University Daily Kansan, June 29, 1983
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Local man charged in homicide
James Chadwick Fourhorn, 824 Arkansas St., was charged yesterday in Douglas County District Court with first degree murder in the slaying of long-time Lawrence resident Harry Puckett.
Postman detects mail schemes that defraud public
Bond was set at $1 million and an 27-year-old Fourthhorn, who was arrested Monday night, remains in the Douglas County Jail.
Fourhour is scheduled for a prelim-
inary hearing at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Puckett, 94, was found dead in his home at 109 Delaware St. Saturday
A preliminary autopsy indicated that Puckett had died from a blow or blow in the neck.
Services for Puckett were conducted yesterday at Oak Hill Cemetery, 1605
Don DeLaney, U.S. postal inspector, shows an example of mail fraud, a $10 booklet claiming to reveal the cure for dozens of diseases, to the Lawrence postal customer council at the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center.
By MARY ANN COSTELLO Staff Reporter
A little old lady once sent $9.95 to Mid-West Health Research in Kansas City, Mo., for a "Health Bible Handbook."
An ad said the book gave cures for diabetes, arthritis, rheumatism and hallicitus. For each of these health problems, the book recommended "colonic irrigation," or simply put, an enema.
DON DELANEY, U.S. Postal Inspector for the Kansas City area, finally caught up with Mid-West Health Research, and its operators were convicted of mail fraud. But not before repeated "colonic irrigation" treatments did physical damage to more than one elderly person.
Part of Delaney's job is to talk to groups in Kansas and western Missouri about mafi fraud, in the hope that he will become victims of similar schemes.
About 50 people listened to DeLaney yesterday at a meeting of the Lawrence Postal Customer Council at the new K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center.
ANY SCHEME DESIGNED to deprive you of money that uses the mail service constitutes mail fraud, he said.
And the unemployed are popular targets of mail fraud.
He said that senior citizens, housewives and overweight people were popular targets of mail fraud and that teenagers were increasingly targeted because they had "a lot of buying power these days."
The unemployed and housewives are often attracted by work-at-home schemes, he said. He said that one woman who worked with you stuff 1,000 envelopes for $1,000?
He said that for $20 the operator sent the respondent a letter telling him how to start his own work-at-home scheme or the $20 application forms to other people.
DeLaney said that large businesses
were frequently the target of false- billing schemes.
THE PERPETRATOR SENDS a bill to the accounting department of a firm, he said, and about 25 percent of the time, the accounting department pays the bill without checking whether the merchandise was actually purchased by someone in the company.
Mail fraud can be difficult to prosecute, he said. If someone sends money for an item that was advertised, but never received, that person must prove that at the time the ad was posted, it did not intend to send the merchandise.
"How can you prove that?" DeLaney said with exasperation
Another problem in prosecuting is the some cases of mail fraud are not reportable.
"Most of us who've reached the age of maturity have been ripped off at one time or another," he said. "But human beings have to take responsibility, reluctant to admit we've been taken."
Former chemistry professor, 90, dies after illness
By GUELMA ANDERSON
Staff Reporter
In a Kansas article in March, Marlin D. Harmony, chairman of the chemistry department, said that much of the department was traceable to Brewster.
Ray Q. Brewster, 90, professor emeritus of chemistry and former chairman of the KU chemistry department at Temple University, Memorial Hospital after a brief illness.
WHILE ON THE FACULTY and as chairman, Brewster made many contributions to the department — most notable were his efforts in raising money for the construction of Malott Hall.
"He set the mold for the future."
Harmony said, "He was an outstanding teacher and a grand old man."
In 1960, university seniors honored Brewer for his "immensely popular and energetic" teaching with one of the first HOPE awards.
"Whenever I'm asked for advice, I tell students. 'If you like teaching, don't be led into anything else.' The pay may be higher than it is, but you can't match the satisfaction."
In the same Kansan article Brewster told of his love for teaching.
THE YEAR OF HIS retirement, 1963.
Brewster was awarded the University's highest honor — The Citation for Distinguished Service to Monkind.
He received yet another honor in 1981, when Strong Hall Auditorium was renamed the Ray Q. Brewster Auditorium.
He was born in Guthrie, Okla., and raised in Sedan. Kan.
After earning his bachelor's degree from Ottawa University, Brewster received his master's degree from the University of Kansas in 1915. He then attended the University of Chicago for his doctorate.
In 1919, he returned to KU and joined the faculty of the chemistry department.
During World War I, as part of his doctoral research, he worked on the development of synthetic drugs for the National Research Council. Along with a colleague, Brewer produced the first Novocain in the United States.
An authority on synthetic organic chemistry, Brewster wrote the first
modern organic chemistry text, which was translated into five languages.
As a Fulbright Fellow in 1951, Brewster lectured on the chemistry of dyes at Farouk University in Cairo, Egypt.
In 1987, the American Chemical Society, St. Louis chapter, gave him the Midwest Award for his professional accomplishments.
After his retirement, Brewster taught at Ottawa University for five years.
Brewster is survived by three daughters, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Memorial services will be conducted today at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church.
A SUREFIRE RECIPE FOR REVOLUTION
Why do students unable to read and arithmetically perform continue to advance in the public school system? Because most educators consider a student's staying with those of the same age group more important than his academic performance. This oft-practiced "social promotion", which ignores many students' failure to assimilate and consequent misbehavior, has savaged our inner-city schools and is infecting the Lawrence school system today.
At least a few local teachers have often suffered verbal and physical abuse in the course of their work. Several of them have even been threatened with bodily harm by irate parents. By allowing the inexperienced and disturbed among us to shape educational policy, the powers-that-bat shamelessly produce more dysfunctional exploites in an affluent and increasingly sophisticated society. This is a surefire recipe for revolution.
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