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Thursday, February 11, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
More crimes in city but fewer in county
By a Kansan reporter
Although 16 fewer crimes were committed in Douglas county in 1987 than in 1986, the city of Lawrence experienced an increase of 106 crimes, or 3.7 percent, during the same period, according to statistics released by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in December.
The statistics were compiled from January to September, the KBI report said.
Lawrence's increased crime rate may be misleading, though, because previous burglary counts didn't include thefts from motor vehicles, the report said.
Crimes included in the study were
murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft.
Auto burglaries had previously been reported as thefts, which are not included in the major crime counts.
"The main thing is that we added two new officers to patrol last year," Johnson said.
Douglas County Sheriff Rex Johnson attributed the decrease in the county's crime rate to two factors.
Another reason he cited was an increasingly helpful attitude among local residents.
Steve Traynor/Special to the KANSAN
Happy birthday
Yvonne Lang, Perry resident, received birthday greetings from co-workers at Parking Services in Hoch Auditorium yesterday.
Help-wanted ads booming
KU students needing job opportunities shouldn't have to look long or hard. Although help-wanted classified advertising appears to be dwindling nationally, help-wanted advertising around Lawrence is almost booming.
By David Sodamann
Area newspapers are bucking national trend
According to the Conference Board, a non-profit economic research organization, the national help-wanted advertising index dropped to 155 in December from 162 in November. The index's base year is 1967, and the base number is 100.
Kansan staff writer
But the amount of help-wanted classified advertising in area newspapers has increased over the past year, constrasing sharply with the national trend.
Kelley said that the number of help-wanted classified ads in the Kansas City newspapers was up about one-third over a year ago.
Help-wanted advertising in the Journal-World was on the rise all last year, Armstrong said, especially in the last half of the year.
Gene Armstrong, advertising director for the Lawrence Journal-World, said, "We were up considerate and patient year over year, close to 40 percent."
"We've seen nothing to indicate a
change," offers over a year ago.
Kellouy said.
"I don't know what all that means." Armstrong said. "If could mean people are moving around a lot more jobs, I could mean there are a lot more jobs."
In Kansas City, Mo., Tim Kelley, classified advertising manager at the Star and Times newspapers, said help-anted advertising was up. "From everything I've heard, in the Midwest it's still very strong," he said. "If anything, the rate of growth could be sliding a little."
In Topeka, Kristy Green, classified advertising sales manager at the
Topeka Capital-Journal, said helpwanted classified advertising was booming. Help-wanted classified advertising lineage in January was up 73 percent from a year ago, she said.
"You can pretty much tie that all back to the Hypermart and the new Westridge Mall taking employees from the fast food places," Green said. The new mall in Topeka should provide area students with numerous employment opportunities, she said.
Julie Cooper, assistant director of financial aid at KU, said that job opportunities on and off campus seemed plentiful.
"At this point, it seems like we have more jobs than interested workers," Cooper said. "$ome of the campus employers are so desperately looking for employees they've advertised in the Lawrence Journal-World and the University Daily Kansan."
Cooper said small departments with budgets that limited them to hiring work-study students were having the most trouble filling jobs.
Ed Mills, manager of the state employment office, 833 Ohio St., said the job market locally was good.
"It probably will pick up as the sun starts to shine in the spring of the year," he said.
Mills said the city's fast food restaurants were looking for help.
Cooper also said she had noticed that the fast food restaurants were looking for employees.
She said that University students could easily fill many of those openings, but that she had noticed that many students began working in fast food restaurants in high school, and that by the time they got to KU they wanted other work.
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The minimum wage that fast food restaurants typically pay also is not enough for some students, especially those trying to maintain the standard of living they had at home, Cooper said.
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