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Thursday, October 19, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Disaster plan interest low
By ED FENSHOL
Staff Reporter
By EDF FENSHOLT
Douglas County is without a concrete plan to safeguard the more than 60,000 county residents in the event of nuclear disaster, but county residents have shown little interest in helping to formulate such a plan. The director of Douglas County emergency services, said yesterday.
"It's hard for me to say why people aren't interested," Brann said. "I guess primarily because a nuclear disaster is a very unpleasant thing and people don't like to talk about unpleasant things. We also have had no disaster experience that would lend emphasis."
to move the public to the public had the misconception that a definite plan did exist and could be implemented immediately in the case of a terrorist attack.
"In the minds of the general public, civil defense in the kind of thing that's here if we ever have a war," Brann said, "but that is not really true. It isn't something that's sitting in the wings, ready to rise up and save the day if war starts."
Branai said county residents could be safeguarded from nuclear disaster by using existing guidelines for a nuclear emergency, but there was no plan to do so.
"WE CAN get the job done—we can do it," Brann said. "The question is, can we do it in the most expedient, most efficient manner. And that's the whole purpose of the planning process—to do it in the most efficient way possible."
Bram said the latest community shelter plan for Douglas County had been developed in 1971, but the plan had not been revised.
It should be updated, but we don't have the expertise in Lawrence to do it. "Brann said. The updating process is a national effort."
According to the federal Civil Defense Preparedness Agency, Douglas County is not classified as a nuclear high-risk, or target, area. It is classified as a host area, which means Douglas County would receive evacuates from high-risk areas.
Lougias County would be a host area for any evacuation from a risk area, such as Kansas City and Topeka. "Brann said, 'I think
BRANN SAID that despite the lack of a detailing exactly how the county would host risk area evacuees, he was confident the situation was safe.
the current planning factor is a ratio of two to one—that is, for every resident of Douglas County, we could host two more."
"Probably, this area will not be addressed in national civil protection planning, as far as the evacuation program is concerned, until about 1800," Brann said. "But I think we can find a place to put忽视, we invest a host area could be developed."
Bram said the University of Kansas was included in the 1971 community shelter plan.
"KU is a part of the plan—in fact, the majority of fallout shelters are on the camus," he said.
According to the plan, 38 of the 58 shelters listed are on campus. But Brann said that even though the shelters existed, they lacked fire-resistant walls.
"The SHELTERS in Lawrence were never stocked," Brann said. "By the time Lawrence had a shelter survey made, there were no more food and medical supplies being supplied for stocking purposes by the federal government. The government just ran out
"I in theory, we would have to gather food supplies from local grocery stores, but we would also encourage people going into the supermarket."
Brann said the greatest problem regarding a community shelter plan was the public's ignorance of where the shelters were.
"I think we definitely do need a public education program," he said. "I understand that in the early seventies, several people in Lawrence became interested in civil defense and there was an officer stationed on every school district called 'Your Chance to Live.' But it kind of died off."
But Bran acknowledged that he did not think an evacuation, shelter or any other emergency plan designed to safeguard the building.
"They're plans which we're not thinking of ever using—they're plains we're thinking of having," Brann said. "It's just like buying
Prof to design home for princess
By CORIE BROWN Staff Reporter
Hixson will be leaving Nov. 10 for Judah, Saudi Arabia, to start the preliminary designs. He will make another trip later to install the furnishings.
George Hixson, KU professor of interior design, has been designing homes for most of his life but he normally doesn't fly halfway around the world to do it.
Hixson said yesterday that he felt exhilarated by his recent commission to design the royal living quarters of Sushi Jawahar, Jawahar, King Khaitu's granddaughter.
"After all, you don't design for royalty every day," Hixon said.
HIXSON RECEIVED the formal commission on Oct. 12, after beng interviewed by the Princess in Miami. Her father, Prince Khaled, had informally asked Hix-
Hixson has been learned about the project three weeks ago from a KU electronics engineering student whose brother manages certain aspects of Kine Khaled's affairs.
son to accept the commission while Hixson was still in Miami.
"There were a number of other designers included in the Miami meeting," he said. "I think the reason I received the commission was that I wanted to help young students. I was able to relate to the young princess and I understood what she wanted in her living quarters to make her life more colorful."
The royal family has been vacationing in Florida while King Khaled recuperates in Cleveland from a coronary bypass operation.
