THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
CLOUDY
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.129
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Move clocks ahead Sunday morning at 2 for daylight savings
Friday, April 23, 1976
Six KU alumni honored for distinguished service
Staff Writer
By JERRY SEIB
Six alumni will receive the University of Kansas' highest honor, the Distinguished Service Citation, at commencement exercises May 24.
Citations will be given to William C. Douce, president and chief executive officer of Phillips Petroleum Co.; Horner Hoyt, president of Horny Hoyt and Associates, LLC; Orrigan Moss, president of Washington, D.C.; Olin K. Petephil, Lawrence attorney; Edwin R. Phleps Jr., president and chief executive officer of Peabody Coal Co.; Robert B. Riss, founder and chairman of the board of Republic and Paul R. Wunsch, Kingman attorney.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and Dick Wintermote, director of the KU Alumni Association, announced the recipients yesterday.
The Distinguished Service Citation, established in 1941, honors outstanding professional accomplishment and significant service to mankind, Steve Clark, assistant director of the Alumni Association, said yesterday.
THE CTITATIONS are based on career
knowledge and not on a single year's activity.
Clarkasis
He said that this was the first year since 1968, when non-alumni became eligible to receive the citation, that the honorees were all alumni.
Nominations for the Distinguished Service Citation are solicited from alumni and faculty and final selections are made by a committee of nine alumni and three faculty members.
Petefish has practiced law in Lawrence since his graduation from the School of Law in 1953. He is a partner in the firm of Petefish. Curran and Immel.
He is a former president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and the Lawrence University.
PETEFISH IS a trustee, vice president and chairman of the finance committee and counsel for the KU Endowment Association. Member of the Association of the Kansas Union Operating Board.
Petfish said last night, "I consider it the citation) a very high honor. Whether I am a good citizen or not, I will stick to that."
Wunsch graduated from the School of Law in 1925. In 1936, he began a long career as a Kansas legislator when he was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives.
He served in the House until 1945, when he was elected to the Kansas Senate. He served as president pro tempore of the Senate from 1949 to 1965.
WUNSCH HAS been a member of the Kansas Board of Regents since 1968. He is a trustee of the KU Endowment Association served on the KU Council for Progress.
"I was very happy to get the citation," Wunsch said. "I was overgusted."
Douce, a 1941 graduate of the School of Engineering, has been executive vice president of Phillips since 1794. He also has ownership of the company's subsidiaries.
Doce will conclude a one-year term as national president of the KU Alumni Association during the commencement weekend. He has served on the board of advisers of the School of Business and was the Greater University Fund Advisory Board.
HE HAS HELD directorships with the National Safety Council, the American Petroleum Institute and the Manufacturing Chemists Association.
Hoyt holds bachelor's and master's
economics from Ph. University of Chicago,
He originated the concept of regional, community and neighborhood shopping centers in 1948 and has made market analyses for 500 new centers.
Hoyt has also served on the KU Council for Progress, and he sponsors the Elizabeth Hoyt Scholarship in the School of Business in honor of his mother.
Phelps graduated from the School of
Engineering in 1936 and went on work for the
Southwest Airlines, Coca-Cola Co.
He later joined Pittsburg Midway Coal Mining Co. and, in 1960, joined Peabody Coal Co. He became president and chief
See ALUMNI page 3
Legislators expected to approve pay bill
Kansas legislators will be back at work today in Topeka and are expected to approve some form of an omnibus pay raise before ending the 1978 legislative session.
The legislature failed to finish its work yesterday as planned.
The bill contains fiscal 1977 pay raises for a variety of state employees, including classified employees at the University of Kansas.
Those employees are classified by the state's personnel office and perform specific task-oriented jobs. Classified employees at KU include clerical personnel, technicians, managers, and service personnel, such as workers in the department of buildings and grounds.
THE PAY-RAISE bill was heavily amended yesterday by the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, which considered this morning by the full House.
The bill, as approved by the Senate earlier this week, would give access-to-theboard five per cent pay increases to employees who pay $1.250 or more. Employees making more than $1,000 would
receive merit salary increases, based on supervisors' recommendations.
Several representatives said they expected the $1,000 level to be raised to as much as $200,000.
State Rep. Michael Glover, D-Lawrence, said he thought higher levels would be beneficial to the school system.
Merit salary increases for unclassified staff at KU, including faculty, administrators and research personnel, will be eight per cent for fiscal 1977.
