Universitv Dailv Kansan. August 25. 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Staff Reports
Body of escaped prisoner located in Missouri River
KANSAS CITY, KAN — The body of an escaped Kansas State Penitentiary inmate was found in the Missouri River Tuesday, one day after he walked away from a work detail near the prison, police said yesterday.
Gary L. Grover, 26, Monday had been cleaning weeds from a dike when he walked away from a work site in Lansing and escaped into heavy underbrush about 100 yards away. Grover was last seen heading toward the river
His body was found about 4 p.m. Tuesday in the river in Kansas City, Kan., police said. Grover had served five months of a three- to 10-year term for burglary.
Reform head cites prison population
TOPEKA — The Kansas prison population is increasing at a rate far exceeding the state's increase in reported crime, the director of a prison reform group said yesterday.
From 1975 to 1882, the Kansas prison population increased 79 percent while the reported crime rate increased only 6 percent, said Lynn Zeller Barclay, director of the non-profit Midwest Corrections Reform Program Inc.
"The large increase in the number of prisoners cannot be attributed solely to more crime," she told the Advisory Committee on Prison Overcrowding. "It is more likely the result of a complex maze of policy decisions regarding prosecutorial, sentencing and parole practices."
The committee was appointed by Corrections Secretary Michael Barbara to advise him on solutions to the overcrowding problem.
SenEx decides on policy-review list
The committee, which is composed of nine members, voted to monitor the allocation of the new $10 student academic services fee. SenEx also voted to review the University's efforts to improve academic counseling and financial aid opportunities for foreign students.
The University Senate Executive Committee yesterday approved a list of University committee policies that it will review during the school year.
No action will be taken on the University policy list until it is ratified by the University Council, which meets Sept. 1.
by the University Council. In a related matter, SenEx decided to have the 12 standing committees of the University Council issue progress reports at each University Council meeting.
SenEx is the main mediating board of the students and faculty with the administration.
Hayden to discuss KU fiscal woes
Kansas Speaker of the House Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, will meet with Chancellor Gene A. Budig, campus deans and department heads next week to discuss financial problems at the University of Kansas.
KU College of Health Sciences department heads have also been invited to the reception, scheduled for Sept. 2, at the chancellor's residence.
Hayden said yesterday that he was looking forward to the meeting because he wanted to discuss potential financial problems of the various programs.
Hayden said also that he wanted to discuss requirements for payment of capital improvements on the Lawrence and Kansas City, Kan. campuses.
"munically, things are going well at most universities in the state. But there are things that still need to be worked out," Hayden said.
Fraud charges filed in utility scam
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Fraud charges were filed yesterday against two men for biking an elderly Kansas City couple of $4,800 in a utility bill-home repair scam.
A 66-year-old woman and her blind husband were reportedly contacted by one of the schemers, claiming to be from Kansas City Power and Light Co. He allegedly told the couple that their upcoming electric bill would be in excess of $2,900 and asked whether they had any trouble with their wiring. The caller recommended that they have their wiring checked by Air Master Heating and Cooling of South Hickman Mills Drive.
Carl Y. Majors, 50, Belton, and Joseph B. Sprofer, 40, Independence, were charged with stealing by deceit for allegedly collecting $3,800 for the purported repairs and allegedly accepting $1,009 to settle the falsified utility bill.
Work-study program set to begin
Help is just around the corner for some students at the University of Kansas who are looking for financial assistance.
Between 45 and 60 students will be eligible to participate in a new state work-study program that will start this year.
The purpose of the program is for the state to allocate money to the University to pay half of a student's salary, said Scott Swenson, Topeka junior and campus director of the Associated Students of Kansas, a national labor institution. The oneyourers pay the other half of the salary.
Swenson said that this would encourage off-campus businesses to hire students.
Lawrence businesses soon will be receiving invitations to participate in this work/study program, said Pam Houston, coordinator of KU's Student Employment Center.
Jaycee Women plan charity carnival
The Lawrence Jaycee Women are sponsoring a carnival Sunday at South Park to benefit KU Audio Reader and the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation.
Lois Mead, publicity chairman for the event, said the carnival would be from noon to 4 p.m. and would include a baby contest. Registration for the baby contest will begin at 1 p.m. at the park, which is south of the Court House on Massachusetts Street.
Baby boys and girls will be judged in separate divisions. Mead said Newborns and children up to three years old will be judged in the same category
category.
Prizes have been donated by area retailers, she said
Mead said the carnival would also include rides for children, a dunk tank, an arts-and-crafts sale and a concession stand.
ON THE RECORD
AN ATARI HOME computer and a 12-inch television were stolen some time between 8 a.m. Monday and noon Tuesday from Lawrence Transfer & Storage Co., 609 Massachusetts St. The television was worth $300 and the computer was worth $275, police said.
KU POLICE SAID a Yamaha 90cc moped had been stolen from a bike rack sometime between 11:50 a.m. and 12:55 p.m. Tuesday north of Watson Library. The moped was secured to the bike rack by a cable and padlock, but someone cut the chain using a bolt cutter. The moped was worth $10.
