University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 14, 1986
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News Briefs
Funeral services set for shooting victim
Funeral services for Patricia Heitzman, Eudora sophomore, will be at 3 p.m. tomorrow, in the Eudora High school auditorium.
Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m today at Rumsey Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St.
Miss Heitzman did summer from wounds she received in a shooting Saturday while working at a formal wear rental shop in downtown Kansas City, Mo.
The 1985 Eudora High School graduating class has established a memorial scholarship fund in Miss Heitzman's name. The family has requested that donations be made to the fund.
Local Derby robbed
Burial will be at the Eudora Cemetery.
Lawrence police reported that an armed robbery occurred at 12:39 a.m. yesterday at the Derby Service Station, 2330 Iowa St.
Sgt. Don Dalquest, Lawrence police spokesman, said an unidentified man approached the service station attendant with a knife and demanded money.
Dalquest said the attendant gave the man $175 and a metal cash drawer valued at $10. The man then ran from the station, Dalquest said. The attendant was not injured.
Debate team travels
KU debaters began their season this semester with awards at the University of Northern Iowa at Cedar Falls; the University of Wyoming at Laramie; and the University of Colorado at Denver.
At the University of Northern Iowa, three KU teams took honors in the senior division. John Culver, Overland Park senior, and George Lopez, Wichita junior, took third place honors.
Tying for fifth place were the team of David Thomaneck, Wheeling, Ill., senior, and Dan Lingel, Freeport, Ill., junior, and the team of Pat Whalen, San Antonio, Texas, sophomore, and David Macdonald, Fargo, N.D., sophomore.
In the junior division, Steve Dvorske, Lenexa freshman, and Charles Krauss, Wichita freshman, took third place honors. Camber also won a second place speaker award overall and Lopez won fourth place.
At the University of Wyoming,
the KU team of Eddie Watson,
Arkansas City senior, and Oray
Hall, Manhattan junior, took fifth
place honors.
At the tournament in Denver, Watson and Hall took fourth place. Also winning at Denver was the team of Erik Doxtader, FT Collins, Colo., junior, and Peter Cannistra, Houston sophomore. They placed third. Hall won a sixth place speaker award at the Wyoming and Denver tournaments.
1st HOPE votes due
Primary balloting ends today for the Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award.
Members of the senior class can vote in their schools.
A selection committee, composed of the four senior class officers and 10 student organization leaders, will interview the 13 faculty members who receive the most votes on Oct. 20 and 21 and select six finalists.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high temperature near 60 and southerly winds between 5 and 15 mph. Tonight will be cloudy with a low temperature near 40.
From staff and wire reports:
Secretary of state hopefuls debate here
By KAREN SAMELSON
the candidates for Kansas secretary of state met in the Kansas Union last night for their second debate of the season but left their boxing gloves at home, agreeing on nearly as many issues as they disagreed on.
Cary Mook/KANSAN
The biggest differences concerned the candidates' views on voting practices. State Rep. Judy Runnels, the Democratic candidate, who represents Topeka in the House, said residents didn't vote because they didn't understand the issues.
Judy Runnels, Democratic candidate for Kansas secretary of state, answers questions while Bill Graves, the Republican candidate, looks on.
Assistant Secretary of State Bill Graves, the Republican candidate, said he thought residents lacked motivation, not information.
College Republicans and KU Democrats co-sponsored the debate. It was moderated by Donn Parson, KU debate coach.
About 50 people turned out to listen to the candidates amiably exchange views and an occasional friendly barb. When asked what the difference was between her and Graves, Runnels said she was a leader and he was an executor of policy.
Besides serving in the Legislature, Runnels has been a lobbyist for the Kansas State Nurses Association. Graves has worked in the secretary of state's office for six years, including about 18 months as assistant secretary of state.
Both agreed that the secretary of state should remain an elected official playing a non-partisan role in the office.
Runnels reiterated the focus of her campaign, a proposal that the secretary of state send out explanatory ballots two weeks before an election.
Graves expressed concern that explanatory ballots would cost the state too much money at a time when it was experiencing financial shortfalls.
issues in legal terminology and then in unbiased, understandable language with brief discussions of the pros and cons.
The ballots would explain the
Runnels said an explanatory ballot would cost between $40,000 and $50,000, but she thought the office had the money to cover the costs.
Runnels used the debate to remind students that today is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 4 election.
She also emphasized her concern that one-third of Kansas voters were
not registered, a figure lower than that of 26 other states.
"Why shouldn't we be in the top 10 percent of voter registration?" she said. "Why shouldn't we be first?"
She called for moves to make it possible for high school students to register at their schools as soon as they turned 18, rather than waiting
for college.
Graves said registration was not the primary responsibility of the secretary of state. County clerks are the primary officials responsible for registration, he said.
The secretary of state's role in registration is to give legal advice to the county clerks, he said.
Warming trend to follow fall flurries
Bv PAMELA SPINGLER
Staff writer
All that was missing yesterday morning was a chorus of "Jingle Bells" as Lawrence experienced its first snowfall of the season.
Flurries touched the ground but no accumulation occurred because the ground temperatures were too high for the snow to melt. Weather sensors, observer for the KU Weather Service.
He said the snow was not too unusual for this time of the year.
