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Friday, April 25, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Extradition sought in sex case
TOPEKA-Dist. Atty, Gene Glander said he would seek extradition of Bernard W. Black, who was arrested Tuesday in Kansas City on charges that he promoted prostitution at a 1972 party for several members of former Gov. Robert Docking's administration.
Black, a former Kansas City, Kan., private club owner, was arrested on a warrant issued in October in Shawnee County. The complaint alleges that Black took a woman from Kansas City, Kan., to a motel in Topeka for purposes of prostitution.
The complaint says the woman had sexual intercourse with three men at the motel in the fall of 1972 and was returned to Kansas City the next year.
The warrant names Raymond J. Gaffney, former warden at the Kansas State Penitentiary, and Robert N. Woodson, former state penal director, as potential witnesses. A third potential witness wasn't identified in the warrant.
10 charged for sponge fire
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Ten men were charged Thursday in a bombing that destroyed a $10 million sponge rubber plant and put 900 employees out
Among those arrested were the president of the plant's parent firm and his psychic adviser who had predicted a catastrophe a few weeks before the explosion. The bombing is considered the biggest arson case in FBI history.
The 29-block-long Sponge Rubber Products plant was ripped by three or more dynamized dynometer blasts at 11:30 p.m. March 1. Twenty-four drums of gasoline fueled the ensuing inferno which raged out of control for eight hours, federal indictments sait!
Students protest at Brown
PROVIDENCE, R.I.-Black students, protesting budget cutbacks which they said would make Brown University "richer and whiter," seized control of the Ivy League school's administration building Thursday.
About 40 black students entered University Hall, the administration building on the college green, shortly after 8 a.m. after about 100 black students surrounded the building. Within hours, more than 400 black and white students were nicketing in summit of those inside.
The take-over was peaceful, and all university officials and employees left the building after the students moved in, saying they would respond to
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The Dillon's store on 6th reported a slight increase in sales.
Merchants predict upswing . . .
ALL AREA GROCERS agreed that customers were avoiding candies, cookies and other sugared foods because of high sugar in their products were falling in sales, they said.
Sales of private label camded goods, which are few cents cheaper than national brands, are growing.
Fallery's Discount Foods' store manager said that in the past six months, sales of national brand soft drinks fell off 50 per cent and sales of private label drinks doubled.
More customers are using food stamps, the grocers said.
All reported that they were handling an increasing number of coupons and that more customers were shopping for advertised bargains.
Restaurants:
Lawrence restaurants are as busy as even according to a few local residents.
University of Kansas students eat out often, and townpeople haven't cut back their eating out, the restaurant owners and managers said.
Restaurant owners said eating out frequently had become a way of life, especially for students, married couples and families with both husband and wife working. The restaurant business would be in hard times, the restaurant owners said.
BOTH THE KENTUCKY Fried Chicken store and JBS's Big Boy Family Restaurant were one of the few in their chains to show increase in sales last year compared to 1973.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) - Terrorists broke into the West Gern Embassy here, killed one man and took up a dozen hostages, then blew up part of the building shortly before midnight Thursday in what police said was an escape attempt.
Nearly 50 military and civilian charter flights had brought 8,706 refuges to this small mid-Pacific island by midnight Thursday, in "Oberation New Life."
West German embassy terrorized
The refugee areas were secured to keep people out, not to confine the refugees, a military spokesman said. "These people have a right to private security, 'too,' he said.
Police said several of the hostages were wounded in the blasts at about 8 p.m., which sent flames belching from upper-story windows, but the West German ambassador and two women escaped unhurt. Several police and firemen were reported injured.
As Tent City, a small trailer park, filled,
new arrivals were bused to a converted
military hospital which has room for 10,000.
Military officials scrimped Thursday to
find bed and board for everyone at this U.S.
territory.
Refugees weren't allowed off the U.S. base unless they had an American passport. The total number of refugees is expected to be 10,000 before "Operation New Life" ends.
Meanwhile, Guam's civilians were asked to volunteer as babysitters and cooks, to contribute toys and recreational equipment and to help find 10,000 mattresses and cots.
Airmen worked 12-hour shifts to handle heavy traffic at the air base, once the takeoff point for B-52 raids on North Vietnam.
