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Wednesday, September 3, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Cashing checks difficult
By SHEILA JONES Staff Writer
Staff Writer
Students with out-of-town checking accounts will have some problems cashing checks, but most Lawrence businesses will accent them for merchandise.
The county attorney's office recommends that local merchants refuse out-of-town purchases of products sold by the attorney, said last week. He said he realized it was difficult for merchants to refuse checks but bad checks from out-of-town were more difficult to prosecute than were checks from the city.
Berkwitz said that if an account was closed or never existed, his office would have to subpoena someone from that bank for verification of the closed account and bring them to Lawrence as prosecutor's evidence.
Berkwitz who he depended on out-of-county shirrs to serve Kansas subpoenas. However, out-of-state shirrs wouldn't necessarily have to honor subpoenaes, he said.
THE COUNTY ATTORNEY'S office has a new system to deal with bad checks, Berkowitz said. Previously, bad checks went to the sheriff's office but his office now had an investigator, Frances Kennedy, who was part of her time tracing bad checks, he said.
An easy place for students to check cash is the Kansas Union, which recently added two banking banks in its main lobby. The Union will have a third bank in its business office for special check-cashing problems, and it will be able to handle orders. In the main lobby, students may cash checks for as much as $25 by paying a 10-cent charge.
Local grocers have different policies on out-of-town checks. Keith Lucas, manager of Dillon's, 1740 Massachusetts St., said part of the change was that bad had become a banking facility by cashing checks for more than the amount of purchase.
WITHLOCAL CHECKS, Lucas said, he could check with the bank's bookkeepers to determine whether there were sufficient funds. Lucas said his store's policy was to refuse to cut out-of-town checks for more money and purchase when he wasn't in the store.
Lucas said Dillon's was working on a new system with Capitol Federal Savings and Loan Association of Topeka. Capitol Federal would guarantee payment if the customer had a savings account with the bank, he said.
When a customer carries a Capitol Federal cardseh, he can write a check for as much as $300, from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. A computer at Dillon's processes the information from the customer's card and relays the information to the bank clerk to determine whether there are sufficient funds, Lucas said.
JOE OBERZAN, vice-president and branch manager at Capitol Federal, 1049 Vermont St., said a customer could make the check withdraw from his checking or so-called account, the customer also could to Dillon's to make a deposit in a Capitol Federal savings account.
Mary Waymire, office manager of Waymire Grocers, Ninth and New Hampshire streets, said the store offered check cashing cards if customers wanted to cash checks for more than the amount of purchase.
Waymire the store refused to cash out-of-state checks without the card. The card is a method of getting a customer's credit rating from his bank.
John Hartwig, manager of Super-X Drifts, 1015 W. 23rd St., said his store almost always honored out-of-town checks. He said that if a customer had sufficient identification and preprinted checks or if the customer knew someone in the store, the
store generally would cash the check. However, he said, at the end of a semester, the store will cut down on the checks it will accept and increase the number of bad checks became harder to trace.
LOCAL BANKS usually take student checks but they charge a fee for casting the checks when the customer doesn't have an account at the bank.
Kurt Watson, installment loans officer at Douglas County State Bank, said the decision to cash a check from out-of-town was up to the individual teller. He said the charges 50 cents for each check up to $100 and additional 50 cents for each additional $100.
Beth Mueller, assistant cashier and head teller at University State Bank, said the bank would cash checks for students with current registration cards. She said the fee was one per cent of the check's amount, with a maximum charge of $1.
Parents to invade campus on annual Parents Day
Most students will stop their weekend desertion of the University of Kansas on December 13, to show off the campus to their folks during KU's annual Parents Day.
Parents Day will be marked by department open houses, walking tours of the campus, special meals served at all campus games and the first football game of the season.
Because Parents Day is earlier than usual this year, Kala Stroop, dean of women and chairman of the Parents Day committee, said she encouraged all students to inform their parents soon about the activities planned.
The Kansas Union will open its food services on Parents Day, including the Jayhawk Buffet, which will be open from 1 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will cost $2.25 a person.
The residence halls will be serving their traditional free picnic lunch buffets. Praterities and sororities will also be offering game-day meals for parents and alumni.
Parents Day nametags, walking tour guides of the campus and listings of open facilities and departments will be available at the Union, Numeraker Center and all other group said, to accommodate parents who park in various parts of the campus.
