University Daily Kansan, October 3, 1983
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The Douglas County estimates, Morray said, were based on early harvest indications and on talking to farmers.
They were made by the county emergency board, which is composed of Morray; Earl Van Meter, county extension director; Mike Watkins, district conservationist for the Soil Conservation Corps; Neil Troyer, county FHA supervisor; and Phil Leonard, director of the Douglas County Emergency Preparedness office.
After a county is declared eligible for aid, individual farmers then certify to the FIA, and is completed, that their total crop yield was 80%. If they need the land to stay in business and that
they could not get the loan from a nongovernment source.
ESTIMATING CROP DAMAGE before the end of the harvest season is a departure from the usual procedure. George said. The change was due to urging from the governor, he said.
Air show
George said, "There are enough people who have done some harvesting now that they're getting a pretty good assessment. It's time that it was done. We needed some action."
The last time Douglas County qualified for drought aid was in 1990. George said
Whether the payment-in-kind, or PKI,
program is successful, qualifying for
payment was uncertain. George said.
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On the other hand, Begert said that the show's portraitual of them as scavengers was realistic.
"MAINTENANCE WAS A big problem and there were no parts," he said. "A good Marine was never short of equipment. We got it one way or another. Jeeps and booze were in high demand. We'd steal jeeps and paint new numbers on them."
Boyington defends the series, saying that it was 70 percent realistic, and far more realistic than the 60 percent.
"At the time, the Japanese were bitter enemies." Boyington said. "Now they're allies. Some changes had to be made.
"And you couldn't show what we did on leave in Australia on TV at 7 p.m. That's stuff for TV."
The show lasted only two years, and was canceled four times before finally going off the air. The ratings for the show were never bad, and the team offers a different reason for the cancellation.
"About 80 percent of the fan mail came from high school kids who said they were going to join the flying services when they graduated," he said. "The network was left wing politically and it didn't want to be a recruiting service for the armed forces."
"THE NETWORKS WANT to make a joke of
Boyington, 71, wrote "Baa Baa Black Sheep" in 1960. He also wrote another book, "Tonya," which told of his exploits with the Flying Tigers in China. Now he travels around the country leaping and signing autographs. He used to appear in parades, but he said he stopped about 10 years ago.
the services. Look at the long-longning military shows, "Gomer Pyle," "MhaleAle's Navy, Hogwyn's Horse, WA$H" and "WAH." With "The Black Sheep Squadron" they had a hit show that was omniscient their policy."
"People come up and ask 'How many people did you murder?' It never occurs to them there
AFTER THE WAR Begert returned to Topela and took over the family farm. Later, he sold most of the farm, moved into town and became a stock broker.
He has returned to KU frequently during the years since both of his sons and one of his brothers were in the army.
Boyington still flies when he gets the chance, but Begert, 64, has given it up.
"It's an expensive hobby," Begert said. "Once you've flown in a 2,000-horsepower fighter, there isn't much thrill to going up in a Beechcraft. Once I might have used up my auck during the war."
"My concern is that we have some safe, sensible parking arrangement on campus." Getter said. "Night night because we have too many people in our buildings, some people are denied safe access to campus."
Some students, particularly women, are afraid to walk alone at night when they are unable to find parking spots near campus buildings, so you should provide a safer means of transportation, he said.
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"Lighting is OK on campus," he said. "It's getting from the center of campus to outside areas that causes the problems.
"I REALIZE THAT this is potentially a very hot political issue on campus. Before bringing this to a vote, we want students to understand the issue and to express their concerns."
Ann Schrepel, a student-member of the subcommittee, said that the 12-member subcommittee realized that students might not agree with the proposal.
Student Senate will be informed of the proposed change, he said.
"I can see where there's a parking problem, but I can also see where students would feel inadequate."
Bill Hopkins, chairman of the Traffic and Parking Board, agreed that a safety problem existed for those who walked home and that the shuttle service might help reduce the problem.
But Getter said he wasn't certain that the shuttle service would work.
A LIMITED NUMBER of permits would be sold on campus to raise money for the shuttle service, he said. Permits also would be sold as an incentive for people to use the shuttle.
"As a practical matter, the system here will fall on its face if . . . we do not charge to park on campus." Getter said. "We've got to have incentives."
Getter compared the possible shuttle to shuttle parking service at Kansas City International Airport.
"You can be dropped off there at 1 a.m. and,
you can swing you right by your car," he said.
"I'll really love it."
Still, Getter said that the KU proposal is a long way from being approved. And even if the proposal is approved, the shuttle would run on an experimental basis at first.
Participants in Octoginta '83 discover plenty of uphill pedaling on the way to Perry Reservoir. By the time the riders were several miles out of town in yesterday's 80-mile tour, the pack had thinned out and the line of about 400 riders stretched at least a mile.
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