Friday, February 27, 1976
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Charge filed on Shelton
University Daily Kansai
Reuben Shelton, KU basketball player, was charged yesterday with making a false report to the police in connection with a shooting incident here Jan. 11.
The gusset wound in the knee sidelined
Shelton for the rest of the baskettle season.
The charge resulted from an investigation by Lawrence and KU police. Douglas County Attorney David Berkowitz said that Shelton accidentally shot himself.
Shelton was issued a summons to appear in arraignment in Douglas County Court on March 24, 1965.
Shelton had told police that a tall black man came to his door on the morning of Jan. 11 and asked him to accompany him to a house where he said, Shelton's sister, was in the hospital.
Shelton told he went with the man and after they had driven a couple of blocks in the man's car, the man told him to get out of the car. The man then shot twice at Shelton with a pistol, wounding him in the left knee, Shelton told police.
Police said a pistol found near campus a few days later proved to be the weapon that fired.
Making a false report to police is a Class
a misdemeanor punishable by up to one
year in the county jail and a fine up to $2,500
or both.
Warmth cools Mont Bleu
By JIM COBE
Staff Writer
Although fickle Mother Nature hasn't cooperated this winter, the new owner of an artificial snow skiing area near Lawrence plans to continue operations next season.
The owner of the Mont Bleu skiing facility, Walter Klammer, said Tuesday that the slopes had been open for only two weeks this winter.
Usually warm weather was the primary reasons for the short season, he said, and the short period added to the high temperatures of past management had also experienced.
The average high temperature recorded in Lawrence for the past week was 63.7 degrees, as opposed to a 38-degree average in Chicago. The difference is about five miles southeast of Lawrence.
By then, the weather was too warm to maintain a snow cover on the slopes, according to Mont Blen's assistant manager, Rich Campbell. Prairie Village senior
"We had a really freaky winter," cautioned referring to weather conditions for skiing.
There must be one to three days of temperatures below 28 degrees, with no more
The best snow is made at even lower temperatures, between nine and 12 degrees.
Klammer said he opened the area for such a short period because of the negative publicity it would receive if it were closed for the entire season.
It won't open again this year, he said,
unless the weather becomes cold for at least ten
or 60 per cent humidity, for the artificial snow that covers the slopes to be made.
Student fire alarms put on local firemen
He said the facilities weren't used enough because area people didn't realize that ski slopes were available when it wasn't snowing.
By GREG BASHAW
Staff Writer
Campbell said Mont Bleu was an alternative for students and others who had neither the time nor the money to ski on Colorado slopes.
A fire alarm buzzed through Gertrude Sellars Pearson Hall early Wednesday night for an unusual reason: There was a fire in the building.
"You can spend one day here and save a lot of hassle in Colorado," he said. "And you will be happy."
Most fire alarms from campus buildings are false alarms or unnecessary calls, LaRoy Spence, assistant fire chief of the Lawrence Fire Department, said yesterday.
The fire department quickly extinguished Wednesday the small electrical fire in GSP's kitchen. Most of the times the firefighters went on campus, it finds no fire. Spence said.
The department has answered eight false alarms on campus this year. In an average year about 10 false alarms are called in, he said.
Most false alarms are turned in from off campus housing residences, he said.
"We don't have a forthright policy of eviction for those that fire the alarms but for those that aren't."
"If you get nitpicky about unnecessary calls, then you run the risk that there'll be a real fire that someone doesn't call in," Sence said.
Costs are cheaper on weekdays than on weekends, Campbell said. When temperatures are cold enough, Mont Bleu is open all week.
“KU gets blamed for having a lot of false alarms when most actually are turned in at apartment buildings and fraternities that agent'a part of the University.” be said.
The housing department emphasizes a fire prevention approach that has paid off by reducing the number of false alarms over the last four years, he said.
Most alarms in campus buildings are the local type that are designed primarily to get people out of buildings, Spence said. In buildings that store irreplaceable goods, more sophisticated fire systems are used. Spooner Museum has a smoke detector system in a department with a special hotline, he said, and the smoke detection system that have caused false alarms in the past have recently been corrected, he said.
J. J. Wilson, KU housing director, said the University dealt individually with students who turned in false alarms from residence halls.
The fire department never considered a call unnecessary, he said, until it had been called.
"We try to make students see what an inconvenience the alarm fares are for
"A lot of unnecessary calls come from people not able to identify a cause of smoke, even from people worried about a sizzling fluorescent light," he said.
In addition to false alarms, the fire department has its share of unnecessary calls. Spence said, which concern small that private parties could have handled.
Dana Brabec, Lawrence junior, said he had skied at Mont Blue over the past three years. Cost and convenience are ad-hoc. He said a ski slope near Lawrence, he said.
fellow residents and the firemen, too," he said.
Eliane Green, resident director of Oliver Hall, said false alarms are dangerous to children.
"The more false alarms you have, the slower the people leave the building," she said.
