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Monday, July 21, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Postal patron perturbed
According to latest reports, U.S. Postal service employees aren't going to strike today.
Actually that is a real surprise to me. If the mail service I've been getting latey is any indication, someone has been on strike for some time.
Last Wednesday, in anticipation of my dear dad's birthday, I mailed a present to him.
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he would reach by him Saturday, his birthday,
time for a package to go 100 miles by mail.
Well, I was wrong. Sunday morning I was in the kitchen and she said She wondered where dad's present was. To the best of my knowledge it is still floating in limbo somewhere between Lawrence and Paris.
But there is even more to my diatribе than that.
Being in a impoverished financial condition, I used to look forward to a CARE package from home. The last one, which I received a week ago, was five days late.
The package contained, among other items:
What really irks me is that I had to borrow the money to afford his present.
Two rotten tomatoes that my mother had proudly packed. They were the first fruits of her labor in garden under the trees, and her heart to tell her what had happened to them.
A - sponge cake that was so dry that I set it on the floor to soak up the water the landlord's refrigerator generates whenever it attempts to defrost.
"A can of preserved meat that sent me running to the bathroom, hand clasped desperately over my mouth, in the middle of the room. And after I ate it, I lost a good night's sleep."
As a result I am still trying to explain to mother who I don't want any more CARE.
But wait—that's not all.
Not too long ago when I was covering a bad check I had written to the Kansas
Union, I made the mistake of sending my payment through the mail.
I didn't realize what a mistake I had made. I know now that I should have paid the bill. I didn't pay the bill the bill took 10 days to reach the Kansas Union from my home in Lawrence. For 10 days I had to cash checks at the First National Bank. They charge 50 cents each.
Perhaps I shouldn't complain. After all I probably saved money by writing fewer checks than usual. And the stale sponge in my basement job is making up water from our leaky refrigerator.
I guess that I could start sending my mail by bus. Even Pony Express would be faster than the service the post office has been providing, but I don't think that there are many pennies available these days. Too bad. My office could stand a little competition.
I the meantime I'll hope the government does something to speed up service. I wonder if they have ever considered carrier ownership—and so is the present postal service.
Ian Kenneth Louden
Med Center sponsors classes
Two classes for severely emotionally disturbed children will begin in August in the Shawnee Mission public schools as a joint project of the KU Medical Center's department of special education and the Shawnee Mission public schools.
Local police break check forgery ring
Lawrence police last week arrested three men, a woman and a baby, allegedly and possession of forger devices.
A stub found in a search of his car led police to a room at the Holiday Inn where the two others, Nona Lewis and McArthur Myres, were arrested.
One of the three, William Stewart, was arrested on the Kansas Tumpike after he attempted to cash a forged check at University State Bank. He became suspicious when a cashier hesitated to cash the check. Stewart then fled.
Items found during a search of the motel room included 110 blank checks drawn on Frontier Airlines, blank Social Security cards, blank Colorado driver's license, a Colorado driver's license and two forged Frontier Airlines identification cards.
The license and one identification card were made out to James R. Robinson and Myrtle's picture on them. The other licence was made out to Harry Ingersoll and had Lewis' picture on it.
According to police, Lewis earlier had attempted to open an account at University State Bank in the name of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Robinson. She reportedly showed required identification and said she and her husband had just moved to Lawrence
A bank clerk became suspicious when Larry gave an address in the 9200 block of W. Street, and attempted to cash what they said was a payroll check from Frontier Airlines to J. E. Robinson for $1600. They left hurriedly the cashier hesitated to cash the check.
Richard Simpson, assistant professor of special education, said last week that he would work with Richard Whelan, educational director of the department of special education at Ted Gray, director of special education for the Shawnee Mission public schools.
Funding for the project comes from a contract awarded by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped of the U.S. Office of Education.
Simpson said that about $100,000 a year for three years had been granted for the work.
It will involve children whose emotional conditions have made them ineligible for most public schools and who can't be integrated easily into existing programs for the disturbed because of the severity of their conditions.
the United States. The classes, to be located in one of the Shawnee Mission schools, will serve no more than 15 elementary-age children at a time.
The program will demonstrate procedures found to be effective with the severely emotionally disturbed, he said. It is important that people use in similar situations in other areas of
Referrals to the program will be accepted from educators in Shawnee Mission schools. Students must have a Master's degree or equivalent.
The educational program will be a highly structured, highly individualized program, designed to enable teachers to select applications of materials for each student. Simpson said.
The children will be instructed in specific academic work, he said. The goal will be to increase productive behavior of the severely disturbed child.
In addition to classroom instruction, a counselor will work with parents, so that the parents eventually will be able to function better in their therapists with their own children, he said.
The staff will include two experienced master's degree teachers, two paraprofessionals, a learning specialist, an art therapist, a physical therapist and the parent counselor.
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Solar energy could be the solution to the nation's energy problems, William P. Smith, dean of the School of Engineering, said last week.
Although a large amount of fuel costs could be saved in the long run, he said, the high initial costs of buying and installing new equipment can care many people away from buying them.
