University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 22, 1978
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Melting swells Missouri rivers; flooding expected for two weeks
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri rivers and streams, swollen from melted snow, continued to flood lowlands yesterday as the weather continued to continue for another 10 days to two weeks.
The Missouri River was running above flood stage from Ruloe, Nb., to St. Joseph and from Waverley to Jefferson City, Mo. The eight feet above flood stage at some points.
River crests for the remainder of the week will depend on how fast ice mets in nor’easter move. The best way to observe them is
"We're not through with this yet, and we won't be through with it for a week," a
spokesman for the National Weather Service in Kansas City said. "We should be in some sort of flood condition for the next 10 days to two weeks."
The Missouri was expected to crest 5 feet above flood stage at St. Joseph, 3 feet above at Achison and 2½ feet above at Leavenworth Thursday; 4½ above at Lexington, 5½ above at Waverly, and 4½ above at Glasgow, Mo. late Wednesday; 6½ above at Glasgow, Mo., 7 feet above at Gasconde, Mo., and 3½ above at Jefferson City Saturday.
The Platte River, a northwest Missouri stream, was expected to crest 4 feet above the river at high tide.
Minor lowland flood continued along the Grand River. The river crested near 30 feet at Chiltepeh, Mo., Tuesday; 6 feet over flood stage. The river crested 9 feet over flood stage at Summer and is expected to rise 8% feet over flood stage at Brunswick.
that point until Saturday. At Tracy and Platte City, the river was expected to crest Thursday afternoon 8½ feet above flood stage.
A crest of 2 feet over flood was forecast for the Mississippi at St. Geneva, Mo., Sunday, 2½ feet over flood at Cape Girardeau on Monday, 3 feet over flood at New Madrid next Tuesday and 7 feet over flood at Caruthersville on March 29.
HARTFORD, Conn. (UPI)—8en. Abraham Ribicoff said Monday that about 100 children died each summer at youth camps because Congress and most states refused to enact mandatory safety standards.
Safety requested for youth camps
Ribicoff said many camps operated with "dangerous equipment, unsafe or improperly operated vehicles, poor sanitation facilities, inadequate medical provisions, untrained personnel, improper supervision and hazardous activities."
The Connecticut democrat testified about summer and youth camps before the Senate Child and Human Development Subcommittee in Washington in support of ias bill to establish mandatory safety standards for camps.
legislation be enacted by this time I believe that many of the estimated 100 deaths and more than a quarter of million serious accidents which occur at camps each summer could have been avoided," Ribicoff said.
"Had substantive youth camp safety
Eight million to 10 million American children attend about 10,000 summer camps each year, but only 10 states have some type of camp or monitoring camp conditions and operations.
Only 12 states have significant health and safety regulations, and only 28 states have some regulations dealing with youth camp safety.
Ribicoff's bill would require the secretary of health, education and welfare to establish
minimum standards for the operation of safe and sanitary camp facilities.
Such standards would be developed in cooperation with an advisory council on children and youth camp safety and would have to be approved by Congress.
To comply with minimum federal standards, states would have three options: to enforce federal standards; to enforce their own regulations which would be to be at least equal to federal guidelines; or to grant authority to enforce federal requirements.
Financial incentives—up to 80 percent matching funds—would be available to states choosing to enforce standards themselves.
Approval likely for handicapped access bill
TOPEKA (AP)—Despite pleas that government is intruding deep into the private sector, the Kansas Senate yesterday tentatively approved a bill greatly increasing accessibility of public buildings to the handicapped.
the bill would require that public-use buildings constructed or renovated after Jan. 1, 1979, be accessible by the physically handicapped according to national building standards.
If approved, the bill goes to the House for consideration
In other action, Gov. Robert F. Bennett
signed into law a bill requiring energy efficiency standards in new construction.
Bennett noted that the Kansas Energy Office estimated the new standards could save nearly $300,000 annually on Kansas utility bills.
The energy efficiency standards, which specify insulation and related requirements for new buildings, were enacted last year by the Kansas Corporation Commission.
In other action:
*The House gave final approval, 115-6, to a bill providing $5 million in state aid to
Railroad car companies said to violate safety laws
WASHINGTON (UPI)—UPI and chemical companies that own most of the jumbo tank cars carrying dangerous substances have resisted safety improvements, and the railroad industry is in wholesale violation of law. Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-FLR, charged Monday.
