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University Daily Kansan, February 15 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Ice storm moves out to sea before reaching Northeast
An ice storm that threatened to add misery to the blizzard-struck Eastern Seaboard chewed up the south Atlantic Coast yesterday, but veered out to sea before reaching the Northeast.
One man died and two were missing in the wreck of a fishing vessel driven onto the liettes at Georgetown, S.C.
The death toll stood at 70 from the blizzard that dumped more than 2 feet of snow along the Atlantic Coast late last week in the region's worst winter storm in 40 years.
The danger of another knockout blow for the Northeast lessened significantly when the center of the new storm system moved over the Atlantic Ocean.
Rush hour traffic in New York was down 30 percent and moving slowly and Washington's morning rush hour dragged on to 11 a.m. because of thick ice and unplowed side roads. Above-ground commuter trains closed because of frozen tracks and ice on the electrified third rail.
The storm left at least 2,000 homes and businesses without power in South Carolina.
Loan losses close Knoxville bank
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The United American Bank run by former World's Fair chairman Jake Butcher was ordered closed yesterday because of "large and unusual" loan losses. It was the fourth largest bank failure in U.S. history.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. officials said Butcher had resigned as chairman of the United American Bank, which he had operated since 1973. The bank also sued the SEC.
The bank's problems apparently occurred when more money was loaned out than the bank could afford. Some $2.3 million in loan losses were reported in 1882, and the bank announced a week ago it expected more losses in 1883, although it would not say how much
FDIC spokesman Julie Amberson in Washington said details of the problem loans were "not public information, at this point anyway."
Lebanese army granted more power
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese President Amin Gemayel's Cabinet yesterday arrested the Lebanese army with extraordinary powers to arrest people threatening national security, preparing for a long-delayed attempt to take control of Christian-held East Beirut.
"The army has the right to maintain security of the state against any harmful action against its interests and safety," the Cabinet said in the decree granting extraordinary powers to the army for a "temporary" period.
The decree, approved as 4,000 Lebanese troops were poised to enter Christian-held east Beirut, gave the army commander the right to try before a military court people who threaten national security.
The move into east Beirut has been delayed since the army took control of Moslem west Beirut shortly after the evacuation of Palestinian guerrillas in September 1982 and was seen as a crucial test of Gemayel's power.
Photovoltaic plant begins operation
VICTORVILLE. Calif — The world's largest photovoltaic power station, converting sunlight directly to electricity, begins operation today on a 20-acre plot of desert land.
Photovoltaic cells operate on the same principle as those that convert sunlight to electricity on spacecraft.
Under the most favorable operating conditions — at noon on a cloudless winter day when excessive heat does not interfere with the cells' efficiency — the station will produce 1 million watts, three times as many other photovoltaic installation. Arce Solar officials said yesterday.
The station is expected to produce enough power to serve about 350 typical homes served by the California Edison network.
Computer-controlled trackers keep the 967,680 photovoltaic cells pointed at the sun
Needy to get break on medical care
MUSKEGON, Mich. - Members of the Muskegon County Medical Society have renewed a Depression-era service for the needy with a pledge to provide free or low-cost health care for the recently unemployed.
One of the society's directors, James Kelly, said yesterday, "There's a concern that people are not seeking and obtaining health care because of medical costs. If there are medical needs, they will be addressed. It's as simple as that."
The program, called Doctors Care, involves all members of the county medical society. Health care will be offered free or at nominal cost to all recently unemployed people who have lost their medical benefits, Kelly said.
The society decided to resume the program, which began in Muskegon County during the 1930s, when area doctors found patients who were hesitant to seek help because they could not afford to treat their medical problems, Kelly said.
TURIN, Italy — Turin declared a day of mourning yesterday and named a six-member panel to investigate a fire that turned a movie theater into a "spectacular gas chamber," killing 64 patrons.
Theater manager Raimondo Capello, 51, was arrested on preliminary charges of negligent homicide because several of the 600 survivors said emergency exit doors were locked. Capello collapsed after the fire and was hospitalized.
64 patrons die in Italian theater fire
Fire authorities said they had not determined whether the doors were working properly. One survivor said many people were trampled to death in a panic at the exits because they were trying to open the doors in the wrong direction.
An American, Bonnie Clair Calvert, 27, Goleta, Calif., who had worked in a local art gallery in Turin since last October, was among the clients.
Polish news agency pans TV series
VIENNA, Austria — Poland's official news agency PAP panned the American television series "The Winds of War" yesterday as anti-Polish, anti-Soviet propaganda that depicted a "distorted and dishonest" view of Poland in World War II.
The dispatch by PAPs' New York correspondent Jerzy Gorski also excited the ABC-TV production for showing Nazi soldiers in too good of a situation.