A bill that would raise the Kansas cigarette tax, with additional funds possibly going to a proposed cancer treatment program, has been not been discussed by the full House.
IF THERE are extensive changes in the
ball, the Senate will discuss the bill again.
THAT BILL was returned to the House calendar by State Rep. Lloyd Buzzi, R-Lawrence, earlier this week. Buzzi had said the bill would be considered during "bully bills" in the House when no other important time were being debated.
The bill could go to a summer interim study committee for further consideration and then come back before the 1977 legislature.
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Penn House worker
Sifting through new shipments of old clothing for the needy proves one of the biggest choices for Oocee Miller and her staff at Pemu
House. Miller, who is now director of Penn House, was one of the original organizers when it was established in 1969.
Award winner dedicated to poor
By JAY BEMIS
Staff Writer
In the spring of 1844, the city of St. Louis was celebrated its bicentennial.
The city had redeveloped Mill Creek valley, in one-acre slum area in the heart of St. Louis.
This project included construction of commercial buildings, a retirement center, a new campus for St. Louis University and middle-income housing.
OOCEE MILLER, director of Lawrence's Penn House, which she describes as a "poverty-intervention and crisis center," said recently that St. Louis, in funding its
Walk-a-thon more than sore feet
After serving jail time in St. Louis for participation in a civil rights demonstration against the jail in services, Miller began her battle for the plight of the poor.
bicentennial projects, had gained extra money by "severely curtailing" city services in ghetto areas—litter bins were flopped down and public restrooms boarded up.
Checking the product Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
many people would participate in the walk until it began at a a.m. tomorrow.
This Cottrell offset press is one of three offset, five rotary, and two letter presses that is used at the Kansas Color Press. See story page 10.
If tomorrow's March of Dimes walk-a-
thon goes as usual, more than 100 people will have tired feet but smiling faces at the end of the 20-mile trek.
Raybert Thornton, publicity chairman,
said yesterday that he wouldn't know how
Twelve years later, she has gained recognition from Lawrence and Douglas County officials and was recently awarded the President of the Year award for her social work.
Thornton said he was sure at least one person would be there. Mayor Fred Pence is scheduled to walk from the starting point to radio station KLWN.
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THE MONEY from the event will be used to fight birth defects through research and education.
Two years ago, $3,000 was collected and $4,100 was raised last year. "Thornton said he was happy," she added.
Pledges promise walkers a specific amount of money per mile. After the walk-a-thon, participants collect from their pledges.
Travelers Protective Association, hoped to raise $7,000-$8,000 this year.
"The number of persons walking isn't as important. It's the pledges that count, he said."
The civil rights demonstration in St. Louis was a peaceful one.
PARTICIPANTS WILL have route cards validated at checkpoints. American Red Cross volunteers will be on hand to treat minor injuries, city policemen will patrol the route and amateur radio operators will monitor the walk.
Thornton said the weather would have the biggest effect on the success of the event.
THE WALK-A-THON route begins at Broken Arrow Park, goes south on Louisiana to 31st, west on 31st and north on Kasalo. From there the walkers go east on Lake Huron, then east on Fourth, south on Maine and again to the municipal swimming pool.
The route continues south on Massachusetts, east on 19th, south on Harper, west on 23rd to Haskell, south on Hampton, 31st and back west to the starting point.
"We were taking a letter to the President (Lyndon Johnson, who was in St. Louis for the celebration) asking him not to be joyous on this occasion," she said.
"I didn't know what to expect in jail," said. "The jails were segregated and they said, 'You don't have to be a black woman.' A group of black ladies surrounded the jailers and said, 'She's staying with us,' and insisted that I be taken with them. I found out later that if I had been put in the white section, I would have been badly beaten. ... that was a common practice during the civil war."
WHEN THE CIVIL rights work was over, Miller was eventually assigned by the National Welfare Rights Organization in 1967 to crack down on racial discrimination in Illinois welfare programs, becoming increasingly familiar with the poverty problem."
"THE POLICE said there would be no singing or chanting, and to stay six feet away. When we got near the hotel (where the President was staying) we were alone in the room with guns, hered into troop-carrier trucks and taken to tail until the ceremonies were over.
"Actually, I was arrested, but never beaten. The could not charge me with盗贼罪."
Miller said it was some poor, black people who saved her life during her stay in jail.
