Bouncing-check writers usually very easy to catch
By STEVE SCHOENFELD
Getting away with writing a bad check is almost as difficult as turning down a free steak dinner. Whether it's traced by a bank, business, store detective, collection agency, county attorney's office or county sheriff, someone will deal with the writer of a bad check.
A bank is the first to handle a bad check. Barbara Sizemore, accounting clerk at the First National Bank, said if the check hadn't overdrawn an account by more than $2., First National would pay for it and would charge a service charge of $3 to the account.
Sizemeen said if the check had overdrawn the account by more than $2 then the check was usually sent back to the person or business on which the check was written. However, this isn't always the case.
"SOMETIMES THE BAD CHECKS are okeyed by officers of the bank," she said. "These officers have talked to the customer who wrote the bad check, and they've come up with an important comment about when and how the check was to be paid."
First National's policy of not sending some of these bad checks back to the businesses isn't unusual. Both John Peters, an officer at Lawrence University and a lawyer with the firm, preside and assist trust officer at University
State Bank, said their banks also had frequently
addressed some customer's accounts to be overdrawn.
MARY MAMMEL, HEAD of the cash room at Gibson's Discount Center, said she usually sent the bounced check back to the bank for a second time. You law the check can be sent back twice.
If there are sufficient funds to pay for the check the second time it goes through, the bank simply takes the money out of the check writer's account to pay for it. If not, the bank sends the back check to the business or individual, which is the point when the business usually takes steps to get its money.
"The business can now put the check up for collection," Siermone said. "For $1.40 charge we have a girl who watches the account, and if the money comes through, she pays the business."
BOB FLOJIRREL, THE MANAGER of the Kroger wrapper, a store detective to see the writer of the bad check
When the check bounces for the second time, the business sends the writer of the check a registered letter asking him to pay within seven days. If he doesn't付, the business then tries to collect in its
Shirley Atteberry, manager of Research and Data, said it won't w worth the store's time or money to go after the people themselves. The collection of people she sees people down and get the money returned, she said.
"Our store detective goes to see why the check hasn't been paid," he said. "We usually collect about 95 per cent of the bad checks by using this method. Usually it's just a mistake and people take care of it. Then there's always that 5 per cent that don't."
Mammel said she turned the bad checks over to the Research and Data collection agency.
"WE HAVE A LOT OF trouble at times tracing them down," Atteberry said. "There are a lot of ways we do it, but most of them are confidential. If we find the person who wrote the bad check, we tell him to leave it alone. It is against the law to write a check when you don't have the sufficient funds to pay for it."
There are many University students whom they have to go offer for writing had checks, she said.
"SOME OF THE STUDENTS pay right away"
Attheater said. "The are absent-tinned ones who just forget how much money they've got or
their pay." Around 40 per cent of the students pay off pretty quickly.
"However, there are those that are really hard to track down. Some just figure their parents will pay. Others go home in May and we have only their children. Others happen they're筋yough to touch down."
Frances Kennedy, the check investigator for the county attorney's office, said she classified bad checks into reports of insufficient funds and closed accounts. If it's a case of insufficient funds,
she said, the files are checked, and if there are no prior cases or arrests, they simply try to get in possession of them.
Kennedy said that if there had been prior cases or many bad checks written, she requested a warrant for their arrest. When it's a case of the account closed, she takes the same procedure, she said.
She said it took a lot of work to track some of the bad check writers down.
"Many times we have a warrant that's outstanding," Kennedy said. "Sometimes it takes a year or two to find them. And there are some that we never get. We track them down any way we need, for instance, I tracked a girl down by calling her back and telling her to tell me when her new check came in."
Roger Elmer, office manager of Weaver's Inc., said that Kennedy and her office had really cracked down on the use of cookies.
"SHE GETS RIGHT ON THEM and after them," Elmsead said. "The saffir used to handle them, and since she's taken over the responsibility, we've been able to redraw the red tape and collect the money faster."
