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Wednesdav. Julv23.1975
University Daily Kansan
Vietnamese family second to seek Lawrence refuge
By KELLY SCOTT Kansan Staff Reporter
A U.S. government job and contacts with former American coworkers were two advantages Chieu Duc Vinh had over the thousands of Vietnamese eager to leave Saigon after the fall of the Thien. government.
Vinh, former liaison coordinator for the Defense Attaché's Office in Saigon, left Vietnam on a U.S. C-411 plane en route to the U. protectorate of Guam and, beyond that, to the U. Marine base at Camp Pendleton in Southern California.
At Camp Pendleton, Vinh spoke long distance with Robert Guffin, an American citizen he worked with in the liaison office at Harvard University, former Lawrence Refugee Committee.
Working with the Rev Marion Allen, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Lawrence, Guffin gained interest of the Vinh group in Lawrence. They arrived Monday night.
The Vinh family is the second Vietnamese family to arrive in Lawrence. A week earlier, Ngoe Tho Nguen, his wife, Nghia, and their four children came to Lawrence under the sponsorship of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Siegert, 908 W. 20th Ter.
Vinh, his wife,Nguyen, his six children and his nephew,Hue, are living with John Boulton, assistant professor of wind and percussion, and his family at 1633 Indiana
Although the Lawrence Refuge Committee is actively seeking employment for Vinh and 18-year-old Hue, the family will be supported by private donations for the time being. Maura Piekalkiewicz, a member of the committee said yesterday.
A house at 73 Missouri St. has been rented for the Vinhs. Piekalkiewicz said.
Paul Brottman, associate professor of
Security at the University of Chicago,
security office yesterday to be registered
and to be issued a social security number.
Hue and he hopes to attend the Universi-
tion's annual Security Conference.
Vinh and his family left Saigon April 21. When he reported for work that day, Vinh said, his boss told all the workers in his section to bring their families and as little luggage as possible to the office imminent, where they would begin evacuating.
Vinh said he didn't plan to return to Vietnam until the United States and the new Vietnamese government establish friendly relations.
Vinh worked for the U.S. government in Saigon for 14 years. He said he thought of this country as his "second home," though he had never traveled here.
Lake at Camp Pendleton was bearable, Vinh said. His one complaint was that the cooks at the camp knew nothing about firearms and weapons. Their chop supe was horrible, he said.
Vinh was one of the few refugees who held a job at Pendleton. He worked for the Public Health Service operating in the camp, and had a job offer to stay.
His employment in Lawrence depends on local openings, he said.
"You know of any jobs?" he asked. In their temporary home with John and Carol Boulton, the six Vinh children have contact with the Bouldons' six children.
Mrs. Boulton said the children had picked up a little English in the time they had been
in their house, and had already begun answering the phone.
Pekalkiewicz said the children would attend the Pinkney Elementary School in the fall, where she said she hoped they receive supplementary help in English.
The Vinh and Nguyen families, are the start of what Piekalkiewicz said she hoped would be a substantial Vietnamese community in Lawrence.
The original intent of the Lawrence Refugee Committee was to bring in several families, but there are no immediate plans to sponsor additional families, she said.
She said the committee hoped to have the Vina settled before they brought in another faction.
Piekalkiewicz said the committee had received offers of financial support from the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, the First Church Christian Church and the First Baptist Church.
Piekalkiewicz said she had done extensive work with refugees from Eastern Europe, and had come to know the sense of bewilderment and loss refugees feel.
"We must help them," she said. "The fact of the matter is that there are people here, are they?"
Piekalkiewicz and her husband, Jarasol Piekalkiewicz, professor of political science, originally coordinated the group, but will leave for Poland in August. The Boultons will take over the positions of coordinators of the committee.
Other KU personnel involved in the committee are Brotsman; Edward Erazmus, associate professor of linguistics; Bobby Patton, professor of speech and drama; and Bonnie Patton, director of the Office of Affirmative Action.
By BRUCE SPENCE
Kensan Staff Reporter
As a result of three major U.S.-Soviet grain deals, grain exporters will soon be moving millions of tons of corn, wheat and barley to the Soviet Union, but local grain elevator operators aren't expecting much direct impact here.
