Page 6 University Daily Kansan, June 15, 1981
Holidome
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they have, what kind of service and what their
nices are. That is human nature."
The Holldeme will also have the advantage of having a promotional staff actively soliciting business. The Union doesn't do that, he said, because it is in a private, non-profit corporation whose sole purpose is to provide services for the University.
"That doesn't mean that we don't appreciate others using our facilities," he said. "We don't deny that, but we don't actively compete with other businesses."
ONE ADVANTAGE THE UNION may have over the Holdome is the cost of the Union's facilities. The services provided by the Union are less than those of the Holdome, Ferrison said.
Because the Union is a non-profit corporation, its emphasis is on service rather than profit motivation, Ferguson said. The Union tries to provide its services at the lowest possible price.
"We set our prices based upon the cost of our operations, trying to provide service to the customers at the lowest possible price."
The Union's prices should be competitive also because its overhead costs will most likely be lower.
FERGUSON STRESSED THAT THE UNION was not trying to compete with local businesses. He said the "town-gown" relationship has been very good and the Union wants to keep it that
After the novelty of the Holidome wears and when the price factor is considered, many groups that initially go to the Holidome may return to the Union, he said.
"They will go out there one or two times to see what it is like, but we think they will come back
to the Union because it will be less expensive," he said.
The effects of the Holidome on the Union's business will not be entirely negative, he said. More people will be coming to Lawrence because of the Holidome.
The shuttle bus service will be bringing some of the Holiday's guests to the campus, Ferguson said. They will be able to come to the campus and they won't have to worry about parking, he said.
"They may come into the Union and buy food and refreshments," he said. "They might buy some books in our book store."
Nearly half of the Union's income comes from the sale of books, he said.
The Union may lose some of its business to the Holidome, Ferguson said, but the Union's competitive prices and the additional traffic on its busanes help offset some of the losses that may be incurred.
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ALTHOUGH SOME LOCAL organizations will not reduce heat assistance services, at least one agency, East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corporation, has already felt the effects of the Reagan administration's budget cuts.
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"Last year," said ECKAN employee Diane Stephens, "we were able to give some assistance by providing fans and air conditioners. This year our weatherization program has lost 27 employees because of the budget cuts, so we are able to do that much if the weather stays hot."
JoAnna Byers, employee at the Lawrence office of the American Red Cross, is also concerned about the effect that budget cuts might have on heat assistance and other social programs.
"because funds will be given to the states in
form of block grants," said Byers, "the cuts,
the controls."
which are now projected at 15 percent, will acclimate to the state's status down nine administrative exits."
it says that the Red Cross in Lawrence will open the Community Building, 11th and Vermont streets, for use as a heat shelter if the weather stays hot.
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Opera
The theater was also used for community events. According to Lawrence residents Lucille Sanders, 83, and her sister, Mildred Frederick, 83, their high school in New York City, on a visit to the community church.
Topeka radio station WHEN later neid dance contests there. Jansen said.
"It used to be such a beautiful building." Sanders said. "The front of it was so pretty."
In 1930, the Bowersock Theater became the Dickinson Theater. In 1948, it changed again to backstage.
THE BUILDING REOPENED IN 1980 as the Red Dog Inn. It later became the Free State Opera House, then first opened as the Lawrence Opera House in 1975. From January 1976 to January 1978, the house was occupied finally. In 1977, the present Lawrence Opera House was established.
"There are fewer than 10 buildings in Lawrence that have the history of that building."
On the Record
Police said that the larcenist broke into the dormitory and stole several pieces of turquois and Indian jewelry.
Lawrence police are investigating a larceny that occurred at a Haskell Indian Junior College dormitory sometime between May 25 and June 6. Property worth $3,953 was stolen.
LAWRENCE POLICE ARE ALSO investigating the Thursday afternoon burglary of a house at 2012 Barker St., from which at least $350 worth of property was stolen.
Police have no suspects.
Ed Boles, a local architect who has conducted walking tours of the Lawrence downtown area, called the style of the building "low-key Beaux Arts."
Police have no suspects.
He pointed out the set of paired columns with the arch between them, the pediment and the manner in which those two features projected from the building as typical of that style.
Other points of interest are the masks of
the lycas, or the lyre, which are found
in the pediment.
"The building really needs some exterior stabilization," he said. "The most conspicuous evidence of that is the truss supporting the pediment."
The site at Seventh and Massachusetts streets was not always used for entertainment purposes. According to Scott's book, it first served as a hardware store for the firm of Allen and Gilmore in 1854. Later that year, the abolitionist Samuel J. Cave purchased the site. The Herald of Freedom was burned in Sheriff Jones' 1854 edi by pro-slavery looters from Leavenworth.
LATER THAT YEAR, Liberty Hall was erected on the site. Primarily a public meeting place for the city, Liberty Hall was the site of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde's 1882 lecture, "The English Renaissance." Admission to Wilde's lecture was $1. Two additional stories were added to Liberty hall in May 1882, and the Bowersock Opera House was then established.
Jansen said he hoped the Lawrence Opera House could become such an all-round city hall [3].
"It could perform some of those same functions," he said.
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