8 Thursday, July 12, 1979 Summer Session Kansan Count off... the minutes from the time you place your Domino's Pizza order, to the time your pizza is delivered to your door. Domino's Pizza thinks that 30 minutes is as long as anyone should have to wait for a pizza to be delivered. If your pizza isn't to your door in 30 minutes or less, present the guarantee below to our driver and we'll give you a dollar off toward your pizza order. We're serious about our business, because we're pizza professionals. 841-8002 610 Florida 841-7900 1445 W. 23rd 10 minute delivery guarantee Give us a call! --starts 12 noon both days Featuring: Meet the Author's Party Panels Movies (incl. Star Trek) Art Show FREE TO KU STUDENTS for info call 843-3240 after 5 If your pizza did not arrive within 30 minutes of the time you placed your order, present this coupon to our driver for $1.00 off your order Fast. Free Delivery SCIENCE July 14th and 15th Guests Include: Frederick Pohl James Gunn Lee Killough John Kessel KANSAS UNION SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION PRESENTS films sua "BREAKAWAY FUNNY, Paul Mazursky's film is a comic reminiscence about the tough lessons and small victories that mark the end of growing up." Jay Cocks, Time LENNY BAKER SHELLEY WINTERS ELLEN GREENE CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Produced by PAUL MAZURSKY TONY RAY written and Directed by PAUL MAZURSKY BESTRUCTED COLOR BY MOVIE LAB PRINTS BY DE LUKE ™ Friday, July 13 $1.50 Woodruff Aud. No Refreshments allowed- Neglected mines prompt inquiry By TOM TEDESCHI Staff Reporter Deaths and environmental problems associated with abandoned lead and zinc mines in southeast Kansas last week prompted Rep. Bob Whittaker, R-Kan., to seek a Bureau of Mines inquiry into the sites. At least 25 deaths have been attributed to abandoned mines near Galena in the last 60 years. The body of a man who had been missing for more than a year was recovered several weeks ago from a mine. "These pits are unguarded, unfenced, unposted, very deep and filled with debris as well as standing water most of the time." Whitaker said in a letter to the bureau. Whittaker asked Lindsay Norman, head of the mine bureau, to recommend possible solutions to the problems surrounding the abandoned mines. Although there are different types of abandoned mines, two problems are associated with all of them—no one really knows what to do with them and no one really knows who should take responsibility for them. "NOBODY REALLY has a responsibility except maybe the present landowner," said Frank W. Wilson, head of the environmental geology section of the Kansas Geological Survey. "What it all comes down to is who pays to fill in the hole?" James McGee of the Minne Safety and Health Administration in Topeka agreed what "It's a lack of a situation," McGee said. "I just don't know where the blame would lie. Technically, I'd say that the mine operator, as a gesture of good will, would pay, but I think the person who owned the property would be liable." Another problem with the abandoned mines is that they are not clearly marked as dangerous areas. When a mine shaft collapses, it often leaves a crater-like depressure zone in the sinkhole. In time, the sinkhole will fill with water and debris and will be difficult to see. THE ABANDONED mines near Galena are not the only ones in the state that have caused problems. According to Wilson, some of these mines lie south of Galena, are in similar condition. "They are just standing there, affenured," Wilson said. "Those are lead and zinc mines. They're flooded now, they're filled with water, some shafts have caved in. There's sometimes 75 to 100 feet of loose material that falls down into the shaft." Sink holes have also formed around drilling shafts at salt mines near Hutchinson. ACCORDING TO Larry Brady, head of the mineral resources section of the Geological Survey, water is injected into the shafts to help bring salt out of the ground. After a mine is abandoned, water entering through the drilling shaft may further dissolve the salt, creating what is known as a salt solution jug. If enough of the upper salt are dissolved, the weight of the ground above may collapse the jug, forming a sinkhole. Five years ago in Hutchinson, a 300-foot-wide sinkhole inside an abandoned a sand mine shaft in a matter of days and left behind on roads tracked suspended in midair. In another cave-in in Kansas city, Kan, during the 1960s, a sinkhole formed when the support pillars in an abandoned limestone house were filled with mud, a number of houses hosed into the resulting hole. The only mines of consequence Wilson said he knew of in Douglas County were ones in the vicinity. na na na "C in Gl vac "C co se ne m tr an m ne wi we co Ca g an wr at Br for Ch Aw an sce th the wr Th sre me pu ste sin Wa C