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KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, February 4, 1982 Vol.92,No.89 USPS 650-640
Fire singes downtown
By BARB EHLI and
BECKY ROERTS
Staff Reporters
The eight-hundred block of downtown Lawrence changed from the usual dusky suprtime calm into a maze of flashing lights, acrid smoke and frozen water yesterday as a long night's work began for the Lawrence Fire Department.
Firefighters also responded to two other fires calls later in the evening.
Firefighters answered their first call at 6:05 p.m. to the Royal College Shop, 837 Massachusetts St., while Lawrence police blocked traffic and spectators from the scene.
Firefighters responded to the call and after some confusion, found the fire in the basement of the Royal College Shop. In order to reach the firefighters broke the shop's oval glass door.
"When they busted the window, there was a wall of smoke out there." Jones said.
Firefighters worked inside the building for an hour and a half to get the fire under control. They reappeared periodically, smoke billowing from the windows, and empty oxygen tanks in exchange for full ones.
Firefighters worked past 11 p.m. to control spot fires that developed in a alcohort in the town of O'Connor, Calif.
There are spot fires isolated in small nooks and crannies. In Foley, acting major at the crime scene, he made the call.
the scene, looking through the building for the cause of the fire.
Near-zero temperatures added to the confusion as water froze into puddles on sidewalks, and as snow melts into ice.
Findley said he did not know how the fire started or how much damage it caused.
Fire Chief Jim McSwain said it might be a week before a cause and the total damages were known because fire damaged both the building and the merchandise inside it.
The downtown blaze also kept the Lawrence Police Department busy.
"They had to call two extra units out, two other officers from two other districts," Brian埃安, police commander, told CNN.
Edwards said one of the police units had been assigned to the back at the Royal College Shop to
"People take stuff—clothing, shoes, axes—anything that's lying on the sidewalk." Edwards
All available firemen responded to a roof fire at 1415 Kentucky St., including truck 14, an off-duty unit.
Less than an hour after the first call, firefighters answered a second call at 705 Rhode Island St. Firefighters extinguished a small fire in a basement heater after shuffling the gas valve.
At 8:04 p.m., the dispatcher announced a third fire.
James Woydziak, department training engineer, said fire fighters tore out paneling to reach the fire and found flames between the insulation and the shingles.
RFN BIGLER/Kansan Staff
A Lawrence firefighter smashes through the door of the Royal College Shop,837 Massachusetts St., to fight a fire that broke out there about 6 p.m. last night.
Carlin's budget illegal, Stephan savs
By United Press International
Some of Gov. John Carlin's fiscal 1983 budget proposal procedures were not legal, Attorney General Robert Stephan said in an opinion issued yesterday.
The opinion, which came in response to questions raised by State Rep. David Miller, R-Eudora, said that the budget was not in accordance with Kansas law because it left out many of the certain agencies, including the Kansas Board of Regents and higher education institutions.
MILLER HAD asked for the opinion to determine whether it is appropriate to lower the overall power in preparing the budget.
IN ADDITION, the opinion, written by Stephen and Robert Alderson, first deputy attorney general, said Carlin should see whether B-level allocations for agencies in the budget actually represented the amounts agencies wanted from the Legislature.
A new budget procedure, drawn up by Lynn Muchmore, the state budget director, prompted the opinion. Under that plan, the budget office created a separate group into three levels: "A," "B" and "C."
The new procedure required agencies to limit their budget requests to specific amounts that are reasonable.
Stephen's opinion said that Carlin did not have to predetermine the allocations of those agencies.
"It is our opinion that, while the governor has the power to make recommendations regarding budget requests of state agencies, and the director of the budget has the authority to prescribe the format of such requests, neither has the power to predetermine and circumscribe the amount which may be requested," the opinion said.
Keeper of stolen property, Lawrence Police Department's evidence officer, Jack Elder readies a stolen street sign for storage. The property is held in the evidence room while the case is under investigation or on trial.
JOHN HANKAMMER/Kansan Staf
Officer keeps track of Lawrence evidence
"Hopefully, I'll get rid of some of this stuff," Fered said yesterday.
By BECKY ROBERTS Staff Reporter
Elder is the evidence officer for the Lawrence Police Department.
At any one time Elder may be in charge of anything from empty beer cans and 10-foot marijuana plants to color television consoles and living room chairs.
"I'd make a pawn shop envious with what I've got in here," Edder said.
As evidence officer, he is responsible for more than 12,000 items that fill the department's
The 45-foot by 25-feet evidence room, in the basement of the Law Enforcement Center, is protected by cinderblock walls, steel ceilings
The walls of the room are lined with gray wall lockers, each filled with a different item. At least 12 of the lockers are filled with different kinds of clothes; others are stuffed with clothing and liquor bottles.
