University Daily Kansan, November 30, 1983
CAMPUS AND AREA Storm goes north; Lawrence remains wet and snowless
By Staff and Wire Reports
The first big blizzard of the winter drifted from the snow-swept Midwest into Canada yesterday, leaving towns to shove out from head-high drifts.
The departing six-day storm, which spread snow from the Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes and left at least 50 dead in California, was Kansas but spared the Lawrence area.
The light snow that fell in the city last night may be followed by more snow today, but no accumulation is predicted, Curt Hosterman at the Kansas University Weather Service said yesterday.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER Service in Topeka predicts a high this afternoon of about 35 and a low tonight for theerman said that northeast winds wail.
The minor upper-air disturbance that has brought the flurries will move northeast out of the area today, and a low of 17 are predicted for tonight.
A large storm brought rain and snow to the West Coast yesterday after two days of hovering over the ocean, and then fell back into the sea or rain on snow to the Midwest by Friday.
Hugh Crowther of the National Weather Service in Kansas City, Mo., said a second, smaller storm had followed the first.
The piggyback storm "looks like it will be mostly up there in the mountains," he said. "We expect just 2 to 3 inches of snow elsewhere."
The National Weather Service said the new blast would not come close to matching the weekend storm, which killed six people each in Colorado, Nebraska, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota and Iowa.
DENVER — This parking lot at a rental agency is covered with snow as another storm sprinkles Denver with about 5 more inches of snow.
By DAVID SWAFFORD
Staff Reporter
CLINTON — One November after noon at dusk, a woman raking leaves in her yard across from the Clinton Store at what the store had closed for the season.
Clinton residents find reservoir changed lives
"Now the store closes in the fall and doesn't open again until spring. But when Mr. Anderson had it though, never closed down," the woman said. "A lady owns it now and she's down in Oklahoma for the holidays."
Hanging above the store's front door is a rusty Sunbeam bread sign — a sign from ages past. A peek through the front window reveals shelves lined not with Sunbeam bread, but with fishing tackle and beer coolers.
CLARENCE ANDERSON and his wife, Iola, bought the old, white country store in 1954. They ran the business, serving about 100 families, for the next 24 years. The couple said they took pride in supplying the basic needs for their customers. That meant even stocking some shelf space with school supplies for children attending the local elementary school.
When the Andersons bought the store, rumor had it that the government was going to build a reservoir and that people would have to leave.
"It was the only complete country store for miles around." Anderson said while sitting in the living room of his new, ranch style home, two blocks east of our customers' calendars every year as time. We knew them all quite well.
AS HE TALKED about the past, Anderson's brown eyes conveys the message that he really enjoyed life in college. He's talking about the reservoir, he lost that look
In 1978, the Andersons sold their store because the reservoir became a reality and people left. Fifty families left, to be exact.
"In the late 1960s and early 1970s," he said, "small country stores started going out of business because of bad economic conditions and because the construction work at the reservoir had run the roads to their supply sources."
He said that when the government bought the land for the reservoirs required to comply with the law.
With a hint of resentment in his voice, Iola complemented his observation by saying that it used to take eight minutes to get to Lawrence before the reservoir was built. She said it now took twenty minutes.
HAVING SPENT HIS whole life in the same area, Anderson knows the Clinton community well. He said Clinton was named after a town in the eastern United States and that the town's constitution was drawn and signed in 1857. According to Anderson, the country store was built in 1854.
Before running the country store, he worked as a dairy farmer. Now he spends his time doing carpentry work for his neighbors and friends.
Initially, Anderson said he quit dairy farming and bought the store because the farm work was causing him back strain. But later on he said he just went to town. Besides, it said, it would be better to raise his two daughters in town.
Douglas Co. Road 6, a two-lane paved road, runs through the heart of this tiny town on the western edge of the reservoir that was named after it. The country store sits in the center of town, facing Road 6. A big, orange Gulf oil tank stands next to the store, even though the store no longer sells Gulf gas.
"WHEN WE FIRST bought the store in 1954, we sold six-ounce bottles of Coca-Cola and Pepsi for 5 cents. Now we buy soda again now because soda pop wasn't as popular as it is now, but they still always fought over who got the front of
the rack." Anderson said.
Anderson said he could not explain why their store survived. He thought it could be because he and his wife started going after their supplies when they were closing. No longer get through because the reservoir blocked the familiar roads.
Anderson made the decision to sell the store one day while sitting on the tailgate of his pickup truck. A married apportion approach and asked him what role would they take.
BUT CUSTOMERS AFTER the reservoir wanted different supplies. And that is why he sold the country store five years ago. New people were coming in and they wanted a new product — fishing gear.
"I told them I'd have to go home and taunt it with my wife. he said." We were all ashamed.
He sold the store to a couple named Vaughan. Rose Vaughan now operates the store during the spring and summer.
Before the reservoir, the community was larger than its present population of about 70 and it was relatively quiet all year long. Now the place goes almost dormant in the winter and in the summer, as Anderson put it, "you'd think you lived on the Kansas Turnpike."
"WE FIGURE WE'VE got it, we might as well fish in it," he said. "The wife and I go down and fish quite a bit. She catches most of the fish. We never fish on the weekends, though. We leave for the idiots. Sometimes, we don't fish on Mondays if there were a lot of skiers during the weekend."
Anderson's life resembles the character of Clinton in many ways. The town has changed from an agricultural community to one oriented toward recreation. And the man who used to be the mayor of Clinton Lake Museum. But like the old, country store, the museum is only open in the spring and summer.
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