University Daily Kansan, January 19. 1984
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Endowment Association picks new accounting chief
The Kansas University Endowment Association announced yesterday that Harold E. Johnson had been appointed the association's new controller.
Johnson, a 47-year-old native of Huntington, N.Y., was the director of the Lawrence office of McBride & Associates, an accounting firm based in Kansas City, Mo. He replaces Stephen Carttar.
Johnson earned a master's degree in financial management from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. in 1970. For the last two years Johnson worked for the Kansas State Legislature in the Army and was involved in the Army for 20 years, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Johnson will be responsible for all accounting transactions affecting the association's funds, he said.
Sen. McCray resigns to head KDED
TOPEKA — State Sen. Billy McCray, in his 18th year as a Kansas legislator, today confirmed plans to resign his seat at the end of this session and take a job in Gov. John Carlin's administration.
In a written statement, McCray, the Senate's only black member, said that starting in April he would head the Minority Business Division of the Kansas Department of Economic Development. KDED Secretary Charles Schwartz had askedMcCray to join the department next month, but Senate Minority Leader Jack Steineger, D-Kansas City, persuaded McCray to remain in the Legislature until the end of the session.
McCray said, "I look forward to the new challenge with gusto, but meanwhile I will spend the next few months serving the people of our state as the elected state senator from the 29th district in Wichita."
Schwartz said McCray, 55, a Wichita Democrat, would receive a salary in the mid-$30,000 range.
McCray, a real estate salesman, was elected to the House in 1966 and served there until 1972, when he was elected to the upper chamber.
KU wins awards for public relations
The University of Kansas won an award Tuesday for its public relations efforts from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The award recognizes excellence in printed, electronic and filmed material produced by the University to communicate with faculty and staff, alumni, the public, students, prospective students and friends of the University. KU last won the award in 1979.
Separate awards were given to 15 KU communication efforts, including the Oread, a faculty and staff newsletter; the Kansas Alumni, a monthly publication issued by the Kansas University Alumni Association; the Report, a quarterly tabloid for parents of students; and the Big Blue Book, a guide for new students.
Showers continue to chill JRP men
Some residents of Joseph R. Pearson Hall are still shivering in the shower, although a KU official said earlier this week that he thought the problem with the building's hot water had been fixed.
Scott Ellsworth, Louisville, Ky., sophomore, said yesterday that some residents on the south wing of the fifth floor poured cups of water over their heads instead of taking blooms because water from the showers was too cold.
Showers on the north wing of the fifth floor, and on both wings of the fourth floor, were also cold. Ellsworth said.
Dean Milroy, assistant director of housing, said the problem was probably being caused by one or two showers whose valves were intermittently sending cold water into hot water pipes.
Since Monday crews have been changing or repairing all showers in the south wing of JRP, where the problem has been isolated, Milroy said.
ON THE RECORD
CAMERA EQUIPMENT and a radar detector, worth a total of $220, were stolen Tuesday afternoon from a KU student's car in the 1700 block of Ohio Street. police said. Police have no suspects.
A PORTABLE TELEVISION, valued at $300, was discovered missing shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, from a KU student's apartment also in the 1700 block of Ohio Street. police said.
DEVELOPERS UNLIMITED LAWRENCE INC., Route 3, reported that 80 gallons of gas had been siphoned Monday night from company vehicles, police said. The gas was valued at about $88.
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Computer helps county control its electric bills
By ROBIN PALMER Staff Reporter
A new, computer-controlled energy management system saved Douglas County about $47,000 last year on its electricity bills, a county official said yesterday.
Fremont Hornberger, maintenance director for the county, said the Johnson Control System, installed last February, reduced the county's electric bills in 1983 by about 34 percent from the previous year.
The $44,000 system uses a computer to control temperatures in different sections of the county courthouse. 110 Massachusetts Department Center, 111 E. 11th St.
The computer also turns the heat off at night when no one is in the buildings.
IN NOVEMBER THE city was to have linked its heating system to the computer in the courthouse. However, the city has been delayed in connecting because officials are awaiting a meter, said George Williams, city manager, the public works department. He said it'd know when the meter would arrive.
The City of Lawrence also plans to connect the system, but a city official said that delayed plans and a missing part have postponed its operation.
The city is expecting a 25 to 30 percent annual savings once the system begins operation, Williams said. The system will control the temperatures in the city's parks maintenance shop, 206 Sheridan St., and the chusets streets; and fire station 1, 745 Vermont ST., Williams said. The city's projected savings is lower than the
Before the Johnson Control System was installed, the county was paying about $12,000 a month in electricity bills during the winter months. Hornberger
HORNBERGER ESTIMATED that without the system, December bills could have reached $15,000 to $16,000 if the unusually cold weather continued.
county's because the maintenance garage has doors that are open most of the time.
Hornberger the courthouse and the Law Enforcement Center reduced their electricity usage by about 1.6 million kilowatts in 1983 compared with
Each building is divided into zones that are individually controlled. Temperatures are set by the computer at 72 degrees Fahrenheit, and are controlled by computer sensors in each zone.
THE SYSTEM IS versatile because the different zones can be controlled or set at different temperatures and may be used for late meetings by re-programming.
