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University Daily Kansan, March 21. 1983
More nurses wanted to answer calls
Funds needed to expand poison hotline
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
More state money is needed to hire three nurses and pay for an additional hotline at the University of Kansas Medical Center's Poison Control Center to meet increasing demands on the state legislature. The Lawrence state legislator said yesterday
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, told about 40 people in the auditorium of the Lawrence Public Library that the poison control center provided emergency services to host victims of a poison control centers across the state.
"WE HAVE ONE nurse who works eight hours a day, five days a week. No one is there in the evenings or on weekends." Branson said.
Last year, the legislature allocated $30,000 to the Med Center to hire more staff.
Branson said the Legislature needed to allocate more money so the poison center could be accredited as a regional health center. There are 20 regions nationally.
Last year, the hotline handled 10,000 emergency calls, Branson said. If the center was accredited as a regional center by the Association of Regional Poison Control Centers and was handed hotline responsibility for a larger area of the country, it would receive 20,000 to 25,000 calls a year, she said.
REQUESTS FOR additional money to hire nurses or pharmacy students for the hotline are tied into the Med Center's 1984 budget request, which should be sent to the House floor in about two weeks.
Discussion of finances for the Med Center Poison Control Center surfaced during the last of four public forums sponsored by Lawrence area legislators and on the state's responsibilities for caring for neglected or needy children.
In other issues, Don Herber, director of special services for Lawrence school district 497, said that a KU preschool special education program next year would lose nearly $132,000 in federal aid.
For three years, the state has provided $68,000 in addition to the
$132,000 federal grant. But the grant will expire next year.
THE LAWRENCE Early Education Program, taught in Haworth Hall and Rode House, 1043 Indiana, helps prepare students for future schooling. Herbel said.
After the three-year federal grant expires next year, he said, the program will have to come up with local money for finances.
"We have tapped just about all federal funds available," he said. "I know we're at the point we have to get local support to keep the program."
Herbel said parents turned to the program if they thought their children were too old.
Roofe House works with mild and moderately handicapped children, he said, and Haworth Hall works with more severely handicapped children.
Barbara Gaines, a department of Social and Rehabilitation Services financial maintenance supervisor; said budget cuts made last year by the University have led to a General Assistance to work for public nonprofit employers, such as KU.
Those people who refused to work would be dropped from General Assistance, she said, and could have state medical benefits reduced.
Gaines said she worried that children of parents who did not cooperate with the work experience program could suffer, if money from SRS was cut off.
Also, Gaines said SRS would require people on General Assistance to prove they are willing each month to apply for work, or else they would be dropped from the program.
BEGINNING IN April, KU will provide most of the jobs for the program, she said, which was designed as a way to provide job training for the unemployed. Eight other work sites may be available in Lawrence, she said.
However, State Rep, Betty Jo Charlton, D-Davlewne, said Douglas County courts already used those nine work days when inmates were sentenced to work in the county.
Charlton said courts were having trouble finding enough work for prisoners, so additional demands for work would be impossible to satisfy.
Drug paraphernalia law to be protested in court
By United Press International
TOPEKA — A challenge to the state's 1981 law prohibiting the sale of drug paraphernalia will be heard by the Kansas Supreme Court this week.
Attorneys for the owners of an Overland Park clothing store. The Chosey Beggar, contend Gary French and Tom Dunn were tried under a law that failed to clearly define what constitutes drug paraphernalia.
RESIDES SELLING clothes, the store also was an outlet for a variety of water pipes and smoke handling devices sometimes used to smoke illicit drugs.
French and Dunn were found guilty of selling drug paraphernalia because of their apparent violation of the 1981 law.
Also on the Supreme Court docket is an appeal by a Sedgwick County district attorney who contends two electronic video games known as "Knuckleheads" and gambling devices. A Sedgwick County court earlier handed down a decision
that differed with the attorney's opinion...
The distributors of the devices, Games Management Inc., had fitted suit asking the court to determine whether the company was violating the law after the district attorney's office had threatened prosecution.
THE GAMES each cost 25 cents to play and players were "dead" card hands similar to the games of poker and illimining players received a free game.
However, the trial court ruled the free game did not constitute something of value, which, according to Kansas statutes, is a necessary requirement before the games could be deemed illegal.
Also on appeal from Sedgwick County is the case of Joseph Smith who was convicted of second-degree murder in his mother, death of his daughter, Daisy Smith.
The victim, four weeks old, was apparently shaken so hard by Smith that her brain was knocked against her forehead in death by internal brain damage.
Oil, natural gas exploration in state rises despite lower prices, KGS says
By MELANY MICHAEL Staff Reporter
Recent reports from the Kansas Geological Survey indicate that despite dropping oil prices in 1982, drilling of oil and natural gas in Kansas rescheduled an all-time high, and production of oil in Kansas peaked for the first time in five years.
According to statistics, 9,181 oil and gas wells were drilled in Kansas in 1982. This was a 33.8 percent increase from 1981. Rex Buchan, director of public information for the Geological Survey, said recently.
IN ADDITION, oil production totaled 70.6 million barrels of oil last year, an increase of 7.3 percent from the year before. According to geologist Lynn Watteny, this was the first peak in the production of oil since 1977.
A bill creating an 8 percent severance tax was passed by the Senate on March 3 and is awaiting consideration by the House.
Any increase in production in the past has served as ammunition for proseverance tax forces who displace the oil industry and threaten their business is already on a decline.
The curious thing about the increase in oil production and drilling, Buchanan said, was that it happened in a year when oil prices dropped. In 1981, oil prices peaked at about $36 a barrel. For the year before, in barrel of oil in Kansas was only $0.45.
tell you that the price is going down and they're going broke. The obvious question is, 'Why, if everyone is going broke, are there 35 percent wells drilled this year, in 82, as opposed to 81?' Buchan said.
