Food stamps to aid local families
By MARILYN McMULLEN Kansan Staff Writer
Federal food stamps, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will go on sale May 5 in Douglas County, said John Derrick, county welfare director.
County welfare officials have been working for a year to establish the program in which about 100 Douglas County families will participate.
Derrick said the stamps would be sold at the county welfare office, 319 Perry. They will provide a 33 percent discount on food items at seven Douglas County food stores.
"We hope that $10 worth of stamps will eventually buy $20 worth of food," Derrick said.
Food stamps, he said, are the coming thing in the federal government's welfare plan. They will eventually replace the commodity program, which gives welfare recipients groceries directly.
Derrick said that a person must
be eligible to receive public assistance before he can participate in the food stamp program. He does not have to be receiving public assistance to be able to buy stamps.
The stamps are purchased on a sliding system in which the price and number of stamps varies with an individual's income and the number of his dependents.
Derrick said that the federal government advocates a welfare plan involving a floor income and food stamps which will "blanket" the country. The government is also proposing a switch from county to federal welfare distribution.
Stamps will be sold twice a month. They must be paid for in cash, because as Derrick explained, banks will not accept a draft for the stamps in checks.
The original application for the program was made in June, 1969. Derrick said the Agriculture department must have some local agency to make the exchanges and do the paper work, for which tasks the county welfare department was chosen.
Derrick estimated that from $8000 to $9000 worth of stamps would be distributed in May, and added that more families, not on welfare, would probably become eligible to buy stamps in the future.
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More stores in the county, Derrick said, will probably accept the stamps after the instigation of the program. "I don't think they can afford not to," he said.
In an address to the new Senate Awbrey said that KU was "extremely progressive in terms of structure" and added that students are represented on every committee on campus that affects the students.
"I can not praise enough the Chancellor, Dean Heller and Dean Balfour," for their cooperation, said Awbrey.
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As he left the podium both old and new Senate members gave him a standing ovation.
Participants in the stamp program can use the stamps to purchase any food item except beer, pet foods, tobacco and several imported food products. Stores
The giving of money to many smaller groups which are not pertinent and are not established for the betterment of the University must stop Awbrev said.
Awbrey said one of the chief concerns of the new Senate must be in helping the black community not only on campus but also in north Lawrence. The new senate must be concerned with the "ghettoes of Lawrence" and the "ghettoes of KU."
The first order of business for Ebert was to hold elections for a
School of Journalism vacancy created by Joe Bullard, Ellis junior. Richard Louv, Wichita junior was elected to replace Bullard.
Senate members elected seven more members to the University Council besides the three hold-over senators previously elected who are automatic members. Those elected were: Mohammed Amin, Rafsenjan, Iran junior; Karen Baucom, Kansas City, Mo. junior; George Laugehead, Dodge City junior; Chuck Loveland, freshman in the School of Medicine; Brad Smoot, Sterling sophomore; and Harrietta Stallworth, Hartsele special graduate student and Frank Zilm, St. Louis, Mo. senior.
A proposal was brought up before the close of the meeting asking the Senate to establish a committee to conduct an investigation on the students arrests during the curfew, and if inequities are found to call in the student senate's attorney.
The motion passed 57 to 9.
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120 yards across a channel from the bigger Martha's Vineyard.
Five men and five "boiler room girls" who worked during the
1968 presidential campaign of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy also attended the party.
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cannot convert the stamps to cash.
The smallest denomination of the stamps is 50 cents. Derrick said no change could be returned from a purchase made with food stamps.
County stores currently approved to redeem the stamps are the A&P, the three Rusty's stores, and Goble's Market in Lawrence, Merlin's Hy-Klass in Eudora and Ford's IGA in Baldwin.
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