University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 30. 1978
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Electricity restored to nearby communities
By BILL HIGGINS
Staff Reporter
Residents in Clinton and Twin Wound
sept in heated homes last night after three
men were hospitalized.
A power failure Sunday night, caused by breaks in a feeder line, left about 200 customers without electricity to Tuesday afternoon. About 100 customers did not regain service until about 4 p.m. yesterday, according to Kaw Valley Hospital.
The power outage affected residents in Clinton, Lone Star, Twin Wound and nearby
Clinton is about five and a half miles
southwest of Lawrence. Twin Mound is a little more than five miles southwest of Clinton and Lone Star is about three miles southeast of Clinton...
RESIDENTS WHO WERE left without electric heating huddled around fireplaces and gas stoves, spent the night with friends and relatives or slept in hotel rooms.
Dale Johnson, son of Rex Johnson,
Douglas County sherif, said the family slept around a fireplace in the basement of their home in Clinton.
"The power was off since about 10:30 Sunday and it came back on at 3:00 today." Johnson said. "A lot of people left to go into Lawrence or topta or to stay at a hotel."
Bill Phillips, a construction employee who
"We have a totally electric house and there was just no way to stay," Phillips said. "We slept here Sunday night but after that we had to take out a room at the Holiday Inn."
lives near Clinton, rented a hotel room for two nights.
Phillips said his electricity shut off on Sunday night at about 10:36 and came back later.
"I GUESS THERE were only a couple or three families around here where they stayed," he said. "Some people used their gas stoves for heat."
The two-year project, which resulted in the publication of last month's edition of the Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, honored Charles D. Michener, professor of entomology and former president of the society.
30 research papers are birthday gift for KU prof
Former students and colleagues from six continents recently helped a KU professor celebrate his 60th birthday by writing almost 30 research papers in his honor.
The October issue of the journal, which carried the articles, was dedicated to Michener as a "Festschrift," according to George W. Zewr. professor of entomology
"Feeschrift" is a German word for writing for a celebration, Byers said. "The feechrift is the money."
Officials at Kaw Valley Electric said a power outage had never taken three months.
proof pages of the journal on his birthday Sept. 27.
Fred Stone, manager of Kaw Valley Electric, said a main feeder line had been severed in two locations and that the breaks were difficult to find. He said a construction accident that severed the line again yesterday morning complicated the repairs.
"What can you give to a guy like that?" Byers asked. "The whole department considers him a national treasure. He's pretty special."
"We had a hell of a time finding the breaks," he said. "We've never had a power shortage that we couldn't pinpoint immediately."
"The equipment needed to locate underground breaks is very complicated and expensive."
"Our equipment went out Monday at about 10 a.m."
"IT TAKES A radarscopes and some capacitors to test the lines and we had to go to Kansas Power and Light to get the equipment when ours went out."
Michener, who published his first research in entomology at age 16, came to KU in 1948 as an associate professor. His recent accomplishments include election science and the Academy of Sciences. He is the only Kansas to be elected to that organization.
The problem began Sunday night at about
10:30 when lights began blinking out. By
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1:30 a.m. Monday, 200 customers were without electricity.
About 4 p.m. Tuesday, Stone said, power was restored to about 100 customers in the town of Star area where the fire crews trying to restore electric service to the Clinton and Tionn Wound area, a U.S. Corps of Engineers crew working near Clinton Lake bulldozer, on the line between Starsburg and Star.
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western Kansas, to work on electricity outages caused by ice storms there.
Stone said the accident cut service to Lone
stair customers again for about three hours.
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Fri.-Sat. Ham to Iam
Finally, by 4 p.m. yesterday, all customers had electricity.
KEITH TROUTMAN, staff engineer for KEIT Valley Electric, said the lines appear to be under maintenance.
Sunday 2pm to 11pm
"There were three wires in the main feeder line and all of them were cut in two places. It appeared that lightning had gotten to them."
Stone said lightning was suspected because the main feeder line was burnt in two places about the same time. He said, "We've never seen phenomena could have caused the breaks."
Troutman said the delays in making the repairs were made worse because five of his workers had been laid off.
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Those lines were only about two years old," he said. "There could have been a shift in the ground because of the cold weather the rocks might have penetrated the wires."
Auditions for 1979 Rock Chalk Revue IBA players. Have a prepared song; a company is provided. You will learn and perform a dance—so come dressed accordingly. Auditions will be held Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 4 and 5, 7-10 p.m., callbacks Dec. 6, 7-10 p.m. in the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union.
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