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The temperature was low and the scores were high at yesterday's Kansas Women's Invitational. Still, KU's Marilee Scheid shot a 78 — good enough for a tie for first — and,
going into today's final round, the KU team leads Missouri by five strokes. At left is Sue Pekar, who was third among her KU teammates. See story, page 12.
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KANSAN
Tuesday, October 16, 1984
Vol. 95, No. 37 (USPS 650-640)
Winter calls Wolf Creek 'dead issue'
By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
Lawrence Seaman Jr. Democratic candidate for the 2nd District State Senate seat, thinks the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant occupies a significant position in his campaign.
But his opponent, State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R.Lawrence, has called SeanMans's wish to stop the plant before it begins operating as "dead issue."
"The question is whether or not legislation to prevent it from starting would have any chance in the world of passing now." Winter said yesterday. "I'm sure it wouldn't."
Seaman said Winter's position was a cautious reaction to a legislative issue that required the governor to amend.
"I might have to try four or five approaches to get the plant stopped," Seaman said. "But I promise voters I will do that."
BRIAN MOLINE, GENERAL counsel for the Kansas Corporation Commission, the state agency that regulates utility rates, said any move by the Kansas Legislature in its next session to stop Wolf Creek from going on line probably will be declared illegal by the courts.
In April, the Legislature passed a bill that would allow KCC to deny the owners of Wolf Creek a portion of the rate increases that were found to be imprudent.
Wolf Creek now probably will cost about $2.9 billion to complete, said Gary Haden, KCC director of information. This is a 400 percent increase over the original projected cost.
The legislation deems costs imprudent if they exceed 200 percent of the original estimated construction cost of $550 million and if KCC cannot justify that expense.
But he said he knew that any attempt to stop the plant construction would have failed in the House or been vetoled by Gov. John Carlin if it had sat both houses.
KANSA S GAS AND Electric Co. and Kansas City Power and Light Co., of Kansas City, Mo. own a 94 percent share in the 1150-megawatt plant. Lawrence, which is served by Kansas Power and Light Co., would not be affected by the rate increases.
Winter, who sponsored the Senate amendment to help prevent excessive rate increases to customers of KG&E and KCPLR, said he opposed Wolf Creek's construction, even with the smaller rate increases his amendment required.
One such attempt was an amendment sponsored by State Rep. L. V. Roper, D-Girard, which would have prevented Wolf Ames from using a safer method for disposing nuclear waste wastes
SEAMAN SAID HE approved of the Roper Amendment. If Winter had disapproved of Wolf Creek and approved of the Roper Amendment, Seaman said, he should have fought for the Roper Amendment regardless of its probable failure.
"A legislator with character shouldn't let anything stop him." Seamus said.
Winter said he didn't understand Seaman's charges.
"My feeling about Wolf Creek is well-known," Winter said. "I took a lot of heat from the people on the other side who were going to bat for the shareholders."
"I find it mind-boggling that someone could say that supporting legislation to greatly curb rate increases that would protect rate payers means you are for Wolf
MOLINE SAID IT was highly unlikely that anyone would try to introduce legislation in the next session to prevent Wolf Creek from going on line. He agreed with Winter that the
See NUCLEAR, p. 5, col. 2
Steve Lewis, Rt. 5, Lawrence, a chimney sweep, prepares to inspect his chimney, Lewis, a KU graduate and owner of Soots Me Chimney Sweeping, has been cleaning chimneys in Douglas and Shawnee counties for seven years.
Burned-out teacher turns into area chimney sweep
By CHRIS BARBER
Staff Reporter
A Chicago suburbanite with a degree in secondary education has several choices about his career
Steve Lewis chose to become a chimney sweep.
"One day I saw this ad that said, 'Become a chimney sweep. I answered it, got my equipment and started cleaning chimneys in January of 1978.' Lewis said. He now runs his business from his home on the Star Lake, southwest of Lawrence.
When Lewis, owner-operator of Soots Me Chimney Sweeping, graduated from the University of Kansas in 1972, he used his degree to teach high school English in Chicago and Rossville, Kan.
