University Daily Kansan, April 5, 1983
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Salaries
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Many other schools pay more than the Med Center, he said, and they also provide incentives to keep their faculty.
"Comparing ourselves to other schools," he is going to fall too far behind, and we're going to fail."
DESPITE THE lower salaries, Robinson said, faculty members in past years were forced to stay in the area because mortgage and interest rates were high. But since rates are down, faculty members can now afford to move to different areas.
Kurt Ebner, chairman of the department of biochemistry, agreed that a 4 percent increase was not enough and that some of the better faculty members might leave.
"It think it a little on the low side," he said, "and it has put us in a position where the better people will go where they can get more money. History has shown that good people, when given
"If the good people leave, that leaves us with a faculty that can't leave," he said.
"WE'RE CONCERNED about this. It takes a long time to build up things to where they are, but it doesn't take long to lose them," Ebner said.
However, Gilbert Greenwald, chairman of the department of physiology at the Med Center, said that faculty members would not leave the university unless they were other universities were in the same situation.
"Things are bad everywhere," he said. "And universities will not be willing to hire masses of
"Kansas has remained immune from the bad economy, but it has finally hit us."
GREENWALD SAID another reason faculty members would not leave the Med Center was that the post-World War II baby boom left fewer teaching positions available.
"I think we're seeing a new era," he said. "Teachers are less mobile and in less demand than they once were."
"I realize this is a meager increase, but I think we're just going to have live with it. Nobody can be happy about it, but there is nothing much we can do."
Thurston
Her parents and local people were skeptical at first. Thurston said.
opened the only restaurant in the town of Cottontown Falls population 1,200.
"They really wanted a restaurant, but they just didn't know if the community could support it."
MARHANNE PRETZER, her mother, said,
"We couldn't imagine the girls coming from
Kansas City and well-paying jobs to Cottonwood
Falls, which is just a small town, to open a
restaurant. It was quite a step."
Thurston said, "My friends, though, thought it was pretty neat and that I was smart to do it. They knew how much pressure I was under."
Pressures of her work and political activities in Kansas City drove her to leave, she said. She was president of the Kansas City NOW chapter of women's organizations of directors of five women's organizations.
The physical labor was the biggest adjustment in starting the Emma Chase Chase, Thurston said, but no longer feeling the pressures of her former work and political involvement made the change
Thurston agreed that the pressure of having to deal with budget cuts in social programs such as Juniper Gardens was part of why she left when she did.
HER FATHER, John Pretzer, said he told his Republican friends that his daughter moved back to her home county because she was "Reaganized."
Mostly, she said,she wanted to be close to her
parents again and to rest up from seven years in feminist politics and work with the poor. She said that she was getting the refreshment she left the city to find, although it involved hard work.
Thurston started a typical day at 6:30 a.m. by preparing breakfast for the people who stop at the breakfast bar.
From then until closing time at about 2 p.m., she serves up ranchers' grub — including homemade soup and fried chicken — and banters with the local folk.
ON FRIDAYS and Saturday, when the Emma Chase is open for supper, Thurston may not go to work until noon, but she will stay until at least 9 o.m.
The cafe's success is largely due to how well it ties into the community, Thurston said. For instance, it is open for Sunday dinner for the many church-goers in the community.
Even the name of the place is tied to the area. Thurston said she searched local history books to find some famous woman to name the residence. Historical history was important to the folks in Chase County.
But the books only turned up famous men's names, so she settled on Emma Chase, who may or may not have been a real person. Emma sounded nice and Chase was an important name in the area.
THE LOCAL historical society offered a framed portrait of a woman its members thought just might be Emma, Thurston said, and it now graces a wall of the cafe.
She said that even though many city people
might think that feminism was scarce in ranch country, the opposite was true.
"There's not a lot of difference," she said. "A lot of people here are females because they are very independent, because they're very strong and believe in egalitarianism."
"They're very comfortable to have someone like me around because they admire people who stand up for what they believe. A lot of them are farmers who are having a hard time and may go under, so they really appreciate people who struggle for a cause."
THURBSTON SAID she missed the professional camaraderie of an urban setting, but for now was content to spend her days cooking for and talking with Chase County residents.
"There is a sense of community, nature, nurturance and the cycle of the seasons in femaleness," she said. "It means being connexion with other ages, and that's often hard to find in the city."
"The importance of tolerance is a lesson I've learned from these country people, who are very patient. I'm not ready to leave them yet."
Tax
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Senate Majority Leader Robert Talkington, R-Iola, said he expected that the Senate would vote to approve a bill.
and Taxation Committee, said he thought the House sent a clean severance tax bill to the Senate.
does not provide a tax break for property taxes on equipment.
"It's a major issue. We should look at it in conference committee to see exactly what we want to do," he said.
The Senate passed its own severance tax, which would provide about $85 million in revenue. It was altered in the House. The Senate must vote to concur with the House version, or the bill will end up in a House-Senate conference committee.
"I generally favor the House concept over the Senate concept," he said.
taken care of Senate concern that the severance tax would amount to an "add-on" tax that would have been piled on top of county ad valorem, or production taxes.
Burke said the House version provided more revenue than he expected.
BRADEN SAID he thought the House had
STATE SEN. Paul Burke, R-Leawood, said he anticipated that the Senate would vote on a motion to concur, but said some senators would hold reservations about the House plan, which
"We thought all along if we got a tax between $95 million and $100 million, we'd be lucky," he said.
Also, he said the House had passed a tax that the oil and natural gas industries could live with.
Oil and natural gas lobbyists had warned the Legislature that a severance tax higher than the Oklahoma 7 percent add-on tax would drive businesses out of the state.
The Senate should consider the House severance tax today or tomorrow.
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