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CAMPUS AND AREA
Car troubles may foretell engine fires
By CAROLYN COLEMAN Staff Reporter
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Mike and Sonia Hart were having startup starting their Camaro Mondeo
The engine would turn over but then die, so the Harts took their other car and went out to dinner.
Raymond Brecheisen/KANSAN
About a half hour later firefighters arrived on the scene to extinguish the flames that were billowing from under the Camaro's hood.
"All the wiring has to be re replaced," she said.
Sonia Hart, 325 Maiden Lane, said it would cost about $2,000 to repair the car.
THE HARTS' FIRE was one of 11 car fires that the Lawrence Fire Department responded to in the first two weeks in July.
Jim McSwain, chief of the fire department, said that difficulty in starting a car should warn the owner of possible electrical problems that could cause an engine fire.
Damage estimates for those fires total nearly $5,000, according to the fire department.
Other warning signs are blown fuses and lights that flicker when the car goes over a bump.
"By far the majority of fires are the result of maintenance problems," said McSwain.
- loose electrical connections
- loose fuel lines.
- electrical wires with worn insulation.
- McSwain said operating a car without an air filter also could lead to an engine fire. The air filter keeps gasoline in the carburetor away from electrical-system sparks and limits the extent of any fire by reducing the amount of oxygen a fire would feed on.
- rubber lines that are cracking or deteriorating.
Eleanor Symons looks from behind Watson Library's reference desk. Symons was lured to the University of Kansas in 1957 when she answered a classified advertisement.
WITHOUT AN AIR filter, a simple backfire can catch the whole engine block on fire, he said.
University Daily Kansan, July 18, 1984
Last year, according to their statistics, the Lawrence Fire Department answered 105 fire calls involving automobiles and trucks. These fires caused an estimated $81,900 damage.
Words are librarian's world
By CINDY HOBSON Staff Reporter
When someone needs information for a term paper or just wants to settle an argument, they might end up talking to Eleanor Symons.
As a reference librarian she answers straight-forward questions about the library from patrons and callers, she said, but occasionally, "you can imagine that someone's in trouble with an argument and needs to solve it."
Symons, a reference librarian and bibliographer, has been at Watson Library since December 1957. A British citizen, she read about openings for librarians at the University Library, and is a Literary Supplement advertisement.
She applied, got the job and has been here ever since.
SYMONS HAS BEEN a familiar sight to KU students for more than 25 years. She has worked her way up in the medical field, life, and doesn't revert a single day.
"I needed a change." Symons said, "and the ad made KU and Lawrence sound interesting."
Sherry Hawkins, a colleague and supervisor of the microforms collection, says of Symons, "She has a knowledge of the library, inside and out," knowledge.
Symons has a never-ending job. From behind a mound of paper
work on her desk, Symons said, "My main goal is to get caught up.
"In theory, I work a 40-hour week.
But most of us work more than that."
HER DUTIES AS a bibliographer include organizing and processing簿記資料。
"I've lived through two remodelings," she said, "and one in a lifetime is enough!"
"In England, they say I sound awfully American."
Symons, who grew up in World War II Europe, returns to England every two years, but has found that her father had suffered a great deal in Kansas.
Hawkins said, "She's a real gold mine. She's very capable and very British, and that appeals to people who like that sophistication."
All of the different accents here tend to rub off, she said.
Symons spent her "very happy childhood" in southwest England.
"We had food and clothing, shortages and air-raids," Symons said, "but it was not exiting by American children's standards."
SYMONS RECEIVED IHER bachelor's and master's degrees in French at Oxford University toward the end of World War II.
The curriculum was challenging, Symons said, but "not desperately so. We had fun as well."
"We would scrape food together," she said. "and have tea parties."
Last spring, Symons organized an exhibit of dictionaries at the Kenneth R. Spencer Research Museum to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first part of the Oxford English Dictionary, Symons said.
Her library education came from the University of London.
While she enjoys her library duties, she has a wide range of interests
SHE ALSO READs for the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement, sending in new words that she finds in her own reading. She began this work when she answered an appeal for volunteer readers.
She was chosen to put together the exhibit, she said, because "dictionaries and words are some of my interests."
She said that her job was like a teacher's: She's either at work or takes her work home with her.
"I've always felt that it was most important getting people in touch with the information in the library."
"I enjoy it very much," she said,
"and I am delighted to be doing it.
When she helps someone, she usually points out how to obtain the needed material, she said, "so they will know how to get it themselves."
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TOPEKA - Threatened with a loss of as much as $15 million in federal highway aid, Kansas lawmakers have little choice but to raise the legal drinking age for 3.2 percent beer, a legislative leader said yesterday.
House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, said that the emotion-packed issue would be prominent in the 1985 session because of President Reagan's signing of legislation yesterday that forces states to choose between a 21-year-old drinking age or loss of federal highwav funds.
Agreeing with Hayden was Sen Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, one of the most ardent opponents of raising the drinking age during the heated debate in the 1984 session.
"I'd say the battle is over," he said. "The economic rug has been pulled out. I think it's a non-issue now."
Though the legal drinking age for strong liquor in Kansas is already 21, anyone over 18 years of age can buy it. The law does not also known as ceral milk beverage.
During the 1984 session, Senate lawmakers wrangled over a proposal to push the beer-drinking age to 19, bringing the Legislature closer than it ever has been to approving that they be a bare majority of senators; pressure led by election-year jitters, managed to put off a vote on the issue.
Hayden said that the legislation signed by Reagan, coupled with the fact that 1985 would not be an election year, required an age issue "in a whole new light."
"I would expect that we will see some action on it certainly before the formal proceedings," she added.
"We have the third largest highway system in the United States and have initiated a major program to increase funding for that (system)." he said. "And the feds went through a funding program to increase (highway) funds. I don't think there are many people who are going to jeopardize our highway program.
Winter said it was a foregone conclusion that lawmakers would raise the drinking age to 21 in time for the deadline.
"I think the issue now is whether or not (we will) continue fighting this battle with increased educational programs and other tools," he said. "It's not going to work at all unless we change some of the ways that we try to enforce the law."
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under the legislation, states would lose 5 percent of their highway construction money if they had not raised their drinking age to 21 by
"During the debate last year the emphasis seemed to be putting it off, kicking it under the rug," Winter said. "But some of us were very interested in looking at other approaches to drinking. We were not saying we didn't want to do anything."
The economic rug has been pulled out. I think it's a non-issue now.
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Sept 30, 1986 and 10 percent if they had not taken action by Sept 30, 1987
Michael O'Keefe, Kansas Department of Transportation, said the funds actually would be withheld from states until they raised their drinking ages. Five percent of Kansas' federal highway funds in fiscal 1986 would translate into about $5 million.
Ten percent would equal about $10 million, for a combined loss of $15 million if Kansas has not taken action by September 1987. The legislation does not affect federal funding for bridges.
Hayden said the Legislature could approve the higher drinking age next session, but delay its effective date until July 1, 1986 — three months before the first federal deadline.
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