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Tuesday, October 9, 1990/ University Daily Kansan
Humane Society needs space
Rescued dogs crowd shelter
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence Humane Society tonight plans to ask the city commission to build 12 new kennels.
Roma Tesch, manager of the society, 1805 E. 19th St., said it had received 16 dogs that were confiscated Friday from a kennel north of Centropolis, about 15 miles south of Lawrence.
"I wish we would have already expanded," Tesch said. "We've out-grown our facilities already, and this only makes the situation worse."
"We're in a rough way here with space," she said. "What it amounts to is that we'll have to euthane more animals to make room."
The number of abandoned pets locally and nationally has been growing. Trombley said.
"The trend has been that more and more animals are coming in," she said. "It could be that education has increased, so people take more action when it comes to straits. It is likely that more and more animals are being euthanized."
"We're not the ones who really kill the animals. It's the people who let their female animals have puppies and kittens who are the real killers."
A preliminary hearing for Marilyn Marsh, owner of the Centropolis kennel, will be Oct. 18 at the Washburn Law School courtroom, said Carol Bonebraker, assistant attorney general.
On Friday, state officials seized 120 Akita dogs from the kennel. The dogs were sent to several humane units and the Lawrence received 16 of them.
One dog, which bit an animal control officer, was taken to Bradley Veterinary Hospital, 935 E. 23rd St. The patient had been shot and 15 Akitas at the shelter
These Akitas will stay at the Lawrence Humane Society until a preliminary hearing Oct. 18.
Don Ross, volunteer at The Heart of America Akita Club, said his organization would try to rescue as many of the dogs as possible.
Unfortunately several of the dogs will have to be put down for health reasons, and several more are so psychologically disturbed that they will never be able to be adopted," he said. "I'm examining a dog right now from the seizure who has never walked on grass before."
Grissom attorneys motion to call witness
The Associated Press
OLATHE — A judge was expected to rule in a hearing yesterday on a motion by Richard Grissom's attorneys indicating that they may call a witness to give him an alibi, court paperers show.
Kansas law requires criminal defendants to notify prosecutors of their intent to use an ali defense if they plan to call witnesses and not just rely on the testimony of the defendant. The court papers were filed Friday.
Grissom's attorneys also filed a motion seeking to have jurors sequestered during the trial.
June 18, 1989, and with killing Christine Rusch and Theresa Brown on or about June 26, 1989. He faces nine other charges relating to the disappearance of the three County women, whose bodies have not been found
The owners of a Topeka dog kennel that was closed June 19 by the Kansas attorney general's office were sentenced Friday.
Grissom is charged with killing Joan Marie Butler on
The defense motion to sequester jurors contends heavy media coverage expected for the trial would make it difficult to prevent jurors from hearing unsolicited comments about the testimony.
Another motion filed Friday by the defense seeks to have juries view a storage locker in southern Overland Park, N.C. (AP).
Kennel owners sentenced Kansan staff report
The owners, Steve Scheuerman and Leonard Conger, were fined $16,000 together and sentenced to two years probation and 500 hours each of time served. The plaintiffs Topka Zoo, said Mary Horsch, the attorney general's press secretary
Gubernatorial candidate asks Legislature to reconsider all items sold in Kansas
Finney wants review of sales tax system
By Carol Krekeler
Kansan staff writer
The Legislature needs to reconsider the entire sales tax system, gubernational candidate Joan Finney said yesterday.
"Let's lay them all on the table and let the Legislature determine each
really, is Remyah rai-
cal? I asked her, said re-
ferring to all items sold in the state "this is something that is bad overtime"
Finney spoke to 200 people yesterday at the Holidome. 200
Joan Finney
McDonald Drive, during a Lawrence Rotary Club luncheon.
Earlier this month, Finney said she wanted to place a 1 percent sales tax on enough of the 56 items now tax-exempt to create $436 million. She said she would use that money to roll back property taxes 33.3 percent.
Professional services and other areas that affect the general population, such as food stamps and pharma, will remain tax exempt, she said.
Finney did not specify in her proposal which tax-exempt items should be taxed. During a news conference after her speech, Finney said that she wanted the Legislature to evaluate all taxed and tax-exempt items.
"Who knows, we may find some items that are being taxed shouldn't be." she said
"The trade off is going to be far in your favor," she said. "It needs to be done, but it needs to be clarified."
The benefits of property-tax reduction would outweigh the burden of the new sales taxes, Finney said.
Frank Yharras, Gov Mike Hayden's press secretary, said Fainey's proposal to review the sales tax law was being carried out by the Legislature.
"They study all these exemptions this year," he said. "This issue has been thoroughly heard by the Legislature."
Steve Goodman, Finney's press secretary, said the Legislature could finish reviewing sales taxes in time to review December 1993 property taxes.
Fairgrounds to be site to leave oil, batteries
Rv Flicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
Douglas County residents will be able to drop off used motor oil and automobile batteries at the county fairgrounds beginning in November.
County commissioners voted yesterday to allow Patricia Marvin, Lawrence recycling coordinator, to collect oil and batteries at the fairgrounds, 2120 Harper ST. but collection now uses two other collection sites.
Oil, batteries and grass clippings are accepted Saturdays at Centennial Park, Sixth and Iowa streets, Route 204, Monroe Park, 12th Street and Monterey Way.
Earthbear, the city's recycling program that began in June, has collected 1,500 gallons of used oil, an estimated 78 tons of grass clippings that otherwise would have been dumped in a sandlift, Marvin said.
"The most important thing we can do for people is to raise people's awareness about recycling," she said. "The Exxon spill is very little compared to what the average homeowner pours into the city sewer."
Earthbear will discontinue later this fall. Marvin said. Collection of oil and batteries, but not grass clippings, are stored at the fairgrounds through March.
Attendants work at the sites to make sure that the items are appropriate to recycle.
Bill Bell, director of buildings and grounds for Douglas County, said the fargrounds site would be accessible to the public.
"We want to have a place for the public that they can just drive up, drop off their oil and then drive away," he said. "We have eight dairy farms used during the winter, and the one closest to the road would be perfect."
Marvin told the commission she was discussing with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in connection with a case of carding household hazardous wastes.
"It has been estimated there are three gallons of paint per household in the United States," she said. "Right now most of it goes into our landfills where it definitely does not belong."
"We've had people from Baldwin, Eudora and Tonganoxia that have come to the sites," she said. "The response has been very good."
She said there had been strong participation from people in rural areas as well as in Lawrence.
The amount of oil a person can leave is limited to five gallons, and contaminated oil is not accepted, Marvin said.
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