University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
KANSAN
Friday, February 11, 1983 Vol. 93, No. 96 USPS 650-640
Lee Hills, guest speaker from Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc., talks with Barbara Macdonald, wife of Peter Macdonald, chairman of the board for Harris Enterprises Inc., after the William Allen White day luncheon. See story page 8.
Illegal drug sales target of bills
By JEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
A statewide drug trafficking problem helped push the proposal of two bills into the Kansas Legislature this week that would allow the state to seize property and money that was earned
The House Committee on Public Health and Welfare heard testimony yesterday on a bill that would allow police officers to confiscate money or property that under current law is considered
State Sen. August Bogina, R-Lenexa, who proposed the bill, said police would seize all money on an arrested person, even if it had not been made by selling drugs.
POLICE CAN CURRENTLY only secure property during drug arrests, such as automobiles and airplanes that are used to fly drugs into the state.
Under Bogina's proposal, it would later be the defendant's responsibility to prove that the property had not been purchased with money that was made through illegal drug sales, he
For instance, if an undercover drug officer
bought $25 worth of cocaine from a dealer and then arrested that dealer, all money the arrested dealer was carrying would be seized under the drug laws, had been gained through illegal drive dealings.
Under Kansas' current law, only the $25 can be recovered by police. Other money is considered the arrested person's private property. James Flury, deputy state attorney general,
Flory said that with Bogina's proposal, officers would seize property that was presumed to have been purchased with money from drug dealings, and the defendant later would have to prove the holdings were legitimately purchased.
ONE OTHER PART of the proposal, Bogina said, was that the state would be able to investigate other property holdings in a defendant's case. The state may have been purchased with drug profits.
Bogina said he intended to assist police efforts to crack down on illegal drug sales in the state.
"This is just another tool police officers could use to discourage people getting into a rather lucrative business.
"This has nothing to do with the users. It has to do with the sellers," he said.
Bogina said state Attorney General Robert
Stephan favored the bill, as did the Kansas County and District Attorneys Association
In hearings on another bill, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony Wednesday from a Sedgwick County law officer who asked the committee to amend the bill so that police could seize a drug dealer's house if drugs were found in the home.
An amendment would have to be added to the bill the committee discussed Wednesday. Without the amendment, officer could contend that he was responsible for cars and automobiles, but not someone's home.
DARR SAID MOST drug arrests in the state are made in houses.
"Many of the houses are. I'd call them, a party house where people come to buy dope," he said.
"Many times, it's difficult to tell who the owner is if they rent the house."
Darr said that the amended bill would resemble a law that is on the books in Colorado. Last year, police seized 72 houses in that state, and he said it was able to hold on to 71 of those houses, he said.
A change in Kansas' seizure policy would generate millions of dollars, he said, and would discourage dealers from selling drugs out of their houses.
Leader asks truckers to call off strike
By United Press International
Independent truckers leader Mike Parkhurst yesterday called off an 11-day nationwide strike, but industry drivers immediately sent word to big rig drivers to "stay on strike."
"We are officially asking independent truckers and small-fleet owners who have joined the shutdown to get back to work as soon as possible," said the president of the Independent Truckers Association.
rual Dutsch, a representative of the Frater-
nal Association of Steel Hailers, responded
to a letter of protest from the Steel
Hailers.
Rumors of an end to the violent strike had been circulating for the past two days, as more and more violence began.
PARKHURST LOBBIED CONGRESS for special hearings to consider legislative reforms to the 1982 Highway Revenue Act, which the House passed in 1984, taxes and highway user fees on the industry.
The bill, passed by the lame-duck session of Congress, hiked federal fuel taxes by 5 cents a gallon and imposed sharply higher user fees on companies in major highway repair and rebuilding program.
Parkhurst called for an end to the strike after four congressmen — Reps. Peter Mostmayer,
D-Pa, Ed Jenkins, D-Ga, Douglas Applegate, D-Ohio, and Carroll Campbell Jr., R.S.C. — in a letter urged their colleagues to consider the truckers' complaints.
The letter did not say that Congress would reopen hearings on the tax bill, however.
KOSTMAYER AIDE JOHN SEAGER said 35 of the 435 members of Congress had agreed to sign the letter, although Parkhurst said he expected 100 congressmen to do so.
