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nnn MAY 5. 1982 MANHATTAN, KANSAS 25 Cents -52 Pages Sections -j Wednesday ttan anJsa MB--V- I 7 A 7 Crisis accord son By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Britain and the United States are working on a Falkland Islands peace plan, and the loss of British and Argentine lives makes a diplomatic solution urgent, British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym said today. Pym told the House of Commons in London he had transmitted to Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. a "constructive contribution" toward the plan.

"A vital ingredient of the ideas on which we are working is an early cease-fire and the prompt withdrawal of Argentine forces," Pym said. He did hot provide any details. Relatives of 87 crewmen aboard the British destroyer Sheffield were notified today that their men were dead, missing or wounded in an Argentine missile strike off the Falkland Islands. The figures on the Sheffield casualties were given by government sources in London, where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called an emergency Cabinet session. Argentina, meanwhile, continued the search for about 360 crewmen missing from the General Belgrano, the cruiser torpedoed and sunk by a British submarine Sunday.

British press reports said a missile fired from a land-based Argentine fighter-bomber 24 miles away hit the control room of the Sheffield early Tuesday afternoon, turning one of the Royal Navy's most modern warships into a raging inferno. The British Defense Ministry said the crew was ordered to abandon ship "When there was no longer any hope of saving the ship, and Defense Minister John Nott told the House of Commons as many as 30 of the 270 crewmen may be lost. Some British press reports said the ship, one of three destroyers in the British war fleet in the South Atlantic, had sunk. But a British reporter with the task force said it was still afloat and burning more than six hours after it was hit. The Argentine government was silent about the Sheffield, although news of the attack was broadcast by Buenos Aires radio stations quoting See No.

2, back page, this section ght Ryan Kraus and Pet Week by K-State veterinary medicine students. Quartet named to panel New duds sought for senior center A campaign got underway today to raise $50,000 for furniture, floor coverings and other interior fur--nishings for the Riley County Seniors' Center now under construction in the 400 block of Leavenworth. Riley County Council of Aging president Rob McAdoo told special fund-raising committee headed by Oscar Norby: "We have a first-class facility. wouldn't settle for a hand-me-down building. want first-class furnishings and not second-hand furniture." After tracing the history of the effort to get a seniors center underway and declaring it to have been designed for the services and programs for older citizens rather than having to adapt the services and programs to a building structured for some other use, McAdoo presented his pledge of $500 to the furnishings fund to Norby.

The McAdoo pledge, including a ehecka first-payment, was add-to that from the Business and Professional Women's organization of Manhattan for $200 and a check for $100 from the St. Paul's Episcopal Church Encore Shop. In presenting the check at the Meadowlark Hills meeting, Encore A Staff photobx KixJ Mikinski Shop manager Maureen Waterman said it was in appreciation to the people of the city for their support of the church enterprise. McAdoo urged tha committee to go person-to-person in quest of the $50,000 rather than relying too heavily on coupons or letters. He stressed that workers emphasize the tax-deductibleness of contributions, suggesting that special efforts be made to get money from doctors, dentists, lawyers ancf banks.

It should be emphasized, McAdoo told workers, that the center "is not a monument to the old people of Riley County but a facility, to provide services. is no limit to the services and programs that can emanate from it-" Because of the tightness of funds for the $271,661 building, there was no money left for most of the interior completion. The $50,000 will be used for floor furniture for meeting rooms, offices and, the fireplace lounge, pool ana otner game laoies. partition doors for small meeting rooms, chalkboards and bulletin boards, rostrums nd other miscellaneous equipment, visual See No. back page, this section cludes a st aft of .23 scientists and 20 lcscdll.li doMaidius, uic mini ui ing in conjunction with Kansas State University, who explore methods of improving grain quality.

