KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, April 8, 1982 Vol. 92, No. 129 USPS 650-640
Caught in the heavy April snowfall yesterday, Sue Klielblot, Chicago, Ill., senior, walks through the wet flocks to class.
April snow surprises students
By COLLEEN CACY Staff Reporter
Students who packed away their winter gear in anticipation of basking in springtime sun receive a surprise yesterday morning when a brief April snow drifted across the KU campus.
Winter weather persists in chilling the Midwest, and the unseasonably cold temperatures will stay around until mid-October this week, according to data from meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Light snow fell across northeast and east-central Kansas yesterday afternoon, but it melted as it fell, and southerly winds changed most of it to light rain.
Crandall said a low-pressure system over southwest Kansas was causing the below-normal temperatures, along with moisture from Texas and Oklahoma, over cooler air from Indiana and Nebraska.
He said yesterday afternoon's precipitation might linger through this morning, but should end by this afternoon.
The rest of the week will bring temperatures in the 20s and 30s, warming to the 40s or 50s tomorrow. The extended forecast for Saturday is the Morning Monitors for lows in the 30s and higher in the upper 60s.
The high in Lawrence yesterday was 40 degrees.
Crandall said April snow in Kansas was not unusual.
"We've had snow in April as recently as 1979," he said.
never hot. But he said the aviring blizzard that was blazing across the East Coast was far more
The National Weather Service called the blizzard the "worst April storm in the history of New England," recording dozens of record-breaking seasonal snowfalls.
A storm swept out of the Rockies to dump another nine inches of snow on the Plains yesterday, pushing toward the Great Lakes and the East, where the blizzard killed at least 36 people and left some of the most brutal April cold weather on record.
Parts of Massachusetts were hit with more than two feet of snow, closing hundreds of schools and businesses in New England for the second day.
Wind chill readings in Boston plunged to 41 degrees below zero, and temperatures in New
York City dropped to a 101-year record low of 21 degrees.
The heaviest snow in New England was 26 inches at Stratton Mountain in southern Vermont and in New London, N.H. Some ski areas, like Montana, planned to reopen for an expected late rush.
Connecticut Gov. William O'Neill issued a limited mobilization order Tuesday for about 300 National Guardsmen to seek out stranded vehicles and assist in lowing cars blocking snowlowls.
The second punch of the April storm blew out of the Rockies early yesterday.
Winter storm watches and warnings were posted from Iowa and Minnesota through the Great Lakes, and more snow was expected to hit New York City by tomorrow.
The National Weather Service listed at least 40 cities with record-low temperatures from upstate New York to the deep South, but conceded that there were probably dozens of others.
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Freezing temperatures harm foliage
Rv LISA GUTIERREZ
Staff Reporter
Yesterday's April snow did not harm camp foliage as much as Monday night's freezing temperatures did, which shattered bulb pipes, leaves and may have ruined the fruit of many trees.
"We won't know yet for another four or five days what the actual harm is," Jim Mathes, assistant director of landscape for facilities operations, said yesterday. "It'll take a little longer on the trees because they won't have fruit for a few more days.
"The snow's not unusual, but this one caught us at a bad time."
Mathes said most plants at this time of the year could withstand temperatures of down to 26 degrees. Monday night, temperatures dipped to 22 degrees, he said.
The cold air sapped the magnolia blossoms on campus.
"The magnolia were in full bloom and, being a lilac tree, the blossoms turned brown and died."
The fruit trees also may have sustained some damage, but Mathes said he would not be able to treat them.
"The buds on the crab apple trees may not open or they may fall off before they set fruit," he said. "Or, if they do open, they won't have any fruit."
Tuesday morning, Mathes and facilities operations personnel watered flower beds in front of Hoch Auditorium and Spooner Museum and watered other such plants. The flower beds were furnished from further freezing.
"It it slows down the process of opening up and takes some of the chill away so they won't freeze," Mathes said.
The process was similar to ones used in many fruit orchards.
Mathes said campus flowers might have been
"The rains saved them because the ground was wet and there was more moisture in the air," he said, referring to the flowers' resistance to frost.
saved by rains that fell in Lawrence Sunday night.
a snowfall in April did not surprise Mathes,
and she was clear to the near end of April in some part of Kampala.
Yesterday's snow, Mathes said, would not necessarily hurt any of the foliage.
"It in itself doesn't cause any damage," he said.
KU athletic official takes Big Ten job
"Our frost-free date isn't until the 10th of
march," he said, "so this snowfall wasn't
unusual."
A frost-free date is a historical date that
the latest known date on which snowfall
can occur.
"It carries with it nitrogen from the air and acts like a fertilizer."
Phyllis Howlett, KU assistant athletic director, was named yesterday as an assistant commissioner for the Bif Ten Conference.
By BARB EHLI Staff Reporter
Howlett, 49, said yesterday she would begin working in the conference's Chicago office May
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Howlett's new job will entail many of the same responsibilities she had at the University of Kansas, as dealing with athletic directors, sports information and promotions, public relations, she said.
"I will have the major responsibility for the women's program in the Bie Trop," she said.
Howlett said she also would be in charge of the Big Ten championships for women's sports.
She said that her position in the Big Ten would be a newly created one.
Last May, presidents of the member universities voted to include women's intercollegiate athletics in the conference. This action created the job Howlett will fill.
Howlett described the job as pacesetting.
"It's the kind of job that one would have to look at. It's one of the premier jobs in the country for a woman," Howlett said. "You don't have a chance to write the book very often."
Howlett said she thought KU was a fine institution and that she was glad to have had the opportunity to attend.
one said she would miss the daily contact with the total athletic program, but there would be an additional challenge in administering an entire conference.
