Snail's pace, methods of pinball inquiry questioned
Editor's note: This is the last of a three-part series focusing on the coin-operated amusement industry in Lawrence. Today's story examines the status of a few companies that operate coin-operated amusements. Information for the series was researched and compiled by a team of Kansan staff writers - David Edds, Bill Riggs and Deb
By DAVID EDDS
Staff Writer
an attorney general's investigation of the coin- operated game business in Douglas County has gone nowhere since it was publicly announced six months ago.
The antitrust division of the attorney general's office blames the snail's pace of the investigation on a lack of hard loads, but the investigation has evolved to include the methods of the inquiry and its rationale in doubt.
A Kansan follow-up inquiry into the attorney general's pinch investigation, which focused on possible anti-competitive practices in the business, shows that:
- Members of the attorney general's staff are uncertain about the benefit of having publicized the case, and it is not clear that a decision may be needed that in the case of advance announcements of investigations, it would be "human nature" for such cases.
- Douglas County District Attorney Mike Malone
worried that advance disclosure of the investigation could prompt suspects to go underground or could be prevented.
- The antitrust division investigators had not met with the industry in mid-November. An attorney in the antitrust division said that investigators were waiting until the time was "ripe" to talk to one of the men and discuss their case.
PINBALL
*A lawsuits between a Lawrence pinnail operator and an Iowa distributor of pinball machines helped law enforcement in the state. Lawrence pinnail operator is a former member of the attorney general's staff. However, one current member of the attorney general's staff acknowledged that the operator's statements amounted to "just wrying冷羊."
- The Kansas Bureau of Investigation investigated the pinball business in Lawrence earlier, according to Carl M. Anderson, assistant attorney general in the state, who was also involved in public action on the investigation, Wayne Hundley, a deputy attorney general, said the KBI investigation was one factor in the antitrust division's decision to investigate in Lawrence. Anderson said the KBI's efforts had not helped the antitrust division's in-
- Attorney General Robert Stephan received at least some financial support from the coin-operated bank of his choice.
came from contributors with presumed connections to the amusement business.
STEPHAN DISCOUNTED most of the contributions as having come from friends or relatives or others with virtually no reason to try to influence his overall investigation.
The antitrust division's Lawrence investigation began June 14, after an announcement to the press.
Hundreday said the attorney general's investigators wanted the public to know of the investigation.
He said this technique was not uncommon in such investigations.
There was notification by the attorney's office ... to kind of have a high profile, to stir things
"We thought it could give us some benefit—as of we let not know," he said.
yet you don't know," he said.
However, this week Hundley said the antitrust
"WE ARE CONTINUING the investigation, but we
Malone said his office was told of the investigation the day before the press was notified.
are changing from high profile to low profile," he said.
"I disagree with discussing the fact an investigation will be conducted because it could possibly harm the investigation. It could also subject an innocent party to being tried in the paper." he said.
While Hakey says he "believes the main office" notified the press, Anderson maintains he knows of no
ANDERSON AGREED, however, that the invocation could be damaged by radiation.
Anderson said the investigators had been unable to find information that could lead to a conviction.
Malone said his office had not been contacted by the antirrition division since th. initial notification in
"We didn't know exactly what we were looking for. We were just looking for anything we could find." Anderson said the Lawrence investigation. "We just wanted to feel the pulse of what was going on over time."
Anderson said the antitrust had not made use of the district attorney's office because it had been too expensive.
"The district attorney and law enforcement officers were ready, willing and I don't know how able to give them the ability."
give to prosecute somebody over there, he (Malone) will certainly become involved."
ONE OF THE two men who have dominated the Lawrence pinball business and whom investigators had not contacted in the first six months of the probe are, respectively, Paul and Robert for Armour Amusement Co. 62/ Massachusetts St.
The other is John Erikel, the former kingpin of the Lawrence pinball business, until he sold his business to Warner.
Anderson said, "The time is not ripe to talk to Emik." Anderson said he would know whether to talk to Emik after receiving some information he requested. Anderson said he might talk to Linden.
The investigation started because of suspected restraint of trade.
"RESTRAINT OF TRADE covers the whole thing." Anderson said. There is a possibility, he said, of "monoplastic activities—like one company trying to take over all the business in the area, or the possibility of lease agreements requiring the lesor to buy an asset from the company—that's the one I think there's a strong hit of."
