University Daily Kansan, September 3, 1982
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Tourism bureau budget rises
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
John Myers, director of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau, is bullish on Lawrence.
“There’s a certain amount of pride in every community, but it’s rampant in Lawrence,” he said. “I really love him and his unique. I really think Lawrence is.”
The Lawrence City Commission decided last week to increase the bureau's budget from $50,000 to $60,000, because receipts from the city's transient guest tax have increased.
That increase came partly because the Holiday Inn Holdem opened recently, increasing the amount of money collected through the 2-percent tax on those staying in Lawrence motels.
The city first started collecting the tax in April 1800, Myers said. The city contracted with the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce in August 1800 to operate a convention and visitors bureau he said.
The decision to open such a bureau was a good one. Myers said.
"Lawrence is a far-sighted community," he said. "It's far-sighted in a lot of ways, and this is probably an example."
The bureau operates on money collected through the transient guest
tax. The bureau's budget for this year was originally $50,000, but the commission approved the budget increase and reduced the cost for the rest of the year were available.
"We're guessing that the total increase is going to be $10,000, and certainly a good part of that is the Holidone," he said.
Honorable the Holidome is bringing business to Lawrence that never has been here before. Myers said.
"We expect that the impact is going to grow substantially," he said. "That doesn't happen overnight. Many conventions don't book for next month, they book for several years ahead of time."
Large conventions spill over into other motels, he said, because though the Holidome has a great deal of meeting space, it does not have enough motel rooms to accommodate everyone.
The 188 hotel rooms the Holidone has brought to Lawrence often are occupied even when a convention is not in town.
"In a college town on a football weekend, that's very important," he said.
Myers said the bureau wanted to do everything it could to help bring those conventions and those people — and their money — to Lawrence.
"It's not crass," he said, "it's an economic business."
Travel-generated business brings about $40 million into the Douglas County economy, he said. Such business includes not only money spent by retailers on property taxes in retail stores, restaurants and gas stations.
"Those dollars roll back through the community three, four and five times," he said. "That money isn't spent just once."
"If one place is going to be hospitable and helpful and the other one isn't, it's not going to be very hard to figure, out where to go," he said.
A friendly reception in those businesses and by the bureau will help bring those people back to Lawrence encourage others to visit, Myers said.
toigate but no improvement. Being helpful does pay off, Myers said, and in more than strict economic terms.
"We do those things for the economic bottom line, but the fringe benefits are great for a community," he said. "You just can't lose."
Most Lawrence businesses still would be operating if tourism did not bring money into the local economy, but they would rather to grow because of tourism, he said.
"Because of travel, we have more restaurants, more kinds of retail services and other essential services that we provide to travelers are also provided to local people."
State revenues lower than expected despite KU's, Carlin's budget cuts
TOPEKA—The amount of money that flowed into state coffers in July and August fell $8.4 million short of the predicted amount, the Legislative Research Department told lawmakers yesterday.
The preliminary figures showed that revenue in the general fund fell 2.9 percent below the estimate for July and exceeded the first two months of fiscal year 1983.
State Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood,
said the state's revenue picture was
serious but stable.
"The best way probably to get more receipts is really to get the economy turned around, to get interest rates lowered, and to get people to have a better credit rating again, and we'll get back on a good growth pattern." Hayden said.
When original revenue estimates were made, state officials counted on a growth rate of 14.3 percent over fiscal year 1982's income. But the dismal shape of the economy has resulted in a slower growth rate.
But the amount taken in during the past two months was only 4 percent higher than in July and August of 1981. If that growth rate continues, researchers said, state revenue could drop into the hole by December.
money was dropping to dangerous lows. Gov. John Carlin immediately asked that state agencies slice their budgets by 4 percent.
Earlier in the year, state officials learned that Kansas' reserve supply of
University of Kansas administrators cut their budget by 4.3 percent this year to comply with the governor's request, to put KU $1.7 million for this fiscal year.
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Professor studies eating habits
By VICKY WILT Staff Reporter
The Irwin Youngberg Award will help a University of Kansas Medical Center nutritionist study a study that will link food intake to social performance.
Norge Jerome, professor of community health and director of the division of community nutrition at the Med Center, enthusiastically explained her reaction when she learned she was a recipient of one of the Higuchi Awards.
"I just shouted. I was so pleased," she said. "It is one thing to be picked for an honor by administrators, and something else, something that really makes you feel tall, when you are selected among people who were nominated by your own colleagues, because they can be tough." she said
Her award for research achievement in applied sciences was one of four Higuchi Awards presented to researchers at the opening Convocation by Chancellor Gene A. Budig. They each received a $10,000 cash grant.
Jerome will use her grant to complete a study of dietary patterns what people use and how food intake varies in different cultures. This class community in Kansas City, Kan.
Her research is practical, she said,
because it will show what people need
to know to improve themselves.
"People are qualified to make their own decisions. They just need a little push in the right direction," she said. "My professional goal is to find out what that little bit is so they can help themselves."
She began the study in 1969 as a way of learning how people organize their life around food, and spent two years collecting data from 150 households. She also conducted research that returned to the same people to collect the same data.
Now, she said, she will analyze the patterns and compile the data into a book that will show the changes.
"I think it is very important that in Kansas City we have been, and will continue to, add to the body of knowledge on how food habits are formed and how they change," she said.
Researchers have done this type of study in remote areas of the world, she said, but no one has done a study in the United States or an urbanized society.
She said most researchers had looked upon eating habits as fixed and unvarying, but her study hoped to prove that they were dynamic.
"I have done a lot of pioneering work on how to more accurately measure food intake and to look at food intake in relation to lifestyle," Jerome said.
To increase general knowledge about functional aspects of nutrition, she will begin work on a research project on pregnancy and function later this month in Egypt.
She is one of seven principal investigators working on a $2 million project for the US.
for International Development, which is part of the State Department Office of Nutrition.
They will be studying food intake in connection with work performance. Nutritionists can make recommendations on what to eat, but they do not know what effect it has on body function, she said.
"When I deal with a patient in the future on results from this study, I will be able to give people more definitive advice and with are what people want." Jerome said.
Another goal is to help these countries develop themselves, she said. Much of the award will go toward creating a foundation of science and research capabilities.
One of the goals of the project is to reshape international food and nutrition policies in Third World countries, she said.
The project will take her to Egypt at least once a month for the next five years. She said she hoped to see KU medical students go along on some of the main experience in medical work with underdeveloped countries.
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