University Daily Kansan, September 4, 1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Lakes attract crowds for holiday weekend
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
During the three-day Labor Day weekend, area residents flocked to Clinton and Perry lakes to enjoy the last holiday of the summer. officials at the two lakes said yesterday.
The number of boaters, campers and swimmers at both lakes was a little less than expected, the officials said, but crowds appeared nonetheless. No major accidents were reported at either lake.
At Perry Lake, Joe Loepez, park ranger, said visitor traffic was fairly heavy, but no more than usual for the Labor Day holiday. Rain early Sunday may have deterred a few visitors, he said.
Llope estimated that between 75,000 and 100,000 people visited the lake during the weekend. The lake is available to be available until today, he said.
In addition to the campers and
boaters who enjoyed the Perry Lake area, about 3,500 motorcycle enthusiasts attended a rally for ABATE, a motorcycle club, Lopez said.
"We expect 30,000 to 32,000 by the end of the weekend," Watkins said.
Watkins estimated that the final Labor Day turnout would be close to last year's total of 30,300.
Bunnie Watkins, Clinton park ranger, said that about 23,600 people had visited Clinton Lake by 4 p.m. yesterday, compared with about 23,000 at the same time last Labor Day weekend.
Friday's high temperatures may have kept some day campers away, she said. And Sunday morning's rains accompanied by wind gusts of up to 30 mph kept some boaters off the lake, although it "didn't really wash anyone away" Watkins said.
However, yesterday's weather conditions were ideal, she said.
"It's a perfect day to be out on the lake," Watkins said.
Heart patient leaves hospital
By the Kansan Staff
James O. Hale was released Saturday from the University of Kansas Medical Center, five weeks after undergoing the first heart-transplant operation in the Kansas City area.
Hale, a 43-year-old Wichita upholsterer, will live with relatives in Kansas City for the next couple of months so he can receive weekly checkups for signs of infection or rejection by the heart.
Hale walked with members of his family from the hospital's front door to a waiting room. He removed a paper particle mask from his face for a few minutes and told reporters that he felt "marvelous."
Hale, the victim of a severe coronary artery disease, was not
expected to live more than a few months when he was brought to the Med Center July 20 from St. Francis Hospital in Wichita.
After a heart was found by the Midwest Organ Bank in Kansas City, Mo., and flown to the Med Center, the organ was the one-hour transplant operation July 26.
Clara Sallaz, a 46-year-old Kansas City, Kan., woman who received the second heart transplant at the Med Center Aug. 10, was in serious condition last night, hospital officials said.
Med Center officials announced in Juity that they were beginning the heart-transplant program, which would be possible by 250,000 in donations.
The Med Center is one of 15 hospitals in the United States to have performed heart transplant surgery.
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Book, slides illustrate native Kansas
"In my book, you will find no wheatfields, no fences, no people, no pheasants — because they come from China — no carp — because they were introduced from Asia; barnyards for Collin and the museum for the Museum of Natural History publications at the University of Kansas.
By ERIKA BLACKSHER Staff Reporter
"This is about those things that are native and natural and here before we are."
Images of golden wheatfields and roaming cattle typically are considered native Kansas characteristics.
But Joe Collins, a zoologist, would like to change that misconception with his book and slideshow, "Natural Kansas."
THE 11-CHAPTER BOOK, which
will be published early next year $ _{v_{2}} $ the University Press of Kansas, is the first book to examine Kansas before man and his culture moved in, said Collins, who has lived in Kansas since 1968.
Presented by the Student Assistance Center.
Most multi-media slide shows are set-timed, with slides changing every four or eight seconds, Collins said.
After seeing an eight-projector, computer-programmed slide show in Oklahoma, Collins, John Simmons, collection manager for the Museum of Natural History and Suzanne Cupp, administrative assistant to the museum, decided to put together a multi-media slide show to promote the book.
Collins will present the 22-minute slide show in October during the Wednesday evening lecture series at KU's Museum of Natural History.
HOWEVER, COLLINS' SLIDE
show will be synchronized by a device that will allow the 110 slides to change at varying speeds in rhythm with with "Beethoven's Sixth Symphony," Collins said.
Joe Eagleman, KU professor of geography, and Simmons, who helped the slide show together, led the chapter on weather, Collins said.
The Flint Hills near Emporia and the Ozark region in the southeast corner of Kansas are areas that have been exposed to their natural state, Collins said.
"There probably isn't much land left that has not been plowed or has not had cattle put on it, except those areas set aside," Collins said.
"Natural Kansas" surveys the state's land, weather, plant life, waterways and wildlife.
"When the music rises to a crescendo," he said, "you want to have a really unusual slide come up at that time."
COLLINS INVITED 10 other Kansans to write chapters in their area of expertise.
For example, the Arkansas River is dry from the Colorado border to 300 miles into Kansas, he said.
Collins, who has written six other books and is the co-author of the third edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Eastern and Central North America, will be presenting a show Kansas that the state's natural beauty was worth preserving.
"I tend to have my cheerful moments when I talk about the amphibians, the frogs, the salamanders," he said, "and my moments of despair when I see what's happened to the water in this state."
By CHRIS BARBER Staff Reporter
Custodians turn down monthly payroll plan
About 110 University of Kansas custodians in a non-binding vote Friday rejected a proposed change in their payroll payment system.
The proposal would change the system of figuring custodians' paychecks from an hourly rate to a monthly rate. Only 22% of the custodians in the three meetings of different areas of the housekeeping department.
Phil Endacott, assistant house-keeping director, said that most
At a starting pay of $4.64 an hour,
custodians earn $9,883 a year,
he said. Under the system system, this
would be cut to $9,660 a year.
"We have a higher turnover, more absenteeism," he said. "It was just too much work to do by hand."
Endacott said that Friday's meetings were called in response to a 1982 request from the department of facilities operations to change all of its workers to a monthly pay system. At that time, all departments within the department except maintenance kept having switched to a monthly pay system.
you're paid for all the hours in long months," Tolbert said.
Housekeeping was not put on the system, Endacott said, because the department had more pay transactions than others. This created a problem, since at that time the University had not yet switched to a
"They put a pencil to it, and figured out that for this year at least, they'd be $28 better off under the hourly system." Endacott said.
custodians opposed the move because they were among others in their own paychecks.
"UNDER THE MONTHLY system, it was seen as much more difficult to figure the amount if someone missed three hours of work, for example," he said. "Hourly was much easier."
GIL TOLBERT, NIGHT shift supervisor, said that the monthly payroll system would hurt custodians who worked extra hours during a month.
computerized payroll system.
"The hourly system makes sure
Endacott said that the other facilities operations departments had probably experienced a slight decrease in their paychecks since they were changed to the monthly system two years ago.
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