University Daily Kansan, June 9. 1980
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KU jobs available despite recession
By Danny Torchia staff reporter
The summer job outlook turned out to be as bleak as state and local employment officials feared, but students still liking for work could possibly find employment with the University of Kansas.
Nancy Winn, coordinator of student employment, said the job market had been tight this spring, but was picking up.
KU officials with student employment said last week that students could find jobs, but the type of job depended on their skills.
"We have processed a lot of jobs, and there are a lot of students looking for work," she said.
THE EMPLOYMENT CENTER, located in the basement of Strong Hall, processes jobs and posts them in the bulletin board outside the office. Students contact the department offering the job.
"We usually have a lot of jobs that require clerical skills." Winn said.
Claantha McCurdy, assistant director of financial aid, said jobs were also available in the work study program.
The work study program is a federally funded program in which the government pays 80 percent of the student's salary and the department pays the remainder. A student must be declared eligible for the program
after applying for admittance, she said.
"We've had at least one-third more than last year," she said. "We'll probably get more now that summer school is starting."
THOUGH THE EMPLOYMENT picture in the University is fairly good, the outlook in Lawrence and Topeka is bleak.
"Kids are having a tough time of it," said Ed Mills, office manager for the Job Service Center, 833 Ohio. "When you go in with a higher unemployment rate compared to last year, it is more difficult in finding jobs."
The unemployment rate in Douglas County for April was 3.4 percent, compared with 2.6 percent in April 1979, he said. Employers, if they are hiring at all, are looking for permanent workers.
"Older people who have been laid off their jobs may be taking jobs ordinarily filled by college students," she said, "so we see it recovering in the next 30 days."
"We are doing everything we can to help out," he said. "We aren't accustomed to the unemployment rate in the state. Usually we have a lower rate compared with the rest of the nation."
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment have told city and county officials that the Douglas County Landfill did not meet要求，that an alternative site must be found.
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Landfill plan irks land owners
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"The commissioners could stop it if they wanted to," said Carl Amereine, who circulated the petition. "They say they can't but they can."
The neighborhood group plans to meet with a Topka-tech attorney Tuesday to consider legal action against the site, he said.
TWO WEEKS AGO city and county officials tentatively approved a plan which would allow the city's trash to be buried in a rock quarry operated by Hamm Quarries in Jefferson County. But residents who live near the new site say they do not want a landfill near their properties.
A PETITION with the names of 145 people who oppose the site has been presented to the Jefferson County Commission and the Commission has yet to take any action.
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The landfill is on the floodplain of the Kansas River a few miles upstream from Lawrence.
"We don't like the idea of Douglas
The proposed quarry site is on a hill just off U.S. 59-24. The waste would be used to fill a 60-foot deep trench created by Hamm's quarry operation. The trench is approximately one quarter of a mile long and 100 feet wide.
"Also it's on a floodplain and high water could cause waste to end up in the river. Then you would have problems down stream," Kinder said.
Amerine, said he takes the chemical waste from his farming operation, "the stuff in drums," to the Douglas County miller, who does not like the site present here.
Kinder said that because the present site was in a low lying area it was sometimes impossible during wet weather to cover the accumulated trash bin. The severely required six inches of dirt. The rain could cause health problems, he said.
FEDERAL REGULATIONS no longer allow landfalls to be placed on a floodplain, Robert Kinder. Health and Environment technician, said...
THE TRENCH is graded to the northwest to carry any leaching from run-off to a fifteen-acre retaining lake.
County dumping its trash on Jefferson County," Amerine said.
"Putting it on low ground like that, so close to the river, wasn't a good idea," Amerine said. "I don't know why they did it in the first place."
according to Skeet Smith of Hamm Quarries.
economics than efficient land use.
"The people of Lawrence are going to pay Hamm for filling a hole that the law says they have to fill anyway," Oglebsy said.
"We've been working on this for three years," Smith said. "We've been in contact with Health and Environment we would know we were doing it right."
A landfill at the quarry site would allow the best land use, he said.
To Jack Oglesby, whose house is 640 feet from the trench that will be the new landfill, it is more a matter of
According to Mike Dooley, Douglas County public works director, the quarry site is the only feasible site available. He said the county had other facilities where workers could stricter federal regulations on landfill sites have made them impractical.
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