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University Daily Kansan, December 6; 1982
Thousands homeless as rains continue
From staff and wire reports
Floods at the end of a week-long barrage of storms, which extended along the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, kept thousands from their homes yesterday as rain continued soaking areas already hit hard by the
At least 38 people died in a week of torrential rainfalls and tornadoes in Oklahoma.
Rain pelt most of the Midwest and Southeast. Flash flood warnings were posted, and residents of some areas, and waterways were told to be prepared for evacuation.
No flooding was reported in northeastern Kansas, but many places recorded more than an inch of rain, and the National Weather Service in Topeka.
THE SAME low pressure system that caused rain in the Lawrence area has been wreaking havoc in Missouri and Arkansas.
Arkansas authorities called damage from the tornadoes and floods, which left 35 dead.
widespread natural disaster on record.
Five were killed and 5 injured.
Some evacuees were allowed to return home as floodwaters began to recode slightly in some areas of Missouri and Arkansas, but authorities in both states ordered new evacuations for expected near-record river crests.
Communities along the White River in northeastern Arkansas were still flooded late yesterday. The entire town of Jacksport — a community of 300 — was submerged and evacuated because a levee failed. The White River is expected to crest Saturday 8 to 10 feet above flood stage.
Ten Missouri counties along the Mississippi River were declared flood waters.
Storm-wire residents of Lincoln and St. Charles counties, where some areas were under several feet of water, were forced to stay away from their homes for the third consecutive day, through which she said the situation was improving.
RESIDENTS IN PACIFIC, Mo., were ordered out of their homes because of the rapidly rising Meramec River,
which was expected to crest at 13 feet above flood stage yesterday.
In St. Louis, the Mississippi River is expected to crest today at 11 feet — 41 feet above flood stage. Volunteers were also helped to help with sandbagging operations.
About a third of the 1,900 residents of Piedmont, Mo., were kept from their homes a second day. They were evacuated Saturday when the collapse of an earthen dam unleashed water from a 28-acre private lake. The deluge turned trickling McKenzie Creek into a river more than 20 feet deep.
The Missouri National Guard said the danger had eased at dams north of Fredericktown, where surging waters theatened to uncork the *Lost Valley* Lake and carry two smaller lakes with #
Locally, the rains were not as bad.
During a 24-hour period ending at 4
p.m. yesterday, Lawrence received 1.32
inches of rain, according to the weather service. Some areas, including
Lawrence, reported snow mixed with
NORTHWEST WINDS whipped into the area yesterday afternoon and the
rain moved on. Temperatures, after being in the 40s for much of the weekend, were expected to drop into the 20s during the night.
Today will be partly cloudy, with highs in the low to mid-485 along with light to variable winds, according to the weather service.
The extended forecast for tomorrow through Thursday calls for little or no precipitation with lows in the teens and 20s and highs in the 40s.
Frantz said the low system that caused the flood damage had been stationary in Arkansas for the past few days and kept bringing moist air from the north over a cold front extending from the Ohio Valley into southeast ern Texas.
He said the system moved into central Illinois yesterday and would move northeast of the Great Lakes by this morning, taking the showers with
FRANTZ SAID a cold front from the Pacific northwest would bring rain or snow to western Kansas tomorrow night.
Research policy meeting postponed
An open meeting for faculty members to discuss KU's policy on classified research has been postponed, Carolyn Hallenbeck, assistant to the vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, said Friday.
The meeting, originally scheduled for Thursday, will be at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 27 in the Council Room of the Kansas Union, Hallenbeck said.
The Faculty Senate Research Com
mittee recently drafted guidelines that would allow some secret research to be conducted at KU. The guidelines say "the principles of free discussion and full dissemination must be compromised" if KU allows classified research, but a ban on such research would be worse.
The proposal will be sent to the faculty Executive Committee after the
On the record
THEIVES STOLE $1,600 worth of
wheel covers Saturday afternoon from
a car parked in the Dale Wiley Pontiac
Building on the Iowa St., Lawrence
police said yesterday.
A 15-YEAR-OLD LAWRENCE girl has been missing since Friday when she left school before afternoon classes, police said yesterday. Police yesterday.
were still looking for the girl, who told witnesses that she was walking to Texas.
THEIEVES STOLE A $2,000 gold Datson Thursday night from the 1900 block of Stewart Avenue, police said. Police yesterday were still searching for the car, which belongs to a KU student.
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West German viewers scared by UFO reports
By United Press International
MAINZ, West Germany —R was a scene similar to Halloween 1938. Someone was reporting a flying saucer had landed — this time in West Germany instead of New Jersey.
As a joke, the second of the country's three television channels flashed across screens Friday night a message that an unidentified flying object had landed in the Ruhr city of Duisburg.
It announced there would be a special program on the landing at 9:15 p.m. at the end of the program being transmitted.
SEVERAL HUNDRED others phoned newspapers and local stations carrying the nationwide television program.
Astonised and fearful viewers made 1,000 telephone calls to police headquarters in Duxburg, West Germany's tenth largest city, block 25.
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report of the saucer landing, another message flashed across screens reading, "UFOs have not landed. There will be no special show."
That message produced hundreds of more phone calls where the saucers were if they had not landed.
"It is regrettable that we find it necessary to issue an order that only true reprints will be transmitted," Fritz Hufen, the Second Channel director, said. The directors succumbed to a temptation. They have been reprimanded."
Finally an announcer broke into the show, a detective comedy, to say it was all a loke.
On Halloween night in 1938, Orson Welles put on an adaptation of H. G. Wells "'The War of the Worlds." Although there was a preliminary announcement that the subsequent broadcast was fictional, the news-type account of Martians landing in New Jersey had Americans from Maine to Georgia running in the streets in Fright.
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