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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 5, 1991
Mercury keeps dipping resulting in record lows
The Associated Press
SiOUX FALLS, S.D. The temperature below zero, the car won't start, there's snow all over the place and people are worried about the heating bill.
And it’s only November.
Record-breaking cold is gripping the nation's mid-season, leaving people shivering in Sioux Falls and just about everywhere else that got buried by Halloween snow and frozen by yesterday's blast of arctic air.
Some places also get heavy snow — so much that the annual Snow Plow Rodeo in Grand Island, Neb. had to be canceled. There are more than a foot of snow from the streets.
"We ought to shut this down and go to Florida," crane operator Larry Jenkins said at a construction site in Covington, Ky., where workers gathered around canyon cannifires in 1dle-degree weather. A week ago, temperatures were in the 80s.
Record lows were set in 100 U.S. cities Monday, with below-zero readings dotting the map from Colorado to Minnesota. The
Midwest was expected to get higher but still below-normal temperatures today.
Sioux Falls' 6 below yesterday was the lowest temperature ever recorded in the city so early in the season. Sheldon, Iowa, reached on 10. Alamosa, Oca., dropped to minus 13. Up to 15 inches of snow delayed or closed schools Monday in Michigan. Suburban Buffalo, N.Y., got up to 11/2 feet of snow.
Cold, snow or ice since last week were in Minnesota, six in Illinois and two in Florida.
'Thousands were still without electricity after a storm that dumped up to a yard of snow on Minnesota and Wisconsin last week
Callers jammed phone lines with queries about heating assistance programs or paying past-due gas bills. People snapped up items such as space heaters, weatherstripping and de-icing chemicals from hardware stores.
The Charleston office of Mountainaine Gas Co. said it received 608 customer calls by midafternoon, most of them from people behind on their bills.
ON CAMPUS
OAKS, Non-Traditional Student
of Alcove in the Kansas
mountain at 11:30 m. today.
Of Alcove in the Kansas
mountain at 11:30 m. today.
- Spanish table will meet at 11:30 a.m. today at Aloe Cove in the Kansas Union.
- Ultimate Frisbee Club will meet at 4:30 p.m. today at Shenk Complex at 23rd
- Students Against Hunger will meet at p. t. tomy at the Walnut Room in the Building.
- Anime Club will meet at 6 p.m. today in room 313 at the Art and Design Building.
- Students Tutoring for Literacy will meet at 7:10am for Parlor A in the Kansas City area.
- Chess Club will have a practice session
  - to tonight at the Oream Room
VOICE, a campus peace group, will meet at 7 o'clock on the Ecumenical Christ Church campus.
Dr. Seuss Club will meet at 7:30 tonight at Alcove H in the Kansas Union.
- Fencing Club will meet from 8:30 to 10:30 in 130 Robinson Center.
ON THE RECORD
A stereo and billboard worth a total of $1,010 was taken from a car between 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 a.m. Sunday in the area west of Warrent Avenue, Lawrence police reported.
Jewelry worth $1,075 was taken between 1:45 am and 6 a.m. Saturday from a room while the occupant was asleep at the Holiday Inn Holdem, 200 McDonnell Avenue, Lawrence police reported Police said there was no sign of forced entry.
A KU student was issued a citation for underage drinking at 10:44 p.m. Saturday at Benchwarmers Sport Bar and said, 1601 W. 32rd St., Lawrence police said.
A person failed to return a $1,025 mountain bicycle to Rick's Bike Shop, 916 Massachusetts St., after a test ride at 4:15 p.m. Friday, Lawrence police report
A KU student found a Derringer hand gun, a small palm-sized gun, at 1.15 a.m. Saturday in an elevator at Oliver Hall, KU police reported.
Drug paraphernalia and a controlled substance were left between 1 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. on a bathroom sink on the floor of Hassinger Hall, KU police reported.
A brown leather jacket valued at $250 was taken between 1 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. Saturday at the Jazzhus, 926/1 Massachusetts st., Lawrence police reported.
