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Friday, February 16, 1979
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The Women's Transitional Care Services, a non-profit counseling service for women in crises, will begin its spring training sessions for new volunteers Sunday.
The training sessions, which are designed to prepare the volunteers to counsel, will be on Sundays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. for six weeks.
Service to begin training session
The sessions will focus on topics that contribute to crises, such as economic instability and financial crisis.
Diana Bankston, staff supervisor of the service, said, "We help women who are in a crisis."
"About half of the women we counsel are feeling some physical damage and frost have on them."
The volunteers must meet specific qualifications, Bankston said.
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"We look for volunteers who are emotionally mature and have a wide range of experience dealing with people from many different backgrounds. We don't want volunteers who haven't been touched by these problems."
Judy Woolfe, a volunteer, said there were about 40 volunteers working for the service. "We had to find people," she said.
Bankaton said, "About half of the volunteers in the park have been associated with our work."
Woolfe said the service had recruited about 25 volunteers for the spring training program.
However, she said the service tries to balance the group by including community members.
The service includes a 24 hour-day
telephone counselling and referral service
"We normally stay at least one or two clients staying in the house each day," Bill said.
The clients are not allowed to come to the welter house until they have contacted the doctor.
Bankston said the location of the house, which opened last year, was not made public because the clients could be in danger of being followed by violent husbands.
Bankston said wife beating, a problem that cuts across every economic class, was one type of violence that volunteers must handle.
Two Kansas plants face extinction
By RON BAIN
Staff Reporter
Two rare plants found in eastern Kansas are in danger of becoming extinct, according to Ronald McGregor, director of the KU biological survey.
One of the plants, Mead's milkweed, is being considered for the first federal list of entangled plants, which will soon be included in the National Wildlife Service. McGregor said recently.
Mead's milkweed, a green plant with a milk-colored liquid in its stems and leaves, is found in North America. It grows in prairie framed orchid, also with a white, three-petaled flower, also is found in eastern Kansas, but has a wider distribution, including Riley, Potamatowic, and
Another plant, the prairie fringed orchid,
is on the proposed federal list of threatened
plants, a less severe classification,
according to McGregor.
IF THESE PLANTS were included on the official endangered and threatened plant lists, it would be against the law to destroy them on federal land or/and where federal
According to Ralph Brooks, a researcher for the KU biological survey, the two plants exist only where unplowed tallgrass prairie is left.
subsidies be involved. McGregor said.
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Farming and commercial development have destroyed much of the original Great Plains prairie, Brooks said, and this isolated Meil's milkweed and the prairie fringed orchid in areas of Kansas where they could not reproduce well.
Most of the land where the two plants can be found is owned by ranchers who have taken good care of their property, according to Brooks.
"The PRAIRIE is their bread and butte," Brooks said. "They're going to take care."
Brooks said he thought the proposed Tallgrass Prairie National Park would not help save Mead's milkweed or the prairie fringed orchid. A bill that proposes a new conservation plan about 185,000 acres of the Flint Hills as a federal prairie reserve, has been considered in 18- U.S. House of Representatives several times but has not passed.
Brooks said the park would not help the threatened milkweed or orchid plants because they do not grow in the Flint Hills. There are at least five different kinds of milkweed in Kansas, Brooks said, and the proposed park would set up a reserve for only one.
BROOKS SAID many of the ranchers who own the land containing the threatened plants were aware of the plants and took care of them. He said he thought the plants would survive under their present conditions.
Brooks, whose research for the KU biological survey includes cataloguing every species of plant found in Kansas, said the primary purpose of his research "is to let people know what plants are uncommon in Kansas."
Brooks' research is part of an inter-university project to make a complete botanical survey of the Great Plains. Other universities involved in the project are Kansas State University, Emporia State University, University of Nebraska, Shadron University of Nebraska, North Dakota State University and South Dakota University.
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A botanical survey of the Plains has not been done since 1932, according to Brooks.
"We've added a lot of information, but things haven't changed that much since 1980."
Brooks had the biological survey building houses the University's berberaarium, a collection of more than 250,000 plant specimens. His recent research has added many specimens to the collection, which was begun in the 1860s, he said.
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