University Daily Kansan, September 20, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Attorney criticizes request by Gas Service for rate hike
TOPEKA — An attorney for a Clearwater woman who is protesting Gas Service Co.'s request for a $24.8 million rate increase said yesterday that his client and others like her could not afford higher natural gas bills.
The Kansas City utility has recommended applying the bulk of the proposed rate increase to the monthly customer charge, which is independent of natural gas consumption. The proposed rate increase would boost Gas Service's annual revenues by 6.9 percent, if granted in full. Attorneys for Gas Service said utility customers would pay about $4.11 more a month.
Pat Donahue, a Legal Service attorney who is representing the Clearwater woman, Yvonne Koepper, told the Kansas Corporation Commission on the first day of hearings on Gas Service's application to curb increasing natural gas price not taking action to curb increasing natural gas prices.
The KCC staff has recommended that Gas Service receive only a 10 percent rate increase, which represents a 2.3 percent boost in annual revenue.
Gas Service has about 402,000 customers in 217 towns in Kansas, including Topeka, Wichita, Kansas City, Hutchinson, Pittsburg, Arkansas City, Newton and Overland Park.
Bob Docking released from hospital
MERRIAM — Former Kansas Gov. Robert Docking, hospitalized the past $4 \frac{1}{2}$ months for treatment of emphysema, was released yesterday from a suburban Kansas City hospital in good condition.
Docking, 57, will remain in the Kansas City area indefinitely to be near his doctors and the hospital. Docking's son, Lt. Gov. Tom Docking, said the family did not want to disclose where Bob Docking would be. Docking's other son, Bill, and his mother live in the metropolitan area.
"He's doing very well," said Tom Docking. "He is still recovering and this point, he's settling in and getting used to being out of the hospital." **DRIVER**
In the past few weeks, the former governor has been allowed to leave the hospital for several days at a time.
At one point, he was in critical condition when he failed to respond to medication.
Suspect arrested in Lansing murder
LEAVENWORTH — Authorities were holding a suspect Monday in the fatal shooting of a Basehor man, whose death marks the fourth homicide in Leavenworth County in recent months.
Sheriff's spokesman Barbara Adolphson said that the victim, Fred Thompson, 45, had been found Sunday afternoon on a gravel road southeast of Lansing. He was declared dead at the scene, and an autopsy later showed he had been shot several times in the chest with a small-caliber weapon minutes before a passerby discovered the body.
A male suspect is being held awaiting formal filing of charges, she said. No weapon has been recovered and the sheriff's department has not identified him.
Sheriff Terry Campbell said evidence from Sunday's homicide had been sent to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to compare with evidence from the three other recent slayings in the county. All remain unsolved.
An elderly Lowenworth couple, Edward and Hazel Burton, were found shot to death and mutilated in July. About a week ago, 84-year-old Josephine Tuttle, of Leavenworth, was found beaten to death in her home.
Man apologizes for robbery attempt
WICHTA — A man who pleaded guilty to trying to steal $2 million from First National Bank of Dodge City apologized for the attempt yesterday and was sentenced to three years in prison.
U. S. District Judge Patrick Kelly told Terry Lee Baker, 27, a lifelong resident of Dodge City, that the robbery and his problems were related to drug activity.
"I don't appreciate what I did." Baker told the judge. "I want you to try to understand I was very mixed up emotionally when I did what I did."
Baker pleaded guilty in July to bank robbery and unlawful carrying of a gun in the incident, which took place Nov. 26, 1982. Police said Baker had attempted to strap 18 sticks of dynamite to a banker during the attack and had planted bombs in the downtown area before entering the bank.
Student reports attack near Watson
An 18-year-old KU student reported to police that someone had grabbed her and thrown her to the ground about 8:50 p.m. Sunday as she was walking near Watson Library.
She told KU police that she had been walking near the northwest side of the library when someone grabbed her and pushed her from the sidewalk onto the grass. She told police that the assailant had been a jean wearer and had been wearing a T-shirt and blue jeans. Police do not have a suspect.
Truman applications due Oct.24
KU sophomores have until Oct. 24 to apply for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, which is awarded in a student's junior year. The national scholarship is renewable for the senior year and for two years of graduate study.