Before leaving for Lawrence in the
before helped organize three
well organized organizations.
"We feel students shouldn't be ripped-off," Miller said. "Penn House is like a lab for students, but we don't want them doing something we can do ourselves. They do it without the supervision of a faculty member, which, in turn, sets a much higher quality job for us."
Miller was one of the original organizers of Pern House, 1035 Pennsylvania, when it was established in February 1969. The two-story house had been donated to the University of Kansas for the benefit of students involved in community interest.
Applications for staff positions on the summer and fall Kansans are now available in the Student Senate office, the dean of men's office, the dean of women's office or 106 Flint. Job interviews will be flinted. Flint by noon Monday. Job interviews will be Monday afternoon and all day Tuesday.
AN EXAMPLE of student work at Penn House is the organization's bookkeeping system, which was designed by the University's School of Business.
See PENN HOUSE page 9
Kansan jobs open
Watkins geared to student needs
Bv MIKE THIESEN
Watkins Hospital offers a myriad of services to the University of Kansas community, including services that offer high quality care that compares well with private hospitals. Watkins, Wolmann, director of health services, said yesterday.
Wolmann said he considered Watkins one of the best student health care facilities in the nation because of the quality of services it offered and the high accreditation the hospital received.
Although the hospital's staff has been short three doctors since spring break, Wollmann said, it is a very dedicated staff that works as many hours as necessary to meet students' needs.
An average of 400 to 500 students a day come to Wakkins, most of them being treated on an out-patient basis (not admitted to the hospital). Because of the large number of patients, it is hard to compare Wakkins with a regular hospital
A REGULAR city hospital is usually an in-patient facility, he explained, but Watkins also is a clinic. Wollmann said it had been projected that Watkins would have been admitted to the hospital this year—only 700 to 800 of them actually being admitted.
The hospital, which opened the spring of 1974 and cost $3.6 million, was a health care facility geared to meet the health needs of most students. Wollmann said it wasn't easy for students to get used to some very expensive equipment would be little use.
The old Watkins Hospital, now Twenthe Hall, was built for a student nomenation of 9.000 to 10.000 students.
Wollmann said the present facility was more efficient because it had more space, allowing a wider range of
Wollmann said the hospital was currently accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitales, the U.S. Board of Internal Medicine and the American College of
FEW STUDENT HEALTH services have been accredited, according to Wolmann, with about 4,000 of the 7,000 hospitals in the United States receiving any accreditation.
Watkins usually is staffed by 13 doctors, 12 full time and one part time. Wollmann said the hospital was short three doctors because two doctors had left for more training and one doctor was currently ill.
Wollmann said the hospital was trying to fill the vacant positions, but it had been hard because of a doctor shortage. He said most doctors would prefer to go into a private practice, but there would still be some who wanted to go into student health, even though the pay wasn't as good as private practices.
"It is a rewarding and enjoyable experience to work with young, intelligent teenagers." Wolmman said.
Dennis Dahl. a doctor on the Watkins staff, said he
Tere are a number of reasons why a doctor might want to work longer hours for less money, he said.
"Our doctors work an average of 60 hours a week and their salary is lower than they'd make in a private job."
THE DOCTORS at Watkins Hospital are salaried; they don't get paid more if they work extra hours or see more
preferred working in a student health center to having his own practice.
"I like students and identify with them. This type of practice is very rewarding," he said.
THE SHORTAGE OF doctors at Watkins did cause some problems, Dahl said, but he doesn't think it had any effect.
Most doctors come in at 8 a.m. and work until all patients have been cared for, usually until 6 p.m. but you can also get them out early.
The staff is overworked, he said, and it probably affects the doctor-patient relationships and makes the doctors nervous.
"I'd like to spend more time with each student that comes in and I see at least 30 students a day." Dahl said.
Students can ask for any doctor when they come in, but the doctors try to work together so that any doctor could take a patient, Dahl said. The doctors conferred with each other and consulted specialists if they needed help making
GENERAL COMPREHENSIVE medical services, specialists in internal medicine, gynecological and mental health services, physical therapy and a pharmacy all are available to students, faculty and staff at KU.
For students who pay full fees at the time of enrollment, many services are offered at no additional charge to those
Wolmann said the reason the hospital charged for the services they did was that most students had some form of insurance that would pay for most of the in-patient services, including rooms, x-rays and in-patient lab fees
See WATKINS page 3