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confidential aids reporting in kansas has been mandatory for several years only since last july as the state health department required physicians and labs to report a chai the infections as well a child the human immunodeficiency virus may pre see the onset of eight by ten years or more but hauser is the state's aids training specialist we can be considered a party infected at in spite of that did the fact remember beer for maybe ten years or more that they develop the diseases associated with a driving factor that point we caught it babe whenever the actual diagnosis of diseases or symptoms related to make out the infection that's what most people called the investigators have a whole long period of time a number of years that they actually have the edge of the action they can have and other people they're there to call it it bothered me hauser says tracking the h ide the infections house the state held a common target prevention efforts

so we can see what's going on where you're updating the population when you're a member of what you're seeing when you look at risk factor here of people who were infected maybe ten years ago and that was going on ten years ago when you feel it could be before people actually have been looking at it to get rid of at least currently are within the last year now people are going to be developing he is unwell a population physicians in labs in kansas are required to report a tie the positive cases with no names or addresses of the patients report includes the person's age sex county residents

raised and what tests were done and four aides hospital administrators and doctors are required to send more extensive information to the state health department are they are there for me and those reporters and directly to offer happen if in charge of reporting in life with her wit and even the information you walk while in her office is locked in all and although we control the area on the computer they have the name is blocked out and filled the names and everything came down five off anywhere that extremely competent or young ones that work with them at all hauser says even though laboratories and physicians in kansas are required now since last july to report each iv infections she doesn't think that everything is getting told she

says sometimes labs think physicians are going to do it and sometimes physicians expect the labs to do it came in part because of the infection reporting is actually under reporting of what being a mere reporting everything it's going to take awhile for computer reporting paperwork and probably a lot lower priority that an actual patient here we are hoping that the report will be better i would like to do that anyway it's related to the media or personal contact with the vision for what ever became of the money that we get from the federal government to support the prevention programs <unk> kandahar to provide a deeply indebted to professor and otherwise afford a member of the reports that we have in in order to help of time recruiting effort to really immediate impact

report for having it gets better over time when they indicated that we haven't heard that or not actually getting all of the changes that we think of that theory that the journey through portal by the conditions in the laboratory that so therefore you expect to get your reporting called vacation and protecting with reputed for the most part we expect to get to report on the majority of the cases have not yet received any to report having to do good indicator that we're growing i think quite a true picture what were they hauser says since age iv reporting became mandatory in july of nineteen ninety and then over one hundred cases recorded in the first six months there are about one

hundred people el nino and at five to raise one percent of the population of the particular eighth inning one percent of that to a third of a deadly infection that particular race if you fight the infections after a cross the board in the population at about the faint within egypt in redirecting there in ninety one percent of the population is white and fifty eight percent of the time the infections are white five percent of the population of black and twenty five percent of the age of the infection are black in four percent of the population or have danny gregory in fed and prevent the infection are hispanic in other words although only about nine percent of the population he can develop a minority thirty two percent of the infection from being detected in minorities within the

perfect amount of reporting and have a rather alarming trend toward a row of a representation of the minority groups in a real need for prevention effort targeted toward the minority population hauser says those kansas numbers go right along with us chance of minorities being over represented with hr the infections we have a health education infection that work with community based organization that target for the population to turn black community group an organization trying to do an intervention within their own population with that hear about preventing things that are targeted toward them called drawing the fifth plague that may be the language barrier that they can't overcome by using their own community based organizations than we do contract with a group of community to do health education and

risk reduction would call it hauser says an important point is that the heterosexual community is getting a larger number of a tie the infections that has been noticed in the past the carriage a good for cleaning the gay population it would have a gay talese was very easy for the hatter actual population to believe that it wasn't going to affect them with only going to happen to the gay people the gay population to respond very well to be the problem and they do a lot of rich reaction among their population than their infection have either leveled off or decrease gloomy area in population are continuing to increase the weekend i think the haircut republican idaho feel obligated to carry it can be pretty accurate actually created in women in the rain created a related to iv drug use and drug you know for example that for drugs hauser says those kinds of

