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University Daily Kansan
Tnursday, Sept 12, 1985
Campus/Area
Charges filed in milk culture scheme
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A federal grand jury indicted 12 people yesterday on charges of mail fraud and conspiracy in connection with a nationwide milk culture growing scheme by firms in Kansas, Nevada and California.
In announcing the indictments, U.S. Attorney Benjamin Burgess said the defendants, operators of Culture Farms Inc., of Lawrence, and three other companies, had diverted for their own benefit an amount in excess of $10 million in investors' money.
Among those charged was Terrence Taylor, 39, of Lawrence, the president of Culture Farms Inc.
Burgess and J.W. Winegar, chief postal inspector of the U.S. Postal Service's Kansas City division, called the promotion a pyramid
scheme that had been brought into the United States from South Africa.
The 12 people were each charged with 63 counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy, Burgess said. Conviction on all counts in the indictments could result in a maximum fine of $73,000 for each of the defendants and up to five years imprisonment, he said.
The officials said the indictments capped a six-month investigation of Culture Farms and Activator Supply, Co. of Pahrump, Nev., the principal firms involved in the milk culture marketing plan.
Culture Farms filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy laws on Aug. 1 after the culture marketing plan came under legal fire in at least 20 states.
The Kansas company listed no growers among its top 20 creditors,
but securities officials in Florida, where about 2,000 people are reported to have participated in the program, have estimated that growers nationwide are owed between $48 million and $60 million.
Burgess said he had no estimate on how much was owed to about 27,000 growers. However, he told a news conference that he would attempt to recover as much as possible by prosecuting the defendants.
Kansas Securities Commissioner John Wurth has said investments in the promotion ranged up to $3,500. An investor who paid about $350 would receive a kit containing about 10 packets of dried material, which was mixed with whole milk, fermented a week in glass jars and dried.
Investors were told that they could expect a potential income of $900 on a
$350 investment when Culture Farms purchased the dried material "because the demand for cultures was extremely high," Burgess said.
"In truth and fact the only demand for the cultures was the demand created by the defendants for the purpose of inducing investors to purchase activators," he said.
However, a small amount of the cultures was used by a Nevada cosmetics firm called the House of Cleopatra's Secret Inc., the U.S. attorney said.
The promoters also misled investors by saying arrangements had been made with a California company, Rontel Tele-Marketing Corp. to advertise the cosmetics on television, Burgess said.
TOPEKA — Although it's far from finished with drafting the electric rate orders, the Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday slashed rate increase requests for utilities owning the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant.
The commission endorsed the concept of cutting a $371 million — 101 percent — rate increase request by Kansas Gas & Electric Co. to a $136.6 million — 36 percent — increased, phased in over three years.
Price hikes for utilities scaled down
Greeks are first officers
The three commissioners backed an even more drastic cut for Kansas City Power & Light Co. Instead of a one-time $90.5 million — 52 percent increase — the KCC's preliminary decision endorsed a one-time $72.7 million — 16 percent — hike.
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Also rejected was KCPL's other proposed alternative, a $110.6 million — 65 percent — increase phased in over four years.
Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, which owns 6 percent of the plant, also is expected to experience a cut in its requested one-time. $27 million — 40 percent — increase. However, it was expected to be less drastic because the cooperative has no shareholders to share the burden of the disallowed Wolf Creek costs.
tiated this fall, provides a liaison between 22 greek houses and Watkins health services
KGE and KCPL each owns 47 percent of the $3.05 billion Wolf Creek plant near Burlington.
A woman stands in the dining room at Watkins Memorial Hospital, clutching her throat and looking frantic. Two men rush to her side. As one begins first aid, the other goes for help.
Student health program starts
Ken Stoner, director of University housing, said that one reason the locks were being changed was to eliminate any possibility of the locked doors being opened with credit cards.
"The purpose is to start peer education in health," said Lynn Heller, nurse and coordinator of the health education department. "Students are more likely to go to other students, and there are a lot who are misinformed. We want these students to provide health education in any areas they can."
Stoner said if the residents were not at home when the lock was changed, the workers would leave a label on the door explaining the change.
One member from each of 12 fraternies and 10 sororites was trained in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and first aid.
week and that the locks in tower C would be changed this week. Two workers from the housing department will change the locks in towers A and B after they finish tower C.
The woman giggles as one of the men pretends to administer the Heilmich maneuver, which is used to aid choking victims. The "emergency" was only a skit performed by a teacher's meeting of student health officers.
In about five weeks, a $21,000 project to replace all the locks on apartment doors at Jayhawker Towers, 1603 W. 15th St., will be completed, the director of University housing said yesterday.
