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Vol. 95, No. 81 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday, January 24, 1985
Doug Ward/KANSAN
Retirees join club to find camaraderie
Oscar Haugh (left), retired education professor, speaks with mathematics department. Haugh and Price yesterday attend-Professor G. Baley Price, former chairman of the ed a gathering in the Alumni Center.
By MIKE GREEN Staff Reporter
Companionship, a sense of belonging and fellowship with one's peers do not have to end with retirement.
To meet these needs among KU's faculty and staff members after they retire, the KU Retreats' Club, on the first floor of the Adams Building, 1386 Brock Ave., was founded in early 1983.
"Retirement is a change of life," said former chancellor Raymond Nichols, the president of the club. "By just sitting, you win the death warrant. This club keeps you active."
The club, which has more than 200 members, provides a full schedule of activities in pursuit of its goal of keeping members involved. Nichols said. Pool and dining facilities are available at a variety of social events, such as birthday parties and dinners, are sponsored by the club.
ALTHOUGH OTHER universities have formed similar clubs, nothing comparable to this organization existed at the University of Kansas until 1983. The problem was a lack of space, said Nichols, who was the chancellor of KU from 1972 to 1973.
However, this changed with the building of the Alumni Center. The retirees' club was planned as part of the building from the college to the university. It was placed on the Alumni Center planning committee.
Rooms on the first floor were set aside for the club, Nichols said. The club maintains a library, a music room, a game room and a gym. All rooms were meant principally for use by members.
CLUB MEMBERS PAY annual dues of $10. However, Nichols said, the bulk of the money for the club's operating budget of $9,000 and the interest earned on a $100,000 endowment.
Membership in the club was automatically extended to retired faculty and other University personnel. Nichols said. The surviving spouses of people who would have been eligible had they lived were also automatically invited to join, he said.
All of the rules for membership were set down in a constitution that was approved at the club's first meeting in 1983. Nichols said, "The constitution outlines the club's organization."
The club is run by an executive committee of officers. Nichols said. The president is Neil O'Reilly.
standing committees, such as the library and music committees.
NICHIOS SAID HIS main job as president was to "keep mugging people to get programs going." The club's operating year begins in September and runs through June.
Although many members said the club's accommodations were impressive, they said the social opportunities the club offered were what made them visit regularly. The most frequent social event is the gathering over doughnuts every Wednesday morning.
"The Wednesday coffees are extremely popular," said Betty Marzluff, who serves with her husband, Joe Marzluff, as chairman of the social committee. "The thing that's so surprising is that so many man show up, so many coming and chatting with colleagues."
Another popular event, Mrs. Marzuluff said, is the birthday party each month for all
members whose birthdays fall in that month. At these parties, she said, a member would give a speech on a topic in which he is an expert.
"THERE'S SO MUCH talent and expertise among this group. Mr. Lauff said,工资太高，charges to help them."
Mrs. Marzluff said the club tried to involve everyone in its activities. Members take turns serving as hosts for club events, such as the Wednesday coffee socials.
"The fellowship of all these events is great." Marjorie Candlin, a club member, said. "I've met new people. This University is so large that it's hard to meet everybody."
After the Wednesday coffee socials, members can go to the music room, where they listen to a musical recording selected by Kla Blaas, chairman of the music commit-
about the composer before playing the music. Yesterday, members arranged themselves around the plush, red-carpeted room and listened attentively as classical music came over the modern stereo system.
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THE MUSIC ROOM contains a cassette player, a turntable, and many tapes and records. Nichols said. Most of the items in the music room have been purchased by the
Nichols said his favorite room was the library. This room, like the music room, is well furnished with couches and chairs. The library has more than 100 books and stores the many magazines and newspapers to which the club subscribes.
Although members may use the rooms almost all the time, Nichols said, a few of them were rarely used.
"The arts and crafts room is hardly used at all." he said.
House committee wants drinking age at 21
ASK provisions incorporated into proposal
By MICHAEL TOTTY
Staff Reporter
TOEKA-E — A House committee wants the legal drinking age in Kansas raised to 21, but it also asks that 18-year-olds be allowed to drink. It promises that serve any alcoholic beverages.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee yesterday voted 10-7 on the budget for the next fiscal year.
aged on July 1, while permitting anyone who
tugged UR before that date to still buy beer.
