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University Daily Kansan, July 8, 1983
Miniature golfers must travel to play game
By ED GROM
Staff Reporter
Lawrence has its share of theaters, shops, restaurants and recreation facilities to accommodate a leisurely evening for the average person, but one thing is lacking — a miniature golf course.
A person from Lawrence hoping to find the ups and downs of a miniature golf course must travel 30 miles or so to reach a resort, Kan., for a round of miniature golf.
DEAN RABE, of the Sports Center in Topeak, said that a Lawrence couple slapped on his miniature golf course for not closing time and mentioned that they
had gotten lost trying to find the course.
he has not trying to陪 the course.
He said that the couple had to hurry
to finish the round and did not have
enough time to enjoy the course.
"We get some people from Lawrence, but there may be more because not everybody tells us where they're from," Rabe said.
Why must somebody from a place the size of Lawrence have to go through the trouble of finding such places and that distance to play miniature golf?
Lawrence once had a miniature golf course, at 1810 23rd St. from 1972 to 1975, but the owner, Thaine High, was forced to close it because he could no longer afford payments according to Rabe, a business acquaintance of High.
"THAINE HIGH had a successful place at one time but that land became liquid gold and he could no longer afford to keep it there." Rabe said. "An investment business bought the land and built a shopping center there."
John Myers of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce said that a miniature golf course probably would succeed in the city but that the cost of land in a prime location and operating expenses would be high.
"We had one in the city a few years ago, but he had to close because of the increasing cost of the land." Myers said. "I didn't close because of lack of interest."
Safety Way Stores bought the land where the old course stood in 1976 and rented it out to local businesses.
to Aetna Life Insurance Co. in 1979. The land is now part of the shopping mall at 23rd and Iowa streets.
"I REMEMBER a bunch of us went there on my birthday when Putt-Putt was open," said Darren Cole, Lawrence sophomore. "That place was a lot of fun. I hope they open another one some day."
Another KU student, Don Wahl,
Lincoln, Kan. junior, said that Lawrence would be a good location but that
a college education because of the college students.
"I think a place like that would go here, and a lot of the students would enjoy it," Wahl said.
Rabe said that he looked into the
possibilities of opening a course in Lawrence but that he decided not to because of the high land costs and the cost of starting a new one.
"I bought my place in Topeka from a guy who went bankrupt, so I already had the nucleus of the business," Rabe said. "You are looking at about $4,000 per hole you put in and add another $150,000 for the land. For a successful course, you need 36 holes, so you have $300,000 right there.
"THE PROBABILITY of building a course is not economically sound. You have to have the money to start with, and there is an opportunity that you can do well."
"If I had the money on hand, I might trv one in Lawrence," he said.
Body is identified as soldier, 20 missing 4 months
By United Press International
FORT RILEY — Army pathologists were conducting an autopsy on a 26-year-old soldier who had been killed in a shooting and determine the cause of his death.
Yesterday, officials at Fort Riley identified the body of the man who was found in a pile of driftwood Wednesday afternoon in the Kansas River as Joseph Lemon, said Fort Riley spokesman Donna Beach.
The body was discovered in a three-day search that began after a Fort Riley caretaker found arm and hand bones near the river.
A pathologist at Irwin Army Community Hospital identified the body through dental records.
Beach said an autopsy was not complete and officials had not deter- tion.
Ticket orders slow for 1984 Summer Olympics
"They have found nothing at this point to indicate foul play." Beach said.
Bv JOHN UNREIN
Staff Writer
Nationwide ticket orders for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles have dropped off considerably in recent weeks, according to a representative of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee.
And if reports from area Sears stores are any indication, the trend is true in the United States.
LESS THAN 300 Olympic ticket order forms, which have been available since June 15, have been distributed from the two Sears stores in Lawrence and Topeka, according to Sears employees at the stores.
Sears stores in the Kansas City area also reported slow distribution of order from
High ticket prices may be one cause for the present lack of orders.
A ticket to the July 28 opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics
The Olympic basketball season ticket guaranties the holder the same seat for all 63 games held at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif., home of the Los
Angeles Lakers. One basketball season tickets cost from $1,000 to $2,000.
OTHER OLYMPIC PRICES range from as low as $10 for a ticket to see the soccer finals in the Rose Bowl to as high as $50 for a ticket to gymnastics all-around finals at UCLA.
KU students interested in beating the high cost of tickets might do so by working at the Olympics next summer. Applicants must send a resume to the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, Human Resources Dept., Los Angeles, Calif., 90084. Applicants must be more than 16 years old.
Another reason for the decline of ticket orders, at least nationally, according to an organizing committee representative, is that people are simply putting off ordering until the last minute.
"The first couple of weeks we were swamped," said Pam Sonntag, customer relations representative. "It's really slacked off now though.
"ONCE PEOPLE REALIZED they had until August to get their orders in."
the orders slowed down to a steady rate."
Sonntag explained that no ticket orders will be filled before Aug. 15, 1983. Instead, ticket orders will be given ticket assignments by a computer on a first-come, first-served basis.
After the August deadline, assignments will be erased for events that have been overbooked. Sonntag said, "We had already placed in a pool for a random drawing.
Order forms placed in the pool will then be grouped into categories based on events and prices. Separate random drawings will be held for each category, and order forms that are drawn will be filled.
THE BEST TICKETS, Sonntag said, will be given to the randomly drawn orders that are received at the earliest opportunity, an advantage to sending in orders early.
"This is probably the fairest distribution of tickets in the history of the event." Sonntag said.
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No other tickets will be available for these events after they are sold out.
Although no events have been overbooked as of yet, Somning said, the opening and closing ceremonies and the final game will be in boxing and basketball probably will be.
Ticket order forms are available from Sears stores throughout the country, Sonntag said, and payment must be enclosed with the order.
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Bonds later moved to the University of Cincinnati where he was recruiting coordinator the past two seasons.
Bonds was originally hired as assistant coach March 1, but his position was never made final, and he is now defensive coordinator Ron Zonk.
Eumont comes to the Jahyws from Tulane University where he served as defensive coordinator on a team that won offensive coordinator Buddy Gels.
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Zook said Bonds had been filling the position of recruiting coordinator at KU before being named defensive ends coach.
Bonds, who in 1975 played fullback at the University of Cincinnati while Gottfried was assistant coach, began his coaching career in 1978 at Murray State University in Murray. Here Gottfied was the head coach.
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Gottried named one of his former players, Jay Bonds, as defensive ends coach and Vic Eumont as head coach. The new staff will start their new Job Aug. 15.
Coach hires two veterans for'83 staff
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Kansas coach Mike Gottfried rounded out his coaching staff for the coming season by hiring two assistant coaches yesterday.
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