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Monday, Sept. 30, 1985
News Briefs
State representative cited for accident
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, was cited for inattentive driving Friday after he was involved in a three-car accident that injured one person, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Police said Solbach and the other two drivers were driving east on Sixth Street near Schwarz Road when the accident occurred about 6 p.m. Friday.
The driver of the first car, Haydon Wood, 65, Berryton, had stopped for traffic when Solbach a car hit the rear of a car stopped
The second car, driven by Raymond Snyder, 45, Perry, was forced into the rear of Wood's car. Dennis Pipes, 35, Perry, a passenger in Snyder's car, was taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, treated for a neck injury and released Friday, police said.
Haskell man stabbed
A 25-year-old Haskell Junior College student was treated for multiple stab wounds to the back and neck and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Saturday, a hospital spokesman said yesterday.
Lawrence police said that the man, Peterson Martinez, approached two other Haskell students walking east on the 23rd Street overpass near the college and told them he had been attacked by "some guys," asked them for help and then collapsed. He was taken to the hospital by ambulance about 4:30 a.m. Saturday. Police have no suspects.
Farm aid to be topic
Eileen Elliott, vice president of Help the Farmers Inc., a national organization, will speak at a meeting of the KU Democrats at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Elliott, Lawrence junior, will spek on "What's Their Beet: The Farm Crisis."
What's life going to be like in 2010? Honeywell Inc. is paying students to tell them all about it.
Essay contest to start
The Fourth Annual Honeywell Futurist Awards Competition begins tomorrow. A grand prize of $10,000 and 10 $2,000 awards will be given to college students who write the three best essays about technology in the year 2010.
Students must write essays in two of six areas: electronic communications, energy, aerospace, computer science, manufacturing automation and office automation. The third essay must tell how the technological advantages will affect society.
Entries must be postmarked by Dec. 31.
For more information, write Futurist Rules, P.O. Box 2010, 600 S. County Road 18, Minneapolis, Minn., 5 54 2 6, or call 1-800-328-5111, ext. 1523.
Weather
Today will be cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. The high will be in the mid 40s, and winds will be out of the northeast at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be cloudy, with a low in the mid 30s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and warmer, with a high in the mid 50s.
From staff and wire reports
Murder hearing scheduled
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
A preliminary hearing for a Lawrence man charged with first-degree murder is scheduled to begin Wednesday morning in Douglas County District Court.
The murder charge, the first to be filed in Douglas County District Court this year, and two counts of felony child abuse were filed Thursday by the Douglas County district attorney against Genaro Ray Lewis, who was implicated in the August slaying of a 21-month-old boy.
Lewis, 21, was originally charged with voluntary manslaughter for the death of Duane Beers the morning of Aug. 10. Lewis had been baby-sitting Beers the night before.
Douglas County District Attorney
Jim Flory said yesterday that he decided to file the felony murder charge after seeing the written autopsy report and a report from a consulting pathologist.
Flory said the first-degree murder charge was used when a killing involved the commission of another felony. Child abuse was the felony charge associated with the Beers death, he said.
The second charge of felony child abuse stems from a separate incident involving a 3-year-old boy, Flory said.
He declined to give details on that case, which he said came to light during the investigation of Beers' death.
Felony child abuse is the torture or severe beating of a child, he said.
Associate District Court Judge
Mike Malone increased Lewis' bail
from $40,000 to $80,000 during Lewis' first appearance on the new charges Friday morning.
Stan Hazlett, Lewis' attorney,
opposed the bail increase.
Hazlett said he was not suprised by the new charges.
"He couldn't even come up with the original $40,000." Hazlett said yesterday. "He knew he was being investigated for about three days before he was arrested and didn't try to leave."
"I knew it was coming," he said. "Jim Flory told me they had been thinking about it. It was a strong possibility from the very beginning."
Flory said he intended to bring in about 15 witnesses during Wednesda
Hazlett said he was interested in questioning several of those wit
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Crop Walk
Albert Cook, 1733 Mississippi St., check off the kilometers for Jeanne Arriagh, 2601 Haskell Ave., and Steve Hope, 115 E. South Park St., during the Crop Walk 10K Park Walk. About 50 walkers and runners participated in the event yesterday to raise money for Catholic Relief Services, the Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen and the Emergency Service Council of Lawrence. The Crop Walk also will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday for those walkers who did not participate yesterday because of the rain.
Blacks seek vote, S. African says
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Blacks in South Africa, which has more than 24 million blacks and about 5 million whites, are fighting for a system of one man-one vote, a representative for the Pan Africanist Congress said yesterday.
Elizabeth Sibeko, the representative for the congress to the United Nations, said that although blacks in South Africa were struggling for reforms and civil rights, their struggle was much deeper than that.
"The blacks are struggling for self-determination." Sibeko said. "We are fighting for the right to be a type of government in our own country."
and now is its coordinator of the division of women and labor. She spoke to about 20 people in the Kansas Union in a speech sponsored by the KU Committee on South Africa.
She said people always asked what would happen to whites in South Africa if blacks ruled the country. The whites and blacks would live together as people do in other countries, she said.
