University Daily Kansan, June 17, 1982
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Few teens care about draft, counselors sav
By CAROL MILLS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The draft and nuclear war do not concern most young people today. Bob Love, Lawrence High School psychologist, said Tuesday.
But the Reagan administration is attempting to make draft registration important to all B- year-olds.
"These kids don't see war, or even the draft, as a threat," he said. "I think the whole business is just too far removed from them."
YOUNG MEN WHO have failed to register for the draft may be forced to comply under governmental pressure, said Betty Alexander, public information officer for the Selective Service System in Washington D.C. Tuesday, "In an effort to get the word out to all potential applicants, we authorized the prosecution of those who have deliberately refused to comply with draft registration," she said.
"An estimated 800,000 men have not registered for the draft," Alexander said. "Right now, we are issuing prosecution orders for those who have sent us their names. We will be working and for those who have been reported on by their friends or neighbors."
Although, according to Alexander, most young men know they must register, local school counselors say there has been little recognition or concern about registration at high school students.
"The STUDENTS seem to have no opinion for or against it," Lowe said. "Most of the kids are worried about the everyday things like dating, their paraphernalia, and I can't see that the present generation is young men care one way or another."
Anti-draft committees and organizations in Lawrence, too, are not nearly as active as they once were, an anti-draft counselor said.
"I'm surprised that no organization exits," said Leroy Chittendon, himself once active in anti-draft demonstrations.
"I PERSONALLY feel that there is so much apathy on the part of the public that actively organizing seems such a futile thing to do.
"I'm quite willing to help those young men who feel opposed to registration," he said. "Those men will have to face the government all alone, and I don't want to see them do that. I want to help."
Chittenord said that Jack Bremer, campus minister at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1203 Oread, was also involved in anti-draft counseling.
Bremer said he had seen only a handful of people concerned with the draft.
"It is important that young men understand and clarify their attitudes about the draft and registration," he added. "It is likely, there has not been a wide concern."
A U.S. Army recruiter in Lawrence, Sgt. course, asked the Army was well prepared to serve with him.
"We're not putting in more people than we were two years ago," he said.
"But those we are putting in are better qualified people than two years ago."
"Because of the economic times, we have more re-enlistments, and we are seeing a lot of young men and women who want to enlist," he said.
He said nearly a third of the people who wanted to enlist were turned down because of the higher mental standards now required.
"During peaceetime, the Army must recruit skilled personnel." Rouse said. "We want the kind of people that we have to train over a year's time. Like if a particular person needs to learn a language, that's the kind of person we
want in during peacetime, so he will be trained should we need him in periods of war."
Alexander said no expectations existed to re-institute the draft.
"THAT WOULD HAPPEN only in an emergency," she said, "the president must request a draft and Congress must approve it."
Alexander said the public information push was not meant to be a threat.
"We just want the young men to realize that registration is a serious thing, and that they must comply," she said. "All they have to do is go to the post office and fill in their name, address and date of birth. It's easy."
Alexander said that the maximum penalty for failing to register was either a $10,000 fine, five years in prison or both. However, she stressed the point that the actual penalty would be decided by the courts.
Alexander said that by early July, Social Security records would be compared to the current register to find out who has not registered, and that those young men would have to face the consequences.
Police reject city's latest contract proposal
Members of the Lawrence Police Officers Association voted a resounding 38.3 no to the city's latest work agreement on oregon Tuesday.
LPOA chief negotiator, Gary Sampson, said wages were still the divisive issue between police and the city.
The city offered the police a 6 percent wage increase in January 1983, a 5 percent increase in January 1984 and an average increase of 2.5 percent in July 1984, 1 percent less than the police asked for in their last proposal.
JACKIE McCLAIN, the city's personnel director and chief negotiator, said
Monday that she was not surprised the police refused the proposal.
"Their negotiating team was not supportive of the proposal, and so I figured neither would the force." McClaim said.
"It was the best we could do with the resources we have available."
Sampson said the vote against the city's proposal was overwhelming because "everybody feels that is not aduate."
"We're just asking for fair treatment," he said.
When the deadline for reaching an agreement, June 1, passed, a federal mediator, Buford Thompson, was called into Lawrence.
THE MEDIATOR met twice with the negotiating teams last week in an attempt to reconcile differences involving three police demands: higher security, greater accountability and increased LPOA representation on a departmental policy-making board.
The city and police have been constructing a labor pact since mid-April.
McClain said the two sides may have been too far apart in the beginning of negotiations to come to an agreement on a proposal.
But Sampson said he thought a change in negotiation methods was needed to effectively work out a labor pact. He praised McClain's abilities as an economist, saying he was more "straight and honest with us" than were her predecessors.
But he said he would like to see the city switch to binding arbitration, in which an arbitrator steps in and works out a contract that must be accepted by both, if the two sides could not come to an agreement.
"It would keep both sides more honest," Sampson said.
City Commission to refund tax to Lawrence residents
By KATE DUFFY Staff Reporter
The group organized a petition drive that brought the ordinance up for a vote in May.
Commissioners disagree, saying almost one-third of those on the list had moved, many leaving no forward address.
Zook demanded the city send a Zook demand to everyone who was on the water department's mailing list during the week in which the fee was charged.
"It would be an administrative nightmare to send scatter-shot mail
Tuesday night's meeting to refund the nearly $80,000 collected from a storm water drain for a storm water drainage study.
Staff Reporter
E. R. Zook, 629 W 2st St., a chief organizer of Citizens for a Better Government, told commissioners he thought their refund suggestions were "Mickey Mouse attempts and a stall."
In December, the city stopped collecting the monthly 50-cent fee, added to residents' water bills, because of an error in the ordinance authorizing the fee. In the May election, Lawrence voters decided nearly 24 to discontinue paying the fee.
About $64,000 of the money has already been paid to a Kansas City firm for the first portion of the study.
After an hour's discussion, the commission voted to have the staff study the possibility of refunding the money by crediting current water department customers' bills for the amount of study fees they paid.
The staff was also asked to figure the costs of tracking down former customers and mailing refunds to them.
THE LETTER, also approved by the planning and county commissions, would make it possible for Lawrence to receive Urban Mass Transit Funds and special planning money.
"If they want to make a contribution to you, let them turn that check around and endorse it to you." Zook shot back.
Lawrence has been allocated $637,000 from revenue sharing for the coming
COMMISSIONER NANCY
SHONTZ told Zook that many people
would not want a refund.
"The public expects you to live up to what you said in court," Zook said, referring to last December's lawsuit, in which the city declared it would refund the money if it lost the case.
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But Zook said the city had made a mistake and should be forced to pay the penalty.
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