University Dally Kansan, April 12, 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
2 KU supervisors suspended
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Two facilities operations supervisors were suspended Tuesday for disregarding safety precautions for while working on campus last week.
Chuck Chilson, steamfitter supervisor and one of the men suspended for three to five days, said he did not wear protective clothing or a respirator while bagging insulation containing asbestos to be sent to a toxic waste dum
Asbestos is a fireproofing material that some medical researchers think causes cancer and other serious diseases.
Chilson said George Meinhold,
assistant director of operations
applied for a permit.
"This is my life," Chilson said. "I was doing something to help save money for the university and save money for the taxpayers."
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, would not comment on this report.
Chilson said he was saving money by not using disposable protective clothing or filters for respirator masks.
On Jan. 11, Anderson issued a mandate requiring asbestos safety procedures to be followed when workers handled asbestos.
was being discarded because it contained asbestos.
Chilson said the insulation he was packing was unused insulation that
Facilities operations employees currently are participating in a three-week, asbestos-control training program at the Kansas National Forest by the KU National Asbestos Training Center in Overland Park.
Also this week, a three-member panel from the Kansas Department of Human Resources is continuing its inquiry into the demolition and rebuilding of the plant of a boiler insulated with material containing asbestos.
Kathy Ketchum, department spokesman, said the inquiry, which began in February, would not be complete for at least two weeks.
Slattery blasts Reagan's policies
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Rep, Jim Slattery, D-Kan., said yesterday that the Reagan administration's "radical liberal" economic policy could be blamed for the sagging farm prices which could be bolstered best by eliminating the deficit.
"Reagan has the image of being the most conservative president we've had," Slattery told a news conference at the Statehouse. "But he used radical liberal when it comes to fiscal policy. He spends far too much."
Slattery said the administration's fiscal policy kept the deficit high and the dollar overvalued abroad 'hammering' the farmers, he said.
"If we're going to deal with the problem facing the farmers, we have to look at the serious problems being caused to our economy as a whole by the huge deficit," the congressman said.
Slattery said he and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers were piecing together a deficit-reduction program that included spending cuts in the departments of Defense and Transportation and in an assortment of
energy-related and social service programs.
The program, which he said the group hoped to unveil later this year, could result in reducing the $200 billion deficit by $50 billion. If the coalition's tentative program were coupled with a minimum corporate other tax increases, the deficit could be halved after a year, he said.
Slattery blasted the Defense Department for being one area in which the administration overspends. He said overspending was so chronic "that there is no way they even keep track of their spending."
Robberies may have same suspect
By KATHY FLANDERS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
One man may have been responsible for two armed robberies and one attempted armed robbery in Lawrence, La. Lawrence police said yesterday.
The men turned around and saw a man holding a small caliber black revolver, according to police.
Shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, the manager and an employee of Bum Steer Bar-B-Q. 2544 Iowa St., were robbed in the parking lot of the store where they were leaving for the night with a bag containing the money made that day.
The man took the money bag from the manager, police said. The bag contained about $220 in cash, checks and charge slips.
The robber was last seen walking east toward Redbud Lane.
Police said the man was described as about 5-foot-6, 180 pounds, wearing a red ski mask and camouflage fatigues.
THE SECOND incident was an attempted armed robbery shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday at Taco John's, 1101 W. Sixth St. A man entered the restaurant and pointed a silver gun at one of two employees working behind the counter, police said.
Sgt. Don Dalquest of the Lawrence police said the man told them to give him money.
Police said one of the workers screamed, and both ran back to the office, where they called police and waited until they arrived.
When police arrived, the robber was gone.
The robber was described as 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-10, about 175 pounds and wearing a yellow jacket, ski mask and a green army jacket, police said.
The third incident occurred at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at the All Seasons Motel, 2309 Iowa St. An
employee was at the cash register counting the evening's receipts when a man aimed a small black revolver at her, police said.
Police said the man told her to put money in a white plastic bag he bought.
The employee put all the money in the register at about $600, into the bank.
The robber was described as being about 5-foot-6, 160 pounds. He was wearing a red ski mask with black eye holes and a green army jacket.
Dalquist said the two robberies could be connected because the descriptions of the men who robbed Bum Stear Bar-B-Q and All Seasons were similar, and the gun used in both robberies was a small black revolver.
He said that even though the gun used in the robbery attempt at Taco John's was silver, the description of the robber's clothing and size was similar to those of the men in the other robberies.
Drinking Myth of the Week
PEOPLE GET DRUNK . . . OR SICK . . . FROM
SWITCHING DRINKS.
INFECTING DRINKS:
That shouldn't really make much difference. What usually causes an adverse reaction to alcohol is drinking too much.
MIXING YOUR DRINKS CAUSES HANGOVERS.
The major cause of hangovers is drinking too much.
Period.
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