Conservationists Warn of Chemical Spray Overdose
Editor's Note: This is the second instalment of a two-part series on the use of chemical defoliants in Kansas.
By JAMES COOK Kansan Staff Writer
Because no special permits are required to apply 2-d-4 and 2,4-D, the chemical defoliants that have already been applied to one million acres, some area officials are concerned that massive doses of "T" will be misused and will destroy valuable plant and wildlife.
Although no permits are required to apply 'T', a new law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, gives the
THE LAW does not cover landowners who do nearly 75 per cent of all pesticide spraying in the state, Ron Klukaset, wildlife biologist and regional rangeland expert at the Audubon Society in six states, said recently.
state agriculture officials broad powers to license commercial applicators of pesticides. Included is a stiff examination and provision for revoking licenses for misuse.
Dealers of spray chemicals with good give advice on their use are not regulated at all, Klatake said. Ironically, the new law was initiated by the state legislature to force government officials who later assisted in writing it.
"A lot of them are going to do damn well whatever they please. They have ownership without responsibility," Harold Gallaler, State Extension Forester at Kansas State University, said recently.
Some believe the law will not be obeyed.
MOST OF THE aerial spraying has been done in the Flint Hills, but that area's district conservationist, Richard Rosenow, refuses to discuss the matter with anyone.
Recently he refused to answer questions concerning only the beneficial results of the aerial application of "T." The answers to such questions, be said, were "too complex to be discussed" and he
some one "and not have the time or the desire to discuss the matter."
Rosenlow县 in Wabaunsee county where 75,000 acres have been sprayed and another 38,000 acres have been sprayed.
MASON FLORA, chairman of the county committee on soil conservation in Wabatae county, where part of the Flint Hills are situated, said Kyle was "deeply disturbed" by Klakeas's charges.
"We're worried," he said. "I know Katsake is jumping on us but so help me if he gets his points over where we can't use this spray I don't know what will happen. I know several ranchers in the
area and I know their policies and so help me they will crucify him. Those boys have to make a living.
"It's not a poison. It's not a pesticide, it can't be used to kill bugs or fish of birds or any form of life. It's a hormone. It doesn't kill anything, it just grows. It doesn't kill insects and break open and open so sable unfavorably."
FLORA RECENTLY said he would drink a pint of 2,4-3 in public to "show that it is harmless."
Fiona said studies that indicate that "T" may cause birth defects in animals and humans as well. She says research suggests that
The hell cares about a rat," he said. "None
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83rd Year, No. 33
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, October 12, 1972
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French Mission Hit During U.S.Air Raid
SAIGON (AP) — The French diplomatic mission in Hanoi was badly damaged and its chief diplomat wounded Wednesday during a U.S. air raid on the North Vietnamese capital. France protested to the United States.
The U.S. Command reported that Navy planes attacked military targets northeast of the French compound, but implied that the airplanes were falling, surface-to-air missiles. The
command apologized to the French and promised an investigation.
In Washington, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird conceded that U.S. bombs may have struck the mission, a compound of five buildings in the heart of Hanoi.
Laird said he could not be positive whether the damage was caused by a stray bomb or by falling enemy artillery off-screen, officers accounted the heavy SAM missiles,
5 Finalists Selected In HOPE Competition
By MIKE BAUER
Kansan Staff Writer
The five finalists for the HOPE award were announced Wednesday by Mark Shockey, the HOPE Award Committee president.
Shockley said the finalists were selected on the basis of interviews by the committee, class visitations and records of past balloting.
The finalists are: Edward McBride, Sr., professor of mechanical engineering; Eric R. Brown, professor of drama; Calder Pickett, professor of journalism; David Quadagno, assistant professor in physiology and cell biology; Dr. Robert Berman, professor of human development and family life.
MBRIDA HAS four children. Three are graduates and the fourth will invite this spring.
McBride has taught at KU for 20 years and was nominated for the HOPE Award in 1962. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering at Villanova University in 1934. He received his M.S. and Ph. d. at Harvard in 1939.
Michel came to KU in 1965 on a research grant. He became a member of the faculty in 1971. Michel is currently participating in a research project funded by the National Institute for Neurological Diseases and Strokes.
Michel received a B.S. from Ohio State in 1959 in speech pathology and audiology. He received an M.A. from the University of Ohio in speech and hearing sciences in 1960. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in speech and hearing Sciences.
Michel's wife teaches in the department of speech and drama.
PICKETT RECEIVED a B.S. in journalism from Utah State in 1944. In 1948 he received a M.S.J. from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern. He got a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Minnesota in 1959.
Pickett came to KU in 1949 as an
assistant dear in the School of Journalism. In 1951 to 1961 he was acting dean the School of Journalism. In 1970 to 1971 he was acting dean the School of Journalism.
called "flying telephone poles" by U.S. pilots.
