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Damage suits continue
in 1981 skywalk fall
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A
settlement was reached Mon
day in a personal injury suit
filed in federal court by a cou
ple who witnessed the 1981
skywalks collapse at the Hyatt
Regency Hotel.
Arthur Stoop, an attorney
for James and Deborah T.
Jackson, said the settlement
was in six figures, but he
would not disclose the
amount.
The case was scheduled to
go to trial Tuesday and was
the last of the Hyatt cases that
would have been tried in fed
eral court.
Mrs. Jackson, who was
among more than 200 people
injured in the disaster, was
chosen as class representative
in a class action suit filed in
federal court to determine lia
bility and punitive damages.
That suit was settled in Janu
ary for $10 million, with more
than $7 million going to local
charities.
Opening arguments were
set to begin Tuesday in a civil
trial in Independence involv
ing the deaths of Thomas and
Romelia Henson. The Hen
sons, who lived in the eastern
suburb of Kansas City, were
among 114 people killed in
the July 17, 1981 tragedy.
The jury, which was chosen
Monday, will decide the
amount of compensatory
damages eight relatives of the
Hensons should be awarded.
The couple’s son, Joshua
Lee Henson, 4, and seven
others in the suit have asked
the Jackson County Circuit
Court for $10 million dam
ages from the owners, oper
ators, designers of the Hyatt.
Plaintiffs in the case are the
children of Thomas Henson:
Lloyd Henson, Houston;
Montgomery Henson, River
side, Mo.; and Lorelie Arnold,
Doretta Short and Ronald
Henson, all of Independence,
Mo. Also included are Jose
and Felicitas Moreno of Del
Rio, Texas, the parents
Romelia Henson.
of
Earlier this year, Mrs.
Moreno lost a custody battle
for Joshua. The boy now lives
with James and Barbarajones
of Independence, who were
not related to the Hensons.
Mrs. Morena, who speaks no
English, has been granted visi
tation rights.
In another Kansas City
courtroom, jury selection be
gan in a personal injury suit
filed by Betty Wintz and her
husband, Francis. Mrs. Wintz
was injured in the collapse.
The suit seeks more than $6
million in damages as com-
psensation for the injuries
and the resulting losses to the
Leawood, Kan., couple.
Amont the defendants in the
suits are Hallmark Cards Inc.,
the Hyatt Corp., and the
Hyatt Hotel Corp.
The firms have admitted
liability in the collapse.
Seeking legislative help
School bank
shut down
United Press International
BOSTON — The 6th grade
proprietors of a money-making
school bank — shut down by
state regulators for charging
more than 300 percent annual
interest on loans — have asked
the Massachusetts Legislature
for help.
Reeling off financial facts,
the students Monday urged the
legislative Banks and Banking
Committee to pass a bill that
would allow their lending insti
tution to continue doing busi
ness at the Easton Middle
School.
The students, addressing a
standing-room-only public
hearing, defended their milk
and-lunch-money loan opera
tion which loaned 25 cents to 75
cents to students in need, as a
“great educational experience.”
State banking examiners in
April shut down the bank, a class
project, claiming it violated
banking regulations, lacked a
license and charter and charged
excessive interest rates.
The problem with the bank’s
penny per day interest rate was
it amounted to more than 300
percent a year. Massachusetts
law limits annual interest rates to
23 percent.
“The legislation is designed to
ensure that this example of ex
cessive regulation not be repe
ated, and that innovative educa
tional programs be allowed to
flourish,” Rep. William B. Ver
non, R-Mansfield, told the com
mittee in explaining the prop
osal.
State Banking Commissioner
Paul Bulman said his depart
ment “can live with the bill” be
cause it stipulates that the bank’s
assets must not exceed $500 in
order to remain exempt from
banking industry regulation.
“There’s no question that the
interest rate exceeds 300 per
cent a year, but the material sus
pect amounted to pennies and
can’t see that there would be an
problems except among parent
who might take exception to tha
sort of rate,” he said.
The students, part of th
school’s High Ability Learner' !
program, sold shares in the ban
at $1 a share — and closed ou
the year with a $ 1.20 return pe
share.
Chief loan officer Marc Gel
ven, in a blue blazer and grei
pants, said the operation was
success until the state stepped in
“We were doing so good it
the bank we diversified an<
opened up a school store,” h<
said.
Texas fugitive apprehended
United Press International
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — An
Idaho man who had been a fugi
tive from federal racketeering
and criminal conspiracy charges
for three years is in custody in
Madison County after being
caught on a “dry law” violation.
Authorities said Monday that
Willard Allen Starks, 39, of Bon
ners Ferry, Idaho was arrested
by a Morgan County Sheriffs
deputy Sunday after beer was
found in his disabled car.
A computer check revealed
the car to be stolen and further
investigation showed Starks was
wanted in Texas for drug traf
ficking and criminal conspiracy,
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said Morgan County Chief De
puty Paul Cain.
Cain said Texas authorities
told his deputies that the bodies
of four of 19 state witnesses sub
poenaed to testify against Starks
in 1980 have been found and the
other 15 are missing.
Lt. Darrell Johnson made the
arrest early Sunday after fine
ing Starks’ ear stranded with
fiat tire south of Falkville nea
the Cullman Morgan Count
line, Cain said.
Cain said Starks was turnei
over to federal authorities Mod,
day. He is seheduled to appea
before a federal magistral'
Tuesday.
Four girls perish
when house burns
United Press International
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A
fire caused by a smoldering
cigarette in a downstairs couch
early Tuesday killed four girls
aged 9 to 16 as they slept in two
double beds in the same bed
room.
Fire Department spokesman
George Placanico said the girls
would have lived had there been
smoke detectors in the home.
Police Capt. Frank Basile said
an initial investigation found the
fire was caused by a cigarette ash
or butt that smoldered in a
downstairs couch after the peo
ple in the house went to sleep.
“It would seem that the
father is a smoker, and he had
apparently been smoking before
he went to bed,” Basile said.
Killed were Heidi McCor
mick, 9, and Melissa McCor
mick, 14, who lived with their
father and brother. Also killed
were Lisa Lay cock, 15, of Eas-
thampton, a friend, and Christ
ine Beaulieu, 16, of Schenec
tady, N.Y.
“The firemen really worked,’
said Placanico. “They knew tht
people were in there but the)
were gone before they even ar
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Beaulieu was the niece ol
Louis Isham, 26, who also livec
with the McCormicks. Ishan
suffered first and second degret
burns on 10 percent of his bod)
while trying to get to the girls
who already were dead, Placani
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McCormick’s son, 14, wokt
first and found the house en
gulfed in flames. He, Richarc
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Medical Examiner William
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of smoke inhalation.
“If they had smoke detector^
they would have been alive to
day,” said Placanico. “They
would have been up earlier, anC
they (firefighters) would have
been able to save these people.’
Suspect being held
in rape, murder
United Press International
FORT WORTH — Author
ities were holding a California
man for questioning in the
strangulation and rape of an En
glish girl, 11, whose nude body
was found three weeks ago in a
Tarrant County field.
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The man was arrested for
drunkenness at a bus terminal in
Quanah, authorities said. He
confessed to the killing, but later
denied it.
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the bus at the bus station,” said
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toxicated, and he stated he had
killed a girl in Fort Worth.”
He later denied the killing,
but Fort Worth police were
questioning him about the inci
dent late Monday. No charges
were filed.
The body of Julie Fuller was
found June 28 in a field in east
Fort Worth, 18 hours after she
disappeared from a motor lodge
in Arlington, where her family
had been staying while looking
for a home.
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