University Daily Kansan, June 24, 1983
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Wilson
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the air is thick with the spicy aroma of different tobacco.
HE CARRIES A PIPE in the pocket of his
dressed, checked pants, and a pack of cigarettes in
his pocket.
When he finishes one he fishes in his pocket for the other.
"I'll smoke anything, pipe, cigar or cigarette." Wilson said.
"I've been smoking since I was 14. It's going to kill me, you know."
Wilson said he still made customized pipes, but that the price of briar, the wood most commonly used to make pipes, had risen so fast it was no longer economical.
"It takes me anywhere from one to three hours to make a pipe, depending on the style and how well I can handle it."
"But now I can make more money just repairing pipes. I can't compete with the pipe company."
WILSON CALLS HIMSELF "the oldest bippe and most relaxed businessman in town," and says he keeps his shop because owning it is so much fun.
"When I get so I don't have fun anymore, I hope I have the sense to quit. I have to keep active. One of the most depressing things in the world are those old folks homes," he said.
Wilson is originally from Eskridge, 20 miles west of Topeka, and graduated from KU in 1941 with a degree in sociology. After two years in the Army during World War II, he returned to KU and completed 20 hours credit in the law school, but never finished.
"You never know what you'll find when you talk to an old man. Shoot, you never know what will happen to you. But I sure have had a lot of fun," he said.
Wilson has an endless stock of stories he will tell anyone who takes the time to listen when they visit his shop.
He tells stories about his time in the Army, which was mostly spent in India, and about the changes that have come to Lawrence since he first set up shop here.
He says he can stay in business because he owns the building his store is in.
"I SURE COULDN'T start now. With the rent you have to pay, the overhead and interest rates, you're dead before you start," he said.
He inherited the shop from his father-in-law, Alfred A. Lawrence, one-time mayor of Lawrence and a professional photographer in the city from 1900 to 1948.
Wilson saved 35,000 negatives he found in the shop, which now make up part of the Lawrence Photographic Collection preserved at the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka.
He converted the studio into a tobacco shop after Lawrence died.
After Lawrence and Business is slower these days for Wilson.
Business is slower these days by Winston.
"I had about 20 good years to myself in Lawrence. Now the Town Crier and others sell nips and stuff," he said.
The bloom is off the rose in the tobacco business anyway, with the anti-smoking cam-
Wilson still uses an antique cash register.
BUT GEORGE'S PIPE SHOP is more than just a business. It is a throwback to another
And on display is his father's silver railroad watch, a picture of Wilson in a KU band uniform holding a barton, and another of him with a wristwatch. He also wore the glasses came and the hair began to thin.
Wilson greets each customer as they come in. He is usually sitting in the old car seat or behind
No customer leaves the shop without Wilson saying, "Thanks for coming in. Come back any
"THE WHOLE WORLD has changed," Wilson said.
"The energy crisis put a curve in the whole works. The whole theory has changed too."
"The theory was what you could do for your country. Now the theory is to see what everyone can get from the government."
can get from the ground.
But that is not enough to get Wilson down.
"A lot of people have made more money than I have, but none has had more fun." he said.
Advisory
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He said that as chairman of SAC he was considering sending Ashner a letter regarding his comments.
student body president of the state's largest school not to attend. It damages our credibility."
'She's responsible for representing 24,000 people at these meetings. It's really hard to have an excuse for missing one since you always know months in advance when they're going to be."
He said the SAC constitution required that someone else be appointed to attend the meeting if the student body president could not.
Ordinarily, according to Ashner, if she were unable to attend a meeting, Jim Cromer, student counselor at the University, would
She said, however, that Crumer was also working full time in Kansas City, Ms., and was a teacher.
Cramer could not be reached for committal. "I would have gone if I could," she said, "if it had been a dire matter, they would have contacted me."
Cramer could not be reached for comment.
George Wingert, Regent and chairman of the Facilities Committee, said he was aware Ashner was not going to attend the meeting but he had not been told why.
The Facilities Committee is responsible for recommending funds for new buildings and maintaining existing buildings, according to Beren.
Ashner, who also is the student representative to the Facilities Committee, said, "As far as true student concerns go, the Facilities Committee is not that kind of committee."
Wingert said, when told of her comment, "If we decided to close the library, she might consider that important."
Berngean said, "Any issue is a legitimate one for a student to speak on."
for that reason there are no meetings that a student representative should not attend, he said.
"The purpose of their being there is so they can respond to inquires from the Regents," he said.
Shuttle
must be operating for a shuttle flight to proceed normally.
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The astronauts began closing the Challenger's payload bay doors to start final landing preparations as they circled Earth for the 94th time.
First word to the astronauts of the Florida weather problem came as they passed over the ocean.
"Be advised you're no go for payload bay door closing," said Gary Gardner in mission control. "We've got some low clouds forming there at the ground level, our eyes on it and hoping it to blow off."
In a wrong direction, Crippen was told a few minutes later that the flight director decided to "wave off" for the first landing attempt.
"It's for sure going to be a no go for the first opportunity." Gardner said. "We're hoping the winds will continue to pick up and blow that stuff out of there so we're looking at a one rev lately."
Heavy clouds would prevent a landing because Crippen and Hauck need to be able to see landmarks as they fly over central Florida. Rain is a "no-land" situation because drops of water hitting the shuttle at high speed would smash its ceramic insulation tiles like bullets from a gun.
All six previous shuttle flights ended with landings on desert runways where there is plenty of room for error. Water and trees border the Cape runway.
"It will be like threading a needle," Bill Williams, landing coordinator at the Kennedy Space Center, said earlier.
"We're looking forward to coming home." Crispen said as Challenger looped Earth for the 91st time since launch last Saturday. "Hope everything's still looking good."
The astronauts made it clear as soon as they were awakened shortly before midnight that they were ready to return from their six-day, $250 million milestone mission.
"As far as we can tell, everything's looking great," said Mary Cleave in mission control. She is one of the seven other women in the space corps awaiting a flight.
"Outstanding," said Crippen, sounding as buoyant as he has been all mission.
The astronauts then started final preparations for their return to Earth's atmosphere.
YESTERDAY, their sixth day in space, they put the first reusable satellite back in its berth and stored their gear.
They joked that space food was fattening, and indicated that none of them had been stricken with space sickness — a motion malady suffered by albatross half of all space fliers.
In a good night message, mission controller Guy Gardner sang in an off-key, foghorn voice,
"Goodnight ladies. Goodnight gentlemen. Good-night Dick. We'll let you go to sleep."
The astronauts responded by playing a tape of the circus tune, "The Greatest Show on Earth," which the Challenger crew members claimed as their theme song.
Challenger truly was the greatest show on or off the Earth during its flight, which provided spectacular views suitable to date. The globe of black and white spacecraft circling the globe at 17,000 mph.
THE ASTRONAUTS also aided the mission's primary goals, launching two communications satellites for paying customers and proving the shuttle can become a space repair and rescue
The power unit that developed a problem is one of three turbines that drive the pumps for the hydraulic system controlling the shuttle's aerodynamic flaps and rudder during a landing
DURING ITS streak through the atmosphere, Hauck and Crippen will fly the 102-ton Challenger like a glider to bring it home from its 2.5-million-mile mission.
WRAPPING UP their experiments, the astronauts finished testing a machine that may someday lead to the production of space medicine.
They also used the shuttle's 50-foot mechanism to arm to dangle the experimental SPAS arm.
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