Tuesday, January 29, 1980
University Daily Kansan
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Hashinger pesticide report to be released
By TOM TEDESCHI Staff Reporter
The findings of a two-month state investigation into allegations of pesticide misuse in the Hassinger Hall cafeteria will be published later this month of the state Department of Agriculture.
Dean Garwood, head of the department's entomological division, said recently that the investigation had been completed and the findings were awaitting "final action."
Before the report could be released, he
before the exterminator, Lawrence Termite
and Pest Control, 1611 St. Andrews Dr., and
food services must be notified of the
findings.
Garwood said he would have no comment on the investigation's results until then.
"I have the findings and facts roughed out and I suspect that by Tuesday we should have (the notifications) in the mail," he said.
THE INVESTIGATION, which was conducted by the state because the Environmental Production Agency in Kansas sent a team of students November after several student cafeteria workers at Hashinger complained about possible pesticide muisse in catered food farm.
A number of the caterafer workers complained of headaches, stomachaches and nausea and said they thought the
One of the workers, Susannah Myers, Kansas City, M., junior, said she had seen the chemicals sprayed near uncovered food and water in a lab. A biologist, who then contacted the EPA,
weekly sprayings might have been the cause.
Alex Hawkins, the field entomologist who conducted the inquiry, confirmed that it was based on a "blanket complaint" by Myers behalf of the cateriale workers. workers.
LENOIR ERKDAHL, director of KU housing food services, said she was not informed of the details of the investigation.
"I'm sure what it was a human error. I would say the exterminator was spraying a little too close at the time," she said, "but
he was doing it properly, in a stream. It was not fogging or anything."
In his investigation, Hawkins said he had spoken first to Ekdahl and Delbert Held, director of the Hashing caterer. He then went on to describe the process of Termite and Pest Control about the mixing and spraying procedures used with the Johnson Wax's "Bayon" and "Bolt".
Both of them are labeled for use in food service areas. Hawkins said, and have written to the company requesting spraying. Hawkins would not comment on whether the directions were followed by the staff.
HAWKINS' REPORT then was submitted
Dooley said the bridge was, for all purposes, a safety support traffic. But he said salt that would be spread on streets and highways to melt snow and ice could erode the concrete, he added.
To allow new concrete to cure, the Kansas River bridge will not open until the end of the snow-and ice season. Mike Dooley, director for Douglas County, said yesterday.
Concrete delays bridge opening
By BENJAMIN JONES Staff Reporter
Dooley estimated that the two spans of the bridge—from Vermont and Massachusetts streets—would last about 50 years.
The Vermont span was completed in
March of last year—late enough in the winter to be opened without delay. However, the Massachusetts span remains closed.
A National Weather Services spokesman at Topeka said the forecast for the first half of February called for above average precipitation.
DOLEEY SAID he could not specify when the bridge would be opened.
"It depends entirely on what kind of spring we're having," he said.
David Darwin, associate professor of civil engineering, has been critical of the type of concrete used for the bridge. But he sup- pled Moody's decision to delay the bridge opening.
"It's a good decision in my mind," Darwin
said, "no matter what kind of concrete is being used."
More than two years ago, Darwin warned that unless the type of concrete used in the bridge would be strong enough to type, the bridge would need inconvenience and expensive repairs, possibly as soon as the bridge was built.
Hawkins said that an exterminator could either have his license revoked or the county district attorney misdeemer by the county district attorney if he was found in violation of state law.
BUT JOHN FRIZARZ, managing partner for BUTFIN and Turnipseed, the Topeka design and consulting firm on the bridge, said the denser concrete was "relatively new," when the contract was awarded to the Andersen Construction Company, Holton.
Under state law, action could not be taken against the University or Hashinger, he said, but only against individuals.
Frazier also said there were no test results at that time to determine how long
He said he had reviewed the findings and discussed the possible actions with the EPA. Generally, these would take the form of a letter of caution or a fine, he said.
the bridge could last with heavier concrete in the deck span.
Darwin said the county would be lucky to get seven years out of the bridge's concrete before it would be resurfaced. He was confident he could finish 13 years before it would need resurfacing.
to Garwood, who determined whether state action would be taken in the case, and to the EPA in Kansas City, which had the option of criminal action to be taken in such case.
Darwin said that salt caused concrete to deteriorate by penetrating and forming a loose, finky rock on the steel reinforcement of the wall, causing the cracking the surface of the concrete to crack.
But he said that changing concretes would have been "very difficult—and very expensive."
"I don't think the county had much choice in the matter," he concluded.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN On Campus
TODAY: THE COMPUTER GRAPHICS OF KHAILD SHEIKI will be on exhibition from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Art and Design Building Gallery.
UNION will meet at 7 p.m. in the Baptist Center, 1629 W. 19th St. yousee Keefer will lead a study titled, "Jesus" One-to-one Ministry."
TONIGHT:闸杰 Hamburg of the TAU SIGMA DANCE ENSEMBLE will teach jazz dance at 7 p.m. in room 220 in仁保罗 Gymnasium. The BAPTIST STUDENT
The ACADEMIC FILM FESTIVAL will show "Fallacies of Hope" at 7:30 p.m. in room 3 of Lippincott Hall.
Group will fight draft registration
The University of Kansas got a taste of a new anti-draft movement when an ant-draft group organized last Saturday.
Two KU students, Kent Ward, Topaka freshman, and Mark Yarkee, Shawnee Mission freshman, said this week that they were the first team group, the Kansas Anti-Draft Organization.
Seventy people attended the organization's first meeting, according to Ron Kuby, a member of the group.
Their action is in response to President Jimmy Carter's decision to initiate legislation to rename draft registration.
Kuby said the group's main objective was to promote active opposition to draft registration.
"We want to encourage young people not to register," he said. "If we can get a small percentage not to register, then the whole registration system will fail apart."
About 32 million men and women between the ages of 18 and 26 will be affected by the draft registration, he said.
The group wants to work with other antidraft groups and hopes to be recognized on a national level, he said.
The group will meet at 2 p.m. every Saturday in the Kansas Union.
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