A construction worker at the Lied Center takes the easy way down from his second-story post. When the wind picked up and he began swaying, it did not seem so easy, though he got down safely.
LOCAL BRIEFS
Hanging by a thread
Frank Burge, 70, former director of the Kansas Union, remained in serious condition yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., a Med Center representative said.
Burge is suffering from a shattered hip, a broken ankle and possible head injuries that he sustained in a hit-and-run accident on a night day night while he was riding his bicycle.
Burge remains in serious condition
Witnesses said the late "70s or early '80s model blue toy stationwagen that hit Burge immediately spared away and turned over." The driver also noted that the car had a shattered windshield.
Sgt. Ron Dalquist said a fluorescent yellow windshield wiper was left at the scene of the attack.
Burge was taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and then transferred to the hospital.
Sgt. Mark Warren of Lawrence police said yesterday that there were no suspects but that police were continuing to search for the car.
Ten KU students and one housing official are safe and happy to be home after their van overturned Friday fives miles south of Lincoln, Neb.
Students OK after van flips over
The accident occurred about 5 p.m. when the state-owned van the group was traveling in slid on a patch of ice, hit a median and rolled over, said Milton Scott, assistant director of student housing, who was driving the van.
He said that there were no major injuries but that four students were taken by ambulance to the hospital for minor sprains and bruises.
The other passengers were taken to the hospital by police as a precautionary measure.
All of the travelers were released Friday evening.
The travelers were on their way to a housing conference in Lincoln.
Despite the accident, the students and Scott attended the conference and returned to Lawrence on Sunday in a van they rented.
KU grad named to Glickman's staff
U. S. Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Kan., announced yesterday that a recent KU graduate would be his new district scheduling director.
Chris Palmer, who graduated from KU in May with degrees in political science and psychology, will work in Glickman's team to design an the representative's Kousse schedule.
Jim Petterson, a representative for Glickman, said he thought Palmer was the
youngest staff member at either Glick man's Kansas or Washington office.
"It is somewhat unusual, but Chris has a lot of experience." Petterson said.
Palmer said that deciding what appointments to make for Glickman would be like.
"I'm just getting my feet wet," he said.
"It's actually kind of good to get a start now."
Construction firm keeps contract
A construction company hired to perform renovations at Stouffer Place Apartments will keep its contract after putting a new roof on the building of three roofs the company is building.
Facilities planning in a letter Friday told Jim Plunkett, owner of Jim Plunkett Construction of Kansas City, Mo., and the project manager for the renovations, that the roofs had to be covered with black paper by yesterday or Plunkett would lose its contract.
Black paper is a construction aid that acts as a temporary water barrier and as a lining beneath shingles.
John Eye, an architect for facilities planning, said that the letter was written in response to several complaints from Stoufer Place residents that water was leaking from the ceiling and light fixtures in their apartments.
He said Plunket had put black paper on building No. 6 and put up roof trees on building No. 2. Renovations are being done on buildings No. 2, No. 5 and No. 6.
Eye said he expected the other buildings to get the black paper during the next few days.
Plunkett could not be reached for comment
Stouffer Place houses more than 600 nontraditional students.
Former KU band director in coma
A former KU band director was in critical condition yesterday after he suffered a heart attack during a one-car accident Thursday.
The director, Russell Wiley, 87 was listed in critical condition last night at St. Peter's Church in New York.
Wiley was band director from 1938 to 1968 and was director of KU's Midwestern school. He served as director of the American University.
Wiley's wife, Charmaine Asher-Wiley,
was driving the car at a Kansas City, Kan.
shopping mall when the accident
occurred. She is listed in stable condition
at Research Medical Center in Kansas City,
Mo.
The Wileys live in Leawood.
Gearl Asher, Asher-Wiley's brother,
said the twowere shopping for a video-camera for Wiley's 88th birthday.
Asher said that Wiley suffered a heart attack just before or at the time of the accident.
—From Kansan staff reports
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