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Wednesday, September 27, 1998
University Daily Kansan
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Speedball Ranney Sets New Record
MOUND CITY—Two weeks ago Mick (Speedball) Ran, of Ranny Buffalo Investments, world recorder of the Lakers, visited Skip Cape Cod Golf Club, and recorded skiff record heat, wind and Lynn County hills. Departing at 3 a.m. to bike back to Lawrence, Speedball set a new Mount City. Lawrence backround's old court was 57 minutes, breaking his old record of 10 hours, set two days before. Mick will offer a dinner prize to verified record breakers. "The proofs in the Pedding," commented Speedball, who's studying last century's Linn County beach.
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Gadget slows car thieves
DETROIT (UPI)—A small Detroit firm has come up with a device that it displays the belief there is no sure-fire way to protect a car from a professional thief.
Officials of Keyon Corp, say their new computerized device locks and disables a car so effectively it makes other anti-theft devices obsolete.
"We even consulted with ex-car thieves, and they said the system would delay a thief so long he probably would give up and go find another target," company president Donald D. Richardson said at a recent demonstration of the device.
The Keyon system consists of a small electronic computer fitted behind the instrument panel which automatically locks the doors, hood and trunk, disables the engine, allows all windows, and closes the door when the driver emerges from the car.
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THE SYSTEM is activated when the
driver removes the ignition key, gets out of the car and closes the door. If the keys are left in the ignition, the device sets off the horn and prevents the doors from locking.
Richardson said Keyon improved upon the features of anti-theft devices offered by auto manufacturers and could go a long way to preventing data theft, which total more than a million a year.
The car becomes operable again only when the driver unlocks the door with the regular key and slips a specially coded plastic card into a slot on the dashboard.
"None of the others," he said,
"automatically locks the doors, raises the windows, closes the sunroof, double-locks the trunk or activates the horn and prevents the doors from locking when the keys are left."
RICHARDSON SAID other systems that locked the hood and disabled the engine could be defeated by a skilled thief who steals beneath the car and attempts to unconnect it.
--with only by opening the hood—which is locked.
The Keycon system, he said, disables the engine from the top and can be tampered
Cars with manual windows and locks still could be equipped with a scaled-down system that would disable the engine.
The system, which the company said took 10 years to develop, is designed primarily for luxury cafes—the most frequent targets of professional thieves—equipped with automatic windows and central locking systems.
Richardson said production of the device was getting underway, and it would be sold through franchised automobile dealers and independent Keycon dealers.
THE SUGGESTED retail price of $359 includes installation.
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The company is trying to convince automobile manufacturers to purchase the device for use as original equipment in some models. It said the device met or exceeded specifications in a proposed federal regulation that would require anti-theft devices in all automobiles manufactured after Sept. 1, 1980.
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Aircraft carrier excluded from Senate weapons bill
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate yesterday approved a $3.2 billion weapons bill stripped of the nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz, a presidential veto of an earlier version.
The legislation, approved 88-3, contains none of the $2.2 billion worth of weapons proposed by President Carter to replace the giant carrier. Defense Secretary Harold Brown has indicated he would seek supplemental legislation for the weapons early next year if Congress fails to approve them before adjourning this year.
BEFORE SENDING THE bill to the
House for action expected the Senate voted to abolish the Women's Army Corps as a separate military branch, a move requested by the Army. Also approved was money to pay for $8 million action items on claims filed by two Navy shipbuilders.
Elimination of the WACs would end a dual personnel and promotion system, but would not affect women's enlistments. The other services already have abolished separate branches for women. The WAC amendment was approved on a voice vote after a move to kill the provision was rejected on a 46-49 tie.
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