University Daily Kansan, June 15, 1983
Page 7
McMurry convicted for theft of funds from KU on Wheels
Former KU On Wheels director Steve McMurry, 28, pleaded no contest Friday to five felony charges of beezling $29,425 worth of Student Senate bus funds.
Douglas County District Judge Ralph King found McMurray guilty of the charges and scheduled sentencing for 9:30 a.m. July 1.
McMurray, 122 Concord Road, changed his plea from not guilty to no contest after plea bargaining with Assistant District Attorney Harry Warren not to file additional charges.
MCMURYR FACES A minimum of two years and a maximum of five years in prison for each count. Fines can come up to $5,000 per count.
As director of KU On Wheels.
McMurry was responsible for Student Senate bus funds.
On Sept. 14, 1982, David Ambler, vice chancellor for school affairs, told KU Police Director Jim Denney that two checks from KU students had been discovered in McMurray's private account at University State Bank.
A subsequent investigation revealed that McMurry had deposited numerous checks made out to the Student Senate CU On Wheels into his bank account.
King said repayment of money to the University would not affect the senate.
As part of McMurray's agreement with the assistant district attorney, he will reimburse the University a sum of $40,000 and by the University legal counsel.
Coleman pleads guilty to lesser charge
Former KU football player Gary Coleman, 22, pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of misdemeanor battery and was sentenced by District Judge Ralph King to three months in the Douglas County Jail.
The charge resulted from a Dec. 21,
10%, incident at the Sanctuary, a
July 5, 2003, charge at the Sanctuary.
during which he struck a woman employee because of a dispute over
Coleman, 710 Belle Meade Place, also was ordered to pay the woman's medical expenses.
The original charge of aggravated assault, a felony, was amended to a misdemeanor charge of battery.
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About two-thirds of this increase is the result of the divesituation, said Toni Stevens, Southwestern Bell's manager in county relations for northeast Kansas.
"The remaining third of the increase is due to the increased costs of doing business."
She said that inflation and the fact that the company's equipment doesn't last as long as it used to have increased the costs of doing business.
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Members of the East Lawrence Improvement Association listened attentively Monday night as a spokesman for Southwestern Bell explained the conditions of, and reasons for, a proposed rate increase that would double the monthly service charges for commercial and business customers in Kansas.
AS A RESULT OF THE divestiture, Southwestern Bell has proposed a $213.7 million increase in annual revenues from Kansas.
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Ron Crawford, customer service supervisor for the telephone company, told a group of about 20 people at New York Elementary School, 936 New York St. that the American Telephone & Graph Co. divestiture that will take effect on Thursday will bring western Bell competing to make local telephone service a paying business.
A date has yet to be set for a public
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hearing by the Kansas Corporation Commission on the proposed rate increases.
"NOW WE'RE GOING to be very limited," Crawford said. "We're going to be providing basically one thing, and that's a dial tone."
He said that as of Jan. 1, customers would have to arrange with AT&T or some other long distance company in order to make long distance calls.
ABOUT ONE-FOURTH of the proposed increase would be paid by long distance carriers such as Sprint, MCI and AT&T, as a cost of access to local telephone line networks. The remaining three-quarters of the proposed increase would be paid by Southwestern Bell customers.
Also as part of the agreement, he
bell, Bell telephone companies will no
After Jan. 1, as the result of a 1982 settlement with the Justice Department, more than 20 local Bell companies that were part of AT&T will be separate companies with separate stockholders, he said. Also separate will be Bell Laboratories, Western Electric, which manufactured telephone cable and equipment, and American Bell.
Since federal and state governments began regulating the telephone industry in the 1900s, profits that phone companies have made from local offices are falling while long-distance phone service has been priced beyond cost. Crawford said.
As a result of a 1976 Supreme Court decision, telephones not manufactured by Bell could be used with Bell lines. Telephones for companies sell telephone equipment.
longer sell, lease or maintain tele-
phones after Jan. 1.
Crawford said that American Telephone would be the new supplier and maintainer of Bell telephones and that they could to open a phone center in Lawrence.
AMERICAN TELEPHONE will continue to maintain the telephones under the same maintenance agreement now offered by Bell.
Crawford said that other companies recognized two areas where they could be competitive — long distance service and telephone equipment.
CRAWFORD SAIDthat competition between different companies should increase research and production.
Crawford said that buying a telephone was like buying anything else.
“These venders out there should come up with some very good ideas,”
phone was like buying anything else. "You get what you pay for," he said. "Bell is not the only good vender on the market. There are some reliable ones out there."
If the rate increase request is approved by the KCC, Stevens said.
The Budget Plan is $3.50 cheaper than the flat monthly rate, said Stevens, and allows a customer to make $3 worth of local phone calls. Customers are then charged for any additional local calls made at the rate of 4 cents for the first minute and 1 cent for each additional minute.
Stevens said the Thrift Plan is $5 less than the monthly flat rate. Each local call will then cost 4 cents for the first call and 1 cent for each additional minute.
flak-rate service for one-party residence customers would be $18.50 a month and the rate for one-party business customers would be $35.17 a month. This would be an increase of $9.50 a month for residential customers and $17.15 a month for business customers.
The last option to the flat rate is the Economy Plan, which is $8.50 a month and allows for 12 outgoing calls. Stevens said it had not been decided to charge charge for additional local calls with the Economy Plan would be.
Southwestern Bell is proposing three alternatives to the flat-rate service. Stevens said.
TWO OF THESE alternatives — the Budget Plan and Thrift Plan — are already being offered on a trial basis to customers in Lawrence.
A CARNIVORE EATS CROW
When, in days past, concerned vegetarians would attribute my grumpiness to my carnivory, I would always laugh heartily for several seconds before continuing to invigil. However, my dietary habits apparently caught up with me at the June 7 meeting of the City Commission where I was guilty of both misinterpretation and misstatement.
Being unaware, for example, that the developer of the 296-acre research park site was not asking the city to shoulder the customary entire cost of the street and utility work needed for the park, I dogmatically assumed otherwise and floundered noisily for several minutes. While still attempting to determine the dish which inspired my outburst, I, too, now recognize that offering to be pure baloney.
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