The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No.154
Monday, July 14, 1980
It hasn't been this hot since the summer of '54
By LAURA LUCKERT and LESLIE SPANLER Staff Reporters
Staff Reporters
With the temperature touching 106 yesterday,
Lawrence entered its 13th day of 100-degree-plus
floor.
As of Sunday, 416 persons, most of them alive, have perished in heat related deaths in the Mint.
Twenty deaths were reported in Kansas and 76 in Louisiana. None have been reported in Missouri.
THE HEAT IS being caused, according to Joe Eagleman, professor of meteorology, by a large high pressure area characterized by descending air. The sinking air compresses and heats.
Eagleman said the high pressure area was caused by the jet stream, a stream of air 40 thousand feet above the earth's surface moving toward the ocean, leaving a high pressure area over the Midwest.
Southern winds from Texas and Mexico can compound the heat, Eagleman said, but so far it has been only the high pressure area causing high temperatures.
Eaglemann also said there were only slight indications that this especially hot summer is palpable.
"I had a Ph.D. candidate who did a study on the effects of sun spots on weather and he found that the hot summers were to occur during the mid '80s and mid '90s and the mid '70s." Eagleman said.
NATIONAL WEATHER BUREAU statistics
are record temperatures show both 1946 and 1954 as
well as the mean daily highs.
"It might be that we are seeing the late effects of sun spots," he said.
Kent McGregor, graduate student in geography, said we were not only experiencing high temperatures, but also heading into a drought.
"Since April 1, some places in the area have
had only two and a half inches of rain, whereas
had already had 13 inches of rain,
McGregor said.
He said the one hope for cooler temperatures may come in mid-August. He said the weather pattern in Kansas often changes in mid-August because of the waning of the summer solstice. He
explained that during the waning, the sun's radiation received by the surface of the earth
EARL VAMMETER, director of the Dougus County Agriculture Extension Service, said farmers were being hit hard by the combination of no rain and extreme heat.
The Chi Omega fountain turned into a tub yesterday for Diana Stephens, Lawrence junior, at right She spent the afternoon cooling off with a Marvin Stitt, Albany, Mo., junior.
"The farmers are facing crop failures." VanMeter said. "Since the wheat has already been harvested, the crops most likely to be affected will be corn and milo."
VamMeter also said grasshoppers, which the man has seen on leather, may also become a problem for farmers.
William Hope, deputy regional health administrator for the U.S. Public Health Service, announced in a news conference may cause declaration of a national disaster. He said the White House was monitoring the situation daily.
ALONG WITH FARMERS, elderly on fixed incomes are suffering from the heat.
According to Jeanne Bertelson, director of Advocacy Assistance at the Kansas Department on Aging, this was a result of the susceptibility of the elderly to the high temperatures.
"Even if they are in good health," she said, from bent to cool as easily as your body can absorb them.
Bertelson said many elderly did not understand that heat could be as equally dangerous as cold. Although they use heat in the winter, many consider air conditioning a luxury.
Bertelson also recommended the elderly drink more fluids, at least six or seven glasses per day.
SHE SAID THAT if elderly people were not to use fans and air conditioning, they need to keep their body temperature within its normal range. This can be done by taking baths and showers frequently or laying wet cloths on the body.
The Department on Aging has set up a 24-hour, toll-free hot-line for the elderly or friends of the elderly to call if they have any questions or need assistance. The number is 1-800-432-3535.
Bertelson said elderly often do not run their air conditioning because of the high cost of electric
Fred Bryan, division manager of Kansas Power and Light, said KPL could handle the
"Kansas Corporation Commission granted KPLA a rate increase that went into effect June 1," Bryan said. "This along with the high temperatures, has caused high electricity bills."
unusually high demand for electricity this summer, but it would cost the users more.
BRYAN EXPLAINED that KCQ required their rates to be lower in the winter because heat is considered necessary to have in the winter, and that it would bring in the summer to encourage conservation.
Statistics on the amount of electricity used in a campground prepared to last summer show a dramatic increase.
The peak, which is the maximum use of electricity in a given on-horse period, normally occurs at night.
THIS SUMMER, KPI is having peak days
of 685 and 794 days by peak day
by supply of 1,745,000 kilowatts of power.
Not only has KPI. reached peak usage this past week, but the Lawrence Water Department reports record water usage compared to last year.
Gene Vogt, director of utilities for the city of Lawrence, said there was an increase in water usage of 228 percent compared to last year during the week of July 3 through July 9.
VOGT SAID there was not a water supply problem in Lawrence. He said with this hot weather, the Clinton Lake plant operated at full capacity and the Kaw River plant only at partial capacity; there were five wells from which the water department could draw water from if they needed to.
Students say Shah's death would not end crisis
ILNESSES RESULTING from the high temperatures are heat stroking heat exhaustion and burning.
