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University Dally Kansan
Tuesday, November 27,1979
Retirement...
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"However, the state did not allocate an increase for the retirees at the budget heartiness this year."
Jones said that 11 classified and unclassified employees, six of them faculty members, remained from the list of those who had retired from KU before 1982.
STATEWIDE, about 70 classified and unclassified pre-1962 retrieves from five Regents schools share approximately 300 post-1962 with Phil Arnold. Budgets官兵 officer.
Wichita State University, a six regents school, was not affected by the old Regents retirement plan because WSU was not a Regents school when the old plan was in
According to the most recent KU budget figures, the 11 pre-1962 KU retiree share $15.700 a year—an average of $1.427 a year for each.
Arnold explained the origin of the old Regents plan. "Obviously, it was the first actress to have benefits," Arnold said. "It was dreamed up in the late 1940s. Before this, no one had any idea."
IN 1962, the state adopted two new retirement programs, the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Fund.
Now TIAA and CREF deduct 5 percent of a faculty member's pavchek, and the
University matches the deduction. TIAA and CREF invest the deducted money and pay the faculty member about 8.5 percent interest.
The old Regents retirement plan was not set aside for the retirement appropriation set aside for retiring faculty members who retired before 1962 are included in the old Regents EFIP benefits and in the old Regents pension.
MARY GRANT, professor emerita of classics, retired from KU in 1961. Grant said she received a small monthly pension.
"I know it not as much as those who retired after me," she said. "I guess I was put on the retired list before they changed the system.
"The pension really isn't enough. But I have money from other sources. I made some investments."
E.C. Buehler, professor emeritus of
English at the University of Texas,
his books helped support him
after retiring. Buehler retired in 1964, only
two years after TIAA and GREF were
discovered.
"It was an awkward situation—the time it was really bad." Büberl said. "I was on a program, but if it didn't have a large build-up of data," he explained. "It doesn't reach as far as Social Security. It
"Thanks to other incomes, I've managed to get by."
Not all were so lucky. Employees of 20
John Corkhill, executive secretary for the Kansas Public Retirement System, said that some employees were too proud to say anything about their retirement situations.
years ago were responsible for their own retirement programs.
"It seems they are very hard up for money and have difficulty meeting the requirements of a departmental,个个人, I'm terribly concerned. But if they are not in the definition of the plan, I can't understand."
Corkish said it would be too expensive to significantly increase the retirees' pensions because it would be unfair to private citizens.
"The real problem is where do you begin and where do you end," he said. "I'm sure in Lawrence there are a great deal of citizens who want to be a vector who also have no退休 programs."
"The faculty members were professionals. Just think of all the nonprofessionals who, in some instances, are worse off. The well is limitless."
Although there are only six surviving KU faculty members who retired before 1982, 16 widows have survived faculty members who died before 1982. There are more statewide.
old the Rogers retirement plan, an under pension to a KU employee was discontinued once he died. Under TIAA and the Rogers policies companies can continue receiving a pension.
"There is just not a provision under the old plan for the widows," Jones said. "Unless someone has an organized lobby, there never will be."
Marie Wilkens, 1535 University Dr., wrote various state officials in 1977 requesting that the state give the widows prior service benefits.
"I started a personal campaign because the widows aren't getting anything," Wilkens said. "It is a gross injustice to these women." The benefit of Social Security, but the benefits were small.
**PRIOR SERVICE benefits are given to**
*KU faculty members who retired after 1962*
*and faculty members in the 1963-1964 and 1962-1963*
*Faculty members' length of service and highest salary from 1958 to 1961*
*and highest salary from 1962 to 1963.*
"A lot of families have had to take care of them. Most of them are living in nursing homes."
But Wilkens said that the state would not help the widows.
"I got nice, polite letters," she said, "but they said the problem was, if they gave benefits to KU widows, they would have to take all of the state's retires and their widows."
"That is a bunch of burch believe because there are n. that many employees left," she said. "Kansas is raling in the money. In fact, it feels like a surplus. But I've ran into blank walls.
Douglas County delays nursing home decision
By SCOTT FAUST
Staff Reporter
The Douglas County Commission last week approved a county purchase of the Woodland Manor Home that they would not make a decision on the purchase until professional building standards are met.
Although the commission did not indicate when the building studies would be completed, she said a finding committee of the commission, said she hoped the commission would be able to move forward.
