Page 10 University Daily Kansan, September 21, 1981
Miller
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MILLER LOST by only 3,577 votes statewide to Republican Robert Bennett, but he by a total of more than 12,000 votes in Douglas and Riley counties. turning the tide in that election.
After his defeat in 1974, Miller returned to his roots in Wichita and practiced law until he was elected Sedgwick County district attorney in 1985. He sought re-election last year and stepped down.
Miller's appearance has changed little since he was attorney general, but glasses are used for reading and his youthful appearance is beginning to show the lines of middle age.
The lines on his face are gentle, however, and don't reflect the gun battles and danger he endures.
He seemed relaxed as he shuffled through folders and notes on his desk last week, murmuring to himself about clients, court cases and phone calls.
"My days are longer now," he said glancing up from his notes, "but I'm not called out at nights. As district attorney, I used to leave at 5:30, but now I never leave until 6 or 7 at night."
Most of his daytime hours are spent in courtyards trying to keep people out of jail instead of trying to put them in. By late afternoon he visits the office area of downtown Wichita, to answer phone calls.
IN PRIVATE practice Miller has defended
people charged with anything from first degree
murder, burglary, rape and even heroin
or drug use in divorce cases also come
Miller's way, be said.
Financial security is what Miller said motivated him lately because he's at the age where security for his family and retirement mean more than in the past.
"As a public official, you just make a living." There's no chance to get any real financial aid.
"Money doesn't mean that much to me, but as I grow older the potential to support my family might be reduced and I want them to be secure."
The phone rings. A woman client involved in a divorce case in on the line.
"Is he drinkin' again today?" Vern asked.
"Well, don't let him hurt your feelings," he instructed.
"There's nothing you can do but try to cheer them up," he said hanging up the phone. "I just like helping people. In private practice almost all of them come to see you has some kind of a problem."
A 30-MINUTE drive takes Miller from the basement of a large apartment to the domestic atmosphere of his suburban home.
"Have you guys been tumblin' in here again?"
Mika asked his children when she scattered a
basket of chicks.
Miller's adopted son, Chris, was apologetic and eager to show off his new cub scout uniform
"I know eight times nine," Chris said as he played with his father's calculator. "Seventy-
A proud smile comes to Miller's face as he watches the antics of his son, and 9-year-old stewardher. Lindsey.
"They're like any other kids," Miller said. "They're like to do their homework until it is time for me."
LINDSHEY MILLER didn't seem as outgoing as his aunt, and stayed curled up on the couch.
"The kids at school say things sometimes"
"the girls at school say yellow balloon
bangleing limply from her mouth."
She didn't want to elaborate on what her schoolmates have said about her stepfather as she looked up at the short, but squarely built former attorney general.
Rocking slowly in a favorite family room
he had told he had three other children
from his first marriage.
Marty Miller, 30, is a manager of Topeka convenience stores after a short law enforcement career. Cliff Miller, 25, is a sergeant detective with the Sedgwick County sheriff's department and Jamie Miller, 21, attends a Wichita cosmology school.
Miller's childhood was a little different from that of his children, however. Coming from a rough neighborhood of wouthwest Wichita, Miller grew up in the city and top toe fail when he was in high school, he said.
He worked his way up in the Sedgwick County sheriff's department during the 1950s and made a big splash in local newspapers when he made a drug bust as sedgwick County marshal in 1950.
IN 1964 HE became Sedgwick county sheriff and that job kept him when he became attorney general in 1971. He committed to Oklahoma City three nights a week during the 1960s to get his
In 1970 he was the first Democrat to be elected governor in Kentucky history.
Strict enforcement of the state's paramutel gamut statistics brought about the legalization of bingo, he said. Other illegal gambling was also under control in club clubs, so he raided them and took slot machines.
very experienced lawyer who was a Harvard
and was signed, "and here I was just a cop
and a Democrat."
The reason he ran, Miller said, was to make sure all laws were enforced uniformly across the country.
BUS COMPANIES wanted to serve liquor on buses operating in the state, which would have been a clear violation of liquor laws, Miller said. So after the companies pointed out that alcohol was being served on trains and planes, Miller stopped it.
"I just believe in treating people fairly," Miller said. "I pick up a hitchhiker whenever I see one, and I stop and help someone whose car is broken. That's the way I think everyone should be."
'I never had practiced law, but ran against a
Beheir sir弹 of Sedwick County was the most fun, he said, as he jumped up to photo-capture a 1970 photograph.
