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University Daily Kansan, April 7, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International Columbia piggybacks home one day ahead of schedule
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The space shuttle Columbia, riding atop a gleaning Boeing 747, returned to its home near the Atlantic Ocean beaches after a mission in October.
The awkward-looking jet transport left White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico at 8 a.m. and completed the, 1,453 mile piggyback trip about seven miles south of New York City.
About 2,000 space center officials and their families cheered as the Columbia-747 descended before 3 p.m. on the 3-mile-long concrete runway at the Space Center.
Some 6,000 spectators, many sunburst vacationers, also lined beaches to get a glimpse of the historic spacecraft. Joe Algrand, pilot of the jumbo jet, was on board.
Earlier yesterday, about 65,000 space buffers turned out at a refueling stop at Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport, La.
Officials opened the strategic air command base to civilians, who braved strong winds and mid-40 degree temperatures to see the shuttle.
Ground crews began removing the shuttle from the 747 last night and were expected to take it to the vehicle assembly building today. Technicians will then prepare the shuttle for its fourth and final test flight scheduled for June 27.
The preparations will include the strengthening of about 1,200 heat resistant tiles damaged during liftoff March 22.
Builder pleads guilty to bid rigging
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-A Marysville road builder and his company, in an agreement with the federal government, yesterday pleaded guilty to rigging
The plea came only minutes after a special grand jury investigating antitrust violations in the state indicted Albert G. Kistner and his company, Hall Brothers Construction Co., for prearranging bids on highway projects in Washington county.
In that agreement with the government, Kistner pleaded guilty to bibig rigging and mail fraud, and also pleaded guilty on behalf of his company to a
Klstner and his company brought to 25 the total number of construction companies and executives indicted on similar charges in Kansas since a federal investigation began last year. Including yesterday's pleas, 12 contractors and 10 firms have been convicted or have被 guilty.
Plan calls for looser handicap law
WASHINGTON-Reagan administration officials are moving to narrow the scope of the law that protects the civil rights of 35 million handicapped people and to rewrite enforcement provisions, a proposed draft obtained from the Office of Management and Budget revealed yesterday.
Changes in the law would include allowing recipients of federal funds to judge a handicapped person's "potential contributions to society" in court.
Groups representing the handcapped said the suggested changes would gut the intent of civil rights protections found in the 1973 Rehabilitation Act.
The 1973 statute's most visible results included implementing access ramps at buildings around the country and providing special buses to serve
Survivor faces possible amputation
SQUAW VALLEY, Calif—Anna Conrad, who miraculously survived being buried five days in an avalanche at a Sierra Nevada ski resort, might be forced to have her feet amputated to prevent blood poisoning induced by frostbite. her doctor said yesterday.
Dr. Roger Mason made the announcement as searchers hoping to find only empty cars and debris prepared to clear the last snow from the parking lot at Alpine Meadows ski resort. An avalanche killed seven people there last Wednesday.
Conrad was found Monday under a row of lockers that had fallen across a wall at the building at the bottom of the ski mountain. She had been missing for 14 hours.
Mason told a news conference at Taheo Forest Hospital that surgery performed Monday night to clear blood clots may not have solved the cirrhosis problem.
Former justice Fortas dead at 71
WASHINGTON - Aba Fortes, who played a key role in some of the decisions made during the trial, left the U.S. Supreme Court under threat of impasse, is dead at 71.
Forta was nominated by his friend President Lyndon Johnson to replace Warren as chief justice of the United States but later became the first President.
He was pronounced dead of a heart attack at 9:40 p.m. Monday at Georgetown University Hospital.
As a Supreme Court justice, the most significant decision Fortas wrote established modern legal rights for children in trouble with the law. The ruling required juvenile courts to provide defendants with key protections that had previously been granted to adults under the Bill of Rights.
Fortas joined the high court in 1965 and was nominated in 1968 to replace Warren as chief justice. It was disclosed in 1968 that Fortas had received money for teaching a course at American University law school. The $15,000 was contributed by five businessmen, one of whom had a son involved in a federal criminal case. Fortas resigned in 1969 and returned to private law practice in Washington.
Violent crime up 1 percent in 1981
WASHINGTON - Violent crime rose by only 1 percent in 1981 at a time when the administration is making the nation's crime problem a top priority.
The FBI issued its preliminary figures for its crime index for 1981 showing the number of serious crimes recorded by the agency had virtually no change over 1980. The preliminary statistics showed violent crime rose 1 percent last year while property crime remained relatively stable.
But FBI Director William H. Webster noted that the stabilization of reported offenses in 1981 did not mean there should be an easing of concern over the situation.
Among the violent crimes reported to law enforcement officials, only robbery showed an increase by 5 percent. Murder dropped 3 percent, while firearms and knife-related crimes
Dog flushes out accused kidnapper
Stubbleley, 41, of Haleyville, 15, was indicted last month for kidnapping Leslie Marie Gattas, 15, and holding her captive for 119 days in the custody of New York City.
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—A police dog found accused kidnapper Ernest Stubbief hiding under the stage of a church gymnasium yesterday and(fi)
Stubblerie was arrested yesterday at the Union Avenue Church of Christ after a church official called police to report he had seen a nude man in the building.
Police found Stubblefield in a makeshift hideaway. They took him to Memphis City Hospital for observation and then transferred him to the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center. Arrangement was tentatively set for tomorrow on burials of kidnapping and first-degree burglary.
