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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1985
Retail sales hurt by paper strike
United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — Retailers eager to take advantage of the fall shopping season scrambled yesterday to buy advertising from broadcasters and suburban newspapers as Philadelphia's only two daily papers remained shut by a strike.
About 4,700 employees at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News walked off their jobs Friday at beginning of the high-vOLUME fall season. Chargers count on cool weather and heavy advertising to stimulate sales.
Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. said the strike was costing its two newspapers $1 million a day.
Burt Chapman, a Strawbridge & Clothier advertising executive, said the strike — combined with the past week's unseasonably hot weather — was bound to hurt sales.
Strawbridge's and John Wamaker, another large retailer, said they hoped to compensate for the strike by increasing the amount of advertising they bought from radio and television stations and suburban newspapers.
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, said department stores do 30 percent of their business between Labor Day and Christmas and depend heavily on newspapers to attract customers.
Arthur Keogh, a spokesman for the
People "shop the newspaper before they shop the store." Keogh said. "They look for the best bargains and they respond to them."
Bill Broom, a spokesman for the newspaper company, said 17 preprinted advertising inserts and about 250 pages of retail advertising were to have been distributed with last Sunday's papers.
Senate faces debate on school prayer bill
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate prepared yesterday to take up a controversial bill backed by conservatives that would strip federal courts of their authority over school prayer cases.
At issue is a bill sponsored by Sens. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and Jeremiah Denton, R-Ala., that is backed by a coalition of about 30 conservative religious organizations that advocate school prayer and think other proposals for silent prayer do not go far
Senate Republican leader Robert Dole of Kansas told reporters the Senate would consider the bill, but he said Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn, thinks he has the votes to kill the proposal.
The proposal, if it became federal law, would prohibit the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, from striking down any state law allowing organized, recited prayer in public schools.
The measure is an alternative approach to a proposed constitutional amendment to allow silent
prayer in the public schools, which conservatives maintain does not go far enough in providing support for religious expression to public school children.
The Helms-Denton bill needs only a simple majority of each house of Congress plus President Reagan's signature to become law.
Advocates of school prayer also are hoping a Supreme Court decision last term that barred officially sanctioned school prayer will provoke Congress to vote for some sort of prayer legislation.
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