University Daily Kansan, October 18, 1962
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Downtown merchant charged in arson case
By CAROL LICHTI Staff Reporter
After eight months of investigation, charges of arson and attempting to defraud an insurance company were filed Friday against a Lawrence businessman in connection with a fire that damaged four Lawrence businesses last February.
'Tom Black, 40, 322 Woodlawn Dr., appeared before Douglas County District Court Judge Mike Elwell on charges that he started the Feb. 3, 1982, fire in the Royal College Shop, 87 Massachusetts St., that also caused $280,000 worth of damage to three other downtown businesses.
Black is the owner of Royal College Shop, a shop shop, which has been vacant since the fire
Black's preliminary hearing was scheduled for 10 a.m. Nov. 3. He was released on $10,000 bond.
GREG HAMMEL, special deputy assistant attorney, said the maximum sentence for arson, a class C felony, was 20 years, and the maximum sentence for defrauding an insurance company, a class D felony, was 10 years.
Hammel said the investigation revealed evidence that Black falsely reported to the insurance company, Northern Insurance Company of New York, the inventory in the building at the time of the fire.
Black said the inventory was worth $166,072. Hammel said the amount of inventory determined by business records used in the investigation was between $90,534 and $103,724.
There were three origins of fire in the basement of the shop according to investigators, Hammel said. A flamable deglazing fluid used to remove dye from shoes was used to start the fire, he said.
Lungsturm said Black had filed a civil suit against the Northern Insurance Company in the Federal Court because his claim had not been paid.
Lungsturm requested during the court appearance that the preliminary hearing be scheduled as soon as possible.
JOHN LUNGSTRUM, Black's attorney, said, "My client strongly believes the charges are unjustified and that I am innocent in noincent of any of these charges."
"A lot of time has passed since the fire," he said. "The emotional strain on Tom and his family has been great.
"We want as speedily and expeditiously as possible to have this removed as a cloud over his head."
HAMMEL SAID that the investigation took a long time because there was difficulty after the fire destroyed the apartment, having them examined by experts.
Both personal and financial records since 1978 were examined in the investigation, he said.
Hamamel said it took a long time for the charges to be filed because the district attorney's office was denied by a switch in district attorneys.
McMurry, Seurer trials stayed
The court dates for two KU students have been continued, court officials have said.
McMurry. The investigation has re-
The preliminary hearing for Steve McMurry, Lawrence special student, has been continued to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 1. McMurry has been charged with five counts of felony theft involving $20.25 and two from the KU Student Senate bus system.
McMurry. The investigation has revealed that more money was involved. McMurry was scheduled to appear in court today.
The trial for Frank Seurer, Huntington Beach, Calif., junior, has been continued to 8 a.m. Nov. 10. Seurer will attend the Municipal Court on a battery charge.
Harry Warren, assistant district attorney, said last week that additional charges might be filed against
A complaint filed by another KU student, Steve Robinson, alleges that Seurer hit Robinson during a scuffle at a Lawrence bar.
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Race fast-paced for Hardage's wife
By JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporter
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Amid waitresses hurriedly setting up tables for a Republican-sponsored breakfast in Lawrence Saturday, Allison Hardage frankly discussed her husband and the role she played in his gubernatorial campaign.
Since May, her husband, Sam Hardage, has campaigned 17 to 18 hours a day while she doubled for him in spot and made it unable to attend. Mrs. Hardage said.
"He's a gladiator, but he's really fun," she said. "I know people tend to look at him as an arrogant man, but he's not. He just has no patience with people who are not competent in their jobs."
BECAUSE OF the pressure and time constraints before the election, Mrs. Hardage, a marriage and family counselor in Wichita, had to temporarily stop seeing all but a few of her clients, she said.
"We meet twice as many people that way, and I think when they meet me, most people have a sense that they met the person they are voting for.
"I've never been involved in politics before, and I never thought I would have," she said. "People tell us that both of us sign up against an enormous effect on the voter."
MRS. HARDAGE, who said she considered herself "somewhat of a feminist," emphatically denied the idea expressed by some politically women's groups that her husband was not supportive of women's rights.
"I do think I have more effect on women. I'm not convinced that because a man hears me, he is going to vote for Sam."