Three rows of cubbyholes are stacked on top of the wall lockers. They too are filled with evidence, such as odd shoes, knives and small stone statues.
and steel doors. The center of the room has two sets of eight-foot-long shelving units that each have a depth of 24 inches.
Everything in the evidence room is used as evidence for court trials that are pending or have
"The evidence is one of the most important things in a case." Elder said.
"You don't want to lose a case because you lost the evidence."
Elder's duties include taking custody of evidence, marking it clearly with the correct case number and filing it in the office. Also is in charge of organizing and taking inventory of the evidence room.
Elder then files the reports and shelves and organizes the evidence. Since November, Elder has had a computer terminal to help him inventory items in the evidence room.
"I the computer makes it a lot easier for me."
Elder said. "I can enter the evidence as soon as I
Once the evidence has been used, it is either returned to the owner, destroyed or sold at police stations.
To destroy the evidence, Elder must get a destruction order from the Douglas County District Court.
"We destroy contraband—things that are illegal," Elder said.
"With all the paperwork, it can take a month to get the destruction order."
After Elder gets the destruction order, he and at least two witnesses take the evidence to the city dump. Once there, a bulldozer digs a 6-foot Elder and the witnesses pat the evidence.
The evidence is then covered in diesel fuel and ignited.
Living groups will give up one meal to help Poland
By JAN BOUTTE
Staff Reporter
The KU Friends of Solidarity has asked all organized living groups at the University of Kansas to skip one meal and donate the savings to eat the food shortage in Poland.
Alan Lichter, the adviser of the organization and associate professor of English, said yesterday that the money donated to the "Have a Heart for Poland" program would be turned over to CARE Inc. and would be used to buy CARE packages that would reach the Polish people within three weeks.
LITCHER SAID that people who didn't live in househouses to the fund at the collective campus Fax
Richard Pack, regional field representative for CARE, said that every $12 collected would provide a 25-pound food package that could feed one person for one month. Students who live in University housing and skip a meal would be contributing $1.25 to CARE.
Lachter said the Friends of Solidarity was working with CARE because it could be sure that CARE would be able to deliver the food directly to needy families in Poland.
"CARE is one of only two organizations now recognizing government now." Lichter said.
"We are assured that the food we send is going to reach the neediest families."
Pack said that Phillip Johnston, executive director of CARE, was reassured on a recent trip to Poland that CARE would be able to continue its food distributions.
Lichter said that CARE was allowed to spot
the packages that the packages were
actually received.
LICHTER, who returned last June after a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Gdansk in Poland, said that the campus was still able since the project was introduced last week.
"I think everyone on campus perceives this as a germ emergency, as a genuine crisis" *Liam*
The Association of University Residence Halls last week voted unanimously to endorse the program and residents will be given the option to skip the evening meal and donate the money saved on Feb. 14, the designated "Have a Heart for Poland Day."
the office of University housing also has agreed to return the cost of the evening meal to the fund, Kevin Nelson, AURH project chairman, said.
Residents must sign up by Tuesday to participate in the program.
Sorority and fraternity members have also offered their support to the program, and the All Scholarship Hall Council will decide whether to program the at least weekly meeting tonight.
LICHTER SAID that the Friends of Solidarity was formed just before Christmas break.
"A few people and myself, people interested in Poland for one reason or another, formed a small committee called Friends of Solidarity," Lichter said.
"The situation there as I see it—knowing what I know about the area from last year and what I know from the communication I've received—is extremely dire."
Poles are concerned with basic survival, and as trying to get more freedom from the government.
He said that his organization placed ads describing its purpose during the Christmas break and received $3,000 to $3,500 in donations.
"It was an amazing response, but that's just a drop in the bucket compared to what we need and what they need in terms of food," Lichter said.
PACK SAID that donations for food packages for Poland dropped after Christmas, but because more media attention focused on the shortages in Poland, donations had increased.
"The Polish relief campaign is starting to take off again," Pack said.
Lichter said that the group was non-political, but used the name Solidarity so that people would easily recognize its interest in Poland.
"We have no intention whatsoever of entering even a marginal political area," he
"Our approach is to line up with the in-
stitute and provide families that need to survive, that need for care."
Lichter and Pack both said that messages telling the Polish people who had sent the packages would be included in the food parcels.
"It is important that the Polish people know that the outside world cares, that there's individual caring as well as government public relations caring." Lichter said.
"We will let them know that we here at KU care about them as human beings, that we sympathize with them and support them in their struggles for freedom."
Weather
It will be bitterly cold today with an 80 percent chance of snow, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The high today will be 5 to 10 degrees with a low tonight of -5 to -10 degrees.
Chances of snow increase to 90 percent for tonight, and freezing cold temperatures should continue through Saturday.