Correction
Because of a reporting error, the dates of the Chhau Indian Folk Dance program were incorrectly given. The dance program in Swarthout Recital Hall will be presented tonight and tomorrow night at 8.
Rare April blizzard to blast East Coast
NEW YORK—A rare April blizzard barreled into the Atlantic seaboard yesterday with life-threatening fury, driving wind chill factors to 40 below, close schools and businesses, shattering down New York City's airports.
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Replacing more familiar April showers with April snows, the monster storm of 82 showed no signs of a quick exit. Up to 14 inches of snow were expected to plaster the East Coast from the storm that already dumped up to a foot of snow on cities across the Mid- and sent temperatures to record lows.
A twin-engine plane crashed in near-blizzard conditions while trying to make an abrupt landing at a private air
State rangers searched yesterday for at least four and possibly seven camers feared lost in a blizzard in the Catskill Mountains. Four campers from Catskill State Park were officials for the State Department of Environmental Conservation said.
The storm began in Iowa Monday and laid a smothering trail that crashed into Ohio, Maryland, New York state, and Pennsylvania. England with more than a foot of snow.
The storm prompted New York City transportation officials to declare a snow emergency. Howling winds and snow created dangerous conditions and drove most pedestrians indoors.
strip near Warren, Pa., killing two men aboard.
Nolan said another storm system was brewing over northern Utah and Nevada that would develop slowly over the hills and hit Kansas and Oklahoma today.
"It has moved across the Appalachians and is now off the coast of Delaware creating blizzard conditions in the northeast."
He said it was not known yet how much snow could be expected or if it would speed, once again, across the Midwest to the Northeast.
"This is just your typical April storm," Duke said. "But, because there are cold temperatures, it's producing snow rather than thunderstorms. Spring has not really reached the north half of the nation."
Very unspring-like temperatures also plagued the Midwest and middle South. Virtually every city in Iowa was hit with a record low, including Waterloo with a 4-below reading. The 19-degree reading at Springfield, Ill., was the city's lowest ever for so late in the season.
Enrichment fund gets trimmed tentative OK from committee
BY COLLEEN CACY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—Speaker of the House Wendell Lady stepped in at the last minute to pull for a $1.5 million faculty salary enrichment fund at a bargaining session between members of the Kansas House and Senate last night.
Lady, R-Overland Park, said he was especially interested in the fund, "being with an engineering firm, and having done our qualified engineering graduates."
The conference committee made no final decision, but suggested trimming the fund to about $800,000. The money would be targeted for Board of Regents personnel and demand areas, especially engineering, computer science and business.
The enrichment fund, added to the budget by the Senate but killed in the House, was the only big difference in budget committees' recommendations.
The fund would be in addition to an already approved 7.5 percent faculty salary increase.
The committee, made up of three members each from the House and Senate Ways and Means Committee, meets at least twice a year between the two budget recommendations.
"There are lots of engineering students who'd like to teach, but there's a point where you just can't afford it," he said.
The committee agreed to reduce the fund because House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Mike Hayden, R.I., did not think the money was necessary.
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Hayden repeated the objections to the extra salary money he had made in the company, saying it was unfair.
"I last year, we gave KU 7 a percent faculty salary increase, and they gave their faculty 8 percent, because of our increase in the percent is about $400,000," he said.
But Lady, who appointed himself to the conference committee to help save the fund, said asking universities to help pay students for their total salary budget was not fair.
The extra money from shrinkage occurred because more faculty left the payroll during the year than was originally anticipated.
"The reason I'm here is because I disagree with my chairman," he told the reporter.
Hayden also was concerned that some of the extra salary money would go to areas that the Legislature did not think were important.
Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, had proposed the fund and asked each Regents school to submit a request. Are it there it would use its share of the money.
KU administrators listed engineering as their first priority, to receive 29 new positions.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was second with 16 percent, the Schools of business and law were listed for 14 percent each, then the Schools of Fine Arts with 9 percent and Architecture with 7 percent.
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But at Hayden's urging, the committee members decided they would like to indicate that all the enrichment activities have been completed business and computer science. They
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They tentatively suggested that KU would receive about $250,000 of the money.
Hayden said the committee "conceptually agreed" on the fund and was "somewhere in the parkball on money."
Lady's support of the enrichment fund marks one of the first times he and Doyen have been on the same side of an issue this session.
"Well, the President of the Senate and Speaker Lady agree on $1.5 million," said Senator Ways and Means Chairman Paul Hess, R-Wichita.
Later Doyen said he "was not married to the $1.5 million" and was willing to bring the figure down.
Lady said the $800,000 breakdown, based on the amounts the schools requested in the three key areas, might need adjusting.
"I imagine some of these replies (from the universities) were not based on the same criteria." he said.
For example, Kansas State University indicated it would allocate as much as 75 percent of its funds to engineering.
Hess said the "ballpark figures" the committee would work with were $25,000 for KU and K-State, $150,000 for Wichita State University, and $50,000 each for Pittsburg State, Emporia State and Fort Hays State Universities.
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Some cities, including International Falls, Minn., with an 11 below zero reading, recorded the coldest temperatures ever so late in the summer as the national record honors of the nation's coldest spot with a mercury reading of 22 below.
Snow depths reached a foot in Albany, N.Y. Up to six inches of snow was reported in Pennsylvania and Maryland had three Cleveland. Washington and Mansfield five, Youngtown five and the Akron-Canton area three.
The storm also forced postponement of opening-day major league games in Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and New York.
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