Chiles chaired a hearing into the explosions of chemical-laden rail tank cars that he said in the past 10 years killed 43 persons, injured 1,341 and caused $80 million in damage.
Although Chiles and Sen. James Sasser, D-Tenn., the fault lay with the owners of the tank cars-98 percent are owned by the oil and chemical companies that fill them, Powers said the railroads should bear the cost and be made liable for damages and death.
The Senate government officials subcommittee also heard from Jimmy Powers, mayor of Waverly, Tenn., where 15 persons died and 80 more were burned when a liquid propane gas car blew up after a deralment Feb. 24. Two days later, eight persons were injured after a rail car carrying chlorine was derailed in Youngstown, Fla.
National Transportation Safety Board member Philip Hogue agreed with Chiles and Sasser's contention that the oil and chemical companies blocked an attempt seven years ago by the Federal Railroad Administration, which are twice as heavy as older models.
The railroad administration ordered last year that all such cars be equipped with safety devices costing about $1,650 on each car, which is worth $40,000.
But only 25 of the 20,000 jumbo tankers are now safety-equipped. Gogh said, and the
companies have until 1982 to finish the job,
even though it could be done by the end of
the year.
Cliles said the railroads have been in charge of coming up with specifications for the safety devices, which have caused problems. Cliles also said the situation to the fox checking on the fox.
"The industry has been authorized to supervise itself," Chesls said, "even though the GAO and the Office of Technology Assessment studies have shown that the industry is in continued and wholesale violation of the law and regulations," by not following National Transportation Safety Board recommendations.
New York bank hit by telephone robber
Robert Moroney, 52, manager of a Westbury Federal Savings Bank branch here, said he got a telephone call Monday afternoon from a man who claimed to belong to the FALN. a terror organization dedicated to independence for Puerto Rico.
CARLE PLACE, N.Y. (AP) — Someone robbed a bank here by telephone, police say.
According to police, the caller told Morconey to fill a bank bag with money and leave it outside a rear door, then take the bank bag into the bank and go to a nearby Chinese restaurant.
Moronkey did as he was told. After he and the tellers had waited in the restaurant for five five minutes, they returned to the bank. The money bag was gone.
local governments to help repair streets and roads damaged by the severe winter.
employee injured on the job could choose a faith healer instead of a doctor without risking his workmen's compensation benefits.
- The Senate Labor and Industry committee approves a bill under which an
Telethon pledges growing
Lies declined to say how much the six-station hookup cost the movement, but he said costs were covered by a considerable margin.
The telethon, broadcast live by KTVH-TV in Wichita, raised money for American Agriculture's state and national offices, to defray expenses such as telephone bills and lobbying trips by strike leaders to Washington.
WICHTA (AP)—More than $17,000 in pledges to the American Agriculture Movement came in after the end of a three-hour strike telethon Monday night, bringing the total pledged to $103,207 by noon yesterday.
Joe Lies of Andale, coordinator of the teloon, said the figure would continue to grow as pledges telephoned to individual members who were tallied and forwarded to his office.
Alvan Johnson, assistant director of the Riley County police department, said the soldier found the shell on the base and took it to his trailer in the park. When he moved from the park onto the post in January, he took the 6mm shell in a ravine, Johnson said.
RILEY (AP) — A Fort Riley soldier told police yesterday he dumped a mortar round near a trailer park where a 12-year-old boy was stabbed. The officer, a mobile home, killing two and injuring five.
The name of the soldier has not been released and no charges have been filed.
Soldier admits discarding shell
Injured were the private's parents, Eugene and Joyce Phillips from New Boston, Ohio; his wife, Pamela, 18, and two sisters of the victims, Tonya, 14, and Penny, 16. The parents were hospitalized at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The private's wife and Penny were taken to Irwin Army Hospital at the fort. Tonya was mobilized and released. Officials said Philips family was visiting Kenny and his wife.
Killed when the shell fell to the floor of the mobile home were Kenny Phillips, 13, a car enthusiast and another, Timothy, who found the live round in a ravine about 150 yards from the home.
Vaughan Bolton, public information officer at the fort, said Army personnel conducted rain sweeps for shells periodically, but not all shells were found.
An army spokesman said shells were often found and Army personnel and their dependents were warned not to pick them up. The shells would lie on the edge of the fort, near the tank target range.
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