THE SUMMER SESSION
KANSAN
Supreme Court
Extends Legal Aid
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Tuesday, June 13, 1972
Death Count Reaches 192 in Dakota Deluge
RIDCITY P, S.D. (AP) — The death toll
stood at 19 on Monday night as rescue
vehicles and firefighters tried to help.
South Dakota Skies Seeded Before Flood
OMAHA, Neb. (AP)—Two cloud seeding experiments were conducted in the Rapid City, S.D. area Friday before a storm unleashed a bleak claim which at least 175 lives, the Omaha-World report in a血ied story printed in its Tuesday morning editions.
The story quoted a federal official, Archie M. Kahan, as saying the experiments were conducted by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, South Dakota University. The study was designed "for increasing water supply and studying the dynamics of ball production."
Kahan was identified as chief of the
Federal Bureau of Reclamation. Division
of Natural Resources.
One of the experiments was made about 5 p.m., an hour before the storm was believed to have begun, the World-Herald reported.
The article quoted professor Arnett Dennis, identified as the chief of the institute's Meteorological Analysis Group as saying, "It, (the experiments) had totally and absolutely nothing to do with the storm in rapid City. I would stake my life on that."
Dennis was quoted as saying the experiments involving dropped salt from an airplane which has been "the standard equipment in most US homes" in his six years of studying cloud seedling.
The article also quoted professor Lewis Grant, identified as professor of atmospheric sciences, Colorado State University, as saying "an unusual atmospheric situation existed last Friday when we gave signal caution with cloud seeding."
Grant was quoted, following a technical explanation of the area's weather, as saying, "In a normal situation there is no time to go skiing. So the stuff moves off the hills. But that was a situation you want to be real careful with because there's nothing to push the skis."
Grant also said he "couldn't answer but effect the seeding had," the article said.
The thrust of his explanation of Friday's weather, as reported by the World-Herald, was that moisture-laden clouds were over the area, while there was a lack of the moist air in the other regions. The moisture is moved back to the east by air flow over the hills from the west."
The article said Grant reported he did not know how the seeding was done but said he "would be willing to take a serious look at it. It should definitely be looked at."
victims of disastrous flash floods which bit this summer resort city on the weekend.
The body count, made by newsmen and officials, represented a downward revision from the 208 figure given by authorities Sunday. The Monday night count included 31 killed. A Civil Defense said it had received final toll to surpass the 200 mark.
Earlier Monday, Civil Defense officials had revised the number of dead at 175, but the figure did not include bodies recovered after noon Monday.
PAT DIXON , a state civil defense spokesman, said the revision was made because of duplication of reports from various county agencies.
"We're not just dealing with statistics at this point, the count will continue to rise"; Maj. Gen. Duane L. Corning, commander of the South Dakota National Guard, said.
"Guardmans have been finding bodies in day. It will continue or days and days."
Several hundred other persons were missing and thousands left homeless in the country.
A RAPID CITY funeral home said it planned to start individual services for the flood victims at 9 a.m. Tuesday. A memorial service is planned Sunday.
The death toll includes three National Guardmen.
In Chicago, meanwhile, Frank I. Lewis of the American Insurance Association said that only about $1 million of the estimated $120 million in damages from floods and resultant explosions and fires were covered by insurance.
He said private and commercial policies would likely cover any damage caused by explosions or fires after the flood but would not cover losses by the flood itself.
THE INSURANCE association said that according to the Federal Insurance Administration, less than 50 policies had been sold in Rapid City covering flood loss.
The FBI was on the scene helping identify bodies. They reported 16 victims伤亡.
"Our biggest problem is finding the dead and the missing." Mayor Donald Barnett said. "Many bodies I'm sure, have already gone downstream to the Cheyenne River for the Missouri, the Mississippi and the Gulf. We'll never recover them."
Authorities placed the missing at as many as 400 persons; estimates of damage topped $100 million. Much of the loss was in private dwellings, mobile homes and scores of cars crumpled like tinfoil by the racing wall of water.
TWO THOUSAND volunteers and another 2,500 members of the National Guard deployed in 12-hour shifts searched for victims Monday.
Under a hot, sunny sky, the guardsmen picked through the muck for the victims.
