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Friday, April 1, 1983 Vol.93, No.126 USPS 650-640
Williams sentenced to 55 years in prison
By United Press International
CHICAGO — Teamsters President Roy L. Williams, head of the nation's largest labor union, was sentenced yesterday to 55 years in prison, the maximum sentence, for trying to bribe a senator in a case based largely on government wiretaps.
Reputed crime syndicate hitman Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the same scheme and two Teamsters pension fund officials were handed
U. S. DISTRICT Judge Prentice Marshall said federal law required him to sentence Williams to a maximum term. Williams suffers from severe emphysema and is being sent to the hospital because he would receive the sentence in 90 days and would probably reduce the term substantially at that time.
The judge also fined Williams and Lombardo $23,000 each and ordered them to pay court costs,
Thomas O'Malley, Teamsters Central States Pension Fund employee, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and employee Andrew Mussa was sentenced to a year and a day for his role in the attack.
A fifth defendant, reputed syndicate financier Allan Dorfman, was shot to death gland style in January. His conviction subsequently was vacated.
MARSHALL SAID he believed the four living detendants were caught in the web of Dorfman's
"Mr. Dorfman wanted to corrupt himself a senator. He wanted a deal with that senator."
He said efforts to corrupte in high office were "terrified" on the very vultures of society.
Prosecutor Douglas Roller indicated he was satisfied with the sentences.
"I THINK anytime a major organized crime leader like Mr. Lombardo is removed from the community, we have been successful," Roller said.
Williams' attorney, Thomas Wadden, said he planned to file a notice of appeal later in the day in an effort to prevent his client's scheduled Ancill 15援救.
williams was re-elected Teamsters president in January. Current laws allowed convicted felons to stay in office until all their appeals are heard. The conviction had given no indication that he would step down.
"He has maintained his innocence from the outset," Wadden said. "He still maintains his innocence. It certainly ought to be noted that taking the view most favorable to the government, there has been no suggestion that Mr. Williams' actions were connected with personal gain. His actions were to protect the rank and file from the horrors of deregulation."
WILLIAMS AND his co-defendants were convicted of offering a piece of Teamster-owned property in Las Vegas at a bargain rate to Sen. Howard Cannon, D-Nev., in return for Cannon's help in defeating legislation to deregulate the trucking industry. Cannon was not charged with any wrongdoing. The legislation passed and the property was sold to another party.
Williams, 67; Lombardo, 52; Dorfman, 59; O'Malley, 46; and Massa, 66 were convicted Dec. 15, 1982, on all counts of an 11-count indictment charging them with conspiracy, fraud and interstate commerce to further a bribe.
There is no reward offered, but Debby Burgess and her daughter, Elizabeth, 822 South Fifth St., Leavenworth, would like to know who stole more than twenty of their bumpy rabbits from their tree. She has never seen them in the woods, a tradition handed down from her father, who decided to decorate
for Easter because he could never win a Christmas decoration award. Burgess said that this was the first theft and that she planned to replace the stolen bunnies before Easter. But, she said, she was going to keep her dog, Mindy Boy, on the porch to make sure the new ones weren't stolen.
Tax boosts price of gas; higher state tax debated
By DIANE LUBER and DAVID POWLS Staff Reporters
The extra nickel-a-gallon federal gasoline tax went into effect at midnight, but several of Lawrence's service stations had already raised their gas prices by early yesterday, some by as much as a dime.
And Kansas motorists might have to pay even more if Kansas lawmakers pass a bill that a Kansas House committee voted to introduce yesterday.
House Republicans showed Gov. John Carlin that they were as determined to raise the state's gas tax as he was not to, by introducing a bill that would tax from 8 cents to 11 cents a gallon on July 1.
THE BILL would raise the state's gas tax by 3 cents a gallon to provide funds for highway construction and repairs.
In Lawrence, motorists were already feeling the pinch of the federal tax.
Mike Bennett, of Hillcrest Standard Service Station, 914 Iowa St., said that his station's self-service pumps had been busy all day until he raised the prices a dime.
"Then we went back to normal," Bennett said.
"We never had any lines, but we were very busy."
Hillcrest's unleashed gas is now $1.12, and its regular gas is $1.05.
BENNETT SAID that the small service
brings the first yesterday, and then
the bigger stations follow.
