University Dailv Kansan
Tuesday, February 12. 1980
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Annual dinner attracts legislators and students
By BILL MENEZES
Staff Reporter
A chance for University of Kansas students and administrators and Kansas state students to mingle drew about 160 people last night to the Ninth Annual Legislature's debate.
KU residence hall students host legislators, KU administrators and their spouses at a meal of ham, chicken, rice, broccoli and cheesecake in the Lewis Hall cafeteria.
Before dinner they had the opportunity to talk, drink fruit punch and have their picture taken with Baby Jay.
After the meal, the diners heard short speeches from Chancellor Archie R. Dykes; State Sen. Arnold Berman, D.Lawrence, speaker of the Kansas House Wendell Lady, and Jerry Foster, former U.S. Ambassador to China.
DWKES RECALLED the first Legislator's Dinner in 1971. The dinner was concerned by concerned students, he said, during a time of great student unrest. The dinner was designed so the students could enjoy it.
Dykes poked fun at State Rep. Don Crumbaker, B-Rewasser, who wore a purple blazer—the school color of Kansas State University. Dykes said he would request that a photo be taken.
On a more serious note, Dykes said higher education was the Legislature's most important responsibility.
"The money given to higher education is an investment in the state and the nation." he said.
BERMAN SAID the Legislature supported higher education in the state because of the people involved, not because of the revenue it produced.
"TheLegislature's support is not predicated on new buildings or higher salaries," he except as representatives for the simple objective of higher education for the young.
"When you sweep aside all the rhetoric, what you find is a deep commitment to higher education."
Lady also spoke of the Legislature's commitment to higher education, and said funding to state schools had increased about 75 percent in the last four years.
is not only an investment in the campus and the buildings," he said, "but in you." *MARIA S. VAN DENKEL* is a vice president and an organizer of this year's dinner, he considered it a success.
Howlett selected to help screen Big Eight commissioner hopefuls
Phyllis Howlett, assistant athletic director, has been named one of five members of a screening committee to select the Big Eight Commissioner M. Nenas
Neinas resigned, effective April 1, to become executive director of the College Football Association.
Howlett said she didn't know why she had been asked to serve on the committee but said, "It promises to be interesting."
Colorado and John P. Mahistede of Iowa State.
Other screening committee members are athletic directors Bob Devaney of Nebraska and Wade Walker of Oklahoma, and faculty representatives William H. Bauchni of
After the screening committee has examined the list of applicants, the names of qualified individuals will be submitted to the faculty representatives and athletic coaches.
Those two groups then will decide on Neimas' successor,
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The lockout at Stokley Van-Camp, Inc. has led for some years to a decline in performance work. Robert Cochrane, employee relations director at Plant in Indianapolis, said yesterday.
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Stokely re-hires some workers
The employees were sent letters last week by Donald Bice, personnel manager. The letter offered employees jobs at a 50-cent wage increase.
BY JUDITH LYNN HOWARD Staff Represent
Staff Reporter
Two-hundred five employees have been locked out since Dec. 21, when contract
Stokely's initial contract offer included a 50-cent wage increase, but was rejected by the Stokely employees.
Lawrence members of the Teamsters' union picketed at the Stokley plant in Indianapolis on October 18, plant down when 189 production workers refused to cross the picket line. Six pickets from Lawrence also demonstrated the Stokley headquarters in Indiana.
**Teamsters' Local 696 represents 188 of the workers locked out by Stokely in December.**
Yesterday morning, two non-union workers crossed picket lines and sent to workers in the district where they received. Lawrence police reported no problems between pickets and the two workers.
negotiations failed. The old contract expired Dec. 1.
Cochrane said the letters sent by Stokely would not affect contract negotiations.
"Whether the employees accept the contract is their choice," he said.
A portion of the letter read: "Effective with this recall, the company will put into effect the 50-cent wage increase and the 15-cent raise which the company has already agreed upon."
Bill Moore, Teamsters' business manager, said Stokley's offer did not change the situation because a contract had not been signed.
The maintenance work Stokley is offering would take about two weeks to complete. Cochrane said. After the work was finished, she would be given the job jobs would not be locked out an ack, he said.
recalled for work immediately. Some will be notified later.
But about 75 union and non-union workers continued picketing.
The letter said not all employees were
Keith Davis, Stokely employee, said Stokely's move was an attempt to circumvent the union.
"It as if they don't recognize the union," Davis said.
If the workers do not return, Cochrane said, if the plant will be closed.
Since the lockout, a skeleton staff of management personnel has operated the plant. The letters were designed to recall the names and to resume full plant production by Feb. 25.
By LYNN ANDERSON
Lockout prompts bond proposal
Staff Reporter
A lingering lingered and related labor disputes at the Stokely-Van Camp plant in Lawrence have prompted a proposal to lift the city's industrial revenue bond policy.
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City commissioner Marci Francisco said yesterday that she wanted to amend the bond policy because it ignored corporations' employee records records.
The city's bond policy now requires corporations to be non-polluting, to increase employment in the city and to comply with the active action ordinances, Francisco said.
Lawrence issues revenue bonds to encourage firms to locate or expand at reduced cost. they help Lawrence compete with other cities for industrial expansion,
But she said Sokely workers had expressed concern that the city's bond policy had no requirements regarding a corporation's employee relations record.
"It it's putting a strain on the Emergency Services Council," she said. "People are on food stamps and they aren't contributing to the city's economy."
She said she would ask for a clause stating that corporations must also comply with the spirit of the National Labor Relations Board.
"By not looking at the revenue bond policy, we're saying we don't care."
"It, then, if someone wants to protest the accusation of revenue bonds to a corporation because of its labor relations, he would at least demand that the policy to base his argument on," she said.
MAYOR BARKLEY CLARK, however, said the proposed amendment was "completely inappropriate."
FRANCIASCO SAID that although the Company believes science wanted to attract industry to Lawrentau, we be sure the kind of jobs we’re providing are good jobs, that corporations have a stake in them.
Clark said he did not want tonight's
"I for one don't know," the spirit of the federal labor law is, "Clark said." "It's up to the National Labor Relations Board to fund unfair labor practices. I don't want the city to be the victim of massing the NLRB, and that would be the inevitable result of such a vague resolution."
Francisco called the current lockout at Stokely "a hardship on the city."
meeting to "degenerate into a series of accusations relating to Stokely or to any other specific situation."
The commission also will vote on the use of Community Development funds to construct sidewalks in North and East Lawrence, Clark said.
A proposal to allocate $4,000 for sidewalk installation was discussed heatedly in a commission meeting two weeks ago, but was tabled.
Francisco said she feared that the commission would reject the use of Community Development funds and not look at alternatives.
"I think people want to put them in," she said. "They just have to decide how."
The commission will meet at 7 p.m. at the First National Bank, 9th and Massachusetts streets.
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