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Thursday, November 9, 1978
University Daily Kan****
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Westergren to appeal his murder conviction
The defense attorney for Eugene E. Westergren said yesterday that he would appeal his client's conviction on charges of murder and attempted rape but that he was not optimistic of his client's chances of obtaining a new trial.
"I'm not going to second-guess the judge's decision," the attorney, Jerry Donnelly, said. "New trials are very rarely granted, but I will try."
Westerglen, 51, was found guilty Monday in Douglas County District Court in connection with the murder and attempted rape a year ago of Vanera Smith, 48. Smith was found beaten to death in her home at 823 Kentucky St. on Nov. 6 last year.
Franklin County Judge Floyd H. Coffman, hearing the case without a jury, returned the guilty verdict within two hours after the prosecution and defense had resited. Coffman then said a day to days to file for a new trial. The hearing on the motion was set for Dec. 7.
Donnelly said the verdict and the speed with which it was returned surprised him.
"It appeared the judge's mind was pretty well made un," he said.
Harry Warren, Douglas County assistant district attorney and chief prosecutor in the trial, said he, too, was surprised at the speed with which the证交 was returned.
Warren, a Douglas County assistant district attorney for two years, said he had doubts that Westergren would be found guilty.
Warren said Westergrave would probably be sentenced soon after the Dec. 7 hearing.
He said the prosecution would recommend that Westergren be given a sentence of 15-30 years to life for murder, and one to five years for attempted rape.
Tickets sell for 'Candide,' old orchestra
The University of Kansas will provide two different entertainment possibilities this weekend.
"Candide," a musical comedy based on Voltaire's story of the travels and triumphs of a naive young man, opens tonight at 8 in the University Theatre. "Candide" will run Nov. 10-12 and Nov. 17-19.
One of the world's oldest orchestra, the Leipzig Giwandhaus Orchestra, will perform tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Hochschule Stuttgart. The orchestra has been performed since 1743.
Tickets for the concert are on sale at the Murphy Hall box office. Public reserved seats are $1.50 and $2.00 student general admission tickets are $1.50.
Tickets for "Candide," are also on sale at the Murphy box office for $2.25, $2.50 and $1.75. Students with KU Dbs will be admitted free. All seats are reserved.
Clinic pays people for sleeping
KANAS CITY, Kan. —For late-nighters who would love any excuse for going to the University of Kansas Medical
Staff Reporter
By CATLIN GOODWIN
The program, a sleep clinic, which studies Rapid Eye Movement in relation to various areas of psychiatric illness, is offered.
Exenxant Otterh, the sleep clinic's director, said last week he pays subjects up to $20, depending on the length of stay.
"We can keep them here three or four nights," he said.
In one study we had them sleep 24 hours in one day for
DURING EACH clinic, the subject lies on a bed in a control room and has electrodes attached to his head. The investigator then monitors the subject's brain waves and eye and muscle movements.
Ohmer said there were five stages in the sleep process, beginning with the waking stage and ending with the dreaming stage.
He said REM, which signifies dreaming, usually occurs during the first stage, although he had witnessed some people before him.
People dream 20 percent to 25 percent of the night and are in deep sleep only 10 percent to 20 percent of the night.
"However, drugs and alcohol change that very much," he said. "Sleeping pills and alcohol suppress dreams.
"THEN, WHEN the sleeping pill or alcohol loses effect,
He said amphetamines also suppressed dreams, but the occurrence of rebounding was not so frequent as for other drugs, because amphetamines do not cause physical addiction.
The study of drugs and drug abuse is one of the many uses of sleep research, Othmer said. Sleep research is also helpful in studying sleep disturbances and the brain, he said.
the person may have a REM rebound, which could lead to delirium."
Often a psychiatrist will treat a patient who cannot sleep, such as a depressed patient. Sleep research has helped psychiatrists determine the type and amount of medication that would be effective for such a patient, he said.
