Old Jayhawks never die
More than a dozen former KU football players now make their livings in the National Football League, including Frank Seurer, the Kansas City Chief's new third-string quarterback.
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More than 500 people showed up to celebrate Mass on Saturday afternoon at the new St. Lawrence Catholic Church. The center was finally dedicated this weekend.
Mass appeal
For your sighs only
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Mostly cloudy skies should keep temperatures cool and comfortable today, with a chance for showers this afternoon and evening.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 97, No.11 (USPS 650-640)
Monday September 8,1986
Kansas Historical Register as being among the 200 oldest in the country. Top: Barbara Englierr, Topeka, holds free ride tickets distributed by Boyles Joyland. Area merchants and churches gave away 20 million tickets to the park this summer.
Emily Heptig, 2, left, daughter of Kayla and Robert Heptig, St. George, and Alysia Oliver, 4, daughter of Carl and Susan Oliver, Westmoreland, enjoy the merry-go-round at Boyles Joyland park in Topeka. The merry-go-round was built in 1908 and is listed in the
JOYLAND
Patrons visit park for one last ride
By NICOLE SAUZEK
TOPEKA A tear came to Charlie Boyles' eye as he remembered a little boy who said goodbye.
With a wipe of his hand, the 87-year-old man brushed the tear away and called himself a sentimental guy.
For Charlie, the creator and owner of Topeka's Boyles Joyland, the tears came easily. After 33 years, Joyland will close for good Sunday.
Charlie and his son, Jerry, can no longer afford to keep the amusement park operating because of high liability
insurance costs, even though the last three years of business have been the park's best. About 160,000 people entered Joyland over the summer — the most ever.
"For three generations we've brought families here to
See JOYLAND, p. 5, col. 2
Cool weather brings clothes color changes
Staff writer
By PATRICIA FEENY
Soon the KI campus will be a carnival of color.
It's almost time to put away the fan that kept you cool during summer, find your football tickets and shake those mothballs from your sweaters.
Sofft the crew can reach the KU Weather Service employee, said that within the nest 10 days the leaves on the trees would start changing color. From there, fall will gradually approach and the temperatures will begin to drop.
"Our air is coming from subarctic Canada, which is along the North and Northwest territory," said Stevens. "It is going to last until Tuesday."
Stevens said the cold weather Kansas was experiencing was not unusual for this time of year, even though some days temperatures came within one or two degrees of breaking records.
Tomorrow, the weather will be warmer with a high of 80 degrees. Tomorrow night, however, it will begin getting colder again.
The temporary warming trend should be the result of the counterclockwise flow of air. Air moving from the Oregon and Washington area will draw moist warm air up from Mexico.
Stevens said that after tomorrow's warming the weather will be cool enough to put away the T-shirts but not cool enough for sweaters.
Senate files missing from office
BY SHANE A. HILLS and SALLY STREFF
Staff writers
Anyone could take the files collected from last year's Student Senate elections, says Glenn Shirtliffe. There are no locks on the filing cabinets in the Senate office.
In fact, last year's campaign audits — the documents that state how much each coalition spent on campaign materials — have disappeared from the Senate office, said Shirliffe. Senate Elections Committee chairman.
David Day, last year's elections committee chairman, said he had placed photocopies of the campaign audits in the Senate office filing cabinet in December.
"After the election, I took most of the
Day, Lawrence junior, said yesterday that he had the original copies of the campaign audits at his home and would give them to Shirtliffe. He said he didn't realize the copies he had placed in the Senate office were gone.
"If there was something incriminating to any coalition, they could have easily done it."
"There is absolutely no security on the election committee materials," said Shirlttie, Ontario, Canada, graduate student. "The files stay in an unlocked filing cabinet and are quite accessible to any prying fingers that want them to disappear."
election stuff home to give to him later." Day said, "I felt safer having the originals at home, because security in the Senate office simply doesn't exist."
surfite, who replaced Day as elections committee chairman in January, said he thought the transition from one administration to another each year made accurate record keeping difficult.
The elections committee is a nonpartisan group of students that administers Student Senate elections. The committee deals with any election complaints and makes sure that polling booths are adequately staffed.
People still bring him write-in ballots from last year's election that should have been turned in last year.
nere may be 50 different write-in candidates for any given seat," Shirtliffe said. "When it comes to that, it's time for random selection. We just have to draw from a hat."
Without all of the ballots, some write-in candidates would not have a chance in the random selection.
"We are in a war between democracy and Marxism, between chaos and democracy," Pinochet said.
The write-in ballots are used to replace senators who have graduated or resigned. The elections committee offers the seats to the candidates with the most write-in votes, unless there is a tie.
"A lot of the documents I should have, I don't have," Shirtiff said "Since I've become aware of the lack of security in the
Senate office, I've kept photocopies of everything."
Shirlife said Caryl Smith, dean of student life, had encouraged him to make certain that this year's election runs smoothly
Smith said she was not aware that security was a problem at the Senate office.
