University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 22, 1990
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Clinton fish kill not health hazard
Experts say water shifts caused shad fish to die
By Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
Despite recent concern about dead fish found at Clinton Lake, officials said the water does not pose a threat.
Ray Taylor, assistant manager of Clinton Lake State Park, said the fish kill at Clinton was normal. The dead fish were had, a small, silvery fish that is not eaten.
"The shad is a seasonal thing. It happens twice a year, when the lake turns over," he said.
As strange as it may sound, the water on the bottom of the lake comes to the top, and that kills the fish.
But public concern about the safety of Clinton's water heightened shortly after a large fish kill at Melvern Lake, about 20 miles northeast of Emporia, Taylor said. Most of the 30,000 dead fish found between July 26 and Aug. 4 in Melvern were catfish.
"We had our normal shad kill around the first of August, right after they closed Melvern, so it shook everybody up," Taylor said of the fish kill at Clinton.
Clinton and the Kansas River are the two main suppliers of Lawrence water.
Melvern Lake, closed after its fish kill, was recently reopened because nothing was found in the water that would pose a health hazard, Sanders said.
"As far as Clinton goes, we have no problem with consumption of the water or swimming in the pool."
"No other lake in the northeast is under closure like Melvins was," he said. "We're keeping an eye on them."
Greg Hatten of Overland Park enjoys some time at Clinton Lake with his daughter. Sarah.
Peace Corps volunteers target careers
By Jean Williams
Joining the Peace Corps was considered a reckless adventure in the early 1960s. Though it still may be considered an adventure, today's volunteers look at it as a bridge to future careers.
Though Peace Corps volunteers of the 1980s and 1990s may be no less idealistic, they are more pragmatic about the value of their experience in the marketplace upon their return to the United States, said Richard "Mel" Adam, manager of the Kansas City Area Office of the Peace Corps.
"From time to time I run into people who ask me if the Peace Corps is still around," said Adam, who served in the Corps for 13 years in eight African countries. "The answer is clearly, 'Yes!'
The Peace Corps was founded on March 1, 1961, during the Kennedy administration. Since that time, the Peace Corps have served in 99 countries, according to Peace Corps 49-amd said, 640 volunteers are serving in 68
Adam said 6,400 volunteers are serving in 68 countries.
Volunteers in the 1980s and 1990s are older and more highly trained, according to Peace Corps
The average age of volunteers in the 1960s was 24; the average age today is 31. The ratio of men to women volunteers was 3 to 2 in the 1960s; today the ratio is 1 to 1.
Peace Corp programs, which are undertaken only at a country's request, vary with the needs of the host country. The Corp members said programs are better focused than they were thirty years ago. The strongest emphasis continues to be on guidance in farming, education and health in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Adam said the opening of the Eastern European bacce offered many opportunities for Corps volunteer work.
to Hungary and Poland, he said. Czechoslovakia is scheduled to receive volunteers in November, and other East European nations are expected to request workers.
The Eastern European countries have requested help with teaching English, small business development, health care delivery and environmental management. Adam said.
Newly assigned volunteers from this area include one who is leaving for Eastern Europe. Helen A. Prevost, Kansas City, Mo., is assigned to begin training teachers in Poland.
University of Kansas graduate Ken Cavanaugh, Overland Park, is assigned to teach water sanitation engineering in Equador, and Donald Wilbur III, Pda, will teach library science in Botswana.
Most returning volunteers are proud of their accomplishments, which endure because their mission is not to do things for people, but to help people do things for themselves, Adam said.
The most difficult part of being a volunteer is adapting to the slow pace at which change occurs, Peace Corps surveys of returning volunteers indicate. Volunteers see large gaps between the existing conditions and the potential for making changes
They leave the local people with a better sense of how to make the most of their resources, he said.
Jo Catherine Mannix, now a recruiter in the Kansas City area city office, was sent to Jamaica to teach teen-age girls how to farm. That assignment was ill-conceived. Mannix said.
