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September 27,1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Final enrollment figures due to be released today
Final enrollment figures for this fall are expected to be released today, according to the office of university relations.
Last two prisoners recaptured
The figures show how many students are enrolled at the University of Kansas and will be used by the Kansas Legislature to determine budget appropriations for KU.
LANSING. Kan. — The last two of five convicts who escaped from the Kansas State Penitentiary Monday were captured early yesterday morning.
Herb Maschner, director of the Kansas State Penitentiary, said all five inmates were in maximum confinement. Three of the inmates were murderers, another a convicted rapist and sodomist and the fifth a robber
Authorities in Kansas City, Kan. apprehended three of the inmates without incident Tuesday evening in a wooded, residential neighborhood. The other two were quietly arrested by a Wyandotte County sheriff's officer early this morning about five miles from the prison in Lansing.
Seaver to analyze program
The former director of the Western Civilization program will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union on the development and future of the program.
James Seaver, who was director from 1057 to 1084 and is a professor of history, will present "The Western Civilization Program and the Liberal Arts Curriculum at the University of Kansas, 1945 to 1984."
Dave Nelson, a nationally known speaker on fraternities and sororities, will open Greek Week 1984 with a speech at 10 a.m. Saturday in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Greek Week to begin Saturday
the Kansas Colonial
Also on Saturday, a picnic for all fraternity and sorority members will start at noon at Potter Pavilion.
All fraternities and sororites donated money to sponsor Greek Week, said Julie Powers, public relations chairman for the event.
Feminist workshop planned
**Activities for the rest of the week**
include: Greek Sing at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the Kansas Union Ballroom, the Greek Olympics from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Ninth and Iowa streets, and a reception for all fraternity and sorority from 7 to 10 p.m. Wednesday at the K.S. Adams Alumni Center, 1266 Oread Ave
A workshop exploring the meaning of being a feminist will be sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4 in the Governor's Room of the Kansas Union.
The workshop, "I'm Not a Feminist. But ..." will include a presentation of historical information about the women's movement Group discussion about issues such as equal pay for equal work, sisterhood and the Equal Rights Amendment will follow
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain. The high will be in the mid- to upper 30s. Winds will be from the north at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be partly cloudy. The low tonight will be in the low to mid-40s. The high tomorrow will be in the low to mid-60s.
Correction
Compiled from staff and United Press International reports.
Because of an editor's error, the clarification in this space in yesterday's Kansan was incorrect. Referring to a story in "Tuesday's Kansan", Phil Poulos, legal secretary for Columbia Pictures' office in Burbank, Calif., said this week that it would be illegal for the local sellers of anti-homosexual T-shirts to use a logo similar to that of Columbia's "Ghost-busters" movie if the T-shirt sellers had not obtained permission from Columbia to use the likeness of the logo.
Dick Wright (left), associate professor of music history and Jazz Host of KANU-92. Dick Biege (center), jazz enthusiast from Topeka, and Ellen Johnson, librarian for special sound
recording, inspect newly arrived jazz records at the library in Murphy Hall. The records, part of a collection from the 1920s and 1930s, arrived yesterday from California.
Jazz collection comes to Murphy
By DAVID LASSITER
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas struck it rich with a collection of jazz records from the West Coast.
Yesterday, the Riss International
Trucking Firm delivered 2,000 pounds of 78
rpm records to the Murphy Hall Music
Library. The collection came from a
relative of the late Red Nichols, a jazz
coronetist.
The value of the collection is not known, but Ellen Johnson, Murphy Hall music librarian, estimated that it was worth more than $100,000.
"WE REALLY DON'T know how many records there are." Johnson said, "but we've estimated that 2,000 pounds is close to 3,000 to 4,000 records.
"One collection of 4,000 opera records was estimated at $90,000. So I'd estimate that this collection is worth $100,000 to $250,000."
Dick Biege, a jazz enthusiast from Topeka, discovered the records in March when he went to California to visit his cousin.
"My cousin said 'Hey, Dick, you should go look at this lady's record collection,' " Biege said. "So I went over and took a look, and the lady turned out to be Ben Nichols' wife."
Nichols wife Ben Nichols is the cousin of Red Nicholas, one of the leaders in the jazz movement, Biege said.
Red Nichols began recording jazz music in 1926 on Edison records, when his group, Red and Miff's Stompers, recorded "The Alabama Stomp" on Oct. 13, 1926
we priced it.
"I press the suggestion took hold because about a week after I got back to Topkea she called and told me that the records were mine." Biege said.
Alabama stamp 06027 BIEGE TOLD NICHOLS that she should give the collection to an organization that would preserve it.
Biege immediately began to think about how to get the records back to Kansas so that they could be added to KU's collection of 20,000 jazz records. Biege graduated from Kansas State University, but he said the idea of giving them to his alma mater never crossed his mind.
Dick Wright, associate professor of music history and journalism, is the host of a jazz radio show on Saturday mornings on KANU-FM 92.
"I never thought of them going any place else." Biege said. "I've listened to Dick (Wright) on the radio for 25 years."
BIEGE HAD TROUBLE moving the records to Lawrence. Trucking services wouldn't handle the albums because they were so fragile. He finally put the records into cooled storage for the summer in Lancaster, Calif., until he could decide how to move them.
Wright, one of Biege's friends, soon became involved in the project of getting the records to Kansas.
