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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday October 19,1987 Vol. 98,No.41
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Baldwin City festival draws large crowds
By AMBER STENGER
BALDWIN CITY — David Walker stood behind a black table and began calling on passers-by to watch his card trick show.
"There comes a time in everyone's life when he either has to get married or go to work. I'll go to work," said Walker, who lives in Lenexa, as he started shuffling a deck of cards.
Walker asked a Baldwin City resident to pick a card. He put the card she drew, a two of clubs, back into the deck and told the woman to pick another card, predicting that the new card also would be a two of clubs.
Sure enough, the woman drew the two of clubs again
After entertaining the crowd with several more tricks, Walker told the crowd how he did the trick. He was using a trick deck in which all the cards would become the two of clubs if they were held a certain way. Selling decks of trick cards at the festival made his money at the Maple Leaf Festival.
The 30th annual Maple Leaf Festival was Saturday and Sunday in Baldwin City. Ron Nelson, master of ceremonies, estimated that between 20,000 and 25,000 people attended Saturday's festivities and about 15,000 people went to the festival yesterday.
Nelson said it was hard to get an accurate count of the festival attendance. He said the Maple Leaf Magic Parade on Saturday drew the most people.
Along with the parade, there was a square dance, a cookout, airplane rides at Vinland Airport, train rides on the Midland Historical Railroad, a carnival with several amusement rides, and more than 250 booths where a wide variety of crafts, food and souvenirs were sold.
Behind Christmas ornaments, picture frames and magnets made out of dog treats, stood Joetta Lawrence of Mound City, Mo. She was manning a booth that featured crafts that she had made in her spare time. Lawrence said her pine-cone Christmas trees, which were decorated with pine needles, were decorated with dried flower buds, were the best-selling items she had. She was selling them for $1.50. The most expensive item she was selling was a casserole holder for $6.
Lawrence has operated a booth at the festival for four years.
Saturday was a good day, she said. "We were lucky it was a nice day. But it was about the same as last year, as far as sales."
Lawrence said she made the crafts as a hobby and she sold them for her spending money. She said she expected to make more than $100 over the weekend.
Another vendor agreed that this year was about the same as last year in sales. Ilene Lassen of Baldwin City sold stuffed animals and dolls that she had made, including a gray, corduroy pig and Donald Duck dolls made out of felt.
At about 5:30 p.m. yesterday, Lawrence and other vendors started taking down displays and buying the variety of crafts.
Like Lawrence, Lassen said she started making the dolls as a hobby and decided to make a little money at the same time. She said she also made dolls because it helped to keep her arthritic hands limber.
Next year's festival-goers probably will see some of the same arts and crafts that did not sell this year. But chances are they also will be enticed by new souvenirs, trinkets and festivities.
BALDWIN CITY — Bradley Cates, 3, waves to parade participants during the Maple Leaf Magic Parade. The parade was Saturday.
First lady expected to improve
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Doctors told President and Nancy Reagan yesterday that her breast cancer had not spread and that the prognosis for full recovery was excellent following surgery to remove her left breast, a White House spokesman said.
"Mrs. Reagan is recovering remarkably well from surgery." Reagan's physician John Hutton said in a statement. Hutton said Reagan's 12-physician team was "completely with her progress in every respect."
Doctors removed the first lady's left breast and several lymph nodes from under her arm Saturday in a 50-minute operation following a needle biopsy that revealed a quarter-inch malignant tumor. The first indication was the lesion came out during Mrs. Reagan's annual mammography.
The president, who flew by helicopter to Bethesda Naval Medical Center yesterday to visit his wife, said upon return to the White House that Mrs. Reagan's recovery was ahead of schedule and that she might return to the White House sooner than expected.
Mrs. Reagan's reaction to this news was relief, said her spokeswoman, Elaine Crispen, who has been at the hospital with the first lady.
Crispen said that Mrs. Reagan said she felt, "Just fine. I feel great." Mrs. Reagan even joked that she and her husband had decided to exchange Christmas gifts of framed copies of their medical diagrams that have been appearing in newspapers and amateur magazines, and included had surgery in 1985 for cancer of the colon and prostate surgery last January.
Hutton's statement, distributed by White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, said the first lady "feels good about vital signs are strong and stable."
It said Mrs. Reagan was feeling very little pain and was receiving a mild analgesic medication to deal with it.
Hutton's statement said, "Final laboratory analysis of tissue and lymph nodes removed during yesterday's surgery confirm there is no further malignancy or evidence of other disease.
"No further treatment is expected, other than normal routine examinations. Mrs. Reagan's prognosis for full recovery is excellent."
Tests on frozen sections of the lymph nodes are crucial because the lymph nodes act as the body's filters for foreign matter such as cancer cells. Physicians look to the tests to determine whether the cancer has spread to other parts of the body.
KU student is injured in bike wreck
By BEN JOHNSTON Staff writer
Staff writer
Three surgeons at the University of Kansas Medical Center spent 12 hours on Saturday and Sunday reattaching the forearm of a KU student injured Saturday afternoon in a motorcycle accident in Lawrence.
Barbara Berry, assistant director of nursing at the Med Center, said the left forearm of John Hinshaw, Hutchison was reattached at the mid-largem arm.
The surgery lasted from 5 p.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. Sunday, Berry said. Hinshaw was listed in serious condition last night in the intensive care unit, she said.
Hinshew was injured at 2:30 p.m.
