Born to be mild
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday
February 12, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 94
(USP5 650-640)
Marijuana tax may help prosecute drug dealers
By JOHN BUZBEE
Staff writer
TOPEKA - If the marijuana tax passed by the Kansas House yesterday withstands court challenges, it will help bring drug dealers to justice, while at the same time make the state a few bucks, legislators say.
New books, legislators say "We do not expect to collect a lot of revenue," said State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence. "It's real purpose is to help prosecute people who sell controlled substances.
"I think everybody will be delighted to vote for it."
The bill would require marjiuja dealers to purchase tax stamps from the state director of taxation. If large quantities of marjiuja were found, presumably on a dealer, its owner could be charged with tax evasion in addition to normal charges.
The sale and possession of marijuana is illegal in Kansas.
Carol Bonebrake, state taxation director, had said her office couldn't turn in anyone for buying tax stamps because the records were confidential. This could create a contradiction in the bill.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said, "There are conflicting purposes because you've got to provide security for confidentiality."
Charlton said the bill had been carefully drafted as a civil tax law and not as a criminal law to specifically stop drug trafficking.
But State Rep. Bill Roy Jr., D-Topeka, said the bill's primary intent was to tax the underground economy. He expects a court sent over the proposal.
"I think it's been crafted with careful
consideration to overcome these constitutional challenges," he said.
Sobach said, "If the purpose of the bill is to get at this illegitimate income and tax it, then I think the concept is constitutional.
"But if the only purpose is to assist in criminal prosecutions, I think you'd run into constitutional problems."
Solbach, Charlton and State Rep. Jessie Branson. D-Lawrence, all voted for the bill, which passed in the House 120-2.
Sobach said a civil offense such as tax evasion was easier to prove than a criminal drug charge.
"I want very much to provide a way to get at drug trafficking in the state," Branson said.
Roy had submitted a marijuana tax on very similar to the one by State Reps. Robert H. Miller, R-Wellington, and Edward Rolfs.
R Junction City, that had emerged from committee.
Both bills were based on a Minnesota marijuana tax that took effect in August. Miller said when he introduced the bill, Minnesota had sold about 100 tax stamps.
Roy proposed an amendment to the bill Tuesday that would have returned *bob* of the money it generated to local governments. The amendment narrowly was defeated
The amendment would have helped local governments pay the cost of prosecuting the drug charges. Roy said.
State Sen. Nancy Parrish, D-Topeka, said the amendment might have encouraged local prosecutors.
"Counties might not be inclined to prosecute if they wouldn't benefit," she said.
Parrish is a member of the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee. The committee's chairman, State Sen. Fred Kerr, R-Pratt, said the committee would discuss the bill in about three weeks.
Kerr said that because of the bill's overwhelming support in the House, he hoped it would pass the Senate in some form.
The bill will probably be the only tax that legislators will want to support. Charlson said.
Sobach said that while Kansas has never had a tax on illegal substances, prostitution was taxed in some cattle towns during Kansas' wild West daws.
Prostitution was illegal, he said. But local sheriffs would wink at the law and tax prostitutes every six months.
As Kansas settled down, prostitution laws were enforced more strictly, and the tax died out, he said.
Windjammer
Jude Pate, Lawrence junior, pedals his way to class. Pate rode to class yesterday afternoon under clear skies.
Iran retaliates against air raids by firing missile at Iraqi capital
United Press International
ATHENS, Greece — Iran said it fired a surface-to-surface missile at Baghdad yesterday in retaliation to Iraqi air raids on 18 cities that killed and wounded scores of civilians on the eight anniversary of the Iranian revolution.
Iran also said commando units of its elite Revolutionary Guards attacked Iraqi forces in the northern Kurdish areas, killing or wounding many soldiers. A military spokesman in Baghdad denied the attack occurred.
The missile hit a residential area of the Iraqi capital at 9:45 p.m., killing and wounding several people and destroying houses, Iraq's state-owned news agency INA said. This was the 10th missile Iran had launched against Baghdad this year.
Teheran radio said Iranian commanders assisted by anti-government Iraqi Kurdish guerrillas attacked a garrison at Diana and a radar station
near Arbil, deep inside Iraq.
