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Thursday, Aug. 29, 1985
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Farm activist ordered to get off farm
United Press International
TOPEKA — Bankrupt farm activist Darrell Ringer has until Tuesday to remove his property from his former northwest Kansas farm or else the livestock and farm machinery will be impounded, a federal marshal said yesterday.
"We are giving him a reasonable amount of time to remove the cattle himself," said Kenneth Pekarek, U.S. marshal for Kansas. "If the cattle are not removed from the property by Sept. 3, then the marshal's service will have to remove the cattle."
If the cattle were seized, Ringer would have to pay expenses associated with their impoundment to regain possession, Pekarek said.
Ringer, the former Kansas spokesman for the American Agriculture Movement and a 1984 congressional candidate, lost his 320-acre milo, wheat and cattle farm in a July 21 foreclosure sale in Gove County. The Federal Land Bank of Wichita offered $73,000 for the land
'He hasn't made any efforts. He's fallen far short of the cooperation we get from people facing foreclosure.'
—James Bittel
Federal Land Bank Association
and ultimately was declared the high bidder.
A "writ of assistance" ordering federal marshals to remove the livestock and machinery was issued Tuesday by the U.S. District Court.
Ringer said he would seek legal remedies to negate the "writ of consent" for his own work.
Under an order by U.S. District Judge Richard Rogers, Ringer had until Aug. 1 to harvest his wheat crop and excavate the premises.
Last week, Ringer claimed the Federal Land Bank of Wichita reneged on an agreement that Ringer said called for him to rent the farm back from the Federal Land Bank Association in Ness City.
James Bittel, senior vice president of the western Kansas association, said yesterday it was Ringer who failed to live up to an agreement.
According to Bittel, Ringer at a December 1864 hearing agreed to drop the bankruptcy proceeding and deed the land back to the association if it would rent him the land. Bittel said the association accepted the proposal because foreclosure proceedings are costly and time consuming.
Ringer filed for protection under federal bankruptcy laws in 1984. The filing prevented the land bank from foreclosing on his farm.
However, Bittel said Ringer later told the association to foreclose on
the property, a process Bittel said has cost the association about $9,500 to date.
"The bankruptcy court records will show that during the (December) hearing Mr. Ringer agreed to deed back to the bank bank the land, in exchange for not foreseeing the BRIB expense. We incurred the extra expense because we had to foreclose rather than accept the deed from him."
Bittel said that shortly before the farm foreclosure sale he verbally offered to rent the land to Ringer if the sale was orderly.
It wasn't, he said, pointing to various speeches, chants of "No sale" and a message delivered by a representative of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson.
"If people cooperate with us, we'll make concessions." Bittel said. "He hasn't made any good faith efforts. He did agree to lift the stay on the foreclosure, but he's fallen far short of the type of cooperation we get from people facing foreclosure."
Man ordered tested confined before trial
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TOPEKA — A federal magistrate yesterday ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a Wakefield man accused of threatening the life of President Reagan.
Magistrate Thomas Van Bebber ordered Marlan E. Ray, 44, confined to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., until evaluation to determine his compliance to stand trial is completed.
Van Bebber also entered a not guilty plea on Ray's behalf and his next court appearance for Sept. 13 in U.S. District Judge Richard Rogers
Richard Hathaway, assistant U.S. attorney, said that a federal grand jury in Wichita 'tuesday indicted Ray on a charge of threatening Reagan's life. While in the Clay County Jail on an assault charge Sunday, Ray allegedly told the sheriff he would put
Reagan before a firing, squad and shoot him. Hathaway said.
Hathaway said authorities were especially concerned about Ray's alleged threat because of Reagan's scheduled visit Monday to Independence Park in Washington. George Bush's appearances in Manhattan and Topeka set for Sept. 9.
Hathaway also said Ray was convicted in the 1981 of damaging government property by ramming a car into the front gates of the White House. Ray told authorities he wanted to deliver a letter to the president, Hathaway said. He said Ray also was charged in 1983 with threatening Reagan's life.
Ira Kirkendall, federal public defender appointed to represent Ray, told Van Bebber that Ray had undergone "a great deal of psychiatric treatment" in the past. He said doctors had prescribed medicine for Ray to control his behavior.
Expansion sought for KBI
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TOPEKA — Attorney General Robert Stephan says he needs in-house accountants to deal with an increasing number of white-collar crimes, particularly grain elevator embezzlements.
Stephan yesterday asked the Special Committee on Agriculture for legislation creating a special section of accountant agents within the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to handle cases of grain fraud.
"In the Twombley case, we likely will spend approximately $50,000 of our office funds and KBI funds to hire an accounting firm to assist in the investigation and prosecution." Stephan said.
"Hiring such outside expertise was absolutely essential in this case, and would be helpful in others, but is not frequently done because of the cost
Thomas R. Twombley, St. Joseph, Mo., is accused in Doniphan County District Court of grain theft and warehouse fraud at his grain elevators in Troy and Highland.
"Because the case still is pending, I'm not able to discuss the case in detail, but it's clear the losses to farmers appear at this time to be unprecedented," the attorney general said. "The Grain Inspection Department found shortages of over $2 million in grain."
"In each of those (banking) instances, business either was carried on the very next day under new ownership — depositors fully protected — or the FDIC made immediate payment to depositors," he said. "Farmers should be able to expect the same of their grain."
The committee chairman, Sen Jim Allen, R-Ottawa, said farmers and elevator operators have said they are opposed to assessments to finance such an indemnity fund.
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The committee, an interim legislative study panel is considering whether the state should create an indemnity fund to protect farmers who store grain in facilities that become insolvent.
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In cases in which grain elevators fail, farmers suffer costly delays in obtaining compensation for their grain, if they are compensated at all, he said. When banks failed, he said, depositors have been protected.
"For the farmer, his grain should be as safe in an elevator as money in the bank." Stephan said.
Stephan recommended creation of such a fund, likening it to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which collects depositors' accounts in banks.
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