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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, November 24, 1992
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Shopping season to begin with bang
Holiday sales may top previous years
By Kristl Fogler
Kansan staff writer
The Thanksgiving holiday is not only a time to give thanks but is also a time to shop.
Jason Auld / KANSAN
in preparation for Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year. Carol Brown decorates the front window of the Bob Brown Company, 727 Massachusetts St.
Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, traditionally is the busiest shopping day of the holiday season. It signals the official beginning of the holiday season.
Bill Martin, director of economic development for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said that this year was going to be better than years past.
"Sales are going to be up," he said. "The local economy is strong, and the season is going."
Ronda Bradford, manager of Hobby Lobby Creative Center, 601 Kasold Drive, estimated that 60 percent of the store's items come from Christmas decorations and crafts.
The store already has sold out of many seasonal items including some types of artificial trees, wreaths and miniatures, she said.
Bradford said that this year the store expected sales to be much higher as the economy recovered from the 1990-91 recession.
"Our sales have increased 35 percent to 60 percent a week compared to last year's figures," she said.
Bradford said that the store would concentrate on having business run efficiently on Friday.
"We'll make the day strictly for business only," she said. "And let the fun begin."
Jean Guess, manager of Rod's Hallmark,
711 W. 23rd St., said that about 25 percent
of the store's business was done during
December. She also said that the store had
been buying ornaments in July and
that it already had dozens of styles
and would not be able to order more.
"We sell to big collectors in July," she said. "If you want series ornaments, you need to be sure to get them in July."
Sales at Rod's Hallmark had increased more than 50 percent over last year at this time, Guess said.
She said that the busiest part of the Christmas season would come after the Thanksgiving holiday.
"We busiest usually two Saturday's
in Christmas and the day before
Christmas."
Bill Muggy, owner of Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, said that business did increase during the period from thanksgiving to Christmas but that the increase could be attributed to book buyback, when students trade in old textbooks for cash.
"I'm certainly hopeful for a busy season, but there's no way my crystal ball is bright enough to see if it will happen," Muggy said.
For some local businesses, the holiday season is not attributable to an increase in sales.
Sales had been up about 12 percent from last year, he said, and Friday would be busy for the store.
Quilt shares facts, preserves memories
Work on display at KU art museum
By Mark Martin
Kansan staff writer
Friends of Gordon Woods described him as caring and intelligent.
As an undergraduate at the University of Kansas, Woods majored in political science and French and served on the Student Senate Executive committee from 1985 to 1987. After graduating, Woods became an associate KU's Organizations and Activities Center.
In January of 1989, Gordon Woods became sick. Four weeks later he died of complications from AIDS.
The memory of Gordon Woods lives on in
a 3-by-6 foot panel that is part of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. The quit began in 1987 in San Francisco when one man spray-painted the name of a friend who had died of AIDS onto a piece of cloth. Now the quit contains 22,128 panels, each one in memorial to a victim of AIDS.
12 two-foot sections of the quilt, including the panel dedicated to Gordon Woods, will be on display today through Dec. 13 at the Spencer Museum of Art in recognition of the fifth annual World AIDS Day sponsored by the World Health Organization.
"Hardly a day goes by when I don't think of Gordon," said Pat Kelhe, who worked with Woods for six years at KU. "It's real important to me that people understand that Gordon isn't necessarily a symbol of AIDS; he was a human being."
ter.
More than 160,000 human beings have died because of AIDS in the U.S., according to figures at Watkins Memorial Health Cen-
Since 1988, parts of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt have traveled the world, reminding people of the individual lives that AIDS has claimed. Those who have seen the quilt say it is powerful and haunting.
"Every time I see it, it itches me with awe."
said Janine Demo, coordinator of health education at Watkins. "It's always in a very peaceful atmosphere. The last time I saw it,
there was a group of 3rd and 4th grade kids there, too. I've never seen kids so quiet."
brings home the humanity of this disease that is usually just numbers."
The quilt was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1890. Some panels on the quilt simply display a name. Other panels use it to show them, or a Barbie Doll, or a denim jacket.
"It's hard to verbalize the emotions that are in that quit," said Patrick Dilley, head of the Student Senate AIDS Task Force. "It'a draining experience to see it. It really
Since 1987, more than 2.5 million people have seen the quilt, and fund raisers involving the quilt have raised more than $1 million for AIDS service organizations. Panels from the quilt represent AIDS victims from all 50 states and from 27 other countries. In its entirety, the quilt stretches over more than eight football fields.
Dilley, who received the Gordon L. Woods Leadership Scholarship this year, said the quit brought a lot of painful memories back to him and others who had lost friends and family to AIDS.
"It keeps the memories of these people alive," he said. "It's so important to those who have lost someone or even those who have felt a sense of loss because of AIDS. And for those who haven't lost someone, it's a reminder that thousands of real people have died."
By Christoph Fuhrmans Special to the Kansan
Farm provides holiday birds
For 48 years the Otto turkey farm, located three miles east of Wellsville, has been raising and selling turkeys during the Thanksgiving and holiday season to families in the Kansas City area, Ottawa, Lawrence and other area communities. Bill Otto started the turkey farm and at one time had as many as 5,000 turkeys. After Bill Otto died in 1967, his son, Myrick Otto, 46, and his wife Dorinda Otto, 64, continued to run the farm.
Although the turkey farm has shrunk in size, Myrick Otto continues to keep it running "only' cause of tradition."
With Thanksgiving only two days away, many holiday traditions are beginning to be fulfilled — from forgotten cheek-pinching aunts who demand kisses to that annual trek to the grocery store to buy the turkey.
But for other families, the traditional turkey is not bought from the grocery store but from a turkey farm southeast of Lawrence.
That tradition is passed on to the customers as they keep coming back every year.
The Otto's' turkeys are so good that people will do almost anything to get them.
"We've had a guy in Kansas City come down for 35 years, and now his kids are doing the same thing," he
"One winter the roads were blocked off' cause of the snow, and a family walked three miles to get their turkv." Mvrick Otto said.
"We feed our turkeys corn and protein," he said. "We put no preservatives, no additives, no nothing in them. All the frozen turkeys in the stores are full of preservatives."
What makes their turkeys so good? Myrick Otto attributes the demand to the quality of his turkeys, compared to the quality of grocery store turkeys.
Otto's turkeys come in two sizes, big and small. Depending on the size, the turkeys range from 16 to 24 pounds. The largest turkey the Otto farm ever had was a 50 pound tom, or a male turkey.
The raising of the turkeys starts at the beginning of August when the Ottos receive the young turkeys, or pouls, which are four to five weeks old. For the next 16 to 18 weeks, the turkeys are fed during the day and are locked in a shed at night to protect them from wild animals. Yet there will be little protection for the turkeys today and tomorrow as Myrick and Dorinda Otto begin to kill and dress them.
"I do feel sorry for them," he said. "I'm always out there with them. But it got to be done."
When the turkeys fluff their white feathers and squawk while shaking their pink heads, it's easy to feel sorry for them. Even though the turkeys must be killed, Myrick Otto said that he tried not to get his own feathers ruffed.
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Safe Ride will not operate during Thanksgiving break or any other school breaks.
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