"They maintain a University office, and they have the responsibility to maintain it correctly," she said.
David Epstein, student body president,
was out of town yesterday and could not be
reached for comment.
Leftists ambush Pinochet in Chile
United Press International
The records might have been misplaced when Senate offices were moved this summer from the Kansas Union to the Burge Union, she said.
Interior Minister Ricardo Garcia later announced in a television broadcast that the military junta, led by Pinochet, was imposing a state of siege to control subversive activity.
Shirlife said controlled access to election files was a priority for this fall's election.
"The way it looks this year," Shirliffe said, "I'm going to see to it that all the election files go directly to Dean Smith's office and then to archives. If anyone wants to see them after that, they'll have to go through her."
Leader declares state of siege
Pinochet, 70, appeared on television with a bandaged left hand and said he was hit by a piece of shrapnel during the ambush. He showed his car with 12 bullet marks that did not pierce the reinforced glass. The car also was damaged by a hand grenade hurled under a rear wheel.
Kris Kurtenbach, student body vice president, said she could think of no reason to doubt the security system in the Senate office. She also said Shirltefid had not discussed the missing records with her.
SANTIAGO, Chile — Suspected leftist rebels ambushed President Augusto Pinochet's motorcade last night with rocket launchers, hand grenades and automatic weapons, the government said. The slightly injured military leader escaped unscathed and declared a nationwide state of siege.
Five of Pinochet's escorts were killed and nine others were injured when three cars in the motorcade were blown up and overturned as they crossed a bridge and one car exploded in flames, government spokesman Francisco Cuadra said.
The state of siege grants the military government wide powers in arresting suspects, censoring the press, restricting the right to assembly and disseminate information, tapping phones and opening mail.
Pinochet last resorted to a state of siege Nov. 6, 1984, to curb a mounting wave of unrest and violent protests by opponents seeking the restoration of democracy. It was lifted June 17, 1985
Cuadra said leftist guerrillas were responsible for yesterday's attack, but did not elaborate.
Press reports said a communist urban guerrilla group called the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front took responsibility for the attack, but a telephone caller saying he was a spokesman for the group told United Press International that he was its only official spokesman and that he had made no such announcement.
The gunmen killed five escorts, including an army sergeant, a police motorcyclist, a second policeman and two secret police bodyguards. Cuadra said. Nine others in the motorcade were reported wounded, four seriously. The injured were three army officers and six police.
State-owned television said the attackers used submachine guns, rocket launchers and hand grenades.
The attempt on Pinochet's life came after a wave of violent protests against military rule that broke out Thursday and Friday.
Fake watches continue to be big sellers
Bv NANCY BARRE
And company officials say that the fake Rolexes floating throughout the country could diminish the value of the company's trademark.
If a peddler tries to sell you a flashy Swiss-made Rolex watch, you'd better look twice before becoming instantly awestruck — it could be a fake
The sale of phony brand and designer watches is part of a $6 billion to $8 billion counterfeit business, according to an article in July's edition of National Jeweler magazine.
"I bought mine last summer on Fifth Avenue in New York City," said Tom With, Lake Quivira junior, who owns a counterfit Rolex. "They tried to sell it for $60, but I talked
them down to $35."
The Swiss watches, known for their sparkling gold and diamonds on the face, normally sell between $2,000 and $10,000.
"I knew it was fake when I bought it, but I wasn’t going to spend $2,000 on a watch," he said. "It looks just like a Rolex. I think it’s great."
"They don't have permanent stands though because that's illegal. These guys just walk around with them and try to sell them."
The federal government passed the 1984 Trademark Counterfeiting Act two years ago That act made trademark counterfeiting a criminal offense, whereas before it had been a civil offense. Nationwide, 20 people have been convicted of violating the
With said he bought his watch because of the Rolex name.
Rick Esposito, Hesston freshman, likes fake Roleses. In fact, he said he and his father used to sell counterfeit Roleses at flea markets in Florida
act and 500,000 phony watches were confiscated this summer, mostly in New York City and Miami, the article said.
"You could get any kind of watch you wanted," Esposito said. "We'd buy the Rolexes for about $32 from wholesalers, and we could sell them for about $50."
"You had to know people to get them though. It's kind of an underground thing."
Esposito said he stopped selling the watches after the federal government passed stricter laws against selling counterfeit goods.
Those convicted have received sentences such as probation, community service and fines of up to $25,000, William Roison, associate vice president of Rolex, said from New York.
"We hope that the new law will be a deterrent," Rosen said. "But we don't want to publicize the problem too much, or it will hurt business."
Roisen said he didn't think most customers were being deceived by fake Rolexes.
"They usually know what they're buying," he said. "And if they don't, they're just plain stupid and they deserve what they get.
"What hurts is that the real Rolex customer sees the fake on so many wrists that it loses its exclusivity."
Although no Lawrence jewelers sell R琢 watches, several of them
See WATCHES, p. 5, col. 1
The real Rolex is on the right.
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