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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY. DECEMBER 4, 2006
quote of the day
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
writer Elbert Hubbard
fact of the day
The first portable, fully automatic machine gun and the common mousetrap were invented by the same man, American Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).
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Baiyli Boy, 11, top, throws a snowball down as her younger sister Blake Boy. 10, slides down a mound of shoveled snow in a mall parking lot Friday, Dec. 1, 2006, in Wichita, Kan. Thursday's snow and ice were starting to clear up and melt due to warmer temperatures.
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ODD NEWS Teen charged for nude drive-through prank
COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. — A teen accused of ordering from at least three fast food drive-throughs nude faces an indecent exposure charge.
Winter wonderland
David Gatton, 18, of Columbia City, was found in the parking lot of a McDonald's by a sheriff's deputy after police received a call that the teen had been nude when he ordered from his car at the Arby's drive-through, police said.
"Maybe it was a way to enjoy the last of the warm weather," joked Capt. Brian Anspach of the Columbia City Police Department.
Sgt. Mike Engle of the Whitley County Sheriff's Department passed the car Tuesday night in Columbia City, 20 miles west of Fort Wayne. Engle said he turned around to stop the car and saw that Gatton had driven into the McDonald's lot.
When Engle got to the car, Gatton was putting his clothes back on. Police said Gatton had a clothed male passenger in the car and the pair had been making the stops as part of a joke. Gatton faces a misdemeanor charge.
No telephone listing was available for Gatton in Columbia City.
Electric company demands payment, cuts city power
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Most businesses and local government offices in this Caribbean capital were left in the dark after the power company shut down part of the service because the city has not paid its bill, officials said.
The cash-strapped City Council owes at least $1 million to the Guyana Power and Light Company which is demanding immediate payment.
The lights were not turned back on late Friday.
Local Government Minister Khellawwan Lall sent a mediator to help GPL and the Georgetown City Council reach a compromise. The city has not been able to generate enough from taxes to pay the company.
"Incompetence on the part of some senior officials was partially responsible for our inability to honor a previous agreement with GPL, thus plunging us into this crisis, and our city into near total darkness," Mayor Hamilton Green said in a statement.
Meanwhile, a few dozen people who work for the City Council protested in front of City Hall to demand their November pay.
Inmates give chase in failed escape attempt
LAUREL Miss. — Jones County authorities are crediting two inmates with thwarting the escape attempt of a third.
Sheriff Larry Dykes said a trusty at the jail, Danny Lamar Odom, 47, bolted Thursday from a work crew toward a field behind the jail.
Dykes said Odom had been working in the kitchen and was helping unload food boxes from a
delivery truck when the attempted escape occurred.
Dykes said two younger trusties, Reginald Ducksworth and Jacob Lambert, also were helping unload the truck. They chased down Odom and brought him back to the jail.
"I've never heard of anything like this before and probably never will again." Dykes said.
"I turned to the duty officer and asked him if we should go after him and he said, "Go get him," Lambert said.
Ducksworth and Lambert normally wash cars for police, Highway Patrol and sherrif's department patrol units. Dykes said. As trusties, they do chores in and around the jail in south Mississippi.
Odom ran about 150 yards before Ducksworth and Lambert
Lambert told the Laurel Leader-Call that Odom "just took off and started running."
Odom was serving time for possession of a firearm by an ex-felon, Dykes said felony fleeing is being added to his list of offenses, and the newest charge likely would add about five more years to his sentence.
caught him just inside the field.
"He's tried to escape before, years ago when he was being held here," Dykes said. "I guess he's got older than he thought he was."
News agency misspells Chinese president's name
BEIJING — Red-faced editors from the official Xinhua News Agency have been given warnings for accidentally sending out a story with a wrong character for part of Chinese President Hu Jintao's name.
The mistake in the headline of a Xinhua News Agency report from New Delhi gave the Chinese president's name as Hu Jinzhu instead of Hu Jintao, an official at the agency said Wednesday. The "zhu" and "tao" characters are similar.
"At 3 a.m. on Nov. 22 the editors made a technical mistake by wrongly inputting the character "zhu" instead of "tao" of the name of Hu Jintao into the headline," said a woman in the Foreign Affairs Bureau of Xinhua who gave her surname as Wang.
She did not say how many editors were involved.
"Tao" can be translated as large wave, while "zhu" means cast, as in to cast metal.
She said the mistake was discovered and a correction "was sent 20 minutes later, adding 'the responsible editors were given a warning for their mistakes.'"
Hu was in India on an official visit when the report with the wrong character was sent.
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on the record
Lawrence police arrested a 20-year-old KU student Dec. 1 on charges of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol and for unlawful use of a driver's license. The student was released the same day on $600 bond.
A University employee reported an auto burglary and the theft of a parking permit from a vehicle parked near the 2500 block of Iowa street. The incident occurred Nov. 28 and the total loss is $5.
A 21 year-old KU student reported criminal damage to a vehicle parked near the 4100 block of West 24th Place. Someone slashed the driver's side front tire. The incident occurred between Nov. 21 and Nov. 22 and damage is estimated at $80
A 28-year-old KU student reported criminal damage to a Chevrolet Lumina parked near the 2400 block of Redbud Lane. Someone broke a passenger's side window and snapped off a passenger door handle. The incident occurred Nov. 27 and damage is estimated at $250.
on campus
The University Band will perform Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center.
The University Theatre company will present "Hay Fever" by Noel Coward on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre.
The Student Chamber Ensemble Vocal & Instrumental Collegium Musicum will perform on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Bales Organ Recital Hall.
correction
An article in Friday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. Mike Dever's name was incorrectly spelled as Mike Denver.
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