THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
He tows cars not quite all day
Thursday, July 7, 1977
Vol.87,No.156
See story page four
Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
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This boy found a much different perspective on the fields at 23rd and Iowa streets by viewing them from a higher position.
From our wire services
Thursday
'Citizen' postal rate proposed
WASHINGTON—Postmaster General Benjamin Ballar proposed yesterday to raise first-class postage rates to 16 cents and give the agency individuals to continue paying 13 cents.
Bailar said the dual rate system for first-class mail and other increases in rates for services proposed at the same time could almost erase the Postal Service's deficit, projected at $2.4 billion during the next fiscal year.
To qualify for the 13-cent "citizen rate," a letter would have to have either
the return address or the delivery address handwritten. Both addresses would have to include zip codes, and the envelope would have to be of a standard shape and size that postal-processing machines could handle.
Ballar also said the proposal of a cheaper rate to second-class mailers who pre-sort their mail and meet several other conditions "was an attempt to boost their business and compete we face" from private firms selling营销-delivery services.
Bomb blasts Israeli market
FETAH TQIVA, Israel - A pipe bomb planted under a vegetable stand exploded and ripped through a bustling open-air market in this Tel Aviv suburb yesterday, injuring 21 persons, five of whom were the city's worst伤害 in 14 months.
Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin has said that he views the Israeli-occupied West Bank, just five miles from here, as historically Jewish land and that he favors establishment of Israeli settlements there.
for the attack, say the bomb was its answer "to Begin's policy of creating new settlements in Palestine."
The Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical guerrilla group, claimed responsibility
15 held after Egyptian killing
CAIRO, Police held 15 members of a Moslem church that advocates "sacred terror" to overthrow secular rule yesterday for questioning about the Islamic former Egyptian religious affairs minister who had tried to stamp out their sect.
Police said the decomposing body of Sheik Mohamed Zahabi was found in a
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shabby house in Cairn's nightclub district with a scarf wrapped around his head and neck. An Interior Ministry officer was slapped at through the left eye with a pistol.
The scarf led to reports that he had been strangled, but the Ministry said the determination of the exact cause of death would have to await an autopsy.
Kansas water shortage discussed
By JANICE EARLY
Weather
Cloudy skies are returning to Lawrence today and throughout the weekend. The National Weather Service issued a chance of per cent chance of rain this afternoon.
Staff Writer
It all depends on how you look at it, according to several officials at the U.S. and, accordingly, in France.
"Water is becoming a scarce commodity because there are more people wanting to irrigate their lands. The water we are water supplies available," Howard O'Connor, chief geologist for the Kansas Department of Agriculture.
Is Kansas running out of water?
Power plants require tremendous amounts of water, as nufach is 10,000 gallons a minute. But irrigation can be an even bigger consumer of water.
INDUSTRIAL OR DOMESTIC water-use processes can reuse 90 per cent or more of the water they require. However, most of the water for irrigation is lost, and most of the water used and away from the land on which it is gutted, and some is lost through evaporation.
The biggest water loss occurs through plant transpiration, however. An acre of corn can absorb 3,000 gallons of water from the soil daily, according to the May 31 issue of The Wall Street Journal. Most of this escape is water vapor through the plants' leaves.
Even with normal precipitation, heavy irrigation dams groundwater supplies from the underground aquifer of porous sand and gravel that is eroded by rain. Groundwater is water that has accumulated over the years in the aquifer, a geologic formation beneath the soil that contains sufficient saturated permeable material to allow infiltration of quantities of water to wells and springs.
LOSSES OF WATER from the aquifer appear as declines in the water table, the sedimentation rate and temperature.
A report issued in March by the Kansas Geological Survey, the Division of Water Resources of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture and the U.S. Geological Survey, held a table in western Kansas declined an average of three and one-half feet during 1976.
Measurements of depth from the surface to the water were made in 1,106 western Kansas wells in January. The measurements showed that the water table in northwestern Kansas (north of the Smoky Hill River) declined an average of two feet between 1978 and 1975, compared with an annual average of one foot during 1966-76.
Southwestern Kansas (south of the Scott-Finney county line) showed the greatest declines. The water table fell an average of five feet in 1976 compared with four feet in 1975 and an average annual decline of two feet during 1986-76.