Quadiano group to KU in 1970. He was in South Carolina state an MA in biology, and San Francisco State, and a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in endocrinology and medicine.
LAIRD SAID the bombings would continue despite the delicate negotiations in Paris between Henry A. Kissinger, the British adviser, and the North Vietnamese.
UConn completed his fellowship from
Oakland to be in COMU. He is 31 years
old.
Wright is a member of the University Senate Executive Committee and is finance chairman for the McGovern for President Committee. He came to KU in
France, which has been playing a hand in arranging for the secrecy of the talks, exhibited outrage at the attack on its mission.
Wright is 39 years old and has five children.
He received his B.A. from Harvard
Marya curtis not his Ph.D. in
engineering from Stanford.
from Stanford.
Balloting for the HOPE Award will be Oct. 19 at the Senior Regalia distribution. The five finalists will be present at the Senior Regalia.
Announcement of the winner will be Oct. 14 at the half time of the Nebraska-KU game.
President George Pompioni said the damage was caused by US, bombs and rockets.
A French government spokesman said Pierre Susini, delegate-general in Hanoi, was severely wounded and four Vietnamese soldiers were killed. French diplomats' personnel were safe.
A North Vietnamese dispatch said Susiin suffered third-degree burns on the head and chest and a wound in the temple by a bullet. He was taken by lying almost buried under the wreckage.
SECRETARY OF STATE William P. Rogers sent his regrets at the wounding of Susini to the French foreign minister, Maurice Schumann.
Michael Maclear, a correspondent for the Canadian television network CTV, reported from Hanoi that he saw the attackers' diplomatic residence, cutting it in half.
He said besides the wounding of Suini, a French woman diplomat and five Viet-
namese refugees.
Maclear declared that at least three jets swapped repeatedly over the center of the field.
Maclear said the area hit had no factories nearby.
"I counted at least a dozen sorties by jets and watched as one, defying heavy anti-aircraft fire, dived very low dropping two bombs. No possibility of pilot error."
The bombing destroyed two-thirds of the residence and reception hall of the compound.
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Penn House provides low income families with wholesale food, which can be sold at low prices. Several KU students participate in the Penn House Food Club. The groups are operating in other low income areas and college towns. See story page 5.
StudEx Orders Hand Tally Vote
After an hour of debate on the merits of computer vote counting and its cost, the Student Executive Committee (StudEx) held a discussion about next week's elections counted by hand.
The move to count the ballots by hand was made by Senate treasurer B江Oell Neil, Ballwin, Mo., junior, and came in opposition to a recommendation by Student Tuck Duncan, Wilmore, Il., senator and former Congress Committee chairman.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Henry Kissinger completed a fourth day of private talks with the North Vietnamese Wednesday after meeting in his departure from Paris until Thursday.
Revised Count Shows Enrollment Increase
The unprecedented extension of Kissinger's 19th round of secret Paris talks to four days naturally stirred speculation that a breakthrough toward a settlement might be near. But officials refused to give any encouragement to such theories.
With the change in travel plans, however, it appeared that the personal report to the President won't come before Thursday night.
Ziegler and other officials maintained silence on the substance of the talks.
"We have just received confirmation from the party that Dr. Kissinger will be remaining overnight in Paris," Ziegler wrote in an email to the Paris office tomorrow to return to Washington.
Prior to this visit, Kissinger's talks except for that lasted two affairs except for that lasted one.
But White House press secretary Ronald
Ziegler said "we have no indication the
President is going to take any action."
The spokesman had said earlier that Kissinger would confer with President Nixon before the chief executive leaves him and congratulate for a one-day campaign Visit to Almaqha.
But there were indications that Kissinger might confer with French officials, upset because their diplomatic ties were severely damaged during a U.S. air raid.
Kissinger originally was scheduled to return Tuesday but unexpectedly agreed with North Vietnamese negotiators Le Duc Nguyen to extend their talks through a fourth day.
Ziegler not say why Kissinger's departure—originally scheduled for Tuesday but reset for Wednesday—had been delayed again.
Ziegler said he could not respond to questions about the reason for the delayed departure saying "this is all the information we have."
Talks Over; Kissinger Still in Paris
Ziegler said the extension had nothing to do with the latest bombing raid on Hanoi. And Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said air strikes against North Vietnam would continue despite the intensified negotiations.
An error in the compilation of the enrolment figures released last week was disclosed Wednesday when the final of the examination increased in students over last year, data of IRIB.
"When the preliminary figures came out, the money we had collected and the head count did not correspond," Nichols said. "The dollar figure we previously had did not change, but now corresponds to the new enrollment figure."
Registrar William L. Kelly announced the figures as part of a report required under the new charter. The report records final enrolments in all six state colleges and universities as of the fall.
