Tuesday, February 19, 1974
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University Daily Kansan
Conoco Stations Open; Stocks Low
Conco gasoline stations in Lawrence are open for business again, but their gasoline supplies may not last until the end of the week. Conco station operators said they would remain open for service work even after their gasoline supplies ran out.
Richard L. Riggs, operator of Riggs Cooney Service in 1901 Massachusetts St., said that he had 5,000 gallons of gasoline when he was told last Wednesday by the Cooney district office in Kansas City that all Cooney stations should shut down until a meeting at a meet-in last Thursday with district marketing officials he reopened his station.
"We have enough gas to run through Wednesday and maybe Thursday, but after that we'll have to wait until March 1 to begin selling fuel again," Riggs said.
Riggs said that he had been pumping for two days from his $1,500 gallon reserve, but that he might be out of gasoline by Thursday. He said that he had to turn in an inventory of gasoline supply on hand to the office next Wednesday night, and that he expected to be told of his March gasoline quota by Friday or early next week.
RIGGS, WHO OBTAINS HIS gas directly from the Conoco Oil Co. and not through a distributor, said he had been alotted about 30,000 gallons of gasoline for the last four days of December and all of January and February. He said he didn't know what would happen to his allotment for March.
J. E. Young, operator of Red's Conoco
Service at 900 New Hampshire St., said that
Bar's History Horsey
You're sitting in a bar, sipping a beer and you see a bootprint on the wall. Time to stop drinking, right? Not necessarily. If you're wearing a 140 W, 70 St., it really is a bootprint.
The Stable looks like a stable because it was a stable, built about 1929, according to Don Murphy, an advertising consultant for KLW radio.
Murphy said yesterday that the stable was built by his grandfather William B. Campion.
Dalton leased horses from the stable for awhile, Murphy said, but stopped after customers became too rough with the horses.
Murphy said that as a boy he rode ponies at the stable and played in the hayloft, now a stablesman.
Murphy said his grandfather never completed his plans to remodel the stable in front of a stroke of a stroke and the stable was sold to a couple named Mull, according to Murphy.
Early Enrolling Is Recommended
An early enrollment system to be instituted in part by this summer was recennnished yesterday by the Council of Student Affairs, announced last night.
Balfour said the council recommended to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes that special arrangements to enroll early in fall semester classes be made for incoming freshmen who participate in summer previews.
He said that the recommendation was made with the understanding that an early enrollment system would be implemented so that the entire University could enroll early for the spring semester at some time during the fall semester.
In the early 1950s the building was remodeled as a steak house and bar and was
During the remodeling of the Stable in 1966 a reminder of the building's history was uncovered when a wall was torn down and hay and straw was found behind the wall.
An oats chute, that was used to send oats from the hayloft to the stable, is still in the bar—a reminder of days when water, not beer, ran through the troughs at the Stable.
Don Robertson, assistant state conservationist, said that careful farming and unusually heavy precipitation since autumn caused the threat of soil erosion in Kansas.
Erosion Threat Eased in State
A recent government report that part of the Midwest may again become a dustbowl needn't worry Kansans, an official of the conservation office said in Salma neatly.
The U.S. Soil Conservation Service predicted Feb. 12 that 10 states, including Kansas, could suffer serious wind erosion damage.
The conservation service said there had been more soil damage, and potential erosion from the irrigation.
Robertson said the period of greatest potential wind damage in Kansas was from now until May and that bad weather last fall might still prove costly.
"I started out with a 16,000 gallon allotment for January and February," Young said. "Then last Tuesday morning I got 2,000 gallons more to keep me going until the end of the month, but Wednesday I was gone to Newcastle City and told not to pump any of it."
"Last fall, because of all the rain and cold weather, farmers were unable to get all their wheat planted, and there was some concern as to whether there would be enough soil cover during the winter," he said. "We still don't know whether we'll have problems, but the continuing moisture is definitely a positive factor."
gasoline had been delivered to him last Tuesday, but that he was told Wednesday morning that he couldn't sell it. Young also said his gasoline directly from the Coino Corp Co.
WE'VE LOWERED PRICES
"I GOT AN OKAY from the company on Fruday to start pumping gas again, but I cannot exceed my February alotment," Young said.
Make Daily Weekly Week-end Rates Overtime
PINTO $9.00 plus 8c per mile $45.00 plus 8c per mile $5.00 plus 8c per mile $1.50 per hour
PINTO WAGON $9.00 plus 9c per mile $50.00 plus 9c per mile $6.00 plus 9c per mile $1.50 per hour
MAVERICK $9.00 plus 9c per mile $50.00 plus 9c per mile $6.00 plus 9c per hour $1.50 per hour
MUSTANG TORINO $9.00 plus 9c per mile $50.00 plus 9c per mile $6.00 plus 10c per hour $1.50 per hour
GALAXIE $10.00 plus 10c per mile $63.00 plus 10c per mile $8.00 plus 10c per hour $1.50 per hour
Station Wgm LTD PICK UP $11.00 plus 11c per mile $65.00 plus 11c per mile $8.00 plus 11c per hour $1.50 per hour
843-3500
Above rates include insurance ($100 Deductible)
Ride on!
With a
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"THE JOBBERS DIDN'T get back cut back as much as the company installed stations because their allotment had been figured on a different base." Allen said. "They haven't been able to but they probably will be because of the two gasoline to some of the cities in the east."
Allen said gasoline allotments of 79 to 77 per cent of 1922 figures would probably be a minimum of 80.
He also said Conoco would probably be forced to close some of its smaller company-operated stations during the next year.
P. 0. Box 667 Lawrence, KS. 66044
"This gasoline will have to be paid back over a ten month period." Allen said. "If we don't, you pay it."
"THESE SMALLER STATIONS don't pump enough gallonage in relation to the cost of maintaining and repairing them," Allen said. "The return on them is pretty low at a time when Concoq, like the other oil companies, needs to generate capital to for exploration and development of oil resources."
He said that company-operated stations, in Lawrence had been hit harder than the Concoce station at 1241 E. 23rd St., which is serviced by the James Oil Co. a Concoce jobber in Eudora. James Oil Co. is owned by John W. Jameson of Lawrence.
Dick Allen, Concox's Kansas City district marketing manager, said Concox's Houston division headquarters had loaned the Kansas City district enough gasoline to get through the February allotment period, which ends Feb. 22.
"We could probably go in and close several of these small stations today and nobody would notice. But we have a moral obligation to the operators of these stations to not or unable so that the operators can start locating us from service station or some other line of work that will probably be more profitable than what they're doing now," he said.
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