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KANSAN
Friday, February 5, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 90 USPS 650-640
Beer tax increase requested
BvKEVIN HELLIKER
Staff Reporter
Alcoholism counselors yesterday asked the State Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee to override the objections of the beer industry and approve a 10 cent a gallon increase in taxes.
The increase, proposed by the committee,
outside of a million annual fund for state
and federal drug arrests.
Several alcoholism counselors, including Bruce Beale, executive director of the Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism, urged the committee to approve the tax, saying the alcohol and drug abuse field would lose $4.6 million in federal funds in the next year.
Beale said that without alternative funding, 40 of the state's 60 alcoholism centers would be cut.
"You hear talk now about social programs getting cut back," he said. "But the alcohol and drug abuse field is going out of business. It's as simple as that."
Mark Boranyak, a lobbyist for the Kansas Beer Wholesaler Association, acknowledged that the federal government had cut back on dollars for alcohol and drug abuse programs, but said these dollars should not be picked up by the beer industry.
"It is now recognized by leading authorities that alcoholism is an illness," he said. "This is contrary to previous notions that alcoholism was a sign of moral weakness or lack of morality."
"So the cost of alcohol problems be met like the cost of other public health problems—as a total societal problem, and not as a ministerial leave on responsible consumers of beer."
Boranayak said beer consumers in Kansas had not complained about the proposed increase in beer tax, which would raise the cost of beer by about 1 cent a can.
But the consumers would start complaining, and possibly start dividing across state lines to get to their point.
"The consumers don't know about this now," he said. "It is the sort of thing where they'll say, 'Okay, let's go.'"
Some consumers at the University of Kansas learned of the proposed increase last fall, when the Associated Students of Kansas conducted a poll on the issue.
Students voting in Student Seante elections also received an ASK ballot on which an increase in beer tax to help finance alcoholism programs was oroosed.
By a slim margin, the students approved the increase, say Zimmerman, student from the ASSESS program.
"It's kind of surprising that KU students would want to raise the price of beer," he said.
Jack Colyer, a counselor for the Douglas County Committee on Alcohol in Lawrence, said the beer industry opposed the tax increase that did not want beer associated with alcoholism.
"They want to maintain the image of the healthy, robust beer drinker," Colyer said.
"But more and more we get people in here who have problems drinking a lot of beer."
Ken Rissler, a laborist for the U.S. Brewers Association, admitted the beer industry did not want to be controlled by him.
"It's not a very good argument," he said. "Some alcohols drink nothing but beer."
Because beer can play a role in alcoholism, the increase in its sales tax is in part a user's tax, said George Wedge, KU professor of English and counselor for the Committee on Alcoholism.
"The beer consumer would take out insurance by paying the tax," Wedge said. "For those who bought it, we can't tell."
Boranay, however, said the tax would unjustly implece beer as the cause of alcoholism.
"Earmarking of funds from the beer industry for these programs says, in effect, the beer industry is the cause of alcohol abuse," he said.
"The accepted facts are that nine out of 10 Kansans consume alcoholic beverages, in-"
"trends."
Former cult members' parents testify
See ALCOHOL page 5
By COLLEEN CACY
By COLLEEN CACY Staff Reporter
A group of parents who resorted to kidnapping their children to save them from "slavesy through mind control" yesterday asked a federal judge to seek legal protection to take their children from cults.
The parents testified before the House Judiciary Committee in favor of a bill that would allow parents to be appointed as temporary guardians of their children who had joined religious cults, such as the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.
"We hope you will help us get rid of this scourge which is growing in this country, and stop these groups from tearing families apart and coercing young people into slavery through force." Frank Tillman, Kansas State University professor of engineering, told the committee.
She lived with the group for six months before her parents kidnapped her and 'deprogrammed' her.
Tilman's daughter, Dee Dee, a K-Sate senior, was a member of religious groups called Mandela Campin Mandela.
"DEPROGRAMMING" is a process of psychological recovery that involves isolating a cul member from the group, questioning him about his role in the group, establishing emotional contact with the person.
