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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas
The University of Kansas
Wednesday July 19, 1978
Vol. 88, No.168
Staff Photo by SUZANNE BURDICK
Perennial produce
Like many North Lawrence residents, Walter Dollisk, 649 N. Sixth St., has put in a big vegetable garden this year. His grand-
ASK members say KU welcome
Staff Writer
Bv TAMMY TIERNEY
The University of Kansas should have little trouble obtaining a provisional membership in Associated Students of Kansas, a state lobbying group, if the initial reactions of the student body presidents of KSU to other member schools are any indication.
The student body presidents of Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Emporia State University and Pittsburg State University said yesterday that they would support KU in its efforts to join the group.
The board of directors of ASK passed a resolution Sunday recommending that KU be allowed a 10-month provisional membership fee for a reduced membership fee of $2,000.
The provisional membership, the resolution said, is subject to the approval of each current member student governing education and the legislative assembly of ASK.
ALL OTHER BOARD OF REGENTS schools are now members of ASK, each paying a minimum of 25 cents for each student in membership fees.
Hannes Zachieras, executive director of ASK, said Monday that the $2,500 fee for KU's temporary membership might raise objections from other member schools, who pay that amount or more for less training that KU will have—21 or 22 delegates.
"Pittsburgh State pays $3,000 for five delegates and KU will be paying $2,500 for 21 or 22 delegates," he said. "I can foresee some objections to that."
However, Shirley Edmunds, student body president at Pittsburg State, said that she and her husband met in New York.
Pittsburgh's student government from sunortine KU's membership.
"I'm sure it will be an issue," she said, but I don't think the Senate will vote on it.
"Because we work so closely with ASK and because they do so much for us, we're willing to support them in almost any action they decide to take."
SHE SAID that a bill recommending approval of KU's membership in ASK would be introduced in the Pittsburg Student Senate at their first meeting in September.
Eric Mellgren, student body president at Wichita State University, said that although Wichita State paid a membership fee of 30 dollars, the student body reduced the reduction fee would be an issue in his Senate.
"I anticipate that some people will object, but I think that the Senate will pass it," he said. "Wichita State has always been fairly supportive of whatever ASK wants to do, and considering that we've already wanted them to think there'll be that much of a problem."
Melgren would ASK would benefit from KU's membership.
"ASK was formed in 1974 to benefit all students, and it does for the most part because whatever it does affects all Kansas students. If you are leaving KU as a member, we are missing input."
"ALTHOUGH STUDENTS are far more similar than different, we miss KU students' perspective. We've always felt somewhat incomplete without KU."
Mellgren wichita State paid ASK a larger membership fee voluntarily.
"ASK has been very good for us," he said. "Our Senate considers them very good. They needed more money and since they'd need more without it, we decided to give it to them."
Schemes advertised by fraudulent flyers
By NANCY FLEEKER
Staff Writer
A fly posted on campus that advertises a get-rich-quick scheme is fraudulent, according to July Kowyer, director of the office of consumer affairs.
The flyer promises jobs, collecting names for a company with 35 years experience in mail-order sales to hire people to $80 per hour. Grant Enterprises, Kneer said yesterday.
After the respondent received $2 orders from other people, he was instructed to pay a percentage of his earnings to the company.
The flier says that people who work for the instructions will earn enough money through "a small part-time job you could work at home" to "supplement you or your mate's in-come."
... people who send $2 to Roger P. Grant Enterprises, Kroger and Wedenday!
She said the company paid $1 for each name collected and then instructed the respondent to mail it.
"I THINK IT mislead," Kroger said. "I looks like a job and it really isn't." The f氏 states that only names collected according to the instructions will be accepted, but the rest will not.
"It's kind of like a chain letter, but it's really not." Kroeger said.
After receiving several inquiries about the flyer, Kroger wrote to Grant Enterprises and informed the company that the flyer constituted fraud. She asked that the company
conce. "I THINK IT'S misleading." Kroeger said. "It looks like a job and it really isn't."
She said a representative from the company had contacted her Monday and had agreed to stop posting the flyers.
"But I doubt that they're going around and taking down the ones they've already put up." Kroeger said.
She said that three men, one a KU student, were involved in posting the flyers.
KROEGER SAID the company representative told her that the company had obtained the flies through a mail order magazine.
up; Kroeger said.
She said that three men, one a K11 student, were involved in nesting the flivers.