"The deprived patients wake up and can't go back to sleep," he said. "They have intermittent insomnia. They are not like a college student who can make up lost sleep on the weekend. They cannot make up sleep."
"THE DIFFERENCE between a depressed person and a nervous person is that the depressed person has trouble staying asleep, but the nervous person has trouble falling asleep."
He said a person who was nervous about an event the next day, such as an exam, would awaken several times during the night. These times are trial awakenings, he said, and often cause the person to oversleep.
There are also people who have an inner clock, which tells them to wake up at a specific time, he said.
"Usually these persons are very punctual," he said.
Other started the sleep clinic when he joined the Med Center staff in June 1977. The clinic is still in the beginning
'We told one subject to wake up at 3:00, and he did.'
"The computer is my best worker," he said. "It doesn't require a wage, it doesn't get a sick, it doesn't have coffee and a drink."
SLEEP RESEARCHERS must first program a computer to read brain waves and eye and muscle movements. Othmer said he hoped to develop a stamina tester that would ease expenses and the technicians' work load.
Othner said he estimated the cost of the sleep clinic to be $100,000, including a $60,000-a-year maintenance contract for the computers. This contract covers any possible loss of computers in the long run than paying for repairs as they are needed.
He said the equipment for the clinic was "pastly borrowed, partly funded." The National Institute of Health has funded the clinic until May. Othmer said he did not know who would fund it after that.
HE SAID there were 12 to 20 sleep clinics in the planning stage, plus two functioning clinics in Palo Alto, Calif., and Boston.
"These two clinics have been very successful," he said. "They have produced a lot of interesting data, particularly on narcolepsy, which is an illness in which a person sleeps all the time."
The Med Center clinic will be fully functional in about a year.he said.
Painting of KU smokestack could close street
By MARK SPENCER
Staff Reporter
Part of Sunflower Road may be closed
total because the power plant
plant ignited.
Bill Fenstemaker of the KU Parking Service said yesterday that the street, from Jayhawk Boulevard to Sunnyside Avenue, as well as parking lots behind Watson Library and Flint Hall, might be closed to protect vehicles from falling paint.
Depending on the direction and velocity of the wind, the streets will be closed for up to 7 hours.
The painting is part of a renovation project for the 240-foot smokestack, according to Rodger Oroke, director of the company. The renovation began about two weeks ago.
THE STACK renovation, last done in 1962,
will cost $14.837, he said.
The project, contracted by Gerard Chimney Co. of St. Louis, includes chipping loose debris from the stack, patching, painting and interior inspection. Okee said the renovation is needed to retard the combustion of the smokestack, which was built in 1922.
Whether the renovation, which should be completed in two weeks, is done again in 16 months, depends on how much time is used. Two of the four boilers need the stack for the natural ventilation it provides. The stack can also be upgraded.
Oroke said the advantages of a tall stack were that it could operate without elec-
ALTHOUGH THE stack requires expensive maintenance, Oroke said, it is not excessive in comparison to the costs involved in lowering the stack and remodeling the boilers. There are no plans to replace the stack.
Renovation workers start at the bottom of the stack, and work up, using scaffolding attached to the stack with two cables. They reach the scaffolding by using a permanent ladder attached to the side of the stack. Painting will begin at the top of the stack.
The wind at the top of the stack is up to twice stronger than that on ground levels.
Leroy Brower, foreman of the project and a 19 year veteran of Gerard Charnay Co., recently fell 70 feet from a stack. He suffered severe rope burns while trying to break his work. The workmen, however, said the prospect of falling didn't bother them.
"YOU DON'T have to worry about it," Ron Englehaupt, a worker from Shook, Mo., said. "If you're going to fall, you're going to fall."
"You have to remember three things.
For protection, the workers wear safety belts attached to "anything that won't come down with you," Steve Brower, Leroy's son, said. "The first time I climbed one, I was scared shilless. It took me a year to get used to it.
Make sure your belt is on, make sure it is snapped and make sure you don't slip."
