University Daily Kansan, September 1, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
University libraries,offices to be closed for Labor Day
All KU offices and libraries will be closed Monday for the Labor Day holiday.
Monday classes have been canceled, but Saturday classes will meet unless instructors have informed their classes otherwise.
Except for Spencer Research Library and the law library in Green Hall, all campus libraries will observe their regular hours Saturday and Sunday.
The law library will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Spencer will be closed all weekend.
Watson and Malott libraries will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday and from noon to midnight Sunday. The art library, in Spencer
Art Museum; the engineering library, in the Burge Union; and the
music library, in Murphy Hall, will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday and from noon to 10 p.m. Sunday.
Judge upholds verdict in Craft case
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal judge yesterday upheld a fraud judgment against Metromedia Inc. In the judgment, a jury awarded $50,000 to television newscaster Christine Craft.
In his two-page decision, District Judge Joseph E. Stevens Jr. said he had considered the arguments of Metromedia attorneys who said the verdict, delivered Aug. 8, was both incorrect and excessive.
But Stevens ruled that "the motion for a directed verdict should be denied" but did not elaborate on his reasons for doing so. The Metromedia attorneys had asked the judge to overturn the jury's verdict in a directed verdict.
The two-week trial drew national attention by raising the question of whether television station managers stressed physical appearance more in women newscasters than in men newscasters when the newscasters appeared on camera in news programs.
Drop expected in Baker enrollment
Douglas County's other four-year college is faced with an enrollment situation similar to that of the University of Kansas: a decline in
Although final enrollment figures at Baker University in Baldwin will not be known until next week, Baker officials are expecting a drop from last year's total of 776.
"We've had similar (entering) classes since 1979, which was our best year," Ken Snow, vice president of admissions and student affairs, said yesterday. "We are expecting 250 to 260 new students this year, but, as we have, a smaller returning class, we expect the overall experiment to drop."
Snow said that the anticipated number of new students represented an increase over the 237 who enrolled for the first time a year ago. The total, however, is still significantly less than the high mark, set four years ago.
Children's home in Topeka closes
TOPEKA — St. Vincent Children's Home Inc. closed its doors yesterday after caring for more than 3,000 unwanted youths during the past 116 years, its director said.
The home's board of directors decided in July that St. Vincent, which could no longer afford to stay open, would shut down Aug. 31.
The 21 young residents of the home, who ranged in age from 8 to 18, have been placed in other institutions in Kansas and Missouri, said Sister Mary William Sullivan, St. Vincent director. The home employed 19 child-care workers.
Student organizations ignore services
Only four of the 300 organizations expected to register for the school year at the organizations and activities center have applied for the expanded office space and additional services, the assistant director of the office of student organizations said Tuesday.
"Potentially, we have file space for almost any organizations that would apply," said Art Farmer, the assistant director.
The center's office in the Kansas Union previously was occupied by the KU Alumni Association.
The registration problem seems to be caused by the new location and a need for additional publicity, said Karen Jeltz, assistant director of student organizations.
"We have publicized . . . to schedule for time and space in the office, but I don't even know if students realize what it means." Jeltz said.
The office staff now can offer groups assistance in writing constitutions and by-laws and planning programs and activities. There is also a conference room for meetings and access to copy machines, drafting materials and typewriters. Groups must reserve desk and file space, cabinet drawers and mailboxes.
State rules out site for law agencies
TOPEKA — State officials learned this week that buying the Menninger Foundation's east campus and renovating the buildings on the campus would be more expensive than building new structures on property already owned by the state.
State Architect John Hipp presented the finding Tuesday to a meeting of the Joint Committee on State Building Construction. Some of the findings were that:
After Hipp's testimony, state Sen. August Bogina Jr., R-Lenexa and the committee's chairman, said he was not interested in pursuing the option of buying the Menninger property.
Hipp has been studying the possibility of using the east campus for housing several state agencies, including the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Kansas Highway Patrol, the patrol's training academy and the state's Law Enforcement Training Center. He said he was going back to the drawing board to try to determine where to place safety agencies, because the east-camp option appeared ruled out.
The Douglas County Commission approved yesterday the site for a used-car lot in Lawrence and also accepted a bid for supplying fuel to county vehicles in the public works department.
Commission OKs used-car lot site
Northside Motor Mart, the used car lot, will be near Kansas Highway 56 near Worden. The lot will be owned by Kenneth Pettibon.
Finally, the commission passed a motion against taking a petition on employee salary grievances from the Douglas County Ambulance Service to the Kansas Supreme Court.
Ambulance service officials have adjusted the employees' pay to meet state requirements for overtime compensation. Now, the employees want to revise the law through the courts.
In other action, the commission accepted a bid from Zarocoe Inc, RFD 2, to supply fuel for county vehicles in the public works department.