The system has also saved money in natural gas but the savings have not been as large because the law enforcement center uses only electricity, he said.
Before the Johnson Control System, heat control worked under a system that started the buildings' five heating units at the same time. Hornberger said. That created high peak electricity usage.
Williams said the Valley View Care Home, 2518 Ridge Court, was connected to the system last month and that the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., was also considering hooking up to the system.
Despite presence of PCBs, KU says it's in compliance
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas uses eight electrical transformers that contain the same type of toxic chemical that leaked from other transformers last year, a KU official said yesterday.
The use of the transformers, which contain chlor-chlorinated biphenyl, or PCBs, does not violate Environmental Protection Agency regulations, said Don Beem, assistant inspector for refrigeration and electrical systems.
Two transformers containing PCBs are in use in a psychology laboratory behind Stauffer Flint Hall, Beem said. Three are in the Kansas Memorial Stadium and three are in Twente Hall. A ninth door is in storage in the stadium and might be used again, he said.
Beem said that most of the transformers the University now used were air-cooled and did not contain PCBs.
PCB'S CAN CAUSE severe skin irritation and are suspected of causing cancer. The danger depends upon the concentration.
EPA regulations require that transformers containing 50 parts per million of PCBs must be inspected quarterly. Transformers with that mixture must be identified.
In January 1983, an EPA inspector found several transformers leaking PCBs. The inspector found violations of other EPA guidelines,
THE UNIVERSITY SPENT more than $66,400 to clean up the PCB-contaminated materials and to comply with EPA rules. Beem said The University completed the clean-up last month. The EPA also ordered the University to pay a $10,000 fine.
Glenn Hodge, procurement officer for facilities and operations, said that he and Beem designed guidelines for the clean-up. General Enforcer Co. used those guidelines when moving and disposing of the material.
including soil contaminated by improperly stored transformers at a West Campus storage area.
On Aug. 31, 57 contaminated transformer housings were removed from West Campus and were disposed of at a site in Texas, Hodge said. Liquids that contained PCBs were moved to the facility and incinerated in Massachusetts.
About 40 of those transformers were in the West Campus storage area after they had been taken out of service. Been said.
BEEM SAID THAT six of the transformers leaking PCBs at the time of the inspection had been in service. Facilities operations removed three from the stadium and the housing department removed three from Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall following the inspection. Transformers contained no PCBs replaced them.
On Sept. 8, 279 barrels, which primarily contained contaminated soil from the West Campus storage building at a landfill in Hodge, Hedge said.
Official lobbies against prison changes
From Staff and Wire Reports
TOPEKA — Transferring diagnostic services offered by the Kansas Diagnostic and Reception Center in Topeka to the various state prisons would be a step backward, the Secretary of Corrections said yesterday at a House meeting.
Secretary Michael Barbara also told the House Federal and the State Affairs Committee that the housing of men and women in the same prison should be allowed to continue.
The committee is expected to vote Monday, on both issues. One is a bill that would decentralize the corrections evaluation procedure. The other is a resolution stating that co-corrections are not in the state's best interest and
requesting that the practice be discontinued.
The bill also contains a provision that would end the housing of male inmates at Kansas Correctional Institution in King, which is the main prison for women.
THE ONLY PART of the bill Barbaria supports is a provision requiring substantially equal evaluations for men and women inmates. Women now receive similar reports at KCIL, Barbara said, but they are not transported to KRDC in Topeka for evaluations.
Karl Meinenger, a main force in the support of KRDC, supported Barbaro.
Menninger, the 90-year-old co-founder of the Menninger Foundation, said one problem of moving KRDC's services to the various prisons would be
funding qualified psychiatrists and
and therapists to work in Lansing or
Hutchinson
Diagnostic and evaluation work is complicated and requires teamwork, which would be expensive to establish in each prison, he said.
BARBARE SAID IT would cost $7.4 million to build the additional space needed to house the inmates being evaluated and the offices of the diagnostic personnel at Kansas State Penitentiary in Kansas State Industrial Rehabilitatory.
The issue of co-correctional institutions was overblown and supervision should be left with the Department of Corrections to allow flexibility. Bar is one.
State Rep. Robert H. Miller, R Wellington and chairman of the Federal and State Affairs Committee,
said yesterday that the Department of Corrections had made some improvements within the system since an interim committee began studying prison overcrowding last summer. He said the department should be left with the department.
TO SEPARATE THE SEXES in the corrections system, Miller said, male inmates at KUl would have to be held until the present over crowding problem.
The interim committee report expressed concern about the five or six pregnancies that occurred since KCII, began housing men in 1980. However, Barbara said yesterday that there had been no pregnancies since stricter supervision of inmates was instituted this summer.
There are 160 women and 32 men at KCL.
TIME TO PROCRASTINATE
To procrastinate is not always bad
when a friend needs a friend
when something more important needs doing
when there is just not enough time
when an emergency requires reassessing values
when ...
But it's not always right/good
when one is too lazy to do what's needed
when one is too lazy to do when Super Bowl comes
when Super Bowl comes when papers are due or tests come
when papers are due or tests come
when a situation demands action
when priorities are ignored
when a situation demands action when priorities are ignored
when spiritual needs need Spirit
that is the question.
To procrastinate or not
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