"At first I did it part-time because we needed an auxiliary income, as but I got completely burned out on teaching it became full-time." he said.
But in 1978 an advertisement in an organ ordering magazine gave him the title "Lady Magnolia" by Jessica Beguine.
THE COMPANY IN the magazine sent him a sweep's sieve equipment: a
vacuum, round steel brushes and a top hat that he still wears as a trademark.
"When I first started sweeping, I wasn't scared of snakes, rats or anything," Lewis said. "The only thing I was afraid of was heights."
The traditional image of the soot-covered sweep dancing across roof tops doesn't exactly fit him, Lewis said. Although he now is able to scramble up a steep roof with his steel braces slung over his shoulder, he said, it wasn't always so
Lewis said that although people often expected him to be dressed in black like a Mary Poppins character, he usually worked in jeans and a T-shirt.
But the top hat helps his image, he said. "People like the hat," he said. "It is just for show, though. I wear it because I am used to having it on my head."
LEWIS SAID THAT his greatest concern on the job was informing his clients about fire safety and that he had worked diligently to increase his own knowledge
He is a member of the National Fire Protection Association and is certified as a
See SWEEP. p. 5, col. 2
Seven coalitions file for top seats in Senate contest
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
Bailouts for the Nov. 14-15 Student Senate election may run out of space.
Seven groups now have candidates that will run for student body president and vice president. Four groups announced their candidates yesterday, the filing deadline.
"I think that more people feel that they can be a part of Student Senate." Dennis "Boog" Highberger, student body vice president, said yesterday. "That's great."
Cary) Smith, dean of student life, said that as long as she could remember, Senate elections had not had as many presidential and vice presidential candidates running.
The four new coalitions are & Toto Too, the Beautiful Day Committee, the Navy Jack Coalition and the Realty Coalition. Those groups join the Fresh Vegetables, Frontier and Momentum coalitions, which announced their candidacy last week.
"Everyone, I'm certain, will have an experience. 'Highbierger said.' He glad it's all gone."
CHRIS COFFELT, HAYS senior, and Tim Bolster, St. Joseph, Mo., senior, will run as the presidential and vice presidential candidates for & Toto Too.
Coffelt is a journalism senator and the chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee. Boller is an engineering senator and a member of the Senate Transportation
Boller said more students were participating in student government than in past years because of the present Senate administration, and & Toto Too wants to continue that trend. Carla Vogel, student body president, and Highberger are members of the group.
"I've seen a lot of progress in Senate."
Boller said. "I'd hate to see it go back to the old system just to say that we went back to the old system."
BOLLER SAID THAT & Toto Too would discuss changing the Senate's structure during the campaign. Those changes could include eliminating the presidential and vice presidential positions.
"We want to the Senate to be in an environment where change is possible." he
Nathan Collins, Lawrence senior, and David Spear, Fairway special student, are the presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Beautiful Day Committee.
Collins said he decided on Sunday to run for student body president.
"I just don't want to see Costume Party disappear." Collins said.
Vogel and Highberger were members of the Costume Party when they ran for office last year.
THE BEAUTIFUL DAY Committee, a student organization based on friendship, originally was founded in 1967, Collins said, and was revived about a year ago. He said the group's platform could be spelled out in one sentence.
"Consider the heart and humanity Supreme and give credence to this: Love is all." Collins said.
Although he filed with a running mate, Collins said he was running as an individual. "Politicians should run as individuals," he said.
Tom Crisp, Dayton, Ohio, graduate student and presidential candidate, and Jacqueline Hirbe, St. Louis, Mo., junior, are running with the Navy Jack Coalition.
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See FILE, p. 5, col. 1
By United Press International
Duarte, rebels agree to form peace panel
LA PA LALPA, EI Salvador — President Jose Napoleon Duarte had a historic meeting with leftist guerrilla leaders yesterday and both agreed to form a peace commission for more talks on ways to end the country's 5-year-old civil war.
