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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, July 18, 1975
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Food stamps issued through mail; office can't handle crowd BY BRUCE SPENCE
By BRUCE SPENCE Kansan Staff Reporter
Food stamp recipients of Douglas County are now receiving stamps by mail from Topeka rather than from the local welfare office.
The new policy, effective this month, was initiated to relieve accommodation problems of people coming in to purchase food stamps, John Derrick, director of the Douglas County Welfare Office, said yesterday.
Recipients must still meet the same eligibility requirements to receive food stamps, Derrick said, but will purchase the stamps directly from the Topeka central office of the Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services.
Although food stamp distribution is administered through the welfare department, Derrick said, it is done so as a sideline affair for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the no extra employees were added to handle the load.
The food stamps, he said, had been issued on the first two working days after the fifth day of each month and again for one-half day in the middle of the month.
"The problem was everybody wanted to come in and buy the food stamps the first day we sold them, and there was no way of distributing them all," Derrick said. "We just couldn't accommodate that many people in one day's time."
He said the department had tried to think of other methods of distribution, such as dividing the two and one-half days accounts by month. He decided the mail issuance would be best.
He said most of the districts in the state were with the central office mail issuance system.
The stamp distribution problem wasn't
presented by the Douglas County office,
Derrick said.
"The big offices like Wichita, Kansas City and Topeka were in even worse shape than we were because the same thing happened with ours," he said.
A representative of the food program section of the Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services in Topeka, which handles the mail issuance, that said all the Kansas welfare districts will have turned any sales to the Topeka office by October.
The new system will also alleviate problems with parking and transportation to and from the Douglas County Welfare Office, Derrick said.
He said that since two and one-half days each month were allocated to food stamp sales, the new policy will give his office the power to deal with other duties and obligations.
Workshops to discuss woman-related issues
International Women's Year Workshop Day, a day-long program of workshops discussing woman-related projects and issues, is "by" for and about what women in the company are doing," Kathy Hoggard, director of the center, said yesterday.
The program, which will be Saturday at the Lawrence Community Building at 11th and Vermont streets, will provide five sessions of workshops featuring women speakers who will talk on issues peculiar to women.
After an 8:30 a.m. registration period, a session will begin at 9 a.m., in which Carol McDowell, lobbyist for both the Kansas Women's Political Caucus and the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association, will speak on lobbying for women's issues.
Marlene Mawson, assistant professor of physical education, will discuss the influence of Title IX on physical education during the first session.
Hogard said Mawson would tell women to attend school and educate programs for their daughters.
Linda Robinson, assistant dean of women, will speak about black feminism, and member of the Health Group Will promote health problems peculiar to women. Hoggard said.
At the 10:30 a.m. session, McDowell will common a communication argument against the Equity Right Amendment. A workshop on photography and a workshop concerning problems of art.
The 1:30 p.m. session will feature Donna tnitsis, an instructor at Avila College, who will teach the course in person.
Hogard said Reis would discuss "What is neurotic? If all men have behavior neurotic? How can you tell?"
The 1:30 p.m. workshop will also feature a talk by Marsha Palauad, director of the Lawrence Arts Center and the Lawrence Museum, with her focus on "Recycling Your Fraziles." There will also be a discussion by members of the Kansans for the Improvement of Nursing Homes, and a talk on socialist feminism sponsored by the Kansas City Women's Liberation Union.
The 3:00 p.m. workshop will offer a session on rape, sexual assault and self defense, in which basic defense methods will be deminstrated.
Kala Strop, dean of women, will present a talk, "Women and Assertiveness," which Hoggard said would discuss the differences between assertiveness and pushiness.
Bonnie Patton, director of Affirmative
How Affirmative? What Action? Why?
How Affirmative? What Action? Why?
At the 4:30 p.m. workshop, Deb Holmes, Lawrence elementary school teacher, will speak on what parents can expect for nonsexist teaching of their children.
A woman medical student and two women physicians, who Hoggard described as "resource people on women's health issues," will present a program on women medical care. There will also be a program entitled "Sexuality and Political Action."
The program was planned by a group of non-affiliated Lawrence women and is being sponsored by 12 local organizations and merchants.
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