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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Friday April 3,1987 Vol. 97, No. 125 (USPS 650-640)
Mall ads are illegal under Kansas law, opponent charges
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
Douglas County District Attorney Jim Flory will make an announcement at 9 a.m. today regarding charges made yesterday that political ads bought by the developer of a proposed downtown Lawrence mall violate Kansas law.
Tim Miller, a mall opponent, sent a letter to Flory yesterday asking him to prosecute the developer, Jacobs, Viscomi & Jacobs of Cleveland, for failing to list the company's chairman on the ads as required by state law.
Flory refused to comment further on the charges, which if filed, would be classified as a Class "C" misdemeanor that must be reached for comment yesterday.
The charges came only five days before the end of a pivotal city election that has been dominated by the mall issue. Residents will elect three city commissioners and vote on a three-question mall referendum Tuesday.
Miller wrote Flory, "The voters of Lawrence are being victimized by this apparent series of violations of a clear law. I therefore request that you investigate and prosecute these misdemeanors.
"Since the election is at hand, I urge you to investigate and file charges at once. We should not tolerate any illegal, corrupt political practices."
JVJ placed ads on local broadcasting stations and full-page ads in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World earl news paper, pro-mail vote on the mail repondent.
Neil Woerman, chief of staff to Attorney General Bob Stephan, said yesterday that Kansas statute required political ads to be identified as such and to list the name of "the chairman of the political or other organization" that bought the ad.
Woerman said the law applied both
to candidate elections and referendums. He also said such cases fell under the district attorney's jurisdiction.
The JVJ ads read: "Paid for in the public interest by Town Center Venture Corp. and Jacobs, Visconsi & Jacobs Co. (Pol. Adv.)."
Town Center Venture Corp. is a local group of investors working with the firm.
Other political ads bought by candidates and political action committees in the paper list the name of a campaign committee treasurer.
Ed Shultz, Journal-World advertising and marketing director, said. "We check all advertisements. It's our belief that no one has broken any law."
Miller, who publishes The Plumber's Friend, a monthly newsletter that has criticized the mall proposal, said. "JVJ is trying to buy an election. At least they should run a legal campaign."
Citizens should be able to contact a politician advertiser to respond. Multicultural.
"The state law is there for a purpose. The point of the law is to keep politics from being anonymous."
Miller, a frequent critic of the Journal-World, also charged that the paper refused Tuesday to let Lawrence city commission candidate Dennis Constance, a mall opponent, buy an ad to respond to JVJ's ads.
Schultz said the paper refused the ad because of a policy against publishing ads six days before an election that introduce "controversial material that is new and might require a response from the opposing side."
Constance's ad would have run in Wednesday's paper at the earliest, in violation of the six-day deadline, Schultz said.
Constance confirmed that his advertisement had been refused.
Recipes a hit at Homemakers School
Staff writer
By JOHN BUZBEE
If Lawrence resident Debby Quantance wants to fry some heart-shaped eggs this morning, she'll be ready.
And Dorothy Feist might be whipping up a mean ham and cheese omelet roll.
Homemakers School '87, sponsored by the Lawrence Daily Journal-World, featured Dallas home economist Beth Woerner cooking food, demonstrating appliances and telling homemaker jokes.
They and about 850 other people, some happy and some noticeably unenthusiastic, left the Lawrence High School auditorium last night after watching two and a half hours of cooking demonstrations. Some won appliances while others left with bags full of coupons, recipes and advertisements.
"When I used to think of dates, I only thought of males," she said. "But since I've started working in the Homemakers School, I've learned that dates can add a lot to many recipes."
She displayed all the foods at the end of the evening before giving them away.
Woerner's peanut butter pie went over pretty well with the audience. Her oriental pepper steak and omelet roll were well received. But her chocolate-filled oatmeal bars took the cake.
Her presentation also included numerous plugs for appliance and food brands. Several national companies sponsor the classes, which she and other home economists conduct all over the country. In one plug, she encouraged the audience to sing a TV single.
"Everything's better," she began as a Jour-
nicle World employee wearing a blue hat stood
next.
"With Blue Bonnet on it," the audience replied.
Guenter de Vries, who said he was a pretty good cook himself, came for the prizes.
"I think she is talking too much advertisement," said de Vries, a Lawrence resident. "The recipes seem to be incidental in the whole thing."
Lawrence resident Ric Silver came with de Vries but left with a microwave. He also learned in the lab.
Silber and de Vries were a big part of a small minority at the class. Women made up most of the audience.
Feist said, "What we need to do is get more men. Men are good cooks."
"I learned something about the appliances that I didn't come to learn."
Beth Woerner, a home economist from Dallas, demonstrates how to properly roll out yeast dough at the seventh annual Lawrence Homemakers School. Woerner shared her talents last night in the auditorium at Lawrence High School, 19th and Louisiana streets.
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
INSIDE
Tennis anyone?
The men's and women's tennis teams begin their Big Eight Conference season today against Oklahoma State at the Allen Field House courts. See story page 13.
Liquor debate
Five of the Lawrence city commission candidates support the idea that allows underage students in bars that serve 3.2 percent beer by 8 p.m. The ideas were discussed last night in a debate sponsored by the KU Student Senate. See story page 3.
Daylight-saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, when time springs forward an hour to 3 a.m., according to the National Weather Service.
Pastor fosters neighborly vision
Spring forward!
Daylight-saving time starts at 2 a.m. the first Sunday in April and continues until 2 a.m. the last Sunday in October.
