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University Daily Kansan, April 7, 1982
Rental typewriters plentiful at term paper writing time
By CYNTHIA HRENCHIR Staff Writer
Four local businesses rent typewriters to KU students, usually on a weekly or monthly basis. Crane has the largest number available.
There are almost 200 typewriters waiting to help in the mad scramble to finish term papers in Lawrence.
"We have 100 to 150 here in town," John Richardson, Crane store manager said yesterday. And we can have it overnight overnight them from Topka."
the biggest crunch for typewriters comes during the summer session and during finals, Richardson said.
Because students usually need typewriters for only a short time, all four companies rent either on a weekly or monthly basis. Crane and Co. and Strong's Office, 1040 Verde Drive, one-on-two week and three-week rates.
Crane and Co. has three types of machines available.
"We have reconditioned IBMs, the Selectric type with the ball type; Smith Coronas, which are electric machines," Richardson said, and manuals." Richardson said.
"The IBMs are the most popular because of the ball. People have trouble with the Coronas because they are so heavy."
The IBMs also are more expensive, Richardson said. They rent for $25 a week or $45 a month, while the Smith Coronors are $2.50 a week and $4 a week and the manuals are $10 and $20.
"We are charging $12 for a week and $30 for a month," he said. "If the office is full, we will come to the second floor and into the main office of the union."
Students also can rent typewriterists on campus. The KU Bookstore began renting typewriterists a year Steve Word, general manager, said.
Strong's Office Systems had all 30 of their rental typewriter writers out. Owner Jack Strong agreed with Richardson that it was more
economic to rent by the month or longer.
Strong's wili rent Smith Coronas at $18 a week and $31.50 monthly.
"They have the detachable cartridge. We supply a fabric one," Strong said. The eraserable cartridge works better, and it thinks it's easier to use a slider eraser.
"The average term paper I've done is usually 10 pages," she said.
But if a student has only one term paper and it is less than 20 pages, it might be more practical from an economic point of view to have a typet do the paper, according to a professor's advice. $1 per double-spaced typed page.
The cost of renting a typewriter,
would be $2 a page for most of the
machines rented and $1.20 for the
least expensive.
If a student wants to rent a typewriter and all 200 in town are already rented, KU students have another opportunity—the IBM service office in Lawrence. Although rentals are handled out of the Topeka office, salesmen are able to bring rentals to Lawrence.
A 30-year-old transient was arrested at 6:10 a.m. yesterday in connection with an attempted aggravated burglary of the Site Oil Co. gas station, 946 E.
Police arrested the man, Edward Dearporter, after he allegedly pried open a south window of the gas station and attempted to enter the building. An employee who was inside the buildings called police when Porter tried to enter.
Porter is being held on $5,000 bond in the Douglas County jail pending formal charges.
On the record
THIEVES STOLE more than $350 worth of trees sometimes Monday night from the Holiday Plaza Offices, 2200 W. 92th St. police said.
Police said thieves used their hands
to pull out London plain, crab apple,
golden locust and dogwood trees. Eight
trees were missing. There are no
suspects, police said.
THEIEVES STOLE more than $350 worth of car equipment sometime between 1 and 3 p.m. Sunday from a station at 1241 Pennsylvania St., police said.
Thieves used a tool to pry off four spoke hubcaps, police said. There are no suspects.
BURGLARS STOLE more than $250 worth of equipment sometime between 2 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Monday at reception at 3600 W. Sixth St., police said.
Burglaries possibly used a credit card to burglars the locked door of the apartment and store a television, clock radio, alarm clock and a lamp, police said.
Juan Ranon Cardona was arrested in Honduras and was held for four days, Rhonda Neugebauer, LAS member, said recently.
KU's Latin American Solidarity recently protested the arrest of a member of the opposition party to El Salvador's present government.
By JANET MURPHY Staff Reporter
Latin group protests political arrest
Cardona is now a permanent U.S. resident.
NEUGEBAUER SAID Cardona has returned to the United States, but LAS is unaware of his whereabouts.
the arrest through the U.S. Committee of
People of El Salvador in Washington, D.C.
CARDONA, a spokesman for the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR), spoke at the University of Kansas, on Easter last year.
She said those sources told LAS that Cardona was on his way to Nicaragua last Tuesday, and was detained by the authorities last week while changing planes in Teucalicua.
He was first charged with carrying subversive literature, she said, but the charges were later changed to smuggling Salvadorans to California.
Neugebauer said LAS heard about
when they heard of Carriona's arrest, Cardona, 28, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, had been a high school teacher in El Salvador. He took up permanent residence in the United States after threats to his life forced him to leave El Salvador, Neugebauer said.
LAS members made similar contacts when they heard of Cardona's arrest.
Neugebauer said details of Cardona's incarceration and release came from the Detroit office of the U.S. CISFES at 10 a.m. Monday, the time of his arrest, Cardona was blind-folded, his hands and feet were tied and he was taken away in a van.
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THE MARANATHA CAMPUS MINISTRY will sponsor a speech by Dennis Darvile at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union.
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THE STUDENT SENATE will meet
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