"We wanted to eliminate the notion that the door could be carded," Stoner said. "The majority of the doors couldn't be carded unless you were the great Houdini, but a lot of students had that impression. We wanted to eliminate that image."
to discuss topics in which their houses are interested.
He said that the new locks looked the same as the old locks and that residents' old keys would fit in the new locks as well.
In general, the commission's findings penalize the utilities for building a nuclear plant, when a coal-fired plant might have been a wiser option, and for building a much bigger plant than they needed. They also make the utilities absorb $291 million in construction costs that were deemed excess because of mismanagement and inefficiency.
Teri Copeland, Salina junior and health officer for Alpha Gamma Delta, said she thought the prog:am filled a need because students often wouldn't go to doctors on their own.
Towers apartments receiving new locks
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Heller said the officers were meant to be "resource people," answering questions and providing referrals.
Grey Endres, Prairie Village senior and a member of Phi Kappa Theta, said he suggested the program last spring because he thought greek houses often were forgotten by health educators.
"We're also trying to increase the security of the building and trying to get the students to be more security conscious." He said that all of the locks in tower D were changed last
"We are putting the old cylinder in the new lock so the keys will still fit." Stoner said. "We're also putting chain locks on the doors that don't have them."
Once a month all the officers meet
The health officer program, ini-
"The new locks have a tiny mechanism called a latch protector that the old locks didn't have?" Stoner said.
This latch protector will keep the latch from moving when the door **locked.**
KU graduate student dies from brain tumor
By a Kansan reporter
A KU graduate student in German and Slavic languages died Saturday at Colonial Manor of Lawrence, 3015 W. 31st St.
Memorial services were conducted last night. Central Junior High has established a memorial fund for Ms. Lail.
Teresa "Terry" Jean Lail, 38, who also taught mathematics at Central Junior High School, 1400 Massachusetts St., last year learned that she had an inoperable brain tumor.
Ms. Lail was working on her doctoral degree in German and Slavic languages with an emphasis in Polish, Gerald Mikkelson, chairman of the department of Slavic languages and literatures, said yesterday.
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When we say that the future belongs to you, we are thinking in categories of human impermanence, which is always a journey toward the future. When we say that the future depends on you, we are thinking in ethical categories, according to the demands of moral responsibility, which requires us to attribute to a man as a person / and to the communities and societies which are made up of persons / the fundamental value of human acts, resolves, undertakings and intentions.
So your youth is not just your own property, your personal property or the property of a generation: it belongs to the whole of that space that every man traverses in his life's journey and at the same time it is a special possession belonging to everyone. It is the possession of humanity.
This dimension is also a dimension proper to Christian and human hope. And in this dimension the first and principal wish that the church expresses for you and young people, through my lips, in this year dedicated to youth is this: that you should "always be prepared to make a defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that is in you."
In you there is hope, for you belong to the future, just as the future belongs to you. For hope is always linked to the future; it is the expectation of "future good things." As a Christian virtue, it is linked to the expectation of those eternal good things which God has promised to man in Jesus Christ. And at the same time, this hope, as both a Christian and a human virtue, is the expectation of the good things man will build using the talents given him by providence.
In this sense the future belongs to you young people, just as it once belonged to the generation of those who are now adults, and precisely together with them it has become the present reality. Responsibility for this present reality and for its shape and many different forms lies first of all with adults. To you belongs responsibility for what will one day become reality together with yourselves, but which still lies in the future.
(This is the first of fifteen letters in a bi-weekly series.)
"The church in a special way sees herself in the young - in you as a group and in each of you as individuals," Pope John Paul II said in an apostolic letter to youth released March 26, 1985 to coincide with a Vatican-sponsored celebration to commemorate the U.N. International Youth Year. The pope encouraged young people to examine questions about life's meaning and to realize the importance of living a moral life. He asked young people to consider vocations to the priesthood and religious life but noted that Vatican Council II broadened the concept of vocation. "Every human life vocation," he said, "as a Christian vocation, corresponds to the evangelical call." About marriage, Pope John Paul said, "To set out on the path of the married vocation means to learn married love day by day, year by year." The pope noted in the letter that "a question of fundamental importance for the human person" emerges from the discussions of education and learning. "This is the question of truth," he said. "Truth is the light of the human intellect. If the intellect seeks, from youth onward, to know reality in its different dimensions, it does so in order to possess the truth; in order to live the truth." The text in the letter follows.
In my next letter, I will demonstrate how, Christ speaks to young people, these words have a distinct relationship with the whole of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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