October 29,1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Meyers reprimands aide for mailing false report
OVERLAND PARK — Jan Meyers, Republican 3rd District Congressional candidate, said yesterday that she had repremanded an aide for mailing to supporters a newspaper story about her role in helping to discard the paper's subsequent correction.
The story in the Johnson County Sun reported that Jack Reardon, Meyers' Democratic opponent, had changed his position on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution and was now opposing the issue. The story was published Oct. 17.
Two days later, the newspaper printed another story that said Reardon, mayor of Kansas City, Kan., supported the concept of a balanced budget amendment. The newspaper also published a lengthy correction.
However, Mike Murray, Meyers' campaign finance director, mailed a fund-raising letter to 1,700 people with a copy of the report and requested to include the correction or later article.
KU GOP, Democrats to debate
Defense official to talk policy
Meyers said Murray had been aware of the correction before mailing the letter.
Members of the College Young Democrats and the College Republicans will debate at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the lower level lobby of Templin Hall.
The KU chapter of the Associated Students of Kansas, a non-partisan, statewide student lobbying organization, is sponsoring the debate. The debate is part of ASK's Task Force 84, a voter education project.
A Department of Defense official will speak about U.S. defense policies during a brown bag luncheon at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in Nunemaker Center.
Ernest Garcia, the official, is the deputy assistant secretary of the office of legislative affairs in the Defense Department. He is also a Vietnam veteran and a former legislative assistant and administrative assistant to Sen. Rub Dole
Garcia graduated from the University of Kansas in 1973.
Med Center gets $1,000 gift
The University of Kansas Medical Center last week received $1,000 for research in pediatric cardiology from the Alpha Phi Foundation.
Betsy Beisecker, foundation director, on Wednesday presented a check to Leone Mattioli, chief of the cardiology division of the Med Center's department of pediatrics.
Ad director to give lecture
The Alpha Phi Foundation is a private organization that serves and represents members of Alpha Phi, an international women's fraternity. Gamma Delta chapter of Alpha Phi was established at KU in 1950.
Steve Heller, advertising director for the New York Times Book Review, will give a lecture at 6 p.m. on Nov. 5 in the William P. Albrecht Hall; 3140 Wesco Hall.
Heller has written articles on illustration and design for professional journals such as Print and Graphis, and he has written several books about authors and their work, including "Authors Against War."
Heiler's lecture will be a part of the Hallmark Symposium Series, sponsored by Hallmark Cards Inc. The lecture is to the public.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny and warmer with the high in the lower 60s and winds from the south between 5 and 15 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy. The low will be in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Tomorrow's high will be in the lower 60s.
Compiled from Kenson staff and United Press International reports.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, a story in Friday's Kansan about a $100,000 gift to the Kansas University Endowment Association to establish a distinguished professorship incorrectly reported the age of the donor, Clyde M. Reed. Reed is 70
Allegation heats up county sheriff's race
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ Staff Reporter
The Douglas County sheriff's race heated up last week as Democrat Merle Rothwell charged Republican incumbent Rex Johnson with mismanaging the sheriff's department.
Rothwell said Friday that $300 had been stolen from a prisoner in December 1982 and that Johnson had collected donations from department employees to replace the miss-
On Friday, Johnson confirmed that the theft had taken place, but denied that he had asked department employees to replace the money.
"THE THEFT WAS discovered when a prisoner was transferred early," Rothwell said. "People in the department have told me that Johnson held a meeting and said restitution had to be made and that he was of all kinds or those kinds of things out of his own pocket."
Rothwell first mentioned the incident two weeks ago. He has run newspaper advertisements and has circulated fliers accusing Johnson of handling the situation poorly.
"He then asked each man to pay $6 to make in the difference."
"We did have a theft, and an investigation took place. An employee admitted taking the money, and because of the employee's personal and emotional problems, we deferred his sentence was insulated as advised, and the employee was required to make restitution over time."
Johnson said of the investigation, "This sort of thing is what makes me a professional and not a man who operates on gossip.
Rothwell said a sheriff's department employee had told him that no one was given a choice about paying the money.
