The Wichita Eagle du lieu suivant : Wichita, Kansas • 27

I OBITUARIES 2 KANSAS IN BRIEF4 CLASSIRED ADS 5-11 THURSDAY January 10 1991 SECTION Railroads win case Five railroads will pay less property taxes in Kansas as a result of a federal court settiemerrt3 State ready for dip into the ice maker By Stan Flngsr muth Aim POWER OUT? The final days Hayden welcomes move into next phase of his life Check to see tf your neuters have ijpTts If they do check your own breakers Report the outage by caKng at 2641141 or leave a recorded message at 261-6796 IT the Ine busy wait 30 minutes and repeat your cal DRIVING TIPS Lam RaadVDit Wichita Eogk look back: Gov Mike Hayden says hb administration made its mark and he has no regrets as he prepares to leave office Leave early drive siowty and maintain extra dtetance kom the car ahead of you Avoid using the brakes IT you have a manual tranantaslon stay In lower gears If you go Into a skid steer try to stop by hitting the brakes ThaWfeMtaEagte What was being billed as the wont ice storm of the season rolled Into Wichita and southern Kansas early thb morning promising to snarl traffic knock down power lines and leave many residents in the dark Weather forecasters said the storm system likely to paralyze the region into the weekend could be a real mess getting to work" said Mark Bogner a meteorologist for Weath-erData Inc a private forecasting service in Wichita "It could be real nasty it pans out like it looks like if going to simply not going to be able to drive on the roads pek 10 mph Stay home if you Offldab for Wichita's public scfaoob canceled area teacher and parent advisory meetings Wednesday night They said a decision on cancellation of rhurnea for today would not be made until thb morning and advised parents to listen to radio and television for announcements They abo advised that if classes are in session buses would probably be running late The storms that already have marked thb as a particularly icy winter pale by comparison to thb system which expected to coat trees power lines and buildings with as much as a half-inch of Ice Western and central Kansas could get a 4-inch blanket of snow while northern Kansas will see an inch or two Bogner said the freezing rain will stretch into Friday afternoon before letting up The Ice already present claimed its fifth victim thb week when a Manhattan man died Wednesday of head injuries after hb pickup rolled over on an icy state environmental record including a massive reorganization of the Department of Wildlife and Parks the $165 bil- By Forrest Cosaett Eagle Topeka bureau TOPEKA Gov Mike Hayden ready to get on with hb life as the boxes lining the stairway of the executive mansion quietly testily And Hayden despite fighting the flu and being without a ob Tuesday characteristically upbeat said election night that if not prepared to lose in politics you should never run I meant it We lost That'S politics and we accept it" said Hayden who does not rule out waging another statewide campaign in the future He says he considering options in both Washington and Kansas with the Bush administration Tm not going to take anything that I feel comfortable with or that I fed qualified Hayden said "And I want a Job where I can make a difference I want to Just sit somewhere and shuffle paper and draw a paycheck not my For now Hayden and hb wife Patti have rented a house in a fashionable Topeka neighborhood near the governor's mansion so their daughters Chebi and Annie can finish the school year in Topeka They are moving out of Cedar Crest the executive mandon today so Gov-elect Joan Finney and her husband Spencer can move in before her term begins Monday Dressed in a pair of beige Levi's Dockers and a dark sports shirt Hayden who was fighting a nasty case of the flu was relaxed and thoughtful thb week 8S he reflected on hb four yean in office He said he has no regrets and not bitter about hb November defeat Hayden said he thinks hb administration will be best remembered for its lion highway improvement program and a prison construction program Hb biggest frustration the issue that he thinks torpedoed hb drive for a second term was the failure to enact property tax relief in the wake the fallout over statewide reappraisal and classification think done some things that will be remembered for the next decade or two particularly in the area of the he said sitting in a wing-back chair next to the desk in hb highway in Butler County A spokesman for the Butler County Sheriffs Office said Kevin Heffner lost control rtf the pickup he was driving on K-77 one mile south of Burns He was partially ejected when It overturned Heffner died later Wednesday at SL Joseph Medical Center in Wichita The newest ice storm which Smith said ranks with the strongest ice stums in yean prompted a series of cancellations Offidab for St Mary of the Plains College canceled spring enrollment sessions in both Dodge City and Wichita The Wichita enrollment has been rescheduled for 11 am Monday in the school auditorium adjacent to SL Joseph Medical Center 1121 Clifton See HAYDEN Page 4D EAGLE EYE On People Around Town Pittsburgh honors Paris By Jon Roe The Wichita Eagle You may remember Wichitan Wyoming Paris as the cemetery and mausoleum manager who ran for Congress in 1972 on a platform that included nationalizing the oil companies But Pennsylvanians remember him as "The Masked a basketball player of the 1920s and '30s who made such a lasting impression that he was recently inducted into the Western Pennsylvania Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Wy and hb wife Claire celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary while in Pittsburgh for the event which was reported in the Jan 7 New Yorker magazine Their son Barry lives in Pittsburgh and writes for The New Yorker which explains the article But what explains "The Masked Seems Wy broke hb nose while