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Record Number Of Entries For KU Relays
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No. 123
Monday, April 12, 1971
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Kansan Staff Photo by DAVID HENRY
Potter Yield
fishermen. Many a sportsman would not choose Potter Lakae as a place to cast their lines. But contrary to popular belief, there are fish that inhabit KU's favorite pond. James Wille, a Lawrence high school student, offers as proof two basks that he caught during the weekend.
Soaring temperatures and spring fever have started to bring out the
11 Americans Killed
Reds Shoot Down U.S. Helicopter
SAIGON (UPI)—Eleven Americans were killed Easter Sunday and eight others were wounded when Communists shot down a U.S. helicopter and ambushed the rescue force that came to its aid, the U.S. Command announced.
It was the heaviest American battle loss in two weeks. On March 28, Communists killed 32 American soldiers and wounded 76 in an attack by the Army Ann in the northern province of Quang Tin.
The Easter Sunday ambush took place in neighboring Quang Ngai Province just south of the provincial capital of the same name, Bac Giang, as a step of Saigon near the South Sea Coast.
Spokesman said a big UH1 "Huez" helicopter said shot down just after noon, and two helicopters were on the scene.
When a rescue force arrived three hours later it walked straight into the ambush. Ten more American soldiers died and six more were wounded.
Helicopter gunships, artillery strikes and jet fighter-bombers were called in to the rescue team's aid. There were no known Communist casualties.
Further north, a U.S. Navy Au Corair freeir,
a single "Shrike" missile at Communist gun
positions inside North Vietnam, the second
gun position in north in three days,
the U.S. Command said.
Far to the south, all gunbeds and planes intercepted a North Vietnamese trawler off South Vietnam's southern coast and sank it early Monday after a two-hour battle, U.S.
Narcotics Chief Says
Navy spokesmen said.
The battle in the South China Sea was the first such incident involving a North Vietnamese boat in almost five months, spokesmen said.
On the battlefields, a U.S. Air Force F100 Super Sabre crashed into a ridgeline and an air bellicopter was shot down in Syria. A French South Vietnamese army is suppressed Fire Base
6 in the Central Highlands, the helicopter was rescued, but the pilot of the jet crashed.
Spoemiaen said a U.S. Navy patrol boat, Antelope, and a south Vietnamese gunboat challenged the 168-foot North Vietnamese trawler shortly before midnight Sunday as it was about two hours away from South Vietnam's Oa Ma Penhails, 175 miles south of Saigon.
Phone Tapping Boosts Federal Drug Arrests
WASHINGTON, (UPI)—Increasing use of telephone tape may drive drug pushers out in the open where they will be easier to catch, the court order entender of narcotics laws said Sunday.
"The telephone has been a God-send to illicit traffickers," John E. Ingersoll, director of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, said.
He has only been authorized to use the tool since President Nixon took office. Regulations require approval in each case by a general John N. Mitchell and then a court order.
"It gives them privacy. The telephone is used a great deal by those we're aiming at... If they can't hide behind the telephone, they'll have to come out in the open and we'll have an easier time catching them," Ingersoll said in an interview.
Ingersoll, a hold-over from the Johnson administration, nonetheless reflects the Nixon administration's high regard for wiretapping as a powerful tool in the fight against crime.
Ingersoll, a youthful looking 41, was named director of the bureau July 12, 1968 by Attorney General Ramsay Clark and was retained by Mitchell Clark would not use the wire tap authority against organized牢禁 authorized in the 1968 Safe Streets Act.
Ingersoll was much more cautions about the controversy no-know authority given his advice.
"We've had 40 wire taps in the last two years," Ingersoll said, "and they've accounted for the arrest of about 198 persons up to the end of March, 1971. They also accuse 50 pounds of weights, 30 pounds of cocaine and 99 grams of LSD that "$14 million worth."
Mitchell castigated Congress June 19, 1970 or 'delaying to death' the measure but insulted said. "There were no occasions we could have used it (no knock) before the law was passed." The measure passed Congress last October.
Ingersoll called "no-knock"—a provision that permits federal narcotics agents to enter
a suspect's premises unannounced—"an ex exceptional device."
Despite the intensive efforts of the Nixon administration to curb what Mitchell called the "national epidemic" of drug abuse, Ingersoll was reluctant to evaluate his suc-
He said there were about 2,500 people the Bureau considered primary targets around the world, plus several thousand secondary ones and many others are constantly coming to our attention."
