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University Daily Kansan, November 9. 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Court keeps firm in lawsuit over capsizing of showboat
TOPEKA-KA the Kansas Supreme Court said yesterday that the concession operators at Lake Pomona must remain in a lawsuit that is pending. The case could be heard on Friday.
Although four defendants have been released from the complex case, Aquamarine Corp., which had the state concession at the lake, was ordered back in the suit by the high court. Under lower court rulings, all four were dismissed by boat itself, Bruce and Veda Rogers, were dismissed from the case.
The Supreme Court ruled that Aquamarine had a duty to care for the safety of the entertainment facility, and placed it back in the suit with
Lawyers for the plaintiffs had argued that Aquamarine should be liable for injuries because it was supervisor of the Whipporwill. They maintained that both the firm and the Osage County sheriff were at fault for failing to warn the boat's operators of severe weather.
A tornado overturned the boat on Lake Pomona on June 17, 1978, killing 15 people and an unborn baby. The eight lawsuits pending in the case have been settled out of court.
Areas open to acid rain. group savs
The Environmental Protection Agency, however, immediately took issue with the findings, calling the report prepared by the Izaak Walton League of America a "blatant misrepresentation" of research done for the government.
WASHINGTON-A national conservation group yesterday said that larger sections of the United States, including the South and some of the West, might be more vulnerable to acid rain damage than previously thought.
The league, one of the nation's oldest conservation groups, based its arguments on a map of alkalinity of surface waters at 2,500 different sites across the nation. Alkalinity measurements indicate the ability of a watershed to withstand acid rain pollution.
Pope to visit homeland next year
WARSAW, Poland—In an apparent bid to defuse justice just two days before a new round of pro-Solidarity protests, Poland's military government announced yesterday that Pope John Paul II would visit his homeland next year.
The group said the alkalinity levels of lakes and streams within Southern, Mountain and Pacific Northwest regions were not adequate to support aquatic life.
The official Polish news agency PAP said the pope would return to Poland for his second visit as pontiff June 18, 1983.
At the same time, a government statement warned that the military would use an indispensible measure to ensure calm during a security crisis, greatly delaying its news.
Solidarity leaders have called for an eight-hour nationwide strike followed by street demonstrations to protest last month's ban on Solidarity and to mark the second anniversary of the union's legal victory. The union also scheduled Thursday to mark Poland's pre-war independence day.
2,500 U.S. Chrysler workers laid off
TORONTO—About 2,500 Chrysler workers at 16 plants in the United States were laid off yesterday as a result of the 4-day-old strike by Chrysler Canada employees demanding wage hikes from the financially aliling automaker.
No talks have been held since the strike began Friday and no new talks are planned, said Chrysler spokesman Walter McCall.
The plants produce parts for Chrysler cars manufactured in Canada. Despite the layoffs, the United Auto Workers called the 9,000 Canadian state workers "unhappy."
"The response has been pretty well mixed but I think we have the support of the vast majority," said Rick Reaume, UAW assistant strike director at the major Chrysler plant in Windsor, Ontario. "There are many locals from the States backing all the way."
DeLorean pleads innocent: trial set
LOS ANGELES-John DeLorean pleaded innocent yesterday to charges he tried to save his failing sports car company with a $24 million cocaine deal, and his attorney said he would argue that federal agents entrapped the international entrepreneur.
U. S. District Judge Robert Takasumi ordered DeLorean, who was free on $10 million ball, and two co-defendants to stand trial Jan. 7 on a total of 42 counts.
have increased incident to nine rounds of possessing cocaine for sale interstate trade and communication for narcotics trafficking and aid to racketeering.
Famed criminal attorney Joseph Ball, a member of DeLorean's defense team, told reporters outside the court that DeLorean's primary line of defense would be that FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency agents entrapped him.
Balloonist fails effort to circle world
BARRIE, Ontario—Balloonist Maxie Anderson's third attempt to circle the Earth in a 200-foot-tail balloon was scuttled yesterday by a plane.
Anderson, who holds the speed record for a trans-Atlantic balloon crossing, said he would abandon his dream of setting a world record by circling the world in eight to 10 days.
