University Daily Kansan, November 7, 1980
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Puckett
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Puckett taught himself to plow the fields and plant a garden. He also kept his younger brother and mother fed and clothed by hiring himself out to neighboring farms. By the time he was 10 years old, he had learned to hunt, and cassionately added meat to the family's mostly vegetarian diet.
But the strain of filling his father's shoes may have become too much.
"At 19, I had a nervous breakdown," he said.
ATTRA, that a nervous of breakdown, the said.
TWO YEARS AFTER Puckett's breakdown,
his mother moved the family to Lawrence. That was in 1910.
"She worked in a box factory, in a laundry and at other jobs that women could get," he said. "I started working as a painter and a roof repairer."
According to Elliott, who laid carpet for Puckett, Puckett was in great demand because he would have been needed.
Puckett he saved his earnings carefully and was able to loan money to people who were in debt. He also helped many of them.
"Everybody else charged $10 to an hour, but
he had more work than he could handle."
"He has been a good man for the poor man," Elliott said. "He'd do anything for the poor man. He borrowed money for poor people so that they could use when no one else would lend them a dime."
Elliott said he bought two houses with loans from Puckett.
"He only charged me six percent interest when interest rates were running from 11 to 12 percent," Elliott said.
PUCKETT SHUNNED any attempt at portraying him as a charitable lender.
"I'd help people by giving them house loans," he said, and they'd help me by paying interest on them.
Puckett said that at one time, he held the deeds to more than 100 houses in Lawrence. He didn't. Mr. Puckett's brother is also a lawyer.
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While his reputation was a lender greet, Puckett said, he also became known as a man who paid him.
"I could borrow $3,000 to $4,000 using only my signature as collateral." he said.
Frequently, he would get a loan in his name for someone else, he said. The loan recipient would receive the same amount of money.
Puckett paused in his narrative to count the apples in his bowl. Satisfied with the number, he put the behind him and went into his house to stew the apples.
He has a gas stove for cooking, but his home is heated by a wood-burning stove.
The water used to boil the apples came from a well in his backyard ...
"I don't turn it on until winter," he said.
"When I built the house," he said, "I just never got around to putting in the water lines and wires."
While part of his dinner boiled, Puckett lit a kerosene lamp to provide light for his home. He foraged through piles of clothes, newspapers and magazines looking for something to read.
Puckett said he spent most of his nights alone.
He said his seven grandchildren and children "don't come by much."
"Sometimes I go to my daughter's house to use
the phone, but I don't visit much with my
children."
After the apples were stewed, Puckett loaded his simple meal on a tin and headed for the steps to his backyard. His apple consisted mostly of vegetables—stewed apple, brown bread, beans and eggs. He used the bread from a dusty plastic container. As he talked, he used a nearby brick as a saucer for his bread.
"I don't mind being alone," Puckett said. "It gives me a chance to do a lot of thinking about it."
Then Lawrence's reputed millionaire fell silent.
"our goal is to provide the greatest opportunity for choice in women's lives that there can be, and that often includes things that board members don't agree with," she said.
Women
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Commission members said the group needed to reach women with information about its programs on a more broadly based, personal level to be effective.
with specialized groups such as Women in Law, Women in Engineering and Women in Communication and helping to organize other such groups of people across campus aware of the commission.
A BUSINESS MAJOR, Janet Carlson, said she had gotten negative response from women in the business school about the commission. Carlson, Tulsa, Oka, senior and secretary of the commission, said she needed for women going into managerial positions and working with men after college.
"We need to know if what the board has decided is what women on campus need and want." Christiansan said. "Board members may have some of the women's lib and feminism. Is the rest of the campus?"
Others suggested coordinating some programs
Christiansm said she thought the commission really represented a cross-section of most
"Women cannot be categorized in a lump, and the commission board isn't either," she said. "We are not a homogeneous group and we represent a lot of different ideas."
Brutus
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certain day of the month, regardless of the market.
By investing in a country that is ruled by universities are supporting humoral actions.
The second argument Brutus stated and refuted was that bookkeeping costs of taking stocks out of South Africa and reinvesting them elsewhere was prohibitive.
Using the University of Massachusetts as an example again, he said the university reported that "it cost us a fair amount, but since we were buying and selling stocks all
ACCORDING TO BRUTUS, the difference was less than 50 cents a bookkeeping entry, and was neither "colossal nor prohibitive."
The third argument Britus refuted was that corporations in South Africa could somehow help the country by providing jobs for blacks, paying better wages than the South African government could, or influencing government policy to bring about change.
According to Brutus, U.S. corporations employ only a small percentage of the
Brutus also called the Sullivan Principles, a policy that suggested hiring guidelines to help heal wounds.
country's blacks and actually pay below the state's declared poverty line.
"The state tells you what it is but there is no compulsion to obey that law." he said.
Brutus said that the United States had to answer for its own conduct, not for the conduct of others. The United States should not impose such a rule out, other countries would move in, he said.
"It will be a very clear signal to the rest of the world," he said.
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