VOL.100.NO.106
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY, MAR. 5, 1990
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Indian community mourns loss
Third death raises questions of racism
Bv Curtis Knapp
By Curtis Knapp and Kathryn Lancaster Kennecott writers
Kansan staff writers
Members of the Lawrence Indian community fear racism and hated in the wake of the third death in the past year-and-a-half
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"After a while you begin to wonder about it," said Rev. Robert Pinezadleby. "I'm concerned. The youth maybe need to be cautioned."
Christopher George Bread, 19, was
found dead about 1 a.m. Friday, one mile east of Lawrence on 15th Street, said Douglas County Sheriff Loren Anderson.
The Lawrence Indian Methodist Church, 950 E. 21st St., overflowed with people gathered to remember Bread.
As authorities and members of the Indian community were trying to piece together the circumstances of Bread's death, services were quietly conducted yesterday in an east Lawrence church.
Extra seats were placed along aisles to make room for the more than 100 people who attended the funeral. The windows of the church
were opened so those outside could hear.
Bread, a Kiowa-Cherokee Indian, will be remembered as a person who could relate to young people and the elders, Mel Gaines, chairman of the church's board of directors said after the service.
Bread was vice president of the Methodist Youth Fellowship in 1967 and was very active in the church.
"When one person in the family hurts, the rest hurt with them," Gaines said. "There will be a great void in the youth program here."
Pinezaddleby said he was worried that a wave of violence had struck Lawrence and that people were harboring hatred and racist feelings. But, he said, it also was possible that the violence stemmed from within the Indian community.
Becky Whitetree, a church member, said, "This is the third death labeled accidental, and it's making me sad." He said the program is appropriate for students' safety.
John Sandoval, a 19-year-old Haskell student, was found dead last April in the Kansas River. Cecil Dawes, a 21-year-old former KU student, was found in the same river in October. Both incidents were ruled as unattended deaths, meaning no one witnessed the death.
Bread's father, Don, was the spokesman for the Dawes family after Cecil Dawes' death.
Wylma Dawes declined comment
vesterdav.
Anderson said he saw no similarities between Bread's death and Dawes' death.
"We buried our son not long ago. It's hard for us to talk about it right now!" she said.
"The only similarity would be that we haven't figured out what happened," Anderson said. "I don't see them as the same in any way."
Douglas County Coroner Carol Moddrell determined from an autopsy performed Friday that Bread's skull was fractured and that he died about 12:50 a.m. Police are investigating the death as a possible homicide.
Rock Chalk donations set record
Bv Christine Reinolds
Kansan staff writer
United Way of Douglas County is $32,000 richer because of donations from Rock Chalk Revue.
Ned Nixon, director of the show,
said Saturday's donation set a
record. Last year's donation totalled
$24,000.
United Way will distribute the money among its 25 agencies in Douglas County. The Rock Chalk donation is the single largest special-event donation that the United Way receives.
Sigma Kappa sorority, 1325 West Campus Road, and Tau Kappa Epsilon, 1911 Stewart Ave., won the most votes. Sigma Kappa totalled about $12,000. Nixon said.
The scholarship halls won best
sow and best sets, and David Unkirch
McCollum Hall won an award for being the residence hall that bought the most tickets, about 30. Derek Lokee. Rock Chalk business man. The award was created to encourage involvement from non-greeks.
Saturday night's performance at Hoch, which seats 3,700, was sold out. Nixon said 8,000 to 10,000 people attended the three performances.
Matt All, who was part of the Scholarship Hall production, tied with Jason Edmonds, of the Chi Omega Ki Pha Psi show for best design.
All said his first Rock Chalk show
Only a memory
Pat DINizio, lead vocalist, and bassist Mike Mesaros of the alternative rock band, The Smithereens, open their set with "Drown in My Own Tears." A crowd of 1,900 attended the
House passes abortion bill
SUA-sponsored concert last night in Hoch Auditorium. The Mahoots, a Lawrence-based band, opened the show with music from their debut album, "Resurrection Lily:"
By Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - An abortion bill that died two weeks ago in the House Federal and State Affairs Committee was passed Friday by a 73-50 vote in the House.