The 18-year-old princess is a student at the University of Judah. She spends about 65 percent of her time in her living quarters in New York City and keeps her position and the customs of her country.
"She's just daring, a very typical young person, but very brilliant," Hixson said. "She wants her quarters to be very modern."
HE SAID HIS plans would involve the extensive use of electronic equipment, such as computer systems.
projectors. He said he also had looked into the possibility of enclosing part of her large balcony, which was rarely used because of daily dust storms.
"The only problem will be space," he said. "My goal is to try to develop a modern environment without mutilating the ancient outside structure.
"The important thing in design is understanding the culture and environment,"
"to make sure that it is lived in."
Hixson, a KU graduate, has been a full-time professor at KU for 16 years. He currently is the head of the interior design department at Edward Kirkhous, Inc., of Kansas City, Mo.
"I think it's important for a professor to practice in his field." Hisson said.
His assistant on the project will be Soupha Thavornsir, a former student of Hixon's, Xavier Meyer, a graduate of Rutgers.
Designing homes for public figures is not new to Hixson. He has designed homes for Eleanor Roosevelt, Eva Marie Saint and some Swiss millionaires.
CITY HALL INSCRIPTION CONTEST
The Lawrence City Commission is conducting a contest to select an inscription for the new Lawrence City Hall. The inscription chosen will be that statement which best ties together the significant facts of our history with the hopes and aspirations for the future.
RULES
1. Contest is open to all residents of Lawrence.
2. Statements should be 25 words or less. A statement telling why it is felt that this would be an appropriate inscription must accompany your entry.
3. Name of person responsible for the quotation, poem, speech, etc. must accompany the entry.
4. Mail entry to: City Clerk, 910 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas, 66044,
before midnight, October 30, 1978.
5. Entries can also be made on plain paper. A person may enter as many times as he chooses, but only one entry per envelope.
A $50.00 award and an engraved plaque will be given to the winning entry. The City Commission will make the final selection after receiving recommendations from a five (5) person committee appointed to review the entries.
ENTRY FORM
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Railroad repair
Keeping the tracks in good condition is a constant job at the
railroad switchyard on Locust Street,Workmen,here,clean and replace part of the rail.
Black students removed for their safety
LAMAR, Colo. (AP)—The federal Job Corps has removed "for their safety" more than 40 students, most of them inner-city blacks, from a small "cowboy" college in a mostly white town on eastern Colorado's plains.
The action this week came after tension, fistfights and complaints on the campus of Lamar Community College and in the town of Lamar.
Yesterday, regular students and local
women were blaming the Job Corps students
for the tension—and vice versa. Job Corps official, can be the "wood for the wood" to defending the edifice, and vice versa.
ED CABELL, a Justice Department mediator who made several visits to the campus, said neither the college ad- vales nor the teachers would all it might have to make the program work.
Whoever is to blame, the Job Corps has cancelled its contract with the college and moved more than 46 students in a special high-school diploma program to a training center in Clearfield, Utah. Fifteen others in the schools will leave at the end of the semester.
Patrick Arnold, a Job Corp student from Philadelphia, said his group had been accepted "on a contract" and "by the big team" of the suits in chairs, not by the community.
BY CONTRAST, student body president Bari Wiesbies the Job Corps students "sit around the TV and there's no room for us. They get to the cafeteria first and eat all of them. We get what's left. We're paying for ourselves. The government's paying their way."
Lamar is a predominantly white community of 9,000 people about 30 miles from Kansas in farming and ranching country. The major programs at the two-year community college are horse management and training.
THE JOB CORPS is a federal program to provide educational and vocational-training opportunities for disadvantaged men and women in the program nationwide, officials say.
Police Chief Harold Burgess said his office started receiving calls as soon as the Job Corps students arrived six weeks ago-complaints of blocks wandering in neighbourhoods injurious persons" in stores. There was, however, no increase in crime. Burgess said.
Nevertheless, there were fistfights and verbal abuse on campus, according to Billie Henderson, acting college president. He said the complaints came from both sides.
Thus, the decision to withdraw the students. "Primarily, we were concerned for their safety," said the corps project manager in Denver, who did not want his name used. I sat there with the students and watched them carry guns and weapons. I'm talking mostly about the 'cowboys.' But I'm talking about the Job Corps people, also."
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