Hutchinson News (Newspaper) - November 26, 1982, Hutchinson, Kansas The Hutchinson News November 26, 1982, Kansas 67501, 20 Year 111, No. 146 * * 20c Americans glut the Is a belch WASHINGTON - On their way to a Florida former Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kluczynski and his wife Melanie suffered the fate of hundreds of airlines passenger - they were bumped from an overbooked But the did not let it rest They sued Delta Airlines for indignity and and the jury awarded them Cases like the are becoming commonplace as people turn to courts in what some see as a rash of frivolous has turned into a People have unrealistic expectations of what a court can There's no legal remedy for every says Joy of the American Bar Association's commission to study court costs and Helping America live up to its reputation as the most lawyers increasingly have found ingenious reasons to get their clients into Wendy 9, of filed suit against the maker of when she failed to get an advertised She wrote that I bought their product because of their they broke a contract with She dropped the suit after the company sent her a letter of apology and a Crackerjack In a 3-year-old was Hawaiians view scene HONOLULU - With the estimated cost of damages wrought by the deadly fury of Hurricane Iwa pushing toward Gov. George Ariyoshi Thursday called the battered islands of Kauai and Niihau disaster areas and asked for a federal disaster Civil defense director Gonny estimated storm damages on the island of Kauai alone at Honolulu Mayor Eileen Anderson described destruction on the west side of Oahu Island as major and gave a damage estimate of New damage reports continued to flow in as thousands of Hawaiians deprived of electricity by the deadly Pacific storm cooked their traditional Thanksgiving turkeys on outdoor barbecue in Japanese smokers or earth Several faced with no refrigeration to preserve offered holiday barbeques at Red Cross said Army and Air Force planes flew 20,000 Thanksgiving rations to people still in isolated shelters on Some 5,800 people were forced from their homes on Kauai before the advancing Civil defense directors said it would be several days before electric power could be completely Military electrical generators were airlifted to Kauai to provide power until local sources could be Robert press secretary to said it might take several days to formalize the governor's disaster making the hard-hit islands eligible for million in state A federal disaster declaration could make the islands eligible for millions more in grants and low-interest loans for repairs and Ariyoshi said after an aerial inspection that damage to the privately owned island of Niihau was but there was no report of injuries or estimated cost of The Robinson family that owns the isolated 24-by-6-mile island inhabited by 226 people said there was no need for an state Hammering waves whipped up by the furious Pacific storm killed a sailor who was slammed against the lifelines of his ship as it left Pearl Harbor to avoid the He was identified as Seaman Jose 20, of Calif. He died of a broken Four other seaman on the ship - the guided missile destroyer USS Goldsborough - were including Lt. Ray who was swept overboard and washed up on a reef runway two miles He suffered a fractured pelvis and but was in satisfactory The storm struck the islands with 110-mph winds Tuesday driving 7,000 people from their demolishing residences and uprooting trees and powerlines and scattering dangerous shards from hundreds of blown-out Utility rate hikes prompt fights in Argentina BUENOS Argentina - Police using tear gas and dogs injured more than 40 people in breaking up a violent protest by 15,000 demonstrators against utility hikes in the middle-class suburb of officials said In suburban San Miguel 400 angry residents were watched by 500 heavily armed policemen as they brought the mayor a petition asking him to revoke higher municipal taxes and allow a grace period for the city's many unemployed Similar protests planned for Friday in two other neighborhoods brought to seven the number of demonstrations staged by taxpayers who cannot afford to pay recently hiked municipal The protests mark the first significant middle-class rejection of the military government's economic Seven police officers were among the 40 people injured Wednesday night in Lanus v en about 15,000 demonstrators marched on the pal headquarters demanding the mayor revoke recent increases in public utility Police used attack dogs and hundreds of tear-gas canisters to repel protesters who threw rocks and shouted obscenities at officials when Mayor Carlos Romualdo refused to receive the neighborhood a government communique At least 12 people were arrested in the which began at 7 p.m. and lasted for two Assailed by inflation expected to exceed 200 percent by year-end and an rate estimated at 18 many Argentines have found their monthly salaries barely cover the cost of With retail prices rising at a rate of about 13 percent the government has hiked telephone and utility prices at nearly the inflation while wages have risen only about half as fast as Inside | Intercepted Letter DUANE ACKER KSU president Kan. Dear How about studying the varied translations of cranberry Yours Hutch Costs rise faster than revenue summoned to court ' for littering Daniel now 4, had witnesses prepared to testify he was at a child care center at the time of the but a judge dismissed the In a 2-year-old boy was sued for running his into a neighbor's sports The owner filed a suit in small claims court for what was described as a on the Porsche The car owner was last reported thinking of taking the case to federal but may have been by the remark that should have never been filed in the first A San Francisco police officer said he was the victim of King Tut's curse because he suffered a mild stroke while guarding the Egyptian gold mask during an When the city's retirement board refused to consider the he sued for A clerk in Cedar who manned a at a supermarket was fired for belching so loudly a customer could While it may not have been a court held that the belch was not and the clerk's firing was A Harvard Law School professor recently slapped a million lawsuit on a California college administrator who refused to get her A lawyer for Lee 36, said she would drop the suit if the California man would artificially inseminate not even is sacred when it comes to Last a Philadelphia attorney brought a million class action suit protesting the baseball He said the professional baseball leagues had breached American and Canadian baseball right to pursue happiness and contract guaranteed by purchasing to attend Another suit was filed by a Chicago Bears who alleged consumer fraud against the team for winning only one in six And awards are becoming increasingly A New York women recently won a record-breaking million settlement against the manufacturer of a helmet she was wearing while in a motorcycle The helmet had failed to pass federal safety tests but was still being sold when the Bronx woman bought it in 1977. In a federal