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Wednesday June 10,1987
Vol. 97, No.146 (USPS650-640)
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published by the students of the University of Kansas since 1889
Staff writer
Old smokey will be a missed KU landmark
For more than a half-century the tall, slim sexagenarian has worked for the University of Kansas department of facilities and operations.
But University officials didn't need him anymore, so they hired a team of hit men to rub him out.
The work of this gang of tanned assassins can be seen or heard from almost anywhere on campus. Chunk by chunk, the KU smokestack is dying a slow death.
His job was to remove waste from the number 7 and 8 boilers at the KU power plant. He also helped many out-of-towners find the University. He did these chores unfailingly, seven days a week.
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Perkins said that the two boilers receiving new smokestacks should be operable by Oct. 15, depending on the weather.
Until then, the two boilers now on line should have no problems handling the work load this summer and fall, he said.
"One of the boilers can handle most of the summer heat. In winter, however, we'll have both of them up to full operational capabilities, and sometimes a third," he said.
Workers are proceeding by digging out 4-feet-square sections of the smokestack, cutting reinforcing steel bars imbedded in the concrete, then letting the sections fall into the smokestack, Perkins said. The rubble is being dumped at the KU landfill west of Iowa Street.
As of yesterday, about 40 feet of the smokestack had been torn down, Perkins said, but as the stack gets
New vice chancellor selected
Staff writer
By CARLA PATINO Staff writer
For the first time, a woman will be the executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas Lawrence campus.
FIRST PERSON
Judith A. Ramaley, acting executive vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at Albany, was selected for the job from 55 candidates, said Del Shankel, chairman of the executive vice cancellor search committee.
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Appalachian spring
A different state a different state of mind
By Peggy O'Brien
West Virginia isn't like any other state. The people, the land, the economy all are unique.
Outsiders sometimes call West Virginians hillbillies, a title they accept with pride. These backwoods people never will leave the "hollers" where their families have lived, in some cases, for 100 years. Sure, many could move in order to find jobs, but most are not willing to. The land is the family's most valued possession.
I didn't go to this obscure state during spring break because I thought I'd witness a miracle. I wanted to go somewhere, anywhere, and this trip offered by the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center was cheap.
So I, and 11 other people piled into a white 15-passenger van with very little room and very little idea of what to expect.
After 18 hours in the van, we turned off the interstate outside Charleston, W.Va., and wound our way, slowly, through the countryside. The roads were hilly and
narrow with hairpin turns at practically every corner of the sparsely populated area.
The mission is the only Catholic church in the mostly Baptist Clay County. It consists of buildings that serve as the church, parish center and game room, food pantry and clothes store.
We found Maysel, a tiny hamlet, and The Mission of the Risen Lord, nestled in the hills of Clay County.
Brothers Ted Letendre, David Huhn, Phillip Drouin and volunteer Joe Byrne greeted us as we piled out of the van. Right away, or at least after downing a pizza they had for us, we felt at home.
The brothers don't serve only the Catholics in the area. In fact, few people in the area are Catholic. The brothers help whoever they can, whenever they can.
The Brothers of Christian Instruction, an order of Catholic men, run the mission.
When a house burns down, when a roof needs to be fixed, when the
senior citizen center needs painting or a house has a gas leak, the people of Clay County call the brothers.
of English,
Few people have jobs. The school district employs the most people since the coal mines closed in the late '50s. When the mines shut down, men and the families they worked to support were left with nothing.
The local people don't have much, but what they have they were willing to share. Gifts of food, time and energy are all they can afford. They give these freely.
Although official statistics don't show it, the brothers said Clay County was the poorest in the United States, with what they estimate to be about 60 percent unemployment.
Health care officials who work with the people are shocked by how malnourished the children are, Letendre told us. David, one boy with whom our group had the chance to spend some time, had been chewing tobacco since he
was 2 years old.
While we ate, Letendre gave us the rundown of what we'd be doing for the week, roeroofing a house, fixing a gas leak, painting a senior citizens center. The brothers never know who might need help.
He filled us in on stories and dismal details, which are a part of life for the people of the area. In fact, Nona Carte, a Clay County resident, watched her home burn to the ground the day before our arrival.
In that area of West Virginia, people heat their homes with wood burning stoves, and fires such as the one that destroyed Nona's home are not uncommon.
The style and pace of life there forced me to reflect on my life and priorities.
Our main instruction from the brothers as we went about our work was to take time to get to know the people.
We expected to find poor people, and the people we met were
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