Lucas, Chairman Rex Crowell, R-Longtion, and 12 co-sponsors on the committee substituted the abortion bill for a Senate bill that dealt with the use of vehicle registration fees. Only the bill number was left intact.
State Rep. Arlie Lucas, R-Highland, resurrected the parental notification bill in the House Transportation
Opponents of the bill charged that Lucas and the transportation committee violated legislative rules with their action, but, after nearly eight hours of deliberation, they failed to make final action on a watered-down version of the bill.
Amendments to the original Lucas bill lower the age of consent to 16 and allow any blood relative older than
Parents can waive their right to be notified by placing a letter in their daughter's medical file.
A legislative bypass provision that would allow a girl to go to court to get the notification requirement waived also was amended to the bill.
21. or a member of the clergy to be notified instead of the parents.
State Reps, Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, John Solbach, D-Lawrence and David Miller, E-Rudora, voted against the bill.
Anti-abortion activists accepted the more lenient bill with some reservation.
"It appears this is the best bill possible to be passed out of the Kansas House of Representatives," said Matthew Patton, spokesman for Kansas for Life." The bill positively an improvement over the current situation.
1965 Freedom March re-enacted in Alabama
Halfway up the bridge yesterday.
See ABORTION, p. 6
SELMA, Ala. — Several thousand people yesterday commemorated the 25th anniversary of the historic voting rights march to Montgomery, Ala., by re-enacting the march and bloody confrontation with police.
The group returning to the Edmund Pettus bridge was led by civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson and Rosa Parks, fighting and some of the original marchers.
The Associated Press
On March 7, 1965, the day remembered in civil rights annals as Bloody Sunday, police used billy clubs and tear gas to turn back hundreds of marchers on the bridge named for a Confederate general.
"We shed a little blood here that made a difference. People are now registering to vote," said Rep. John Poe who took part in the original march.
Jackson, speaking yesterday to about 600 people, said Martin Luther King Jr. did not die and Nelson Mandela did not languish in a South African prison for 27 years for Blacks not to exercise their right to vote.
The 50-mile march will continue segments each day through the week and culminate with a rally March 10 at the Alabama Capitol.
"You cannot walk around here with these unless blessings," Jackson said, adding that 35 percent of all Blacks eligible to vote were unregistered. "God has given us all these votes. When you drop them they become snakes and go to Washington and bite us."
smoke was released to simulate police tear gas, and marchers retreated, some falling to the ground.
After a second march led by King two weeks after the first, Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Grissom will go to trial facing murder charges
By Kathryn Lancaster
Richard Grissom Jr. will stand trial on three counts of first-degree murder, Johnson County District Judge Robert Jones ruled Friday.
Kanean staff writers
A jury will decide if Grissom, 29,
killed 1987 KU graduate Joan Butler,
24, of Overland Park, and 22-year-old
Lenexa roommates Christine Rusch
and Theresa Brown. No bodies have
been found.
Grissom faces a total of 11 felony charges, including two counts of aggravated burglary, one count of aggravated kidnapping, four counts of burglary. He also is charged with one count of misdemeanor theft.
"I'm relieved that the preliminary hearing is over."
Paul Morrison district attorney
Grissom showed no emotion as the charges against him were read.
Jones' decisions to modify four counts of aggravated robbery to simple robbery and to modify two of the murder charges will not significantly change the prosecution's prior characterization and District Attorney Paul McQuillan.
If Grissom is found guilty, the jury will decide whether aggravated kidnapping was a factor in Rusch's death. If it was a factor in the other two deaths.
Jones determined that the prosecution did not show that Brown and Butler's deaths resulted from aggravated kidnappings.
