Slower speed limit puts brake on small car market
By JEFF HILL
Reporter
Looking for a small car to use while you're here at school? Well, for the first time since the energy crisis there is a supply of small cars in Lawrence, according to area dealers.
"During the energy crisis, everyone panicked and went in for small cars," said Dutch Zweimiller, owner of the Campus Motor Mart. "But now, it's down and there are more small cars available."
One of the reasons for the drop in demand for small cars has been the establishment of the 55 mile an hour speed limit, according to Forrest Dryden, salesman at John Haddock Ford, Inc.
"At 55 m.p.h., the Galaxie 500 and a Pinto with air
conditioning and automatic transmission will get about the same gas mileage. Thus, people are going back to the intermediate and large-size cars for their comfort and onboarding on the road. Now that gas is no problem," he continued, "the big cars will be picking up through the Kansas City area."
COMFORT, ANOTHER REASON for the drop in small car sales, has caused some changes in production. According to Dale Wiley of Dale Wiley Pontiac, the company's sales are coming out of a low-window, large car. April 1976.
"We don't know what it looks like or will cost," said Willey, "and we don't expect it to replace our existing windows."
people wanting smaller cars without having to sacrifice luxury."
A third reason for the drop in sales of small cars has been design problems. Many of the new small cars built in America have existed only since 1970 and still have buys to work out.
The safety factor also has kept some people away from small cars, according to Brownie Kerns, insurance agent for Continental Insurance Companies.
"PEOPLE ARE divided about the safety of the small cars," said Kerns. "Tests show that they are more likely to be involved in accidents for the higher-powered sports cars, the small cars are less likely to be involved in any accident at all."
Besides competition with bigger cars for comfort
and safety, foreign car dealers have had a hard time supplying enough cars when the demand was
According to Dryden, Ford can change its production from one style of car to another in about 60 days. However, the foreign car dealers have no control over the delivery of their cars.
"It takes so long to get cars that it's hard to take advantage of trends like the oil crisis," said Zachary Hewlett, a senior executive with many cars here too late to get in on the rush during the oil crisis. Now they are way over production and the supply is running out.
2MEMILER Predicted that foreign cars that nor the new required emission level would be required.
"The new 1975 American cars will have higher prices and will take unleaded gasoline, which could run to 60 cents per gallon. We think that '74 and '75 models do not take unleaded gas will be the most popular."
Willey agreed that the 74-model cars would remain popular, as would compacts, because of price increases in 1975. He said small cars would be more practical for the young buyer and as a second car in a family.
"We see a completely normal situation in the future," said L. Brubeck, Jr. sales manager at Jim Clark Motors. "The small cars will still be very nimble to in their case of handling and their lower price tag."
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Dole, Roy sling mud in moving campaign
Rep. Bill Roy, D-Kan., and Polynesian Sen. Bob Dole exchanged charges and countercharges yesterday as their campaigns moved across Kansas.
Roy charged in Topeka that Dole, his senatorial campaign opponent, had misstated Roy's voting record on funding urban mass transit.
Dole, who was in Topeka when Roy made the charge, responded last night in an interview here after a meeting with county campaign workers.
Roy charged that Dole and McDill "Huck" Boyd, the national Republican committeeman from Kansas, had distorted the meaning of Roy's vote on a bill which would have allocated $800 million to mass transit.
Roy cited published accounts quoting Mie and Hovd to sit stating that Roy had voted against the bill because it would cost a million appropriations bill for mass transit back to committee, which would have killed
THE PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS quoted Dole and Boyd as saying that the $800 million would have come from the highway trust fund, thus siphoning off money needed by states like Kansas to continue highway construction prograns.
Roy said that was untrue. He said the bill had called for taking the $800 million from the federal general fund, not from the highway trust fund.
Roy said he later had voted in favor of a different bill appropriating $11.37 billion for mass transit. He also said he had supported trimming that bill from an original $20.43
He cited a newspaper headline that said, "Roy votes for drain on highway trust fund," and called it "most damaging" to him.
Roy said Dole had been quoted as saying Roy had voted for a diversion of 3800 million from the war.
"That's a misstatement, an absolute
Dole seeks out precious votes in Lawrence
Dole said last night that the charge really didn't involve him.
"These men either deliberately misstated the record or were totally misinformed about the legislation. Neither is excusable for men in such high positions. We must be able to believe a national committeeman or a United States senator when he speaks."
"BOTT" SEN. DOLE and Mr. Boyd have stated TSN-1 voted to spend highway trust fund money for mass transit. This is absolutely incorrect.
By ROY CLEVENGER
National Editor
"I think he was talking about Boyd and just mentioned my name in passing," he
Sen. Bob Dole stepped out the back door of the cavern in a cool rain, pulling to pull his coat.
falsehood," Roy said. "This bill doesn't do that.
"I remember when this used to be the bookstore for the University," he said. "That was a long time before you were born."
