THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.95
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY,FEBRUARY14,1992
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Senate vote favors bill that will slice election financing
By Greg Farmer
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - Kansanslikelywillcast votes April 7 in a presidential primary despite Senate's previous attempts at cancelling it. Lawmakers, however, still have not appropriated money to pay for a primary.
The Senate voted 25-15 yesterday in agreement with a House of Representatives decision to curb financing of the schools. Mr. Gov. Joan Finney, who will go to Gov. Joan Finney, who is
expected to sign the measure
The House voted unanimously Wednesday to amend a bill that was passed by the Senate last session but never acted upon.
The amendment extracted all Senate provisions, including a section that would have postponed the primary until the 1996 election.
In place of the provisions, the House inserted the contents of another bill, requiring Secretary of State Bill Graves to conduct the election for $1.5 million. Graves originally had requested $1.8 million.
In order to trim $300,000 off Graves' proposed figure, the bill requires that the state print the ballots, that names not be rotated on the ballots, and that volunteers monitor election sites.
If Finney sends the bill, lawmakers have to find the money to cover the $1.5 billion.
The House Appropriations Commit-
teercommended a bill yesterday that includes the $1.5 million appropriation.
The House is expected to pass the bill, but the Senate already voted down three appropriations bills aimed at financing the primary.
Sen. Lana Oleen, R-Manhattan, lead the charge to cancel the primary. She continued to voice her opposition yesterday.
"This bill is on a fast track destined to the pockets of the Kansas taxpayer."
Senate Majority Leader Fred Kerr, R-Pratt, said that although he opposed the primary, he supported the bill because it would reduce the cost.
"It looks more and more like we're going to have a primary," he said. "This bill would save a portion of that money."
Sen. Don Sallee, R-Troy, said the House had sent a strong message by unanimously voting to cut the cost of the 1992 primary.
"It itch they are saying we are going to have a primary," he said. "We need to pass this bill so preparations for that triary can begin."
House Majority Leader Tom Sawyer, D-Wichita, has been a strong supporter of the primary. He said yesterday that he had no intention of scheduling House debate on bills aimed at canceling the primary.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
See related story, p.9
Derek Nolen/KANSAN
Spill Delay
Northbound traffic is slowed after a truck, belonging to W.A. Dunbar and Son Trucking and Excavating, Inc., spilled hydraulic fluid along an eight-block stretch of Iowa Street. No one was injured yesterday in the two-vehicle accident that resulted from the spill.
John Boss, left, checks up on Tisha Stone, Olathe sophomore, and Bob Wiltfong, Omaha, Neb., senior, at the couple's date.
Volunteers brave peril of blind dating
KJHK's John Boss plays matchmaker for students who called radio talk show
By Paul Mikelson
Special to the Kansan
The Dating Game came to Lawrence last night, courtesy of the John Boss Show on KJHK-FM. Three women and three men were paired for a date after interviews earlier this week.
"We were thinking of what kind of fun stuff we could do to involve the students of KU," said Boss, a first-year law student, host of the show. Boss is not his real name. "I was watching the Love Connection, and thought, why can't we do it on the radio?"
More than 39 people called the station, many of them on a dare. The show's producers matched the couples after interviewing them. They asked about their activities, hometowns and what they tried to give them.
Bob Wiltfong, Neb, senior, was one of the people who did show up for his date.
Two couples went to Quinton's Bar and Deli, 615 Massachussetts St., for dinner. They planned to see a movie at Dickinson Theaters, 2394 Iowa St. The John Boss Show paid for their evening, but one couple had yet to arrive for dinner at 8:45 last
"I got persuaded to do it, but I got to meet someone new," he said.
Wiltfong originally was paired with another woman, but she canceled because of a work conflict. The radio station set Wiltfong up with the woman's roommate, Tisha Stone.
"It's been a joke all night," Stone said. "We're having fun."
Stone, Olathe sophomore, said she heard about the blind date when she was setting stations on her room-mate's new stereo.
"Even if there are no romantic sparks, it's fun," Stone said.
Pete Felder, Wichita senior, called in for the date because he wanted to talk to John Boss. Felder was paired with Kris Conn, Huntington Beach, Calif., junior.
Felder said Conn thought the date might be a conspiracy.
Connsaid, "Ithought it was going to be on America's Funniest Videos. I thought they were going to make a really good date and a really bad date.
She said that she questioned several times whether the date was a good idea.
"I really didn't think they were going to pick me," Conn said. "I called my Dad right before the date and told him the date was going to be hell."
Feldar said he feared Conn would go on the John Boss show today and say, "Well Chuck, he drove up in a Plymouth Satellite, 1969."
"I felt like everyone was staring at me." Conn said. "Everyone was listening to our conversation. My friends even followed me here."
Felder said, "They were really leery of what I was going to look like when I showed up. They thought I was an 18-year-old." Felder is a fifth-year senior.
The date winners will tell their stories separate
ly at 4 p.m. today on JKJK, 9.07 FM.
Med Center reaches out to Kansas
Kansan staff writer
By Katherine Manweiler
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — An interactive video system demonstrated yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center could bridge the gap between specialists at the Med Center and patients in rural Kansas communities.
