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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — There’s
nough food stored 200 feet below
ansas City to feed every American
one day.
Everything from pizzas to English
mffins to fish is stored in limestone
lines with tons of rock as natural
isolation. But contrary to images of
troglodyte’s heaven, the mines are
constant 58-62 degrees, have 50
lercent humidity and enough elec-
riclights to raise the temperature to
comfortable 70 degrees, if neces
sary.
One mine, Inland Storage Distri-
lution Center on the Kansas side,
as 4.5 million square feet of usable
torage space in a 21 million cubic-
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Great Midwest Corp., is using 2 mil
lion square feet of a mine that’s 15
million square feet. Both have
international trade centers.
Underground storage is an energy
saving concept Inland has been
using for 25 years. Inland’s man
made limestone cave has 16-foot ceil
ings in six-or seven-acre rooms inter
spaced with supporting limestone
pillars 25-feet thick. The limestone
rooms are impervious to the cold
weather above that is causing natural
gas shortages and an energy crisis.
“If we were above ground our
energy costs would be triple,’ said
Inland’s General Sales Manager
Victor Mersten. “We don’t have to
face the elements. In the freezers
themselves, we don’t have one-
foot-thick walls absorbing 100-
degree heat from the summer sun.
Here you’ve got a 200-foot ceiling,
and the sun is never going to get
down here.
While industries are shut down by
gas curtailment, Inland’s gas-free
system recently hired a dozen work
ers, Mersten said. The underground
storage also provides atomic bomb
proof vaults for vital industry rec
ords .
Mersten and Great Midwest’s
president, Forrest Browne, said un
derground storage normally runs 40
per cent cheaper than comparable
surface structures, and could be up
to 75 per cent cheaper if all that is
required is a dry room.
“We handle between eight and 10
million pounds of food each day,”
Mersten said. “The U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture says 10 per cent
of all the frozen food in the nation
passes through Inland.
But lower constuction costs aud
energy savings are not the only ad
vantages of underground, say
Browne and Mersten.
“One tenant who has been here 17
years said employe turnover is nil,
and productivity is substantially
above normal, said Mersten. “Dis
tractions are lower — you aren’t
looking out the windows at the girls
in the short skirts or worrying about
the weather. All you’ve got there is
your job.”
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LAWRENCE, Kan. — A fre-
pently used admonishment for
moking marijuana in a Kansas Uni-
ersity state-owned dormitory is an
jL irder to put a towel under the room
1 loor so it can’t be smelled in the
lallway, according to the student
lewspaper.
Interviews by the University
i, )aily Kansas with resident assistants
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ndicate smoking is so widespread in
ome residence halls that they can-
lot realistically enforce a university
lolicy against it.
“There’s so much of it,” said Tom
gan, an RA at Hashinger Hall
rhich caters to fine arts students by
iroviding studios for their projects.
“This dorm may be a little more
lenient because of the types of
people who live here,” Egan said.
He estimated that 80 per cent of
Hashinger residents have at least
tried marijuana and said the staff
does not take action unless it re
ceives a complaint. The residents are
asked to cover up the smell because
it’s impossible to stop them from
smoking, he said.
Egan was one of several BAs and
university officials interviewed by
the University Daily Kansan on the
subject.
Fred McElhenie, associate dean
of men, said he supports strict
enforcement of the university policy
which calls for those caught to be
warned and possibly kicked out of
the dorm. But he said RAs don’t
necessarily look for offenders and
residents do not have to open their
doors if an RA knocks.
“Being fair doesn t enter into the
matter,” McElhenie said. “That’s
the way' life is. Students who smoke
are all taking a chance.”
I don’t think the policy is unrea
sonable, he said. “If an RA says, T
don’t want to smell it in the hallway,’
they’re in essence condoning it.”
A student who has lived in a resi
dence hall two years said the
enforcement policv varies with the
RA.
“Some tell you to stop smoking,
and others just have you put a towel
under the door,” he said. “I worked
as a desk assistant for one year and I
saw one written report, and that was
only because someone was smoking
in the lobby.
At Lewis Hall, an all-women’s
dorm next door to the coed
Hashinger, an RA said enforcement
policies are strict.
“It hasn’t been that much of a
problem here,” she said.
T don’t think it’s anything com
pared with other dorms.”
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