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Tuesday, July 3, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
High temperatures on rise for Kansas
The Associated Press
WICHTTA - Temperatures that keep rising above the 100-degree mark are causing Kansans to remember 1800.
That was the summer when there were 41 consecutive days of 100-degree temperatures, and things were shaping up the same way this summer.
"the figures so far this year look very similar to 1980," Allen Randall, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Wichita, said. "There is certainly the possibility of this stuff hanging around for a while."
Temperatures hit 100 or more eight days in June, including 105 Saturday in Wichita.
July started the same way. The state high Sunday was 109 in Hill City. Goodland tied its record of 106 set in 1953.
Forecasters said June temperature averages this year surpassed those of a decade ago.
More than 70 Kansans died in 1980 from heat-related causes, and drought conditions wilted crops throughout the state. So far, no deaths have been reported from heat this year.
This June's average high temperature was about 95 degrees, Ken Smith, meteorologist for Weather-Data Inc., said.
The "heat wave 10 years ago started more toward the end of June. The average high for June 1980 was 61.8 degrees." Randall said.
There were seven days of 100 degree or more temperatures that year.
The normal high temperature average for June is 87 degrees, he said.
Randall said this summer's heat wave is caused by a high pressure system that has built up in the southwestern United States, pushing the jet stream farther north, around the Canadian border.
"It's like a big dome of hot air that isn't moving," he said. "These temperatures could be the predominant pattern for the summer."
The all-time high temperature for Wichita is 114 degrees recorded Aug. 12, 1936.
Randall said the Wichita area was also experiencing lower-than-normal precipitation. Less than 2 inches of rain fell last year. The normal amount is 3.8 inches.
Randall did not predict a quick end to the heat.
"We'd have to have a cooleridge of air, some cold air out from the Canadian region, to break down the heat ad clear out the air. It doesn't look like that's going to happen," he said.
On the Record
Two windows were broken in a house in the 1300 block of New York Street between 5 and 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Lawrence police reported Damage was estimated at $50.
reported.
The victim received numerous blows to the head, face and back. The suspect was charged with battery.
■ The left door of a car was spray painted Sunday in the 1700 block of Maple Lane, Lawrence police damage. Damage was estimated at $200.
$146 in cash was removed Sunday from a token machine at Putt Putt Golf, 3107 W. 25th, Lawrence police reported.
- A woman was attacked from behind by another woman Sunday morning in Lyons Park, near Lyon and Seventh streets, Lawrence police
An unloaded gun was recovered at the scene of a fight that occurred Saturday night, KU police reported. Police responded to the scene at 19th and Haskell streets and arrested two men. Police said the gun, a 38-caliber Colt revolver, was stolen in South Jacksonville, Ill.
Corrections
Due to an editor's error in the June 27 Kansan, the front-page graph on faculty salary increases was incorrect. The base salary increase for fiscal year 1991 will be 2.5 percent, not 5 percent.
July 4-10 Calendar
4 Wednesday
*independence Day. No Classes. Offices closed. Kansas and Burge Unions closed. Libraries closed.*
*Independence Days Celebration. Burcham Park, Second and Indiana streets and throughout downtown Lawrence. Fireworks display at 9:20 p.m. The Independence Days celebration includes concerts, crafts, food stands, canoe races and other activities. The celebration will continue July 5, 6 and 7.
5 Thursday
*Kansas Summer Theatre. The Robber Bridgroom. 8 p.m.
Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. Also 2:30 p.m. July 7 and
p.m. July 11, 12 and 13. All seating is general admission.
Admission is $8 for adults, $7 for senior citizens and $5 for
students and children. Holders of Independence Days tickets
receive a $1 discount for the July 5 and July 7 performances. For
reservations, call 864-3982.
*SUA film. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. 7 p. m.
Rockwood Auditorium, Kansas Union. Admission is $1.
*Midwestern Music Camps recital. 8 p. m. Swarthout Recital
Hall. Murehv Hall.
- Threads of History. Textiles from the Spencer Museum Collection. Spencer Museum of Art. The exhibition will run through September 2.
6 Friday
7 Saturday
*Midwestern Music Camp show choirs and jazz ensemble. 7 p.m. Swartwhort Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.
*SUA film, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. 9 p.m. Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union. All ages.
*Midwestern Music Camp concerts, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Crafton-Prever Theatre, Murray Hall.
*Volkwalka*, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Likelyly walk through scenic, historic route. sponsored by Lawrence Parks and Recreation department as part of Independence days. Begins and ends at South Park, 12th and Massachusetts streets.
10 Tuesday
*Midwestern Music Camps recital. 8 p.m. Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.
Missouri woman faces charges of kidnapping baby from Oklahoma
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An 18-year-old Missouri woman appeared in federal court yesterday on charges she kidnapped a newborn baby girl from an Oklahoma hospital more than a week ago.
Heather Lympne Brewster of Butler listened intently and appeared to Magnitate Calvin K. Hamilton for the kidnapping charges against her.
On June 20, Brewster, dressed in hospital scrubs, kidnapped infant Whitney Horse from the Deaconsen Hospital in Oklahoma City and drove authorities to a hospital where alleged. The infant was 20 hours old when she was abducted.
A detention hearing for Brewster was scheduled for Thursday. Max Geiman, an FBI spokesman in Kansas City, said he did not know other charges would be filed against the defendant in Oklahoma City.
He said a public defender would be appointed to represent Brewster, a student at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg.
Brewster, 18, was arrested at her grandparents' home in Butler at 11 p.m. Saturday by Bates County sheriff's officers. Butler is 70 miles south
In an interview with Oklahoma City television station KFOR, Warden, also of Butler, said, "Me and my wife discussed it and I go, 'What if I'm wrong?' and she goes, 'What if you're right?'"
A tipster, Danny Warden, led authorities to the child. Warden works at the Harede's restaurant in Butler. Brewster was employed at a Harede's in Kansas City but lived in Butler.
Ralph Lindsey, chief deputy in the Bates County Sheriff's Department, said Brewster created an elaborate plan to get a baby after she became pregnant by her mother and then married in January or February.
She told friends that she had been carrying twins, and one baby died. The woman said she had gone to Kansas City where doctors removed "the bad baby" and left the other, Lindsey said.
"I got to thinking back — she didn't look pregnant to me," Warden said. "I pretty proud of myself really."
The woman tried to fool friends and family into thinking she was pregnant by showing them a document with an official-looking seal that said the baby was born at the Boone County Hospital in Columbia, Mo.
Brewster was being held yesterday without bond at the Cass County Jail in Harrisonville, Mo.
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