THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.141
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Last Kansan until June 8
Tuesday, May 11, 1976
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Car wash?
The underside of a car owned by Mike Butler, KU defensive lineman, goes off yesterday afternoon after missing a shot during a football game.
Butler declared to name the driver, but said she mistakenly hit the accelerator instead of the brake when the car began to roll toward her.
City workers call report a pacifier,not a solution
By JANET SCHMIDT
Despite a report released last week on city management's progress toward solving worker grievances, some city employees say that nothing concrete is being done.
Phil Bohlander, secretary of the Lawrence Sanitation Workers Association, said yesterday that most sanitation em- ployers were dissatisfied with the city's efforts.
"The men don't see any real changes in their lifestyles," Bohlander said. "They don't see any real improvements in working conditions or a change for themselves."
The progress report lists action taken by the city on 13 points of a 20-point resolution to strengthen Commission in an effort to solve worker grievances. The resolution was the result of reports by a special committee in charge changes last fall of city mismanagement.
SOME OF THE actions listed in the report are:
- Safety is being emphasized: A packaging campaign was started and a series of ads was developed and printed in the Lawrence Journal-World describing the packaging ordinance and safety problems in furniture, home furnishings and safety films presentations and slide shows.
The Highway Patrol inspected city vehicles in February and needed repairs
—Training opportunities for the workers have been utilized as much as possible.
-Health and life insurance forms have been distributed to all employees.
—A newsletter for employees was started and continues to emphasize safety, job openings, training and communication in general.
The personnel department is continuing to explain the grievance procedure to employees and taken to the end of the procedure; the city commission received copies of the final
Bohlander said that most sanitation workers worked the 27-point resolution was
NEITHER THE TRAINING or safety
Local couple helps troubled boys
Bv JENNY CARTER
Thirteen-year-old Jimmy is sitting in the police station. He's getting kind of used to
This is the third time in the last few months he's been taken in for threatening
It doesn't seem to matter to anyone that the boys were trying to boss him around. Everyone's always bossing Jimmy; everyone's telling him he can't do evengirl right.
The police have just called Jimmy's mother. She'll be down soon.
But Jimmy doesn't really care. She'll do a lot of holdering, and as soon as she gets back home, she'll be happy.
Is there hone for boys like Jimmy?
There is more for boys than Jimmy. Some people think so and John and Brian are the only players in the Investment Place for Boys, 1320 Haskell, are two people to help try seven boys like Jimmy.
Brenda Tiger said she and her husband been teachers who decided to become teachers themselves, that needed help going through the schools and there really wasn't time to deal with them.
Achievement Place is funded by the state
THE TIGNERS and their eight year-old son live in a large house with the seven
and by private individuals in Lawrence, she said.
It was started in 1968 by Elery L. Phillips as a way to earn his way through graduate school at KU. He is now director of Boys Town in Omaha, Neb.
There are now about 50 Achievement places in the country, one of which is a place called 'Hilltop'
THE PROGRAM TAKES only juveniles in danger of being institutionalized for times ranging from truancy to assault with a deadly weapon.
Tigner said the community must believe that there is a good chance of success for the boy and that there must be a home he could be worked back into.
"We attend one juvenile court meeting every week," she said, "and if a boy meets most of the requirements, we'll express interest in him."
If he is referred to Achievement Place, a screening committee composed of a probation officer, a social worker, a community counselor, and an adviser decides whether the boy is eligible said.
KUAC still undecided on season ticket cost
A probation officer will decide whether the boy should be sent to a mental health center, put on probation or referred to Achievement Place. Timer said.
*'FROM THE INITIAL interview with the boy we stress how special he is', Tigger was told.
In the beginning, the boys are put on a point system receiving or losing points for social behavior, self maintenance and academics.
If the boy meets his quota of points, he earns privileges, such as using the ping pong or pool tables, or going home on the weekend.
**WE'TRY not to have to punish. We try to arrange it, so every boy can have his own phone.**
He said that KUAC had already promised by changing an earlier carrier of 825 to 710 and have to be raised from ticket sales or a combination of ticket sales and the student
parents each week, though the parents are free to call or visit any time. Tiger said.
The possibility of a $4 discount for students who buy both football and basketball season tickets next fall was left undecided by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC) Executive Committee yesterday.
It's important to work with the parents, she said, because if the parents aren't kept in touch and the bay is sent back into the kitchen everything the boy learned will be undone.
Shapiro said that if the Senate had allocated money to KUAC, ticket prices would have been lowered, but students would be required for their tickets out of their activity fees.
This compromise lowered prices from an estimated $21 for football tickets and $16 for
Tickets will be more expensive next year because the Student Senate defeated a bill in April that would have given KUAC $2.40 million for fee, and they had totaled about $80,000.
Tickets this year were $10 each.
According to Dave Shapiro, executive committee student representative, the six members wanted more time to make their presentations and will phone in their votes today to KUAC.
She said that she didn't like using the
With the discount, proposed by Tedde Tasheff, student body president, the football and basketball season ticket package would cost $31. Without a discount or if purchased separately next year, the tickets would cost $5-25 for football and $15 for basketball.
point system because it was artificial but
the boys needed a lot of structure.
"We found that if the boys do well in school, even if it is just passing, the rest of them are not."
"The point system is a valuable tool but it's worthless unless you have a good relationship with the boys," she said. "The point system is an essential school reports are highly rewarded, she said."
