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
Man linked to Tylenol surrenders
After a brief recess from politics,
Republican Morris Kay returned to
pesterday with his appointment as na-
tional of the Environmental
Agency.
Kay, a 50-year-old insurance ex- become the chief enforcement of regulations for four states: Kansas Nebraska and Iowa. The regional h
Morris Kay
ANNE EPA dire the appoi cial when
Kay at his Lawrence insurance offer afternoon to offer her congratulatif briefly about the job
Gorsuch, who made the final decis
Kay rather than Douglas County Co
Beverly Bradley or Iowa State S
Schwengels.
By United Press International
Rowena Michaels, regional EPA director of public affairs, said the transition period would include lengthy meetings with EPA officials, staff and residents to process and region projects now underway.
Kay, who has worked at an company since his Nov. 2 loss to Jim the 2nd Congressional District racked forward to assuming his dute
KAY SAID he would begin prepa new job, which pays $58,500 annually next few days.
"I'm excited about it andea,
"i'm excited about it andea,
he said, "I'm also exer
working with the administration. I
have a position to Kansas and region."
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy wil
percent chance of showers or thu
showers, according to the National
Service. The high will be around
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.
KU Police Officer Kevin Johnson clocked the speed of passing traffic from his car patrol in front of Green Hall yesterday.
Ruddy Mangina/KANSAN
radar guns allowed police to check speeders accurately without endangering the drivers.
PACING INVOLVES driving alongside a car that his upsed. That puts two cars barreling down the road.
"They're in invaluable," Donney said. "With radar you don't have to pace speeders or clock the other way around."
And, Denney said. "A stopwatch is not really
tair to violators. There are too many human foul
events."
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.
"I don't feel sorry for people who get caught by radar. It isn't a tant to the rest of the community to do that."
IN A 1979 speeding case in Florida, a Dade county judge refused to allow radiata readings to be taken.
Judge Alfred Nesbitt found that radar alone was too unreliable to sustain a speeding conviction. He dismissed 80 radar cases after the defense produced evidence that showed police radar clocking a tree at 84 mph and a house at 30 mph.
it is better than having a cigar-chomping sheriff tell you how fast you were going "
Nesbitt threw the cases out because of the
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 roll of the brake pedal. It moves 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 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
IN 1977, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducted tests in conjunction with the National Bureau of Standards on six lanes at Tacoma Bay. The tests were by police departments throughout the country.
-A man wanted for question-
A man wanted for questionable poisoning deaths, which caused four dead of States, burgered to the V police yesterday.
ch continued for James W.
Lewis, Lewis, named in
arrant, is accused of writing
of Tollemance demanding $1
tities said Kevin Masterson the Tykonel killer, but hadiking himself to the massbe asked be asked to take a lie
aid on an Illinois warrant
possession of marijuana.
Lombard, Ill., who police did by learning that he was that he lived in a car in the barn and then drove it on a erroneous and surrendered.
general Tyrone Fahner told a Chicago that Masterson was had "made statements to him he had a role in the in Fahner said, Masterson o past."
turn out to be someone who things but is not the one ed.
orties want to give Master- it to determine "whether he non-existent role."
FBI agent Tony DeLorean
extracted extrusion and will be
Illinois. I don't know if it will
be.
he found "different and at Masterson's suburban it, along with empty cap-scribble the capsules.
investigators that Masterson mast Jewel Food Stores forarga against his ex-wife inreportedly blamed for the vriage. Some of the cyanidehe poised Tylenol capsules
realized Masterson was in the agent John Hoos said.
appeared here for questioning
eet in the Tylenol case in
d. "He just walked in."
he was wanted on a tion charge in Du Page U detained him overnight at gales police station before to Los Angeles police in the
In Gore, one of the arresting person was "so scared" tooking for him that he lived in several days.
pressure was so great me self up." Gorey said.
self up, Gorey said. fasterson as "calm, very
s arrested.
scheduled to be arraigned
orists
r must go through before according to state laws.
US and Michigan have developer radar units. Michigan has radar units that matches the radar's cheek the unit's accuracy. ads radar units in use after automatic lock feature.
officers to receive radar rating radar units.
The Highway Patrol requires its officers to go through 50 hours of training before operating radar units. The officers are taught how to use speedometers to how to visually estimate the speed of vehicles.
Stuart Ellott of the Kansas Highway Patrol said that the state of Kansas did not require standards on radar usage, but that the Highway Patrol did.
*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 two largest manufacturers of radar systems, said he 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 efforts to prove over 50 percent in most trials involving radar.
Elliott said if a radar case had ever been
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