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Wednesday, June 10, 1987/Kansan Summer Weeklv
Stop signs installed at train crossing site
By KEITH ROBISON
Staff writer
Two months after four KU students were killed at a train crossing north of Lawrence, Douglas County officials have had stop signs installed at the site.
Frank Hempen, Douglas County public works director, said, "It takes some time to get things through the bureaucracy in Topeka, but we put the stop signs up. We've got railroad crossing signs in the works.
"It took us two days to do it after we got permission from the secretary of transportation. I'd like to make that very clear."
The four students were killed instantly when a Union Pacific train
going about 65 mph smashed into their car broadside as it attempted to cross the tracks of the crossing. The crossing is about one mile north of the Lawrence city limits and about 75 yards west of U.S. Highway 24-59 on county road 1900N.
The students killed were Daniel J. McDevitt, 19, Salina sophomore; Joel D. Granham, 20, Overland Park sophomore; Jennifer L. Jones, 19, St. Louis freshman; and Elizabeth A. Dunlap, 21, Salina junior.
Douglas County commissioners and representatives from the Kansas Department of Transportation and Union Pacific railroad inspected the crossing in early May and recommended active signals for the crossing at the site, known as Lapad t's Corner, as well as three other Douglas County railroad crossings. The other three crossings are: township road 417, a half-mile west of the Leavenworth County line; township road 64, north of the East Lawrence interchange of the Kansas Turnpike; and township road 58, close to the Jefferson County line, south of U.S. Highway 24-59.
Active crossings include gates, lights, lights, a motion detector system and a back-up system. They cost between $90,000 and $100,000 each and require six to nine months for installation, said Edward Trandahl, director of special projects for Union Pacific.
"It takes six to nine months to get the material ordered, get the stuff in place, and get the job done. This stuff isn't just lying around waiting for us to use it," Trandahl said.
He said the U.S. government would subsidize 90 percent of the cost if 10 percent in matching funds could be found.
Hempen said that he recently asked Union Pacific to split the 10 percent, about $9,000 to $10,000, with the county. He said the railroad had not replied vet.
"Santa Fe has participated in the past and in the preliminary talks Union Pacific has seemed receptive. I don't know if it (the sharing of costs) works for other counties, but I always asked," Hempen said.
Paola junior is first Dyck scholarship recipient
A University of Kansas student from Paola is the first recipient of a scholarship honoring a former KU administrator in education.
ory of her late husband, Gil Dyck.
Gil Dyck, former dean of educational services, died of cancer in December 1985.
Diahn Sharp, Paola junior,
received the scholarship, established
by Norma Dyck, Lawrence, in mem-
He received a doctorate in school administration from KU in 1967. In 1968, he became the assistant registrar in the office of admissions and records. He became director of admissions in 1972, dean of admissions and records in 1973 and dean of educational services in 1982.
Education.
The scholarship was established for students in the KU School of
Suzanne Collins, assistant to the dean of the school, said, "It's a scholarship for an outstanding student. That is the only stipulation. This year we used grade point average."
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