Those cases that deal with forgery aren't turned over to the county attorney, but go instead to the county clerk.
"We strictly investigate the whole thing as a crime," Marilyn Steele, deputy sheriff, said. "We
present our case to the county attorney only for prosecution. We aren't a collection agency."
The Kansas Union tries to get the person to pay without sending a report to the county attorney or hiring a collection agency, according to Larry Billings, assistant business manager of the Union. A member of the union said. If they don't respond to 10 days and two weeks, they are sent a second notice.
Billings he said he continued to notice and would try to reach the person by phone. If that doesn't work, he then he sends a voice contact to his business office and may even contact the county attorney.
Richard Steffen, manager of student accounts for the comptroller's office, said that he kept a record of student loans and fees.
"They'll have to pay before they can enroll again," he said, "or at least make the arrangements to pay. If they don't return to school we send three letters to the last known address. If they're not paid within 20 days then we turn them over to a collection agency."
The University uses two collection agencies, Care Adjustment and North American Credit Services.
Steffen said that the money wasn't always collected and that in such cases, the records of the bank were kept.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.86 No.55
November 11. 1975
Dean says heat system soon will fail
By MARY ANN DAUGHERTY
Although a state official questioned the University of Kansas' trash-powered heating proposal last week, William P. Smith, dean of the School of Engineering, said yesterday that the present heating system would soon be impractical.
Smith, a proponent of the plan to build a $10-12 million trach-burning steam plant, said that costs and fuel shortages would be the two major reasons the present system
Smith made his comments in response to comments made last week by an official of the State Department of Health and Environment (DHE) who said that the proposal for the new plant might not be economically feasible.
"It bolts down to three alternatives," Smith said. "We can continue with the present plant, we can build a coal-burning or we can build a trash-burning plant."
LAST YEAR THE UNIVERSITY spent $622,174,000 for natural gas, he said, an amount that could have heated 4,000 homes. Natural gas can be bought for 70 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, he said, up 22 cents from two years ago.
Besides the expense, Smith said, there is a possibility that federal mandates might reserve natural gas for residential and small commercial users, thus forcing schools like KU to find other fuel alternatives.
Smith said there was no shortage of coal, but the cost of coal would be prohibitive. Coal costs $1.25-$1.50 for each million thermal units (BTUs), he said, as compared to 70 cents for each million BTUs of natural gas.
The cost of building a coal-burning plant would be 12-15 million, he said.
Smith said that the trash-burning incinerator could produce steam more economically than any of the other alternatives.
THOUGH THE COST OF BUILDING the incinerator would be about $11 million, he said, the fuel bill would be "very small." Trash collected from Lawrence and Douglas County would be burned, he said, and the only fuel costs would be between $30-$40 per year for oil that would be burned with the trash on extremely cold days.
Staff Photo
Navel maneuvers
Melville Gray, DHE director of environment, cautioned that the University might not be able to get enough garbage to collect. In part because of the garbage collection costs would be excerrbit.
Members of KU Ballet Dancing Club run through their routine last night in preparation for the second major performance. With two days left before the grand opening,
KU-Y rules out Shockley speech
perform a one-and-a-half hour show at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 15 in the United States at 1284 Orrnd. All proceeds will go to the United States.
By LYNDA SMITH
Staff Writer
See HEATING page seven
The KU-Y executive board decided last month to call William Shockley to speak here first.
According to Steve Leban, a KU-Y board member, the decision was based on four reasons: one of the imperatives of the national student-Y organization is the elimination of racism, and inviting Shockley to speak at universities. He gave that goal; providing Shockley a forum to speak might alienate minorities from participating in KU-Y.
Shockley's appearance might over-shadow the KU-Y program Thursday evening that will deal with the minority of women in college. The cases of minorities were more important to KU-Y than Shockley's views on genetics, therefore, the human issues and possible harm that might result from Shockley's theory are the primary intellectual pursuit of Shockley's theory.