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Smith said that a solar-wind combination energy system would cost between $5,000 and $10,000, depending on whether the market is cheap or most expensive materials available.
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A solar installation which costs $3,000 could save about $100 a year in fuel costs and produce about 65 per cent of the power to run a home, he said.
But windmills used for converting the wind to electricity couldn't produce a significant amount of energy, he said. Storage batteries to save energy for times when the wind didn't blow were too expensive to be practical, he said.
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If a builder could bear the initial costs, barring an unforeseen maintenance difficulties with the solar installation, he could make his money back in 10 or 20 years, he said. If fuel costs continue to rise, he might do it sooner.
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Smith has been interested in the potential of solar energy for many years. Last spring, he and a group of engineering graduate students finished a study on the feasibility of converting a rural residence from electric power to wind and solar power.
"We actually found out something we already knew," he said. "We wanted to learn about the technology available today, without using new technological material. We were successful, but we also became very aware of the precipitous costs that solar energy can cost."
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Solar converter plates are the most common of the many different forms of solar conversion systems, he said. They consist of a glass or metal outer surface, a black metal insulator on the inside and a metal system, copper tubing sandwiched between them.
Water is pumped through the tubing as sun shines on the glass or metal outer casing of a canister. It uses the "greenhouse" effect, allowing the heat of solar radiation in and then trapping it. The water is heated at it passes through the canister when it runs into an insulated storage tank.
The water then could be used for steam Smith said, it could be used to produce
electricity. In the study, Smith found that solar collectors could provide the energy to heat and air-condition a home, about 85 percent of the energy used in homes.
The remaining 15 per cent could be produced by a windmill, connected to a turbine, to produce electricity for appliances, he said.
Smith said that because sunshine and wind weren't constant energy sources, large storage facilities had to be built. Storage batteries for electricity produced by solar panels were said, but batteries to store power for several days could cost as much as $10,000.
He estimated that nearly one million homes were being built yearly in the United States, and about 1,000 of these were equipped with solar energy collecting systems so that would be lowered, he said, he thought that the number would increase.
Smith said a single solar installation, as was developed in the study, could store enough water for two or three days. This technology needed to heat the house, he said, if the sun doesn't shine enough every day to heat a tank of water to keep the storage tank full.
"In order to achieve 100 per cent solar energy, the installation must have enough square feet of collector surface and a large supply of power. The water supply, or about 25,000 gallons, on hand," he said. "As more installations are added, the collector surface is increased and larger storage tanks are installed until finally, that supply is sufficient for the last at least until the next sunny day."
Smith said there would be disagreement on which type of solar converter could give higher efficiency.
But, he said, as more installations were put into the system, the costs multiply. An installation that provides 65 per cent of the heating supply, for example, is financially more practical than an installation that supplies 100 per cent of the heating supply, he said.
Rather than more research, Smith said, advocates of solar power need to encourage homeowners to produce more economical components in their homebuilders can afford the expense. This would bring solar equipment down to a reasonable price, and homeowners would have to compete for sales, he said.
There might be other than financial problems.
"In different parts of the country, different types of installations will work better," he said. "A solar installation in Arizona wouldn't have to do quite as extensive a job as it would in Minnesota. We can perform with performance and capabilities that will happen soon as scientists and manufacturers develop a little expertise in the product."
Although he wouldn't estimate when the nation could become solar and wind powered, Smith said an increasing number of studies were being done to curb costs of installing solar and wind generators for the home. He said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the University of Arizona were two of the groups doing such studies.
For example, he said the state of Florida, in the early 1940s had no fuel producing minerals or gases to supply power. As a member of solar energy devices were used.
"The federal government is also patting in a fair amount—maybe $50 to $100 for new wind turbines and creasing thinking, with fuel costs rising as they are, that solar energy is an attractive
He also said that there were no obvious solutions for maintenance problems. There are examples to be a trial-and-error understanding of surfaces such as corrosion of outside surfaces.
supplement," he said. "However, we really don't need the high level research anymore. We know what the potential of solar energy is. There have been studies going on, and actual practical use of solar energy since before World War II."
"The so-called hardness and softness of water may cause some unforeseen problems," he said. "Hard water, like what we in Lawrence, tends to corrode pipes than can soft water. When hard water is heated, corrosion tends to occur more rapidly."
The plumbing costs could be phenomenal, he said.
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Field trip . . .
Indian children are reared differently than white middle class children, he said, so a teacher wouldn't want to use the same teaching methods.
"With field experiences," he said, "you see how children are taught and disciplined at home so you can use those types of methods in your classroom."
Stewart said Bill Burgess, dean of instruction at Haskell, and been instrumental in helping students learn.
"He helped set up the trip and spent some time with us while we were out there," she said.
He said Burgex also up set of many of the group contacts and suggested many places.
The other three students who attended the field trip were Phyllis Buford and Lucille Forester, Kanaas D. Doe, Kan., graduate of DePaul University, Dr. McCullough, Lawrence graduate student.
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