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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 4, 1991
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Salina
Marymount library collection finds new shelves
The 90,000-volume library from Marymount College, which closed 2
years ago, has found a new home at the West Coast College.
Two trucks were loaded Friday, and three more were loaded Saturday for the trip west to Dominion University, a new school in Seattle.
James tinker, a librarian at the George Washington library, bought the Marymount collection. He said the books were originally destined for Oregon, where a group of
He said the books were originally destined for Oregon, where a group of Japanese investors planned to start a college. But that never opened.
japanese in his plans he'd buy six colleges. But said Stitzinger said he bid against six other colleges in buying the Marymount library. Neither he nor the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Salina would disclose the price.
He said new books cost an average of $15 to $20 each, compared with between $3 and $6 for used ones.
Sitzinger, librarian for Master's Seminary in Sun Valley, is keeping some of the books for the library there. In four years, he has increased the library's collection from 20,000 volumes to more than 250,000 by buying used collections.
Bazaar
Federal investigator will examine plane wreckage
The plane crashed near Bazaar in east-central Kansas about 7:30 a.m., said Spineane Ashbridge, dismacher with the Kansas Tumakehip Authority.
A federal investigator will examine the wreckage of a single-engine plane that crashed and burned in the Flint Hills region on Monday, critically injuring the pilot.
The pilot, Dale R. Opitz, 67, of Amarillo, Texas, managed to travel a quarter-mile from the crash site to the turnpike and flag down a motorist for help. she said.
Opitz was hospitalized in critical condition early today at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. He suffered severe burns. Opitz apparently had left the Emporia airport and was flying south when he encountered fog and twisted head. Abbrides said
The Federal Aviation Administration was investigating the crash yesterday.
Pittsburg
Gov. Joan Finney probably couldn't have brought a better present than the rain that fell as she touched southeast Kansas.
Showers highlight Finney's tour of wheat farms
"This is a very special day for us," Vernon Egbert said yesterday as the governor arrived at his farm. "It isn't every day you get an inch of rain."
Finney also visited a seed house near Garrard and the Alvin Epler farm east of Columbus.
Finney said the political situation in Eastern Europe provides a chance for Kansas farmers to expand grain exports.
Epler showed Finney a chart detailing that he makes $82 from an acre of wheat, but that production costs were $148.
"We have a tremendous opportunity at this time with the situation in Russia and Eastern Europe. 'Fimney said.' There is an opportunity now to take action," he said.
The governor said she would travel to Poland and Hungary in October with several governors.
Salina
Cat mix-up leaves woman with Boo and Boo Who
When Sue Shuman's short-haired, black male cat disappeared for a few days, she called the animal shelter.
Sure enough, the Saline County Animal Shelter was holding a short-haired, black, male cat, decalled and neutered, just like Shuman's cat.
"He was behind on his tags and shots, so I took him to the veterinarian and got his rabies and distemper shots," she said. "I got him a breakaway cat collar and took him home."
She took in her other cat on Friday, too, and spent about $85 for shots and city tags for both the cats.
criy tags for both the cats.
But the next day, the real Boo came home and met the impostor
"He stared face to face with the little black cat, and they hissed at each other," she said.
The two cats looked alike and had the same personality, and the second Wizard World wore a scarf in Shurin's bed with her, she said.
Now she is convinced that someone is missing a family pet. Boo Who is "obviously well-cared for; he just isn't mine," she said.
If she can find Boo Who's owners, she'll try to find another home for him because he and the original Boo don't get along. she said.
EPA seeks to fine asbestos firm
The Associated Press
Hall-Kimbrell attorney says agency's vendetta against former owner at root of safety issue
An attorney for a local firm that specializes in asbestos removal says the Environmental Protection Agency has it in for his client.
Two weeks ago, the EPA sent a letter to school districts in eight states, for which Hall-Kimbrell Environmental Services had performed federally mandated asbestos inspections developed asbestos-management plans.
The EPA said it had performed random checks of school buildings inspected by Hall-Kimbrell and believed the company's work was insufficient to bring a majority of the incidents into compliance with federal law.
The agency is seeking to levy $5.8 million in fines against Hall-Kimbrel.
"At this point, it almost seems like they're bent on destroying Hall-Kimbrell, " said Mark Weiland, general counsel for Professional Services Group. He bought Hall-Kimbrell in January 1990. "I honestly don't think the EFA's goal
But Dale Armstrong, an EPA spokesman in Kansas City, Kan., denied the agency had a hidden agenda in bringing action against Hall-Kimbrell or notifying its client school districts.
has anything to do with the safety of students."
"The intent of that notification was to make sure the schools had adequate management plans to protect against exposure to asbestos," Armstrong said yesterday. He said school districts are responsible for complying with federal laws on asbestos, regardless of any contracts with Hall-Kimbell.
Weiland said Professional Services Industries officials believed that the EPA Action was part of an effort to create publicity for its enforcement activities and to generate revenue. The officials also believed that the EPA was responsible for its co-founder Kimbrell, the company's co-founder and former owner.
"They think this is still David Kimbrell's company, and they want to make sure that David gets the message on this," Weiland said. "Their main feeling is that the company had always put themselves above the EPA, that Hall-Kimbrell had acted as though they were the experts, not the EPA."
"At this point, it almost seems like they're bent on destroying Hall-Kimbrell, I honestly don't think the EPA's goal has anything to do with the safety of students."
-Mark Welfand, general counsel for Professional Services Industries Inc.
