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Plant's evacuation plan questioned
EMPORIA—The chairman of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board with jurisdiction over the Wolf Creek Nuclear plant says a licensing hearing might be necessary because of problems with emergency evacuation plans.
James Gleason said Wednesday that confusion over such an evacuation plan might make it necessary to hold a full-scale hearing on licensing of the equipment.
Two Burlington women, Mary Ellen Salava and Wanda Christy, told the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Wednesday that Coffey County does not have an acceptable plan to evacuate citizens in the event of a nuclear emergency and has no money to put such a plan into effect.
The women were named as interveners, because they had shown an interest and had raised unanswered questions about the plant that attested attention.
Kansana for Sensible Energy also asked about owners being able to afford to decompose the plant after it outlives its usefulness.
Westphalia farmer Francis Blaufuss asked whether radiation emissions from the plant would hurt crops, and the Kansas Corporation Commission and the Missouri Public Service Commission said they wanted to determine the users of Wolf Creek power would be charged to pay for the project.
Beagan's budget will not help poor
WASHINGTON—At least half the American families living in or close to poverty would lose income if President Reagan's budget cuts take effect, the Congressional Budget Office said yesterday. The administration did not dismute the figure.
The CBO report said a conservative estimate showed 20 million to 25 million people at or just above the poverty line would be hurt by the Reagan proposals for cuts in food stamps, welfare, school lunches and public service administration wants to cut $3.8 billion from those programs in fiscal 1982.
Budget Director David Stockman told reporters at the White House that the administration had no quarrel with the figures.
"We welcome the CBO study because it shows the president's safety net is intact," Stockman said. "Only a very small fraction of the people would be harmed."
The CBO said 51.2 percent of the 16.5 million families said to have incomes at or below one and one-half times the poverty figure would be affected by cuts in those programs. Of those, only 5 percent would suffer income losses of more than 5 percent.
However, the analysis said its estimate "extremely understates" the overall impact of the budget cuts.
Talks resume after farmers' sit-in
WARSAW, Poland—The government bowed to a formers' sit-in yesterday and resumed talks on demands for recognition of a rural Solidarity Union. A Communist Party commission also approved the draft of a new charter under rank-and-file pressure for more democracy.
The decision to send Unions Minister Stanislaw Closek and Deputy Agriculture Minister Adrzej Kacala to the north central city of Bydgoszcz for talks on the rural Solidarity came after about 100 farmers seized the United Peasants Party headquarters in nearby Inowrocław.
The Inworowci protesters occupied the building because talks did not resume as scheduled Tuesday between the government and farmers who were there.
State-run television also reported that a telegram sent to the Bydgoszcz protesters by a Parliament official indicated that the government had ordered the bearer to leave.
In a move that could pave the way for major changes in the way the ruling Communist Party operates, a commission preparing for an extraordinary meeting of the party's central committee was established.
The draft, which included such innovations as secret ballots, an unlimited number of candidates, and a limit of two terms in office for all party officials, was presented at a time when the ruling hierarchy is under fire from rank-and-file members demanding greater democratization of the party.
Volunteer patrol starting in Atlanta
ATLANTA—Organizers of a police-sanctioned citizen patrol said yesterday that they hoped to have 200 volunteers on the streets by Monday to help with law enforcement.
During the last 20 months, 23 young blacks have been found slain and two others are listed as missing.
Eddie Dodds, of the United Youth Adult Conference, said 50 citizen patrol volunteers were needed to about two weeks ago and about 180 should be ready for day by day.
Unlike the "bat patrol", which stirred controversy when it was formed in TechnoWorms Atlanta, *Atlanta's largest public housing project*, members of the board were not unanimous in their views.
Some of the volunteers will patrol in cars equipped with citizen band radios, but most will simply walk the streets, giving special attention to them.
Dodson said the patrols were "primarily concerned with (enforcing) the curfew hours, 7 p.m. until 7 a.m." and most volunteers will work two- or three-hour shifts.
He said the organization hoped to have 1,000 to 2,000 volunteers by summer so that the thousands of children participating in city-sponsored summer programs could be reached.
Meanwhile, Florida FBI agents reportedly were questioning a man picked up in Fort Lauderdale because he resembled a composite drawing of a man seen with one of the murder victims. Police refused to comment on what, if anything, was learned from questioning the man.
Rate increase requested by KPL
TOPEKA-Kansas Power Light Co. loaded a request yesterday for a $23.8 billion raise, an increase that would add an average of $8.23 a million raise.
The utility asked the Kansas Corporation Commission to grant the rate increase, however, a KPI official said he did not expect a KC decision until late.
KPL's request would increase the utility's revenues by 10 percent if granted in full.
KPL's bored chairman, William E. Wall, said that his utility needed the increase to recover expenses from the new Jeffrey Center electric plant and to offset higher operating costs of the firm's entire electric system because of inflation.
The utility also wants to make permanent a $37.2 million interim rate increase that raised the average residential customer's monthly bill by $5.33. That increase was granted earlier to KPL, which serves about 275,000 residents mainly in northeast and central Kansas.
The KPL rate increase is one of five applications that investor-owned utilities have told the KCC that they plan to file this spring.
NATO secretary visits Reagan
WASHINGTON—President Reagan received NATO Secretary General Joseph L.兰在 White House seclusion yesterday, and official spokesmen said that the president had met with him.
