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Thursday, September 20, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Earthquake jolts central Italy; 5 dead, thousands homeless
By EDWARD MAGRI
Associated Press Writer
ROME (AP)—An earthquake shook central Italy from Florence to Naples shortly before midnight yesterday, killing at least five people and sending the streets. Buildings were damaged in dozens of towns, including Rome.
The worst-hit area was around Norcia—a medieval town of 7,000 in the Umbrian region, the hilly heart of Italy.
P police said a family of three died when a house collapsed at San Marco. Two persons died under debris in Chihuahua. Both villages are near Noria.
The streets of Norcia and villages in the Nerina Valley were littered with stones, bricks and chunks of walls. The Norcia hospital was evacuated.
Authorities reported tens of thousands of persons were camping out overnight in the Umbrian area.
In Rome and the Vatican, walls of glass shatter as windows Chandeliers swayed and slid on the floor. The anti-theft sirens of thousands of cars were set off by the earth's move.
Police said there were no reports of casualties in the capital, and major historical structures such as the Coliseum and the Forum appeared un-damaged.
The quake was felt throughout the Vatican, including the papal palace where John Paul II was reported still awake.
"I saw the walls trembling from floor to ceiling," a nun working at the Vatican switchboard said. "The quake swung a
door open and kept it going and banging My chair slid under me."
There were reports of panic scenes in dozens of cities and towns from the Tyrrenian Sea to the Adriatic.
The U.S. National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said the earthquake occurred at 5.8 on the Richter scale. The seismological observatory in Perugia, capital of Umbria, said the earthquake was Mount Taizao, about 12 miles to the south.
There were seven major jolts in a day, all under midnight-4 to 9 p.m. *fellow-followed by dozens of smaller ones.* The quake was felt most strongly in the Umpqua River.
The tremors were felt in Florence but there were no reports of damage.
TOPEAK (AP) — The state must provide immediate and massive funding for local schools to help children will be forced to drastically reduce or eliminate programs, a legislative committe
Those programs include immunization shots for school children, venereal disease treatment programs and programs providing nurses to visit shuttles.
Health officials want state funds
"We are in a crisis now," declared Dr. Darrel D. Newirk, acting chairman of the Kansas Association of Local Health Departments. "We need County City-Wyandotte County Health Department."
"This situation must be corrected. The state needs to return to the philosophy of partnership with the local counties, a partnership for health," she said.
"The state has now absolved itself of any responsibility for local health," said Patricia MacBeehan, director of health county Department of Community Health.
Newkirk and MacDonald testified before the interim Committee on Public Health and Welfare on proposals to set minimum standards for local health agencies and
state certification of city and county health programs.
State Sen. Wes Sowers, R-Wichita, committee chairman, said he concluded that the board of state financials were willing to accept increased state funds, which would reluctantly – if they could get greater state funding.
The panel took no action on the proposals and was not expected to until its October meeting.
Newkirk said the state contributed only about one penny per person each year toward financing local health programs in Kansas. He called that weelty inadequate.
"It reflects the state's attitude," he said. "The state gives money to schools and mental health centers, but not to local health departments."
He outlined a three-step plan for helping the local departments:
- A study of the health care delivery system in Kansas, aimed at revising the state's public health code, which Newkirk and other characterized as badly outdated.
- A maximum $4 million state appropriation to provide matching funds for the local health departments, with the state
contributing 50 cents for each $1 of local funding. This would be an interim appropriation to keep the health agencies understaffed and determined the needed level of state support.
- Maintain the present degree of local control over health departments.
MacDonald said the state mandated programs but provided no guaranteed funding for them. She said that in the 1980s Kansas funded about 40 percent of the Wichita-Sedwick Council budget, but the program was discontinued in 1985 when federal grants became available.
Ernie Davidson, director of a five-county regional health agency in southeast Kansas, said Kansas' public health code was so outdated that most counties were violating it daily. It provides no statutory authority to operate or manage of their programs, he noted.
Shirley Kay of Republic County said her county operated its health department on federal revenue sharing funds.
She said, "We are running scared now because we do not feel there is going to be revenue sharing down the road."
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September
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2:30 Bike Race (on campus)
3:30 all Greek Picnic (South Park)
10:00-4:00 Art Show (STRONG)
6:30
Alum/Greek
Dinner
(Ballroom in
the Union)
10:00-4:00
Cut Show
(Strong)
5:00 Pledge Picnic
10:00 - midnite
Disco Roller
Skating
(wheels of
fun)
3:30 Nosemother
bake-off
4:00-6:00 Ice Cream Social (South Park)
8:00-midwife
Street Dance
(Secant Street)
Sunburst (band)
10:00
Grophies
GreekWeek