University Daily Kansan, December 2, 1981
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Rock residents and neighbors learn to live with missile silo
By STEVE ROBRAHN Staff Reporter
PICKRELL CORNER—If the government closes its Titan II missile base 200 yards south of Henry and Martha Smith's home, their property's value might very well increase.
"It doesn't bother me," Mr. Smith said. "They can put anything they want in that silo."
But the Smiths say they aren't concerned about their 103-foot tall neighbor.
The Smiths and their three daughters live just north of the tiny community of Pickerell Corner, about 25 miles east of Wichita.
A GAS STATION and an auction barn are the most noticeable features of this cattle country town, and of U.S. S.4 and K-98 highways.
People are friendly in Pickerell Corner and say they are still proud to be Americans. The handful of houses nestled in the southern flank of the Flint Hills may not look much like Cape Canaveral, but a space shot could originate from there at any minute.
More likely, the Smiths said, would be the occurrence of an accident like the one that killed two airmen at a Titan base near Rock, Kan, in 1978, or the explosion at a sille near Little Rock, Ark., last year.
A Strategic Air Command decision on Oct. 21 halted repair work on the Rock missile site.
"Some people don't want to live next door to a nuclear missile," Mrs. Smith said. "I try not to worry, but I'm concerned. It's only when a helicopter comes over the house that I really start to think about it."
Wherever the government puts nuclear missiles, someone must live next to them, she said.
In fact, some people in Picklerell Corner would rather live around a nuclear missile base than anywhere else, said Olen Young, owner of
Young Oil Co., the largest business in town.
"I'd like to have four of them around my house," he said. "We definitely should have the MX."
THE GOVERNMENT already should have installed an MX missile in the Titan silo just down the road, he said.
"I never worry about it for a minute." Young added. "We've got to have them somewhere and I'd just as soon they be around me as anyone
Young's opinion wasn't shared by 88-year-old Arlie McFarlin.
McFarlin said he lived even closer to the silo than the Smiths, and because he knew how things were around Pickerell Corner before the Titan silo was installed, he wished they would close the base down.
"I wish they'd take the damn thing out," he said, "but I'm gonna stay here no matter what they do."
He nodded toward the flashing green-beacon light above the concrete catch across a field from his farmhouse. The amount of electricity it takes to keep the beacon lit is an example of wasted money, he said.
Clad in overalls, the ruddy-faced McFarlin said he had lived on his 80-acre farm for 45 years.
"I'll bet if they fired it today, it wouldn't even come up out of that hole," he said. "The Russians will take over the United States one of these days anyway, so it doesn't really make a bit of difference."
HIS SON owned property adjacent to the base, McFarlin said, and no one had wanted to buy the land because everyone was afraid of the
He said he viewed the question of basing an MX missile in the nearby silo much the same way he viewed construction of the base back in 1963.
"There wasn't really anything to think about," McFarlin said. "It was government stuff. If they take a notion that they want to do something, they'll do it just like anything else."
McFarlin said he had lived alone since his wife died 10 years ago.
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Verner Werne said he and his wife, Doris, saw the bright orange cloud of gas leaking from the Titan siln next door on Aug. 24, 1978, but he would live by another nuclear missile if he had to.
"I've lived within a half mile of here all of my life, and I think we'll be here when the Air Force is gone." The button will ever be pushed."
He said that he was patriotic and believed in America, but that living with the Titan missile system for 15 to 20 years was long enough.
"From a selfish standpoint, I'd like to see them go somewhere else." Wonen said. "If they can harden these silos and make them a good part of our defenses, I could live with it again."
WONER SAID he remembered a dark shadow below the toxic orange cloud of oxidizer gas which hung over the base that day more than two years ago, and the airmen who ran frantically out of the hatch.
About a mile north of Womer's farm, the assistant manager of the Rock cafe leaned on the counter as she watched the cars slide down the road wouldn't bother her.
Susan Harrison said she had lived in Rock for four years with her husband and two children. She said she remembered the Rock missile incident and would feel safer with her propellant of an MX missile.
"I guess our country has to have something," Harrison said. "I'm not really sure the MX is what we need, and Washington and I I'm not an engineer."
"I just hope we'll get something that isn't obsolete in 10 years."
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Men's Coalition Presents: Male Contraception and Vasectomy
"the conference enforcement role has changed over the past few years," he said. "People who have had problems with violations have caused dramatic financial strain on the conference."
by Dr. Well, M.D.
The Big Eight Conference should leave enforcement proceedings to the National Collegiate Athletic Association because investigating recruiting and academic violations is too much of a financial burden for the conference, KU Athletic Director Bob Marcum said yesterday.
'ASECTETO, AS WELL AS OTHER FORMS OF CONTRACEPTION, CONCRETE BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, THEREFORE, BONNE ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND.
DID YOU KNOW that AN ESTIMATED 500 MEN in the LAMBERTA AREA have VACATIONE every YEAR? VACATIONHAS MOBEL A POPULAR CHOICE OF CONTRACEPTION AND CONCERN WITH MEN. DR. WELL, A UROLOGIST IN MEDICAL INFORMATION AND ANSWER QUESTIONSABOUT THIS SIMPLE OPERATION THAT HAS BEEN SUBRUMBED BY MYTHS FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
Marcum and Del Brinkman, Big Eight faculty representative, will attend a series of Big Eight meetings in St. Louis and tomorrow. The meetings are one of three scheduled each year.
Marcum said that conference representatives would focus on reshaping the current Big Eight enforcement procedures because they sometimes conflict with and overlap NCAA procedures.
"I have been one of the conference people in favor of turning it (enforcement) over to the staff." The staff are the staff and resources to do a good job.
CURRENTLY the Big Eight enforcement procedure involves using a
DATE:
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MARCUM ALSO said that because the Big Eight enforcement proceeding involved judgment of the conference schools and their representatives, the practice made intra-conference friendships difficult.
Some conferences have abandoned the practice of enforcing separate eligibility, recruiting and academic rules, which would leave the work to the teacher. Mr. Obama said he didn't think that was the Big Eight's intent.
Penalties for infractions range from financial losses, to loss of scholarships and television appearances, Marcum said.
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committee to review allegations of recruiting violations, illegal academic eligibility practices and any other violations of conference rules.
Conference officers and staff members serve as investigators and then turn their findings over to the investigator, which compris faculty representatives.
Marcum agreed that double jeopardy was a big problem.
One of the review committee's duties is to determine whether an athlete should be considered a "hardship" case and granted additional eligibility. The committee also determines whether schools have violated rules and it assesses penalties for infractions.
Some Big Eight schools, including Colorado and Oklahoma, recently have been slapped with penalties by both the NCAA and U.S. colleges they say the double leopardy is unfair.
"It was good that the Big Eight investigated allegations and I think a conference self-evaluation is important, but I don't think all the penalties were fair," he said.
Meanwhile, the NCAA has an enforcement committee that also assesses penalties for violations of its rules and regulations. The NCAA has special investigators and staff strictly for enforcement procedures.
"If any change takes place at all," Brinkman said, "it will be the elimination of double jeopardy."
shrinkman said that the Big Eight conference was noted for having stricter enforcement rules than other conferences. He also said that some conferences used lentient enforcement policies as a recruiting tactic.
"The family approach to enforcement hasn't worked well in some instances," he said. "But our purpose is not to determine what would be equal or compatible with the NCAA. We want to keep our enforcement, but we're looking at how to make it more effective."
"The Big Eight conference is even a lot tougher on some rules than the NCAA is." Brinkman said.
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