VOL.100,NO.39 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY OCT. 19,1989
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Disappearing act puzzles relatives Haskell joins search for student
By JENNIFER METZ Kansan staff writer
Last night, more than 100 faculty, staff and students from Haskell Indian Junior College continued the search for Cecil Dawes $J_{r_i}$ a former Haskell student and recently disenrolled KU student.
The group searched the banks of the Kaw River, railroad tracks and surrounding neighborhoods near the Los Amigos Saloon, 508 Locust, where Dawes was last seen early Sunday morning.
Dawes then picked up a friend, LeeAnne Nelson, 20, Claremore, Okla., outside the bar and drove from the bar.
Dawes is a 21-year-old, 5'11" male and weighs between 185 and 190 pounds. He has short black hair, brown eyes and has scars above his left eye and his right cheek, said Wylma Dawes, his mother.
Dawes' friends said he was involved in a fight at Los Amigos Saloon shortly after midnight. Dawes was thrown out of the bar and then went to his car.
Dawes' abandoned car was hit on train tracks at 225 N. Michigan St. nearly three hours later. Nelson said Dawes parked the car on the tracks, got out and told her to hide in the bushes. Dawes then disappeared.
His friends said that they were unsure whom he fought at the bar.
Stacv Gore/KANSAN
Cecil Dawes, Lawrence, looks down the Kansas River. A search began for his son, Cecil Dawes Jr., yesterday evening.
Wylma Dawes said she last saw her son Saturday afternoon at her home in Lawrence where Dawes came to work on his car.
She said that he seemed upset about something, but she assumed that it was because Dawes was frustrated about his car. She said he was in a generally good mood when he left their home later that afternoon.
"When he is upset, he doesn't stay upset for a long time," Wylma Dawes said. "He bounces right back."
Dawes left his parent's home and went back to his apartment, which he shares with two roommates. Neither
"They're just as puzzled as we are," Wylma Dayes said.
Cars pitted with Haskell students and faculty searched the area. Bob Martin, president of Haskell, attended the search as well as Dawes' parents,
area.
Fliers will be distributed today throughout Lawrence to inform the community about Dawes.
When
plates
collide
What causes
an earthquake
A fault is a joint or fracture in the Earth. Shifting pressures push the two sides in two different directions. Quakes occur when major faults get stuck in the earth and move to, until so much stress builds up that it jinks free suddenly.
Types of faults
Colliding land masses on the edge of plates will cause the folding of the land into mountains. The folds usually occur near plate boundaries.
Where the oceanic plates pull apart,
molten rock flows up to fill the rifts and
solidifies, pushing the plates outward.
Oceanic layers are heavier than land masses, where plates collide the oceanic plate lands to be pushed below.
Plates sliding past each other along land borders are strike-slip faults, such as the San Andreas Fault.
SOURCES: Arizona Republic; U.S. Geological Survey, news sources
Knight-Ridder Tribune News/DON FOLEY
250 feared buried in quake's wreakage
By The Associated Press
San Francisco - Rescuers searched with dogs and sensitive microphones yesterday for the last possible survivors of the killer Bay Quake as thousands of Californians picked their way through glass-strewn streets in search of a semblance of normal life.
Across San Francisco Bay in Oakland, hopes faded for finding anyone alive within the tons of steel and concrete left when Tuesday's earthquake brought one level of Interstate 880 down atop another.
Approximately 250 people were feared entombed in thattwisted wreckage, and at least 21 others were dead elsewhere in the quake area. Some 1,400 people were injured, said state emergency services spokesman Tom Mullins.
"To the best of our knowledge now, there are not any people still alive on this freeway," Oakland Mayor Lionel Wilson said of the collapsed roadway.
Sarersarchers had been hindered by darkness and the condition of the wrecked freeway, which Acting Oakland City Manager Craig Kocian described as "a house of cards" that could collapse further unless rescuers work carefully.
The figure of 250 dead was based on estimates of the number of cars trapped in the rubble, and that assumed only one person per car.
In just 15 seconds, the earthquake destroyed or damaged hundreds of buildings along 100 miles of the San Andreas Fault, collapsed a section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and two spars near Sandt Cruz, cracked roads, and severed gas and power lines, sparking fires.
The 12 miles of the Nimitz Freeway that collapsed was one of the oldest in the area, built in the 1950s and apparently was not included in a program to make spans earthquake-proof, said state Transportation Department spokesman Kyle Nelson.
The temblor, the nation's second-deadliest, surpassed only by the San Francisco quake of 1906, measured 6.9 on the Richter scale and was felt 350 miles away.
Even as residents and officials tried to evaluate the damage, President Bush signed a disaster declaration making federal funds available for recovery, and said "we will take every step and make every effort" to help.
said that the money will be from unallocated funds in a $1.1 billion appropriation for Hurricane Hugo relief, and that the president's trip probably would be Friday or Saturday.
