INSIDE
The big chew
The dangers of chewing tobacco have led to a call for warning labels and have given users something to chew on.
Bike aid
Story, page 7
The 35 members of Cyclists Fighting Hunger make a pit stop in Lawrence, hoping to raise funds for the hungry.
Focus, page 6
The forecast
OUTSIDE
**Today. . Sunny and hot, high 94**
**Tonight. . Mostly clear, low 72**
**Tomorrow. . Continued sunny, high 96**
**Friday. . Very warm, high 97, low 66.**
**Weekend. . Chance of showers, highs 90s, lows 70s.**
WEDNESDAY
July 17, 1985
Vol. 95, No. 153 (USPS 650-640)
The University Daily
WEDNESDAY
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Slabbers wear out welcome at shopping center
By Shawn Aday
Staff Reporter
Some call themselves slabbers. They begin to show up as it gets dark. Their cars collect haphazardly in the parking lot. They scout up onto car hoods and climb up into the backs of pickup trucks.
Beers are popped open and gulped down. They get rowdy. Obscensions are bellowed at friends who drive by. Periodically someone gets into a vehicle and roars through the parking lot.
Slabbers have been a phenomenon in Lawrence for as long as 10 years, Lt. Charles Greer of the Lawrence Police Department said Friday. When they first started gathering in parking lots, the kids just talked about problems and even brought trash cans to clean up afterward.
But in the last year at Hillcrest
Shopping Center, Ninth and Iowa streets, some of the merchants said they have found slabbers particularly troublesome.
"With 100 guys lined up out there on top of their cars drinking, a lot of families aren't going to bring their kids past them." Ron Murphy, owner of Adventureland Video, which is in the shopping center, said Saturday.
Murphy said the problem probably reached its peak one night in early June when he counted 26 cars and about 100 revelers. The slabbers did not seem organized or even consistent in age. Some appeared to be in their mid-20s or older, while others looked like they were 13, he said.
Joel Payne, owner of Munchers Bakery, said his business had declined $50 to $75 a day since the slakers began congregating in the shopping district.
bakery, Charles Moore, said a typical weekend crowd probably numbered 50. But he said he had not noticed more activity this summer
"Over the last couple of years some customers have been yelled at and bothered," he said. "They're not openly hostile, but they are rowdy." It's easy to see how some people might be intimidated."
Intimidation, intended or not, affects some employees as well.
Dawn Glassey, who works at two shops in the shopping center, said that she was uncomfortably walking down the aisle as she had been followed to her home.
"They yell at you and throw things — not really trying to hit you — just trying to get your attention," she said.
Another annovance is the litter of cups, cardboard cases, empty sacks
and broken bottles in the parking lot, merchants said.
People in the shops agreed, however, that reckless driving in the parking lot was a real danger.
Rick Malcolm, an employee of Munchers Bakery, said, "I'm surprised there hasn't been an accident yet. They really do get crazy driving up and down here. They like to drag race up and down the strip."
The strip is the narrow lane that runs about 200 yards from Iowa Street past the 11 shops of the main building to Hillcrest Theatre at the west end of the parking lot. There are no speed bumps.
Across the lane from the shops is a long row of parking spaces in which slabbers park. The entire parking lot is long and narrow, causing the slabbers' vehicles to stretch out in front of many of the shops.
which is open 24 hours, had placed about 100 calls to the police in the past year. Murphy said he had called extended hours to 11 p.m., on June 17.
Several of the merchants said they had seen police more often and the situation had improved in the past two weeks.
R. H. Raney, part owner of the shopping center, issued a notarized letter on June 27 that authorized the merchants to act as his agents in requesting police action in the shopping center, which is private property. He did he was pleased with the restrained effective response of the police.
Payne said workers in his shop.
Ron Olin, assistant chief of police, said Friday that he was not aware of an extraordinary number of calls to the shopping center. Greer said he knew of one police call to the shopping center the night before.
"One officer talked to them and they dispersed," he said.
He could not say whether that was a characteristic response, however, because each response would depend on the type of call.
Rance Blann, manager of Hillcrest Theatres, said he had seen an improvement in the last few days.
"Last night there were two cars parked out there with kids," he said. "And a police car was parked right outside." He did not doubt if the kids were drinking.
