Local marijuana possibly contains paraquat
By TOM RAMSTACK
Staff Writer
Paraguay-contaminated marijuana is apparently being sold in Lawrence.
Two University of Kansas students said yesterday that they had two samples of marijuana tested, one of which came from a 1,500-pound lot of marijuana of being distributed by several dealers, and that they were told by biochemists that their samples were contaminated with paracetamol.
Parraquat is a herbicide and defoliant, which was used to destroy crops in Vietnam. It can cause damage to grasses and weeds.
The marijuana, with a street value of about $400,000, was brought from Mexico to a central distribution point in western Mexico. Several dealers met the students and offered the marijuana when it was divided, the students said.
One of the students said that the western Kansas marijuana distribution point received shigments
He said he had paid $140 for one quarter pound of the marjiana shipment. Another student he bought a one quarter pound supply of marjiana for $120 from what he thought was a different shipment.
Eddy Meltzer, Overland Park senior, said he knew of separate marijuana samples from Lawrence that were sent to two testing laboratories, which combined the marijuana was contaminated with paranazit.
MELTZER SAID that in early June one sample was sent to Schoenfeld Clinical Labs in Albuquerque and another to the Pharmchem Research Foundation in Palo Alto, Calif.
Arche Schoenfeld, a biochemist for Schoenfeld Clinical Labs, said that on June 5 a sample of marijuana from Kansas was confirmed to be paranail-contaminated.
Schoenfeld said that Schoenfeld Clinical Labs received 100 to 150 one-gram samples of marijuana weekly and that about 10 percent was contaminated with paracetamol.
John Kotecki, director of the Pharmchem Research Foundation, said that of the 14,000 samples of
marijuana tested by Pharmchem since March 1, 34 percent was found to be contaminated with narcampan
KOTECHI SAID that Pharmacist had records only of the first 2,000 samples and that, of those samples, four were from Kansas and one was contaminated with parapult.
The incidence of paraguay-contaminated marijuana is increasing steadily. Kotecki said, but she increased the in paraguay-contaminated samples was not a statistical reflection of all marijuana.
"At first people sent in just any marijuana they be had. Now they're sending in only the marijuana."
George Root, an emergency medical technician and staff member for *Street Pharmacology of North Miami*, Fla., said that of the 1,700 marijuana samples collected from residents in a 1.38 percent was contaminated with paraputan.
Root said marijuana on the East Coast was less likely to be contaminated because it generally came from a larger number of farms.
THE MARJUANA in the West, he said, came mostly from Mexico, the only large producer of marijuana, where the crops were sprayed with paraquat.
Ron Jones, a lab supervisor for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, said, "The largest part of the marijuana in this area is locally grown. But as far as shipment is that shipped in, I think it comes from Mexico."
Root aid. "Our sampling is not a scientific sample, so there's no way to get an accurate estimate of how much it hurts."
SINCE 1873 the U.S. government has provided to Mexico $40 million in deflation, aerial spraying equipment and other supplies to destroy illegal marijuana and opium crops.
However, most marjainua farmers immediately harvest their crops after they are sprayed with the defolant, according to Kelth Stoup, national director of the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Law.
If exposed to direct sunlight for 24 to 48 hours, parachute breaks down chemically and is not a risk.
BUT ACCORDING to the April 28 issue of Science magazine, "Scientists at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina were able to analyze the smoke from a contaminated marijuana cigarette with a mass spectrometer. They discovered that roughly 5 percent of the paraguay remains in pure form after burning. Coupled with the discovery that recent samples of marijuana entering the United States contained a concentration of paraguay as high as 2.34 parts per million, this evidence was alarming."
Recently Joseph Califano Jr., secretary or nurse, education, and welfare, said. "The herbicide persists in the smoke of a contaminated marijuana cigarette and may be inhaled by the smoker. The parquate asleep as few as one to three contaminated cigarettes for several months risk irreversible lung damage."
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Science magazine reported on research with rats, saying, "The laboratory studies demonstrated that when an increasingly small amount of the herbicide 2-Chlorophenylmethane is applied to a fibrosis, or a scarring that inhibits the ability of the
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KANSAN
Monday July 17,1978
Members say topless dancing at club harmless
Members of the Fort, a private club at 508 Locust St., expressed opposition Friday to an attempt the previous day to prosecute a woman for dancing toeless at the club.
On July 7 the woman was cited for indecent exposure when she removed her hatler top while employed at The Fort. She left the police to appear in Municipal Court Thursday.
Municipal Court Judge George Catt
declared Thursday that the city's ordinance
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against indecent exposure was un- constitutionally broad.
As it is worded now, Catt said, the ordinance could outlaw lockers in locked rooms.
The ordinance states, "Any person who willfullyifies his or her person or private parts in any public place or in any place where a person has been convicted, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
FOR THE purposes of this section, the phrase 'person or private parts' shall include male and female genitalia, buttocks and female breast."
Bob Fry, owner of The Fort, said topless dancing would continue at the club.
"I think they need to make a distinction between public and private places," Fry said. "I'm a firm believer that anyone who's worked at the school wants. Who's to decide what a good for them?"
