December 6, 1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Women advised to guard purses to prevent thefts
The University of Kansas recently has experienced a series of wallet thefts, often from women's purses that were left in offices, in BU police said yesterday.
In a monthly newsletter issued to faculty and staff, police have warned women to lock their purses in desks or cabinets when leaving their offices for even a short time.
The suspect has been described as a white male in his early 20s with reddish hair and complexion, about 6-1 and 165 pounds.
Since Nov. 21, 13 wallets have been stolen, Stg. Mary Ann Robison said. The thefts have occurred in Haworth, Lindley, Lippincott, Nichols and Wescoe halls, Watson Library, the Art and Design Building and the Kansas Union.
Student passes out in Wescoe
KU police and the Douglas County Ambulance Service were called to Wescow Hall at 12:52 p.m. yesterday when a 20-year-old student passed out in a classroom.
Police said yesterday that the student had flu symptoms. Nurses at Watkins Hospital, where the student was taken, said he had been ill and said but said the student was not a patient.
Perry woman dies in collision
PERRY — A Perry woman whose car careened into the path of an oncoming semi-trailer truck died in the accident that killed a Kansas Highway Patrol said yesterday.
The woman, Iris P. Hafer, 33, was west-bound on U.S. Highway 24 about 1/2 miles east of Perry when a car driven by Scott D. Putman, 25, Prairie Village, passed her car on the right-hand shoulder, a patrol dispatcher said.
The dispatcher said Putnam's car apparently had bumped or hit the woman's car. She lost control and drove into an oncoming semi-trailer struck the truck.
Neither Putman nor the truck driver was injured. The dispatcher declined to say whether Putman had been cited.
Best commercials to be shown
The Lawrence Communications Network and the KU Ad Club will sponsor a film of the 1984 CLIO award-winning radio and television ads from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Maupinout headquarters, 1515 St. Andrews Drive
CLIOs are awarded each year to the best commercials in the United States and abroad.
Book dedicated to professor
Wine and cheese will be served.
Admission is $4. Reservations must be made by 5 p.m. tomorrow by calling Mavir Terrell. 842-6226, ext. 247.
A recently published book of research articles in paleontology has been dedicated to a KU professor who was a pioneer in the study of small animal fossils.
Wilson, KU professor emeritus of systematics and ecology is one of the founders of small mammal paleontology in North America, Mengel said.
an book, "Papers in Vertebrate Paleontology Honoring Robert Warren Wilson," was edited by Robert M. Mengel, professor of systematics and ecology, and published by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny but cold. The high will be around 30. Winds will be from the west to northwest at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be clear, and the low will be between 20 and 25. Tomorrow will be fair and warmer, with a high around 50.
Compiled from Kannan staff and United Press International reports
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, the Karsan yesterday incorrectly reported the number of students who left a meeting of the University Judicial Board with Steve Brown, the senior Interim judge yesterday that three students had left the meeting with him.
Jennifer Balzer, Eldorado sophomore, hangs mistletoe on Road. Balzer and other members recently decorated the entrance lamp at Chi Omega sorority, 1345 West Campus house for Christmas, an annual tradition at the sorority.
Paranoia hampered U.S. attempt to rescue hostages, general says
Paranonia may have caused the failure of the Iranian hostage rescue attempt in 1980, a three-star general said yesterday in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Officials were paranoid about the mission's secrecy and did not inform people who could have helped with the plans, said Lt. Gen Alfred M. Gray, commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps at Atlantic Ocean.
Officials also failed to accurately measure the capability of the enemy, Gray said.
They decided that during the rescue, no communication should be made between the helicopters and the USS Nimitz.
"In my opinion the enemy could not have intercepted any transmissions in time to exploit the information." Gray said.
Gray described the rescue mission as a delicate, highly complex strategy that required the cooperation of all branches of the military.
'EVERY ONE OF THE Marines, airmen and sailors who took part in the rescue attempt had courage, expertise and was ready to go for broke - do what had to be
done", said Gray, who enlisted in the service in 1950.
The rescuers had several obstacles to overcome, including the distance they had to take.
"They had to travel by helicopter from the Nimitz at night, and at low levels." Gray
'Every one of the Marines, airmen and sailors who took part in the rescue attempt had courage, expertise and was ready to go for broke — do what had to be done,'
Lt. Gen. Alfred M. Gray,
said, "something, which had never been attempted before."
The rescue mission was attempted before the military had access to helicopters that could refuel while in flight. The helicopters
used in the mission had to land in the desert to refuel.
to reel Only six of the eight helicopters made it to the rendezvous area, and only five remained in working order.
"WHEN THEY GOT to Desert Site One, they decided that not enough helicopters had made it in to complete the mission." Gray said. "The collision occurred when the helicopters were on the way home."
In his speech, Gray also discussed the changing situations in the military and its operations.
gray sand communication systems had become so sophisticated that today's soldiers must be able to rely more on their instincts and intuition.
When Gray served in the Vietnam War, he said, the military used computers to help develop strategies of attack. He said he received a wheelbarrow full of computer printouts every night.
principles over junction
*Each time there was the slightest change in operations there would be a change in the entire plan.
