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Tuesday, November 3, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Man's best friends can rest in peace at humane society
By STACY FOSTER Special to the Kansan
When Fred Hoffman's 15-year-old dog, Jake, died in January, it was like losing a part of his family.
Hoffman wanted to make sure his beloved pet was buried properly, instead of cremated or just dropped in a hole in the ground.
Hoffman wanted Jake buried in a pet cemetery.
"I live alone, and that dog was everything in the world to me," said Hoffman, a 66-year-old automobile mechanic from Ottawa. "He went everywhere with me."
The nearest pet cemetery is in Ottawa at the Franklin County Humane Society. Burial costs $75 and includes a personalized marker with the pet's name, year of birth and year of death. Granite tombstones also are used to mark graves, but those must be ordered separately through a mortuary.
Hoffman said the burial was worth the price to have his dog in the cemetery. "Jake was family, and when it comes to something like Jake, money was no object," Hoffman said. Hoffman also plans to buy a tombstone for Jake's grave.
Willard Rodgers, Ottawa, also has his dog buried in the cemetery. He and his wife, Dorothy, visit their registered English bulldog, Willard R.C. Own Snake, frequently and sometimes bring flowers for his tombstone.
roodgers also did not think the cost was too high for his dog. "When you have a pet that means so much to you, it doesn't seem like a lot of money." Rodgers said.
Alta Cruces has been the manager of the humane society for 21 years. Mick Jones is the general caretaker. Jones feeds the animals, digs the pets' graves and keeps the one-and-a-half acre cemetery mowed.
Jones says he likes his job, especially when it involves people like Hoffman and Rodgers. "They care more about their pet. They come
and visit their dogs, and then they'll come over and visit with me," Jones said.
The care Jones gives to the cemetery is one of the things that attracted Hoffman.
"Jones does a fine job. That cemetery out there is kept cleaner and nicer than the people's cemetery," Hoffman said. "He was very conscious. When I went out there to bury Jake, Jones suggested we put him in a plastic bag to keep the bugs and worms away."
Hoffman is not the only one who feels strongly about his pet. Cruces said more than 300 pets were buried in the cemetery, including pets from Olathe, Lawrence and Leavenworth. The cemetery has mostly cats and dogs, but there are also graves for two Shetland ponies and a canary.
Humanitarian and animal lover Beatrice Martin Peck founded the Franklin County Humane Society in 1953 and started the pet cemetery at that time.
The humane society reflects Peck's love for animals. At one time, Peck had a swimming pool, complete with a fountain, for dogs at the humane society to play in.
Peck also has six of her dogs under tombstones: Skipper, Boy, Cricket, Lady, Griff and Bambi Peck.
People who bury their pets in a pet cemetery have to care a great deal about animals, and that is specifically why Peck started the cemetery, Cruces said. People like Hoffman and Rodgers want to do everything possible to make sure their pets are well cared for, when they are alive and when they are dead.
Fred Hoffman of Ottawa wipes away a tear at the grave of his dog, Jake, who is buried in a pet cemetery at the Franklin County Humane Society.
Officials vote for right turns
By ELAINE SUNG
Special to the Kansan
The Lawrence Traffic Safety Commission voted unanimously last night to continue allowing right turns at red lights at downtown intersections.
Commission member Christine Isern said some Lawrence citizens then suggested that the commission consider an alternative to increase safety for those who shopped downtown.
Commission members had considered prohibiting right turns on red after citizens raised concern over pedestrian safety at last month's meeting.
"I have a concern to enact measures to create safe pedestrian access and enhance pedestrian safety," Isern said.
But public support for such a measure was not great enough to warrant the ban, members said.
"I haven't seen an outpouring of support," said Tim Miller, commission chairman and lecturer in religious studies at the University of Kansas. "This issue has had publicity and if people really felt strongly about it, they'll let us know. But so far, there has not been that much response."
Miller said the issue had come up before, but the commission had not been able to find a good solution.
"Some people don't like the right turn on red. There is simply a conflict of cars and pedestrians. The jams come when cars have to wait for the light to turn green before they turn, and people are walking straight across." Miller said.
■ announced the completion of a pedestrian/bicycle project application form for area residents.
In other action, the commission:
In order a.d.b.o.c.r.t.
mph speed limit in school zones effective between 7 : 45 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on days that school is in session.
Staff writer
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG
Blue Cross & Blue Shield representatives will give hour-long presentations at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. today at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
University of Kansas employees, who face a new and more expensive state health-care plan, will get a lesson today and tomorrow on their insurance options.
They will also give presentations at the times tomorrow at the Burger King.
care place
Those options are Health Maintenance Organization Kansas and Blue Select.
