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On June 30 the controversial Equal Rights Amendment will be defunct as it arrives at its deadline with only 35 of the 39 required states having ratified it.
But the National Organization for Women does not plan to give up, said Lucy Smith, president of the Lawrence chapter, Saturday.
"We're going to take time to heal wounds and clear up misconceptions, she said. "But it's hard to keep 52 percent of the population oppressed."
The ERA, which states "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex," has been misconceived by the majority of the population; it first was issued in 1927. Smith said.
People have thought the amendment would promote homosexual marriages and unsex restrooms. Smith said.
WHEN A NEW bill is issued, NOW will take special care to make sure the public knows precisely what the ERA does, she said.
NOW, the women's organization plans to direct its campaign toward greater visibility.
"We're going to make sure those who
stood in the way of ERA lose their jobs," she said.
NOW plans to pour money into the campaigns of those who promoted the ERA and into campaigns opposing those who did not, Smith said.
"We're not out to avenge," she said, "but to make sure we take care of the people who took care of us."
NOW also plans to get more women elected to office this November, she said.
In the past, NOW has been passive in pushing the amendment through. Two years after its introduction, 30 states had ratified the amendment. In fact, Kansas, the state to ratify the amendment, only a 10-minute debate, Smith said.
It was in the eight years that followed that NOW became complacent in pushing for ratification. Only five states added to the supporters in that period, and a number of states began to reconsider. Smith said.
"WE SHOULD HAVE pushed hard and fast in the beginning for passage," she said.
Not only had NOW become more conservative in its push, but the nation had also experienced a trend toward a more conservative period in 1972, Smith said.
"It's been impossible to try to get
approval in the past couple of years with a conservative administration not concerned with human rights, civil liberties, under about democracy. Smith said.
But in those ten years of struggle, women have learned new strategies in the political field, she said.
"Women have a new-found strength and political ability. 'Smith said.' And "Grant" has the right to make decisions."
Smith said she was looking forward to the coming struggle in the next few years and expected a new ERA proposal to be introduced into Congress.
BARBARA HANNA, head of ProfFamily Forum, an anti-ERA organization in Lawrence, said she did not expect a new bill to be issued.
"It would be like beating a dead horse." she said.
The reason the ERA did not pass this time was that people began to realize that it would mean the drafting of women, government control on the federal level and equal insurance rates, she said.
"Women are the ones who benefit in insurance rates," she said.
Hama said there were already laws that protected equality on the job, such as the Equal Opportunity Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Rain helps, hurts campus greenery
By NEAL McCHRISTY Staff Reporter
Rains have benefited the greenery on the KU campus, but the wet weather has caused an abundance of parasites and rapidly growing lawns, keeping summer landscape crews busy, said Mr. Sullivan, director of landscape management, recently.
After three years of dry weather, Mathes said, trees become prone to disease dead limbs, and the sap tends to stay closer to the roots.
"We have had about three out of the last four years where we've had severe springs and summers that have caused a lot of plant damage." Mathes said. "We have also this for plants to catch up, to get their strength back and be ready for winter."
NOW, BECAUSE of the rain, keeping the trees healthy has meant spraying fertilizer or water.
blight attacks new growth on pine trees Mathes said.
"Normally, it attacks the new growth as it comes out," Mathes said. "Because of the wet weather this year, we can't go to school until it's none which none of the books says happens."
The blight has been found on trees at the northwest corner of Fraser Hall and near the east side of the Campanile, he said. The trees have been treated, but the treatment washes off if rained on within the first eight hours.
Fire blight, a bacteria that causes new growth to turn black, and insects have also been found on trees on campus, Mathes said.
"The insects have been bad this year. Probably, they'll be all summer," he said. "For some reason or other, we didn't get an winter kill this year."
SPIDER MITES, cankerworms, grubs and bagworms also have been found on trees, he said.
"The bagworms started hatching out eight to 10 days ago, so we expect them to grow fast."
But the major concern for the landscape crews has been moving the rocks.
"We haven't had as much time to do some of the trimming because all of our people are busy moving." Matts said. "It takes us a lot of time moving to where we can do other things."
THE 30 FULL-TIME and approximately 23 seasonal workers have not had to move sprinklers and irrigation systems to cost more than irrigation, Mathes said.