demographics received your reporting help the state health department target aids education programs they get some statistics in kansas since nineteen eighty one four hundred seventy people have been reported with aids three hundred two of those people have died hauser says the department takes that four hundred seventy figure and multiplies it by ten to estimate the number of kansans who right now probably have a child be a precursor to wade's fifty percent of people infected with a charity will get aids within ten year here's the center for disease control in atlanta says age it can show up in tests from two weeks to three months or six months on the very outside after being infected in hutchinson i'm nancy finken a generation ago

we're going to need and it too little too late i think that westerners doing about individual your spine and we didn't leave a warm winter that we started growing earlier than it should and without mr delillo it it just gets interviewed about stress situation in the winter is especially hazardous but there just isn't enough to write about kansas and you're there in northeastern oh reporter description moisture

probe launch all their assets central ohio or barbour county specifically where we have had some direct reports say that i we heading out to six to six inches or less off the ground regional government leader we need a big figure in the six inch is that you're doing all of the ideal measurement be high stage and hatch it we'd that there is anywhere

from sixty eight inches all the way up to eighteen are more likeable feels close to my house that we use two feet tall and the guys headed out which is the idea of i would guess the general average almost eighteen inch it wouldn't be but to win we are unique and when the harvest crew comes through and have to just the blades that sugar level and the problems is that come in to play then when they have to set the blaze hello especially you know you can imagine if you go on it doesn't take more than a couple inches thick recently the ground didn't want him that he had ran into the ground especially jamaica

term but he's gone straight and i can rip it right all along and there you go they're really right down and whatever region that so it had a dirtier hours to get good corn field of of normal height you know will usually we didn't that we shouldn't rule the waves in a normal year and so you could harvest a bundle of initiatives at the common foes of the ground even if you're thank you with it you're being the executive director of the kansas association of wheat growers what goes through your mind for the next year even for the rest of the issue when you look at heart of the state being in trouble in another part of the state looks like it may come out ok

we need a shorter so in some respects it's a blessing but when we certainly wish it wasn't a way out of what happens with the whole group in other words have caused a director at the state of travel and another part of the state doing well it would be great if that kind of thing could be evened out among oil producers but so needless to say we were about that were concerned for her members and not other provisions that the computer but we certainly hope that the crop insurance is out there that they didn't have and so that they're making you don't cut their losses and zero money to you can be available and that's one of the reasons really lobby for government programs are good i am crop insurance programs so that when these things happened little losses can be evened out and people can remain in foreign rather than

less but we structure when the world cup is going to look like we have to zip to get some reporting from other sports world records the country's future role us rapidly and as we went to the world cup as looking like a it appears that the other parts of the world are having similar problems are potential to see a video of the prize come up because people are going to start buying again and that itself is going to trigger the increased prices so it's a horrible situation and we've got to look at that word last year's boulder we caught for kansas art rock a lower price and some were talking as you mentioned earlier about maybe it was too good and we had too much now this year were tyrrell may be part of the state a losing a good percentage of their crop so how do you figure when

only part of the state has either really good crop war or poor crop in terms of looking at an aid from federal programs put crop insurance or be an individual thing but what if the people don't have crop insurance is it harder to justify the feds coming in helping once isolated incidences well if it was a situation where everybody lost well european regulator only give the real problem when you have a you know which you might see a spot grab your spot the crop failure if you go to congress and ask for a disaster relief especially with the budget problems we've been dealing with for the last few years and a huge federal deficit if you have a spot a problem out there chances are you're not going to get much help even though somebody with our encounters a bubble it would have difficulty getting a disaster program through that only affected slavery a western third of the state kansas and he of course won the

problems with nationwide i am a mystery well needless to say we were able to get disaster program through that that's what you get away when you look at the politics of jewish leaders to say if it if it does turn him today a disaster situation we will be making the effort to get some mitigation way a disaster program but of course the signals from washington the last few years have been but those are a thing of the past and you get a good crop insurance but says they have now approved an adequate and a workable crop insurance program under the federal guidelines that we might have a chance how many kansas farmers would say on average carry crop insurance well i'd say it's probably pretty average nowadays a couple years ago i would've i would've guessed low orbit and knowing the political reality is also the fact that many of their yet

