Vol. 99, No. 39 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
BUBLISHED SINCE 1880 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday October 20, 1988
Watkins officials questioned lab test results
Kansan staff writer
Bv Terry Bauroth
Concerns about the accuracy of gynecological tests done for patients at Walkins Memorial Health Center last year caused Walkins and not renew a laboratory's contract in January.
And despite Watkin's concerns, the laboratory is still eligible to bid for more lab work for the state, according to state purchasing officials.
Although officials said this week that patient care had not been compromised, a report submitted by Watkins to the state said care had been compromised
The lab, Upsher Laboratories Inc in Kansas City, Mo., had been under contract with Walkins to provide pap screening and tissue culture. The tests are tests for cervical cancer, for one year
MAWD Inc. in North Kansas City, Mo., is now under contract with Walkins to provide the following services:
"We don't have any evidence of any patient care being compromised, but I think we had a problem with the equipment and abnormal pap smears when they in fact didn't. I said, 'Charles Yockey, chief of staff'
"You don't know if we are missing some animals that are being dressed up," Yorkees told me. "I haven't have knowing if we had a big problem or not. We were concerned enough that we got another dog."
When a pap smear is taken, a cell sample is taken from the cervix. The samples are placed under a microscope and examined for any abnormalities in the cells of a mature or active aged 18 and over are advised to
have pap smears taken once a year
Russell Fiorella, medical director at Upsher Laboratories, said, "It was more or less a misunderstanding between us and Watkins it was very complicated."
He refused to comment further.
Eileen Shaw, state contracting officer with the Division of Purchases in Topeka, said that although Watkins officials had last year submitted adequate documentation for excluding Upsher from further bidding with other包商, she excluded from other包商 the agency handed.
Walkers officials said they wanted Upsher laboratories to be excluded from future hurdles.
An Oct. 11, 1887, memo from Henry W. Buck, chairman of the gynecology department, to Yockey and filed with the Division of Purchases said the contract with Usher
"Contract simply must be broken! What does it take? We must not be forced to compromise patient care any longer," the memo stated.
should be terminated.
But Buck said yesterday that he had to use strong language in the memo so that a company could make sure it didn't
"There were absolutely no instances we knew of where anyone received bad care." "We could have been in an instance where patient care suffered, we could have and would have broken the law."
"If it's not run by an automated machine, then human error comes into play - human error or difference of opinion." It says, "It's hard to use the word 'error' or 'wrong'."
Yockey cautioned that pap smearers were only a screening device, not a diagnosis.
because a pap smear is not an exact science."
In the memo, Buck wrote that one of the reasons for discontinuing service was a problem with the correlation between pap smears and biopsies.
Vockey say, "The only way you have to know whether the paps are right or wrong is by correlating the readings with biopsy results. If somebody has a bad pap smear, it apples to a biopsy, and there should be a pretty correlation between the pap smear and biopsy hairs.
Buck's memo about the laboratory stated. Only rarely is there any inference that any of our patients are not smear with the biopsy. This disserview to the clinician and patient demonstrates a shabby protocol for a case in which we smear with the biopsy.
ISU torchrunners begin homecoming tradition at KU
Please see WATKINS, p. 14, col. 4
lowa State students Brian Heintz and Steve Svendsen hold the torch they will carry to Ames, the torch is carried from their opponent's towel back to Ames as part of a homecoming tradi-
tion.
By Debbie McMahon
Kansan staff writer
It is not quite as far as Athens is from Seoul, but Iowa State University students, who yesterday began a 900 mile journey from Lawrence to Ames, Iowa, still have a long way to go.
As part of their homecoming celebration, students from Iowa State traditionally have carried a torch across campus. When it turns, they will have to run each mile in 8 minutes to arrive by 3 p.m. tomorrow for their graduation.
Kansas plays at Iowa State at 1 p.m. Saturday
The Iowa State students left Ames yesterday at 6 p.m. and arrived with van in Lavergne around 1 p.m. The Iowa State team visited the Iowa State building.
The runners collected plaques for donation to the Farm Crisis Scholarship, which benefits students from pep ranch schools.
Valerieote, an Iowa State senior, said the group expected to raise enough money for three 500 scholarship Votes is chairman of the torch it then subcommittee held last fall. In addition to their initial, the organization that plans homecoming events.
