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Tuesday, October 29, 1974
University Dally Kansan
Decline seen in traffic accidents
Lawrence police statistics show a decrease of nearly 100 vehicular accidents for the first nine months of 1974 compared with the first nine months of 1973.
Injury accidents in Lawrence also
diligence while fatal injuries increased
slightly.
Police records show that 1,371 accidents occurred from January to September 1973. A total of 1,275 accidents took place on October 8, 1973 during the first nine months of 1974.
Of the total accidents from January to September 1974, 359 were injury accidents. This represents a decline of 56 injury accidents for the same period in 1973.
Fatality accidents from January to September 1973 compared to the two deaths during 1973.
The speed reduction on highways down to
55 miles an hour seems to have caused a reduction in traffic speed in town, Dick Rose, a Lawrence police traffic officer, said yesterday.
People reduce their speed on the highways and appear to be more aware of the speed they are traveling when they drive in a city, Rose said.
Another factor in decreasing the number of traffic accidents in 1975 is the use of radar to catch speeders. Rose said. Two of the department's three radar units are on the road at all times which Rose believes has helped do with reducing the number of accidents.
A third reason for the decrease in traffic accidents is the number of traffic citations issued, Rose said. Although the number of tickets for 1973 and 1974 will probably be the
Penny shortage squeezes business office, cafeterias
Banks receive only about $20 in pennies a month for all their customers. Saunders
Speeding fines cost one dollar for each mile an hour for the first 15 miles an hour over the speed limit. For each mile an hour for 15 miles an hour, the driver must pay $2.
The number of miles an hour a driver is allowed to exceed the limit before he is ticketed is up to the discretion of the police officer. Rose said. Generally, a driver is given a wayward of eight to 10 miles per hour before he is stopped and ticketed, he said.
There has been a penny shortage at the University of Kansas for a month or two, according to Gene Saunders, cashier at the Kansas Union business office.
"We get less than one-third of what we want," he said. Last month, Saunders ordered $800 in pennies and received only $500. He said that the business office had allotted this year.
The business office distributes its pennies to all of its outlets, including all of the cafeterias. Saunders said the business offices send pennies with whatever it could spare each day.
Apparently, what the office can spare hasn't been enough. A sign recently was posted by the cashier in the Wesco store to remind customers to exchange your pennies for silver coin."
One cashier in Wescoe said a few people had turned in pennies, but she tried to remember to ask customers whether they pennies to cover the tax on their purchases.
Saunders said he didn't know when the situation would improve. He thought many people were holding on to their pennies and losing them from the rising value of copper, he said.
Lawrence police issued 2,403 tickets for speeding in 1973. The department has written 1,353 speeding citations from January to September 1974. Rose said.
Some banks are offering 10 cents for every nine pennies brought to the bank.
same, Rose said the citations have decreased traffic accidents.
Saunders said this might help bring in pennies.
of the 2,403 people receiving speeding tickets in the 1973, 1,805 pleaded guilty, 560 didn't get their fine or appear in municipal court, 60 and their first offense. Witnessed and six others were issued for the 550 people who didn't pay the fine or appear in court, Rose said.
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"The collection lets many different residents from different parts of the country come together."
Strom said they had received offers to trade from many beer can collectors. He said the project had increased interest in the hall.
JRP beer connoisseurs pile remains of nights out
Beer drinking is a popular activity for most University of Kansas students. In the lobby of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, residents have displayed their interest with a collection of about 250 different empty beer cans and bottles.
The collection includes bottles from overseas and a Coors can that was never released because it was considered unsafe by the Food and Drug Administration.
The project began last year before Christmas break, according to Bill Strom, president of JRP. He said a notice was posted asking residents to collect representative samples of beer from areas which they lived or visited during the break.
Strom said each can or bottle was different. He said there could be more than one can or bottle of the same brand, but that each differed in size or label.
"We now have more than we can fit in," he said, "and we still collect,"
Chicago, Strom said, followed by Coors, Budweiser and Old Milwaukee.
The collection began with one can of Old
The originator of the idea was Bob Litras, El Dorado graduate student.
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Construction hampers collection of data
Efforts to record daily weather statistics at the University of Kansas have been hampered by the construction of the new Standfast, teaching assistant in geography.
Standfast said Marvin Annex used to house the University's wind vane, anemometer (wind speed detector) and barometer.
"We were told by Buildings and Grounds that Marvin Annex would be torn down last week," the company says. "We are weather equipment." Standfast said, "Construction plans must have gotten slowed down, and the date kept getting set up," it says. "We are going to tear the building down now."
Although Marvin Annex is still standing and the weather instruments are still there, the instruments are no longer useful due to a lack of viability that powers them has been cut off.
"We were given no warning of the electricity being shut off," Standfast said. "One day we had electricity, the next day we didn't."
The backup anemometer, a device for measuring wind speed, is on top of Lindley Hall and the barometer has been moved to the meteorology lab there. The wind direction now has to be estimated because a new weather vane hasn't been set up yet.
"The wind direction is more important than one might think," Standfast said. "We report it to the radio stations here in Lawrence every day."
He said there were problems with this
beauty because of safety of electricity
could be made for safety of electricity.
Joe Eaglemann, associate professor of geography, said plans were being made for an appropriate anometer to be set up near Marmi on the outset of the way of the construction workers.
Besides recording the wind speed, wind direction and barometric pressure, the University also records the temperature, relative humidity and precipitation.
Weather statistics have been recorded at KU for the past 25 years, but they have only been taken on a regular basis for the last four years.
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