"Never before have American audiences seen such a distorted and dishonest image of the Polish defense campaign of September 1839, and never has the Polish soldier been portrayed so dishonestly," the article said.
The series, starring Robert Mitchum and Ali McGraw, was shown on American television in seven three-hour episodes over eight days. It has not been aired in Poland.
Communication problems cited McCollum council airs strife
Communication problems cited
By WARREN BRIDGES Staff Reporter
Communication among members of the McCollum Hall executive council was "dismal at best" last semester and may be the reason most of the council members resigned, the past secretary of the council, said yesterday.
Six of the seven members resigned their positions in December and January, Tim Colton, Oakley junior and the former secretary said.
COLTON SAID one of the major problems for the council was not the group itself, which is part of the student body. But Dr. Cook, but its president, David Cook.
Council members are elected in September by the residence hall
"He was purposely excluding those members of the council who he had not heard of."
the members' terms in office, the executive council had high hopes for establishing an effective hall governor. A separate committee of the council, those霍客 seemed bleaker.
"He did not properly delegate authority or use the talent that we had on
Colton said that at the beginning of
Cook, Kansas City, Kan senior who has made new appointments to the executive council over the past several weeks, said he had had no personality clashes with past members of the board.
SCOTT BAILEY, Kansas City sophomore and former senior chairman of the hall, said that although his decision to resign had nothing to do with a lack of communication, he was aware of the members had had in dealing with Cook.
"I knew of no problems." Cook said.
"In fact, I'm still close friends with all the past members."
"There seemed to be some personal differences between the president and that secretary."
But, he said. "Overall, I'd say he was fairly effective."
Youth charged with KU rape
Ricardo Arango Salazar, Colombia,
South America, junior and former
coach of the New York Mets.
The Douglas County District Attorney's office yesterday filed a juvenile complaint against a Lawrence youth in connection with a recent rape, an assault and an armed robbery, incited which occurred on or near the KU campus.
The complaint charges the 16-year-old youth with acts that would be classified as crimes if he were charged as an adult. As an adult, the youth was raped, aggravated sodomy, aggravated robbery and aggravated battery.
Juvenile Detention Facility at the Lawrence Law Enforcement Center
Jean S. Sagan, assistant district attorney, said a detention hearing for the juvenile would be held tomorrow afternoon in district court
THE YOUTH is being held in the
The complaint charges the man with raping a KU student behind Spooner Hall on Jan 30, threatening a Lawrence woman with a knife and stealing her purse in the 1400 block of Kentucky for two years. The connection with a Feb. 7 assault on a KU student in Gower Place, south of Sellards Scholarship Hall.
serious communication problems within the council and at times, he said, he did not even know what was going on.
"I was the treasurer and I remember getting bills for things I didn't know we purchased," Arango said.
HE SAID that many of the new appliances made by Cook were made in China.
"Cook appointed some of his closest friends as members whether they were capable of doing the job or not," he said.
Cook said he had appointed the best possible candidates after sitting down with several past members of the staff and discussing the appointments.
According to the hall's constitution, appointments can be made by the president of the hall with approval of two-thirds of the hall's government. Other representatives from each floor, the executive council and at large residents
Public has chance to hear candidates
The public will have a chance to hear Lawrence City Commission candidates tonight in the auditorium at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
The forum will begin at 7:30 p.m. It is sponsored by the Lawrence chapter of
EACH CANDIDATE will get five minutes to speak. Coffee will be served after the candidates have spoken, providing opportunity to talk to them individually
Fourteen candidates have filed to run for three seats on the commission. The field will be narrowed to six in the general election. The general election will be April 3.
Oread area may get break
The Lawrence City Commission is scheduled to decide at its meeting tonight whether the Oread neighborhood from the city's 48-hour limit on parking.
The proposed ordinance would allow cars to be parked for up to seven days in the Oread neighborhood without being subject to towing.
There is now a citywide 48-hour parking limit on the streets of Lawrence. Anyone violating the law submits himself to a ticket and his car to a tow.
OREAD RESIDENTS have complained in the past that the 48-hour limit posed problems for car owners in a house of insufficient off-street parking.
The commission had originally drafted an ordinance that would have made the seven-day parking ordinance citywide but decided to confine it to the Oread neighborhood after hearing complaints from the public.
The commission will also review and consider recommendations by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission concerning various zoning requests.
On the record
BURGLARIS STOLE three guns, worth an estimated $600, Sunday from a Lawrence resident's home, where a Lawrence resident have no suspects in the incident
A KU TEACHING ASSISTANT reported to police that her purse, containing $60, was stolen Sunday night in the 900 block of Emery Road, police said.
A PORTABLE STEREO. worth an estimated $200, was stolen Sunday night in a KU student's room in Naismith Hall, police said.
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