Each scholarship pays as much as $5,000 a year for up to four years. Students can pick up applications at the college honors office in Numemaker Center. To be eligible for the scholarship, a sophomore must have a GPA of at least 3.0 and be in the upper quarter of his class. The student must also be an American citizen or national, and be in a course of study leading to a career in government.
Encore to present futuristic theme
The theme for the 1984 Encore is "Beyond the 20th Century," said David Watson, the director of Encore.
The music of the group that wins the best original music award will be played between acts.
This year Encore will give four main awards: best production, best sets, best costumes and best original music.
Judges will choose the winner of the best original music award from all the groups that submit scripts, not only those that participate.
German writer to speak at luncheon
Strahl is the first in this year's series of Brown Bag Lunch speakers. The college honors program, which is part of the College of Liberal Arts at Wagner, also offers free mentoring.
Rudi Strahl, an East German comedy writer, will speak at a Brown Bag Lunch 12:30-1:30 p.m. today at Nunenaker Center.
He has written more than 30 works, which have sold millions of copies and have been translated into more than 20 languages, said Joan Holmes, assistant professor of German. He has also written many plays, including "A Crazy Scent of Fresh Hay."
Strahl has been visiting the department of German for the past two weeks and will leave Sept. 26.
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Task force says city needs to use KU
In its first meeting, the city's newly formed Economic Task Force yesterday pointed to educational opportunities as a primary concern for Lawrence, and said that the city needed a better use of the University of Kansas.
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
City Commissioner Ernest Angino, one of two commissioners on the task force, said that the community would have to make certain that high school students received more math and high-tech training than they did now.
"A ninth grade math background might have cut it 10 years ago, but it
TASK FORCE members suggested that more should be done to encourage adult education programs at Haskell Indian Junior College and to encourage technical training at Lawrence High School.
The members also said that Lawrence shouldn't limit itself to trying to attract high-tech businesses, because it would need to develop from traditional industries.
Task force members expressed their concern that Lawrence lacked good training.
won't cut it 10 years from now," he said.
Angino, who is also a KU professor of civil engineering and geology, and Tony Redwood, director of the institute for economic and business research at
KU, both said that KU needed to be more involved in the economic future of the community.
"We have to recognize that the University is here," Angino said. "We should work with it instead of fighting it. There is still an anti-University bias in Lawrence. I run into it all the time."
Redwood said that the state policy for promoting new business was scattered and that Lawrence shouldn't make the same mistake.
"LAWRENCE has many unique things," he said. "We have KU and a tremendous number of well-educated people who are under-employed. One of the things we need to do is get the slow slumbering giant on the hill moving."
KU grad, wife and son found dead in home
From Staff and Wire Reports
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — The editorial page editor of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, his wife and their son were found dead yesterday, more than 48 hours after at least two of the victims beaten to death, police said.
Dan Osborne, a 1970 KU graduate, his wife, Jane, and their 11-year-old son, Ben, were found dead in their home in Montana Hill neighborhood yesterday morning.
A gun also was involved in the attack, and a spokesman, who declined to give details, said.
house A family dog was discovered dead near the bodies of Osborne and his son in an upstairs bedroom.
Police said that Osborne's daughter, Caroline, 2, was found alive in the
Mrs. Osborne's partially clad body was found downstairs.
Osborne, 35, had been with the News-sentinel since May. He was a teacher in High School graduate. His mother, Norah, and brother, George, live in Lawrence.
Police were alerted by a co-worker who went to the home after Osborne failed to report for work as expected several hours earlier.
Police spokesman Tom Engle said that at least two of the victims had been to death with a blunt instrument. The weapons have not been recovered.
Police refused to speculate on a motive for the killings.
The daughter was taken from the home by a police officer, Engle said. The bodies of the victims were removed from the home yesterday afternoon and taken to Lutheran Hospital where autopsies will be performed.
The home, on Fort Wayne's southwest side, was roped off as crime technicians and police photographers gathered evidence at the scene.
Osborne moved his family in May to Fort Wayne from Kansas City, where he was assistant business editor of the Kansas City Star. He had previously worked at newspapers in Little Rock, Ark., and Tulsa, Okla.
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