October 19, 1984 Page 2
NATION AND WORLD
KANSAN
Agitated resident charged in New Jersey hotel fire
PATERSON, N.J. — A fire allegedly by a disgruntled resident swept through a run-down residential hotel yesterday, killing 13 people and injuring nearly 60, many of whom jumped from the windows of the once-luxurious building.
Police arrested handman Russell Conklin, 44, who was charged with setting the fire at the 60-year-old Alexander Hamilton Hotel shortly after midnight.
Conklin, involved in an argument with management just before the fire was started, was charged with one count each of murder and aggravated arson. Police said the charges would be increased at his arrangement.
Hexum declared 'brain dead'
HOLLYWOOD — Actor Jon-Erik Hexum is "brain dead," hospital and coroner's officials announced last night, but will remain hooked up to life-support systems until doctors can arrange an organ donation.
The actor's neurosurgeon said that
seum, 27, had "virtually no chance of
his death."
Hexum shot himself in the right temple with a prop gun loaded with blanks and empty cartridges last Friday, while his brother was locked up of his CBS television series "Cover-Up."
Frat members not indicted
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Fraternity members will not be charged criminally in the alcohol poisoning death of a freshman on "Hallitit ritual" dinner, officials said yesterday.
A Hampden County grand jury this week refused to issue indictments despite a judge's report that outlined "undignified if not illegal" hazing at the Zeta Chi fraternity at American International College that might have contributed to the death of James F. Lenaghan Jr., 19, of Watertown, Mass.
Rights to rock'n'roll protected
SAN FRANCISCO — Rock music is protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of free expression, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court order declaring that the city of Burbank, Calif., violated the constitutional rights of a rock concert promoter when it banned six concerts in the Starlight Bowl in 1979
The banned concerts included performances by Jackson Browne, Patti Smith and Todd Rungren, according to Burt Deixler, the promoter's attorney.
United Press International
FARMINGTON, UTAH — Fireman Dave Tate treats a motorist at the intersection of Highway 89 and I-15.
Twenty-two inches of snow fell yesterday in the Salt Lake City area, causing a 50-car pileup that injured 17 people.
Reagan attends event rival skipped
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Alone at center stage for an event known more for its belly laughs than its political passions. President Reagan avoided humor and open politics to let his rival's
Attending the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner — which Walter Mondale chose to skip — Beagan last night made a point of asking why the president of York's power brokers and Catholic leaders
Reagan spoke only briefly and offered none of the sharp wit he showed four years ago as a lawyer.
GOP campaign strategists thought
Reagan's presence. Rather than any partisan rhetoric, would lure more support for the president than an assault on his opponent.
Mondale's letter saying he withdrew from the 39th annual event "because of the immense importance of the upcoming season" brought of more than 2,000, drawing some boes.
Arriving in New York early, Reagan made a point of mingling with some of the guests.
Reagan made only one attempt at humor during his address to the bipartisan Catholic fund-raiser, which traditionally has served as a political "roast."
He joked about an unusual seating arrangement on the dais, caused by the fact Mondale did not show. He laughed about
"how the absence of one individual" had thrown off the traditional balance of the white-tie affair.
Since 1960, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates have been positioned on either side of the archbishop of New York at the dinner.
Reagan alluded to politics only once — noting the dinner came “at the height of a political crisis.”
Most of the president's remarks dealt with paying tribute to people now dead: Smith, a Democrat and the first Catholic to run for president, Cardinal Francis Spellman, Cardinal Terrence Cooke and Charles Silver, a Democrat who was organizing the dinner that began in 1945.
Briton wins Nobel Prize in economics
By United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A Briton responsible for the concept of a gross national product won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Economics yesterday for inventing a system of national accounting used in free market economies throughout the world.
Sir Richard Stone of Cambridge University did the "dirty, heavy work" for John Maynard Keynes, the influential economist whose theories of government spending revolutionized post-World War II economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
"I am absolutely overwhelmed," Stone, 71, said from his home in Cambridge, England. "One is always surprised that things like this happen to oneself."
The British economist, who lists his hobby in the International Who's Who as "staying at home", became the third Briton to win the 2015 Nobel Prize for economics, and the 22 economics prizes, awarded since 1969.
The economics prize was the last of the 1984 Nobel prizes. Only the chemistry prize went to an American — Rockefeller University in New York. The astronomy Americans swept all four science prizes.
Stone, a professor of finance and accounting at Cambridge since 1955, was cited by the academy for creating the system of national accounting used in free market economies such as the World Bank, the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund.
Working under Keynes at the War Cabinet Office, Stone developed his uniform accounting system to keep track of Britain's economy in the dark days of World War II.
The system is used worldwide to summarize a country's economic output in one form.
"Stone did the dirty, heavy work," said Erk Lindlumberg, a member of the Nobel committee. He developed it under the guidance of his colleagues and with the great stimulation of Kevines.
Stone was cited by the Royal Academy for his "epoch-making innovation" of creating systems for national accounts that "provides a basis for national economic policy."
It said the economist summarized "billions of billions of transactions between purchasers and sellers" into a concise picture of "a nation as an economic unit."
Nobel committee members said Stone's pioneering work made possible international development evaluations and balanced different sectors of a national economy
FALL POLKA
kansas union ballroom
October 19,1984 8-12 pm
featuring Ed Grismik polka band
$4.50 in advance
$5.00 at door
(includes refreshments)
for tickets :
call 843-0357
or come by 1631 Crescent Rd
ST. LAWRENCE CATHOLIC CAMPUS CENTER
The Engineering Student Council invites you to visit
The 65th Annual Engineering Exposition
This year's theme explores E=MC $ ^{2} $
Learn how
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Friday, October 19 Noon to 6:00 p.m. Saturday, October 20 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Learned Hall The University of Kansas Admission is free