The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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82nd Year, No.5
Monday, June 12, 1972
South Dakota Flood Leaves 200 Dead;500 Still Missing
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — The death toll passed 200 Sunday as people in the scenic Black Hills of South Dakota began identifying their dead and cleaning away the debris from savage flooding that left homes damaged and damage in the millions of dollars.
Civil Defense officials said the death count had reached 208, but feared the count would go higher. Relatives reported that persons still unaccounted for in the area.
Rapid City, a resort city of 43,000 about 20 miles north of Mt. Mushroom National Memorial, bore the brunt of the wall of water created when extraordinarily heavy rains forced the earthen Canyon Lake near Rapid Creek and Rapid Creek to overflow its banks.
NATIONAL Guardians and volunteers joined in the search for more bodies in the flood-striken southwestern portion of the state, which was declared a national disaster by President Nixon. The designation made the area eligible for immediate federal aid.
Persons of all ages were cleaning debris and hauling it away with every available truck Sunday. Meanwhile, they also combed through the wreckage for more bodies. Many of the workers were standing in water to their knees.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers predicted damage would reach $100 million. Homes were splintered and cars were burned and angered about like toys by the flood waters.
The Pennington County Health Department uphold and batten shots to the survivors.
GOV. RICHARD Kneip, who toured the flood-ravaged area Saturday and Sunday, said the final death toll not be known until next week is "the worst disaster to strike this state."
"There are so many areas that have not been searched for bodies," the governor said. "In many instances we'll just have to talk about it to subside so we can dig into the rubble."
Sen. George McGovern (D-D.S., D) left the presidential campaign trail to fly to his home state to survey damages to Rapid City and surrounding areas. He called the scene a destruction and disruption, it goes beyond what anyone can comprehend."
THE RAPID City water system remained inoperable Sunday. Drinking water was brought to designated places in the city from nearby Elsworth Air Force
Long distance telephone communications remained difficult, and natural gas service was virtually nonexistent.
Police said some instances of looting were reported after flooding Friday night and early Saturday. Mayor Donald Barrett, did not declare marital law but ordered the arrest of sightseers. He later asked a judge to release local officers early. Sunday afternoon.
Civil Defense officials said hundreds of low-lying flooded areas still had not been covered by the 2,000 National Guardmen and volunteers taking part in search efforts.
"I expect many bodies to be recovered in the lower areas of the city where the waters have remained high," Sheriff Koehler east of Pennington County said Sunday.
HIS OFFICE said no word had yet been received on the request.
The Guardsmen and volunteers worked under fair skies Sunday morning and afternoon, but scattered shows with a warm breeze. The guardsmen were forecast for later in the day.
EIGHT BODIES were recovered at Keystone, a community near Mt. Rushmore and its famed presidential sculptures. Civil Defense officials said assistance camps in the foothills near Keystone may have been trapped by floodwaters.
Bodies were taken to three mortuaries in Rapid City, where survivors searched for evidence of the dead.
Patrick Dixon, a Civil Defense volunteer, said he saw a preliminary list of the dead that contained mostly Rapid City residents.
A spokesman for the Red Cross said more than 900 persons needed hospital treatment and 2,000 survivors were fed an evening meal. Civil Defense officials said 3,000 persons were fed Saturday at community kitchens in local high schools.
"Westerners take care of each other, I guess," Gaddis said. "Most of the homeless were put up by people whose homes were not damaged."
Residents received some advance warning of possible flooding.
PHIL GADDIS, a spokesman for the Red Cross, said only 100 to 200 persons needed overnight shelter in five centers set up in the area.
warning of possible flooding.
David Herdery, 17, said his brother and a friend came home Friday night and warned a flood was coming.
"WE HOUGHT he was kidding," David Heraty said of his brother's warning. "We
just sat there, and pretty soon this big bunch of water down came the creek. We ran next door and the next thing I knew it was up to my neck.
"Pretty soon the top of a house came floating by and we grabsbed onto that. A little ways downstream we got off and went to the neighbor's house, where we staved all night."
Some seven inches of rain late Friday night and early Saturday turned normally placid streams into roaring rivers, sweeping hundreds of homes, cars and trees in its path. When the deluge over Canyon Lake, an earl dam gave way.
The flooding and loss of life seemed to be concentrated in the Rapid City area and the community of Keyston. Other areas in Tallahassee still reported damage, but no loss of life.
Authorities cautioned ranchers along the Cheyenne River southeast of Rapid City to watch the river for emerging bodies. Corn Rip Creek empties into the river.
Kaman Photo
House Does Not Meet Standards
Dwelling near campus lacks screens
Houses Near Campus Violate Code
by MARY HAYES WINDFIRE
Washington State College
Landlords owning property, immediately east of campus, that violates the city building code, can expect to receive letters from the Lawrence building inspector this week advising them to make repairs within about 60 days.
There are 128 dwellings in the target area, but only 77 were finally singled out for inspection. Of these, three persons own six and one person inspected, and one owning 13 of those.