The Belgian diplomat stayed half an hour with Reagan and was the first foreign dignitary to see him since the March 30 assassination attempt.
White House physician Daniel Ruge said a chest X-ray of Reagan's damaged left lung yesterday was so good that no others would be needed this week.
Despite the latest rosy reports, questions lingered about the seriousness of the bullet wound.
Statements by Vice President George Bush in recent days have been less optimistic than others. Bush yesterday repeated that he hoped the president
A Washington Post report quoted Benjamin Aaron, the surgeon who operated on the president, as saying that Reagan could have died from his wound. Aaron also said that the bullet that hit Reagan lodged one inch from his shoulder was shot through by medical accounts by George Washington Medical Center and the White House.
"We here in the White House reported the facts accurately," Acting White House Press Secretary Larry Speaks said yesterday.
Crime builds on tradition with banner theft
By TIM SHARP Staff Reporter
For two days this week, brightly-
colored banners blew briskly in the breeze
along Jayhawk Boulevard,
the final of the 56th annual Kansai Rails Relay.
The banners were to symbolize a new beginning for the relays, which have lost popularity in recent years. The Relays Committee adopted the theme, "Building on Tradition," and hoped to create new enthusiasm for the track as it continues from such famous stars as Jim Ryan, Glenn Clemens, Wes Sauteen and Al O'Neer.
But some people didn't care about the new image the Relays were trying to present. After flying less than one day, several of the banners were stolen Tuesday night, and the rest were taken on the following night.
"I was really disappointed that they were taken," Ed Julian, director of
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JULIAN SAID THE cost for the material used in making the 30 banners, which read "Kansas Relays," was about $300.
special programs for University Relations, said. "They should have been kept up at least until Saturday so people coming to the Relays could have seen the attitude of students and faculty towards the Relays."
"But how can you estimate the cost of the volunteer work that was put into cutting the material, silk-screening them, and hanging them up?" he said.
Julian said the banners had been put up so that people driving on campus would be made aware of the Rekays and to see to see "some really exciting races."
Eighteen of the banners were taken Tuesday night, according to KU police. Julian said five more were put up to address the attack. No injuries occurred on aadnesday night, all of them were gone.
"As soon as I saw them up, I knew they wouldn't last long," he said. "I was surprised they lasted as long as they did."
director of the Relays, said he was not surprised the banners were taken.
Bob Timmons, KU track coach and
JOHN MULLENS, KU police captain,
said he had no idea who took them.
"The ones closest to the street were probably taken by someone passing by in a car," he said. "They were really on their knees, down from the brackets they were."
Julian said he didn't think any KU students had taken them.
"Why would they take them when they really belonged to everyone anyway?" he asked. "Why not leave them so we everyone enjoy them!"
He said 40 more banners would be displayed for the Relays' opening ceremonies tomorrow.
"If anyone wanted to see them that didn't get a chance to before, they can then." he said.
Most officials were not really upset that the banners were taken.
HE SAID THOSE additional banners, which weren't planned for display this year, would be kept under "close scrutiny."
"I suppose if I were college-aged, I'd want one for my room, too," Timmons said.
Icv water slows search for miners
REDSTONE, Colo.—Icy mountain waters pouring into a coal mine in the Colorado Rockies yesterday slowed rescuers fighting to reach 15 miners trapped underground by a methane gas explosion that ripped through a mountain tunnel like a "little hurricane."
"There is a fair amount of water involved, but that is normal in the mountains, especially this time of year (with spring runoff)."
Officials of Mid-Continent Resource Inc., holding little hope of finding any of the miners alive more than a mile underground, said some teams were put to work getting a pumping station into operation.
"We now think our earlier estimates of reaching the miners (by early evening) were optimistic," said communications consultant Mary T. It'll require to take longer than we thought but we can't be sure when that will be.
Mine spokesman Jeff Lyle said the water buildup resulted from the explosion Wednesday afternoon knocking out power to the mine.
"When we lost power, the pumps stopped," he said. "We are now draining water from those areas."
Despite predictions by mine officials that the missing miners probably were dead, some family members, friends and fellow coal miners remained outside the mine's gates in hopes of getting favorable news.
"They (the guards) keep telling me to go home," said one woman. "But I can't go home. I'll stay here until we get word whether they are all right."
Pink County Deputy Sheriff Libby Henits confirmed that authorities had asked that body bags be delivered to the office but said no fatalities had been confirmed.
"It's a just-in-case thing," she said. "We want to be prepared for any eventuality. As soon as they make contact with survivors and/or bodies, mine officials will notify us and the coroner will be sent to the mine."
Eight rescue teams, which entered the Dutch Creek No. 1 mine only two hours after the explosion, were trying to re-establish ventilation at a point between the missing miners, who were inside in two groups some 1,900 feet apart.
Seven other miners, who were working closer to the surface, survived the explosion.
When you need $65 fast, you find out who your friends are.
It's the middle of the night and everyone has an excuse. Then, finally, you get the one person who, even though
get the perk on him, he's not very happy about it, will come through. And you think, "I knew it. Why didn't I just call him in the first place?"
So when the crisis is over, he's going to deserve something a little special.
Tonight, let it be Lownbrau.
Löwenbräu.Here's to good friends.
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