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'Service' Listed as Basic Principle Behind Student Union's Bookstore
By EILEEN FOLEY
"The basic principle behind the Student Union bookstore is service," says Ray Verrey, manager.
He listed three factors which help to make it more serviceable attractiveness, good displays, and its function. "Our bookstore is one of the best in the country," he said.
Ken White, New York designer who specializes in college stores, designed the Student Union bookstore. He has done 30 or 40 throughout the country, plus several dormitories and student unions.
The new bookstore was paid for out of past profits. In June 1946, the boss of regents, the chancellor, and the All Student Council agreed on the establishment of a University bookstore. It opened in September of that year, and the following June began to pay patronage refunds. Each semester since, 15 per cent refunds have been returned to students, currently amounting to about $40,000 per year.
Proof of the bookstore's utility was shown in the February book rush. It took only 10 or 15 minutes for each student to get his books. "We have no pillerage problem here," said Mr. Verrey, "KU students are very honest, so open display is the ideal thing."
$40,000 per year.
Each refund, payable six months after purchase, is good for five years. The rates depend on the profits. "It's possible that the rate may drop due to increased operating expense, as sales have dropped from the peak post-war enrollment," Mr.
a gradual control of purchases and controls records of purchases and must be kept in order to judge accurately the number of books needed for the next term. These records are kept in costly cardex cabinets and a Wheedex.
Verrey said. "However, we expect a gradual enrollment increase soon."
The Wheeldex costs about $500 and contains a card for each volume, title, and edition. Each of four full-sized cardex cabinets, holding 800 cards, costs $200, and there are two smaller cabinets. About 3200 separate items are listed on the cards.
Although control records are costly, Mr. Verrey thinks they are a requisite for an institutional store. About 8,000 volumes of books are now on hand, but the September peak usually reaches $50,000, which, plus supplies, amounts to $250,000. Average inventory is $100,000.
Every six months $1,000 is set aside from the profits for depreciation, so that in 20 years there will be money for new furniture. A painting fund is built up by a $100 reserve each semester.
This money wasn't included in
the budget before the new store was built because profits were planned to be used for construction.
tor employees, Wright. The bookstore has 13 full-time and seven part-time employees. During rush periods 25 or 30 part-time employees are added. "We use student help whenever practicable," said Mr. Verrey, "but sometimes that means limiting service."
Other increased operating expenses nonexistent in the past are adequate store insurance, insurance for employees, freight, and salaries.
Total cost of the blond furniture and fixtures in the store was $35,000, plus the things used from the old store. Exclusive of the shell and the stock, the store's worth was estimated at $40,000 at the first of January. The glass windows and doors belong to the bookstore.
Major policies of the store are formulated by the bookstore operating committee. William Nulton, college senior, is student representative to this committee.
The new store, in operation from 8 am. to 5 p.m. daily, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, opened on Nov. 17.
Mr. Verrey has started college bookstores before. He was formerly in Montreal, Canada, where he established the McGill Union bookstore, and prior to that he was with the State College co-op at Albany, New York. "This is the nicest college shop I've ever worked in," he said.
Radio Schedule
University radio station, KANU,
heard at 91.5 megacycles on the FM
dial, will broadcast the following
programs next week. Programs from
2:30 to 3 p.m. and 7 to 7:30 p.m.
can be picked up on AM.
MONDAY
1:45—Previews
2:00—Uncle Dan
2:30—Art by Radio
3:00—Time to Visit
4:00—Music You Want When You WANT It
4:30—Concert Concerto
5:15—Opera Recital
5:25—Jazz Concert
5:45—Sports It
6:00—Candlelight Concerto
7:00—the People Act
7:30—Basketball, Colorado News follows game.
TUESDAY
1:45—Previews
2:00—Let's Find Out
2:35—Childrens News Reporter
2:45—This is KU!
