Wednesdav, November 30.1977.
University Daily Kansan
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Gas company mails refund checks
Lawrence natural gas users will have a little extra spending money by Christmas because of a $141,500 refund being distributed among gas company customers. One-fourth of the approximately 19,000 refund checks were mailed Monday.
The actual benefit to consumers,
however, is less than the refund check.
Dorothy Kerns, a supervisor for the Kansas Public Service Gas Co., Inc., the gas distributor for the Lawrence area, said yesterday that an extra $7.56 would be added to gas users this month. That leaves $2.94 actually being returned to consumers.
Kerns said that the refunds ranged from six cents to several thousand dollars, as in the case of the University of Kansas. She would not release KU's exact refund.
WILLIAM SALOME, vice president and general manager of the gas company, said the average refund a residential customer receives from their different types of housing. He said a
customer in an apartment would have a smaller refund than a person in a mobile home and both these customers' refunds should be less than the refund to a homeowner.
He said he thought the average refund would be between $1.50 and $5.00.
Kerns said that the $141,560 being
bettied in 1976 gas bills hits
between Agric Land and他说
During that time, a rate increase was charged by Cities Service Gas Co., the supplier of gas to the Lawrence area. However, the Federal Power Commission later ordered the gas supplier to refund the increase to consumers.
THE MONEY WAS GIVEN to the local gas company to distribute to customers. The gas company, however, proposed a plan in which it would keep about $78,000 to reimburse its employees for January. The mistake resulted in the company's failure to bill Lawrence
customers for part of the gas used from January to August.
Although the plan was opposed by Black and Veatch, a consulting firm jointly hired by the city and gas company to help set gas rates, the Lawrence City Commission endorsed the plan earlier this month at the recommendation of the city attorney.
Kerns said that gas users should get their refund checks within the next two or three weeks.
SALOME SAID the company was trying
SALOME SAID refund checks with their
customer bills
He said the company sent bills to districts and that each district was billed at a different time. The first group of checks was mailed Monday, he said, and the remainder of the refunds would be mailed within ten days to two weeks.
The next mail is scheduled for Friday, and two more mailings sometime next week or the first of the week beginning Dec. 12, Salome said.
The fire was reported the KU police by 6 p.m. and Lawrence Lawsworth junior, at 4:28 9 am after he spotted it.
PROCHASKA SAID that he had walked past the building, had seen smoke and had placed his hands on the windows of the Main Office. He was struck by fire. After he felt the heat, Prochaska said, he called the KU police on the Blue trouble phone at the corner of 14th and Alumni
placed through the Senate office and should be nailed from Senate funds.
Fire, smoke damage restaurants
Fire caused about $2,000 damage to the Main Event Restaurant, W 107. W 14th st., yesterday morning, a spokesman for the Lawrence Fire Department said last night.
The fire department spokesman said there was about $1,000 damage to the store's contents and another $1,000 damage to the building. The Main Event received some smoke damage.
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Wooden said he thought the fire started from ovens that had overheated.
Two pumpers responded to the alarm and stayed an hour and 15 minutes, the fire department said.
The owner of the Main Event could not be reached for comment last night.
The voucher that Roberts used was improperly filled out. Caldwell said, and had never been able to retrieve it.
Caldwell said that only clubs that had been allocated student activity fee money could order equipment through the Senate office and the KU Rugby Club was not receiving any money from the Senate at that time.
John Wooden, owner of the Wagon Wheel Cafe, said his tavern would be open at 11 a.m. today but that the Main Event would be closed for at least a week.
The University received a bill for the uniforms earlier this semester and it was referred to the Senate. Caldwell has been charged with migration into the order and the nonpayment.
STUDEX RULED recently that the improper use of the voucher absolved the Senate of any liability for the bill. The committee directed Caldwell to notify Hoder and Roberts that the Senate's denial action and there would be no further action taken.
The University administration has accepted no responsibility for the bill since the notice of nonpayment was received earlier and that she did not present her secretary of the University, Von Ende referred the matter to the Senate and said that the administration would have nothing to do with it.
In his letter to Hoder, Caldwell said that the Senate's action was final and suggested that Hoder look to Roberts once again for guidance. Roberts strongly-worded letter had been sent to
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Roberts to notify him of the Senate's decision.
IN THE LETTER to Roberts, Caldwell said that he could not tell if the accounts of the order given by Roberts and by the 1972 treasurer, William O'Neill, were correct.
Caldwell also said in the letter that he had not reached the decision that Roberts had purposefully deceived anyone in his ordering of the uniforms, but that some degree
of responsibility for the bill rested with Roberts.
“However, it does appear to me at the very least, your actions reflect a degree of responsibility,” Cauldwell wrote. “I suggest you use the groundhog through on the remaining part of the bill now.”
Roberts and Hoder were both out of town yesterday and were not available to comment on their next actions regarding the bill or the Senate's refusal of payment.
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