The committee bill now will go to the House floor for further debate.
The bill would allow 18- to 21-year-olds to sell beer in grocery and convenience stores and to serve beer in taverns and restaurants. An amendment to the original proposal would also permit 18-year-olds to work in clubs that serve other alcohol.
THE EMPLOYMENT provisions were based on proposals the Associated Students
of Kansas, a student lobbying group, had recommended to the committee.
mark Tallman, state director of ASK, said that although the group remained opposed to efforts to raise the drinking age, he was pleased with the bill that left the committee.
"This bill has everything in it we want," Tallman said.
Committee Chairman Robert H. Miller, R-Wellington, said the prospects were good for passage on the House floor of the
amendment that allows employment in clubs.
"I don't see anything unfair about it," Miller said, "particularly after being refined. It might have to be cleaned up a little in the area of supervision."
An amendment that failed to provide supervision of employees by someone 21 or older was defeated by the committee.
THE PROVISION THAT would permit
Budig OKs examination of asbestos
See HOUSE, p. 5, col. 1
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Chancellor Gene A. Budig yesterday accepted a proposal from the Kansas Department of Human Resources that would establish a fact-finding team to investigate complaints that the University of Kansas did not follow federal guidelines for asbestos removal
The proposal, submitted last week, was a response to a formal request from Budig after facilities operations employees complained about procedures used in the removal of an obsolete boiler from the KU power plant.
The two-year removal of the 50-year-old boiler ended in mid-December. Rod Oroke, director of support services, said he had found that a laden boiler had not been used in 25 years.
Asbestos is a fire-proofing material suspected of causing cancer.
KATHY KETCHUM, spokesman for the human resources department, said the three-member investigative panel would be granted access to all information, records and files involved with the asbestos removal. It also would be allowed to conduct confidential interviews with facilities operations employees.
Dale Sayer and Dwayne Guey of the state Department of Industrial and Health Safety and Paul Dikoff of the Department of Emergency Services will compose the panel, Ketchum said.
She said she was not sure when the investigation would begin or how long it would last.
Oroke said he was glad Budig had approved the department's proposal to form the investigative panel.
"I THINK THAT it will provide us with a clear idea of what did take place and set the groundwork for future plans," he said. "Concern of employees is of utmost importance because we are concerned that maybe adequate precautions weren't taken in the removal of the boiler."
Federal guidelines require special equipment for asbestos removal.
Oroke said the procedure was an "in-house operation, involving only facilities opera-
"WE JUST THINK it's best that it be reviewed by the department in Topeka."
"I'm looking at it objectively," he said. "I knew that they were taking the boiler out . . . and the next thing I knew there were all these concerns."
Oroke could not estimate the number of employees involved in removing the boiler, but said that "concerns would relate to any persons who had been in the power plant on a day when
However, he said he was not aware of any health problems related to the asbestos removal. He said plans for removal of an earlier plant in the plant had been stopped until after the inquiry
The Environmental Protection Agency's regional office in Kansas City, Mo. has not planned to conduct its own inquiry, Wolfgang Gossner, the EPA's regional asbestos director, said.
Bitter cold wave lessens, but record lows continue
Bill Landis, spokesman for the EPA said, "We probably wouldn't step into it unless they asked us for technical assistance."
By United Press International
Snow squaws ingested along the Ohio and New York shores of Lake Erie as Buffalo, N.Y., asked the National Guard for help digging out from under 3 feet of snow.
A bitter cold wave that killed 162 people and wiped out half the Florida citrus crop eased yesterday, but chilly conditions still broke or tied 14 low temperature records.
The blast of arctic air, dubbed the Alberta Clipper, has been blamed for at least 162 deaths, including weather-related traffic and traffic accidents, since Saturday.
A woman and three of her children relying on a faulty chimney for heat died Tuesday night when fire raged through their frame house in Nesmith, S.C.