Residents have fallen down stairs and had other accidents while evacuating the hall for false alarms, she said. Residence hall contract states that all persons in the hall should leave after a fire alarm. Oliver Hall has had one false alarm this semester, she said.
Mike Thomas, director of police and parking, said that the official University policy was to arrest persons who turned in false alarms.
But few alarm investigations end in criminal charges because of lack of information.
"False fire alarms have always been a part of the college scene and always are."
He said that the biggest danger of false alarms was that people wouldn't believe an alarm to be true.
Wendy Martin, resident director of GSP, agreed. She said that GSP residents were slow to leave the hall Wednesday night even though there was potential danger from the fire alarm. But she said only one false alarm since a fire in a trash chute last semester, she said.
"The trash fire made the place reek of smoke," she said. People thought about what it was to start a fire or turn in a false alarm after that."
Watson to study on Europe trip
City Manager Buford Watson will leave, Lawrence Sunday for three-week study of education.
Watson said he had been chosen in December to make the trip with city managers from San Jose, Calif.; Burbank, Calif.; Dellas; Salem, Ore.; Winston, Winston; St. Martin St. Marie, Ont. The International City Management Association will sponsor the trip.
Watson said yesterday he would study policy development and technical problems during his trip, to England, Germany and the Netherlands.
When he returns, Watson said, he will write a research paper reviewing his studies and present it to the Kettering Foundation, an Ohio organization that supports research projects across the nation.
"If you're planning to take a skid trip to Colorado, you don't want to go out there green," he said. "You can go out to Montana or California, but the snow cover is great if the weather is right."
Brabek said he thought the greatest problem with the sk1 area was "the silly ones"
Campbell said Mont Bleu sold and rented limited quantities and types of equipment. About 60 per cent of the skiers rent equipment, he said.
retail equipment for sale and rental
equipment, shopping area and a first-aid
aid station located by the retailer.
"It may get cold enough at night, but it's too warm in the dawtime." he said.
The ski run, although of one continuous length, is divided into an upper and a lower slope, with a total run distance of about one-fourth mile.
The upper slope, which Campbell said was "a good challenge," wasn't open this year because the tow assembly for the higher slope wasn't operating.
Skiing lessons also are offered at Mont Bleu.
“It’s not fake snow, it’s artificial,” he said. “It’s the same as real snow, except its made of ice.”
Campbell said that the artificial snow used on the slopes was made with air condensation. He said that the air are forced together under high pressure, creating a cloud of snow that settles on the slope.
Although it wouldn't be economically feasible at present, Klammer said he had longterm hopes of installing a chair lift and providing easy access using of styring foam pellets instead of snow.
"We just want to keep it open," Campbell said.
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But at present the future of Mont Bleu depends on the weather and the balance
He said he 'hoped to develop programs with the schools that would include skating on an ice rink.'
The lodge at Mont Bleu contains both
The costs of $8 an hour for private lessons and $4 an hour for groups of three or more persons are much cheaper than rates at Colorado resorts, Campbell said.
"Bunny Hill," a smaller, separate slope for teaching is an idea size for instruction.
Brabec said he also hoped Mont Bleu would continue operating in future years.
Klammer said he was planning improvements at Mont Bleu, including buy new rental equipment and working more efficiently in the departments of area colleges and high schools.
and I dare hate to see it close up.' In "he's
simply the only place to skim in
Kansas."
Karen M. Booker, Lawrence graduate student, has been named the outstanding graduate student in linguistics at KU.
"If you go out there and you don't know how to ski, you'll be seeing the skair patrol for you."
Some minor injuries are sustained at Mont Bleu each year, he said, citing sprained ankles and twisted knees as the most common complaints. There are also two or three broken legs suffered during an average year, he said.
Events...
One week in particular of this year's operation had been "very successful," he said.
SUNDAY: THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS COLLEGUM MUSICUM, directed by the professor of music history, will present "An Early American Musical Sampler."
**TONIGHT:** THE RAM DASS FILM FESTIVAL will be at 7 and 9:30 on the United
Williams Center campus. BELIEVE, Wash. graduate student,
TONIGHT will attend an 8:45 Shower at 8:50 a.m.
Campbell, who is also a ski instructor,
said lessons were essential for beginners.
A story appearing in yesterday's Kansan should have read that the Hawk's Nest will be closed at night on weekends from Feb. 20 to March 26.
The Spanish American Novel, a book by John S. Brushwood, professor of Spanish literature, has been cited as the outstanding publication of 1975 by the University of Texas.
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Klammer, who is a Kansas City, Mo., engineer, said his primary goal was to get the area open early next season, about Dec. 1, if the weather was cold enough. He said he also hoped to break even or make a profit next year.
Announcements...
TODAY: THE LAWRENCE ANTIQUE SHOW will be open from 11 a.m. to 10
today; tomorrow and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday in the National Guard
The area has been operating about 10 years. The other other comparative facility in the area is not operational.
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