When the workers are finished with the outside of the stack, they will take pictures of the inside to determine if there are any cracks. Brower said that a pully was set up
so a worker could lower himself into the stack.
Restaurant liquor licenses wait for state court ruling
Although the job doesn't pay more than construction jobs on the ground, the workers said they enjoyed it, particularly the traveling.
Although the liquor in restaurants question passed over overwhelmingly Tuesday in Douglas County, it may be another month before restaurants can serve liquor to customers.
Thomas Kennedy, director of the state alcohol Control Bottle said yesterday that legislation to review the ACB until the Kansas Superintendent on the institution of the liqueur law.
The court reviewed the case Oct. 27. A court spokesman said he did not know when the court would release its opinion. It also said that the judge was in case before the decision is released, he said.
The court is reviewing the lour law state officials have raised questions about
Kennedy said application forms for restaurant can be available from the booking office.
"Once the Supreme Court makes its
applications, Kennedy will act on the
applications," he said.
regulations have not been completed,
Kennedy said.
He said that after the rules we drew up, a public hearing would be held to determine whether they were acceptable. No hearing date has been set. Kennedy said.
If problems with the rules develop at the public hearing, they will be worked out by the Alcohol Beverage Control Board of State and then go to the Revisor of Statutes to be adopted.
Many area restaurant owners said they were pleased when they learned the issue had passed in Douglas County. Residents of Douglas County and voted 12,172 to 7,902 in favor of the issue.
Jes Santalaria, owner of the Eldridge House Dining Room and Club, Seventh and Massachusetts streets, said he would apply for a license.
"I'll drive to Topeka if I have to, to get it," he said.
He said serving mixed drinks should help the restaurant business in Lawrence and predicted an increase in overall sales of 20 to 25 percent for his restaurant.
The liquor in restaurants rules and
Most of us agree that the goals regulation seeks are important. Clean air and water. Job safety. Equal rights at work. The problem is the way Government people now write and apply specific rules to reach those goals. Too often, the rules don't really do the job. They just tie companies up in knots as they try to comply.
Why too much regulation may rule you out
How would you like to be forced to get permission from a company so that your paperwork could work?
That's what Armco has to do. We think you could hear a similar story from nearly any large company in America—if the regulatory paperwork leaves them any time to talk to you. Excessive regulation your chance of getting it.
Last year, federal regulations took up a twelve-foot shell of textbook size volumes printed in small type. 13,589 more pages were written last year alone. And Washington is more than matched by a growing army of state and local libraries.
PLAIN TALK 4 FROM ARMCO ON FINDING A JOB:
$200 a year for every man, woman and child America. Companies paying the bill can't use that money, but if you invest, now costs a company $4,500 in capital investment. (Armco's own cost is $7,520). At $4,500 per job, regulation last year are 90,000 which could have created 900,000 jobs.
Nobody really knows how much money regulation costs. Some say it's up to $40 billion a year. Spread the word now.
Plain talk about REGULATION Besides our 397 permits, Armco at last count had to file periodic reports with 1.245 federal, state and local agencies. What happens to the data? It isn't that important. But what
No sensible American wants to dismantle all Government regulation. But we think the system has gone berserk and the cost is out of control.
happens to a company's jobs is. Here's an example:
Safety regulations require companies to install special guards over electrical components to protect people from being electrocuted. Like most industrial companies, Armco has scores of giant, built-in electrical cranes to handle huge loads. Their electrical components are in the top of each crane, high away from the plant floor. To maintain and control the power supply, moved so work can be done. Except for expert electricians, no one ever goes up on top of a crane. Yet unless we win a special dispensation, we'll have to install a useless set of guards on every Armco crane at a total cost of some $6,000,000. That wafts enough money to create 120 new Armco jobs, right there. Even though Armco people are ten times safer on the job than they are away from work. Next time anybody calls for a new regulation, you might ask for some sensible analysis of the costs and benefits—including how many jobs might be lost. Oral
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