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Page 14/The Battalion/Tuesday, September 25,1984 Five convicts breakout from Kansas state pen Warped United Press International LANSING, Kan. — Five convicts, three of them murderers and one a rapist, escaped from the Kansas State Penitentiary Monday by crawl ing through an air shaft and drop ping more than one story to free dom outside the prison walls. More than 90 law enforcment of ficers began a two-county manhunt for the dangerous convicts, using bloodhounds to track them and air planes and helicopters to scan the rolling hills of northeast Kansas. Au thorities patrolled highways, searched businesses and fields, and set up at least one roadblock on the Centennial Bridge leading into Mis souri from Leavenworth. Reports of other sitings indicate the five inmates probably split up, said prison spokesman Troy Baker. “(That) can be good because if they’re not together, maybe they won’t do something stupid,” he said. “When they’re together, sometimes they’re more likely to do some stupid things, show a lot of bravado.” bed which is locked. An 11 p.m, check showed they were all ac counted for at that hour, he said. Baker said the prisoners escaped about 1 a.m. Monday by inching their way through an airshaft intake from a dormitory-style cellhouse within the prison walls. “They cut their way through a heavy wire screen door leading into an equipment room and from the equipment room gained access to the air shaft,” he said. “They had to cut through the wire door and then had to cut through bars at the end of the airshaft.” “Once inside, they lowered them selves down (from the third floor) and came out through an intake in the wall,” he said. “Once out the opening, they were outside the prison walls.” David Barclay, assistant to state Corrections Secretary Michael Bar bara, said the inmates were housed in open cells within the dormitory, It was the prison’s biggest brea kout since September 1981, when seven convicted murderers and rap ists escaped and blazed a path of tef- ror and destruction through Kansas and Missouri over the next seven days. Three were captured shortly after the escape and the others were captured later in southwest Mis souri. Texas company owes U. S. corn or cash—by the million United Press International WASHINGTON — Federal officials have given P.L. Blake, owner of the nation’s largest grain elevator, until Friday to either provide the one mil lion bushels of corn missing from the elevator or pay $3.1 million for it, a Commodity Credit Corp. spokesman said Monday. Texas Agriculture Department officials shut down PLB Grain Stor age Inc. of Plainview, Sept. 14 after confirming a shortage of govern ment-owned corn. Merrill Marxman, a CCC spokes man, said the government’s uniform grain storage agreement will be ter minated if the shortage is not made up and legal action will be taken if necessary.The CCC has paid PLB more than $20 million in storage and handling fees since May 1980. If the CCC contract is terminated, then CCC officials will work with Texas agriculture officials to remove government grain from the ware house, Marxman said. Last week Blake presented CCC offi cials with a plan to correct the short- a pi age, but the officials Marxman said. rejected it, Marxman said that a shortage of this magnitude occurred because PLB had not adjusted its inventory Figures for shrinkage from year to year. “The house failed to do a normal warehouse practice,” Marxman said. in a variety of buildings. The PLB came under scrutiny last year when Texas officials charged there were quality problems with the government-owned grain stored there and said it should be released to drought-stricken farmers and ranchers. SHOE TCW<*> PRS6eCOblfe(2EHC£ T HOW WIU^IS I 'V£ 0ROBTA10MG MV SPEAkSM, KO0UST Ea*W lAm SyOKES, WW2 MLLOAftFY i AFFECT THE. r—1/ MV REA1A2K5. Fl12$rGV£S>VcH! 1 . Zl&riCNr ^ Hispanic rights Lawsuit aimed at reapportioning United Press International PLB is unusual, Marxman said, because most grain warehouses move grain in and out almost con stantly but PLB has kept the same grain for years, he said. The CCC unloaded most of its more than 25 million bushels of grain from PLB under the Emer gency Livestock Feed Program in the last six to nine months, federal officials said. The CCC was sup posed to have 1.8 million bushels left before the shortage was discovered. He said elevator officials were in formed by government inspectors in March 1983 that they were 400,()()() bushels short. No action was taken to remedv the situation then, he said. Richard Goldberg, U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture deputy under secretary, said the PLB must meet three criteria if their contract is to continue — quantity, quality and net worth. 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