Wanda was waiting behind the Wagon Wheel
Café for the topek after a long
difference of cannibalism.
Dole is fighting the toughest campaign of
Dole in seeking re-election to the senate
Dole, Republican senator from Kansas, was in Lawrence last night for a meeting of the Iowa State Teachers College. The trip included a stop for dinner at the fraternity he was a member of when he was a student at the University of Kansas and a quick round of handshakes at the Wagon Train.
Democratic Rep. Bill Roy, may be leading Dole by as much as 10 per cent, according to a study.
ANY ACAIMAGN that close involves campaigning in areas that haven't always
been hospitable. For Dole, those areas include KU.
Dole was in Lawrence mainly for the workers' meeting, but he used the opportunity to tread some familiar ground, dining at Kappa Sigma fraternity and
visiting with students at Chi Omega sorority.
"The race will be a very close one," he said. "The Democrats' poll that shows me 10 points behind is wrong by a few per cent, but the Democrats can go one or two per cent either way."
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'My people tell me that we'll do well on some campuses, but not here,' he conceded. 'I don't agree with them, but it will be a tight race in this area.'
He said that heavy campaigning during the final weeks before the election might be decisive and that he planned several more tries to the Lawrence area.
"I remember, this is where our first dance was," he said, standing in the main lounge of the fraternity. "We were all freshmen from Russell and other towns."
"This is a very important part of the state, and the student vote will make a big difference."
He told fraternity residents that the resignation of President Richard Nixon could greatly aid governmental cooperation.
"THERE SEEMS to be a new spirit of national conciliation and cooperation between the Congress and the executive branch, he said. "Watergate caused a national disgrace and alarm, like a resignation was like a national sigh of relief. Things are looking in an America."
Dole said that the most important concern of Congress was to cut the federal budget. He said he learned yesterday that the Senate was considering legislation and that this would help ease inflation.
Dole said his re-election campaign had been aided by the Senate Watergate Committee's report, which refuted an official possible involvement by Dole in the scandal.
said in an interview here after a meeting, with county campaign workers. "There are more people."
On the ride back to the continuing meeting on his workers, he conceded that he had not been able to get the job.
In fact, Dole said, Roy's supporters sometimes have mistreated Dole's position on gay marriage.
Inside the KANSAN
DOLE WAS CLEARLY tired from a long camp trip Monday that took him to small towns north almost to the Nebraska border. The first opportunity to gave the tavern.
The campaign between Dole and Roy has been marked by repeated charges of unfair campaign practices by both sides. Dole said that the arguing had detracted from the real costs of the campaign and that the seriousness of the charges had been exaggerated.
Kansas has had the hottest political summer in decades, highlighted by the races for governor and the U.S. Senate. Both races have attracted wide-spread attention with the clearest choices facing voters in recent elections. The Republican candidate for retention is the one pitting Sen. Bob Dole against Rep. Bill Roy. See page 193.
ROY SAID HIS campaign organization probably would take the matter to the Fair Campaign Practices Committee in connection with complaints lodged complacently with that committee.
Dole said, "When people read that someone filed a complaint with the Fair Campaign Practices Committee in Washington, they don't know that it's a small office with one employee and that nothing will ever really be done."
At the Wagon Wheel, Dole shook hands, explained to a patron his opposition to legalization of marijuana and signed up potential volunteers in his campaign.
Castina stones
The next time you're in chemistry lab and something breaks, don't worry about it. Just take it to KU's "office glassblower." Walter Logan. He began blowing glass in 1948 when the head glassblower, Fred Bauer, was in charge of the room. He received quite a few unusual requests over the years. See page 2.
Glass-blowing
Today will be a good day to stay indoors because it will be miserable outside. A 50 per cent chance of showers is forecast with the highs only in the mid 70s. It will remain mostly cloudy through Thursday with little wind.
Sloppy
Enrollment up; estimates reach unexpected high
Gilbert Dyck, dean of admissions and records, said today that the preliminary estimate of fall enrollment was a record high 21,898. Dyck said the estimates were based on actual act number of students enrolled plus the number of late enrollments expected.
Fall enrollment at the University of Kansas has increased an estimated 1,500 from the fall of 1973, although little or no increase was expected.
The official enrollment will be announced on the 20th day of classes by the Kansas State University.
Dyck said the preliminary figures indicated an enrollment of 20,173 students at the Lawrence campus and 1,725 students at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He said the first time enrollment on the Lawrence campus has gone over the 20,000 mark.
The two-campus total of 21, 868 individual enrollments will be reduced to an equivalent full time figure of 21, 100 because students will carry a full load of courses, said Dyck.
Drinking on the job
Ten-year-old Mike Scott, son of Don Scott, 2176 E. 23rd St., earns
ten-hour the grass in the mow his dad's business. He said the
By Kawan Photographer DAVE PETERSON
land belonged to the city, but he got his job when the city never came to mow it.