lenders are requiring crop insurance before they were my goal so the actual percentage quite a bit but they're also filled out there that have never had insurance and they open and the kind of people that i'll always done a real good job and they depend on their skills and may be unfortunate the standpoint of whether one of those farmers left your last is almost his entire crop he was incredible is because all previous years they didn't have crop insurance if your girl i made up the difference and then there he was able to absorb the losses or other farmers feel differently about it and the purchase insurance and there's nobody can argue about it in the current weather conditions and the government and then the assessment to this day do not raid ant colony of the state a potential disaster area

are not yet a second ago we have nine lives who just like the cat is very true and then if we can get some of this was true that there were children singers in our era now and the western part of st good morning howard ties is the executive director of the kansas association of wheat growers in hutchinson i'm nancy finken that's right and

there were i'm renee montagne what about coming home mom we thought what the reaction was going to be he didn't expect a hero's welcome in not get one and what were your expectations and then what happened and again

you know oh well beyond that friendship came back and that didn't help because they have a different perception of the war and the thank you no one then do family and friends well

maybe thank you are you comfortable that positions are planning special and now it isn't i

don't think it will be right right we haven't i'm well and sometimes we are interviews with people who are in the vietnam war vietnam veterans who say i'm so glad that the people involved it doesn't start getting the recognition and the support they deserve and others have been honest enough to say that well they appreciate the support the desert

storm soldiers have gotten there will be jealous and they're coming home to the hero's welcome wondering how you felt it felt both of those kinds of feelings thank you i don't know this does it when we think of homecoming especially during an iowa right now about post gulf situation where thinking as a lot of

partying a lot of hype a lot of the celebration going on but there may be some people who don't want a lot of attention and who would rather not put it behind them adams one go about making those decisions or taking a sentence now for things to keep in mind when planning and celebrations he says i don't we will remember thank you and

i thank you oh really returning them

right i don't know thank you thank you bill art is a kansas state university counselor and a vietnam veteran next tuesday night he'll be speaking at least school in manhattan on military home comings in hutchinson i'm nancy finken neil hodgkin anderson as this this was one of the first soldiers from

fort riley to leave for the middle east last august at the end of march over seven months later he returned to manhattan why does happen in those seven months to me onto his wife janis into their six year old son nicholas as well as their four month old baby caitlin who was born while neil was gone how to take care of our two children will hear mom's forgave me something to cling to kill the one hundred printing of course going on oh wait well done it really does amy to add

something to say you know my child would i mean or what i think it would've been a little harder naturally genesis as beale says he's sorry that he had missed the birth of caitlin mcgarry we were in the war do you want more but we know oh i don't like that but

it was really neat i want to win what kept his spirits up and kept you going when you were on the middle east are letters from now israel and others in an area between everybody we did you know each other while we were aware and then come home that we you could only partly about connecting tampa which

one and it sounds it honey get re acquainted with nicholas a little better at things just to drive back to where they were we need to check i really don't more than one hundred other and jenna says because of their willingness to talk to each other she and neil have a fairly easy time of readjusting to married life without thousands of miles distant sing them

now i have been married a long time and we communicate communication through important to each other again and we had handed her and holly were married in that he went to the navy and you again we did mm hmm topics include quickly quickly quickly quickly and yet i think our

weekly chat i think he probably kill him i think it can and we really felt like we were jama says even though the war ended it didn't feel like it was over and so he actually came home and she could touch him they will say this three or four times his orders to come home changed or hard to handle and then once he finally got to leave the middle east journey home was less than routine oh no oh man oregon oklahoma

where the plane there and then get a timeframe in the lyric and be plain cancelled through the tornado coming home you know portland oregon home to greet him and we went to him up in a kmart parking lot of my manager all night oh oh really i had the grouper can remember it rather than one paper and the indian meal the only thing

