VOL.101.NO.48
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS STATE HISTOR SOCIETY TOPEKA, KS 66412
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAAS
WINESTDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1990
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Trick or Treat
Heather Gordon, Deerfield, Ill., sophomore, left, and Stephanie Osheff, Chicago freshman, help 2-year-old Gabrielle Scheff gather Halloween treats during the Sigma Dau Tau Halloween Party. Thirty area children attended the celebration last night. Stacie Chesen, Sigma Delta Tau president, said she thought the party was a safe way to trick-or-treat.
Bill would give Haskell $3 million
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
Haskell Indian Junior College students soon may have a new place to live if President Bush signs a bill passed by Congress giving the institution an additional $3 million for campus improvements and pro-
The bill would supplement the institution's 1991 budget of $7.7 million.
Bob Martin, Haskell president, said he was pleased with the legislation.
"It is really a shot in the arm," Martin said. "We are very appreciative."
tive of the efforts of Congressman (Jim) Slattery and Senator (Nancy Kassebaum."
Brad Traverse, legislative aide to Kassebaum, said, "Haskell funding has been at the same level for the last 10 to 15 years, while inflation and the cost of living have increased. It has been neglected for years. That is why the senator supported the increase of funding for Haskell."
Traverse said the junior college was important to Kansas and the nation.
"It is one of only two national colleges for Native Americans in the country, and it offers great opportunity."
nities for Native Americans to receive an education that they might not have otherwise," he said.
Martin said $2.3 million would be used for campus improvements and projects such as a new residence hall and several roof repairs.
Tecumseh Hall also would be renovated, Marti said. The hall was built in 1917 as a boy's gymnasium and is now used for recreational activities
About $700,000 would be used to continue Haskell's summer school and natural resources programs.
The money also would be used to buy equipment and supplies for the natural resources program at Haskell.
Last summer was the first time in nine years that the junior college was able to offer a summer school pro
The program teaches students how to manage natural resources and how to take that knowledge to forest services or American Indian tribes.
gram. Martin said.
"Response to the program was huge, more than we expected," he said. "We hope to be able to continue that program into next summer."
"We think this money will help us as we move into the future," Martin said.
10 sailors die in ship boiler pipe explosion
Accident puts gulf toll at 43
The Associated Press
MANAUM, Bahrain — A boiler pipe ruptured yesterday on the USS two Jima, spewing out super-heated steam that killed 10 sailors.
The accident aboard the amphibious assault ship and the death of a Marine when his jeep overturned in Saudi Arabia boosted the number of U.S. military deaths to 43 during the 3-month old Operation Desert Shield
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who have departed us," said the Iwo Jima is commander, Capt. Michael O'Hearn.
The accident was the worst for the Navy in the U.S.-led air, land and sea mobilization that followed Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait. In the only other Navy failure during Operation Desert Shield, a sailor was electrocuted in August aboard the USS Antietam.
The two Jima, part of the amphibious task force and U.S. naval armada supporting Operation Desert Shield, are on hour before the 8:15 a.m. accident.
"It was only a couple of miles from the pier when the accident occurred," said Li Kevin Wensong, a Navy Air Force, Commandal
Wensing, who visited the ship after it returned to port, spoke of the "herismos" of a well-trained crew who secured the ship's two boilers, anchored the ship, evacuated the injured after their condition was stabilized and collected the remains of the dead.
He said that because the boilers were shut off, the vessel was towed back to port with help of Bahraini emergency diesel generators for backup.
Wensing described the mood of the 685-man crew and 1,100 Marines
aboard as "somber but very determined."
Six sailors died immediately after the accident. The Iwo Jima, which played a prominent role in evacuating the 241 Marines killed by a suicide bomber in Beirut in 1983, used its own helicopters to transport four injured sailors to the hospital ship USSI Comfort.
Two of the injured died aboard the hospital ship, the Navy said. The last two survivors were reported in very serious condition, and late yesterday afternoon the Pentagon confirmed they also had died.
Names of the dead were withheld until their relatives could be notified. The two Jima is based in Nortfolk, Va.
The Marine who died was with three others from the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines when their jeep overturned and went down a 26-foot military statement said. His companions were in stable condition.
In a related development, officials said three U.S. sailors were injured when their pickup truck was hit Monday by two 50-caliber machine gun rounds fired accidentally by a Marine sentry.
The accident guntire occurred as the sailors approached the entrance to a Marine Corps facility. One sailor was hit by a bullet in the shoulder and chest; the second was injured by glass shards, and the third suffered a concussion, a military statement said.
The Associated Press
KANAS CITY, Kan — A federal judge ruled yesterday that the state did not have to allow write-in votes in the district. The governor but must change the law next year.
U. D. District Judge Earl O'Connor ruled after the American Civil Liberties Union challenged a 1973 state law prohibiting write-ins for governor. He argued that appeals of Appeals in Denver later refused to hear an appeal from the ACLU.
See election coverage in Section B
The Secretary of State's office, which administers elections, admitted the prohibition is unconstitutional. They argued in hearings last week that it would be impossible to change before Tuesday's elections.
"The timing of this lawsuit does not permit the court to act responsibly in requiring immediate changes in the state election process." O'Connor
"To require such changes at this late hour would, at best, create a potential for voter confusion, disrupt the election process, jeopardize its security and orderliness, and place unreasonable demands on state and local election officials," O'Connor said.
But he said if the Legislature failed to change the law during its 1991 session, the court will order the state to allow write-in votes for all offices.