ON THE RECORD
TWO TRUCKS WERE stolen from Laird Noller Ford, 23rd and Alabama streets, sometime between 9 p.m. Monday and 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Lawrence police said. One truck was worth $17,284 and the other was worth $18,013, according to the police report. Police said someone either hot-wired the trucks or towed them. They have no suspects.
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GOP leader reproves Carlin travel plans
By United Press International
GOP chairman Dave Owen said in a news release that Carlin had “conceited” the trip to try to duplicate the “publicity bonanza” that grew from his 701 trip to the People's Republic of China, which urged the governor to cancele the trip.
nine state employees and Carlin's wife to go to China," Owen said. "Yet he is unable to explain how Kansas has benefited from his taxpayer-financed trip there four years ago or what benefits he expects from this trip."
TOPEKA — the chairman of the Kansas Republican Party yesterday blasted Democratic Gov. John Carlin's plans to visit China and Japan in October, calling the trip a $30,000 publicity stunt.
"Gov. Carlin plans to spend more than $30,000 of taxpayers' money for
Owen said the governor had been unable to cite "one single trade agreement" that materialized out of his last trip to the Far East, Carlin's three-week trip to China and Japan is scheduled to start Oct. 13.
Carlin responded yesterday to Owen's attack by citing Republican complaints during last year's gubernatorial election, when he ventured out of the state enough to
CARLIN REITERATED that he wanted to lay the groundwork for future trade between Kansas businesses and the two countries and that some other administration, not his, would probably reap the benefits.
Owen said that Carlin should not make the trip just months after he and the Legislature had approved the largest tax increase in state history and time when state employees had been forced to pay翻薪 for six months.
attract industry and business. Now that he is doing so, they are still com-
"The Kansas taxpayers have already sent Carlin and his wife to Hollywood
this year," said Owen, referring to the governor's trip in early June to Hollywood to try to lure movie producers to Kansas.
Carlin is not the only Midwestern governor making trade missions to the Orient, Missouri Gov. Christopher Bond has been to the Far East twice since 2014 and visited Japan, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong and Singapore this month.
Increased grain exports, particularly to Taiwan, have resulted from Bond's trips, with various Japanese industries considering Missouri as a location for new manufacturing plants. Missouri officials said.
Criticism of marijuana cases prompts request
KBI director asks Legislature to double drug staff
By United Press International
TOPEKA — The director of the Kansas Bureau of investigation, which has been criticized for its handling of illegal marijuana activity, said yesterday that he would ask the Legislature to double his drug-enforcement staff.
Director Thomas Kelly said in a letter to State Rep. Vic Miller, D-
Topeka, that his current drug enforcement unit had 14 positions, six of which were left vacant during last year's 4 percent statewide budget cut. He had that even if his staff were ordered to work as hard as to mollorize drug laws ideologically.
Kelly was responding to a letter Miller sent him last week criticizing the KBI's handling of a raid on a cultivated marijuana field in Leavenworth
County, Miller asked whether the KBI had placed the field and other marijauna fields under surveillance first to protect people who were cultivated them.
Miller called last week's raid in Leavenworth County a "bungled public stunt" and asked whether Kelly agents to enforce the law properly.
Although Kelly defended the mari-
janna raid, he said Miller had raised a good point on whether the KRI's drug resistance was at stake.
"A full contingent of 14 agents, of course, is insufficient to cover 105 counties, including surveillance and undercover activities," Kelly said. "It is our hope in the 1894 legislative session to request a substantial increase in the Kansas Bureau of Investigation drug unit."
Bell selects new attorney in Seurer slaying case
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
The family of Bryan Keith Bell, the man charged with the second-degree murder of Frank Seurer Sr., has hired a lawyer to replace the one appointed by the Douglas County District Court earlier this month.
Robert Duncan, a member of the
Kansas City, Mo., law firm of Coulson and Chick, will be Bell's new lawyer
BELL IS TO APPEAR at 10 a.m. today for his preliminary hearing at district court. Sourer was found dead in the apartment. Pop's Bar-B-Q, 2214 Yale St.
The lawyer originally appointed by the court, John Chappell, said he knew Bell's family had been making arrangements to hire Duncan.
Duncan said he would file a formal entry of appearance this morning so that he could appear in court to defend Bell. He said he expected Associate District Judge Mike Elwell to grant the motion.
ELWELL DENIED a motion filed by Chappell yesterday to postpone the preliminary hearing, saying that the hearing should be delayed on Aug. 25. But Elwell said that if
the new lawyer needed time to prepare a defense, he would consider granting another motion to delay.
Chappell said yesterday that he had been prepared to represent Bell, 22, at today's preliminary hearing. He had asked for the delay because he said he was unsure whether the new lawyer would handle the case the same way he planned to handle it.
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