Tuesday. December 6.1977
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Artist-entertainer turns inventor
By DAVID ALFORD
Mike Barlow. designer of utility work surfaces Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Staff Writer
Mike Barlow never finished high school.
However, this has not prevented him from accomplishing what many University of Kansas graduates aspire to and some fail at. Barlow operates his own business, marketing a product he designed.
"You know how people that you haven't seen for a while ask what you've been doing lately?" Barlow said. "Well, I just tell them that I'm in utility work surfaces. The usual answer is, 'What in the hell are those?' "
Barlow thinks his product will be a boon to students and professionals who need a sturdy straight-edged table. The table is sturdy enough to sit on but collapses into a package the length and width of the top and three inches thick.
BARLOW ALSO works at the Lawrence Opera House, preparing promotional posters and enceiving the shows. During a show in November he did a flip off the stage and landed right in front of a startled crowd on the dance floor.
"I designed the table to fit under your arm for carrying it, after it is broken down." Barlow said, a cigarette bobbing in his mouth. "Since the table was designed to fit under my arm, that must make me the average armpit."
Barlow said he always had enjoyed adding a little excitement to whatever situation he was involved in.
"A girl and I worked out a fake karate throw stunt," Barlow said. "She would start sweating at and grab my arm, then she pulled the knife. Nobody ever saw her any trouble."
Although he is 28 years old, he has worked as a commercial artist for more than 10 years. He said he had learned by experience and graduated of the street's school of survival.
"Even though Lawrence is my home, I so greaked out when the union burned down that I end up spending the next three years in country, taking four and five-thousand-mile trips." Harold said. "Two-and-one-half years ago I came back to Lawrence to visit and the only reason I stayed was because my leg and needed a place to heal."
BARLOW'S BODY does show a few signs of wear. The dress of his left leg is considerably less than that of his right and the marks left by a surgeon's knife.
"I broke it taking a corner too fast on a
motorcycle out by Lone Star Lake," Barlow said. "I go crazy on machines. I like to ride motorcycles on ice. The slipping, the sliding, doughnuts and being out of control make me feel like I'm really alive."
Barlow's background in the entertainment business can be traced to the tavers and streets of Lawrence. He said one of his favorite stunts was with George Kimble, who ran unsuccessfully a sheriff in 1870 on the platform that the county needed only two fisted sheriff. The number only had one hand.
"Kimble had a blank gun," Barlow said. "He would storm into the Rock Chalk (Cate) yellling, 'Where's Barlow, where's Barlow, where's Barlow,' and door, begging for mercy, When I got
halfway across the street, Kimble would gun me down and I'd feign death right in the middle of Oread. One time the police told me that Kimberly was very funny. They didn't think we were very funny."
A BROKEN windsheld ended up forcing Barlow to channel some of his energies towards other pursuits. Barlow said the design for his collapsable table was born out of economic necessity, not artistic inspiration.
"My truck needed a new windshield and the only thing I had that was worth any money are my Deitzen drafting table." Barlow said. "So I sold it for $800 and used it last year after I bought the windshield but buy the materials for my first table."
Barlow's first design, which was a two-legged model, has been improved
with a new six-legged version that is more stable than its predecessor.
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"THE TABLE is so strong that I can sit on it," Barlow said, his full weight resting on the table. "Although it is designed to be a drafting table, it is really a multi-purpose work surface."
Even with all of the work and excitement that goes along with putting his first design into production, Barlow still reminisces about his traveling days.
"I don't get around as much as when I was a traveling underground cartoonist," Barlow said. "Now I've got these tables to work on. Between the tables and my job at the Opera House there is not much time for sleep or women."
Schneider reports largest fund
But his report indicated that his contributions have only tricked in since early 2015.
TOPEKA (AP) - Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider had the largest war chest of any of the five gubernatorial candidates filing campaign finance statements yesterday.
At that time a story broke concerning
their relationship to Joplin, Mo., motel
of Schloss and a young woman.
Scheidner's campaign finance report
reported on hand at $2,978.77 at the end of
the year.
THE ATTORNEY general is considered a
nominee for the Democratic
nomination for governor.
Two other Democratic hopefuls, House Speaker John Carlile and State Sen. Bert
Chaney, listed cash amounts on hand of
$12,148.03 and $2,062.79 respectively.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett, who has announced he will seek the Republican nomination, reported $22,772.39 on hand at the end of last month.
FRANK W. SHELTON JR., who recently announced that he was accepting the American Party nomination for governor, listed $191 on hand.
Schneider, however, showed only $764 in contributions since the story broke Sept. 13. This story was followed by a meeting of some Democratic party leaders Sept. 16 who urged Schneider to give up his quest for the party nomination.
carry-over balance and receipts totaling
$8,273.11 and disbursements totalling
$13,500 for the period from Dec. 1, 1976,
through Nov. 30, 1977.
In comparison, Carlon reported contributions of more than $4.500 since Sept. 13.
Schneider carries a carryover bag and contribution shown. $71,902.68 and contributions of $83,823.00.
Carlin's report had total receipts of $14,239.48 and disbursements of $2,091.46.
(on the same basis, Chaney had receipts
to the $465,293 and disbursements of
$832.82).
CUMULATIVELY, Bennett showed a
acneider's report listed several hundred contributions of $78 each. This apparently was a result of an early fund drive to raise money for the hospital. In 1978,ewardness of the office he might seek.
Contributions listed on the report are shown on a current and cumulative basis.
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Drug given Vietnam vets causes cancer in rodents
WASHINGTON (AP)—A drug that was taken daily by tens of thousands of Americans in Vietnam as part of a medical experiment has been found to cause cancer in male rats in tests by the National Cancer Institute.
The drug, dapsone, is the principal treatment for the estimated 12 million lepers throughout the world, including 2,800 in the United States. Army doctors tested it as a vaccine against leprosy medicine for a severe form of malaria that was resistant to standard malaria pills.
A report published yesterday of the institute's laboratory studies in which rats and mice were fed dapsone in large doses and treated with a compound that and the lining of the abdomen in male rats.
AN ARMY SPOKESMAN said Monday he
The scientists reported that the tests showed no cancer-causing activity in female rats.
an institute tested dapsone as of 1328 substances it is checking for evidence of cancer-causing activity in what it calls the carcinogenesis bioassay program.
DR. CIPRIANO CUETO, a data evaluation expert at the National Cancer Institute, said the findings don't prove that the cancer was caused by the results said the results would justify following up the case histories of persons who have taken the drug to determine whether they experience greater incidences of spionage and malignancies than the conundrum as a whole.
At least one such study in the 1960s of the medical records of about 850 American lepers who took the drug did not show a significant difference in the cancer death rate when compared to the general population.
didn't have any idea how many troops took dapone in Vietnam and to find out, he said, would take at least a month of intensive research. He added the troops who were given the drug weren't told it was being used experimentally.
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Use of daposse was restricted to the Central Highlands region and the area around the city. Daposse is a province of South Vietnam. Several Army and Marine divisions with thousands of men each fought for years in the jungles of the two regions where a particularly dangerous forest was located.
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"Prior to its introduction in Vietnam, the drug was approved as a new investigational agent by the U.S. Department of Administration," the Army spokesman, Mark David Gardner, told the Associated Press.
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