"PEOPLE IN THE oil business will
But survey officials admit that the figures this year may be misleading. Buchanan said there were two indicators that the survey used in compiling the statistics. The first is a count of how many rigs are actually drilling. The second is the number of drills "which is a form drill," which is a form drillers must complete before starting a new well.
The figures for both of these indicators were down in 1982. Buchanan said.
"Clearly, more wells were reported to us in 1982. It may be that some of those wells were drilled in 1981 and reported late," he said.
Furthermore, there has been stricter enforcement of reporting by the Kansas Corporation Commission, so perhaps these wells were reported to them, he said.
SURVEY ECONOMIST Carol Zarley confirmed Buchanan's statements, saying that oil drilling was not up in the numbers and was in the number of wells reported.
Drilling has increased every year since 1973, she said. It peaked during the last six months of 1981 and began to slide in 1982.
"Drilling is going down, but it's still up over what it's been in the last 10 years," she said.
Even though the figures may be misleading about drilling, they were accurate in showing an increase in oil production during 1982. Zarlev said.
This happens, she said, "because you'll notice a downturn in production later than you'll notice a downturn in drilling."
OF THE INCREASE in drilling for 1982, Buchanan said, "Generally it's because of some funny reporting in the whole process, but it still shows that there's a whale of a lot of oil and gas drilling."
Buchanan said he would also be interested in seeing what effect Reagan's proposed deregulation of natural gas prices and production in Kansas.
Statistics show that natural gas production in the state was only 420 billion cubic feet last year, a 35 percent decline from 1981.
"There is a lot of cheap gas in Hugoton oil field that's obviously not being produced. That's why there's this decline of 35 percent."
"IF THERE were total deregulation over the next three years it may be that people are more inclined to produce that gas out there that's now way better than the stuff filling new wells and bringing up expensive gas from far below the ground.
"That may be an effect of deregulation which may drive gas prices down."
A third of inmates used drugs
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — One-third of state prison inmates were under the influence of an illegal drug when they committed the crime for which they were jailed, according to results from a federal department survey released yesterday.
Of the 12,000 inmates questioned, 56 percent said they had used illegal drugs in the month before committing their crimes to do so into the report. "Prisoners and Drugs."
THE REPORT, prepared for the department's Bureau of Justice Statistics by the Census Bureau, was based on a 1979 survey. The study included comparative figures based on a similar study of the general population.
The survey revealed that 33 percent of inmates said they were under the influence of one or more illegal substances at the time of their offense.
Marijuana was the drug most often named by inmates — 17 percent said they were under its influence when they committed their crime, while 48 percent said they had used it within a month of their arrest. By comparison, 18 percent of the general population said they had used marijuana recently.
Half the inmates said they had been daily users of drugs at some point, and 40 percent said they had been daily users recently, most often of marijuana.
STEVEN SCHILESINGER, head of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, said, however, "Heroin was used by 30
In all, 78 percent of the prisoners said they had used illegal drugs at some time in their lives, nearly twice the number for non-prisoners, the report said.
percent of the inmates (questioned),
but only by 2 percent of the general
Half the inmates jailed for crimes involving drugs were under the influence of drugs when they committed their crimes, with heroin the drug in 20 percent of the cases, the survey showed.
About 90 percent of those arrested for drug-related crimes were lifetime users of drugs and 75 percent had used drugs in the month before their crimes.
Murderers and rapists had low drug-use rates as compared to other prisoners, the report said.
City to review redevelopment plans
The regularly scheduled meeting is to start at 7 p.m. tomorrow.
salt the job tomorrow.
Stlzer Realty Co. Inc., Kenner, La,
signed a memorandum agreement with the city last November to develop a basic project design for a downtown shopping center.
The Lawrence City Commission is to consider at its meeting tomorrow whether to continue with the city's plans for a next phase of downtown redevelopment.
THE RESOLUTION that the commission is to consider would acknowledge that Sizerel fulfilled the agreement and would authorize the city to sign a preliminary contract with the company within 60 working days.
The contract would set forth the responsibilities of the city and Sizeler that would lead to a final redevelopment agreement for construction. The final agreement would not be signed for 15 to 18 months.
During, that time, Sizeer would finalize architectural plans, organize its.financing and make formal negotiations with department store companies for leasing in the shopping complex.
The city would plan financing of public improvements, which could include utility relocation, construction of parking lots and relocation of New Hampshire Street between Seventh and Ninth streets.
SCHEME FOUR, the plan favored by the Downtown Improvement Committee, a group of citizens serving as an advisory board to the commission, would mainly affect an area bounded by the alley east of Massachusetts Street and by Seventh, Ninth and Rhode Island streets.
In other business at the meeting, the commission is to give final reading to an amended version of the city's human relations ordinance.
Economics department to pick seminar faculty
The amended version would add age and handicaps to the types of discrimination prohibited by the ordinance and give the Lawrence Human Relations Commission the power to issue subpoenas to investigate discrimination.
Officials in KU's department of economics are accepting applications this month for the 5th annual Summer Economic Seminar.
Fifteen KU faculty members will be chosen to participate in the two-week seminar, which is sponsored by the KU College of Economic Education in Bailley Hall.
Darwin Daicoff, professor of economics, said yesterday that labor relations, economic growth, environmental policy, governmental regulations and world trade would be discussed at the seminar.
DAIOFF SAID that the faculty members would receive $200, and that materials needed for the seminar would be paid for by the Center.
Faculty who wish to apply for the seminar should send a resume vita, information on the courses they teach, economic content of those courses, and an endorsement from their department's chairman, Daiceo said.
A representative from Topeka will be on campus to discuss nursing as a career with interested students on:
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