According to National Weather Service records, the earliest in the year snow has fallen in Northeast Kansas was reported in Topeka on Sept. 19, 1901.
Stevens said Saturday's and yesterday's snow were part of the same storm
system that had settled over the central plains since Friday night causing temperatures to drop 30 degrees below normal.
Phil Billis, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Topeka, agreed that October snow wasn't unnatural, but he said it doesn't happen very often.
"It's probably a once-in-a-15-year occurrence," Bills said. "It was a pretty early snowfall."
Bills said that the storm front had moved into the Goodland area Friday night and that Goodland reported 2 inches of accumulated snow Saturday.
No more snow is expected in the near future in the Lawrence area, Bills said, adding that by tonight the system should be
over eastern Iowa.
Bills said a warming trend should follow the storm.
"After the first freeze, we usually go into a mild period — an Indian summer," he said. "I think it will warm right back up."
"Every fall, we see big fluctuations in the temperature. Last year we had very similar patterns with the cold and the rain. It's just a transition period."
The warming front will be noticeable by the end of the week. Bills said.
Today should start the increase with a high of 56 degrees and a low expected tonight in the middle 30s. Tomorrow the temperatures should reach the middle 60s with lows tomorrow night dipping into the 40s.
Leaders discuss BID manager
Staff Writer
By JOHN BENNER
Lawrence city commissioners and residents met with the Business Improvement District advisory board last night to iron out their differences and help to establish a BID in the central downtown area.
The main bone of contention was that the current Downtown Lawrence Association director also could become the manager of the Business Improvement District, creating what Commissioner Howard Hill called a conflict of interest.
The city could contract the Downtown Lawrence Association to provide BID services to downtown businesses, causing Carolyn Shy to lead both organizations.
The proposed BID would collect funds from businesses between Kentucky and Rhode Island streets and between North Park Street and the Kansas River to pay for activities, promotions and improvements.
Bob Johnson, chairman of the BID advisory board, said the city should contract with the association because the association's members had the best idea of the needs of the entire downtown area.
Johnson said the city would waste time and money trying to set up an alternative non-profit organization to administer the BID funds.
"The BID statue gives you the power to contract out the administration of the district, or you can do it yourself," Johnson told the city commissioners. "So you can either create a new not-for-profit organization or use the DLA."
Hill said there could be a conflict of interest because Shy would have to be equitable with BID funds to the entire district, which contains retail, service and professional businesses, while working directly with downtown merchants alone on promotional events for the association.
"I think this is a case of someone serving two masters, because the money all goes through one budget," Hill said.
Suspect in custody for KC shootings
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 30-year-old man in custody yesterday may have been involved in the shooting of three employees of a downtown cleaners and formal wear rental shop during a robbery, police said.
Sgt. James Nunn, shortly before leaving to check out a report of a possible double homicide, told United Press International that authorities had a suspect.
United Press International
Police called an afternoon news conference yesterday to announce that there were enough similarities between a suspect in two robberies Sept. 20 and the one at the formal wear shop that occurred Saturday
morning to indicate that the man may have been involved.
"We do have a suspect in this particular homicide in custody." Nunn said. "This is predicated on the fact this person perpetuated several robberies on Sept. 20 in the downtown area. This person was identified by witnesses to these two robberies."
Nunn has said the possible motive for Saturday's shooting was robbery. Police think the three were shot between 9:30 and 10 a.m. Saturday.
One of the victims, Patricia Heitzman,
20. Eudora, was pronounced dead about 8 a.m. Sunday at Truman Medical Center.
Heitzman was a sophomore at the University of Kansas. The other victims, Norma Meninger, 59, and 72-year-old Junior Allen, were found dead in an office in the back of the building.
Judge requests new material about age suit of KU worker
By RIC ANDERSON
Staff writer
Judge Mike Malone asked for the information after hearing arguments delivered by both sides about a motion the University filed in August to dismiss the case.
A Douglas County district judge last week asked for additional information in an age discrimination suit filed against the University of Kansas by a Parking Services employee.
Edwin Fenstemaker, 59, who has worked for Parking Services for 35 years, filed the suit in June 1960 after he was demoted two levels from lieutenant to major. In the complaint, Fenstemaker's age was the reason for the denomination.
The suit also says that Donald Kearns, director of Parking Services, psychologically pressured the
Fenstemaker is seeking more than $100,000 in damages and back pay. He now has the salary of a sergeant and wants the University to make up for his cut in pay.
He is seeking $50,000 in compensatory damages and $50,000 in punitive damages in addition to the back nav.
Fenstemaker took his case to a University discrimination hearing panel in May. The panel decided the case in Fenstemaker's favor and suggested a less severe demotion.
After the panel's decision, Fenstemaker was promoted from parking officer to sergeant, a position he still holds.
Mary Prewitt, special assistant district attorney to University general counsel, said Malone asked her and James Rumsey, Fenstemaker's lawyer, for a summary of their oral arguments and copies of the cases they cited.
Prewitt said Malone gave them until Nov. 28 to produce the information.
Rumsev would not comment on the case.
Prewitt filed a motion to dismiss the case in July. She said yesterday that the suit was based on a 1983 federal statute that states that no person should be allowed to discriminate against another person.
Although cities, municipalities and counties had been called persons under the rule, she said, states have not been considered as such.
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