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April 13, 1981, University Daily Kansan
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ROB POOLE/Kansan staff
Phyllis Copt, owner of Phyllis' Fabulous Franks, offers Lawrence shopper a little taste of New York City, hot-dog style, with her cart located at Ninth and Massachusetts streets. Copt's cart is the first and only street vendor's cart licensed by the state of Kansas.
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Burgars broke into a storage garage last week and stole a John Deere tractor belonging to a local oil company. Lawrence police said yesterday.
The tractor, owned by Zaroco Inc., RR 2, was being stored in the 600 block of Locust St. It was valued at $3,500.
POLICE SAID camera equipment valued at $1,401 was taken from Design Build Architects, 704 Massachusetts St., sometime during March.
The thief took a 35mm camera, valued at $140; a Polaroid camera, valued at $40; two lenses, valued at $340 and $490; and a leather case containing other camera equipment, valued at $200.
BURGLABS BROKE into a house in the 1600 block of Alabama St. Saturday morning and took a stereo system, valued at $500.
Vender provides taste of hot dogs, New York
By PENNI CRABTREE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Thursday through Saturday, downtown Lawrence shoppers can literally get a little taste of New York, with or without saurerkurt.
Phyllis's Fabulous Franks, the first and only street vendor's cart licensed by the state, has offered New York style hot dogs, chili and Polish salamines to restaurant-aware Augustine since the umbrella was first raised last August.
"I don't know how many customers have said to me that my cart is the best thing to come to Lawrence," Phyllis Copt, an ex-Lawrence high school teacher and owner of the cart, said yesterday.
"It's a fun kind of thing," she said. "The cart provides the sort of pleasant, street-life atmosphere that's found in like Europe and New York City."
THE CART, located at Ninth and Massachusetts, has few competitors in Kansas, Copt said.
"Our nearest competitor is a man who sells tamales from a cart in Kansas City, Mo." Copt said. "As far as I know, the only one licensed in Kansas."
Copt, who spent two years researching city and state health and tax laws before applying for her cart license, said that few of the government offices she dealt with knew how to go about granting the license she needed.
"It took a long time to get the license, because most of the offices had never been approached with a request like mine," Copt said.
Copt, 31, taught English at South Junior High School in Lawrence for three years before she decided to sell hot dogs.
"My husband and I decided that we really wanted our own business," Copt said. "I liked being my own woman and my own employer so I decided what I really wanted to do in life was sell hot dogs."
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ACCORDING TO COPT, the decision to own a street vendor's cart grew out of several visits she made to New York and Europe.
"I wanted to do something outside, something fun I could do outdoors." Copt said. "Owing a cart, I get to meet people, and I felt like I'm strengthening the downtown area by providing it with a little street atmosphere."
Copt said that many of her customers arranged their Saturday afternoons around her business, planning shopping would address end with a hot dog from her cart.
But though her New York style hot dogs are popular, Copt said she must scale down her business to Lawrence volume.
"The city charges me $2 each day I operate my car, 'Copt' said. "This isn't New York, so I don't get the numbers of hotels. I'm sure I would afford to keep the cart open all week."
"It's not a business that's going to get you rich, but at least I can pay the bills. I sell hot dogs because I love doing it, and I do it until I'm old enough to retire."
Festival depicts 100 nations
By MARK GAUERT Staff Reporter
It was a windswept Saturday outside on the farmlands, cities and prairies of Kansas.
But inside the Kansas Union, the setting for the 29th annual International Banquet and Festival of Nations, the atmosphere was rich of burning incense and exotic lands, and music from many lands.
An overflow crowd of 600 people, diversely dressed in colorful Indian sari, flowing African robes, called ghariyes, and polyester leisure suits, gathered for a celebration an afternoon cultural exhibit, evening banquet and cultural show.
"The turnout is overwhelming compared to last years." International Club President Krupadaman Billa said. "But last year, it was the height of the Iranian crisis, and many people might have been not hostile, but more indifferent to foreign students then."
BILLA, A GRADUATE student from India, said that students from 100 nations participated in the show-many spending months preparing
native costumes and searching for exotic spices unavailable in this country for the banquet.
Visitors walked around tables displaying artifacts and art from seven countries and continents—Canada, Chile, Japan, the Arab states, Japan and Taiwan.
At the cultural exhibit, Taiwanese students flashed color slides of their homeload on the wall of the Union Ballroom, told fortunes and answered questions about native bamboo crafted hats and flutes.
DONNA MARCINCKOWSKI, 14 smiled as people paused to admire Polish glassware and wood carvings at her table representing the culture of Poland. A native of Katowice, in southwestern Poland, she said she was enjoying the show, but she couldn't help feeling a little anxious about her father still living in her politically volatile homeland.
"It's still a little shaky," she said. "But I don't think that Russia will invade now."
She said she liked the festival because if gave foreigners a chance to get together and display exhibits from their homelands.
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