Monday, March 29, 1976
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Dialing 411 may soon cost
Telephone users in Kansas may think twice, then turn to the phone book before the operator for a number if a proposal is made for it for information (dialing 411) is approved.
Bill Collinson, Lawrence manager for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., said last week that if the proposal was approved, customers would be charged 20 cents a request beginning with the third request in a month for directory information. The first two requests each month would be free, he said.
The charge would be only on requested numbers that are in the 913 area code
There would probably be no charge for calls made from motels, hospitals and coin-operated telephones, he said. Handicapped customers who couldn't use a directory wouldn't be charged if they made special arrangements with Southwestern Bell.
Southwestern Bell filed the proposal on March 4 with the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC), which regulates ceramic recycling. The company said he had no idea if the proposal would be approved. If it is, Southwestern Bell will save $3.6 million a year, he said.
region, Collinson said, and each time requested two numbers could be obtained
'Poor Richard' more than just a comedy
Puppet acts are usually assumed to be comical, but "Poor Richard," a play featuring CIF Rakerd and his pupus Gus is a lot more than just comedy.
The play is based on the life of Benjamin Franklin and problems of aging. It was written by Raker, Ohnlinstead, Ohio, and was directed by David Sassoon, graduate student. Both are theater masters.
Even though a public performance in Lawrence was canceled last Thursday after a month of about aging on April 19 and to the City Managers' Conference on April 27. It has already been performed in several high school and student ageing conferences throughout the state.
The play is sponsored by the Continuing Education Department on Aging at KU. Lakerd and Asla were commissioned to write the play after Jim Nabors, director of the film *The Figure*. They also played the two had written called "The Figure." That play also was about aging. LAST SUMMER the two students agreed to write on the life of Franklin, who lived to
Rakerd pointed out that Franklin was active almost until the day he died. He was a member of the Continental Congress at age 84.
“Franklin is an example of living a full and long life more than anything else,” Rakert said. “He was one who was living each day to the fullest.”
Franklin is known to the public as an inventor and for his witty sayings in "Poor
Five KU profs attend meeting of Asian topics
Five University of Kansas professors went to Toronto March 19-21 to participate in the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.
One of the participants, Chu-ting Li,
professor of art history, said that the three-
day conference was the largest gathering of
artists and educators. About 200 people
persons may join the organization, he said.
Li is one of the association writers who have published a two-volume book, "Dictionary of Ming Biographies, 1388-1644." He presented a paper, "Hai-Lu siu and the Modernization of Chinese Art in the 20th Century," at the conference.
Participants in the conference discussed various study areas of China, such as literature, political science, history and anthropology.
Two professors of history, Cameron Hurst and Grant Goodman, went to the conference.
Hurst presented a paper, "A Medical History of Fijuwara no Michinage," and was on a panel discussion of the Heian Court Culture.
Goodman was on the executive committee of the Conference on Asian History in 1987.
Richard's Almanac, "but few people realize the other things he did, Rakerd said. He was in parliament for the colonies before inwarding an ambassador to France, Rakerd said.
THE PLAY*S only actors are Rakerd and his suit. All the technical aspects are done.
In the play, the puppet is the old Franklin and Rakerd plays the younger Franklin in the puppet's memory. An 84-year-old man can see all his memories is amazing, said, there are many disagreements between the two, especially concerning ladies.
Rakerd said the play was well summarized at the end when Franklin speaks
"Often speaks of industry and frugality as those virtues which acquired my fortune, but I think better of it. As Poor Richard has done, we have lived usefully than to have died rich."
So far, hearings for the proposal haven't been set by the KCC, he said, and it would be at least two months after a hearing before the charge would go into effect.
COLLISON SAID he hoped the proposal would be approved so the huge amount of requests for directory information would be reduced.
Rakerd has been practicing ventilotrochanism since he was 6 years old, and said that it was part of his personality. He said he preferred to consider himself an actor.
"We hope that they (the KCC) see our side of it, which is not so much an attempt to make money as it is to get the situation under control by cutting down on the number of unnecessary phone calls," he said.
In 1975 about 58 million requests for directory information were made in Kansas, Collison said, compared to nearly 40 million requests in 1970.
"Statistics show that only 20 per cent of our customers make 80 per cent of the requests for directory information," Collinson said. "This means that 80 per cent of our customers are subsidizing this minority of people."
Southwestern Bell customers are charged $7.62 a year for directory information through the company's monthly billings. More than three-fourths of the numbers requested are for numbers listed, said Collinson.
Cincinnati (Ohio) Bell has just completed its first year of charging for directory information, Collison said, and only five per customer's customers call often enough to be charged.
TO HANDLE the large increase in requests for numbers, Collinson said that Southwestern Bell has had to add 151 operators to its switchboards throughout the state in the last five years. If the proposal is approved and the number of operators would be absorbed into different jobs for Southwestern Bell, he said.
Seven states started charging for directory information in 1994. The approval of the registry is required.
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