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People are ten times as interested in gardening now as they were last year at this time. Earl VanMeter, Douglas County extension director, said yesterday.
"Some of the oldtimers at the extension service tell me the interest in gardening today equals that of the peak period of interest just after World War II," he said.
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VanMeter, who provides agricultural research information for Douglas County residents, said he already had received about 10,000 requests for information this
"We can't keep enough literature on hand. As soon as we get it in it's gone," he said. "For example, I announced on radio one morning that we had garden packets containing materials on basic gardening, such as weeds and over 125 copies, our whole stock, was gone."
VanMeter hosts the program
Agriculture Today, heard on KLWN
Tuesday at 10 a.m.
In the past, we have had more requests
for landscape and lawn information. I think there are two reasons for the shift to gardening, it's fun and it's economical," he added. "You have a direct interest in gardening are directly interested."
It doesn't take long to make a package of seeds pay for itself. A 15 cent package of radish seeds, for example, can produce $5 in revenue if you grow it and use the inexperienced gardeners will make the mistake of planting all the radishes at once and staggering the planting, Van Meter said.
"If they plant in mid-April, by mid-May all the radishes are ready and should be picked within a three-day period or they may get too hot or too wooled inside to eat."
Another mistake inexperienced greenthumbs make, VanMeter said, is planting corn in a single row. Corn is a wind pollinated plant and should be planted four or five rows at a time to allow for pollination, be said.
Land for the garden should be piled in the fall. Some people, VanMeter said, wait until the winter.
Telephone Information Free In Kansas, At Least for Now
Telephone information services are no longer free of charge in some areas of the country. This isn't so in Kansas, but it is for Southern Westphalia and for Southwestern Bell, said yesterday.
Directory assistance is growing at a tremendous rate and is becoming a very expensive business, said Wayne Berry, president of the Kansas division of Southwestern Bell.
The time is coming when southwestern Bell will have to ask the Kansas Corporation Commission for permission to institute a charge, Berry said.
Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Co., part of the Bell system, is charging 20 cents for information service; however, a call to Cincinnati's customer service before the charge is begun.
A recent survey showed that 83 per cent of information calls were made by fewer than 27 per cent of the customers. Sixty to 75 per cent of these calls were made for numbers in the factory. Twenty per cent of Bell's operators are employed for information services.
Guinea Pigs Out; Spuds Are Used By Prof's Lab
Potatoes have replaced guinea pigs in the laboratory of Rolf Borchert, associate professor of physiology and cell biology and botany.
Borchert and some of his students are involved in research using potatoes to see how living tissues repair themselves and how cells react.
Borchert is using potatoes for his research because they are cheap and because they have large groups of similar functions, perform essentially the same functions.
One of the main experiments performed on the potatoes is "wounding" them, cutting them into layers and observing the reactions of the top layers to the cuts.
The top layer turns brown, forming a leather-like membrane which seals the other layers of the hocletch said.
The cells below the cork-like layer divide and redivide and then stop. Borchert said that the division of cells in the potato was "analogous to cancer cells." If reasons for cancer develop, the potato, Borchert said, a key to the function of cancer cells might be uncovered.
Borchert has been involved in research with the potato and other cellular mechanisms for more than two and a half years.
The projected 1980 nationwide cost for the information service is $1 billion, 6 per cent of the present operating costs. In Kansas, this would amount to $10 million.
Now, every customer pays for this service. Approximately 50 cents of the monthly service charge is for the cost of the information service, Berry said.
"Our purpose in initiating a fee for the information service is not to make more money, but to put a proportional cost upon the user."
Berry said that long distance information service probably wouldn't be included, but the company doesn't.
"Freezing and thawing over the winter months softens the dirt and gives it a better texture, which is better for gardening." VanMeter said.
VanMeter predicted interest in gardening would drop sharply in July. "Gardening doesn't look as inviting when it's 100 degrees outside," he said.
Increased evening parking on campus and completion of the new Watkins Memorial have caused changes in the zoning for student parking, Lt. E. W. Fenstenmaker of Security and Parking, said Tuesday.
The east edge of O-zone near Robinson Gymnasium is now reserved for outpatients receiving treatment at the hospital. Fennel Street approaches this area as it is Missouri and 18th streets.
The area is vaguely defined because of construction, but students parking in this area.
Visitors may park in the toll area of O-Zone without being ticketed
The area behind the hospital is for hospital staff and emergency use only, Fenstermaaker said. This restriction applies 24 hours a day.
He also predicted many amateur gardeners would have to give a lot of their time to get up and play.
The increased parking has caused a small portion of T-Zone, east of Danford Chapel, Fitchburg.
New Hospital, Night Parking Cause Rezoning
This zone is now open to permit holders from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. weekdays and from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. weekends.
"A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM," the play opens at Empire Theatrical Hall, will be presented at 8 tonight in Hoch Auditorium. The comedy is one of the 1974 Festival of the Arts. Tickets for the performance will be available online.
