Page 8 University Daily Kansan, May 1, 1981
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BEER DRINKERS!
CHEVY'S PRESENTS YOUR CHANCE TO GRAB FOR GUSTO AND GLORY.
Monday, May 4, a winners-take-all beer drinking contest from 7 p.m. to 12 p.m.
PRIZE: One vintage Chevrolet
PARTICIPANTS: Limited to
Limited to seven- five man
seven-five man teams [one alternate team]; one member of each team must be a club member; team must be over 21
RULES: Each pitcher worth 5 points; each glass worth 1 point deduct 10 points a pitcher and 2 points a glass for spills; each team will have a waitress provided by Chevy's; all trips to the rest rooms will be escorted;the team to accumulate the most points by midnight wins the car.
COST: No registration fee $2.50 - pitcher; $.75 - glass Registration deadline, Sun. May 3, 5 p.m.
Emergency relief programs to be cut
Chevy's 205 W. 8th Lawrence, Kansas 66044
By PENNI CRABTREE Staff Reporter
Beginning today, needy low-income families will no longer have a government agency to turn to for assistance when faced with a utility turnoff or an eviction, a Lawrence city service official said yesterday.
"the Legislature didn't directly cut our funds, they warned us that we had to stay within the budget," she said. "We forced us to lighten our regulations."
Because of a general tightening in the state social services budget, several services offered by area emergency relief programs will be cut, Barbara Hammond said. The governor for the Lawrence area Social and Rehabilitation Services office, said.
According to another SRS official, the new budget legislation will also restrict medical-related programs.
PRIOR TO THE new legislative restrictions, the EA fund was also used to cover emergencies resulting from fires, utility turns and house repairs.
consistently overshot its budget allotment by providing additional services not originally planned when the program began in 1975.
"Cuts in the Medical Assistance program will restrict funding to hospital and nursing home services," said Sylvia Lowder, supervisor of medical and food stamps. "From this perspective, patients won't be covered. No one will be eligible for assistance unless they're hospitalized."
Gains said that the EA program had
"Our hardest hit program is the Emergency Assistance Program, which is available to needy families with children," Gains said. "Beginning Friday, EA funding is restricted to emergency disasters that result from natural disasters, like a flood or a fire."
Another Lawrence agency faced with a funding crisis is the Lawrence Women's Transitional Care Service, a program battered women and their children.
The WTCS shelter had been operating under the Governor's Committee on Criminal Administration Grant, but because of the recent abolishment of all Law Enforcement Assistance Act programs by the federal government, the WTCS is no longer eligible for the grant.
"We're now having to solicit private donations to keep the shelter going." Isabelle Tait, tail coach coordinator for WTCS, said. "We are applying for an $8,000 United Way grant, but it won't be funded."
TAIT SAID that President Reagan's proposed budget cuts had thrown state and city agencies into a funding panic.
"There is an overall tension that we all going to get our budgets cut," she said. "Everyone is applying for grant money, so it's very hard to get."
Gains said the state budget cuts reflected a national mood to limit government spending.
"The State Legislature is just responding to the mood in Washington," she said. "The Legislature has told us that the government couldn't grant us additional appropriations, but this year they meant it. They really made believers of us."