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Stephan accuses Harper of failure to arrest in drug case
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Attorney General Robert Stephan charged yesterday that Douglas County's district attorney had information last week about two suspects who had cultivated a marijuana field but did not file any arrest warrants.
The district attorney, Jerry Harper, said yesterday that he did begin to receive information late Thursday and Friday about two suspects in one of the fields destroyed earlier this month in Douglas County.
But he said he was waiting for some follow-up reports from the Douglas County Sheriff's Department before he would file charges.
"The information we received was gathered by two sheriffs' deputies and was not the result of any work by the Baskett bureau of Investigation," the paper said.
cized this system, saying there would have been four suspects, rather than two, if the field had been staked out and the suspects had after all suspected he was arrested.
Earlier this month, a marjuana crop was destroyed before police had gone inside the building.
In a news conference in Topeka yesterday morning, Stephan also charged that Harper had threatened to kill the two girls ages 10 and their drug-related investigations.
"There was a problem of miscommunication about drug enforcement with the Kansas Bureau of district attorney's office," Harper said.
Harper explained that the conversation occurred about a year ago, before he became Douglas County district attorney.
"I said I didn't want to see anyone getting burned or injured because of KBI agents not knowing what the agents' agents were doing and vice versa."
Harper said that the attorney general's charges "were an attempt to take the focus off the real issue of the unprofessional way in which the state
A raided by Stephan on a five-acre field of marijuana in Leavenworth County Tuesday did not impress Harper. More than 20,000 cultivated plants were destroyed by 20 agents from the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Department and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
was dealing with the problem of illegal marijuana."
"I understand Stephan had a press conference in a pot field in the rain," Harper said. "They may have arrested them, but they didn't arrest an people."
Stephan said that a member of his staff was the daughter of the owners of the hog farm where the marjiana was growing. Susan Nugent, an assistant attorney general in the consumer protection division, is the daughter of Jay Willard Orlander of Linwood, who worked with the orlander's wife. Martha, and Emil Robinson of DeSoto under a lease agreement.
Stephan, however, did not implicate the Orlanders in the martjuana operation.
visible from any road or building on the farm
According to a spokesman for the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Department, no arrests have been made.
Harper said that the program of destroying marijuana fields rather than staking out the fields, as was done in Leavenworth County, hindered arrests.
"The best time for surveillance is now." Harper said. "This summer has been hot and dry. These people need to irrigate the fields. If we were to set up a network of dikes, dyms, time someone certainly would have come by and we could press charges."
Jim Flory, deputy attorney general and chief of the state's criminal division, explained that a surveillance program was not in effect because there were not enough agents to carry out such a program.
Increase designed to encourage passes
Tom Kelly, director of the KB1, was unavailable for comment.
Flory also explained that some of these fields are in such locations that it would be difficult to conduct surveillance without being detected.
Rate for single-fare users of KU on Wheels rises
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
Students without KU on Wheels bus passes now have to pay a nickel more every time they ride the campus buses.
Former transportation coordinator David Adkins said the price increase, from 35 to 40 cents for single-face rides, was less than 2 percent of patients to buy bus passes, which cost $30
Adkins said the move would stabilize income and help KU on Wheels improve service to pass buyers, who are its regular customers. He said it was made at the recommendation of the Lawyer, which provides the best service for KU.
Adkins, former KU student body president, served as acting transportation coordinator last year when long-time coordinator Steve McMurry was fired after he was charged with embezzling funds.
Bus pass prices have not increased for three years, except briefly last fall when McMurry raised the cost $5 without proper authorization.
Adkins said that the $6 transportation fee charged to all students would remain intact but that plans had been considered to reduce it in the future.
"The board will have to decide whether to cut the fee or to make capital improvements if revenue continues to remain high," he said.
The bus system now has a budget surplus of $30,000 from last semester.
After a year of reorganization, Paul Buskirk, Student Senate transportation
Adkins also said that no system had been set up for repayment of the money embezzled by McMurray and that it could be months or years before the money is returned, if ever. McMurry was sentenced to eight to 10 years in prison and was ordered to make a restitution payment of $257,051.
board chairman, he expected KU on Wheels to run smoothly this year.
"We don't anticipate any major problems," said Buskirk "We solved our problem."
Buskirk last year was named chairman of the Student Senate Transportation Board when it was reactivated after University officials discovered the embezzlement of bus funds.
As far as students are concerned,
Buskirk said they would notice three
main changes in the bus system this
fall:
Valley Apartments, 2040 Heatherwood Drive. And a night route that was started on a temporary basis in the spring has been made permanent.
- New color route maps have been made. They are available in the Kansas Union.
- The bus pass system has been reorganized. The board replaced the card passes that had been used for the student IDs with a stocker that is affixed to student IDs.
- A new route has been added that goes west of campus to Heatherwood
After the board was reorganized, Buskirk said it immediately instituted safeguards to prevent the possibility of any more embezzlement.
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