University Daily Kansan / Thursdav. November 20. 1986
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News Briefs
Derailed train slows KC rush-hour traffic
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Rush-hour traffic was disrupted last evening near the downtown area when a freight train carrying automotive parts derailed and hit a support pylon for a viaduct, authorities said.
A Union Pacific freight train derailed several hundred feet from the historic Union Station, located near the Liberty Memorial and Crown Center about 5 p.m. One of the freight cars struck a pillar supporting the Grand Avenue Viaduct between 19th and 23rd Streets. The bridge carries downtown traffic over the railroad tracks.
The span was closed to traffic by authorities who said a structural inspection would be performed on the support beams.
Guilty plea entered
Barbara Bay, 26, 745 Connecticut St., pleaded guilty Tuesday in Douglas County District Court to one count of aiding and abetting the sale of cocaine.
Bay, who was one of the 21 people indicted on cocaine-related charges in Lawrence in July, originally was charged with two counts of selling cocaine and one count of aiding and abetting the sale of cocaine.
However, the Douglas County district attorney's office amended the charge to three counts of selling cocaine. The court allowed Bay to plead guilty to the lesser charge of aiding and abetting.
Bay is scheduled for sentencing Dec. 16. The state sentence for aiding and abetting the sale of cocaine, a class C felony, ranges from three to 20 years in prison and a fine of up $15,000.
Man charged in case
A Perry man was charged with one count of aggravated burglary and one count of aggravated battery Tuesday in Douglas County District Court.
A report filed in district court said that Paul J. Hemme, a rural Perry resident, was charged in connection with a Nov. 11 incident in which someone broke into a house on Rural Route 5 in Lawrence and threatened the owner with a club.
Hemme, who was taken to the Douglas County jail Tuesday, was released on a $20,000 recognition bond. He is scheduled to appear in court again Monday for a preliminary hearing.
Kansan picks editor
The Kansan board selected Frank Hansel, Kansan sports editor, as the newspaper's editor yesterday for the spring 1987 semester.
Hansel, Shawnee senior, was named after the board interviewed applicants for the job. The Kansas board includes School of Journalism faculty members, the present Kansan editor and business manager and a Student Senate representative.
Hansel will announce news staff positions for the spring semester next week.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high temperature in the low 50s and northeasterly winds at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be most likely clear with a low temperature in the mid-30s. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny again with a high temperature in the low 60s.
from staff and wire reports.
Edith Wilson, an early morning bartender at Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Se-
cond St, serves a beverage to Jeanne Leslie, Chicago senior. Johnny's will
become a private club Saturday
cond St.
Johnny's ends its early openings
By RIC ANDERSON
Staff writer
"I opened Johnny's Tavern" bumper stickers will become scrapbook material Saturday when the tavern, 401 N. Second St., becomes a club.
About 35 people were at Johnny's yesterday to follow — for almost the last time — the tradition of being at the bar at 7:30 a.m. Tomorrow will be the last day that patrons may "belly up to the bar" at
Larry Miller, Independence, Mo., senior, was at Johnny's yesterday for the first time.
"I commute on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Independence," Miller said. "But I came to Lawrence last night so I could get here early in the morning."
Miller said he and some of his classmates decided to have a couple of beers before their 8:30 a.m. class.
Patrick Nycz, Omaha senior and one of Miller's classmates, was not surprised when the group still was in the bar at 8:30 a.m.
"Well, it looks like we're not going to make it," he said, taking another drink.
Roxanne Medlen, manager of Johnny's, said the bar's early hours had served many different people.
"It's a big thing to stay up all night and party and
then come to Johnny's in the morning," she said. "I've had friends who have driven by here at six a.m."
Also, she said, third-shift workers and students who wanted a beer before class benefited from the morning hours.
'It's a big thing to stay up all night and party and then come to Johnny's in the morning.'
Edith Wilson, one of Johnny's early morning bartenders, said people had been meeting her at the door at 7:30 a.m. since she began working at the bar nine years ago.
— Roxanne Medlen Johnny's manager
Medlen said that Johnny's morning customers were some of the bar's most valued and loyal.
"Even during the coldest and wettest times, they're out there," she said. "There are a lot of old-timers that just want to come in here and talk to you."
both old and new customers tomorrow
Medlen said that Johnny's managers and owners decided to make the bar a club because the drinking age would be 21 in July.
"We always do a lot of business on Fridays and Saturday," said Medlen. "But this Friday, we're gonna do it."
Medlen said she was expecting a large crowd of
Eventually, she said, Johnny's will be combined with Up and Under, a club located on the upper floor of the two-story building that houses Johnny's.
However, she said, Johnny's would not change very much.
"We want to keep Johnny's pretty much the same," she said. "We want to keep the people who have been coming in here coming back."
Medlen said the bar would be giving away bumper stickers on Friday. Also, commemorative "I opened Johnny's — the end of an era" T-shirts are on sale.
Although the tradition of going to the bar at 7:30 a.m. will end, Johnny's employees say that perhaps a new tradition would begin.
"We'll start opening at 9 a.m. on Saturday," Medlen said. "There will probably be a new tradition of opening the bar at 9 a.m. The students will probably like it better because they can sleep a little longer."
Groups plan for tobacco-free future
By COLLEEN SIEBES
Staff writer
Three of America's leading health agencies have coordinated efforts to create a tobacco-free society by the year 2000.
