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Rep. subpoenaed in meetings probe By John Hanna Associated Press
TOPEKA — A Kansas House member promised Friday to resist testifying after being subpoenaed by a county prosecutor investigating private meetings that Gov. Sam Brownback
had with legislators at his official residence. Rep. Scott Schwab, an Olathe Republican, said he received a subpoena Thursday ordering him to appear June 7 in Shawnee County District Court, and he sent an electronic copy to The Associated Press. Schwab
was angry about being summoned to answer questions, calling it “beyond ridiculous” because he wasn’t at any of the gatherings. He said he will ask the Kansas attorney general’s office to work to get the subpoena quashed — and ask the court to force Shawnee
County District Attorney Chad Taylor, a Democrat, to end his investigation of seven private gatherings legislators had with the Republican governor in January at Cedar Crest, his official residence. Please see MEETINGS, page 5A Schwab
A bumper crop of butterflies
SERVING MINORS
Kansas’ laws for bars lenient ——
State not nearly as strict as some about underage drinking By Shaun Hittle sdhittle@ljworld.com
In 2011, 17 Lawrence bars racked up a total of 119 citaNick Krug/Journal-World Photo tions from Alcohol Beverage Control for serving alcohol A HACKBERRY EMPEROR BUTTERFLY SWOOPS IN to join others on a rotting piece of cantaloupe left near the entryway of the Fitch Natural to minors. Those same bars History Reservation Tuesday north of Lawrence. Some experts believe the mild winter helps explain the population boom of the species. were prosecuted by ABC 44 times since 2009. Total days those bars have had their liquor license suspended: six. As the city of Lawrence By Alex Garrison of their leaves early, a rare feat. looks for ways to curb police on the local ecology. acgarrison@ljworld.com calls to area bars, and Kansas The Hackberry butterflies, Mark Robbins, the ornithology How to get there University seeks to cut down named after the hackberry trees collection manager at KU, said Go anywhere near the Kansas
From the Kansas River on underage drinking, little has that make up the wooded area the diminished tree cover will University Fitch Natural History Bridge, continue east on Sixth been made about Kansas laws of the Fitch reserve, are a few lead to greater amounts of vegReservation north of Lawrence, Street into North Lawrence. — some of the most lenient in inches across and have gray and etation on the woodland floor.
After passing the Interand you’re in for a treat. If you the country — for punishing brown markings. The caterpil- That’ll be aided by the decay of state 70 junction, turn right make it within the next week, bars that serve minors. lars that eventually turn into the the butterflies’ bodies. onto US Highway 24/40. experts say, you’ll be able to see The exact reason for this “That’s unusual,” said Jim Hackberries have boom years
Turn left onto East 1600 Mosher, president Alcohol firsthand tens of thousands of occasionally, Taylor said, but year’s population outbreak isn’t Road (there will be a sign for Policy Consultations, as he butterflies, the result of a “poputhis year is “particularly remark- known, but Robbins suspects the field station). examined the Kansas laws lation outbreak” that resulted able” with an explosion in popu- that it’s cyclical, and that next
Continue on 1600 over the from a wide variety of factors, and penalties. “That really lation over a fairly limited geo- year’s yield may be even bigMud Creek bridge including the very mild winter. sounds crazy.” graphical area, just about two ger. In the meantime, research There will be several ers will keep an eye on how the Perhaps it’s better put that This is what Mosher was miles square. turns, but past the junction with the butterflies themselves are referring to: In addition, this year’s ban- unusual conditions may lead to
Kansas bars caught serv2000 Road is the Fitch entrance in for a treat: you. That’s bener butterfly flock is very early changes in patterns of behavior ing minors face a $500 fine for (2060 East 1600 Road). cause it’s theorized that the — almost three weeks earlier in everything from plant spea first offense. Penalties creep cies to migratory birds. thousands of male Hackberry than normal. up to $1,000 for a third viola“Next year may be phenomeEmperor butterflies need to “I’ve seen a lot of outbreaks,” tion. Not until the fourth does consume salt to complete their great source, too. This makes he said, “but this is as good as nal,” he said. “It’s hard to say what a bar face a license suspenfactors lead to booms, but I hope sexual development. They can for swarms of very friendly any I’ve seen.” sion of two days. It would take lap up salts from mud puddles butterflies. But the “amazThe Hackberry Emperor cat- next year we see huge numbers.” eight violations before a bar and other sources, Chip Taylor, ing” numbers of butterflies erpillars were so numerous in — Reporter Alex Garrison can be reached could lose its license. director of Monarch Watch, aren’t just an impressive sight. the Fitch this year that entire at 832-7261. The Kansas laws look said, but people’s skin makes a They’re having a huge impact hackberry trees were stripped paltry when compared with other states. In Nebraska, for instance, a bar would face license reSHIRLEY ROCHESTER, of vocation by a fourth violation. In Oklahoma, it’s posrural Baldwin sible to face revocation after City, displays a first offense. By Elvyn Jones Nearby is another photo ter said. “Gary was out in the ejones@theworldco.com of Gary. It shows him shorn open, and the other soldier Just for violations in 2011, a photograph of most of his hair and again was in the jungle. They were of her young- nine Lawrence bars had Shirley Rochester points kneeling on one knee be- talking back and forth when enough citations to face lier brother, to a photograph of her broth- tween two other soldiers, all Gary was shot.” cense revocation under the Gary Johnson, Nebraska law. er on her kitchen table. Gary wearing white T-shirts and The photographs are taken shortly Johnson is in a football uni- olive green fatigues. “This is what works for among a file of keepsakes before he was us,” said Hobert Rupe, execform, kneeling on one knee On Feb. 16, 1968, shortly Rochester has of her brothwith windblown black hair after the second photograph er: more photos, newspaper utive director of the Nebraskilled in the that makes him resemble a was taken, an enemy sniper clippings and rubbings of his Vietnam War. ka Liquor Control Commisyoung Elvis Presley. took Gary’s life in Gia Dinh name that friends have made sion. The stricter laws help “That’s how I remember Province outside of Saigon. at the Vietnam Memorial Elvyn Jones/Journal- the state separate the bars World Photo him,” his sister said. “He had “He was walking point Please see BROTHER, page 2A Please see BARS, page 2A pitch-black hair.” with another guy,” Roches-
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