University Daily Kansan, November 30; 1981
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While you were gone . . .
Rolling Stones, prison guards top holiday news
By CATHERINE BEHAN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
While you were home stuffing yourselves last week, local people were busy bringing the Rolling Stones to Kemper Arena, suspending prison guards and switching on the holiday season.
Leon Jones, Kansas City assistant director of convention facilities, went to St. Louis Nov 21 and convinced Contemporary Productions, the firm that presented the Stones concert in St. Louis, to have the Stone rolls into place on Wednesday. The event was announced last Tuesday and the $17 tickets were sold out in 24 hours.
ALSO LAST WEEK, nine guards at the Kansas State Pententinary in
Lansing were suspended for refusing to report to their posts Friday after an inmate stabbed a guard Thursday.
The nine were already bitter about the murder of a guard last October, and the wounding of another guard angered them further.
Ed Darrick, guard spokesman, said the guards "very possibly" might call in sick with the "brown fwl" early this spring. But they said the prison was a death trap.
However, Patrick McManns,
secretary of corrections, said that he
did not think the guards would get much
more information about the drills
would participate in the "sick-out."
Meanwhile, both Lawrence and Kansas City started the Christmas season.
Although Thanksgiving day is the
traditional date for the lights on the Country Club Plaza to be turned on, Friday is the traditional day for Lawrence's downtown lights, and about 150 people came out to see Santa Claus switch on the lights.
Kim Studua, 11, of Kansas City, Mo., got the honor at the Plaza Thursday when 125,000 people showed up to see the lights go on.
ALTHOUGH THE Christmas spirit was high Friday night in Lawrence as the lights were turned on, earlier in the day-historically one of the busiest shopping days of the year—shopers were not in such a festive mood.
Shoppers crowded into Lawrence stores, but many, concerned with tighter budgets and the economy, did more looking than shopping.
Shoppers said they were looking for
more inexpensive, practical gifts than in previous years to stretch their baving capacity.
As Lawrence residents shipped carefully, State Sen. Earl Jidrewge, R-Lawrence, decided to stay in Lawrence and keep her post in the State Senate, though her husband has accepted a job in Washington, D.C.
Eldredge, who defeated incumbent Democrat Arnold Berman last year, said she had contacted Ross Doyen, Concordia, Kansas Senate president, to say that she would stay until her term expires in 1984.
HER HUSBAND, Charles Eldridge, is the director of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art. He announced that he would accept the position as director of the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American Art in
Washington. He will leave for Washington in July.
Another KU museum director gained notoriety Wednesday when his discovery of a new species of duck was certified. Philip Humphrey, Dyche Museum of Natural History director, is the co-discoverer of the Tachyura flightless steamer duck, found in southern South America.
KU faculty and staff might have trouble if they try to park in the lot on the northeast corner of Oread and 18th streets, because the construction of the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center has begun.
the parking lot is completely gone, according to E.W. Festemaker, KU Parking Services lieutenant. Two other lots, one across the street from the
Kansas Union and another about half a block from the Union have been redesigned to help compensate for the loss of space.
The Alumni Association also made other plans for the alumni, students and other KU fans—this time for the season. The bowl Dec. 31 in Birmingham, Ala.
The Alumni Association will be chartering flights to the game with Mississippi State, KU's first bowl bid since 1975. The cost of the package is $80, including transportation, lodging, all bus transfers, tickets to the game and luggage corsages for the women in the party, a stadium cushion, a pre-game brunch and a University host and travel service escort.
The charters will leave Kansas City International Airport Dec. 30.
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