University Daily Kansan. June 12. 1985
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Cola fans belch
New Coke opens to mixed reviews
By Gina Kellogg
Staff Reporter
Since the new Coke debuted in Lawrence, the fanfare already has begun to die down. But that doesn't mean the public already has accepted the new Coke as the "real thing."
"I like the old Coke better because it wasn't quite as sweet." Gil Gregory, Fort Scott third-year law student, said Friday. "I don't like coffee and I used to drink Coke in the morning, instead of coffee, for the caffeine. But now it's too sweet to drink in the morning.
"I think I can find a substitute. I've been looking around. But I haven't quite found anything that compares with the old Coke."
Some shoppers at Rusty's Food Center, 23rd and Louisiana streets, seem to be just as selective.
Marvin Hauschild, the store's manager, said, "one guy came into the store and asked for the old Coke. He even looked in the backroom to see we had any there when we told him that it was just left without buying any at all."
"I don't know about other cola drinkers, but the loyal Coke customers seem to be disappointed."
The Coca-Cola Co. has set up a tall tree number so consumers can call in for a drink. The company just made about 1,500 calls a day, most of them negative.
since the company announced five weeks ago that it would change the soft drink's 99-year-old secret formula.
"The clear majority of those calls are people expressing concern," said Brian Dyson, president of Coca-Cola North America. The majority are expressing concern.
Dyson said that the negative response was less than anticipated and that 90 percent of the callers were accepting coupons for free oke
However, others have not settled so easily. Some people in Seattle became so irritate about the new soft drink that they banned the old Cola Drinkers of America.
The group's founder, Gay Mullins, a former medical engineer at the University of Washington, put up $30,000 to start the group. The group even has a number that supporters can call for a 30-cent charge to get more information about the organization.
The recorded message, which is updated daily, gives a number to call for further information and an address where upset consumers can send petitions asking for the old Coke back.
Dave Wilson, a Kansas City, Kani-
native who works for the group in Seatlau-
da, said that the Old Cola Drinkers toll line had been receiving 500 to 1,000 calls a day since last Mon.
day from across the United States and Canada.
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"I'd guess we've got about 10,000 supporters," Wilson said.
The new Coke can be found all across the country now.
"We achieved 100 percent distribution over Memorial Day weekend," said Ron Coleman, a spokesman for Coca Cola.
The taste of the new soft drink has been described as "smoother, rounder, yet bolder" a more hairy flavor. Coca-Cola Chair man Roberto Guizeta
Other drinkers describe it [if not]
"I flirtates like Pops, it's lousy and we don't like it. Wilson said. And I won't give up."
We better come drunk for years.
However, some prefer the retu-
mated version.
"I like it, just because it tastes more like Pepsi, though," said Anastasia Shilling. Tonganoxie junior.
"But it doesn't even taste that good, because it tastes like watered down Pepsi."
Some information for this story was provided by United Press International
By Shawn Aday
City delays decision on rezoning request
The Lawrence City Commission last night decided to delay until July is a decision on a rezoning request by a local credit union.
Staff Reporter
The School Employees Credit Union, 1013 W. Sixth St., had asked the city to rezone two lots next to its drive in facility from multi-family to residential office. The request was met by opposition from the Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Association.
The two lots lie southwest of the intersection of Sixth and Alabama streets.
Ed Collier, representative of the credit union, said SECU wished to expand onto the lots from its drive in facility that is adjacent on the west. The expansion would be a residential office building. Collier said.
But if the zone change is approved, and the property is not developed as proposed, the three lots that hold the drive in facility would be "highly likely to be occupied by a fast food place later on." Price Banks, county planning director, told the commission
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"We suspect that because of the way the books would have to be organized, we'll have to write off a substantial loss." Collier said.
Ann Culp, representing the neighborhood association, requested that the commission delay its decision until after the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission meets June 26.
The three lots that contain the
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The commission has delayed until then a decision on its own request that the three lots that contain the land be delivered commercial to residential office.
*Collier asked the request should be considered separately. He said a change in zoning from commercial to residential office for the three drive-in facility lots would "take money in credit notes of the credit union's depositors."
Several commissioners said they thought the zoning should be considered for all live at once instead of acting on the request for just two of the lots, particularly since the proposal is to build a unified complex on all the lots.
drive-in facility are now zoned commercial
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