Saturday after his Honda Hurricane
motorcycle ran into a car after a
police chase and police, according
to police reports.
KU police spokesman John Brothers said a KU police officer was chasing the motorcycle west down 15th Street when the collision occurred at the intersection of 15th and Westbrooke.
Brothers said the officer had been on the west side of the KU maintenance building, 2303 W. 15th St., on 15th Street when he saw Hinshaw and another motorcycle rider racing west on 15th Street.
The officer followed the motorcyclists and estimated that the motorcycles were going 55 to 60 mph.
A Lawrence police report said the motorcycles were at the top of a hill
See ACCIDENT, p. 6, col. 3
Students make video for contest promotion
By NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
Four denim-clad students, arms linked, bodies swaying in unison, strode up the hill last Saturday. A video cameraman taped the action from behind.
"You guys are not getting into this," said Chris Wyrick, East Moline, III, senior. He yelled instructions, "Try moving the hips."
Cameras shot that scene and several al others during Make-a-Video-on the Hill-Saturday, sponsored by the KU chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America. Wryck and other club members, 28 nonmembers and two beagles took part in the event.
Jodel Wickham, Topeka senior and club president, said the club chose to make a video as part of a promotional plan for the Levi's Campus Challenge, a national competition sponsored by the Levi Strauss Company.
"Okay, now, turn around all at once," Wryrick said. "Great! That looked really good. How about a game of leap frog?"
The students obeyed.
Anyone wearing Levi's brand clothing was welcome to be a camera ham as long as they signed a release, Wickham said.
The club taped students playing football, tug o' war and leap frog, throwing Prisbees, kicking hackysack, giving piggyback rides, blowing soap bubbles, building a pyramid, climbing trees, walking dogs and just generally goofing off.
"We felt this would give our local talent national attention," Wickham
"It was crazy. It was impromptu," said Nancho Lopez, Lima, Peru, freshman.
Wickham said that, next, the club would record a song for the video, tape a band playing in downtown Lawrence, and edit the videotape to produce a three- to four-minute polished promotional message.
It was crazy. It was impromptu.'
— Nancho Lopez
Lima, Peru, freshman
George Randall and Chip Nietfeld, both Wichita seniors, wrote original music and lyrics for a Levi's promotion last year, which will be used for the video.
Wickham said the contest promotion would also include a picture contest on Wesco beach and a "survival of the fittest" Levi's olympics. On Nov. 14, club members will model Levi's brand clothing as live mannequins in a downtown Lawrence department store window.
Contest coordinators notified the KU club on Wednesday that it was one of 25 finalists in the contest. About 35 schools originally entered.
Drug-use survey was wrong, KU committee chairman savs
The KU club has a $600 budget, 30 certificates for free Levi's brand jeans and jackets and eight weeks to carry out its promotional plan.
If the KU club wins the contest, it will receive $5,000 and members will be flown to San Francisco to present a promotion to Levi's representatives.
By NOEL GERDES
A survey on drug usage released Thursday was wrong in reporting that as much as 27 percent of a KU student sample used drugs, the chairman of the committee that conducted the study said Friday.
Staff writer
Edward Heck, chairman of the student affairs research committee, said a new tabulation of the results indicated that only 15 percent of the student sample currently used drugs. The survey did not ask about alcohol use.
Students were asked about use of drugs other than alcohol, such as marijuana, heroin and cocaine.
Keek said the original survey results were incorrect because some students who had said they currently drugs were counted more than once.
One question in the survey asked students to specify the drugs they were using. Researchers tabulating the survey did not take into account students who marked more than one drug.
Because of the mistake, the original results reported that the degree of drug use at KU was about the same as that at the University of Virginia, which conducted a similar survey in 1986.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said a survey on student alcohol use would be conducted next. A KU task force on drug and alcohol abuse will use the two surveys to determine whether to make changes in campus drug and alcohol education programs.
Heck said Friday that fewer KU students seemed to use drugs compared with students in Virginia, based on the corrected survey results.
KU probably will not make radical changes based on the drug survey, he
"It's still our belief that alcohol is the drug that more students use and abuse." Ambler said.
New police chief to start on Dec.1
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writer
A home-grown Lawrence resident and 16-year police department veteran has been named Lawrence police chief.
William Ron Olon 37, will take over the position Dec. 1, replacing Richard Stanwix. City Manager Buford Watson announced Friday.
Olin said that his Lawrence upbringing was a key to the way he did the job.
"I've always based my opinions of policing on the fact that police officers have to be sensitive to and responsive to the needs of the community." Olin said. "We're not an occupying army."
"But Ron came out on top," Watson said while congratulating Olin. "He is a superior officer."
Olin said that he had no plans to change dramatically the existing department and would not comment on the selection of an assistant police chief or the role that officer would play.
"We'll continue that relationship because it's a real strength in the community." Olin said.
Olin lauded the cooperative effort among his force, the KU police and the Douglas County Sheriff.
At a press conference Friday, Watson said that he'd been pleased with the quality of the 112 candidates from across the country.
He said that the greatest asset of the department and one that he'd work to preserve was the quality of the personnel.
When Olin was asked about plans to increase the number of police officers, Watson jumped in to emphasize the importance of the passage of a county-wide, 1-cent sales tax that will come before Douglas County voters Nov. 3.
Olin is no stranger to the department that he will now lead.
After joining the department in 1971, Olin advanced to administra-
tion assistant in 1976, to leutenant in 1978 and to assistant police chief in 1980.