University Daily Kansan, March 9, 1983
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Welfare
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embarrassed and even ashamed to ask for help."
Bessie Nichols, office manager for Penn
house said, "I make you feel bad when those
people don't understand you."
Both Penn House and Ballard Community Center provide emergency food, clothing and medical assistance.
"Very few men come for assistance," said berry, whose who dote often appear to be at home. "I don't have a phone."
Dyer said that a survey of general assistance applicants on Jan. 21 and 22 showed that 66 percent were men, and that 47 percent of the applicants were between the ages of 22 and 30.
ALTHOUGH TWO-THRIDS of the applicants surveyed had worked in the last six months, only one person had received unemployment benefits in the last year, he said.
Many general assistance recipients are young people who have never been able to find a job or who have not worked long enough at any job to build up unemployment benefits, he said.
Nicholas said she remembered when a person with an eightth-grade education could find a job.
then you had to graduate from high school." she said. "Now a person with a couple of years of education past high school is considered unskilled."
Berry, Dyer and Nichols agreed that making ends meet on general assistance benefits was difficult.
"I would say these folks are survivors," Dyer said. "They may be hustling or they are good managers."
"IF PEOPLE CAN LIVE on that amount of
assistance, they ought to be in Washington balancing our budget."
Although benefits vary, recipients receive an average of $160 a month, he said. Most general assistance recipients receive the maximum in food stamps allowable, which is $75 a month for a family.
Nichols said the food stamps provided were not enough to feed someone for a full month.
"There's so much you need that food stamps won't buy," she said. "And where can you rent even a room for $100 a month?"
Berry said that to make ends meet, some general assistance recipients moved back in with their parents if they could. Some sell their belongings. Others are forced to default on loan payments, and their possessions are repossessed, he said.
THESE HARD ECONOMIC times put a strain on those who help as well as those who receive help.
"You have to want to help to work here." Nichols said. "At times I get upset because there's nothing more I can do."
Berry said, "There is great satisfaction in knowing that an elderly person is warm or that a person with a severe handicap will receive medical treatment.
"But we do get frustrated and experience exhaustion and burn-out. We experience sadness when we see that the Band-Aids we provide don't stop the flow of blood."
The federal government doesn't mandate the general assistance program, he said, and Kansas is one of the few states that offers it. And although the state is in an extreme financial crisis, Berry said, "This is one of the worst possible times to cut this last-resort link to survival."
Quarry
his father used to farm Plummer's land and now as son farms the land.
He said he opposed the quarry because it would disarrut the community.
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"There is a need for rock," he said. "But the need to the farmer is a small need."
Max Moore, who lives three miles from the proposed site and is treasurer of Palmyra Township, said that the town could cut off the road in half for Palmyra, two other area townships and the county
MOORE SAID THAT rock had to be hailed from a quarry near Ottawa to be put on roads in the area.
He said that many people would benefit from the quarry and that it should not be turned down because a few city people thought the dust might bother them.
"When you move out in the county, you live with what the county has to offer." Moore said.
Charles Thomsen, one of Bigsby's neighbors,
said that traffic safety, dust, blasting and a
decline in property values were his concerns if the murray were built.
A ROCK QUARRY would destroy our way of life," he said. "We would definitely leave if we could sell the home."
Jane Plummer said she would have to stay if the rock outurry were built.
She said she would not leave for any amount of money because the trees and quiet were beautiful and she treasured the memories of her husband.
"We were like two kids in the woods," she said.
Drive in
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"It becomes a situation where the dirt brings in more than the service," he said.
LAWRENCE USED TO have another drive-in on 23rd Street, but the owner, the Commonwealth Lawrence Theatre Corp., sold it about 10 years ago. Harwood said.
Drive-ins all over the country are going out of business because of movies on cable television and general uninterest in the theaters, he said.
But the peak time for drive-ins was 1958, when there were 113 movie theaters in the state, according to the 1958 Community Business Campus report.
Calneck, whose family owned 26 theaters in the area, then said that drive-ins had changed.
'Now there are more alcoholic drinks and pot or whatever. To be quite frank, they now call
"There need to be a time when the parents brought the kids in their nighties, loaded the car, brought along the pop and popcorn, and that's the way you went to the movies.
Drive-ins in cities larger than Lawrence fare a little better than Sunset.
them 'the passion pit.' It has ruined the family image that they used to have."
MARY SHABER, WHO, with her husband, manages the Twoin Twin Drive-in in Johnson County, said she was not in danger of going out of business because her market was larger.
But she said that attendance at her drive-in had declined markedly in the past five years.
"We can't get the hot movies because the chain indoor rooms can afford them. We can't."
The school
Calbeck said the equipment to accommodate just one car at a new drive-in would cost between $600 to $800.
IT IS NOT SURPRISING that drive-ins are doing poorly when their overhead is considered, he said.
Cameek said that a theater would have to have speakers, box terminals and underground wiring.
$50,000, a screen costs $40,000 and concession equipment is $40,000.
"You have to consider that this is all in addition to the amount that the land costs," he said.
Harwood said Calheck's estimates were conservative.
Indoor theaters can be more comfortable and have better financial backing, he said.
"People complain about the price of a ticket to see a movie," he said. "But they don't realize that Hollywood gets all the profit. Ninety to 95 percent of the profit goes to them."
For example, Calhee said, the Dickinson Theater chair in Kansas City paid $100,000 to guarantee the exclusive right to show "Star Wars" at one of its theaters.
"Privately-owned drive-ins can't do this. That is why some of them start showing risque pictures. This also ruins their reputations."
"HE HAD TO PAY that outright," Calhueck said. "If he didn't make that up in profit it was a loss out of his own pocket.
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