The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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, I convene
Democratic Maine Keystone tea.
By United Press International
Rowena Michaels, regional EPA director of public affairs, said the transition period would include lengthy meetings with EPA officials, training and mentoring participants, process and environmental projects now underway.
After a brief recess from politics, Republican Morris Kay returned to yesterday with his appointment as a member of the Environmental Agency.
Kay, a 50-year-old insurance excuse the chief enforcement off regulations for four states. Kansa Nebraska and Iowa. The regional h
Morris Kay
After a skate
ridely mered
officials
yesterday
that Kay
become the
global direct
ANNE EPA dire the appoir ctal when
Kay at his Lawrence insurance offer afternoon to offer her congratulatory briefly about the job.
Gorsuch, who made the final deac
Kay rather than Douglas County C
Beverly Bradley or Iowa State
Swengels.
Kay, who has worked at an company since his son, 2 loss to Jin the 2nd Congressional District re looked forward to assuming his dut
"I'm excited about it and it
"started." he said, "I'm also ex-
working with the administration 1
and 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 with percent chance of showers or thunderstorms, 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.
Buddy Mangine/KANSAN
Buddie Barney KABABI
KU Police Officer Kevin Johnson clocked the speed of passing traffic from his patrol car in front of Green Hall yesterday.
James Donney, KU's director of police, sniff radar guns allowed police to clack speeders and detect illegal driving.
PACING INVOLWES driving alongside a car to clock its speed. That puts two cars barreling through the street.
And, Demney said, "A stopwatch is not really used to violators. There are too many human factors."
"They're in invaluable," Denney said. "With radar you don't have to pace speeders or clock drivers."
"I don't feel sorry for people who get caught by radar. I don't fair to the rest of the community to you."
Police have used radar for the last 30 years to detect and identify speeding motorists. But a dilemma has surfaced recently about the use of radar and its use as evidence in court.
Nesbitt threw the cases out because of the
Judge Alfred Nesbitt found that radar alone was too unreliable to sustain a speeding conviction. He dismissed 89 radar cases after the defense produced evidence that showed police radar clocking a tree at 84 mph and a house at 30 mph.
IN A 1979 speeding case in Florida, a Dude County judge refused to allow radar readings to be used as evidence.
radar is highly accurate, "Grenzeker said," And it is better than having a vigorous chomp-sheriff screech.
The term radar comes from the phrase "radio detection and ranging." Radars gun 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 sensor's angle and the distance to 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.
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.
IN 1977, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducted tests in conjunction with the National Bureau of Standards on six different models of radar units commonly used
- a man wanted for question-
lion poisoning deaths, which
cage areas and spread fear
and fear of the police to
the police yesterday
cities said Kevin Masterson the Tylonkiller, but had linking himself to the mass ald be asked to take a lie
inch continued for James W.
Leann. Lewis, named in a
arrant, is accused of writing
the $100 million debiting $1
to stop the killing.
D Extra-Strength Tylenol in the Chicago area between
of Lombard, II., who policed by learning that he was [ that he lived in a car in the fO the FBI office in West Los afternoon and surrendered held on an Illinois
held on an Illinois warrant possession of marijuana.
General Tyrone Fahner told a Chicago that Masterson was t had "made statements to sat he had a role in the ver, Fahner said, Masterson the past."
ill turn out to be someone who things but is not the one aid.
horizons want to give Master-
ist to determine "whether he
is non-existent role."
office found 'different and'
at Masterson's suburban,
along with empty cap-
escribe the casuses.
if FBI agent Tony Delorenzo savéd exerted and will be o Illinois. I don't know if it will飞."
> investigators that Masterson mounted Jawel Food Stores for charges against his ex-wife in reportedly blamed for the marriage. Some of the cyanide poisoned Tylenol capsules res
realized Masterson was in the agent. John Hoos said.
appeared here for questioning peet in the Tylenol case in id. "He just walked in."
at he was wanted on a session charge in Du Page B14 detained him overnight at Los Angeles police in the to Los Angeles police in the
mGorey, one of the arresting stenson was "so scared" to looking for him that he lived in it for several days.
pressure was so great he myself up," Gorey said.
Masterson as "calm, very as arrested.
scheduled to be arraigned
torists
er must go through before s, according to state laws.
CAS and Michigan have develop for radar units. Michigan units in use by Oct 1, 1983.
check the unit's accuracy.
bids radar units in use after a automatic lock feature.
1 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 and how to visualize the speed of vehicles.
*Regular officers have a considerable amount at 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 amused 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 and telecommunications equipment, said 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 six officers above 90 percent in most triples involving radar.
Elliott said if a radar case had ever been See RADAR page 5