The area, primarily rentals, bounded by 10th St. on the north, 14th St. on the south, Louisiana St. on the west and Tennessee St. on the east.
KU Saves With Computer Contract
By CONNIE PARISH
Kansan Staff Writer
Modifications in the present computer system resulting in improvement in the overall system of performance and reduction of equipment rental costs are the
expected outcome of a recently negotiated contract at KU.
The state department of administration approved KU's proposal to extend its current computer equipment contract with Honeywell for 39 months.
Wescoe to Give Talk At Retardation Center
In his first public appearance since leaving KU, former KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will present the address at the formal opening of the Lawrence facilities of the Kansas Center for Mental Health and Human Development Wednesday.
Wescoe will speak at 10 a.m. in the playground area on the east side of Haworth Hall. The public may attend the ceremony and tour the facilities located in Room T. Steward Children's Center. The tours will be conducted between 8 a.m. and noon.
The KU center will be directed by Richard L. Schieflebusch, professor of speech and theatre. The new facilities will include a large computerized professional training in the causes and treatment of mental retardation and other handicaps and will be one of the largest educational centers in the world.
The Lawrence facility is one of three parts of a $7.3 million complex, with other centers located at the University of Kansas Medical Center and at Parsons.
Wesco will help dedicate the project
had its start during his administration
at KU.
"We are not making any major changes at this time from what we have," according to Paul Wolfe, director of the Computation Center.
Before the contract could be negotiated, state approval had to be acquired and price reduction had to be worked out. The cost of renting a unit in monthly rental costs. The current monthly cost is $44,000 for rental and the terms of the new contract call for this to be completed.
But if the contract had not been negotiated, it would have seriously harmed the University's computer usage, and the equipment would have had to be released.
"A real campus effort" was put forth in order to evaluate contract options and in order to gain a better understanding. Wolfe explained, Major roles were played by the University Committee for Computing, the Chancellor and vice-chancellor and the university attorney in negotiating contracts.
See COMPUTER page 2
Changes to be made in the existing equipment include: 1) a new input-output controller, which will triple the transfer rate of the present controller; 2) a new
Owners live on the premises of nine of the dwellings and under scrutiny only two were inspected.
City inspector Gary Montague said Friday he had narrowed a list of 94 buildings to 77 in this area that need repairs. This was done in a personal door inspection he single-handedly carried out during January, February and March.
This inspection marks the first time the city has carried through with an inspection on this scale. Montague said previously action had been taken mostly in the case of vacant and abandoned property or on the basis of individual complaints.
The target area *v* is determined as a result of a neighborhood analysis study done by the national Institute for Social and Environmental Studies. The group, led by Richard A. Greenberg, department, looked at Lawrence earlier this year in a "windshield" survey study.
Montague said his office decided on this area for personal inspection because of its
Montague said the City of Lawrence was making every possible effort to get owners to cooperate and repair those faults found in the inspection so that the use of force could be avoided. He added in extreme cases of unsafe facilities or appliances, the owner must repair the property, in turn filing a lien on the property against the owner's name.
"It's basically multiple family dwellings, within walking distance of the
campus, and the inhabitants are more transient than those of other areas, he
the owners will cooperate before we "hope to go that far." Montague said. "In two cases the owners have already inspected what things we put in the inspection."
Montague refused to name the landlord violators.
He said because of the number of apartments some owners had in the area and the number of repairs needed on their properties, some flexibility beyond 60 days in gaining compliance may be necessary. The department's clerks dords for repairs, the figure ranged as high as perhaps a couple thousand dollars. Complication for some persons would
include meeting code requirements such as removal or non-running cars stored on
In the study, Montague found 58 per cent of the properties had improperly vented heaters or water heaters without relief valves, and 56 per cent had an inadequate number of improperly installed electrical outlets.
Also detailed in his report, originally presented to the Lawrence City Commission, were violations of plumbing and water supply, unauthorized trash, and houses in need of paint.
Montague used a new Minimum
Structures Code of the city of Lawrence as
well.
According to the code: A basement or cellar shall be reasonably dry and ventilated as well as free from refuse accumulation. Only 21 per cent of the basements were reasonably clean and dry and only 49 per cent had excess refuse accumulation.
Thirteen per cent of the dwelling units tailed to meet minimum ventilation requirements.
See DWELLINGS, page 6
Problems in Choosing Committee Face Haiphong Coalition Members
The Haiphong Coalition Research Committee met Saturday to discuss the problems facing them in the selection of committee research workers.
Hollis said that the research committee was not a policy-making body and should not be treated as such. He said it was an investigatory and educational body.
Steve Hollis, chairman of the Haiphong Coalition, said, "The Committee should primarily be made up of people who have not previously been heavily involved in research administration or policy-making on this campus."
SenEx intends to recommend five faculty members from a committee of ten who have been involved with research projects, according to Hollis. The names of the committee members will be announced Wednesday.
