Rainy day
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
RAIN
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.144
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
'Stavisky' blends fact and fiction
Thursday, June 10, 1976
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Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Cooling-off the Attorney General
Kansas Attorney General Curt Schneider coiled his dry throat young ladies of Girls State. The popsicle was provided by Tamera with a perspice Wednesday afternoon after giving a talk to the Wark, a delegate from Osage City.
Ex-city worker may go to court
Bv RANDY SEBA
Attempts are being made to reinstate Dennis Smith, former sanitation employee, Phil Bohlander, secretary of the Lawrence County Workers Association, said yesterday.
Smith was dismissed from the sanitation department April 23 for not having been able to work since January 22 because of a back injury.
"The next step as far as I'm concerned is going to federal court," Bohlander said.
Smith had no comment other than that his attorneys were "working on things."
"His (Smit's) case is closed as far as I'm concerned," Buford Watson, city manager, said.
As president of the Lawrence Sanitation Workers' Association, Smith helped on the ground for a day as the Teamster local in Teopaka last April after workers felt an impass had been reached negotiating with city management. The criticized city and sanitation management
Union representatives and other supporters appealed to the Lawrence City Commission May 5 to reinstate Smith to his job. Smith said he had a job-related injury and that no attempt had been made to switch him to a job his back could stand. He said he had been fired for criticizing management. Smith was denied, but he is remaining involved. Smith was denied, but he is remaining involved.
Bohlander said that in other matters, the workers could see some progress being
made in the sanitation department. Some safety improvements concerning exhaust fumes from the garbage trucks have been made. he said.
They also think that management is showing more concern for the workers, because
"We feel were in an interim period," Bohander said. "There have been some attempts to solve various problems. There have been some improvements."
One thing that hasn't improved, as far as the workers are concerned, is the city commission's attitude toward the union affiliation. Bohlander said.
"The city at this time has no intentions of negotiating a bargain," he said.
The city commission voted 3 to 2 last year not to negotiate with union officials.
Watson and Lawrence mayor Fred Pence agreed that some improvement in relations
between management and sanitation workers has been made, but both men denied any responsibility.
"That decision is made and over," Pence said.
Pence said that negotiations should be kept at the local level and that workers were wasting their time trying to "whiplash or browbeat" him into submission.
“If you’ve got a problem, come tell me.” Pence told the workers. “We will talk about it and we will do it in a human, rational manner.”
Bohlander said the workers weren't trying to brobeat anyone by using Teamster rules.
"I know the Teamsmasters have a bad reputation nationally," he said. "I don't know whether or not all the stories are true, but they are clearly real. They're a clean and fair-minded local."
Lawrence teachers end negotiations with district
By DAVE WARD
School District 497 negotiators and the Lawrence Education Association (LEA) reached an agreement Wednesday afternoon with the teachers of contract bargaining for 1967/72.
The agreement was reached after the LEA team said they would reject any further compromises regarding new money for teachers' salaries for next year.
The LEA contended that the district's May 26 offer of $385,078 in new money, which was circulated to all schools, was the figure they could accept.
However, the district team said that the figure of $385,078 was a non-binding estimate of money needed to pay a base salary of $1,100. This would be an average salary increase of 7.3 per cent to teachers currently employed by the district.
Jack Brand, chief negotiator for the district, said from the onset of the negotiations that there would be no salary adjustments made with money that might be left over after the 7.3 per cent increase is paid.
At one point in yesterday's bargaining session, the district agreed to adjust a new money total of $474,000, which would turn any excess money into teacher salaries. However, the LEA rejected this proposal, and the total figure they wanted was $385,000.
"You can only press us so far with such
The two sides agreed in previous sessions on a base salary of $8,100. The issue separating the two sides was whether an allocation of $33,000, which would be needed to place six elementary physical education teachers on the salary schedule, would be included in the district's offer of $47,400 or would be added to the budget would be done if money budgeted for salaries wasn't spent also separated the negotiating teams.
"We have offered to expose ourselves up to $385,000; however, this is just an estimated figure." Brand said. "We don't feel it will take that much money to cover teacher salaries, but we cannot make any adjustments."
Brand said that the LEA had misunderstood the intention of the $385,000 figure, and he believed it was intended for the district by Carl Knox, superintendent of schools. Brand said that figure shouldn't be taken seriously by the LEA team because they couldn't not pass over the bargaining table.
The LEA team contended the proposal to make a minsterevaluation if it wasn't to be taken.
Journal-World under investigation
BY HUST FORCELL
Staff Writer
An investigation to determine whether the World Company, publisher of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World, is in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act is being conducted by an officer from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Vernon Crites, wage and hour compliance
The law also requires that employees be paid time and one-half for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours a week. But employees said they were paid a straight salary no matter how many hours a week they worked.
abusive and deceptive actions. We will not take them sitting down any longer," said Tony Gauthier, spokesman for the LEA team.
