Tuesday, September 11, 1979
Pigeon deaths stump KUofficials
By PAMELA LANDON Staff Reporter
A dead piglet is being taken to Kansas State University today for tests to try to explain the deaths of at least five pigs in Maliet Hall last Thursday and Friday.
Jean Hauser, veterinary technician at the Animal Care Center in Haworth Hall, said yesterday that of six sick pigeons the survival last week, only one survived.
She said the pigeons were staggering, going into convulsions and either had dialated pupils or showed no pupil response.
"The way they acted it seemed like some sort of nerve toxin," she said.
Hauser said the center would not know why the pigeons died until the test results were received from K-State's toxicology department in two or three weeks.
The deaths might have resulted from a normal pigeon disease or from fumes from the roofs they are fixing on campus, Hauser said.
THE CENTER became concerned about the dead birds because it feared that a
disease killing the pigeons could be transmitted to dogs and cats, she said.
Mike Marquez, estimator for Vincent Roofing Inc., contractor for rootwork on a building. "I've never seen anything up there that should hurt pumps. I say it wasn't us or anything we're
Gene Murray, job superintendent for B.B. Andersen Construction Co., general contractor for the Malott Hall addition, said he will be working on it before. It can't be from the construction."
Marion Mengel, adjunct curator in the department of ornithology at Dyche Hall, said from the symptoms described to her, "The patients who have picked up a pesticide in their food.
SHE SAD she thought the construction around Malott Hall probably had nothing to do with the birds' deaths.
"I think if there was something that offensive there the birds would just leave," she said.
Mengel suggested that Facilities Operations might have been spraying pesticides in the area.
But Jim Mathes, assistant director of
Facilities Operations in charge of land maintenance, said, "The only thing we have been spraying is the grass that grows in the sidewalks and piglets not eat grass."
He added that the spraying had not been anywhere near Malott Hall but was near some parking lots.
Mathes said pigeons ate grain or corn but "they don't feed here on campus or at least we can't find where they feed."
HE SAID he was guessing that one of the elevators nearby or possibly someone in Lawrence was setting out poisoned grain to control the pigeons.
However, Dean Nieder, elevator manager of the Farmers Co-op Association Grain Elevator, South 20 and Moodie said the dwarf did not poison pigeons.
And Don Harris, elevator manager of the Farmers Elevator Co., Eudora, said he had not set out pigeon poison either.
He said if the elevator had a pigeon problem, which it had not had for several years, "we generally catch them and wring their necks."
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There are only about 100 such transport systems in operation nationwide, Alley said.
By ROSEMARY INTFEN
Alley said the idea for the electric transport system, which cost $50,000, came from one of the doctors at the Med Center where one observed one working in another hospital.
The Telefib, a product of Moser Aerometrics Division Systems, Wayne, N.J., is a relatively new idea in hospital technology to Warren Alley, administrative assistant.
Massenger employees at the University of Kansas Medical Center's Bell Memorial Hospital will be out of work next week when the telefibrillary system of its new Telefib transport system.
"Two of the bigger ones are at the FBI office and the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., and there is also one in Kansas City at the Truman Medical Center."
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THE TRACKS run to 24 departments in the new hospital and to the mail room in the basement of the old hospital. Alley said.
On top of the cars are a set of numbered keys along with a chart identifying each department with a specific number. To send
He said the box cars would hold up to 20 pounds and would carry charts, medical records, X-rays, laboratory specimens and supplies.
Alley said that the Telelift still had a few bugs to be worked out, but that it should be in good working order by Monday.
"Mostly it will be used to transport paper work and mail, though." Alley said.
information to a certain location, the proper number would be located and the car would leave the parking lot, where it could be in the ceiling where it would connect to the main track. Once on the main track the car would continue along the road.
He said the Telahit did not say a scale attached to it to weigh loads, but when the car was overloaded it would have difficulty climbing.
ALLEY SAID that special metal inserts to
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