Wednesday, February 8.1978
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University Daily Kansan
Man and Machine
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNEI
John Zimbrick, urofessor of biophysics, who plans to publish
results of a three-year research project for cancer, sits with the elaborate machinery necessary for his research.
Committee reviews tax relief bills
TOPEKA, (AP)—An additional 18,000 Kansasans would benefit from Gov. Robert F. Bennett's proposed expansion of the state's forested area, the act, a Senate committee was told yesterday.
Kent Kalb, state revenue secretary, appeared before the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee on behalf of Bennett 'o promote the governor's proposal to raise the income level and remove from the law what was discrimination against widowers.
The panel also heard Sen. John Vernilm, R-Independence, on a bill that would remove the age limitation on who was eligible for the property tax relief and from a Kansas City, Kan., official who urged approval of a bill to make the relief immediate rather than having those who wait for refund checks from the state.
THE COMMITTEE took no action on the bills today.
Under the homestead act of 1970, Kansans 60 or older, widows 50 or older and disabled persons receive refunds from the state on the property taxes they pay on their homemests. The amounts of the refunds depend on the income level and the amount of taxes paid. But to be eligible Kansans must own in excess of $8.130 under the present law.
Renters also get refunds for 12 percent of the rent they pay.
Under Bennett's proposal, the ages of those eligible would not be chained, but the
permissible income would be increased to $10,214.
THE OTHER major change in the measure would extend the benefits of the act to men 50 and older who have lost their children as it now applies to wonders 50 and older.
"We feel this discrimination is no longer valid." Kahl said.
The governor's proposal would add about $2.6 million annually to the homestead program, which now costs the state about $8.5 million a year Kelb said.
The bill sponsored by Vermillion, which is co-sponsored by Sen. John Simpson, R-Salina, is more liberal than the governor's new budget of $7 million a year to the program's cost.
IT WOULD eliminate any age requirement, making the law apply to all homeowners in the state, and would increase the allowable income to $10,000.
"This proposal will benefit younger people and help them stay in their own homes and raise their families," Vermillion told the committee.
David T. Isabell, also works in the city clerk's office in Kansas City, Kan., appeared before the committee promoting a bill that would allow those eligible for the lower property tax to skip paying their full property tax when it was collected by the county. The bill would eliminate forcing the taxpayers for the state to send him a refund.
Isabell said that Kansas City had a high
Police chief won't resign asks for public hearing
KANSAS City, Mo. (AP)—Marivan Vin Kirk, Kansas City, Mo., chief of police, refused a demand for his resignation yesterday and called for a public hearing by the Board of Police Commissioners to determine his future with the department.
Van Kirk, a 21-year veteran of the Kansas City police force and its chief for the past year, had been given three options by the board-resign, accept a demotion to lieutenant colonel or demand a hearing as provided by state law.
Van Kirk took the third option and asked
him for a written list of deficiencies
that would be addressed.
There was no immediate word when such a hearing would be scheduled.
LT. COL. Norman Caron, a 23-year veteran of the department, was named
acting chief. The police board indicated that Caron would be given three to six months to prove his capabilities in the top job while a search was on for Van Kirk's successor. Caron said he planned to pursue the job with the intention of winning it on a permanent basis.
One of his first moves, Caron said, would be to meet with the community's black leaders and help open the operations of the department. The blacks called Van Kirk insensitive and criticized the failure of the department to solve the slayings of nine young black women in the
Mayor Charles B. Wheeler Jr., asked to comment about the role of the black community in Van Kirk's ouster, said "The community should be more communicate with the entire community."
percentage of homeowners eligible for the tax relief and that many of them could hardly afford to pay the full tax when it is due. If they were allowed to deduct their tax relief amount at the county level, he said, it would greatly ease their burden.
Sen. Joe Warren, D-Maple City, appeared before the committee to explain this bill, which would permit the heirs of a dead person to file a homestead claim on behalf of the deceased for the months the person was alive during a tax year.
