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The Solina Journal Friday. April 75, 1983 Page 3 John Schmiedeler What Now? 'Propaganda' label bugs bird-I overs This department read with pleasure an announcement in the Newsletter of the Smoky Hills Audubon Society. To Wit: "President Marge Streckfus she had been able to secure the film "Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery" for our September, 1983, meeting The film is one of three Canadian educational productions the others are "If You Love This Planet" and "Acid from Heaven" which the Justice Department of the Reagan administration has decreed shall be labeled "political propaganda" if they are shown in the United States. The heavy hands at Justice also has ordered the U.S. distributors of the films to provide the department with harries and addresses of those persons whd order the film.

There's a threat there, real or implied. The Audubons those gentle folk whalove counting birds in the wild and other equally subversive pursuits understandably are outraged. Acid rain, environmentalists tell us, is fact, riot "propaganda. That's unfortunate, But inferring it is not true won't repair the damage acid rain continues to do. 1 Nor will a back-off by the Justice Department from its ill-advised censor- shipiby-threat attempt repair the dam- ageTdone to the "equal justice under law? ideal.

Where in the blue-eyed world do the powers find such nincompoops for positions of public power and; supposedly, public trust? Anyway, if Attorney General William French Smith decides to move on the SHAS come Sept. 8 (date of the film's showing here), he'd be well advised not tp-send a boy to do a man's job. As Editor Charles Marsh of the SHAS Newsletter wrote, "Well, if this be treason, etc." ft ft ft We are not at all sure of the connection between the two, but National Library Week will be opened at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Southeast of Saline Elementary Library with a balloon launch. -Helium-filled balloons will be re- leaded from the school playground.

We confess the significance of releasing balloons into the blue as part of what we assume to be an effort to encourage the young to read good books escapes us. Maybe it's there and we are blind to it. likely, we suspect it is part of the continuing deception we attempt on the young in disguising all learning as "fun." Sure, learning can be "fun," and quite often is. But it doesn't have to be, and we do the youngsters no fa- VQF in suggesting learning does not require work. lAnyway, Librarian Charlotte Skinner assures that participants in the balloon launch will be invited to check books from the library.

That might save the day. ft ft ft have been accused of inventing Loyde Davis. We did not; Loyde Davis is real, although it has been suggested thai if he were not real someone would have to invent him. last fellow we invented was a Kumquat Salesman from Out of Town. to a sorry end; got caught in a- late Florida freeze, as we recall.

Never liked kumquats much, anyway. Too tart. vVnyway, L.D. passes this on for your reflection: "You know it's going to be a-bad day when you call the suicide pf-eyention hotline and they put you on hold." 'The Salina Journal P.O. Box 779 Zip Coda 67401 Polished seven days a week, 365 days per year at 333 S.

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Monday thru Friday ami 5.00 a.m. io 12:00 noon Saturday and Sunday. The advertising and office will close on Saturdays at 1:00 p.m. PIK to lessen water, gas usage on farm By Harris News Service Agriculture this summer will not be the fence- row-to-fencerow crops to which Kansans have grown accustomed during the past 10 years. Instead, millions of acres will be idled, gathering moisture during the payment-in-kind program.

On the surface, one of the differences will be fewer irrigation center-pivot systems rotating. Beneath the surface, that may mean a 20 to 30 percent reduction in irrigation water usage, said Rollie Stukenholtz, general manager of Servi- Tech in Dodge City. While as much as 45 percent of the land is enrolled in PIK, not that high a percentage of irrigated land will be idle, Stukenholtz said. Most farmers in the program are able to idle more of their dryland wheat acres to account for the 30 to 50 percent reductions in crop acreages. Those farmers, then, will use some of the irri- gated land for non-compliance crops like soybeans for acreages in excess of the amount they are allowed to plant under the feedgrains program.

Servi-Tech, in fact, is promoting soybean planting among the farmers it advises. "Right now, soybeans as a non-compliance crop are looking good," Stukenholtz said. "There is a reduction in acres nationally. There is a lot of talk about beans going up to $7 a bushel. If you had 50-bushel (per acre) soybeans at $7, that wouldn't be bad income." Soybeans, like grain sorghum, require less water to grow a crop.

While corn is losing favor in many areas of western Kansas because of its need for water, Stukenholtz said corn may have a proper place in the PIK scheme. "The amount of dry matter produced is about the same for corn and sorghum (for the same amount of water used)," Stukenholtz said. "Sorghum just yields less per acre. As far as water used for grain produced, corn is as good or better than grain sorghum under full irrigation." Consequently, some operators will water fewer acres with the same well, but because fewer acres are covered, put more water on the crop. "We're seeing some people who had problems with water and went to grain sorghum go back to corn," he said.