The center contains four essential research engineering reseagch, concerned with grain drying and grain dust; biological research, which focuses-on mold and Fnsect damage to ngraihTa grain quality unit, which explores the milling and baking qualities of grain; and a grain structure and characterization unit, A separate office of economic research service conducts research on the economic aspects of grain pro-. See No. 4, back page, this section Boomtown Forty percent, chance of showers, tonight, and remaining mostly cloudy Thursday, highs mid 60s. For details, see Page A2. You'll find Classified Ads Comics D8 Editorials A6 Focus B7 Kitchen Talk Q1-C3 Obituaries A2 C6-C7 TV Log A7 a rabbit exchange curious glances at a District Court seeking to exercise the power of eminent domain to obtain the building.

The four commissioners had no discussion or questions about the appointments. Suzanne Lindamood, who has questioned the need for a building commission, was absent. The building commission has been a divisive issue in recent months due to concern by some commissioners about its power issue revenue bonds and other functions. Klingler said he based his selections on the desire to allow a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. Dorothy Thompson is a law partner in the firm of Everett, Seaton, Knopp and Thompson.

She also works half-time at KSU as the director of affirmative action. Charlotte Olsen is employed at the KSU Center for Aging and is currently on the Manhattan Day Care Board. Olsen said she would like "to further citizens' intense scrutiny of the needs of local government issues." he believes. the first step needed for the building commission is "totally birds out of commission by a wild bird vulnerable location to build its nest. A rabid rabbit fan traveling exhibit being presented during researching the needs of local government." Tom Burnett, vice president of Burnett Petroleum Company, was a member of the Manhattan Urban Area Planning Board during 1979-80.

Mike Rogers, a certified public accountant, has been a partner in Vamey, Mills, Rogers, Burnett and Associates since 1970, and is a member of the Downtown Redevelopment Advisory Board (DRAB). 'The commission was created for a purpose we'll examine that purpose, and do the best we can," he said. Rogers described himself as a romanticist at heart" who is "favorable toward retaining land: marks." But, he added, he has "a strong that elected people should make the final Reitz, who recently ended his third term as is a retired U.SS Department of Agriculture employee. In other action, the board: Took no action at an executive session with city attorney Bill Frost wnd outside counsel concerning the See No. 1, back page, this section Staff photo by Ho liy Miller which chose that particularly By DEBBIE PETERSON Staff Writer City commissioners unanimously approved mayor Gene Klingler's nominees to the Public Building Commission Tuesday night.

The four voting members are Tom Burnett, Charlotte Olsen, Mike Rogers and DorothyThompson. Commissioner Russell Reitz was named a non-voting ex -officio member. The five appointments are the first to the 10-member board, which has seven voting members. The Riley County Commission and USD School District 383 each appoint one voting member and one ex-officio member. In addition, the State Secretary of Administration will ap- point a voting member.

The Public Building Commission was created at the April 20 meeting to study the possibilities of a combined city -county government building. However, county commissioners are continuing their plans to utilize the Wareham Music Village Annex for county offices, and have filed a condemnation suit in Riley County For the Grain scientist "given Humboldt One of the world's most prestigious research foundations has porary claim to an internationally recognized grain scientist based in Manhattan. Y. Pomeranz, director of the U.S. Grain Marketing Research Foundation, today began his duties as U.S.

senior scientist at the von Humboldt Foundation in Detmold, West Germany, where he will take part in" a one-year research and exploration project. With the Humboldt grant. Pomeranz will be conducting research at the Federal Research Centre of Grain and Potato Processing, During Pomeranz's absence, William T. Yamazaki, a long-time head of the USDA's Soft Wheat Quality Lab in has been named to oversee operations at the USDA facility here. Yamazaki, who retired last year after 38 years with USDA, was for 19 of those years director of operations at Wooster, working with breeders in improving milling and baking qualities of soft wheat, a type of grain which is- used in the manufacture of cookies, cakes, soda crackers, sugar wafers and other flour (Confectionary products.

He earned degrees pt the Universi-. ty of California and doctorate in plant cheniistry at Ohio State. The "Grainx Marketing Research Center, a $2.25 million project located on 'Col lege Avenue north of Claflin, in i at 1 a i it 1 i-f. 1 -Miiii lit Tom Henton steadies the ladder for Richard Schurle, climbing to the top of the Wareham Theatre marquee to repair lights which were put.