Page 10 University Daily Kansan, April 20, 1983 Police say 911 speeds rescue By AMY CRAIG Staff Reporter A man stood in the phone booth at 14th and Massachusetts streets. Desperately, he reached for the phone and dialed three numbers. He told the person on the other end of the line that he was going to kill himself by drinking a bottle of drain cleaner. Immediately, the person, a police dispatcher, sent a car to the phone booth to check on the caller. The man had begun to drink the drain cleaner, but the quick action of the dispatcher and the police officer saved the man's life. THE DISPATCHER, Joy Viebrock, who answered the man's call to the local 911 number, said this incident came to her mind whenever she thought about the effectiveness of Lawrence's emergency telephone sys- Lawrence's 911 system is a necessity for law enforcement officials and it makes people feel safer. Sgt. Larry Snyder, the police Department said last week. Loveland said that Lawrence's 911 system, which was installed in August 1699, was the first such system in Kansas. Lawrence was chosen as a test city for the system, he said. "Being a university town, we weren't reluctant to be a test," Loveland said. Wayne Jackson, a spokesman for Southwestern Bell in Topeka, said 26 Kansas communities now had 911 emergency call centers and insurance companies have shown interest in the system. Larger cities, such as Topeka and Kansas City, installed 911 systems this year. Smaller communities usually can get the system easier, Jackson said. They don't need as many answering points, he said, so their systems cost less and do not take as long to install. THE MAIN REASON cities want the system installed, he said, is that the number is easy to remember in an emergency. "In an emergency situation, it is more difficult to remember a seven-digit number, and you usually have to look it up. With only three digits, 911 is easier to remember, and that ease makes 911 quicker." he said. Loveland said the system was more efficient because administrative telephone lines often were busy, especially from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The 911 lines rarely are a.m. all -busy, he said, so dispatchers can act more quickly. Although the 911 system enables the police and fire departments to be more efficient in emergency situations, it does not call the calls to 911 were not emergencies. She said, "You get a lot of prank calls. Kids call a the time and then hang up. And in the summer people call us a lot because they think we will be the first to know if there is a tornado." LOVELAND SAID MANY children dialed 911 because their parents had taught them how to dial it if they needed help. He said people did not call the police on the majority of the calls received on 911 lines were pranks or malfunctions. "People call 911 for everything — just to talk, to have a car towed or a dog picked up," she said. "People get upset when we tell them they have to call the administrative number." She said about 10 out of 50 calls were emergencies. Despite prank and non-emergency calls, Loveland said the system was worth the cost to the city. Lawrence pays Southwestern Bell $92.50 a month for the system, which is inexpensive compared to other 911 systems in the state. Jackson said. ONE REASON LAWRENCE'S system is less expensive is that it cannot determine the telephone number and address of the caller as some systems do. Lawrence's company to have a number traced, which takes about 15 minutes. Loveland said such a feature would cost $20,000 to $30,000 to install. He said the feature would increase the system's efficiency, but not enough to justify spending $20,000. Brazil detains four Libyan planes By United Press International BRASILIA, Brazil — The government said yesterday that it ordered four Libyan airplanes that were transporting weapons and explosives to Nicaragua to land at airports in the northern Brazilian cities of Manaus and Recife. nardo Pericas said the four Libyan planes, a U.S.-made C-130 and three Soviet-made Ilyushin aircraft, were allowed to land in Brazil after their pilots said they were carrying medical supplies. Recite: Foreign Ministry spokesman Ber- Pericas said the four planes were inspected Monday night and were found to be carrying cargos "fundamentally of weapons, replacement parts and explosives." Brazil was applying international rules for transport of undeclared cargo and the planes would not be permitted to fly to Nicaragua, Pericas said. HE SAID BRAZIL was making a formal protest to the Libyan government. percasa said Brazil expected "an explanation and an apology" from Libya. On the record A BURGLAR STOLE five gallons of chocolate chip ice cream, worth about $6, several sour dough buns, worth $7.50, and assorted meat, including roast beef and turkey, worth $30, yesterday from Zeigfeld's Ice Cream Parlor and Deli, 1000 Massachusetts St., police said. A THEIF STOLE an automatic transmission, worth $450, from the bed of a pickup truck parked in the 700 block of Arkansas Street, police said. The transmission, which reportedly weighed about 400 pounds, was a Chevrolet Turbo 400. A MOPED, worth an estimated $400, was stolen yesterday from the front of an apartment at Stouffer Place, police said. THEIEVES STOLE five bicycles, worth about $600, yesterday from various places in Lawrence, police said. On campus PRE-PHYSICAL THERAPY CLUB will meet at 7 n. p. in Watkins Hospital. TODAY TOMORROW will meet at 7 p.m. in Watkins Hospital. OPERA WORKSHOP "Scenes from Operas" will be at 8 p.m. in the William Ingle Theatre. 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