CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 24, 1984
Page
Topeka food samples have safe EDB level
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
Kansas Department of Health and Environment test results indicated this week that no unsafe levels of the pesticide EDB had been found in 35 ready-to-eat foods taken from retail shelves in Topeka.
However, Bob Moody, department spokesman, said conclusive evidence concerning possible ethylene dibromide contamination of state food and grain products could not be drawn from the results.
MOODY SAID that the samples used in the test were too limited to declare a clean bill of health for all products in supermarkets across the state.
Studies on laboratory animals indicating that the chemical is a carcinogen which can cause reproductive disorders led the Environmental Protection Agency to take actions in the past six months that have prohibited 97 percent of the agricultural use of EDBs.
The state has also established procedures to evaluate the extent of possible EDB contamination in Kansas
On Feb. 18, Gov. John Carlin adopted the EPA recommended levels of allowable EDB residue as standards for Kansas grain and food products.
The department will soon begin testing samples of ready-to-eat foods collected from wholesale warehouses, Moody said.
The first tests concentrated on oatmeal and baby foods because the health risk is greater for infants than for adults, Hollowell said.
JOSEPH HOLLOWELL, director of the department's Division of Health, said that those tests would include collecting several samples from one lot of a product to obtain a representative sample.
"The next step is to reassure the rest of the country that the products milled and produced in Kansas would be safe." Hollowell said.
Marvin Webb, director of the state Department of Grain Inspection, said that results from the testing at $a_{10}$
last week. Webb said two samples from the Wichita area had been found
ONLY ONE OF THE 35 products analyzed contained detectable levels of EDBs. A sample of raw wheat germ distributed by Natural Sales Co was found to be EPA-recommended major imum level of 30 parts per billion.
samples of wheat from across the state might be released today.
David Freay, assistant administrator of the Kansas Wheat Commission in Hutchinson, the presence of EDBs in wheat germ would not be surprising because it was not processed as much as most ready-to-eat foods and because the germ was an exterior part of the wheat kernel.
"I don't think there anything that shows that you would go above 30 parts per billion in food," Frey said. "That's been the contention of the grain industry — that it's not detectable in food."
leaves of EDBs the grain would not necessarily be ruined, Frey said.
Letting the contaminated grain sit for 90 days or mixing it with grain that contains no EDBs would lower the amount of chemical in the grain to safe levels.
levels.
Farmers have been using pesticides that contained EDBs since 1948 to kill pests in stored grain and in grain-milling machines, and to rid citrus crops of fruit flies.
groups of water that the EPA suspended EDBs as a soil fumigant on Sept. 30. Before the suspension, soil fumigation had accounted for about 90 percent of the pesticide use of EDBs.
ON FEB. 3, the EPA banned the chemical as a fumigant for stored grain and grain milling machines. That action eliminated 7 percent of its agricultural use.
The EPA also established voluntary national guidelines on Feb. 3 for acceptable EDB residue levels that states could use to determine safe EDB levels in grain-based foods.
New plan would cut price of campus parking
By JOHN HANNA
Staff Reporter
The Parking and Traffic Board recently approved regulations that would make parking at the University of Kansas less expensive and less confusing this fall.
The board will send its recommendations to the University Senate Executive Committee within a month, Bill Hopkins, the chairman of the Senate Committee, will go through SenEx. the University Council and Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
UNDER THE PLAN, the price of red-zone permits would decrease from $48 to $43, the price of yellow-zone permits would drop from $42 to $53. The
cost of blue-zone permits would stay the same.
- remitals for students living in residence and scholarship walls would drop to $80.
The cost for red-zone motorcycle permits would go from $24 to $20, but the cost of blue-zone permits would increase $1.
Doug Housen, chairman of the budget subcommittee and a member of the board, said the lower costs should be met by the generation of money generated by permit sales.
The budget subcommittee projected that Parking Services would take in $23,000 in fiscal years 1985 and 1986 for parking facilities, meters, and fees for special events.
THE BOARD unanimously approved
the fiscal year 1985 and 1986 budgets for Parking Services Wednesday, although the budget subcommittee projects a revenue shortfall for both years.
Next year's $$$22.06 budget allows for a shortfall of $99,062. The projected deficit is $18,054.
The budget shortfalls can be covered by surplus money carried over from the previous year.
After this fiscal year, Parking Services will have a surplus from past years of $455,000, according to a subcommittee report. At the end of fiscal year 1986, the surplus will be $258,445.
August, when Parking Services did not generate any income from permit sales.
$236,467 Hopkins said that the Parking Services maintained a surplus fund of $250,000 to be used during July and
THE SURPLUS money spent during those two months is replaced when students return in the fall.
