Boning up
Next time you come back from a weekend at home and discover that all your plants died, don't feel so bad. Paleontologist Larry Martin says life forms have been fading into
extinction every 2.3 million years or so, to make room for higher creatures. If they weren't, we'd still be just a gleam in Mother Nature's eye. See story, page 3.
Warming
The University Daily
High, 50s. Low, 30s.
Details on page 3.
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 50 (USPS 650-640)
Friday, November 2, 1984
CARBONDALE — Janet Ogan, left, of the American Red Degand, also a Red Cross volunteer and civil defense coor- cross, Leona Dengand, a red Cross volunteer, and John denator of Osage County, assess the damage.
Town reels in wake of fatal storm
BV LAURETTA SCHULTZ
Staff Reporter
CARBONDALE — The Berry Creek Tavern, just north of town on U.S. Highway 75, drew an uncommonly, but understandably, somber crowd yesterday afternoon.
A quarter mile south of the bar, a violent Halloween storm had claimed the lives of five people, destroyed four mobile homes and wrecked a small plane. Carbondale, a town of about 1,500, was still feeling reverberations from the storm yesterday.
"In a small community like this, everyone feels the shock," said Sarah Heise, an employee at the bar. "This place is usually pretty rawdy and happy by now. This was a moment."
The Mineral Springs Trailer Court near Carbondale, about 10 miles south of Topeka, was hit at about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday by what authorities are now calling "intense straight winds." Two residents of the trailer park died in the storm.
"It was a tornado and it killed my mom," he said.
Across the road, Norman Earl DeForest, 44 also was killed when the roof of a garage in which he had sought shelter collapsed, crushing him under a boat.
"THIS WAS NO straight wind." said Jeff Rogers as he stood with red eyes and tear-stained cheeks and surveyed the clutter that had been his home 24 hours before. His mother, Edith Kay Rogers, 39, died in the storm.
Doug Burge, 22. also were killed when the single-engine plane they were in crashed about 650 feet from the trailer park during the storm. The wreckage of the plane, which was traveling to Topeka from Little Rock, Ark., was not discovered until 9 a.m. yesterday.
Three men from a Topека engineering firm, Bob Miller. 55. Doug Wallace. 49, and
"IT DOESN'T LOOK anything like a plane," said Dana Coffman. Osage County sheriff's deputy "Everyone thought it was just a bunk of tin that had blown off one of the
While volunteers worked yesterday to clear the rubble at the trailer park, people began to wander into the Berry Creek Tavern. Heise said she had been working at the tavern the night before.
There was absolutely no warning," she said. "We heard this roar, then the doors began banging open and shut, and it was all over in a matter of seconds."
Heise said the bar stayed open, using gas lanterns for light because the electricity had gone out. Two of the Coleman lanterns still sat on the counter behind the bar yesterday.
"They are kind of grim reminders," she said. "I hop they take them home soon."
"WE HAD ABOUT 60 of those to hand out to customers on Halloween night," Heise said. "But with everything happening, no one had an answer. We definitely laid our own 'Fright Night.'"
Next to the lanterns sat plastic beer mugs with a picture of a bat and "Bud Light Fright Night" printed on the front.
Patrons of the bar were reluctant to talk to reporters. They were tired of the media attacking them.
"Newspeople have been crawling all over around here during the whole thing," said
CARBONDALE — Time stood still at the home of Edith Rogers, who died Wednesday night when her home was destroyed in a severe storm. This clock, not yet set back to standard time, shows the time at which Rogers' mobile home was struck.
But Ray Barnes, whose mobile home was ripped apart by the storm, said the publicity campaign to help him endure.
one Carbondale man. "I wish they would just go home. We've had enough of this."
"All of the publicity is OK. I guess," he said. "It has been getting us a lot of help."
bough BARNES, 30, AND his girlfriend. Taunia
"Hell of a way to get your picture on TV,
though."
See STORM, p. 5, col. 1
Riots rage in India; 148 people are dead
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India - At least 148 people were reported killed yesterday and 1,000 injured as Hindus in northern India exploded in rage against Sikhs over the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
The violence took place in 19 cities in 12 states only a day after two Sikh bodyguards killed Gandhi in a hail of submachine gun fire, plunging the world's largest democracy
To Sibon on sight to mat.
