University Daily Kansan, August 26, 1981
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Trial scheduled for El Dorado couple charged with selling uninspected meat
By LILLIAN DAVIS Staff Reporter
Buying and selling uninspected meat is against the law in Kansas, as David and Ngam Thi Remsberg have discovered.
Butler County Attorney Bill Ronan said his office had proof that the Remsbers were buying adult-weight hogs at small book auctions, butchering them in a small stock on their property and then selling them mostly to Vietnamese customers.
The El Dorado couple has been charged with 11 counts of selling uninspected meat and one count of not having acquired a license to slaughter meat animals from the Kansas Board of Agriculture.
Ronan said their trial was scheduled for Sept.1.
Ronan said he had evidence that the customers would come to the Riemsberg's home, select the hog they wanted and then wait for it to be butchered.
"The conditions were generally
On the Record
A burglary, a larceny and an attempted burglary were reported to Lawrence police Monday.
Burglar's stole an antique clock, an antique mailbox, a portable television, a wall picture and a kitchen clock from Kent. Terrace sometime Monday night.
A larceny occurred at Henry's Drive In, Sixth and Missouri streets late Monday night. Police said a lawn mower worth about $153 was taken.
Police report the total loss was around $535.
unsantary, with a great deal of blood and files," Renan said.
Would-be burglars broke through a second-story window of Ed Marling Department Store, 825 Massachusetts St., Monday morning and tried to open the safe. They were unsuccessful, police said.
He said the hoga were shot outside and then dragged through the dirt into a cave.
"The carcasses were cut up while still on the ground." Ronna said.
The Remsberg's lawyer, Dan Dwyer, said there was no question that slaughtering was being done at the Remsberg's residence. However, he claimed that it was done only for family consumption, a stipulation allowed by law.
His operation was not big enough to handle more than a few hogs at a time; only enough for his family members, Dwyer said.
Dwyer said if Remberg did sell any of the hogs, "it would have been impossible for him to go outside of the law more than a very negligible amount."
Notified of the slaughters last spring by neighbors, the Butler County health department asked the Remsberg several times to close their operation.
By JOLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
Money and meter problems leave bills at Med Center
The University of Kansas Medical Center does not have the money to pay its electrical bills.
Exactly how much is owed is not yet known, but Kansas City, Kan., Board of Public Utilities officials estimate that a person has an estimate in about two months.
Only $192,131 was paid on the June bill of $297,000.
When the BPU raised its electrical rates in May, the Med Center's utility budget had already been set by the Legislature, based on the old rates, Keith Nitcher, director of university business affairs, said.
Also, since May 5, when a metering error was discovered at the Med Center, the BPU has been trying to determine how much the
Med Center owes in retroactive payments.
In May, the Med Center complained that its bill was too high. Technicians from the BPU met with KU representatives to see if they could discover what was wrong with the meter at the Med Center, Silvester Byrd, public relations director of the BPU, said.
Because of the presence of four screws in the metering device, the meter had been registering less than 10 percent. The center than it should have, Byrd said.
"We're assuming it was an oversight," he said. "Efforts are being made now by the Board of Directors to make a duplicate metering board."
The original metering board has been corrected, but the duplicate board will register electricity use as it was recorded from sometime in
1975 until the problem was detected on May 5.
"I think the first order of importance is determining what the outstanding bill would really be," Byrd said. "I'm sure that KU has not budgeted enough money to pay their current bills, and we understand their problem. Of course, the BPU has a problem. too."
To obtain back payment, the BPU would have to file a claim with the state Senate Ways and Means Committee.
Committee chairman Paul Hess, R-Wichita, said that he thought the Med Center had paid its bills in good faith and that he did not support giving the BPU a retroactive payment.
Nitcher refused to comment on the possibility of retroactive payment.
"That will have to be discussed on a high level." he said.
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