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole said the administration was "very pleased by the news."
"American truckers must be free to drive again without fearing for their lives or the safety of others."
Parkhurst had his group had "been able to accomplish, for the entire industry, more than anyone."
"No, I'm not satisfied with many aspects of the shutdown," Parkhurst said. "But the overall picture of the shutdown will not be complete until the results of the necessary action by the Governess."
A CONGRESSIONAL SOURCE close to the negotiations said, "The strike is deteriorating. Parkhurst is just trying to save face."
Dietz said the steel haulers association was not happy about the announcement end to the strike.
"We're very unhappy about it. We feel his
arrangement with the authorities that we return to work on his suggestion and their promise of support.
"They've studied us to death. Millions of dollars have been spent on it. They know what our problems are, and it's a face to study them further." Dietz said.
In Washington, a spokesman for the House Finance Committee said his group had no intention of holding hearings on the tax measure before receiving a General Accounting Office report on the effect of the tax increases on independent trucks. That could take six
OHIO STRIKE ORGANIZER Robert Shockey said truckers in his area would not return to the roads. "He (Parkhurst) has created a problem." He has never been a guy to stick with anyone.
Reaction from Parkhurst's allies in the ITA was positive, however
Charles Brown, a spokesman for independent truckers in New Jersey, said he was "very pleased and thankful to know we are getting the support we deserve" from Congress.
Yvonne Kern, ITA representative in Lincoln, Neb., said the truck strike would be judged a success. "It's not a failure," she said. "No way is it a failure because we got a signed paper."
See TRUCKERS page 5
From staff and wire reports
Carlin names oil company president to fill last Board of Regents vacancy
Board of Regents members and state legislators said yesterday that they were happy with the appointment of a new Regent, Norman Brandeberry, a Russell oil company president.
The post taken by Brandeberry was the final vacancy Carlin had to fill on the nine-member board, which overseees the state's six universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Brandeberry's appointment, announced yesterday by Gov. John Carlin, fills the unexpired vacancy in the U.S. Army Corps of Cadets.
His appointment, which must be confirmed by the Kansas Senate, will expire Dec 31, 1984.
THE APPOINTMENT OF Archie Dykes, former KU chancellor and Topea insurance executive, was confirmed by the Senate Confirmation Committee Monday. Wendell Lady, former house speaker, will appear before the Committee Monday.
Brandeberry, a 51-year-old Republican, has been president of the Pioneer Overseas Co. Inc.
— an oil production firm — since 1965. He also serves as vice chairman of the Kansas State Bank in Manhattan.
Carlin said that Brandeberry had been
involved with higher education through his service to his alma mater, Kansas State
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said he thought Carlin had tried to maintain a balance among Regents' interests by appointing a K-State alumnus.
Winter said he saw no conflict between Brandeberry's position in the oil industry and Cuomo's.
"ITS APPROPRIATE FOR the Regents to have a wide range of interests and backgrounds," he said.
State Rep. Robert Miller, R-Russell, said Dendrobethum would be effective as a Reagent
Brandeberry would be effective as a regent:
"Norman is aggressive in a progressive way.
Regents chairman James Pickert said he was pleased with Brandeberry's appointment.
"I just talked to him on the phone. He's a delightful person, and I look forward to talking to him."
Another Regent, John G. Montgomery, also said he looked forward to working with
Warv trucker keeps driving despite violence
Mike Swenson, press secretary for Carlin, said the governor thought Brandleberry's business was in good shape.
Bv United Press International
"My job is to drive a truck and I'm going to do it — one way or another," he said yesterday through Pennsylvania's "combat zone," one of the capitals in the 13-day-old independent drivers' strike.
ABOARD A WHITE RIDE BOSS — Herb LaBoarde has been driving trucks for 35 years and vandalism and the threat of snipers are not enough to force him off the road.
LaBorde, 32, has been shot at three times since the strike began Feb. 1 and is ready to fight back. In a cardboard box next to him is a 38 caliber pistol
"They've tried to run me off but they won't till it till they get bigger help," the short, wry LaBorde said. "I quit being afraid a long time ago."
"THEY TOUCH MY truck, they're in trouble," he said.
