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TOPEKA, Kan. — Rev. Fred Hollomon doesn’t mind his flock
tittering or rolling their eyes during worship. To him that means they
are paying attention.
The chaplain of the Kansas Senate has endeared himself to his
congregation of 40 solons with provocative daily prayers distinguished
by liberal doses of humor and catchy snatches of rhyme.
Now in his fifth session in the Kansas statehouse — and his second as
Senate chaplain — Hollomon says he will use “anything short of
blasphemy” to keep the lawmakers’ attention when he steps up to the
microphone.
“I had observed while working elsewhere in the Capitol that the
chaplain’s time was just a routine that everyone endured. It wasn’t the
preacher’s fault, particularly, but no one listened.”
Initially, Hollomon did not fare any better.
“I got only two comments after I prayed my first prayer as chaplain
— both of them negative. They said I was too long. I didn’t particularly
appreciate it at the time, but I learned something— I began to think of
things that they could identify with as legislators. ”
Typical of Hollomon’s devotions is a lament about the public’s low
opinion of lawmakers: “I get a little weary, Lord. In fact, my goose it
cooks. To constantly be hearing. Politicians are all crooks’”
Group asks for
ban on sludge
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Home lawn
and garden fertilizer and landfill
made from municipal sewage sludge
may present a health hazard and
should be banned, an environmental
group has told the government.
The problem, says the Chicago-
based “Citizens for a Better Environ
ment,” involves high levels of two
metals, cadmium and lead, in the
widely available fertilizer products.
They enter the waste stream from
industry and are combined with
municipal waste in publicly owned
sewage treatment plants.
Because such metals can build up
in the body, the environmentalists
want to prevent additional exposure
to them from vegetables and other
food grown in sludge-fertilized gar
den soil.
They have asked the Consumer
Product Safety Commission to ban
such fertilizers as “hazardous pro
ducts under the terms of one law
the agency enforces. The group says
cadmium can cause kidney problems
and lead can bring on anemia and
brain damage, especially in children.
Bill Forcade, a lawyer for the orga
nization, said one widely sold sludge
product, Milorganite, now carries a
label warning against its use on soil
for food crops. He contends the
warning is inadequate,
Mike McCabe, speaking for the
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage
District, which distributes the pro
duct nationally, said the “minute
amount of cadmium” in Milorganite
“simply does not constitute a health
hazard if used in accordance with the
instructions.”
Even if the instructions are disre
garded, McCabe said, it would take a
vegetarian 50 years of eating only
food grown on Milorganite-enriched
soil before any theoretical harm
could result.
He added that the amount of lead
and cadmium in the product is con
siderably less than that of sludge
sometimes sold for landfill use.
Forcade insists the only safe way of
dealing with the problem of consum
er misuse is a ban of commercial and
landfill products.
A 1977 General Accounting Office
study found sludge products for sale
nationwide that contained three to
seven times more lead or cadmium
than the Food and Drug Administra
tion and the Agriculture Depart
ment recommend. At that time the
GAO recommended action by the
Environmental Protection Agency.
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Winter thunder has announced
the demise of winter in the snow-
swept South. The calendar has done
the job in the North, writing the sea
son’s passing with bold, red ink in
the ledgers of ski resorts and winter-
related industries.
Helen Lane, who predicts the
weather by observing nature around
her home in Tennessee’s Cumber
land Mountains, predicted last fall
the area would have six big snows.
The area has had three, so far.
Lane says she heard thunder on
Feb. 23. That, she says, means the
last frost in the Cumberland will be
March 23 — three days after the offi
cial debut of spring, which the Na
tional Weather Service set for 6:10
a.m. EST today.
“It’s hard to predict weather
around here and I’m not saying we
are going to have three more snows.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if we
did,” she said.
Snowy, cold weather sent shivers
through the Southeast. Even Florida
had record cold and Georgia and the
Carolinas got sleet and heavy snow.
But late crop estimates indicated
damage to citrus and peach crops and
to winter vegetables less severe than
first was feared.
It was one of those backward win
ters when long underwear sold like
hotcakes in the South and grass grew
over the ski slopes.
Helen Wohlschlaeger, a Fenton,
Mo., dog groomer, had predicted a
“bikini” winter on the basis of the
light-colored coats of the woolly bear
caterpillars. For her children, it was
too mild.
“I was getting complaints from my
boys. They’re allotted 16 days off
school for snow days and they only
got one,” she said.
The dearth of snow in the Midwest
allowed most cities to save money on
snow removal — or at least keep pace
with inflation. Minneapolis reported
a saving of more than $1 million.
But the snow drought was disaster
for the winter resorts of New Eng
land, which got no appreciable snow
fall until this month. The Small Busi
ness Administration has made
emergency loans available to keep
ski-related businesses from folding.
The snow-stingy winter of 1980
could mean changes for some
businesses in the Northeast.
“We have sold snowmobiles in the
past but this probably^
our last year,” said
manager of Advance
Center Inc., in EastHar
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