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KANSAN
Published since 1889 by students at the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 150 (USPS 650-640)
Friday morning. June 15. 1984
Circus life draws variety of talent
By KAREN MASSMAN Staff Reporter
Many children dream of running away with the circus. The glamour and excitement have made it irresistible in their eyes.
never let the green
THEY MADE THE circus a way of life.
law and two granddaughters traveled and performed in the circus.
"A father likes to have his boy follow in his footsteps," Williams said.
But the 250 people traveling around the United States with the Carson & Barnes Circus, which stopped for two shows at the Douglas County 4-4 H Fairground on Wednesday, were different from the children who never lived the dream.
you're young, you don't know that there is anything else, she said.
"It's kinda like a small town. We have our school teacher and water boy."
school teacher and water boy.
WILLIAMS SAID that the circus was one of
Bill Reyns, superintendent of horses and menagerie, joined the circus after he was unable to find a job as a school teacher.
He said that he wanted a chance to play his trombone so he first joined the circus band.
Iman joined the circus for the travel and to get away from her job at Burger King. Unlike other jobs, she said, the circus couldn't be forgotten after hours.
THEY MADE THE circus a way of life. "You eat, drink and smoke circus." Plummer, Imman, balerina elephant rider and wrestler, and "and you still have the circus at your back."
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You eat, drink and smoke circus. You go on and you still have the circus at your back. Robbles Iman, circus performer
- Pebbles Inman, circus performer
D. R. Williams, owner of the Carson and Barnes Circus, the circus is a family tradition. Williams' father owned a circus before him, and his wife, daughter, son-inthe few forms of entertainment that had never been censored. He enjoys seeing the country, and the children that come to the circus.
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His daughter Laura Brook, equated growing up in the circus with playtime. When
Jeanie Reyndes, his wife, was a social worker before becoming a horse rider. During the off season they take care of the animals and handle the bookings.
"I always loved the circus, and one day I saw a chapere to get with it," Charlie Bellieh
circus public relations representative, said.
Bellatti was a college public relations
representative before joining the circus 8
years ago.
"The circus is a good street environment". Wilson said. "I don't like the isolation in a TV show."
PHILIP WILSON, a clown, worked for a public television station, on and off camera before he worked for the circus. He was also a street performer, so that it was not economically worthwhile.
Okie Carr, elephant trainer, quit school 27 years ago when he was 14 years old to join the circus. He was a lion and tiger trainer before working with the elephants.
Carr said that he liked the challenge, and the change of scenery
"It's home." Carr said. "It's never a grind from day to day."
Williams travels to Mexico during the off months of December, January, and February to scout for performers.
Williams said that foreign entertainers made better performers because the children worked for their parents, rather than the other way around.
Larry Weaver/KANSAN
Administration request upsets Senate officers
By KAREN MASSMAN
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Maudie Lou 'Flio' Bayless, a circus clown for the Carson & Barnes Circus, enjoys some reading between acts. Bayless is from Detroit, Mich.
The office of student affairs has recently asked that the Student Senate payroll be signed by an administrative staff member, and that Senate salary salaries be approved by the Student Senate Executive Committee.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that if the payroll procedure was not passed, no Senate staff members would be paid until action was taken.
Higherger and Vogel also said in the letter that they had been led to concerning
AMBLER, they said, had asked that his office approve the Senate staff paychecks because Highbierger and Vogel were on both an hourly and a monthly payroll — a situation he told them was unique to the Senate staff.
Highberger and Vogel, in addition to the monthly payroll checks for their Senate staff work, receive hourly payroll checks for other jobs they hold on campus.
But in their letter, they said that Kevin Neal, the Senate transportation coordinator during the 1983-84 year, had also been on an hourly payroll and that his timesheets had only required a signature from the Senate treasurer.
Senate staff salaries have been approved in the Revenue Code of the Senate, and signed only by the Senate treasurer in the past. Highjigger said.
AMBLER TOLD Highberger that he wanted Ann Ewesole, director of student organizations and activities, to sign the payroll and see whether the Senate staff was turning in the appropriate number of hours.
But Hilberger resents the administration's interference.
"I don't think we owe Dr. Ambler justification for anything we do here." Highberger said "Our books are open. It's important to justify to the students, not to
AT THE STUDEX meeting tomorrow at 11.30 a.m., Bob Walker, StudEx chairman, will restate Ambler's demand to change the present Senate payroll system.
Ambler said that it was the Senate's prerogative to set the salaries and that he would not interrefe. But, he said. Eversole's signing of the Senate staff payroll would be a system of checks and balances.
Anti-Vatican activists spread material in KC
By SHAWNA SEED
Staff Reporter
"The Pope's Secrets," a controversial religious pamphlet claiming that the Roman Catholic Church controls all governments in the world, has made its debut in this area.
The pamphlet has attracted national attention. It charges that "the Vatican is posing as Snow White, but the Bible says that she is a prostitute, the great whore," a cult. She uses government agencies as her vicious little dwarfs."
Copies of the pamphlet, produced by the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation, were left on cars parked in downtown Kansas City earlier this week.
TONY ALAMO, AT the foundation's headquarters in Alma, Ark., said that he did not know who was distributing the pamphlet in the Kansas City area, but that 50 million copies would be distributed in the States. He said that he did not think that the pamphlet had appeared in this area before.
The Alamo Foundation is not affiliated with any established church or deomina-
"The Pope's Secrets" offers several examples of what the pamphlet calls the Catholic conspiracy. Among them are claims that the Vatican engineered the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln.
The pamphlet also charges that the Vatican is responsible for World War II.