In a dispatch monitored in Athens, the state-owned Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said that 18 Iranian cities were raided yesterday. In eleven of those cities, thousands of people were participating in marches to celebrate the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution that brought the Ayatolla Ruhholl Khomeini to power.
Scores of civilians were killed or wounded, IRNA said.
Iran vowed to retaliate for the strikes on the cities, which have come under frequent attack since the two countries went to war in September 1980.
"Iran's Islamic combatants will target Baghdad in the coming hours," a spokesman for the war information headquarters in Teheran said.
IRNA said thousands of people were outside at the time of the attacks during official street demonstrations called to celebrate the Iranian revolution's anniversary.
The agency said Iraqi jets also buzzed at least five other Iranian cities, breaking the sound barrier in the skies over Teheran, the capital, and Malayer, Arak, Hamdan and Ilam.
Some Teheran residents said they heard three explosions, apparently sonic booms, then saw anti-aircraft fire and surface-to-air missiles fired into the air about 10:30 a.m.
Teheran radio said at the time that thousands of people were participating in the anniversary march.
Iraq has taken advantage of its superior air power to carry out repeated raids on Iranian cities since Jan 9, when Iran launched an offensive east of Basra, Iraq's second largest city.
Some 3,000 people are believed to have been killed in the Iraqi air raids and missile and artillery attacks on Iranian cities in the last month. Iran has retaliated by attacking Iraqi cities.
Members of the University Dance Company devote a lot of time and energy to perfecting their art with rehearsals, daily dance classes and shows. See story page 7.
The Kansas Jayhawks blew a 14-point first-half lead and lost to Missouri 63-60 when Lee Coward hit a three-point shot with 3 seconds last night in Columbia. See story page 13.
Tigers take win
Dance devotion
House given tips for lawful betting
He was a guiding force for the Missouri Legislature when it was developing legislation to introduce horse racing, said former Missouri State Sen. Phil Snowden, a member of the Missouri racing commission.
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
The House State and Federal Affairs Committee asked Clarence Kelly to address its concerns about the potential for crime and the Mafia at the state's horse and dog racetracks.
A KU graduate gave advice yesterday to a House committee on how to keep men like Al Capone out of Kansas' pari-mutuel betting.
Kelly graduated from the University of Kansas in 1936 and was director of the FBI from 1973 to 1978.
"We were a relatively naive group of people when it came to crime and pari-mutuel betting," said Snowden, who also spoke to the committee. "Clarence helped us to avoid a lot of problems."
Staff writer
Kelly suggested that the eventual Kansas racing commission include someone with a strong law enforcement background and that the commission be given broad powers with little legislative interference.
"The commission needs a strong
The entire pari-mutuel industry has a reputation of crime and corruption, and a strong and credible racing team is important to avoid that, Kelly said.
Kelly said he was pleased so far with Kansas' handling of the issue of pari-mutuel betting but said to take the process slow and not do anything radical.
law enforcer, but he or she must have the power to take action when needed," Kelly said.
The state not only needs to run a legitimate racing industry for legal and moral reasons but also for economic ones, he said.
"It can be very cruelly attacked if there is even something whispered about corruption." he said.
"Be deliberate," Kelly said.
"Don't jump into something."
"Illegal betting can put ractracks out of business because of the money they run off from the legal betting," Kelly said.
Snowden said it was important to keep the state taxes on pari-mutuel betting low because ractracks were generally not very profitable.
"The state will generate its real revenues from the businesses that
See CRIME, p. 6, col. 3
By JENNIFER WYRICK
Med Center fair highlights burn prevention, recovery
Staff writer
Four years ago, Lee Barewin nearly lost his life in an explosion. But he survived, with second- and third-degree burns over 65 percent of his body.
When he left the hospital after treatment of his burns, Lee Barewin was unable to make a fist or lift his arms.
After a great deal of therapy and patience, Claudia Barewin, Lee's wife, said her husband had recovered from the life-threatening experience.
Lee Barewin is the newly elected president of Mid-Continent Burn Foundation, a support group for recovered burn patients. Claudia Burn has been an active member of the group since her husband's accident.
This week is the University of Kansas Medical Center's second annual Burn Awareness Week.