Driving through the darkness of U.S. 30 on his Pittsburgh-to-Baltimore run with 42,000 pounds of flammable plastic resin, LaBorde makes occasional checks on his citizens band radio for firefighters.
"We're strictly a target here, a target," he said. "This area is hot. It'a a shooting gallery."
same. The event of the attack is not known.
One on the CB has heard of any shootings, and truckers' chief topics are the futility of the strike and the possibility of a settlement.
LaBarde said he had been around trucks since age 13 and "always sort of considered a truck my home." He drives for the FranTran trucking company of Pittsburgh but once was an independent. He said he fully understands the financial problems that the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1862 will create for truckers.
"I sympathize with the independents and they're right but they're going about it the wrong way," he said. "It's definitely a no-win situation. I know two guys who already have been to the
"A lot of us are three-quarts ashamed about this. This is the first time I've heard company drivers say that they're going to get even with the independents.
bank to borrow money to buy food. I know — I loaned one of them $100 last week.
"When those independents get back on the road a couple of those company drivers are going to get one behind a truck stop and kick his and he won't work for a couple of weeks."
LaBorde may not be afraid of violence but he is wary and prepared.
"I WANT TO GET to Breezewood before those truckers get to drinking," he said. "They get drunk and get up on the mountains and shoot down at you — right after the bars close."
"Truckers can be the most vindictive, vicious people," he said. "You give a trucker a cold piece of toast at a truck stop and he'll be on the CB telling everybody about it and no telling how many people won't stop at that truck stop because of it."
KU student loses possessions in house fire
By DON HENRY
Staff Reporter
A KU student of medieval history may flunk a test she has today, but she has a better excuse than most.
Yesterday afternoon, Jane Chamberain's bedroom and all her personal possessions burned in a fire that caused an estimated $12,000 damage to her home at 801 W. 28th St. Terrace, a Lawrence Fire Department official said yesterday.
day:
"I guess this was my birthday present," Chamberlain said. "My birthday is Sunday.
Hanny birthday to me . . ."
"ALL MY BOOKS are a charred heaf on my
phone she said." I paid $146 for books this
semester.
on the step of her neighbor's apartment yesterday and watched firefighters go in and out
No one was injured in the fire, but Chamberlain lost all her clothes, her record collection and her equipment.
Chamberlain, a Lawrence senior, sat quietly
or at least it didn't spread to the bathroom, so maybe you'll be able to take a shower," she said. "I think I could do that."
"I think I've even got some rare books from Watson Library," she said.
"The clothes I have on are all I have," she said. "Everything was in my bedroom."
Chamberlain, who left her house for classes
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy and the high will be in the upper 30s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds be from the northwest from 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight will be partly cloudy tonight with a low in the low 20s.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the low 408.
"usually go to that class, but for some reason I didn't today," she said.
yesterday morning at 7:30, said it was lucky that she had skipped her afternoon class and come
SHE SAID SHE smelled smoke when she returned to her apartment about 3 p.m.
returned to her apartment about 3 p.m.
"I thought maybe I'd leave the coffee pot on,"
She went to the kitchen but didn't find the fire so she went upstairs to her bedroom.
"When I opened the door, I just saw black, and I out got of there as fast as I could." she said.
phone, but it was dead so I ran across the street. "My bed is totally destroyed. I guess I'll be able to get up there."
I got out of here and I came 4 hours
"I tried to call the fire department from my
heart."
"I tried to call to the fire department from my phone, but it was dead so I ran across the street."
Her mother, Pat Piley, is the house mother at the Phi Kappa Sigma, bye.
"I guess I'll go there," Chamberlain said. "I can't imagine where else I'd go."
CHAMBERLIN SAID she didn't know how the fire had started.
but I guess I could have left my curling iron on,
I doubt it, she said. "I knew I left my fan
and I didn't want to get burned."
Capt. Carl Myer said the fire, which never left the bedroom, appeared to have started from a ceiling hole.
The walls and ceiling of Chamberlain's bedroom are black.
"They even knocked a hole in the ceiling." she said.
Myer said the fire was out within 10 minutes after the fire engines arrived.
Yesterday's 40-degree temperatures were warm enough to melt the ice on a tree on campus. Today will be slightly cooler with a high in the upper 30%.