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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Friday, Sept. 27, 1985
Cheesy spinach hamburger dish snags title
United Press International
WICHTA — A hamburger dish flavored with spinach and three types of cheeses won top honors and $5,000 for a Pennsylvania woman who made it in the 12th annual National Beef Cook-off.
Gloria Bove, a cooking enthusiast from Bethlehem, won the cook-off yesterday with her Cheesy Beef 'n Spinach Cassata. A retired worker from Bethlehem Steel Corp., Bove made the pie-like dish with hamburger, spinach and parmesan,
ricotta and mozzarella cheeses.
Sally Vog, a homemaker from Springfield, Ore, captured second place with a dish called lime-thyme beef made with round roast. Third place went to Ruth Leonard, a postal worker from Union, Maine, who uses leftovers to make her prize-winning beef chuck and anoles.
Honorable mention went to cooks from Texas, California, New York, Oklahoma and Maryland.
One contestant from each of the 48
continuous states entered the cookoff, ranked as one of the three top cooking contests in the United States behind the Pillsbury Bake-Off and the National Chicken Cooking Conference year the year the cook-off was held in Kansas.
The amateur chefs, vying for prizes totaling $10,000, braised, broiled, browned and baked their entries in a hotel ballroom turned into a giant kitchen.
Kansas' contestant, LeRoy Hull of Wichita — one of only eight men competing — whipped up LeRoy's grilled steak with red pepper and tomato relish. Hull won the Kansas Beef Cook-off last April.
More than 300 spectators and representatives from the beef industry.
try crowded around the 25 ranges set up for the event, licking their lips over entries such as pot roast with olive gravy, shredded smoke chili and brandywine beer. The aromas of dishes cooked in Mexican, Oriental, Italian, German, Indian or Brazilian styles waved through the air.
The annual cook-off is staged by the beef industry as a public relations and promotional event, said Jay Wardell, marketing executive for the Beef Industry Council of the Meat Board, Chicago.
"It's an event that always gotten good coverage," he said. "Americans are always interested in cooking contests. This provides us a way to educate (the public) and offer different ideas on how to use beef."
chuck, round, rump, fresh brisket, shank or ground beef. Entries had to be original creations.
The contestants were required to use economical cuts of beef, such as
Seven judges graded the entries, awarding a maximum of 40 points for quality of taste, 30 for ease of preparation and practicality, 20 for originality and 10 for appearance.
The first-place winner received $5,000, the second-place winner $2,500 and the third-place winner $1,000.
Top ideas requested for dome
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The Kansas Arts Commission has responded to a legislative mandate by inviting suggestions on what sort of statue should stand atop the Kansas Capitol dome, the commission's director said yesterday.
In an attempt to end a longrunning debate about what, if anything, should replace the 1,000-watt lightbulb presently on top of the 304-foot-tall dome, the 1984 Kansas Legislature approved a law that requires the commission to solicit suggestions for the statue.
However, because lawmakers have rejected the original idea of placing a statue of a Greek goddess on top of the dome, the law says the sculpture "shall not be a representation of the goddess Ceres."
John Carey, executive director of the arts commission, said the ideas from Kansas school children and others, including some ideas already later would be presented to interested artists for preliminary sketches.
The law provides that the sketches then must be reviewed by an advisory panel consisting of the governor and party leaders in both chambers. Legislature, as well as state architectural, historical and art officials.
Next, the advisory panel will make recommendations to a selection committee of five art professionals chosen by the arts commission and the state architect. Carey said no deadline had been set for the selection process but the commission had set an Oct. 31 deadline for the suggestions. All entries must be sent to the commission's Topeka office.
Carey said religion had played a key role in the conflict over the statue of the Greek goddess, which has continued since the Capitol was completed around 1900.
"I think the primary reason is that Ceres represents a Greek religious or mythical figure," Carey said. "And at the time at which Ceres was considered a goddess, the Greeks were not a Christian nation."
"One of my personal favorites is a
raking sunflower windmill," he said.
Some of the ideas already on file include some joking suggestions, Carey said.
Among the leading serious contenders is a statue representing the Kanza Indian Chief White Plume. Although small in number, the Kanza Indians dominated area at the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition through Kansas in the early 1800s, Carey said.
Paul Goodman/KANSAN
At yesterday's Watson Library book sale, Robert McMullen, a library employee and Hutchinson graduate student, left, helped Karen Mathes. Overland Park sophomore, select a book on Russian poetry for her brother.
A binding sale
Topeka company banking on computer catastrophes
United Press International
TOPEKA — A business with records, payroll, billing or other functions stored in computers could go out of business if its computer system was destroyed and no backup was readily available, industry experts say.
So where does a company go for help when its computer system is destroyed or inaccessible due to fire, flood, sabotage or any number of other catastrophes?