A fair was held in the hospital lobby yesterday to focus attention on the Gene and Barbara Burnette Burn Center and burn prevention and burn crym from such accidents as the case that the Barews experienced.
Mid-Continent Burn Foundation members also were on hand to discuss burn recovery.
Rosie Thompson, a registered nurse who works in the Burn Center, said the fair's main focus was burn prevention.
Seventy-five percent of burns could be prevented, she said.
“It’s frustrating because so many burns result from ignorance or carelessness,” she said.
Thompson offered safety suggestions for "burnproof" homes that
she said were beneficial to everyone but were especially important for 18 to 25-year-olds, who have particular burn risks. These suggestions included:
Never fall asleep with a lighted cigarette nearby.
- Install smoke detectors and check them regularly to be sure they are working properly. Thompson said fire departments were glad to demonstrate where smoke detectors should be installed in houses.
- Devise a plan to get out of the house if it is on fire, and enact the plan with anyone else living in the house.
- Make sure that windows are not painted shut and that exits are clear.
Also, make sure that a heavy object is near any window that may need to be broken and used as a fire exit.
- Never smoke at a gas station.
- Never store gasoline in the house or use it for anything but to add to an engine, and make sure that an engine is not hot when attempting to add gas to it.
Burn victims suffer a great deal and find their re-entry into society emotionally devastating. Thompson said, but the purpose of the fair was to dispel many myths people had about burns.
"We've become a lot more aggressive in burn treatment," she said.
Thompson said new technology in burn treatment included performing earlier skin grafts, a technique in which burned skin is replaced with live skin from another part of the
victim's body or from a cadaver.
To offer protection and help reduce the formation of scar tissue. Thompson said burn victims now undergo pressure-gradient therapy that exposes victims to wear special elastic garments on their burned areas.
Claudia Barewin said the elasticized gloves, jackets, pants or other garments worn by the burn victim were a kind of second skin. The garments provide protection from infection and compress scar tissue so that it grows only where it is needed.
Claudia Barewin said, "This process is a lot of work and can become very frustrating."
Even with this advancement, Thompson said, some burn victims had to wear the garments up to two years. The process of dressing the victim in the garments may take an aide or loved one four or five hours to complete, she said.
Thompson said scarring still might cause deformities, and facial deformities could make it hard for a burn victim even to see or to chew food.
Many victims undergo plastic surgery to correct problems that burns behind, but Thompson said many victims had to undergo reconstructive surgery before even considering further improvements.
"Many times the standard way of treating victims still holds true, like making sure that victims wounds are clean, etc." Thompson said. "But there still are a lot of things that we just can't do."
Claudia Barewin said, "A burn affects the body in every way. Most burn victims carry with them some disfiguration or discoloration from the burn for the rest of their lives."
Try a trance to break bad habits hypnotherapist tells audience
By JENNIFER FORKER
Staff writer
This is not a hypnotic ploy. You are not falling fast asleep. Gently, gently... your arms are getting heavy, your mind is blank. You calm your sensation. You are calm OK. You wake up. There. How do you feel?
Hypotherapist Lonnie Moore of Flippin, Ark, gave the two-hour clinic for people who wanted to lose weight It included a 45-minute therapeutic process and a 20-minute closed session for the participants.
He gave a second session later for people wanting to stop smoking.
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"The mind is the stongest thing in the world. You can't make anybody do anything they don't want to do." Moore said.
HYMPANABR Hypnotherapist Lonie Moore reassures Julie Patterson, L昂娜 resident, by breaking her fall during a test of trust. Moore held hypnosis clinics intended to help people lose weight and stop smoking last night at the Masters Inn, 2222 W. Sixth St.
Moore, who has been a hypnotherapist for 15 years, said anyone could be hypnotized except children less than 3 years old and people with mental problems.
But he said people had to want to be hypnotized for it to work, because changing a person's eating habits was not an easy process.
"You're making a permanent pattern change," he said. "But it's the easiest way because it's natural."
Ann Kohl, Watkins Hospital ovetian, said she was not a big believer in hypnotizing people to help them lose weight.
"I think it's a real short-term type of approach that works as a crutch. They tend to revert back
into old eating patterns back down the road," she said.
Kohl said the technique might work for some individuals but was not a permanent way to end a
See HYPNOTIZE, p. 6, col. 3