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Wednesdav. September 6, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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Staff photo by BRUCE BANDLI
Alan Patterson
Hearings set on building scandal
Three architects involved in a 1973 architectural scandal will have their final bearings tomorrow as the State Board of Architecture will be violated professional conduct guidelines.
The three, former partners in the Marshall-Brown architectural firm of Kansas City, Kan., Robert Jarvis, Donald Sledd and Edwin Kearn, are to testify before the board.
In 1975, 19 architects, engineers and contractors were indicted for conspiracy to bribe a public official. Only one man, Mr. Browning, formerly of Marshall-Brown, was convicted.
The group allegedly offered former Gov. Robert Docking campaign funds if he would grant a $500,000 design contract for a large Kansas Medical Center expansion project.
AFTER THE criminal court acted on the individuals and handed down Slicevora's conviction, the judge ordered a re-arrest.
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The last case to come before the board, that of engineer Charles Burgess, will be heard.
Decisions on Jarvis, Karrf and Sied will
mudd the morning, the month, a board
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Professions started to review the actions of eight individuals in the case.
Former State Architect Kenneth McClain and Frank Fisher, formerly of Marshall-Brown, were the first to be reprimanded by the board. In February, the licenses of the two were revoked for six months and they were niaced on probation for one year.
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Decisions are pending on two others.
Sidorwicz and Will Taliafero, an engineer.
Currently that will be the last action taken concerning the 1973 conspiracy case.
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By JIM BLOOM
Pilot fought color barrier
When Alan Patterson left Lawrence in 1424 as a 18-year-old army recruit, he had been in the cavalry.
Staff Reporter
Patterson reported to Tuskegee, Ala., and began fighter pilot training, and upon its completion he joined the 99th fighter Corps squadron comprised of black pilots.
Before the formation of the 99th, the Army did not allow blacks in the Air Corps or in the artillery, engineering, signal and tank corps.
Patterson, now retired and living in north Lawrence, said he thought that even after the squadron was formed there was some opposition to it.
"WE WERE trained to be fighter pilots," he said. "But we never flew any combat missions. We were only used for escort missions for bombers."
The 99th, stationed in France and Italy during the later part of World War II, distinguished itself by flying L75 missions distinguished by including 95 Distinguished Flying Cases.
Although Patterson said the squadron was used only for escorts, that did not keep it out
"There were several times when we'd be flying back to our base and we'd get into it with some German Messerschmids," he said. "I never got shot down, but there were some close calls. Most of the time our crew was on the ground, but we were just too fast for them to keep up."
PATTERSON SAID only two members of the squadron were killed during the war. Both of them lost control of their planes while trying to land.
combat飞. the commander, Benjamin O. Davis, later became the first black major league player in history.
"We were flying back from an escort mission and just happened to run across it." We had to zoom in before we mission jets that had only 30 minutes of fuel. I think they were out testing it when he shot them.
Several other members of the 99th became prominent figures, Patterson said. Coleman Young, currently the mayor of Detroit, and Daniel James Jr., a four-star Air Force general who died last year, both were members of the fighter squadron.
Following his discharge in 1946, he tried to get a job with a commercial airline in 1953. He left the company.
THEY SAID they couldn't hire colored
plots," he said. "I don't think I ever been
as mad as I was that day I came back from K.C.
"That's why that car is just sitting there," he said, pointing to a heap in the back yard. "I blew the engine driving home that night and I've never been able to fix it."
Patterson had tried for flying for a local crop-dusting outfit. He quit that after his first and only flying accident, when he smashed a crop-duster into an 10,000-gallon tank of gasoline. He walked away from the crash with a gash in his arm and a black shirt. At Santa Pae Railroad, where he worked until 1974, when he retired after a back operation.
Now, however, Patterson has only one regret.
"I just wish I was 10 years younger so I could get a job with an airline," he said. "They're hiring pilots away from the Navy because they need 'em so bad."
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