Kimbrell has declined comment but said earlier that he planned to issue a statement this week.
One of the EPA's aphai allegations is that Hall-Kimbrell officials have refused to revisit schools and bring students to compliance with federal law.
Weiland and John Kobayashi, a Denver attorney assisting the company, denied that officials wouldn't reinforce schools that the agency believed to have insufficient asbestos management plans.
"Every time we have received a contact from a school district, we have gone out and taken care of it," Weiland said.
He said that during the company's
year and a half of negotiating with the EPA, Hall-Kimbrell thought it had reached several agreements to settle the matter, including an offer by the company to reinspect schools in all districts that had signed contracts.
"We have been bending over backwards in our efforts to work with the EPA, "Weiland said. "I can't emphasize that enough.
"We have given them everything they've ever asked for within the deadline they've given us, no matter how impossible the deadline," he said. "Every time we thought we had a deal, they back and raised the stakes on us."
Kobayashi said that he sent a letter to all school districts involved, assuring them that the company has complied with all state regulations and with its interpretation of "ambiguous" EPA guidelines. He also said that the EPA was willing to revisit buildings and modify management plans.
'Cheerleader hitman'trial ends; iury convicts mother in Texas
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — A jury on Tuesday convicted a woman of attempting to hire a hitman to kill the mother of her daughter's cheerleading rival to further her own daughter's cheerleading career.
Jurors deliberated about six hours before convicting Wanda Holloway, 37, of solicitation of murder. She could be up to life in prison and a $10,000 bill.
Holloway, of Channelview, Texas, was convicted of trying to hire some-one to kill Verna Heath. Prosecutors contended that Holloway believed Heath's daughter, Amber, would be so guilty that he'd drum up a petition for the freshman cheerleading squad at Channelview High School.
the jury's decision because of a gag order Godwin imposed at the trial's start. After Tuesday's proceedings, the judge said that didn't have to rule on both charges.
The defense had attacked the credibility of the state's star witness, who disclosed the plot to authorities.
Holloway burst into tears after the verdict was read. Relatives and friends surrounded her, yelling at members of the media to stay away.
When jurors first told state District Judge George Godwin they had reached verdicts, he told them to reread the charges and reconsider their decision. Twenty minutes later, they heard a woman's solicitation of murder charge only.
Holloway also was charged with solicitation of aggravated kidnapping, but no verdict on the lesser charge was announced.
Jurors were to return to court today to begin the punishment phase of the 1980s.
In closing arguments earlier Tuesday, prosecutor Casey O'Brien replayed several segments of taped conversations secretly recorded for Holloway's former brother-in-law. Terry Harper, the state's star witness.
"You listen to that tape. You don't hear fear in her voice. You hear hate. She's consumed with hate," O'Brien said.
Attorneys on both sides said they couldn't explain the circumstances of
"It's not that I don't want to do it. I just have to get the money," Holloway replied.
On the tape, Harper said to Holmes, "I don't want to do it, I'll understand."
O'Brien said Holloway's contention that she was afraid of Harper or the hitman was ludicrous. The prosecutor said she was on intent to obtain Harpier and had details about Heath as the make of his car and license plate numbers.
But defense attorney Stan Schneider told jurors the state did not prove its case against Holloway.
"Terry Harper is unbelievable. He's a liar," Schneider said, adding that none of the other witnesses corroborated Harper's testimony.
"Without Terry Harper, Wanda Holloway is innocent. They can't substantiate Terry Harper," Schneider said.
Holloway's daughter, Shanna Harper, lost a bid for a junior high cheerleading squad to Amber Heath in the seventh grade. And Shanna was disqualified from eighth-grade competition for illegal electioneering after distributing free rulers and pencils with her name printed on them.
Defense attorneys said Holloway was framed by her ex-husband, Tony Harper, who is Terry Harper's brother. Terry Harper's estranged wife, Marla Harper, testified that he hoped to get the job of granting graces by helping Win custody of his two children from Holloway. The two divorced in 1980.
Marla Harper said she heard her husband talking to his brother about the scheme during a New Year's Eve telephone conversation. She said Terry Harper bragged that he would become rich and famous from the deal. Tony Harper testified that he and his brother have been approached by at least 20 filmmakers about selling the rights to the story.
Amber now is on the freshman cheerleading squad at Channelview High. Shanna didn't try out for the spring this year after her mother's arrest.
Terry Harper has been married seven times, held 15 jobs during the past three years and has a string of minor convictions.
Tony Harper testified that he never wanted full custody of his children but sought a modification of the custody agreement because he wanted the children to get counseling Holloway was reluctant to provide.
Survivors of storm deny it took courage
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Two men and a woman who spent 11 days at sea in a rubber rat in Hurricane Bob
"To me, choice is implied in courage, and we weren't there as a matter of choice," said Allison Wilcox, 33, a psychologyist from Austin, Texas, who is six months pregnant.
At a news conference at Jamaica Hospital, the survivors said they lived because they believed they would and insisted it did not take courage to catch fish with their hands, to drink sea water or to watch sharks circle them.
Wilcox wanted a long weekend away from work. Instead she found herself in a life-or-death ordeal with two men she barely knew the skipper, Marec and Cyril, a Frenchman in the Indian Ocean, and first mate Eddy Provost, 42, of Pawless望 S., C.
They set sail on Aug. 16 from Little River Inlet, M.C., aboard a brand new 38-foot sleepy they can see in port R.I., for the boat's owner.
Two days later, the weather became so intense they decided to abandon the sloop for the life raft.
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