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Monday, December 4, 1978
University Dally Kansan
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Local school breakfasts proposed
By JEWELL WILLHITE
Staff Reporter
Lawrence public schools that once began their mornings with the Pledge of Allegiance might some day open with oatmeal and orange juice.
Efforts are under way on the national, state and local levels that federally sub-站支区 to local areas.
A school breakfast program should be adopted in Lawrence, says John Carland, director of the School Nutrition Project in Topeka. Federal funds are available, he said, and many students are not adequately prepared to learn because they have not eaten
"BREAKFAST IS the most important meal of the day." Carland said.
A survey of 1,200 students at Lawrence High School conducted by the Parents' Advisory Council in November showed that 500 of the students ate breakfast. Eight hundred said they would eat breakfast at school if it were served.
Carrland has been meeting with representatives of Lawrence church and civic organizations since October to organize support for a school breakfast program in Lawrence. He said he planned to present his report on the Lawrence school board at its December meeting.
10 percent of Kansas schools offer breakfast, lunch and a half cup of USDA minimum specifications, which require a half pint of milk, a half cup of fruit or juice and a service of cereal.
Carland says that because many Lawrence students do not eat that kind of breakfast, the schools should provide it for them.
The federal government first entered the breakfast business in 1966, when Congress
Congress expanded its program in 1975, saying "It is the purpose and intent of the Congress that the school breakfast program be made available in all schools where it is needed to provide adequate nutrition for children in attendance."
unanimously passed the Childhood Nutrition Act, sponsored by Sen. Abraham Ribicoff.
THE AMENDMENT states that any student eligible for a free or reduced-price school lunch is automatically entitled to a free or reduced-price school breakfast if the server serves it.
This year, students from a family of four whose income is less than $8,110 receive free school meals. If the income of a family of four is less than $12,660, the children are eligible for reduced-price meals, which means breakfast costs not more than $4.
Both school lunch and breakfast programs are federally subsidized. In 1977, 20 percent of the nation's schools served breakfast and 92 percent served lunch. In 1985, a recommendation that breakfast be mandatory in all schools. The Senate rejected the idea.
"THEY are some schools in Lawrence that need a breakfast program badly," he said. "I know, because of Lawrence schools, said. The junior highs and senior highs need it because of the types of schedules we are running those kids through and because of the students' great work."
She said teenagers needed 3,000 calories a day. Many high school students are at school by 7 a.m. for marching band and athletic practices. These students, many of whom do not eat breakfast, may not eat lunch until 12:30 p.m., she said.
"Many people feel this is a family responsibility," Armstrong said. "There is some resistance in schools due to time scheduling, and it can be difficult to manage. It sets one up says to it, it can do it."
A decision about breakfast programs will
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worked. But he said he thought they of fended customers so he removed them.
"Unless you pay someone to watch the video screens all the time, you might lose more money than you'd save." Meyer said. Without the jayne'ss. Rusty's. gawks. 25
Without the camera's, Rusty's caught 25 shooflers in September.
rauey's no longer hires an off-duty policeman to beef up store protection.
Kroger and Dillon's hired off duty policemen to protect their stores. Policemen wander down the aisles in plain cothes and annear to be regular customers.
"I used to hire a friend who was a Lawrence patronman. A leatherman said, he wanted to come to him when they came in he would chat with them. They could just come back and steal when they came."
Local grocers have their own theories about shoplifting practices, but all said it was impossible to pinpoint a time when most of the stealing took place.
ONE GROCER SAID that he thought amateurs stole when his store was crowded and that professional shoplifters came during the early hours of business.
Leatherman said people stole from his store late in the afternoon or evening—the
He said Sunday shoplifters sometimes were very nonhistorical.
"They have on their Sunday best and when they are stealing meat they also open up a box of Baggies and slip the roast inside them to mess up his pocket or "neer," he said.
Most store managers said the hottest
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items were health and beauty aids, such as tubes of shampoo, razor blades and aspirin. items to steal, they said, were bat-fishblasts, hairsprays, meat, and cheese.
Meyer said, "One girl stole a box of tampon recently and I caught her and asked to buy it. I found the money needed to buy them (or her), but she didn't take it up on it and didn't say why she stole them."
MEYER SAID he encouraged customers with financial problems to ask that the store offer a discount of marking up merchandise to compensate for stolen goods. He said sometimes he even let women take groceries if they had forgotten their wallets or had run out of them.
Knox said the idea of school breakfasts had been presented to him three or four years ago. A small number of Lawrence students were surveyed at that time to determine if the program were needed, he said.
He said he found this policy to be more profitable.
be made by the Lawrence school board, which will consider the recommendation of Carl Knox, superintendent of Lawrence schools.
"I shop here, too, and I pay the same orices for food as my customers do."
Items stolen often are higher-priced goods that are small enough to slip into pockets, conceal in large purses or drop into collapsed umbrellas.
Some shopfitters, however, do not bother to be inconsious.
Valentine said he had seen a person leave with a shopping cart full of unbaked food. He said the individual tried to take her. Everyone included the cart, valued at about $100.
"We want to hear a full presentation," he said. "We are not closing the door, but are not giving our support until we know more about it."
OTHER COMMON shoplifting tricks are to:
"WE DID NOT recommend to the board that they imitate it," Knox said.
Carland said no schools in Kansas City, Kan., served breakfast. In Wichita 6 percent of the students eat breakfast at school. The program takes to kindergarten eight night schools.
Knox said he was not taking a position on the program.
One grocer said he wished there were a way to determine which items were stolen from the store.
Topeka schools have served breakfast since 1971, Richard Feley, food services director of Topeka schools, said. About 1,000 students in 18 schools participate. Most are from the surrounding areas. About 60 percent either pay nothing or pay a reduced price. Feley said.
- Wear an oversized bra and develop a bustline while shopping.
- Use an oversized purse or one with a false bottom.
The full student price for a Topkea school breakfast is 30 cents. The menu
Leatherman said, however, he was glad there was no way of knowing how much was there.
"If we knew what things were stolen, we'd put them all in one place and watch that aisle," he said. "If I could stop it, I'd be a millionaire overnight."
"There’s no way to tell exactly how much is taken every month, thank God," he said. "I think it’s a matter of money."
"I THINK it's a vital project," Feleay
- Conceal food items in a stroller or in a blanket wrapped around an infant.
Melhout schools have served breakfast for about five years, Kenneth Rundell, school superintendent, said. About 25 percent of the students are most and most of those are elementary students.
said, "I think there'd be a major rebellion if we tried to stop it."
Breakfast at McLouth consists of juice, milk and a cinnamon roll or batter bread prepared by the cooks. Sometimes box cereal is served.
rne argument you get is that it's the parents' responsibility. Rudd said, "But help me, please." As a personnel, it's a good thing. Students may on the bus at 7:15 a.m. Both parents are likely to be at the bus.
Federally funded programs are paid for by everyone paying federal income taxes. Kansas breakfast programs receive no reimbursements, but have paid 30 cents for breakfast, federal funds pay 15 cents. For each reduced-priced breakfast, breakfast costs taxpayers 45.25 cents each.
THE LAWRENCE school enrollment is 7,609. Those who eat lunch at school number 4,775. The full price is paid by 3,807 students. 312牟 a reduced费; and 768 eat free lunch.
If Lawrence students who eat school lunch also eat school breakfasts for a school lunch program, they will be able.
Quinlan Krichels, one of six performers in The Lotte Geslar Pantomime Circus, took time to clean a member of the audience during a Saturday performance in Murphy Hall. The event was organized by the Lotte Geslar Foundation.
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