Wednesday, May 3. 1972
University Daily Kapsan
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Tornado Season Begins in Midwest Area
By JEAN MORGAN
Japan Staff Writer
The National Weather Service office in Topeka, issued this tornado warning bulletin at 11:35 p.m. sunday.
"A tornado is in effect with a duration 12.30 p.m. for people in southern Kansas. A tornado was reported by the public near Topeka at 6 a.m., eastward at 40 miles per hour. Everyone should move to a place higher."
The tornado season has begun for Kansas. May is the month during which tornadoes are most active. Curran, meteorologist at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center (NSSEC) in Kansas City,
Tornadoes can occur in any part of the United States, he said. However, they happen most in southern and central states.
NORMALLY, THE NUMBER of tornadoes is lowest during December and January and highest in May. The months of October and November are April, May and June, when large contrasts exist between warm air
from the south and cold air from the north.
From 1953 to 1969, an average of 642 tornadoes a year occurred in the United States, about half of them during April, May and June.
For the same period, the annual average number of days on which one or more tornadoes were reported was 159. Average annual frequency by states for this period ranges from 103 to three in most northernthe northeast and far western states.
TORNADOES OCCUR on hot, sticky souls with southerly winds and a threatening, ominous sky. understory water must quarrel or two before a tornado, topsy turvy clouds appear, sometimes bulging down instead of up, Curran said. The clouds often have a greenish hue.
p. m. and 6 p.m., he said.
A tornado is often accompanied by heavy rain, hail and lightning, and a heavy downpour usually occurs after it has passed.
Curran said about 82 per cent of tornadoes occurred between noon and midnight. The greatest single tornado activity, falls between 4
On the average, tornado paths are a quarter of a mile wide and have been hundreds of miles. Curran said. However, there have beenances in finances, including heavy destruction along paths more than a mile wide and 300 miles
A TORNADO travelled 392 miles across Illinois and Indiana on May 26, 1817, and listed seven of its forwards his forward speed was 40 m.p.h.
Tornadoes usually travel along the ground at an average of 25 to 40 m.p.h., but they have varied from stationary to 68 m.p.h. The wind speed is estimated to be between 300 m.p.h. within a tornado.
A tornado is usually a funnel-shaped cloud, spinning rapidly, from the base of a dark, heavy thundercloud. The winds of a tornado sound like the roar of a giant airplane and can be heard for several miles.
When a tornado struck
Galveston, Tex., in 1961, Curran said, some people thought the sound was that of an amphibious tank used in rescue operations. In a January 1969 disaster in Hazelhurst, Miss., one survivor told a preacher a twister was a mill whistle upon the house began to shake.
CURRAN SAID there was some question as to the causes of tornadoes. However, there is no evidence that these effects of these violent storms. The violent winds of a tornado can uproot trees, destroy buildings from objects blown through the air. The difference in air pressure can lift people and cause buildings to collapse.
In 1931, a tornado in Minnesota carried an 83-on-ton railroad coach and its 117 passengers 80 feet above the air and dropped them in a ditch.
When there is such destruction,
Curran said, there is usually also
Palm Sunday. 7, tortened
struck the Midwest, killing 217
people and injuring more than
100 people each day.
Estimated at $300 million. Since
the early 1950s, the tornado death toll has averaged about 120 each year.
THE MATHEMATICAL BLAST will be the most speculative application that is struck by a tornado one year is quite small, Curran notes. The probability of a tornado striking a given point in the area most frequently subject to tornadoes in the United States is 2%.
However, tornadoes have provided many unmathematical exceptions. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was a tornadoe on March 26 times since 1892. Baldwyn, Miss., was struck twice by tornadoes during a 28-minute duration.
On May 30, 1879, Irving, Kan., was in left arms by two tornadoes that occurred 45 minutes apart. He received a brief hospitalization in rapid succession on May 4, 1922, and Codell, Kan., was also treated on May 4, 1919, and 1918, on May 20.
The tristate tornado in March 16, 1925, was the worst tornado of 1925. There were 13 people killed in Missouri, 60 killed in Illinois and 100 in Arkansas.
THE RUSKIN HEIGHTS
Bondsman Says Business Risky
Bail bonding is a risky business, especially in Lawrence, where there is a large transient population. Ron Lowie, a realtor for Pete Peterson Bail Bonding Services, said in a recent interview.
By JUDY HENRY
Kansan Staff Writer
"A bail bond is a guarantee to the court by surrender that the client will appear on the date of conviction by the court," Lowrie said.
