Monday, Oct. 7, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Arson squad to give report to city todav
The Douglas County Arson Squad has completed its investigation of a fire Sept. 9 at Pinecrest Apartments, 2526 Redbud Lane, and today will turn the completed report over to the district attorney for review, a Douglas County sheriff's department official said Friday.
Capt. Marilyn Steele of the sheriff's department said the arson squad, which was appointed the day of the fire, comprised officers of the Lawrence Police Department, KU police department, Lawrence Fire Department and Douglas County sheriff's department.
The fire occurred about 5 a.m. Sept. 9 in a stairwell of the apartment building. The five residents of the two upstairs apartments were trapped in the building until rescued by firefighters, but none were injured.
No traffic citations have been issued yet in Thursday's fatal accident involving a city sanitation truck and a Lawrence woman's car, and the accident is still under investigation, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Crash is investigated
According to police, the sanitation truck swerved after losing control when it tried to stop for a tractor-trailer truck. The tractor-trailer truck was blocking the southbound lanes as it was leaving the parking lot of Lawrence Asphalt Co. 725 N. Second St.
Donna M. Wortman, 30, 1519 Cadet Ave., was pronounced dead on arrival at Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Thursday afternoon after her car was struck head-on by a city sanitation truck on North Second Street.
Car strikes local boy
An 8-year-old boy was struck by a car at 4 p.m. Friday while crossing the street at a crosswalk at Oustdahl Road and 2nd Street Terrace, Lawrence police said yesterday.
The tractor-trailer truck was making a delivery to the plant at Lawrence Asphalt and was not one of the company's vehicles. It was owned by Grodynekt Transport Inc., Enid, Okla.
A witness told police the boy waited until several cars in the southbound lane stopped to let him cross. As the boy started to cross, a car in the northbound lane failed to stop. The car's brakes locked and the car hit the child.
The witness told the police the driver appeared to be eating or drinking something when the accident occurred. The driver was issued a citation for careless driving.
The child was treated by paramedics at the accident scene, police said.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy, windy and mild, with a 20 percent chance of showers. The high will be in the upper 70s, and winds will be out of the south at 20 to 30 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thundershowers, with winds out of the south at 20 to 30 mph. The low will be in the mid-50s to lower 60s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and mild with a 30 percent chance of thundershowers. The high will be around 80.
From staff and wire reports.
CROPWalkers' trek helps fight hunger
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Participants in CROPWalk, a 10-kilometer walk to help finance national and local hunger programs, used their feet yesterday to help fill empty stomachs.
"It makes me feel good to do this," Raphael Nguyen, Wichita freshman, said yesterday. "Sure, you get tired and it's a long way to walk. But, you get to help people locally and on a national level. I'm glad that some of the money is staying in Lawrence because hunger is everywhere."
Nguyen was one of about 170 people who walked in the annual CROPWalk, a Lawrence and nationwide event to raise money for local, national and international hunger programs.
Christian Rural Overseas Program, CROP, was established in 1947 as an organization to assist victims of World War II by shipping U.S.
The walk started at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont St., went down 19th Street, through campus, along the Kansas River and back to the church.
crops to Europe. Now, CROP helps hunger victims.
Rick Clock, coordinator for the Lawrence CROPWalk, said more than 100 pledge forms were turned in yesterday. Some participants walked last Sunday, the original date for the CROPWalk.
"Last Sunday, 60 to 70 people walked and we raised over $3,000," he said. "There was some confusion last week about whether or not we were going to have the walk due to the weather."
Clock said the pledge goal for both days of the walk was $7,500. Walkers collected pledges before the walk and turned in pledge sheets before they began the walk at 1:30 p.m.
Jeff Kuehnoff, spokesman for the St.
Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road, said the center had more than 70 walkers in the walk and might raise up to $2,000 in pledges.
Kuehnoff, Basehor junior, said benefit projects such as the Live Aid concert definitely had made the public more aware of the hunger problem.
"You're seeing a lot more concern about the hunger situation than there was three or four years ago." he said.
One-year-old Kristen Jarbose, 3109 W. 28th St. and 9-month-old Audrey Sweenew, 244 Dearfield Lane, participated in their first CROP-Walk yesterday. The children rode while their mothers pushed them in strollers. Both mothers and children completed the walk.
"They're both wide awake." Anne Jarboe said as they finished the walk.
On Sept. 28, about 100 CROPWalks took place across Kansas, and walkers raised about $1 million. The CROPWalk is sponsored by
Church World Services, a worldwide organization that directs money to relief programs.
Clock said that when someone walked in the CROPWalk, he could choose which programs would receive some of the money that he collected from pledges. Twenty-five percent of the money went to charity. The other 75 percent goes to Church World Services or other organizations.
The two Lawrence agencies that Church World Services finances are LINK, the Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen, and the Emergency Service Council. LINK is at St. John's Catholic Church, 1229 Vermont St.
The Emergency Service Council helps families and people that are involved in crises.
These two agencies divide 25 percent of the money that is collected in Lawrence.
About 25 area churches of various denominations participated in the event, Clock said.
Dinosaurs delight weekend visitors Monsters live again
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
The roars of prehistoric creatures echoed throughout the corridors of Dyche Hall this weekend.
Dinosaur Days, an exhibit of animated prehistoric beasts, opened Saturday at the Museum of Natural History. More than 2,000 parents and students attended the exhibit Saturday and at least that many visitors were expected for Family Day yesterday, Cathy Dwigans, assistant director of membership and public relations, said yesterday.
Children screamed as the brontoasus moved his large head from right to left, bearing his razor-sharp teeth.
The fact that the nearly 17-footlong brontosaurus only ate plants seemed of little significance to most children. They still preferred to keep their distance.