J. Alan Meier, group consultant for Blue Cross, said yesterday that the presentations would explain the two options available to state employees under the restructured state healthcare plan.
Meier said that under HMO Kansas, employees would select a principal care physician from a list compiled by Blue Cross. If an employee's physician was not on the list, he or she would have to change physicians to get health care coverage.
Blue Select uses that same idea, Meier said, but allows a self-referral option. Under self referral, employees may choose a physician who isn't on the list, but reimbursements from the insurance company would be at a lower rate.
Meier said this year's health plan wasn't complex. "It's just different," he said.
But it's not complexity that University employees are concerned about.
David Lewin, director of personnel services, said several points of the plan, such as an employee participation fee and a 60-day waiting period for new employees, would make the University less attractive to potential employees.
"When all other factors are equal, if you throw in the fact that they won't be covered for another 60 days, that might be the tie breaker," Lewin said.
Lewin also said that Kansans paid more for family health insurance than other states and universities.
"Health insurance is going up nationwide, but our costs are going up more than the national average." Lewin said.
Meier said that family insurance rates had increased because 1987 claims were 20 percent higher than estimated.
Also, Meier said, family insurance rates were increasing because hospitals and doctors were increasing their rates.
He said the claims of retirees, which tend to be greater, were averaged into premiums. That has little effect however, Meier said, because Medicare pays most of those claims.
Watson may get new, costlier copiers
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
The good news is that the 10-year-old, public-use photocopiers at KU libraries may soon be replaced with newer models with enough features to satisfy almost any copy customer.
The bad news is that one of those new features might be a higher price.
Today or tomorrow, a library committee will recommend the purchase of 21 new copiers for the library system, said Nancy Jaeger, assistant to the dean of libraries.
The copiers will be the same as those installed at the law library earlier this year, Jaeger said. They will operate on a card and coin system similar to the law library's, but Jaeger said details on how they
would work hadn't been decided.
The card and coin system will allow customers to either pay cash for each copy they make or purchase credit-type cards that can be used to pay for copies.
Card users at the law library pay an initial fee for the cards, then purchase the amount of copies they need. Users can add value to their cards either by paying at the copier or at the library's desk.
Jaeger also said that the new copiers would be able to reduce copies, enlarge copies and flash instructions on a one-line display screen.
But she said users would have to pay for the new machines. The committee will recommend a price of 10
cents a copy for cash customers and 6 cents a copy for card users, Jaeger said. Canies now cost 5 cents.
Raising prices is necessary for the libraries to purchase the new machines, Jaeger said. The machines are paid for by the money they collect.
"We cannot afford to subsidize the operation." she said.
Sarah Couch, periodicals and reading room supervisor at Watson Library, said card copies would cost less because staff members would spend less time counting money from the machines.
Couch said the new copiers couldn't come too soon. She said she received complaints daily from people who had trouble with the current
machines.
An average of 12,000 copies a month are made on Watson's copiers, she said.
Jaeger said that the report from the committee would have to be approved by the dean of libraries before being sent to the division of purchasing for final approval. The machines could start being installed as soon as December.
The old machines will be traded in as part of the contract, she said.
Jaeger said that she knew people would not be happy with the price hike, but that it was in the library's best interest to keep the price down as low as possible.
Director says halls often harbor illegal pets
Staff writer
By BEN JOHNSTON
Pets may be taboo in University of Kansas residence halls but each year some students harbor their favorite cat or even snake.
The housing office has never allowed students to have pets in their rooms except for fish kept in aquariums.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said pets were not allowed in residence halls because they had sanitation and health problems.
Stoner said that when a pet was
discovered the owner was required to remove the animal, usually in one or two days. But students may get more time if they can convince the housing office they need more time to find a place for the animal. If students refuse to remove the animal from the residence hall, they will be evicted, Stoner said.
He said he didn't think there were many pets in the residence halls. They are easy to spot, he said.
the entire arm schott
Lehman said that the snake's tank
was not hidden and that the snake
was easily visible. If his resident
assistant noticed the snake he never
mentioned it, Lehman said.
more, said he kept a 5-foot-long black rat snake in his Oliver Hall room for the entire fall semester last year.
But Alan Lehman, Newton sopho-
"All the residents who lived on the floor knew about the snake, and laughed about the snake," he said.
Tim Schuler, Morris, III., senior,
said that two years ago he kept a
parakeet in his room at Joseph R.
Pearson Hall.
about the bird because the bird sang every morning." Schuler said. "But he couldn't prove I had the bird. Everyone on the floor knew about the bird."
Roma Tesch, director of the animal shelter at the Lawrence Humane Society, said that about two or three students who said their pets had been removed from the hall by housing officials came to the shelter each year. Tesch said that if the animals were not adopted they would be destroyed.
"I think the resident director knew
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