Safety: ABC heightens efforts to stop underage drinking

Kansas Alcohol Beverage Control agents are stepping up efforts to prevent underage drinking.

In Operation Safe Prom, agents will work with local law enforcement officers during the prom and graduation season. Law enforcement officers will increase efforts to check for underage people attempting to purchase alcoholic beverages, ABC Director Robert Longino said.

ABC agents also are working with high school representatives across the state to discuss underage drinking issues.

The No. 1 killer among people under age 21 is alcohol-related accidents, ABC officials said.

The penalties for a minor purchasing or consuming alcohol are a minimum fine of $200 and a 30-day suspension of a driver’s license. In some cases up to 40 hours of public service and attendance at an educational program on alcohol’s effects is required.

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Health: Clinic offers public free dental screenings

Free dental screenings will be offered to the public Saturday at the Douglas County Dental Clinic, 944 Ky.

Screenings will take place from 8 a.m. to noon.

The clinic regularly offers reduced-price dental care. It was established through the Douglas County Dental Coalition, composed of dentists, hygienists and other health care professionals.

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Higher Education: Med Center professor wins Guggenheim fellowship

A professor at the Kansas University School of Medicine has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Award.

Dr. Robert L. Martensen, professor and chairman of history and philosophy of medicine and director of the Clendening Library of History of Medicine, will receive one of 184 Guggenheim fellowships awarded this year. He will receive a $35,000 stipend.

Martensen received the award for his book, “The Origins and Cultural Politics of the Cerebral Body,” which discusses the origins of modern ideas about the brain that evolved during the 17th century.

There were more than 2,800 applicants for the fellowships, which are administered by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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Gasoline prices: Pump Patrol seeks best deal

The Journal-World has found a gasoline price as low as $1.28 at Site Service Station at 23rd Street and Haskell Avenue.

If you find a lower price, call us at 832-7154. Be prepared to leave the name and address of the business and the price.

Or go to www.ljworld.com/section/gasoline to join our Pump Patrol board.