Members of a citizen fact-finding committee and area Kansas legislators, State Representative Dan O'Reilly, John Solach, D-Lawrence, State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, and State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, attended the meeting to provide information and insights.
The fact-finding committee proposed to the county on Nov. 1 the purchase by revenue bonds as a possible means of replacing the county-owned Valley View Nursing Home, 2818 Ridge Court, which has been made inadequate for full-scale careiatric service.
WAKARUSA MANOR, 1800 West 27th St. is owned by the Midland Business Investment Corp., a subsidiary of Union Gas Company. Priced at $775,000, it has been for sale for eight months.
Berman told the commissioners that provision of good nursing care was a requirement. The Commission issued a issuance of revenue bonds for nursery homes should be treated no differently than
"Somewhere along the line," the Bermann said, "we have developed the thesis that nursing homes should fall into the mainstream of our private enterprise system."
He said that 52 percent of money spent on nursing homes was paid by taxpayers.
"This isn't a free enterprise system," he said. "We have in effect guaranteed these people a rate of return on their investment."
STATE REGULATIONS have allowed for increased private profit through cutting corners on care, he said.
Glover said that the care and treatment of the elderly had been put secondary to the "profit and loss sheets" of some of the corporations that run homes.
Grace Heider, 1801 Indiana, who has three relatives in nursing homes, echoed the legislators.
interests between profit and proper care of the residents, she said.
Nebring, who also is secretary of Kansas for the Improvement of Nursing Homes, and Lynn Anderson, Lawrence banker, reported to the commission that the rate at Watukawa has increased need to increase on more than $5 a month to cover the costs of the county's purchase.
"We in the Legislature have been told so many times that the solution to these problems is a at local level," he said.
THAT WOULD BE 14 cents less than the present Medicaid cost lid and $1.86 a day higher than present patient cost at Valley View.
The fact-finding committee has proposed a 15-year, $1 million revenue bond issue at 9 percent for funding.
Commissioner Neis asked the committee representatives why a non-profit organization could not purchase and operate Wakaraus Manor.
Solbach, who also is a member of the committee, said the group was asking the committee to take over the form of citizen supervision of Wakaura Manor have been included in the committee's
IN OTHER COMMISSION business, the commission and county department heads a report from county data processing consultant Mike Ater on the county's
$114,100 Budget Accounting Information System, which will go into full operation in January 1981, as a replacement for the accounting system now in operation.
After said a new system was developed because rapid county growth and increase in population requirements and regulations had put too heavy a burden on the 'antiquated' manual systems.
The department heads and officials will be able to use the computer terminals in their offices to check past and present information and to enter data. Aler said.
The system also will allow departments to be better informed on how much money they are committed to spend for unreceived purchases, called encumbrances.
Private administrators have to split their
The existing system has no encumbrance capability and so unused funds cannot be used for short term investment by the county, Ater said.
He said the investment of idle funds could make an extra $35,000 to $50,000 a year for the county.
Installation of the system will begin April 1 and be finished by Oct. 1. Three months of parallel operation with the existing system have been completed and some acquainted with its operation, Ater said.
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A anide to the head of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services was bound over yesterday for trial in a case in which Court in connection with a burglary.
A co-defender in the case, Rick Chaffee, Salina, testified Monday in a preliminary hearing that he and Smith went to the house of the man who lived there owned Smith moneys.
State rehabilitation agency aide accused of grand theft, burglary
Christopher Smith, 31, Topeca, is charged with one count of burglary and one count of grand theft. Smith, a special assistant to HSRS Secretary Robert Harder, is accused of
Associate District Judge Mike Elwell scheduled Smith's trial for Dec. 7.
stealing stereo equipment from an east Lawrence residence.
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"These people are still getting nothing. It is unjust that they are doing so much for winters after 1982, but not before 1982."
Mix is one of the widows who has received no pension from the University.
"I don't want to sound bitter, she said," should have protested when it happened, but I was too intimidated at the time. I kind of hated that. "I think of the hardships I've gone through."
Mix, who lives in a retirement home in Pomona, Calif., said she could not have survived if she were not able-bodied.
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"I worked very hard," she said. "I had to go to work immediately. I had to rent every room in my house except my own. It was a struggle."
"I taught in the English department at KU for two years and taught at Baker University for eight years. This enabled me to bring up my Social Security."
