Friday, March 21, 1986
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Man who drowned in river is identified
The body of the man pulled from the Kansas River on Wednesday has been identified, and the Douglas County coroner's office determined that the man drowned in the Louisiana police chief said yesterday.
Richard Stanwix, police chief,
identified the drowning victim as
Frank L. Barnes, 34, of 1116 W.
15th St.
Barnes had not been seen by his parents, with whom he lived, since Feb. 17, Stanwix said. Barnes had not been reported missing to the police. It is not known whether they were in or seen Barnes after Feb. 17, he said.
Several KU faculty members jogging on the Kansas River bridge, Sixth and Massachusetts streets, spotted Barnes' body several feet from the south bank shortly after noon Wednesday, Stanwix said. The joggers then went to Lawrence City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets, and the police were called.
Barnes' body contained cuts, and his nose may have been broken. Stanxiv said. Police have reason to think the injuries could have occurred before Feb. 17, he said.
Judge sets trial date
A Douglas County District Court judge found enough evidence to try a Lawrence man on the charge of aggravated battery for his involvement in a stabbing and shooting incident in late January.
Associate District Judge Michael Malone said he had heard enough evidence at the preliminary hearing to try Al Dover for the Jan. 27 shooting of Edward Davis Jr. at 1319 Vermont St.
Davis testified that Dover came to the door of his apartment to collect rent on the night of Jan. 27. Davis said he told Dover that he didn't have the money. Dover then stabbed him in the chest.
No fraud discovered
Confusion about a telephone number led a Lawrence woman to report suspicions of fraud about a home siding company to local police Monday. Those suspicions were unfounded.
The woman had been contacted by Danee Helvey, a salesman for Better Homes Inc., based in Kansas City, Mo. Helvey gave the woman the company's telephone number, which she later attempted to call. Helvey said.
The number has an 842 prefix, which also is a local prefix. Helvey said the woman thought the number was a local one and became suspicious when she could not reach it. Her suspicions led her to call the police.
Helvey said Better Homes was the retail branch of a wholesale supply company and had been in business since 1969 and selling in Lawrence since 1981. Better Homes also installs replacement windows, roofing and does commercial and residential painting.
He has since talked to the woman, and the affair has been straightened out, he said, and she may even buy some siding.
Weather
Sunshine will continue today with warmer temperatures in the low- to mid-50s. Winds will be southwesterly at 10 to 20 mph. Skies will remain clear tonight with lows in the mid-30s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with highs in the upper 60s.
From staff and wire reports.
Woman risks jail for refugees
The small woman standing in front of the podium looked more like a shy sweet grandmother than a criminal.
Bv Brian Kaberline
Mary Kay Meyer, manager of the Manna House of Prayer, speaks at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Meyer said last night that she would continue to operate the Manna House of Prayer, the only publicly acknowledged sanctuary in Kansas for Central American refugees, even though she was risking going to jail.
Staff writer
As the 65-year-old ex-office manager began to speak, her audience at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., found that Mary Kay Meyer was anything but shy.
Meyer traded her job at the office of an oil company in Concordia for life with the Sisters of St. Joseph and a mission of providing refugees from Central America with a warm bed and a friendly face.
The Manna House of the Prayer, operated by the convent in Concordia, is the only publicly declared sanctuary for the refugees in Kansas.
Even though harboring illegal alliances carry a jail sentence of five years and a $2,000 fee for each alien Meyer said she wasn't afraid of the law.
"If we go to jail, it's not going to be the end of the world," she said. "We'll get out eventually. But for these folks, if they get arrested, it will be the end of the world for them."
Her reason for helping the refugees is based on her belief in God and is backed by passages in the Bible, she said. The workers in the sanctuary said yes to God, even though that meant saying no to the laws of the government.
The sanctuary, Meyer said, is one station in a chain of sanctuaries in the United States that helps refugees from Central America escape the savagery of war and government death squads. The people are smuggled into the country and taught to live on their own.
