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Wednesdav. February 27, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Scarcity of KU Women Veterans A Disadvantage, Spokesmen Say
By S.J. WOHLRABE Kansas Staff Reporter
The small number of women veterans at the University of Kansas prevents many of their graduates from receiving the and they often face added educational costs although they receive the same Gi Bill payments as men, a representation of the Kansas Veterans Commission said.
"It is obviously hard to gear services toward women when there are still relatively few women in the military," the representative, Larry Frank, said.
Frank said women were receiving the same navy benefits as men under the GI Bill.
"The GT Bill benefits for men and women were equalized across the board a few years ago."
GI Bill payments are equal for men and women, although several KU women veterans said yesterday that as women they bad additional educational costs.
Betty Reading, Lawrence freshman and a Navy veteran, said, "I have to pay for day care out of my GI Bill and that isn't tax deductable."
Reading said the GI Bill wasn't enough to support her and a child. She said her husband also received GI Bill payments, which helped to cover their living costs.
"For a long time I could not declare my husband as a dependent under the GI Bill," Lerrain Valdez, Topka senior said, "But be sure you are as dependent if a dependent school."
Two years ago the GI Bill was changed so women could claim their husbands as dependents, Joe LeVota, president of Campus Veterans, said.
Dependency and indefinity compensation payments still aren't available for
“‘R is hard for women to get into a VA hospital because they are designed on a ward basis,’ he said. ‘Women must wait for treatment until a private room becomes available.’”
widowers of women veterans, Frank said. Hospital care from the Veterans Administration (VA) is provided on a bed-available basis. Frank said.
LeVoita did the campus services for men and women veterans were exactly the same.
Valdez said the VA hospital in Topeka wouldn't handle her pregnancy-related matters although she was a disabled veteran.
"When we help a veteran we see no difference in sex," he said. "All veterans are entitled to the same benefits under the GI Bill and we don't reject women."
Dean Kackey, assistant to the dean of men and adviser to Campus Veterans, said although the veterans services were handled differently at Campus Veterans, they were handled without regard to
Several women veterans said they didn't use the campus services for various reasons.
"I don't bother with the Campus Veterans," Camilla Wagner, Lawrence graduate student, said. "I went to a couple of the meetings but they were mostly beer parties and mostly for people who couldn't adjust to their problems."
Linda Pettay, St. Marys sophomore, said that she had beer the only womens at the club because it was cooler than it is now.
"I felt uncomfortable and left," she said, "and I felt hurt because I needed anything more because I felt out of control."
Reading said she had problems getting
Washington he planned to enter the Senate race.
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Docking
Democrats have ballyhooed the approach, as likely to contain stagnant employment.
The Associated Press learned that Miller was told by a high party official over a week ago that Docking had made the decision not to allow him to return, it is believed to have gone to the Roy camp.
Attempts to talk to Docking last night regarding the speculation failed.
However, state Democratic chairman Norbert Dreling is reported to have wanted a compromise with the media, they actually were made at the dinner. News media speculation that Docking is removing himself from active politics is getting in the way of the Saturday night announcement plans.
However, James Shaffer, the governor's press secretary, said, "I can't discuss the governor's thinking on any decision he may or may not have made."
Party officials have tried unsuccessfully to dissuade Docking, sources said.
Docking is described as being disturbed by the grand jury indictments returned here Jan. 22 and their effect on him and his family. He also is described as disturbed by recurrent Republican allegations of alleged misconduct in which he chooses not to subject his family to accusations an election campaign are virtually certain to produce.
Three Democratic party sources confirmed that Docking has made his use of the campaign to get more attention and turn to his business and family interests rather than face another election campaign. One source said the decision was made Feb. 11 and some members of the governor's office have said they have received
Among those indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit bribery was the governor's brother, George R. "Duck" Docking, a Kansas City, Kan., attorney.
The inductements账封 a conspiracy two years ago to kick back $30,000 into Decking's 1972 re-election campaign in return for the award of an architectural contract on a University of Kansas Medical Center expansion project.
The indictments trace the money to Richard L. Mailow, former patronage officer at the Rockefeller Foundation.
the money actually went into Docking's
museum. Malloy was indicted on a berry
cherry charge.
Docking has said he cooperated fully with the grand jury and made no effort to stifle the investigation, which was conducted by Miller.
--information because there were so few women veterans at KU.
The governor acknowledged in public statements following the indictments' being made public that he had sustained a deep personal hurt in having his brother insisted.
Democratic party sources characterized Docking's family as being very disturbed by the indictments and pressing for the governor to retire from candidate politics.
Docking, 48, is the only person to have been elected governor for more than two terms in Kansas. He won the office in 1966 and has been re-elected to two-year terms three times. His current term expires next January.
He is the son of the late George Docking, who served as Kansas governor 1957-41. Mrs. Virginia Docking, widow of the late Governor James of the present governor, lives in Topeka.