Although the antitrust division cites a previous KBI investigation as one reason for investigating Lawrence, Tom Kelly, director of the KBI, said his agency had not investigated the Lawrence pinball
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Fall leaves
Harry Puekett, Lawrence, fights the cold and wind as he and his cartload of fallen leaves slowly make their way down Delaware Street toward 11th St.
KC suffers from nurse shortage
By ROSEMARY INTEEN
Staff Renorter
KANSS CITY, Kan. - A $400 bounty has been issued in KANSS City for the capture of registered nurses, but even that has not alleviated the nursing shortage in the city's
A few private City hospitals have begun to offer reward money to any employees who recruit NRS to their hospital. Meanwhile, state institutions such as the
University of Kansas Medical Center, which does not have money to fund such a strategy, try to operate with a less adequate nursing staff.
"Right now it's dog eat dog between us and other hospitals," Mary Ann Eisenbise, director of nursing services at the Med Center, said.
There have always been more sick people than nurses to care for them, said Eisenbise, who has worked at the Med Center for
more than 25 years. However, she said, the shortage of nurses has never been as severe as it is today.
Med Center officials cite a variety of reasons for the current shortage, ranging from new positions created by advances in technology to competition with the private sector for RXs.
"Up until four years ago we filled all of the positions that the state Legislature would allow, but then we decided that wasn't enough," she said.
"IREMEMBER BACK in the 566 many positions were not filled. too." she said.
created its own shortage by asking for more positions.
According to Eisenbise, last January the Kansas Legislature granted money to fill 91 additional positions.
Berman suggests new state university system
However, she said the Med Center had
The time may be to approaching for the creation of a state university system in Texas. Mr. Brown served as Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, told KU members of the American Association of University Professors.
All higher institutions in California are part of one large university system. The institutions perform separate academic programs, location locations, but are centrally coordinated.
Staff Reporter
See NURSES back page
"The time may be long overdue to address this question," he said. "We must address the question of where the state responsibilty lies."
Projected declines in enrollment and increasing costs may force Kansas to re-evaluate its system of higher education, Berman said.
Berman said the state supported more than 50 institutions of higher education.
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including junior colleges and technical schools. The state also provides funds, he said, for private colleges through its tuition grant program.
"THE STATE MAY not be able to afford 19 junior colleges going willy-nil without controls on how state money is spent," Berman said.
Lady said the state currently spent almost half its general operating budget on education. However, he said, that percentage may change soon.
Joining Berman in speaking on "Issues in Higher Education in Kansas" was Kansas Speaker of the House Wendell Lady, R-overland Park.
Members of the Kansas Legislature and the transportation industry are trying to have money from the general operating budget added to transportation revenues.
Planning must begin now if funds are to be available to support changes in the state's education system. he said.
"WE ARE GOING to a tremendous struggle between two powerful constituences—the highways and education," said Eugene P. Bentley, of predicting the outcome of that struggle.
Lady said. Spending general operating funds for highways will cut the percentage of funds available to higher education, he said.
Both Lady and Berman expressed concern about faculty salaries and the survival of the six Regents institutions. Lady said that faculty salaries must not continue to decline, in effect, and that the salary increases affect their operating budget of all Receivers institutions.
"I think it's time that people in education be aware of what is going on, so that you can make your voices heard before it's too late."
Kansas State University, Pittsburgh State University and Wichita State University
The six Regents institutions are The University of Kansas, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University,
T. P. SRINIVASAN, president of the KU chapter of the AAPU, said that the two legislators had been encouraging and were sunnorect of higher education.
"It was the kind of articulation we were for. They are quite strong supporters of KU and the other Regents schools and that is essential in the legislature," Srivastava said.
Srinivasan also expressed satisfaction with the AUP executive committee with daytime appointments to Archie R. Dykes, Mekes and the AUP executive committee met with Dykes to discuss University and faculty relations.
Srinivasan said Dykes supported an extension of procedures for preventive planning aimed at emergencies. Dykes recommended that the paper be sent to University governance office.
Mexico slams door to shah's admittance
"The government of Mexico will not be in a position to renew the visas of the shah on Dec. 9," Foreign Minister Mojave Castaneda said in a statement to reporters, so it makes "no sense for him to return to Mexico." He refused to answer reporter's questions.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government said last night that it would not let the shah of Iran back into the country because the "situation has changed radically in the U.S.-Jordan crisis and the ensuing repeller was not in Mexico's interest.
Doctors at the New York hospital where exiled Shah Mohammad Fareh Pahlavi was undergoing cancer treatment told him Wednesday that he was free to travel. He had been reports he would return soon to his university at Cuernavaca, 30 miles south of here.