She showed slides of some of the 23 Guatemalan refugees now housed in the sanctuary. Along with the slides
came horror stories of how the people watched death squads torture and kill family members and of government helicopters turning whole villages into empty fields overnight.
People in the United States are unaware of what is happening in Central America, she said. They are unaware that they are accomplices
through the aid given to governments and rebels in the area.
She said she could not understand how some school children could give money to restore the Statue of Liberty while other children had to suffer.
Meyer said the question of whether to help the refugees was not as much a question of law, but of faith and
basic human rights.
"Is it a human right to flee? If the KU campus were invaded tomorrow with helicopters and guns," she said, "do you have a right to run? Is that a basic human right, to flee?" If it is a human right to flee, then isn't it also a human right to be received somewhere?"
License restored to official
By Brian Whepley Staff writer
Staff writer
Von Ende's license was suspended for six months, beginning March 1, after he allegedly refused to take a breathalizer test. He was stopped in late November by Lawrence police for allegedly driving left of the center line, the appeal petition said.
Richard von Ende, executive secretary of the University, had his driver's license reinstated Wednesday by Douglas County District Judge James W. Paddock pending an appeal of its suspension.
A trial date has been set for April 18 for von Ende on charges of operating under the influence, according to Lawrence Municipal Court records.
The petition said police officers said that von Ende was properly requested to submit to a breath test and that he unreasonably refused.
The petition, filed March 7, said all administrative remedies to have his license reinstated were exhausted by von Ende, and under Kansas law he was entitled to a court hearing.
Also, the petition said that von Ende was unlawly stopped. Therefore, it was illegal for the revenue department to suspend his license·
Because of his license suspension, it has been difficult for von Ende to travel to and from work in Topeka and Lawrence, Smoot said. Von Ende is KU's primary representative to the Legislature.
Groups vie for Senate funds
Von Ende referred inquiries about the appeal to his attorney.
Brad Smooth, von Ende's attorney,
said Lawrence police did not have
probable cause to stop von Ende.
Staff writer
By Piper Scholfield Staff writer
The economic fate of 45 student groups hangs in the balance until next week when the Student Senate Finance Committee will vote on whether the groups receive their 1987 budget wishes.
The Finance Committee has spent this week hearing group representatives defend their budget requests. Members of the student groups were able to speak to the committee for about ten minutes to explain why they needed the money.
"No one is guaranteed any part of their request," Henderson said.
Henderson said the committee's decisions would be subject to approval by the full Senate, but he hoped the Senate would recognize the work the committee had done to determine which groups deserved financing. The Senate plans to vote on the proposed budget by April 9.
Grant Steinle, Finance Committee chairman, said the Senate rules specified that it could not finance social functions, food or drinks, or offices not located on campus.
"Beyond some set policies, the decisions get really difficult," he said. "We try to sponsor the greatest good for the greatest number of students."
Chris Burmeister, Hosington junior and treasurer of the Engineering Student Council, said his organization had asked for about $3,100 this year — about the same amount that it received last year from Senate.
Burmester met with the; Finance Committee on Monday night for about 20 minutes.
The Engineering Student Council still has money left from this year, but the Senate will have to consider events that will occur later this semester. Burmeister said.
He said he doubted the Senate would cut the council's budget because the amount requested was so similar to that received last year.
Steinle said that if the groups' requests were granted, the money would be available to them July 1, 1986.
Committee axes KU requests
Staff writer
By Mark Siebert
TOPEKA — One side of the sign on State Rep. Sandy Duncan's desk savs. "NO!"
The other side says. "Hell NO!"
The other side says, "HEI NO!" The University of Kansas got the hurry. It held a subcommittee disposed of $728,156 worth of special program requests that a Senate Ways and Means committee passed March 10.
Duncan, R-Wichita, the chairman of the three-man House Ways and Means subcommittee, said the programs were axed because the state didn't have enough money.