In Jackson, Mich., Blackman Township Public Safety Officer Gary Crossett was the first officer to arrive at the scene of a fatal two-car accident only to discover that the victim was his wife, Shelly. 21 Police said Mrs. Crossett's car had skidded out of control and struck another car broadside.
"THE ONLY HEAT they had was from that fireplace," Williamsburg County Sheriff Theodore McFarlin said.
Michigan, northeastern Minnesota and northern Illinois. Snow was scattered from western Wyoming to eastern Idaho and rain fell over southern Texas and west-central California.
Snow fell from central New England to the lower Great Lakes, across upper
THE CURRENT ESTIMATE is that about half of the crop was lost," said Gov. Bob Graham. "The effort now is to get as much as possible to the processing plants to convert into orange juice. There also are topside farms in winter vegetable and sugar cane crops."
The cold wiped out half of Florida's $2.5 billion citrus crop as the worst freeze in the state's history turned oranges, grapefruit and limes to balls of ice.
"We're now going to crank up and run as fast as we can as long as we have fruit," said Bud Cook, owner of Cook Processing in Haines City.
Picking crews and processing plant employees close the clock to what they could
Fourteen low temperature records were
recorded in Southeast, even
though the cop snap was not.
It was 13 at Columbia and Greenville, S.C. 16 at Augusta, Ga. 18 at Wilmington, N.C. and 19 at Charleston, S.C. In Florida, it was 21 at Tallahassee, 25 at Daytona Beach, 28 at Orlando, 30 at Hollywood, 31 at Tampa, 32 at West Palm Beach, 33 at Ft. Myers, 34 at the Miami airport and 40 at Miami Beach — all records.
Veteran makes maps honoring POWs,MIAs
By SUE KONNIK
Staff Reporter
Project Prairie Fire is sweeping through Kansas, but it still needs KU students' help.
The year-old project is designed to rekindle public interest in the fate of nearly 2,500 soldiers missing in action after the war. Some veterans of war still thought to be in Vietnam.
Michael Caron, director of the project, said earlier this week that speeches and news announcements weren't enough to stir up interest in the POW-MIA issue. Caron, a Vietnam veteran, has designed place mats would more effectively stir up this interest.
The place mats contain maps, printed in black ink on legal-size paper, with markers showing the hometowns of the POWs and MIAs. Caron has finished the Kansas map, which marks town sites in WOMIAs. He should be said he should complete maps of the other 49 states this year.
Nine of the POW-MIAs attended the University of Kansas.
HE SAID HE wanted KU students to distribute the place mats to area restaurants.
HOMETOWNS OF KANSAS MIAs
Having students distribute the place mats in local cafes, Caron said, will stimulate interest in a situation that the government has been suppressing for years.
■ Almena 1
■ Bethel 1
■ Blue Rapids 1
■ Burlingame 1
■ Burlington 1
■ Fontana 1
■ Fort Scott 3
■ Galatia 1
■ Garden City 1
■ Girard 1
■ Greensburg 1
■ Hillsboro 1
■ Hope 1
■ Kansas City 4
■ Kingman 1
■ Lane 1
Ultimately, Caron said, he wanted people
Leavenworth 1
Leawood 1
Lenexa 1
Lindsborg 1
Manhattan 1
Mankato 1
Marysville 1
Medicine Lodge 1
Norton 1
Princeton 1
Sailina 1
Shawnee Mission 2
Topeka 1
Wakefield 1
Wichita 3
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to send the place mats to Congress, to remind politicians of the forgotten soldiers. The paper maps fold to form an envelope, and comments can be written on them and sent to Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan, whose Washington address is printed on the back of the place mat.
Originally from Maine, Caron received his bachelor's and master's degrees at KU. A one-time substitute for Pete Shortridge, professor of geography, Caron said he now used Shortridge's space in Lindley Hall for his map work.
CARON IS CURRENTLY setting up a student chapter of Project Prairie Fire on campus. The title of the project, Caron said, comes from the code words used in covey design. He explained that the American reconnaissance teams would radio "Prairie Fire, Prairie Fire."
Cartography students have worked with Caron to put the map together. Caron said he still needed more students to design maps for the remaining states.
See POWS, p. 5, col. 4