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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1985
Kansas officials say little is invested in South Africa
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — State officials who manage nearly $1 billion in idle state funds say little, if any, of the money is invested in companies that do business in South Africa.
The reason so little state money could be invested in South Africa is that the bulk of the state's idle funds by law must be invested directly in Kansas financial institutions, Lyell Ocobock, executive director of the Pooled Money Investment Board, said.
Ocobook said Monday that the state freeway fund is the only money the board manages that could be invested in companies doing business in South Africa. He said the freeway money is a "special" account that can be invested in corporate bonds.
About $2.5 million of the $900 million in state idle funds is invested in corporate bonds, Ocobock said.
"The only thing we have at this time that could possibly be invested in a company that does business in South Africa is General Motors Acceptance Corp. corporate bonds," Ocobock said. "And that only amounts to $1 million."
It is possible that some Kansas banks that hold idle state funds have other investments that include securities of companies that do business in South Africa, he said.
The board of trustees of the Kansas Public Employment Retirement System voted Friday to begin ridding its $2.2 billion investment portfolio of stocks in some companies that do business in South Africa.
Secretary sentenced in murder conspiracy
United Press International
EMPORIA — Lorna Anderson Eldridge, the former church secretary who pleaded guilty to conspiring to have her first husband murdered, yesterday was sentenced to two consecutive prison terms totaling $5 \frac{1}{2}$ to 18 years by a Lyon County judge.
Eldridge pleaded guilty last month to two charges of criminal solicitation to commit murder, a Class D felony.
District Judge William Dick sentenced Eldridge to $12\frac{1}{2}$ to 8 years on a charge that said she met with the Rev. Thomas Bird, her alleged lover, and building contractor Darrell Carter at Faith Lutheran Church in Emporia in May or June of 1983 to plan her husband's death.
Testimony at two trials for Bird indicated she attended the meeting with Bird, for whom she was church secretary at Faith Lutheran, and Darrell Carter. Eldridge last month said she, Bird and Darrell Carter
discussed either poisoning or drugging Martin Anderson and leaving his body on railroad tracks.
Dick sentenced Eldridge to the maximum sentence of 3 to 10 years on the other charge that if September 1983, she gave an Emporia hairdresser and brother of Darrell
Carter, Daniel Carter, $5,000 to find someone to kill Anderson.
Daniel Carter had testified at earlier court proceedings that he gave the $,5000 to another man, Gregory Curry, who said he gave it to a hit man in Mississippi. Daniel Carter and Curry pleaded guilty to
criminal solicitation in Anderson's death.
No one has ever been charged with the murder of Anderson, who was shot to death in Geary County Nov. 4, 1983, in the presence of Eldridge and the couple's four children.
Vermont to be first to prosecute fugitives
The Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Vermont apparently will be the first of several states in line to prosecute Lohman Mays Jr., a convicted murderer who is wanted in four states for crimes committed since his escape from a Tennessee prison July 1, 1984.
made his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne Monday, and Barrett made her appearance yesterday.
Mays, 42, and his girlfriend. Patricia Barrett, 28, were arrested by Cheyenne police Monday afternoon on a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Mays
Both are being held in the Laramie County Jail.
U. S. Attorney Richard Stacy said yesterday federal and local authorities had decided Vernont should be the first to prosecute because federal armed bank robbery charges there are strong and involve both Mays and Barrett.
been identified by the FBI as suspects in the kidnapping of a state trooper Aug. 24. Sgt. Dan Gifford was taken to a farm house near Wilson where he was tied up with three residents of the house. No one was harmed.
In Kansas, Mays and Barrett have
That same day a farm couple from Sterling was forced to drive the fugitives 60 miles to Wichita in search of another vehicle. They were arrested Monday in a vehicle stolen in Wichita.
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