Howard Paul hopes it will come to him, or rather, to Backup Recovery Services Inc., a new Topeka company preparing to offer computer backup services to Sperry Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. computer users across the country.
The service will maintain "hot sites" - standby mainframe computers - plus "cold sites" - computer rooms with air conditioning and electricity awaiting installation of computers on demand.
Although it will not go into operation until Oct. 1, Paul, president
of the company, said recently that Backup Recovery Services had been doing land office business signing up subscribers.
"It's really shocking," he said.
"It's the first thing I've ever done in my life where nobody's said 'no.' "
Paul said a story in a recent trade publication indicated that only about 20 companies like his existed nationwide. And, he said, the magazine said only 35 percent of all U.S. companies have effective computer recovery plans.
"So our market potential is tremendous." he said.
Paul said corporate officers were beginning to realize how vulnerable they were without computer backup capability. In addition, the U.S. lender had currency reserves directed all U.S. banks to develop backup plans.
Paul, 35, can rattle off a list of commercial, industrial, medical and government groups that have signed the service in the past eight months.
"We have talked to nobody to date who has been negative," he said.
"They've all been positive, and most data departments are sending recommendations to upper management for approval. Data processing people realize the need for this service, and management also is aware of their obligation for corporate assets."
Paul said installation began last week on the first computer going into the 20,000-square-foot building in the chamber of commerce industrial park north of the Kansas River.
The first unit is an IBM System 38, actually a rather small unit for what the company eventually plans to do. It will be shared part of the time with Topela Technical College, which will use it to train students, Paul said.
Although the IBM 38 and the cold sites are to be ready Oct. 1, a big Sperry 1190 mainframe computer — Sperry's newest — probably will be running by June 1968, Paul said.
Agreements have been completed with Sperry for equipment, and talks are underway with IBM for eventual installation of one of that company's big mainframe units.
Kansas' DWI law grants defendants bargaining power
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — An oversight by state lawmakers allows city and county attorneys to make diversion agreements with people charged with driving while intoxicated even when the defendants have prior DWI charges, states, Attorney General Robert T. Stephan in an opinion yesterday.
Stephan said prosecutors are allowed under current laws to make the agreements instead of prosecuting a person charged with driving only if the defendant is a first-time DWI offender "in this state."
The agreements usually require a defendant to pay a minimum fine and complete an alcohol and drug safety program. The unauthorized driver driving charges are dismissed.
In the non-binding legal opinion, Stephan said that when 1983 Kansas Legislature amended Kansas' DWI sentencing law to make out-of-state DWI convictions count as prior convictions, lawmakers did not write the new language into two laws dealing with pre-trial diversion agreements.
"It appears that the failure to
amend the diversion statutes was simple oversight, resulting in the inconsistency," Stephan said in the opinion prepared by Assistant Attorney General Terrence R. Hearshman.
However, the opinion said prosecutors may not make a diversion agreement if the arrangement would not be "in the interests of justice" or benefit the defendant, if the defendant previously has participated in a diversion program, if the person's blood alcohol content was .20 or higher, or if the alcohol-related offense resulted in personal injury or death.
"A previous conviction in another state must be considered in determining whether diversion of a defendant is in the interest of justice," Stephan said.
The sentencing law now says that upon a person's second DWI conviction, regardless of where in the United States the first one occurred, a Kansas judge must impose a five-day minimum jail sentence, a fine of between $500 and $1,000 and suspend the defendant's driving privileges until completion of a treatment program.
Article extols talk shows
United Press International
Dole discovers hobby as a magazine writer
TOPEKA — Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., soldier, lawyer, politician has taken on a new mantle, that of magazine writer, with a TV Guide article, "Why I'm Hooked on the Sunday Interview Shows."
The magazine's Sept. 28 issue features the Dole article, complete with grimming caricature of the Russell Republican planted in front of a TV set depicting Vice President Bush on Face the Nation.
In the article, which was written in first-person narrative, Dole extolled the Sunday news programs, both as a viewer and a participant. Among other things, Dole said they occasionally gave him a chance to find out more on the matter of transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole.
those of us who do the nation's business to deal with important domestic and foreign-policy issues in depth," Dole wrote. "It's nice to make the evening news shows but it's seldom — if ever that you get more than 10 seconds to present your point of view." he said.
"Humor aside, another reason I'm such a big fan of the talk shows is that they present a golden opportunity for
Dole said it was different on Sunday, when a guest could speak unedited to millions of people.
"You can help shape national policy," he wrote. "You can blast the House, nudge the administration, send a message to allies or adversaries or sell your budget to the people."
He said the shows' atmospheres were usually pleasant — at least until the questions started — and the guest was made to feel at home.
"And there's always a spread of food laid out — although many a talk-show guest starts his morning munching croissants and ends it eating crow," he said. "But no one I know takes it personally."
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