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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, April 22, 1968
TEMPTATIONS SWING
The Temptations, a nationally prominent vocal group, are shown here as they performed Saturday evening in Allen Field House.
Survey shows local unemployment
Harry Jackson was told he could make a decent wage from a good job only if he had a high school diploma in his pocket. Although he could have used the money from a job, he stayed in school.
Harry counted on the promise he heard from so many people—a high school education would get him a good job. Upon graduation, he began to look for employment, proud of his education and confident it would be a boon to him.
But there were no jobs for Harry. After frustrating encounters with racial prejudice, he came to expect that he would be denied work because of the color of his skin.
Harry is a fictional character, but problems similar to his and the resulting sense of futility are releg for many people in the North and East Lawrence areas.
As a result of a survey, which began in February, conducted by the Elizabeth Ballard Community Center, more than 60 persons from low-income families have been located who are unemployed for a variety of reasons.
"We took the results of this survey to a meeting with the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, and after three planning sessions with them, we set up what I'd call an 'employment office.'" said Leonard Harrison, special student in sociology from Wichita and director of the Ballard "job corps" program.
A job availability survey was distributed to Lawrence mechanics and other employers to determine where there were jobs that needed to be filled.
"The businessmen of Lawrence have been quite receptive to our program," said Harrison.
Assisting in the program are two KU students, Stan Osgood, Brookfield, Wisc., senior; and Pat Ross, Great Bend student. They receive three hours of credit for this field placement work for their social work class.
Their main job has been to conduct the door-to-door survey to find the unemployed of North and East Lawrence. This survey will continue until the end of the semester.Harrison said.
When the unemployed persons are located, and job openings are available, it is the Ballard Center employment office which attempts to "match the people with the jobs," Harrison said.
As he spoke, Harrison frequently called a "good morning" to those who passed his office door. From time to time, he was interrupted by persons looking for jobs. He then would arrange for an appointment with a possible employer, and encourage the unemployed person to keep the appointment and report back with results.
KU alumnus to lecture
Elmer F. Suderman, alumnus of KU and of Tabor College, will be visiting professor of English at KU in the 1968 summer session.
Suderman is now chairman of the English department at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minn. He earned the B.A. degree from Tabor in 1944, the master of arts from KU in 1948, and the Ph.D. from Kansas in 1961. His doctoral dissertation was "Religion in the American Novel: 1870-1900."
George J. Worth, chairman of English at KU, said the appointment was in line with the department's policy to give preference for summer assignments to alumni when no local faculty with the appropriate qualifications were available.
"Our concern is to provide persons with jobs — regardless of race, creed, or color," Osgood said.
The persons operating the employment program hope it will eliminate itself. As low-income persons begin to realize there are jobs to be filled, and the real and imagined barriers they have encountered are overcome, there will no longer be a need for a go-between agency.
The workers with the program have uncovered a great number of reasons for unemployment in Lawrence.
"The University depresses the wage level throughout this area, because the school brings in a great deal of workers with talent." Osgood said. The small amount of industry in Kansas is a contributing factor, he said.
"There is real and imagined prejudice," Harrison said. "It is hard to say, however, whether there is much racial prejudice coming from area employers.
"Lack of communication seems to be the biggest problem. There is a lack of information as to whether jobs really exist."
Soul sound socks KU
About 9,000 people clapped and swayed to the rhythm of the Tempation's "Mowtown Sound" Saturday night in Allen Field House.
Performing from a round stage in the middle of the basketball court, the Temptations sang songs like "My Girl," "You're, All Right," "The Day I Found You," "What Now My Love," and "Old Man River."
The group's five members, David Ruffin, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin, Eddy Knadricks and
Odia Williams, joked with the audience between numbers.
When they paused to catch their breath after one number Ruffin told a woman in the audience not to bow her head, "We can't goin' to pray."
Appearing with the Temptations were The Monitors, Yvonne Fair and Chuck Jackson.
While the Temptations performed their last number, some members of the audience danced in aisles and down the ramps to the exits.
'64 KU graduate wins W. Wilson Fellowship
A 1964 KU graduate is one of 48 doctoral candidates at 23 universities in the United States and Canada winning Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships.
The KU graduate is Michael Owen Jones who is majoring in folklore and American studies at the University of Indiana where
he earned the master's degree in 1966. The Wilson award will make it possible for him to devote full-time to research and the writing of his thesis.
As an undergraduate at KU, Jones was a triple major in art, history and international relations.
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