Defying death threats, Duarte called on the rebels to lay down their arms in return for amnesty and promised them a place in El Salvador's democratic process. The unprecedented talks took place in a mountain church at La Palma, 43 miles north of San Salvador, in rebel-controlled Chalatenango province.
Salvadoran Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, who acted as a witness for the 412-hour meeting, read a joint statement in which both sides said they agreed to form a commission to continue the peace negotiations.
THE FIVE GOVERNMENT and six rebel negotiators agreed "to deal with all aspects that lead to the achievement of peace in the shortest time possible," the statement said. The commission will begin meeting "soon," it said.
"We believe that it was not possible in only one meeting to firm up all the aspects." Duarte told a cheering crowd as he left the Sweet Name of Mary Church. "But we are
The joint statement said the two groups agreed "to study the proposals presented by both delegations in these meetings... to develop appropriate mechanisms to bring all sectors of national life together in the search for peace."
ready to work to leave the altar of the Sweet Name of Mary with a serious document that gives hope of peace."
The guerrilla delegation was headed by Guillermo Ungo, president of the rebel's political wing, the Democratic Revolutionary Party, and a member of the five top guerrilla commanders.
AFTER RIVERA Y Damas read the communique, the six guerrilla negotiators appeared before microphones in front of the gavage. Ungo and Cienfuegos gave short speeches.
The rebels' speeches, like the entire event in La Palma, were broadcast live over national television.
Guarded only by unarmed Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Duarte led a five-man delegation into the tiny church for his first face-to-face encounter with his leftist foes. Army and police forces were withdrawn from the region for the day.
"I told them solutions could not be found overnight," Duarte said at the end of the meeting, "that we are not offering miracles,
See SALVADOR, p. 5, col. 4
Mondale gaining on Reagan, polls say
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democrat Walter Mondale has narrowed President Reagan's lead in California to between six and 10 points, private polls taken by both political parties showed yesterday.
By United Press International
Mondale also appeared to be doing better nationwide. A new Harris Survey shows Mondale trailing Reagan by only 9 percent, with Mitt Romney now as compared with 54.42 percent a week ago.
The statistics in Reagan's home state have GOP advisers considering bringing the president on another trip west. Across the
country, polls have Mondale gaining a 9-
percentage points on Reagan's 15-20 point
percentage.
The only campaign trip Reagan, former governor of California, has made to his home state was on Labor Day when he kicked off his re-election campaign.
BOTH MONDALE AND his running mate, Regal菱尼亚 Ferraro, have made two swings through the state and are due back in office. The state has the largest electoral prize, 47.
Democratic Party Chairman Charles Manuitt, speaking in Los Angeles, said Clinton's victory was a "wonderful success."
Mondale as the result of his first debate with Reagan.
As a result of the debate, he said, "The competency factor is very much injected into the race. . . it's being raised by virtue of his performance."
In campaign speeches yesterday, Reagan and Vice President George Bush fired upon Mondale's past record and present campaign. Reagan compared the Democrat to a car used car and Bush said Mondale was like a football player taking "cheap shots."
MONDALE AND FERRARO concentrated their campaign on environmental issues,
Kevin Saba, a member of Mondale's national campaign team, said nightly "tracking" polls in California showed the former vice president has come to within six points of the president's once seemingly insurmountable lead.
touring toxic dumps and blaming the Reagan administration for failing to clean them up
See POLITICS, p. 5, col. 4
"It's been a gradual shift in nightly trends and I wouldn't be surprised to see further movement," Saba said in a telephone
Mondale, arriving late yesterday in San Francisco, flatly predicted he would beat Reagan in his adopted home state.
Voter registration for Nov. 6 election to conclude today
Today is the last day to register to vote in Douglas County for the Nov. 6 general elections.
Voters can register at the Douglas County clerk's office on the first floor of the Dougless Court House, 11th and Eighth Streets. Voters will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. today
Patty Jaimes, Douglas County clerk,
said yesterday that her office had
recorded about 4,000 new registrants since
the primary elections on Aug. 7.