THE FAR SIDE
University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 23, 1987
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By GARY LARSON
"Uh-oh, Vern! The Schumachers are in the tree again. We'll have to spray."
Anti-nuclear protester to talk about her arrest
By a Kansan reporter
Anti-nuclear activist Donna Hickey, scheduled to start a prison term Jan. 5 for trespassing on a nuclear test site in Nevada, will speak at 8 p.m. today in Parlor A of the Kansas Union.
Hickey, a Dodge City native, was arrested in May at a Nevada site where the U.S. government conducts underground nuclear explosions. She and five friends, all members of a Boulder, Colo., activist group called Pele, each were sentenced to six months in jail, said Mary Linn, Wichita graduate student.
Linn is a member of the campus organization Neither East Nor West, which is sponsoring Hickey's visit.
Hickey will talk about her activities, trial, coming imprisonment and
things activists can do in the Midwest to protest the next series of nuclear tests, which she says will begin in March.
Linn said Hickey and other protesters backpacked to within half a mile of ground zero before they were arrested. The government dropped trespassing charges against all but the Pele group. Linn said Hickey thought the government prosecuted Pele members to make an example of them.
Hickey is free on bail until her sentence starts.
Linn said Hickey had been involved in other protests, including the Great Peace March from Denver to Washington, D.C., a year ago.
Campus/Area
Diabetics adapt to holidays
By AMBER STENGER
Staff writer
Sugar-free pumpkin pie and lowcalorie whipped topping — for diabetics during the holidays, carefree indulgence cannot be completely care free.
For them and others who are health conscious, holiday menus require a little more planning and preparation.
prepared Donna Stewart, Lawrence resident, said cooking for her diabetic husband was more work.
"Sometimes it's hard because I run out of recipes." she said.
Stewart said this Thanksgiving she would cook sugar-free pumpkin pie and use sugar substitutes in salads and casseroles.
Diabetes is a condition in which the body is unable to metabolize sugars and other food materials efficiently. If they are inadequately treated, diabetics may develop impaired vision, gangrene of the toes and feet and lapse into comas. Diabetics treat their condition by following special diets and, depending on the severity of their condition, using insulin.
Stewart was one of 10 people who learned some new diabetic recipes Friday at a diabetic cooking class at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Nancy Donahey, dietitian and education coordinator at the hospital, has taught the class for three years. Donahey said the holidays were difficult for diabetics because people try to tempt them.
"People will try to encourage them, saying 'Go ahead, this won't hurt you.' Donahey said. "Diabetics should just say no rather than trying to explain. People take 'no' easier than explanations."
Donahey said it was probably OK for diabetics to go off their diets a little bit, but not very much.
Michelle Young, a Lawrence resident who also attended the class, said her 8-year-old son was diabetic. To contain his level of excitement this Thanksgiving, Young said her family was staying home rather than going to Iowa where their relatives live. She said she would cook traditional holiday foods in smaller quantities and would make fewer sweets.
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Michael Hannsz/Special to the KANSAN
Rescue workers pull Marvin Wiedeman, Lawrence resident, from his overturned car. Wiedeman was injured Saturday night when his car was struck by another vehicle at Alabama and 23rd streets. Wiedeman was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Reappraisal effort goes on in effort to meet deadline
Officials say a mild winter would help keep them working
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Terry Hamblin is hoping for a moderate winter.
Warm temperatures will allow appraisers to stay on the job as the state's massive effort to place a new value on every parcel of land in Kansas approaches its deadline.
"We're all hoping for a very mild winter." Hamblin said from his office. "That'll keep the people in the field."
sal is assessment of all comparable property at the same level, eliminating inequities in how property was being assessed within counties and from county to county.
Hambin, state director of property valuation, said he remained cautiously optimistic that reappraisal, mandated by the Legislature in 1985, would be completed by the Jan. 1, 1989, deadline.
"It's going to be tight," he said of meeting the deadline.
More than 1,500 people, including state and county employees, temporary workers and consultants, are employed in the state by 6 million parcels of land in the state.
The last time reapraissal occurred was in 1963. The purpose of reaprai-
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They will be taking soil samples from fields, measuring empty lots, and checking to see if basements in houses are finished.
"They are actually getting out and walking around the property, measuring buildings." Hamblin said. "In some cases, they are talking to the
So far, data has been collected on 337,000 parcels, Hambin said.
owners. It's far more than just a drive-by situation."
The total cost is expected to reach $65 million, about half of which will be picked up by the state and the individual counties. Hamblin said.
The Department of Revenue has been monitoring the work since the program began earlier this year, grading counties on their progress.
For example, a county that receives a "four" rating is having serious problems with its reappraisal. Currently, none of the state's 105 counties is a four. Hambin said.
Ten counties are in the "three" category, however.
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