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Thursday, November 16, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Group to open recycling center for bottles, jars
Club members will be operating a recycling center 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Daisy Hill parking lot extension.
After months of preparation, KU's Ecology Club will begin recycling glass this weekend.
Gary Thompson, the club's organizer, said yesterday that it was important for persons to bring their glass to the center pelt at the appropriate times.
for the recycling center, but waited until last month to seek Student Senate funding to advertise the project.
Tentatively, the center will operate on a monthly basis. Thompson said,
The club began preparation last spring
Workers will separate the glass into clear, green and amber piles, then smash the glass before placing it in a collection bin.
The McPerson Glass Co. of Topeka,
which is supplying the collection bin, is
paying 50 cents for each 100 pounds of
glass.
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Costs vary on snow tires
Each of the eight tire dealers said snow tire sales had been good so far.
Most of the dealers interviewed were having no major problems obtaining snow tires from suppliers, but one dealer was ready to run out and others expected shortages when the first snow storm bit.
Bjo Bigenwal, manager of Gregg Tire Co., 814 W. 23rd St., was the only dealer to report a shortage.
Eight tire dealers gave prices yesterday in telephone interviews for radial and bias-ply snow tires, tire studding and chains.
A new set of snow tires this season probably will cost between $34 and $65 per tire annually, according to local tire shops.
“It’s pretty bad in all sizes,” Bigenwalt said. “I went to the Topeka Goodyne plant this morning and it is in sad shape. Radials
The prices given by all of the dealers was for this size and included installation and federal excise tax.
BIGENVALT SAID his snow tire for a F-18-74 tail, a standard
wheel, was cars, but $40, including mounting and
federal tax expense.
For a radial snow tire of the same size, he said, the cost would be about $60.
Biggenwal said he charged $10 to put studs on a standard snow tire, but only about 10 percent of his customers had their snow tires studded. He said about 50 percent of the snow tires he sold were radials.
Russ Butler, co-owner of T.I.R.E. Co., 720 E. Ninth St., said he was not having trouble obtaining tires.
Butler said he should the standard snow tire at $40 to a tire for bias-ply
and $64 to a tire for radials. Radials accounted for about 40 percent of
the tires.
BUTLER CHARGES $5 to put studs on a tire. He said about a third of his customers used studs.
Mike Baily, assistant manager of the Firestone tire store, 1008 W. 23rd St. also had a low inventory of snow tires
Baily said the standard snow tire would cost about $35 at his
Howard Love, salesman for OTASCO, 1818 Massachusetts street, said he had had no trouble with the supply of snow tires. He said that if sales continued at the current rate, a shortage in some sizes was possible.
Gary Allan, manager of Lawrence Tire & Wheel, said most models of his line of snow tires were available, but there were some tires that could not be obtained. He said only one customer in 100 had studs installed, for which he charged $8 at a tire.
ALLAN, WHO said about half of his snow tire sales were radials, charges about $31 for a bla-sly ply tire and about $45 for a radial.
OTASCO charges about 40 for bianli-ply snow tires and about 61 for radial tires. Love said about 60 percent of his snow tire sales
store. He charges $8.50 a tire for studs, which about 35 percent of his customers use.
A salesman for Ray Stoneback's Store, 922 Massachusetts St., said the availability of snow tire stock was fairly good this year. He estimates that about 60% of the cars
He said studs cost $8 a tire and 40 to 50 percent of his customers purchased studs.
He said Stoneback's sold the standard size bias-ply snow tire for about $50 retail. He said, however, that many times a discount was used.
STONEBACK'S charges $7.50 a tire for studs, he said.
The other two tire dealers, D & D tires, 1000 Vermont St., and all Grae Standard Service Station, 846 Vermont St., were having problems with their tires.
Praig Grace, owner of Praig Grace Standard, said he sold the standard bays-ply snow tire for $43 and the radial for $82. Grace charges $7.20 a tire for studs and said 30 to 40 percent of his customers bought studded snow tires.
