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Wednesday, July 18, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Flea Market Contains Nostalgia with a Price Tag
By BETSY BIORDAN
BY BEIST HORDA
Kansan Staff Writer
Sign on Roll-Top Desk Shows It's Found a New Home
Quantrill's Flea Market, 811 New York, can be a gold mine for an online dealers.
The 42 boots that make up the flea market offer a variety of items, including corkscrews for fifty cents, an oak bar back and an old wooden telephone booth for $1,000.
Bridgman was an antique dealer for three years until he "got tired of taking a beating." He decided to set up a place where people could get retail prices for antiques.
There are handmade quilts, jewelry,
novelties, books, records, fine china,
glassware, loose stones, and just about
anything else that you could possible want
THE PRICES, mostly for the furniture, are out of the range of most students. But dealers buy from all over the country and its subsidiaries, according to founder Glenn Bridgman.
He opened Quantrill's a year and a half ago. I took awake to find a building to house the flea market, but finally one was found. The building was built about 1869, Bridgman said, and was one of the first to be opened after Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence.
H HE NAMED the flea market after the raider because "it connoted an historical
A booth fee of $5, $10 or $15 per week is charged, depending on the size of the boch. For this money, the renter gets airfare and other benefits of the advertising that Quarrelt's does.
Bridgman said that between 1,500 and 2,000 people come every weekend, the majority on Sunday. Most of the visitors are from out of town.
"We're cheaper for furniture and fine china than anywhere else," he said.
'SOME OF THE people are interested people who collect things.'
Most of the items that Bridgman has for sale are bought from others.
"I'll buy entire estates, all the stuff from a house," he said. "auction sales aren't too good, in my opinion. I also get things from individuals who are selling."
Commission OKs Citizen Board
Kansan Staff Writer
By JOHN KING
The resolution was approved by the commissioners with little discussion.
A proposed resolution creating a citizens advisory board to the City Commission was considered by the commission at their meeting Tuesday.
COMMISSIONER JACK Rose said that the members the board selected should not have to come to the city commission for any decision they should be an independent group, he said.
Buford Watson Jr., city manager, said that the main thing was to develop a system that would be on-going and not just for the present.
The proposed membership plan would
guarantee each of the city's six wards two representatives. The president and vice president of the University of Kansas Senate would automatically be members.
The council would do those tasks assigned to it by the city commission, inform the commission on public opinion, help study policies, and participate in the city decisions and issues to the citizens.
The plan says that twenty members would be appointed from the community-at-large, emphasizing those occupational duties not normally on the city commission.
Another matter considered by the commission was the letter of resignation from Ted Owens, a member of the human relations commission.
OWENS, HEAD basketball coach at KU,
said in the letter that the "demands of my job and the importance of spending some time with my family have made it impossible for me to do the kind of job with the commission that I feel necessary."
The commission also approved the ordinance revising certain portions of the cereal malt beverage licensing documents upon its second and final reading.
The revisions accepted were: the applicant for a license must be a resident of the county in which the city issuing the license is located and the license may be either revoked or suspended for the violation of specific ordinances.
Fees, Deposits Subjects Of Cases in New Court
Six cases have been filed in Douglas County's small claims court since it started.
Most cases filed so far have dealt with security deposits and one with a babybathing fee. Two cases have been dropped and will be settled outside of court.
The court deals with individual actions for recovery of amounts of $0 or less. A $5 fee may be charged in certain cases.
defendant and neither may be accompanied or defended by an attorney.
Douglas County Court Judge Mike Elwell set a one-hour limit on each case, with half the time set.
Anyone wishing to file an action in the small claims court should talk to a county court clerk before preparing the forms. There is a 21 day period between the filing date and the hearing date. The first hearing is scheduled for July 30.
Leave of Absence Clarified in Policy
A recent amendment of the Affirmative Action Committee's policies concerning faculty and unclassified personnel was simply made to clarify ambiguous wording, according to former Chancellor Raymond Nichols.