you need to know here might be a lot of people in the american bowling oregon do you agree obviously janice is a laugh about it now in the us as he was just glad to finally be home with or without a big reading no doubt the most important people were there anyway his family jemison the course and home waiting was four month old caitlin in hutchinson i'm nancy finken it's not totally accurate to call them the cars of the future since other countries are already using them but in the united states and is it still ok to say electric vehicles are something new and maybe within the next few years they will be our future cars a one and a quarter million dollar grant from the department of energy and the

private sector has been awarded to kansas state university professor james hank says the research over a five year period will be done on electric vehicles the findings will be given to the energy department and recommendations for improvements to the electrical systems will be passed on to electric vehicle manufacturers all three of the big three automotive manufacturer that being ford general motors and chrysler all have our weekly called electric hybrid vehicles they have some form of research and products might work in process right now general motors in fact announced that day in nineteen ninety three it will spark mass producing its impact and i don't know if you're aware but the impact was in his sports car that was read out in california recently in a in a road test and it was all electric and it ran against the beneath on three hundred and eighteen month the area and it began in a trial but the british european critical for a number of years the swedish

have been plenty of company in krakow toronto of the many international what people are being sold in the united states hanks says in the united state's pollution control will be driving up the use of electric cars in order to be right what is your goal and if you were probably trouble trial that an electric vehicle critical is technologically feasible

vehicle for a family vacation in that range and we're going to need to work he says electrically powered cars can about the same speed as a standard gasoline driven car maybe seventy or seventy five miles an hour well no as he alluded to is that the distance before needing to recharge is about one in twenty five miles and that's just not enough for most people automobile and we've and it's going to rain

this weekend but i believe that there's going to be what we call a hybrid vehicle not an electric or even a battery handling of tomorrow because it is a combination of different sources well you got it from a perspective of the automobile just being an energy conversion machine that they depict gasoline which is really good and converted into chemical energy the drive the wheels and we can get about three counseling and if you take the average consumer can really point to develop it gives a great deal of convenience with the electric vehicle washing machine in your house you will and that you know

it'll do and the epa we like natural gas propane gas that are hydrogen fuelled of alternate engine on the car and it's very quaint and weaken it and that engine sold to metlife pollution and now you know the pollution free vehicle and that's what we're kind of in the next five to ten years because places like los angeles new york city kansas city houston a major urban centers are talking about from the exhaust from internal combustion engines and without mass production the electric cars manufactured right now are very expensive think

about it or is it but outside the big three automakers in this country there are some folks who are rebuilding american and foreign cars and turning them into solar powered electric powered cars i'm an orphan you know you and i are you bored right oh

wow but candidly not have to wait a few years to see those cars at some of the research money is going to be used to buy cars that will be on display for kansans to see twenty four when joplin missouri if you're looking for and you know technology meets their

needs and will be sure listing the goal at shopping malls at shows in atlanta spirit and again we're trying to make the public aware of the fact that the technology is changing in order to meet future demand of the vehicles will be available and it was in university it's an it was unthinkable professor james hay is in the department of engineering at kansas state university he's setting up a one point twenty five million dollar grant research project from the department of energy in the private sector that is going to be

used for research to make recommendations to the energy department for improving electric vehicles in hutchinson i'm nancy finken we will we will be drawing districts not only for the house and the senate state offices and the congressional offices we will also be doing is go the strength and judicial districts yes very much so so there's that in nineteen ninety nineteen ninety election and there is a possibility that what will happen in this case is that some of those people will be put in a different district than they were before and of course if that happens then we'll have to get the attorney general's opinion as to how we should proceed and we'll have to proceed a lead attorney general for a lot of it could be that there will be some of those up for election that would

not normally have been up for election had it not been that we're changing the district for this particular time why does it make it harder right now what would have been easier to do it during ninety one waiting to it new money they were treated never supported that and that we could never support of people because there were some controversy involved and now that the recount like for a state college out that would be good he and his university who represented the most expensive count because of the fact that they counted they didn't count the students at those particular area ferry and then they did not tell them and a memorably when they were like twenty eight actually you and

