UN I V E R S I T Y D A I L Y K A N S A N
Monday, January 27, 1997
5A
Pam Dishman / KANSAN
An arson attempt was made on the Sports Page Brewery on Dec. 15. The owner of the brewery, Allen Salah, is believed to have left the country owing more than $1 million to creditors.
Arson attempt remains mystery
Hired help not told about bar bankruptcy
By Paul Eakins
Kansan staff writer
After over a month of searching, investigators in the Dec. 15 attempted arson of the unopened Sports Page Brewery, 3512 Clinton Parkway, have not found a culprit.
"We've worked a lot of leads and made a lot of interviews,but the investigation is still ongoing,"said Fire Marshall Rich Barr, investigation coordinator.
On Sunday, Dec. 15, Mike Harris,
manager of Harris Construction Co.
Inc., 3200 Haskell Ave., entered the
unfinished building and smelled gas.
Barr said that someone had opened the gas lines, which filled the building but had not set a fire. He also said that the attempt could have been an inside job because there was no sign of forced entry.
"Our assumption is that it was someone who had access to the building," he said.
Barr said that he wanted to interview Allen Salah, former owner of Brauerhause Inc., which owns the Sports Page Brewery and the Bayou State Brewery, 119th and Row in Leawood, Kan.
"He's obviously a piece of the puzzle we would like to speak with," Barr said.
Robert Bear, court-appointed interim-trustee of Braereihaus Inc., said that authorities thought that Salah had left the United States for his homeland of Bahrain.
"His wife testified in court that after
he left, he telephoned her that he was in Bahrain. "Bear said."
As we interim-trustee, Bear has to deal with a more complicated issue in the Sports Page Brewery situation. When Salah left the United States, he incurred more than a $1 million in debt with Brauerheirahs Inc. His creditors have asked the courts to grant a file for involuntary bankruptcy against Brauerheirahs Inc. Bear said.
Bear's job is to sort through the assets of the company and to determine how much money is actually owed to the creditors.
"One of the things we're trying to figure out now is what the assets are," he said. "It's a complicated process."
In most bankruptcy cases, the properties of the debtor are sold to pay the debts, Bear said. Currently, the Bayou State Brewery is still running, but there is a possibility that it will be sold to pay the creditors, he said.
Meanwhile, the Sports Page remains closed. Its landlord, R.D. Equities L.L.C., is searching for a new owner. However, the company must wait until the bankruptcy process has been completed, said Jack Rose, area manager.
The failure to open the Sports Page and the departure of its owner has affected others.
Mark Luttrell, Wichita senior, said that he had been hired in late November as a waiter.
He was never contacted about training.
When he called the manager during the break from his home in Wichita, he was told to read the newspapers, where he learned of the bankruptcy situation.
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