University Daily Kansan, February 27, 1981
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New law to deter gold, silver thefts
Approval, acceptance and anger highlight Lawrence coin dealers' reactions to a city ordinance designed to reduce local gold and silver theft.
By PAM HOWARD Staff Reporter
The ordinance, given final approval by the City Commission Tuesday night, requires all temporary and permanent Lawrence jewelry, billion, coin and silverware dealers to obtain a
invoice and to record purchases of more than $50.
"The purpose of it is to try and get a handle on
Lawrence," Mike Glowen said, who come to
Lawrence.
"The one thing I think it will do is to provide investigative引导语," Johnson said. "Our interest is in the case."
ALAN JOHNSON, part owner of Great Plains Numistic Services, 16 E. 8th St., said he objected to the gold and silver buyers who set up their businesses in town for a few days at a time because they paid only 50 to 70 percent as much as established dealers.
"They tend to take advantage of people who don't know what they have," he said.
Another dealer, Robert Gallagher, A-1 Colms and Antiques, 1030 N. 3rd St., said he did not think the traveling gold and silver buyers were the orders of the ordinance.
"They're trying to pick on about four coin dealers and they've got me pretty well equipped," he said. "who has sold coins for 20 years in Lawrence, and they're making it hard on the people who were already here."
Gallagher sees the ordinance as an invasion of privacy.
"I do make them sign a receipt, but that's strictly between me and them," he said.
"They're trying to pacify a lot of lazy police detectives over there. I put 10 years in law enforcement and I never asked anyone to do the work for me."
Johnson, whose business has operated in Lawrence for about four years, said the ordinance would not mean additional hassle or paperwork for him.
MANY OF HIS PURCHASES, he said, were under $50 and would not need to be recorded.
"We do make an awful lot of small purchases on a regular basis," Johnson said.
on a regular basis," Johnson said. Johnson said that he had already recorded
"Since we've opened, we've taken names and addresses on questionable purchases," he said.
"I think $50 is too high." Howard Boyd, owner of Boyd's Coins and Antiques, 731 New Hampshire St., said. "The majority of our sales are under that."
City commissioners and the dealers compromised in setting the $50 figure at last Tuesday's meeting when the proposed ordinance was first read.
Boyd, who has operated in Lawrence for 25 years, said that the ordinance would not deter
the theft of valuable merchandise. He said it would only deter the thieves from selling the merchandise in Lawrence and would encourage them to sell it in Kansas City instead.
"I think it's defeating its own purpose," he said.
Glover, however, said that the ordinance would deter local theft.
"I think anyone who is really big-time is not going to pass merchandise in the same town they stole it in anyway." Glover said. "There is a lot of small-time crime it will be a detriment to."
The ordinance is the result of months of negotiation between local coin dealers and Gaylord's retail he has met with some of the coin dealers and that all Lawrence friends were invited to participate.
"I have never declined a meeting with any coin dealers in town that had anything to say about what was happening," he said. "We tried to tailor the ordinance to the businesses of the coin dealers."
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