about twenty thousand are better at kansas state and they don't like the state's answers so they would not support it whatsoever so that it would not do so so how is it going to be is reusing the federal numbers from here on out that's a census was used just to reinforce in the house that one time an hour to get in sync with every ten years using a federal numbers you know but we can adjust the veteran members and we're doing so this year we're just in a better numbers by asking the college students where they want to be counted do they wish to be counted in the hometown with a vote or would they rather be counted at the university town and of course the people we represent universe hugh downs were posted this week that allow and that you that they will have the choice so the secretary's job of asking all these people where they want to be counted also the military people ok oh yeah

blank happened to them and ask them where they wish to be counted why be counted back at one of the campuses that is that we have to have those figures from the secretary's day job is by july thirty first time and that's what the official states and now that figure will not be used for the congressional district we have to use the federal census we know that he is going to address that and on the media that said that there may be an adjustment to count it as it were to have that even more that we've already been hurt because we will not have even just figures to get much worse would buy a big large vessels they're talking about five point one percent increase five percent increase in western dc new york and it's going to get a portion of some terrific so we're hoping that the secretary of commerce must bakker does not does

not going to just because we think a highly unfair only talk about some what happened to kansas in terms of numbers with this federal sentencing congressional district essentially are losing some representation in washington because our population growth as i understand it has not kept up with the growth in other states even though we've grown since last august that done not enough to keep that that additional house seat yet you're right we have three hundred and seventy five thousand more people in our preparedness to retain that seat not the main reason why we're seeing is because the federal census count illegal aliens so that's one of the reasons why candidates of living history and figures it will cost another see that at two different states will lose a battle of pennsylvania think in ohio or something that would lose another sleep so they're very concerned about what's going to happen and what has happened here is the fact that the raw communities the rural communities are losing representation so

fast because of big cities in arizona this out about how god liz at that california's fifty three or fifty four congressman when you can see the fifty three so they're well it is losing tremendously and do that we have all that we couldn't do in a congressional committee aren't represented properly and they're meeting in kansas we're going to have to have at least one or two of those should be primarily rural areas of the state can be very important when you when you have to redraw those congressional lines have to look at a population based correct in and try to achieve that though the one person one vote kind of idea

a formula so many hundreds of thousands equals one congressional seat they're going to be here wichita kansas roots of sedgwick county which is about the foreigners a fifty thousand people and we need to go up two hundred and twenty thousand more than that were going to be honored for intermediate be honored by fifty and fifty the law to be about eight hundred and fifty two to make a point which will lead you it would be well whatsoever because wichita it's got three fourths of the population

and consequently we went west of wichita took all those areas we got to take that first mistake to make up the difference and we would have all those rural counties only represent those you're going to have a hundred and fifty thousand in twenty those counties out there that would dilute the rural districts so what we need to do is to be real careful that we do to make sure that we put together a plan that and boy the fact that there's some royal representation their campus we had no choice we cannot believe you know what's happening at the state level to flee look at the redrawing of the district lines for the statehouse in night eighty nine six districts in rural kansas county disappeared altogether we saw big growth in the sedgwick county and johnson tried to big urban areas serving johnson county gained four seats and said again to those recovering from i would imagine a population shift from the rural area to the urban areas are seeing it not just at the national level but also at the state level what

do we want and in that we need and that's going to be my one year it really state senator been the dickson is the co chair of the legislative apportionment committee the committee is holding public hearings across the state beginning monday their drugs should be ready by december by june of nineteen nineties you all the redistricting must be complete and hutchinson i'm nancy finken according to the kansas department of transportation one hundred twenty two people died in alcohol related crashes on kansas roadways in nineteen eighty nine one of every three people killed and alcohol related crashes is

