Citizens urged to draw up petitions
Lawrence area lacks pollution control
Air pollution control measures are sadly lacking in the Lawrence area, said James A. Noon Jr., director of Air Pollution Control for the Kansas City and Wyandotte County Board of Health.
Noon and Richard Michaels, his associate, spoke before the Ecology Action Organization Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Noon said when hearings concerning the problems of air pollution in the Kansas City vicinity were held in April, 1969, Douglas County was to be included in any measures taken to control pollution.
But several public officials, including a Lawrence city council member, requested Douglas County be exempt from controls. He said pollution from the area was not part of the regional problem.
Noon called it an example of
political maneuvering, and cited the local Co-op plant as a definite cause of serious pollution.
Noon also said Douglas County had no air pollution control board in any form.
Noon and Michaels discussed the problems of pollution in the Kansas City area, and cited the visibility problems at Fairfax and Kansas City Municipal Airports.
Both men criticized the "piecemeal" method of regulating pollutants which are instituted by the Federal Government. Noon said criteria for the maximum limits of pollutants researched are distributed one at a time. "It's a very inefficient and ineffective process." Noon said.
Michaelsaid tolerance criteria can change,just as the tolerance level to radio-active fallout has been lowered substantially in the past decade as scientists have learned more about its effects.
"Arbitrary levels don't solve
Crime parallels movie
ATLANTA (UPI)—"We knew about the South, and we had been uneasy about driving through it," the long-haired leader of a rock band sadly recalled.
He had seen the movie "Easy Rider," in which two motorcyclists are abused by people who thought their hair was too long. As Buck Rogers drove toward Atlanta, a drama incredibly parallel to the movie began unfolding.
Rogers, leader of a group in Albany, N.Y., called the Buck Rogers Movement, and his wife were in the front seat of their gold convertible. Harlan Cornelius, the 24-year-old bearded, long-haired lead guitar player, was in the back seat working up a list of songs the group could do
in their Atlanta nightclub book-ing
About 60 miles outside the city, another car pulled alongside. A young man inside yelled, "Fink." Rogers replied to his companions, "There's your easy rider."
"I heard the first shot, then as he drove past, I saw the kid with his arm out of the window."
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"Then Harlan said, 'I've been shot,' and he put his hand to his head." Rogers said.
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Tuesday Cornelius was in satisfactory condition, but too weak to talk with newsmen. Doctors say he may lose his left eye. Police still were looking for the assailants.
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During the question-answer session which followed the speech, Noon was asked about the types of pollutants emitted by the Coop plant. He said carbon monoxide and nitrous oxides were serious pollutants.
As a means of promoting pollution control in the Douglas County area, Noon suggested interested citizens should draw up petitions calling for control, and have them signed.
he said, "and send them to the Governor. I'll guarantee results."
"On the government's list of control regions, Kansas City ranks 14th of 52 problem areas," Noon said.
the problem," he said. Noon mentioned the air quality control regions set up across the nation. He said the Kansas City region is the only one which has an ordinance limiting the amount of pollutants which can be detected in the air.
The criteria for pollution limits, Michaels said, are based on incidences of damage to vegetation and corrosion in delegated areas.
"Have them notarized, and make copies so they'll be legal.
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The Air Pollution Control lab is responsible for testing air samples and determining the amount of the various pollutants found in the samples. Michaels said the samples were not taken at the street level, but from about 12 feet above the ground.
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