Rick Illgner, manager for Groundwater Management District No. 3 in Garden City, said it would be difficult to predict the impact of PIK on levels in the Ogallala Aquifer. Because recharge to the aquifer is 2 inches or less per year, Illgner still expects some decline in the water table. Farmers who do not use water specifically because of PIK will not lose their right to that wa- ter, said Dave Pope, chief engineer of the Division of Water Resources for the Kansas State Board of Agriculture. "Even though the Water Appropriation Act says that a water right may be lost for failure to use it during a three-year period, there are regulations that allow water not to be used for due and sufficient cause.

We define 'due and sufficient cause' broadly enough to cover PIK," Pope said. Stukenholtz said the drop in water usage wouldn't be the only native Kansas resource to go unused because of PIK. Natural gas will also be less in demand. "Some of the gas companies are already screaming because of the cutback in home usage "They will really feel it when irrigation season comes. A lot of gas is used to pump irrigation water," he said.

Olathe man charged in beating deaths OLATHE (UPI) A purse lying near a lake where the raped and beaten body of a Kansas teen-ager was found led to the arrest of a man in the deaths of the girl and her younger sister, authorities said Thursday. Michael J. Cade, 21, was charged with murder in the Jan. 28 beating deaths of Kelly Duffield, and her 12- year-old sister, Janelle. The girls' 15- year-old brother, Paul, was severely beaten but survived the attack at the family's Olathe home.

At a news conference, Police Capt. Jeff Herrman and Johnson County District Attorney Dennis Moore said Cade was initially arrested Monday night in connection with a purse snatching. The purse was found by a child in an area where Kelly's body was found. Cade, of Olathe, was charged in Johnson County District Court Thursday with six felony counts two first degree murder charges, rape, aggravated battery, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated burglary. Cade lives with his parents in Olathe and works at a chemical blending company in Kansas City, Herrman said.

He attended high school in Edwardsville, 111. Authorities said the suspect apparently selected the Duffield house at random. Police were still investigating the motive. "We have nothing to associate him with the Duffields," Herrman said. The attack occurred while the chil- drens' father, John, was asleep in an upstairs bedroom and their mother, Carole, was at work.

CRASH Gunther PITCHING POISON IVY City Park worker Don Reiff, 667 S. llth, pitches poison ivy vines into the back of a truck in Oakdale Park Thursday. Reiff and another worker were removing the vines and cleaning up Journal Photo by Greg Smith trimmings from trees in the park as part of a spring spruce-up. (Continued from Page 1) searched a area in the desert for two days until the debris finally was spotted. "The plane disintegrated," an Air Force spokesman from Nellis said.

A 1955 graduate of Salina High School, Gunther attended Kansas Wesleyan and received a bachelor of science degree from University of Nebraska at Omaha and a master's degree from Duke University. He was deputy commander for operations for the 19th Bombardment Wing at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, and was taking part in the war games as a safety observer. His wife, Theresa, is originally from Manhattan and graduated from Marymount College in 1961. The two met when Gunther was a KW student and she was a student nurse at St. John's Hospital.

Surviving, besides his wife, are four children, Curtis Michael, Chris Allen, Deanne Marie and Angie Marie, all of the home; his mother, Mrs. Elva DeMars, 306 Irene, and a sister, Mrs. Carolyn Smolich, 2061 Corsaut Court. Funeral arrangements are pending. The funeral is expected to be in Manhattan.

Burial will be in Fort Riley National Cemetery. His mother requests any memorials be sent to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, Salina. Chemical abuse more prevalent than in the By BECCY TANNER Staff Writer For a few days after entertainer John Belushi died, Dr. David E.

Smith's telephone rang off its hook. Smith, the founder and director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco, was plagued by reporters from across the nation after the March 5,1982 death of Belushi. "They wanted to know if you really could die from a cocaine overdose," Smith said. "The first reported cocaine overdose was in 1890. That was the first time the medical profession knew you could die of acute cocaine poisoning." But now, Smith said, the recent attention has taught society just how many addiction myths have existed.

"When I started in 1965, cocaine was very much a part of the drug culture. No self-respecting person would touch cocaine. Now, bankers, airplane attendants, real estate agents wear coke spoons around their necks. Songs are written about it. It is an accepted part of middle-class life." Smith addressed a crowd of more than 650 professionals from across the state Thursday in "An American Crisis: Wellness vs.