"We deleted everything the Senate had restored," Duncan said. "I didn't feel like we could spend spending money we didn't have."
Richard von Ende, executive secretary of the University, said he wasn't surprised by the subcommit-
tee's move but was disappointed.
Among the funds cut by the sub committee were:
$288,020 to help create five new distinguished professorship positions for fiscal year 1987, which would bring the total at KU to about 55.
$180,262 to develop a device to forecast the state's economy.
$157,346 and 4.5 positions to carry out the second year of the new bachelor of science degree in computer engineering. The program was started this fiscal year.
Duncan said the subcommittee followed Gov. John Carlin's basic budget, which included no revenue it would be making its recommendations.
$100,528 and two positions to develop a science instrumentation laboratory for fiscal year 1987.
Carlin's investment budget does include additional revenue through a
1-cent sales tax increase.
The tax bill, which needs 63 votes to pass the House, would raise the sales tax from 3 to 4 percent and would generate an estimated $190 million.
The subcommittee consisted of representatives Duncan, Bob Ott, R-Salina, and Jack Shriver, D-Akansas City.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said the budget cuts indicated the need for a revenue increase.
Decisions regarding issues for all Regents schools, the six state universities and Kansas Technical Institute in Salina, will be made when the full committee discusses the budget at the beginning of April.
Law students debate effects of divestment
By Tim Hrenchir
Staff writer
Phil Kline and Chris Bunker agreed yesterday on one thing -- apartheid in South Africa must come to an end.
But they disagreed on how to help bring that about.
Kline, Shawnee law student and chairman of KU College Republicans, and Bunker, Prairie Village law student and president of KU Committee on South Africa, debated divestment in front of about 60 people at Green Hall.
Bunker favors Kansas University Endowment Association divestment from companies doing business in South Africa.
Kline has urged the Endowment Association to pass stockholder resolutions supporting the Sullivan Principles, which call for companies in South Africa to promote racial reforms within their ranks.
"No firm has pulled out of South Africa because of divestment pressure," Kline said. "Why? Because our selling of stocks is hidden in the millions of shares that are sold on the New York Stock Exchange every day."
Bunker disagreed, saying that at least two companies, Polaroid and Motorola, have pulled out of South Africa because of divestment pressure and that the withdrawal of several other companies from South Africa indirectly was due to divestment pressure. Divestment has already done more than anything else, he said.
But Kline said the companies left South Africa because of a change in investment philosophies.
"Divestment is a one-time symbolic statement," he said. "It's not heard in the halls of government in South Africa.
"When you divest you lose one of the only positive avenues of social
change in the country."
Stockholder resolutions supporting the Sullivan Principles, however, could bring positive social change, he said. And companies make continuing statements. A company recently offered legal aid to its black workers arrested at public facilities reserved for whites.
Bunker said the accounting firm enforcing the Sullivan Principles reported that most companies signing the principles didn't do a good job of providing equal opportunities for blacks.
He said the Rev. Leon Sullivan, who originated the principles, was disappointed in the principles' results and would withdraw his support of them if they hadn't brought an end to apartheid by July 1987.
Kline wants the federal government to strengthen the principles by requiring all U.S. companies in South Africa to abide by them. Then the companies would be accountable and would do a good job helping the blacks.
Bunker said corporations weren't in South Africa to help blacks.
"They're there to make a buck," he said. "They're there because south Africa is a wealthy country whose labor is cheap — it's almost slave labor."
The real issue on campus, Bunker said, was that the Endowment Association had refused to divest.
"Our Endowment Association is thumbing its nose at you," he told the audience. "You have spoken through your representatives and told the Endowment Association that you insist on divestment. But they still won't do it."
Kline replied that the University was not a political institution.
"The University shouldn't try to compel anyone to take political action," he said. "Let's go to the Legislature. Let's debate it there."
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