district court jury awarded a San man a suit claiming the Boise Holiday Inn failed to live up to its advertised promise of Although the increasing number of offbeat suits places a burden on the Ms. Chapper it the faith people have in the court Turkeys with holiday Free Thanksgiving feast lures 300 to Hutch hotel By Mark Enoch Staff writer More than 300 persons lost their hunger and loneliness in Hutchinson by sharing a free Thanksgiving dinner cooked by the staff of Maurice's Restaurant and served in the Plaza Towers banquet room at 17 East 2nd. The owner of Maurice had hoped for an even larger turnout for the first free turkey dinner in the But those who ate from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. said the food was The excess food will be given to needy people through the Salvation Diab The dinner was made possible Diab and his who donated their Coonrod and Walz owners of the which donated the banquet the Salvation which provided key help in organizing the and five local which donated the needed to buy the 30 turkeys and 16 hams cooked for the Capt. Kenneth Peterson of the Salvation Army said the project began when he was approached by Diab and manager of the Peterson said his first stop was at Krause Plow to talk to Dick went into there with a problem - I need in a Peterson The next Peterson said Parker had collected and told him was on its The other companies that donated were Collins Consolidated Manufacturing and hope it will be successful enough to be an annual thing because there is always a need for Davis John the head chef at said he began preparing for the dinner about a week ago and started cooking the turkeys three days Although it was the first time the 23-year-old chef was in charge of such a large he said he was an assistant chef at the Alameda Plaza in Kansas City when a banquet for 1,500 was McCall said 12 kitchen employees and four chef assistants helped to prepare the McCall proudly displayed his piece de two turkeys that looked to be dressed well enough for a formal He said he spent two full days on those which included cherry tomatoes made into roses and a cream sauce with gelatin that became a decorative McCall said he learned his craft at culinary art school in Johnson County Community Photos by Andy Schrock Volunteer Juanita Rowe serves For Ruth Robbins of the free dinner was the perfect chance to have a holiday get-together with two of her Enid Schuman and Una Mrs. said all of her four children and five grandchildren live out of whole dinner was said Mrs. Her comments were typical of the many of whom were elderly you're with your family all you're home said Mrs. makes you feel At another Roy and Bernice Friesen ate dinner with Pauline of The had just met Mrs. have some married but they are all far said Mrs. Friesen said they had planned to join a daughter in Virginia for but medical problems prevented that so they came to the community Mrs. eyes sparkled as she expressed her feelings about the think it's she A turkey by any other name is strange MANHATTAN - Columbus may have called the token bird of Thanksgiving but his Spanish employers named the bird Before satellite television pulled the four corners of the earth closer news traveled mostly by word of people got things The turkey is a good At Kansas State a survey of faculty and students with ties to the Middle Africa and Asia turned up some interesting variations in names for the bird we call a Columbus was the first to confuse things by proclaiming that he had discovered a new route to India as well as a new He is said to have in- the turkey to Europe from the New where the Mayans had domesticated it 2,000 years Being Columbus named it but his Spanish employers called the bird the English got this They confused the New World bird with the guinea supposed to be imported from Turkish the survey They began calling it a We are still compounding the Turks would have none of According to the the Turks called this new imported bird probably after the inhabitants of the New World or maybe after the people of the Indus Valley in day No one seems to European Poles and Russians settled on a similar In the Indus no one had seen turkeys until the British colonialists brought Ever people in that region have had two names for and Neither terms are In where Arabic is the word for turkey is The study said Arabs in Yemen call the turkey Arabs call it Ethiopian They call it hen of a commercial tongue spoken over much of East offers another The Swahili name for turkey translates as as big as a In some call the turkey to describe the peculiar way it People of the Comoro Islands near East Africa call it to describe the sound it Sometimes connotes the study In the name for turkey carries the meaning of one who takes advantage of others by changing his mind to fit the Words do what they do because linguists In reasons Only the usage Total government spending tops trillion mark WASHINGTON - Both income and spending of state and local governments climbed past the trillion mark in fiscal 1980-81 for the first the Census Bureau reported Revenues rose 15.4 percent to while spending was up a bit 15.8 and at nearly billion exceeded income by about The report said the debts of all governmental the federal government rose by billion to State and local government debt was up billion to leaving a federal debt of more than Another census report released Thursday showed that spending by all governments for environmental quality in fiscal 1980 rose by 15 hitting The report on government income and spending levels said tax revenues were up from billion to billion - about 62 percent levied by the federal 23 percent by states and 15 percent by local That income included billion in individual income taxes and another billion from billion from gross receipts taxes and customs billion from property and billion from other The report said another billion came in as such as postal hospital charges and interest and liquor stores produced billion for sales produced billion in income while insurance trusts produced State and local governments got billion from the federal Spending by all governments in fiscal 1980-81, said the included billion for current billion for capital billion for assistance and billion for interest on and billion for insurance benefits and Hats off to court's rule Calif. - The Grotto seafood restaurant has doffed its rule for male diners because of court challenges - one by a turbaned the other by a rabbi wearing a Tony co-owner of the said the disputed policy of not serving men with hats had been established as a matter of just didn't feel gentlemen should wear hats while eating in front of customers and he said A dispute resulted with a baned member of the Sikh who later filed Markovich and co-owner Mike Stipic then eliminated the Since the policy a second suit has been filed by a Jewish family and their rabbi who were asked to leave the restaurant after the rabbi refused to remove his Because of the policy the restaurant will send a formal apology to G.P. the The suit filed by Walter and Ida Frank and Rabbi Barry Ring is still
