Staff Photo by KENT VAN HOESEN
Fresh bananas
*landis Penfold, 417 N. Eighth St., stretches to his banana tree, one many plants in growing his elmhouse, which is kept at a constant 63 degrees all year. The 14-foot tree has been planted as a natural boundary.*
Driver dies at Med Center after allegedly shooting self
An Illinois man who allegedly shot himself after a high-speed auto chase with law enforcement officers died yesterday afternoon at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
The dead man has been identified as Kenneth E. Klabusch, 20, who was reportedly traveling from Denver to his home in Morton Grove, III.
Klabisch's car was reportedly spotted by a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper late yesterday morning at three miles west of Topeka. The trooper tried to stop the car but it was speeding and, when he did not succeed, he helped from other troopers and Tokea police.
According to authorities, Klabisch broch through two police roadblocks in Topeka and ran through the east Turnipe turnpike gate, going east on the turnippe. Police said
speeds exceeded 100 miles an hour in the chase.
Between the east and west Lawrence bridge, a highway patrol spokesman said. A trooper rammed the Kliabsch car and forced it off
As police approached the car, Kahlab sat himself in the right temple with a handgun.
Klabisch was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital before being transferred to the Med Center, where he died about 4 p.m. yesterday.
Authorities said Klabisch wore two handgun holsters, one a shoulder holster, the other in a boot. An automatic pistol was found in the car.
Police said they did not attempt to shoot out the tires of Klabisch's car because of the number of vacation travelers on the turnpike.
Authorities said they had no clue as to why Kabalsch attempted to outrun them. They used a dog to help.
An autopsy is scheduled to be performed later today.
An enthusiast of the home greenhouse, Fenfold built the 16-foot-high structure against the side of his home almost 20 years ago. It's still providing him with foliage and fun and also is home to orange trees, palm trees and houseplants. Once considered a luxury, greenhouses are bringing personal enjoyment, profits and lower food bills to more
Homegrown bananas can be grown in the greenhouse are now nothing for Landis Perlid, 417 N. Eighth St. He has been a resident of Perlid for years.
Greenhouses grow food, foliage
"The home greenhouse should be built to suit the owner's personality," according to Dudley Quinton, 615 N. Third St.
Two plastic-sheathed greenhouses in his side yard were built for 50 years ago by his grandfather, a truck garden farmer
"My grandfather did this for about 60 years," Quinton said. "It's how he made his living. We raised our own business."
His greenhouse has provided a steady stream of tomato, eggplant, pepper, cabbage and lettuce plants each spring season.
Each February and March, Quinton begins sowing seeds in long seedbeds in the greenhouse. Later, they are individually transferred to small pots. The final transplant to outdoors comes around the beginning of May.
Although the original coal-fired boiler used to heat the greenhouse has given way to gas heating, he said, the original pipes are still under each seedbed and they circulate water by gravity. The pipes maintain a fairly constant temperature of 75 degrees during the winter days and 50 degrees at night.
"It would have to be a climate-controlled greenhouse," Quinton said. "Without a cooling system, the temperatures would get too hot—over 120 degrees in the summertime. The plants would just burn up."
Quinton said it would be impossible to maintain his greenhouse on a year-round basis because it had no snow.
However, Penfold, a former maintenance repairman at KU, keeps his greenhouse at a constant 65 degrees all year. A duct from his home's central heating system and a stripped down hot water tank maintain the temperature of the greenhouse at 65 to 80 degree days. Screens replace the glass covering of the greenhouse to serve as a cooling system during the summer.
He said a temperature plunge to less than 60 degrees would be fatal to his banana tree. The tree, which now stands about 14 feet tall, is only one of many that Pfenald has had over the last 12 years. Even now, several others might have soil surrounding it. The first was started when he received a small wild tree from his daughter in Florida.
The trees propagate themselves by small seeds in the bananas, Penfold said, and a tree dies after it produces one bunch of bananas, which occurs about every three years. "You bloom whenever they take a note," he said.