3:00—Time to Visit
4:00—Music You Want When You WANT It
4:30—Stories and Stuff
5:00—Masterworks from France
5:45—Jazz Concert
5:65—Sports
6:00—Candlelight Concerto
7:00—Symphony Hall
7:20— Jazz Show
7:40—FM Concert
9:00—News
9:15—Signoff
WEDNESDAY
1:45—Previews
2:00-Distant Lands
1:55—News
2:30-Time McAllaster School
3:00-Time to Visit
4:00-Music You Want When You WANT It
4:30-Portrait Under Communism
5:00-Old Books: Old Friends
5:20-Jazz Concert
5:45-Sports
6:00-Candlelight Concerto
7:00-Effersonian Heritage
7:30-concert
8:00-Starlight Symphony
9:00-News
9:15-signoff
THURSDAY
1:45—Previews
2:00-Tales from the Four Winds
2:30-Adventures in Music Land
3:00-Time to Visit
4:00-Music You Want When You WANT It
4:30-Folskos and Footnotes
5:00-This is Music
5:20-Jazz Concert
5:45-Sports
6:00-Candlelight Concerto
7:00Your Kansas Legislature
7:30-Phog Allen Scrapbook
7:40-Thursday, Phadowsy
7:60-Chamber Music
9:00-News
9:15-signoff
FRIDAY
1:45-Previews
2:00-Growing Up
2:15-News
2:30-Time for a Story
2:45-Time to Visit
4:00-Music You Want When You WANT It
1:45—Previews
2:00—Growing Up
2:15—News
2:30 Time for a Story
3:00 Time to Visit
4:00 Music You Want When You
   Want It
4:30 Southland Serenade
4:50 Fifteen Stories
5:00 Keepsong Concert
5:20 Jazz Concert
5:45 Sports
6:00 Candeliight Concert
6:00 Music from Mt. Oread
7:30-Basketball. Iowa State
News follows game.
SUNDAY
No broadcast.
SUNDAY
1.45 - Previews
2.50 - Incursions in Science
2.50 - News
2.30 - London Studio Concerts
2.30 - UN Story
2.30 - Strings
2.30 - Masterworks Story
2.45 - The Musician Comments
4.00 - Vespers
4.00 - Music for the Connoisseur
4.00 - Candlèlight Concert
7.00 - Ways of Mankind
7.00 - Sonata Recital
8.00 - World Theater
9.00 - News
9.15 - Signoff,
Bigamist Drops Two Wives
100s Angeles —(U,P)— Francis H. Van Wie, the cherubic dong dong daddy of San Francisco, admitted he has "had enough of married life" today after sheing wives 14 and 16 during a quick trip to the city.
The pudgy, 66-year-old ex-motorman, serving a six-month sentence at the county prison farm on a bigamy conviction, was accompanied here yesterday by a deputy for the court proceedings.
Expect Return Order Monday for Suspects
Denver—(U.P.)—Louis Albert Sturgis, 23, and Virginia Isaer, 20, who confessed helping to rob a Kansas City, Kan., bank but who stoutly denied they later murdered their accomplices, probably will be ordered returned to Kansas City on Monday.
Sturgis and Miss Iser were brought to the county jail here yesterday from Pueblo, Colo., where last Sunday they were captured in an old barn. Authorities found $8,000 of the $48,907 stolen from the Rosedale State bank on July 21 in their possession. They signed an FBI confession that they pulled the robbery with James and Billie Fahnestock, who later were found shot to death.
U. S. Marshal Maurice Smith said a federal judge probably would issue a removal warrant on Monday to return Sturgis and Miss Iser to Kansas City. He would not say when the transfer would take place.
The FBI is holding them on $50-000 bond, Kansas City police still consider them the chief suspects in the Fahmestock murders.
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KU's Six New Bowling Alleys.
Bowling Alleys, Pool Tables Always Crowded at Union
Bowling alleys and pool tables in the Student Union recreation room have been crowded most of the time since the opening of the area Feb. 5.
In the three weeks that the room has been in use, students have averaged more than 200 games a day on six bowling alleys. In addition, they have played many games of snooker and rotation on the four pool tables.
B. C. Fearing, director of the recreation room, said that 238 games have been the most bowled in one day. Victor Scott, engineering junior, has rolled the highest score-235
Mr. Fearing said the only time the alleys are not full is when there are not enough pin-setters to work all of them. Pool tables are full almost constantly.
All games in the room will be free for the grand opening of the union building, although Mr. Fearing said patrons undoubtedly will have to be limited to one game to accommodate the expected large crowd.
In addition to regular student patronage, bowling classes are conducted each morning, enabling more persons to become acquainted with the sport.
Plans are under way to start a women's bowling league for organized teams on the campus.
One question before the opening was whether or not there would be much feminine participation in the games offered. The girls have answered the question. You can often see them hit a two-cushion shot on the pool tables, or get a strike on the alleys.
UN Planes Blast Red Army Center
Seoul, Korea—(U.P.)—United Nations fighter-bombers blasted a North Korean Army training center near the Yalu rveri with bombs and napalm today, leaving the sprawling target a "mass of flames."
American Sabre jets patrolled the skies while the F-84 Thunder jets carried out the attack at Chusan, but no Communist MIGs appeared. The big MIG base at Antung in attack-free Manchuria was only 30 miles away.
Returning pilots reported they destroyed at least 10 buildings and touched off huge fires.
On the ground, the increased tempo of fighting along the snow-covered front was marked by bitter no-man's land clashes and by a Red attack on the western front that was smashed by Allied big guns.
Other fighter-bombers attacked battlefront positions and bombed a rail bridge east of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. Two spans of the bridge were knocked out and a locomotive was damaged.
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