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Wednesday, August 20,1975
University Daily Kansan
Football practice starts; several players missing
Many football players consider two-a-day practices reason for mutiny. But University of Kansas football coach Bud Moore has been a fan of Jayshawk and Jayhawks through three-a-day workouts.
About 160 players, including freshmen and walk-ons, are scheduled for the daily practices in short through Wednesday, as they prepare to play rules. Practice in pads can start after that.
Several faces were missing as the Jayhawks opened fall drills.
Sophomore quarterback Mike Loyd, who was in the running for the starting quarterback, had two touchdowns.
Senior noseguard John Scanlan will give up his final year of eligibility to work as a graduate assistant, after three knee injuries the past year.
Les Barnes, junior defensive end, suffers a slippage in spring practice and is below injured.
Dave Scott, a two-year starter at of defensive tackle, may be in academic trouble. The question of his eligibility won't be answered until classes begin.
Senior running back Calvin Prince, junior running back Darrell Talley and junior split end Mark Dorian have apparently decided to quit.
The Jayhawks got some good news, though, with the return of senior linebacker Jeff Turner. He out last year because of academic trouble, after serving as a backup defensive end on KU's 1973 Liberty Bowl team.
That addition enabled Moore to move senior Rick Kovatch from linebacker to defensive end, where he was a part-time starter last season.
Another important position change saw senior Eddie Lewis return to cornerback
City approves budget, tax rise BY IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
With the exception of distribution of pay increases, the 1978 annual budget for the city was $420 million.
The total budget, which includes $1.45 million of federal revenue-sharing funds, is $13.6 million.
Before approving the budget last week, the Lawrence City Commission on Aug. 5 accepted a $2,666 mill tax increase for the city. A mills is $1 for every $1,000 assessed valuation. The present tax rate is 32.72 mills. With the increase, the tax rate will be 35,386 mills. The tax rate is based upon an annual income of $1,974. 1974. This consists of all personal property, real estate, corporations and utilities.
IN THE BUDGET he proposed that city money be given is a 9 per cent cost of living increase, often called the "city tax."
According to City Manager Buford Watson, inflation is the main cause of the increase. He said an increased cost of living index in the Lawrence area had created a need for additional salary raises to compensate for the inflation.
However, Commissioner Don Binns disagreed with the pay distribution. Binns said employees receiving $30,000 a year would earn $18,000 while those earning $6,000 will only get $49 more annually. He said the system widened the gap between the pay scales. He recommended the lower end of the pay scale to have a higher percentage than the higher end.
At the Aug. 12 city commission meeting Barna made a motion that the budget increases for the department increases for employees making $8,000 a year or less, with the remainder of the pay raise money distributed on a sliding scale among other employees. The motion died for
WATSON SAID THE change could be made later and didn't have to be part of the budget statement. However, if a change is to be considered, it should be made soon.
Watson said reducing the wage increase to employees earning more than $14,000 annually by 1 per cent would save just over $4,000, and increasing the salaries of those earning $8,000 annually by 1 per cent would not about $11,500.
Among other reasons for an increased budget, Watson said, the cost of materials purchased by the city had increased tremendously. Municipal electrical rates are projected to increase, as are the rates for gas, oil and asphalte oils.
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION benefits have continued to rise along with an increase in social security, retirement funnels and fire fighters and other employees. He said.
Watson said the federal government increased the city's costs by requiring it to pay a royalty fee to the city in Act In 1794. Although the act is restrained presently because of an appeal to the Supreme Court, Lawrence has continued to pay time and one-half for overtime as the city continues.
IN ADDITION, he said, the Public Health Department has asked for an increase of $12,000 a year, and a new agreement for computer costs has increased $16,000. The city is also adding more mechanics and workers in the Central Maintenance Garage.
Lawrence is required by law to adopt the budget no later than Aug. 13. It must be filed in the Office of the Treasurer.
Eddie Lewis
In other moves, sophomore Lindsay Mason moved from tight to offensive tackle and junior Roger Hammond went from defensive tackle to offensive tackle. Moore was pleased with Monday's practice.
"It was good considering they were in shorts," he said. "If they were in pads, I have been extremely pleased. We were getting good effort."
Jeff Turner
Another pleasing aspect was the mile run
toright time Monday morning. Moore only said
he'd get up early and take the bus to work.
"I was real pleased with that," Moore said. "In the past they were in pretty good physical condition, they were in."
The Jawahars open the season in KU's Memorial Stadium Sept. 13 against Atlanta.
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to full-time workers going back to part-time positions for the school year," Mills said. "The increase is also partly due to seasonal trends."
He said the unemployment rate in Lawrence stood at 6.2 per cent in June, the highest in the last three years. He said the summer months were always a slow time because employment dropped when school wasn't in session.
Truman Capote and William Shockley are two national figures SUA expects to bring to life in the book.
Tim Rogers, SUA board member in charge of public relations, said new SUA activities for this year would be a plant visit to the airport and the removal of the travel-recreation fair.
Pill Rankin, director of personnel services at KU, said there were very few available jobs for students in his office. He said his office dealt almost solely with civil service positions, which most students can't hold while attending school.
Capote will speak Oct. 20 and Shockley, who received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956 for the development of the transistor, will debate Richard Goldsay, a KU professor who wrote a book to discuss Shockley's view that blacks are genetically inferior to whites.
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SUA has also scheduled a performance by the Oakland Ballet on Oct. 3.
Rogers also said that SUA would plan more small group activities. He said there
would be more bike tours, indoor-outdoor sports tournaments and tours to *Worlds* of Fun and the Royals Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.
SUA has had some financial problems and troubles with performers not appearing, Rogers said. SUA hasn't always been certain there will be a concert until the performers arrive, he said, because the performers have a 30-day option to cancel their contract. This causes problems with arranging advance publicity, he said.
But the student employment center does have job listings specifically designed for students, and Schrag said that she knew who were making inquiries had really just begun.
Some of the activities planned for orientation week by SUA include free dances, free films, a birthday party to celebrate the arrival of Kansas Union and a Ur on Open House.
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