University Daily Kansan, August 25, 1983
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Tax money not to pay for governors meeting in Lawrence
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
The Midwestern Governors Conference, which will take place from Oct. 9 to 11 in Lawrence, will cost approximately $55,000 but will not be financed by taxpayers' money, Gov. John Carlin's press secretary said yesterday.
Mike Swenson, the press secretary,
said that Midwestern states took turns
to nominate candidates.
"Whoever hosts the conference decides how to finance it," he said. "But they are still on a tight budget."
He said this year's conference would be financed through a combination of private contributions from sponsors and corporate contributions. The year, he would be $125 for each participant.
Lawrence may also be the site of a presidential candidates forum on Oct. 10.
9. Swenson said, but the forum has not been confirmed.
The assistant regional director for the Midwestern council of states, Virginia Throll, said 900 people were expected to attend the conference.
She said that the governors would be attending with members of their staffs and that private business representatives would also take part.
He also said he thought that most of the governors invited would be able to attend.
The 13 states that have been invited to participate are: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Swenson said.
Throll said, "We know that Governor (John) Brown of Kentucky just had surgery and that Governor (Alen) North Dakota is out of the country."
Throll said it was too early to have
confirmation of who would be attending because the invitations had been sent out a week ago.
However, the general manager of the Lawrence Holldone Hotel, 200 W. Turnipke Access Road, said the entire hotel was booked for the convention.
The hotel should make about $8,000 a day during the conference, said Jim Taylor, the Holidome's general manager.
There has been an annual, nationwide governors conference for 75 years, but the Midwestern conferences began 22 years ago so that states of the Midwest could discuss their common interests and problems. Swenson said.
Lawrence was chosen among other Kansas cities almost two years ago as a site for the conference because the city is surrounded by security to be the host of large conferences.
"It's a town that is growing," he said.
"It represents what Kansas is all about."
Auditor calls for controls
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Criticizing the Parks and Recreation Department on several points, the city auditor has recommended the tightening of management controls and the action again* a* parks supervisor
By United Press International
Deck also criticized the lending of city equipment to private firms and the making of gag gifts for city officials.
In a report issued yesterday, City Auditor Glenn E. Deck recommended the department take action against Clarence Locke, the maintenance manager, who had taken city time to build items for Locke's personal use.
No birth defects found
The auditor's office began investigating the department five months ago after the Kansas City Star reported allegations of misuse of city equipment and time by parks employees.
Specifically, the auditor recommended that procedures for authorizing rentals of city equipment to private firms, for billing rental charges and for maintaining rental records be improved.
Parks Director Jerry Darter said he had not yet responded to the auditor on the recommendations. Locke denied any wrongdoing.
By United Press International
BOSTON — Australian army veterans who served in Vietnam and could have been exposed to the defoliant Agent Orange suffered no increased risk of fathering children with birth defects, a doctor said yesterday.
A letter in the New England Journal of Medicine said a study of 8,517 birth defects in children observed over 13 years in Australia found only 127 of the children fathered by Vietnam veterans — and those had no increase in the defects usually associated with the defoliant
Some 70,000 Australian men fought in Vietnam.
"As far as I am aware, this is the first-case controlled study of birth defects in children of Vietnam veterans," wrote Dr. Anthony Lipson of the Royal Alexandria Hospital for Children in Camperdown, Australia.
Agent Orange, which contains herbicides and dioxin, the most widely used defoliant in Vietnam, sprayed in huge amounts to defoliate jungle vegetation. The agent was spotted from the air. About 10 percent of South Vietnam was sprayed with it.
"And it will go a long way to alleviate the high levels of anxiety reported by prospective parents when the father had served in Vietnam."
Previous reports in the New England Journal said studies with animals showed components of Agent Orange and other toxicants produced such defects as cleft palate,
Researchers sav AIDS worse
By United Press International
The doctors cautioned, however, that the new findings did not put a cure on the horizon and would have no effect on managing patients of the disease, which at mid-month had struck 2,094 people nationwide, killing 805.
downs in two of the three linked branches of the immune system — not just one as previously thought.
United Press International
BOSTON — Victims of AIDS — the killer disease mostly plagaging homosexual men — suffer a more extensive breakdown of their immune systems than previously thought, causing them to die from infections, doctors reported yesterday.
A team of doctors from the National Institutes of Health reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that a new type of COVID-19 syndrome experienced break-
"It says that the breakdown in the immune system is more extensive and it increases our understanding a bit about the disease," said Dr. Henry Masur, an NIH infectious disease expert. "It's another part of the puzzle but it doesn't mean we're very much closer to finding a cure."
Doctors said most AIDS patients — generally homosexual men, hemophiliacs and drug abusers — died within two years because their bodies were left open to a host of infections. Its authors suggest that thinking it may be a virus spread through intimate sexual contact, blood products or contaminated needles.
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koney abnormalities and immune system problems.
In recent years, Vietnam veterans have reported that Agent Orange exposure had affected their own health and complained it has caused birth defects in their children.
In a letter to the journal in March, American researchers reported 37 percent of 158 Vietnam veterans contacting a veteran's center reported their children were "not normal" and many had diagnosed birth defects.
The U.S. Veterans' Administration does not presently recognize a casual link between the defoliant and health problems in veterans and birth defects in their children. But a number of studies are being conducted, including one by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the U.S. Air Force.
however, Lipson reported the "recent large, independent investigation of Australian Vietnam veterans concluded that there was no evidence that service in Vietnam was related to the risk of fathering a child with a birth defect."
Rescue workers attempt to dig into the debris left after a roof collapsed at a central Taiwan senior high school killing 26 female students.
Roof collapses;26 girls killed
By United Press International
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The roof of a high school collapsed on hundreds of students during heavy rains yesterday, killing 26 girls and burying six other teenagers under tons of concrete and steel rubble.
"When the roof came crashing down, I did not know what I was doing but I realized later I dragged the girl sitting next to me and just barely got out," she said. "And had been sitting near exit. I heard screams and cries all around我."
A police spokesman said 54 students were hospitalized with serious injuries and 23 others suffered cuts and bruises when the roof collapsed in "the worst school tragedy since the end of the World War."
Rescue workers using blow torches recovered the bodies of 26 girls, police
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The roof, a steel frame covered with concrete tiles, collapsed under the weight of a heavy rainstorm, police said.
the arts students, between the ages of 15 and 16, were divided into a boys' and girls' section in the high school meeting hall in Fung Yuan, a small town in central Taiwan 100 miles south of Taipei.
ran faster than we girls did and got out safely."
"The roof collapsed over the girls' side and most of the victims were girls," said one survivor. "I did not see too many boys get hurt because they
Concrete and steel roof construction is common in Taiwan for large halls or stadiums. A similar structure serving as a highway bus station in Taipei caused a heavy rainstorm. Nobody was killed but several people were injured.
The last accident of similar proportions involving school children occurred in March 1965 when a bus plunged off a mountain road into a ravine, killing 29 primary students near Taipei.
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