THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
COOL
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88. No.25
Monday October 3,1977
Lawrence, Kansas
Ballot distribution altered for fall Senate elections
Voting problems that hindered Student Senate elections last year will be eliminated by aortioning the 4,000 ballots to be used in the upcoming fall Senate elections according to past turnouts at polling places, and by aortioning the 2,500 Senate Committee chairman, said last night.
"Our problem last year was not that we didn't have enough ballots," Engel said. "We just took the same number of ballots to win and had a much larger turnover than others."
At the spring Senate elections this year, several bills had to close early because they ran out of ballots, and other bills had an excess of ballots, he said.
Senate elections this fall will be Oct. 12 and 13. The polling places during the day on campus will be in in the Kansas Union, and the information booth in front of FIrt Hall.
AT NIGHT, the polling places will be in Miller, Stephenson, Elsworth, Lewis, GSPI.
Halls, and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Pi Epsilon, and Phi Gamma Delta. Delta Pi Epsilon.
The seats to be filled are the four freshman class officer seats and six Senate seats.
"We know from experience which places will have the largest turnouts, and we will just distribute the most ballots to those places." Engel said.
He said the places with the largest turnouts usually were Wescow Hall and the Kansas Union during the day and GSP-Corbin and Oliver Hall at night.
About 630 students voted last year, and an estimated total of 700 probably would vote this year, so 4,000 ballots should be more than sufficient, he said.
ENGEL SAID there were 23 class officer candidates and 20 senatorial candidates, a
"I had expected about 90 students to run and we only have 50," he said.
Engel said that he had not had any complaints about the elections procedures
so far, but that one coalition had asked him what he thought about its having an election
He said there had been an election party a condition sponsored by another coalition with his ideology.
"I frowned on it," he said. "I'm not going to vote for someone who's going to try to buy votes by having a party and giving away beer and things like that."
He said he told the coalition that asked about the party that he did not think it was a good idea because students had complained about coalitions having parties in the past.
Another member of the elections committee said he did not think parties should
"As long as it's off-campus, I don't see anything wrong with it," he said. "It's their team."
The committee has nothing specific about election parties in its rules, Engel said, so it will be up to that coalition to decide about the party.
KU student killed in car wreck
Joseph J. Neuner Jr., Leaoward senior, was killed early Saturday morning in Norman, Okla., when a pickup truck in front of the house collided, Norman police said yesterday.
Sgt. Stephen Schultz of the Norman police department said Neuer and Jeter, a former KU student from Hays, were riding in the bed of the truck, driven by Billy Jean, the Norman, when the accident occurred. Also in the truck was Roy McCallian, Norman.
Schultz talk Clinkenbeard lost control of the truck about 1 a.m. Saturday when he tried to make a left turn near the Norman business district. The truck ran off the right side of the road into a ditch and overturned, throwing Neuer and Jeter out. The truck then struck a culvert broadside, police said.
Police said the truck was going about 60 miles per hour in a 35 m.p.h. zone when Clinkenbeard lost control. No ticket was
County tax unauthorized attorney's office says
Neuner died at the accident scene of a broken neck and head injuries, police said. Jeter and the two others were treated at Norman Municipal Hospital and released.
Neuer and Jester had been in Norman to watch the KU-OU football game. After riding to Norman with friends, the two players returned in town when picked up by Clinkenbeard.
issued, but Norman police have not closed the investigation.
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Staff Writer
By TERRY SELBY
City waits for firemen to end clash
Neuer, 21, was a senior in the School of Computer Science and member of the Sigma Chi Honor Society (1890).
A lengthy wage dispute between city police and the Lawrence City Commission was wrapped up last week, but city fire commission have yet to reach an agreement.
David Reivens, chairman of the Lawrence Police Officers Association, Wednesday morning brought a copy of a Sept. 7 agreement to the city manager's office. The agreement and Watson was out of town Wednesday and Watson but said Friday he had signed it.
The police had voted to accept the Sept. 7 agreement Sept. 22 but had not signed and agreed to a different plan.
After they voted for the agreement, police and the government one statement removed before they made a decision.
