Lawrence air: Whose problem?
By JOHN KIELY and JAY COOPER
The sky could be yellow. It could be clouded yellow, or black, or not at all, by the gases and solids of factory fumes that rise from the smoke stacks of industry.
Once, when these clouds started to form, people thought it progress. Now, with the continued sophistication of science, man has learned that this clouded part of progress is deadly.
AUTHORITIES HAVE already attributed thousands of deaths directly to air pollution.
These are the obvious, sensational and tragic cases. A U.S. Public Health Service officer affiliated with the Air Pollution division joins other experts in looking beyond the obvious.
ZURBUCHEN
"What do you get in return?"
"Of even more significance," says Thomas Williams, "are the health effects of ordinary levels of air pollution to which most of the people in the country are exposed day and night for years on end."
Four years ago, another expert, the surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service, Luther L. Terry, told an Air Pollution Conference, "There is no longer any doubt that air pollution is a hazard to health."
THE HAZARD IS INCREASING. In 300 American cities, U.S. Public Health officers call air pollution a "major" hazard. These officers also note that the air over 7,000 more towns is getting dirtier.
When asked if Lawrence's air was polluted, Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry at KU defined air pollution as air containing anything other than the normal constituents and said, "You always have to answer in the affirmative—air pollution is practically everywhere."
Another Ph.D. chemist, this one an engineer at Midwest Research Institute, Thomas Bath, called pollution "the change in the atmospheric envelope caused by man's activities." He commented on those activities in Lawrence.
"Just on visual inspection," he said, "overall the air quality isn't too bad. There is one source, however, that ought to be controlled just on principle. If there was a state authority and they had any laws that source would be controlled."
Since the proposed air pollution laws introduced in last year's Kansas legislature failed, Kansas has no laws. It also has no state wide board. But "that source" reports it's instituting more controls itself.
R. R. ZURBUCHEN is general manager of the Co-operative Farm Chemicals Association. The plant east of Lawrence makes chemical
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fertilizers. Zurbuchen said they're attempting to control their emission of pollutants. In doing this, he said, "We've already spent a quarter of a million dollars." How much will they spend? "Whatever's necessary."
The money he's talking about is paid to control one of the plant's units. There are four more. They were made, says Zurbuchen, before catalytic combustion control elements could be
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Friday, November 18, 1966
Mickey Mouse backlash hits
By ERIC MORGENTHALER UDK Editorial Editor
(M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S. . .)
The KU student body gave a stirring vote of confidence to student government Wednesday and Thursday as approximately 28 per cent of its members turned out to vote in the fall All Student Council (ASC) elections.
(Hey there, hi there, ho there; you're as welcome as can be . .)
University Party took the lead in the elections by winning 13 council seats. The new (sic) Vox Populi placed second with nine seats. The KU Progressive Alliance followed with four seats; and a candidate from the large men's halls charged through to win unaffiliated.
The ASC itself lost five seats, due to the light voter turnout. Voting was done by living districts, with the number of
votes cast in each district determining the number of ASC seats awarded.
Dolph Johnson, Wymore, Neb., senior, and one of three ASC Elections Committee chairmen, said that only about 4.000 students voted in the two-day balloting.
The heaviest voting was in the fraternity district, which retained its five ASC seats. Lightest voting was in the large men's district, which lost two seats. Small men's, large women's and freshman women's districts each lost one seat.
(Meeska, Mooska, Mouseketeer:
Mousecartoon time now is here.)
FAROUK SAAD
—CDK Photo by Bob Parker
(Today is the day that is filled with surprises; nobody knows what's going to happen . . .)
As a result of the elections, no party holds a majority of the 37 ASC seats. UP has 17 seats, Vox has 10, and KUPA has nine. Dennis Moore, Wichita senior, was elected from the large men's district without party affiliation.
THURSDAY IS "ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN DAY"
(Mouseketeers roll call—count off now: Kay—Dick—Ken—Don—Bill . . .)
The leaders of KU's two political parties were both upset at the light voter-turnout. The leader of KU's one alliance was pleased.
"We have had two political parties criticizing campus politics this year," Chubb said. "They've been tearing it down so much that people have become cynical or indifferent about student government."
The old Mickey Mouse Theme Song for Thursday typified the ASC election exactly, as onlookers view the results with eyes of disbelief.
Don Chubb, Topeka junior and UP president, said the election did not fairly represent student opinion.
Chubb charged that KUPA, which was formed this year, turned many students against student government.
"KUPA and later Vox ruined any confidence that students might have had in student government," Chubb said.
(Wiggle your ears like good Mouseketeers...）
Ken North, Shawnee Mission freshman and president of Vox, said, "I can only hope the student body got what it wanted, because so few of them exercised the power to vote that is inherently theirs."
Bill Sampson, Topeka junior and president of KUPA said he was "real
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happy that we have five candidates elected. I feel all the candidates ran very strong races."
(Now it's time to say goodbye to all our company. M-I-C . . . see ya real soon. -K-E-Y . . . why? Because we like you ... M-O-U-S-E.)