"This is a private club and people forget that you buy your privacy."
"IVE NEVER tried to hide anything from the police," he said. "I gave two or three police members here as well as some lawyers and doctors."
Fry said he thought the city ordinance against indecent exposure was enforced at his club after an advertisement in the Journal-World saying, "X-rated. If you're not offended by beautiful women or exotic dance, come to The Fort."
Mark Goodman, Fry's lawyer, said, "Our position is that in public places, yes, nudity should be prohibited. But in private places there's no reason for it to be protected."
Elmerine Rogers, 912 Pennsylvania St.,
said, "I don't see anything wrong with it.
They need to go out and close down the streets.
I've seen worse on the streets."
Barbara Wheeler, a bartender at the Fort, said, "No one minds watching a beautiful woman putting on a beautiful dress and put on a performance. They don't just sit in."
Gayle Cox, 100%² New Jersey St., a member of the Fort. Sir, "it would be like if people who objected to Walt Disney movies went out to ston that."
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Kelly Sullivan of Worden had her hands full when she walked to the Kansas Union with her 6-month-old puppies. Sullivan was looking for someone to give her a pet.
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Postal Service talks still stalled
WASHINGTON (AP)—Federal mediators reported some progress yesterday in efforts to reach a contract settlement with 554,000 federal postal workers but said both sides remained deadlocked on the main issues that separated them.
"The parties have reached agreement in a number of areas, including some important ones, over the weekend," Wayne L. Horvitz, chief federal mediator, said in a prepared statement. "In that sense we are closer to dealing with us we still have the main issues to deal with."
Negotiators for the U.S. Postal Service and three unions were working against a midnight Thursday deadline, when the current three-year contract expires.
The unions say wages would not have become a major issue in the current talks if the Carter administration had not irritated the workers about postal worker's large wage demands.
John Rogers, a spokesman for federal mediators, who entered the stalled talks a week ago, refused to disclose what issues he was discussing with one of the big disagreements were included.
The unions have asked for a $1,965 wage increase for each worker over two years plus full cost-of-living protection. Based on a projected annual inflation rate of 7 percent, the union's wage demand would amount to about a 13 percent annual increase from the $15,877 the average postal worker now receives.
Although federal law prohibits postal workers from striking, some militant East Coast locals have threatened a repeat of the scattered strikes that occurred in 1970 after bargainers working on a new contract failed to achieve a settlement by the deadline.
increases have not kept pace with increases won by other unions.
The negotiations have taken on particular significance this year because the Carter administration has made the talks a key test of its anti-inflation program, which seeks to apply the brakes to large wage increases won by unions in recent years.
The Postal Service and several corporations have drawn up contingency plans.
Even so, some union officials say privately that they are willing to make major concessions to management on issues of workers' rights; agrees to continue the ban against layoffs.
TWO KEY disputes are wages and a no-injoy clause in the current contract, which requires payment.
THE FINAL WAGE settlement will exert a major influence over future postal rates because $7 out of every $8 spent by the Postal Service goes for labor costs. Mail cost increases, and an increased agreement, increasing the price of a first-class letter from 10 cents to 15 cents.
The postal unions argue that their wage
The Postal Service, which has operated with a no-layoff clause since 1973, has eliminated 86,000 jobs since 1970 through attrition. Management wants to get rid of the ban on layoffs to increase its flexibility in use of its work force.
The cost of bus passes will increase from $18 to $12 next fall but students will receive about 25 percent more service, according to Mike Harper, student body president.
Harper said that in the 1977-78 school year the Lawrence Bus Co. #41 Pennsylvania St., charged the Student Senate $12 for each hour a bus was providing service for the University of Kansas campus. That rate has increased to $15 an hour for the 1978-78 school year.
Bus fares,service increase
Harper also said that the buses provided
service for the KU campus for 9,172 hours
each semester last year. The service will be
increased to 11,172 hours a semester for the
Harper said the cost of next year's contact with the Lawrence Bus Co. would be $85,000.
To help fund the additional service $274,743 will come from student fees paid at CABE.
generate $155,400 and the single fare rate of 25 cents is expected to produce $30,000.
ALL THE REVENUES together will leave a surplus of $125,983, which Harper said probably would be used to add two additional units to provide service for the KU campus.
Harpar said two other routes already were being added. The routes would run from campus to Daisy Hill and from campus to Trailridge Apartments. 2600 W. Sixth St.
If the surplus revenue is not used for additional routes, he said, it may be used to increase the hours that the buses run during the night.
Harpier said the revenue would increase by 8,000 hours from the 1977-78 school year.
He said the main reason he wanted to increase bus service was to avoid the tolls.
He said the Senate had reserved two buses in case bad weather caused overcrowding.
Last year, he said, the Senate had two buses reserved, but neither worked well.
HARPER REFERRED to an assault on a bus driver Feb. 17 when he said, "I think it was caused by overcrowding of buses on too few routes. The bus drivers were working in humid andulous conditions. That's why we added a bus on the campus to Daisy Hill route."
the 1977-78 school year, especially in the winter.
"It seems funny to me that we spend nearly a half million dollars on transportation with almost no student input," he said.