Douglas County has been using an unauthorized system of levying personal property taxes for seven years, John Mulligan, assistant attorney general, said recently.
Neuer is survived by his parents, Mrs. Emily Neuer, Overland Park, and Mr. Joseph Neuner Sr., Leawood; three brothers, Stephen and Richard, Overland Park, and Jerry Leawood; a sister, Jan. Neuer was born at Overland Park,Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hunted. Leawood
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Cure of Ars Catholic Church, 94th and Mission Road, Overland Park. Neuer will be buried at Calvary Cemetery
IT WAS AGREED, however, to keep the bench because neither side wanted to lend it.
The statement was that police officers would agree to work with the department to keep them safe.
the dispute began last July when the city would not give the police any more than the six per cent salary increase for 1978 given to all city employees. The dispute stalled in early August but began again when the city received the 1978 budget set and unchanged.
A collection of Kansas folk singers and story tellers kept the attention of Doug Wailcott and his daughter Shanna, 6, during a yolkie festival the Off-the-Wall Hall.
Efforts by the police to reopen talks with the city failed until the city agreed to talk to the police.
The method that Douglas County uses is to unmarried men, Martin said, and the county may be doing that.
Folk fans
In the meantime, he said, Douglas and other counties can continue their system of motor vehicle taxation without fear of penalty.
A Sept. 7 meeting was set and the now-signed agreement was arranged. The agreement included the six per cew wage limit and some pay programs beginning in 1979.
A law probably will be introduced in the 1978 Kansas Legislature to protect counties that use vehicle registration rolls for taxation. Martin said.
The family requests that contributions be made to the Sigma Chi scholarship fund.
City firemen voted in mid-Sepember to accept a similar agreement with the city, but as a gesture of support for the police, they refused to sign until the police had agreed.
Alvin Samuels, chairman of Local 1598 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, said yesterday he had handed the fire department authority to city officials "as soon as they pick it up."
"It I use the term 'illegal,'" he said, "it makes it sound as if some one will have to go to jail."
Martin said he had interviewed many legislators who said the 1970 bill was not intended to make using vehicle registration information more useful in the bill indicates that intent. Martin said.
Darwin Rogers, Douglas County assessor, said that returning to the old system of vehicle taxation would cut county personal property assessments in half, because of difficulties in forcing residents to declare their property individually.
Door-to-door appraising countywide would be necessary, he said.
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager,
said yesterday that although no arrangements had been made for the city and the fire fighters to get together, he expected Samuels to bring the signed agreement to the city offices.
Douglas County and the six other most populated counties in Kansas use motor vehicle registration roels for levying the motor vehicle license. The personal property taxes levyed in Kansas.
The other counties are Johnson,
Saline, Saline, Sedgwick, Shawnee
and Wandolette.
IN 1965, the Kansas Legislature passed a bill allowing counties to use motor vehicles.
MARTIN SAID that less populated countries used the personal appearance of their residents as a reference.
The other Kansas counties follow the law and require that residents appear individually at the county appraiser's office and give a statement of their ownership and other personal property.
The issue came to his attention only this year, he said, when a woman moved from Leavenworth County—where vehicle registration rolls are used for taxation—to a city where the man moved in individually declare all of their property property taxes once a year.
The new law authorized that residents individually to declare their property.
But in 1970 the legislature passed Senate Bill 486, which repealed the 1952 bill and, according to Martin, made Douglas County motor vehicle taxation system
But Gov. Robert Bennett will to abolish the yearly census, he said, so those counties in the future probably will use vehicle registration rolls for taxation also.
Martin said the new law had never been made because one no one had ever complained.
"The system is convenient for the tax payer and a savings for the county government," he said. "Who's going to complain?"
"SHE WAS questioning the inconsistency among the state's counties," he said.
"Therefore the law needs to be ammended and clarified," he said.
Curiosity follows skunk-tracker
By MARY HOENK
Stoff Writer
People are not hallucinating when they see someone wandering around campus at
night wearing a six-foot antenna and earphones.
