Millions swelter in prolonged 2,000-mile heat wave
By The Associated Press
From Long Island Sound to the Rockies, millions sweltered in temperatures of 90 degrees or more yesterday as a prolonged 2,000-mile heat wave hit power systems, threaten crops and kill poultry.
The National Weather Service said no extended relief was in sight before Friday.
New York city, already under a water alert, recorded its sixth consecutive day of above 90-degree temperatures. At 100 degrees, it was the hottest day in 11 years.
CONSOLIDATED EDITION, the power company whose generating failures had put the city through a 25-hour blackout only last Wednesday and Thursday, appealed to New Yorkers to conserve energy.
A power company in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region made a similar appeal in a region covering those cities and parts of four Midwestern states. Forest fires blazed in Montana, Utah and New Mexico.
Cincinnati remained under an air pollution alert declared over the weekend.
IN INDINA, the average temperature for the state has been 90 degrees for 10 days, and the forecast called for temperatures to remain in that range for the rest of the week.
Walter Stirm of Purdue University said beef and dairy production were down in Indiana, and the heat could reduce fields of corn and soybeans, the state's two largest cash crops.
Columbia, S.C., has had temperatures in the 90s all month, and had six consecutive days of over-100-degree temperatures earlier this month. Farmers near there are pressing for disaster relief.
In Tennessee, officials of the Tennessee Valley Authority said their huge power-powering system has been built to deal with Thursday—presumably from demand for air-conditioning—and it had to buy power from other states.
POWER SYSTEMS in New England were selling power to New York, and a spoonful of the system's water was flowing from there as far south as Maryland, where Baltimore swelled under temperatures near 100
More than 80,000 chickens were reported dead from the heat at two of the main poultry farms in the country.
A spokesman for *Massachusetts Poultry Association* has warned the similar poultry breed, and a kind of egg to be kept in ice.
New Englanders suffered under the same heat over
the weekend, and an after-hours swimmer drowned early Monday at a Boston municipal pool.
THE AREA RECEIVED a bit of relief yesterday from Canadaian air pushing south. But a spokesman for the National Weather Service in New York said the relief would be very short-lived.
The National Weather Service said the heat has been caused by a high-pressure system bringing hot, moist air from the South into an area stretching from the Rockies to the Eastern Seaboard.
Individual days of such temperatures are not unusual anywhere in the country, the weather service spokesman, Mike Payne, said. But, he said, "We don't normally put together strings of days when the temperature hits 90 or higher for too long a period of time."
Temperatures turned a bit cooler yesterday in Missoula, Mont., giving hope to a crew of 200 workers trying to contain a 1,400-acre forest fire above Patise Lake. The Montana Bureau said the fire might be fully contained today.
"THE WEATHER IS beautiful, for us, anyway," he said. "It looks like rain."
Blazed in Utah and Wyoming.
Other fires blazed in Philadelphia and Wyoming. Major efforts to stop youngsters from starting on fire
The heavy demand on power companies prompted the Northern States Power Co. in Minneapolis-St. Paul to issue an energy alert yesterday for parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota.
hydrants in the streets without city-supplied sprinkler cans to save water.
"WEVE ASKED all our customers to cut down on nonessential use of electricity between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m."
Still, there were few other reports of immediate
news that demand would exceed generating
The power company said it could put backup generators into use if necessary, but wanted to avoid that because they burn more expensive fuel and would force prices up. Two iron and steel firms were cut off from power. They buy electricity at a special rate, which is more susceptible to interruption when demand is high.
A spokesman for the Federal Power Commission in Washington said power companies throughout the United States had built a substantial reserve capacity in the last decade—now 29.2 per cent above anticipated peak load. In 1965 some areas had only 12 per cent to 15 per cent.
THUS AT THE Tennessee Valley Association, when
demand topped 21 million kilowattles last Thursday—about 80 per cent of the theoretical capacity of 25 or 26 million kilowatties—the company was able to buy the equipment. The idea was to protect its own reserve capacity.
"You don't have everything running at once," a spokesman said. "You don't wait until you are out before you start buying power. We had about as much as we could handle."
Georgia Power, serving the Atlanta area, also set an all-time record for consumption—8.9 million kilowatts—last Thursday. But little concern was expressed about that area's ability to meet its electricity needs. In the southeastern region, as a whole, the发电 generating margin is 2.9 per cent.
The area with the greatest reserve margin now is a region including New York State and New England, with 41.1 per cent. That with the lowest is Illinois and part of Missouri, with 17.1 per cent.
In Boston, the heat prompted some people to us the city's municipal pools after hours, and in the Roxbury section, David Ferguson of Boston drowned early Monday.
