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Committee hears fund requests
\By ART DRAKE
Daily Illini Staff Writer
The Champaign County Board's
special Revenue Sharing Committee
heard six more requests for
money from four different groups
in its second meeting Thursday
night. -
Les Monk, Champaign County
Soil and Water Conservation
District Conservationalist, presented
that group's request for
$176,000 to conduct a soil survey.
The purpose of the survey would
be "to determine the best possible
use of the soil," Monk said.
Some beneficial results of such a
survey would be a "fairer basis for
tax assessment on farm lands...and
to determine where to
build and where not to build" large
structures.
Sharon Lindsay of the Office oh
Aging presented two requests, one
of which would pay for a
"specialized transportation service
for the elderly and nan1
dicapped in rural areas" where
public transportation does not
exist. " . • .
Lindsay proposed a "minibus
kind of vehicle" which would
regularly go into all areas of the
county. Lindsay said such a service
would cost $28,000 at most.
The other request for the Office
on Aging was for $35,000 per year
for continuation of that office,
whose funds will be gradually cut
off beginning July.
Dr. Fred Krause, Director of the
Juvinille Rehabillitation Program ,
asked for $240,000 to "separate the
detention arid treatment of aspects
now at the Champaign County
Youth Home."
"Something should be done to
seperate youngsters.who are there
for two totally distinct reasons,"
Krause said.
John Laird of the Champaign-
Urbana Community Union said his
organization needed $5,000 to conduct
a one year study "to determine
the feasability of communitybased
health insurance."
There are many people who have
no health insurance at all." Laird
said. The money would include
correspondance with foreign
nations to see how their community
health insurance programs
operate.
Joe Hardin , another member of
the Union , asked for another $6,000
"te investigate new ways to
recycle solid waste" and find
another way to dispose of waste
that cannot be recycled.
Woodwork plans
used book service
By MARK FERGUSON
Daily Illini Staff Writer
Woodwork, a newly formed student service organization, has announced
plans to begin a book referral service next semester, which will
"provide an alternative to selling used textbooks back to the local
bookstores."
Bob Fioretti , a Woodwork member, said Thursday the organization is
hoping to open the service during new student week next fall.
The book referra l, according to Fioretti, will give students the opportunity
to exchange their old textbooks for books they need forthe next
semester.
-"Students would call the service number and tell us what books they
wish to sell or exchange," Fioretti said. "The book title, the name of the
owner, and his telephone number will be recorded on index cards and
placed in our file."
People wanting to buy books could then call the service, according to
Fioretti, and would be given the names and numbers under those titles in
the file.
"Hopefully buyers and sellers could then settle on the prices," Fioretti
continued. "When a student sells a book which he has listed in our file, he
would notify us and the card would be removed from the file."
Fioretti said the main purpose of the service is "to provide sellers with
buyers who would pay what the books are worth, as an alternative to the
bookstores which buy books for a maximum of half the original price."
Woodwork has not yet gotten a telephone or office to use for the service,
but member Bob Johnson said they are "hoping to get space in the Illini
Union."
Fioretti said Woodwork would definitely have persons available to answer
telephones from nine a.m. to five p.m. during new student week and
the first 10 days of class. He said the service would "probably" be open
sometime in the evenings during that period .
The service would also be open throughout the rest of the semester, according
to Fioretti, but only a "few hours each week. The 10-day period at
the beginning of the semester, is the time when students are most in need
of the books."
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FLOYD BAUMAN, R-6, chairman of the Champaign County Board Special Revenue Sharing
Committee, presided over Thursday night's meeting. The board heard six more propsals
for.projects to be funded with the county's revenue sharing money.
Snack bar closing early
By BOB COSE.NTINO
Daily Illini Staff Writer
Due to a shortage of student workers the !RH
Snack Bar began closing daily at 2 a.m. last weeK instead
of staying open 24 hours a day, according to
Patrick Conlin, manager of the University snack
bars.
The early closing will be in effect for the rest of the
semester.
Conlin said the snack bar has lost eight or nine student
employes in the past few -weeks because of
"freakish accidents."
"One of our students got poison ivy, another got
mono, and another student broke his leg," Conlin
said.
"Help wanted" signs in the snack bar have been
put up to solicit more student workers, but "students
don't really want to work now," Conlin said. "It's too
close to vacation time and students are more concerned
about final exams."
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Although Conlin said students have not complained
about the early closing, some students in the MRH
complex said Thursday they have been somewhat inconvenienced
by the situation.
Rob Little, junior in engineering, who said he considers
himself a late-night person, said the snack bar
has previously been crowded well after 2 arm.
"During exam week I usually keep pretty weird
hours and Iwould like some place to get a doughnut or
a cup of coffee late at night," Little said.
Because of the employment shortage at the snack
bar, some student employes have worked as much as
12 hours a day since the 2:00 a.m. closing became effective
May 18, according to Conlin. The snack bar is
now open from 7:30 a.m. to 2 a.m.
The snack bar will close June 5 and will be
reopened August 20.
"We hope to have the snack bar open 24 hours a day
when it reopens in August," Conlin said.
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