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
Man linked to Tylenol surrenders
After a brief recess from politics, Lawrence Republican Morris Kay returned to yesterday with his appointment as director of the Environmental Agency
By United Press International
Kay, a 50-year-old insurance ex- become the chief enforcement of regulations for four states. Kansas Nebraska and Iowa. The regional1
Gorsuch, who made the final deac Kay rather than Douglas County C Beverly Bradley or Iowa State S Schwengels
ANNE EPA dirt the appo cial where
Morris Kay
Kay at his Lawrence insurance off afternoon to offer her congratulati briefly about the job
company since his Nov. 2 loss to Jir
the 2nd Congressional District ra
looked forward to assuming his dug.
"I'm excited about it and eter
states that I am working with the administration
important position to Kansas and
region."
KAY SAID he would begin prep
new job, which pays $8,500 annually,
next few days.
Rowena Michaela, regional EPA director of public affairs, said the transition period would include lengthy meetings with EPA officials, and regional projects to process and lengthy projects now underway.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy wi
percent chance of showers or
thu showers, according to the Natio
 Service. The high will be around
southerly winds at 15 to 25 mph.
Tonight will be cloudy with a 5
chance of rain. The low will be in
mid-40s.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a rain. The high will be around 50.
Radar u
4 Amperand Deember, 1962
KU Police Officer Kevin Johnson clocked the speed of passing traffic from his car护门 in front of Green Hall yesterday.
ponce raagar
PACING INVOLVES driving alongside a car to clip its speed. That puts two cars barreling through the road.
James Denney, KU's director of police, said radar guns allowed police to clock speeders and stop them.
And, Denny said, "A stopwatch is not really fast to violators. There are too many human factors."
"They're invincible," Denney said. "With radiant you don't have to pace speeders or clock others."
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
1" it can't fair to the rest of the community to
repeat.
IN A 1979 speeding case in Florida, a Dade county judge returned to allow radar readings to be used.
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.
Nesbitt threw the cases out because of the
radar is highly accurate. "Grenzek said, 'And it is better than having a cigar-chomping horse.'"
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 amount of light reflected from 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 six different models of Fadar units commonly used
Some states have set up stringent controls on the manufacturing of radar units and on the
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.
一
=A man wanted for question-
len poisoning deaths, which
cage area and spread fear
to the police and to be
policeverbose.
ritles said Kevin Masterson the Tylonen killer, but had linking himself to the mass did he asked to take a lie
D Extra-Strength Tylenol In the Chicago area between
arch continued for James W. Leann, Lewis, named in a warrant, is accused of writing articles of Tyrion demanding $1
of Lombard, III., who police
died by learning that he was
if that he lived in a car in the
night. He was taken after a thief
at noon and surrendered.
held on an Illinois warrant possession of marijuana.
General Tyrone Fahnerdan told me to Chicago that Masterson was it had "made statements to hat he had a role in the ver, Fahner said, Masterson the past."
I'll turn out to be someone who things but is not the one laid.
iorities want to give Master-ist to determine "whether he w non-existent role."
police found 'different and'
at Masterson's suburban,
along with empty cap-
describe the capsules.
of FBI agent Tony Delorenzo
wrote extradition and will be
o Illinois. I don't know if it will
try."
in investigators that Masterson
amst Jewel Food Stores for
charges against his ex-wife in
reportedly blamed for the
arrangement. Some of the cyanide
the poisoned Tylolen capsules
realized Masterson was in the agent John Hoos said
appeared here for questioning
pect in the Tylenoi case in
id. "He just walked in."
ne he was wanted on a session charge in Du Page BI detained him overnight at the police station before to Los Angeles police in the
Gorey, one of the arresting sterson was "so scared" to looking for him that he lived in it for several days.
pressure was so great he nself up," Gorey said.
Masterson as "calm, very as arrested.
scheduled to be arraigned
torists
er must go through before s, according to state laws.
AS and Michigan have developed radar units. Michigan uses a system that matches the radar's check the unit's accuracy. radars radar units in use after a automatic lock feature.
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, 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 two largest manufactures of radar equipment, said the 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 speeding records have 50 percent in most trials involving radar
Elliott said if a radar case had ever been
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