Video monitors and cutting-edge medical equipment set up in Hays and the Med Center in Kansas City, Kan., allowed two pediatricians to perform follow-up examinations on infants with heart abnormalities yesterday.
Nicholas Miller is four months old. He has a narrow aortic valve in his heart which causes his blood to flow at a faster rate than normal.
Mattioli instructed Robert Cox, Miller's doctor, and the other medical staff in Hays in how to examine Miller and relate the information needed for the diagnosis.
Miller seemed content and happy as his mother, Joanna Miller, helped him wave at Leone Mattioli, pediatric cardiologist at the Med Center.
Atwo-dimensional echocardiogram was a key element in Mattioli's evaluation. Echocardiograms use ultrasonic rays to reflect the motions of the heart. The television screen showed the activity of Miller's heart as the sound equipment transmitted his fussing.
X-rays, stethoscope sounds and electrocardiograms also can be transmitted through the video system. Electrodes detect abnormalities in the heart.
The video system is an extension of a program that sends several Med Center specialists to Hays four times each year. Patients are charged for a regular consultation when they use the video system.
The Med Center began experimenting with the interactive system for diagnoses in mid-November, said Bill Mahler, executive director of the department of information technology at the Med Center.
Forty patients have been diagnosed since January using the video system; M
Mahler said the Med Center staff hoped to be able to network this interactive video system throughout the state, but the timing of that process depended on financing from the Kansas Legislature and participating hospitals.
Mattioli said the system demonstrated that the Center cared for the most vulnerable communities.
"The most important benefit is that access to specialists will be widely enhanced in rural areas," Mattioli said. "The only drawback is the lack of direct personal contact with patients.
That may be felt as a void."
A bill being debated in the Kansas Legislature would force the Med Center to graduate more primary-care physicians starting in 1996 or lose 10 percent of its financing. Part of the purpose of the bill is to encourage more KU Medical schools to practice in rural areas of Kansas.
John Moran, head of the department of cardiothoracic surgery at the Med Center, said he thought the interactive video system would encourage more KU Medical school graduates to practice in rural communities.
"This system makes sophisticated technology more available to rural areas," Moran said. "It may make more medical students more comfortable to go to rural communities because the sophisticated support would be there for them. I think it will only help the situation."
Flooded California could get more rain
The Associated Press
The storms that have hit Southern California this week have dumped more than a foot of rain in some areas, have killed at least seven people and have swamped homes, businesses and streets and highways.
LOS ANGELES — Homeowners and emergency crews battered by this week's killer floods beefed up their defenses yesterday to prepare for a new Pacific storm.
The region got a chance to catch up a little yesterday during spells of sunshine as remnants of the latest storm front rolled through the Los Angeles area.
"We're getting ready for the next big push," said Bob Collis, representative for the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Four people were listed as missing.
Malibu fire Capt. Virgil Lockhart said, "We've just ordered another 10,000 sandbags."
Meteorologists predict the storm, expected to hit today, could bring an additional 3 to 5 inches of rain.
Meteorologists said the storms' strength and heavy rain resulted from El Niño, the sporadic warming of surface water in the eastern Pacific that generates strong thunderstorms over the equator.
Meteorologists predict the storm, expected to hit today, could bring an extra 30 percent of tornadoes.
and reinforced sandbag canals and barriers to protect property from more high water and mudslides.
The Malibu coastal resort was awash in water, mud and debris. Beaches were littered with uprooted trees, timbers and trash as filthy, sewage-contaminated waves crashed to shore.
Raw sewage, flushed out of overloaded treatment plants, contaminated a 70-mile stretch of Los Angeles County beaches.
Residents constructed, rebuilt
Northwest of Los Angeles in Ventura County, where a flash flood turned the normally dry Ventura River into a muddy torrent, authorities searched the muck for bodies. One had been found in the area.
The flood washed through an area where homeless people camped, carried dozens of motor homes and trailers homes out to sea from a recreational vehicle park and swept over a freeway.
Since the storms started, three people have died in storm-related
traffic accidents, two have drowned and a couple have suffocated in a mudslide that poured into their bedroom.
Still missing were two skiers thought to have been buried by an avalanche at the Mount Baldy ski area in the San Gabriel Mountains, 40 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
Mud and water invaded hundreds of homes during the storms, including five multimillion-dollar residences in a Malibu canyon and about 100 homes and 25 businesses in the Antelope Valley community of Quartz Hill.
In Orange County,16 homes in the coastal community of Huntington Beach were flooded and 47 homes in Riverside County had severe water damage.
More snow added to the 30 inches already on the ground in the Sierra Nevada, but the state drought center said that the snowpack was still only about half of normal.
California flooding
Southern California has been hit by storms that have poured more than a foot of rain on some areas and killed at least seven people. Homes, businesses, streets and highways have been flooded. Damage in Los Angeles County alone is estimated at $7.6 million.
Bv county
iNtity
Kern: One dead
Los Angeles: Two
dead; at least 100
houses and 25
homes and 25
**Orange:** One missing;
16 homes damaged in
Huntington Beach
6 San Luis Obispo: One dead
7 Ventura: Three dead; one
4 Riverside: 47 homes
damaged
San Bernadino: Two missing; at least 15 buildings flooded
Ventura: Three dead; one missing; about 100 evacuated; 40 mobile homes flooded
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, news reports
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