"They flow from lot to lot," he said. "This isn't just a Hillcrest Shopping Center problem. It's a community problem. It needs to be looked at to see what can be done to enforce the community's standards.
Murphy is not convinced that the problem is solved, however.
Riskv rescue
Ron Griffin, 409 Sierra Drive, a member of the newly formed Douglas a recovery team member. The team was conducting training exercises County Underwater Recovery and Rescue Team, attempts to "rescue" last night at the west end of Clinton Lake.
KU upholds SAE's 2-year suspension
By J.P. Conroy
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas has uphold the two-year suspension of Sigma Alpha Epidaurus as an official registered campus organization after an appeal was made to the university's dean of student life said Thursday.
Carly Smith, the dean, said the decision was made by David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, before he left on vacation July 8. The appeal was submitted by the recently elected NAE chapter's alum commision.
Edward E. Frizell, co-chairman of the 13-member alumni commission and a Kansas City, Mo., attorney, said Thursday that he could not comment on the appeal because the appeal court was main confidential with the University.
He said commission members were disappointed by the decision. However, they will not change the policy to allow them. He has planned for the chapter, he said.
to place Kansas Alpha SAE back at the top of the frontier system at KU. Fritzli said, "Of course we still have to do this," he added. The University during this process.
"The decision does not change our desire and commitment to place programs in effect that the alumni commission thinks are necessary in order
Ambler said recently that the appeal to reduce the suspension was submitted by the alumni commission because commission members thought the penalty was too severe. He said the alumni commission's appeal did not dispute the reasons for the suspension.
KU suspended SAE, 1301 W. Campus Road, for violations of University regulations on hazing. In preliminary
correspondence to SAE national headquarters in Evanston, Ill. the University also requested that the national headquarters revoke the chapter's charter or operating license.
Ken Tracey, executive director of the SAE national fraternity, said recently that some active members of the organization are organizing pledges in the pledge program.
National SAE headquarters denied KU's request to revoke the chapter's charter and placed the chapter under a local SAE alumni commission.
Temporary plant angers neighbors by turnpike work
By Laurie Ziffrin and Julie Brown
Staff Reporters
Tim Sterling recalled the day he came home and his wife told him there was something terrible in the back yard. He walked outside and discovered that an asphalt plant had been installed behind his apartment building.
"My heart sank driving down Michigan Street," Sterling, Lawrence graduate student, said recently "I thought the buildings were on fire. There was white, brown and black smoke coming out of this thing in such volume that these buildings were literally covered with it."
Sterling, like many other residents in the Wood Creek Townhomes at 25 N. Michigan St., was surprised and upset when the plant moved in due to warming. The plant sits just a foot off North Avenue, about 100 feet from the townhomes.
The Kansas Turnipp Authority, which owns the land next to the townhomes, has contracted with the NR. Hamm Construction Co. in Perry to produce asphalt for a $45 repair repair project east of Lawrence
The temporary mobile plant was brought from Topoka to Lawrence and is scheduled to shut down and be removed Sept. 15.
But that is not soon enough for some people who live near the plant.
but that is not foolish enough to some people who live near the plant. State Rep. John Sobach, D-Lawrence, said he had received petitions with 150-250 signatures and numerous letters complaining about the smoke, smell and noise that come from the plant.
Some Wood Creek residents have complained about increased allergic reactions and coughing since the plant was installed.
J. Delano, manager of the asphalt division of Hamm Construction Co., said, "We have done a number of things around the asphalt plant to alleviate some of the problems."
He said that the company had put oil on the road to control dust, had put a 600 muffler on the generator to cut down on noise and was planning to heighten the stack so smoke would disperse farther away.
Sobach said the KTA and Hamm had made some concessions. He said the KTA would never put another plant at this site and had cut hours of operation of the plant from 15 to 11 and that it would try to rorete truck traffic onto the turnipke to avoid Michigan Street.
Despite those concessions, area residents say they would prefer the plant be moved.
Sterling and his wife, LaDonna, who organized a petition drive, said they had been driven out of their home for several occurrences because of pollution.
Sterling said, "I made a peanut butter sandwich the other day and it tasted and smelled like that blue ice cream we bought in the trash and left the house."
Sergio De Almendra, a Wood Creek resident, said. "I can't open the north windows when the plant is running and I have much more dust than usual."