Grant Enterprises has another flier posted on campus, which offers to sell information on get-rich-quick ideas. Kroger has not proved them fraudulent.
He said he would present a bill recommending that KU be accepted in ASK to the Wichita State Student Senate at one of its first meetings.
According to the representative that Kroeger talked to, the company had no. received any responses to either of the flayers.
The student body presidents of Kansas State University and Emporia State University also have said they would inform the university about recommending KU's membership in ASK.
Harper said he would present a bill to the KU Student Senate recommending KU's membership in ASK at the first Senate meeting in September.
Mike Harper, KU student body president, said he was sure that Washburn University and Fort Hays State University would be supportive.
"I think it's really neat that they haven't gotten any response," Kroeger said. "That makes me feel good. People aren't so stupid after all."
By DAVID LINK
City takes firemen's offer warns police of discipline
Staff Writer
Lawrence city commissioners last night voted to accept an offer from the city's firefighters for a one-year agreement with the terms of the city's two-yearnoresponsible.
After a 50-minute executive session on labor issues involving the city's uniformed employees, the commission also instructed City Manager Rufus Watson to discipline any policeman found to be giving less than performance in the execution of his duties.
THE COMMISSIONERS' directive came in the wake of a police slowdown designed to protest the city's position on a two-year labor nackasse for the policemen.
A clerk in the Municipal Court office said yesterday that only four tickets had been issued by yesterday afternoon and about 12 tickets had been issued Monday.
The clerk said that the Municipal Court usually processed between 20 and 30 tickets
Watson said he would be meeting soon with Police Chief Richard Stamix to determine criteria to be used in deciding who the policeman was participating in the slowdown.
Kevin Burt, director of employee relations, said he recommended the firefighters offer to the company a suitable way of reaching an agreement for next year.
The commission approved the firefighters' offer on a 3-2 vote, although commissioner Marrie Arngstergier手提枪 as an "aye with the greatest reluctance."
proval. Commissioners Ed Carter and Don Bivns voted against the agreement.
Commissioners Jack Rose and Barkley Clark joined Argersinger in voting for op-
CARTER SAID that the commission had acted in good faith in determining labor packages for the policemen and firefighters after last month's impasse hearings and that commissioners should have adhered to that decision.
"We suggested to both sides at the impasse hearing that they return to negotiating, but the union declined and asked us to decide the issue." Carter said.
"We made that decision—it was not a proposal, and now we've turned around and we've become the negotiating team. We didn't do what we said we were going to."
After negotiations between the city and both employee groups came to a stalemate with the City Commission, and negotiation at an impasse and turned to the City Commission to decide the issue according to the procedure outlined in this year's working agreements with both members.
The procedure called for public study sessions to be held with the City Commission, after which the commissioners announce the terms for a new agreement.
The firefighters' package announced by the commission June 30 will go into effect for 1979 as a result of last night's vote, and that it would be carried on January 1, 1979, through the end of 1880.
The firefighters will receive an across-the-board wage increase of 6 percent. The city has agreed to pay $18 of dependent health insurance coverage and to provide an expanded program of bonuses for certain additional skills.
Also to be included in the agreement with firefighters is a clause providing that next
year's negotiations will be conducted according to the terms of a fair labor practices ordinance to be passed by the City Commission by April 15, 1979.
The police policy, rejected by the Police Officers' Association July 6, provided for a 4 percent wage increase Jan. 1, followed by a 5 percent reclassification increase six months later and a 6 percent increase on Jan. 1.1980.
In other action at last night's meeting, commissioners asked the city staff to draft and submit a motion to declare the one declared unconstitutional by Municipal Court Judge George Catt
IN REJECTING THE PACKAGE, police spokesmen have said they want an additional 2 percent wage increase at the first of the year to keep pace with the 6 percent across-the-board increase they said other city employees would be receiving.
A request by Rose on behalf of a constituent to change the city's curfew for the explosion of fireworks July 2, 3 and 4 from 11 p.m. to 10 p.m. passed the commission by a 3-2 vote. Carter expressed the most vocal dissent.
"Too damn bad the kids can't vote." Carter muttered.
Watson outlined a plan for the improvement of traffic flow at the intersection of Ninth and Iowa streets, which he said had been the most dangerous with a correspondingly high accident rate.