Dee Dee Tillman said the group caused substantial changes in her personality.
"My family relationships went downhill," she
said. "I did not date and was going to let the elders of the group pick my husband. Most importantly, my capability to make decisions on my own diminished to zero.
"There is no way I could have left the group on my own. The only reason I have my free mind now is because my parents were willing to take the necessary risk to get me out of the group. We need the protection of this law to provide parents with the security to rescue their children from this mental slavery."
The bill says that to appoint a temporary guardian for anyone 18 or older, the person must have undergone a substantial change in behavior and must be unable to make his own decisions. These changes must result from a "systematic course of coercive persuasion that undermines a person's capacity to make informed or independent judgements."
The bill also says this persuasion must involve mirepresentation of a group's true identity or credibility.
A TEMPORARY guardianship of 45 days would be granted after a hearing to determine whether the child could make independent decisions. The bill allows professional psychologists and physicians to treat the cult member during the recovery period.
The committee chairman, State Rep. Joe Hoagland, R-Overland Park, said the committee would take the bill under consideration before making a decision.
Religious groups that feared that the bill would influence them tested against it at the hearing.
Stanley Hoerman of the Full Gospel Businessman's Fellowship International for
Northeast Kansas said his organization gave businessmen an opportunity for a religious experience that often caused an "abrupt and drastic alteration of basic values and lifestyle.
"Christian groups, because they are committed to one Lord and a disciplined way of life, have always risked confusion with cults. This law can be used by anyone who disapproves of the friends or association of a relative. It is a very dangerous piece of legislation."
The New York Civil Liberties Union made the same objections to a similar bill proposed in the New York Legislature in 1880 and again in 1881. The governor asked all but two years, Gov. Hugh Gulliver caretied it.
THE N.Y.C.L.U. said the bill violated the First Amendment right of freedom of religion. Several religious organizations, including the American Jewish Congress and the New York Catholic Conference, opposed the bill on the same grounds.
Attorney John C. Fay of Manhattan, Kan, told the committee that the previous bills were rejected because they were too vague. He said because this bill laid out several specific conditions under which the influence of the trumpid motion "it cannot be attacked as to vague功."
He said that although the mind control issue
emerged as a religious problem, it could be
applied to our own situation.
the problem we are addressing does not fit neatly into any legal receptacle," he said. "Yet various aspects of the condition are recognizable
JON HARDESTY/Kansan Staff
See MOONIES page 5
The best way to fight yesterday's frigid temperatures was to bundle up, as Mike Guemple, Fairway sophomore, found out on his way to class.
Weather
There will be a travelers' advisory today and a 50 percent chance of more snow, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The high-to-low temperature night low will be near zero. Winds will be from the north at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow's high will be in the low teens.
Jupiter to align with Mars in rare configuration in 1982
By NEAL McCHRISTY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
An event will occur in 1902 that has both planet and geologists talking about the planet this year.
The event concerns the effect of the planets pulling on the same side of the sun on March 10.
A book by John B. Gribbin and Stephen H. Plagemann, "The Jupiter Effect," said that the 1982 convergence of the planets would cause solar activity, volcanoes, earthquakes and high Earth temperatures.
The book, published in 1974, was so named because the pull of Jupiter is greatest of the nine planets.
However, Zeller said that the book was a result of his misinterpreting things and trying to conclude.
"The public is subjected to lots of self-serving misinformation that masquerades as science," he said, "and it's understandable that the public becomes very skilful."
THE BOOK was damaging to those persons who use the scientific method, Thomas P. Armstrong, KU professor of physics and astronomy, said Tuesday.
Armstrong said that mathematical analysis had predicted volcanic activity on Io, a satellite of Jupiter, before the Voyager probes confirmed volcanoes on that satellite.
"The same mathematical analysis tells us that the Jupiter Effect is nonsense," he said.
Zeller said that the March 10 near-alignment of the planet would cause the Earth's crust to hurt.
"The world is full of charlatans, and there's a profit in being sensual, and there is often no problem."
