The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 74

jm Sunday February 12 1995 The Kansas City Star Metropolitan Mid-America POLITICS THIS WEEK Under Kansas the Earth began to split From staff and wire reports And the winner of the Quayle exit poll percent without Quayle in the race Although the survey was taken before Quayle bowed out the percentage was determined by figuring in the results of a follow-up question that asked respondents for their second choice Dole was the second choice of 42 percent of Quayle backers Who got the biggest bump from former Vice President Dan decision last week not to run for president? Try Bob Dole A poll of 1010 adults conducted in early February for Cable News Network and USA Today showed the Senate majority leader moving from 38 percent support nationally to 45 tourists from Massachusetts or Oregon who are looking for snowcapped peaks bounding antelope or oddly shaped buttes So what about something lurking several thousand feet below semimonotonous US 36? What if you could put up a sign one complete with maps cross-section diagrams and a text saying that between Haddam and a point east of Marysville the North American continent once started to split apart? And then for some reason unknown stopped Dp you think people might pause wondering maybe just maybe if Kansas was more than boredom? Probably down there is known as a midcontinent geophysical anomaly a cigar-shaped formation that angles northeast from Haddam to the pointed tip of Lake Supericfr Geophysicists using gravimeters that measure differences in the gravity have known about it for years Popular knowledge of the anomaly though comes mainly from Rex Buchanan and James parently what was in north-central Kansas was a tectonic plate that stopped moving Well almost As recently as 1 979 an earthquake registering 33 on the Richter scale knocked items off the walls of homes in Haddam In short the anomaly a long time ago was a very big deal If it stopped Buchanan and McCauley say shore birds probably would be tiptoeing through saltwater near Haddam So a sign ought to be planted somewhere along US 36 pointing out what people are driving over They might be interested in knowing And one other thing The anomaly filled with its dense igneous rock subjects those over it to a higher gravitational pull Which means Buchanan and McCauley say that a person weighing 1 50 pounds in Haddam would weigh 17 of an ounce more 23 miles east over at the juncture of US 36 and Kansas 15 where gravity tugs the hardest Which much about the weight of a nickel But a lot to think about McCauley staff members of the Kansas Geological Survey and authors of a guidebook called Roadside Kansas The book which is mostly about geology has sold 25000-plus copies indicating that a lot of folks out there care about the physical world around them McCauley and Buchanan say the anomaly once was a rift in the surface a cracklike valley that partly split the continent When the rift stopped growing it was filled by igneous rock from beneath and by volcanic material from the surface Sediment rock sometimes reaching depths of 20000 feet covered both have no idea why it said McCauley the best estimate of time is 1 1 billion years Which considering the Earth is 5 billion years old all that long ago Buchanan said the rift was not unlike what is happening in California or along the Pacific Rim where earthquakes recently captured the attention Ap- HADDAM Kan In north-central Kansas US 36 hardly resembles its big competitor to the south Interstate 70 First off only two lanes and narrow shoulders also a sight less traffic And more interesting to drive hill to hill creek to creek town to town The monotony of the interstates seemingly part of their engineering specifications is mostly absent not to say outsiders have a problem with tedium Maybe less than say on the interstate west of Hays but face it this is Kansas Oh people do stop over east at Marysville to look at the big Pony Express statue Or west of Hadd-am at the Pawnee Indian village near Republic Or even farther west at Oberlin the site of an Indian raid in 1878 But stuff like that hardly excites In a two-way race Dole topped President Clinton 51 percent to 44 percent THE LOTTERIES arrest thwarts ambitious travel plans Diversity vs deity The Kansas new chaplain the Rev Cecil Washington is under fire It seems he likes to invoke the name of Jesus in his prayer Some House members say Washington is being insensitive to non-Christians by refusing to make his daily prayers more nondenominational unwilling to change the way praying then he should step said Rep Sheila Hochhauser a Manhat tan Democrat But Washington who was hired as House chaplain this session said God told him not to back down fact of the matter is very sensitive in my prayers and in the design of my prayers realizing that eveiybody in the House is not he said at what point should my sensitivity move me to deny Journey apparently requires transformers Missouri man is accused of stealing three winning lottery numbers: Missouri Pick 3: 5-3-8 Straight-play winners won $500 box-play winners won $80 Missouri Lotto: 3-5-10-15-37-40 