"I don't consider your 'new' proposal of including the $38,000 allocated for the physical education teachers in the sum of $474,000 a new proposal at all," Gauthier said. "In fact, the only thing new about this proposal is that it is worse than the last one."
Brand answered these accusations by saying that the LEA's approach to the issues separating the two sides was the same, and he heard in six years as a district negotiator.
Gauthur countered by insisting that the $385,000 was a viable offer from the district and the LEA wished to work with that figure.
officer for the labor department, said yesterday that his office was investigating wage and hour practices of the newspaper. He refused to discuss what he had learned or the reason for the investigation.
Negotiations speeded up when the LEA dropped its $30,000 proposal to add an additional half hour of planning time to the project. The LEA agreed to drop the plan after LEA
Critics said that he didn't know whether there were any discrepancies between the law and the pay practices at the newspaper and that the investigation was continuing.
newsroom employees, although records were kept for department employees of newsroom.
One employee of the newspaper said he was hired to work a 44-hour week, but it was understood that he would work until the was done. He said that he averaged more than 50 hours a week and that a 55-hour week was not uncommon.
Dolph Simons Jr., president and publisher of the newspaper, was out of town and unavailable for comment. Dolph Simons Sr., editor, refused to comment.
Leo Eller, controller of the Journal- World, said the labor department told newspaper officials that the investigation was a routine audit.
The Fair Labor Standards Act require that employees keep time巡察 on all employee days.
team member Jayne Polcyn asked to make
priority to priority item in next year's
contract talks.
Present and past employees said no such records were kept for Journal-World
After the meeting, Brand said, "I feel that the total dollar figure of $5,138,882 allocated to teacher salaries, constituting an average of $6,099," she said, "a was fair and consistent agreement."
after the LEA compromised, the district added $83,000 for physical education and $25,000 for library.
Darrell Ward, president of LEA, said, "I think the settlement was as good as could be expected under the limitations imposed on us by the legislature and the other needs of the district. It is a package that we will recommend that the teachers accept."
Besides setting the salary dispute, the two sides agreed to establish a committee to design a fringe benefit package that may be started in 1977.78.
The agreement will then be subject to ratification by the Board of Education.
Negotiators for both sides will meet again tomorrow morning to tie up the loose ends of the agreement.
Halls filling quickly
Residence halls always are nearly fun, for the fall semester, and the University of Kansas may have to put some students in temporary quarters again this year.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing said yesterday that although 700 to 800 spaces were still available in the residence hall system, they would fill up quickly. Proposals are being considered for temporary housing, he said.
"Everyone who wants in a residence hall is encouraged to make agreements early," said Jennifer A. Krauss,
Hess said that GSP-Corbin, Lewis and Oliver halls were already filled to capacity. Ellsworth hall is closed to men. She said that housing administrators were discussing possible off-campus housing because of the fall housing crunch.
Some men who applied for residence hall contracts last fall were turned away and those still enrolled in housing were full. About 30 students were paying $5.25 a day to live in utility rooms in McCollum, Hashinger and Oliver halls until regular accommodations were found for them.
Both Wilson and Susan Hess, graduate assistant to the dean of women, said that a record enrollment for fall 1976 would again fill the residence halls, as it did last year.
Wilson said that no one applying for a residence hall contract would be turned away and that about 200 more spaces could be made available in the residence halls. Some rooms will have triple occupancy, and students will live in converted utility rooms.
Wilson said that students living in utility rooms would have the option of moving into a basement.
"We anticipate the usual attrition rate the first month of the semester, which will open on Monday."
Wilson said the arrival of foreign summer at the end of the summer could fill up all the storage.
FDR came to the convention with a majority of delegates but lacked the two-thirds needed. That's where Farley's behind-the-scenes skills came to bear. He negotiated a trade by which Texas and Oklahoma were drawn to John N. Garner, swung into the FDR conference and gave him the victory. Garner became vice president.
Allen Field House and Robinson Gymnasium were being considered for temporary housing if the converted rooms filled up.
Juanita Wehrle-Einhorn, assistant to the dean of men, said that contracts were coming in at twice last year's rate. She said that the dean of men's office was considering seeking community help if the residence halls filled up quickly. The staff had decided to meet single-occupancy rooms to 30 per cent of the total occupancy, she said.
One-time FDR mastermind, 'Genial Jim' Farley, dies
Wilson and Hess said that they thought the student population would level off in the next few years and that there was little chance of an residence hall being built in the near future.
NEW YORK (AP)—James A. Farley, former postmaster general and political mastermind who engineered Franklin D. Roosevelt's ascendency to the presidency in the 1930s, died last night at his home. He was 88.
Wilson said that if such temporary housing were used, students would be transferred into the residence hall system within three to four weeks.
