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Monday, June 27, 1977
University Daily Kansan
43 die in prison fire as jailers seek keys
COLUMBIA, Penn. (UFI) - A fire that started in a packed cell sent clouds of black smoke gnashed through the Maury County jail during visit hours yesterday killing
Deputies rushing to the cellblock to free the screening prisoners collided with fleeing visitors and lost the keys which would have freed the prisoners. Smoke pumped through the jail by the ventilating victims within four minutes, deputies said.
Bill Walter, administrator of the Maury County hospital, said 70 persons had been rushed to the hospital for treatment and 43 of them, including five women, were pronounced dead from smoke inhalation. Eight of the injured were taken to hospitals in Nashville, 55 miles away, by helicopter and ambulance.
Sheriff Bill Voss said one of the victims was a visitor. It was not known whether he survived. There were 64 prisoners in the jail, and all were killed or injured.
Among those taken to Nashville was Andy Zummer, a 16-year-old fugitive from a rehabilitation center in Dousman, Wis., in whose cell the fire apparently started. Officials at Vanderbilt Hospital said Zummer suffered smoke inhalation and
superficial burns over 25 per cent of his body.
Deputy William Duke said the fire "started back there in this cell and apparently went into the ventilation system. It just filled the building with smoke."
Duke said the jailer Jerry Dickey grabbed the keys to the cellblock and called the workhouse when they heard screams. As he ran to the door to the visiting area, he knocked on the door and the jailer's station, the door flew open and visitors came running out.
"Everybody panicked," Duke said. "They just knocked the key out of his hand.
"The smoke was so thick we couldn't find them. The smokie just got us and we couldn't see anything."
It took 12 minutes to find them, he said, and by that time firemen had begun breaking through the outside wall of the cellblock. But Duke estimated the fatalities took place within four minutes of the fire's outbreak.
When the two-inch-thick, padding on Zimmer's 6-by-10-foot cell装 "like wildfire," Duke said, the ventilation system pumping the black smoke everywhere.
Walter said the bodies were covered with black soot, and showed no signs of burns.
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KU's utility rates will skyrocket
The University of Kansas used about the same amount of water in June as it did in May, but the combined water and sewage bill this month will be about 70 per cent higher because of the rate increases that go into effect for Lawrence water customers
Richard Perkins, building and grounds maintenance engineer, said recently the University had used about 15.5 million gallons of water in each of the two months, but would pay $14.384 for June compared to just $10.355. This is a 71 per cent increase in the bill.
Perkins said water rates would increase from 25 cents to 40 cents for each 1,000 gallons of water used. Sewage rates will remain the same. Perkins said from 25 cents to 48 cents for 1,000 gallons.
STUDENTS AND FACULTY who pay their own water bills will also begin paying at the higher rates but won't experience as dramatic an increase.
Ross Wilson, supervisor of collection in the city utilities department, said the average user's bill was $11.85 and would increase to $14.46, a 24 per cent increase under the new rates. Minimal use is imminent from $8.62 to $7.87, a 16.3 per cent increase.
"The larger the amount used," Wilson said, "the greater the percentage in-
KU, he said, is one of the largest users in Lawrence.
The increases are intended mainly to keep pace with inflation and will help finance the construction of the Clinton Plant if voters approve it on July. 19.
"I would assume," he said, "the money will be put in reserve."
MIKE WILDGEN, assistant city manager, said that even if the plant isn't approved in the election, the projected rate increases would go still into effect.
Martin Jones, associate vice chancellor for business affairs, said that KU's bill for sewage was $75,000 and $20,000 for sewage. KU has requested $75,000 for water $65,000 for sewage for fiscal year 1787. Requests for fiscal year 1790 were $77,300 for water and $71,000 for sewage.
If these requests aren't sufficient, Jones said, the University can make a supplemental request to the Kansas Legislature through the Board of Regents for additional funds from the state's general revenue fund.
"Our problem is that we've submitted budget requests for 1979," he said, "and we don't even know what the rates will be in 1978."
PROJECTIONS IN A RATE study by Black and Veatch, consulting engineers from Kansas City, Mo., upon which the present rate increases are based, show that increase in the percentage of 1978 and 1979 than the approximate 20 per cent increase effective this year. Increases
Canadians jail Huey Newton, refuse bail to Panther leader
TORONTO (UPI)—American Black Panther leader Huey Newton, who arrived in Canada on a mission based purpose of conferring with lawyers, was refused bail yesterday by Canadian immigration authorities who continued to hold him in a small jail outside Toronto.
An immigration official was quoted as saying that Newton, who is scheduled for an immigration hearing Wednesday, was not on the plane and once jumped $40,000 bill in California.
However, Newton's American lawyer,
Fred Hiestand, attacked the refusal as a political decision and commented bitterly, "You taught you were more enlightened here."
