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Tuesday April 10, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Whomper Is Making Progress But Isn't Financially Independent
By DOYLE HOFFMAN
Kongan Staff Writer
Kansan Staff Writer
Directors of the University of Kansas Reclamation Center report that progress has been made in the last month to correct problems that plague the center but that more work is required before the center can be financially independent.
There is some disagreement among the principal managers of the Reclamation Center, better known as the Whomper, as to what is required to make it a paying operation. The Whomper is now funded by the Student Senate.
CLARK SAID last week that the Whomper had made progress in solving its financial problems but that it was not yet fully done. She said she had no own way. She said that the Whomper had to increase the volume of recyclable cans and bottles processed before it could self-serve.
A larger volume of business from the Lawrence community is the key to financial independence for the Whomper, according to director Kathy Clark.
Clark became director of the Whomper about a month ago.
The Whumper, she said, receives $20 a ton for crushed cans and is now producing 50 to 70 cans per hour.
Bolt Littrell, Lawrence third-year law student and Whopper treasurer, said that he thought more efficient management was needed.
LITTRELL SAID that he and Clark were doing a time-cost study on each aspect of the Whmoper operation—sorting, grinding, crushing, and drying on each barrel of crushed cans of bottles.
The Whomper is requesting $1,140 from the Student Senate this year, $160 less than its $3,000 allocation of last year, Littrell said. Of its $3,000 is for rent and utilities, the Whomper is for a telephone at the plant and $80 is for a manager's salary of $70 a month.
Community 'support, specifically volunteer labor, is required to make the Whomper solvent, according to Kuby Allen, Toplema junior and former Whomper officer, former vice president of the student body, is the Whomper's public relations director.
She said that she had been speaking to numerous civic groups including fraternities, women's groups, Boy Scout troops and local schools.
Students from Central Junior High School have volunteered about 80 man-hours of sorting and loading at the plant, she said, and about 60 of Boy Scout troops have agreed to help.
"One of the fraternities on campus is considering adopting the Whirorman as its sole student chapter."
There are Hawkins collection barrels at most Lawrence schools, Allen said. She said the barrels are safe for children and pets.
Jamboree To Feature Beach Boys
A week-long celebration of spring and the outdoors, the Jayawk Jamboree, April 22-29, could be a remedy for those with spring fever.
A highlight of the week will be the Beach Boys concert April 28. Tickets go on sale April is at the SUA office for $3 and $5.00 it is at the limit of ten tickets a person has been set.
The Jamboree will also include several bicycle events, a movie, a car rally, an amateur track meet and a singing competition.
A 30-mile bike tour to Lone Lake willake
the LM, Orlando graduate student
Gene Whee. Lawson graduates student
and president of the ML, Orado Bicycle Club. The tour will leave at 11 a.m. April 22 from Lone Lake.
Wee said that there were other bike events scheduled for the week. A short evening bike tour April 25 will take cyclists 12 miles from Lawrence to Lakeview, near Perry Lake. The tour will begin at 3:30 p.m. at Strong Hall.
The third Annual Bike Criterium will run all day April 23. In the first race at 10:30 a.m., 12-14 year old will race 2.6 miles through the campus. At 10:30 a.m. there will be 10.4-mile race, eight laps around the campus, open to all ages.
The trophies will be given for the races—three for women, three for men, two for girls.
The inter-collegiate invitational bicycle races will be the final event in the criterium. Time trials will be at 1 a.m. in Vinkland. The 28-mile race will begin at 3 a.m. in the KU campus. Nine schools have entered so far, including a KU team, Wee said.
A concert, featuring Lawrence's Rhythm Kings and free beer will be held in front of Allen Field House April 26, according to Steve Millikan, Leaward senior and chairman of the Jayhawk Jamboree organizing committee.
Track events, open to all students, will begin the morning of April 28 at Memorial Stadium. The events will be the 440-yard relay, 120-yard high hurdles, 100-yard dash, one-mile run, 440-yard run, 220-yard run, 860-yard run (two divisions, for men and faculty), chariset race, one-mile relay, high jump, long jump, and shot put.
The movie "My Fair Lady" will be shown at 6:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. April 27 in Wooldruff Auditorium. A Three Stooges cartoon will be shown between shows.
Other events scheduled for the week are the Spring Sing, a group singing competition, and a Car Rally at Lewis parking lot April 29.
apartment owners and local merchants to set up more collection points.
"THE COMMUNITY is beginning to respond to us," she said.
Allen said that there were successful reclamation centers in Green Bay, Tulsa and Ann Arbor that used volunteers to sort materials and in public education programs.
Despite disagreements on the steps necessary to make the Whomper solvent, the new management has cleared up some of its earlier problems.
The Owens Illinois Co., of St. Louis picked up 60 barrels of crushed glass in the March and the Whomper $220, Clark said. She said the March transaction was the first time the company had picked up glass since last spring. However, she said the company has
promised more regular service in the future.
The company pays the center $20 a ton for crushed glass.
A problem concerning a billing from Harold's 66 Service Station, which sells gasoline to the Whomper and provides free trucks, was resolved Monday. The Whomper was willing for the gasoline because it had not received itemized bills from the station.
"We found that we had a mailbox in the kansas Union that none of us had been in yet," he said.
This discovery also solved a problem of some missing funds. Littrell said that in addition to gasoline bills and several other expenses, he had an accounting to about $400 were in the box.
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Winners of Book Contest Honored
Winners and finalists of the 25th annual Snyder Book Collecting Contest were honored at a luncheon Monday in the Kansas Union.
Robert L. Postwestea, Prairie Village senior, took first in the undergraduate division for his collection "The Baha'i Religion." J. L. McClure, Wichita Senior, placed second for his collection "Writings by and about Franz Kafka."
"Modern Latin American Novels." Second place went to Mumbai Rajanagam, Lawrence graduate student, for his collection "Writings about India by Westerners."
First place in the graduate division went to George K. Christensen, Lawrence C. Kellogg, and John B. Larsen.
The four finalists in each division were chosen by Clinton Howard, assistant director of the program.
The prizes for the 1973 competition were $100 for the first place entry in each division and $50 for the second place entries. The money was awarded in the form of Gift certificates that can be exchanged for books at the Oread Bookstore.
Eglinski, assistant special collections librarian of Watson Library.
The winning collections were judged by Wayne Mayo, head of the Lawrence Public Library; James Postma, a law attorney; Capt. Steven Whitfield, an assistant counsel; Dr. John Program; and Robert Demerrit, a graduate division winner in last year's competition.
The competition was sponsored by the Bookstore and Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder of Ockedale.
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