Commissioners directed Watson to notify the state highway department that they were interested in pursuing federal funds for the $80,000 project which would lead them to Street from Harvard Street to Sixth Street from the left turn lane on 23rd Street.
ERA compromise likely
WASHINGTON (AP)—The House Judiciary Committee, beigeed by supporters and opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment, approached a final vote yesterday on the extension of the deadline for its ratification.
While an overflow audience packed the committee room earlier in the day, the
Pressure job
The routine checking of local fire hydrants is a wet job, as Red Brown, a Lawrence firefighter, found out yesterday. Lawrence firefighters are testing the hydrants for
lawmakers defeated a move that would have required the extension to get a two-thirds vote.
THE ERA would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. Unless extended, the deadline for its ratification is March 22, 1979.
The committee defeated 23 a motion offered by Rep. Harold Volkmer, D-Mo. Volkmer argued that the required majority for changing the time period should be the same as that needed for either house to approve a constitutional amendment.
ERA supporters, encouraged by the panel's vote, immediately expressed confidence that they would win committee approval before the deadline by three years and three months.
Thirty-five states have ratified the proposal, three fewer than the number required. However, legislatures in four states have supported the Senate's Tennessee—subsequently rescinded their approval. The Justice Department has said it will be up to Congress to determine whether states will ratify the proposal.
The ERA supporters have abandoned
A tally by the Associated Press showed 17 votes for the compromise extension. Rep.s Walter Flowers, D-Ala., James R. Mann, D-Nielsen, D-N.C., still are publicly uncommitted.
their original proposal to allow seven more years for state legislatures to act on the proposed amendment, which Congress approved in 1972. They predicted that the panel would vote 18-16 to recommend the shorter extension.
One of the 17 voting for the compromise extension was Rep. Harold S. Sawyer of Michigan, a freshman Republican who said he was against the extension but would vote for the compromise if his vote would be lower in full House a chance to consider the matter.
Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calfi, the leader of who support an extension, said Sawyer
ERA backers also said they had enough votes to defeat an expected effort by Rep. Thomas Railback, R-III, to allow state legislatures that have approved ERA to withdraw their approval during the period of the extension.
Postal talks stalled; strike deadline nears
WASHINGTON (AP) — Contract talks that cover more than 500,000 postal workers were deadlocked yesterday over the bitter disputed issue of job security. The negotiators face a monthlong crisis.
The two sides met all day Monday and early yesterday morning in the latest session in three months of talks, but they failed to resolve their differences on an major issues, one of which was the funding.
The U.S. Postal Service and three unions have been negotiating intensively for a week in the hope of reaching a new contract before their old contract expires tomorrow at mid-
night.
The negotiations resumed later yesterday between the Postal Service and the three AFLC unions—the American Postal Workers, the Letter Carriers and the mail handlers.
THE SOURCE SAID management offered some concessions to the unions, but not on the crucial issue—a no-layoff clause in the current contract, which the unions want to retain.
"People lost their tempers at one point," the source said of the long Monday session. "Of course, sometimes these emotional help them get together."
Paint attacks are forbidden by federal law, which specifies as much as a $1,000 fine and a year in jail for violators. Even so, some local union leaders have threatened to launch another attack on the factory.
IN THE EVENT that postal operations are disrupted by strikes, the Postal Service has drawn up contingency plans to use military personnel to deliver essential mail.
up to employment parity to the military personnel.
AROULT 280,000 POSTAL workers staged illegal outouts in 1970.
The no-layoff clause is seen by federal mediators as the principal stumbling block in the talks. Although the two sides disagree on other items, including wages, the negotiators are largely united on their position.
have taken the most important steps to ensure that the clause, first won by the unions in 1973, limits its flexibility to improve worker productivity and hold down costs. The Postal Service has said that it will continue to take steps to address these issues.
However, the unions say that without job protection, thousands of their members would be laid off by the Postal Service. One union official, who asked not to be named, said that management negotiators have mentioned plans to eliminate more than 100,000 jobs by the early 1980s.
The unions say that the Postal Service has been able to eliminate 80,000 jobs in the past eight years and that the unions agree that with a parktime and seasonal work schedule of 175,000 postal workers, they would need 200,000.
force of 170,000, the food service staff said. A Monday force of 25,000, the two sides began discussing the layoff clause Monday for the first time since federal mediators stepped into the talks July 10. Previously, negotiators concentrated on secondary issues, reaching agreement on some of them, sources said.