They feared a buried knee of about 15 cars in canyon creek might produce more
The floods were triggered when torrential rains flooded Canyon Lake, an earthen dam washed and Rapid Creek rushed out of its banks.
The water supply remained off for the third day, prohibiting bathing and making plumbing facilities inoperable. Drinking water was not available. Force Base and nearby communities. A well was reported dry at Custer, one of the cities with water to Rapid City's 43,000 residents.
Typhoid and tetanus inoculations were given to hundreds of persons swamped and infected.
The Army Corps of Engineers reported a new problem developing in Sturgis, 25 miles north of Rapid City. Engineers said a dam built in 1903 was in danger of burial because it would be reduced to rupture pressure on the dam holding back 22 million gallons of water.
NATURAL GAS remained off but telephone and electric service were normal.
President of the Black Student Union,
Diane Vann, was at the meeting to appeal
an earlier ruling by Senate treasurer Bill
O'Neill that the BSU could not pay for a
meal at lunch. A new convention of the Student Organization for Black Unity out of their fund for field trips
Credit Card Fee Plan Draws Banker Support
The Environmental Law Society requested a shift of funds also. They wanted to use funds allocated for their publications, subscriptions and research to purchase a subscription to a publication entitled Environment Reporter. StudEx member, David Miller, argued that the National Environmental Law Society was not a functioning organization and that the study should be conducted at Library from student fees. He said that such money should come from the state and not student activity fees.
The StudEx overruled O'Neill and approved the use of the $300 in the ISU field W
Randy Gould was at the meeting to represent the Legal Self-Defense. He said that he was now a student at KU. Gould was successful in requesting a transfer of funds from the Legal Self-Defense Fund's line item for bail money to one for legal
Lawrence bankers seem pleased that students enrolling next fall will be able to use Mastercharge credit cards to delay fee payments.
Dennis Barritt, a vice president at the Douglas County State Bank, foresaw no new problems as a result of the new arrangement. Barritt explained that local banks dispensed MasterCharge credit checks on the new applicants.
campus organizations requesting internal funding changes was the main order of business at the first summer meeting of the Board, Executive Committees (SBUex). Monday
And Vic Johnson, assistant vice president at the University State Bank, said of the MasterCharge credit card, "We haven't pushed it hard."
Not all banks in Lawrence rely on the MasterCharge card. The First National Bank dispenses only Bank Americard and expects no changes because of the new arrangement, vice president Bill Lienhard said.
MasterCredit central banks in Kansas City do the credit checks, said Barritt.
"We're more or less out of it, except we earn a percentage of the profits," he said. Barritt did not think the number of applicants for credit cards had increased by as much as she arranged. But he said, "We had to refill our applications out in the lobby."
Al Hack, vice president at the Lawrence National Bank, said "We're delighted, of course, because we're a MasterCharge bank."
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Bill Lebert, assistant vice president at
Lawrence National, worked out the details
Said Barrett: "I personally think it's a great idea."
Music Campers Rehearse for Friday Concert
Kansas Staff Photo by HANK YOUNG
Junior high school music campers practiced Monday for their Williams, orchestra director at Lawrence High School. The concert grand concert which will wrap up the camp's week-long activities is scheduled in Hoch Auditorium.
*Ticket Info:* $10 per student.
StudEx Allows Blacks to Finance Trip from BSU Travel Account
of the new MasterCharge credit card plan with officials from the University of Kansas. Lebert has received one call from a student about the plan but has otherwise noted no jump in interest in the credit cards vet.
There will be a separate application form for students who want Mastercharge cards, said Lebert, because many students are not yet enrolled in the Lawrence National will not be involved in credit checks on student applicants. City National Bank in Kansas City will handle credit checks on new students and revenues from the newly issued cards will accrue to the City National as well.
Miller Explains Rules
David Miller, right, Student Senate executive Committee (StudEx) member, explains to Louis Scott, vice chairman of the Senate Executive Committee, Monday
that StudEx should only act when it would be impossible for the entire Senate to
U.S. Jets Bomb Reserves
SAIGON (AP)—U.S. warplanes struck Tuesday at stockpiling points above the demilitarized zone after heavy raids on the bases of Iraq's al-Qaeda leader that left a swab of fires and explosions.