The animals, supplied by Dinamation of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., will be at the museum until Oct. 29. Dwigans said the exhibit was intended to increase awareness of the museum.
George Bearse, a security volunteer, said museum visitors seemed to enjoy the exhibits. Occasionally, he said, a child would become curious and want to touch the animals.
Dwigans said the exhibit was going well but a couple of the animals were not being too cooperative.
Bearse said a quick tug from a caring mother would sufficiently stifle the child's curiosity.
"We've had some minor technical problems with some of the animals but all the big animals are working," she said.
The rare showing of dinosaurs in Kansas was enough to bring many visitors to the museum for their first time.
Morris Martin, Kansas City, Mo,
said this was his first trip to the
museum. Martin said he read about
the exhibit in the Kansas City newspaper and decided to bring his family to the exhibit.
"KU always has neat things," he said, "but we've never been to the museum before."
Ralph and Ann Grant, Topeka, brought their children to see the dinosaurs.
As people strolled through the halls of Dyche, they could watch the five prehistoric creatures or wander about the museum's other exhibits.
"We have two dinosaur fans and one who is scared of them," Ann Grant said as her daughter clung to her leg.
Children played "Pin the Tail on the Dinosaur" and learned about dinosaurs from the many volunteers stationed throughout the museum.
Children also sat and sang dinosaur songs along with the quartet of "singing troubadours." Some adults even joined in when the familiar words of "Puff the Magic Dragon" filled the room.
The exhibit even brought back KU alumni. Tom Lage, Gower, Moe., said he had been to the museum when he was a student and he had not been back in a long time.
"We came because the kids wanted to see the dinosaurs and because we hadn't been back to KU in a while," he said.
Rita Hanks, Smithville, Mo., said she brought her three children to see the dinosaurs. Although she said she liked all the animals, she liked the Smilodon, a saber-tooth cat, the most.
"It looks like it is ready to bounce on you," she said.
As families left the museum, parents bought their children dinosaur memorabilia. Dinosaur Day T-siirts, buttons and pencils filled the purses of many tired mothers.
Children waved goodbye to the prehistoric creatures as their weary mothers pulled them along. And the animals bellowed a final roar as if bidding farewell.
Steve Mingle/KANSAN
A group of native Americans from Haskell Indian Junior College dance in their native costumes at the KU Intertribal Alliance's powwow. About 600 native Americans participated in KU's first powwow Friday evening at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Powwow called successful
By Jill White
Of the Kansan staff
High shrieks and low yowls reverberated off the walls in the Kansas Union Ballroom on Friday night as more than 600 native Americans participated in the first powwow at the University of Kansas.
The Intertribal Night Powwow, which was sponsored by the fledgling KU group Intertribal Alliance, was a success, Venida Chenault, president of the alliance, said Friday.
"We couldn't have asked for a better turnout," she said. "We want to have another one next semester and try to get a bigger place and sell traditional food like fried beans and corn soup."
Chenault said the purpose of the powwow was to raise awareness
among students that a functioning, positive group existed on campus to help create a support network for native Americans. About 180 native Americans enrolled at KU this year, up 38 percent from last year's enrollment of 130, Chenault said.
"The powwow is one of the first things we're doing to create a balance for students," Chenault said. "We want to help them maintain touch with their cultural and spiritual needs."
Drum clubs providing singers and dancers in traditional dress included the Intertribal Club and Apache Fire Dancers from Haskell Indian Junior College, the Little Soldier Singers from the Pottawatatomie Reservation, and the All Nations Singers from Topeka.
tongers Singer, said KU's powoww was "good for a one-night dance."
Ross Cooper, leader of the All Na-
Most of the All Nations Singer's selections were Sioux traditional songs from North Dakota, South Dakota and Canada, Cooper said.
Haskell's Intertribal Club performed more of the southern songs, and the Pottawatomie group played a mixture of songs from the Snake and Crowhop dances, dances with special meanings, to the standard two-step dance.
Ray Slick, Haskell freshman from Tama, Iowa, was designated men's head dancer, and Val Welsh, KU senior from Parker, Ariz., was the women's head dancer.
Slick said he was selected as head dancer because he had attended so many powwows.
Researchers buzzing over value of pollen
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
Bee pollen has been called nature's most perfect food.
Some advocates say pollen improves athletic and sexual performance. Others say it prevents allergies, infections and even cancer. It has been said to prolong life, aid digestion and assist in the gain, loss and maintenance of weight.
"There is a serious difficulty with respect to this particular product, and that is sorting out what we know from what we don't know," said Taylor, who works mainly with bees. "I have collected about 500 pounds of pollen annually."
nutritious food, and that is all that can be said about it," Orley Taylor, professor of entomology, said last week.
It is known that pollen has a high quantity of vitamins and minerals, a
small amount of protein,very little fat and a modest amount of carbohydrates.
"Pollen is a potentially very
But it isn't known whether the nutrients in pollen can be used by humans. According to Taylor, pollen has several coats of a substance that resists digestion.
Taylor said he ate one or two teaspoons of pollen a day and couldn't or wouldn't deny anyone else's claims.
"It won't debunk it," he said.
"Who's to say good or bad?"
Gabe Arkin, associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., would like to debunk the unsubstantiated claims.
"Even though pollen follows a biological script like any other food, it continues to have dedicated followers who make all sorts of claims," he reported in the October 1985 Bee Buzzer.
"A computer search of the medical
literature reveals that only one article has been written about the effects of bee pollen on athletic performance.
"Results from that article show that bee pollen does not improve athletic performance."
Taylor agreed that bee pollen had not been studied much.
"There is no way to substantiate any of the claims people have made from the literature," he said.
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