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University Daily Kansan, June 8, 1983
Day to honor King gathers support
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. joined Coretta Scott King and singer Stevie Wonder yesterday in urging Congress to make the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. a national holiday.
"Martin Luther King is America's Gandhi," O'Neill said, in a rare appearance before a congressional panel. "He taught us all how to change our society for the better and do it through peaceful means."
THE OVERFLOW crowd applauded after O'Neill and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., sofficed at an alternative proposal to designate the third Sunday in January a day of prayer and remembrance of King.
The hearing was one of several
planned by the House Post Office and Civil Service subcommittee on a bill that would make Jan 15 a legal holiday. The bill, passed by 143 House members and 29 senators,
Rep. William Dannemeyer, R-Calif,
offered the Sunday remembrance
proposal He said it would avoid the
difference a paid holiday for federal
workers.
O'Nell, a Massachusetts Democrat, said, "There are so many Sunday remembrances, it's (like) Cap Day in Boston for the Red Sox."
DANNENYEER'S STATEMENT that Easter falls on a Sunday without diluting its meaning provoked a sharp response from Kennedy.
Palm Sunday ... and whole weeks of Advent," Kenpedy said.
He said Congress never considered moving George Washington's birthday
Kennedy said he studied the constitutional debates of the nation's founders when he was hospitalized for seven months with a broken back and concluded their "principal mistake" was to "fail to address the racial divide."
"The one person who has done more than all the founding fathers to push back the walls of discrimination and harassment," Martin Luther King Jr.," Kennedy said.
"THE DESERVES a special place and a special tribute," the senator declared, while King's widow led the audience in applause.
acknowledge the official acceptance of the dream of the civil rights movement
a violence-free society, full of equal opportunity and social and economic
In answer to a question by Rep. Mickey Leland, D-Texas, Wonder said King inspired themes in his hit album of the 1970s, "Songs to the Kof Life."
Wonder, whose long hair was styled in beaded corn rows and who dressed in tan slacks and a navy formal-length coat, said, "I can only convey my growing emotionalism because it's so long" to get legislation enacted.
"DR, KING DID inspire a feeling of desire for us to acknowledge this melting pot of many people," Wonder said. "Love is the essence of life. We are so blessed to have had people like Dr. King."
Grand jury indicts three for $50,000 conspiracy
By United Press International
TOPEKA — A former state assistant attorney general, a Wichita certified public accountant and a Topkea lawyer have been indicted by a federal grand jury in an alleged $50,000 fraud scheme.
Also charged with the same offenses in the indictment were Robert Tanner,
Donald Hoffman, 39, who was an assistant attorney general for Kansas at the time of the alleged 1977 fraud, was charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and interstate transportation of money from Kansas to the office of the U.S. attorney's office in Topeka said yesterday.
Wichita, and Jerold Berger, Topeka,
both 39.
The alleged fraud scheme occurred while the three of them were appointed to oversee financial activities at the Kansas Savings and Loan Association, now known as Century Savings Association of Kansas.
The indictment allied that $200,000[15] in unearned commissions was paid and that 25 percent of the money, $50,000,[16] was kicked back to the three suspects.[17]
The kickbacks were tied to the sale of Valley Y Ranch in Barry County, Mo., and Liberty Farms in Clay County Mo., the indicted said.
Government to begin buying dioxin sites
If convicted, each of the suspects could be sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined $20,000.
By United Press International
ST. LOUIS — The Federal Emergency Management Agency yesterday signed contracts clearing the way for the government to begin buying propane in dioxin-contaminated Times Beach and the Minker-Stouff area in Missouri.
Missouri governor Christopher S. Bond and Patt Brehrey, regional administrator of FEMA, announced at a news conference that FEMA officials in Washington had signed the contracts.
Breheny said he was optimistic that within a few days a contractor would be selected and a title search would begin in the owners of the property in Times Beach.
has been bought out — was stalled until the city government of Times Beach agreed to take title to the property and then turn it over to the state.
The Missouri Legislature had balked at acquiring title to the land until all of it was sold.
The unprecedented buy-out of Times Beach — the first time an entire town
it simultaneously. I think we're talking about Columbus Day before we get to the first happy family." Brehney said, "We're asking, 'What happened two years ago in Love Carol?'
Breheny, however, backed off an earlier promise that residents and businessmen would receive offers for their property as early as next month and said it would more likely be in October.
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