He discussed three types of bonds, recognizance bonds, cash bonds and bonds that require the services of a bondsman.
Louise said sometimes a judge released a person on his own bail because he considered reliable. He said it was used primarily in the police network. In a network could easily pick up a person who had failed to appear
If a person were released on his own recognizance in a local court
and failed to appear, Lowie said,
the cost of locating and picking up the person would be added to the court costs.
A CASH BOND is the payment of the full amount of the bond in cash, he said. After all the legal proceedings are finished, Lowie said, the money is returned if the case goes on on every scheduled court date.
Lowie said the third type of bond, in which a person was released and his appearance in court assured by a bondman.
College Committee's Fate Challenged at Workshop
David Dillon, Hutchinson junior and KU student body president, attended the workshop.
Members of the Kansas Board of Regents and students, faculty and administrators from six state colleges and universities attended a workshop recently to discuss education of higher education in Kansas.
By ROBERT E. DUNCAN Kansan Staff Writer
He said it was "a good opportunity for students throughout
David G. Miller, Eudora senior and past student body president attended as a panel member for two discussion groups.
Dillon said there was much discussion of residence halls. He said because of innovations in its design, the university has over other state schools having hall problems. Allen said that the conversion of Hashington into a hall for art students was evidence of residence hall innovation.
Included on the agenda for the workshop were problem discussions with the halls, the state government, the State College Coordination Committee. Gov Robert Docking led the meeting, scheduled, but a substitute
Dillon said the final topic concerned the role of the State Colleges Coordinating Committee. The purpose of the committee was to bring the Regents and representatives from all the state
the state to become personally acquainted with a few members of the Board of Regents.
colleges together to discuss common problems.
In the 1960s there were 6,778 tornadoes in the United States and tornado deaths totaled 945. In Florida, tornadoes killed 132 Indiana and 141 people died, 176 in Mississippi and 108 died, 118 in Texas and 40 dies, 454 in Kansas and 24 died, 313 in Alabama and 574 in Oklahoma and 57 died
At present the coordinating, committee does not have any special recommendations to make recommendations to the Regents. Its primary purpose has been to help in the exchange of information between the state agencies.
tornado of May 20, 1957, was greater Kansas City's most destructive tornado, he said. There were 4 people killed and 16 injured.
One student leader suggested that the coordinating committee be permitted to make recommendations to the Regents.
Other members attending from KU were E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., Chancellor, William Balfour, Robert D. Hancock, fairs; Kelly Allen, Topek sophomore and student body vice-president; Louis Scott, Lawrence senior; and Alex junior and junior and AURH, president.
Dillon said there was discussion as to the "active and inactive" role for the committee's future.
The usual procedure, he said, is that a person is arrested and taken to jail. If it is a city charge the judge will impose the amount of the罚, he said.
was most common.
Lowie said if the charge was not on the list of common charges with a fixed bond, the officers telephoned a judge, who set the bond. He said quite often the bossman before calling the judge.
HE SAID some of the city charges for which bond was set for drunkenness, ordinance for drunkenness, and holding intoxicated, $500; and receiving stolen property, $1,500. A bond, authorized by the severity of the crime.
Lowie said that after the judge set bail, a bondman signed for it based on the assets of the company he worked for.
"I fill out a form to make bond. This goes to the court. If he fails to appear, then I have to pay forture," he said.
He said a warrant for the person was put out for forfeiture, which was usually failure to pay fines. Lowie said, the court gives the bondsmain a certain number of days' notice or the day of a amount of the bond.
The April 11, 1965, Palm Sunday tornado outbreak was the worst of the 10 major tornadoes of the 1860s, Curran sand.
An arrested person pays a bondman 10 per cent of the bond amount and pays a remainder. Lowie said. He said the collateral could be a deed, a car, a ring or anything of value, which was returned to the person who paid for it.
LOWRIE SAID bail bonding was a 50-50 proposition.
bad check charges as bad risks for the bondsman.
"I've turned a lot of a lot of people," he said. "I don't think they know how to honor the court date, or they can't come up with enough evidence."
"They could care less," he said, "and they won't honor a court date. I steer away from it and make it material and money on the front."
Lowie said the money paid to the bondsman included any expenses necessary to find a person. The bonding service he works for has a bounty hunter. Lowie said, "We do it for a per centage of the bond."
There is always a friend or relative to tell us where someone is located. We must sustain himself, and we follow his trail. He commits crimes to him.
He cited child desertion and
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The bequest will be used to establish the Maurer-Oswald Scholarship in memory of Moan S. The fellowship will be awarded every fourth year to a woman graduate student taking college courses.