not the drinking driver for the more study conducted by the national highway traffic safety administration indicated that drinking drivers do not believe the chances of being caught are great enough to deter them from drinking and driving rosalie thornburgh with the kansas tomorrow transportation's office of traffic safety says the principal reason for conducting sobriety checkpoints then is to make sure the drinking driver believes that the chances of apprehension are greatly increased checkpoints aren't effective strategy in law enforcement when you couldn't comprehend the city contract that could force program the administration for a while federal dollars come day how they're fighting it strongly for mattering as well show and that if you just repeat that play it very effective heat tool to arm and people not to drink and drive but about

a checkpoint in two it creates the motor comprehension improved of apprehension and in doing drinking and driving that the current program statistics show one percent of the drivers starts at a surprise a checkpoint are arrested for drunk driving last weekend reno county as a righty checkpoints al hutchinson and surge its cable yay who's in charge of the program says more than one percent were found to be driving under the influence of the two hundred forty five cars stopped three drivers were arrested for dui lawyer he says with the federal grant money at least six sobriety checkpoint lanes will be set up during the year the locations were primarily pit through previous dui arrest end accidents leave information i've received from the state level but also

internally on a local level was gone through and researched the locations were picked from those and with high actually has a dui arrest the car accidents and other accidents the check only itself was set up marmalade to stop the entire flow traffic on any given herself raised us the guy will be stopped by a unfortunate officer handed a brochure these rights at another expansion the drug will be asked that they'd been drinking at a major taking a controlled substance and the answer is yes of course partial paycheck would close attention to any other questions and answers and thirty contact with the problem if the officer feels that the drug may be impaired

to test today and as to step out the car and feels but it has been done at that time the senate fails those fields but a test he will be arrested for dui if the us or flaws of the drivers not invent a whole town stop twenty two the constitutionality of sobriety checkpoint has held up in the supreme court one of the things that ensures that is to make sure that they're done fairly consistently set up by the attorney general's office to make sure that what those checkpoints and doing is they're at the traffic flows like to moderate than it's possible to stop or recall that protocol is as disgust and to detail making primates writer one way the authors are the officers are aware that

they will stop every vehicle unless protocols channels broadcast run charge despite reports saying if for some reason we get a large influx of traffic that leaves about a checkpoint is backing up than drivers are waiting to be contacted vassar vassar george will change protocol that allow the drivers to come through and every third fourth fifth that will be checked that time he wasn't trying to target all that after the tragic but not clear the new protocol maybe change depending on the traffic robot in every color blow ye says the best thing to do is to check every car but obviously because of heavy traffic sometimes that can't be done furthermore he says there are some people who will see the sobriety checkpoint and turn around it's perfectly normal term if you didn't realize that matter it if you try and in a manner that's

more unsafe than we have ulcers on each animal watching for that heroism and there mr tooley announcement will follow personnel get them and make a stop when it's appropriate and safeguards or to do so and checked yasser checked the subject really things are nationally alcohol related traffic accidents account for one half of all crashes rosalie thornburgh with the kansas department transportation says over the past few years kansas has been doing well by saying that only twenty five percent of the crashes in kansas at alcohol related we do in our high risk group that is good for you and that character how i interviewed who had alcohol driving and when they come but we were able to uncover that i have here is a nineteen forty percent of drinking drivers and prompted you to question what the age of twenty nine

the group of drivers at risk it's a problem again not only the trading aspect which is what were talking about people who are areas whether it be pretty clean can still fairly new theme on driving and to be inclined to twenty one ad on across the country but rosa lee point bird and skip monday's say part of his success at the tour in drunken driving it is with education and public information even telling when sobriety checkpoint will be operated that is part of his programs due to have that road to stay at home and is taking a good friend of them and them to drive him around a visa and i think we've completed our task in this project on one of the secondary

his unit's budget plan is to get the driver that didn't get the mass media and get him off the road and forty volumes over somebody else schiphol year is in charge of reno county so writing checkpoints for the reno county sheriff's department with no county as well as many others across kansas are using more sobriety checkpoints each year to curb drunken driving in hutchinson i'm nancy finken