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University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1983
Balloons becoming popular with adults
By SARA KEMPIN
by SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
The toy soldier enters the office and marches up to the nearest desk. He holds a basket of candy attached to a dozen colorful balloons. As the office workers giggle and applaud, the child descends on the desk "Happy birthday to you..."
Once found most often at children's birthday parties and circuses, balloons have become more popular in the first two years with adults, who have started sending balloon bouquets to their flower-land arrangements to their friends.
SANDRA BROSE, business manager of Heaven Sent Balloons, 1842 Learned St., said sending balloons to a location with intensive alternative to sending flowers.
"That's not always the case when they receive flowers," she said. "Getting ballooned is an experience. It's entertainment. When we deliver flowers, it can be fun on a desk if the person's not there. We come back to sing to them later."
When people receive balloons, they become the center of attention, Brose said.
Haitham Ghosheh, Lawrence senior, leaves his home, where he operates the Heaven Sent Balloons business, on his way to deliver a bouquet.
Brose said that the balloon bouquets could be delivered by people dressed in tuxedos, harsh costumes, togas, which costumes and widen's weeds.
FOR AN EXTRA charge, people can send a singing telegram with the bullets, she said.
Balloon bouquets usually cost about $15 or $20, she said.
Often people send bouquets of black balloons to their friends for their 30th birthday, she said.
Brose says she dresses in black windex's weeds to deliver the black balloons and moans, "It's your 30th birthday and the grim riem has
A lot of people get embarrassed and try to ignore that the balloons are for them, she said.
"But most of the time, when we don't sing they are disappointed," she said.
She said that one time someone sent a balloon bouquet with a basket of erotic chocolate candies in the shape
of various male body parts to a man for his 40th birthday,
Snaider, assistant pledge trainer for the Sigma Kapor sorya, said the sorority's pledge class had 167 members and for Valentine's Day to raise money
THEY PUT bubble gum and candy in a container and attached red, pink and white balloons, she said.
The balloons cost $3 each, and the pledges made a large profit from the project.
bottops aren't as sentimental or romantic as flowers." Sauder said. "Some women might hesitate to send a flower to a man, but they probably wouldn't be embarrassed to send a guy balloons."
Nancy Hughes, owner of Balloons Unlimited, Route 1, said she thought balloons are a festive and lighthearted way to brighten someone's
"We've sent a bottle of champagne or a can of beer in a basket attached to a bunch of balloons to someone," she said.
someone who didn't smile," she said.
FOR AN EXTRA CHARGE, people can send singing telegraphs along with the balloons, she said.
"I've never delivered balloons to someone who didn't erase," she said.
But she said she thought balloon bouquets were a fad.
I don't know why florists have resisted additions to what they offer. I've always thought florists would take over the balloon bouquet business and other smaller companies would go out of business," she said.
DON RANDEL, president of Owens
Flower Shop, 844 Indian St., said that
Owens had started selling balloons
about a year ago to fill a customer
Gwen Leible, manager of Alexander Flowers, 826 Iowa St., said it was just as easy to be creative with balloons as with flowers.
"Balloon orders are a relatively new thing for us," she said. "But, lately we have been getting more orders for them."
"We got several requests for balloons to go along with floral arrangements," he said. "We should have gotten into it earlier."
He said that Owens created inex-
expensive, showy centerpieces by tying
five or six balloons to a greenery bough.
Debbie Nuss, manager of the Flower Shoppe. 1101 Massachusetts St, said sending balloons was a trend.
"Balloons are fun," she said. "They
are appropriate for all occasions and for people of all ages."
SHE SAID balloons started getting popular about a year and a half ago.
"When we first started selling balloons, we sold one or two a week," she said. "Now we sell one or two a day."
Unexpected drenchings from lawn sprinklers will no longer be a problem for some KU students because new automatic sprinklers are being installed near Marvin, Malott and Lindley halls.
New underground sprinklers to save money, stop soakings
The underground sprinkler systems, one on the west side of Malott and the other between Marvin and Lindley, will allow the University to water the grass at night, when water demand and pedestrian traffic are low, the assistant director of landscape maintenance said yesterday.
THE TWO sprinkler systems should be completed by next week, said Jim
Once installed and hooked to the University's water pipes, the sprinklers will pop up when activated, saving both employee time and water, he said.
The sprinklers are expected to pay
for themselves within three to four years. Mathes said.
The University supplied the $10,000 worth of materials — pipes, sprinkler heads, valves and control mechanisms — used in the projects. The systems were installed by private companies at a cost of about $8,000, he said.
Yesterday, workers from Water-scape Irrigation, Prairie Village, were burying pipe west of Malott for sprinklers.
THE SPRINKLERS between Marvin and Lindley, which were installed by Blackburn Nurseries and Lawn Service. Topeka, are already in the ground but require a few minor adjustments, he said.
Doug Luka, service manager for the firm, said watering the grass at night would reduce evaporation, which occurred when the water was watered during the heat of the day.
KU acquires African art
The KU Museum of Anthropology has received three important contributions to its African art collection, a museum curator said yesterday.