Jink Faulker, manager of the Baldwin Grain Co. in Baldwin, said, "It won't be affecting the volume of our business as far as how many bushels we would receive here."
He said that farmers had been taught a lesson from the first U.S.-Soviet grain deal in 1972, which broke shortly after the end of World War II and all of their grain al. barn harvest time.
As a result, hair had to absorb lower prices for their grain while others cleaned up from the resulting soaring prices which the unexpected grain deal initiated,
Since then, farmers have been holding their grain for sale at a later date, he said.
"At least they hold what they don't really mean," he said, the immediate expense," Faulkner said.
This brought about a more orderly market system, he said.
Don Harris, manager of Farmers Elevator Co. of Edura, said that the recent grain deals had helped prices a little, but the increases hadn't been anything substantial.
Local farmers have expressed very little reaction to the grain deal, he said, with most of them considering the amounts in as to small to make much difference.
Grain deals' impact minimal
The three recent grain deals total 8.8 million metric tons of grain as compared to the 19 million metric tons involved in the 1972 U.S.-Soviet sale.
Before the 1972 grain deal, about 90 per cent of the grain was usually sold by harvest time, but since then, about one-half of the crop was grown in a wait-and-see attitude. Harris said.
The results of a survey assessing the disparity of workloads among state Civil Service clerical employees at the University of Georgia will be presented at the Conference and Sciences, will be distributed next week.
The survey was done by a subcommittee of the Steering Committee on Classified Appointments.
Clerical employes to get survey
One member, Charles Kiesler, professor of psychology, said the subcommittee studied classified appointments in order to improve services and to make recommendations on the upgrading of present classified clerical positions.
There will be an open meeting this afternoon at 3:30 in 4002 West Hall to give information about the project.
members an opportunity to comment and
delivered to clinical personnel, Kelsey J.
Brown, Medical Director.
The average pay may expire after occupancy of the office. If you are in a physical condition of particular offices.
The second deals with work processing,
and is mail sorting, typing, filing and
dunplugging.
The third section, people processing, includes reception and phone duties, meetings, student-related activities and personnel management.
The fourth section describes money processing, such as accounting.
The last section deals with miscellaneous duties.
The questionnaire asked employees to indicate which of these duties they performed and the approximate portion of their time spent on each duty.
"We would like to exhaust all possibilities of upgrading the positions, including a study of possible titles for staff other than ones currently in use," Kiesler said.
The basic problem is that there are complicated rules specifying how and when you can execute a rule.
Kiesler is also working on a second subcommittee to study past allocation of clerical employees to various departments, the number and by level of classification.
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"Ever since the first Russian wheat deal, farmers in various wild, farmers have been holding—more crops."
A representative of the Farmers Cooperative Association of Lawrence said its sales didn't directly deal with any of the exporters involved in the grain deals and he had no idea whether any of the grain it sold involved in the U.S. Soviet transactions.
Local farmers aren't much affected by the grain deals and just sell their harvest according to the situation of the local market, the representative said.
Although the Agriculture Department had reported record harvests for this year, the three local grain operators said crop yields would be on par with last year's harvest.
Agriculture department officials have said that the Soviets may buy as much as 10 million metric tons of grain this year. Some industrial sources say the Soviet Union, a country of severe weather in its grain region, may purchase as much as 15 million metric tons.
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz has said that 800 million bushels of wheat would be domestically consumed, with 1.4 billion acres of land and replenishment of depleted stockpiles.
Faulkner said, "We export more grain than we use in this country itself. So unless we have this export market to Russia, or Japan, or India, or wherever, we're just going to produce tables here in the United States, and with that, you're going to get really low prices."
Faulner said if export markets were cut off, farmers would probably go bankrupt because of the skyrocketing equipment and expense costs of recent years.
"The city folks think the farmer has a good deal, but he hasn't been getting nearly as much."
"The farmer wasn't making anything at all until the wheat deals" he said.
Fairaller said that even now with a better market brought on by the exports, farmers still make only about $100 per acre to pay for farminery, fertilizer, seed costs and expenses.
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