The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, December 1, 1982 Vol. 93, No.70 USPS 650-640
Kay gets assignment to regional EPA post
By BRUCE SCHREINER Staff Reporter
After a brief recess from politics, L.
Republican Morris Kay returned to public
yesterday with his appointment as new wi-
d director of the Environmental Pri-
ce.
Kay, a 50-year-old insurance executive, became the chief enforcement officer in regulations for four states, Kansas, M Nebraska and Iowa. The regional headq
is in Kansas Cit
is in Kansas CO
After a serkyetle report
terday morning officials con
yesterday afternat
that Kay had three-man con
come the n global director.
Morris Kay
Kay at his Lawrence insurance office ye afternoon to offer her congratulations on her graduation.
ANNE GOE EPA director the appointme cial when she
Gorsuch, who made the final decision,
Kay rather than Douglas County Comm
Beverly Bradley or Iowa State Sen.
Schweppens
Kay, who has worked at an in company since his Nov 2 loss to Jim Sia the 2nd Congressional District race, looked forward to assuming his duties.
"I'm excited about it and eager to," he said. "I'm also excite working with the administration. It is not a position to Kansas and all region."
KAID SAYED he would begin preparing
hay days pay $88,000 annually, dui
next few days.
Weather
Rowena Michaels, regional EPA director of public affairs, said the transition period would be cut.
Man linked to Tylenol surrenders
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Radar u
Buddy Maningua/KAIMAH KU Police Officer Kevin Johnson clocked the speed of passing traffic from his patrol car in front of Green Hall yesterday.
Buddy Mangine/KANSAN
trees along the roadside, lights flashing and siren sounding.
PACING INVOLVES driving alongside a car to clock its speed. That puts two cars barreling into the street.
"They're invaluable." Denney said. "With radar you don't have to pace speeders or clock them with a stopwatch."
James Denney, KU's director of police, said radar guns allowed police to clock speeders.
Another motorist had been caught speeding by police radar.
Police have used radar for the last 30 years to detect and identify speeding motorists. But a dilemma has surfaced recently about the efficacy of radar and its use as evidence in court.
And, Demney said. "A stopwatch is not really fair to violators. There are too many human failings."
"I don't feel sorry for people who get caught by radar. It isn't fair to the rest of the community to let them do that."
IN A 1979 speeding case in Florida, a Dude County judge refused to allow radar readings to be used.
serious problem with radar's use was "the
untrained operator."
"WHEN USED under the proper conditions, radar is highly accurate." Greeneaker said. "And it is better than having a cigar-chopping sheriff tell you how fast you were going."
The term radar comes from the phrase "radio detection and ranging." Radar guns operate on the Doppler effect by sending out a continuous radar beam with a specific modulation. The radar bounce bounces off moving vehicles and back to an antenna.
Judge Alfred Nesbitt found that radar alone was too unreliable to sustain a speeding conviction. He dismissed 80 radar cases after the defense provided evidence that showed police radar clocking a tree at 84 mph and a house at 30 mph.
Nesbitt threw the cases out because of the
Depending on the car's direction, the radar beam is bounced back either compressed or stretched. The car's speed is determined by the vehicle's speedometer. The original beam and the bounced reflection.
Stationary radar units emit only one radar signal. Moving-mode radar emits a low radar signal that monitors the patrol car's speed and a high signal that calculates the target vehicle's speed. The patrol car's speed is subtracted from the target vehicle's speed and then displayed.
IN 1977, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducted tests in conjunction with the National Bureau of Standards on two different models of radar units commonly used for traffic monitoring.
In a report written after the tests, the bureau failed to adopt any official standards, but it did make several recommendations that states have used when setting their standards.
Some states have set up stringent controls on the manufacturing of radar units and on the
national
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man wanted for questioning poisoning deaths, which go area and spread fear to the bodies yesterday.
said Kevin Masterson
e teyleno killer, but had
king himself to the mass
e be asked to take a tie
h continued for James W.
Wean, Lewis, named in a
accident, is accused of writing
$10 million for the $15
to stop the killings
Extra-Strength Tylenol the Chicago area between
Moond and sun tendered.
d on an Illinois warrant
ssession of marijuana.
Lombard, III., who police
by learning that he was
in the country when the FBI
the FBI in West Los
groon and surrendered.
general Tyrone Fahnar told aicago that Masterson was and "made statements to he had a role in the f. Fahnar said, Masterson "past."
turn out to be someone who
hings but is not the one
ities want to give Master-to determine "whether he on-existent role."
BI agent Tony Delorenzo
extred extradition and will be
ilinois. I don't know if it will.
we found "different and
at Masterson's suburban
along with empty cap-
riobre the capsules.
investigators that Masterson Just Jewel Food Stores for argues against his ex-wife in sortely blamed for the sage. Some of the cyanide he poisoned Tylonol capsules
Alized Masterson was in the cent John Hoos said.
he was wanted on a on charge in Du Page County in the police station before Los Angeles police in the
peared here for questioning et in the Tylenol case in "He just walked in."
Gorey, one of the arresting irson was "so scared" to king for him that he lived in for several days.
pressure was so great he self up." Gorey said.
insterson as "calm, very arrested.
scheduled to be arraigned
orists
must go through before recording to state laws. Michigan have develop radar units. Michigan units in use by Oct. 1, 1983, that matches the radar's
Michigan also forbids radar units in use after October to have an automatic look feature.
Texas requires officers to receive radar training before operating radar units.
Maj. Stuart Elliott of the Kansas Highway Patrol said that the state of Kansas did not require standards on radar usage, but that the Highway Patrol did.
The Highway Patrol requires its officers to go through 50 hours of training before operating radar units. The officers are taught how to use them to how to visually estimate the speed of vehicles.
"Regular officers have a considerable amount of training before we allow them to use radar."
DENNEY SAID that all of KU's officers had been trained by a representative from Kustom Electronics, manufacturers of KU's only radar unit.
"I'm constantly amazed at police departments that get radar and don't train officers to use them."
Jerry Miller, customer services representative of Kustom Electronics of Chanute, one of the nation's largest makers of radar units, said challenges to the accident of radar had never been upheld by Kansas courts
Neither Elliott nor Denney could recall any speeding cases successfully challenging radar's accuracy in Ramses. Each said his department's 90 percent having 50 more in most trials involving radar.
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