Kansas Pick 3: 0-4-5 Straight-play winners won $500 box-play winners won $80 A 50-cent bet paid half Kansas Cash Lotto: 13-14-19-25-26-32 for estimated $90000 jackpot Powerball: Drawing occurred too late for this edition Please check with the lottery office in your state for official confirmation of these numbers 1 ladder had sucked away power from other homes in Stanberry a town of 1300 people located about 70 miles north of Kansas City lights would go out or sometimes just go a little the sheriff said too happy about A St Joseph Light Power Co employee had set the transformers outside a station in King City in early January so they could be moved Some have a capacity of up to 7200 volts and cost about $300 each have any value for time travel that I know said Jerry Musil the manager of public affairs I know anything about time Wei she always did lie to travel ing from one side to the other was something to look Lupfer said Stanberry police first spotted a transformer in home in an unrelated vandalism call in mid-January The office then obtained a search warrant returned to the house and arrested Marcum on Jan 30 The sheriff said four of the transformers which are almost 4 feet tall were in living room A fifth had been emptied of its oil and converted into a bank for pennies The transformer hooked up to the fuse box and OUCH IK 888-7827 Someone should put wheels on the bronze bust of former Gov Joan Finney The sculpture stood prominently outside the second-floor governor's office But when Bill Graves moved in the bust moved to another second-floor hallway Then on Feb 3 workers took the bust out of the Capitol and moved it about a block away to the little-visited Memorial Build- retirement blew up just beats she told Hawver's Capitol Report know this is just well The first woman governor in Kansas history vowed to mobilize supporters to get her official likeness back into the Capitol So back it is Back that is behind the door to reception room Yes easy to miss And whether Finney is satisfied remains to be seen She was unavailable for comment I) rairs: 3301 mi Fu MURAL VALVE PROLAPSE: A PERSPECTIVE inney just a month into her Does that mean ifs final)! realy over now? By SCOTT CANON Mid-America Correspondent Instead of traveling through time Michael Marcum is doing time He has been in the Gentry County Jail since Jan 30 on a felony charge of stealing six 350 -pound transformers authorities found in his Stanberry Mo home The transformers Marcum told authorities were needed to power a machine to transport him through the ages say if he wanted to go backward or said County Sheriff Eugene Lupfer just said it was a time Two other men and a teen-age girl were arrested last week for allegedly helping Marcum put the devices in the back of a pickup truck and drive off with them Henry Rowen Jr 20 and Travis Troutwine 19 both of Sheridan and the 1 5-year-old girl were free after posting bond The sheriff said they did not share vision of time travel been hard to keep a straight face through this Lupfer said mean a time Marcum 21 originally is from Gallipolis Ohio and worked at a plant that makes cardboard tubes for toilet paper rolls his attorney said seemed to be a very sensible young said Rick Euler a public defender from Maryville not somebody that upon talking to him you would think there is anything particularly unusual about The sheriff said Marcum apparently has some aptitude for electronics He had hooked up one of the transformers to the fuse box at his home and pieced together a a V-shaped antenna with electrical sparks arc the campaign that ended Nov 8 said Tuesday he was withdrawing his request to the Senate Rules Committee that election be voided Feinstein said she was pleased Republican Mike Huffington last week conceded defeat to incumbent Democrat Dianne Feinstein in US Senate race Huffington who spent nearly $28 million of his own money in Mitral valve prolapse is a condition which affects both men and women but more often occurs in women Join Dr Robert Conn a cardiologist on staff at the Mid America Heart Institute for an in-depth look at the signs symptoms and management of mitral valve prolapse in women Thursday February 16 6:30 to 8:00 pm Helen Spencer Center for Education Keynote speaker: Robert Conn MD cardiologist Mid America Heart Institute Saint Hospital Overheard "The adutoiistrstkin toying to settle it this way is frankly making a political football out of Republican Sen Charles Grassky of Iowa about President Clintons effort to settle the baseball strike Call 932-6200 "IK Sutons of What Democratic Rep Chuck Schumer of New York called House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole for their response to plan "IbitaK America tatf tunring its lonely eyes to you Joe DiMaggjo turning its eyes to House Minority Whip David Bonior of Michigan taMMRN 'III ii'ii'ninlliii) uiiiiii'idiifiii iii'ii I' III 'unm' viiiiii to register for this free public forum presented by the Cardiac Center of the Mid America Heart Institute Mid America Heart Institute Contract With America: Charting its course -U SAIN! 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