Police said they had chased swimmers from the pool four times in the early morning hours. At one time, a man
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KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Summertime brings mishaps
Tuesday, July 19, 1977
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Oldfather to head school board; KU alum named basketball coach
Routine reorganization procedures, the hiring of a new basketball coach and preliminary budget action for the 1977-78 season, were approved by the Lawrence Board of Education.
Oldfather Oldwoman was elected to succeed
Hack as board president. Martinis
Moschitzki and others were elected.
The board hired a KU alumnus and former assistant coach, Robert Frederick, as the new head basketball coach for Lawrence High School.
Frederick has been an assistant basketball coach at Stanford University. He has also coached in Russell, Coffeville, in the area and at Brigham Young University.
Frederick received his bachelor's degree in both social studies and chemistry and his master's degree in administration from KU. He was a coach under Ted Owens, head basketball coach, during the 1971-72 school year.
Frederick will be paid $14,557 a year. In
addition to the coaching job, he will teach five general physical science courses.
Frederick will replace Ron Lang, who resigned his coaching position early last month. Lang, who will remain as a teacher at LHS, had faced charges of discrimination against black athletes and reportedly beaten measures from these charges to his resignation.
Howard Walker, representing the Community School Issues Forum (CSIF), a group that has concerned itself with discrimination in Lawrence schools, told the board, "I've heard everything about it and I can communicate with his fellow man."
Bill Wilson, director of secondary education and personnel, said, that Frederick had been highly recommended by many sources and that the interviewing committee had talked with nine applicants before selecting Frederick.
Earlier in the meeting, Walker had read to the board a letter from CSF requesting that the company review its plan.
Tuesday
From our wire services
Begin arrives with 'peace plan'
WASHINGTON—Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel arrived yesterday for talks with President Jimmy Carter carrying what he called a "complete Mideast peace plan" and asking the United States to deepen friendship with the United States.
Begin is expected to ask Carter to shelve his proposals for almost total Israel withdrawal from occupied Arab territories.
Begin flew in from New York on a plane supplied by Carter. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was at Airbnb's
Force Base to greet the prime minister and his wife. Aliza.
Pentagon drafts antiunion rules
Carter appears to hope the secret peace plan that Begin is bringing reflects a softening of the prime minister's determination to retain control of the west bank of the Jordan River and Gaza.
WASHINGTON—The Pentagon is drafting regulations aimed at curbing the activities of union organizers in the arsenal of labor unions. The army chief of staff, said yesterday.
Began said on his arrival that he hoped a U.S.-israel friendship would deepen and that during his visit, progress would be made to real peace.
The three scheduled talks with Carter begin today at the White House.
Another witness, Vice Adm. James Watkins, the Navy's servant chief said, it was highly possible that steps could be taken to prevent soldiers in unions leave the end of the year.
Rogers said Pentagon leaders were becoming increasingly worried over the possibility of military unions.
Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Rogers said that while there was no immediate threat, "we could wake us sometime and find half
Pentagon officials are reluctant to ban military unions outright for fear it will be declared unconstitutional. Nevertheless, Sen. Strom Tharmond, R-S-C., is seeking congressional passage for such a prohibition.
Pipeline operators immediately began the process of starting the oil flow southward. The process was expected to take several hours.
WASHINGTON—Interior  Secretary Cecil Andrus yesterday approved the resumption of the oil flow through the wells from the state-owned down since a July 8 explosion and fire.
of the companies organized in many parts of the army."
NEW YORK—Battling a losing streak and an injury jinx, the American League limps into Tuesday night's 48th annual All-Star Game seeking a solution to the National League's almost total domination of the midseason game.
The interior secretary said the department's Alaska Pipeline Office
Oil flow resumes in Alaska
said special problems of discrimination existed against black students.
Baseball
Walker asked that the board meet with the CSIF or other concerned community organizations to discuss problems and take action. Walker found an incident in which a black student's books
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reported that the blast, which killed one worker and injured five others, was caused by human error, not defects in the lineline.
Andrus said the Alysak Pipeline Service Co., which owns and operates the line, was told to take steps to make sure that its operating plans and the U.S. government's requirements are followed "both in letter and in spirit."
The National league, which holds a 28-18 lead in the series, has won five in a row and 13 of the last 14 games.
Weather
Temperatures will continue to reach the upper 90s today and tomorrow, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. No break in the hot weather is foreseen throughout the weeks unless lows are expected to be in the 80s.
Loan money unavailable for fall semester
By DONNA KIRK Staff Writer
The Student Financial Aid Office has no money available for the fall semester, something that may come as a surprise for new students who plan to seek financial aid to pay for tuition, room and board and books.
New students can't expect to obtain University funds to pay schooling expenses this far, according to the number of Student Financial Aid, because the funds have already been allocated to earlier applicants. The financial aid application deadline was Feb. 16.
"We're just all out of money," Rogers said recently. "The only thing students can do now is see whether they qualify for College Work-Study, a Basic Educational Opportunity Grant or for a Guaranteed Student Loan."
