University Daily Kansan, November 30, 1982
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Adkins
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"In one word, it's a mess," he said. "The Senate has to decide whether it is willing to fund community service organizations. Do we want to be a mini-United Way?"
Adkins also said he was unaware of the future of several committees that were created in part by him.
"There is some bureaucracy to deal with that addressed some important needs this year," he said, citing the newly created dean advisory committees as an example. "But two years from now, I can't guarantee the viability of those bodies."
ADKINS WAS CRITICAL of low student support of University governance bodies. He said that although KU's board had five students, only one student had chosen to sit on the board.
And students are needed on the libraries board particularly now, Adkins said, because it is considering a user fee for all students in addition to regular tuition costs.
"There are committees that are literally begging us for student members." he said. "It's a challenge."
Still, Adkins remains confident.
"I CAN SEE why the perception of Senate as a club is a useful analogy for those on the outside," he said. "But the students elected some leaders that will provide some continuity."
And Adkins' future?
"It will be nice to attend some classes for a change," says Aldkins, the only Harry S. Truman Scholar produced by KU. The Truman Scholarship, given to train students for a career in public service, offers up to $20,000 for both undergraduate and graduate studies.
ADKINS SAID he also hoped to continue planning a short-term course for KU on Wheels, while helping former U.S. Sen. James Pearson with the newly created Pearson Lecture Series. "Of course to give advice to next year's Senate," he said. "But I won't dominate the discussion. My advice will be from just one of many."
Poverty
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visible poverty this winter. I think you are going to see people out on the streets. There are going to be people who freeze this winter if we don't do something."
TWO POSSIBILITIES for help that she cited were low-energy energy assistance and Lifeline rates, which would mean lower rates for residents who use less than a certain amount of gas.
Tim Lewis of the East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corp. estimates that 1,500 Lawrence families will receive low-income energy assistance from the federal government this winter, compared with 1,200 recipients last winter, he said.
That 20 percent increase does not represent the full need, he said, because many more people are buying new cars.
The program's guidelines have been tightened so that many people who need help paying their rent can find them.
The changes included lowering the income guidelines, checking income level for six months instead of three and making sure an applicant is paid monthly on payment on bills in two of the last three months.
LEWIS ESTIMATED that 20 to 25 Lawrence families were unable to have heat last week because they had not paid gas bills from last winter.
He said he knew of one family moving in with friends to keep warm until enough money could be saved.
Thomson said he knew one older woman who was using an electric skillet, a small electric heater and an electric blanket to avoid high gas bills.
"She's not going to turn on the gas," he said. "She says she can't afford it."
Gas users recently were hit with an increase when the Northwest Central Pipeline Co., the major supplier to most gas utilities in Kansas, increased natural gas prices 29 percent.
THE FEDERAL ENERGY Regulatory Commission refused last week to reconsider the
1,000 cubic feet of gas. The 20 percent increase will add about $100 to the annual gas bills of a house.
Thomson said that the poor must mark alternate days on the calendar — one for eating, one for cooking.
But, he said, "I think it's beyond the joking stage."
Pearl Dover, 79, who lives in East Lawrence, has not had to choose between eating and keeping warm, but her winter gas bills are draining her pocketbook, she said.
"It takes every nickel I make to get by," said Dover, who receives $366 a month in Social Security. Her monthly payments for rent and other utilities other than gas total about $200.
Her heat is on now, and she is dreading that next nas bill, she said.
SHE DELAYED turning on her heat this year and she "like to froze."
Susan Beers said that although the poor of Lawrence might have trouble keeping warm this winter, she did not.
Nevertheless, she said, social agencies are considering setting up soup kitchens to make
Thomson said the food pantry at the Salvation Army was well packed, especially after a food drive at the KU-Yugoslavia basketball game netted about 8,000 cans of food.
Despite the availability of food, many people, especially the elderly, would rather skimp on food than swallow their pride and ask for food, the workers say.
THE ELDERLY woman who lived on peach juice and bread lived only two blocks from a church, but neither the church nor the neighborhood organization knew of the woman's plight.
"They often eat dog food." Beers said of some elderly who do not have enough money for food.
Thomson said that although he did not know specific causes of people eating dog food, he had
Dover said she had no trouble keeping food in her kitchen.
"I've got some friends who will bring me stuff," she said.
But, she said, she doesn't like asking the government for help.
"I DON'T ASK nobody for nothing, I try to manage myself. I think the good Lord will prepare a way for you somehow or another."
"I've always worked night and day for everything I ever got," she said. "I always held
Social workers point to the weak economy and rating unemployment when they search for
The October unemployment rate in Douglas County was 4.3 percent, up from 4.0 percent in September.
Ed Mills, director of the Lawrence Job Service Center, said defining and counting the number of discouraged workers would be extremely difficult.
Susan Beers said those figures did not include discouraged workers, those workers who had run out of unemployment benefits and given up hoes of finding a job.
ERNEST DYER, an official from the Social and Rehabilitation Services office in Lawrence said the number of cases at the SRS office was due to a case in the number of discouraged workers.
The SIRS had 55 cases of such aid in October, compared with only 26 cases a year ago October.
Dyer said aid to dependent children of unemployed parents had increased 111 percent.
As of the beginning of November, 412 cases, representing 1,141 people, in Douglas County were receiving aid to dependent children, he said.
"MOST OF THOSE recipients will have one or more children under the age of six," he said. The average household consists of a mother between 18 and 25 and two children.
Food stamps were going to 2,645 people, or 1,057 cases, he said. Students make up only a small part of both the food stamp and ADC figures.
Several of the families receiving aid live in North or East Lawrence, he said.
Besides these types of aid, Dyer said, 172 people were receiving general assistance in the wake of the earthquake.
Under a recent SHS proposal to help resolve the state's fiscal crisis, 110 of those people or 64 million others may be displaced.
THE PROPOSAL, which came under attack from local agencies, was withdrawn last week to be reconsidered, said Robert Harder, state secretary of SRS.
The proposal was slated to take effect Jan. 1, but local agencies would not have been able to take the place of the general assistance, social workers saw.
Susan Beers said that the agencies were structured to handle emergencies and that they would be unable to sustain that aid for a long period.
A story, a statistic or a proposal cannot pretray poverty. Beers said. Poverty is a reality.
"You see it in the faces of the adults — a desperation," she said. "I think you can see it in the children — not adequately fed, adequately clothed, being labeled 'poor' in school."
Thomson said desperation showed itself in many ways.
THERE ARE those who seek help regularly, be said.
"It becomes a game to him," he said. "You have others that come in angry, not so much at them."
There are those who have wrangled with their pride to ask for a handout.
*µ* should to ask for a ladubur:
"You almost break down and cry," Thomson
SUSAN BEERS said, "People are made to be ashamed because they don't have a lot of money."
"We aren't as poverty stricken as New York and Chicago. . . but as far as I'm concerned any poverty in this town is unspeakable. Lawrence should not have poor people."
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