KU
THE SUMMER SESSION kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
WEATHER WARMER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
77th Year, SSK No.10
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Tuesday, July 18, 1967
Check cashing tightens
By RITA HAUGH
A six-point check-cashing policy adopted Thursday by major Lawrence supermarket operators will make it tougher for students to cash checks.
The operators met during a meeting of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
Keith Lucas, manager of Dillon's at 18th and Massachusetts, said Kansas Dillon's stores lost $45,773 last year.
Rusty Springer, who owns and operates three stores in Lawrence, said he lost $3,841 from uncollected checks between June 1966 and June 1967. An average of 100 checks a week are returned to his stores, he said.
Representatives from supermarkets, the sheriff's office, the FBI and the Chamber of Commerce plan to meet again in several weeks to adopt a city-wide check policy among supermarkets.
The six-point policy, differing slightly from store to store, includes:
- Universal and scratched checks will no longer be accepted. (A new Federal Reserve bank regulation requires this, beginning Sept. 1.)
- No checks from out-of-area banks will be cashed.
- No second-party checks will be cashed.
- Checks must be endorsed in presence of store personnel.
- Checks for more than the amount of the purchase must be approved by the store or department manager.
- Full identification is required. (More than one piece of identification, preferably about three or four, must be shown to supermarket employees.)
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THIS MUSHROOM HAS TO GO AND GO NOW
Photo by David Gump
Although plans call for Haworth Hall to be torn down soon the mushroom that was found growing in the stairwell had to be removed now. These pictures were taken late last week.
WEATHER
KU girl becomes 'mother'
Cloudy and a little warmer today with southerly winds is forecast by the U.S. Weather Bureau. Partly cloudy today. High today around 80. Low tonight 60 to 65. Probability of rain 10 per cent today.
By NORMA ROMANO
An unwed mother? Nothing unusual, at least that unusual. But a "mother" of a 12-year-old at 22?
That is exactly the status of Lynn Scott, Omaha senior, Lynn became the "mother" of Dragna Fereira, a 12-year-old girl from Bolivia, on Nov. 28.
By now she feels so close to
Dragma, the girl she adopted through the Christian Children's Fund in Richmond, Va., that she doesn't mind the title.
IT WAS some months ago that Lynn decided to adopt the child.
"I was glancing at a magazine when I came upon the picture of a six-year-old girl from Calcutta. The ad said in a rather dramatic way that she did not know either
her parents or where her meals or clothes would come from." Lynn said. "It suddenly struck me. The contrast with the life I have been leading here was too great. I decided to adopt a child."
Making such a decision, she confesses, was hard.
Car sticker vote Aug. 8
Students may pay city tax
By MIKE MITCHELL
KU students will pay a $10 city car tax during enrollment if a Lawrence ordinance passes in an election Aug. 8. Registration for the election ends at 9 p.m. today.
The ordinance, made possible by a state law which went into effect July 1, would require everyone who leaves his car in Lawrence overnight to buy a
Concert Thursday
Skitch Henderson will join Doc Severinsen and Robert Rosengarden in a concert at 8 p.m. Thursday in Hoch Auditorium.
Commuters, vehicles engaged in interstate commerce and state-owned vehicles are exempt.
city car sticker. The state law limits the tax to $10.
Motorcycles and scooters also will be taxed.
Wells said persons charged with violating the ordinance must show they are not city residents or do not leave their cars in Lawrence overnight.
KEITH LAWTON, vice chancellor for operations, said it would be more convenient for students to buy the city stickers in the Union during enrollment than at City Hall, if the ordinance passes.
The ordinance would cost KU students and faculty more than $150,000; more than 15,000 cars were registered at KU last spring.
Ray Wells, Lawrence City manager, said money from the $10 tax would be used for street repair. Under the city's present tax structure, only persons owning property in Lawrence pay for street repairs.
"WE WANT the people using the roads to pay for them," Wells said.
"It doesn't make sense to charge a person for street repairs according to the size of his house; a fairer way is to look at the number of cars he has."
He said the proposal was not designed solely as a way to get student money into street repair funds, but he said city property taxes could be reduced if the proposal passes.
JUST HOW much property taxes could be reduced will not be known until the city's budget is completed, probably in mid-August, Wells said.
KU does not receive money from the city for repairs of campus streets or parking lots, even though KU streets and lots are within the city limits.
Wells said the Aug. 8 election date was chosen because it is one of the earliest possible dates for the election, and was not chosen because KU's population will be at one of its lowest points during the year. Summer school closes Aug. 5.
Another election may be held later if the proposal fails Aug. 8, Wells said.
"I REALIZED that by contributing some money I could have solved, to some extent, Dragma's or any unprivileged child's situation," the Spanish major explains. "It would have been something to get over quick and probably would have made my conscience feel better. My selfish nature kept telling me it would be useless, I could use the money for my personal benefit," she added.
"I am glad I made up my mind. Dragma reminds me constantly about others, keeps me in contact with the outside world, making me forget my own self," Lynn said.
She decided to adopt the child instead of sending the money or just forgetting about the entire issue.
WHEN LYNN "applied" to become a "mother" she had a choice of picking out either a girl or a boy as well as the country she wanted her adopted child to be from.
"I chose the girl from Bolivia because I had seen the country's mining situation in a television documentary. Needless to say it had impressed me greatly," she explained.
On Nov. 28 she learned about her child. Dragma's picture and life history were sent to her along with official title of sponsor.
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