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Wednesday, August 22, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Area stables offer chance to get back in the saddle
By MARY JO HOWARD
Staff Reporter
KU students who want to get away from it all and ride horseback through cool timber don't have to drive all the way to Colorado to do so.
Ralph Spencer Riding Stables, located 16 miles west of Lawrence on Highway 40, rents horses for $ an hour and has 40 acres of woods and rooms to room. Or, for $8, students can take a one-semester in horsemanship offered by the University at Gorko at Hock Chalk Ranch, two miles west of Lawrence on Highway 40.
Maxine Spencer, who, with her husband Ralph, owns Ralph Spencer Riding Stables, said anyone could ride on the Spencer horse. "I didn't care more of his horse and 'didn't get too rowdy.'"
"If I see them runnin' them, I just take them right off the horse," she said. "Generally the kids are pretty good, but we do get some stinkers sometimes."
According to Spencer, 'stinkers' are customers who come out and think they own the place and "act real smoothed."
SPENCER SAID that a big problem was assigning the right horse to a customer.
"Not many people will admit they don't know how to ride, because they don't want to a dull horse," she said.
Spencer said she did not give "dull horses" to insult her; she told the horse to ride her to the horse. Expertined riders get gentler horses, and more experienced riders get more spirited horses.
"These horses know the minute you pick up those reins whether you can ride or not," she said.
Spencer said she could tell how well people could ride as soon as they got out of their cars.
"I can tell by their shoes, their dress, their walk. It's just a feeling I get after being in this business for 15 years," she said. "Like if a girl comes in wearing shorts, she doesn't ride much, because she did, she know you have to protect your legs."
**WHEAD THIS big girl come out last month. I could hardly find a horse big enough to ride. She could barely get on it. Yet, she said she saw them side by side. She didn't even know what side to put her on.
Spencer said that in addition to renting a boat, he also hired a rower and sleeper. One hay rack filled with hay and pulled by a team of horses, costs $50 for a three-hour ride, and holds 20 people.
The stables gets quite a lot of business
from college and high-school students who come out to have parties. Spencer said. There is a place on the farm with a bonfire, banches, and a flat grass area for dancing.
"We take the kids on a hayrack ride down to where we have a big fire going, and they can roast weenies and have a party," she said.
"WeVE GOT this group of about 40 girls who come every year on the last day of school and have a big party to celebrate with them. Railh s sure likes that." she said.
Ralph Spencer also gives lessons in Western riding which cost $10 an hour. Spencer said the stables purchased its horses from all over the county.
"We used to go out to horse auctions and such, but we’ve been in business for so long now, that people come to us when they have a good horse to sell." she said.
Rock Chalk Ranch offers lessons in Western and English riding for $8 an hour. The ranch does not rent horses except as a boarding school. Boarding horses, Gene Winger, manager of the Ranch said it does offer hayracks for $150.50 per person for a group of 20 or more.
The riding lessons at the ranch are given by two KU students.
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Pinball wizards face odds
By RICK HELLMAN Staff Reporter
It's a familiar scene. A man in dark pants and a t-shirt jostles the whirring, blinking pinball machine ever so gently, coating the silver ball with a fluid, lively branch of the free游戏.
It's also a scene likely to become even more common, because the pinball and amusement industry is exacerbating a wave of innovation, unbearable of board in a generation.
The mechanical pinball machines that today's college student grew up with are rapidly being replaced by new digital models. The first computer pinball game was the Exet Kniewel model which appeared in 1977.
Digital machines can be distinguished from mechanical ones by their counter-outlets. What is important is what you can't see. The digital games, such as arcade circuits, are able to record points faster, and therefore more accurately, than the old mechanical ones.
This means that mechanical games are becoming obsolete. They are now reserved for private sales and slow development and generate enough revenue to pay for the new models.
Currently, the hottest ticket in the industry is a video game called *Space Invaders*. The object of the game is to shoot and eliminate the advancing alien warriors before they destroy your spacecraft. It usually requires a good deal of skill to accumulate very many points.
THE OTHER MAJOR innovation in the amusement business is the development of video games. PONG, the grand-daddy of all video games, was developed in 1980s. Since then, video games of every description have come onto the market.
And, of course, scorns
and, of course, the name of
the game. Joy Dukley, coowner
of *The Amusements*, a local
business, said enjoyment of
amusement was only obtained by
a person's skill.
"YOU CAN ALWAYS get a higher score," she said. "The most low life potential can go in and be a winner. Finaith is one of the best players you can win at. You go to the grocery store, you don't win. You go the car dealer, you don't win. You go the machines, you can win."
But the amusement industry
but certainly not immune to the pro-
priety of its audience, said 'When I was five or six,
countednickels. Now, I'm 38'
I am a collector.
The job of counting change may become easier in the computer era, but manufacturers come out with machines that accept the new
Another current trend in the pinball industry is to make machines with a in-to-in or popular movie or recording star. Machines which bear the likeness of Elton John, Kiss characters from Star Trek can be found in Lawrence.
And, according to Paul Linden, office manager of Armour Amusements in New York, the pinball machines will appear this fall—a faking pinball machine that is simulated with a synthesizer and the machines are expected to have a vocabulary of 10,000 words.
Maps show available bike routes
Musselman said recently that the maps, free on request at the SUA office, were of round-trip trips that ranged from six to almost 100 miles.
and heads south of town. This is a really pleasant tour with a nice view of Lawrence from one of the hillsets."
Bicyclists interested in riding into Lawrence's countryside have some help available from the Mount Orad Bicycle Club. The club has prepared a set of maps bicycle routes throughout northeast Kassau, to connect to Tom Musselman, club member.
"We have suggested routes for cyclists of almost all abilities.
"The shortest tour in the set is a 6-mile
For the long-distance cyclist, Musselman suggested the map set's longest tour.
"ABOUT THE LONGEST ride we have maps for is a 100-mile roundtrip ride to Kansas City which is mostly on country roads with little traffic."
Musselman said the other maps included tours to Martin Park, Lakeview, Baldwin, Lake Perry, and Leavenworth.
He said that most of the tour routes were submitted by club members who had ridden the routes.
"They have ridden the route and found to be nice for bike riders. This usually means that the route has little automobile traffic, is nicely paved and is scenic."
Musselman said that the tours ranged from being quite flat to being very hilly at times.
"Some of the more challenging rides will prove once and for all that Kansas isn't flat."
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