Vice President Dan Quayle and Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner toured the area yesterday by helicopter.
The federal government normally pays at least 75 percent of the cost of rebuilding bridges and public facilities that are destroyed and provides low-cost loans. The order covered seven counties.
Bush directed an initial $273 million to relief efforts and said he would inspect the area. The White House
The federal Emergency Management Agency set up a center in Washington and was trying to determine whether the reliedf order should be expanded
Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy said damage was "the better part of $1 billion."
Forum hears lesson on Lawrence history
By CORY S. ANDERSON Kansan staff writer
In June 1885, Issae King, George Robertson and "Pap" Vinegar, all Black men, were lynched from the Lawrence bridge over the Kansas River.
King and Robertson were dragged from the city jail, where they had been incarcerated awaiting trial for the murder of a white man. Vinegar was the father of Margaret Vinegar, King's girlfriend. King had caught her with the white man and then killed him in a fit of rage.
This is just one event in Lawrence history that Steve Jansen recounted yesterday afternoon in his speech, "The History of Minorities in Lawrence." He is director of Watkins Community Museum.
The speech was part of the Weekly Luncheon Series, which is sponsored by 'University Forum and Ecumenical Christian Ministries. About 40 people attended the lecture at ECM, 1204 Oread Ave.
Colleen Ryan, a member of the forum, said the luncheon group was a
See HISTORY, p. 6
By TRAVIS BUTLER Kansan staff writer
Long-awaited blast-off sends Atlantis to space
Armstrong, who is on leave to work with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will be working with NASA to interpret data from the space probe Galileo. Yesterday evening, the probe began its long journey to Jupiter.
Galileo was first conceived in 1978. Armstrong said. Now, more than a decade later, it has begun a slingshot course that will take it past Venus once, Earth twice, and finally out to Jupiter.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis roared into space this morning, ending a long wait for Tom Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy.
"I was very pleased," Armstrong said. "I watched it in the lobby of NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., and there was a great deal of jibilation in watching it. Atlantis did its thing."
Tom Cravens, associate professor of
He said the probe that Galileo will be dropping into Jupiter's atmosphere will give meteorologists information on atmospheric effects that they couldn't get before.
"Meteorologists will learn a lot about Jupiter's atmospheric effects, which can help them learn more general things about meteorology," Craven said. "It might help us learn more about our own patterns on Earth.
"We really don't know some basic stuff because we had to observe long distance." Cravens said.
E. Germany's Honecker quits during Politburo shake-up
He said that the spacecraft would add to man's knowledge of the giant planet, Jupiter.
physics and astronomy, said. "Once it heads out of the inner solar system, all you have to worry about is if everything will work after all these years in storage."
Hard-line East German leader Erich Honecker, who oversaw the building of the Berlin Wall, stepped down yesterday and was replaced by a younger Communist Party loyalist amid growing unrest and calls for democratic reform.
By The Associated Press
"Studying meteorology based on the atmosphere of one planet is like studying psychology based on only one person."
two other ruling Politburo members also lost their jobs in a shake-up during a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee, but changes from Honecker's course are unlikely.
Communist Party leaders have made it clear they will resist pro-democracy movements like those under way in Warsaw Pact allies Poland and Hungary, which yesterday approved constitutional amendments creating a democratic political system.
Honecker's replacement, 52-year-
Tens of thousands of East Germans have fled the country in recent months, turning their backs on the rigid authoritarian system, and thousands of citizens have staged massive demonstrations in recent weeks.
old Egon Krenz, has a reputation as a hard-line opposed to the growing democracypower movement. The state-run news agency ADN said Krenz would become Communist party chief, head of state and head of the military, replacing his mentor in all three roles.
"My health no longer allows me to bring the energy to bear that the fate of our party and people requires today
The 77-year-old Honecker, who was reported ill after a gall bladder operation in August, said he was resigning for health reasons.
this very complicated time there is much work before us."
Krenz, the youngest member of the' Poliburo, is known as a tough backer of the country's orthodox communist structure. He had been in charge of internal security issues and government-run youth organizations while being groomed as Honecker's successor.
"I hold the Central Committee that I realize this is a difficult task that I have taken," Krenz told East German television after his appointment. "In
In West Germany, the mass-circulation newspaper Bild reported that Krenz was considering loosening travel restrictions for East Germans.
During a recent visit to China, Krenz led an East German delegation that expressed support for the way Chinese leaders handled pro-democracy protests in June. The protests were crushed when Chinese soldiers moved in with tanks and guns, and hundreds of people were killed.
Kansan's regular typesetter fails
About 1 p.m. yesterday, the Kansas's normal typesetting equipment crashed.
The reasons for the crash were unknown, and the system was not run in time for the Kansan's regular deadlines last night.
The School of Journalism provided several Macintosh computers to produce this issue.
As of 2 a.m. today, it was not known if the system would be working in time for Friday's issue.
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