Loans are awarded in amounts up to $2,500 annually for undergraduates and up to $5,000 a year for graduates and professional students. The loans bear a simple seven per cent interest from the date of the loan until full repayment. If a student fails to repay the loan than $2,500, he is automatically eligible for federal interest payment.
Rogers said that students who wanted to apply for a guaranteed loan should apply as soon as possible, because the paperwork to process the loan takes six to eight weeks.
He advised students to apply for a guaranteed loan through their hometown financial institutions. Some Lawrence students were told they could be said, because there's too much demand.
I hear it!
staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
Getting to first base may not seem hard unless you are playing with the ball. The defense is a tough challenge in Quantrill Raiders last night in a match of sightless baseball.
Glenn West, Executive Director of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, could hear the buzzing base, but had a hard time hearing it.
Mary Manor Arargersinger was guided to the plate and handed a bat at last night's Celebrity Beep Baseball game at Holcom Sports Complex.
Celebrities' errors blind them as they lose to Raiders, 9-1
"I haven't done this in 30 years," she said.
Blindfolded, before a crowd of 200, she
wiped off.
She missed.
"Marrine, you hit that ball like you shoot treeworks." Hirst Boot of Bohl 87LK radio told
When City Manager Buford Watson's turn came, he slammed the beeping ball into the field, pulled off his blindfold, and began to run.
But that's against the rules. By the time he replaced the blindfold and found his way, on his knees, to the buzzing base, a bish player had the ball in his hands. Watson was
Later, in the field, Ted Owens, KU's head basketball coach, stumbled over the
In beep baseball, all players who aren't totally blind must wear blindfolds. A beeping ball and buzzing bases guide them during the game.
ball he was searching for and a blind player made it sure to base.
Quantrill's Raiders, Lawrence's blind team, beat the celebrities 9-1. Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, scored the celebrities' only point.
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Clerk saves registration plan wouldn't increase turnout
County voters today will decide the fate of $8.4 million in general obligation bonds to pay for the construction of the Clinton water treatment plant, which would supply Lawrence and three rural water districts in additional 10 million gallons of water a day.
Delbert Mathia, Douglas County clerk,
said yesterday that President Jimmy
Carter's plan to require states to register
voters on election day probably would not
increase the turnout in today's special
election.
Mathia said, however, that he had no doubt that election day registration, if passed into law, would increase voter turnout. The new regulationsActions when national offices are at stake.
Carter's election reform package, which includes the registration provision, is currently stalled in Congress, where it is receiving heavy opposition from Republicans and some big city political organizations.
Although he generally favors making it easier for people to vote, Mathia said, the mechanics of election day registration might cause some problems.
He is concerned about long lines at the
polls because nonregistered voters would take longer to process, he said.
Election day congestion and problems would probably increase over the years as more people chose to register on election day, he said.
Another problem yet to be worked out, he
said, is spacing the type of identification
for each entry.
Mathia also said election officials would have to determine where a voter will cast his vote once he was registered—at the place of registration or in his precinct.
Current laws provide for registration books to close 20 days prior to election day.
There are 34,000 registered voters in Douglas County, Mathia said, but he expects only 3,400 to 4,000 of them to vote in todays election.
Although the city has 29 election precints, Mathia said, only 20 would be open today, the usual practice in city, school and special elections.
Polling places, which will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., are:
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Election returns guide bond issue
If returns from today's repeat bond election are similar to election returns last spring, when voters approved by a four to one vote, they will be eligible for the Clinton water treatment plant, city commissioners will authorize a bond sale for the plant at tonight's city commission
Commissioners said final approval is likely to be given for refinancing of
Commissioners also will consider two other bond issues, an ordinance outlawing bottle rotters within city limits, two planning commission items and a resolution for removal of two vacant houses considered unsafe by housing authorities.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital revenue bonds to lower interest rates, and commissioners said they might also approve the issuance of $500,000 of industrial revenue bonds for expansion of E and E Specialities, 910 E. 29th St.
Because of numerous fires on the Fourth of July and the prodding of a Lawrence resident, an ordinance prohibiting the burning of Christmas trees in city limits will come before the commission.
Also to be considered by commissioners is the Westridge Planned Community School. Children are by Childrens Hour, Inc., to operate a nursery school near Maine and Fourth streets.
The planning commission has recommended that city commissioners approve the site plan for the nursery school, but residents in the area have voiced disappoint,批评 undisable noise, a small lot area, traffic problems and spot zoning.
Also to be considered is a resolution for the removal of two vacant houses, one at 1308 New Jersey St., the other at 1233 Prairie St. Members of the East and Far Farmer Associations associations complained to city officials about the houses deteriorating conditions.
The commission meeting will be at 8 a.m. on the north floor of the First National Bank Tower.