Firemen Rescue Student In Sigma Chi House Fire
One University of Kansas student suffered smoke inhalation in a fire on the top floor at the Sigma Chi fraternity house early Saturday morning.
Charles Lawrence, Bartleville, Okla.
junior, was caught in a dorm adjoining the burning room. By the time the smoke came out, he had fallen down and the fire had blocked the hallway exit.
The fire was reported at 3:30 a.m. When the fire trucks arrived at the scene, firemen were told that Lawrence was trapped inside the building, and they were forced through the dorm window, using a ladder.
Wearing oxygen tanks and face masks, the firemen searched the room until they found Lawrence unconscious on the floor near the dormitory doorway. He was carried to the window and treated with a resuscitator until the fire could be extinguished in the hallway.
The fire started in a three-man study room on the third floor. The cause is unknown, but it appears to have been set by an unoccupied room.
An ambulance took Lawrence to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where he was treated for smoke inhalation. Lawrence may be released at Barrattville, in Barberville, for the rest of the week.
The fire was extinguished minutes after Lawrence was rescued. Damage was minimal.
suspected. No one was in the room when the blaze started.
The fire spread out of the study room and into the master hallway where it traveled about 25 feet before being contained by firemen. Other rooms along the hall suffered some smoke damage, but the fire did not spread through the closed doors.
The study room is in the northeast corner of an addition to the house which was completed
Other members of the 90-man house were awakened by an automatic fire alarm system and escaped uninjured. The house was covered by insurance and the damage will be repaired in two to four weeks, a spokesman for the house said Saturday.
2,500 Year Sentence To Texas Murderer
DALLAS (UPI) - A jury Wednesday sentenced a convicted murderer to 2,000 years in prison - the longest sentence handed down in Texas judicial history.
Anti-War Rally, Canvass Planned
desert the length of the sentence, however,
observe I. foyd Angle, 28, will be eligible for
nomination.
Residents will be polled on whether a date should be set for final withdrawal of all U.S.
A canvassing of Lawrence residents' opinions on the Indochina war is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday with a rally in Woodruff Auditorium. The canvassing has been organized by the law firm of the Lawrence Vietnam Coalition, as one of the largest efforts in this town against the war."
Canvassing assignments of 28 to 30 houses will be given to volunteers at the rally, which will be coordinated by Walt Babbitt, Baldwin junior and a Vietnam veteran. A South Vietnamese student is tentatively scheduled to speak.
Each volunteer will carry packets of information about various aspects of the war—the POWs, the war's history and economics—in order to战 the war with residents.
troops from Indonesia. The poll question is patterned after a recent Gallup poll in which 73 per cent of Americans said a date should be set for the war's end.
Volunteers will also ask residents to sign a "Joint Treaty of Peace, between the People of the United States, South Vietnam and North Vietnam." The treaty was drawn up by the National Student Association and South Vietnamese and North Vietnamese students.
The March 24 issue of Liberation News Service reported that more than 300 student government presidents and college newspaper editors had endorsed the treaty.
The treaty calls for an immediate ceasefire, a total withdrawal of Americans from Vietnam, and an end to the Thuo regime, a governmental takeover of the country. Democratic elections and a respect of the
In stating the purpose of taking the treasury door-to-door in Lawrence, the coalition said, "Those American students who signed that petition were back to be ratified by the American people."
"independence, peace and neutrality of Laos and Cambodia."
Jim Sheurch, an organizer for the canvassing, pointed to the wide variety of people
"A lot of people—high school students, KU faculty and students, townpeoples, dropouts—who've been antagonistic to each other are working together on this thing," he said.
"An important aspect of this is students going out and talking to townpeople with whom they usually don't have contact," she added. "They broaden the base of support to end the war."
4.4% School Budget Cut Awaits Docking's OK
TOPEKA (Staff) - A bill which will cut 4.4 per cent from the fiscal 1972 budget for all state colleges and universities was sent to Gov. Docking's desk Friday afternoon.
Agreement between the Senate and the House on the bill was reached by a conference committee Friday. The Senate version of the bill had exempted both junior colleges and Washburn University from the cuts, but they were included in the final version.
