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University Daily Kansan, April 13, 1983
Judge declares mistrial in firearms case
By DON HENRY Staff Reporter
A deadlocked jury yesterday forced a Douglas County District Court judge to declare a mistrial for a Lawrence man charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The man will be tried today on a charge of felony murder.
Stanley W. Chavez, the defendant, heard the ruling yesterday at 1 p.m., after waiting more than three hours for the jury's decision. Eight jurors voted to convict Chavez and four voted to acquit him.
District Judge Mike Malone said that a new trial in the case would be scheduled after Chaver's trial on the murder charge.
JURORS HEARD TESTIMONY
monday from two Lawrence police officers and from one of Chavez's friends, who said he had seen a man he had seen in his father's house at 2309 Vermont St.
However, Chavez's attorney, John Nitcher, said yesterday in his closing arguments that Craig Stancliffe, Douglas County assistant district attorney, had failed to prove that the gun possibly been in Chavez's possession.
Nitcher also argued that the state never proved that the gun, a 22-caliber revolver, was functional at the time it was in Chavez's home. Stancliffe entered the gun as evidence in Monday's trial.
Nitcher's final argument said that the state did not prove that the gun had a barrel of less than 12 inches, which is
required for conviction by Kansas statutes.
Stancliffe attempted Monday to enter a volume of the Kansas Statutes Annotated into evidence to be used by the jury to determine the length of the barrel. He said the volume was 11 inches in length. Malone refused to admit the volume as evidence.
IN THE TRIAL Monday, Malone said convicted felons were not permitted to possess firearms until five years after they had been released from prison.
Stancliffe entered evidence Monday that said Chavez had been in prison in Nevada on drug charges from 1976 to 1979
After Malone's ruling, Nitcher said,
"There were just too many questions in
the minds of the jurors. I guess that's why they hung."
After two hours of deliberation, the jury asked the court to read back testimony from Elmer White and Vincent Chavez, Chavez's father, who testified Monday that they had seen a gun in Chavez's house.
White said Chavez told him he had a stolen gun because he could commit a crime with it and the police would be unable to trace him.
White testified yesterday that Chavez had shown him the gun in Chavez's room. He said Chavez told him he had taken the gun, which Chavez said was stolen.
Chavez will appear today on a charge of felony murder. He is accused of killing 2-year-old Pratt White, who died Dec. 9, 1982.
Geology program receives $30,000 Amoco grant
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
A $20,000 grant to the KU geology department from Amoco Foundation Inc. is the result of the department's efforts to obtain support from the private sector, the geology department chairman said yesterday.
Ernest Angino, the chairman, said he had written many letters to private individuals, foundations and corporations to raise $20,000 for the department.
As a result of the letters, he said, the department has received not only the Amoco grant but also $110,000 from other sources.
"We work very hard for support from private individuals and industry," he said. "And we're still going."
The department has had to seek more money from the private sector, he said, because the state has failed to provide adequate funds for higher education.
THE GRANT FROM Amoco will be used to purchase high-technology equipment, he said.
Carlin proposed making $1.5 million of state funds available to Regents institutions for high-technology programs. A legislative conference committee fund, for up to $1 million and allocated $300,000, it to the University of Kansas.
"The state has abdicated its responsibility in terms of providing excellent education," he said. "The students have been shortchanged."
THE LEGISLATURE IS expected to vote on the committee's amendments when it returns for its three-day cleanup session, which begins April 20.
The Amoco Foundation, which is supported by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, began its program of grants and fellowships for geology science and engineering education in 1981. Since that time it has committed $5.4 million to about 80 public and private universities.
Richard Nichols, public affairs adviser for the foundation, said that although this was the first grant that the foundation had awarded to the geology department, it had made other contributions to the University.
In 1981 the foundation provided about $36,000 for a three-year doctoral fellowship in chemical and petroleum engineering, he said. And last year it gave a two-year grant of $25,000 to the mechanical engineering department to buy equipment.
Angino said that the high-technology package for Regents institutions, which Gov. John Carlin proposed and a legislative conference committee amended and passed, was a good idea.
THE FOUNDATION CONSIDERS grants to schools that apply and to schools that are recommended by people in the industry and the community, he said.
Students still have time to apply for work study
By SUSAN STANLEY
Staff Reporter
Students looking for jobs to pay for their summer in Lawrence may find one bright spot in their search, the office of financial aid said this week.
But local businessmen say that the job market off campus looks bleak.
Students who file for the work-study program within the next few days will still have time to quality for summer classes. Pam Houston, the assistant director.
Houston urged students to file for work-study positions as soon as possible. The forms take three weeks to process and all the steps must be completed before summer school begins.
THERE ARE FEWER campus jobs in the summer because of the decline in enrollment, Houston said, but departments with job openings would favor those who are eligible for work-study jobs.
To be eligible for work-study positions, students must be enrolled in three summer school hours, must be U.S. citizens or meet special requirements, must make satisfactory academic progress, and not have defaulted on a federal loan.
"Most departments will try to hire the work-study applicants over the hourly applicants because they are less expensive," she said.
Eighty percent of the work-study program is federally financed. Designers must be financially literate.
To file for work-study eligibility, the student must complete the American
College Testing form for 1983-84 and send it to the processing center in Iowa City, Iowa, as soon as possible, she said.
STUDENTS WHO HAVE already sent in the ACT forms for another program but failed to request work-study eligibility are not out of luck, she said. These students should make an appointment with Houston and she will see whether the student can qualify for the program.
Ed Mills, director of Job Service Center of Lawrence, said jobs in local community centers are needed.
Mills said that the unemployment rate in Lawrence was unseasonably high. He said that the unemployment rate still was hovering around 4.5 percent, but that it had increased because of layoffs in local industries.
"Students are the ones who feel the pinch when the adults are laid off," he said. "It is felt in the colleges and the universities where students come to be looking for a job in this city."
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Mills, who was optimistic about the low Lawrence unemployment rate in February, said that an expected decline in his salary for the spring had failed to materialize.
Denny Powers, assistant manager of Gibson's Discount Center, 2525 Iowa St., said that he would not be hiring many new students for summer because he usually rehired student employees who attended school elsewhere and returned to Lawrence for the summer.
MANAGERS OF LOCAL businesses have said they were not planning to hire new summer employees.
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