The Lawrence chapter of the National Organization for Women has enlisted incumbent Gov. John Carlin, paired with Senator Elizabeth Warren, would be unsympathetic to women if
SHE SAID confusion arose because her husband did not support the Equal Rights Amendment as it was written, and he was serving from the national government.
“That’s absolutely false,” said Mrs. Hardage, “Sam has less sex bias than any man I have ever known. His dad took over my job and when he took over, she was a tough woman.”
"She told me, 'If I'd known I had to give it back, I would have spent it.' That's easily Carlin's approach."
"Sam is a states' rights man," she said. "He believes the national government interferes in our lives too much, and we need to support the ERA at the state level."
Throughout her own statewide campaign trail, Mrs. Hardage said, her speeches primarily focused on Carlin's "inept handling" of state funds and his "misrepresentation" of the severance tax as the best economic solution.
when she came back, I asked her if she spent all of it.
"He (Carlin) reminds me of my daughter," she said. "I gave her a little gift."
MRS. HARDAGE'S anecdote later was repeated to Scott Swenson, KU coordinator of Kansans for Carlin, who described it as a "judicious" example of what happened to the state's reserves.
As for her role as Kansas" first lady if her husband is selected, Mrs. Hardage
"That's cute," Swenson said. "If the Hardage camp would quilt applying a childlike philosophy to the state government we would be able to find out where Sam Hardage stands on some of the issues."
"I really haven't thought beyond Nov. 3," Mrs. Hardage said. "Things are neck and neck at this point, and I'm very hopeful that we can managing the last two weeks of the campaign."
Committee to study annual fee increase
By DIRK MILLER Staff Reporter
PITTSBURG- The Board of Regents Friday asked a special committee to study a proposal to annually consider fee increases at Regents schools.
The committee is the same one that this past year suggested raising tuition by more than 20 percent at the University of Kansas.
The current practice of considering fees whenever they are requested by a university does not allow a comparison between the different universities, said Stanley Koplik, Regents executive officer.
THE CHAIRMAN of the Regents special committee on student tuition, Glee Smith Jr., said the committee would try to determine if it was possible to consider the fee requests of all Regents institutions on an annual basis.
Smith said this would "be a move toward some consistency at Regents脐
Koplik said that the Regents lost sight of the overall pattern of fees at the schools and that the Regents should consider fees "one time during the year"
The committee will meet in Topeka
Nov. 4 and will also discuss annual tuition increases and different tuition rates for different majors at Regents institutions, said Smith, who also is chairman of the budget and finance committee.
THE STUDY was initiated after a large block of fee requests from Kansas State University was considered for approval to equip students budget and finance committee.
K-State President Duane Acker said that K-State would like to mesh with the total state system but that K-State had held on the fee increases as long as possible and would need to implement the fees in the spring semester.
K-State delayed most of the requests for another month to allow the committee to look into the matter of fee requests.
eration of all Regents schools' fees could be done in the spring before the schools had to present budget requests to the Regents.
KEITH NITCHER, KU director of business affairs, said he thought the fee requests would have to be considered before April. The schools have to submit budget requests for the next fiscal year by May.
most of the roots in the spring semester. Smith suggested that the consid-
"It seems to me if a department is authorized to set increases for fees, then that information ought to be placed in the budget request," he said.
Smith said the committee also would consider annual tuition increases rather than increasing tuition every three or four years. The committee recommended this last year when it suggested the 20 percent tuition hike.
"Increasing tuition every four years was OK when the increases were small." Smith said. "Now it seems that increases in tuition are necessary."
Students can handle smaller yearly
increases easier than large increases every four years, he said.
"For some high technology fields there is a question whether tuition should be higher than a philosophy field," Smith said.
CHARGING different tuition rates for more expensive majors is another method to defray the increasing costs of college. A committee is going to study, Smith said.
In other action, the Regents;
Recreation Services presents F.A.T.S.
Fitness Awareness Techniques Seminar.
Approved a student exchange agreement between Hull College, England, and KU. The agreement will be delivered program between the two schools.
Tuesday, October 19th 12:10-12:50 p.m. lobby of Robinson Chris Aguiar discussing Nutrition and Weight Control.
Approved a $38,755 amendment to a contract between the KU Center for Research and the Regents. The contract, which will sponsor energy conservation studies, now includes 24 additional KU buildings.
The study is being conducted to find ways for Regents institutions to reduce energy costs. The appropriation federal grant money KU received.
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