Monday, October 10, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
BUSH
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"Politicians use to promise a chicken in every pot; this guy wants to promise an IRS agent in every kitchen." Bush said in reference to Dakika's proposal to use Internal Revenue Service data to help tackle the federal deficit.
Vice President George Bush accepts a jersey from Matt Oberreider, a member of the Lee's Summit High School football team.
Responding to charges of a negative campaign, Bush said differences between the two candidates and he intended to continue in this vein in his next address.
Most people expected Bush to be at the airport, but he had stood in line since 1:18 p.m. by 3 p.m., the line to get in to the plane was long and backed up to highway 9.
Melissa Stutz, a sophomore at Lea's Summit High School, said she came because she had never seen a girl like her and told her kids about it one day.
"Whoever becomes president is going to take control of my life for our years," she said.
Mina Moffet, 82. Lee's Summit chairman of The Celebration of the
Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, said she supported Bush.
we mustn't have Dukakis. said "He's too liberal. He would have homosexual rights, let all those men join him and let murderers loose on furough."
substitute teacher at Greenwood
Elemetary School in Blue Springs,
Mo., said she was not impressed.
"I thought it was a lot of the same thing I've been hearing, plus some one-liens," she said. "I'm not a Bush fan."
After Bush spoke, Zoe Selsky, a
Thousands greet Vice President George Bush as he arrives in Lee's Summit, Mo.
KU's 'Polyester Rag Queen' wins $1,000
Sandra J. Watts/KANSAN
Tracil Hodgson, Little River senior, won $1,000 for dressing up as the "Polyester Rag Queen" for a style
By Grace Hobson Kansan staff writer
A friend of Trace Hodgson entered her in a contest as a practical joke, but now Hodgson is laughing thousand-dollar laughes.
Hodgson, Little River senior, won $1,000 in the Critics Style Awards by posing as the "Polsterer Kag Queen." The contest was sponsored by the Warrior-Lambert Co. which owns Certs, a brand of breath mint. "It was a cool joke, I was making fun of you," he said.
The contest called for candidates from 25 of the largest universities in the country to send a photo identifying themselves as either preppies, jocks, sophisticates, funy-cles, or other. Hodgson entered in her lower category as the "Polyester Rag Queen."
the contest was designed to emphasize the individual styles of college students. Candidates did not have to promote Certs as part of the contest.
Hodgson was notified that she won Sept. 28, but is still waiting to receive her prize money. She said she was going to save the money for the future and graduate school.
Tim Furnish. Westwood sophomore, entered her in the contest last spring. He was an on-camera classmate and decided Hodgson was a prime candidate. Furnish said he
entered her as the "Polyester Rag Queen" because she was known to dress up in wild polyester outfits.
"I knew she didn't fit into any of the categories, and I thought it would be funny to make up a category for her," Furnish said. "It sounded like a silly contest way. I just thought of the most outstreet-style person I knew, and that was Tracii."
Hodgson went along with the contest when Furnish told her he had entered her name. She filled out the application sent to her by Market America, the company that sells it, and wrote the required essay explaining why she exemplified the "POLyster Hag Queen"
"In my essay, I said how much I love polyster, how it feels so smooth against my skin — because of course it's the softest material," And, "I said I love the '70s."
Hodgson said she thought the contest was funny but she couldn't imagine anyone entering it seriously. She said she couldn't imagine people sincerely identifying themselves as the quintessential propper or jack. They would probably just be contest officials took her entry seriously.
"It's like going to a grocery store and buying already-made cookie dough and baking the cookies, then entering them in a contest and winning. It's such a joke
because it's a fake." Hodsgon said.
A picture of Hodgson in her costume will be put on a poster, but she said she didn't know to whom or where it would be distributed.
"I'd like it to be posted all over this campus — wouldn't that be funny?" she said.
Steve Michalsen, vice president of Market America, said from his office in New York that the poster would go to all the entrants of the contest.
Michalens said the contest grew out of Certs' advertising theme.
"Our advertising acknowledges that everyone has a style of their own. Michael is a very popular brand awareness of the product in the college market by doing something stylish-related."
Michaels said the contest awarded $10,300 in prize money. Seven first place winners received a second-place winner each received $500. Third place winners received certificates.
Michalsen said Hodgson would receive her prize money as soon as the paperwork was processed.
This year was the first year for the contest, and Michalsen said he wasn't sure whether the contest would continue next year.
'Fat cats' courted by politicians
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Despite Watergate-inspired curbs on election spending, millions of dollars are pouring into Republican and Democratic campaign treasuries from "flat contribution this weeks, and it's all legal."
Documents made available to reporters recently show that both the Federal and the State have big-money donations that were tarnished by revelations of Watergate era abuse and then superseded by election law reforms of the 1970s.
The biggest Republican contributor is Nicholas Salgo, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, who was listed as giving more than $500,000 to his party. The Democrats say a candidate of their unions are giving $290,000 each.
Both parties are going after individuals willing to give $100,000 or more. The GOP claims it has 115 such givers so far in the 1888 campaign.
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