"No one ever seemed to know what to do when a women veteran was looking for labor."
Robert Docking has two sons attending the University of Kansas.
Veterans seem to have social contacts with each other and their wives form auxiliary groups Valdez said, but, women veterans have no such groups.
"People have hang-ups about women in the military," said Vashtil Winterberg, a psychologist at the military woman is either a homosexual or a prostitute. I have never had to face trouble."
"I just told someone would realize that we are here too and it is not just one or two," she said.
Petay said she didn't tell people she was a vetener.
women veterans said that there were problems unique to women in adjusting to KU and that many of them concern the image many people have of women in the
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Kackley said he wasn't familiar with the problems of women veterans.
There are just so few women veterans at KU, and I would imagine that most of their problems of adjustment would be similar to men's." he said.
Kackley said that if women veterans had concerns they thought were unique to them that they should go to the Office of the Dean of Women for counseling.
"It would be nice to talk with some women veterans," she said. "I often get lonely and call a friend in Minnesota who is in the same position as me."
Kathleen O'Connell, Dayton graduate student, said that adjustment to KU was "not difficult."
"I would imagine that undergraduate amo single women veterans have a hard time entering a new peer group that is several years younger than them," she said.
"As a graduate student I have social contacts with people from the department who are also older and usually married," she said. "I don't have the social security I have."
city and whether they would be willing "to put a few backs on the line" as an indication that they would be willing to use a bus regularly.
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City...
The commission did pass a motion indicating that it recognized the need for public transportation in Lawrence and authorizing the city to request designation as an urban area by the state highway department.
CITY MANAGER BUFORD M. Watson said the highway funds that the designation would make available to the city could be used for planning and operating a public facility.
The commission also discussed the transportation needs of Lawrence high school students who aren't transported by the school district and the possibility of fulfilling their needs with a public transportation system.
So far, Watson said, the state has designated $6 per cent of the $6.5 million for use by Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City. Kane areas that will be filled are not specified, he said.
Ernest J. Coleman, director of federal programs for the Lawrence school district, told the commission there were about 400 schools in the area where at least $2\frac{3}{2}$ miles from school but weren't provided transportation to their schools. The school district wasn't required by state law to provide transportation for these schools, because they live within the city limits.
IF THE SCHOOL district contracted for transportation for those students by Sept. 15, he said, the school district would be eligible for about $25,000 in state aid. However, that would average only about 60 or $7 a student, and it now costs the district about $100 to transport a student to school. Commissioner Emick said the lack of transportation for these students was a "sticker for most of the people" of the city, according to the school district wasn't wasting the buses and personnel it had already contracted to transport other students by not also providing service to the 400.
Counsellor Jack Rose said he thought it should be the responsibility of the school to protect students from bullying.
Athletics . . .
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money would be used to pay for the program director's salary, coaches, secretaries, a trainer, operational expenses and special expenses such as insurance and physical examinations. The money would be used to fund contingency fund for post season competition.
SHE SAID the program would request more than $50,000 from the Student Senate this year. The money the program receives from the senate is used for supplies and expenses, capital equipment, rent and utilities, travel and personal services.
Drydale said women's athletics received no help from the KU Athletic Association for the women's basketball team.
The program has also asked for and received support from the Endowment Association during post season competition, as well as scholarships are available for women athletes.
workouts. The track team can use the field house an hour each day and the basketball court an hour each day.
students not covered by the minimum requirements of state law.
WILLIAM J. WOMACK, a member of the school board, defended the school district, saying that the school's bus services were operating near the limits set by state law.
The commission deferred for two weeks further allocation of revenue sharing funds for 1974. Mayor Nancy Hambleton said the city had been contacted to discuss a joint meeting to review city and county revenue sharing plans to check for overlapping requests.
Those laws require that no child be kept on a bus longer than one hour. He said the school district had already gone further than most school districts in Kansas by providing more flexible rules for students in the city who are farther than one mile from school.
an other action, the commission approved an ordinance creating a two-hour parking limit on the north side of 12th Street from the intersection with activity between Indiana and Louisiana streets. Shop owners in the area, also known as Oread Corner, had complained to the commission about using the parking area all day, limiting access to customers.
THE COMMISSION ALSO deferred for two weeks any action on plans for the construction of a city maintenance garage for city equipment and vehicles.
Dennis A. Kallen, assistant city manager, but the commission that about 70 percent of voters were voting for
made available for land acquisition and construction of the garage. He said the city could begin construction of the garage by late summer.
Watson said he preferred construction of a 7- to 10-acre site. The garage should in-
clude equipment and should be adequate for both paving and painting the equipment, he said.
COMMISSIONER BARKLEY CLARR questioned whether the use of revenue sharing funds for the garage would mean that the city would be unable to use revenue sharing funds for a public transportation company said it had been the city's practice to use revenue sharing funds for projects that wouldn't involve continuous costs.
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