Page 8 University Daily Kansan, June 26.1980
CETA loses job funds
By SUSANA NAMNUM
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Congress last week approved a 1981 federal budget that would slice in half the number of Comprehensive Em-
ploysment Act Public Service jobs nationwide.
It could cost Lawrence at least 30 jobs and thousands of federal dollars, and could increase unemployment, CETA officials said this week.
CETA was created in 1973 as a consolidation of various Department of Labor programs and is completely funded by the federal government.
OFFICIALS IN LAWRENCE and Topeka agreed that in times of tight money, CETA funds were the first to get the Congressional ax.
They also said that CETA's Public Service Employment (PSE) jobs, which place people with non-profit organizations, might be the first to go.
CETA also sponsors educational programs with vocational and technical schools, job training with private internships, summer and in-school youth programs.
Debbie Smith, who directs the Lawrence CETA program, said 220 youths were enrolled in the city's summer program and roughly 80 adults were active participants in the city's job-training programs.
LAWRENCE AND TOPEKA CETA directors said some of their participants were divorced or widowed mothers with eight-grade educations, girls just out of high school who were pregnant and without job skills, and 18-year-old youths with families to support.
Although Title VI funds—under which many CETA jobs fall—have been frozen by the federal government, Lawrence and Topea officials predicted that rising unemployment would preclude drastic cutbacks.
Some Lawrence organizations that sponsor CETA trainees are the Douglas County Drug Abuse Center; Independence Inc., a center for the handicapped; Project Acceptance and Ballard Dav Care Center.
Torn Rodriqueu, a CETA information officer in Topeka, said 1981 funds had been cut "across the board" and Title VI allocations had been slashed.
CREATED AS A means of combating unemployment, CETA programs fall under sections of Title II, which focuses on training, and of Title VI, which emphasizes employment. Different security standards also distinguish the two.
According to program directors, Lawrence currently has about 60 active PSE participants and Topkai has about 40. The other 25 fall under Title VI, the directors said.
Although officials predicted that those affected by the Title VI cutbacks could be shuffled under the Title II umbrella, for some, slashed the CETA in half could "shatter their words," said a one-time CETA participant.
"If it hadn't been for CETA," former participant Debbie Richardson said, "quite honestly I would've been sitting at home on the welfare rolls."
RICHARDSON SOUGHT HELP from CETA on April 10, 1975, when she was a young, pennille mother of three children. After working seven months under Title II as a receptionist in CETA's administrative office in Topeka, she was pregnant again, then widowed.
"CETA was a lifesaver and an inspiration," said Richardson, who joined the program as an administrative assistant, Title VI Topeka program manager and then director of a federally-funded day care staffed mainly by CETA participants.
Another CETA success story is Juana Prattia, who runs the computer in Lawrence's Job Service Center and administers Civil Service tests.
Bridget Doyle, Lawrence PSE coordinator, said Pringle had been hired under Title VI a year and a half before being promoted to a permanent position.
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IN ITS EARLIER stages, CETA came under fire because its trainees tended to jump from one subsidized job to another rather than seek permanent positions. The program also was cited as an example of the cases that CETA officials said constituted only a tiny percentage of the program.
James Weekly, Topека PSE program manager, said CETA funding was endangered and was immersed in the emples. The programs included more federal programs. He said that more than 70 percent of his participants stayed in permanent jobs, and that slashing CETA funds would be a foolish move in times of high
J. W. Murray, public information officer for the Kansas CETA program, which serves 101 of 105 Kansas counties, said, "CETA is one of Congress' favorite playthings. What they'll do from here to be seen."
"They found a woman in San Francisco who had a CETA job and was living in a $100,000 house," Rodriguez said. "The public decided that CETA was a fraud, so Congress cut back and revamped the program."
Government predictions for the quarter ending July 31 reflect an economic activity drop of 8 percent. The depression did not drop on record since the Depression of the 1930's but local retailers, bankers, employers, realtors and car dealers said this week that the labor market is more than the dismal national trend.
Hundreds of people are looking for work in Lawrence, but an improving local economy is indicated.
By RANDY MARTIN Staff Reporter
Unemployment in Lawrence is at a 4.5 percent level, compared to the Kansas City rate of 13 percent, Freq of the Lawrence Job Center said.