Sibeko, a black from Johannesburg, South Africa, has been a member of the congress since 1959
"We want to rule ourselves," she said. "This issue we cannot compromise."
Other governments and people may be in favor of dismantling apartheid, she said, but many do not believe a democratic system of one map-pole vote.
"I have yet to see one nation with only one nationality," she said. "People can live together."
However, money, not concern for the whites, is the main reason many don't support blacks ruling in South Africa, she said.
Sibeko is touring the United States to raise money for citizens who have fled South Africa to Tanzania, which has given refuge to many blacks.
"Corporations rip super profits out of South Africa." she said.
She spoke Friday at the St. Stephens Baptist Church in Kansas City, Mo.
"Our mission is to raise funds for people coming out of oppression in South Africa," she said.
Blacks in the bantustans and ghettos of South Africa may not be able to write their own names, she said, but they know they are oppressed and they have been denied rights.
12 educators named HOPE semifinalists
Twelve HOPE Award semifinalists were selected Friday, the senior class secretary said yesterday.
By a Kansan reporter
Alex Olesky, the secretary, said the semi-finalists were:
Timothy Bengtson, associate professor of journalism.
Bezalez Benjamin, professor of architecture and urban design.
John B. Bremner, Oscar S. Staufer distinguished professor of journalism.
Allan J. Cigler, professor of political science.
*Saeed Farokhi, associate professor of aerospace engineering.
■ Don W. Green, Conger-Gabel distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.
- Gary Mason, associate professor of journalism.
Calder M. Pickett, Clyde M. Reed distinguished professor of journalism.
*Nita W. Sundybe, professor of curriculum and instruction.*
George W. Swift, Deane E. Ackers distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.
Lee F. Young, William Allen White distinguished professor of journalism.
Arthur Thomas, Arthur Young distinguished professor of business.
The HOPE Award, Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator. will be presented at the football game against Oklahoma State University at Memorial Stadium on Oct. 26.
The winner will receive a $200 cash prize and a trophy, Oxley said.
The next step for the 12 semi-finalists will be interviews with the Senior Committee, which comprises seniors who expressed interest in being on the committee on the nomination ballot or responded to earlier advertisements.
Lawrence merchants apply for state funds
By Mike Snider
Of the Kansan staff
Lawrence merchants have applied for state help in finding ways to revitalize the city's downtown area.
The merchants and the city must wait until Oct. 21 for a reply from the state.
The Main Street Program was established in 1978 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is a self-help, technical assistance program aimed at reversing the decline of downtowns.
Main Street applications were due Friday. About 20 other Kansas cities are applying, including Junction City, Manhattan, Salina, Hutchinson, Fort Scott and Emporia.
City Commissioner Sandra Praeger said yesterday, "I'm hoping that our already strong downtown will give us an advantage over the other cities. We have shown that we are interested in a viable downtown."
The Downtown Lawrence Association has sent Lawrence's Main Street Program application to the Kansas Department of Economic Development office in Topeka.
If Lawrence is selected as one of the five Main Street cities, it will receive technical assistance and training from the National Main Street Center.
The City Commission put its support behind the program with a 5-0 vote Tuesday at its regular weekly meeting.
The drive to become a Main Street city has been a concerted and unified
project for the community, and city commissioners praised those who helped
Commissioner Ernest Angino said last week at the commission meeting, which was attended by about 30 merchants, "This doesn't happen just because of one person. I want to thank all of you. The city owes you its thanks, too. I think we have a beck of a good chance of being selected."
The Downtown Lawrence Association collected about $70,000 in pledges from Lawrence businesses to add to their 1988 budget of $37,000, which they plan to devote to the Main Street Program.
Part of the funds tentatively will be used to hire a downtown manager to coordinate and promote downtown.
Praeger said being selected for the program would not only help Lawrence's developmental goals but also be good publicity for Lawrence.
"I think the Main Street program will give the five towns selected a lot of publicity within the state," she said.
Originally, city officials were concerned that Lawrence could not qualify for the program because the Kansas Department of Economic Development's criteria limit applications to cities of 5,000 to 50,000 population. Lawrence's population hovers around the 50,000 limit.
Praeager said, "The development office assured us that Lawrence's size won't be held against us. Lawrence is closer to being a small town than a large town."
ASK sets year's goals
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Defining student employment opportunities in alcohol-related settings was one of the priorities set by the associated Students of Kansas in its legislative assembly Saturday.
The legislative assembly met at Wichita State University to determine its platform for the 1985-86 academic year.
Five KU delegates attended the assembly.
ASK represents students from Washburn University and the seven Board of Regents schools, which are the University of Kansas, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas Technical Institute in Salina, Kansas State University, Pittsburgh State University and Wichita State University.
Brian Glpin, KU's ASK director,
said yesterday that this assembly
meeting set the tentative agenda for
the next meeting in November.
"The main thing we did was put things in order of importance," he said.
Priorities for this academic year include several financial aid proposals, such as merit-based aid, aid for part-time students, and teacher scholarships, which would give scholarships to outstanding education majors who would teach in Kansas after their graduation.
Student salaries and work study programs also were high on the list, Gilpin said.
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