Of the other nine major disasters, one tornado in Mississippi and Alabama killed 88 people and injured S31 on March 3, 1966. The Toppea of Louisiana killed 17 people and insured $50.
1980 fine art graduate of KU Moo taught in Wichita schools before moving to California in 1945. From then until her retirement she was the Kitchen wives for Southern California Gas Co.
More tornadoes occurred in 1967 than in other years of record for the United States. Curran killed 42 people and caused property damage in the millions of dollars. In 1969, there were 604 tornadoes in 41 states that killed 58,000 people them in Mississippi on Jan. 23.
Tornadoes are the most violent of all storms, and over a small area, the most destructive Curran said.
The first Mauer-Oswald Scholarship will be awarded for the 1976-77 academic year.
The NSPF in Kansas City has the responsibility of providing forecasts for severe storms and torrential rains on the equatorial United States.
METEOROLOGISTS AT Kansas City monitor conditions in the North American desert, summers summed from hundreds of points and radar summaries, satellite photographs, reports from pilots, and meteorological upper-air observations obtained by sounding balloons.
From these thousands of pieces
of information, weathermen at
the National Weather Service
most likely to experience severe
thunderstorms or tornadoes.
They are issued to National Weather
Service offices and the public in
necessity.
Three laws enacted by the 1972 Kansas legislature will affect people who will be dealing with the counts treasurer.
Tornado watch bulletins are issued by the NSSFC in Kansas City to identify areas potentially threatened by tornadoes in the state. The NSSFC specifies the area covered by the watch, usually about 140 miles wide by 240 miles long, and establishes a period of time during which tornadoes are expected to be dangerously high.
New Statute Will Affect Automobile Registration
application for the title. This figure will also be shown on the title.
County Treasurer Edythe
Bernard began said Monday
everyone registering cars, trucks or
motorcycles must include the
name of the car.
Norman said that this might have caused him to forget the new requirements for purchasing or selling a vehicle, but that the statute was designed to protect the seller.
RULES OF THE GAME Wed., May 3 7:30 & 9:15 75° Woodruff Auditorium
When a warning is issued, people close to the storm should take cover immediately and remain there until the danger is past.
When a tornado warning is issued, caution is said, people should go to a shelter preferably in a tornado cellar, under cover, excavation or underground. A reinforced concrete building of substantial construction Windows should be
IN OFFICE BUILDINGS, people should go to an interior hallway on the lowest floor or to a designated shelter area.
Warnings indicate the location of the tornado at the time of detection, the area, usually by radar or aerial imagery expected to move, and the time period, usually one hour, during which the tornado will move.
In homes, under a sturdy workbench or heavy table in the basement offers the greatest range of storage in basements, people should take cover in the center part of the house, on the lowest floor, in a small room such as a closet or bathroom or under sturdy windows should be kept open, but they should be avoided.
All-clear bulletins are issued whenever the threat of tornadoes has ended in the area previously warned in the tornado bulletin
In shopping centers, people should go to a designated shelter area and not to their parked cars
A TORNADO WARNING
has been issued for the
National Weather Service when a tornado has actually been sighted in the area or indicated to be present.
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CURRAN SAID the watch outlits were telefed directly o all National Weather Service offices. Designated offices
Eight Thirty-Seven Massachusetts Street
prepare and issue a statement that specifies the affected area in terms of counties, towns and known geographic landmarks.
These watch bulletins are then disseminated to the public by all means and are used to guide the officers and to enforce enforcement officers, emergency forces and volunteer storm teams for severe weather. he said
Until a tornado warning is issued, Curran said, people in Missouri should wear their normal routines, but warn for threatening weather and listen to the radio or television for severe weather information.
Tornado watches are not
nautored warnings are not
possibility of tornado
development in respect of
area in which the
observed area is
nautored.
In schools, people should follow advance plans to an interior building. For older buildings, Auditoriums, gymnasiaans and other structures with wide, free-span roofs should be avoided. If a building has a high ceiling or construction, people should go to a nearby one that is, or take cover outside in a rainy or open weather.
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IN OPEN COUNTRY, people should move away from the tornado's path at a right angle. If there is no time to escape, they should lie in the nearest ditch or their hands' shielding their head.
Mobile homes are particularly vulnerable to overturning during a storm, and should be evacuated when strong winds are forecast. Damage can be minimized by securing trailers or anchors in concrete footings.
Curran said trailer parks should have a community storm broadcasts throughout the severe storm emergency. If there is no rain, the system should be left, and cover should be taken on low, protected roads.
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