A new and more rapid method for detection of breast cancer could be available for doctors' use soon because of research done by a University of Kansas
By ROB HAGAN
New research, machine enable KU professor to detect cancer
Staff Writer
John Zimbrick, professor of radiation physics, has bihed a research project for three years and this April will be ready to publish the findings in a science journal.
Zimbrick and his staff discovered that a protein molecule found in the human body is associated with cancer. If the doctor watches this molecule, Zimbrick said, he can tell whether a patient has cancer and whether the cancer is growing, or whether the cancer is arrested, cancerous breast tissue in his research.
Zimbrick said that his research assistant, Steven Hamberg, Shawnee Mission graduate student, was working with different diseases, including Jodkins disease, leukemia and lung cancer.
HIS RESEARCH involves a 3,000-pound machine costing $83,000.
"It's called an Electron Paramagnetic Resonance," Zimbrick said. "It's not a very wide-spread technology because it's so expensive."
The EPR takes a thumbnail of blood and examines it to find the detection molecule and to register its growth, Zimbrick said. The process takes about 10 minutes.
Zimbrick said he got the idea for the project in 1972, when scientists in Philadelphia took a piece of cancerous bone tumor and a blood sample from the same patient. The scientists found in both a molecule, or signal, that looked similar.
Other experiments in early cancer detection have been done. Zimbric said some of the findings were incorrect. One particular experiment used only one patient. Zimbric
"As far as we know, no one else's research has been this extensive," he said.
In April, Zimbrick and his staff will receive a computer to help them in storing
"The computer will cost $43,000," Zimbrick said. "The total cost of the research, including salaries, is $100,000 for six years. The company will retire in a renewal grant for the next three years."
From the Kansas's Wire Services
LIBRARY - A Seward County Community
College and captured a snowy day
now yesterday and captured the American leg of the 29th Annual International Pancake
American wins pancake race
June Stathart, England, England, wong England is annual Oinny Candle Race with
Stephanie Wagner, 18, with a time of 59 seconds, won the event which featured women in Kansas and England running 415 yards with frying pans containing pancakes that must be flipped at the start and at the finish of the race.
The women of Olney compete each year on Shrove Tuesday against women who must run the same race in Liberal. The men took 38.5 seconds and was set by Sheila Turner.
Wagner's 4.5 second lead over Statham gave the Americans an 18-11 lead over the British in the series. The Liberal women will win against them, the symbol of victory, for another year.
Legend has it that the race began in the 15th century after a local housewife, intef for Shrove Tuesday church service, raced to her apprentice her apron and with the skillet still in hand.
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"It turns out that the experiment wasn't very good," Zimbrick said. "The signals were related at all as they thought they were testing a hypothesis." The molecule that we're studying right now.
Zimbreadk and that he thought the EPR machine would be able to detect all major crimes.
Right now, Zimbimbral said, they are concerned with breast cancer detection. A woman who enters a hospital for excerpts of the procedure will be examined by the doctors will find breast cancer, he said.
WITH THE machine, doctors can detect the cancer before she goes into surgery.
"This device will provide a means of early detection of cancerous substance," Zimbrick said. "That means a better chance for a cure."
The goal of the research project is to
enhance the breast cancer screening program in the Medical Center, according to Zimbabwe.
"If this works with the Medical Center then this test could be used in early detection for any screening program, such as lung and heart cancer." Zimbriad said.
ZIMBRICK SAID that although this could be big discovery, he was not after the BFES.
In one case this year, he said, a blood sample was sent to his laboratory from the Med Center. The EPR discovered cancer in the patient before the doctors did, he said.
"Cancer is a very depressing and debilitating disease. Everyone had a chance to watch Humphrey (late Sen). Hubert Humphrey, D-Mumm. and what he went on saying. Anything that can reduce the chance of death is very worthwhile," he said.
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