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Wednesday. September 3, 1975
University Dally Kansan
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Too high
Darrel Proffitt, Neodesha, Kan, sophomore, goes after a high one during a round of frisbee in front of Oliver Hall.
Area health services reorganized
Bv THERESE MENDENHALL
Staff Writer
Health services in Kansas will gain professional planning and added government bureaucracy when a reorganization of health service areas becomes effective in health.
The reorganization will replace the system of many small health planning councils with four large health service areas.
The biggest benefit of the reorganization is the provision of federal money for planning of health services, Tenate Oldfather, a Lawrence representative to the committee that is forming the health systems agency for this area, said yesterday.
DOUGLAS COUNTY, previously one of five counties in the Capital Area Health Planning Council, will be one of 26 counties in the Northeast Kansas Health Systems Agency.
Dennis Hawver, health planning consultant in the office of comprehensive health planning of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said yesterday that the Northeast Kansas Health Services Agency would become a legal entity within the county.
He said the agency's incorporation by the members of the stetting committee.
Oldfather, who is also a member of the Capital Area Health Planning Council, said he would have to receive 50 cents a year for each resident of the area. She said the 500,000 residents of northeast Kansas would bring the agency into focus and provide a federal money for health services planning.
with the Kansas Secretary of State this week.
THE MONEY will allow the agency to hire a competent staff, Oldfather said. She said a paid staff would evaluate the needs of students who need care from the volunteers under the old system.
Another advantage of the new system, Oldfather said, is that each area has at least one major medical facility, whereas some areas have no such areas under the present system have none.
"As it is now we have to use planners who may be prejudiced in one way or another,"
The reorganization of Kansas health services is being implemented to fulfill federal requirements set down in the Act and Resources Development Act of 1974.
Oldfather said a disadvantage of the reorganization was the larger bureaucracy with which local planners would have to deal. The old law providing for planning to be done within the smaller health planning councils was passed in 1968.
"I REALLY FEEL that it's just been in the last year that we've known what we were doing on that. So, in a way, we are starting all over again," she said.
One way the agency may cope with the larger area is by forming sub-area councils, Oldfather said. The northeast Kansas health service area is composed of five health planning councils and three additional counties.
A problem the steering committee is trying to solve, Oldfather said, is that of how to organize the agency. Federal regulations permit the agencies to be guided by either a 25-member executive committee in conjunction with a large board of directors or simply a 30-member executive committee. The organization is also available for hiring the executive director, and the staff, and will meet about four times a year, Oldfather said.
Olifather said the sub-area councils of the new health services area might be similar to the old health planning councils or might be based on the basis of population or geography.
SHE SAID the steering committee was considering choosing the 30-member executive committee, although the decision hadn't been made.
Federal regulations require the governing body of the agency to be composed of 50 to 60 per cent consumers of medical services and the rest providers. Oldfather said
Blimps loom big in future skies
Kansas would probably be in the durable industry because it contains the world's largest source of helium, and has a strong presence of small aircraft industries, Roskam said.
Rosakam said dirigibles the size of the ocean line Queen Mary could play a vital role in the war.
Huge dirigibles may return to the skies within the next 10 years as passenger and freight carriers, Jan Roskam, professor of aerospace engineering, said yesterday.
AN EXPORT RESTRICTION on United States helium has existed since World War I. Building of dirigibles since the mid 1900's has taken place solely in the United States because the Midwest was the only area where helium could be produced, he said.
Airships could transport the enormous structures necessary for the building of nuclear energy plants Roskam said. These ships will be used to transport components and shipped by trucks. With the
Roskam said he envisioned an efficient passenger transportation system through the development of a network of dirigibles across the nation. He said the airships would be powered and could be powered with nuclear fuel which would be replaced once every 10 years.
Transportation to and from the airship, or transferrals to a different route, would be done by small aircraft that would take off and land on the dirigible, he said. Roskam said that this would be possible with present technology.
large hangars required for the dirigible,be said
A MAJOR PROBLEM with the dirigible is the ability to control such a large aircraft, he said. However, he said, the solution was within the arcs of current technology.
the regulations required that various economic groups, racial groups and kinds of providers (such as nurses and social workers) be represented.
energy shortage and the need for massive building of nuclear energy plants, he said.
ALTHOUGH THE NEW system of health planning areas went into effect Aug. 1, the old system was planned for June and will be deployed in December. Mr. William Hope, deputy regional health administrator for the Kansas City city regional office of the Department of Health, Education and Human Services, will lead it.