As her son and successor Rajvj Gandhi met in emergency session with the Cabinet, Gandhi's flower-covered body lay on a bed of ice at her childhood home, the Teen Murthi House.
Army troops moved into nine of the hardest ht cities, clamped a 24-hour curfew in New Delhi and 21 other cities and ordered troops to shoot on sight to halt rioting.
in the holy Sikh city of Amritsar, police announced the arrest of Tarlak Singh Bajwa, 50, father of Satwant Singh, one of the two Sikh bodyguards accused of assassinating Gandhi.
GANDHIUS FUNERAL WAS set for tomorrow. Among those scheduled to come were Secretary of State George Shultz, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Tikhonov.
Police swinging clubs and firing tear gas pushed back crowds of mourners who tried to push through barriers for a glimpse of the body, setting off a stumpede in which 70 people were reported injured.
Police said Singh's father was being held for questioning. Singh was shot and wounded and his accomplice was killed by other members of Gandhi's security detail.
THE GOVERNMENT BANNED newspa-
ses in Punjab, home of most of India's 14
million Sikhs, from publishing reports on the violence against the sect in an attempt to avoid inflaming the Sikh majority with news of Hindu attacks.
Helicopters flew overhead to locate rampaging mobs who left the streets of New Delhi littered with the smoking shells of scores of automobiles, buses and trucks.
"The PRIME MINISTER has given very strict instructions to all agencies concerned with law and order that on no account should we allow these sort of incidents to continue." said government spokesman M.K. Wali
In the city of Bokar, 150 miles west of Calcutta, police opened fire on Sikhs and Hindus battling in the streets, killing four people, the Press Trust reported. Thirty-two other people were reported injured in the clashes.
"The police are under strain and are overburdened. That is why we called in the army — to strengthen the hand of the civil police. Helicopters have been dispatched to survey the city for rioters." Wali said.
In Tiruchappalli, 1,200 miles south of the capital, a 24-year old Hindu railway worker killed himself by pouring kerosene over his head and lightning a match, shouting "Indira Gandhi Zindabad" — "Long live Indra Gandhi."
In central New Delhi, Sikhs besieged by furious Hindus at the Rakabganj temple beheaded one man in a crowd attempting to force its way into the sanctuary.
Sikhs inside the temple fired automatic weapons sending the surrounding mob and approaching policemen diving for cover. Police moved in later to rescue the besieged Sikhs and found two characters frzenized mobs pursuing a Sikh man rampaged into the house of a member of Parliament, set it afire, burning the Sikh to death.
Slattery, Van Slyke choose different campaign styles
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is one of a series of stories about local and area candidates for elective office.
By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
The candidates for the 2nd Congressional District seat have followed differing campaign trails in their quest for victory.
Jim Van Slyke, the Republican challenger, has said often that he wants to align himself with the Reagan administration and hopes
ELECTION '84
deagan's popularity will bring votes his way. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Topela, has emphasized his independence from the partisan views of hard-line Democrats in Congress.
"It's been extremely difficult for people to label me," Slattery said yesterday. "I don't think people want a partisan congressman."
on his reputation as a fiscal conservative and his support of reducing the federal budget deficit by freezing government spending at current levels. He has said he opposes the $85 billion tax increase that is part of Valter Mondale's deficit reduction plan.
"Young Americans — all of us — should be angry about the federal deficit," he said. "All the money that's being spent now will have to come from higher taxes for young people in the future."
In his campaign, Slattery has concentrated
VAN SUXKE. A 26-year-old Topeka businessman, said yesterday that it was no surprise that Slaterry was avoiding his party's coattails.
"He wants to run as far away from the Democrates and his party as he can," he said. "And I don't blame him. That wouldn't go over in Kansas."
Because Slattery is a Democrat, Van Slyke said, he doesn't have the backing of the administration and would have little effect on legislation of any significance.
See CONGRESS, p. 5, col. 4
Candidates' speeches draw large audiences
By United Press International
Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro vowed an election upset before a frenzied crowd of 100,000 people in New York City yesterday, while President Reagan began his political last hurrah dreaming of a 50-state sweep on Election Day.