KU expects tuition hike
Farley's wide-ranging contacts and his chummy style earned him the nickname "Genial Jim." Those contacts—reported calls to him "the man who knew 40,000 people by their first names"—and his letters signed in green ink played a crucial role in the "selling" Roosevelt and the Democratic party to the voters in 1892 and 1936.
A Kansas Legislative Research Department recommendation to increase tuition and fees at state colleges and universities "was not at all surprising." L. Martin Jones, associate vice chancellor for business and fiscal affairs, said yesterday.
Sources said Farley had seen a doctor earlier in the day. He lived alone in the Towers, an adjunct to the Walderfort Astoria hotel on Park Avenue. It has his residence for more than a quarter-century.
For seven years, from the beginning of FDR's administration in 1933, Farley directed Democratic strategy as party leader and served as postmaster general.
"The pressure for increased student support is on and will continue to grow as the Legislative Educational Planning Commission and the Board of Regents note the necessary level of student financial contribution in the 1977 budgets. Jones said."
His political career began in 1911 when he was elected town clerk of Stony Point, a few miles from where he was born—in Grassley Point, N.Y., on May 30, 1888.
came to him in 1930 and after Roosevelt's nomination for the presidency, he be-
The outcome of the tuition increase debate won't be decided until later this year, after the Legislative Planning Committee of Regents and the legislature have met.
He said that it would be unconventional for the University to leave-off campus housing.
In 1913, he became a county supervisor and went to the state assembly in 1923. Five years later Farley had attracted the attention of state party leaders and was named secretary of the State Democratic Committee. The state chairmanship
He was floor chairman at the Chicago convention that nominated Roweitch to the first of a record four consecutive terms in the White House.
The Legislative Research Department recently proposed the tuition hike based on facts that indicate student fees and tuition collected in 1977 will cover approximately 19 per cent of the state education budgets. The lowest level of coverage in a decade
During FDR's second term, differences arose between Farley and President Roosevelt. The break became complete in the summer of 1940 when he called for a retreat. Farley said the President had told him a year earlier he would not run again.
The last tuition raise at KU was in the 1973 fall semester. KU's education budget had increased by about $2 million.
On the first cross-country campaign in 1931 to promote FDR, Farley shook the hands of hundreds of key Democrats. Then on his return, he sent each one a letter signed in the Irish green ink that was trademark of "Mr. Democrat."
InFiction has taken its toll. Jones said, and the projected 1977 edition portion of the book will be available in print for $40.
Farley discussed the break in a 1947 magazine article. Two reasons were offered: Farley's own political ambitions and his desire to Democrats with whom he did not agree.
"The increased income coming from a greater enrollment has been not proper
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Dali print presented
A KU Medical Center biochemist's Spanish heritage was a factor in his recent acquisition of three limited-edition prints of the work by his father. Yesterday he gave one to the state of Kansas as a joint gift from the University of Valencia and the Valencia Medical School in Spain.
Grisolia, under whose direction the painting was created, approached Dall with the request for his assistance at a conference in Valencia last year, Grisolia said recently. His proposal was for Dall to create a painting based on a complex reaction in protein metabolism, he said.
Santiago Grisolia, the Sam E. Roberts distinguished professor of biochemistry, presented the signed print, one of 78 made from the painting, to Gov. Robert F. Benton, with a letter of presentation from Chancellor Archie R. Dykes accompanied the print.
Because the subject was so different, Grisola said. Dall agreed.
Assistants to Grisola sent Dall chemical models of the reaction as background resource material. Dall used the models, and the labels from the datasets labels randomly on the canvas surface.
Dali kept the original painting in his private collection. The print is valued at about $1,000.
Although Grissola has lived in the United
States for 22 years and is a naturalized
marine biologist, she was born in
Nebraska.
He was instrumental in organizing an international food conference which was in Valencia in April. Bennett gave the keynote address.
He recently was one of four persons granted an audience with King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain on their visit to the United States. He presented the king the key to Kansas City, Mo., and carried Bennett's greeting to the king.
Grisola said he had trained about 35 or 40 Spanish students to be biochemists. They are now heads of departments or researchers in Spanish universities, he said.
Recently Grisola taped an hour-long television program about Kansas City, which was aired on Spanish television station NBC. The program featured the traits of the mural of Coronado in the State Capital and pictures of the Plaza to emphasize the connections with the Kansas City skyline.
Staff photo
Inspecting a Dali
Santiano Grisalmo (right), the Sam. E. Robert distinguished professor of biochemistry at the KU Medical Center, presented to the state of Kansas one of 78 prints of a painting by Salvador Dali. Accepted the print, a gift of the University Valencia, Spain, Medical Department of San Antonio, Gov. Robert Bennett. The painting is an abstract representation of a vital cycle of life.