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Monday, June 25, 1979
Summer Session Kansan
Nude bathers get cold shoulder
By LEONARD D. GROTTA
Staff Reporter
According to patrons and officials, Lake Henry, about six miles west of Lawrence adjacent to Clinton Reservoir, is probably seeing its last summer of nude swimming.
During its beeyard in the summers of 1975 and 1976, Lake Henry often saw crowds of "as many as 60 or 70 men, women, dogs and children," a KU student at the lake said Thursday afternoon. The speaker refused to be identified by name.
"I sure isn't what it used to be," the student continued, waving his hand to indicate the afternoon crowd of five. Of the five, two were wearing swimsuits.
Wearing swimmists "would once have been considered a severe breach of etiquette at this particular lake," another sunbather said.
The conversation at the lake consisted largely of reminiscing about "the good o' days" and speculating as to what, if anything, the park rangers or sheriff's officers were going to do about nude sunbathing at the lake.
WALT SETTLES, manager of Clinton State Park, said he had put the issue of nudity at Lake Henry "on hold" for the moment.
"We've not officially opened the park yet," Settled says, "so I'm just letting it go unless I get a complaint. But as soon as my park opens, we'll stop it."
Settled he expected the park to be
open by April 15th of next year.
"The sheriff's office is doing a pretty good job of patrolling the park area right now, and with it you get Settles and you see that he didn't now have the people necessary to patrol the park.
According to Rex Johnson, sherrif of Douglas County, his office hasn't received any complaints about nude sunbathing at Lake Henry.
"SO FAR THIS summer, to the best of my knowledge, it just hasn't been a significant problem," Johnson said. The Clinton Park rangers have an official state commission which allows them to make arrests if they decide to do so.
Tim Carey, a ranger with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said the Corps did not concern itself with civil matters within the Clinton Park area.
"The Kansas Park and Resources Authority, the county sheriff and the Highway Patrol all have civil jurisdiction within the nark area." Carey said.
The Clinton State Park, including Lake Henry, is owned by the Army Corps of Engineers and is licensed to the State of Kansas Park and Resources Authority.
THE CORPS only specific jurisdictions within the area are those proscribed by law, and are recreational areas," Carey said. Tale 38 says nothing about nude sunbathing.
Although officials are apparently going to ignore nude sunbathing at Lake Henry for the remainder of this summer unless they receive specific complaints, the lake's popularity seems definitely on the wane.
"With all the talk about closing the area, I can't enjoy the lake as much because of the tension," said Bill Pugh, 909 W. Sixth St.
"The appeal of the lake was getting away and relaxing, but now you're tense for fear someone will come along and arrest you," Pugh said.
LAST SUMMER, several patrons of Lake Henry circulated a petition requesting that Lake Henry be officially renamed "Hawkeye optional" area within the Clinton Park.
Settles said he had seen the petitionts and passed them along to his director, but that they were too small.
Pugh said that he had written a letter in support of the petition to the parks district.
"I received a form letter in response saying very coldly 'this will not be tolerated,'" Pugh said. He said he had seen identical letters received by others who wrote in support of the petition request.
"I doubt in Kansas there's any chance of having a mudbath sunning area as aside, I know we have a mudbath."
Showers cloud Sun-Day technology fair
Rainstorms forced the Lawrence Appropriate Technology Fair inside Saturday.
Cloudy skies and intermittent rains resulted in the fair - being held in Off-the-Wall Hall.
The fair, which had displays of several solar-powered devices for conserving energy among other exhibits, was previously scheduled for South Park.
"We had a lot more displays that could have been displayed in the park." Ken Kearns of the University of California.
Included in the displays were three differently designed solar food drivers.
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LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NEW?
In other areas of Kansas, 1,152 wells were started in the first three months of this year, statistics showed. Only 47 percent of these wells were successful. The other 53 percent were either dry or did not contain enough oil to be worth developing.
Lassman, an organizer of the fair, said lack of space in the hall hindered those who might have otherwise looked at the various enervy-saving dislaws.
Most of the new wells in the state are drilled in western Kansas. However, technological advances may change the situation. Beene said.
The state has established a tertiary oil
Another method of tertiary oil recovery uses chemicals to get oil from abandoned wells that might have produced only 30 to 50 percent of the oil, Green said.
SURVEY STATISTICS show that the decline in oil production has affected Douglas County. No new wells have been started in this county or in neighboring counties this year because of a lack of accessible oil, Beene said.
to enhance this potential wealth of heavy oil. TORP has developed a drilling method for extraction of this oil.
"THESE IS A tremendous potential of "heavy oil" in southeastern Kansas," Beene said. "Bill Ebanks of the Geological Survey does really study a study of the potential reserves."
recovery project at KU to find means of drilling for alobenedone wells, said Been
The problem with heavy oil is that it does not flow easily and is expensive to drill for, said Dan Green, professor of chemical and mining engineering and co-director of TORP.
The increase is making it more profitable for independent oil operators to drill deeper, he said. Almost all the drilling is being done in sandblasting, which produces two samples per minute.
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with 55.8 million barrels in 1978. Kansas was ranked ninth among U.S. oil-producing states.
Even though higher prices provide an incentive for more drilling, oil production has declined in Kansas since 1956, according to Bauer and Stenner. In the million barrels were produced, compared
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