"We're looking about two years down the road, and things look fine." Hopkins said. "After that, I don't know. A lot of people aren't the parking Services generates."
The subcommittee projected that next year's expenses would be about 8.1 percent, over this year. The increase includes a 7 percent raise for employ- mentees and a 4 percent increase in incurred because of the breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Budig's father is dead at 85; rites scheduled for Monday
By the Kansan Staff
The chancellor returned there yesterday.
Mr. Budig died in the Ogallala Community Hospital; Ogallala, Neb.
Funeral services for Mr. Budig, will be Monday in McCook, Neb., the chancellor's hometown.
Arthur G. Budig, the father of Chancellor Gene A. Budig, died Wednesday night in a Nebraska hospital. He was 85.
If you love donors...
you'll love
CAROL LEE
1730 W. 23rd
842-3664
Boysd Coins-Antiques
Class Rings
Buy Sell-Trade
Gold Silver Coins
Antique Watches
731
Anthology
New Hampshire
Lawrence, Kansas 60444
913-842-8773
It Could Only Happen at ...
THE HAWK • 1340 OHIO
Dr. Paul G. Limberg
Optometrist
has assumed the practice of
Dr. Dale Sillix
Optometrist
EYE EXAMINATIONS CONTACT LENSES FASHION FRAMES
Now Available
CALL
843-5966
202 Lawrence National
Bank Building
Lawrence, Kansas
Mr. Budig was born Nov. 3, 1988, in McCook. He was a longtime owner of Budig Motor Co. He retired about six years ago and is a member of the McClure Elks club.
A rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday at Carpenter-Breland Funeral Home, McCook. A funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in St. Patrick's church. The Rev. Vali Burian Bartek officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, McCook.
The family has established a memorial fund at the funeral home.
BBQ SANDWICH SPECIAL COUPON ONE DOLLAR OFF Any Pit BBQ Sandwich Smokehouse-Downtown
$1
$1 Offer void after 2/26/84 $1
Offer Good
Tues., Feb. 21 thru
Sun., Feb. 26
719 Massachusetts
Downtown Lawrence
Downtown Lawrence
No Other Coupons Accepted With This Offer
Presidential hopefuls knock Student Senate
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
Candidates for next week's student body presidential election described the Student Senate as a "country club clique" and a "play government" last night.
The candidates — Loren Busy, Starting Over Coalition, Bob Swain, Apathy — It Just Doesn't Matter Coalition; and Carla Vogel, Costume Party — agreed during a debate at McCollium Hall that the Senate needed to change its image but disagreed on the method of change
Swain said the Senate and senators needed to assume a new role.
BUSY DEScribed the Senate office as a "country club clique," which made it hard for students to present their ideas to senators and
He said his experience in the Senate had convinced him that the present system could work, but the Senate office needed to be reorganized to make it more responsive and accessible to students.
"What we have now is a play government," he said. "The Student Senate is playing with our money by handing out what the students want."
ROBB MURPHY, Swain's running mate, said, "The Student Senate as a whole represents less than 1 percent of the total population of the University of Kansas. Who is to say that less than 1 percent can be achieved in the all the wants and desires of all the students at the University?"
Swain said that senators should talk to their constituents to find out what students wanted instead of what teachers on the basis of their own opinions.
the most important issue in the campaign," Swain said, "is deciding whether students want to take student government seriously or blow it off.
"The people in charge should not roll over and play dead when the administration says 'no,'" he said.
Dennis "Boog" Higherberg, Costume Party vice president candidate, said students did not support the Senate because it was bureaucracy.
Vogel said that the Senate was a viable organization but that it needed reform.
IT'S YOUR CHOICE...! NAISMITH HALL
announces a new option for the K.U. student; an any 10 meal plan to complement our 19 meal plan.
We are proud to add this to our list of values:
- Good food with unlimited seconds
- Convenience
- Air conditioning
- Large carpeted rooms
- Swimming pool
- Semi-private baths
- Weekly maid service
- Much more
Applications are now NAISMITH HALL.
available
for
Summer/Fall
Drop by or Call
1800 Naismith Drive
843-8559
Todd Bolender, Artistic Director
8:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 1, 1984
Hoch Auditorium
"The Kansas City Ballet on a fast track . . . bringing taste, technique, and an innable sense of quality to the heart."
BALLET NEWS, September, 1982
Public    $ 10 $ 8
KU Student with ID    $ 5 $ 4
Senior Citizen/    $ 5 $ 4
Other Student/
Child
Reynal
Tickets are on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office. call 913/864-3982 for reservations all seats are reserved
The Hoch Auditorium Box Office will open at 7:00 p.m. on the night of performance Auditorium doors will open at 7:30 p.m.
This program is being presented by the University Arts Festival with the support of Halmark Cards