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Wednesday, January 20, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
On Campus
a. aretrees' club coffee will be at 10 a.m. today at the Adam Lounge in the Adams Alumni Center. Music will begin at 11 a.m.
A University forum featuring Tom Eblen, general manager and
news adviser to the Kansan, will begin at 11:40 a.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. His topic is "Ad Astra per Aspera, The Student newspaper as Paradox."
Local Briefs
PARTY CHAIRMAN RESIGNS: Dean Lebesky, chairman of the Douglas County Democratic Central Committee since 1968, has announced that he will resign from that position effective next week.
Lebesty, co-owner of The Jay Shoppe, 835 Massachusetts St., said yesterday that he was resigning for personal and business reasons. He said the central committee would meet Tuesday to choose a new chairman.
Garth Burns, who has been involved with the committee for 18 years, said he plans to run for the office. Lebestky said no other people
had yet expressed interest in the job.
Lebestey said that the position had been rewarding but that it had also taken a great deal of time.
"I'll still be involved in the party."
Lebestky said. "I just don't have time to devote to the chairmanship."
Burns, manager of engineering computer resources at Bendix/King in Olathe, has served as the committee's treasurer in the past. He also worked in voter registration drives and in State Rep. Jessie Branson's 1980 and 1982 campaigns.
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Burns said his committee experience would help him be an effective chairman.
Foggy day
Tom Robert, Overland Park senior, adjusted his wool hat yesterday morning while walking beside Fraser Hall.
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Tornadoes, snowstorms rip the nation
The Associated Press
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So far, 24 deaths have been blamed on bad weather this week, and the snowstorm caused an estimated $65 million in damage to Southern California and Mexico.
A snowstorm whipping drives up to 10 feet high stranded hundreds of motorists as it roared across the Midwest yesterday, while tornadoes and rain pounded parts of the South and killed at least five people.
Blinding snow whipped up by gusty winds stopped travel and closed schools in western Kansas, while
Winds gusting up to 52 mph piled snow into three-foot drifts on Cheyenne County roads, and ranchers could not get to cattle to feed them. The heaviest snow was in Wallace, Sherman and Thomas counties, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.
dense fog blanketed parts of south east and south-central Kansas.
Blowing snow cut visibility to near zero. Interstate 70 was closed to westbound traffic from Colby to the Colorado state line and to eastbound traffic from Goodland to Colby, the patrol said.
"Most of the doors of the truck stop are drifted up. It's a pretty good one." said trucker Roger Ealum of LaSalle, Colo., who was snowbound at Limon, Colo.
Tornadoes and thunderstorm winds swept over the lower Mississippi Valley on Tuesday. Officials said at least two people were killed and 20 iomes badly damaged or destroyed when a tornado hit north of Moscow, Tem.
Another tornado struck near Allen. Officials said one person was killed and five injured and three houses
were destroyed and nine to 12 others damaged.
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