Loan counseling planned
Penn House, a local nonprofit service organization, will counsel County homeowners when they apply for housing rehabilitation loans, Ernest Coleman, county community development funds administrator, said yesterday.
The program is part of the plan for Douglas County's $225,000 community development grant, which was awarded on Aug. 29, Coleman said.
DOUGLAS COUNTY, the first county in Kansas to get a community development grant, received the funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the Community Development Act of 1974.
Coleman said the counseling program would be funded by $21,600 in administrative service funds awarded in the grant.
THE CONTRACT, between Penn House and Coleman Consulting Services, could be signed this week, Oceane Miller, Penn House director, said Monday. Coleman said he didn't know when the formal contract would be signed, but an verbal agreement had already been made.
Under the agreement, four Penn House staff members will visit county homes and assist homeowners in applying for grants and loans. Miller said the applications could be made for Farmers Home Administration county community development funds.
Coleman said counselors could begin surveying county houses by Oct. 31. He said that would be spent counseling people from central locations in Baldwin, Eudora and Lecompte and that people could bring them to House, 1035 Pennsylvania St., every day.
MILLER SAID IT WOULD TAKE a few weeks for the counselors to learn how to work with clients.
Goodman tickets expected to sell to nonstudents
Ticket sales for the Benny Goodman Homecoming Concert have been about average, according to Mike Miller, SUA activities adviser.
Miller said yesterday that 1,200 to 1,500 tickets had been sold. He said the rate of sales was about average for the type of show.
They must learn what loans and grants are available, how thoroughly deeds and titles must be reviewed, when rehal-litation is advisable and so forth, she said.
There has been less concentrated advertising on campus for this concert, Miller said, because more appeal is being made to students who have an objective to sell the group that knows Goodman, rather than to educate the group unfamiliar with him.
"We know what the needs are in the community, but not in the county," she said. The major problem could be stone sewer lines, into which people are living into sewer lines. We just don't know."
PENN HOUSE PERSONNEL met with two representatives of the HUD regional office in Kansas City last week to discuss housing rehabilitation, Miller said. More sessions will be needed to train the counselors. she said.
Miller said that the counselors hope to work on a variety of social problems while providing services to families.
"If we are visiting a farm family and notice that a child is reading a comic book four inches from his face, we can help him get medical help." Miller said. "There's a farmer with enormous wide range of work we can do if we know enough about the families."
THE COUNSELORS WILL WORK either voluntarily or receive about $400 each month to split among themselves, Miller said.
According to guidelines specified when the grant was awarded, Coleran said, the grant should be given at least once.
November, 1976. General projects that may use part of the funds include connecting many houses to rural water lines and dampen houses to a sewer system, he said.
Coleman said pre-application for a second county community development grant would be sent to the HUD office between Nov. 15 and Jan. 1.
Jobs open on Kansan
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager for the spring semester Kansan will be accepted until noon 03. 11 in 160 Fint Hall.
Application forms are available in 105 Flint; the Student Senate office, 105B Kansas Union; the office of the dean of men, 228 Hard Hall; and the office of the dean of women, 222 Strong.
Wednesday, October 22,1975
The Kansan Board will interview candidates and select a spring editor and business manager Nov. 3.
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