"ONE MAN TOLD that he stood up and said that he didn't think it was right for everyone to have to chip in. Rothwell said he did not think it would be a part of this family, there's the door."
Johnson said he held a meeting for employees of the department and informed them that someone had admitted to the theft and had been fired. He also said he told the workers that the employee could not pay back the money right away.
"Someone asked where the money would come from, and I told them it would come from my own pocket," Johnson said. "Then one of the members of the department spoke up and he didn't think it was fair for me to have to pay all the money back."
"So some of the people chipped in, and some of them didn't. And it wasn't all $6, some people out in more, some less."
JOHNSON SAID THE employee still was paying back the stolen money in small monthly installments. He said that when the money had been replaced, the employees who donated money would have their donations returned.
A former employee of the sheriff's department, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday that she had been asked to give $6 after the theft.
I put my money in because I knew if I did, it would have had been a lot rotten, she said.
The woman, who said she had left the department shortly after the incident, said she had not been at the meeting. But people in the department told her that Johnson had asked the employees to donate the money, she said.
"I was also told that no one outside the department was to know anything about the theft and that the media were definitely not to know," the woman said.
JOHNSON SAID THAT he held a press conference shortly after he learned of the theft to inform the media about the theft.
"I've been sheriff for a long time," Johnson said. "I have never tried to cover anything up."
Johnson said that Jerry Harper, Douglas County district attorney, had been advised of the situation during the investigation and told about the officers shipping in to replace the $300.
"I don't want to get involved in their campaign," he said.
Harper said yesterday that he had no comment on the incident.
Rothwell said he had contacted the attorney general's office in Topeka.
"They told me to take it to the voters of Douglas County." Rothwell said.
JEFF SOUTHARD, deputy attorney general, said he had talked to Rothwell about three weeks ago.
"He set forth some allegations wanting to know if we wanted to pursue them criminally," Southard said. "Quite frankly, we get a lot of that kind of stuff this time of year during campaigns."
Crowds discard inhibitions for X-rated films
"He didn't have any proof we would be able to submit. I told him that for his purposes in the campaign that was fine, but we needed more than an oral accusation to proceed."
By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The two young women giggled, their faces glowing in the light under the Varsity Theatre's marquee.
"I can't believe we're doing this," one of them whispered, shivering in the midnight air late Saturday. "My mother would just die."
The women surveyed the crowd that was lined up along the storefronts around 10th and Massachusetts streets. About 150 people, most of them men, began lying up at 11:30 p.m. for the midnight showing of the X-rated film, "The Pleasure Zones."
GROUPS OF STUDENTS guzzled beer and yelled at friends they recognized in the line. Couples clasped hands and apprehensively approached the ticket booth.
At the front of the line, Monica Graham,
Overland Park junior, and three friends
smoked cigarettes and waited for the
Varsity's doors to open.
R. E. Ediger, Newton freshman, said watching an X-rated movie was one big party for the audience — similar to seeing "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
"We're just here for a laugh," Graham said. "This is the second porn movie I've been to, but I know exactly what it'll be like. Absolutely not plot and a lot of sex."
"Everybody screams and yells at the screen," he said. "Movies like this are so bad, they're laughable. The dialogue, the scenery and the acting are terrible. But they're terrible in a way that's not pretentious like some regular movies."
an X-rated film at midnight on Friday and Saturday, said Brenda Goetsch, the theater's assistant manager.
Before opening the doors to the crowd, Goetsch and her co-workers sat in the theater's lobby amid smells of buttered popcorn and chocolate candies. Customers for the X-rated movie occasionally entered the lobby to buy tickets, but had to wait outside until the 9:40 p.m. showing of "The Razor's Edge" let out.
"It's a drunk, rowdy crowd," Goetsch said Saturday night, peering at the line through a window. "The guys can get pretty obnoxious. I think it's a combination of the movie, the beer you've been drinking and the midnight hour that makes them so wild."
ABOUT ONCE A month, the Varsity shows
A line forms outside the Varsity Theatre, 1015 Massachusetts St., before the showing of "The Pleasure Zones," an X-rated movie. The movie started at midnight yesterday.