THE WATER TABLE in west-central Montana was located on the Scott-Finney county line) declined three feet in 1976 and 1975. The average annual decline in that area was two feet during the winter months.
The report attributed the greater declines in 1975 and 1976 to unusually dry weather and to increases in the number of irrigation wells.
There were 3,095 applications for water rights permits from July 1, 1976, to June 30, 2014. Of those, 298 were unblocking an engineer for the division of water rights. He said yesterday that 2,958 of the applications were for irrigation purposes. About 86 percent (2,958) of the applications were for irrigation purposes.
GUY GIBSON, CHIEF engineer of the division of water resources, said that he expected more than 5,000 permits would be issued with 1,500 in 1973 and 800 to 1,000 in 1974.
"Irrigation has developed to the point where withdrawals of groundwater are much greater than the recharges," he said. "Essentially, we're mining the water."
The increases in irrigation and the increases in the water tables are significant threats.
O'Connor predicted that many areas now under irrigation would eventually have significant enough water level declines that fields would not be adequate for irrigation.
PAUL JORDAN, a hydrologist for the
U. S. Geological Survey, said that as the water levels go down, the farmers have to pump water farther up to the surface, which takes more energy.
The economics of the situation may determine whether irrigation is plausible on account of these factors.
O'Connor said, "If I uses water, uses energy and doesn't give the farmer a fair price," he added.
phase out, and dry farming will return, he said.
"THERE'LL BE A PEAKING out of irrigation, where the growth will not be as rapid as it has been, and it will either level down or increase within the next five years." O'Connor said.
Irrigation in some but not all areas will
The eastern part of the state is not as affected by groundwater problems as the western part.
See WATER SHORTAGE page five
Chiropractor charged with giving Laetrile
TOPEKA-An investigator for the Kansas Board of Healing Arts said yesterday that a Johnson County chiropractor had treated several patients with what he said was Latreile, the consultant. The nurse uses. Use of Latreile is hanged in Kansas.
Accused county official to make job decision todav
The investigator, Francis McGuire of Wichita, said he would submit a report to
Bv CHRISTOPHER COX
Staff Writer
A Douglas County supervisor accused of accepting kickbacks and personal favors is scheduled to submit his decision today to the council. He asked whether to hold or reskill his position.
Skeet will have been employed by the county for six years in October.
Alfred Skeet, county maintenance supervisor, was confronted with the accusations yesterday in a closed meeting of the county board. Mike Malone, the Douglas County attorney
The county attorney's office is declining to prosecute Sheet because the two-year statute does not permit it.
Sources who have seen the results of the investigation said that it had turned up over 40 percent of the cases and gratitudes to Sheet over the past three or four years, according to a Lawrence University study.
Peter Whitenight, commission chairman, said yesterday that Skeet had been asked to submit a decision after he reviewed the commission and the county attorney's office.
The evidence and accusations presented were based on an investigation conducted by the county attorney's office that was requested by county commissioners.
serious allegations. The statute of limitations set the time period in which a person suspected of a crime must be prosecuted by the government.
Wittengut said he would not comment until later today on the specific allegations.
The commissioners are expected to consider soon new county policies regarding the control and prevention of the misuse of county property by county employs.
The commissioners have the options of either firing Skeet, asking for his resignation or reprimanding him at this morning's meeting.
Former County Commission Chairman Arthur Heck he said this week that Skeet had been reprimanded last year and was forced to make monetary compensation for making personal use of county-owned buying equipment and other materials.
The county attorney's investigation uncovered evidence of misconduct in several county departments, according to a county official.
County officials have said that previous county commissions had been made aware of Skeet's misconduct. The current investigation was requested in January when new commissioners Beverly Bradley and Robert Neis took office.
the board on July 23 that would show that the chiropractor apparently had administered the drug intravenously over a patient's wrist. Three of his patients had died of cancer.
If the drug was administered intravenously, McGuire said, the chiropractor would have been practicing beyond the scope of his license. Because he has received injected drugs or use intravenous procedures because this is legally considered surgery.
McGuire declined to name the chiropractor before the board had received the opinion.
