University Daily Kansan, February 23. 1983
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Merchant wants stricter code on stoves
By KEITH CUTLER
Staff Reporter
A Lawrence merchant wants the city to adopt a stricter fire code because he thinks inspections of the wood-burning stoves are not sufficient.
Mark Courtingen, retail manager of Woodstoves Inc., 615 Massachusetts St., said last week that the city's fire code for solid fuel appliances, which includes woodburning stoves, allowed them to install stoves without inspections.
Because of this, he said, woodstoves installed by homeowners may create hazards.
John Oehler, general manager of Cloud Heating and Air Conditioning Co., 1601 W 23rd St., said that although the company had not been in the woodside field very long, compartmented air conditioning for the fire code was not very stringent.
JIM MCSWAIN, Lawrence fire chief, agreed that most of the
problems Lawrence had had with woodstove fires had been caused by faulty installations.
But Gregg Crossman, Lawrence fire inspector, said a change in the fire code would not solve the problem.
"People are supposed to get a building permit before they install a woodburning stove, and because many are neglecting this, we have no way to inspect their installation." Crossman said.
McSwain also said that a new code could not stop people from buying a woodstove and installing it without the city's checking the installation.
"If they buy a woodslope at a garage sale and are planning to install it themselves, a new code would not require the installation inspected." McSwain said.
Courtington, who estimates that there are 300 to 400 woodstoves in the Lawrence area, wants to incorporate a mandatory inspection of the installation of any woodstove into the fire code.
CROSSMAN HAS INSPECTED
only two woodstone installations in the eight months he has been fire inspector, he said, but he cannot randomly check installations of woodburning stoves for their safety.
woodblocked wall.
"If the building inspection division sees an obvious violation, they will report it to me," he said.
The city's fire code for solid fuel appliances, which govern installation of woodburning stoves, is now spread among three states. Uniform Building Code, theUniform Code and the Uniform Life Safety Code.
Meswain said the Uniform Mechanical Code, which would further cover the installation of woodburning stoves, had been discussed for adoption two or three years ago, but the Lawrence City Commission had devised it.
"When the trend indicates that there is a need for a stricter code then we will look at adoption," he said. "But our record has been pretty good."
BUFORD WATSON, Lawrence city
manager, said this week that the code had been rejected because most people thought the existing codes were sufficient.
"If the code were adopted, it would mean that anyone that installs a stove would need a license. People have to be licensed at time of because of this." Watson said.
But Courtington said he would prefer the adoption of the more specific guidelines for stoves that were drafted by National Fire Pro-
"More strict codes would make our job a hell of a lot easier," he said.
Although woodstoves Inc. installs woodstoves in homes, 80 percent of the stoves it sells are installed by homeowners.
HE SAID HE did not think the instructions in the fire codes were specific for fire inspectors to answer questions on installation.
"Any fire protection agency is only as good as the citizens help us to be," he said.
Woodburning stoves are hazards, fire chief says
By DON HENRY Staff Reporter
Woodburning stoves can be a fire hazard if they are not installed and operated correctly, the chief of the Lawrence Fire Department said recently.
quirements for installation," said Jim McSwain, fire chief.
"The main problem is that people don't follow the manufacturers' re-
A recent fire that caused an estimated $20,000 damage to a television repair shop in East Lawrence started because the chimney of a homemade woodburning stove wasn't installed properly, he said.
ANOTHER FIRE that gutted a house about four miles east of Lawrence in January started when hot cinders from a woodburning stove
flew up the chimney and onto the roof, the occupant of the house said.
McSwain said that he could not provide figures on how many of last year's fires were related to wood-burning stoves, but that fire department statistics indicated that fires related to heating systems caused more than $47,000 damage.
He said people sometimes bought used stoves and tried to install them
without installation instructions from the manufacturer.
HE SAID ANYONE buying a used stove should write to the manufacturer for installation instructions because some kinds of stoves burned hotter than others and required different installation specifications.
He said that any heating system, including woodburning stoves, should be checked periodically by heating specialists.
Board to study proposal to re-divide video profit
By WARREN BRIDGES
Staff Reporter
Fred McEhen尼, director of the office of residential programs, said the proposal would allocate 75 percent of the revenue from the halls' video games to a cultural and educational department, with 25 percent to a discretionary account.
University residence halls could spend a greater percentage of video game revenue on cultural and educational activities under a proposal being studied by the Residential Programs Advisory Board, a board member said
Although the discretionary account is, in essence, a social fund, he said, the money can be used in other areas, such as guest lecturers and displaying art work.
HE SAID THAT 60 percent of the money now goes into the educational fund and 40 percent to the discretionary fund.
The proposal would broaden the range of educational and cultural activities the halls can sponsor. McEhlenie said.
Last fall the income from the machines ranged from $2,600 to $7,000.
Each hall will be responsible for allocating the discretionary funds, he said, and a decision has not been made about how the funds are funded by the cultural and educational fund.
He said a video games subcommittee, made up of several board members, had asked a resident director of one of the halls to offer suggestions to the board.
McElhennie, a member of the residential programs advisory board, said he hoped the board could vote on the proposal within two weeks.
"We hope to get a wide range of ideas concerning the matter," he said.
IF PASSED, THE policy would take effect this summer for any hall open on Friday.
"Right now the residents benefit either way." Barnes said.
Dave Barnes, resident director of Oliver Hall, said that the proposal would most benefit the residents but would not change the difference would be that great.
He said the educational and cultural fund was already used to bring in tutors every week and would be used in the course of the academic awards for hall residents.
"The hall makes about $100 a week from the four machines," Barnes said. "The machines are changed about once a week, keep a high level of interest in them."
"It works out pretty well," he said.
"And however the money is divided up, the students use the money."
Tom Coombs, resident director of Ellsworth Hall, said his ball had been broken.
Ellsworth has three video games and earns about $150 a week. Barnes said.
McEllenbie said the discretionary fund would be used in addition to the halls' social funds allocated in the regular budget.
LEWIS HALL HAS no machines now, but Kathy Rose-Mockry, Los Angeles graduate student and resident director of the hall, said she hoped to have machines installed in the hall by the end of February.
Med Center program delayed
Kermit Krantz, chairman of the gynecology department at the Med Center, said delays in receiving equipment and supplies will occur for the program back to April or May.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The new test tube baby program scheduled to start at the University of Kansas Medical Center last Tuesday has been delayed for at least two months, one of the charges of the program said yesterday.
Doctors have not released information on the progress of the program, he said, because test tube babies are a volatile issue.
He said about 300 women had been selected for the controversial program, but declined to comment further until the program was actually to begin.
IN-VITRO FERTILIZATION is the process of surgically removing one or more eggs from a woman and fertilizing them with the husband's sperm in a glass dish. The process is named for the Latin for "in glass."
About 100 babies have been born worldwide by in-vitro fertilization. The average age is 28.
Each patient in the Med Center program will pay $2,600 to use the program and will be given four chances at a pregnancy.
A screening panel will decide who uses the program. Women in the program have no other method of giving birth, either because of disease or damage to the Fallopian tubes, which carry the eggs from the ovaries to the womb.
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