University Daily Kansan
Friday, September 1, 1978
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Engineer 'ignorant' of kickbacks
TOPEKA (UPI)—Kansas City, Kan. engineer Will Tailorler, a former defendant in the state architectural contract kickback case, testified in his own defense yesterday before an engineers licensing panel that is considering suspending his
Tallahassee, an official of the Kansas City, Kan., engineering firm Tallahasfer & Browne, told a hearing panel that he was ignorant of any unscpurable deal that might have been made by an architectural engineering combine to obtain a $300,000 grant.
The board is considering a complaint accusing Tailfero of misconduct in the practice of engineering in connection with the kickback case.
IN PREVIOUS criminal proceedings, Taliaferro and 24 other defendants were accused of bribery conspiracy in the alleged trade of a $300,000 contribution to the campaign. Robert Docking for the design contract to expand the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Charges against Talferro and his firm were dismissed before the action ever came to trial. Only Kansas City architect Norbert Sidowicz and his firm, Marshall & Brown-
Sidorowicz, were convicted by jury in the Case. An affiliated firm, Marshall & Brown of Kansas, pleaded no contest in the criminal case.
The board yesterday first heard testimony from former state Architect Kenneth McLain and Frank Fisher, a former official of the Marshall & Brown companies. Both had been unindicted co-conspirators in the criminal case.
McLAIN AND Fisher testified to the alleged conspiracy between the architectural and engineering firms in which the contract was negotiated and the contribution allegedly solicited. Fisher told how he relayed word by telephone from McLain to David Wilson, then it was time for another installment to be made on the $50,000 political contribution.
Tailarfero, whose firm was described as a subcontractor on the project, said Marshall & Brown-Sidorowicz and its officers were involved in the contract with the state concerning the contract. He said Fisher told him the team had decided to contribute to the Docking campaign. However Tailarfero said he did not think the contract was associated with obtaining the contract.
THE ENGINEER said Fisher told him it
had been decided Talaiferro & Browne's share of the total contribution would be $3,000, to be made in several installations. He said he reluctantly agreed to the contributions, wanting to do his part as a member of the architectural-engineering team.
Tallafero testified that payments were delivered in cash to the offices of Marshall & Brown but that he had no knowledge of their fate after that. McLain and Fisher testified that contributions were collected by Marshal & Brown officials and delivered in his apartment to former Docking side Richard Muley, a former defendant in the case.
THE HEARING panel took the matter under advisement, with attorneys for both sides to submit proposed findings of fact in time for the board's Oct. 13 meeting.
The board is expected to decide a similar complaint against Sidorowicz on Sept. 27, 2016, after the board ordered that these cases are found guilty they will be subject to suspension or revocation of their licenses as required by law.
In July, the board suspended another former defendant in the kickback case, Charles Campbell, who was president of Marshall & Brown Inc., another affiliated
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firm. Although criminal charges against Campbell had been dismissed, the board suspended his engineer's license for a year and placed him on probation for an additional year. Campbell has appealed the decision to County District Court.
McLAIN AND Fisher also were suspended earlier for periods of six months.
The board has scheduled further disciplinary hearings for architects Edwin Koffr, Overland Park; Robert Jarvus, Kansas City, Kan.; and Donied Sledd, Prairie Village Sept. 7, and engineer William Burgess, Overland Park Sept. 14.
By ROBIN ROBERTS
Staff Reporter
All land needed for construction of the proposed Clinton Parkway now belongs to the City of Lawrence and to Douglas County, a city director of public works, said yesterday.
Douley said the tracts owned by 24 landowners were purchased by the authorities through a contribution.
The combination process began when city and county attorneys filed a petition for eminent domain in the Douglas County District Court.
Plans for the four-lane highway called for the purchase of 40 tracts of land between the corner of Iowa and 23rd streets and Clinton Lake.
EMINENT DOMAIN is the power of the state to take public property for public use with the payment of compensation to the owner. The court held hearings on July 24
for landholders inside city limits and on July 26 for landowners outside city limits.
After the hearings, the court appointed Robert P. Harrison, G. F. Bodin and Joseph Marzulif as appraisers to report damages to be paid.
A spokesman for the county court clerk's office said the applairers' report for tracts outside city limits was approved Aug. 4. The applairers inside city limits was approved Aug. 9.
Eminent domain cases are considered closed upon approval of these reports, but landowners have 30 days to appeal. The spokesman said no appeals had been filed.
Dooley said money for the land was paid on Aug. 6, to landowners accepting the original offer and on Aug. 14, to landowners purchased in August through the combination process.
OCCUPANTS OF THE purchased tracts have until Sept. 23 to remove trees, shrubs, fences and other personal property, but will additional time to have their houses moved.
Dooley said if no appeals were filed, the department of transportation would open bidding on the contract for the highway on Sept. 21, in Topeka.
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Dooley said the highway probably would be completed between two and five years after it was started. According to law, vehicles must begin within 120 days after bids are ended.
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He said the cost of the highway was estimated at $10 million but federal aid was less.
Now that the right of way land has been purchased, the county commission will review more requests from Sept. 10 to Sept. 13.
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KU graduate killed
A former University of Kansas student was killed and another seriously injured early yesterday morning in a one-vehicle accident on Kansas-10.
Leonard H. (Lonie) Taylor, 22,
Leawood, was killed when the 1783 Jeep
he was driving skidded and overtured
twice after he apparently fell asleep at
the wheel, according to the Johnson
County sheriff's office.
A passenger in the Taylor vehicle, Steven Culp, 23, Kansas City, Kan., is in
intensive care at Shawnee Mission Hospital in Overland Park.
Taylor, a graduate of Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, Mo., and a 1978 graduate of KU, held a bacharia'd degree at the University of Oklahoma, member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.
A rosary and wals will be from 7 to 9 tonight at McGillie and Hoge Memorial Chapel in Overland Park. The funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. at Ars Catholic Church in Prairie Village.
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