Hollis said that the research committee wanted to educate people in two ways. First, people not involved in research, but who are affected by research, must have the opportunity to learn and keep abreast of research developments, he said.
Secondly, scientists have to learn from other people the social effects of their
work. The mythology that science and
problem be kept separate must be
broken, he said.
Hollis said that he was unhappy with the remarks from SenEx concerning the claims.
"Once again, concerned students, faculty, and staff, who want to raise these students in an unresponsive administration," he said.
"Every attempt is made to appear to 'go along with the people' while really they only work to maintain the status quo intact."
State's McGovern Supporters Yield to Party Unity
By BOB LITCHFIELD Kansan Staff Member
TOPEKA-Supporters of Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., were dull in out their bid to add delegates committed to him in the nomination conti- ment at Topeka's Municipal Auditorium.
State Democratic party leaders and McGovern backers reached "an accommodation" before the convention opened, according to a convention spokesman, to minimize conflicts on the convention floor.
MecGovern backers supported the election of four uncommitted party regulars as delegates to the Democratic National Convention, challenging only Tom Corcoran, Democratic national committeeman from Topeka. They nominated Louis Douglas, a Kansas State university professor, to oppose Corcoran.
convention are officially uncommitted.
They are Gov. Robert Docking; Norbert Dreiling, state party chairman; Ralph McGee, Kansas State Federation of Labor (KO) leader; Neil Bangers, Salina, State national committeewoman, and Corcoran.
The party regulars withstood this challenge, however—re-electing Corcoran by a 56% margin.
The agreement or "accommodation" was reached between McGovern supporters and Dreiling in the interest of party unity. State party leaders have promised future support of McGovern in return for the cooperation of McGovern supporters in the convention, according to Mariann Blake" Harder of Wichita, a state representative and Mike Davis, Douglas County delegation floor leader.
The five at-large delegates elected at the
The election of the five uncommitted delegates means that of Kansas's 35 delegates to Miami Beach, 23 are officially uncommitted, with 12 committed to McGovern. McGovern supporters won the delegates at district conventions last month.
The McGovern forces caucused in the
balcony of the auditorium before the 10 a.m. opening. Harder explained that the caucus overwhelmingly endorsed the decision to oppose only Corcoran rather than push for additional delegates committed to McGovern.
Harder, who has long been active in the state Democratic party, said, "I think we have accomplished our purpose here. I did not come to light the governor or the party."
Some McGovern supporters reported favored an open fight with party regulars by running a McGovern slate for all positions.
Davis said that the Douglas County delegation caucused at 8 a.m. a Saturday, and as a result some of its delegates arrive in time for the McGuevin caucus.
"The decision reached at the caucus was the same one recommended to us by Rick Stearns of Sen. McGovern's office," Davis said.
Earlier in the week, Dreiling and the party leadership rebuffed a proposal by
Harder to elect a delegate slate of Docking, Drilling and McGee if Corcoran and Blangers would waive their right to be involved in the call that proposed a 'blackmail attempt'.
"We want party unity, but we refused to be pressured by the McGovenn delegates." Dreiling said, "because we knew we had the votes to win in a showdown."
Elected as alternates were Morris J. Krause of Wichita; Leo H. Boylan, Kansas City city official, and Mary Ellen Shank, Democratic Wyoming from Stanford County. Democratic Wyoming from Stanford County.
Several other points of friction were fought out on the floor. McGovern supporters nominated four alternate delegates, including Steve Fehr, a chairwoman for the Republican Village, but they were defeated by the three nominees of the party regulars.
McGovern-committed alternates who were defeated, besides Fehr, were Mary Tunainky of Wichita, o' the Aim Rose of Tulsa and Franklin, a Kansas State University Student.
Earlier in the convention some McGovern supporters attempted to separate a vote on the resolution committee report, requesting separate votes on resolutions praising Gov. Docking from the remainder of the report.
"But," he said, "there are at least three uncommitted delegates leaning to McGovern and I believe the weeks ahead will find even more in that category."
Corcoran, who had refused comment before the vote, said afterward that he had asked the judge to stop the trial.
Harder admitted he was disappointed that the Ministry forces failed to win any major victories.
"I don't think the McGovern backers were against me personally. I believe it was the national committeeman position they were seeking." he said.
Rep. Frank Gaines of August, elected
The alternate selection fight was considered important because it was an indication of the strength of McGovern against Corcoran which followed, Davis said.
permanent chairman of the convention, ruled such a motion was out of order under the rules and that the report could only be amended.
A resolution on the Vietnam war drew a standing ovation from the McGovorn forces when it was read. The resolution stated:
"That the American people desire peace and an end to the involvement in the Vietnam war and that the Democratic Party person for President of the United States."
"Who is dedicated to peace and for the disengagement of American troops from Iraq?"
"Who would vigorously pursue all humane, political and economic and diplomatic efforts to secure the release of all prisoners of war;
"Who would revamp our national priorities and program our domestic and foreign policies so they would not rise and put pressure on fortunes of any foreign government."
See McGOVERN. page 6