University Daily Kansan, October 3, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
Carlin's back is improving; will return to Kansas soon
A decision on when ailing Gov. John Carlin will return to Kansas will be made today, a spokesman for the governor said yesterday.
Joseph Kaye, the physician monitoring Carlin's back injury, was scheduled to make a decision on Carlin's departure after checking him early today, said Mike Swenson, the governor's press secretary.
... said Mike Swenson, the governor's press ... Aides
the governor have said the governor might be transported
from Arlington to Tampa to attend tomorrow or today.
from Arlington, Va., to Topeka by an air ambulation today to Colton Row Carlin, first lady Karen Carlin, executive assistant Shirley Allen and George Bruce of the Kansas Highway Patrol were riding in a taxi Thursday in Washington that crashed into a stalled flat-bed truck. The governor's party had been on its way to National Airport to catch a flight back to Kansas.
Kevin Fern, a Carlin aide who is assisting the governor at the National Hospital for Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Arlington, said the governor's back injury was improving. Fern said Carlin spent a restful night yesterday and was making progress in his recovery. Carlin remained in good condition.
HUD accuses KCK of overpayments
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The city Public Housing Authority is overpaying a handful of contractors thousands of dollars by repeatedly violating bid and inspection requirements, federal auditors have charged.
The audit by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said the overpayments were the result of violations in more than $1.1 million in federally-financed work.
The Kansas City Public Housing Authority paid excessive fees,paid for the same work twice and possibly paid for work not done,the report said.
Woman arrested after auto accident
A 22-year-old Lawrence woman was arrested yesterday after the car she was driving early yesterday morning struck two parked cars, a construction trailer and a fire hydrant on Kentucky Street, Lawrence police said.
She was charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Police said that the woman was arrested shortly after 4 a.m. at the intersection of 22nd and Vermont streets after her late-model Ford Thunderbird stalled as a result of the accidents.
The woman received minor injuries, but she refused to be transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. No one else was injured.
Police said one of the parked cars was destroyed. The second car received minor damage, police said. Neither the hydrant nor trailer was damaged.
Fire guts Army store in Manhattan
MANHATTAN — Fire officials yesterday investigated the possibility that a natural gas leak caused a fire that gutted the first floor of a downtown Army surplus store.
The fire at Lindy's Army and Western Wear was reported shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday. Firefighters battled the blaze for four hours before putting it out, Fire Department Capt. Larry Wesche said.
He said no significant leads had been established to pinpoint the cause. However, he said, natural gas leaks have occurred at the building in the past. He also said fire officials wanted to talk to a man seen leaving the area before the fire began.
ON THE RECORD
A VACUUM CLEANER and an AM-FM stereo receiver were stolen sometime between midnight Wednesday and 2:30 p.m. Saturday from the Eldridge House Restaurant and Club, 101 W. Seventh St., police said. Entry might have been made with a key, a police said, although they have no suspects. The vacuum cleaner was worth $300 and the stereo was worth $250.
POLICE REPORTED that a car cover was stolen between 6 p.m. Friday and 5 p.m. Saturday from a car parked at 18th and Naismith streets. Police also reported that between 3 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Saturday someone smashed the front window of a car. They have no reports.
POLICE FRIDAY booked a 21-year-old Topeka man on a charge of theft after he was caught early Friday morning putting a bike in his car. The man had been tampering with bikes in Parking Lot 101 on the east side of Templin Hall, police said.
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'Can Man' earns money,protects environment
New star appears on Wescoe Beach
By CHRISTY FISHER
Staff Reporter
Bill Clement plopped a full plastic garbage bag beside a trash can on Wesco Beach and, after shooing away some bees, recessed into the can with
A few seconds later he pulled out an aluminum can, dropped it on the ground, danced on it and stuffed it into his bag.
For Clement, a Santa Fe. N.M., sophomore, aluminum can-collecting
'When I see a can sitting unclaimed, I have an incredible urge to run over and stomp on it. I get a thrill out of seeing the metal sparkle at the bottom of a sack.'
Bill Clement Santa Fe, N.M., sophomore
is not just another way to earn money. He also does it to protect the environment.
"My work is a labor of love in the sense that I'm doing something for the environment as well as for myself." Clement said.
LAST YEAR, aluminum can collectors across the country scrounged up a record 28.3 billion all-aluminum cans. That represents more than half of the aluminum produced in the United States, according to the Aluminum Association in Washington, D.C.
"I began collecting when my bank account bounced." Clement recalled. "I needed some kind of job that I would work only a few hours a week and still have enough money for gas and pocket money."
But money is not the primary reason the 23-year-old environmental studies major collects aluminum cans. He said he hoped to set an example for others.
CLEMENT PUTS IN about five hours a week and collects between 120 to 150 cans an hour in the area of Wesco Hall. The former drama and philosophy program engaged about $2.50 to $3 an hour, just an hourly lifestyle of the "a starving artist."
"A lot of people say, 'what can one person do?' I feel that they can do a lot, when their small effort is joined by others," said. "This is my contribution."
Although he has been collecting for
a month he said, the work has
been very challenging.
"I'm an aluminium hunter. When I see a can sitting unclaimed, I have an incredible urge to run over and stomp on it. I get a thrill out of seeing the metal sparkle at the bottom of a sack," he said
To add variety to his work, Clement has been developing his own "can dance." Sometimes he uses his "one-steep crunch" in which he smashes a can under one of his heavy-bottomed sneakers. He also has his "three-step foot," which he stomps a can with his right foot, then his left, and kicks it on to a pile.
CLEMENT INVENTED THE three-step dance to avoid bending over as much as possible. He suffers from spastic hip pain and is in pational hazards of the job, he said.
"The sninkers and the occasional glances are real discreet," he said. "I was a theater major, so I know what looks mean. Those finely dressed individuals who bask in the sun on beach teach give me looks of contentment."
Besides the backaches, the bees, and the caramel-colored fingernails, he also must endure the occasional sneers from onlookers.
Garden Moore, a cafeteria employee at Joseph R. Pearson Hall, said he
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"If I'm walking down campus and I see a piece of paper, I just say, 'leave it,'" he said. "But if it's an email can, I pick it up for the money."
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
Bill Clement, Santa Fe, N.M., sophomore, scoops up aluminum can he plans to cash in at a recycling center. Clement, who was busy last week searching through garbage cans near Wescoe Hall, collects the cans to help keep the environment clean and to make a few dollars.
Most merchants at local recycling centers think that money is the main motivator behind people who gather aluminum cans.
"MORE AND MORE people are finding out it is worth the time and money," said Wade Young, manager of American Aluminum Recycling in New York. The fact is that most people do it for the environment. Most people do it for feces."
"As the material is worth more, more people do it."
Whether the motivating factor is greed or preservation, the number of cans collected has been increasing. The rate of increase is about the million pounds of aluminum were
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