Every day that each boy brings home a school report from his teacher, the Tigners have a 10 to 15 minute private conference with him about the report.
An hour a day is set aside for academics at home. Timer said.
program has been implemented effectively in the sanitation department, he said.
Shapiro said some committee members seemed to think that next year's ticket will be released.
“As far as safety, we’ve reported a lot of things and seem to get no action,” Bohlander said, “a program of safety that is available but there aren’t any meetings any more.”
See ACHIEVEMENT page 2
MOST OF THE boys have short attention spans and the teachers don't have time to
Pay raises are still a major issue, he said. "But I'm sure the city feels that they gave us money."
Boblander said employees had affiliated with the TeamsMasters Local in Topeka because they didn't think the city was too large to be a major beneficiaries. Four employee associations from the parks and recreation, streets, water and sanitation departments affiliated in April with the union.So far, the city has organized a collective bargaining contract with the union.
Employees then received a 9 per cent cost of living raise.
"WE SOLICITED their help because we weren't getting anything accomplished by ourselves," he said. "But we didn't run to get it." And they were the rousthe highest union around.
Bohlander said the local union dealt honestly with its members and supported them.
"There are so many other things that we can do aside from strike," he said. "A strike is pretty far from everybody's mind right now.
Bohander said that despite some city officials' belief that recognizing the union would inevitably lead to a strike, most workers were opposed to strikes.
"We checked them out, and the local union in Topeka is clean—nothing like the others."
"They're providing a certain service," he said, and "don't like that service, then they say, 'Do what you want.'"
"I DON'T WANT to strike and hurt my neighbors, and that that's why I would be hurried."
Mayor Fred Pence said that despite worker disaffection, the report showed no signs of a rise.
"It takes time and money to get things accomplished," Pence said. "You don't come in today with 27 criticisms and expect to be accomplished by tomorrow now."
Pence said he thought unionization and the demand for a collective bargaining contract were the real issues behind employee dissatisfaction with city efforts.
"They're going to stay dissatisfied until they browbeat us into a union contract," he said. "But I'm not going to be harassed into bad management decisions."
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"IF THE WORKERS are able to get the city commission to give them anything they want, then the taxes go up," he said. "I have always been the government and force the government into submission."
The effect of a bargaining contract with workers would be higher taxes. Pence said, "If they don't negotiate, they don't work."
See PENCE page 6
City employe battle an isolated example
By CAROL LUMAN
City officials in Kansas City, Kan., Wichita, Topika, Hutchinson and Salina said yesterday that there was no Teamsters activity to their knowledge. in those cities.
Staff Writer
Pat Cahill, administrative assistant to the mayor of Kansas City, Kan., said there were occurrential rumors about Teamsters and the police had said, "We've never seen anything concrete."
In Wichita, the Service Employees Union is recognized as a bargaining unit for some municipal employees. Robert G. Finch, interim Wichita city manager, said.
HE SAID THERE WERE a 'Kansas City, Kan., municipal employees association. Wages and salaries are determined by the city commission forum.
However, the Fraternal Order of Police and the International Firefighters Association are recognized bargaining units in all those cities.
Other municipal employees are represented in contract negotiations by the City Hall Office.
Most other union activity is limited to local union organizations, they said.
While some Lawrence municipal employees are battling with city commissioners for recognition of their affiliation with the city, they are fighting in other major Kansas cities is limited.
Those groups hold contract negotiations
with the city manager. When negotiations are ended, the city manager is presented to the mayor for approval.
FINCH SAID that no Wichita municipal employee groups are affiliated with the Teamsters, and that he had no indication of attempts to affiliate with the union.
Chris Hutton, administrative assistant to the mayor of Topeka, said that the Teamsters' department employees during recent contract negotiations, but that those attempts
The city manager submits a budget to the city commissioners that contains salary recommendations, he said. Those salary recommendations must be approved by the city commission.
"Our negotiations worked out well enough just the police officer didn't get together with me," he said.
Harris said that Salina municipal employees didn't have an employee organization and that in the past not much interest had been shown in forming one.
Salina doesn't enter into collective bargaining with its municipal employees.
In Hutchinson, the Municipal Employees Association bargaining unit with the Municipal Empire Finance Style Contract agreements made by the Municipal Employees Association must be held at a certain time.
Relocating a nuisance
Mark Winston, Huntington Valley, Pa., graduate student, and Dave Roulbk, Lawrence graduate student, whisk away a swarm
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
of bees that had attached themselves to a small tree in front of Flint Hall yesterday afternoon.
Students box grist of bees by Flint Hall
Dave Roubik and Mark Winston,
Lawrence graduate students, captured a swarm of honeybees at about 30 yesterday afternoon. The bees had grouped in a 154-foot stretch.
Winston and Roubik, both entomology students, swept the bees from the tree into a box. They transported the bees to an apiary. The apiaries were moved to Historic Reserve, north of the Kansas River.
"Both of us are going to be doing research in South America with the reputed killer bees which are actually Africanized honey bees." Mr. Ruckstrom asks why we're interested in catching bees."
Winston said the bees were either a colony that had lost its way from its hive or bees that had come too close to the nest.
"Usually it takes about one shake and then the bees fall into the box," Wriston said. "But this was a remarkably swarm, and it took almost 30 minutes."
Winston said the study of the Africanized bees was particularly intriguing because the bees had greatly expanded their geographical range and population recently.
George W. Byer, professor of entomology,
said the bees were probably on route to a new home. In the spring, bee colonies too large and they decide to move, he said.