Lawrence economy improving
LAWRENCE HASH has a relatively low employment rate because the University of Kansas has a stabilization program, and the University, the largest employer in Lawrence, has a freeze on new positions, but vacancies and replacements.
Bob Glass, of the KU Institute of Business and Economic Research, said Douglas County usually had a slight increase in employment and
sales in the spring months. But several local business people said the current increase was more than a spring spurt.
Food service chains are also a solid area in the Lawrence employment picture, Francq said, because students provide abundant business.
The construction business ... Lawrence has suffered recently, Fortune reports. Lawrence Building Inspectors Office revealed that building permits are up for the month of June. Sixty-seven permits were issued in April 2014.
Local employers have had to use rotating lay-offs, he said, a situation where a few employees will take off each week but stay on the payroll.
Iona Ramsy, real estate agent for Stephans Realty, said that trends discussed at recent local realtors' meetings indicated that houses were being sold faster than a few months ago.
Linhardt said the public still was not borrowing as much money as could be expected with such low interest rates, would not drop lower than 11 percent.
SHE SAID many people who hesitated to buy in the early spring months were now looking at houses again.
Much of the increase is because of falling interest rates in the area. Bill Linhardt, officer at the First National Bank, said that loans for single family dwellings at 12.25 percent.
KANSAS COLOR PRESS put all employees on one week vacation recently to allow work orders to be processed and they eliminate the likelihood of layoff.
Jose Perez, assistant manager at Montgomery Wards, said sales were down significantly in March and April but had been higher in June.
John Ellenna, general manager of Ellena Buick-Oldmobile, and Jon Bomberger, owner of Landmark at local car dealers had increased.
Clinton White, manager for the K-Mark Distribution Center at 240 Kresge Road, said the goods distributed to Lawrence stores were up 15 percent last quarter. Profits had decreased 13 percent, he said, but it was good considering the general economic situation.
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By NANCY SEARLE
Meteorology program swamped
Meteorology students who want jobs with the National Weather Service have to take correspondence courses. Students who are not offered at the University of Kansas.
This is just one of the students' problems when they try to major in meteorology, but not the only full-time professor of meteorology, said it was sometimes difficult for students to get into the course because they had no experience with it.
Meteorology is becoming more popular, possibly because of increased job opportunities, Eagleman said.
More jobs are opening for meteorologists with industry and with radio and television stations, he said.
Although special degrees are intended to offer specialized opportunities for study, a regular degree for meteorology students will be impossible until more meteorology instructors are hired. Earleman said.
Students who want a degree in meteorology must petition for a special degree, Eagleman said. So far, 46 degrees in meteorology have been颁授 in special degrees in meteorology, he said.
Bruce Linton, director of the Radio-TV-Film sequence in the School of Journalism said there are only 700 television stations in the country. He also said not many radio stations can afford to hire meteorologists.
Glen Marotz, chairman of the department of geography-meteorology, said, "The department has decided, at least this point, that it will not go
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Until the last few years, many meteorology students transferred to other schools, he said. Within the last two years, more students have been hired for the CU weather service, and the experience they can get working for the CU Weather Service, he said.
The weather service has been a factor in the hiring of some students, he
said. "It is a competitive edge over some of the big schools," he said.
Meanwhile, he said, "We have the interest; we are twnet between turning students off for their interest, and waiting to get the staff so we can really know what should be. We just don't have the staff to properly treat that many students."
KU ID deception unnecessaryv
Although part of the spring semester activity fee supports KU recreation services in summer, students without summer stockers on their IDs think they must break the rules to use the facilities.
But they don't have to.
Bernie Taylor, KU pool director, said yesterday, recreation services wanted to help students not enrolled during the summer.
If a student was enrolled in the spring
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Matt Davis, student body vice president, said he was unhappy that students thought they had to use other students' IDs to use the facilities.
People can borrow an enrolled student's ID or get in without an ID by telling the guard an ID number.
Taylor said although the guards are not supposed to let people in without an ID, they usually tell the person to be taken into ID the next time, and then let them in.
One girl, who is not a student, said she was going to use an enrolled student's ID every day she could this summer.
"We operate on the assumption that people are honest," he said.
but could not use the municipal swimming pool downtown in the city to participate in an arrangement with Taylor, Tom Wilkerson, director of recreation services, or Wayne Osmens, head of the recreation department at education and recreation, Taylor said.
Most students are not aware of this policy, so they use other methods to get into the pool.
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