Dolls' faces make them unique
These babies don't need changing
By LORIE WALKER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Marion McCorkill makes babies
McCorkill's children are not ordinary bundles of joy; they are cloth infants that people like to take home and that small children like to cuddle.
McCorkill's babies have sculpted faces — faces with shocks, gears, screws and dimples.
"I DON'T LIKE TO use kits and make things that other people have designed," she said. "I like to make my own things, and choose my own materials."
faces with checks, noses, chins and dildishes.
"I intrigues me to make sculpted faces in front of you," she said recently.
"Some people day face the faintest idea of what a child looks like."
McCorkill, assistant to the president of the Kansas University Endowment Association, has been making dolls for 21/2 years and has developed her own patterns and clothes for her kids.
Although she has never actively advertised her dolls. McCorkill has about 14 dollons on her phone.
"Every one that I deliver sells two more," she said. "The more they've become visible, the more they're in demand."
For the past few months, McCorkill has been trying a new twist to her hobby, which she calls portrait doll. She is creating dolls whose features are modeled after real children, such as the sons, daughters, nieces and nephews of the buyers.
The dolls have the same color of eyes and hair, the same shape of the eyes and some similar facial characteristics of the child, McCorkill said.
McCorkill learned her sewing skills from beber mother, grandmother and aunt, she said.
"THAT WAS BACK in the days when ladies stayed home," she said, "and that is what they did—quilted, sewed, etc."
McCorkill's home is filled with knickknacks she has made, and pictures she has painted hang on the walls. The dolls, however, are her favorites.
Her mother also was skilled in crafts. Says McCorkill of her mother, "She sewed everything for her children and had the kids make things out of nothing, and she could."
Working on her dolls is therapy after coming from her hectic job, said Bill Kau.
"It takes my mind off of the demands of the day, and it's creating something beautiful to do."
Post office says send cards now
Last-minute mailing increases chances for a tardy arrival
By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
Mail them. Now.
Bill Lawrence offers this motto for the holiday season. Christmas cards, holiday greetings, packages, the message remains the same.
Lawrence is assistant postmaster at the city's main post office, 645 Vermont St.
Lawrence said a local business usually offered to answer the letters to Santa.
"We get all kinds of letters to Santa, written on just about anything you can imagine," Lawrence said. "The more serious ones put them in envelopes and address them to the North Pole. We don't open any of them, though."
"USALLY WE HAVE a Santa Claus mailbox set up at a grocery store or something," he said. "But I don't think anyone has volunteered yet this year."
The letters to Santa signal the beginning of the holiday mail madness.
The sooner people get their cards and gifts in the mail, the more likely they will reach someone in need.
The amount of mail that passes through post offices increases tremendously during the holidays. But many people put off sending letters until the last minute, Lawrence said
it will start to get a lot heavier, probably next week," he said. "And the week after that will be even busier."
Packages shipped parcel post normally take five to 10 days to reach either coast, he said. But during Christmas, the increased amount of mail slows down the delivery.
"IF YOU PUT A package in the mail on the 22nd and expect it to get across the country by the 24th, it's just not going to happen," he said.
Packages shipped priority mail will be arrive sooner, but at a higher price. A 5-pound package shipped priority mail from Lawrence to Los Angeles costs $5.38. The same package shipped parcel post costs $2.52.
People who want to mail cards and packages overseas need to plan several weeks in advance.
Art Frye, station manager of the KU post office in Strong Hall, said many foreign students had begun sending Christmas gifts home as early as the first week of November
"Most of our foreign mailing is done by now." Frey said. "A package normally takes about five or six weeks. Letters to airmail are sent weekly, and then when the airmail, it can become a long process."
TO MAKE SURE packages arrive on time and in one piece, postal officials offer the following suggestions:
- **Wrap packages in heavy paper and print the address neatly on only one side. Make sure the address is current and includes a ZIP code.**
- If the item being mailed is fragile, pack it with newspaper, pieces of Styrofoam or popcorn. The post offices sell padded mail bags for 25, 50 and 70 cents.
- Include an address label inside the package along with the one on the outer wrapping. During shipping, the wrapping or the box itself may become damaged.
- Buy insurance for packages valued at more than $20. The person who receives the package must sign a receipt, which allows you to receive a record of who eventually gets the package.
The main post office and the branch at 1519 W. 23rd St. are open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday
The KU post office in the basement of Strong Hall is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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WHY?
December 6 is day of St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra in Lycia (Turkey), who died about 342.
Not much is known about him.
Legends ...
retuated as an infant to nurse of Fast Days Patron Saint of Virgins
because he gave 3 bags of gold to 3 children of a poor man
legends—
daughters of a poor man
Saved 3 unjustly condemned men from death Patron Saint for Sailors
because he showed courage in a boat during a storm
Punched hereditary bishop Arius in the ear
The Dutch gave us Sinter Klaas in bishop's
he Dutch gave us Sister Maas in bursary,
civing on a white horse to give children
Patron of Russia and Greece
robes riding on a white horse to give children
riders a fresh start day
jifts on the eve of his feast day.
St. Nick gave gifts, often anonymously.
and set an example in caring for others.
WHY?
MAY YOU ALL HAVE THE BEST GIFT OF
CHRISTMAS!
CHRISTMAS!
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