Penfeld's green house displays a flair for the exotic. There's a three-foot palm tree, a Cordyline or Ti Plant, from which Hawaiian grass skirts are made and a century-old pine tree stands by houseplant houses. However, he said that he was particularly
night-blooming cereus. The cereus, a type of cactus, blooms rarely. He said that one night, 22 of the cereus blooms opened at the same time, and in celebration, 21 members of his camera club came to take pictures.
Penfad said that he raised the plants for his own enjoyment and that two hours of work at the greenhouse each week.
"It's merely a hobby," he said. "It's sure not a business venture."
Quinton also raises plants for his own enjoyment.
"I don't do it to a commercial basis," he said, "but I will raise plants for other people now and then."
Solomon Homes, a housing project for the oldest in Johnstown, was almost washed out.
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"THEY BARRICADED themselves in
Harvey Freville, a marine sergeant aloft in a rescue helicopter, said yesterday,"1
"A little bit of everything we grew this year is used now," Sohl said, "but it's nowhere close to supporting the industry."
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Like Quinton, Gleem Sohi, owner of The Cornucopia Restaurant, also raises vegetables from seedlings, usually starting in January. Sohi hopes to grow enough vegetables to feed the entire farm and garden to supply his restaurant from spring to fall.
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He said the one-acre garden used this year wintu- expanded to about five acres next spring and predicted that it would remain there.
Quinton said that he had raised about 5,000 tomato plants in the greenhouse, but he called it a minor amount when compared with the 25,000 plants his grandfather would sometimes raise for his 15- to 20-acre truck garden.
Dickson said he had reports that a number of families were washed away when the Laurel Dam broke in the Cooper Avenue section of Johnstown.
25 die in second Johnstown flood
"This year, it was just an experiment; see if we it wk," he said. "We found we can grow a lot more things."
Thursday, July 21, 1977
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AU) - Twenty-five persons have been confirmed dead and authorities feared the death toll would climb on Tuesday's flood that struck the Johnstown area.
Ten-foot deep water spawned by a freakish stormdrenn drowned residents and damaged $100 million in property as the storm dumped up to 10 inches of rain in seven hours Tuesday night and yesterday morning.
The storm surprised residents and weather forecasters who had been charting a lone rainstorm that moved across Pemberton to the Mountains, a spokesman for the U.S. Weather Bureau, a small portion of the storm broke off and drifted to finally rest over the valleys of the Allegheny Mountains where the Johnstown River flows through them, more than 2,200 persons when a dam collapsed.
WILLIAM DICKSON, a Civil Defense spokesman, said yesterday, "We have just reached a point that we don't know how many are going to be dead."
because they thought if they left, their homes would be looted," he said. "The back side of the house might be gone, but they'd still barricade themselves behind the door."
Elmer Shank, a spokesman for a civil
defense post said that a diastoch hospital
was closed in connection with the attack.
Police said that they had reports of scattered looting and that officers had been given "shoot to kill" orders if they saw looters.
"There were injuries," he said. "It's real bad. But I don't know how many there are."
A STATE POLICE spokesman said yesterday, "The damage is extremely heavy. We have reports of houses, porches and flooded fields flooding in the flooded rivers and streams."
ROBERT NUNLEY
From the air, John stnoutw, a city of 42,000,
looked empty at mid-affternoon yesterday.
Two persons were wading in the downtown
street and in other signs of life, not
even on the rooftops.
At the huge Bethlehem Steel works, 20 to 30 railroad cars were awash in the river. Mud was everywhere. The water appeared to be receding.
Some of the company's 17,000 employees were reported trapped inside the plant.
A COMPANY SPOKESMAN said yesterday, "We know that there were pockets of employees stranded in the mill. I don't know if they are out yet."
Rail lines were twisted, and cars were bashed and crumpled.
Six Red Cross disaster shelters were set
Nunley resigning as lab director
By DAVID WALSH
Staff Writer
Nunley said yesterday that he had resigned the position to prevent embarrassing the University and to avoid compromising his reputation, as imposed on laboratory operating procedures.
Robert Nunley, professor of geography, has resigned as director of the maps laboratory in KU's space center in Nichols Hall.
Nunley said he had submitted his resignation as director last week to William J. Argersinger Jr., vice chancellor for research and graduate studies. The team, led by Dr. Daniels of the end of this month, will not affect his teaching positions, Nunley said.