What they are seeing is George Korch,
Lawrence graduate student, or one of his
Photo by BRUCE BANDLE
Skunk tracking
George Koch, Lawrence graduate student, knows that being a walking antenna is no simple task, especially at night. Koch, who is conducting a study on the nocturnal habits of skunks, was stopped Friday night by a RU police officer seeking information about skunk behavior. Shellah Newlan, Lawrence senior, is one of Koch's assistants for the project.
assistants, in the process of radio-tracking a skunk.
Monitoring the skunk is part of a study of the nocturnal habitats of skunks that Korch is conducting through the University of systematics and ecology department.
Korch said he hoped to use the data he collected in his two-program study of the urban skunk and rabies—a disease found in all human populations. He found in any of the local skunks he has tested.
Frequently mistaken for a space man or a television station receiver, Korch said he had an average of five encounters with people each night.
Korch was flagged the same night
in presentations who appeared to be just
driving around.
Korch said he doesn't mind telling people what he is doing because it takes up so much room. He said it's important.
"But the people that interest me the most are the people that don't stop," said Korch, "the people who just walk by as you have all this gear on and don't pay any attention
When Korch isn't being questioned, he is following a skunk that he trapped three weeks ago, fitted with a radio transmitter collar and then released.
During a six-week period, which began two weeks ago, Korch or a member of his team will wander around campus at night, trying to pick up signals from the skunk's radio transmitter. The tracking schedule is every third day from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.
Pulling all-nighters, dealing with questions and avoiding obstacles, such as wires and trees, all have become part of a life. You are often the one never see the skunk when he is out at night.
"I really wouldn't want to see if it because I may be interfering with its behavior," he added.
Eventually Korch wants to incorporate the study into his master's thesis and possible publish the results in a scientific journal.
korch said he chose the skunk as the subject of his project because it was abundant in Lawrence, and picked an urban setting because not much was known about the movement patterns of many wild animals in the city.
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Hiiackers release 10 hostages
DAMASCUS, Syria — Japanese Red Army members released 10 more hostages, including two Americans, from a Japanese jetliner that was hijacked Wednesday and flown to Damascus early today. Twelve passengers and seven crew members remain aboard the plane, which were refueled and restocked with food. The hijackers are presumed to be ready to fly to another Arab capital, where they hope to find aid. See page two.
Official predicts oil tax
WASHINGTON—Energy Secretary James Schelsinger said yesterday it was likely President Carrie Worton would买 a $-b-barrel fee on imported oil if Congress failed to impose taxes for hiking taxes on domestically produced crude oil.
Either tax, he said, probably would raise gasoline prices for consumers by 5 to 10 cents a gallon, and because consumers would pay the price, the president would attempt to set up an indirect rebate system.
Schelsinger said a tax on oil imports would be aimed at getting industries to switch to coal.
Schlesinger
Mideast plan draws mixed views
A joint U.S.-Soviet declaration aimed at reconvening a Middle East peace conference in Geneva has drawn widely differing opinions from Eastern Europeans. The U.S. had previously denied the rights.
The Palestinians have welcomed the declaration, but Israel is strongly opposed. See story page nine
Youth charged with girl's murder
PLATTE CITY, Mo. A-17 year-old boy was charged with capital murder yesterday in the stabbing death of Julie Wittemeyer, a 14-year-old farm girl whose slaying last month was described as the most violent and sadistic crime in the area. 15 miles northeast of Leavenworth, in recent memory.
Marion Beeler, Raytown police chief and head of the Kansas City Metro Squad investigation, said the boy, Mark Sager, and Wittmeyer both attended Platt City High School and probed that he was in the death toll in the county Court Officials said he would be tried as an adult, and if convicted could face a death sentence.
Locally...
Coach Bud Moore faces the task of reorganizing the University of Kansas football team after it suffered a 24-9 setback at the hands of top-ranked Oklahoma Saturday. Turnovers again spelled down for the Jayhawks, who lost four fumbles and had a pass intercepted. KU, now 13, prepares for a nonconference road game with the University of Miami Saturday. Moore says he may be "rearranging some personnel" in preparation; meanwhile, Kansan sports editor Rob Rains looks at the Jayhawks' sputtering offense. See Sports page eight.
Moore