The decision was made in a closed session after views on the issue were expressed by the board; three members of the February First Movement; Diane Groth, a member of the Young Socialist Alliance; and Sharon Lee. Wichita special student.
Lee said if KU-Y offered Shockley a forum to speak here, KU-Y would be viewed as supportive of him and his theory. The issue of freedom of speech, which the board
considered when making its decision, would be muddled by this image, she said
"If you support a racist, you are a racist," she said.
Ann Marchand, a member of the board, said she didn't think inviting Shookley to speak here was necessarily an endorsement of his theory.
Ray Wigton, another member of the board, said one of the reasons KU-Y wanted to invite Shockley to speak here was to have people at the forum. If Shockley had been invited to speak, he would have participated in a small seminar with invited guests from the genetics, psychology and sociology departments here, the board had decided earlier.
Steve Leeben, a board member, said in an academic community, controversial issues should be confronted. The whole nation is aware of Shockley, he said, and KU shouldn't ignore him because he is controversial.
One of the board members, who declined to identify himself, said those students interested in Shockley's theory could do individual research on it.
"It wouldn't be proper to sponsor Shockley just so we can enlighten the world."
Med Center keeps eye on past
By DIANE M. WILSON
Staff Writer
The KU Medical Center not only deals with the present but also attempts to keep track of the past.
The Logan Clendening Library of the History of Medicine at the Med Center ranks as one of the best collections of its kind in the country, according to Robert P. Hudson, chairman of the history of medicine department.
The KU collection includes every important first edition in the history of medicine, Hudson said last week. Its exact date is unknown, but the books are so rare that they aren't sold the books are so rare that they aren't sold
He said some of the other fine collections were at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Yale
The most valuable book in the collection is a heavy paper edition of "The Circulation of Blood," by William Harvey. Harvey had a special edition of the book printed in 1828 to give to his friends. Only three of these books are known to have survived the ages. The first edition, published first time in the book, Hudson叫它 the rarest and most expensive medical classic.
The owners of Jayhawk Cafe, Wagon Wheel Cafe and the Bierstube will ask the Lawrence City Commission at the commission's regular meeting tonight not to force them to close their bars during home football games.
Options to tavern closings to be discussed with city
Another valuable first edition is "On Contagion" (English translation), by Girolamo Fracastor, published in 1568. In the first edition, a human body disease was spread by "seeds" that multiplied inside the human body. Fracastor observed at the time that disease could be spread by people touching each other and by mutual contact with an
The commission voted 3-2 last Tuesday to ask the owners to close their bars at noon on Thursday.
Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk, said yesterday that he and John Wooden, owner of the Wheel, and Whit Shea, owner of the Biertube, would present alternatives to
and therefore have no known market value,
and therefore the library's value was over a million dollars.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said that he would be at the meeting with other student senators and that they would speak in favor of leaving the bars open.
closing the bars. Wallace said they hadn't worked out the alternatives vet.
The three owners met with City Manager Buford Watson yesterday afternoon to discuss possible alternatives, but Watson said no decisions had been reached.
THE LIBRARY ALSO HAS a collection of
all of Harvey's other works.
Although the Hawks Nest will be open again this Saturday after the football game, the team will only 800 people. Rafa's said he thought most students favored keeping the bars open.
Hudson said that Fracastore's book gave medical people of that time a theoretical basis for quarantine and led them to burn books because of their victims to prevent the spread of the disease.
The library also has "On Childbed Fever" (English translation), by Ignac Semmelweis, published in 1861. Semmelweis discovered that doctors, nurses, midwives and medical students were responsible for childbirth and the care of a woman who had just lust had a baby to another.
HUDSON SAID, "CLHIBDED FEVER is that caused your grandmother to fear poisoning."
The library's vault holds the rarest books, as well as precious items for the Logan Clendening Museum. One box in the vault is a large leather-bound book in four pieces, or gold angels, are imbedded.