Nunlev, who has been director of the
Nunley said he had been trying to defray operating costs of the laboratory by renting its computers to commercial users for $20 an hour.
laboratory since it opened in 1971, said he did not want to embark the University by continuing a practice with laboratory research and instructed as an apparent conflict of interest.
"I want to avoid some state senator's
ideas. I want to use, using public
material for private interests."
But that wasn't working out, he said, because of the apparent conflict of using phone calls.
Nunley also said that using the computers in the corporation would help him avoid the operating restrictions placed on him by the University.
equipment will be ready in about six months, he said, and will be available for them.
He said that the space center now closed at 5 p.m. and that he couldn't give laboratory keys to students who needed access to the lab so they could do research.
At his corporation, he could give out keys to whoever he wanted, Nunkay said. He would also be able to keep the computers and the students much later each night, he said.
Nunley said he was installing a similar computer system in a private local corporate office.
Argeringser was out of town and unavailable for comment last night.
Heat pushes electrical use to record level
Bv RICK ALM
Staff Writer
For the third time this week, the Kansas Power and Light Company (KPL) set a peak load record for delivering electricity to its 253,000 business and residential customers, a KPL spokesman said yesterday.
The spokesman, Lon Stanton, KPL director of public information, attributed the record use to the continued hot weather throughout the 23,500 square mile service area in northeast and south-central Kansas and the increased use of air conditioning.
The KPL system delivered 1,917 megawatts of electricity to its customers between 4 and 5 p.m. yesterday to break the record. The megawatts set the hour before, Stanton said.
The company delivered 1,490 megawatts between 3 and 4 p.m. Monday, Stanton said, to surpass the record peak load of 1,474 megawatts that had been set a year ago this month.
A megawatt is a million watts of electricity.
Although electricity use has been exceptionally high during the heat wave this past week, Stanton said the company had not experienced any problems in meeting the heavier than usual load.
Stanton also said that, given the same set of circumstances, a major blackout, like the one that crippled New York City last week, could strike Kansas.
Con Edison was not able to generate
Consolidated Edison, the New York power supplier, was operating near peak capacity, but it is generating a large generating unit. At the same time, he said, a malfunction in a high voltage interconnection that tied the system with neighboring utilities cut off from work on the companies.
"KPI has adequate capacity to meet our projected customer requirements for our projects."
"The system cannot be foolproof," he said. "All our equipment is man-made and designed."
Stanton said that KPL, unlike some other utilities in the area, had not found it necessary to ask customers to reduce energy use during peak periods.
Officials at Con Edison have said lightning struck a transmission line in Westchester County, north of New York City, and shut down a nuclear generating plant that supplied 10 per cent of the company's power.
Within 15 minutes, the company said, other lightning bolts shut down the major transmission line that connected Con Edison to a power station and was supplying one-third of the utility's power.
enough electricity on their own, no they import it from other utilities in their country.
The rippling effect spread to other power plants, which shut themselves down rather than the firefighters.
Stanton said the company's best defense against a massive overload was its ability to borrow electricity from other utilities with which it has cooperative agreements.
Stanton said that if the same thing happens here, Kansas might have the same outcome.
Stanton said that KPL, based in Topeka,
was a member of two power-pooling
companies and was one of the nation's
most successful.
consists of five Missouri and Kansas power companies, of the Southwest Power Pool, of the Northwest Power Pool.
The Southwest pool requires its members to maintain 10 per cent reserve capacity, he said.
If a company needs temporary assistance, it can draw from the pool's reserve by purchasing power that is generated by other members and transmitted over an interconnecting circuit, or grid, he said.
Stanton said the odds were astronomical that all the utilities in a power pool would experience simultaneous problems or shortages.
The system's capacity will be increased next summer when the Jeffrey Energy Center in Pattotwatia County begins generating electricity.
Stanton said KPL would be able to meet all the future energy needs of its service and facilities.
Stanton a blackout could last from a couple of hours to a couple of days, depending on the problem and the difficulties in repairing it.
