University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
KANSAN
Thursday, January 15, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 74 USPS 650-640
Kansas Bureau of investigation agents and KU police search a wooded area of West Campus for clues in the death of an unidentified person whose body was found yesterday.
Bodv discovered on West Campus
A decomposed body was found in a heavily wooded area on the KU West Campus yesterday afternoon.
The body, found on the ground next to a tree, was clothed in blue jeans and a pair of men's vinyl shoes. The skeletal remains had at one time been propped against the tree, but had since slumped over, police said. The body was too decomposed for police to immediately determine cause of death or the sex of the body.
A Kansas Bureau of Investigation forensics team was called to the site to collect evidence. KU spokesman Bob Burdick said that there was no indication of play fun.
"The body has evidently been there a long time and has been damaged by animals," Burdick said. "We won't be able to determine the cause of death until we run an autopsy."
The body was discovered by a retired University maintenance man, Clovis Lathrom, 2027 Kentucky. Lathrom had been exploring an area north of the KU dump with a metal detector when he found the body, police said.
The body was transferred to Lawrence Memorial Hospital last night, where an autopsy will be performed today.
'Mustard heir'trial set for next week
Staff Reporter
BvLINDAROSEWICZ
With a big smile and a lot of smooth talk, a man allegedly bilked 15 Lawrence merchants of nearly $25,000 in merchandise without paying the price. He then offed as the sole heir to the French's Mustard Co.
The man, Rodney R. Moinin, 33, was charged last month with two counts of grand theft and three counts of insufficient funds in Douglas County after a moneyless buying spree in early November in Lawrence. He is in Douglas County Jail awaiting trial next Friday.
Moynihan purchased a $200,000 estate, a luxury automobile, video cassette equipment and other merchandise without any money changing taxes. Douglas County district attorney, said Tuesday.
"he us just a very convincing individual." Malone said. "Once he got his name established with one business in Lawrence, he just fed on it." He knew he had to be hard to believe how he got away with it, though.
To start the con game in Lawrence, Moquin allegedly went to Stephens Real Estate Agency, 2701 W. 6th St., where he agreed to pay cash for a $14,124 estate south of Lawrence. He signed a lease from the property and promised to pay as soon as his funds were transferred from New York.
HE BEGAN his spree Nov. 4 and was out of town by Nov. 9.
"He said he was the heir to some business and that he was going to cash to pay as soon as he could get the agency, and that he Stephens, a good show agent, said. "He told on a very good show. He was really believed."
Malone said Moquin used the real estate agent solutions as a reference for other LawrenceMcPherson
"Anyone who can pay cash for a home can pay
cash for almost anything," Malone said. "The man knew what he was doing."
"He came in with the story that he was heir to the French's Mustard Co. and talked really smooth," Dale Wiley, owner of the business, said.
MALONE SAID that Mouquin went to Dale
and signed a sale agreement for a 1900 Cadillac.
Merchants saidMQoin told them he also was the owner of a trucking company in New York and would pay for all of his merchandise as soon as his funds were transferred to Lawrence.
"Driving that big car had started rolling in lots of observation merchandise," Wiley said. "Biting."
GEORGE SMITH, owner of Smith's TV, 1447
St. Louis, MO; impressed by the
Cadillac when Mouquin came to New York.
"Mooquin came in and said he wanted my biggest and best home entertainment center and that he would pay cash for it," Smith said. "At first I just couldn't believe that any person could have that much cash—it was just too good to be true."
Mouquin also received a $3,500 organ from Pullam's Music House, 2601 Iowa St., a complete set of bedroom furniture from Cloud Nine Waterbeds, 32rd and Louisiana streets, a tractor and feed from Lawrence Feed and Farm Supply, a vacuum cleaner shop. Malone said Mouquin also passed several insufficiently funded checks at three area grocery stores.
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Smith delivered more than $5,000 worth of video merchandise to Moquin's home that same day.
"Mouquin was commanderseeing in a nice way," Dumil Paullan, an owner of Pullam's, said. "He invited me to come fishing in his pond and even to bring some salmon to nice ice, I don't think we would have pulled it out."
TWO OTHER MERCHANTS also said, Moquin
invited them to join him for steak dinners and fishing trips.
"His setup was great," Pulliam said. "Nobody was real reluctant to let him go with the merchandise because he was so convincing. After he saw that we were working together, he offered me to let us pick it up—which we did."
Mouquin called all of the businesses Thursday, Nov. 6, to take away the merchandise until he got the funds transferred to pay for them." Malone said. Only two businesses, Smitty's TV and Cloud Nine, did not take advantage of his offer before he left town two days later.
