Tuesday, March 21, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
Endangered species
Billboards like this one on U.S. 24 north of Lawrence are on the way out because of the Highway Advertising Control Act, passed in 1970. Billboards are installed along highways.
many state and federal highways and turnipkes. The law also requires the state to buy old billboards and remove them as funds become available. The bill has caused much argument between state legislators and the billboard industry.
By KATHLEEN CONKEY
Kansas signs ruin view
Staff Writer
Kansas legislators and outdoor ad- verising companies are deadlocked in a
THE LAW ALSO REQUIRES the state to buy old billboards as federal and state funds become available. Since 1972, 2,648 billboards, worth $1.8 million, have been purchased and taken down but 26,000 remain.
This action leaves Kansas with more billboards than any other state. Some states are in the middle of a budget crisis.
"Kansas is one of the junkiest and撕裂testest in the Midwest because we've spent too much time listening to a few billboard owners and not enough looking at our roadsides." State Rep. Robert Miller, R-Wellington, said recently.
Yet since 1972, when the Highway Advertising Control Act was passed, Kansas law has prohibited new billboards from being erected on any state or federal highway or turnpike except in areas zoned for industrial or commercial use.
Miller recently introduced a bill to the House Federal and State Affairs Committee which would have set up a priority system of buying billboards. Billboards would be purchased first from along turnipkes and then from interstate highways and other roads, instead of the present system in which companies voluntarily sell billboards.
The committee took no action on the bill.
"The voluntary system accomplishes nothing for the Kansas people because the only billboards the companies want to sell are fake ones. The most people never see anyway," Miller said.
Used book trade aspects unusual
Rv CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Staff Writer
For the owners of sad and forgotten books which have been stored in closets, attics, or under the kitchen sink, Lawrence offers service. He will buy or trade for these dusty treasures.
"A good bookstore has as many sources from which to buy books as it can find," said John Hood, owner of J. Hood Bookseller, 1401 Massachusetts St.
Hood, who attended the University of Kansas in 1844, said most of his customers were "very good" customers.
"We endeavor to acquire books that are wanted by an academic institution," Hood said.
Hood, whose store has approximately 45,000 titles, said he entered the bookstore business three and one-half years ago before the number of books he had around his house.
"I liquidated my library," Hood said,
"but this appealed to me and it what I wanted
to do."
HOOD SAID HE USually would give a customer one paperback in exchange for two of his own.
The trade value of hardcover books fluctuates according to book list prices, Hood said.
Hood said he conducted searches for out-of-print or unusual books.
Titles of books are published in a weekly journal and book dealers across the country.
Customers usually are searching for out-print books and, therefore, other book types.
"I enjoy doing the searches for two reasons. One, I satisfy my customers and I also deal with other book dealers without leaving my store."
Hood said he enjoyed participating in book reviews, helping with the
WAYS HAPPY in journal books.
"IM ALWAYS HAPPY to look at books and buy books," he said.
Hood said that his biggest seller was science fiction and that it was most popular in the 1970s.
Hood said he had an arbitrary standard device that he attempted to maintain during bays.
"When you buy books, you busing it on a subjective evaluation, experience in the book trade, the condition of the book and whether you need it," he said.
Another bookstore that buys and trade
used books is the Book Nook, 623 Massachusetts St.
The Book Nook, according to its owners,
Vicki Beers and Margaret Miley, caters to
the everyday reader who is interested in
"escape reading."
"WE DON'T REALLY have textbooks because we are not especially KU-oriented," she said.
However, she said, about half of the store's patrons were college students.
Milev said students were most attracted to the fiction and the classics that they used in class.
Beers and Miley, who will close May 1, after two and one-half years in the business, said they especially enjoyed it because the store into their store were interested in books.
"We feel a common bond with them," Beers said.
The store is closing because one of the owners is moving with her family to Lenexa.
The commission has received recommendations for the allocations from a review committee, but Lawrence Mayor Marnie Argeringer said yesterday she thought some changes would be made in the recommendations.
