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University Daily Kansan, April 9, 1981
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Elevator explosions unlikely in Lawrence
By CORAL BEACH Staff Reporter
There is no foolproof method to prevent grain elevator explosions, but the controller for the Lawrence Farmers Co-op Association said that there was relatively no danger of the explosion on the Lawrence area exploding.
An explosion at a Corpus Christi, Texas, elevator Tuesday resulted in three deaths and sparked national outrage. The safety of grain storage elevators.
Bruce Krehbiel, the Lawrence co cop controller, said that Tuesday's explosion, like many others, was caused by excess grain dust enclosed in the elevator.
"Every time you move grain there is dust," Krebblief said. "The dust collects in the elevator. If there is enough of it, a spark from machinery or static electricity can ignite it.
"There are safety precautions, like ventilating systems, dust collectors and metal detectors that elevators use, but with very large elevators like the one in Texas, it is still a problem."
The danger of elevator explosions is much greater at coastal export
elevators because of the high volume of grain moved through them. Krebblief said that the Corpus Christi Public Elevator probably had more times the amount of grain the Lawrence elevator handled.
"The danger is that the more grain, the more dust," Krebhel said. "Besides using ventilation and collecting systems it is also very important to keep the place clean that means sweeping the dust out."
Kreibel said that "high plain elevators" didn't handle as much grain because most of their customers were local farmers who just needed temporary storage space. After it is sold, much of the grain is transported to larger elevators to be exported.
The Corpus Christi explosion was not an unusual occurrence. Grain dust, which can be as much as 50 times more explosive than coal dust, has caused more than 1,200 elevator explosions since 1900, killing many people. Explosions in, 1977 at the Goodpasture Export Elevator in Houston, was investigated by the Kansas State University Extension Service Team.
The KU Endowment Association's investments in corporations with South African holdings will be discussed tonight at a "Social Responsibility and Corporate Investment" forum in the Kansas Union.
KU investments topic of forum
"We agreed to sponsor, with the KU Committee on South Africa, a forum in which different points of view could be expressed on the University's and related organization's investments in businesses, countries and industries of the KU Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said yesterday.
Johnathan Unger, assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures, and Richard Cole, professor of philosophy, will speak Swartz said.
She added that discussion would be encouraged.
Cole said he would discuss the issue as a philosopher rather than as a lawyer or a debater.
"I want to generate some insight on
the issues," he said. "There are some very fundamental issues involved in this thing which have to do with moral responsibility, and the responsibility of the corporate body."
The question, Cole said, is whether corporations can be held morally responsible for their actions.
"I'm going to argue that they do have moral responsibility, and I'm going to use philosophical methods to pin it down." he said.
unger said that he, too, would approach the divestiture question from a moral angle.
One view, perpetuated by economist Milton Friedman, claims that corporations cannot be moral because they are legal entities. But some philosophers dispute this, Cole said, or arguing that corporations are run by people, who have moral responsibility themselves.
"It is my conviction that corporations have a responsibility to be moral, as do
Tourney to benefit research
Twenty-three fraternities and eight sororites will participate in the men and women's divisions of the third annual Beta Theta Pi-American Cancer Society Softball Tournament this weekend.
The double-elimination tournament will start at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Holcom Sports Complex and Lion's Field, ac
cording to Steve Wells, tournament cochairman.
Tickets are $3 for entry into all the games and for free beer at a party at the Entertainer from 8 to 12 tonight. Admission at the games will be $1. All proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society.
investors." Unger said. "I would rest the issue in the investments made by the Endowment Association in companies who do business in South Africa.
"At the moment, the Endowment Association refuses to take any moral responsibility into account with its investment policies."
Tonight's forum will begin at 7:30 in the Big Eight Room.
WOMEN IN LAW Careers Conference 1981
CARMEN
School of Law
Green Hall
Saturday, April 11, 1981
9:00-11:30
Presented by
Presented by
The University of Kansas Theatre
and the School of Fine Arts
An Opera by Georges Bizet
Performed in French
8:00 p.m.
Friday and Saturday
April 3-4 & 10-11, 1988
University Theatre *Murphy Hall*
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall
Box Office *All seats reserved*
Public: $4 $3 $2
KU students with ID admitted free
For reservations call 913.864-3982
LIVE IN CONCERT
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SUNDAY, APRIL 12 — 8:00 p.m.
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