University Daily Kansan, December 6, 1982
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Early shopping exceeds merchants' predictions
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Staff Reporter
Despite a depressed economy, the holiday season has brought good tidings to local businesses, the president of the Downtown Lawrence Association said.
Robert Schumm, owner of Schumm Foods, said business in downtown stores was busy during the first week of school. "You're really not the owners expected to be a bad year."
"We're seeing an upbeat economic situation downtown," he said. "Downtown is now the shopping center for the entire Lawrence area. When you have that positive of a force, it just draws people there to shop."
Lawrence's economic situation has not been as bad as that in other areas of the country, Schumm said. Any depressiveness economy probably has been psychological.
"THE OVERALL economy is in good shape here," he said. "If anything, I think people have been 'we're seeing the dollar go up.' We don't need to spend than hold on to their money."
"People have saved up for the Christmas season."
Shopping in Lawrence never really reaches the high point it could however, he said, because of the holiday break for KU students.
"It's been my experience that after six or seven days of finals, the shopping starts to decline," he said. "Maybe the
shopping doesn't hit the high point it could if students stayed on through Dec. 26."
Lawrence Flannery Sr., president and general manager of Weaver's Inc., said he was surprised by the number of shoppers downtown.
"IT'S BEEN excellent," he said. "We weren't predicting anything particularly good. It's much better than we thought it would be."
Flannery said that his store, at 901 Massachusetts St., had several promotions and stayed open longer than most stores with staff had expected on-off for year sales.
"We can't attribute it to anything," he said. "The holiday season always accounts for 25 to 30 percent of our total income, the year, so we're very pleased."
Sheri Keller, merchandise manager for J.C. Penney Co. Inc., 830 Massachusetts St., said, "I think the holidays bring people out to buy. The lights and decorations down here bring people out and get them in the holiday spirit."
Keller said her store had been as busy this year as it was last year.
Schumm said that the number of people shopping during the first holiday week was surprising, not only because of the economy, but because there were four full weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas making for a longer shopping season.
"Normally, the first full week is expected to be light," he said.
Encore show to replace declining Rock Chalk
A successful premiere for Lance
could mean from $7,000 to $10,000 for
the United Fund, organizers of the
event said recently.
Encore, a KU musical variety show sponsored by the Board of Class Officers, will replace the traditional Rock Chalk Review. The show will be performed Feb. 17, 18 and 19.
David Watson, Encore business manager, said 50 percent of the gross revenue would go to the United Fund.
"We could make anywhere from $15,000 to $20,000," he said.
The organization is keeping 10 percent of the profits to cover the
expenses of producing the show, and will give 40 percent to the living groups that participate.
MARTIN PRYOR, senior class president, said the number of scripts submitted to Rock Chalk had declined in recent years, and, therefore, Encore had been set up with a completely different format.
"The 40 percent going to the living groups is to make it affordable for them to participate," he said.
And the new formula seems to have worked, he added.
"We had 12 scripts submitted this year," he said. "Last year there were only nine submitted to Rock Chalk."
LUNCH ABROAD PROGRAM will be at noon in Aloe Dove of the Kansas
On campus
TODAY
CATHOLIC CENTER WORSHIP will be at 12:30 p.m. in Danfort Chapel.
GERMAN CLUB will have a Christmas party at 4:30 p.m. in the Murphy Hall Lounge.
AUDITIONS for an hour-long "Mika- do," sponsored by Cconcerts for Young People, will be from 4:45 to 7:45 p.m. in 328 Murphy.
HASHINGER CHOIR and KU Men's Glee Club will have a concert at 6:30 p.m. in Hashinger Theatre.
PRE-MED CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the Satellite
STUDENT COMPOSITION RECITAL will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST will meet at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union.
TOMORROW
Dan Biehler/KANSAN
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