"We get done mowing once an turn start back around in the same week and start again."
"I think, in the long run, it costs us more to mow than to water," he said.
"We get fewer complaints about lawn mowers than from people who get wet from irrigation."
By KATE DUFFY Staff Reporter
Services surveyed
Douglas County's low-income residents worry most about finding decent jobs, according to a recent survey conducted by the KU Center for Public Affairs and the Douglas County Council on Community Services
Jobs main concern of needy
Survey respondents said many of the available jobs in the community paid such low wages that they could not afford a college or universities or pay for necessary child care.
The survey was prepared by Tom Seekins, a research assistant at the center, and Stephen Fawcett, a research associate at the center and an associate professor in Human Development and Family Life.
The Douglass County Council on Community Services, a non-profit organization that coordinates local social services' activities, sponsored the survey.
SEEKINS, A RESEARCH assistant in HDFL, said that 45 was the average age of the 261 respondents from 13 social service agencies, and that the majority of those people live alone. Sixty-seven percent reported an income of less than $7,500 a year, and 21 percent reported having a disability.
Apart from job concerns, respondents listed safe and affordable housing, low-cost recreation for both adults and children and nutritious food at affordable prices as some of their greatest needs.
Seekins said the survey, which has been conducted in low-income neighborhoods, the Kansas state mental hospital system and a tenants association of a public-housing project, was designed to measure both respondents' satisfaction and dissatisfaction with existing services.
"The survey translates concerns into usable information," Seekins said. "It can be used to influence government policy and get low-income residents' interests on the government's agenda."
In June, Seekins took the survey results to both city and county commission's study sessions. An outcome of the meetings could be a better utilization of funds to solve the most pressing problems, Seekins said.
"I think the present City Commission is very sensitive to the needs of the low-income," he said.
COMMISSIONER Nancy Shontz said the survey could be useful in allocating federal revenue-sharing funds this year.
"I believe very heartily in any kind of statistical evaluation of our program," Shontz said, "and I was glad the center did it."
Shontz said she thought the city should provide some jobs for low-income residents seeking work.
The Council on Community Services has started working on some of the problems reported in the survey. For example, the council is working closely with Lawrence's assistant city manager, Mike Wilden, to design a custom-built room to the poor used furniture picked up by the city's sanitation铲s
Besides the furniture pickup, the council's director, Sue Bees, said that six committees were working on problems the survey reported to exist
In May, the council's job task force committee met with Lawrence Chamber of Commerce leaders and representatives from local manufacturing to discuss the number of jobs for the low-income and minimally educated.
BEERS SAID the "representatives were very receptive and were concerned about the unemployment."
She said the job problem would not be an easy one to solve.
"It's an employer's market now." Beers said. "One company representative told me that they advertised one job, and 200 people showed up for it."
Bessie Nichols, office manager at Penn House, a local social service agency providing emergency food, utility, medicine and clothing assistance, said Friday that she had seen a huge increase recently in the number of requests the agency had received for aid.
Other social service agencies said the tightening job market had increased local poverty.
In May 1961, 345 people requested aid from Penn House. This May, there were 617 requests. The largest increase came in March, with 768 re
quests compared with 379 at the same time last year.
Nichols said she attributed the increase to the worsening economy.
"THE COST OF living and the economy are just out of proportion," she said. "People come in and say, 'Yes, we do receive food stamps and welfare, but it's not enough to go around.'"
With the federal cutback in the food stamps program, people are eating less. Nichols said.
"They buy as long as they can, until it runs out," she said.
And with people poorer this year than they were last year, she said, the social service agencies are struggling, too.
"WE'VE HAD PEOPLE who have never been here before." Beers said. "They'll come in and actually cry and you, we never can to ask for help before."
She also attributed the increase to economic forces, citing higher levels of unemployment and lower food stamp allotments.
Using information gathered by the survey, the Council on Community Services is working to ease the agencies' load. Beers said
"Agencies can't help people with all the problems they're having now," Beers said.
Beers said the council was sending out questionnaires to local agencies asking for information about their resources, budgets, staff and volunteers up the agencies could back each other up by sharing equipment and staff.
"It will help by shifting and balancing needs with services." Beers said. "We want to maintain services. It's imperative we do."
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