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'I t. VV-5? rwyv'v if -v 'v tr' r7 V' V' H. 'M 1 Thursday, Mirth 1, 1171 The Dally Itflfintl, toad Jeacflsa, Cotorad1 -ftft I -(Colorado- Bus drivers asking for unruly rider law I "W- -1 A I to be posted in buses warning that persons who damage equipment or menace passengers are subject to criminal penalties. But the Senate committee is being asked to rewrite the bill, adding the new offenses and beefing up security on buses and in passenger terminals. Weve got to protect the people who ride buses," said Steve Jenkins, area general manager for Trailways, noting that unlike airplanes, bus passengers tend to be elderly and lower-income persons.

He said airlines have elaborate electronic screening devices and we dont have that kind of protection for the bus passenger." Another Trailways driver. Bob Skeens, said that last month he had to call police twice to have unruly passengers removed from a bus he was driving. Added Smith: Its kind of indescribable when a man pulls a knife on you and sticks it in your gut" But Cole told the drivers the committee would have to examine the proposed amendment further. Were sympathetic to the problem, but just passing more criminal statutes may not do the job, he said. DENVER (AP) Passengers on over-the-road buses are drinking, assaulting drivers and pulling knives and guns more than ever before, several bus drivers bate told a Colorado Senate committee.

Last night on the Alamosa run, a man stood up and urinated on half a dozen passengers, said Larry Smith, a driver for Trailways Bus System, in testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was taken off the bus at Denver, but I dont know what happened to him. The drivers are seeking legislation to create a series of offenses dealing with damage to buses, hijacking ana assaults on passengers and also say bus companies should have authority to use electronic screening devices to check passengers for weapons. The committee chairman, Sen. Ralph Cole, R-Littleton, expressed concern that the offenses in the proposed legislation merely duplicate existing laws.

Cole asked bis staff to research the law and deferred action on the bill. The measure, as passed earlier by the House, would only require signs f) 'Hot spot' detector Members of the Colorado media crowd around as a spokesman for craft will be flying over Denver as part of the ongoing search for rathe Colorado Health Department explains the functions of radiation dioactive radium dumps being discovered throughout the city, detection equipment installed on board a helicopter in Denver. The news digest Electroshock abuse may have occurred Bella says Carter treats advisors as children After indicting several oilmen and cbmpanies in an alleged oil-pricing fraud, a U.S. grand jury in Houston Is investigating the activities Summit Gas a firm controlled by Denver millionaire Marvin Davis. U.S.

attorney J.A. Tony Canales said the firm absorbed by another company in which Davis has invested is among 24 other companies under investigation. Cov. Richard Lamm, questioning a move by the Legislature to beef up security at the Capitol, said, The building doesn't belong to the Legislature. It belongs to the people.

They've got to have access to it." Several senators, though, have referred to the problem of cars cruising around the drive, which is a favorite meeting place for young homosexuals. Sen. Tilman Bishop, R-Grand junction, said, I'm not as concerned about the cars as I am aboutjhe fruities around there." Felix Sparks, director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board for nearly. 21 years, said he will retire April 30. The Weld County commissioners have adopted a plan for the county's road and bridge department employees who will be called upon to work 50 hours weekly In summer and 25 hours weekly in winter.

Colorado health officials have found another radioactive dump in Denver, bringing the number now to 22. More than 20 persons were evacuated from a downtonwn Denver hotel early today. One man was hospitalized for smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined. It would take 16 months to begin an automobile emission Inspection program run for the state by a private contractor in the Front Range counties, a Senate subcommittee has been told jS vide the governor, the Legislature and other Interested public and private groups and individuals with objective statistical information necessary for further action.

Specifically, the report said, the requirement should be for anyone administering electroshock in the state to file a report, at least semi-annually, with the State Department of Health, setting forth statistical data on usage. The report said the group did not bejieve that type of system would be burdonsome. The panel found that in Colorado, a patient unless he is an Involuntary patient committed to an Institution has the right to refuse medical treat-. rnent, including electroshock. The task force concluded there is adequate protection for involuntary pqtients concerning use of electro-shock, and it found no instance where regulations have not been followed.

It is important that electroshock patients, as with other patients, give their Informed consent prior to treatment, as is required by state and federal law, the panel said. And it recommended such treatment be administered only if the patient gives his informed consent DENVER (AP A 1978 study of the electroshock therapy in Colorado concludes there may well have been cases of abuse, but there is no way of determining precisely if that occurred, a report to Gov. Richard Lamm shows. But the report, outlined Wednesday by the head of a study committee, says there should be a system, mandated through law, for reporting electro--shock use. Dick Young, study group chairman, said the task force set up by the goverv nor to study the problem conducted 16 full hearings and spent more than 1,000 hours examining the use of electroshock therapy.

During those hearings the panel took testimony from former patients, reviewed state laws, and found that based on reports submitted by 27 of 29 hospitals questioned, 16 uspd electroshock. Of 12,748 patients on record, 269 received shock therapy, he said. About twice as many women as men underwent the treatment Youngs report said establishment of a uniform reporting system on use of the therapy should be set up to pro BOULDER (AP President Carter has treated the members of the National Advisory Committee for Women like children" and has left them disenchanted, says Bella Abzug, who was fired by Carter from her post as coleader of the group. He didnt want us to criticize his economic policies. He wanted us to talk about the on other issues to be supportive, said Us.

Abzug, who was in Boulder on Wednesday to deliver the keynote Address of a four-day omen's program. In a fiery speech to more than 4,000 persons in a University of Colorado auditorium, Us. Abzug said women are still on the outside of democracy despite nearly 60 years of womens suffrage. That will not change until Congress diverts money from defense spending to social legislation providing health care, child care ana abortions, she said. The universitys womens program is part of International Womens Week.

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