University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, January 23, 1974
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THE LAWRENCE WOMEN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS will meet at 7:30 tonight in the American Baptist Campus Center, 1629 W. 19th St.
TAU SIGMA, dance society, will meet at 1:30 tonight in Room 220 of Robinson Hall.
THE KU SAILING CLUB will show the film "Yankee Sails across Europe" at a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas University. All members and interested persons have been invited to attend. Retirements will be served.
HEIKI KSEPPA, professor of fine arts at Washington University in St. Louis, will lecture on metal smithing at 10 a.m. Friday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. He will demonstrate metal smithing techniques at 2 p.m. in 201 of Mechanical Engineering South.
soap will judge the art work currently on display in the Kansas Designer-Craftsman studio.
Fuel Shortage, Strike Hamper Holiday Travel
By STEVE LEWIS
Kansan Staff Reporter
The fuel shortage and an airline cabin attendants' strike made travel over the country difficult.
Thaniht Charoenpong, Songkla,
Thailand, graduate student, drove to Florida with three friends and was stranded
in New York for days because he couldn't find any gasoline.
"There was a sign that warned there was no gas from Cape Kennedy to Miami," Charoenpong said. "Fortunately, we had a full tank."
Charoenpong said he heard of only one station in Miami that was open New Year's weekend and it limited sales to $1 a customer.
Stranded, Chapeenpo and his friends paid $38 a day for three days in a Miami hotel. In despair, Chapeenpo and his friends car on New Year's Day to escape Miami.
Mike Johnson, SAU Mapeup tutor supervisor, said the TWA cabin attendants' strike was a greater hazard to student travel last month than the fuel shortage was.
"TWA is the main carrier to the East and the West," Johnson said. "We had between 50 and 100 last-minute reservations. Many didn't know that a strike was on. We had to give them what was available. Some had to leave, after Christmas."
KU on Wheels, the Student Senate transportation system, cost the students $4,863 or 24 per cent less last semester than in the fall semester of 1972, according to figures released this week by Mert Kubota, student senate and president of the student body.
Jonsson said the fuel shortage resulted in a 5 per cent airline rate increase Dec. 1 and an average of 20 per cent.
Cost to the students for bus service in
the spring semester of 1973 totaled $19,702.90.
The report indicated that ridership for the whole semester rose 35 per cent and bus hours increased 12 per cent. Riders for each week rose to 35 from 47 per cent in the fall of 72.
But the bus system still cost the students a total of $17,100.57, which was paid from a $2 transportation fee included in campus participation fees by all full-time students at fees
"NOW WE're operating with little more than 50 per cent of the flights we had last summer."
Bus service cost the senate $2.99 for every hour the buses ran last semester, compared with the car rentals.
Buckley attributed increased ridership and decreased cost to the pass system began last fall, to the promotional campaign and in part to the energy crisis.
He said the bus system was a needed service, but it required subsidization.
He also painted a dark picture of future air travel by students. He said the special student youth fare would probably end by June.
"What we did," he said, "was make the bus system run more efficiently."
He said the youth fare was being discarded because many people thought it was discriminatory. The energy crisis, he said, led to do with the termination of the program.
Bus Costs Less; Ridership Rises
The recent statewide consolidation of welfare operations caused only minor changes for Douglas County and other of the larger districts.
On Jan. 1, the Douglas County Welfare Department became the Douglas County District Office of the Topeka region of the U.S. Department of Social Rehabilitation Services (DHSR).
However, those adult recipients who formerly qualified for county welfare under the old age, disabled and legally blind had to be referred to the Douglas County office. Bertrick, said.
The change will have little effect on local welfare personnel and county welfare
Instead, these persons receive aid under Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a program implemented by a 1972 Health, Education and Welfare amendment and put into effect Jan. 1. SSI is administered by the Social Security Administration.
This, Derrick said, is the major change faced by the new district office at 319 Perry St. This office will continue to process assistance for aid to dependent children and handle funds for short-term general assistance and the Medicaid program.
of the state will have more problems than the larger districts.
As a part of the consolidation, the Douglas county Welfare Department underwent construction.
"It can foresee some headaches for some of the smaller districts, especially in the western part of the state where they combined the operations of many of the smaller counties," he said. "There will be few more administrative problems there."
He said the 24 employees of the Douglas County office could adequately handle the risk.
Some of the smaller districts, however,
may not be so fortunate. According to John
Davis, a professor at Harvard University,
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"If we get bogged down we can now call into the regional office and they will send in help from other districts in the region," Derrick said.
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