University Daily Kansan, December 3, 1982
Governor calls for cooperation Carlin urges KCC to stop shut-offs
By KATE DUFFY Staff Reporter
Gov. John Carlin urged the Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday to order gas companies to reconnect customers who have had their gas shut off and to place a moratorium on future gas shut-offs this winter.
the KCC, said Carlin "deserves a lot of credit for drawing attention to an important problem." And, he said corporation commissioners agreed with Carlin's request and the moratorium order would probably be drawn up
Carlin also said he did not expect natural gas consumers to subsidize directly those households unable to pay their bills. He alluded to volunteer programs and other private sector projects aimed at raising money to help pay the cost of gas bills charged to those who cannot afford them.
"I don't intend for (utilitys) to absorb the loss," he said, "it's a matter of working with the public to find a way to manage our way through this crisis."
AFTER THE press conference, Mike Swenson, Carlin's press secretary, said the governor wanted a uniform policy covering gas reconnections and disconnections to be instituted soon by all gas companies operating in Kansas.
Although Swenson did not know the exact number of households across the state presently without heat, he did say that the Gas Service Co. officials had told him about 3,000 of their customers had been shot off. The company serves
“It’s a matter of working with the public to find a way to manage our way through this crisis.”
Gov. John Carlin
the majority of the 405,000 households in Kansas.
Since the KCC is an independent agency, Swenson said, Carlin cannot legally order commissioners to call a moratorium. But staff members from the department are and the KCC have been working together for several weeks on solutions.
WHEN ASKED whether such an action was unusual, Swenson replied, "Not really, but we're living in unusual conditions. We have lots of things to try some different things."
within a few days.
Charles Jones, a staff attorney with
The Public Assistance Coalition of Kansas also held a news conference yesterday to announce it was sending Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., a spokesman for the coalition, for increased federal funds for the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
LIEAP FUNDS are used by low-income families to pay for their heating bills.
Coalition director Paul Johnson said after the press conference that the average LIEAP payment to a family was only $135 a year, not nearly enough
to make a dent in sky-high gas bills. His organization, which plans on sending more petitions to Kassau堡 later, is expecting the billion to the program this fiscal year.
Kassebaum recently introduced a bill calling for a freeze on natural gas prices that would set a price at an Oct. 1, 1982 level. This would mean the recent price hike awarded Cities Service Gas Co. would be rescinded and the price it charges consumers would go back to Oct. 1 level.
CHUCK DOYLE, a legislative assistant to Kassaeum, said the bill probably would not reach the Senate floor during the lame-duck session, but he hoped it would get through committee by Christmas.
Doyle said Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., probably was going to introduce a similar price freeze attached to an appropriations bill scheduled for discussion during the short legislative session.
Doyle said Kassebaum had been receiving between 50 and 100 letters a day for the past three weeks about high gas rates.
Gunman frees hostages, surrenders
By United Press International
GRAND BLANC. Mich.-A gumman who transformed himself into a walking bomb and took two police officers to the scene, ending a 17-hour siege on a quiet street.
Doug Perrault, 26, released two officers he took hostage when they tried to arrest him Wednesday morning for a parole violation. He surrendered 11 hours later, after police fired tear gas into his parent's house.
The siege began about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday when township officers Timothy Lintz, 32, and Robert Ehrhart, 41, went to Perreault's home to arrest him on a felony warrant for parole violation. Perreault had served time in a Texas prison on a marijuana conviction.
WHEN THE POLICE officers entered Perreault's bedroom, they discovered him wearing plastic explosives around his waist. He also had a 22-caliber rifle and about 50 pounds of firearms he had been 'using to clean a wooded area.
jail. I ain't going to prison for nobody. The (police) tell me I won't but it's me.
Perrault disarmed the officers and led them out onto the street, threatening to kill them and himself by setting off the explosives.
Perrault told a reporter at one point during the siege, "I don't want to go to
He also said he had no regrets about taking the officers hostage.
KIM SERGEANT, the girlfriend of Perrealut's brother, also was taken hostage briefly during the standoff. Police said Sergeant mistakenly thinking her boyfriend was a hostage, had forced her way through police barricades in the house. She was released unharmed before Perrealut surrendered.
arranged on a charge of assault with intent to murder and sent to the State Center for Forensic Psychiatry at the University of California in Caswell Bond set at $bond 100,000.
Police dispatcher Bayron Jones said Perreault will be held for observation and evaluation for an unspecified period of time.
After the siege, Perreault was
No one was hurt during the siege, but 25 to 30 families within a half-mile radius of the residential suburb were evacuated from their homes as a precautionary measure.
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