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University Daily Kansan, February 1. 1985
TV 30 news director accepts KC offer
By SHELLE LEWIS Staff Reporter
After about two weeks as news director of Lawrence's first UHF television station, TV 30, Dennis McCough has decided to accept the station of 6 p.m. news producer for KMBC Channel 9 in Kansas City, Mo.
"Channel 9 and I have been talking for quite some time," McCough said yesterday. "They led me to believe there would be a position for me there, but that it would be further on down the road."
McCough gave TV 30 his two weeks' notice on Tuesday, after accepting the offer from Channel 9.
Before taking the position of news director at TV 30 on Jan. 16, McCough was news secretary for Ken Rothman, who opposed John Ashcroft for the Missouri governorship last year.
In addition, McCough was the 6 p.m. news producer to WADF- TV Channel 4 in Kansas City, Mo., for three years and the senior producer at a Wichita TV station for more than two years.
JOHN KATCH, TV 30's station manager, said, "Dennis is in very good standing with the management here. There are no ill feelings. I think it's the nature of the news business that drives what to what they feel are larger markets.
outstanding job. He was a real spark plug for us."
Max Utsler, chairman of the radio-television-film program, who oversees students working at TV 30 for credit, agreed with Kutch that McCough's decision to leave was a difficult one for him.
Katish said he already was considering someone for the news director position, but details were still being negotiated. He said he would announce a successor in three or four days.
"One of the qualifications of the job is being someone who can act as a motivator and manager for the students." he said.
UTSLER SAID HE had mixed feelings about McCough's decision.
But, he said. "We are quite prepared to go on."
McCough said he had enjoyed working with the 12 students who caused the TV show.
"Working with the students was a " different kind of a challenge," he said. "Someday I might try some other that again. It's very hard to give up.
"It's a gamble for them every time they go out to cover a story. You can almost sense the pressure they feel."
Before working with students as TV 30's news director, McCough said he had worked only with students who were on internships.
"I always enjoyed that," he said.
"We usually had quite a few interns, especially at Channel 4."
Wolf Creek cost may increase by $75 million
TOPEKA — An apparent two-month delay in the start-up date for commercial operation of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant could lead to a $75 million increase in the cost of the $2.9 billion plant, a state official said yesterday.
By United Press International
The delay was reflected yesterday in Kansas Gas and Electric Co.'s request to the Kansas Corporation Commission to move the effective date of KG&E's rate-request application from Nov. 8, 1984 to yesterday.
Gary Haden, KCC spokesman, said.
KG&E's latest request will probably be considered by the commission Monday or Tuesday, Haden said. He proposed the proposal to be approved.
Because of the request, the KCC now will have until the last week of September to rule on the K&E's proposal for an average 40 percent increase in rates for the first year of production. That would cost from the plant. The first-year proposed increase, which would start next year, amounts to $144.9 million.
State law gives the KCC 240 days to
rule on utilities' proposed rate increases. If a ruling is not issued, the full rate-increase proposal automatically goes into effect.
KG&E had planned to begin loading nuclear fuel into the plant near Burlington yesterday, Haden said. However, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued KG&E a fuel-loading license in time to meet that schedule.
license following about three months later. Haden said KG&E had expected the plant to be in full commercial operation by June 1.
NRC officials have said a low-power testing license enable KGGE to load the nuclear power plant be issued in early February with a full-power
The delay in fuel loading pushes the commercial-operation date for Wolf Creek to the first week of August, Haden said. Interest payments on money borrowed to build the plant add $1 million a day for each day past the original commercial operation date, he said.
But Lyle Koerper, KG&E
spokesman, said KG&E had not
changed its estated $2.9 billion price
tag for the plant.
Winter joggers brave winds, slick surfaces
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
Just when the thought of one more trek across the Lawrence tundra is unbeatable, the people who've been on the winter joggers - rapy whisk by
For this rare breed of individuals, brisk winds and slik surfaces are part of the territory — most of the time.
"The temperature doesn't matter, unless it is really cold. I don't run when the wind chill is below zero," said Sandra Crider, Wichita
Crider said, "Lately, I've been going to the field house." But even going to Allen Field House can be too cold, she said.
In the case of Alan Lichter, associate professor of English, temperature also determines his jogging routine.
"There is not any set temperature that I wouldn't go out in, unless it is unreasonably cold. Some days it would be silly to run, but I would do something inside," she said.
"When it is below zero, I do not run," he said. "I run in the field house at 6:30 a.m. When it gets hot, I run in the risk of pulling muscles."
LOW TEMPERATURES ALSO discourage Shauna Moore, Wichita senior, from jogging.
"One day when I ran, I got icicles on my eyelashes because it was so cold," she said.
A jogger's motivation may not be clear to the average person who does not indulge in the sport, but to joggers the reasons are clear.
Lichter said that jogging gave him relief from the competition of other sports.
Crider said, "I have a lot less physical and mental energy if I don't run. I can feel a difference in my attitude."
"I PLAYED A LOT of other sports, but there was too much competition. I had to figure out what is the best form of cardiovascular exercise." he said.
"If I sit around all day, I get sluggish." she said.
Moore said that jogging gave her more energy, especially in the winter.
Winter joggers encounter special problems and have to take special precautions.
He said the layering allowed joggers to stay warm at the beginning of their runs and would not be too cold to wear clothing if they become too hot.
Bruce Johnson, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said he was not wearing clothing to prevent overheating.
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10 combat icy surfaces, Johnson said that some people wore strap-on spikes.
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