Thursday, March 24, 1977
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Kansas beach
Though the fire escape at Stephens Hall is not like the Florida or Bahamas tents, it does allow for Kureka, Calif., freshman, sups on the rays while Jim Ruxling, Lexington, Ma., applauded.
Man sentenced for thefts
Michael Hicam, 18, was sentenced yesterday in Douglas County District Court to 2 three-year prison terms in the state for two robberies with two robberies of a Lawrence store.
Frank Gray, 1st District Court judge,
sentenced Hickam to serve the two terms
for aggravated burglary and felonious theft
in connection with the Jan. 21 and Jan. 28
burglaries of Gibson's Discount Center, 2525
Iowa St.
Gray recommended that Hickam be evaluated at the Kansas Reception and Diagnostic Center in Topeka before beginning his sentence.
Both Hickam and Peter Helyar, 18, were arrested on the night of the Jan. 28 burglary at the Holiday Inn, 2309 St., after police had tracked footprints in the snow and found two people in room. They were charged with burglary at $1,000 of merchandise from Gibson's.
Both had been charged with a similar burglary in which $1,100 worth of merchandise had been taken from Gibson's a week before. In both instances, police said, the two men hid in the store until after it had closed for the night.
TOPEKA (AP)—Secretary of Corrections Robert Raines and Lt. Gov. Shelly Smith went before the House Yesterday and Means Committee yesterday in support of Gov. Robert Bennett's recommendation to start on a new medium security prison.
Helyar will be sentenced in District Court tomorrow.
But their position was challenged by Rep. Pred Weaver, D-Baxter Springs, chairman of the National Board of Forestry.
WEAVER SAID it would be difficult following yesterday's hearing to predict how the committee would vote. But he said there are still unanswered questions.
Prison recommendation supported, challenged
Weaver, said the committee would make a decision today or tomorrow on a bill to provide the planning funds Bennett has funded for the proposed 400-lab institution.
"Every component of the criminal justice system, and these are the professionals that work on a daily basis with offenders in the criminal justice system, have all recommended that we should have a new medium security prison." - Sean Hall.
Raines told the committee:
BUT FORREST SWALL, professor of Social Welfare at KU who serves as chairman of the coordinating committee of Kansas Citizens for justice, declared that a new medium security prison had gone virtually unquestioned or unexamined.
"I believe that the need for a new medium security facility is urgent and cries for action," she said.
He charged that the Department of Corrections had made no effort to suggest alternatives, that the idea that more people were allowed to participate in combat crime was being accepted without question, and that plans for the proposed institution had never taken into account the fact that many of those who committed
SWALL SAID HE believed that community alternatives should be examined before any plans are approved and money appropriated to build more prisons.
He urged the legislature to deny the planning funds this session and assign a study in the interim between the 1977 and 1978 legislative sessions, on community alternatives and the need for the new prison.
Inflated costs of right-of-way acquisition account for most of the increase, according to state engineers in the Kansas Department of Transportation. They estimated that the cost would increase from the $5.9 million budgeted to $6.7 million.
Clinton . . .
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SANDERSON SAID THAT right-of-way lines for the four-lane highway, with bicycle and pedestrian routes on each side, may be modified in an additional land with more soil and less rock.
Bridges and main roads around Clinton are 90 per cent completed, and three bridges west of the lake, near Richland, are 70 per cent completed, Jordan said. The increased road will be finished as soon as the weather is warm enough to lay asphalt, he said.
Buch Vannaman, corps engineer, said the lake area was now open to citizens, but construction sites were of limits. Jeeps and trucks would have to surf on the dam and grassy areas, he said.
"WE DON'T MIND them coming out here if they'd salt halfway civilized," he said.
Planning for Clinton Parkway, which will extend 4.1 miles from 23rd and Iowa streets to the lake, is on schedule. State officials have estimated the parkway might cost $800,000 to $1 million more than the amount engineered by Dean Sanderson, county engineer, said.
Federal money made available for the project was based on the $5.9 million figure, so the city and county may have to come up with the extra money. Sanderson said.
"We're hoping prices will come down or there will be additional federal money to help."
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Sanderson said that reaching the target date of September 1978 for accepting construction bids was part of the federal order that bids might be taken months earlier.
But he said it won't be possible to touch
the problem until the problem of overheating
is solved.
RAINES UNDERWENT sharp-questioning by committee members. He conceded that even if this legislature provides planning funds, it still probably would be 1981 before any new space would be available to house inmates.
Raines contended it wouldn't be possible to make major renovations in existing institutions until new space was available for housing inmates.
"THE ARGUMENT of community corrections versus the new medium security prison is not an argument at all." Raines said, "Community corrections is a good program and need, but a medium program also is needed in the state of Kansas."
Raines told the committee there are already 3,200 individuals participating in community correction. He said he was referring to persons on probation, parole, work release and minimum custody on a pre-release basis.
Smith said the crime problem must be
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