Abuse," a conference on alcohol and drug abuse at the Bicentennial Center. He told the crowd that although Haight-Ashbury, as it was known in the '60s, no longer exists, the health care system he started continues to grow. His clinic, which began in a seven-room flat off Haight Street, now occupies five Victorian houses and has a paid staff of 60 and 400 volunteers. Most of the work, Smith said, still involves drug detoxification, but the clinic also operates a general medical facility and a psychiatric care program for prison inmates! Since the '60s, Smith said, the problems of chemical abuse have become almost insurmountable. "A lot of the people, like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, who could provide information for the cocaine abuser are shying away," Smith said.

"They think they can't help. But alcohol and narcotics are addictive. And if you understand the addictive process then you can help. "Addiction outweighs the desire to eat, drink and live. I think it is time we redefine our definition of addiction.

It is a compulsion a loss of control, a continuation of a drug in spite of adverse consequences." Smith also told his audience to redefine their attitudes toward addiction. "We can no longer look at addiction as a moral issue," Smith said. "An addiction disease is not an insult. We, as physicians, cannot say we can't call Mrs. Jones an addict because she is too respected in the community.

"We should be able to tell a patient that they have an addictive disease the same as we tell them they have diabetes." Although the health movement has greatly affected a Journal Photo Dr. David E. Smith large number of American's views about chemical abuse, Smith said, the problem "still is prevalent, it still exists and it's not going away." "I would say, if anything, the drug abuse problem is far worse now that it was in The Sixties," he said. "And that's simply because it's accepted by a larger majority of people. It is no longer confined to one group but is being enjoyed by the middle and upper classes.

"Society's door is open. And even though we have people jogging and being more aware of what they put into their bodies, the problem is here." Smith, now 44, received his M.D. degree in 1964 from the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, where he also received a post-doctoral fellowship in pharmacology and toxicology in 1967. His specialty is clinical pharmacology. He is founder and editor of the "Journal of Psychedelic Drugs," and a member of the editorial board of both "The Journal" and "Clinical Toxicology." The two-day wellness conference ended Thursday.

It was sponsored by 20 Kansas organizations including the Kansas Medical Society and the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services. briefly- Central students' art displayed The art work of two Salina Central High School students is on display at the Salina Community Theatre in conjunction with the theater's production of "Same Time Next Year." The work of honor students Troy Trembly and Betsy Dunlap is being shown. Trembly, a senior, is the son of Robert and Joyce Trembly, Rt. 2. He studies commercial art and his media are intaglio printing and scratchboard.

He works with fine line detail and ornamentation and has received state and national and recognition for his art. Dunlap, a junior, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Dunlap, 2120 Hillside. She is a "direct painter" who prefers to paint landscapes with a medium of acrylic paint.

The students' instructor is Floyd Gibson. Program planned on POW camps CONCORDIA "Stalag Sunflower," a half-hour, video-taped program on Kansas prisoner-of-war camps during World War II, will be shown at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Concordia High School Auditorium. About 5,000 German prisoners were housed at Camp Concordia northeast of Concordia during the peak of the camp's activities. More prisoners were kept at Camp Phillips near Salina with branch camps scattered across Kansas and other states.

"Stalag Sunflower" documents the story through government reports, historic photographs, newspaper accounts and personal interviews. The program, produced by the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State University, will be followed by a question-and-answer period by a former POW, a U.S. Army guard and a civilian who worked at the Concordia camp. Admission is free. The program will be shown in only five Kansas communities this year.

The Concordia showing is sponsored by the Cloud County Historical Society. School transfer deadline nears Students in Salina's public secondary schools who wish to transfer to a junior or senior high school other than the one they currently attend must make their request before April 22, according to Dr. Willis Mercer, director of secondary education. Board of education policy says students must attend the school in the area in which their parents or guardians reside. However, transfer requests are considered for certain reasons which include hardship or to enroll in a course not offered at the home school.

Parents or guardians may pick up transfer request forms from building principals or the board of education office. Alzheimer's support group eyed An organizational meeting will be held April 27 to launch a support group for those affected by Alzheimer's Disease or other similar dementing illness. The meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. at the sponsoring Central Kansas Mental Health Center, 809 Elmhurst. The purpose is to help cope with a friend or family member who has Alzheimer's Disease, which is characterized by degeneration of certain parts of the brain.

Symptoms include forgetfulness, confusion and disorientation which continue to increase in severity. Members will share personal experiences and gain knowledge of the illness, along with suggestions for managing a loved one who is affected. Contact Janet Hamilton at the Mental Health Center 823-6322. for further information..