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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Friday, Jan. 24, 1986
Forum pans bypass costs
By Monty Headley Staff writer
It was standing room only in the Douglas County Commission chambers last night as about 150 people participated in a public forum on a proposed highway bypass.
The forum was the second of three to discuss possible routes of the bypass.
County planners have mapped out a bypass that would begin east of Lawrence at Highway 10, follow the southern edge of Lawrence and then head north to link up with either Highway 40 or the Kansas Turnpike.
County officials called the meetings to get public reaction on the proposed routes, but most of the comments last night centered on the project's cost.
Bud Nation, Rt. 1, Lawrence, said the county had not involved taxpayers in the bypass project.
"The taxpayers have to pay for it," he said. "But we don't feel that we are a part of it."
A representative of Howard, Needles, Tammen and Bergendoff, the engineering firm hired by the county to study the bypass, said the project would cost $19 million to $20 million.
Warren Rhodes, county commissioner, said the bypass was needed to collapse the heavy traffic on 32nd street.
The bypass is needed because 23rd is loaded with traf-
nc, and there are many truckers who don't want to come onto 23rd from 10." Rhodes said.
Frank Hempen, Douglas County public works director and moderator of the public forum, urged the participants to discuss the location of the route, but most speakers questioned the cost of the project. Some of them asked that the financing of the bypass be put to a vote.
Last summer, Attorney General Robert Stephan, ruled that the county had the right to proceed with the bypass project without a public vote.
After that decision, the county issued $4 million in general obligation bonds for the bypass.
Engineers said the county also considered extending Massachusetts Street south to the planned bypass.
Massachusetts Street south of Gerald Gipp, president of Haskell Indian Junior College, said that the extension of Massachusetts Street would bisect the Haskell campus.
Gipp asked the commission to consider possible traffic and noise problems if Massachusetts Street was extended south through the Haskell campus.
Gary Toebben, vice president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said the chamber supported the bypass.
"It is only fair to the people who plan to live in rural Douglas County that we set the route of the bypass now," he said.
Four convicted in skimming
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Reputed Chicago crime boss Joseph Aupuka recommended the murders of at least 13 people, including the slaying of insurance executive Allen Dorfman in 1983, according to government documents filed in federal court.
Ailupa, 78, and four other men were convicted Tuesday in a Las Vegas casino skimming conspiracy netting $2 million for mobsters in Chicago, Kansas City, Mo., Las Vegas, Nev., Milwaukee and Cleveland. Ailupa remained jailed pending a bond hearing Monday.
In one of several affidavits filed by the government prosecutors in an attempt to have the defendants denied bond pending sentencing, FBI agent Eugene N. Thomeczek said Alupa personally approved many murders in the Chicago, and Las Vegas areas.
Dorfman was gunned down in the parking lot of a suburban Chicago hotel on Jan. 20, 1983, while free on bond pending the appeal of his conviction for conspiring to bribe former Sen. Howard Cannon.
Thomeczek also said in an affidavit that Alipha approved the slayings of his predecessor, Sam Giancana, identified as the boss of the Chicago Cosa Nostra; eight individuals who the Chicago mob suspected in the burglary of Tony Accardo's residence; Marty Buccieri of Las Vegas, who had worked for various Las Vegas casinos; Charles Nicoletti, a suspected Chicago informant, and George Vandermark, a former Stardust Hotel employee who had embellied $150,000 from the Las Vegas casino.
Thomeczek said Aippa recommended the killing of Giancana to the governing board of the Chicago family, who approved it. Giancana, according to the document, was disliked because he was taking more than his cut of the pie and because he was promiscuous with other members' wives.
Aluppa was jailed after the government's request that the men not be released on bond. Convicted with
Aiupa were Milton J. Rockman, 73,
of the Cleveland area; John Cerone,
71; Angelo LaPierta, 65; and Joseph
Lombardo, 57; all of Chicago.