"I've tried three times," said a dejected Anderson, sitting in the balloon's gondola after the craft safely landed in a field. "I have to quit, but I just think it's the better part of wisdom and I leave it to the next generation to come out to do it."
Anderson and his co-pilot, Don Ida of Longmont, Colo., brought their balloon, "Jules Verne," in a field in a highway near Barrie, a small community about 60 miles north of Toronto. The balloon was designed for a single, non-stop flight and cannot be flown again.
Nuclear disaster drama causes stir
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—Public radio station WSSR, evoking memories of the famed "War of the Worlds" broadcast 42 years ago, pulled the plug on a mock nuclear accident drama yesterday because of the "potential of alarm."
Richard Bradley, news and public affairs director for the station, said the "Crystal Radio" show was taken off the air about 2 $ \frac{1}{2} $ minutes into the day.
Bradley said the program dealt with a fake radio broadcast of a nuclear accident at the Illinois Power Co. nuclear power plant at
Among the callers was the office of the state Emergency Services and Disaster Agency.
Bradley said a disclaimer was read twice at the beginning of the program, which was produced by the Studies and Social Change Department at Sangamon State University.
Democratic coffers empty after victories
Staff Reporter
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
The Kansas Democratic Party, still basking in last week's victories, will ask party members for more than just their votes during the coming months.
After dolling out about $350,000 to its state ticket, the state Democratic Party is nearly broke. Jim Pligger, the director of the party, said yesterday.
Party distributed to $80,000 to GOP candidates, who ranged from state legislative hopefuls to gubernatorial candidate Sam Hardage.
However, the Kansas Republican Party, still recovering from disappointing results in the gubernatorial election, is financially sound, saves its chairman.
Robert Bennett, Kansas Republican Party chairman, said the GOP would have money left over after paying its taxes. It would not solicit drive for the 1984 election.
ANOTHER GOP official, Merlyn Brown, executive director of the party, estimated that about $35,000 would remain in the party's treasury.
Bennett estimated the Republican
Although Democratic funds dried up late in the campaign, Plger said that Gov. John Carlin's re-election would help rebuild the party's treasury.
"Either party would admit that having the governor from your party is the best form of fund raising available," he said. "A governor is a good fund-raising tool because he is the top elected official in the state.
"IN 1978, the state party had about $55,000 in past debts and Carlin's campaign had between $80,000 and $90,000 in debts after the election. We retired both debts within a year with a loan from U.S., hincones' and personal contacts."
"Ploger said a party should throw all its financial resources into a campaign because many close elections often urged on candidates' spending policies.
"My philosophy is that if you have a substantial amount of money left on your hand, you can afford to eat."
wise practice when lending that money to a candidate could have turned the trigger for him."
Carlin, who won a second four-year term by soundly defeating Hardage, was the main recipient of the record he earned and attributed by the state Democratic Party.
PLOGER ESTIMATED that Carlin's campaign received about $75,000 from the state party. The party gave about $35,000 to the five Democratic congressional candidates and about $45,000 to state legislative hopefuls.
The Democratic Party's spending policies greatly surpassed its efforts during the past few elections. Ploger said the trend could continue.
"I think the big difference was that we made more use in picking up new contributors. We have been cultivating our current contributors and upgrading the number of people who give $25 to $50," he said.
REPUBLICAN candidates were not given extravagant gifts because of a different philosophy by their state Republicans, who shops in favor of financial assistance.
"The biggest role for the state party is to be there to show the candidates how to campaign and raise money." Brown said.
Bennett, a one-term governor who lost to Carlin in 1978, said the party should emphasize its research and tutoring capabilities. But he said fund-raising responsibilities primarily rested with the candidates.
"We HAVE an ongoing contribution effort that concentrates on people who contribute on an annual basis," he said. "But you have to remember candidates also try to raise money, and some candidates, and rather give to the candidates."
He said strong incumbents such as Attorney General Robert Stephan, Insurance Commissioner Fletcher Bell and Senator Robert Rubin could raise enough money on their own.
Officials from both parties said they would be busy wooing current and potential contributors to help bolster the party's finances. They both emphasized the importance of direct mailing efforts and fund-raisers.
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