Thursday, January 27, 1977
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Plot revealed in Bolles murder
PHOENIX, Arizi. (ATU)—Confessured killer John Adamson yesterday daily in court a $50,000 murder-for-hire plot to kill newsman Don Bolles and two others, allegedly ordered by millionaire liquor dealer and land owner Kemper Marley Sr.
Adamson, who has admitted he put a bomb under Bolles' car last June 2 after hiring him to a hotel with a phony印押, testified he was hired by Phoenix contractor Max Dunlap to murder Bolles, state attorney general Paul Broubitt, and a third man, *Al King Akono* Liamez. He said Dunlap told him Mawley wanted the three killed.
According to Adamson's testimony, Marley, who hadn't been charged in the case, was one of the few people who
investigative reporter slain because Bolles had given him a "hard time" over an appointment to the state racing commission. Bolles wrote a series of articles about the accident that Harley subsequently resigned the post two weeks after his appointment was confirmed.
He said he beent to San Diego and bought a radio-controlled device to detonate a bomb, had several conversations with Dumlap and Robison about it, and told Robison to be at the bomb site on Thursday. June 2 to set the bomb off. He indicated Robison helped construct the bomb.
Bollen also revealed in his articles that Mr. Casteiro's major contribution to Gov. Bali Castro's administration is the
Dunlap and James Robison, a plumber, were arrested Jan. 15 after Adamson pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and assault to them in return for a reduced sentence.
At their preliminary hearing Wednesday,
Adamson testified that D Dunlap gave him
$2,000 in expense money to set up the
killings, for which he was to receive a total of $50,000.
After placing the bomb and seeing Robison preparing a transmitting device to set it off, Adamson said he told Robison, "I'll have an alibi," and went to a nearby bar to call Bolles and cancel their appointment.
Adamson testified that Robison called him at the bar and said "Tell Mr. Smith to go to the bank." Adamson he thought he called "The Mr. Smith" was Marley. He said he
siked Robber. “Is it all over?” and
robison rebeled “inevile to evulver.”
Adamson he had set up an initial meeting with Bolles by telling him he had information about land fraud "because I wanted to see what kind of car he was driving." He said he would set up the second meeting deliberately to "place a bomb to kill Don Bolles."
The preliminary hearing recessed until this morning, with Adamson still on the table.
Califano to study welfare system
WASHINGTON (AP)—The new secretary of Health, Education and Welfare announced plans yesterday for a major study of the U.S. welfare system to produce recommendations on how President Jimmy Carter should carry out his campaign pledge to overhaul aid programs for the poor.
HEW Secretary Joseph Califano Jr, said the recommendations would go to Carter bv Meyer.
"This will be an administration vigorous involved in the enforcement of civil
The secretary, who was sworn in on Tuesday, also announced he planned to restructure HEW's powerful Office for Civil Rights, where he said there was "too much data collection and too little enforcement.
Califano, in his first news conference as head of the government's largest department, said he would take responsibility for ensuring that what specific reforms would be proposed.
rights for minorities, women and the handicapped."
The welfare-study group will study the issue "from scratch," Califano said, and will not be bound to working within the present framework of overlapping programs that include cash grants; food subsidies and subsidies and other "ink-ink assistance."
Some of these programs are administered by the government.
Carter said during his campaign that the welfare system should be simplified with "one fairly uniform, nationwide payment, varying according to cost-of-living difference between communities," and financed largely by the government.
Carter has indicated he would "eliminate the food stock program" administered by the Agriculture Department to give or sell stamps to low-income people who may thus purchase food in supermarkets at a substantial discount.
Califano declined to commit the advisory group to any specific course, saying "We will look at every possible way of doing it." The goal was of experts and welfare recipients alike.
By involving people from Congress and throughout the various levels of government in what he termed "a first" in his experience, the new secretary said he hoped the goal of getting an administration protocol through the legislative process.
In addition to HEW, the departments of labor, housing and urban development, treasury and agriculture will be represented in the welfare study group, as well as in economic Advisers and the congressional advisers concerned with welfare legislation.
Califano said state, city and county governments would send a representative from their New Condition of Organizations to the Governor, mayors, voters and other local officials.
Consumer group initiates petition drive calling for nursing homes investigation
TOPEKA (UPI) - A consumer group yesterday initiated a petition drive asking Gov. Robert Bennett to appoint a special counsel to investigate Kansas nursing homes.