Mix still believes she was treated unfairly by the University.
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Bloch, who is living off her husband's art works, said the state had not attempted to deal with the widows' hardships.
"It hasn't been a regular income," Bloch said. "I've been able to bye. Some of the older widows would have died from starvation if they wouldn't have had help."
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CONSTANCE SHERRER, whose husband was a professor of psychology at KU for 13 years, also was dissatisfied with the old Regents under the old Regents retirement plan.
For the future, the American Association of University Professors has appointed a committee to investigate the retirement problem.
"I don't understand why the state cuts off our funds, particularly with the big increases in inflation," Sherer said. "Our group has somehow been left out.
"The Ways and Means Committee doesn't want to pick out groups until they can find the magnitude of the problem on a statewide basis," he said.
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T. P. Srinivasan, chapter president of AAUP, said the committee's report would come out in the spring.
"These groups in question are not large and it has been a problem rallying enough support in the legislature," Srinivasan said.
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"We are going to try to see whether a private bill can be moved through the support of any legislator to get some action off the ground."
Egyptian glass-worker shapes lab glassware
Judging: Nov. 30, Big 8 Room.
Exhibit: Dec. 1, 1979
Amid broken pieces of glass in the basement of Malott Hall stands a native Egyptian over a flaming natural gas torch with a small test tube in his hand.
"I can probably save the department about $80 a piece by doing it myself," he said. "All I need is the raw materials."
By TED LICKTEIG Staff Renorter
"I have talked to the Ways and Means Committee because I've been associated with the University system most of my adult life," he said. "They are very reluctant to give everyone benefits because they are about equitable treatment of all employees."
The man is Harold Fakoury, who has been saving money for the department of chemistry for about six years by shaping the chemical structure of organized ones for professors' experiments.
"No one has been lobbying for all of the people involved—only small, individual groups."
"As far as my own financial situation, I can only say that I'm deeply concerned about the future. With the march of industry and the fact that I can make ends meet in the next few years,"
CONARD SAID the state needed to determine the magnitude of the retirement problem.
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"I volunteered to make 300 of these by next fall," said Fakoury. He held a tube used for microdistillation experiments on small tubular tubes branching off the original one.
John Conard, Regents executive officer, said an organized job was needed by all of the employees and widows affected by the old Regens plan.
Knoxash, who is also charged with aggravated robbery and aggravated battery, has pleaded not guilty to the murder charge.
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Without Fakhouy's skills, the department would have to order the specialized equipment from chemical companies at a higher cost.
The prosecution began its case by questioning the man who discovered the torture. But Mr. Sanders arrived at the scene and J. Alan Sanders, deputy county coroner 's testimony on Friday night.
the trial of David Lee Knoox, 30, accused of first-degree murder in the beating death of Hertil Wilson Housewour, 65, beganeyer mowing following the selection yesterday.
The trial convened at about 2:02 p.m. and was expected to last all week, Craig Stainclaide, assistant district attorney who is prosecuting the case, said.
Medical Research Institute at the University of Alexandria,
Fakhoury did similar glass work at the Institute, but most of it involved medical equipment.
Fakhoury said his latest project was putting filters in test tubes for a special experiment that would be done by a professor.
The title of glass blower does not fit Fakourhay, however, because instead of blowing through long rods to shape his glass, he holds the glass with a palatal gorgorch.
When he came to the United States in 1927, he had been a glass blower. He learned the type of work needed by the department of chemistry under former KU glass blower Wall Meyers.
After completing each piece of a project, he said, he puts the piece into an anealing oven. The oven uniformly heats the metal and then coils it to prevent cracking.
Fakhoury said that if a professor brought in a broken tube, he could cut off the broken nart and salvage the tube.
Trial begins for murder suspect; alleged accomplices could testify
Stancliffe said he expected to call 25 to 30 witnesses during the trial, including Levi Louis Cummings, 28, and George Mankuk.
22, both charged with second-degree murder in connection with the incident.
The two men have been offered the opportunity to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the case in exchange for their testimony, Stancliffe said.
"Because of their lesser involvement in the case," Manlificie said, "we have entered an agreement with them that if they testify that the evidence was guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter."
During Knoxshall's preliminary hearing, Cummings testified that the three men took a whisky bottle and some cash from the victim.
Knight is charged with aggravated robbery and aggravated battery.
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