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Harper said that he planned to appoint a transportation board in the fall that would oversee the operation of the KU on Wheels program.
Police begin slowdown
By DAVID LINK
Lawrence policemen initiated action over the weekend to exert pressure on city administrators to modify their proposals for a law that would work agreement with police employees.
Policeman Jack Elder yesterday termed the action "a selective slowdown."
"But you better believe that if there's an emergency, we'll be there."
"Each individual officer is using his own discretion in deciding whether or not to submit a report."
“It’s a matter of seeing who's going to give out first,” Elder said.
ELDER SAID that the current action was confined exclusively to the issuance of traffic citations but did not preclude the possibility of intensified work action.
Firefighters strongly rejected a proposed
Elder said that the effects of the slowdown would not be evident until later today, when the weekend's traffic citations were tallied.
Meanwhile, firefighters' union officials were expected to complete a poll of their membership today on a proposed one-year agreement with the city.
Two University of Kansas students were killed Saturday in a head-on collision on U.S. 59 about 15 miles south of Lawrence.
Collision kills two students; three injured
Susan Mundinger, 22, Shawnee Mission senior, and Kathryn Dawson, 25, Lawrence senior, both of 601 Alabama St. dead at the scene from multiple injuries.
two-year agreement Thursday and were so closely split on a one-year proposal that it was impossible to get the agreement on time.
Injured in the crash, which occurred about 12.45 a.m., was Ernest E. Sheepard, 49, Topka, listed in critical condition at the University of Kansas Medical Center with multiple broken bones and head injuries.
The accident occurred when Williams' northbound car struck the small pickup truck driven by Dawson.
Helin was released from the hospital yesterday with a broken leg. Both Helin and Shepard were passengers in the car driven by Williams.
Knight said he would not discuss the possibility of work action by the firefighters until the results of the membership poll were known.
Also injured was Teresa Hellein, 19, and Gregory R. Williams, 29, and toopica Willems. Williams is listed in serious condition at the University Hospital. He has major injuries and multiple broken bones.
FIREFIGHTERS' union president Don Knight said that he proposed the vote on a one-year agreement with the same basic rules as the other two, in an effort to reach some kind of consensus.
Mayor Donald Binus has said that any serious work action on the part of city employees would be met with strong disciplinary action, including termination.
In a statement issued Friday and mailed to each policeman and firefighter, city commissioners attempted to clarify their position regarding the proposed police and fire agreements of understanding for 1979-1980.
The statement said that at impasse hearings held with both groups J28, the 28
commission suggested that more negotiations were in order but that police and fire representatives disagreed and had asked the commission to make a decision.
"WE HAVE SINCE made that decision, which we feel provides a fair, competitive wage and benefit package and one which benefits our lawyers of Lawrence," the statement said.
The city's offer to policemen calls for a total of 15 percent in pay increases over the next two years. Police representatives have to do the timing of one of the pay increases.
City firefighters have been offered a package that would give them a 6 percent pay increase in 1979 and again in 1980. They say that a 6 percent increase in 1980 does not guarantee them enough money to keep pace with inflation.
City commissioners added a clause to both packages that would require negotiations to be reopened on wages for 1980 if the inflation rate exceeds 9 percent.
Lenient book loan policy benefits faculty members
Staff Writer
By MELISSA STINSON
Although the percentage of faculty who abuse lending privileges at Watson Library is small, the library is powerless in remedying the problem.
"There are no restrictions on them so it's our fault," Eileen McGrath, circulation librarian, said last week.
McGarth said there was a provision in the library leading code that said faculty members should pay for books that had been lost.
mimics a small pay phone. You don't have to tell them that "But we have no idea if it's lost unless they tell us," she said.
Faculty members are allowed a four-month loan period, which can be interrupted if a student requests the book. There are no fines incurred upon the faculty for late returns as long as there is an account.
"there are very few who abuse it," *Kathy Dugan*, chairman of the Senate Libraries Committee, said. "However, those who do make it difficult for those who don't."
McGRATH SAID there had been a variety of problems with faculty lending privileges. "First of all, some faculty members don't respond to recall notices," she said.
Although most faculty members were easily contacted, some were either slow to answer or never responded to the notices, she said.
Another problem was that faculty members sometimes took books with them when they left the campus or the University for an extended period of time.
"Whether it's malloc or unintentional we don't know, but a professor will take the books someone else, she said." Sometimes he goes on sabbatical and wants to take the books
She said the library was considering imposing fines as a solution to the problem.
She said the library was considering imbibing tapes as a rubric to the pouch. "We've got a hand on students with the fines but there's no handle on faculty like we have."
"WE NORMALLY will rewrite letters to the faculty and each letter gets a little tougher."
Saugen said that the Libraries Committee was trying to resolve its study of the problem by finding a system that would take care of those who abuse l谦赁 privileges while not exposing them.
She said the committee tentatively passed a proposal to change the lending privileges for everybody at its last meeting in May.
"The gist of the recommendation is to simplify the lending code, limit fines to those who don't get books returned and cooperation with the faculty." Jim Ranek, dean of libraries,