Wednesday, August 30. 1978
Army renovating weapons plant
By PHILIP GARCIA
Staff Renorter
DE SOTO—The Sunflower Army Arm-
munitions Plant has sat rather quietly since
The Army, however, has been quite actively renovating the plant. Since 1972, more than $160 million has been spent to make the plant a strategic site for the production of conventional weapons, a plant spokesman said yesterday.
S six projects, including a $103 million nitroguanidine plant that will be the only such plant in the nation, are to be completed by October 2024. The company is representative, said yesterday.
"Competition of the projects will make the plant one of its (the Army's) strategic priorities," said Robert F. McCormick.
The Sunflower plant is one of three ammonium plants nationwide that produce high-quality seeds.
rocket weapons. The plant is about 15 miles west of Lawrence and three miles west of
The projects will allow the plant to reduce employee exposure to hazardous acids, to meet government pollution requirements to reduce operating costs, Moorhead said.
He added that the plant would not begin actual production but would have the capability to produce propellants needed for modern rockets and artillery guns.
The nitruganidine project will allow Sunflower to produce a three-based propellant composed of nitric and sulfuric acids and calcium carbide. A three-based propellant provides more fire power, Moorhead said.
One other project costing $7 million is a sulfuric and nitric acid concentrator plant that will provide stronger sulfuric and nitric acids. These stronger acids will make a
stronger nitrocellulose, which then combines with nitroglycerine to form a paste.
The paste is then dried into a "grain" or round cylinder about 2.75 inches in diameter, which is the propellant, Moorehead said.
Two pollution control projects are sulfuric acid regenerating plants costing $17.5 million and a $8-million ammonia oxidation project.
To aid in the paste process, a $12 million paste preparation plant will be constructed. A new drying plant also will be built at a cost of $14 million.
The 9,000-acre plant was first built during World War II in May 1942 and produced artillery propellants. At its height, the plant employed nearly 12,000 people. It was shut down in 1968 but reopened during the Korean War. Production continued until 1981, when it closed. It reopened
Strauss predicts inflation decline
BOSTON (AP) — The Carter administration is turning the corner on infiltration, but the inflation rate probably won't go lower than 8 percent this year, chief infiltration fighter Robert Strauss said yesterday.
He said that earlier hopes for an annual inflation rate near 7 percent were too optimistic, but that he expected the rate to dramatically from the current double-digit level.
"We will peak inflation this year," he told a panel on inflation at the 70th annual meeting of the National Governors' Association.
Strauss' predictions of an improvement were apparently supported by new Consumer Price Index figures, released yesterday showing an increase of 0.5 percent in July, the smallest increase in seven months. That made the inflation rate for the past three months 9.7 percent. The economy had been running at 10.7 percent rate.
films sua
Wednesday, August 30 AMERICA AT THE MOVIES
Produced by George Stevens, Jr. for the American Film Institute. "That's Entertainment" of *America* non-musical classics including clips from Citizen Kane, Canal Knowledge, The Matisse Falcon, and many others. Woodward Art.
7:30 pm Woodruff Aud.
Thursday, August 31 THE GREAT DICTATOR
Dir. & writed by Charles Challin, with Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie. This is Chaplin's spool of and warning against the coming of Hitter and taceness in the game. We grow up, Chaplin plays a double role (a Jewish barber and as a Hilter parody) & Oakie is hilarious as a pompous man. $1.00 & 7:30 pm & Woodruff Aud.
Friday & Saturday September 1 & 2 ROCKY
Dir. John G. Avildsen, with Sylvester Stallone, Shaun Shiir, Baugh Meredith, and James Taylor to ensemble acting, good editing, and an exciting musical score helped to make this movie win the Academy Award for Best Picture. To be sure it see it, or I see again!
$1.50 3:30,7:00 & 9:30 pm
September 1 & 2
Midnight Movies
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Dir. John Landis, Geomes by Donald Sutherland, Game Lazenby, Henry Gibb "Grove Tube" and "Tunnelvision" but much better, "Kentucky Fried" parodies television news, disaster movies, music videos. $1.50 12:00 Midnight 'Woodruff Audt'
INITIALLY, the Office of Management and Budget had projected a 6.1 percent inflation rate for the year, and then it raised it to 7.2 percent in its revised budget figures last month.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6 LA DOLE VITA
Dire. Faderico Fellini; with Marcello Mastroliol, Yvonne Frenaux, Anurun Alimee, Anita Ekberg (1961, 180 m, bwl, (tail/subtilities)
$1.00 7:30 pm Woodruff Aud.
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TAE KWON DO CLUB
In the Alley Behind Quantrills Flea Market
once more in 1965 to supply propellants for the Vietnam War.
SUA indoor rec
SUA DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB WELCOMES NEW AND RETURNING STUDENTS AND OFFERS
ON TUESDAYS: A new novice game designed especially for beginners
During the Vietnam War, Moorhead said, 3,600 people were employed at the plant, producing a solventless propellant for rockets.
ON THURSDAYS: Our regular open game No restrictions on conventions
He said about 400 new employees would be needed to man the nitrogendian plant and if a war were to break out, about 3 to 6 additional employees could be hired.
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Events
TODAY: WILLIAM MAJORS will present a doctoral thesis, "Cost Analysis of Kansas School Food Service," at 9 a.m. in 103 Bailey, NAVY ROTC AWARD CEREMONY will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Union's Woodraff Auditorium.
TONIGHT: ROCK CHALK DIRECTORS will meet at 7 in the Walnut Room of the Union. KU HANG GLIDING CLUB meets at 7:30 in 426 Lindley Hall.
TOMORROW', BRIDGE CLUB open game at 5 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Museum, IN TANO RECITAL, Jack Winerock, 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recall Hall of Murphy Hall.
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