Acting Chancellor Raymond Nichols said the omission of the part-time students was inadvertent. He said the students' cards were not included in the first computer run made to determine total enrollments.
The rise in enrollment this year was the 20th consecutive year of enrollment increase at the University. However, this increase is the smallest increase in two decades.
Nichols said that despite the rise in enrollment, the freeze on hiring and staffing costs is likely to remain.
The 300 students not recorded in the preliminary figures were all part-time students, Kelly said. The previous figures showed a loss of 272 students.
election were not paid by the University, no elections would be held.
"There is always great pressure from the public and the press for enrollment figures," he said, "and any release in it, report carries the possibility of error."
DUNCAN SAID the cost increased because the Senate would be required to pay for man-hours necessary for running the ballots through the computer. The University previously had paid the labor and returned the Senate only for the actual computer time.
Duncan contended that the increased cost was justified by increased speed and accuracy, which he said the computer assured in vote tabulations.
Kelly said he regretted the error in the earlier statement.
The issue of vote counting methods arose when Duncan announced that the cost of running the ballots through the committee was $140 from $144 to about $300 in this election.
The French said their diplomatic mission in Hanoi was heavily damaged and their chief envoy wounded in a Tuesday raid but Laird and Ziegler said they were not wounded whether the mission was hit by U.S. bombs or by stray air-aircraft missiles.
Duncan said the fall elections would provide an opportunity to run the elections program through the computer in a less expensive way, but the team had before more complex spring elections.
THE SENATE HAS ALLOCATED a total of $3800 for elections this school year. Duncan said he expected the total actual cost to be between $5000 and $6000.
Duncan responded to suggestions of hand counting the fall election ballots and handed out an agreement saying that if the program was to be used in the spring, the computation center needed to run it in the fall in order to acquaint a new personnel with the
John House, Lawrence special student and StudEx chairman, announced that 14 senators have been suspended because of excessive absences. Twenty-three senators have been warned that they are near suspension for excessive absences.
Duncan drew diagrams on the wall in the Governor's Room in an effort to explain the complexities of running the ballots through the computer.
STUDEX VOTED TO APPROVE signing a contract to allow the Curriculum and Instruction Survey (CIS) to finish paying its share of the purchase price of a magnetic sense card reader for the computation center.
In other business, Kathy Allen, Topeka junior and student body vice president, moved that StuEx notify all its members that any member who did not work at least one hour at the polls during the fall elections, Oct. 18 and 19, would be charged with failure to absence unless the person had appealed the duty requirement before the election.
House told the committee that he had been advised by Dave Dillon, Hutchinson senior and student body president, that advertisements for applicants for the position of Student Senate treasurer had been posted in the Schools of Business and Law.
DUNCAN ALSO PROPOSED that
suggested computer designer
the computation center manag-
er.
The CIS has paid half of its $1,000 share of the machine and requires StudEx approval to complete payments. CIS will use the machine for tabulating results of its Computerized Inventory System.
senators Gus d'zerega, Barbie Biddle, Kevin White and Leroy MccDermott. The fifth member of the committee will be appointed by the other four members.
Those appointed to the committee were
Alen suggested that advertisements be posted in all schools on campus in an effort to increase enrollment.
StudEx appointed four members of a five-member committee to supervise planting trees as a memorial to students killed in carnous disorders.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Inmates at the District of Columbia jail early Thursday released guards hostage for nearly 24 hours in a protest over conditions at the jail. The guards release cure shortly after a federal judge ordered immediate release at the jail.
D.C. Inmates Release Guards from Captivity
While earlier reports had placed the number of hostages in Cell Block N. 1 at nine, a jail spokesman said there were 13, including seven inmates in Zimbabwe Corrections Director, Kenneth Hardy.
The release came even as inmates complained that one of their number had
Julian Tepper, a Washington lawyer noted for his work in corrections, said the release was the result of negotiations behind the jail administration and others.
Tepper said the release would allow a careful work of improving conditions in the ship.
All were reported in good health, with one exception. A guard was wearing a large bandage on his head, as a result of a broken wooden stick, a jail spokesman said.
been beaten by guards while negotiations were being carried on.
Freeing of the hostages apparently brought to an end the hours of terror at the crowded jail, which began when prisoners were able to kill guards unless they were released.
Six inmates took their grievances to U.S. District Judge William Bryant after 150 to 180 of them took over a cellblock and held them on guard while demanding immediate freedom.
the six prisoners returned to the jat at about 10 p.m. to report to the other inmates
Judge Bryant, in an unusual move, heard the inmates' complaints as part of a pending separate civil suit protesting conditions at the jail.
In an order, Judge Bryant said: "There'll be no harassment or personally imposed retaliation by any of the personnel."
The six inmates who went to court were selected by their fellow inmates.
Bryant told the inmates he could do nothing about their individual cases but promised each would be able to talk with a lawyer before midnight.