Small dirigibles were used in World War I in a variety of ways. Military installations were protected by a balloon form of the blimp which connected to the ground by long steel cables. These blimps would then be placed in a circle around the installation, and were high enough to prevent enemy planes from flying close enough to fire.
Ogifather said the health planning councils had been asked to continue their legal functions until the new agencies were organized.
The steering committee will meet again Sept. 25 in Topeka.
Several frats rip co-op
Stroup interns for chancellor
Stroup, an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow in Academic Administration, is interning for Chancellor Archie Dykes.
"My objective is to become totally immersed in the administration of the University," Stroup said last week. Stroup, who will also work with Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, will serve a year in the chancellor's office as an intern.
NASA HAS EMPLOYED Goodyear and Boeing to study the feasibility of dirigibles; the conclusions will be presented in December, Roskam said.
Kala Mays Stroup, University of Kansas dean of women on leave, is working as an intern now. But her internship hasn't forced her to leave KU.
"I have already attended meetings dealing with just about everything," Stroup said. "I'm exploring all phases of the university, and I know the great complexity of the University."
Staff Writer
By DAVID BARCALAY
McKernan said that he expected GMI's volume of business this year to be much
Last year the cooperative handled almost a quarter of a million dollars worth of goods for fraternities, Rick McKernan, director of GML said.
THE COOPERATIVE provides deliveries three times a week from its warehouse in Lawrence and attempts to provide emergency supplies on the day they are
Members are required to pay each month's bill in advance in the form of a good budget deposit. New members must pay $250 to join the cooperative.
In the past, member houses were
Although several members of Greek Management Inc. (GMI), a food and cleaning supplies cooperative, say their organization is providing excellent service, several fraternities say the cooperative is too risky to join.
Two housemothers in non-member houses, Beta Theta Pi and Phi Kappa Sigma, said recently that they had good relations with local merchants and could almost match GMI's reduced rates by buyspecials and bargains.
SEVERAL HOUSEMOTHERS of fraternities and sororites refused to comment on why their houses hadn't joined the cooperative.
The ACE program requires Stroup to write position and analytical papers on important questions in university ad- dictionaries, attend four one-week seminars, she said.
GMI buys food, cleaning supplies and paper from wholesale vendors and sells them at reduced rates to six fraternities, the Evans Center and the Evans Scholarship Hall.
In addition, Stroup has received a 25-page list of recommended readings from ACE.
After December, Congress will decide whether to continue research on the dirigible, Roskam said. He said the debate in Congress was a "political football" with railroad and aircraft industries vying for Congressional appropriations.
"My experience so far has definitely been great. I will have a good year will mark me a better administrator."
required to pay a two-month food budget deposit—one for working capital for GMI and one as a deposit held until the last month of the year, and used for the last month's food and supplies.
Rokam said that development of airships would increase the magnitude of the supersonic transport (SST). He estimated the cost of a drightle balloon, million and the cost of a Boeing 747 aviation plane.
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Additional problems would be the extensive research to define the new Federal Airworthiness Regulations necessary for the introduction of a new aircraft and the
Since then, the cooperative's membership has dropped from 11 fraternities to six. No seoiritories have ever belonged to the cooperative.
When the cooperative began operating in August 1974, it had problems with meeting delivery deadlines, improper billing and high meat prices.
"The COOPERATIVE had kind of a shakeen start, but we're over those problems now." Mark Pennington, president of the co-op, said. "We just have to convince people of that."
GMI can provide goods to its members for per cent less than they can be purchased. MIMI will help
BUT THE BOARDS of directors of several fraternal and sororites chose to join the Society.
because they believed it was unstable and needed more organization.
The problems GMI has now are the same as before. In 2016, we sold food encounters, Mkernan said, and sells
Pennington said he thought GMTI's comparative price research would convince non-member houses of the savings to be gained by joining the cooperative.
Although GMI has temporarily dealt with the problem of high meat prices by not supplying milk, McKernan said he thought it was a good idea to attempt to sell meat again in the future.
The housemothers of member houses said they had experienced no delivery problems so far this semester and were very pleased with GMI's service.
Ima Jean Detrich, the housemother at Delta Tau Delta, a GMI member, said "if the houses would really stick together, we would have really tremendous buying power. I think it's about time we get done on this campus about high prices."
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Sandy Rush, housemother at Phil Dhi
beta, another GMI member, said the
company is considering a merger.
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McKernan said that he hoped to eventually expand the services of GMI to provide financial audits for houses and direct savings to individual members in the community. There are possible areas of savings include tires, stereos, stationery and other items.
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