leading hb alklewish basketball team to the top of semi-pro rankings and had to wear an aluminum mask to protect it Sports writers dubbed him "The Masked Marvel" a nickname he loved so much he kept wearing the thing long after hb nose had healed I i 1 i i I Quick response limits damage to dry deaner By Stan Flnpr The Wichita Eagle Kevin Mayes had just delivered a pizza and was driving hb teenage son home from piano lessons Wednesday evening when hb son told him that the store across the street was on fire "I said Don't be kidding me Mayes said And then he looked and it was no Joke Flames were shooting out from behind the counter at Welch Cleaners on the comer of Lincoln and Hillside Mayes pulled over and began trying to flag down can to report the fire "You'd be surprised by how many people drat pay any attention to Mayes said "They just kept going right on Mayes finally found a phone repented the fire and then watched shivering as firefighters arrived and put out the blaze Originally repented at 7:45 the fire was out within about 20 minutes The Wichita-Sedgwick County Hazardous Materiab Team was called out to the scene because of the potential volatility of chemlcab used in the drycleaning process But the team wasn't usecL Battalion Chief Larry Mullikln said early detection and a quick response kept the fire from being much worse The story was all too familiar to John Parker whose father owns the dry-cleaning business "Thb the second time in two months for this Parker said as he watched firefighters carry out Insulation and toss it on the sidewalk "The last one started up on the roof because the sign been hooked up Fire investigators said Wednesday's fire was started by a discarded cigarette tossed into a wastebasket behind the counter Showdown looms in 2nd District By Martha Savetion The Wichita Eagle Former city official Don Anderson announced Wednesday hb candidacy ter 2nd District City Council seat setting up a contest between the downtown development plan booster and incumbent Sheldon Kamen who has questioned the plan Anderson who retired in 1987 alter working for 30 years for the city said Kamen was not doing enough to support the $375 million downtown plan and other civic programs "I think there are many who believe as I do that Sheldon Kamen has not been a strong or positive member of the City Council I can be a positive force on the City Council so we can start completing important projects instead of studying them over and over" Anderson said The downtown project focuses on the banks of the Arkansas River with plans for restaurants new museums shops a sports srena and a mammoth Keeper of the Plains statue It abo includes reviving the Old Town See CANDIDATES Page 12D Doctor AWOL from Fort Riley protests war i- tj vvoni wanicu Stan Brown and Joan Petrie are a couple of Brits who want to work their way across the USA In a letter to "Eagle Stan says they'll launch their (knonth trip early in March and plan to qxmd a month working in each of four cities "getting to meet people and experiencing the American way of life firsthand" Stan writes that a qualified electrician with handyman skills while Jo has experience working with the handicapped keeping house and catering TheyTl arrive in the Wichita area in May If you have shot-term employment available you may write them at Brown and Ferrie 31 Canada Grove Bognor Regis West Sussex England Happy birthdays to two Douglas and Sheri Duncan are planning a whopper of a party Friday when family and friends gather to celebrate two birthdays daughter first and her great-grandmother 91sL Florence came in from Blackwell Okla just for the occasion She has seen a lot of birthdays but you can bet she see enough of her great-granddaughter watch Every day in every way they're getting weirder and weirder For instance An Arizona stoage company sent a letter to Wichita artist Wilma Wethlngton in CB Electronics in Indiana sent batteries to Brad and Maria Dietz in And United Parcel Service delivered a letter to Coleman RV Products' Jane Froggatte at "Coleman of Whitochen 350 Frances Walnut KS" out leave have up to 30 days to turn themselves over to offidab before being declared deserters Huet-Vaughn a family physician with three children said she will turn herself over to Fort Riley offidab soon She will not file fin1 conscientious objector she said but attempt to publicize her decision while Fort Riley offidab review her case Her Washington news conference was oarina to leave thb month A military police' sergeant who refused deployment orders was court-martialed at Fort Riley sentenced to 5 months in detention and given a bad-conduct discharge Another soldier filed for conscientious objector status but left the base before hb request was reviewed Because that soldier was an intelligence analyst with access to classified information he being sought by military and civilian police as a deserter Soldiers who are AWOL absent with Huet-Vaughn said at a news conference "My oath as a citizen soldier to defend the Constitution my oath as a physician to preserve life and prevent disease would be violated if I cooperate with Operation Desert Huet-Vaughn 39 who rejoined the Army Reserve July 27 jimt six days before the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait the third person to refuse to go to the Persian Gulf from Fort Riley About 10000 Fort Riley soldiers have already been deployed and 1500 more are pre- Eagle Washington bureau WASHINGTON Army Reserve CapL Yolanda Huet-Vaughn a Kansas City Kan physician who disappeared from Fort Riley after being called to active duty last month said Wednesday she will not go to Saudi Arabia with her medical unit or perform any military duty during Operation Desert Shield am refusing orders to be an accomplice in what I consider an immoral inhumane and unconstitutional act" a i Eigfe Ej apperes Tutsdagfi and Thmdqs See AWOL Page 12D.