Faculty members have been encouraged to invite parents to their offices, and all schools and departments have been asked to have open houses for parents. Stuart said that a parent would be available until next week, but that the list would be available to parents on Sept. 13.
Nunemaker Center will be open for all freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and some faculty available to meet with parents at the Union.
The Museum of Art's permanent collection will be augmented by special exhibits which include an exhibition on the art of Indian baskets in North America, an exhibit on contemporary prints and drawings from the University's collection, an exhibit on folk art by Dave Woods and a special demonstration of Indian weaving and basketry.
Nichols Hall, which houses space-related studies, will be open for tours between 9:30 and 10:45 a.m.
The Kanaa Geological Survey, which is in Moore Hall will address from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon and be audited tours.
The Lindley Hall observatory will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 13, and telescopes will be available after dark on Sept. 12.
Spencer Library, which is exhibiting a display of 19th century books, and the Museum of Natural history will be open all day on Parents Day.
Most parents have heard about '2 p.m. Day through a newsletter sent out with a special invitation from Charlotte Archie Dykes. Parents can mail to KU a coupon contained in the newsletter requesting information on how and Washington State, which will begin at 1:30 p.m. These tickets will be held for parents who requested them.
This fall, intramural football players will be using new fields at the northeast corner of 23rd and Iowa streets instead of the Robinson fields.
By RACHEL CASE
Mail Writer
Tom Wilkerson, recreation coordinator,
said yesterday that the University of
Kansas Buildings and Grounds Department
is preparing five new football fields.
New intramural fields built
"One of the five fields will be used for field hockey as well as for intramural football," he said. "The soccer team will continue to play on the same field it has been using. Next spring, however, they will move to the field east of their present field and the rugby team will move to the soccer team's field."
Al Thomas, University landscape architect, said the development of the site actually began in 1986. Plans for the athletic fields were drawn up and rough grading, seeding, and sodding were done, Thomas said, but no soaks or backstones were put in.
Wilkerson said the land was designated for the intramural department's use by the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Wayne Ossen, chairman of the department of health, physical education and recreation at Penn State, said athletic fields hadn't been used since 1968 because the grade of the land was deteriorated.
"The fields were very rough and we were afraid that someone might sprain an ankle
Until this year, the department didn't have the funds to develop the fields, he said.
Treasurers taught money dispatching
The Senate is conducting training sessions to instruct the treasurers about the rules and paperwork involved in dispatching money to each organization. The sessions began last week and will continue through Friday.
Treasurers from University organization, and Sina Shah in Iran, might how to get their money.
John House, Senate treasurer, said yesterday that the training sessions were conducted every semester and during the summer. At these sessions, all the information about the procedure for dispatching funds was explained to him once time, House said rather than to individual treasures at different times.
He said it was necessary that all senate members of the Senate's rules for disbaiting funds
"The combined efforts of the Student Senate, the executive vice chancellor's office, John Beisman (last year's student body president) and the Intramural Committee of the Senate enabled us to attain some of the necessary improvements," be said.
The funds, Ossess said, are being used for rolling, reseeding and parking areas.
"If they don't follow the rules," House
they have to pay out of their own
pockets.
"Eventually we want to put up a fence to keep people from parking or driving on the road."
Wilkerson said construction on the Robinson fields and the expansion of programs offered by the department had caused the need for the west camus fields.
"The new computer center will be located directly north of Waltiness Hospital," he said. "Robinson II will be constructed directly south." This leaves us with very few fields."
Wilkerson said that the football field being built for a stadium because of two large steam stuts is
which extend 12 to 18 inches out of the ground in the field's end zones.
Osmess said the department didn't use the west campus fields because the present Robinson fields had been adequate and because department funding had been insufficient for supervision at both the Robinson and west campus fields.
Wilkerson said there would be some problems with using those fields this year.
Until we can have a permanent building constructed, we'll have to take our equipment back and forth to the new fields." he continued. "We also want to charge of transporting this equipment."
Eventually we plan to move some of our offices to the old schoolhouse at the corner of 23rd and Iowa, Wilkerson said. The new building is occupied by the entomology department.
After its completion the west campus will be the sports complex of the University, he said. Plane call for 12 football fields, several stadiums and a field area with a pavilion and barbecue pit.
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