UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, August 19, 1996
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Campaign compromising
TOPEKA—Jill Docking, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, on Friday offered to sit down with her Republican opponent Sam Brownback to work out some campaign rules.
She said she wants to negotiate the details of what she calls the "Kansas Compact," an attempt at voluntary campaign reform.
Brownback campaign officials appear interested.
They just wish they had not learned about it from the news media.
"My proposals are based, in part, on campaign finance reform efforts that have languished among professional politicians."Docking said.
Docking proposed that both campaigns limit their expenditures to $1 million each, and that no contributions be accepted from political action committees.
Enforcement of the compact would be up to a board of no more than seven members of the media, facilitated by the Kansas League of Women Voters.
Brownback has been a strong supporter of campaign reform since he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994.
He decided to run for the open Senate seat rather than seek election to the House.
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The Brownback campaign issued a statement
saying representatives would meet with members of the Docking camp.
TWA 800 victim found
WINFIELD — The body of a former Winfield resident who died in the explosion of TWA Flight 800 has been found, family members said.
The body of Rod Foster, 61, was found Thursday, said his sister, Gail White, of Ponca City, Okla.
Foster's body was to be returned to Winfield for burial after being released by the Suffolk County, N.Y., medical examiner, she said.
Services for Foster were scheduled for 11 am. Tuesday.
Foster, who had been living in Sherman, Conn., was chief pilot and operations officer for Dassault Falcon Jet Co.
A retired Navy pilot, he was on his way to Bordeaux, France, to pick up a new corporate jet for his company.
The family has started the Rod Foster Memorial Fund to help young people learn how to fly.
TOPEKA—Kansas Lottery officials said players will have better chances of winning larger jackpots in a new game that begins Sunday.
New lottery game
The new Kansas Cash game, with minimum jackpots of $100,000, will replace the Kansas Cash Lotto game that offered a minimum jackpot of $60,000.
"We made the changes in the game based on our players" wishes for larger jackpots and more ways to win," said Greg Ziemak, Kansas Lottery executive director.
From then on, drawings will be held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The first drawing for the Kansas Cash game will be Monday.
Kansas Cash players who match all six numbers drawn will win or share the jackpot prize, which is paid in one lump sum.
Players will pick six numbers from one to 35, and hope to match those numbers against six that are drawn.
That means the prizes will vary according to the sale of tickets.
Kansas Cash ticket holders that match four or five of the six numbers will win pari-mutual prizes.
People who match three numbers will receive a $1 Quick Pick Kansas Cash ticket.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
Gorilla rescues boy after 18-foot fall
Female primate carried boy with head injury to waiting zoo officials and medical help
The Associated Press
BROOKFIELD, Ill. — A 150-pound female gorilla came to the rescue of a 3-year-old boy who fell into a private exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo, cradling the toddler in her arms and bringing him to zoo keepers.
The boy fell 18 feet Friday onto concrete in an area with seven gorillas.
The boy suffered critical head injuries, authorities said.
While zoo-goers screamed in horror, Binti Jua, an 8-year-old female gorilla carrying an infant on her back, picked up the boy and placed him near a door where zoo keepers could retrieve him, zoo spokeswoman Sondra Katzen said.
"Another gorilla walked toward the boy and she kind of turned around and walked away from the other gorillas and tried to be protective," said Carrie Stewart, who witnessed the rescue in this suburb 14 miles west of Chicago.
spokeswoman, said zoo keepers sprayed water on the Tropic World exhibit to keep the other gorillas away from the boy.
Melinda Pruett-Jones, another zoo
"They controlled the animals beautifully.
"And they had an emergency medical crew working on the little boy as soon as they possibly could," she said.
Pruett-Jones said Binti, who was raised by humans, "showed maternal-like behavior. I can't say that it was a typical response, but there have been other instances in which gorillas have shown maternal behavior to humans."
The boy, who was at the zoo with his family, was alert and crying
when paramedics took him out of the exhibit about 2:30 p.m.
His name was not released.
his name is Swahili for "Daughter of Sunshine," is a Western Lowland gorilla.
Because she was raised by humans, she had to be taught nurturing skills when she gave birth 17 months ago, the zoo said in a statement.
Katzen said she did not know how the boy got over a 31/2-foot railing near the exhibit.
Loyola University Medical Center spokesman Michael Maggio said the child was in critical condition Friday night.
AIDS nursing home opening doors in KC
Hope Care Center one of four in country
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY—A nursing home just for AIDS patients is about to become reality thanks to what its medical director calls a labor of love by hundreds of people.
The Hope Care Center, set to open Aug. 30, will be one of only four
nursing homes in the nation dedicated to serving people with AIDS.
"This has been a true labor of love," said Sharon Lee, a Kansas City, Kan., physician who treats hundreds of the area's AIDS patients. "I feel it every time I walk into here."
Lee was among those who began
System.
Lee, who will be the home's medical director, expects Hope Care Center's 16 beds to fill quickly, both with patients recovering from AIDS-related illnesses and those nearing death. Since January, the home has been getting about 10 calls a week from people across the country asking to be admitted.
"This has been a true labor of love."
The closest nursing home like Hope Care Center is in Indianapolis. The other two AIDS-specific nursing
Sharon Lee Kansas City, Kan. physician
dreaming of such a facility for the Kansas City area five years ago. Now, after all the organizing, fundraising, hard work and a few false starts, things are ready to go.
More than 1,000 people gave money, furniture, equipment and supplies. Except for a few medication carts, all the furnishings in the home were donated. Money came in amounts ranging from a dollar to six-figure grants from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation and the Daughters of Charity Health Care
Volunteers were putting the finishing touches on it in preparation for a dedication ceremony that was held Saturday. In all, more than 400 volunteers from churches, youth groups, schools and professional associations were involved in the project.
homes are in Seattle and New York City. "Families were begging us to get to this place open," Lee said. "It's an extraordinary amount of, not just emotional, but physical energy to help someone who is dying." Some AIDS patients have families or friends who can't —
Some AIDS patients have families or friends who can't — or won't — care for them. Finding con-
"In those situations we have people dying at home alone," Lee said. "We hope that won't happen in Kansas City anymore."
The idea for Hope Care Center grew out of conversations between Lee and nurses Jane Crnkovich and Kathy Heison when they worked together at a nursing home. They became concerned when the nursing home decided to end its program of providing AIDS care in a wing dedicated to patients with the disease.
The home is in a renovated building that used to be a Christian Science nursing home before falling into disuse years ago.
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