By PAUL SCHRAG
Gareth Waltrip/KANSAN
Most servicemen who were nominated for "soldier of the week" in 1958 probably felt honored. But not uncle Howard. He didn't want to be a soldier ally.
Staff writer
Bremer thought war was wrong. He had registered for the draft as a conscientious objector, but his pastor and his priest were not military service would shame his family.
Luckily, Bremer, who was stationed in Augusta, Ga., was able to avoid his potential citation as an outstanding soldier.
"I got sick and couldn't go to the competition. Thank God for that," he said.
Jack Bremer, director and campus pastor of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., leads a Bible discussion group. Bremer, who traveled to Iran in 1980 to conduct an Easter service for the U.S. hostages, thinks the Bible's main message is "Love God and love your neighbor."
Bremer went directly from the army signal corps to Yale University Diversity School in 1958. Since 1979, he has been director and campus pastor of Ecumenical Christian Ministries. 1204 Oread Ave.
Bremer, a Methodist, still is opposed to war. His peace activism has led him to participate in demonstrations against nuclear weapons. He has talked with war victims in Central America and has been outspoken in his criticism of U.S. military policies.
He first traveled to Central America to show solidarity with war victims there in 1984. He visited Nicaragua and Honduras for two weeks in February, along with other ministers, to establish ties between Kansas Methodists and a Nicaraguan church.
Students describe Bremer, 52, as a caring person who is easy to talk to. Dressed in a sweatshirt, jeans and white athletic shoes as he leads a Sunday evening worship service at the ECM building, he proves that reverence doesn't require formality.
These actions are motivated by what Bremer calls the central message of the Bible: Love God and love your neighbor.
Bremer went to Iran in 1980 to conduct Easter services for the U.S. hostages.
Bremer's definition of a neighbor includes oppressed people throughout the world. One of his goals in campus ministry is to encourage students to relate their Christian beliefs to action on global concerns.
"He has a spirit of love about him," said Benson Jba,介质 graduate.
"One of the great needs of our world is to find non-violent means of social transformation," he said. "We must break the cycle of violence.
Bremer's bridge-building takes many forms. His diversity of interests and ways of ministering lead Mike Grear, Baldwin City graduate student, to describe him as a "Renaissance-type guy."
"We are all creatures of God. We need to affirm our common part in one human family. We need to find ways to build bridges of understanding."
As director of the University Forum series, Bremer applies his concerns for peace and justice to a secular setting. For the forum, a weekly lecture and discussion series is offered each week during Bremer directs a committee that selects topics of ethical and sometimes religious concern.
Hector Clark, associate professor of mechanical engineering, regularly attends the forums. He describes himself as a "card-carrying secular humanist," and says he has a lot of
See BREMER, p. 11, col. 1
Senate rejects veto, enacts highway bill
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate rejected a personal, last-minute plea from President Reagan and voted yesterday to override his veto and enact into law an $88 billion highway and mass transit bill.
The 67-33 vote, exactly the two-thirds majority necessary, capped
See related story p.11.
bill that became a high-stakes test of wills between Reagan and leaders of the Senate's Democratic majority.
Besides authorizing highway and mass transit projects that Reagan had opposed as overladen with pork, the bill permits states to boost the speed limit on rural stretches of interstate highways from the current
The bill includes $7.2 million for a proposed southern Lawrence traffic
Democrats reclaimed one vote they had lost in an initial vote Wednesday, but Republicans were unable to override it. Both voters who had voted to override the veto.
55 mph to 65 mph.
Afterward, though, winners and losers alike will try to minimize the effect [Results]
"This isn't going to make or break the president of the United States," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. "There will be other vetoes."
But arguments over the substance of the legislation were overtaken by the political fight.
Reagan issued a statement that said he was deeply disappointed by the outcome but vowed to continue against excessive federal spending.
White House spokesman Martin Fitzwater said the defeat would help Reagan by demonstrating his will to fight in his final 21 months in office.
Hours before the vote, Reagan had upped the ante in terms of his political prestige by visiting the Capitol to meet with GOP senators to back him.
Fitzwater quoted Reagan as telling the senators, "I beg you for your
See HIGHWAY, p. 6, col. 3
Detective to investigate alcohol link in fatal crash
By a Kansan reporter
The Douglas County District Attorney's office yesterday appointed a sheriff's detective to investigate the possibility that four KU students killed in an accident in North Lawrence last Friday might have been sold alcohol illegally.
"The coroner's report indicated that there was alcohol in the blood," said Jim Flory, the district attorney. "Based on that, I asked the sheriff to determine whether there was illegal action involved as a result of the sale of alcohol to minors.
"What the investigation is looking for are facts on which we could base
The students, Jennifer Jones, 19. St Louis freshman; Daniel McDevitt, 19. Salina sophomore; Joel Granham, 20. Overland Park sophomore;
and Betys Dunlap, 21. Salina junior,
were on the way to a barn party when
their car was struck by a Union
Pacific train at a railroad crossing on
Douglas County Road 1900N, about
a mile north of Lawrence.
Mike Suitt, the appointed detective, said he spent his first day on the assignment being briefed on the case. He could imagine could take several days, he said.
Earlier this week, blood-alcohol tests conducted by Alan Sanders, the Douglas County coroner, revealed that all four students had been drinking, although they were not legally drunk as defined by state law.
A second blood-alcohol report prepared by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation was released yesterday to Sanders.
Sanders would not make public the findings of that report.