If signed into law by Gov. Docking, the bill will cut about $850,000 from the recommended 1972 budget for the University of Kansas. The University had originally lost more than $881,000, but it $320,000 was restored by the legislature shortly before adjourning late January, and the bill will give the University $225,654, which is slightly above the current year's budget.
A meeting of the Council of Deans which had been called for Saturday was canceled.
available to determine what the immediate effects of the cut would be at the university. It was expected that the Council would meet sometime after April 20 to discuss the cuts,
The final general fund appropriations all state schools, except Pittsburgh State College were below Gov. Docking's recommendations. Here are the final figures with the governor's recommendations in parentheses;
FOR HAYS STATE COLLEGE, $3,981,254
($4,199,210).
KANSAST STATE UNIVERSITY, $21,799,706
( $22,913,360 )
EMPORIA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, $6,312.163 ($8,529.329)
PTTBURG STATE COLLEGE, $5,485,061
($ 5,485,061).
Med Center Proposes Burn Unit
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, $22,595,284
<$25,016,061>
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY, $9,107,833
(9,754,851).
By ANN CONNER, CAROLINE ANDERSON
ROBERT W.PATRICK
Kansan Staff Writers
A burn unit, the first in Kansas, has been proposed by the University of Kansas Medical Center. A burn unit is essentially an intensive care unit for persons who have been severely injured, according to Dr. F. W. Masters, professional surgery in the section of plastic surgery.
According to a brochure that supported the proposed burn unit, approximately 85 persons in Kansas die from thermal burns each year. Approximately five times that many are severely injured and recover. On the other hand, as more patients being treated in Kansas hospitals
However, there is presently no facility in Kansas offering multi-disciplinary or team treatment in an intensive care unit specially designed for burn victims. The nearest unit is in St. Louis, Mo. There are only 23 burn units scattered throughout the United States.
Burns are among the most painful of injuries and without the proper facilities and treatment by trained personnel, the emergency medical condition of burns patient is often fatal.
DR. DAVID ROBINSON, chairman of the Medical Center's section of plastic surgery, said there were no special facilities for burn patients at the Medical Center. Burn patients are now cared for in rooms on floors primarily devoted to routine surgical care.
"In its most simple definition, a severe burn is a huge surface wound that allows body fluids to leak out. It also causes a general lessening of the body's defenses so that combating infections becomes extremely important in treatments," Robinson said.
BESIDES THE DANGER of infection, two other complications to burn treatment are the possibility of psychiatric disturbances in the victim and the long time span needed for recovery. In a recent survey of hospitalization, 24 per cent of all burn patients were noted to have been hospitalized for more than a month.
Removal of the burned skin and replacement with skin grafts is difficult as well as time-consuming. Robinson said the burn unit facilities would enable the staff to work more quickly and efficiently with burn patients.
A serious burn creates severe alterations in the chemistry and functioning of all the body's systems, he said. He explained that a patient with a bad burn used more energy than a person with any other type of injury. Special diets, he said, are necessary to give burn patients the extra energy needed to combat the burn injury.
Not only would the unit be used for treatment of Kansas burn victims, but also it would provide research facilities and education on various aspects of burn care.
"The aims of any medical school are education, research and service," Masters said. "This is why we are trying to establish this (burn unit)—so we can further these
aims."
FEW INJURIES cause more suffering than a burn. Few extract a greater toll in time, dollars or well-being. Not only is the burned person intensely ill immediately following a burn, but he also faces repeated, painful procedures over a prolonged period of time.
Since the treatment of burns is usually an prolonged effort, the cost of treatment is high. Often when the cost of treatment is paid by insurance, a burn presents a financial catastrophe.
Robinson said he was reasonably certain that the Medical Center could obtain match funds, probably from federal funds. He noted that the amount was $200,000, one-salf of the total needed.
The proposed burn unit would house patients with severe burns until their conditions stabilize. This critical period would allow the patient to recover seriously buried patients, Johnson said.
The treatment that the Medical Center plans to develop would involve many more departments than just the plastic surgery department. Robinson said,
BESIDES SPECIALLY trained personnel, special equipment is needed to treat severely burned persons. Electronic recording of the functioning of patients' body systems. A very accurate scale is required to measure patients' weights to the ounce to meet medical standards.
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Burn Victims Can Operate Their Own Beds
Kansan Photo by DE MILLER
rotating frames are part of proposed burn unit