Another self-service station, Derby Station, 2304 Iowa St., had raised its prices by 7 cents; another station, New Jersey St., raised its prices by 15 cents.
Shorty Ellison, of Derby Station said, everybody was aware the tax was going into effect.
Joe Venneman, of Farmer's Co-op Service Station, 23rd and Haskell, said people formed a group to help them.
"Many people said they were filling up before the tax went into effect." Venneman said.
Today, unleaded gas at Co-op will be $1.04 and regular gas will be 99 cents, a 5-cent increase for both.
THE FULL-SERVICE stations in Lawrence were busy yesterday. Ivan's Nineteenth Street 66 Service, 1843 Massachusetts St., and Bill's Mobile Station, 1843 Massachusetts St., reported that their stations were swamped all day.
Terry Holloway, of Ivan's Station, said that prices today would be between 5 and 8 cents higher. Yesterday, unleashed was $1.21 and regular was $1.15 at Ivan's Station.
Congress approved the federal tax last December to provide funds for highways, bridge construction and road repairs and to create jobs
See FUEL page 5
By JEFF TAYLOR
House votes to amend severance tax
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Despite fears that a revised severance tax was unconstitutional, the House yesterday tentatively approved an 8 percent tax on natural gas and oil estimated to raise nearly $1.6 billion.
After nearly five hours of debate, House members voted 86-36 to pass the controversial measure, estimated to raise about $116 million. The chamber will take final action on the bill Monday.
House leaders said they would meet during the faster weekend to mull over the severance plan.
HOUSE MINORITY Leader Fred Weaver, D-Baxter Springs, said they planned to hammer out a proposal that would not be contested in the state's courts.
Controversy stemmed from State Rep. Robert
Vancrum's adopted amendment to return up to mineral tax to oil- and gas-producing counties.
Under Vancur's proposal, the state would consider the amount of oil produced in a county and would compare that to producers' property taxes. The state would pay back from 1 percent to 3.5 percent of the severance tax money to the mineral-producing county.
Those counties already assess taxes on oil and natural gas production. The House eliminated those taxes, but the amended bill would return some of the counties' lost revenues.
However, several House members expressed concern for the plan, because property taxes vary among the state's 105 counties.
THEY COMPLAINED that mill levies could change and cause an imbalance in the amount
"The workability of the thing really has us buffaloned." Weaver said.
However, House Speaker Mike Hayden.
R-Atwood, said he thought the bill was constitutional, even though he voted against the proposal.
"I'm not a constitutional lawyer or a judge," he said. "I don't think it's unconstitutional."
Hayden said that the state's counties have always had discrepancies in the amount of property taxes they assess. The statewide average percent against the property's assessed value
ANOTHER CRITIC of the bill, Ben Neill, the governor's special consultant on the severance tax, said that the tax plan probably was not a good idea and he should to carefully consider the plan before passing it.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said he was concerned that the tax plan would be contested in court and might be declared unconstitutional.
"The state can't survive without this $100 million," he said. "If we get this passed and the
Voters to pick commission Tuesday
Voters will choose among six candidates to fill three open seats on the Lawrence City Commission in Tuesday's general election.
See TAX page 5
The top two finishers will receive four-year terms and the thirdplace finisher a two-year term.
The candidates are Ernest Angino, Mike Amyx, Commissioner Don Binsn, David
Longhurst, Barbara Maxwell and Bonita Yoder.
Mayer Marci Franciscio and David Alien, a KU student, are running as write-in candidates.
The open seats on the commission are now held by Francisco, Binns, and Commissioner Tom Gleason, who is not seeking re-election.
KU officials critical of Carlin's proposal to delay pay raises
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
KU officials said yesterday that they were angry about Gov. John Carlin's recommended six-month delay in pay raises for Regents schools employees.
THE MATHETIC with the woes of the state, but we really feel the classified person has taken his share of the belt-tightening," said Thomas Swearingen, president of the KU Classified Senate, which represents such employees as secretaries, custodians and librarians. "I think we've been very patient, The state, in all fairness, should look at this thing again."
And some KU classified employees said they thought state school teachers, for whom Cartlin recommended up to an 8 percent increase, were
receiving money that should go for higher pay raises for Regents schools staff and faculty.
statement, said the delay could cause some faculty and classified employees to leave the University.