1986 Smokeout concentrates on smokers, tobacco chewers
This fall, representatives from the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association established the "Tobacco Free Young America Project" aimed at preventing the onset of smoking in America's young people.
Joann Schellenbach, spokesman for the Society in New York City, said recently that the project's goal was to see a completely non-smoking graduating high school class by the year 2000.
According to society statistics, tobacco kills 400,000 people a year. Every day, 1,293 Americans, about one every 67 seconds, dies of cancer, bringing the total cancer deaths in America for 1985 to 472,000, the society reports.
The 10th annual Great American Smokeout, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, started last night at midnight and ends at midnight tonight.
All smokers are encouraged to stop smoking for a day during the smokeout.
The society estimates that cancer will be diagnosed in 930,600.
Kansans will account for 9,000 of the new cases and 1,600 of them will be lung cancer, the society reports.
In the past, the smokeout has concentrated on cigarettes, but this year, users of chewing tobacco also are encouraged to stop chewing tobacco for the day.
cigarette smoking is responsible for 83 percent of America's lung cancer deaths.
Jerry Maburn, health educator at the society, said the tobacco-free coalition hoped to prevent the onset of smoking by educating groups that are more likely to smoke. Those groups include pregnant women and people in vocational-technical occupations, he said.
Health officials say cigarette smoking is the most preventable cause of death and disabilities.
The coalition plans to discourage young people from starting to smoke by distributing educational materials and establishing programs in
The Federal Trade Commission reports that 20 percent of Americans don't know smoking causes cancer, 30 percent don't know smoking
lung cancer, the society reports. The society estimates that
doubles a person's risk of heart attack and 50 percent of women don't know smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of stillbirth and miscarriage.
A Society report shows a 7 percent decrease in adult smokers during the last 10 years. The same report said there are 37 million ex-smokers in the United States today.
"Smokers have become the minority." Shellenbach said. "The issues of the minority have become the right of the majority."
Americans will spend $31.7 million dollars to smoke 584 billion cigarettes in 1896.
In 1985, Americans spent $30.3 million dollars to smoke 594 billion cigarettes
Schellenbach said an report from the surgeon general, to be released Dec. 3; will be entirely aimed at the effects of smoke on non-smokers.
A poll conducted in October by the tobacco-free coalition indicates that most Americans support tougher restrictions on public smoking and tobacco industry advertising.
Verner Grice, agricultural economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, estimated that
Of the 1,025 polled, seven of 10 were non-smokers. Ninety-four percent of those polled favored no-smoking sections in public buildings and 45 percent said more restricted areas were needed. Eighty-four percent agreed that employers should have the right to designate smoking areas on the job.
The public is split on the issue of cigarette advertising in sports stadiums and on the issue of tobacco companies sponsoring music, sports and cultural events, according to the survey.
Fifty-seven percent of those polled indicated their belief that cigarette ads promote smoking in the young. Forty-seven percent said that advertising made it harder for smokers to quit.
Definition of harmful controlled bv owners
By JOHN BENNER
Staff writer
A city ordinance prohibiting the distribution of obscene materials to minors has forced some Lawrence merchants to judge books and rental movies by their covers.
Confusion about the state law's definition of "obscene" and the proposed city measure's definition of "harmful" have caused many Lawrence proprietors to make their own decisions about what is suitable for minors.
Lawrence officials are drafting a revised ordinance prohibiting the distribution of "harmful" materials to minors. The proposed ordinance, if passed, would, for the first time, specifically restrict videotape sales and rentals. The ordinance would define a minor as someone under 18.
Teresa Lawson, manager of the Varsity Theatre. 1015 Massachusetts St., said movie theater managers and video store owners used movie ratings to make decisions about whom to allow access.
The Motion Picture Association of America, which is not a legal body of film.
Jerry Little, city prosecutor, said an R or X movie rating was not a guarantee that the film was "harmful" under city ordinance.
"If someone asked me to prosecute an offender, I would have to view the film myself." Little said. "Just because it rated R doesn't mean it's absurcate."
He said the proposed city or ordinance's definition of obscurity would be based on the wording of a California morals statute that had been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The proposed city ordinance also would seek to regulate the way merchants display "harmful" materials. The preliminary draft asks that such material, when openly displayed, be kept on a "blinder rack" to screen the lower two-thirds of its cover.
Mike Williams, owner of 7-Eleven,
2500 Iowa St., said he had another way to avoid displaying "harmful" videotape covers.
"The X-rated movies are not displayed on the shelf with the other movies," Williams said. "If a customer wants an X-rated movie, he or she has to look in a binder we keep behind the counter."
Williams said about 75 percent of his video rental business came from X-rated films.
Little, who is drafting the revised city ordinance, said the ordinance also would to restrict distribution of books or magazines to miners.
Dottie Gaston, manager of the Town Crier bookstore, 711 W. 23rd St., said she often had to categorize "adult" books and magazines by their covers.
"We keep our adult magazines in a special section that has a sign on it restricting those under 18," Gaston said. "I can look at a cover and tell that a magazine should go in this section.
"We also have an adult book session, but it does not have a sign on it. It's close enough to the counter that I can keep an eye on it."
Gaston said she would not sell publications from either of those sections to minors.
"I don't make the decision about what we carry in the first place," she said.
Dennis Rosebaugh, manager of Dean's Books, 1115 Massachusetts St., said the decision about what materials to sell to minors was cut and dried.
"Adult books are adult books," Rosebaugh said. "We don't keep that stuff displayed where just anyone can see it."
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