The policy now reads that both men and women are eligible to take as much as one year for a leave of absence without pay for child rearing purposes or other family responsibilities. It formerly said that both men and women can take as much as one year for a leave of absence without pay for personal reasons, including family responsibilities.
Prospective Buyers View Wares at Flea Market
Cansan Photo by CARLOS LISSON
no price fixing, he said. All the people set their own prices.
Quantrill's is a very competitive situation, according to Bridgman. There is
"SAY I HAVE something for $10, and the guy across the way had one and he sells it for $8. He bought it for less, so he can sell it for less."
"Every time you think you know something about this, something happens to show you that you don't know anything," he said.
Bridgman has been around the antique business for four and a half years.
R. E. Odom was miring his son's booth. His son rebuilds and refinishes organs and had for sale a clavichord that he built. Horticulture at Kansas State University.
QUANTRILLE's IS open only on Saturday and Sunday because most of the people hold
One couple run a lunch counter in their booth. They offer homemade baked goods and wine.
Geneva Robinson of Kansas City, Kan.
has rented a booth at Quantrill's for over a
"WE COLLECTED things for 20 years, until it got to be too much," she said.
She and her husband are both retired, and their antiquing is now more of a hobby. She believes that the objects for sale are good investments.
State Takes Over Welfare Duties; County Assistance Role Diminished
"These things are already old," she said. You invest in them, in 15 or 20 years you get to keep it.
By DAGMAR R. PADEN
Kansan Staff Writer
THE WELFARE programs, which will be administered by the state after January,
The 1974 budget for Social and Rehabilitation Services in Kansas amounts to $191 million, including the amount formerly raised by counties, Derrick said.
In January of 1974, the federal Social Security Administration will take over the administration of all adult categories of such county which the county has been administering.
These federally-funded categories include aid to the elderly, disabled and blind. All applications for these three types of aid must then be made at the social security office, not the county welfare department, Derrick said.
The county will be as important in the future of social welfare administration as it has been since 1985. County welfare employees became employees of the state, according to John Derrick, director of the Douglas County Department of social and rehabilitation services.
AFTER JANUARY, there will be no county welfare offices and no money will be given by the counties to fund welfare services, Derrick said.
The money now raised by the Kansas counties for welfare amounts to $18-20 million a year, said Robert Harder, secretary of the state department of social services. This amount must be provided by the state beginning in January, Harder said.
The story on welfare that appeared in Tuesday's Kansan stated that a person receiving General Assistance would be able to also get paid for any county work performed.
A person who receives $105 a month on General Assistance does not also get paid for the county at the minimum wage. $108 a month by getting credit for working for the county at the minimum wage.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
On July 1st, Joanne Wyrick was named chairman of the department of occupational therapy and Richard Angeliet was named head of the department of piano. Dean Thomas Gorton was serving as chairman of the department of occupational therapy, headed the occupation therapy department
Wyrick is a native of Leavenworth and received her bachelor of science in occupational therapy from KU in 1966. He graduated from a member of the KU faculty since 1960.
Two KU faculty members have been recently named chairmen of departments involved in the research.
An advantage of the new program is that the staff can be placed according to the work load, Harder said. He said that greater specialization among the department's employees will be eased by this new program.
2 Department Heads Named in Fine Arts
UNDER THE NEW program, there will be 30-40 district offices of the department of social and rehabilitation services, Harder said. By law, each county must have an office open four hours a day in each office. Employees must not leave their jobs and other employees if they were needed.
Harder expects the new program to result in an improvement in the all-over welfare system.
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Starting in January, there will be six regional directors in Kansas, who will be responsible for the whole state's welfare program. Presently, the 105 county commissions are responsible for the state program; change management programs will be made easier, according to both Harder and Derrick. Harder supervises the welfare
We also have a watch repair and electronics department. WE SERVICE WHAT OTHERS REPLACE.
General Assistance and Medicaid are currently state funded.
will include Aid to Dependent Children,
General Assistance and Medicaid. Of these,
Aid to Dependent Children will eventually
be taken over by the federal Social Security
Administration, Derrick said. It is now
federally funded but locally administered.
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