University Daily Kansan, September 21, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Hyatt victim hopes to help others cope with problems
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The most seriously injured survivor of the 1981 Hyatt Regency Hotel skywalks collapse testified that her condition had given her insight into the problems of severely handicapped people.
Sally Firestone, who suffered a crushed spine, said she hoped to help other handicapped people cope with their disabilities. She was among at least 239 people injured in the July 17, 1981, disaster in which 114 people died.
Iressone, a 36-year-old quadraplegic, Monday told the Jackson County Circuit Court jury that although she was grateful to be working, her job was not as interesting as what she used to do for International Business Machines, Inc.
Before the disaster, Firestone maintained and repaired IBM machines at a Kansas City bank. After the accident, IBM gave her a part time job as a technical assistant, supplying information to customer engineers in the field.
Inmate commits suicide in KC jail
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A 19-year-old inmate held on burglary charges at the Waydotte County Jail was found dead in his cell yesterday, the victim of an apparent suicide, county authorities said.
Darryl L. Wesley was found at 7:50 a.m. hanging from the grill work above the cell bars with a bedsheet tied around his neck, authorities
Wesley had been booked into the jail Monday night, and was in custody less than 24 hours before his death, authorities said.
Officers served Wesley his breakfast at 6:30 a.m. yesterday, and they said he was alive during a routine check made at 7:30 a.m.
A jail nurse and CARE technicians failed to revive Wesley. The county attorney scheduled an autopsy, and the sheriff's office investigated the death. Their reports were to be given to the district attorney's office.
Police seek bar worker's attackers
Lawrence police are looking for two people involved in the stabbing of a 27-year-old Lawrence resident early yesterday morning.
a 21-year old Law enforcement officer who works at Sergeant Preston's, was stabbed in the back by one of the assailants at about 3:15 a.m. in the 100 block of East Eighth Street.
Miller walked home after he was stabbed, and some friends drove him to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, police said. Miller was in the intensive care unit at Lawrence Memorial Hospital yesterday evening, a hospital spokesman said.
Police said Miller left work at Preston's and was walking through an alley when he met the assailants.
One of the assailants and Miller began fighting in the street. The other assailant then stabbed Miller in the back, police said.
Former cell mate charged in murder
LEAVENWORTH — A Jefferson County man who told police he shot his former Kansas State Penitentiary cell mate in self defense was arraigned yesterday and charged with second-degree murder.
Frank McGee, 55, McLouth, was accused of shooting Fred Thompson, 45, Basehor, on Sunday. His bond was set at $100,000 during an appearance in Leavenworth County District Court. A Sept. 30 preliminary hearing was scheduled.
A passer-by found Thompson's body on a gravel road south of Lansing Sunday afternoon. An autopsy revealed he was shot with a small caliber gun.
Leavenworth County Attorney Robert Davis said a .22 caliber rifle was found in the backseat of McGee's car.
Campbell said McGee and Thompson had been cell mates at the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing.
Alcohol resolution to be discussed
The Student Senate tonight is expected to approve a resolution recognizing Oct. 3-9 as Alcohol Education Week at the University of Kansas.
The proposed legislation will coincide with related activities that will be sponsored during that week by the Associated Students of Kansas, a state student lobbying group.
ASK will be conducting forums and lectures on alcohol abuse at the seven member schools during the week, and has asked student senates at those schools to pass resolutions recognizing the week.
The Senate originally was scheduled to discuss tonight several proposed revisions to its Rules and Regulations. That action has been postponed until the next Senate meeting, Oct. 5, to allow Senate committees time to review the changes.
Official opposes halt to fund raising
TOPEKA — The head of the Kansas Department of Economic Development told lawmakers yesterday that he would oppose any move to prevent public officials and their spouses from using their positions to raise money for private groups.
KDED Secretary Jamie Schwartz testified before the Special Committee on Conflict of Interest and Ethics on his department's involvement with private business and industry groups.
Robert Frey, R-Liberal and chairman of the Ethics committee, asked Schwartz whether he would support changing state laws to prohibit state employees and their spouses from using their positions to raise funds for private groups.
"Then you would have to stop the attorney general from raising funds for the Cancer Society." Schwartz said.
In his testimony, Schwartz said he had encouraged first lady Karen Carlin to contact the Travel Industry Association of Kansas / with which KDED works closely / about her interest in making a promotional film on Kansas.
Donald J. Hall, chairman of the board of Hallmark Cards Inc., will speak today at the Frank R. Burge Union as part of the Business Executive Lecture series sponsored by the School of Business.
Hallmark chairman Hall to speak
Other speakers scheduled in the series include Stephen A. Bansak, Jr., vice president for corporate finance of Kidder, Peabody & Co., Oct. 14; George W. Lehr, executive director of the Central States Pension Fund of the Teamsters Union, Oct. 26; and Frank W. Naylor Jr., undersecretary for small community and rural development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Nov. 30.
Hall, who is also chief executive officer of the Kansas City, Mo. corporation, will speak on corporate fiscal responsibility. His speech will begin at 1:30; a question-and-answer period will follow
All of the lectures are free and open to the public.
ON THE RECORD
ABOUT 30 CASSETTE tapes in a locked car were stolen sometime between 8:25 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. Monday in Lot 91, the parking lot south and east of Memorial Stadium, KU police said. The tapes were worth about $180. Police have no suspects.
BURGLARS STOLE $113 sometime between late Friday afternoon and early Monday morning from two doctors offices at 1112 W. Sixth St., police said. About $65 in a cash drawer was removed from one office and about $45 in a cash box in a cabinet was removed from the other office. Police have no suspects.
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solving the slayings of Dan Osborne, 31,
editorial page editor of the Fort Wayne
News-Sentinel, his wife, Jane, 34, and their son, Ben, 11.
Police have no leads in slaying of editor
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Police said yesterday that they had no suspects or leads in the slayings of a newspaper editor, his wife and son. Police also beeted up patrols in the family's affluent neighborhood.
By United Press International
Two-year-old Caroline Osborne survived, roaming the house in a bloody nightgilt for more than two days after the killings. She was in satisfactory condition after surgery to repair
Assistant Police Chief David J. Racine said there were no suspects or leads in the first triple slaying in Fort Wayne in memory.
Police appealed to the public for help
damage from a sexual assault, doctors said.
Tests were being conducted on a bloody baseball bat and a large portable radio covered with dried blood
Police working overtime increased patrols in the family's affluent neighborhood, the scene of several recent break-ins, thefts from vehicles and at least one assault. A 24-hour phone hotline was established.
and matted hair. Crime lab technicians searched for more evidence at the home.
Welfare doesn't run in the family, study reveals
By United Press International
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The stereotype that black families on welfare tend to produce welfare-dependent children was shattered yesterday in a 15-year study by the University of Michigan.
The national study by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social
Research concluded that blacks from welfare-dependent families were no more likely to receive welfare as adults than blacks from non-welfare families.
Researchers based their conclusions on data collected from 1,255 blacks and whites from a cross section of economic data collected by their parents' homes since 1968.
"Longtime welfare dependency as a child does not cause longtime welfare dependency as an adult, at least among blacks," researchers wrote in their final report summarizing the 15-year study.
SURVEY DIRECTOR Martha Hill said the survey was done for the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, which will use the report in policy-making decisions.
Hill said the survey did not include enough whites from welfare homes to analyze whether poor whites remained dependent on welfare. According to the study, blacks were eight times more likely than whites to be welfare-dependent homes than whites.
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