The meeting will be held at 7:00 on the fourth floor conference room at the First National Bank Tower, Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
Lawrence city commissioners will decide at their meeting tonight how to allocate $742,000 in federal Community Development funds.
She said the commissioners probably would vote to increase the allocation to
City to allot federal funds
convert the old police building at Eight and Vermont streets to a senior citizen center.
Once the allocations are approved by the city commission, an application will be submitted to the federal government to enable the city to receive the funds.
The commissioners also will consider an ordinance making Vermont Street one-way south from Sixth to Seventh streets and making New Hampshire Street one-way north from Seventh to Sixth streets. Both streets are currently two-way streets.
THE ORDINANCE is designed to decrease traffic congestion around Sixth and Massachusetts streets when the new bridge over the Kansas River is opened.
"The KANSAS TURNSPEAK should be the front door to Kansas scenery and instead it's an amusement park. You don't see amber eyes or blue lips in ads and Nickerson F arm suits," he said.
He said lobbyists for the billboard industry had convinced legislators that billboards were beautiful and people wanted them. Therefore, few funds have been committed for systematically buying outdoor advertisements.
TONIGHT: THE PRE-NURSING CLUB will meet at 7 in the Council Room of the Union, SUA BACKGAMMON will meet at 7 in Pilarion C of the Union. The SCIENCE FICTION CLUB will meet at 7 in Pilarion A of the Union. ROBERT STEPHAN, candidate for Kansas Attorney General, will speak at the KU Young Republics meeting at 7 in the Jayhawk Room of the Union. An organization representing 9 in the Walnut Room of the Union. A BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES MEETING at 7:30 in the Big Eight Room of the Union. CARLA EDWARDS, organist, will present a student recital at 8 in SWorthward Recital Hall in Murrhvall
TODAY: THE MARINE CORPS OFFICER SELECTION officer will be in Booth 1 of the Kansas Union from 9 to 4, EAST GERMAN BOOKS will be on display all day at the Pine Room of the Union. BERT CHANEY, candidate for the position of Student Senate President, will be the noon forum of the Student Bar Association at 12:30 in 140 new Green Hall.
However, the state signs do not tell trade names and the National Advertising representative and enough of the billboards would be hurled at that business would be hurt by Miller's bill.
TOMORROW: The MARINE CORPS OFFICER SELECTION officer will be in Booth 1 of the Union from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EAST GERMAN BOOKS will be on display all day in the Pine Room of the Union. THE KU GO CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union. ALBERT GERKEN, University Carlihoner, will perform a Carlion Rashlet at 7 p.m. The KU SAILING CLUB will perform a Carlion Rashlet at 8 p.m. In Swarthout Reception Hall DIANE WAKOKI, author of "Motocycle Betrayal Poems," will give an English department poetry reading at 8 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
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"Travel is this country's third largest industry, the second, the whole economy, the rest of the population."
Rita Scags, manager of Holiday Inn, 2300 Iowa St, agreed.
commission puts up state signs to show places to eat and rest stons.
A representative of the National Advertising Company, Inc., Kansas City, Kan., who asked not to be identified, explained the industry's view.
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"Naturally we feel the country should be beautiful, but not to the point of eradicating the whole outdoor advertising industry," he said. "The good taste can be very helpful to the traveler."
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"Go traveling somewhere that you have never been before and try to get around without billboards. People have a fear of getting lost without a place to eat or sleep."
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MILLER DISAGREED, "Only a small percentage are helpful. Most are advertisements for such things as car dealerships and banks. The highway
"We depend a great deal on highway signs. The Holiday Inn star is something the traveler looks for. I think it would hurt not only business for Holiday Inn but any other company that depends on the traveler seeing their signs."
The outdoor advertising company representative said, 'I get up tight when people say, "Let's get rid of billboards." I say, "Let's get rid of legislators."
"All we're asking for is freedom of speech and freedom to maintain a livelihood so people like me, with four kids, can support them instead of collecting welfare, which is what legislators are doing. You don't see us saying, "Inns say, 'Get :A of legislators.'"
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