Huge crowds poured out for the presidential contenders as Reagan stumped in Boston and Rochester, N.Y., and Mondale followed his Manhattan appearance with a speech before a Jewish group in Brooklyn.
The Democratic challengers, far behind in the polls, drew the largest and most enthusiastic crowd of their long campaign in Manhattan's Garment District — the traditional campaign climax for the labor movement.
Mondale laid out at Reagan for accusing him of being soft on anti-Semitism, saying "I think it's despicable and I think it's inexcusable." Mondale said there is no question that Reagan "is not anti-Semitic."
"BUT WHAT ABOUT some of the people he's permitted to get around that White
House and get into his political party and what they're telling this country?
"Some of his friends threaten to unleash an orgy of intolerance in our land and I don't want them to have any influence whatsoever." Mondale said.
The president went to Boston to invoke the name of John Kennedy as he kicked off a 10 state campaign finale that will take him to his California ranch on Election Day.
"I was a Democrat once — for a large part of my life. But in those days, the Democratic leaders weren't the blame-America first crowd, like we hear over here," he said jesting toward hecklers. "its leaders were men like Harry Truman, and later men like Scoop Jackson and John F. Kennedy — men who understood the challenges of the times."
When his supporters shouted, "Mondale is a wimp, Reagan roared with laughter. When they said it again, Reagan paused and big big said 'I'm not going to interrupt that.'"
In Rochester, N. Y., a small bomb exploded outside Reagan-Bush headquarters yesterday just hours before Reagan appeared at a
See POLITICS, p. 5, col. 2
Candidate calls opponents 'vegetation
Bv JOHN HANNA
Staff Reporter
Gloves came off in the race for student body president and vice president last night as one of seven presidential candidates jokingly referred to some of his opponents as "people with resumes," and "vegetation."
Tom Crisp, presidential candidate for the Navy Jack Coalition, made the remarks near the end of a candidate's forum in Alderson Auditorium of the
The remarks drew muffled greams and laughter from the audience and some of the candidates, but little immediate reaction from most of the candidates.
'What & Toto Too 'Io', is Costume Party with a perm, " Crisp said, referring to that coalition's presidential candidate, Chris Coffelt, and the party that Carla Vogel, student body president, ran with last semester.
THE COALITIONS WITH candidates running for student body president and vice president in the 14-15 Student Senate elections are  Toto Too, Beautiful Day Commission, Fresh Vegetables Coalition, Frontier Coalition, Momentum
Coalition, Navy Jack Coalition, and Reality Coalition.
route as a way to increase callback safety.
"We're the only ones that have done it."
Retention Crisp insisted all the conditions be an audience of about 75 students. His closing remarks followed a forum on such issues as campus safety, Senate financing of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, and the structure of the Senate.
In another candidate's closing remarks, Chris Admussen, presidential candidate for Fresh Vegetables, presented a three-hour speech in which he vowed that Crisp had referred to
The coalition has proposed such a bus route as a way, to increase campus safety.
ADMUSEN ALSO REPEATED the results of a survey recently completed by his coilition that said a majority of students would ride a late bus that went on campus and stopped at residence hills and Lawrence taverns.
Coalition.
During his final remarks, Lawhorn held up a two-page proposal that outlined a comprehensive campus lighting plan.
But that statement drew an abrupt response from Charles Lawhorn, vice presidential candidate for the Momentum Coalition.
Momentum has proposed a lighting plan
that calls for corridors of light to be created on campus at night to allow for certain areas of safe passage
DURING THE DEBATE, John McDermott, presidential candidate for the Realty Coalition, said he would not finance GLSOK because many students do not think it should be financed. He also called the issue a moral one.
wry is it in one case a moral issue for those opposed to funding of GLOSK," he said, "and just a regular decision for those in favor of funding GLOSK?"
Navy Jack Coalition's Crisp called Student Senate methods of financing student organizations ridiculous. He said he would limit the Senate Finance Committee to checking budgets and the number of students that groups serve. He also said religious groups should not be financed by Senate.
Jeff Polack, vice presidential candidate for Frontier Coalition, said that if elected, his administration would revise the Senate's financing system.
POLACK SAID THAT he and presidential candidate William Easley, his running mate, would have the Senate use its unallocated account, which is used for
Sec DEBATE, p. 5, col. 2