"World War II with casualties of more than 30 million deaths was conjured up and sponsored by the Vatican – Hitler, Mussolini and Franco were all members of this sect," he said. "We want to win the world not for Christ, but for the Catholic, the antichrist," the pamphlet says.
ALAMO ACKNOWLEDGED that the pamphlet had generated national controversy. He said that Catholic officials and evangelical Christians like the Rev. Billy Graham and
Pat Robertson, a television evangelist, had criticized the namibmlet.
The Rev. Bill Porter of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center said that he was not familiar with the pamphlet, and that he had not heard any complaints about it from area residents. But he said that pamphlets like it were not uncommon.
Porter's only comment on the pamphlet's claims was, "I think it takes a disturbed person to create that kind of propaganda, and I didn't." And that is what he believed it. I can't take it very seriously. "
ALAMO SAID THAT in addition to the 50 million U.S. copies of the pamphlet, more copies had been sent to Central and South America, where they enjoyed the happiness and "places. I don't even know about."
Alamo said that religious officials who criticized the pamphlet were not "true Christians." He said that "true Christians" appreciated the pamphlet because they knew its contents were true, and were motivated by love.
Alamo said "the entire Catholic nation has risen up against" the pamphlet. However, he said that some former Catholic nuns and students were among those who responded to the response he had received was favorable.
"We have outposts all over the country," he said.
The Alamo Foundation sends the pamphlet to people on its mailing list. Alamo said
"We don't hate the Catholics." he said. "We love the Catholics. We hate their hierarchy and their world satanic church."
Porter said that such criticism of the Catholic Church seemed to be increasing.
Alamo agreed that criticism of the Catholic Church was increasing, and said that it was because "all true born-again Christians are upset about this."
"It HAS BEEN around forever, but it does seem like it's more prevalent now," he said.
Alamo and his wife, Susan, who died two years ago, started the foundation 15 years ago.
Audio-Reader brings news to sightless
By CINDY HOBSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
"It makes you feel like a part of the
team, it feels like you are part of the
team."
Lucille Parli, who is visually impaired, was speaking of the University of Kansas Audio-Reader Network, 1150 W. 11th St. a non-profit closed circuit radio station staffed by a group of professionals and volunteers. The staff helps to keep the campus safe. The staff is informed by reading current magazines, books and newspapers over the air.
Her husband, who is also visually impaired, enjoys listening to the sports programming. They both like to listen to the Sunday morning newspapers, and she said she especially liked the reading of the advertisements for grocery stores.
If someone asks me if I read Ann
and/or Art Bichtwald, I can say yes.
If someone asks me if I read Anne
and/or Art Blichfeld, I can say yes.
THE MONTHLY PROGRAM guide that shows you from Audio Reader in written Belleville, NJ.
"It's a great service, we're thankful for it," she said.
Audio-Reader has an audience of 10,000 listeners across the state, said Diana Frederick, coordinator of volunteers. To receive the broadcasts, a special receiver that Audio-Reader issues free of charge is installed.
Audio-Reader is broadcast on a subcarrier signal of KANU, the University-owned FM radio station, Frederick said. The network is also broadcast through radio stations in Concordia, Hutchinson and provided to 13 other Kansas cities by cable service. Twelve low-power stations provide service to western Kansas.
THE STAFF includes volunteers, students who work for credit, and announcers who work in a student hourly capacity, Frederick said.
"We have incredible people working for us," she said, "all different kinds of people. The oldest is 86, and the youngest is 14." Ms. Jacksoncke said, "did special holiday programming."
To become a reader, an applicant is required to go through a two-part audition. Frederick said. The first consists of a reading test and the fourth four different types of reading samples.
"I feel bad when we have to turn someone down, but we have to ensure a
Mark McKenzie, Lawrence senior, and radio station's major film major, works for Rita Adelia Alberg.
STUDENTS ARE ONLY allowed to receive six hours of credit working for Audio-Reader, and McKenzie said that he had already amassed five.
Audio-Reader is a good opportunity to get on the-air experience, McKenzie said.
"I was lucky to fall into it," he said.
I was lucky to catch it, he said. Lennie Shaffer, Lawrence senior, works
"Reading the funnies is hard to do. You need acting ability and four or five totally distinct voices. The action gets fast and furious."
AUDIO-READER recently received a $60,000 federal grant, Hadley said, that was used to buy new tape recorders. "They will be the last new equipment purchase for a long time, so they have to last forever."
KU's Audio-Reader, Hadley said, was a "highly-respected service." Some of the programs are sent to the more than 115 radio reading services in the country.
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Eleanor Symons, reference librarian and bibliographer at Watson Library, said that she had been in an audio-reader volunteer for 12 years. When she found out
"A lot of people think this isn't radio," Hadley said. He pointed out that Kansas City, Mo., commercial radio station MO 1089, is one of the equipment that Audio-Reader had
Reading the funnies is hard to do. You need acting ability and four or five totally distinct voices. The action gets fast and furious.
— Art Hadley, Audio-Reader
"Audio-Reader is very similar to a commercial radio station," he said.
as an Audio-Reader announcer 15 to 20 hours per week in the summer. As an announcer, he has a wide range of duties, including cueing tapes, broadcasting news and weather and filling in for absent readers.
Art Hadley, engineering and production head at Audio-Reader, said that he also recorded Playboy magazine and the funnies.
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in 1971 that KU was starting an audio- reader network, she began taping books on her own.
SHE VOLUNTEERS FOR the network,
she said, because she enjoyed reading
about people.
N newspapers are a challenge, Symons said, because they are read live for two hours at a time. Books are taped before broadcast in serial form one hour per day.
"I wish I had more time for it."
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