"I could just kick myself for not going out to pick up all of our equipment when he called." Smith said. "But all of the merchandise weighed over 600 pounds and we just trusted the guy.
"This seam is going to make a big difference to all of the businesses in Lawrence. Everybody is going to be really wary of big-talking credit buys."
Cloud Nine Waterbirds also did not pick up its merchandise before Moquín left. The store will soon be closed to the public.
MOQUIN WAS arrested by Rockwell County, Texas, police in late November after he began talking to people about possible purchases there. Included in that list of items were a $180,000 home in the county, about 5,000 acres of land and furniture valued at nearly $5,000, police said.
Moquin's story, as described by a Rockwell County police official, resembles the tale he allegedly told Lawrence merchants when he, his wife, Alice, and their children were in this area.
Mouquin was extradited to Lawrence in early December in Gov John Carlin's private airbase.
Mrs. Moulin was arrested in mid-November by authorities in Savannah, Tenn., a city about 120 miles southwest of Nashville. She also is in New York City, where she is tried on grand theft charges with her husband.
KU budget faces gubernatorial ax
By BILL VOGRIN Staff Writer
TOPEKA - A planned addition to Haworth Hall faces a one-year delay if Gov. John Carlin has his way and if his state budget recommendations for the school are approved by the Kansas Legislature.
A requested 10 percent salary increase for KU faculty and capital improvement planning face cuts if Carlin's budget proposals are approved. Carlin made his proposals to the Legislature Tuesday, the second day of the 1981 legislative session.
Carlin proposed an 8 percent merit raise for faculty and 8.1 percent increase in student employee wages. The Board of Regents had requested a 10 percent faculty pay raise and a 7 percent budget boost to Faculty salaries were the Regents to priority in their budget request to Carlin.
In his report Carlin said he recommended budget increases for higher education because declining enrollment trends had reversed and enrollment levels were back up at the seven Kansas Regents institutions. He proposed a budget of $27 million for the seven Regents schools.
THE MONEY was to provide adequate teaching programs and services, Carlin said in the report, and would go for 77 new faculty and support positions and other operating costs.
"Maintaining this network is a high priority even in the face of a conservative budget," he said. "With adequate investments in education, how to return to our state will far exceed the initial cost."
Total KU budget requests reached $144 million, with operating costs making up $133 million of the total. Carlin trimmed those requests by about $9 million - $135 million total expenses—with operating expenses of $129.75 million.
In accordance with my proposed method for adjusting university budgets based upon actual full-year enrollment changes, I recommend a fiscal year 1982 base budget addition of $612,000, including 29 additional positions, to be utilized at the University's discretion in those areas most
affected by the increased enrollments;" Carlin said in his report.
He also recommended an appropriation of $998,500 from the Kanas Educational Building Fund for construction of a utility tunnel to Allen and Merrill School District that threaten a major rupture at anytime.
CARLIN ALSO LISTED an expenditure of $400,000 from the fund for the renovation of Flint Hall, an appropriation made by the 1980 Legislature.
Carlin said he still supported the Haworth Hall addition, but said the size of the project—a $123.8 million price tag—and lack of funds would delay the project.
KU reaction to the Carlin proposals has been mixed. Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said he was disappointed with the magnitude of his requests for faculty salary increases and operating expenses.
"We were pleased to see that the governor responded to the need for enrollment adjustment in the base budget, but we were also disappointed in his recommendations for faculty-staff compensation and the area of operating expenses." Cobb said.
Cobb said that the University would like to see the appropriation for the Haworth Hall addition restored and that there was still hope. The governor increased or cut the governor's recommendation.
Carlin also suggested a mixed group of legislative proposals in his presentation to the Legislature, including a ban on the sale of highway radar detectors, restrictions on the sale of drug paraphernalia and modification of the Landlord-tenant act.
Citing the possible loss of federal highway funding if Kansans didn't slow down and abide by the 55 mph speed limit, Carlin proposed that radar detectors be outlawed and that speeding tickets for more than 55 mph be counted as moving violations.
CURRENTLY, only tickets issued for more than 65 mph are counted as violations under Kansas law. Three moving violations in the result in revocation of one's driver's license.
He also proposed to outlaw the sale of drug paraphernalia in places open to minors.
Toymaker, City Hall squabble as workshop gets demolished
Staff Reporter
By KARI ELLIOTT Staff Reporter
The warehouse at 201 Massachusetts St. is a pile of rubble now. Bryan Anderson's fight to save the office building that was his Fat City works in over, but the controversy with City Hall is not.
