CAMPUS AND AREA
Nuclear plant is premature director says
Construction of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant should be postponed until the power it would produce is needed, the executive director of the Kansas Natural Resource Council told about 30 people yesterday at a meeting at the Lawrence Public Library.
By JENNY BARKER
Staff Reporter
The KNRC is a public interest group that deals with natural resource issues.
The Wolf Creek Plant is unnecessary because Kansas utility companies are producing more electricity than the state needs, said Mari Peterson, KNRC director.
If the plant does become operational, Kansans will be charged higher electricity rates to pay for the construction and operation of the plant while it produces electricity that isn't needed, Peterson said.
Peterson said Kansas Power & Light had 61 percent more electricity than was needed during peak consumption periods. And the threat of an electricity shortage during the December cold spell was unfounded, Peterson said. "We have no plans to go into poofs," so that if one company runs out of fuel, others will provide it, she said.
Peterson said the Kansas Legislature was too concerned with the utility investors and not concerned enough with the rate payers.
The present projected cost of the plant is $2.67 billion.
More than 550,000 households would be affected by Wolf Creek, but only 20,000 people invest in utilities, she said.
Peterson said this estimate was based upon completion of the plant in February 1985. Construction of the plant is already eight months behind schedule, she said, and costs $1.25 million every day.
Joe Wilkins III/Kansan
"The Kansas wheat crop is worth $1 billion. Wolf Creek is three Kansas wheat crops." Peterson said. "It's an awful big mistake to make."
Mark Wilson, left, and Larry Woydiak of the Lawrence Fire Department inspect an overhated chimney at 1704 19th Terrace. The firefighters had to cut into the ceiling yesterday to check for fire around the chimney.
University Dally Kansan, February 6.1984 Page 8
Winter says budget cuts to hurt KU
By ROBIN PALMER Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas will not see any relief from the effects of last year's budget cuts because funds are going to secondary schools, community colleges and state prisons, a Lawrence state senator said Saturday.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., RLawrence, and other Kansas legislators discussed education, state prisons, hazardous waste and taxes during the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Eggs and Issue breakfast.
Winter, along with State Repes, Jesse Branson, Betty Jo Charlton and John Solbach, all Lawrence Democrats, spoke to a crowd of about 100 at the R-ottawa rally in Allen R-Ottawa, and State Rep. Robin Leach, D-Linwood, were also there.
Despite large tax increases, Winter
said, higher education was hard last year because of large spending cuts.
Last year the state cut $14.2 million from higher education, and Winter said that there had been additional cuts in the budget, which further depleted the budget.
The existing tax base is large enough to support higher education, he said, but revenues are not large enough to cover it. The state would also ordinary education at the same time.
The Board of Regents can afford some salary increases and new equipment but now will have to cut $2.7 million from higher education programs as a result of the additional reductions, he said.
With this reduction, he said, 36 positions will be lost statewide and 19 positions will be lost local.
He said that the percentages from the general fund that go to universities
were lower than those for community colleges and secondary schools.
"The real issue is not how but why these tax cuts are made," he said.
these tax cuts are made," he said. Charlton said that the budget was not designed to shortchange KU and that it did not receive any less than any other Regents schools.
Solbach said that higher education and the state's prisons compete for the same funds and that overcrowding with pressing financial problem in prisons.
Plans are being made to relieve the situation by building a prison with bed
Charlton, who is working on the hazardous waste disposal problem, said that burying waste was expensive and industries would find cheaper ways to get rid of the waste. She said that a proposal now before the Legislature would ban all burial of hazardous waste.
Sherbet worries unfounded manufacturer's president says
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
McCollum Hall residents had no reason to worry last week when they complained of being served sherbet that was no longer fresh, the president of the company that made the sherbet said yesterday.
Ken Quimby, president of Jackson Ice Cream Co. Hutchinson, said that the dates on the shelver containers were manufacturing dates, not expiration times.
Last week, several residents complained because they thought that the dates stamped on the top of herbet was too dark for the sheerbet was no longer safe to eat.
Quimby recommended that the sherbet be eaten within nine months of when it is served.
However, Quimby said, the shearer could be kept for many months and would be able to eat if it was continually stored at a low temperature.
"We try to do that because if a carton or container of any kind of product was subjected to a fluctuation in temperature, don't hold it up at all." Quimby said.
Jon Haynes, McCollum president,
said, "I was informed by the hall staff
that the ice cream is kept in a cooler at
15 degrees below."
Juanita Bushnell, office manager for the All Star Dairy frozen food department, said that the manufacturing dates were probably overlooked because they were large inventories kept by Jackson Ice Cream, All Star Dairy and McColum.
David Swartz, Fairbanks, Ala., sophomore, said that he had eaten lime and pineapple.
Some residents returned the sherbet, kept in containers dated May 1983 and October 1983, to cafeteria workers without eating it.
The sherbet tasted and looked all right, he said.
But Swartz said he was still unhappy about being served the shelter.
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