Castaneda told Mexico's ambassador to Washington, Hago Margin, had informed the shah's family and representatives of the decision.
Neither the shan nor his chief spokesman,
Robert Armao, was available for comment.
Armao's private phone had been discon-
nected from the White House, an imme-
mediate comment from the White House.
- Moslem militants yesterday threatened an "inviable" triumph for the American hostages in the U.S. Embassy if the shah of Iran allowed him to Mexico instead of being retired to Iran.
- The United States asked the International Court of Justice to release the hostages.
- Financial records in Iran's banks are being turned over to a team investigating the shah's financial dealings.
a spokesman for the militants for a trial could begin "very soon" if the shah returned to Mexico, and hinted that he would 50 hostages also might be maltreated.
The Italian news agency Ansa reported that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khouhmi totaled a group of European reporters that he inculpated as President Carter on trial after the shaking.
THE INVESTIGATION is being carried out by officials of Iran's Central Bank under the leadership of the bank's new governor, Alireza Nobari.
In other action, Iran's banks are turning over financial records to a government report and a committee to support Khomeini's accusation that the shah and his family diverted billions of dollars to the Islamic State.
At the same time, the Iranian government has fitted suit in a state coat and has an ID number; its undergarment medical treatment, seeking $56 billion in damages from the shah and his wife, Emre.
Topeka judge to hear segregation complaints
IRAN'S RELIGIOUS rulers were waiting until the last minute to announce whether the new acting foreign minister, Sadegh Gholzbashvili, would take part in the U.N. debate. Gholzbashvili was expected to announce himself at a news conference scheduled for today.
A world court ruling would further bolster *washington*'s hand on the back of the U.N. Security Council, which was scheduled this weekend in a session many regard as crucial in the diplomatic campaign to end the conflict.
TOPEKA—A federal district judge ruled that black parents could intervene on behalf black parents could intervene on behalf black parents landmark Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education case, which outlawed racial segregation in schools.
By JEFF SJERVEN Staff Reporter
The United States, trying a new diplomatic task, asked the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands to order Iran to release the embassy hostages.
THE COURT, composed of 15 interspersed lawyers, is the secretary of State Cayce Unese cited in the "extraordinary urgency" of the Iranian situation and asked for action "within
The judge, Richard D. Rogers, said he
was unable to attend the parents' courtme-
ners for attorney fees and citizens who claim that the Teopaka school system has not obeyed the Supreme Court's
rules.
Ned Primmer, court clerk for Rogers, said the ruling did not imply the judge's support for the plaintiffs' case.
"This simply means that they can bring claims under the Brown case instead of filing an entirely new suit," he said. "This was only a procedural duty and did not impact the outcome."
"The ruling simply means he will hear arguments from both sides of the issue."
THE NEW THREATS in the deepening crisis came after more than 1 million Iranians, chanting of their hatred for the "Yankees" and their willingness to die, poured through Tehran's streets in a war of words that will go beyond Khomeini's holy war against America.
TENS OF THOUSANDS in Imanis flaned in midnight, the embarrass at about midnight, he smiled, the embassy chanted hymns, then faced the embassy and shouted in hymns, "Allahu Akbar! God!
PRIMER SAID that it would take at least six months to prepare the case.
In the Brown case, the Supreme Court struck down school board policies that segregated pupils in grades one through six. The court determined that although equal facilities might have been provided for both races, segregated education was inherently uneventful.
Representatives of the coalition pushing for litigation under the Brown case said they were pleased with yesterday's decision.
Obit said the case was filed because the coalition thought the Topeka Board of Education had ignored the mandate of the 1964 Supreme Court decision.
"What we are saying to the board," he said, "is that they have been commanded by
the Supreme Court to desegregate the schools. They have not done it.
"WHEN YOU HAVE a school with 70, 80 or 90 percent black population while the minority population in the town is 25 to 25 percent white." Line. The mandate of the law is subservient.
According to figures released recently by the board of education, there are two elementary schools and one junior high with black enrollment exceeding 70 percent.
In addition, 11 elementary and three junior high schools had a minority enrollment of less than 10 percent. Minority students at Topka West High School is 4.8 percent.
Oicie said the coalition, which includes his committee, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Unitarian Universal Church, and the National Association of range plans to close certain schools and opposed the district's open enrolment system, which allows students to transfer
See BROWN page seven
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