Union drugstore wanted-but maybe not enough
By JIM GRAHAM Kansan Staff Writer
Classes are over and you are exhausted as you finally reach the door to your room. A nice hot shower, you think—and then a few hours of sleep before dinner.
No soap!
Walking to your drawer in Nature's best, you stop.
Wondering what could have made it disappear so fast and wishing that you had a key to your roommate's drawer, you curse.
Actually the situation isn't as bad as that. The student could take a round-trip bus ride downtown for 50 cents or he could take a cross-country short-cut to Hillcrest Shopping Center.
In either direction it's a long way to go and time consuming, especially if no car is available.
Kevin Remick, concessions manager for the Kansas Union, believes that most of KU's students don't have a transportation problem. "By and large, most students have cars or access to them," he said.
The Traffic and Security
Office confirmed Remick's statement. There are approximately 17,500 students enrolled on the Lawrence campus and 11,572 cars and motorcycles are registered.
But what about those students who don't have cars?
For most of KU's students who don't have transportation, the Kansas Union concession counter offers a small supply of sundry goods.
Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union, said, "Traditionally, our services have been related to those things that are necessary to the educational process." However, he added, "There have been repeated inferences by the students that they would like an effort made in the direction of health and personal products."
The question of how important a bar of soap is may not be answered until the Satellite Union is completed at the base of Daisy Hill.
Bill Frick, Lawrence graduate student and vice-president of the Student Union Coordinating Committee, said until plans for the Satellite Union are
completed, facilities planned for the floor space will be tentative.
"If there's a demand for a student drugstore, I'm sure we'll put one in," he said.
Should the University operate a competitive business when they are exempt from the income, property, and inventory taxes that Lawrence businessmen must pay?
The businessmen say no.
Charles E. Bishop, of Rankin Drug Co., said: "I'm not in favor of a tax-supported institution being in competition with free enterprise."
Richard Raney, of Raney Drug Stores, expressed similar opinions. "It would be damaging to any entrepreneur. There would have to be an illustrated need on the part of the students and then if the students need a drugstore, they should have their drugstore."
The second question which arises is the one of space. Although about 1.4 million dollars will be spent on the new Union building, floor space will be at a premium, said Jay Mason, Hobbs, N.M., sophomore, and member of
State health department closes local nursing home
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Crum, co-owners of Guardian Angel Homes, Inc., a nursing home at 1406 Tennessee St., said the corporation's license has been revoked by the Kansas Department of Health.
A "guardian angel" has had its license revoked.
By SUSAN FOHRMAN Kansan Staff Writer
Crum said his lawyer is working on an appeal to be presented at a hearing in Topeka. The date for the hearing has not been set.
Student Union Coordinating Committee.
Another question is who would operate the store?
Should his appeal be denied, Crum said he will have the right to take his case to district court.
The home will continue to operate while the appeal is being made, Crum said.
Marie Vetter, supervisor of the adult care home section of the state Department of Health, Topeka, would neither confirm nor deny the license revocation.
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"The department wants to give these people a chance to make their own corrections," she said.
Investigation of the home leading to the revocation of the license began three weeks ago when Mrs. Raymond Cerf, Lawrence, had employees of the home file affidavits charging violations of state laws with the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department and the state Department of Health.
To be fair to Lawrence merchants it could not be on a competitive basis, Burge felt. The alternative would be to run a non-profit business as the KU bookstore is.
"I became interested in the home when the Lawrence League of Women Voters did a local study of the welfare department two or three years ago," Mrs. Cerf said.
extension of the counter facilities in the Kansas Union as one alternative.
But most important, is a drug store even a necessity?
"The significant thing about
"It's kind of a neutral idea," Mason said. "I'm not real sure that it's something necessary. If there's room for it, fine. If not, there are other places."
the Guardian Angel is that the majority of patients are retarded adults, and they are almost invariably people with no relatives. Most are on welfare," Mrs. Cerd said.
Mason mentioned an
Mrs. Cerf said the county had not removed the patients from the home earlier because none of the other nursing homes could accommodate them.
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