Betty Allen, 340 N. Michigan St. said, "There's more grit and dust in
See ASPHALT. p. 5. col. 1
Dole requests security tightened at airports
By Gina Kellogg
Staff Reporte
Dole, who also is the wife of Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, came to Lawrence as a guest of the Douglas County Republican Party and the Dole for Senate Committee. A reception was conducted at the Alvamar Country Club. 1809 Crossgate Drive.
Since the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, airport security throughout the world has been a chief concern for the United States and Elizabeth Dole, she said Monday night.
At a brief news conference before the
at reception, Dole said various
measures had been enacted to ensure
at airports throughout the world.
The changes involve personnel who have been specially hired to prevent people with the intent of bijacking from ever having the opportunity to get near the planes. These personnel will work primarily on the ground checking all aspects of the airplane from luggage to food.
ing of luggage. For example, curbside checking no longer will be allowed on international flights. Also, luggage on certain flights will be physically inspected, whether it is an X-ray machine or an X-ray machine. Baggage also might be matched with passengers just before they get on a plane.
Changes also involve the check
Foreign governments have been contacted by the Department of Transportation about the new U.S. security standards. Dole said. If the governments fail to comply with a reasonable amount of time, she has authority to stop U.S. carriers from飞到这些 countries, she said.
Dole said that she thought the American people understood that in order to enforce the tougher security measures they would have to allow people to go outside, and that they would probably have to pay a little more for plane tickets.
Elizabeth Dole
She also can stop carriers from those countries from flying to the United States.
Dole said she had talked recently to
members of the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal to discuss ways to toughen standards for foreign airports comply with them.
A-bomb anniversary
"The Reagan administration is definitely encouraging women candidates." Dole said.
In response to other questions,
Dole said, "We will see a woman in our lifetime at the top of the ticket."
She said she thought there had been an outbreak of HIV in recent years and that a woman would become president in the near future.
Test unleashed atomic age
By Jill Ovens
Staff Reporter
An inscription near the entrance of City Hall is one to ponder 40 years after the first atomic bomb was exploded in the deserts of New Mexico, a city commissioner said yesterday on the anniversary of the test
"We have tomorrow before us, bright like a flame," the inscription reads. They are the words of poet Robert Browne, a one-time Lawrence resident.
Commissioner David Longhurst, who was mayor in 1983 when the ABCTV movie "The Day After" was filmed in Lawrence, said the inscription had become a theme during the season. Lawrence depicted the effects of a nuclear explosion on Kansas City and Lawrence.
"The inscription is appropriate when you consider the significance of the first test." Longhurst said. "It opened the door to the flame of opportunity or the flame of destruction Unleashing the power of the atom
The explosion at Alamorgordo near Los Alamos in New Mexico was an event of particular significance, Longhurst said.
can be a positive discovery, or it can be destructive."
Scientists worked at several different locations on the project, in
The Manhattan Engineer District Office of the U.S. Corps of Engineers was formed in May 1942 as a cover for the secret Manhattan Project. The project involved the world's foremost scientists, many of whom, such as Ernest Fermi, an Italian physicist, had filed the Nazis.
"It's not just the harnessing of the power of the atom to drive a turbine," Longhurst said. "It's knowledge. It's a real insight into the way things work that can open up all those mysteries."
Frank Hoecker, Route 6, who retired as chairman of the KU radiation biophysique program in 1973 was working on the Manhattan Project at Columbia University in New York, when the atomic bomb was exploded.
Their task was to develop an atomic bomb before the Germans did. On July 16, 1945, the Nazis had been defeated, but by then the project had developed its own energy and the war with Japan still was raging in the Pacific. Those working on the project were optimistic after the explosion that an end to the war was imminent.
cluding Chicago, New York and Los Alamos.
Hoeker said he had been relieved to hear the news of the successful est
"I knew as long as the war went on, I was going to be in New York and working on the project. he said. He told me that we would love to live a normal existence again."
From a scientific standpoint, the successful test meant the validation of years of scientific discoveries.
"It was the culmination of our work. Everybody was glad it had been successful." Hoecker said.
Kenneth Wheeler, professor of radiation biophysics, said the actual
See BOMB, p. 5, col. 4