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Fridav. October 12.1979
University Daily Kansan
NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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From the Kansas's Wire Services
KCC seeks to open rail lines
TOPEKA—The Kansas Corporation Commission said yesterday that it was asking for action that would allow the reopening of Rock Island Railroad lines on Wednesday.
Members of the KCZ said an embarg, which began Tuesday, closing some Rock Island lines had had a severe adverse economic effect on the fall grain.
"It is urgent that the lines be reopened to get the Kansas harvest to market," the commission said.
The KCC was it wiring the Kansas City Terminal Co. which is operating the Rock Island lines, to seek a waiver from the Federal Railway in order to continue on the line.
The embargo is the result of a federal law that says a company does not have to operate on tracks that do not meet the minimum standards of the FRA, the EU and US.
The lines affected include one from Topeka across northern Kansas to Belleville and west through Goodland; branch lines from Topeka to St. Joseph; and branch lines from St. Joseph to Fulton County.
The KCC said it was suggesting that the waver apply to shipments of grain and other nonhazardous or nonexlusive materials.
In Sweden the Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded yesterday to the man who developed computer-assisted tomography, that enables him to peer more clearly and accurately in the body.
American wins Nobel Prize
Cormack and Houndsfield, who for years are unaware of each other's research, will share a record $190,000 award. Cormack is the 3rd U.S. citizen to win the medicine award, which has been dominated by Americans in recent decades.
Physicist Allan Cormack, 55, of Tufts University in Medford, Mass, he was amazed to learn that the Royal Caroline Medicine-Surgical Institute had selected him for the 1798 Nobel Prize. His co-winner is Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, 60, a research engineer with the British electronics firm FMI
The medicine award was the first of six annual Nobel Prizes to be announced. The physics, chemistry and economics prizes will be awarded next week, and the engineering prizes will be announced soon.
The two men were chosen after the 54 institute faculty members apparently overridden the Institute's Nobel selection committee's recommendation. The two men were then named as co-chairs of the committee.
Carter switches inflation stand
Last year, six of the nine laureates were Americans.
SAN MATEO, Calif. — President Carter, only two days after supporting efforts to secure funding for the Federal Reserve Board yesterday for interest rates that were too high.
"Interest rates are too high, inflation rates are too high," Carter said in a speech to leaders of the nation's building trades unions here.
In a nationally broadcast news conference Tuesday, Carter endorsed the Federal Reserve's action to tighten the money supply and push up interest rates, saying he would do "whatever it takes" to stop inflation, even if it hurt politically.
But speaking to the construction union leaders yesterday, he made it clear that he did not think their industry should suffer.
president offered no indication of how he hoped to preserve boards. The speech was the focal point of a two-day Western trip by Carter, the first in johnson's career.
Two fraud trial defendants out
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The number of defendants in the Progressive Farmers Association fraud trial dropped to eight yesterday, and the prosecutor介入调查已超过四分之三。
in plea bargaining arrangements, Thomas H. Thrower, 26, of Springfield,
M., pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of securities fraud and now faces
a plea deal.
A second defendant, Gerald B. Nance, 61 of Bids D Arc, Mo., was dropped from the case by agreeing to testify against his former business associates.
Thomas Threyer, was expected to enter into some type of plea bargaining arrangement this morning, prosecutor Robert Schneider said.
All three of the defendants faced felony security fraud charges, punishable by a maximum $25,000 fine and two years in jail.
State trucking bill proposed
The committee of the Kansas Legislature decided yesterday to have a bill drafted to have all drafted seven ports of entry and simplifying associates trucking company
The committee recommended that ports of entry in Coolidge, Phillipsburg, Arkansas City, Coldwater, Baxter Springs, Washington and Atchison be reopened. All seven communities had ports that were closed in recent years because of legislative cutbacks.
The committee also endorsed a recommendation of Kansas Corporation Commission Chairman Pelle Loux that would grant the KCC more discretion in making decisions regarding its investments.
Such action can allow freer entry of firms into the market, State Sen. Robert Talkington, R-ola, said.
Senators file financial reports
**TOPEKA - Sen. Nancy Landon Kassabue, R-Kan., has received $7,315 and spent $9,240 so far this year, according to her campaign finance report filed yesterday.**
Reporters on file in Washington, D.C., but not in Topeka, revealed that Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., has been falling behind his rivals financially in his bid for the governorship.
The report showed that at the end of September, Dole had raised $517,746 and spent $446,367 for the year.
Man gets second life sentence
MANHATTAN—Albert Williams at Junction City, who already is serving one life term for the slaying of a former girlfriend, was sentenced to another life sentence.
Williams, 24, was brought to Riley County District Court for prison for sentencing in the fatal stabbing of a 24-year-old office secretary, Pamela S. Scott.
Judge Jerry Mershon made the sentence consecutive to the current sentence Williams is serving at the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory in Hutchinson
Christgen jurors listen to tapes
Judge Frank Comet Jr. of Burhan County Court allowed the defense to argue that Mr. Reynolds died a day-old trial of Melvin Lee Reynolds, 29, who is charged in the May 1973 slaying of his brother.
the death of F. M. Hunter, 19.
Smith was shot to death in Toneka the day after Parker's death in 1978.
Sentencing followed the judge's rejection of a motion for a retrial filed by Williams' defense counsel. |
Buchanan County prosecutor Michael Insoch told the jury that the tape had been made late Feb. 14, 1979, after Reynolds had been in custody for about 12 hours. Reynolds was being interrogated by three officers at the time he added that a man in a shopping mail, a shopping mail, walked to a wooded area and then sexually assaulted him.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo—The prosecution rested its case yesterday after presenting five confessions to the jury in the second-degree murder trial of a man who was killed by an officer on duty.
The child was found slain a day later in a vacant field.
Correction ...
It was incorrectly reported in yesterday's University Daily Kansan that discoveries of oil had been made under the Appalachian Mountains. The potential for finding oil reserves under the Appalachians exists, but no discoveries have been made.
Weather
According to the KU Weather Service, today will be cloudy and cool, with the high reaching near 67 degrees. The wind will be from the northeast from five to ten miles.
Tonight will be cloudy and cool with the lipping to 37 to 41 degrees and the wind will be from the east at five to 15 mph.
saturday's outlook is cool with variably cloudy skies. The high should be in the mid-to-upper-60s.
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