A score of B52s dropped 500 tons of bombs on caches inside the southern俯冲带. North Vietnam in summer supplied 36,762 troops offensive in the South. Most of the strikes were centered to the northwest and south of the enemy's miles north of the demilitarized zone.
Thirty B52 bombers struck south of the DMZ against North Vietnamese troop concentrations in South Vietnam's two northernmost provinces of Quang Tri and Thu Thien. Quang Tri province fell to the enemy May 1.
THE U.S. COMMAND said an OH6 light observation helicopter was shot down Monday 13 miles southwest of Hue, in the same area where two OH6s were lost Sunday. One crewman was reported missing and one wounded in the latest crash.
Four crewmen were listed as missing in the two earlier losses.
The command said 73 American planes and 50 helicopters had been lost to all causes in Indochina since the start of the North Vietnamese offensive March 30.
TOTAL CASUALTIES reported by the command in these losses are 68 Americans Killed, 121 missing and 2 wounded. Thirty-nine of the planes have been lost over the past week and 40军队 are listed as missing over the Nebraska airbase claimed many of the men were captives.
Radio Hanoi said North Vietnamese gunners downed a U.S. F4 Phantom on Monday in the area northeast of the capital city of Saigon. It made no mention of the crew's fate.
On the far northern front, the Saigon command reported that North Vietnamese long-range 130mm artillery slammed 20 rounds of shells into the South Vietnamese defensive line at My Chanh, 20 miles north of Saigon, where casualties were described as light.
HEAVY FIGHTING was reported on the southern front along the Cambodian border about 50 miles west of Saigon. The Saigon command said South Vietnamese forces repulsed a ground assault on government positions defending the
district town of Tuyen Binh and clashed with the enemy in two swirling fight to the
fuel fires and ammunition explosions roared across a wide area of North Vietnam on Sunday as U.S. warplanes picked off targets laid bare by previous bombs.
AN ORANGE FIREBALL five football fields in diameter marked the spot where waves of Air Force Phantom jets struck a dense field of Hanoi and 25 miles below the Chinese border. Air Force and Navy fliers claimed touching off 27 secondary explosions and 25 fires in the raids Sunday aimed at reaching enemy forces in South Vietnam.
Communist China said the American air
strikes near its border with North Vietnam were "threatening the security of China." The Foreign Ministry in a statement broadcast by the New China News Agency from Peking, claimed "these frenzied acts of aggression" are not only "new war crimes" against North Vietnam but also provocations against the Chinese people."
THE U.S. COMMAND reported Air Force, Navy and Marine fighter-bombers flew more than 280 strikes over North Vietnam Sunday.
Neighbors of Naismith Hall have complained about noise created by Ted Owens' summer basketball camp that practices on the courts near Naismith.
About 20 Air Force Pionners pounded the northeast rail line to China, leaving a 10-mile stretch of the tracks in flames and destroying the string of freight cars. Many of the cars were said to be loaded with war materials from China.
Neighbors Complaining Basketball Camp Noisy
According to Jack Rasing, 1801 Missouri St., no written complaint has been filed. But Rasing said many residents in the baskets and whistles the noise of basketball and whistles.
"We resist use (of the basketball courts)
on two counts," said Rasing.
First, he said, is the "overpowering number" of people on the courts at one time. He estimated that the number was often between 60 and 75, and once was as
"This is especially disturbing to us in the evenings when we like to sit outside and eat."
The second count is that residents of the area resist what seems to be "an open check to use the grounds," according to Rasing.
“As far as we know, these courts are not zoned for commercial use.” Raising said. “They are for private use, and as we see it, they do not bump does not exemplify private use.”
Another angle to the problem, Rasing said, is that of renting nearby property. The noise bothers tenants, and others may twice before renting property in the area.
Basketball camp, which lasts until July 3, isn't the only source of noise, he pointed out. Cheerleading camp, which follows it, provides its share as well.
This is not the first year that noise has been a problem for the neighborhood, but until now, Rasing explained, the neighbors protests have been kept at a "low-kow" level.
This afternoon at 2 o'clock some of the residents plan to attend a city commission meeting.
"Somebody's got to," he said.
Ted Owens, KU head basketball coach in charge of the summer camp, said "We're trying to get things worked out now."
Owens said the problem had been 'blown out of proportion.'
The boys are about as well-disciplined a group as one could find, he said, and he was very confident. "You have to