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Wednesday, March 26, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Early Easter
By Staff Photographer DON PIERCE
Bernice Fleming, daughter of Mrs. Bennie Gomiller, Hope Plza, takes a bite of an Easter egg she found at an Easter egg
hunt at South Park Day. The hunt was sponsored by the Big-BrotherBig-Sister program.
More local poor ask aid
By SCOTT HILL Kansan Staff Reporter
The lagging state of the U.S. economy has had a great effect on the number of low-income persons seeking assistance in government officials of local service organizations.
Occee Miller, secretary of Penn House,
say Monday the number of people coming
there for assistance had nearly tripled in 18
months.
In the last six months of 1973, 890 persons requested assistance, she said. But in the first six months of 1974 this number jumped to 1,807. It increased even more, to 2,114 persons, in the last six months of 1974, she said.
Penn House is an organization designed to help poor people solve their problems, Miller said. It informs people about what types of help are available, who to talk to, how to apply for assistance and how to fill out required forms. Penn House also provides a variety of counseling, and emergency supplies of clothing, food and furniture, Miller said.
The number of people seeking assistance at Ballard Community Center in January and February this year has more than said Bobina Steele, assistant director.
The center is a self-help organization designed to help people through crisis situations, she said. It also supplies emergency food and clothing, legal and housing assistance, job referrals and family counseling, she said.
Increased demands also have been felt at the Salvation Army. Longer lines of people have been forming to pick up supplies of food for the Salvation Army Captain Howard Chase said.
Donnis Graham, welfare worker for the Salvation Army, said the number of people helped by the organization has risen from 126 last August to already 350 this month.
At Penn House, there were 27 requests for assistance to obtain welfare and no requests
to obtain Social Security help in the last six months of 1973, Miller said.
However, in the first six months of 1974 there were 77 requests for welfare assistance and seven requests for help to obtain Social Security. In the last six months of 1974, those numbers increased to 85 and 20, respectively. Demands for food and medical supplies also have increased significantly, Miller said.
Steele said there had been an increase in people needing help with eviction notices and with utilities being turned off, in addition to needing supplies of food and propane gas.
"The increase in food demands has been incredible." she said.
Many people who didn't have serious economic problems last year simply can't survive this year without some assistance, Miller said.
"People with a low income but who weren't poverty stricken and were getting by last year can't make it this year with the same income," she said.
A person's source of income sometimes can be eliminated, Miller said. A person who works at old jobs, such as light hauling, would be without a source of income if his car or truck were repossessed, she s. d.
Steele said many people had been affected by lavoffs this year.
"These people don't have much money in savings accounts," she said, and this is why she's so worried.
Graham said a few of the people laid off were professionals who didn't know how to use new technology, and were people from out of town who thought there would be more job opportunities in London.
Bugt counseling is a service often sought by people visiting Penn House, Mouse.
"Recently, people have been coming to us for budget counseling and their bills are greater than their incomes," she said. "They aren't spending their money on
extravagancies but just on basic in this case, there isn't much we can do.**
Penn House has received funding for its basic overhead from the United Fund for the past two years, Miller said. In the first year they received $3,500 and in second year received $5,000. The money has been equate to cover Penn House's costs, she said.
Emergency supplies such as food and clothing come completely from donations, Miller said, and have increased in the past year. This wasn't as a result of any adverse events, because community members were more aware of the problems facing poor people.
The Ballard Community Center also
and from private contributions,
includes a United Fund and from
"Easter comes from an ancient spring fertility rite," Cook said. "It's tied into spring because of its resurrection theme, of birth again of life on earth."
a symbol of rebirth, according to Janzen. Like the scarab, to the Egyptians, eggs are usually found in fertility by Christians, according to Albert Cottage, associate professor of English.
Most sources don't say why the rabbit and egg symbols have been combined into one popular theme, that of the Easter Bunny or eggs to children on Easter morning.
According to a German legend, a poor woman during a famine dyed and hid some eggs as an Easter gift for her children. When the children discovered the nest of eggs, the legend says, a large rabbit jumped out of it and ran away.
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Whatever the explanation for the com-
munication of symbols, both signs of Easter
are used in the same way.
Cook suggested a different theorv.
Lawrence elementary school pupils proved their devotion to the Easter Bunny on Tuesday when they participated in an art contest. Mr. Lawrence' big Brother-Big Sister program.
Big Brother-Big Sister is a volunteer program sponsored by Volunteer Clearing Association, University's Young Men and Women's Christian Association (YMCA and YWCA).
Easter ...
Students in the program sponsor underprivileged children, according to Jeff Smith, student coordinator of Big BrotherBig Sister. He said most of the children in the program were either without a mother or without a father.
THE HUNT, at South Park on Massachusetts, didn't last long. Within about 15 minutes, all the eggs that Smith used in the experiment were absorbed by the nearly 30 children in the hunt.
One frustrated young hunter had rounded up only one egg after 10 minutes of fervent searching. Would he be able to find any more?
"Of course I will," he said indignantly, and ran off to continue looking. He did find
When it was over, Marketa Mace, Cordy third-garder, had gathered the most eggs, 17. Eating part of her gathering, she said she knew where all the eggs had come
He and the rest combed the entire South Park lawn, examining the base of every tree and peeking beneath every bush in search of the hard-boiled eggs.
"THE EASTER BUNNY came to Lawrence and layed them," she said.
Most of her competitors agreed with her except for one young agnostic, Wendy King, Woodlaim fifth-grader. She said she knew the truth about the eggs.
"Jeff Smith layed them," she said.
Another theory for an age-old question.
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