THE MOON'S pull on the Earth's crust causes a maximum builge the length of a pencil, he said.
the moon has so much more effect on the earth that it is be very difficult to pressure this, the latter Effect is better.
Zeller said that the tides would rise by the thickness of a paper clip because of the Jupiter pressure.
Tides, he said, are influenced by the moon, atmospheric pressure and other factors, so Earth's response to the Jupiter Effect will be difficult to measure.
Zeller said that while there was an influence on the earth by gravitational forces, it was not apparent.
"I don't think it's enough to trigger volcanic eruptions or large earthquakes," he said.
Another, more visual event, in which three planets can be seen in close proximity at a glance, is unrelated to the Jupiter Effect, Arm-strong said.
THE THREE planets - Jupiter, Saturn and Mars - rise in the southern sky about midnight, according to Stephen Shawl, associate professor of physics and astronomy and director of the NASA/JPL/Caltech Science Hall. The three planets can best be seen at 5 a.m. by looking toward the southern sky, he said.
Armstrong described Mars as a reddish-brown planet that is farthest to the west and the faintest
Jupiter, the brightest of the three planets, is the largest planet that is farthest to the east. Armstrong
Saturn is slightly to the east of Mars and is of slightly brighter intensity, he said.
"They're all easily visible, and even Mars is at least as bright as the brightest star," he said.
"The important thing about seeing these
cases is that there are meetings of eight."
The three planets will be closest to each other on Feb. 19.
They will be in close proximity to be photographed with a 35mm camera with a standard 50mm lens, according to the December issue of Sky and Telescope magazine. The magazine article suggests a setting of 1/2.2 to 1/2.8 a lapse of 1second exposure and fast film.
The planets will be visible in their present close proximity until Sept. 13, 1982.
Pilots knew of ice before crash, tapes show
By United Press International
WASHINGTON-Tape transcripts revealed yesterday that the cockpit crew of an Air Florida jettier repeatedly discussed the ice and the weather in their final minutes of conversation before the plane plunged into the Potomac River in January, killing 78 people.
However, the captain and co-pilot apparently did not believe the ice buildup on the wings would hamper the operation of their aircraft enough to affect takeoff.
Investigators are focusing on ice on the wings and an instrument that measures engine thrust as possible causes of the Jan. 15 crash of the Boeing 737-800. Make a off from Washington's National Airport.
"Larry, we're going down, Larry," we copilot Roger Alan Petitt's last words before the plane struck the 14th Street bridge and crashed into the ice-cloaked river.
"I know it," Captain Larry Wheaton replied, as the sound of impact was heard on transcripts
of the cockpit voice recorder released by the National Transportation Safety Board.
THE INSTRUMENT records one half-hour of sounds in the cockpit, including the crew's voices.
The crew repeatedly *eferred* to ice on the wings of other planes, and placed their own, as well, in front of them to takeoff.
replied.
At another point, Petitt said, "Hate to blast
himself so much that you are all over me."
When the plane was on the runway and was gathering speed for takeoff, Pettit, apparently looking at an instrument showing airspeed, said, "God, look at that thing."
"That, ah, satisfied the feds." Wheaton replied.
"Specially with the (Washington) Monument staring vau the face," said Wheaton.
"Boy, this is a, this is a losing battle here you on trying to deceive those things. (gives) you a false feeling of security, that's all that does." Pettit said at one point, as the jet was still
Four seconds later, he added, "Ah, that's not right."
Wheaton replied, "Yes it is. There's 80
(knots)."
Pettit was unconvinced.
"Naw, I don't think that's right," he said, but then added, "Ah, maybe it is."
Wheaton called off 120 knots and then announced that the tie reached 4.14, the speed control was up.
But as he called off V-2, liftoff speed, the tape recorded the sound of the piano's "stick shaker" note.
"Forward, forward," Pettit urged. "Come on,
forward... just barely climb."
"Larry, we're going down, Larry," Pettit said. "Knott it, Wheaton糖."
The last sound on the cockpit voice recorder,
the sound of impact, was recorded at 4:01 p.m.