McGuire said he had received the complaint about the chiropractor from Dennis Moore, the Johnson County attorney, after a patient with multiple fractures in the family of one of the patients died.
McGuire said that when the case was referred to the board several weeks ago, the chiropractor was already under investigation for allegedly administering EDTA, a controversial hormone used to treat hardening of the arteries.
McGurei said he could not prove that the drug actually was Laetrile.
McGuire told the investigation indicated the chiropractor had administered what he said was EDTA to one patient who died. He then asked why he was doing the morphine when he was interviewed.
"We have to assume that it was," he said. McGuire said this was the first complaint against him, and that he was "angrily" upset.
TURNER HELPED HIS parents open the grocery in 1833. He studied biology and botany at the University of Kansas, Mrs. Turner said, and was working on a thesis about how County when he joined the service. When he continued to help with the store, she said.
According to McGure, EDTA has not been approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration or the American Medical Association for use in treating hardening of the arteries.
However, he said witnesses told him that the chiropractor said the drug he administered was toxic.
McGuire said that he did not know whether the board would take action on his chiropractor, but he said that it could place him under probation or suspend or revoke his license.
Linda said. "They let me sell worms to keep me out of trouble."
"We got into live bait 16 years ago when no daughter Linda was six," she. Turner marveled at her own basement at home, and then she and her daddy began selling them out of the
"I've enjoyed this," Mrs. Turner said, "but after so many years of dealing with the public, it will be good to do something else." The mother of Turner's 'since she married 30 years ago, age
"Worms are real popular now with people who have gardens, so we might use them in that way." he said. "Taking over Turner's team is hard. It's been part of Lawrence for so long."
Bv VENNIE WHITE
Lawrence's last family grocery store closing
Staff Writer
"Only Fishing Spoken Here" reads a sip, at the tackle shop. And over the July Fourth weekend a steady stream of fishermen came through the door to buy night crawlers, minnows, bread and beans for their holiday trips.
Rena Turner greeted them warmly and
chatted with a few. Most had been
But soon they'll go somewhere else for their bait, tackle and other supplies.
Chuck Magerl, a member of the Mercantile's steering committee, said the Mercantile would use the store to expand its business. If the company ever will keep the worms, Magerl said.
Turner's Grocery, 700 Maine St., the last surviving family market in Lawrence, will close its family July 15, after 44 years of business.
GLENN TURNER, RENA'S husband, had two strokes in January and is hospitalized. When he returns home, Mrs. Turner will care for him. So the grocery, bait and tackle shop was sold to the Community Mercantile, 615 Massachusetts St.
Business was so good, Mrs. Turner said, that in 1966 the Turners moved the bait and tackle into the basement of the grocery store where they had sold toys and novelties.
TURNER'S IS THE only live bait and tackle shop in town.
"Other people have tried it," Mr. Turner said, "but they always shut down. We made it because we've kept our prices moderate. We sure haven't made a mint."
Seven days a week Turner's has offered
"Some of the old-timers say that it just
same the same since Mr. Turner's been on
the job."
supplies to fishermen. In the basement are life jackets, bobbers, flies and fishing line. In the garage outside the store are goldfish, minnows and worms.
Steve Blaire, Abilene senior, works with the bait. In three morning hours on the Fourth of June, he counted 82 dozen worms. He packs so many, he says, that he dreams
BEFORE HIS ILLNESS. Turner raised
his worms, Mrs. Turner, said, but now most of them come from Canada.
Turner's also carries tropical fish and aquarium supplies. A pair of platinum tanks.
Mrs. Turner's grandmother, Marie,
rawled into her grandmother's lap as her
touchy friend, Elaine, licked at her
"This has always been a family business." Mrs. Turner said.
"My sister and I were raised in baskets in the store," Linda, Marie's mother, said.
Vanishina tradition
Staff photo by KENT VAN HOESEN
After 42 years in business, Turner's Grocery, 708 Maine St., is closing in awarenes' last neighborhood grocery, owned by Renna Wheatley.
fishing tackle and bait, tropical fish and house plants. The Turtles are going out of business because Mr. Turtles suffered a crash in the surf on August 21.