University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 10. 1986
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Photojournalist discusses job
By TONY BALANDRAN
Staff writer
On Bill Frakes' madem bed rested his six-year-old Halliburton suitcase. Numerous black and brown scratches marked where he had removed all the airline stickers that once covered it from handle to hinge.
This time it was carrying clothes and not the $20,000 worth of camera equipment he usually hauls when he goes on assignment for the Miami Herald.
That's because he's between assignments.
Frakes, a photojournalist for the Herald and former University Daily Kansan photographer, informally
discussed his professional experiences with a group of photojournalism students last night at The Masters Inn. 2222 W. Sixth St.
"Do you know why I have that suitcase?" he asked. "I have it because it's very difficult for the airlines to destroy it — they try though."
Frakes, 31. has earned various photography awards from prominent organizations.
He has won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Overseas Press Club award, World Press Photography Award and several Southern press awards.
Frakes has covered events such as the releases of hostages from
Lebanon and Iran, floods in Mississippi and Indiana, the eruption of Mount St. Helens and the last presidential campaign.
His work also has appeared in Sports Illustrated magazine.
"Every time I come close to Kansas, they (the Kansan) write about these damn awards," Frakes said.
Despite his award-winning work, Frakes still keeps his modesty in focus.
Frakes had just finished shooting a football game in San Diego and was preparing to go to Boston for another assignment, which he declined to comment on.
"You don't want to tell everybody what you're doing," he said.
Malfunction cuts Wichita phone service
United Press International
WICHITA — A computer malfunction knocked out telephone service yesterday to an estimated 61,000 customers in eastern Wichita, but company officials said they expected service to return to normal by this morning.
"Computer experts have found part of the problem," Julie Kearney, a southwestern Telephone Co. cookswoman, said late yesterday.
She said that about 25 percent of the people involved had service by late last night, and that everyone was expected to have service last night by midnight.
Kearney said repairmen, after a frantic search for the malfunction, discovered that a portion of the computer system's hardware had failed. Compounding the phone company's already sizeable problem yesterday was an accidental cable cut near Leon that eliminated instate, long-distance service to
thousands of customers between Wichita and southeast Kansas.
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The cable was cut about 4 p.m.
Kearney said it would take three to
six hours to repair.
Kearney had no figure on how many people were affected. She said, "There are quite a few people between Wichita and southeast Kansas."
The outage in Wichita, population 280,000, began at 6 a.m. and left numerous enterprises without service, including Wesley Medical Center, St. Joseph Medical Center, Wichita State University, McConnell Air Force Base, Cessna and Beech aircraft companies and Towne East Square, a shopping mall.
The two hospitals immediately set up radio transmissions with ambulance centers to handle emergency calls. Police beethed up patrols in the affected area and asked people with emergency situations to go to their nearest fire department for help.
By 6 p.m., Southwestern Bell had
The failure, which affected all telephones with the prefix 651 and 681 through 689, was caused by a computer malfunction in a central phone office in Wichita, Kearney said.
installed lines to 84 pay telephones at 14 convenience store locations in the affected area so customers could make calls, Kearney said. Local calls were free and operators were available to arrange collect and calling card calls for long distance.
Southwestern Bell flew in its technical experts with AT&T from Dallas and St. Louis to work on the computer.
Southwestern Bell provided mobile phones to the two hospitals, whose contacts with the outside were cut off completely. Internal calls were made without difficulty. Kearney said.
The company received hundreds of calls from customers reporting the failure, despite requests made through television and radio media that customers refrain from calling the company, she said.
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