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Friday, March 24, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
Rreezin'
The wind wasn't quite strong enough to keep up their kite for long, but 6-year-old Dawn Mountain and 5-year-old Jeff Watts, both of
Lawrence, enjoyed the challenge of making it fly during a sunny day. The children were playing in Centennial Park at 9th and Iowa streets.
Warm breezes send kites flying
RV CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Staff Writer
March is that time of year when students throw down their books and run into the warm spring breezes with a kite string in hand.
In the past few weeks, Lawrence merchants have received large shipments of kites, and some stores have more than 1,000 kites in stock.
According to toy department managers, the most popular kites this year are of brightly colored plastic. Their prices range from 35 cents to nearly $5.
Kites that resemble bats and ones with tails up to 25 feet long also are big sellers.
KITE FLYING is one of those sports enlisted all ages and anyone may be involved.
"in sixty-five and I fly a kite with me." Dorothy Hurode, Gibson's toy manager, says.
According to Mark Curry, Prairie Village junior, the school is the most type to fly from Chicago.
The keel, approximately five inches of sturdy plastic running down the middle of
these kites, catches updrafts easily and works much like a built-in tail, Curry said.
THE KEEL kite operates on the same principle as a ship with a keel that keeps it aloft.
Curry said he enjoyed kiteflying, although there was one drawback.
"The biggest trick in flying is keeping your string from tangle." "be said.
Jerri Rice, Overland Park junior, said he had enjoyed flying kites and just recently took a trip to the beach.
"It gives you a feeling of being free and it's almost like you're able to ride around."
"I DON'T like having to roll the string back, though. Fight eight letters of text of your choice on each end."
Kansas Power & Light is also worried about kites and kite strings and their tenacity.
Kites should not be flown around electrical wires, but a kite tangle in the wires should be reported to KPL for removal from the area, KPN, KPLA area division manager, said.
He added that飞kinges in rainy weather was particularly dangerous because electrical currents would follow the path of a current through wires and cause possible losses of power.
Bryan said kites should never be made of anything metallic because they would break.
ABOUT 20 kites have been retrieved by
kite experts during this kite season,
according to NASA.
There's a place at the University of Kansas that sells 5-cent rocks, $150 ivory rings, Japanese rice-paper handbags and Lawrence jewelry.
The Museum Shop, a cubyboid just inside the main entrance to the Dyche Hall Museum of Natural History, sells these and other items related to exhibits in the Museum.
Staff Writer
By GENELINN
Shop offers wide range of gifts
Examples of exhibit-related products are the books about Indian arts and crafts that the shop will be getting soon. They will accompany an American Indian exhibit now at the museum, Melinda McGrath, Museum Shop manager, said yesterday.
THE SHOP does not stock a large in-
ventory of these items. McGrath said that sales ran from $200 to
In addition to the Japanese handbags, the shop sells Polish linen flowers and African leather and shell jewelry, among other foreign items. McGrath said.
Despite a relatively low inventory, the Museum shop does have products from a variety of stores.
SOME OF THE products come from closer to home. McGrath said the Museum Shop sometimes sold items made by local craftsmen. The shop now stocks some locally-made rings of silver and semi-precious stones, she said.
Poll reveals Americans divided on aid to Israel
The variety of product origin is matched by the variety in prices. Scrimshaw items that were in stock a few months ago were priced between $30 and $180. McGarth said, "We now consist of carved pieces of ivory jewelry that are generally made by Eskimos.
NEW YORK (AP)—Since the Israeli insurgency in southern Lebanon, Americans are evenly divided over whether the U.S. government should end aid to Israel unless a peace agreement is signed, an Associated Press-NBC news poll shows.
Because of the error margin inherent in this and all sample surveys, the finding can be considered unreliable.
$1,000 a month and that all profits went back into the shop or to the museum.
The poll results appear to reflect Americans' desire for less U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Middle East, as found last month in an AP-NBC news刊. It also may indicate some continuing disenchantment with the Israeli negotiating position.
The telephone interviews of 1,604 adults were conducted Tuesday and Wednesday as the fighting in southern Lebanon came to a halt and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin met with President Jimmy Carter in Washington.
FORTY-TO-FOR PERCENT agreed with the statement that all U.S. aid to Israel should be ended unless Israeli should be ended unless Israeli signs a peace agreement. About 46 percent disagreed with the statement. Twelve percent said they were not sure.
Despite sentiment in favor of less U.S. involvement in the Middle East, about half of those questioned said Israel was justified in its effort to stop terrorist attacks.
"I think the simple solution to this argument is to move the capital to Hutchinson and move the state far to Topkaka." Rep. Denny Burges, R-Wamogo, told the
TOPEKA (UPI)—A lawmaker last night suggested relocating the state capital to end a quarrel about the name of the Kansas State Fair.
OF THOSE WHO had heard of the Israeli invasion last week, 49 percent said the military action was justified in an effort to stop terrorist attacks. Prime Minister Begin
Move of capital proposed
Burgess' suggestion came in response to an unsuccessful amendment offered by Rep. John Hayes, R-Hutchinson. The amendment, which failed 54-32, would have allowed only the city of Hutchinson to use the word 'state' when referring to fairs.
has been held each fall in Hutchinson. But Hayes said the mid Milan A Fair in Topeka changed its name to the Sunflower State Expo last year, confusion developed.
Since 1913, the official Kansas State Fair
"Some trade magazines referred to the state fair as being in Topeka," Hayes said. "I saw articles that said Bob Hope was going to be in Hutchinson." He actually was going to be in Hutchinson."
Hayes amendment sparked a lengthy debate with lawnmakers from the Topeka
"I think this is a crummy amendment," Rep. Charles Laird, D-Topeka, said. "I think you people in Hutchinson must be paranoid."
"I THOUGHT he'd brought the snakes and fritters," Kibble said. "I got pretty frightened."
She said that the boy fortunately had left the snakes with someone else before entering the shop and that the bag contained only a frog.
After the boy had proudly announced he had caught two snakes and a frog, Kibble said, she noticed that the paper sack he was holding moved to move as if something were inside it.
A source in the public education office in the museum said the snake-hunts were sponsored by the museum to show children what snakes look like, and the kinds of places they usually inhabit.
ordered the invasion after Palestinian terrorists opened fire on Lebanon killed 33
This Sunday, March 26, 1978 there will not be a Sunday Brunch Buffet. (The Kansas Union will be closed Sunday and Monday, March 26 & 27.
Thirty-five percent said the invasion was not justified. Sixteen percent said they were justified.
A boy about 10 years old came into the shop last fall after participating in a snake hunt sponsored by a group affiliated with the museum, she said.
Of course, most of the chop's customers do not carry around frogs. Kibble said the shop had about 30 paying customers on an average day.
The museum and Museum Shop often are visited by groups of children on field trips from area schools. One of the shop's young ones once gave Kibble a few anxious moments.
When asked whether Israel should give up territory captured in combat in the Sinai, West Bank of the Jordan and Golan Heights, again sentiment was divided.
"We've got a small operation," McGrath
"We're not in competition with local
store."
... On the Sundays to come, we will look forward to serving you and helping make your day special. . .
**WE CATER to children on the prices of**
**the our products**, Portia Kibble, a shop
**that sells**.
THIRTY-EIGHT PERCENT said that Israel should withdraw from the occupied india. Thirty-eight percent said the Israelis are on the land and they said was critical to their security.
At the other end of the price scale are the five-cent sugar cube-sized pieces of rocks such as granite and rose quartz. Many of their other products are priced at a dollar or less.
However, patrons of the shop can widen their choices of products by having the shop order items from its large number of catalogs, McGraath said.
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