Wednesday, January 10. 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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VISTA volunteer drops glamor to help others
After 14 years in Hollywood, Allen Kramer, VISTA volunteer, gave up a lucrative career as a TV and stage actor, nightclub performer and producer of musical comedies to help combat alcoholism on a Cheyenne Indian reservation in Montana.
Kramer is a member of a team of VISTA volunteers on campus who will be disseminating information and signing volunteers until 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union.
VISTA, Volunteers In Service To America, is a domestic peace corps. Volunteers serve anywhere in the United States except in Mississippi, where the governor hasn't issued an invitation for VISTA to work in the state.
"Being a VISTA volunteer is one of the most gratifying experiences a person can have," Kramer said.
Besides working with alcoholic Indians, Kramer has organized
dramatic clubs in reservation high schools. The purpose of the clubs is to provide an emotional release for the Indian students, he said.
Indians are traditionally emotionally tight-fisted and because they don't allow a release for their emotions, Kramer said, many become addicted to drink or commit suicide. There is a high rate of suicide among Indians he said.
Kramer said the posterity of any generation is the hope of the country. This is especially true of the Indians, he said.
During the last 100 years, Kramer said, the government has done little to help the Indians.
"The government has used no vision and no ambition in its treatment of the Indian," he said. "It doesn't care a damn about them. Stupidity, blundering and selfishness is the whole history of the Bureau of Indian Affairs," he said.
VISTA volunteers sign up for one year service. They can serve in a rural, urban, Indian, migrant worker, or Job Corps assignment
"The duties VISTA volunteers perform are as broad as your imagination," said Debora Signoracci, St. Joseph, Mo., volunteer.
She said assignments include teaching adult basic education classes, setting up recreation programs, organizing tenement councils and initiating bail bond programs.
Residents of Douglas County have increased their purchase of UNICEF cards and calendars by at least 12 per cent compared to last year.
UNICEF proceeds up
Proceeds from the sale totaled $3,717.15.
KU students still face confusion on increase in U.S. postal rates
Students are so confused about the new postal rates that Murry Smith, who has worked at the KU post office more than ten years, called the chaos there "the worst it's been in history."
To add to the confusion, the KU station didn't receive a shipment of 10 cent air mail stamps. They've had to "make them up with whatever we had: 3, 4, 5 cent stamps," one employee said. But he couldn't comment further—there was a long line waiting.
Lawrence post office employees said business was "fantastic."
cents for air mail, a rise of two cents; eight cents for air mail postal cards, a rise of two cents; and five cents for regular postal cards, up one cent.
the KU station employees said they sold about 10,000 one-cent stamps Monday and about 8,000 Tuesday. About 10,000 to 11,000 six-centers were sold both days, they estimated.
Lawrence employees were too busy waiting on customers to make the estimation.
The postal rate bill signed Dec. 16 by President Lyndon B. Johnson is to allow pay increases for federal employees. They received a six per cent increase last October and will receive a five per cent increase in July, and another increase in 1669, according to Lawrence postal employees.
Under the new rate structure, all first-class mail over 13 ounces and all air mail over seven ounces is merged into a single category, up to one pound. Mail which weighs between one and five pounds will change at half-pound rather than one-pound intervals.
Also, there is an increase from four to six cents for the first two ounces of individual pieces of third-class mail.
There are no changes in rates for parcel post, international mail, special delivery, special handling, registered mail, certified mail or cash-on-delivery, or insurance.
Registration set for Field House
Also authorized under the postal rate bill is a provision lowering the cost of sending packages to Vietnam weighing over five pounds and under 30.
William L. Kelly, associate registrar, announced today that registration for college-within-the-college freshmen and seniors who pre-enrolled Dec. 4 to 16, will be conducted in the north end of the second floor of Allen Field House. Registration will not be held in Robinson Gymnasium as was previously announced.
Registration time for these students will be during the regular registration period, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Jan. 31 to Feb.2.
Kelly said all students should pick up the proper schedule of classes from the registrar's office. There are separate additions for pre-enrolled students and those who will enroll during the regular enrollment period.
Lawrence postmaster Jack Harris, said packages up to 30 pounds and not more than 60 inches in combined length and girth sent to American military personnel served by Army and Fleet Post Offices overseas can be airlifted overseas for a flat $1 rate.
The sender pays parcel post rates for shipment to the coast plus the $1 fee. The new airlift also applies to parcels mailed back to the U.S. by servicemen from these military post offices.
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Volunteers are paid according to the cost of living in a certain area. The government pays rent, food, transportation costs and $75 a month spending money, a $50 a month savings account is accumulated for each volunteer, so he has money when he leaves VISTA.
Twelve KU students have filled
"I feel I've never done anything in my life for anyone else," said Eileen Wilson, Lawrence sophomore, as she handed in her VISTA application. "I feel detached in society, so I would like to do something for my country and someone else."
POETRY HOUR
MICHAEL COCLET
Assistant Instructor of French reads
20th Century French Poetry in French and English
Thursday, January 11
4:30, Music Room, Kansas Union
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