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Monday, October 31, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Spooks
From page one
years. Kaiser said the number of people who went through the house had doubled since last year.
Kaiser attributed part of the increased success of the project to the new location,
which made better parking and waiting facilities available.
KAISER SAID everything was going smoothly, despite a few problems with the equipment. But he was using a mask for Darth Vader of Star Wars fame until days before the house's opening.
Aged call for price help
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Gray Panthers yesterday passed resolutions calling for price stability and the establishment of a federal consumer affairs agency.
Winding up their second annual convention in suburban Chevy Chase, Md., the aging activists unanimously adopted a resolution favoring the establishment of a consumer agency and denounced opioid use. To reinforce their position, they announced plans to picket the Chamber's Washington headquarters today.
Another resolution adopted during the three-day convention called for a stable price level and urged the government to pass legislation and take whatever steps were necessary, including rationing, limiting profits and fixing wage levels.
THE 350 delegates, representing 8,000
members nationwide, also 'asserted the right to sexuality at all ages and the right to vote.'
Other resolutions included support for the Equal Rights Amendment and establishment of a community-based, tax-supported U.S. health service.
They also resolved they would oppose "the practive of a growing number of physicians who arbitrarily refuse to treat patients when they reach a certain age."
The Panthers urged their own members to publicly expose such cases.
Another resolution opposed the proliferation of nuclear power plants and called for a "moratorium and cessation of such activity as plant operation and radioactive material disposal is proven permanently safe."
Kaiser said that he thought the workers were getting as big a thrill out of the house as the children, but that the reactions of the children were hilarious.
"Everybody who's ever heard me talk about this project know that I've stressed having fun," he said. "If you don't have fun you're doing, you're me doing it right."
"they scream, they run, they cry and you think you're killing them and when they come out they say let's go again," he said. "it's unbelievable."
Kaiser said there were some minor problems with children trying to strangle Dracula, and a pair of scissors was confiscated from one child.
NO CHILDREN have been injured,
Kaiser said, but there was a scare one night
last week when a mother thought her
children had been lost in the haunted house.
"You can imagine her plight," Kaiser said. "We shut down the house and went looking for the kids, but it turned out they were waiting for her at the car."
Kaiser the haunted house was worth the effort, although he had spent so much time in the haunted house in the past two months that he had started to have nightmares.
All proceeds will go to charitable causes.
Jamie Sikes, Overland Park junior, took her chances going through the Jaycees' haunted house and one sponsored by the Frontiersmen Drum and Bugle Corps at 10th and Rhode Island streets. The Frontiersmen's house is called Dr. Demento's.
The project has had support from various businesses and community members.
DR. DEMENTO'S is arranged for a small group to be taken through a rickety house while DR. Demento tells the story about his family, which lived in the house.
"I was so scared that I clawed the guy next to me to death," Sikes said. "We laughed and screamed through the whole thine."
The script, according to Dallas Martin, Overland Park law student, was created for the show.
Martin said that the Frontiersmen's haunted house previously had been in Olathe, the headquarters of the drum and bugle corps.
But this year it was moved to Lawrence because of the size of the band program in Lawrence and the interest in music, Martin said.
By Saturday night, the haunted house had attracted about 1,700 customers, Martin
"We just decided there were enough people in Lawrence that would support two women."
Jayees' house but that his group was not trying to beat out the Jayees.
Martin said that he had not seen the
BUT TOM GRAY, Overland Park law student and a monster in the haunted house, said he was disappointed with the reaction of some people.
"I'm thoroughly disgusted by the conduct of people and the crowds are unmanageable," Gray said.
Grey said he had been punched in the nose and some things had been stolen from the house.
The props, according to Martin, were all made in a studio and were purchased in hobby shops.
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