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Thursday, April 26, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Mariner Photos May Give Clues To Future Kansan Wheat Prices
By LECH MAZUR Kansan Staff Writer
The study of climatic changes on Mars and Earth may make possible the prediction of climatic changes on Earth and provide clues to future Kansas wheat prices. Edward Zeller, professor of physics at the University of Kansas, said recently.
Zeller is in the process of analyzing 7,100 satellite photographs of the martian terrain transmitted by the Mariner IX spacecraft in a project funded by the planetology division
Zeller said there was evidence that the earth's climate is changing.
- were interested in trying to find out whether the earth is indeed actually underground.
Variations in the energy output of the sun may change climatic conditions on the
Earth and Mars. If the sun reduces its energy output the Earth will cool as well as
the Sun.
The Earth has gone through four great ice ages.
"We are faced with the question: did Mars do the same thing?" Zeller said.
question. Mars do the same thing?" Zeller said. Photographs of Martian topography indicate that Mars has enormous areas littered with craters while the region around the ice caps is craterless. Zeller said the ice caps had affected the nature of the Martian terrain. Stream valleys on Mars do exist, however, he said.
The suggestion is, Zeller said, that in times past the polar ice caps of Mars were warmer and the water in them was mobilized into clouds and then fell as precipitation in the central equatorial regions.
This would suggest that Mars has unsaid, KU fraternities, sororites and scholarship halls had participated.
City Clean-Up Week To Begin Monday
Community cooperation to "Make the Scene clean" is the plan for a city clean-up through Friday. The campaign is sponsored by the Research Development and Environmental Planning Committee and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Women's
Priority clean-up projects suggested by the Chamber of Commerce are city park painting and picking up trash in public areas. Paint and brushes for the painting projects will be provided by the city Park and Recreation Department.
Gloria Morton, chairman of the Women's Division, encouraged University of Kansas participation in the campaign. she said KU had had declined in the last two or three years.
"We sure would like to get them back in community affairs," she said.
Morton said that most of the work would be done by community organizations like Habitat for Humanity.
Lawrence schools are also helping with the campaign this year. Elementary school children will be planting trees provided by the city. Fourth-graders in all elementary schools will be in charge of planting and caring for the trees during the next two months according to Bill Womack, director of maintenance and operation for the city schools.
Kindergartners and first-graders in the city elementary schools will receive coloring books about ecology, sanitation and trash collection, Wormack said.
Triangle fraternity plans to paint the shelter house at Centennial Park on May 3. Triangle president C. B. Lackey, White College, was the first year they had participated.
Delta Tau Tau Delta fraternity will clean up the alley that runs between Vermont and Massachusetts streets in the 1000 block, president Jodian Vora, Pretty Prairie junior.
State Architect to Review Plans for Learned Addition
Plans and specifications for an extension to Learned Hall will be presented this week to the state architect for final review, according to Keith Lawton, University director of facilities, planning and operations.
The Board of Regents accepted Saturday, the state of readiness proposal for the design of the new section. This approval set the stage for the working out of small details and the presentation of the final draft to the public, Lawton said.
"Original building plans were made anticipating expansion both up and out," he said. The building foundation is thus anchored in the early-to-mid-story addition to the present two levels.
"Also, the original design left area for an extension to the east," Lawton said. "A connecting corridor will join the present Hall to a four-story rectangular structure."
Office and classroom space will occupy the new floors, and the east wing will house engineering laboratories. Office space will hold offices and petroleum engineering personnel.
"The plans were designed by Mullens and Associates, of Kansas City, Kan., working closely with the state architect and a faculty-student group," Lawton said.
"The faculty-student group provided guidance to the designers as to the school's needs and some coordination with the Board of Regents," he said.
After deciding what we actually want the mate architect will establish a bidding date, he will set out the price.
Before the announcement of the bidding date, a purchasing direction and framework for bidding will be set up, Lawton said. These plans will be disclosed at least six weeks in advance of the actual bidding, according to state law.
dergere periods of extreme cold as the Earth has in the past," he said.
Commission to Hear New Fund Requests
Recent crop failures in the Soviet Union and an abundance of rain in the American Midwest may indicate that the Earth is indeed undergoing a major climatic change, perhaps the beginning of a new ice age.
Douglas County commissioners said Wednesday that the commission would hear additional requests for revenue sharing funds at 10 a.m. May 3.
The commissioners said the county would consider only those requests directed specifically to the county.
They added that it would not be necessary for persons requesting funds to appear who had already appeared at the April 12 city-county commission meeting.
Apparently the climate has been changing to a cooler and wetter climate in the United States, particularly in the midwestern grain producing regions.
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On the other hand, Zeller said, the Russian regions have become dry, experiencing periods of relatively high temperature and periods of extreme cold.
Crop failures in the Soviet Union led to the U.S. grain deal with the Soviets which led to higher wheat prices for Kansas farmers, Zeller said.
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If the climatic changes continue, Kansas will become increasingly important as the center of the world's wheat supply, he said, Mars may then hold the kev.
However, that situation could entail unforeseen difficulties for Kansas farmers.
more difficulties for Kansas farmers.
The other possibility, he said, is that if the climate of the northern hemisphere does cool off, Kansan are faced with the possibility of getting frost and a shortened growing season.
"It may become necessary for Kansas farmers to adapt to this new climatic condition if indeed the change is really major," Zeller said.
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