"Dick (Biege) really deserves a lot of the thanks in this project," Wright said. "He's the one who paid for the storage, boxing and loading of the records."
Wright then got Paul Gray, previous owner of what is now The Jazzhaus, interested in the project.
Biege said a man in California spent a week packing all the records into boxes for the trip.
"Everyone that knows about this action has handled them with kid gloves. From Denver to here, that was all that was on the truck," Biege said.
Autumn air brings snap to Lawrence
By HOLLIE MARKLAND Staff Reporter
Daisy Buchanan lamented the langual days of summer in "The Great Gatsby." She longed for the time "when things would get crisis again in the fall."
crisp again in the winter.
Daisy's favorite season drifted into Lawrence this week as crisp Canadian air turned summer to autumn, and temperatures fell Tuesday night to a low of 36 degrees, one degree warmer than a 1912 record for low temperatures, a weather observer from the KU Weather Service said.
Yesterday, which had a high temperature of 55 degrees, was the second day of a Midwestern cold snap. Bob Harrigan, the weather observer, said the cold air swooped into the Midwest from Canada, but by Sunday temperatures should be around 70 degrees.
Monday's high temperature of 92 degrees ironically tied the 1920 record for heat in September, Harrigan said.
TODAY'S HIGH temperature is expected to be 65 degrees with a low tonight of 36 degrees. Tomorrow is predicted to be partly cloudy with a high around 65 degrees.
Yesterday's cold didn't rattle Patti Ferber, Kansas City, Mo., senior, dressed in a bulky sweater. She said she was prepared for the sting of cold weather this morning.
sing or cool to it. "I'm pretty comfortable because I dressed warmly," she said. "'Good Morning, America,' forewarned me."
She said the furnace in her apartment was not on, and her air conditioner was still in the window.
But not all students were prepared for the big chill. Steve Lee, Lawrence senior, who was dressed in two T-shirts and a nylon jacket, said all of his winter clothes were in Atlanta, Ga.
"there are the warmest clothes I've got," "THESE are said. "But it shouldn't be a problem. When I get home tonight, I'll just crawl into the covers."
Staying in bed is not the only way some Lawrence residents are keeping warm. A local liquor store manager reported that the cold had increased sales of some products
whenever the temperature changes, you see a shift toward more people buying wines and spirits," said John Webb, manager and partner of Green's Fine Wines. 800 W. 23rd
But a local ice cream store reported that the gray day had put a chill in its sales.
Lon Weir, Shawnee Mission senior and employee of Baskin-Robbins 31 Flavors Ice Cream Store, 1524 W. 23rd St., said that when it cold was sunny, people still wanted ice cream. But sales had fallen since the skies had dreaved.
LAWRENCE WAS NOT the only city stiffened by the cold for the second day. Temperatures across the Midwest were as much as 25 degrees colder than normal for late September, according to the National Weather Service.
Sioux Falls, S.D., with a low of 23 degrees,
broke a record that had stood since 1906
Area candidates out ringing doorbells
Staff Reporter
Ry SUZANNE BROWN
In 1847, a reporter traveling with Abraham Lincoln wrote that the candidate seemed to greet more people and shake more hands than anyone could have imagined.
More than 100 years later, Lawrence candidates for state offices say personal contact with district voters is still their most effective campaign advertising.
"That's still the best way to get you in touch with voters," said Lawrence Seaman Jr. "Democratic candidate for state senator." "I prefer grassroots politics."
1 prefer grassroots
SEVERAL TIMES A week. Douglas
County candidates in this year's election ring
doorbells, shake hands, pass out campaign
literature and hope their efforts will be rewarded.
"Radio and newspaper ads reach a lot of people who aren't even in your district," said State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, who is running for re-election. "When you go door to door, you know you're talking just to people in your district."
Most of the state candidates in Douglas County have spent hours each week since summer walking their districts. They said they expected to put in many more.
Jules Hack, Charlton's Republican opponent, joined six other Republican candidates last night to walk through parts of North Lawrence and meet the residents there.
Lawrence will. Hack's smile never disappeared as she resumed from house to house, introducing herself to people who stood framed in doorways, peering at her through the gathering bloom with expressions of curiosity or indifference.
histry or inference.
"I WON'T READ it because I can't," said
an elderly man, indicating his weak vision
after Hack handed him a campaign flier
But another woman appeared interested when Hack gave her campaign information.
"I vote for whoever I think is best," she told Hack. "I never vote just Republican or just Democrat because of the party. I never did understand how that works anyway."
Most of the people Hick called on last night were home, but the candidate said that residents had been gone about 40 percent of the time since she had started walking her district in August.
dissipated, Quinton, who had campaigned unsuccessfully for the Statehouse in 1966 and 1968, said she remembered when neighborhood populations were more stable and more people were at home when she went door to door.
'THERE USED TO be a lot of older women at home who would say, 'oh, the men in our
Charles Stough, a Lawrence lawyer who served in the State Legislature from 1948 to 1964, walked his district when he ran for city and county offices in the 1940s.
family do the voting," Charlton said. "I didn't really try to talk them into voting. I didn't have time."
Back then, Stough said, farmers and townpeople were usually home when he visited, often because people could not afford to go many places.
"The trouble was covering all your territory because people wanted to stop and visit," he said.
Stough said walking his district gave him a good idea of the mood of voters toward political issues.
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IN THEOSE DAYS, they were bread and butter issues," he said. "I gave you a good feel for the times. There was a certain cynicism among people then."