His defeat has left him without a place to ply his trade. He said his tools were stored in a building that was not large enough to work in. So they go unused.
Amerson's occupation of the building ended Dec. 17 when Douglas County Sheriff Rex Johnson evicted him. Anderson was dressed in a blue suit and chained to a pillar in the empty warehouse.
Anderson's dispute with the city started in 1979 when city commissioners decided that the city needed the property as a parking lot for area businesses.
The toymaker and about 20 of his supporters scorched out of the building. There were no arrests.
Last year, the city and Anderson could not
be reached by car because of property, so the
city began condemnation process.
According to Kansas law, cities can condemn property for off-street parking by publishing a notice in a newspaper. The property owner then moves to an appeal in which to appeal the decision before it is final.
Anderson is challenging the constitutionality
"I was not going to give up easy." Anderson
couldn't ensure enough issue not to be swept
under the carpet.
Razing of the three-story building began Dec. 23. The contractor has 40 working days to complete the project.
In July 1980, Anderson's request for a permanent injunction to prevent construction of a parking lot was denied. The decision by the court permitted the city to condemn the property.
of that law on the grounds that he should be notified personally of the action and that the appeal period is too short.
City Commission elections are in April.
He filed suit contesting the law in Douglas County District Court and lost. The suit was appealed to the Kansas Court of Appeals, but it became moot when the building was demolished.
"The people may forget the building, but not Santa and the protests. The city made a bad move and the people won't forget April."
Anderson said his fight with City Hall was expensive.
"My business has been shut down virtually for six months," said Anderson, who builds expensive dollhouses for department stores. "I've lost about $1,000 in business."
In addition, he said, he lost rent when his
house was flooded, and he had to pay the city about
£250 a month.
"I had to borrow $30,000 to pay off the mortgage, improvement loans and legal expenses."
Weather
at will be cloudy today, with winds from the north to northeast at 10-15 mph, according to the KU Weather Service. It will be considerably colder with the high
Tongle there will be cloudy skies and a chameleon, but you will be bitterly with the low near *n*.
See ANDERSON page 5
Dykes likes insurance, turns down Reagan
Friday will be partly to mostly cloudy and continued cold with a high of 24-27.
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-While on a business trip to Chicago, a Topeka man was approached by acquaintances who had an out-of-the-ordinary job offer. The job called for a man willing to abilishe his own office.
The man from Topeka was Archie R. Dykes, former chancellor of the University of Kansas and now president of a Topeka insurance firm. The job that Dykes turned down was the post of Secretary of Education in President-elect Ronald Reagan's Cabinet.
At most, the job would last four years, but if all went as expected, the post would be gone within
"The major reason that I turned down the post was because I had barely gotten settled here," Dykes said from his Security Benefit Life office. "I had only been with Security Benefit for a couple of months when the offer came and I felt that I owed the company more time."
Dykes, who resigned as chancellor in May,
said the offer came through informal contacts at
first, one of whom was the president of Capitol Federal Savings and Loan in Topeka. Then he was contacted by members of Reagan's transition team, who asked him to come to Washington. It was then that Dykes decided to decline the offer.
DYKES DID not say that money was a factor in the decision. However, he reportedly would have had to take a sizable pay cut. Joining the administration would mean giving up his salary, reported to be more than $100,000, to get the $89,300 he received for $89,300. As chancellor, Dykes earned $7,500.
That Reagan planned to eliminate the Department of Education also was not a major reason for not going to Washington, Dykes said. He was particularly in favor of eliminating the position.
"I think that the greatest threat to the independence of education is the growing role that teachers play through the Department of Education.
"I think the department is not needed because it is not really useful," Dykes said. "But most importantly, I, along with many other people in education, did not want government interference in education to grow to the point where the government can dictate to educators.
Dykes said there was concern within higher education circles about the growing control the government had over universities through aid. This kind of control is illustrated by the government's suits against universities for failing to comply with Title IX regulations, which call for equal opportunities for men and women in university programs.
ALTHOUGH IT WILL be difficult to unravel the red tape to dismantle a federal department, Dykes said he thought Reagan ultimately would succeed in carrying out his plan.
While Dykes was chancellor at KU, he was on the American Association of Universities committee, which opposed the creation of the Department of Education. The American Association of Universities is an organization that represents 50 large universities, including
"It is difficult for a president to carry out something like this unilaterally," Dykes said.
KARAUMAN SOMMAN
Archie R. Dykes
Former KU Chancellor