The men were accused of using their influence in the Teamsmets union to obtain loans to establish Argent Corp.'s four casinos.
"As boss of the Chicago La Cosa Nosta family, Jae Aupaus has to personally approve any 'hit' involving LCN members or LCN associates." Thomezek said in his affidavit.
Affidavits filed by the government said there were five underbosses in the Chicago mob under Aiupa, including Cerone and Lombardo.
The largest single source of income for the Chicago LCN in the mid-'70s was a string of off-track betting parlors, which netted as much as $500.00 a month. Thomeczek said.
In another affidavit, Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratiano said he knew Aiuppa "to be the boss of one of most dangerous organized crime families in the United States. It was one of the most dangerous organized crime families."
A bicycle valued at $150 was stolen sometime over semester break from the basement of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, 1537 Tennessee St., Lawrence police said yesterday.
Three men were arrested and charged with aggravated assault Wednesday night outside of Just A Playhouse, 806 W. 24th St., Lawrence police police said. Randy Lee McCarty, Sedan; Jerry Armitate, Caney; and Clyde James Kingsbury, Cedarvale; arrived at the Playhouse after it closed and were in the parking lot yelling obscenities when police arrived. Police said one of the men took a revolver out of the car just before police arrived.
The Quality 66 service station,
1540 W. 6th St., was robbed
sometimes between 9 p.m. Wednesday
and 5:30 a.m. Thursday.
Lawrence police said. Police said
the suspects broke a window and
took cash and cigarettes worth
$193.
On Campus
The movie "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. today at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
The Nigerian Student Association will meet at 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Community Building, 115 W. 11th St., to celebrate Nigerian Cultural Night with food and dancing.
Bail denied to skimmer of casinos
The KU Ki-Alikido Club will meet at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in 130 Robinson Center.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal judge yesterday denied bond to reputed mob figure Milton Rockman after a document was filed in court stating Rockman was involved in the murders of two organized crime associates.
On the Record
United Press International
In denying the defendant's request for bond, U.S. District Judge Joseph E. Stevens said that although Rockman was orderly and respectful throughout the proceedings, the defendant otherwise had shown a "lifelong ... lack of respect for the administration of justice."
Rockman, 73, and four other reputed mobsters were convicted Tuesday of conspiring to take hidden control of several Las Vegas casinos owned by the Argent Corp. and skimming $2 million in gambling profits.
The judge yesterday likened the freeing of Rockman on bond to the case involving insurance executive Allen Dorfman, who was gunned down in the parking lot of a suburban Chicago hotel Jan. 20, 1983, while out on bond following a conviction for conspiring to bribe former U.S. Sen. Howard Cannon of Nevada.
In an affidavit filed by the government in its plea to refuse Rockman bond, informant Angelo Lona do said Rockman "was involved in, knew about, and in fact actually discussed and agreed upon, the murder of" Danny Green and John Nardi, organized crime family associates in Cleveland.
"I think it would be unrealistic to fail to take into account the fate of Allen Dorfman and he reached that fate," Stevens said in naming about 10 factors leading to his decision to deny bail.
One of those factors was the untold number of bystanders that were in danger at the time of the Dorfman slaying, he said.
"I don't want that repeated either to Mr. Rockman — or to anybody — in a parking lot in Kansas City or anywhere else," the judge said.
Then he referred to the killing of five men outside the Kansas City railway station on June 17, 1933.
"We had one Union Station massacre in this town and that's all we need," he said.
Killed in that gunbattle were crime lord Frank Nash, two Kansas City policemen, an Oklahoma police chief and an FBI agent. The three-man assassin team was led by gangster “Pretty Boy” Flovd.
In the affidavit, Lonardo described Rockman, whose nickname is "Mashie," as an associate of the Cleveland organized crime.
"He did work for the family and functioned for the family but he could not be a member because he was not Italian," said Lonardo, who testified at the skimming trial.
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