AGANA, Guam (AP)—Tent City, at Andersen Air Base, swelled to overflowing with 3,400 Vietnamese as the massive airlift continued Thursday.
S six terrorists were captured after a brief shootout, police said. At least one other was pinned down by police fire in the burning four-story embassy. Police said there might be other commanders in the building and there was still shooting in the area.
The terrorists had threatened to blow up the building with nearly 35 pounds of TNT if police tried to storm the building. No such attempt was made.
They also had threatened to kill the ambassador and the other hostages unless 26 members of the anarchist Baader-Meinhoff gang were freed from German jails, given $250,000 and flown to an undisclosed country.
The terrorists—including at least one woman—killed the embassy's military attache, Lt. Col. Andreas Baron von Mirbach.
There was a tremendous flash and explosion on the top floor of the building in the escape attempt and flames belched from half the structure. Police said the terrorists apparently threw bombs to create confusion and enable them to escape out the back.
Viet refugees flood Guam
A dozen fire engines fought the fire at the embassy and the surrounding grounds, set ablaze by flaming objects hurled by the explosions.
La Verne Gunether, of Guenther Jewelry said, "I think people are putting their money into something that is more lasting and valuable."
Shortly before 11 p.m. Swedish Premier Olof Palme said he had been told by the Bonn government that it wouldn't meet the terrorists' demands.
Palme's spokesman Manje Tøspersson said the Bonn refusal was "supported by all regional governments in West Germany as well as by the federal government in Bonn with the opposition united behind the government on all levels."
SALES OF EXPENSIVE items have increased over the past few months and people are interested in buying gold, three jewels said.
One jeweler said his sales were slightly off, but not enough to worry him.
He said jewery prices had increased 40 per cent within the past two years, mostly because of the rise in the prices of gold and diamonds.
ALAN LILLEOIEN, assistant vice president at First National Bank, said demand for loans at his bank was down 50 per cent from the same time last year. He said all types of loans were down, whether for commercial improvement or agricultural implements.
Other jewelers cited higher labor, shipping and overhead costs that they had to pay to stay in business as contributing to high jewelry prices.
However, an official at Lawrence National Bank said loan requests at his bank were increasing, especially to finance purpuree loans, mobile homes, furniture and appliances.
Banking and Finance:
Lawrence banks and credit bureau face sluggish demand for consumer loans, but loan requests have begun to increase during the past few weeks.
Both banks said that delinquent loan payments were occurring more frequently and that reposessions and bankruptcies were increasing.
"This goes directly to the fact that inflation has gone up faster than people's
incomes." Lilleo said. "It's because of increases in the cost of food and living expenses that people don't have money to pay back loans."
HE SAID many delinquent payments
were from people who never were late.
Home buyers are showing increased interest in looking at, buying and building homes after a seasonal drop-off during the winter, local realtors and home financiers said.
Another realtor said people looked at used homes more than they used to.
Yet the bankers remain optimistic about Lauren's economic health for the rest of the year.
MORE PEOPLE are interested in houses valued at $25,000 or less, but realers expect to sell expensive homes later this year, one realtor said.
Joe Oberon, vice president of Capita Federal Savings and Loan Association, said that even though mortgage interest rates were lower than a year before, it was more difficult for people to qualify for loans because of reductions in their real income.
Many recent repossessions are attributable to unemployment, he said.
Lilleian said things had been making an upturn since the beginning of the year.
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Kenn Ragland, president of University State Bank, said, "One of the stabilizing factors is that we have the University here with a quite constant payroll.
Oberan said his company finance fewer
funds in the first quarter this year
than last year.
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Contractors are optimistic that government-financed building projects at KU, in Lawrence and in the area will keep common workers busy for a couple of years.
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Construction of new housing has steadily decreased since 1971, especially construction of apartment complexes and multi-family units. Construction of single-family homes dropped 17 per cent last year in 1973. However, one contractor said he will build for tax credits to home buyers and builders that tax law would clear the market of existing units and spur more local housing construction this year.
BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION and remodeling have dropped off from last year, according to statistics given by the Bureau of the Lawrence public works department.
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