With heat stroke, common among the elderly,
the victim causes to perspire. Because per-
See HEAT back page
By SUSANA NAMNUM
Staff Reporter
Although the slogan "Death to the Shah" is at the heart of the Iranian revolution and the American hostage crisis, the ousted monarch's death will do nothing to bridge the rift between the United States and Iran, KU Iranian students said Saturday.
"Whether the Shah lives, or dies or is born again will not change the stands of Aytallah Khomeini, the revolutionary government, the hostages' captors or the Iranian people." Mahmoud Amani, Mashad, Iran graduate student, said last week.
Anami echoed the views of other students, who saw the Shah himself as merely the top of a hierarchical compartment of U.S. meddling in Iran's internal disputes and spread criminal actions by the Pahlavi regime.
RECENT REPORTS from Egypt, which gave the deposed Shah political asylum, said he was near death after surgery in a Cairo hospital, where he is being treated for complications from his bout with cancer. Conflicting reports described his condition as excellent and serious.
Although the Shah's crimes prompted the Iranian revolution, and his stay in the United States spurned the hostage crisis, students said the demand for the Shah's return to Iran to face a criminal tribunal was no longer the only issue in the limelight.
The Shah's death will only benefit the United States, Amani said, by removing one item from the list of conditions for the release of the 52 American hostages.
HE OUTLINED the demands as: a public admission of U.S. guilt; an official U.S. promise not to meddie in Iranian affairs in the future; the return of Iranian assets to the Iranian people; and assurance that the United States would not thwart Iran's attempts to bring the Shah to trial.
But an Iranian student who asked not to be identified said she feared the Shah's death could
Amin Safavi, Tehran, Iran junior, said that in the event of the Shah's death, his government would demand simply "to be left alone by other countries such as the United States and the Soviet Union."
have disastrous effects on the Iranian revolution and the plight of the American hostages.
Citing the Iranian people's distrust of foreign governments and news reports, she said the announcement of the Shah's death would be met with disbelief and outrage.
"People who are economically and politically troubled learn not to trust any government," she said. "I'm sure the Iranian people won't believe us, but if they do, we will have natural causes, even if his body is sent back to Iran."
"They might think that it's a CIA plot against the revolution and that plastic surgery was used to substitute a body for the Shah's and to set him in a military with a new face, a new name and a new life."
SAFAVI REINFORCED the scenario of
safaction, saying that he had doubts even about
their existence.
"It's like a science fiction drama," he sait. "My own opinion is that the Shah is not really dying. I think reports of his illness in the first place were just political maneuvers."
But Maryan Kamanger, Tehran, Iran fresh
man, said she thought the Shab's death would calm the Iranian people and remove the reason for their protests.
ALTHOUGH SHE expressed doubts as to whether the Iranian government's stand would be softened, and confusion as to what Khomeini's demands really were, she said she hoped the Shah's death would put an end to the hostage crisis.
Another reason students gave for what they saw as the irrelevance of the Shah's death was the alleged criminal complicity of members of his family during his regime.
IRAN WANTS to “bring to justice” all of the
in crimes against the Iranian people, Amani said.
The Shah's wife, brothers, two sisters, mother-in-law and son-in-law, he said, took part in running the Pahlavi government, stealing money and torturing and killing people, and Iran will not rest until they have been "brought to judgment," he said.
Recent reports have surfaced that Iranian assassins are being smuggled into Egypt in a
plot to kill members of the Shah's family who are expected to gather in Cairo on his death.
Last December, Prince Chafik, a nephew of the deposed hawk, was killed in Paris.
And last month, two armed intruders were caught by a security guard at the New York apartment of Princess Ashraf, the twin ruler's twin sister.
The Shah's son-in-law is a former Iranian ambassador to the United States, and Aamani has been a political activist.
As for the recent release by Khomeini of hostage Richard Queen, who developed an illness that Iranian doctors said they could not treat, most students agreed it was an encouraging move, but in no way prefaced the release of other hostages.
But Kamanger did express hope that other American hostages would follow in Queen's footsteps.
She and the student who wished not to be identified agreed that the eight-month long ordal had been long and painful enough, and that they could be a blessing to both Iran and the United States.
Organized gripes not allowed LMH employee policy states
By VANCE HINER
Staff Reporter
Organized efforts by employees to air grievances about administration policies are prohibited at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and to an LMH personnel policy statement.
The document, issued in 1979, specifies that atdy employees will face disciplinary action if they attempt to enlist verbal or written support for workers for any non-official hospital activities.
"Basically, the administration has tied employee's hands," Jim Fulz, LMH computer clerk, said last week. "It's gotten to the point now that employees are afraid to talk about hospital problems for fear of being reported to the administration."
LAST WEEK, 11 LLM switchboard operators and admissions clerks resigned, complaining that administrators transferred a part-time LLM board operator for no reason.