O'Connor agreed.
inms ruling, O'Connor stated that the election already was under way. Over 20,000 absentee ballots have been distributed and a number have been
Hayden gains 1st lead in polls
John Reinhart, press spokesperson for the secretary of state, said his
In a survey done for the Pittsburg Morning Sun and three television stations, WDAF in Kansas City, KTKA in Topeka and KSNW in Wichita, Hayden drew from 43 percent of those interviewed, while Finney got 38 percent and independent canvassers Campbell-Cline 2 percent.
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Republican Gov. Mike Hayden claimed a modest lead in a media poll for the first time during the general election campaign yesterday, moving ahead of Democratic challenger Joan Finney by five percentage points.
The remaining 17 percent were undecided.
The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent.
"Kansas voters deserve better," Kurtbenbach said. "This whole election may be challenged because the governor is using its election law is unconstitutional."
Reinhart said that the secretary of state would go before the Legislature to ask for the change.
Dick Kurttenbach, ACLU executive director, said he was pleased the court found the prohibition unconstitutional but disappointed with the
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are five registered voters in Johnson County, two Republicans, two Democrats and one independent, who contend that the state's policy violates their constitutional rights.
"He feels a strong obligation," Reinhardt said. "The judge said that if we don't take care of it, he will."
office was relieved the integrity of the elections had been preserved.
Manager defends ID of Grissom
By Eric Gorski
Kansan projects writer
Paul Morrison asks Jacqueline Faught to identify a photo of Theresa Brown.
OLATHE — A storage area manager explained yesterday during questioning at the Grissom murder trial why it took her 17 months to peg two prisoners whose those of Richard Grissom Jr. and Theresa Brown.
On Monday, Jacqueline Faught, former manager of the Mini Warehouse of Rayton, surprised defense attorneys by testifying that on June 26, 1989, she rented a storage space to a woman who looked like Brown and was accompanied by a man fitting Grisson's description.
Pool photo by Beverly Potter/KANSAS CITY STAR
The woman signed Christine Rusch's name on the agreement. Faught said. Brown and Rusch. Lenexa roomates, last were heard from earlier that morning.
Testimony yesterday revealed that Monday may have been the first time Faught had told officials that she thought it was Grissom and Brown who visited her office that morning.
Earlier this month, a private investigator for the defense interviewed Faught and gave his findings to police, who in turn interviewed Faught the next day, according to testimony yesterday.
"It was like someone had slapped me in the face." Faught said. "When you finally put it together, you say, 'I should have noticed it before.' It's just so plain .'"
Erker asked Faught for details about her inter
During cross-examination yesterday by Thomas Erker, one of Grissom's court-appointed attorneys, Faught said she thought she told police during this month's interview that the man who came to the storage business looked like Grissom. Attorneys who questioned Faught have not testified.
Faught testified that she did not connect the June 26 rental with the Grissom case because she had confused Rusch's name with a Rusch family daytown whose name was pronounced differently.
views with the defense investigator and police, and when she could not recall some of her comments, he questioned her ability to recall clearly the morning of June 26, 1989.
She said only some of the pictures of Grissom and Brown shown to her by investigators looked like those they were.
He also repeatedly quizzed her about whether she made the connection after seeing pictures of Grissom and the missing women on television. But Faucht stuck to her story.
Grissom, 29, faces three counts of first-degree murder and nine other charges relating to the June 1989 disappearances of Brown and Rusch, then 22, and 1987 KU graduate Joan M. Butler, then 24, of Overland Park. The women never have been found. Grissom pleaded not guilty to all the
In other testimony yesterday, Rick Fahy, a
handwriting expert from the Johnson County Sheriff's Department crime lab, said the signature on the June 26 Raytony agreement was not consistent whether Griswarn or Brown signed the paper.
A signature on a Feb. 6 rental agreement at the Rayton storage area probably was Grissom's, ?hay? said. Fought testified that a man and his son denied an office in March 1988 to cancel that agreement.
Fahy also testified that four money-market checks totaling $2,400 that were written on Rusch's account the morning of June 26, 1989, bore signatures matching Rusch's.
Testimony also was heard about the contents of Grissom's brown Toyota, recovered June 27, 1989, in Grandview, an inner city and high school diplomas bearing the names of Grissom alliances were found in the car.
Halloween a nightmare for real Fred Kruegers
The Associated Press
Freddy Krueger hates Halloween.
In fact, Oct. 31 is a nightmare for
Fred Kruegers who live in Pennsylvania,
Virginia and North Carolina
It's particularly tough for the Fred Krueger who lives in Tobyhanna, Pa. His house is two blocks from Elm Street.
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No kidding. Fred Krugers, men with the same name as the star of screen, scream and goe, are alive and well but unenthusiastic about the
holiday that is descended from the medieval All Hallows Eve.
The prank calls and weird stares, they say, will be relentless.
None of the Freeds is mained by scars, has pop-out claws or dons a fedora. None has been accused of even one grisly murder, unlike the prolific maniee featured in the book "A Nightmare on Elm Street." But these disparities do not ward off pranksters.
"I've got some regular customers on the phone," said Fred Krueger who lives in Olivers Mills, Pa., and in Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Co.
"It's best to go along with them," he said, noting that kids will just harass him if he sounds mad or hangs up.
Fred Krueger, a retired banker from Charlotte, N.C., also plays the demonic role but said he tries to keep it simple because he once scared a
little girl.
"She wanted to know if I was the Freddy and I said, 'Yeah' and gave her the laugh," said the 75-year retiree. "And then I said several other things and said I would be over to see her.
"There was silence on the phone."
An understandable reaction. In his most recent movie, "A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Child," Freddy
See FREDDY, p. 8