Peter Ceyr, president of Kansans for Improvement of Nursing Homes, proposed a committee of "distinguished citizens" to establish a private and private nursing home operation.
"It could study abuse of nursing home residents and recommend legislation which
might put an end to it," she said. "The whole subject of nursing homes and how they should be operated is a very complicated one, and we at KINH think that substandard homes exist partly because no one has trained them or worked on effort to eliminate them."
Cerf made the suggestion to 350 persons attending a statewide nursing home conference to explore problems in the homes, and would have offered the Department of Health and Environment.
"The obstacle or obstacles here are many," said Cerk. "KDHE is reluctant to change the present system. The governor and the legislature are reluctant to spend enough money to improve the system. And we of KINH feel that the people of Kansas are never given the chance to express themselves on this issue."
WASHINGTON (AP)—FBI Director Clarence Kelley, despite a law giving him a 10-year term, can be fired at any time by the Justice Department or an arbitrative Leader Robert Rykd said yesterday.
Carter could can Kelley
The issue of Kelley's tenure as FBI head also came up during the Senate confirmation hearings of Griffin Bell to be prosecuted in a case. The FBI is part of the Justice Department.
Kelley, named to the post in July 1973 by President Richard Nixon, has said he would not voluntarily resign with the change in presidential administrations because such a move could make the FBI subject to political influences.
Bell indicated at first that he was going to replace Kelley, but later acknowledged that the attorney general lacked the authority to do so.
Byrd on Wednesday made clear his view.
as the chief sponsor of the new law governing the tenure of the FBI director, that the President can dismiss the FBI director, that the FBI general might not have that authority.
Kelley, 68, the former police chief of Kansas City, said earlier this week that he had written a letter to Bell saying "I intend to retire" and denied that dan. 1, 1978, at which time I will retire.
Cerf proposed topics for the special committee such as a comparison between profit-making nursing homes and homes owned by cities or counties, including death rates, condition of residents, costs and fees and other areas.
Sen. Bob Cole, R-Kan., said he believed Bell's testimony before the Judiciary Committee may have forced Kelley's "early departure."
"It is known as the squeeze play," Dole said. "Whether they have given him one year to pack, I do not know. Whether it was an independent decision of Clarence Kelley, the lawyer for Mr. Kelley, Bell made the statement in public hearings that Clarence Kelley would be removed."
KNH also suggested an examination of nursing home ownership and interlocking corporations. The organization released statistics on the three largest nursing home chains in Kansas, including Midland Business Investment Corp., Inc., which owns 15 nursing homes in 12 Kansas communities.
The first witness called at the hearing was Judy Hollyday, desk clerk at the hotel where Bolles had gone June 2 to meet Adamson. Bolles was fatally injured when a bomb exploded under his car as he left the hotel parking lot. He died 11 days later.
KNH Secretary Harriet Nehring, 810 Avalon Road, said nursing home operators used economic problems of the elderly as an example of providing government required care.
Other chains include MidAmerica Nursing Centers, Inc., with 13 homes, and Medicalologies, Inc., with 13 homes in eight cities.
"Nursing homes cut back on goods and services presumably to save us money," Nehring said. "We believe the real reason is to make sure that a profit is made and one profit is shared by those based on operating expenses while keeping the rates the same or increased them."
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY RESIDENCE HALLS, DEAN OF MEN AND DEAN OF WOMEN
Announces Student Help Openings
Tutor 2/ hours every other week**$5.00 per hour**
February 14-May 29
Sessions are held in all eight residence halls and Scholarship Halls
There will be a total of 9 [nine] sessions
Beginning the week of February 14, 1977
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APPLICATION DEADLINE:
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February 2, 1977
Return application to 210 McCollum either in person or by Campus mail
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MINORITIES AND WOMEN ENCOURAGED TO APPLY
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Holliday said Bolles received a telephone call as he waited in the lobby and she heard him tell the caller how to get to his office at the state capitol. She said Bolles hung up, left the lobby and the next she heard was the explosion.
Adamson has admitted he lured Bolles to the hotel on a phony tip about land fraud and placed the bomb under the car while the reporter was in the hotel.
Adamson's testimony in the preliminary hearing closely followed the contents of a police affidavit which accompanied the complaint against Dunlap and Robinson.
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