Brian Heitzen, an Iowa State sophomore, coordinated the event. Of the 60 students who applied, he helped choose the 36 who ran. Some alumni also participated, bringing the total of runners to 41.
She said this year's run wasn't as long as last year's when Iowa State played Colorado. The torch-a-thon's longest trip was about four years ago when Iowa State Wyoming in Laramie, about 600 miles from Ames.
"You just have to be able to show and know you can run." Heinzt said. "You want someone to be fun, because you have to be with them all day riding in the van."
Henztz was also in charge of planning the route the group took. It left Lawrence on Sixth Street and went through Atchison on U.S. Highway 59. Then it will take Route 10, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, and connect with U.S. Highway 39 to Artesia.
The trip is divided into three parts with 11 students running in shifts about 100 miles from Lawrence to Union Star. Mo. The second shift of 14 students will run on Monday and Wednesday, while 16 will finish the final 100 miles. Henkz said,
Food, gas and vehicles were donated by businesses in Ames. One van, with a portable stereo hooked to the grill, will follow the runners, and another car will be in front.
Steve Senden, an Iowa State senior, was carrying the torch as the group began. He said he was in good shape afterward.
"I ran a marathon two weeks ago," he said. "And I
bop Punt Tortal Larry Charms and orange juice for brea-
ce."
Indian officials fear sabotage in second crash
34 presumed to be killed in wreck of passenger plane
HMADABAD, India — Investors have not ruded out sabatage in the crash of two domestic airlines that claimed the lives of up to 164 people, a government official said today.
The Associated Press
"Two crashes on the same day in two hours is too much of a coincidence," said the official, who is closely associated with the investigation into yesterday's disasters.
A Boeing 737 operated by Indian Airlines crashed while trying to land in heavy fog at Ahmadabad airport in central India. The plane clipped a tree, struck a power line and exploded on its final approach.
All but five of the 135 people on board died. Doctors said one of the survivors was in critical condition today.
Less than two hours after the disaster, a 30-year-old Fokker Friendship propeller plane leased by Indian Airlines to another domestic carrier, Vayudot, slammed into a hill in eastern India during a severe rainstorm.
All 34 people on board were feared dead, but rescue workers have been unable to reach the crash site due to torrential rain. The airline asked the Indian army for help.
The cause of the accidents was not immediately known. Both planes lost radio contact shortly before crashing, and airline officials said they suspected technical malfunctions.
Federal Aviation Minister Shiv Raaj Potall has ordered investigations into both crashes.
Indian Airlines Flight 131 was flying from Bombay to
Ahmedabad with 129 passengers and six crew members.
Please see INDIA. p. 6, col. 4
Non-members finding way into private clubs
Kansan staff writer
Bv Mark E. McCormick
Although it's illegal, people are slipping into Lawrence's private clubs without club memberships.
State law stipulates that unless State have paid at least a $10 fee, each person accompanying them are accompanying a card-carrying member; they cannot be allowed into the building.
Jim Conat, administrative officer for Alcohol and Beverage Control, said non-member violations were a perilous problem.
"Non-member violations are what we're out there looking for," Conant said. "It's right up there with sales to minors."
By law, a private club is one that makes by less than 30 percent of its total sales in food. Private clubs fall under two categories: Class A, or non-profit clubs; and Class B, for profit clubs. And has 18 class B private clubs.
One visitor to Lawrence, Arne Green, said he did not have a card and was not with a card-carrying woman was allowed into a private club
"We sure didn't have any trouble getting in," said Green, Hutchinson resident, who visited Lawrence in August.
Erik Nelson, Deerfield, Ill., junior,
he said and he some of his friends
frequented private clubs without
being asked for membership cards.
Green said he and a group of about 6 friends were not asked for cards. And two other friends were offered alloy cards, although they don't have cards.
Nelson said he had been to the same club twice and had not been to another. Nelson did check for ages in one visit. Nelson did he wasn't aware of the clubs he was on.
"We never had to have a card." Nelson said. "They didn't even card us. We just had to write our names down."
Students also are getting into the act.
Conant said violations were reported several ways.
"We get calls from citizens about suspicious activities as well as from
Please see CLUBS, p. 14, col. 5
Planes the site of research for student
Warren Bird
By Katy Monk
Kansan staff writer
Commuter flights are a matter of course these days. But when Warren Bird fly between Chicago and Los Angeles in 10 days, people got suspicious.