Hospital administrators said they were puzzled by the protest. Fulz was not.
"The protest clearly points out a need for an effective means for employees to collectively voice their grievances without having to lose their jobs," Fulz said. "If the present system works, why did all those people have put their jobs on the line?"
Robert Ohlen, LMH executive director, said the hospital was within its legal rights in prohibiting employees from organizing activities on hospital time.
PETTITIONS AND verbal solicitations in support of employee complaints are unnecessary because of the hospital's current grievance process. Ohlen said.
Several attempts have been made to address problems through established channels, Fulx
"We have tried a number of times to communicate to the administration our dissatisfaction with pay scales," he said. A toll book told us that they would lock into it and notify us of their decision.
"That was four months ago and still no action has been taken."
Weather
The weather should continue to be hot and there is no relief in sight from the heat wave. The high temperature today will be about 105 with sunny skies and winds from the southwest at 15-25 mph. Tonight the skies should be mostly clear but there is a slight chance of thundershowers. Winds should be from the southwest at 5-10 mph and the low temperature should be about 80. Tomorrow will again be mostly sunny and a low front should enter the area with northeastern winds at 10-15 mph. The high temperature should be about 100. Tomorrow night will again be clear and the low temperature should be in the upper 70s. The extended forecast calls for more hot weather and daytime temperatures should be around 105 and skies should remain clear.
Harding adjusts lifestyle,plans return
By CHICK HOWLAND
Staff Reporter
Greg Hardg will be going back to school in
Doctors say it is a miracle that he is alive.
Mark Praeger, the Lawrence surgeon who first operated on Harding, said yesterday that Harding would have died if he had been brought to the hospital any later.
Last Aug. 25 Harding, Leawood senior,
walked out onto the fire escape at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He was going to get into a car and then turn the door, something gave way.
“He was minutes away from dying,” he said. “He had virtually died to death by the fire.”
The fire escape came lose from the house, and Harding fell 12 feet to the ground, his chest cut.
HARDING HAS been forced to give up a normal lifestyle, and now lives with the aid of intravenous feeding 18 hours a day. He can eat few foods.
Harding mixes the life-sustaining nutrients by himself. Norton Greenberger, who has been his doctor since September, said one of his patients was given his remarkable ability to care for himself.
A small tube is connected to a blood vessel that leads to his heart. A bag containing the nutrients that keep him alive is connected to the tube.
HARDING HAS HAD five operations since the incident. The first two were performed by Praeger in the second stopped internal bleeding. Most of his small intestine was removed in the second
Harding said he remembers little from his first few weeks in the hospital following
Other operations were performed in Kansas City, Kan. to repair his back, which was broken in the fall, and to remove part of his stomach and colon.
"It's hard for me to remember because I put it out of my mind," he said. "All my
Greenberger said that were it not for the development of modern medical systems, he added.
Greenberger, who specializes in Harding's type of condition, technically called Short Bowel Syndrome, said Harding has the small intestine and colon of any living human.
friends were very helpful. And my family was there all the time."
PRAEGER SAID that unless intestine transplants are perfected, Harding could
Greg Harding
But Harding is optimistic about his future.
remain on intravenous feeding for the rest of his life.
"Hopefully, somebody I'll get the tube out of my chest. I at least it dows it so only I can see it."
Harding said this week that he did not know the extent of his condition after the accident.
"I knew I was screwed up, but I didn't know how bad off he was," he said. "I didn't know what it was."
HARDING SPENT almost five months in Lawrence Memorial Hospital and the University of Kansas Medical Center before being released in January.
He never lost hope even though he could not eat for three months following the accident.
"They wouldn't even let me have water for long time," he said. "They'd give我 a cup of coffee."
An adjustment he had to make was not drinking any liquor. He has tried it once since he first started.
"I WOULD DRINK one drink and throw up," Harding said. But he doesn't miss drinking as much as he thought he would, just as not just as much fun going to bars, he said.
Harding has appointments with Greenberger every two weeks at the Med Center. He was recently hospitalized for ten days when he became dangerously dehydrated.
Greenberger said Harding was more vulnerable in the heat than the average person. He cannot replace lost liquids the way most people do.
Harding said he tried to keep himself cooled down with water when he is outside on hot socks.
One of his favorite pastimes before the accident was water skiing. But he had to handle it carefully.
HARDING WILL BE able to attend classes
if fall it be can schedule them so that he
may be able to study.
Harding has two 10 inch metal rods in his back and his hips have shifted slightly.
But he said he would be able to walk to classes. With the aid of a small lift in his shoe
Because of the accident and its effects, Harding has fled a suit in Johnson County for Wisconsin. He was named as a codefender in the civil law case. Also named in the suit were Lincoln, Haylett, Summer and Wheat, a Mission architectural firm, J. Straub Construction Co. of Overland Park.