"WE USUALLY GET between 130 and 150 people, but I don't know if we'll be that busy tonight." Goethsch said. "There are all kinds of parties and parties going on for homecoming."
Two young men entered the lobby, slapped several dollar bills on the counter and asked
Jane Ungerman, the cashier, smiled.
"I'll need to see some ID, please," she said.
The two young men plucked their driver's licenses from their wallets, paid $4 for their tickets and returned outside to wait in line.
Ungerman said she never felt embarrassed selling tickets for such X-rated movies as "The Pleasure Zones," "Bodacious Ta-Tas," or "In the Pink."
"I think they're more embarrassed than I am." she said of the customers. "The funniest thing is when a guy brings his date to one of these movies. The girls almost never comes inside. She'll just hide in a corner while her date buys the tickets."
RANCE BLANN, CITY manager for Commonwealth Theatres, said that the Varsity made a profit when it showed X-rated films, but that showing the films more than once a month wouldn't make good business sense.
Commonwealth owns the Varsity and the three other indoor theaters in Lawrence.
Lawrence's small population and modest
community standards also discourage frequent showings of X-rated films. Blann said
Matt Pollock. Olathe freshman, said the lively atmosphere of a midnight showing was all part of the fun.
"It's cheap and trashy and it's a good excuse to get drunk and yell things at the screen," said Pollock.
Federal deficit high but stable, director says
By HOLLIE B. MARKLAND
and MICHELLE T. JOHNSON
Staff Reporters
The good news for the U.S. economy is that Congress has stabilized the 173.5 billion federal budget deficit, the director of the Congressional Budget Office said Friday.
"The bad news is that the deficit has been stabilized at an extraordinarily high level," he said.
Penner spoke Friday to about 180 people attending the Economic Outlook Conference in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
ANTHONY REPWOOD, executive director of the KU Institute for Economic and Business Research(Center for Public Affairs) at the University of Kansas to recent economic developments in Kansas.
Thomas Sargent, professor of economics at the University of Minnesota, spoke on 1985
Ronner said a 25 percent tax increase was needed to balance the federal budget. To reduce the deficit, Congress will have to impose a tax on people the reduction with tax increases, he said.
The federal deficit is the amount of money the federal government spends over its income every year. The national debt is the accumulation of yearly federal deficits.
Penner proposed three ways for Congress to increase tax revenues — raising tax rates, abolishing tax exemptions and deductions or using them to lower taxes would be a politically unpopular move.
THE THREE AREAS of the federal budget that are growing fastest are military spending, health care costs and paying the interest on the national debt, he said.
"The interest on the national debt will be nearly $200 billion by 1989," he said. "That's a lot."
The gross national product is the total value at retail prices of all the goods and
services produced by the U.S. economy during a certain period.
Penner said military spending was analogous to health costs because neither program was carried out with total efficiency
"We have our $100 hammers in the health industry," he said. Both areas are impacted by technological change. What it does pose those options for us which seem to be very expensive.
HE SAID THE popularity of military spending and health care programs contributed to the nation's budget problems.
"The real question is — would these programs be so popular if the people had to pay for them up front?" Penner said.
"Taxes cover only 80 percent of the government outlays. The public is getting a 20 percent discount on everything it buys. It's little wonder they want so much."
The public is borrowing from future generations, he said. Penner said politicians and the public tended to debate programs
that were a small part of the federal budget
"Poll's show that people don't like foreign aid, but it's less than two percent of the budget," he said. "We could do away with food stamps and aid to dependent children, but that would be little more than to finance one year of Social Security increases."
PENNER PREDICTED A small increase in the inflation rate next year and said the 1989 deficit would be about $263 billion.
About 45 minutes before Penner's speech, Redwood told about 80 people that Kansas recovery from the latest recession had been slower than the national recovery and that the state had not caught up with the state's 1979 economy
In past recessions, the agriculture and aircraft industries have cushioned the effects of the recession, he said.
Kansas industry has grown slowly, he said, because the state has many industries that are expected to be slow growers in the 1980s.
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