University Daily Kansan Wednesday, August 24,1977
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Radar decides who is speeding, but cop decides who gets ticket
WICHTA (UPI)—Motorists ticketed for speeding often blame radar equipment but one highway patrolman says it's usually not the radar unit but human discretion that decides who gets a ticket.
Highway patrolmen conclude concede stopping all speeders indiscriminately is from being
"If we stopped every car going over 55, we wouldn't get two miles from headquarters," trooper Phil Clanton said recently. "Much of the job is just individual discretion. With the volume of traffic on interstates, we're more likely to concentrate on the most fragile violation.
"They can teach us the technical side of enforcing 50, but when a trooper is on the road, he has to rely on his own judgment when it comes to issuing a ticket."
CLANTON THINKS the electronic cat-and-mouse game troopers play with motorists initially is a contest of who has the most reliable equipment, and 50 patrol cars
have the newest and best available radar setup, the KR-11.
This complicated unit relies on a tiny computer that can detect the speed of coming cars in .01 seconds and operates on a frequency more than double that of radar detectors uses by motorists. The KR-II also can be controlled so that it does not transmit until the suspected sensor is in sight, thus making radar detectors nearly useless.
Clanton was demonstrating the KR-11 last week while cruising west on Interstate 70 near Tepocha when its digital display recorded a vehicle traveling 17 m.p.h. of speed in an intersection 85 kph, the sweeler going 71 prompted Clanton to cross the median in pursuit.
But after writing the tick against the Indiana driver, Claunt returned to the patrol car and said he had given the driver a warning.
"HE WAS a retired cop, so I let him off with a warning." Clanton said. "It all gets
back to the discretionary aspect of the job. I don't let every cop iop站 go with a warning. It's just a decision I have to make. Every trooper is different."
A short time later Clinton clocked a
driver with a 40-second speed and gave him
a $80 speeding ticket
Clanton's supervisor, Capt. E. P. Mooman, said the trooper's decision to give him the policed fema a warning disturbed him, "but our troopers know their job and they have to make decisions like this every day.
"There are so many variables you have to consider," Mooumai said. "Professional courtesy can be carried too far. But I may have done the same thing in this instance."
Clanton, a five-year veteran of the patrol, said he thinks there has been too much emphasis on the use of radar. But patrol superintendent Allen Rush says he stresses compliance with the 55 m.p.h. speed limit, and using radar to enforce it, because "it has created such a marvelous safety record."
Spacebound U.S. experiments to return
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Senior American biological experiments—launched with fruit flies and rats aboard—are expected to carry out the earth week in a Russian satellite.
The experiments were sent int space
Алматы 1898 craft from Plesetsk
Base in the Soviet Union
The spacecraft, a modified Vostok of the type that Yuri Gagarin flew in 1961 in the first manned orbital flight, is to parachute to a soft landing in Siberia.
THE MISSION IS the second in which American life science experiments have flown in a Soviet biosatellite as part of a cooperative effort between the two nations to learn more about how space affects people, animals and plants.
Among the items placed on board were containers of fruit flies and 30 rats.
AMERICAN SCIENTISTS will travel to Moscow to take part in the initial processing of the experimental materials at the Institute for Biomedical Problems, then return them to the United States for further study.
In addition to American scientific apparatus, Cosmos 938 carried experiments from the Sovet Union, Czechoslovakia and France. Scientists from Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, and Japan will participate in post-flight processing and study of the biological specimens.
The first American-born satellite
of the U.S. when four U.S.
experiments flew in a CoPilot
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration carried out a great deal of
biological research in the Skylab space statistician who studied in earlier unmanned satellite satellites
NASA Plans to resume biological research in space on its own in the space shuttle rocket plane scheduled to start flying in the next two months to expect to participate in those missions.
The American experiments in Comosus 396
the American research center, Mountain View,
Research Center, Mountain View.
130-million-year-old water for sale
DENVER (AP) - And now, Colorado's answer to Pet Rocks - Fossil Water.
That's right, $ vials of 130-million-year-old water. The beavers of dinosaurs, if you wear a T-shirt, can eat them.
The tiny bottles contain waste water encountered by oil and gas drillers while sinking deep wells into ancient geological formations.
Fossil Water is the braincase of Carolyn Hayes and Donna Stine of Denver. Hayes, a geologist, says the age of the water is easy to determine because its mineral content.
The water does not look clean, which may be too much to ask of anything 130 million years old. And its aroma is several degrees stronger than stagnant. But aside from the fact that the water not be drunk, federal agencies have given it a clean bill of health, so to speak.
So far, the enterprise is limited to one local department store. But Boodie Investments Ltd., as the company is known, branching out. Ms. Mae reports. Neiman-Marc said, is particularly excited over the prehistoric product's marketability.
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