy.
Polling places for the election will be at Fraser and Summerfield Halls, the Kansas Union and on the fourth floor and in front of Wescoe Hall.
Hours for voting are 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, and 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Monday.
NATO commander to give lecture
The supreme commander of NATO military forces in Europe will lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union about security challenges for the Atlantic Alliance.
Gen. Bernard W. Rogers will answer questions following the lecture, which is a part of the J. A. Vickers Sr. Memorial Lecture Series.
Rogers became commander in chief of the U.S. European Command in 1979 and was named supreme allied commander later that year.
A native of Fairview, Rogers attended Kansas State University for a year before entering the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. He graduated from West Point in 1940.
8-year-old boy starts fire in house
An 8-year-old boy playing with matches started a fire early yesterday morning in a home at 1611 Rose Lane.
Maj. Paul Findley of the Lawrence Police Department said a woman and two young boys were not injured when a mattress in a bedroom of the one-story house caught fire about 7:45 a.m.
He said the fire was confined to the bedroom, but was beginning to spread to the hallway when firefighters arrived. The flames were extinguished in about 10 minutes. No estimate of damage had been made.
ON THE RECORD
ABOUT $640 in cash was stolen about 8 a.m. Monday from Time Out, 2408 Iowa St., police said. Burglar entered by prying open a door. The police have no suspects.
A STEREO and a fishing pole were stolen sometime between Wednesday and Sunday from a garage in the 3400 block of Trail Road, police said. The stereo was worth $200 and the fishing pole was worth $40. The police have no suspects.
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Mob leader Civella surrenders to police
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missing Kansas City mobster boss Carl Civella surrendered to federal agents yesterday at a northside service station, they was transferred to another, no, he court-ordered center for his court-ordered 90 days of observation.
and sentenced to 75 years in prison, had failed to show up at the U.S. marshal's office at noon Monday and some authorities speculated that he might have been involved in an aging produce salesman hinted that he might have been a victim of foul play.
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Civella, 74, who was convicted of conspiring to skim $280,000 from the Las Vegas Tropicana Hotel and Casino
BUT CIVELLA'S ATTORNEY Byron Neal Fox called the FBI yesterday morning to say his client was at a service station and was waiting to be taken into custody.
He surrendered with his attorney and was taken into custody by deputy U.S. marshals at 10:10 a.m. CDT, authorities said.
Federal Judge Joseph E. Stevens Jr. had sentenced Civella to prison Friday, pending the health study. He was allowed to remain free over the weekend on a signature $50,000 bond, but that was revoked Monday when he failed to show up for the trip to Springfield.
Law enforcement agencies across the nation Monday were notified of Civella's disappearance after he failed to respond to medical center for a day's evaluation.
Givens's attorney Monday told a federal judge that he had been told by Civivala's family Sunday night that his client had been kidnapped. However, authorities said they were skeptical of that story because his family did not appear concerned and had not filed a police report on the disappearance.
Man sought aid before death, witnesses say
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Harry Puckett was stooped on, leaning on his walking cane and asking for help in the street in front of his house the night he was killed, two people testified yesterday in Douglas County District Court.
David Brown, deputy officer for the Douglas County Sheriff's Department, and Clifford Harding, Lawrence resident, both testified during the murder trial of James Chadwick Fourhorn that Puckett told them he was having trouble trying to get an Indian man to the area near his home at 109 Delaware St.
Fourhour, an Indian, has been charged with the first-degree murder
of the 94-year-old Puckett. Puckett's body was found June 25 in a front room of his home. Fourhour has also been charged with aggravated burglary of Puckett's residence. He pleaded not guilty Aug. 1 to both charges.
He said Puckett, bent over and walking with a cane, had asked him to search the area. But instead, Harding said he went to the Lawrence Law Enforcement and Judicial Center at about 11:25 p.m. to notify police
HARDING TESTIFIED on June 24 that he was driving his car toward 11th and Delaware streets when he saw Puckett, who told him that he was being bothered by an Indian man who would not leave his home.
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Brown said that when he arrived at the house Puckett pointed to his home and asked for permission.
inside earlier and he had had trouble getting the man to leave.
SHE SAID THAT when they entered the bedroom area on the first floor of the home, Shirley saw a mattress near a wall in the room and on closer observation saw Puckett's body underneath it.
Verna searched a third time that afternoon with his granddaughter, Shirley, she said. Puckett was a "pack rat" and liked to store things in his home, which gave it a cluttered appearance. But even the pathways in his home were cluttered, and it looked as if the drawers had been ransacked.
TWO LAWRENCE POLICE officers later handed Brown search the area, but were unable to find him.
"He thought he might possibly still be in the back of the house," Brown said. Puckett had he used his walking shoes and man out of his house, Brown testified.
ruckett's body was discovered by his granddaughter Shirley Walker and by Verna Walker, wife of his grandson James Walker, after 5:30 p.m. June 24, Verna testified.
She said at first she and her husband visited Puckett to bring him water because, by his choice, his house had no water or gas supplied to it.
Verna said they saw Puckett's crutches and his cap near the back of
the house and searched the house twice for Puckett with no success.
Susan Hadi, Lawrence police officer,
testified that she was the first officer to
report to the scene and that Puckett
was dead.
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