Reinhild Janzen, the curator and research associate for the museum, said that two of the additions were donated by alumni and that she purchased the third while in Africa last fall when her husband, Jude, began an anthropology spans six months there as a Fulbright Research Scholar.
"What's exciting about these gifts is that they are quality objects and represent objects from cultures where they have not had objects before," she said.
THE ALUMNI who made donations were H. Kenneth Palmer, general manager of a credit service firm in New York and Larry Welling of the Bank of New York.
Palmer added 21 new pieces, including a rare ceremonial mask and costume, to a collection of African sculpture he gave the University in
Included in the Wellings' gift are masks used to train girls for their roles in a dance troupe.
known instance of women wearing masks in Africa.
Also in the the Wellings' gift was a drinking horn with carved images of animals from the past.
Janzen said that masks were used in social and religious rituals as well as for entertainment and teaching purposes.
"They can be used as keys to unlock cultures, some of which don't exist."
THE MASKS can be examined for their artistic qualities and as symbols of identity.
Janzen also brought a complete ceremonial costume made by the designer, Ms. Schaerer.
The costume consists of beaded garments and a floor-length beaded headband, train and neck ornaments and hair accessories. The costumes are around their necks, ankles and wrists.
JANZEN SAID the collection could benefit any interested in any aspect of African culture, as well as those studying anthropology or art.
The exhibit can be seen by calling the museum and making an appointment. The museum's permanent exhibitions are scheduled to open this fall.
Alleged plan to kill Walesa tied to 1981 shooting of pope
By United Press International
ROME — Italian prosecutors yesterday notified a Bulgarian already implicated in the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II that he had been charged with conspiracy to kill Pope Solidarity leader Lech Walesa.
Prosecutor Ferdinando Imposito, who has been investigating an alleged Bulgarian esponge ring in Italy, filed a notification of charges against Sergey Ivanov Antonov, Roman station chief of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines.
THE ITALIAN news agency ANSA said the charges probably were linked to the reported conspiracy to kill Walessa, leader of the banned Solidarity
trade union in Poland, during his visit to Italy in January 1981.
Antonov, 35, was arrested Nov. 25 and jailed on charges of complicity with Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot the pope May 13, 1981.
Under Italian law, the notification to Antonov is not a formal indictment, but it means charges will be brought when more evidence is gathered.
In Sofia, Dimitir Dimitrov, director general of Bakhan Airlines, voiced concern over Antonov's health, hinting that he might have suffered from nervous disorders during his prison stay.
IN ANKARA, officials said Agca, who is serving a life sentence in Italy for attempting to kill the pope, would be charged with taking military court on the same charges.
On the record
FOUR KANSAS STATE UNIVER-
SITY students were arrested last
weekend in connection with the theft of
a trash can, valued at $240, from Taco
John's, 1626 W. 23rd St.
A CAR STEREO, worth an estimated $350, was stolen Sunday from a Lawrence resident's car parked in the 500 block of Fireside Drive.
KU POLICE arrested a suspect Saturday in connection with the theft of a moped near Robinson Center, police said. The moped, valued at $200, was stolen from a rack in front of the building.
ANOTHER MOPED, worth an estimated $245, was stolen last weekend from a resident of Stouffor Place. Police have no suspect in the crime.
Rhine village boasts miracle water
The millionaire owner of a restaurant-chain offered to donate $345,000 to build a chapel just outside Ranschbach, near Mainz, the Beld newsman reported.
THE MILLIONAIRE, who was not identified, is one of an estimated 60,000 people who have swarmed to the village
of 630 inhabitants since reports of miracle cures began appearing in the West German press about two weeks ago.
For the past three weeks, lines of some 10,000 people have formed at the spring named Our Beloved Lady of Kaltenbrom. Officials are limiting visitors to five liters of water each day, producing a scant 12 liters a month.
RANCHBACH, West Germany — A West German millionaire who claims that drinking spring water in Ranchbach miraculously cured his kidney aliment offered yesterday to turn the island village into a miniature Lourdes.
A bus has begun shuttling between the spring, at a 13th-century shrine, and the village's bursting guest house called "To the Savior."
ENCOURAGED BY THE attention, one large company was reportedly
looking for a site to build a hotel in the village and local real estate agents were advertising building lots boasting a view of the spring. Lot prices have soared from a pre-miracle $20 a square yard to $80.
With a general election scheduled for Sunday, Heiner Geissler, West German minister for the family, last week was named as a bureaucracy was coming to Rangelbeh.
He ordered a painstaking chemical analysis of the water to see if the results would justify state help to develop facilities in the village, which is about seven miles from Geissier's country retreat.
By United Press International
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT DAY
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With cuts coming from the federal level and a very austere state budget, students need all the help they can get in finding a job. ASK proposed and Governor Carlin recommended a $700,000 State Work Study Program.
NOW WE NEED YOUR HELP.
To increase student employment or just to save existing jobs, we're asking you to voice your support. Just stop by the ASK office and use the open phone line to the Kansas Legislature, or write two letters to your representative and drop them by our office, B105 Kansas Union, 864-3710. We'll supply postage and mail the letters to targeted representatives.
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