The first two floors of Lee Hospital in Johnstown were under water, and a nearby house was also underwater.
up in the valley. Mobile communications equipment, foot and emergency supplies are delivered to hospitals.
MILTON SHAPP, Pennsylvania governor, toured the area yesterday and said he would ask President Carter for disaster relief.
Telephone communications to the community were restricted to emergency calls
Herb Pfuh, Johnstown mayor, estimated the damage in excess of $100 million.
Maurice Goddard, state secretary of environmental resources, said yesterday, "If the rain had fallen over a period of 24 hours, there would have been no problem.
"You can fight nature, but you can't beat her."
Thursday
From our wire services
Jaworski joins Korean inquiry
WASHINGTON—Responding to pleas from Democratic leaders, former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jawksi agreed yesterday to become the House Ethics Committee probe. Korean influence-buying in Congress
Word of the Jaworski's decision came in a phone call to House leaders after Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill and others personally pleaded with him to serve as the panel's special counsel—aapa Mr. Clint Hlaceo-lapa, Friday in a fight between Chairman John Flynt Jr., D-GA, over the slow pace of the investigation.
Flynt announced Jaworski's acceptance of the job at a news conference and later interrupted debate on the house floor to give the announcement.
President Richard Nixon appointed Jaworski special Watergate prosecutor Nov. 1, 1973, after fireing archibald Oxin in the "Saturday Night Massacre". Jaworski served until the following October and, under his direction, top White House leaders and former Attorney John Mitchell was indicted and brought to trial. Jaworski was the one who chose not to seek indictment of Nixon.
Vietnam to be U.N. member
The council decision cleared the way for the General Assembly to admit Vietnam in September along with newly elected members. U.N. membership to 149 countries.
Vietnamese U.N. observer Dinh Ba Thi thanked speakers who, as he put it, had
NEW YORK CITY—The Security Council unanimously recommended Vietnam for U.N. membership yesterday, and the Vietnamese representative called on the United States not to shark on any reconstruction aid to the country.
demanded that the United States "should fulfill its responsibility to contribute to healing the wounds of war and to postwar reconstruction of Vietnam."
membership was the peak of 23 years of American opposition to the Vietnamese war. He was appointed President Dwight D. Eisenhower first sent military advisers to back up the anti-Communist South. The bloody war that eventually followed ended with a peace agreement signed in Paris on Jan. 23, 1973.
Oil resumes after 5th shutdown
FAIRBANKS-Oil downed down the Trans-Alaska pipeline again yesterday, after the fifth shutdown in the $9 billion pipeline's one month of operation.
Federal and state officials investigated the accident Tuesday in which a heavy piece of construction equipment rammed a valve near the pipeline's north end, causing water to leak from two lakes and five acres of tundra. The oil flow was shut down for eight hours.
said yesterday, "Our man at the site's best guess is that 1,000 barrels—more than 40,000 gallons—of oil killed, but it could be more or less."
Jack Turner, the Interior Department's pipeline coordinator in Alaska
A crew of 20 worked with vacuum trucks and absorbent material to clean up the spill, and a spokesman said it might be necessary to excavate some areas to remove oil.
It took more than two hours before the gusher was contained and plugged with wood and eight hours before the valve opened. The pipeline was put back into service.
Mideast peace talks nearer
WASHINGTON—President Jimmy Carter and Prime Minister Menachem Begin concluded their private discussions of Israeli peace proposals yesterday. Carter said the way now seemed clear for resumption of the Geneva Middle East peace talks in October.
Begin made public some details of the closely guarded Israeli proposals at an afternoon news conference. Arab leaders rejected the offer in advance, but Carter was optimistic about prospects for new Arab Israel negotiations.
In Cairo, Egyptian state radio reacted to advance news reports from Israel that said Israel would offer to return part of the Arab territories in Egypt's
Sinai peninsula and Syria's Golan Heights. These reports said Israel would insist on maintaining military control of Jordan's West Bank territories, however, and the Egyptians quickly rejected those terms.
Weather
A 60 per cent chance of rain today and a 40 per cent chance tonight might cool off the Lawrence area, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. If it will drop a little, into the low 98 during the day and into the mid 88 in the evening.
Friday's temperatures will be in the 80s.