"Members of the University community have been understanding throughout this difficult academic year," he said. "Most, for example, accepted the 4 percent salary recommendation because of the troubled state of the economy.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig, in a prepared
CARLIN MADE the recommendation Wednesday at a joint meeting of the House and
Senate. Under his plan, 4 percent salary increases for Regents faculty and classified employees would be delayed until Jan.1, 1984.
Normally, state employee receive pay increases at the start of the fiscal year. July 1.
The recommendation is part of Carlin's plan to avoid an 853 million fee and that all of the vehicles are predicting by 1984.
James Seaver, chairman of university senate
Executive Committee, said Carlin's recommen-
dation.
By WARREN BRIDGES
AURH election ruling unfair, official says
Staff Reporter
"THE ACCUSED said they were not presented with the list of formal charges until directly before the meeting, not allowed to call witnesses, and did not receive an adequate definition of 'electionering' as stated in the rules," Coan said.
Clark Coan, the chairman and associate dean of student life, said the AURH election committee had not followed due process when it found Alan Rowe, AURH's elected president, and David Walker, his running mate, in violation of the AURH Campaign Procedures and offer.
A committee that found the elected president and vice president of the Association of University Residence Halls in violation of AURH campaign rules did not give the accused a fair hearing, the chairman of a University appeals board said yesterday.
The board's action follows several complaints filed against Rowe and Walker concerning their campaign activities during AURH's elections on March 7 and 8.
The appeals board decided to appoint another committee, he said, that would meet next week to decide whether Rowe and Walker violated the rules and whether there would be a new election.
The AURH election committee determined on March 25 that Rowe, Walker and their supporter were in violation of the rule, and that another election would take place.
Rowe then appealed the committee's decision to an appeal board that was created especially for his case.
The new committee will probably include several hall presidents, a hall resident assistant, and a staff member of the department of student life. Coan said.
ROWE AND Walker were accused of illegal electioning, and one of their supporters was accused of bribery and possession of liquor by a minor on state property.
That board was made up of Coan, Fred McElhene, director of the office of residential programs, and Ann Eversole, director of student organizations and activities.
Rowe said he was happy with the appeals board's decision, but that some kind of concrete defense for Mr. Rowe is needed.
"I AM GLAD that the election committee's decision was overturned," he said. "But the whole process has been dragging its feet all along."
Rowe said that if the committee determined next week that another election was needed, it would be a month before AURH could get back to where it should be.
He appealed the election committee's decision, he said, because he did not think that either Walker or he had been given a fair opportunity to defend the allegations made
Weather
"We were told it was a preliminary hearing and that no action would be taken. We were not
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RAIN
Tought will be cooler with a law in the 30s.
Tomorrow will be in the upper 45s to lower 50s.
Today will be mostly -cloudy with a to percent chance of showers or thunderstorms. The National Weather Service said in the law in the to mid-8s with gusting winds.
By United Press International
Earthquake kills 100 in Colombia; town devastated
BOGOTA, Colombia — An earthquake devastated the mountain city of Popayan yesterday, toppling schools, homes and churches filled with residents. At least 100 people were killed and 1,150 were injured.
Unconfirmed radio reports said that up to 60 percent of the city had been destroyed and that 20 percent had been burned.
Two light aftershocks at night frightened anew many residents who refused to re-enter their homes, which collapsed sporadically through the day.
TENS OF thousands of people were reported homeless. Water and power lines were cut, and three fires erupted but they were quickly brought under control, police said.
Officials said that the runway of the city airport had been closed by debris until late afternoon and that small aircraft and helicopters used it for water, food, medicine and supplies of clothing.
Seismic waves also tore open fresh graves in the city cemetery, sending a foul odor over the
Red Cross officials said that stray dogs reportedly had begun chewing on bodies and that army marksmens wearing gas masks had been kill the animals before they could spread
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake measured 5.5 on the Richter scale and was centered 60 miles west of Popayan. The city, 235 miles south of Bogota, is nestled at the foot of an active volcano.
THE QUAE demolished three blocks and enclosed the collapse of 15 buildings elsewhere.
A high school, the city hall, the national telecommunications building and several hotels were heavily damaged, and the spirits of the church collapsed on hundreds of parishioners.
Rescuers pulled 60 bodies out of the churches, but Msgr. Samuel Silverio Buitrago, the archbishop of Popayan, said in a radio broadcast
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