"The girls were in school most of the day, and when they got out of school, they were like teenage girls here." Mannix said. "They were interested in just about anything more than they were interested in farming."
The Peace Corps has not been without problems, however. Faulty projects and poorly qualified volunteers have been put into place, their literature acknowledges.
She looked around for a secondary project and completed her four helping to car for abandoned vehicles.
The Corps recruits heavily at colleges, she said, but also sends recruiters to functions such as national conventions, where a broader range of ages of potential applicants can be reached.
The normal assignment is two years and begins after an eight- to 14-week training session in the hotel.
Language instruction is intense and includes indepth orientation to the culture and traditions of the host country. Volunteers may request an extension after the two-year period.
Volunteers are provided a living allowance in local currency to cover housing, food, essentials and spending money. At the end of the service tour, they receive $5,000.
From its inception, President Kennedy expressed hope that the Peace Corps would provide a steady flow of people whose first-hand experience would be used for the benefit of the United States.
He encouraged volunteers to join the Department of State, the Foreign Service, the Agency for International Development and other agencies in developing a year's non-competitive eligibility for a federal job.
A list compiled by the Peace Corps Institute, an organization of returned volunteers, indicates that Kennedy's hopes were realized. Returned Peace Corps volunteers have been elected to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and hold the position of Ambassador to the Foreign Service, Agency for International Development, Congressional staffs and many international banks and multinational corporations.
Researchers recover treasures in the Bahamas
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Treasure hunters who have spent nearly five years dodging storms and pirates around the Bahamas they say finally may be on their way to "mother lode" from a sunken 17th century gallen.
In the past few weeks, the crew of the Research Vessel Beacon have found dozens of valuable artifacts from the Spanish ship "Nuestra Senora de Aguilar," which was carrying cargo worth $1.6 billion.
The gleaming "finger ingots," each weighing 14 pounds, 11 silver coins, 15 ceramic containers, a pair of brass sextons and an emerald ring were among the treasures displayed Saturday. They were discovered during the first two weeks of the search, with 500-foot deep site using a remote-controlled robot.
"We've literally just scratched the surface of the
Meanwhile, at another wreck site off the Florida coast, five rare gold ingots raised last week are part of the first big haul from what is believed to be a treasure-laden Spanish galleon from the 1622 fleet.
"The thrilling nature of this business certainly hits home when you get to hold an item that has been on the ocean floor for almost 335 years," Gary Skeen said.
In the Maravilhas project, one investor said the latest discovery makes the long search worthwhile. Among the treasures recovered so far are nearly 80 gold coins, ivory daggers and a gold brooch decorated with 80 emeralds matching a similar piece found two years ago.
Project spokesperson Corey Carlson said the crew made the discoveries in a previously unexplored area about 60 miles east of West Palm Beach. Team leaders believe they may be closing on the main cargo from the Maravillas, which sunk in 1656 after colliding with another vessel.
wreck site," said Dan Bagley, a director of Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology, the company recovering the nameless wreck, which is about 25 miles south of the Dr Vortuzaes, west of Kweat
said. "It looks like we may finally hit the mother lode."
Crew members speak in code on the radio and keep "a small aerial" on board to guard against RIPs.
Items from the ship have been found since 1865, but the recent discovery of one such shell is
"We've seen boats anchored on the horizon and its kind of suspicious," said Carlson. "Pirates still exist."
"We've been teased and teased for years," she
The treasures from the Maravillas are stored in a vault in Freeport, Bahamas.
Some of the artifacts will be auctioned off in London on Oct. 3, he said
The Maravillas was carrying a cargo, valued at $1.6 billion in current prices, which could include artifacts such as a life-size Madonna and child of Saint Christopher, one owner herbert Humphries Jr. of Memphis, Tenn.
The project is financed by Humphreys' company, Marine Archaeological Recovery of the Cayman Islands, and Maritime Capital Group, headed by Jimmol Klaren and Skeen.
The Bahamian government receives 25 percent of profits made from sales.
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