"The challenge is greater, and I think also the satisfaction may be greater," she said.
Charles Henry, assistant commissioner for the men's program for the Big Ten, said a fivemember committee screened 87 applicants and selected eight to interview for the position. The committee, composed of two athletic directors, two faculty members and Wayne Duke, commissioner of the Big Ten, conducted the interviews.
The universities of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois; Ohio and Michigan state universities; and Indiana, Missouri, and New York universities compose the Big Ten Conference.
Howlett graduated from Simpson College in Iowa in 1964 and was a physical education instructor in the Des Moines, Iowa, area before attending Baylor University at Drinke University. She came to KU in 1979.
Howlett is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's football television committee. She will retain her membership when she joins the Big Ten, she said.
Juel Shankel, KU acting athletic director, said
the department had not yet made plans to replace
the office.
"I've talked with Jim Lessig and I think we'll wait until he arrives and see how he wants to fill in."
Lessig, new KU athletic director, will start work Mav 1.
Sankel said that with the end of the spring sports season soon, Howlett would not need to be on the field.
Shankel said he knew a few weeks ago that Howlett was a candidate for the position. She told him of her resignation last week. The University did not release news of her decision until the other candidates had been notified by the Big Ten.
"We're pleased that one of our staff members has had this opportunity," Shankel said. "Phyllis has done a fine job, and we'll always be indebted to her contribution. We wish her well."
Howlett said the Big Ten was going in the right direction, "but there's a difference and that women's sports in general were moving away."
"I think they're headed to far more competence," she said.
Athletes are becoming "more skilled and more exciting to the consumer
"It's exciting to think I'll have a role in that."
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Britain vows to attack block Falkland Islands
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Britain said yesterday it would blockade the Falkland Islands starting Sunday and threatened to attack any Argentine ship that ventured within 200 miles. Argentine officials vowed to "defend" the island and announced a partial call-up of reserves.
The announcement of the blockade cut the time in which a negotiated solution could be found from about 10 days, when the British fleet was expected to arrive in the south Atlantic, to Germany.
President Reagan, in a hurried bid to avoid war over the islands, ordered Secretary of State Alexander Haig to Britain and Argentina hours before the blockade was announced.
As a British war fleet headed toward the disputed islands, an Argentine general took the oath of office as the Falklands' new military governor amid a rare display of national unity.
Britain's ambassador to Argentine, calling it a "bad day," left Buenos Aires under a military escort with 44 other diplomats and British citizens. They were among the first of Britain's 17,000 subjects to leave the South American country.
BRITISH DEFENSE Secretary John Nott announced the blockade in a speech to
"Our first naval action will be intended to deny Argentine forces on the Falklands the means of
reinforcement and supply from the mainland," Nott said.
IN BUENOS AIRES, an Argentine naval source said the British force would not be close enough Sunday to enforce the blockade and termed the announcement a "psychological"
He said the zone would extend 200 nautical miles around the islands, which are located 450 miles east of Argentina and 8,000 miles southwest of Britain.
"The British are way out of their theater for the military officer, said. "A blockade will not work."
The ruling Argentine junta, however, imme-
sured to restore blockade could succeed in retaking the islands.
"Any Argentine warships and Argentine naval auxiliary found within this zone will be treated as hostile and are liable to be attacked by British forces," Not said.
Money, fun, crowds lure strippers to nightclubs
Reagan, acting at the request of both Britain and Argentina, ordered Haig to travel to London and Buenos Aires to seek a peaceful solution to the crisis and "avoid further use of force," David Gergen, White House communications director, said.
Haig, who canceled plans to join Reagan on his Caribbean vacation, was expected to leave shortly after midnight for London, then fly to Buenos Aires and return to Washington by the plane.
Larry Speakes, deputy White House press
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By BECKY ROBERTS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Wild Willy pranced onto the dance floor wearing a gray three-piece suit.
To accompany cheers, applause, wolf whistles and beetle bat, willly begin his mission. "And look at the pack of hippos!"
A woman helped Willy with the vest. As she slowly unbuttoned the vest, he bent over the vest and pulled it off.
Minutes before, tall, blond Wild Willy had balanced calmly on the edge of a desk in a sparsely furnished, harshly lit office. He was wearing a wool coat shirt, blue jeans and loafers.
Before Willy began his first routine, the backstage at The Country Playhouse, 806 W. 24th St., was a jumble of four dancers organizing costumes and dance music. The cramped room was filled with friendly insults.
"We're all basic hams," Willy said recently. "We do this for the money and the fun, but when the crowd reaction is good, we work hardest. We're the best in the Mid-
"I feel good that these gentlemen dance a clean show. Their show keeps the women coming back because it's done in good taste. You can't use low-rent dancers." Joe Mandacina, owner of the Playhouse, said before the show.
THE SHOW GIVES women a chance to be equal to men in the spirit of ERA and other values.
Only women were in the audience. As they waited for the first dance, the disc jockey
They clapped and cheered as Dino glided onto the dance floor surrounded by shouts and long, low whistles. The women swayed to the beat. "Get Physical," Dino's personal dance music.
"Women today want to go out and have a good time. They're getting equal to men in other aspects. Why not a night out for them, too?" he said.
"Ladies, let's get those hands together ano welcome Dino!"
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His tight black pants clung to his muscular body. His red ensured suspenders and the red sequined choker on his neck reflected the dim yellow lights as he began dancing.
JOHNE RICHARDSON/Staff Artist
Today will be cloudy, windy and cold with a high in the 30s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be gusting from the northwest at 15 to 30 mph through the afternoon, creating clear tonight with a low in the 20s.
Tomorrow should be partly cloudy with a high in the upper 40s or low 50s