VOL. 100, NO.39 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY
OCT. 19, 1989
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Disappearing act puzzles relatives
Haskell joins search for student
By JENNIFER METZ Kansan staff writer
Last night, more than 100 faculty, staff and students from Haskell Indian Junior College continued the search for Cecil Dawes Jr., a former Haskell student and recently disenrolled KU student.
Dawes is a 21-year-old, 5" 11" male and weighs between 185 and 190 pounds. He has short black hair, brown eyes and has scars above his left eye and his right cheek, said Wylma Dawes, his mother.
The group searched the banks of the Kaw River, railroad tracks and surrounding neighborhoods near the Los Amigos Saloon, 508 Locust, where Dawes was last seen early Sunday morning.
Dawes' friends said he was involved in a fight at Los Amigos Saloon shortly
Dawes then picked up a friend,
LeeAnne Nelson, 20, Claremore,
Okla., outside the bar and drove from
the bar.
Dawes' abandoned car was hit on train tracks at 225 N. Michigan St. nearly three hours later, Nelson said Dawes parked the car on the tracks, got out and told her to hide in the bushes. Dawes then disappeared.
Wylma Dawes said she last saw her son Saturday afternoon at her home in Lawrence where Dawes came to work on his car.
She said that he seemed upset about something, but she assumed that it was because Dawes was frustrated about his car. She said he was in a generally good mood when he left their home later that afternoon.
Cecil Dawes, Lawrence, looks down the Kansas River.A search began for his son, Cecil Dawes Jr., yesterday evening.
"When he is upset, he doesn't stay up for a long time," Wylma Dawes
Guess who? Costumes for the kid in you
By Tracy Wilkinson
Kansan staff writer
Charlotte Dart, Linda Elwell, Larry Corneilus and Linda Lester sell them. They rent them. They dress people up in them. They are the people with the power to make Joe Blow into Batman or and Jane Doe into Cleopatra.
They do costumes.
All agreed that the people who come in to create costumes provide fun for them.
"People have the most interesting ideas for costumes," said Larry Cornellus, manager and owner of Fun and Games, 816 Massachusetts St. "It's fun to try to work out their ideas with the accessories we have to make the costume work for them."
Walking in to Fun and Games is like walking into a toy jungle. Blue, green, red and yellow panels strapped with masks and toys line its walls. Innumable sizes and shapes of plastic knives and weaponry are on the ceiling. Suspended from the ceiling are pinatas, plastic globes, stuffed animals and hundreds of masks and other odds and ends.
"We have about 50 different costume packages," Cornelius said. "I try to carry a lot of different accessories. You can pretty much individualize your costume."
Cornelius said it was interesting to be a resident expert for costume shoppers looking for details that could be from television shows from a decade ago.
"It is interesting to try and come up with ideas, or at least come up with the resources to get them," he said.
Fun and Games is for all ages, he said,
"Our basic quilt is 'the specialty store for
you'"
the kid in everyone. We aren't strictly a kid
tour. "Corvallis, seid." "We're a fun tour."
Linda Lester owner The Etc. Shop, 732 Massachusetts St. Her husband, Robert Lester, said they had an overwhelmingly positive experience with their customers.
"We like working with the kids," Lester said. "Although of course they aren't kids; they are college students. We like working with the students. With the pressure they are under, they need some release. It's hard work."
"We have millions of accessories, and right around 100 costumes," he said. "We've been here since 1981, and she started out with Vintage clothing as costumes. Now we carry package costumes, and we start renting about a year ago."
Lester said the first things they started renting were big, flashy costumes like Gumby, Pokey and the Rock 'n' Roll Moon. They also invested in some flapper dresses and formal wear for men to rent as costumes.
Lester said he had 25,000 square feet of costume-filled space to help provide that release.
Lester also said his customers provided most of his fun.
"They have more fun in here than I ever
had at a party." he said.
Charlotte Dart has owned Barb's Vintage Rose for six years, and for all of those years, she has been out once a week scouting antique and estate sales, flea markets and individuals seeking more additions for her store.
"I have over 200 costumes," she said.
"Everything from A to W, Arabs through witches."
Barb's Vintage Rose, 927 Massachusetts St., is divided into two levels. The lower level contains all the rental costumes. The top level contains vintage clothing.
Dart said that her most popular rental costumes were her 34 flapper outfits.
Her window displays Batman and the Joker, which she said rented for $40 and were a popular item this year.
Dart said she never rented her vintage clothing, but offered the clothing for sale to those people who would rather buy than rent.
"I don't rent the vintage because they are all fragile," she said. "They don't hold up. But sometimes people don't want a rental costume. They want to do their own thing, have their own unique look. Vintage clothes are one-of-a-kind items."
Elwell said, "Our aim is to be a place for the people who are wanting something unique and at a lesser price.
Costumes by Fran, 1107 Massachusetts St., also offers that special one-of-a-kind touch said Linda Elwell, the owner.
"I think the appeal of this place is the uniqueness of its costumes, and I think the rental prices are cheap compared to everyone else in town. Most of the costumes are between $10 and $20."
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ended the lecture at ECM, 1204
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Jolleen Ryan, a member of the foan, said the luncheon group was a
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physics and astronomy, said, "Once it ads out of the inner solar system, all u have to worry about if every will work after all these years in trage."
he said that the spacecraft would to man's knowledge of the giant net, Jupiter.
We really don't know some basic iff because we had to observe long stance. "Cravens said."
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He said the probe that Galileo will be popping into Jupiter's atmosphere will give meteorologists information on osmotic effects that they couldn't t before.
Meteorologists will learn a lot about biter's atmospheric effects, which help them learn more general insights about meteorology," Cravens d. "It might help us learn more out our own patterns on Earth.
Studying meteorology based on the nisosphere of one planet is like study- psychology based on only one son."
Kansan's regular typesetter fails
About 1 p.m. yesterday, the Kanan's normal typesetting equipment rashed.
'The reasons for the crash were unknown, and the system was not running in time for the Kansan's regular deadlines last night.
The School of Journalism provided several Macintosh computers to produce this issue.
As of 2 a.m., today, it was not known if the system would be working in time for Friday's issue.
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