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The manager of D & T Dies, Mike Delahanty, said his standard balsam-ply snow tread for about $30. He said that he charged $75 a manhole cover.
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Plus special showing of animated films by KU students.
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Only two stores said they sold tire chains, OTASCO sells chains for standard tires for $21. Chains for radial tires cost $31.
MIDNIGHT MOVIE
HEAVY TRAFFIC
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(1973)
Dir. Ralph Bakshi. Live action mixes with animation in this funny and the director of Wizards, Coonskill and the cat. The With a Betty Boop cartoon.
Monday, Nov. 20
THE BIG CLOCK
John Farrow, with Ray Milland,
Maurene O'Sullivan, Charles Leu-
ton, Elsa Lanchester. First rate
murder mystery.
D & D Tires sold chains for $26 and $45 for standard and radial tires.
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Monday. Nov. 27
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Tuesday, Nov. 28
Shirley MacLaine's Trip to China:
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THE SKY: A CHINA MEMOIR
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Two short films.
$1.00 7:30 pm Woodruff Aud.
Staff Reporter
By BILL HIGGINS Staff Reporter
Colder weather hoarsens whistle
The KU whistle has been under the weather lately.
Now that fall weather has set in, the whistle sounds a little hose because of a problem with steam condensation, a Facilities Operations spokesman says.
The spokesman, Holly Miley, assistant director of mechanical systems and utilities for Facilities Operations, said he had repaired the whistle early last week, but the whistle would continue to sound strange as long as the weather staved cold.
"A copper tubing was torn loose and it
went getting the steam to the whistle
right," he said. "I like a steamboat whistle, it sounded more
like a submarine whistle—it was under
sea."
THE WHISTLE is slow to start up and trails off a little in cold weather, but there's
The whistle has curtailed long-winded lecturers since 1912, when Edward E. Brown, secretary of the University, dismissed all of the whistle as a signal to dismiss classes.
However, the whistle had been used before 1912. Old newspaper reports say the whistle was placed in a box on March 18, 1899, the whistle blew at 8 p.m. to let the children of Lawrence know when to return
In 1912, the whistle was used to signal the beginning of devotional services held daily at 7:30 a.m., the beginning of classes at 8 a.m. and the end of the class day.
The original whistle, named "Old Faithful" and "Tooty Toot" by the University Daily Kansan, was blown off the roof of the steam plant during a storm.
ITS REPLACEMENT was so shrill that the steam plant engineer welded Old Faithful back together and installed it again.
In 1945, Robert Haggard, a former KU ship, was dispatched in whistle that was salvaged from a German transport船. The ship, the Orina II, had been sent in the Italian harbor of Leghorn Lake to retrieve the ship.
The Orinika whistle had three tones, but students complained that the whistle could not be heard around the campus. So, once again, Old Faithful was installed.
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Then on March 26, 1954, Old Faithful cracked a seam and was replaced by the whistle that sits stop the KU power plant behind FIint Hall.
During the spring semester of 1977, the use of the whistle was stopped by KU officials to test whether the tradition was still necessary.
Originally the whelite st blew for six seconds at the end of classes and then blew twice for three seconds when classes resumed, ten seconds when classes ended, and five seconds for six seconds to signal the end of classes.
THE STUDENTS were asked their opinion of the whistle on the spring 1977 Student Senate election ballot. Eight-one percent of the 4,022 students who voted on the question favored the use of the whistle, and it began blowing again in a few days.
The whistle has two schedules, one for the fall and spring semesters and one for the summer session. During finals, when class is over, the whistle must be operated by hand.
DURING THE semester, a clock electronically triggers a cylinder valve on the whistle, which opens to allow steam to escape.
In 1976, KU officials estimated that producing the 175 pounds of steam necessary for the hourly whistle blast cost the University about a $2 a week for fuel.
On a cold still day, the whistle's shriek,
which is composed of three tones produced
simultaneously, can be heard at Lone Star
Lake, about 17 miles away.
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