University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 7, 1988
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Removal of hazardous chemical in progress
By Ric Brack
Kansan staff writer
Cleanup of a hazardous chemical found leaking Thursday at the site where a truck overturned seven miles east of Lawrence will continue into this week, an official with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Saturday.
Environmental Specialists, Inc., a Kansas City, Mo., firm, began cleanup at 11 p.m. Thursday and worked non-stop until about 6:15 p.m. Friday, said Marvin Glotzbach, environmental geologist with the department.
The spill was not discovered until about 1 p.m. Thursday, 14 hours after the driver of the truck fell asleep and drove off the turnpike, turnpike authorities said. The accident occurred about seven miles east of the East Lawrence turnpike exit, in the east-bound lane of Interstate 70. One lane of the turnpike was closed until late Friday.
It was only after a turnip authority investigator began experiencing dizziness
and headaches while he was photographing the accident scene that officials learned that the truck was loaded with more than 40,000 pounds of the chemical Ethalfuralin, also known as Sonalan. The chemical was leaking onto the ground and into Pony Creek.
The chemical will explode if exposed to temperatures exceeding 86 degrees Fahrenheit, and can be harmful if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin.
Turpike officials said yesterday that their function was to maintain a safe traffic flow on the turpike and that it didn't include investigating whether a truck involved in an accident was carrying a potentially harmful load. That obligation is with the trucking company, Sgt. Tom Jaenson of the turpike authority said yesterday.
Jaenson said that turnip officials questioned a load only if it clearly was leaking from the truck, or if the truck had been damaged badly enough to allow people to get into it and possibly be hurt. Neither was the case in the Wednesday night investigation of
the accident, he said.
The company that owned the truck involved in the accident, F and S Truck Lines of Kansas City, Kan., refused to comment when reached yesterday by telephone.
Glatzbach said F and S Truck Lines was responsible for the cost of cleanup. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is supervising the cleanup.
On Thursday and Friday, the tractor and trailer were pulled out of the ditch and loaded with the remaining unbroken bottles of the chemical onto trucks that hauled them to McGraw Chemical and Fertilizer, a state-licensed agricultural sprayer in Leavenworth.
Workers also used vacuum trucks to begin pumping water out of Pony Creek, Gltzbach said. He said about 125 gallons of the chemical were unaccounted for.
Glotbach said water was standing in Pony Creek from a culvert under the turnipte to where a dam was built about 200 yards north of Nine Mile Creek. He said all of that water
Glotzbach said he was at the accident scene from Thursday afternoon until cleanup crews left Saturday afternoon.
would be removed
"The problem we have now is that it's too wet to get the equipment down to the creek."
He said crew worked until about 2:30 p.m. Saturday, but were forced to wait until this morning to make further attempts at cleanup.
Precipitation ended late Saturday, and with yesterday's warmer temperatures, Glotzbach said the ground probably would be dry enough by this morning to allow the movement of equipment to the creek.
He said the state would determine sometime this week whether any soil would be excavated after the removal of creek water was completed.
Gerald Oroke, chairman of the Leavenworth County Hazardous Materials Committee, said Pony Creek intersects Nine Mile Creek about one-quarter of a mile south of
the turnpike and although it did have some water in it, it wasn't flowing at the time the spill cured.
Nonetheless, Oroke said, he and members of the Fairmount Township fire department had built an earthen dike on Pony Creek about 200 yards from where it intersected Nine Mile Creek to contain the chemical in case of a sudden rainstorm. The chemical floats on water.
Nine Mile Creek flows into the Kansas River, which runs through Lawrence. The Lawrence water supply is in no danger. Water from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The dike was built under Glotzbach's direction.
The load of Sonolan, an agricultural herbicide, was bound for a Farmland Industries plant in Kansas City, Mo. from a company in Omaha, Neb., Orroke said.
The driver of the truck suffered minor injuries in the accident.
$15,000 donation collected by Revue
By Julie Adam
Kansan staff writer
Hard work really does pay off
Hard work really does pay off. At least it did for the participants of the Rock Chalk Revue, who raised the most money in donations in the 38 years of the revue, $15,000, to go to the Lawrence United Way.
This year's theme was "The Untold Story."
The Rock Chalk Revue team of Gamma Phi Beta sorority and Sigma Nu fraternity won eight of the 10 Rock Chalk awards, which were given out Saturday. Their skit, "X-Plain-Y," was about a couple expecting a baby. The main characters were an "X" chromosome and a "Y" chromosome, who debated the sex of the baby The chorus members, also chromosomes, debated other characteristics of the baby.
The Gamma Phi Beta/Sigma Nu team won the most charitable award for raising about $10,800 in ticket sales, said Carl Johnson, director for the group.
The Gamma Phi Beta/Sigma Nu team won awards for best script, best original song, best production number, best overall production and most charitable. Amy Christian, Lawrence senior, won best female performer, and Susan Crawford, Lawrence junior, won best supporting actress.
Johnson said both Gamma Phi Beta and Sigma Nu were surprised that they won the eight awards.
The Delta Gamma sorority and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity team won the other two awards with their skirt "Fourth Floor." Brad Claffin, Overland Park senior, was named best male performer and Mike Reynolds, Hutchinson senior, was named best supporting actor.
"We were really overwhelmed," he said. "We were hoping the awards would be more spread out."
Dave Shaffer, business manager for the revue, said the revue raised approximately $38,000 this year. He said that at least $15,000 would be donated and possibly more after he paid expenses and figured out the exact profit the three-day show raised.
This year's donation was the highest ever, Shaeffer said. Last year's donation was $12,000.
