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The Inside Front
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2002
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
LAWRENCE
Lawrence resident arrested charged with attempted murder
A 19-year-old Lawrence resident was arrested early yesterday for allegedly attempting to murder a 27-year-old University of Kansas student and assaulting a 32-year-old man with a knife, said Sgt. Paul Fellers of the Lawrence Police Department.
A witness said the suspect entered the residence of a 25-year-old KU student after the suspect's dog entered the apartment through a cracked door. The men asked the suspect to leave the residence in the 400 block of 13th Street, Fellers said. The suspect threatened the men but compiled. He returned later, stabbed the 27-year-old man in the stomach and swung the knife at the other victim, but missed, Fellers said.
Fellers did not know the size of the blade.
The student was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he was treated and released.
The suspect was booked into Douglas County Jail at 7:22 a.m. yesterday. Fellers said the suspect would be held at the jail until his first appearance later this week when he will be formally charged.
— Michelle Burhenn
STATE
Kansas tries to bring tourists to discover state attractions
TOPFKA Interstate 70 is such a flat and fast route through Kansas that tourism officials have always found it a challenge to encourage tourists to linger in the Sunflower State.
Jeff Mercer, director of the state's Travel and Tourism Development Division, says many historical and natural attractions are within 20 miles north or south of the interstate, from Kansas City on the east to Kanorado on the west.
"We've always said if we can get them here, we'll impress them," Mercer said, "and we'll get them back."
Mercer said the state's $3.4 billion travel and tourism industry, which provides 53,000 jobs in Kansas, was going in a positive direction.
The state's Travel and Tourism Development Division, part of the Kansas Department of Commerce and Housing, has a $4 million budget.
Its $300,000 advertising budget ranks Kansas last among the 50 states
in that category. The average advertising budget for state tourism divisions is $3.6 million.
State fair adds new features; Sky Lift, alligator highlighted
HUTCHINSON — Visitors to the 90th annual Kansas State Fair that begins this week will see several improvements, including a permanent Sky Ride and the first tail "landmark" towers.
"Hopefully this sets the tone for what our fair patrons can expect from us," said fair General Manager Bill Ogg. "We're building credibility."
The $36 million master plan will even include green grass.
Fair organizers have also changed some of the events that kick off the 10-day affair that runs from Sept. 6 through Sept. 15.
Instead of a Main Street parade Friday, a grand opening at Gottschalk Park will feature fair dignitaries arriving aboard the new Sky Ride, a ski-lift-type conveyance on the fair's east side.
"The parade wasn't accomplishing what we wanted it to do—be a Pied Piper to bring people onto the fairgrounds," Ogg said.
The traditional ribbon-cutting ceremony also may involve a 300-pound alligator.
Wichita's slumping economy ranks among nation's worst
A continuing decline in aircraft manufacturing that started after Sept. 11 could make Wichita's economy the hardest hit nationwide.
The loss of manufacturing jobs has been offset somewhat by continued strength in construction and gains in retail employment—although those jobs pay less.
"There's no indication that people aren't ever going to start flying again. They will," said Ross DeVol, a national analyst who has studied the economic effects of Sept. 11.
Since then, travelers have stayed off airplanes, causing a downturn for airlines and leading to deep cuts in Wichita's core industry of aircraft manufacturing.
"In June, we hit 6 percent. That's too high for comfort," said Anne Gallagher, researcher at the Center for Economic Development and Business
Wichita's unemployment rate has risen from 4 percent in July 2001 to 5.6 percent for the same month this year.
Research at Wichita State University.
Wichita has 8,300 fewer jobs than it would have had if the Sept. 11 attacks hadn't happened, according to a study by the Milken Institute, an economic think tank in Santa Monica, Calif.
Wichita's job losses place it No.7 on the study's list of 315 local economies damaged by the attacks.
NATION.
CDC: US blood supply safe despite West Nile scare
ATLANTA — Public health officials on Monday sought to assure Americans that the blood supply was safe despite concerns that an organ donor who received a transfusion may have transmitted the disease to four transplant recipients.
One of the four died of brain swelling that can be caused by the virus, which until now has been blamed solely on mosquito bites.
The three others were hospitalized with symptoms associated with West Nile, although doctors aren't sure they have the virus or whether they got it from a medical procedure.
The organ donor, a Georgia woman, died in a car crash last month. She may already have been infected or may have gotten West Nile through blood transfusions in the emergency room after the crash, the CDC said.
The Food and Drug Administration issued an alert to blood banks two weeks ago to exercise extra caution when screening donors.
New Hampshire family dies in small airplane explosion
SWANZEY, N.H. — Seven people, including at least six members of one family, were killed yesterday when their small plane crashed in the woods outside a southwest New Hampshire airport, authorities said.
Keene Mayor Michael Blastos said the parents, grandparents and two young children had been visiting relatives in nearby Newfane, Vt., and had been staying in Keene.
No one survived the crash, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters.
Authorities said the pilot was from Lafayette, La.
Peters said the plane was apparently attempting to return to the Dillant-Hopkins Airport, about two miles from where the craft went down. Witnesses said a large fireball appeared and the plane burned up. Peters said.
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ON CAMPUS
Ecumenical Christian Ministries will hold the Faith Forum: A Liberal Take on Christianity, from 8:30 to 9:30 tonight at the ECM building, 1204 Oread Ave. Contact Thad Holcomb at 843-4933.
Hall Center for the Humanities will
KU Ki Aikido Club will meet from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight at Room 207 in Robinson Center. Contact Jason Ziegler at 843-4732.
hold the lecture Before 1500: The Fall of Troy in Archaic and Classical Greek Art at 4 p.m. today at the conference room in the Hall Center. Contact the center at 864-4798.
Russian and East European Studies will hold the Laird Brown Bag Lecture The President Exits the Stage: Evaluating the Presidency of Vaclav Havel at 12:30 today at Room 318 in Bailey Hall. Contact Russian and East European Studies at 864-4236.
Camera on KU
Eric Braem/Kansan
Scott Haefner, Mountain View, Calif., resident and University of Kansas graduate, suspends his digital camera from a kite yesterday. He was visiting friends in Lawrence and decided to use kite aerial photography to capture overhead images of the University. "I thought it would be cool to get aerial shots of the campus I spent three years of my life at," Haefner said.
Et Cetra
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