"Those were the good ole' days," he said.
He said he remembered the close calls and the time he shot a man he'd tracked all the way to him.
And then there was the time he was checking identifications on a bus which had arrived in south Wichita. Suddenly he found a gun pointed at him. He recalled the desperate struggle that ensued.
"I was scared to death." he said.
SUDENLY, a deafening blang rant inside he
couldn't tell where. To miss Mille's head that he
couldn't tell who.
Coulson even saw him,
"I though sure I'd been shot," Miller said. "At
the time it seemed that the gun went off right in my head."
A deputy had fired under Miller's arm, hitting and killing a fuitive.
Miller did get a taste of some lead when he was n shot as he was parked on Wichita's northeast side.
After he was hit with buckshot fired from a passing car, the wounded Müller gave chase but his car was nearly smashed by a train before the police car men were later convicted of the shooting.
There were other close calls, including some when he jumped out of trunks. He said he enunciated the word.
terribly exciting. You never knew where you
were, or whether there would be a gun
battle when you jumped out.
MOST OF THE time when he jumped from trunks, he was attorney general and it was for a several-thousand-dollar heroin or cocaine bust.
"I was responsible for the money," he said,
"and we always operated on loans."
He gave two other reasons for riding in trunks: he was in town, he rode and he was small enough to fit tightly.
"I have to admit it," Miller said. "It was
"There was always a substantial amount of money involved—usually $10,000 or more," he said. "The dealers usually wanted to meet in person and see where the dealer wanted to make the transaction."
When the transaction was complete, his undercover agent would kick the side of the car or
there was unusually two of us in the trunk, and
the signal was given we would jump out with our
upper body.
say something like "it's going to be snowing again," Miller said.
"I'm not seeking public office at the present time," he said, but added that he might go back after he is terminated.
Miller said he was glad that kind of excitement was all over, but like the gun-fighting lawmen of yesterday, he sometimes gets the itch to go back to his old profession.
"It's been a great life," he said. "I've made a lot of friends and had lots of excitement and adventure."
Whether it meant jumping out of trunks, riding a motorcycle or making people angry by strictly enforcing the laws, Miller said he was proud of his law enforcement career.
Residents change hall's image
Residents of Templin Hall, wearing tuxes and ties, want to have more class and culture this year, and they tried to show it at their first Champagne Brunch yesterday at Templin.
The men at Templin invited three guest speakers, several administrators and all the women from Lewis Hall. The affair began at 1:30 p.m.
Michael Shaw and Stanley Lambardo, professors of classics, and Jane Morse, a senior instructor of Western Civilization, read part of a version of Heri's Iliad before a crowd of about 150 students in the front living room at Templin. More than 400 students attended the brunch.
DESPITE THE efforts of the sponsors, Shaw and that the treasurer had listened to the station's public advocacy.
"It was kind of hard today to get people to sit down and listen for an hour who really came over (of us)."
The Champagne Brunch was put on as the first offensive move in a series to improve Templin's reputation on the campus and to prove that Templin Hall had class, Scott Cobett, the resident director of the hall, said. He said that the plans for the next steps were not yet final.
"We had an animal-house reputation for housing apathetic or rowdy freshmen," Cobrett ii
In the past, Templain had has a bad reputation and nobody took the meat there seriously, Cobett
At the beginning of the year, when Cobett got the position at Templin, he said that when he told his friend he was at Templin, they would laugh and express sympathy for him.
He and the president of the hall, Rin Hones, wanted to have a cultural event for the residents because they thought it would be unique as well as educational for their residents.
THE CHAMPAGNE and the following roast beetroot (the potato, but Cobelt helped organize many of the details).
"It's a good break from the regular grind of the books and beer." Hines said. "School is more than just studying—student need something else." He could get to them out and experience something new."
The affair started when Templin men escorted about 200 women from Lewis to their living room. The men wore either a tuxedo or a suit and tie, and the women all wore dresses.
Templin men were strolling throughout the room with trays of champagne glasses which they filled with 3.2 percent champagne at a two-tier fountain. People holding small plates of cheese hors' d'oueuvres and appetizers stood along the walls waiting for brunch.
The University of Kansas Chamber Music Series opens its 1981-82 season with
Arnold Steinhardt, violin
John Dalley, violin
Michael Tree, viola
David Sayer, cello
Program:
Sunday, September 27 3:30 p.m.
University Theatre
Quartet in E flat Major, K. 160
Quartet in F Major
Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 Beethoven
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