KU GOP leader voted alternate
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By Jill Jess Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The chairman of KU College Republicans was chosen Saturday as an alternate delegate to the National Republican Convention at the state convention here.
Brenda Eisele, Fredonia sophmore, was selected as one of 14 alternates to the convention, which will be in August in New Orleans. Eisele also was elected recently as state chairman of the College Republicans.
She said that different age groups would be represented at the national convention.
"They usually try to get college students," Eisele said. "They feel that younger people can relate better to other young people."
She said that the KU College Republicans planned to support the Dole campaign at a national meeting of the organization in Kansas City at the end of this month. Eisele said that the KU chapter would encourage other chapters to support Dole.
Fourteen delegates, including Gov. Mike Hayden and Sen. Nancy London Kassaebum, R-Kan., were chosen Saturday. Fourteen alternates also were chosen. Of all the delegates and alternates chosen, only one alternate position had more than one candidate.
All 34 Kansas delegates, 20 of whom were chosen at district conventions Feb. 20, have signed letters of commitment to Dole.
Dole said in a telephone call to the convention from Jefferson City, Mo., that he was optimistic about his position in the race going into Super Tuesday. He said that although he might not get as many votes as had been expected in some Southern states, he thought that he had an overall advantage over Vice President George Bush
"It's a choice between someone with a record and someone with a resume." Dole said.
He said that he thought his chances were best in states with rural communities.
"The Dole method will sell wherever there are farmers." Dole said.
in addition to Hayden and Kassaeum, delegates chosen were; Fred Logan Jr., state GOP chairman; Kansas Speaker of the House Jim Braden, Clay Center; state GOP vice chairman Mary Alice Lair, Piqua; national GOP committee members Jack Ranson, Wichita, and Marynell Reece, Scandia; state GOP treasurer Duane Nightingale, Topea; state GOP secretary Janet Boisseau, Wichita; state Rep. Rochelle Chronin, Needosha; Mia Daw-
Lawrence City Commissioner Sandra Praeger congratulates Brenda Eisele, Fredonia sophomore. Eisele was selected as one of the 14 alternative delegates to the Republican National Convention.
son, Topeka; Wyandotte County GOP vice chairman Adolph Howard, Kansas City; Hayden's legal counsel, John Peterson, Overland Park; and Judy Kay, Lawrence, the director of Dole's regional office in Topeka.
Pineapple pins finance Dole supporters' campaign trips
Kansan staff writer
By Jill Jess
TOPEKA — Larry Rogers wanted to hit the road with the Bob Dole candidate to show his support for the senator who served sodas in Rogers' drug store in Russell.
So he decided to kill two birds with one stone. In meeting a demand he saw for Dole souvenirs, he has been able to trek the campaign trail while helping spread the word about Dole.
phernalia could be found, Rogers said.
When Dole went to Russell to announce his candidacy for president in November, no Dole para-
But now, five months later, supporters of Kansas' favorite son candidate can purchase anything from a gold lapel pin featuring a pineapple and "Dole '88" to a T-shirt reading "Dole supporters are winners," all thanks to Rogers and the Dale Dole fan from his hometown.
Rogers and Robert McCurd, president of the Russell chamber of commerce, decided that the souvenir market was the perfect way to finance trips along the campaign trail as well as to make
the Dole name visible.
"You put one lapel pin or one sweatshirt or one hat or one pin on someone, and you can't even count the number of people that are going to read the Dole name in one day." Rogers said.
Proceeds from the souvenir sales help pay for travel expenses. Money left over will go to the Dole Foundation, Rogers said.
He said that demand for the paraphernalia had been extraordinary.
"Everybody wants something to do with Bob Dole." Rogers said.
people from Russell helped to sell the souvenirs across the country. He and Rogers said that their wives were in St. Louis on Saturday, selling campaign souvenirs and rounding up support for Dole.
Rogers said that supporters from Russell had been to Iowa, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Missouri, North Caroina and Oklahoma, selling paraphernalia and campaigning for Dole.
McCurdy said that about 12
Rogers said that if Dole won the candidacy at the National Convention in New Orleans in August, the senator probably would come to Russell to announce he his running mate would be.
"It's not for sure," Rogers said. "But he has hinted at it to me."
Rogers OI' Dawson Drug Store in Russell advertises that "Bob Dole Served Sodas Here."
When Dole was in Russell in November he went back to his old place of employment and served sodas again to begin his caimania.
Rogers said that the latest item in Dole-wear had sprung from the event.
"Dole soda pins — I don't know why we didn't think of them earlier," he said.
Bush campaign reaches Missouri after S.C. victory
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Confident after his victory in the South Carolina primaries, Vice President George Bush yesterday tried his luck at miniature golf and urged Missourians to vote during the Super Tuesday primaries.
hopeful arrived at the Kansas City downtown airport shortly after 2 p.m. yesterday and told about 30 supporters that his brother lived in St. Louis and his mother was born and raised in Missouri.
back to Missouri feeling pretty good about what happened in South Carolina yesterday," Bush said, adding that he was confident about the Missouri primaries on March 8.
"So I can kind of claim I'm one of you," Bush told the cheering crowd.
The Republican presidential
"I under-determined what we'd do in South Carolina," he said. "I don't want to give this area away to anybody."
Bush won almost 50 percent of the vote in the South Carolina Republican primary Saturday. He said he was now concentrating on March 8, the so-called Super Tuesday when states hold primaries or caucuses.
After speaking at the airport, Bush spent about an hour in a mall in
"As you can imagine, I'm coming
North Kansas City where he paid $1 for five tries at a miniature golf green — failing to sink a shot.
"I might urge you all to vote," he said. "Missouri is right smack in the middle of the radar on Super Tuesday.
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