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Weather watch
burton Zacks and Larry Cosgrove, director of the KU Weather Service, check the courses of Hurricane Heather on the service's
weather mapper. Although Heather is headed for the Los Angeles arcs, Crago说服他 didn't expect it to hit the coast as a
Weather forecast center reopens
Rv NANCY DRESSLER
A machine receives a signal, prints it and tomorrow's weather easily can be forecast for any area of the United States from a room in Lindley Hall.
Staff Writer
The machine is a weather mapper used by the University of Kansas Weather Service, according to Larry Cosgrove, Jeff DeSoto, graduate student and head of the service.
After a five-month break in mapper transmittal because of lack of funds, the bank approved a loan.
Eleven students from meteorology, geography and broadcast journalism now work in the office, CoSgrove said, and they get practical experience in their fields.
CALLERS CAN GET weather information by dialing 684-3239 during week days and during limited hours on weekdays. Additional hours on Saturday afternoons will be added at the end of football season, Cosrowe said.
He added that information also was available during times of severe weather.
KU's weather service is the only one of its kind in Lawrence, Cosgrove said, and is reasonably accurate in predicting weather from masts or printed there.
*Ou best accuracy in this four state base*
*校园最佳 accuracy in this four state base*
we can concentrate on Lawrence. We're not a major weather corporation forecasting for everywhere in the United States," Cosgrove said.
The service will remain locally-oriented because efforts to expand it last summer have been successful.
STATE LAW says that University or state-owned properties or associations cannot compete with private enterprise. Cosgrove said this meant that money that came from private sources could not be used to buy equipment.
The mapping machine was turned off April 23 because of lack of funds. Western Union supplies the information that is transmitted to the KU terminal. The service was restored about two weeks ago when a spring Student Senate allocation of $950 became available and Western Union reconnected the service.
BY USING MAPS, the service can give accurate weather information to local and remote areas.
"The cost of paper for the mapper is our only major cost now. I don't intend to ask the Student Senate in supplemental funding the student funds except for paper." Carcosew said.
"Last year, a lot of people called from outside Lawrence who were coming to serve with the crew."
So far this fall, the service has received about 10 calls a day. Grove said, About 70 calls a day.
'Most of the calls after school hours are Lawrence residents. During the day we get in touch with you.'
Cogrego said that predictions so far this fall had been working out well.
Callers to KU's service get weather information quickly that does not make rough guesses or estimate possible weather, Cosgrove said.
call in before leaving, on breaks to go to Colorado to ski. "Cosgrove said."
Many types of people rely on these predictions, Cosgrove said. Farmers, pilots and handicapped persons are frequent users of the free service.
"IF WE THINK it's going to rain, we'll say that. We'll tell exactly what kind of skies will be going on so there's no misconception. If we don't, then we have to rest on that." he said.
Handcapped persons call during severe weather, he said, because moving to shelter can make them more vulnerable.
Bicentennial fund available
commission funds to the historical society.
More than $3,400 in surplus bicentennial funds donated to the Douglas County Historical Society will be allocated according to recommendations made by a special committee, Charles Fisher, society president, said yesterday.
The funds were donated to the historical society last February when the county's library received a grant.
The $3,400.62 has been sitting in a bank account for the past seven months because of a misunderstanding about who should name the project to receive the funding.
The historical society's board of directors will make the final decision of how to allocate the funds by using the committee's recommendations, he said.
"they get in a rut because in a tornado or severe weather, they're trapped. They call it a tape record." nice to have someone around who doesn't give you a tape recorded message," he said.
LOCAL SEVERE weather incidents indicate the need for the service, Congrove said.
"We have no definite plans as of yet on how to spend the money," Fischer said.
The commission had voted to turn over all proceeds from book sales and other unsent
During last May's tornado that struck southern Douglas County, KU's weather service was in great demand. Cosgrove work was in great demand the mapping machine was not working.
"My throat suffered that day because people were calling and I had to at the same time reassure the disc jockeys at KJHK not to panic," Cogsrove said. "I called Topeka and asked them for an evaluation. The candidates were there and we made a forecast."
University Daily Kansan
Energy end run planned
WASHINGTON (UPF) - Sen. Russell Long could not get President Jimmy Carter's energy tax plan through his own Senate committee; so Long has decided to go around it.
The result may be the survival, in some form, of the tax parts of Carter's energy legislation—good news for Carter after the gas price controls plan to continue natural gas price controls.
The Louisiana Democrat, a master at legislative maneuvering, has persuaded his Democratic colleagues on the deadlocked tax-writing panel to give up and allow an eventual House-Senate conference committee to write energy taxes.
The conference would write its compromise bill based on House-powered energy taxes and on suggestions Long's committee would now make on how to spend the income tax and how tax increases that might survive, such as the carbon tax or the tax on gas-guzzling automobiles.
Long said, "We say to the House, you have these big taxes in your bill. We, may
agree to those things but if we do, here's some things we want to spend it on."
The House approved its version of most of Carter's proposed energy tax increases.
IF THE SENATE goes along with the legislative maneuver, neither Long's committee nor the Senate would have to struggle with energy taxes. The entire Senate legislative schedule would be limited to the lengthy filibuster over natural gas prices.
Republicans, who had managed to block action on the Carter plan, say long action on the climate issue is necessary.
"I think he has the votes," Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., said.
"I'm not going to vote to send to the floor a miserable bill," Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Oe., said. He added, though, that Long probably would win.
Meanwhile, Rep. Thomas Ashley, D-Ohio,
the chairman of a special House energy
committee, said yesterday that the House
would not accept the Senate's plan to
The Senate's version would eliminate federal controls on the price of newly produced gas from onshore wells in two states and free offshore gas from controls in five years.
The House version would continue controls on gas in the interstate market at somewhat higher prices and extend them to other states in the interstate market—the state where it is produced.
Ashley said he hoped a House-Senate conference committee could start work on the bill.
deregulate natural gas prices but there still was room for compromise on the issue.
"It is clear there will not be a bill at all that the House conferences were to accept the Senate position," Ashley said, and "It is quite clear that the Senate would run into another fillbuster if the conference got back with the House version."
Nevertheless, he said. "There is ample room for a compromise that can win."
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