Ryun's hope
Jim Ryun ran his way to fame — first as a KU track star and later as an Olympian. Now he's enjoying similar success at writing: His autobiography, "In Quest of
Partly cloudy
Gold, " already is in its third printing. It's the story, Ryun says, of a man who got involved in sports and found out that sports didn't have all the answers. See story, page 3.
High, 47. Low, mid:30s Details on page 3.
The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95. No. 41 (USPS 650-640)
Monday, October 22.1984
Dave Hornback/KANSAN
KANSAS CITY, Mo — Former Vice President Walter Mon-
te will smile as he is introduced at the Radisson Hotel
Candidates clash on arms research. Mideast policies
Mühlbach shortly after his debate with President Reagan The debate focused on foreign policy.
By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Mo — President Reagan offered last night to share nuclear technology with the Soviet Union, but Walter Mondale rejected any such move during the second presidential debate of the 1984 campaign
The debate, in the Music Hall of the downtown Municipal Auditorium, focused on foreign policy. Reagan's answers emphasized the importance of international cooperation Union, while Mondale rephetched that he didn't
scientific knowledge the United States produced to further missile weaponry
ELECTION '84
"WHY NOT? DO what I have offered to do and asked the Soviet Union to do?" Reagan asked "Say, 'Look, here's what we can do. We'll even give it to you. Now, will you sit down with us and once and for all get rid — all of us — of these nuclear weapons and free mankind from that threat?"
"I think that would be the greatest use of a defensive weapon."
trust the Soviets to abide by unverifiable treaties.
Republican and Democratic party officials both claimed victory for their candidate after,
The president defended his call for research in so-called "Star Wars" technology, which Monday attacked as an unprecedented expansion of the arms race. In what was perhaps a startling statement, Reagan said he would give the Soviets any
Mondale replied that he would never share such technology with the Soviets.
"I would not let the Soviet Union get its hands on it at all," he said.
MONDALE SAID THE idea of inventing weapons to render nuclear missiles obsolete was good in theory. But in reality, he said, its implementation was years away and highly unlikely.
"Why don't we stop this madness now and draw a line and keep the heavens tree from war?" he asked.
Young and old have a part in abortion protests at debate
His answer drew applause from the Democratic side of the partisan audience.
See DEBATE, p. 8, col. 1
Staff Reporter
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ
He didn't understand what he stood for. couldn't shout loudly at passers-by and scream when they hit him.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — David Olson may have been one of the most effective demonstrators at the presidential debate last night.
But David, 14 months old and appearing in his second anti-abortion protest, was a powerful symbol for the pro-life group he represented.
"We think he's pretty thought-provoking," said Laurie Olson, David's mother, from Kansas City. Mo "It certainly makes people think."
David hardly noticed the sign around his neck impingering voters to "Choose Life." With
mittens hanging by strings from the sleeves of his snow suit. David clutched the sides of his stroller and wobbled up and down Central America, and he tranced across from Municipal Auditorium.
INSIDE, PRESIDENT REAGAN and former Vice President Walter Mondale faced off for the second time of the 1984 presidential campaign.
Debate officials barricaded a block on Central Street for demonstrators but only those who registered were allowed in.
The only large group of demonstrators was at a pro-life, pro-family rally that lasted about 2½ hours. More than 500 people attended, and sang as people filed into the auditorium.
Jim Higgins, of Kansas City, Mo., was able to capture the attention, and often the attention, of the crowd.
"Abortion hurts!" echoed off the cement
walls and pillars next to the demonstrators as Higgins belied out a constant stream of profile statements. He graphically described their speech, and condemned people who accepted abortion.
SOME DEMONSTRATORS USED subterfere methods. Ann Duckworth, of Lees Summit, Mo., held up a sign that read "Grandma Ann says let's kiss babies, not kill them." The sign had pictures of her two granddaughters who she said were born out of wedlock.
"My son wanted the mother to abort the said and 'Look what I would have missed.'
Duckworth said the rally was her first demonstration.
Pro-choice demonstrators, though fewer in number, also were present. About 15 women carrying signs reading, "The right to abortion," "The right and legal" mingled among the pro-life forces.
Kerry Cordill. 19, of Kansas City, Mo., said she had expected more support for the pro-choice side.
"People keep cornering us and telling us how wrong we are," she said. "Some them
"I'm not saying it is right or wrong, but I don't think they should take away the apology."
MOST OF THE anti-abortion demonstrators were Reagan supporters, but one group, the Stormt-Vail Student Opposition, did not support Mondale or Reagan.
"Our basic theme here is that we have no candidate this year," said Ruth Stewart, of Lawrence. "Neither candidate is really pro-life."
Stewart, a 1975 KU graduate, said her group opposed Reagan's policies on the environment, nuclear weapons, foreign affairs and rights for the handicapped.
KU students formed the Stormont-Vail Student Opposition in 1978 in opposition to abortions being performed at the Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center in Toppea, Stewart said.
