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NEWS BRIEFS
From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Focus Coalition big winner in freshman class elections
The Focus Coalition swept the freshman class elections in yesterday's voting, in which 611 ballots were cast.
Curt Baxter, Salina, was elected president, with 132 votes. David Epstein, Prairie Village, came in with 85 votes, and Mark Winkler, Carroll Gardens, came in with 85.
Mike Bray, Des Moines, Iowa, was elected vice president with 136 votes.
Melissa Kirchner, Shawnee Mission, got 141 votes to become treasurer. Megan Baker, Shawnee Mission, became secretary with the most votes of any candidate. 161
most votes of any candidate This year's voter turnout for the freshman class elections was about the same as in the past three years, according to John Allison, Prairie Village, sophomore class vice president.
"We had figured anywhere from about 500 to 600," said Allison. There are 5,476 freshmen at the University of Kansas.
Woman files suit over toxic shock
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Fairway woman recently filed a suit in federal district court seeking $800,000 from Tampax in which she alleged that she contracted Toxic Shock Syndrome while using the company's product.
Diane Alison Head's suit, which names the Massachusetts-based corporation as the defendant, said that the suburban Kansas City woman developed the condition while using the product in mid-November 1981.
The woman became "violently ill" and required hospitalization, her suit said.
The suit alleges that Tampax was negligent in not providing warnings about the possibility of developing toxic shock and said that she developed the condition as a "direct result of the defendant's failure to warn" of that danger.
The suit asks for $300,000 in actual damages and $500,000 in punitive damages, as well as costs of the legal action.
Hilltop receives money from party
Hilltop Day Care Center received a check for $1,278.50 last night from a fraternity, and a sorority.
The money was raised at a party in August sponsored by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. They gave the money to the center at a reception last night at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, 1301 W. Campus Rd.
This was the first time that Hilltop had received the proceeds of the party, "Country Club Jam." In previous years, the living groups had donated the money to Penn House, 1035 Pennsylvania St., a center providing emergency assistance to needy families.
Society to sell Parents' Day mums
Lambda Sigma, the sophomore honor society, will sponsor a mum sale starting Oct. 10 in anticipation of Parents' Day.
The mums may be pre-ordered for $3 from Oct. 10 to Oct. 19 but will cost $2.5 on Parents' Day, Oct. 22. KU plays Oklahoma State that day at Memorial Stadium.
The mums may be ordered at all KU residence halls, scholarship halls, fraternity and sorority houses and at the Kansas Union and the Burge Union. On game day, the mums will also be sold at Memorial Stadium.
Convict stabbed to death in prison
LEAVENWORTH — A convicted bank robber from California was stabbed to death yesterday at the federal penitentiary, a prison spokesman said.
The victim was identified as Richard Andreasen, 36, of Norwalk, Calif., said Mark Luttrell, the prison spokesman. He said Andreasen had been serving an 18-year sentence for bank robbery and had been at the penitentiary since July 1982.
Luttrell said that the stabbing had taken place at 7:50 a.m. in the prison's main corridor and that Andreasen died about 10 minutes later at the same time.
Two inmates were being held while the FBI investigates the slaying, Iuttrell said. He declined to say what motivated the attack.
Wichita man charged with murder
WICHITA — A man was charged with first-degree murder yesterday in the death of a woman whose body was found strangled and beaten in a city park.
Michael Cox, 25, of Wichita, was charged in the death of Faith Walker, 18, of Wichita. Police accused Cox of picking up Walker in his automobile and driving her to Linwood Park, where the murder is believed to have occurred. Her body was found Sept. 2.
Cox was being held in county jail yesterday in lieu of $250,000 bond. He was arrested Wednesday after a tip from a crime prevention program, police said.
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Tentative gas rate rise $15 million below request
application pending before the KCC at the time, and tentatively decided yesterday. Jones said that when the temporary $3.5 million rate hike was made, he would produce about $14 million in new revenue of $3.5 million more than the KCC endorsed.
By United Press International
The increase in rates actually means that Gas Service will have to refund money to most of its customers, said KCC spokesman Charles Jones. In the spring, the KCC approved a $1.5 million discount for or the utility for a period of five months.
TOPEKA — The Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday tentatively approved a $9.7 million rate increase for Gas Service, $15.1 million less than the financially troubled utility had requested.
THE REFUND TO residential customers will be only about 37 cents a month. Jones said the utility's program would have used a final order in the case next week.
Still left undecided is how much the monthly customer service charge should be, Jones said. However, the KCC has indicated it will allow the utility to charge between $3.50 and $4.10 a month for residential consumers. The
The increase was only a temporary one, to be replaced by the permanent
The KCC earlier this week rejected Gas Service's proposal for a "facilities charge" that would have raised the monthly service charge, which is a $12.90 charge per gas consumption, to $7.90 in the summer months and $9.25 in winter months.
the commission conducted five public hearings around the state on the proposed rate hike by the Kansas City, Mo. utility. Jones said the KCC staff recommended only a $10 million rate hike for Gas Service, and the commissioners agreed with the staff proposal on most counts.
current monthly service charge is $4.10 a month.
GAS SERVICE FOR the past several years has been in financial hot water because of a slump in industrial sales, conservation efforts by its customers and inflation. The commission also has problems on poor management practices.
The utility's financial problems prompted Kansas Power and Light Co. of Topeka to propose a takeover of Gas Service KPL, announced yesterday that the company would lease its Service's common stock, the amount it had sought to take over the company.
Gas Service is the largest retailer of natural gas in Kansas and serves 849,000 customers in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Students to be surveyed about opinions on night shuttle bus
By the Kansan Staff
Student surveys are being compiled to determine how well-received a night shuttle bus service would be at the University of Kansas, the chairman of a Parking and Traffic Board sub-committee said Wednesday.
Russell Getter, the chairman, said that the survey would attempt to gauge student reaction to a proposal which would restrict campus nighttime
parking, but provide shuttle service to peripheral parking lots.
Under the proposal, nighttime campus parking would be restricted to students who purchased a night permit or staff or staff who had blue zone permits.
One thousand student permits would be sold for $10 each. Getter said.
FREE SHUTTLE BUS service to the parking lot south of Watkins Hospital and parking lots by Memorial Stadium
would bring riders to campus and stop at all the marked bus stops.
He said the survey would also record student reaction to the proposal.
Getter said the student surveys would try to measure how many students would want to buy nighttime campus shoes and the students would use the shuttle bus service.
Greg O'Neil, Wichita junior, said yesterday that he thought the bus was better than the ferry.
problem of finding a space to park on campus at night.
"LAST NIGHT I drove my car to campus and couldn't get a parking space. I had to park in the parking lot down by the stadium and I was thinking to myself as I was climbing up the stairs of the little bus service would really be slick.
"I don't think the shuttle bus service would be an inconvenience because its hard for Joe Average to get a parking space on campus now," he said.
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