Actually, Bird was just a KU engineering student doing his工学 on a new fish trap with water samples from airliners for an Environmental Protection Association fellowship project. He conducted independent tests to determine if the fish traps were enforcing health standards "I was their undercover man."
Tickets aboard the three airlines — United Airlines, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines — cost about $1.00 of his $6,000 he said. The work took five minutes in the rear lavatory every flight.
The airlines don't allow Bird, Dodge City graduate student, to conduct his tests in the usual manner — boarding the plane, taking samples and leaving — so he makes the fights to do his research.
"I was their undercover man." Bird said.
The rest of the time - 55
minutes to Chicago or 70 minutes to Kansas City because of headwinds — he spent listening his music, and spending USA Today and people today.
Birds' comings and goings went largely unnoticed until one day near the end of his travels. He hadn't worn a suit jacket that day, so be put the small sample container inside them before shipping them into hisockets
A flight attendant noticehed he had taken his backpack into the lavatory.
After arriving in Kansas City, Bird realized that United had a fight back to Chicago in 30 minutes. Rather than war for his freedom, the United decided to finish the day's work early andchanged his ticket.
Then he noticed the same flight attendant standing by the gate.
Bird realized that he was about to board the plane he had just tested and that he would not accomplish anything by taking the flight.
"I said, 'Is this the same flight I took to Chicago?' " Bird recalled.
"She said. 'Yes. What are you doing getting back on board?' I said I was finished with my business in Kansas City, which I was. Then I went back and changed my ticket to the original time.
"I was standing in line getting ready to board when two guys, one a very large gentleman, approached me and said, We're going to work at the Government Agency. Would you like come over and talk to us?"
Stephen Randike, associate professor of civil engineering, said he and Bird had laughed about the incident later.
At the time, though, Bird didn't think it was so funny. He went with the marcotics agents and put his school debating techniques to use.
"I pulled out my water samples and started talking '90 miles on the road," he said of heads and said "Well, we figured you weren't running drugs, it was."
Bird agreed with their analysis.
"Only something this silly would
be a government answer." he said.
"Only something this silly would be a government project," he said.
Bird said yesterday that he had finished the airline water tests and that all samples had passed safety standards.
State investigating 4 complaints against coupon book
By Janell Good
The fourth complaint being investigated
The Kansas attorney general's office is investigating four complaints against two marketing companies that produced a locally sold coupon book.
Kansan staff writer
Loen Allen, assistant attorney general, said Tuesday that three complaints had been filed with the attorney general's office against High Plains Advertising of Olathe, which sold products to high school students over a year. Allen said that investigators agents couldn't locate the company.
was made against R & R Marketing. 932 Massachusetts St., the company that took over sales of the KU-Lawrence Merchant Gift Book during the summer.
R & R Marketing started selling the coupon books by phone last month.
Camille Dalager, director of Lawrence Consumer Affairs, said that the complaints about her staff's dressing range from dissatisfaction with a vacation certificate that came with the book to dif-ferent outfits.
The vacation certificate offered customers free hotel accommodations.
Dalager said that the complaints were reported first to the Consumer Affairs Office, which sent them to the attorney general's office.
"The coupon books do offer the consumer savings in merchandise, but we suggest not to buy a book just for the vacation certificate." Dalager said
Dalager said the attorney general's office was looking into the entire industry of coupon book sales in Kansas, including possible misrepresentation of vacation certificates.
Ray Green, owner of R & R Marketing,
which sells the KLU-Warranty Merchant Gift
Book, said that he knew about the investigation. He said investigating agents last month asked him about High Plains Advertising. They also wanted a copy of R & R Marketing's contract that was signed by the companies that advertised in the coupon book.
"It makes it rough for the next marketing company that comes into town, after the previous company left on a bad note," Greer said.
Allen said yesterday that no charges had been filed with the attorney general's office to prosecute him.
"We are investigating the possibilities of violations of the Consumer Protection Act Act."
If charges are made, companies in violation would have to pay actual damages to the consumer, up to $2,000 in civil penalties for the damage. In addition, payment fees to the attorney general's office.
Allen said that in general, marketing companies of coupon books had no intentions of a partnership.
Please see COUPONS, p. 8, col. 4
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