Thursday, September 2, 1976
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Computer center gets new computers today
More than a decade after it was installed,
KU's Honeywell 635 computer is scheduled
to be upgraded.
Representatives from Honeywell Information Systems, Inc., are scheduled to arrive after noon to take the $35 to the company's Phoenix offices, Paul Wolfe, director of the computation center, said last night.
The computer, which was installed in 1965, will be refurbished in Phoenix and its components will be used as replacement parts, Wolfe said.
The 635 was used for both classroom projects and administrative programs. It has been replaced by a new computer system installed during the summer.
Two computers, a Honeywell 68 60 for instruction and research and an IBM 370 64 for computing.
new system. Computation center employees have been converting programs from the old system into the new one.
Wolfe said the 633 had been used as a trade-in on the new system. Honeywell representatives and computation center personnel disconnected the 633 yesterday and moved its components into a hall in Summerfield.
Electronic transport vans designed to move large electronic gear around the country will take the 635 to Phoenix, Wolfe said.
A crop-withering drought, which now measures nine to 10 inches of rain below the year average, hasn't spared the Kansas Government Association's $8,000 acres of crops.
Endowment Association loses crops to drought
"Of the 9,000 acres we had in wheat, 5,000 acres failed because of insufficient rainfall in the area," said Martin Henry. property manager for the Endowment Association.
Wolfe had said earlier that a second computer, an IBM 1401, also to be replaced by the new system, would be taken from Summerfield in mid-October, when conversion of its programs should be completed.
Auditing group cites progress at Med Center
The KU Medical Center, which presented progress reports to a Kansas legislative post-audit committee yesterday, has received a number of citations cited by the committee in January.
"Our other crops are hurting, too, but the cost of drilling irrigation wells is about $25 a foot. That cost, along with a lack of other resources like proper terrain for drilling, motive power and underlying water, are advantages that are too hard to overcome."
Richard Brown, state post auditor, said yesterday the committee was satisfied with improvements in the management of library service, housekeeping and purchasing.
The post auditing committee in January had reported inefficiencies in the management of those areas and later had made recommendations.
Brown said regular audits would be made in the next few months to see whether the Med Center continued its progress. He said that although many problems had been remedied, problems, especially in dietetics, were ongoing and housekeeping, were still unresolved.
He said the Med Center cafeteria was still operating at a loss and that better job performance and lower costs were desired in the laundry and housekeeping services.
Coeidence or not, the Endowment Association's land—most of it in southwest Kansas—is suffering from the same lack of rainfall experienced by Douglas County.
Changes to correct the inefficiencies include raising food prices and reducing cafeteria hours, starting a Med Center laundry service instead of using a private contractor and turning housekeeping services over to a private contractor.
Fiscal reorganization also was discussed. A proposal to change the status of two internal agencies classified to unclassified positions is to be presented by the committee to the Kansas State Board.
Dykes said officials wanted the status changed because it was difficult to attract qualified people to classified positions, which have a rigid pay scale.
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Bike paths . . .
However, the bikeways are still in the planning stage, Schachter said.
AN EAST-WEST route south of the University could be provided by the use of 21st Street. That route would extend from Iowa to Louisiana streets.
would provide a route to campus, the plan says.
The plan also suggests that the city and University should work to develop a bike path east of Memorial Stadium gradually climbing to Memorial Drive.
Points off the 21st Path street would provide access to Haskell Indian Junior College and the Park Hill and Indian Hills neighborhoods.
To connect the bikeways in the northern
street would be to the south, Tennessee
Street would be to the north.
The plans still must be reviewed and approved by the planning commission if the federal money is granted. Then changes might be made.
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Julian Toney, Douglas County agricultural extension agent, yesterday, said, "we haven't had any sufficient moisture since July.
"Some early corn will produce a pretty fair crop, (but) for the later crops, planted after the wheat, there's not enough moisture to grow."
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Pasture for livestock is also in short supply. And there is no subsoil moisture, a low water content.
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Douglas County receives 2.48 inches of rain during the first three weeks of August. It usually receives 3.75 inches during the entire month.
All areas of the county are dry, Toney said, but the southwest part of the county is in the rain.
The National Weather Service in Topeka predicted a slim chance for rain tomorrow, and about as much chance during the next week. But the temperature should be up for arid soil conditions, the service said.
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