Penstemacher urged students who needed evening parking in restricted zones to call Security and Parking and make special arrangements.
ACTOR RAY MILLAND, who is in Kansas City today on business, will conduct a lecture and answer questions at 3 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall.
CHAMBER CHORI will present its annual formal concert at 3:30 p.m.
Priscilla Kingy, Kinsley senior, will present a piano recital at 8 tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall. She will play works by B. Bach. Mazur, Schumann and Prokofieff.
“THE MIND”, a multi-media slide show, will be shown at 8 tonight at the United Ministries in Higher Education Building at 1204 Oread.
THE POINTER SISTERS will perform at 8 tomorrow night in Hoch Auditorium. The group's performance is part of the 1974 Festival of the Arts.
KAPPA SIGMA fraternity will sponsor an KUMP stag party at p.m. Saturday at 1045 ES
CINEMA.
STUDENT ASSOCIATION FOR COMBINED HEALTH SCIENCES will sponsor a biology review session from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the auditorium in Wescoe Hall.
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL NIGHT activities are planned for Sunday in the Kansas Union. Displays representing Kansas students, teachers, and the Big Eight and Jayhawk rooms. A
banquet will follow from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the cafeteria. Banquet tickets may be purchased in the Student Union Activities office or in the Dean of Foreign Students' office. Songs, dances, plays, poetry and dance programs will begin from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Ballroom.
HILLEL will sponsor a dinner at 4 p.m.
Sunday in the Lawrence Jewish Community
Center. David Katzman, associate
professor of history, will speak.
MT. OREAD BICYCLE CLUB will sponsor a 28-mile bicycle race at 1 p.m., Sunday to determine the KU cycling team. Registration begins at 12:45, one-half mile west of the junction of U.S. 59 and Lone Star Road.
HILT LOP TWIRLERS, KU square dance club, will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in 173 Robinson. Knowledge of square dancing is unnecessary.
SLAVIC CLUB'S Russian Dinner will be
at 6 p.m. Sunday in the University Latherman
Café.
ST. LAWRENCE CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER lecture on "The Role of Women in the Church" by sister Mary Collins, O.S.B., lecturer for the K.U. School of Religion, be at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in St. John's Church basement, is 12th and Kentucky Streets.
VETERANS on the GI Bill who want to pick up their first Veteran's Administration check at the summer session enrollment fair, will receive an appointment at Registrar's Office before Friday, April 5.
This procedure is only for those veterans who want their checks at enrollment instead of in the mail.
"I've noticed many customers who are buying seed and planting gardens for the home."
they expected. College students and apartment dwellers usually don't plan to preserve the vegetables they grow, he said. Max Fuller, manager of Gardenland, Inc., 914 W. 23rd St., said seed sales have over last year.
Fuller said he thought people were more earth-incubated now and thus liked the idea
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Jun Freeman, an employee at Pence Garden Center, 15th and New York streets, is a plant specialist. radish and onion seeds had tripled since Freeman said some apartment dwellers had been buying planters and starting gardens on the balconies of their apart-
"I have to use a tiller about six times a year," he said, "and it keeps me pretty dry."
Bob Pearson, 415 Pleasant St., takes his gardening seriously. Pearson, who has been gardening for 15 years, has rented a 50 by 20-foot trampoline and grows potatoes, peas, corn and wheat.
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Alderson said the reason the stop light provision was included in the bill was that many legislators from large areas were unable to get the lights turned up, putting up the signs allowing right turns.
Alderson说 that about half of the states have laws permitting right turns at stop lights.
The bill, sponsored by the Senate Committee on Traffic and Utilities, was introduced in the 1973 session of the Kansas Legislature after being studied last summer by the Interim Committee on Traffic and Safety.
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"California has had this law for quite awhile," he said. "I don't have any statistics, but I have heard that the law has aided the flow of traffic."
Both the Lawrence police department and the state motor vehicle department said it was too early to tell what effect the new law would have.
This new law is one of 300 sections of a bill revising Kansas traffic laws to conform more closely with the Uniform Vehicle Code passed by Congress in 1997. The new bill was signed by Gov. Robert Docking Monday.
The new provision on stop light reversers the present law which allows a right turn on red only if a sign is posted. Under the new law, stop signs may be prohibited by a sign. This makes a red light the equivalent of a stop sign for drivers in an intersection where a pedestrian vehicle or pedestrian at the interaction
Kansas drivers may make a right turn after stopping on any red light unless
Bob Alderson, assistant reviser of statutes and the vice chairman of the National Committee of Uniform Traffic Rules, said that most traffic laws in Kansas traffic laws are rated the most modern in the nation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. He said that most sections of the bill were changes in the technical language and were intended uniform with theUniform Vehicle Code required by the Federal Highway Safety Act.
Missouri recently passed a similar law, and Alderson said this should ease traffic confusion in the Kansas City area. He also said that confusion should be minimized by adding an enforcement session of the legislature that requires it to take upon renewal of a driver's license.
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