University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 16. 1991
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Pumping up
Dan Hubbard, St. Louis sophomore, performs biceps curls at Robinson Gymnasium. Hubbard said that he lifted weights twice a week for his physical conditioning class and that he lifted weights daily for himself.
Finney's efficiency report met with skepticism by Legislature
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Lawmakers greeted with considerable skepticism yesterday a report that said Gov. John Finney's efforts to improve government efficiency has saved millions of dollars.
Bob Kelley, director of the governor's office of efficiency management, presented a report to the Special Committee on Ways and Means and Appropriations that he said showed Finney's order to eliminate waste had resulted in $4.4 million savings.
Finney sent the order June 6 telling Cabinet secretaries and agency directors to make periodic reports on savings.
Sen. Paul Feleciano, D-Wichita, said the report was distorted. He contended that many of the cost savings were ordered by the Legislature and that Finney had nothing to do with them.
"It's all smoke and mirrors, and it needs to stop," Feeciano said. "It's a distortion of facts. It's a reflection on
the agencies themselves and the types of games they're playing."
Feleciano commended Kelley for his efforts to improve efficiency in state government but said the facts were being twisted by some of the agency heads.
"I'm going to take it with a grain of salt," Rep. Steve Lloyd, R-Palmer, said of the report. He cited an example a $273,000 savings in state grain inspections this year.
"We can credit most of that to the drought in Kansas. Lloyd said
Other lawmakers said some reported savings resulted from deferred payments. For example, the state Division of Facilities ordered that state cars be used until they have 90,000 miles, instead of 80,000, thus saving the state $1.05 million.
Rep. David Heinemann, R-Garden City, said replacement cars would eventually have to be purchased.
Kelley told the committee that he made it plain to agency heads that the savings included in the report submitted to the governor's office should list only those that occurred as a result of Finney's directive, not because of prior legislative action.
"Agencies traditionally will not spend their full budget," Heinemann said. "I don't know from looking at this list if these are things that they normally would have done."
Kelley told the committee: "We obviously have to tighten up this mechanism."
In a statement issued by her office, Finney said that efficiency savings resulted from such things as using two sides of a sheet of paper in making copies and more complex measures, such as renegotiating contracts and reviewing fees.
"We have been meeting with the agencies and expect increased efforts being devoted to this program," Finney said in the statement. "Most agencies have reported additional areas where savings are anticipated, but further study and analysis will be required."
The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — A 12-year-old boy swallowed 10 pieces of crack cane to avoid arrest, and only quick action by police prevented a 15-year-old boy from consuming with a similar amount of the druid, authorities said.
Police rushed the 12-year-old to St. Joseph Hospital, where he was forced to vomit the drugs Monday night, St. Mark Sundermier said. The boy was listless in condition yesterday, a hospital representative said.
Police arrested the boys Monday night after an officer suspected they had drugs and were intending to commit them.
The 12-year-old might have died had he not been treated immediately. Sundmeier said
The 12-year-old had 840 in his pocket, police said. He told police he had earned the money doing odd jobs.
The 15-year-old was being held in the Douglas County Youth Center on suspicion of possession of crack cocaine with intent to deliver it. police said he was charged with possession and he is released from the hospital. Sundermeier said
The boys' names were not released because of their age.
Eddie Staten, founder of the Mad Dads, an anti-drug group, said the incident shows drug dealers are not fully trained.
"It is a challenge for every parent in this city" to provide direction and fight drugs. Stated said.
Court sets aside ruling on inmate's exposure to secondary smoke
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday set aside a ruling that would have given a Nevada state prison inmate a trial on a claim that his exposure to secondary drugs behind bars amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
The justices, by a 6-2 vote, told a federal appeals court to restudy William McKinney's case because their rulings last June made it more difficult for prison inmates to force improvements in even inmate living conditions.
The June decision said inmates could not use successfully over their living conditions unless they could prove the concern was serious.
In other cases, the code is:
    Let stand a ruling that police needed a warrant to search closed containers that homeless people leave under bridges or in other public places where they live.
The justice yesterday also rejected, without comment, the appeal of a federal prison inmate who said the smoke he has been forced to inhale posed unreasonable health risks.
The justices, over one dissenting vote, refused to reinstate the murder conviction of a Connecticut man whose belongings were opened by police.
Refused to expose international airlines to enormous damage awards stemming from hijackings, bombings and mass shootings.
The court rejected an appeal from surviving relatives of those killed in a 1988 terrorist bombing of a Pan American jet over Scotland and the 1986 hijacking of a Pan Am flight in Pakistan.
Agreed to decide whether a grand jury indictment could be thrown out because prosecutors withheld evidence that they believed would have protected the individual.
The justices said they would hear a Bush administration appeal which sought to reinstate an indictment against an Oklahoma businessman suspected of bank fraud who said he was an employee at the company and other statements and other material which could exonerate him.
In the Nevada case, inmate William McKinney said secondary cigarette smoke inside the state prison at Carson
McKinney scivil rights lawsuit in 1897 said prison authori- nities were responsible because they put him in a cell with a heavy smoker and placed no restrictions on smoking by inmates.
A federal magistrate threw out McKinney's suit after rulings that the had no constitutional right to be free of secondary
But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last February reinstated the suit and sent it back to the magistrate for a trial if necessary.
The other appeal acted on yesterday was filed by L. Daniel Caldwell, now an inmate at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa. He filled a smoke-related complaint in 1988 while in the federal penitentiary at Marion, Ill.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against him.
Filing a Supreme Court appeal in his own behalf, Caldwell argued that he had been forced to breathe the air heavily laden with carbon dioxide.
He said such exposure violated his constitutional rights, and noted that U. S. Bureau of Prison regulations required prisoners to wear masks.
"Nothing in the Bureau of Prisons' regulations requires prison officials to protect inmates from all exposure to tobacco smoke during their incarceration," the government said.
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