Copeland, said the delay was needed to secure permission from California con-
THE SPECIAL INQUIRY to determine whether Newton will be allowed to remain in Canada for 10 days to consult attorneys before returning to California to face further and other charges was put over until Wednesday at the request of Newton's lawyers.
Newton's Toronto attorney, Paul
An immigration spokesman said Saturday that Newton was being detained under a portion of the Immigration Act that bars from Canada persons previously convicted of moral turpitude offenses. The charges cited include one of assault with a deadly weapon stemming from the early 1980s of one assaulting a police officer in 1964.
HEISTAND, WHO ACCOMPANIED Newton and his wife, Gwen, on Saturday's Air Canada flight from Cuba, said the first conviction was overturned in 1967 because Newton had not had legal counsel at his trial. On the second charge, Hirstad said, he would have been arrested when he took on a charge for someone else who was facing more serious charges."
Copeland said the bail application was rejected by immigration department special inquiry officer Harold. Taylor three years ago while on $40,000 bond.
Abortion . . .
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no obligation on the states to pay for the pregnancy-related expenses of indigent women, or, indeed to pay any of medical expenses of indigents."
Dissenting were Justices Harry A. Blackman, Thurgood Marshall and William J. Carroll.
Joining Powell were Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Justices William H. Rehqunit, John Paul Stevens, Potter Stewart and Byron R. White.
BLACKMUN, WHO WROTE the landmark 1737 decision which banned government interference in a woman's decision to have an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy, called last week's decision "puntive and tractic."
"This is a sad day for those who regard the Constitution as a force that will serve justice to all evenhandedly, and in so doing, to the lot of the poorest among us," he said.
Lorna Grunz, KU assistant dean of
worries on state funding of education
differences would penalize
"I don't know how it is justifiable that childbearing is supported and legal abolition is supported."
If a child is unwanted, she said, the state may end up supporting it in one way or another.
"A woman who has monee has no troubles." Grunz said. "A woman who has a job."
"THE BEST USE of public funds would be to support a woman's choice," she said. Grunz said the dean of women's office makes available names of hospitals, costs, types of abortions performed and emotional women seeking abortion information.
The KU Information Center refers calls concerning abortions to the Human Sexuality Network, a group of persons who know the options available.
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The last census report shows more than 6,000 people in Douglas County over age 60 McCoy said most of the elderly lived in North, East, Pinckney and the Old West Lawrence neighborhoods. Approximately 800 are in five nursing homes in Lawrence.
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However old West Lawrence residents continue to voice their objections. They maintain the scale of the building would be unaffected, and predominately residential neighborhood.
An environmental impact study ordered
the city will not be started until Kitchen
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On the subject of Kitchen's proposal, she said, "I feel sure it is needed. I can't imagine that the new development wouldn't tell up."
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The HUD agency in Topeka, which won't receive Kitchen's proposal until this week, announced two weeks ago the $1.6 million funding backing 430 single apartments in Kansas;
Kitchen has maintained that the location south of Central Park would be ideal for the new facility.
About six cities besides Lawrence are eligible to apply for the funds $1.5 million.
Murder, suicide suspected in Kansas family killings
in these years are expected to be about 27 per cent and 21 per cent respectively.
A 22-caliber rifle believed to have been used in the shootings was recovered in the kitchen of the Cardwells' two-story frame house.
The bodies were found by one of Cardwell's stepdaughters and her boyfriend about two hours after the alleged shooting incident occurred.
Also killed were Amy Scrien, a 17-year-old stepdaughter, and 16-month-old James S. Crawford Jr., son of another stepdaughter.
Rodger Oroke, director of facilities operation for buildings and grounds, said University officials had no plans to offset the additional costs.
The bodies of his wife, Betty, 44, and two other family members were found about 7:30 p.m. in their home in this small central community, about eight miles south of Salina.
Each of the victims was shot in the head, Sheriff Al Naes said.
Cardwell and his wife were found in the kitchen. The baby was shot in his crib in an upstairs bedroom, and Scriven's body was another bedroom across the hall, Naaes said.
Pat Cardwell, 38, identified by the sheriff office as a key figure in the case of an apparent triple murder and suicide, died early yesterday. A Wichita hospital reported the cause of his death to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
"We're following through and making recommendations to the administration to send out general notices to departments to bring the increasing rates to their attention," Orcke said. "We'll let them take care of their security needy to cut costs within their departments."
ASSARIA, Kan. (AP)—Four members of a Saline County family are dead in the wake of a Saturday evening shooting spree, and although authorities quoted neighbors as saying they were the family trouble for some time, the exact motive for the violent outburst is not known.
OROKE SAID THAT watering of the campus grounds depended on the weather.
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"We have a tremendous investment in landscaping here," he said. "It's tradition."
Perkins said because of the recent rains, the cost of watering the ground is not an immediate concern for him. He also insisted that the University would certainly notice the rate increases.
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