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, Lawrence
Bernican Norris Kay returned to public office
partment with his appointment as m director of the Environmental Agency
Kay, a 50-year-old insurance exe become the chief enforcement officulation for four states: Kansas Nebraska and Iowa. The regional he
Morris Kay
Kay at his Lawrence insurance office afternoon to offer her congratulation briefly about the job.
Gorsuch, who made the final decision Kay rather than Douglas County Co Beverly Bradley or Iowa State Sc swengels.
Kay, who has worked at an company since his Nov. 2 loss to Jim the 2nd Congressional District ratified looked forward to assuming his dutif
"I'm excited about it and它
"it's excited about it and它
"he said. He "I'm also exe
working with the administration. It
has a position to Kansas and
region."
KAY SAID he would begin prepa
new job, which pays $58,500 annually
next few days.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy wil percent chance of showers or thu showers, according to the National Weather Service, so southerly winds at 15 to 25 mph.
Tonight will be cloudy with a 50 chance of rain. The low will be in mid-40s.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a rain. The high will be around 50.
Rowena Michaels, regional EPA director of public affairs, said the transition period would include lengthy meetings with EPA officials. In addition, the process and region projects now underway
Michaels also said Kay would face many
Man linked to Tylenol surrenders
By United Press International
KU Police Officer Kevin John;son clocked the speed of passing traffic from his patrol car in front of Green Hall yesterday.
Judge Alfred Nesbitt found that radar alone was too unreliable to sustain a speeding conviction. He dismissed 88 radar cases after the defense produced 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
police radar
IN A 1978 speeding case in Florida, a Dade County judge refused to allow radar readings to be used.
Police have used radar for the last 30 years to detect and identify speeding motorists. But a dilemma has surfaced recently about the accuracy of radar and its use as evidence in court.
James Denney, KU's directors of police, said radar guns allowed police to clock speeds
PACING INVOLVES driving alongside a car to clock its speed. That puts two cars barreling down the road at high speeds, he said.
radar is highly accurate," Greneker said. "And it is better than having a cigar-chomping sheriff tell you how fast you were going."
"They're invaluable." Denney said. "With radar you don't have to pace speeders or clock them with a stopwatch."
And, Denny said. "A stopwatch is not really useful to violators. There are too many human factors."
"I don't feel sorry for people who get caught by radar. I'm not 'tair' to the rest of the community to get away."
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 beam bounces off moving vehicles and back to an antenna.
Depending on the car's direction, the radar beam is bounced back either compressed or stretched. The car's speed is determined by the angle of the beam to the ground, 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 vehicles and two bus vehicles by police departments throughout the country.
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
"A man wanted for question-
nel poisoning deaths, which
itago area and spread fear
to the police yesterday.
ED Extra-Strength Tylenol e in the Chicago area between
arch continued for James W. lee, Leann, Lewis, named in a warrant, is accused of writing keys to KYleni demanding $1
orties said Kevin Masterson the Tylenol killer, but had linking himself to the mass ould be asked to take a lie
held on an Illinois warrant possession of marijuana.
of Lombard, Ill., who police
became by learning that he was
I that he lived in a car in the
to the FBI office in West Los
West
General Tyrone Fahnerdan ain Chicago that Masterson was at had "made statements to hat he had a role in the ver, Fahner said, Masterson the past."
fill turn out to be someone who e things but is not the one aid.
thorities want to give Master- est to determine "whether he or non-existent role."
ef FBI agent Tony Delorenzo
waxed extradition and will be
to Illinois. I don't know if it will
*tiv*."
D investigators that Masterson against Jewel Food Stores for charges against his ex-wife in reportedly blamed for the arrangement. Some of the cyanide poisoned Tylend capsules are.
I realized Masterson was in the agent. John Hoos said.
hat he was wanted on a session charge in Du Paque police station before to Los Angeles police in the
appeared here for questioning spect in the Tylenol case in aid. "He just walked in."
om Gorey, one of the arresting aterson was "so scared" to look for him that he lived in net for several days.
pressure was so great he myself up." Gorey said.
Masterson as calm, very vas arrested.
} scheduled to be arraigned
torists
cer must go through before ts, according to state laws.
for radar units. Michigan
arrials in use by Oct. 1, 1983,
one that matches the radar's
o check the unit's accuracy.
rbids radar units in use after
in automatic lock feature.
s 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 and 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 manufacturers of radar units, said challenges to the activity of radar had never been upheld by Kansas courts.
Neither Elliott nor Denney could recall any speeding cases successfully challenging radar's accuracy in Kansas. Each said his department's manoeuvre gave 50 percent in most trials involving radar.
Elliott said if a radar case had ever been See RADAR paige 5