"They get pretty excited when the president comes to town," said a Kansas City, Mo., police officer. "There's Secret Service officers all over around here."
SECURITY AROUND THE demonstrators and throughout the area was intense and visible. A uniformed officer was stationed almost every 20 feet, and police helicopters hovered over officers on rooftops surrounding the auditorium
One block from the auditorium, at the Radisson Hotel Muehlebach, Mondale supporters gathered in the Imperial Ballroom to greet the guests before television and wait for their candidate.
JRP manager disciplined for his search
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Renorter
The Office of Housing last week filed written disciplinary action against the house manager of Joseph R. Pearson Hall for searching residents' rooms for missing lounge furniture two weeks ago, the director of housing said Friday.
J. J. Wilson, the director, filed a disciplinary report with the University of Kansas personnel office after he talked with Dennis Constance. the house management Constance and David Lewin, personnel manager, and signed the report last week. Wilson said
The report form is new and has never been used by the housing office, Wilson said.
Wilson said he could not disclose the contents of the report.
Constance had posted an apology on the hall ballet board to the residents before the event.
"We've never disciplined anyone to this degree," he said.
When he conducted his search, Constance had said, he did not think his wife would go to the hospital.
CURT WORDEN, CHAIRMAN of the Association of University Residence Halls Housing and Contracts Committee and a member of the Board of Trustees, reaffirmed the housing office after 15 to 20
Maple Leaf Festival rakes in celebrants
See JRP, p. 5, col. 3
By HOLLIE B. MARKLAND Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
BALDWIN CITY - Pinky Busik sat on the white bumper of a pickup truck in the northern part of town yesterday as customers admired the wooden fire engine, threshing machine and cabose he had carved.
Downtown, Tony Glenn, dressed in an olive green jump suit and a Greek fisherman's hat, took tickets from people eager to throw softballs into a milk can and win three-foot long stuffed gray elephants and white Saint Bernards.
Nicole Fisher, daughter of Karen Fisher, Baldwin City, and Tina Lawyer, daughter of Colleen and Ted Lawyer, Baldwin City, laugh as they near the end of a carnival ride at the 27th annual Maple Leaf Festival. Rain dampened the festival on Saturday but yesterday a sunny sky pretened thousands of visitors
Nearby, giggling children and adults, locked into white Ferris wheel cars, were
MONDAY MORNING
tossed above the town, while a long line of marching bands, politicians, floats and antique cars filed through the red cobblestone streets.
SATURDAY AND YESTERDAY, Mid-
western artisans displayed tables full of
crochet pot holders, grapevine wreaths
and oil paintings, and carnival workers
oriented merry-go-rounds and offered
stuffed animals and trinkets to people with
good aim.
The 27th annual Maple Leaf Festival had returned to Baldwin City.
Although Saturday afternoon was drizzly, yesterday was crisp and sunny. The festival was one of the largest for Baldwin since Chief Galen Scott said yesterday.
"In previous festivals, there have been estimates of nearly 20,000 people," Scott said. "This year it is quite a bit larger than all those."
people at the parade indicated one of the largest festivals ever. I really don't know what draws people here, but they sure come."
"The amount of cars lining the streets, the traffic and the sizes of the groups of
AND THEY SAW pink ceramic horses,
dried flower arrangements, pottery,
hot dog wrappers, red and blue cotton candy
and wooden toys.
Busick, a Manhattan farmer, said each of his 75 red oak toys was designed to represent one of the members of his family.
"My grandfather was a farmer — that's why I have a harvester. And my uncle was a farmer, too."
"These are all things that have been part of somebody's life. We wanted to do what they were."
Busick said he and his wife and four children had made toys for four years, traveling on a circuit of festivals and craft weekends, weekend between October and Christmas.
Across the sidewalk from Busick, a fourth-grade teacher pedded log cabins she and her husband had crafted from sticks and chinking compound.
YVONNE SELLIN. A Chapman teacher, gave photocopied business cards to passers-by who asked about the cabins.
Sellin said she and her husband created the $60 cabins to show her students what pioneers had lived in when they came to the Midwest.
"My kids just love 'The Little House on the Prairie,' " Sellin said. "It's been delightful to see the eyes of the children light up when they walk by."
Selin said the cabin were made to the scale of the cabin in "The Little House on the Prairie."
"We made a slab roof just like Pa would have done in the body," she said. "Then we went to the workshop."
niture like straw tick mattresses and a butter churn."
Bob Noithouse, a Savannah, Mo.
patter, said he had sold crafts at the Maple
Woods.
"POTTERY WAS A hobby I had. Then I lost a job I hated, and I couldn't find another one I hated, so I became a potter," he said.
The Saturday rain began about 12.30 p.m. and by 2 p.m. many people had been in the street.
inside a large green and white circus tent where an eight-member country band played and sang.
Some Baker University students took advantage of the festival to raise money
In a booth downtown, members of the Baker marching band and chorid sold coffee and caramel applies to earn money for their trip to Taiwan in January
.
See FESTIVAL, p. 5, col. 1