A touch piece is a gold medal minted by an English monarch and given during his reign to certain people who believed he could cure him of scrofa, tuberculosis of the lymph glands in the neck. Scrofa also was known as "the king's evil."
'the touchpiece was put around the neck of a subject who had been touched by the king to ward off the disease. People were taken away and given the right and therefore had god-like powers.
Hudson said it wasn't clear whether people answered the king's proclamation inviting them to be touched because they were young. And because the touch once had intrinsic value.
THE LIBRARY HAS A FRAMED proclamation by Charles II, inviting subjects to receive touchpieces. Bernice Jackson, librarian, said the practice of the monarch touching subjects to heal them lasted over 70 years. It was often done in private, but King William also touched subjects, even though he thought it was superstitious.
The vault has 20 original letters from Florence Nightingale. Some are written in ink and some in pencil. The ones in pencil were written after she became ill and was confined to her bed so that couldn't use an inkwell. Jackson said.
The library vault also holds an expanding collection of medical postage stamps from countries throughout the world. The Med Center's stamp collection was started from the collection of J.T. Nairamore, a Laredo doctor, whose collection to the Med Center as a rift.
CLENDENING WROTE A best-selling
The Clendening Medical History Library, which is separate from the Clendening Medical Library, begins as the private medical library of the University 800 graduate of the KU School of Medicine.
In response to this assertion, Leban said understanding the theory could be improved by talking with the theory's originator. Two members of the board who talked to Shockley by phone, however, said they were told to talk to and manipulated words.
book, "The Human Body," in 1927, and soon after became a nationally syndicated columnist. His writings were so popular and successful that he closed his private practice in Kansas City, Mo., to teach, lecture and write at the Med Center.
Clendening's real love, however, was books. He was an avid collector of rare and unusual books.
Jackson said that books were much cheaper then, and that some of the most valuable books were available to Clendening for $50 or $100.
Hudson said that Clendening's wife, Dorothy Hickson, gave him many of the books. He said that her family fortune perturbed much of Clendening's book collection.
See LIBRARY page two
The library was established when Clendening bequested his collection of 5,000-6,000 books to the Med Center in 1945. Mrs.Clendening supported the library for the rest of her life and when she died in 1972, she gave enough money in her will to Association University Endowment. Anson to support the library, Hudson said.
RALPH MAJOR, PHYSICIAN and medical professor, helped to build the library by giving many of his personal stories. He also helped creating the bistery of medicine. Hudson said.
The library has added about 10,000 books to the original collection, he said. Some were purchased and some were gifts, he said. One new gift is the collection of Thor Jager, Wichita physician, a collection of more than 1,000 books, manuscripts and letters, which will be housed in the Jager library. Another collection of books will add depth to the cardiology and pathology areas of the library, an announcement of the collection said.
Eleanor Burchill, KU-Y activities adviser, said she had talked to several people throughout the day about the matter, including a member of the Native American community. It was men. It was their opinions, she said, that Shockley not be invited to appear here.
She said KU-Y was confronted with the freedom of speech and the integrity of the intellectual community on one side and the power it held on the black community on the other.
"We must face what effects Shockley might have on our black brothers and us."
Gilbert Brown, a member of the February First Movement, a campus movement which says it is opposed to racism and imperialism, said an invitation to Shockley to speak here would be placing a rubber stamp on racism.
"The only difference between Shockey and the "Klux Klux" is Shockey's the "Nikolai".
Grob told the board it was the Young Socialist Alliance's opinion that Shockley had been wrong.
Kansan hiring
Applications for positions on the news or business staff of the spring semester Kanan are available in 105 Flint Hill, the Student Senate office of the University. The deadline for the Dean of Women. The deadline for applying is 5 p.m. today.
Interviews will begin tomorrow.
Applicants should sign up for a time on the bulletin board outside 114 Flint Hall.
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