"I'm relieved that the preliminary hearing is over," he said. "We spent an incredible amount of time preparing this case."
Morrison said he was pleased with the judge's decision.
Andrew Warren, Grissom's public defender, had little to say about the hearing.
"I will say this," Warren said. "Nothing that happened this week surprised us."
Grissom is scheduled for arraignment March 14.
The relatives of Terry Maness, a 25-year-old Wichita woman killed last year, said they were relieved to be归案 charged with the three murders.
Investigators suspect Grissom in
Terrine Manes killing. No charges
have been laid.
Bonnie Maness said she attended the hearing to show support for the other three mothers who had lost their daughters.
"Some day us four mums will get together and visit about the girls," Maness said. "We're here to let them tell us that we care. We hurt for them."
Sandra Maness, a KU graduate student, said she felt angry every time she looked at the man she thought murdered her sister.
it nuts to see him laugh," she said. "He thinks it all a game."
Of the three, only David Rush testified that his missing daughter was dead. He said that he had one child, Mark.
Joan Butler's father, Ralph Butler,
and Christine Rusch's parents, Judy
and David Rusch, testified during the
hearing.
"I had two," he said. "I have given up all hope."
Bus strike influences Lawrence travelers
By Buck Taylor Kansan staff writer
The hand-printed sign adjacent to the door of the Union Bus Terminal in Lawrence said that Greyhound bus passengers should expect interruptions in most serviceto the recent drivers strike.
Bus service to Lawrence had decreased by about 75 percent by yesterday afternoon. Only six of the regularly scheduled 20 buses were expected to arrive yesterday, a terminal employee said.
James Hoercht, assistant manager of the terminal, 1401 W. Kirk St., said the strike had caused delays in both passengers and employees.
"We have few buses running," he said. "They're only running buses when they have driving tickets or are lucky they're running at all."
Union-covered bus drivers and maintenance workers walked out early Friday morning after Grayhound Lines Inc., and the Amalgamated Council of Greyhound Local Unions failed to reach an agreement during wage-related contract talks.
"We have very few buses running. They're only running buses when they have drivers.
Bus terminal assistant manager
No new negotiations have been scheduled.
Hoercht said employees had been instructed to warn passengers of potential delays or route cancellations and to try to direct them to alternate independent carriers.
Greyhound, headquartered in Dallas, carried 22 million passengers last year, an average of 60,000 a day. The company said it did not know how many passengers were stranded because of the strike, but estimated the number in the thousands.
With spring break less than a week away, several students were worried about possible cancellations of vacation plans.
Aref Eanetayelluh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, sophomore, planned to purchase bus tickets this week to visit friends in Louisiana during spring break. However, his trip could take longer than anticipated.
"The agent said I would have to take other bus companies to Lafayette," he said, "But at least I'll be able to get down there."
Hoertch said Emayetulah's route was covered directly by Greyhound, but now he would have to cross-crass and change bus companies a few times during the trip.
Greyhound Chairman Fred G. Curray said on Saturday that the company was operating 25 percent of its routes and would continue increasing operations each day, as the company crossed picket lines since Friday, and the company has hired 700 new drivers.
Across the country, violent outbursts have plagued picket lines. Gunshots were fired at a bus and a terminal in Chicago the first night of the strike. Two passengers exposed injuries from flying glass.
In Redding, Calif., a striking bus driver was killed Saturday when a bus, driven by a temporary driver, crushed him against a wall. The walkout, was questioned by police but not arrested.
Although no picketers were reported at the Union Bus Terminal, about 10 sign-wielding strikers were reported last night at the Kansas City, Mo., terminal, according to a identified agent, who had been identified One sign reportedly read, "Drop dead, Fred."
Passengers were advised to call Greyhound terminals for daily bus schedules. In addition, Amtrak will honor Greyhound tickets if they have been endorsed by the bus company before midnight Friday, a spokesman for Amtrak said.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
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