University Daily Kansan, November 11, 1982
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TV, losses hurt sales, merchants say
By DARRELL PRESTON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
KU home football games did not generate the income this year that many Lawrence merchants have become accustomed to in past seasons, managers of local hotels and restaurants said yesterday.
Merchants blamed the slower than usual season on the television of games, which prevented some out-of-town fans from attending games, and on a series of games that encouraged to expectations, which discouraged victory celebrations at restaurants.
Fred Rice, manager of Brahma House, 352 W. Sixth St., said that when the hotel was empty on Saturday,
"No one in Lawrence wants to play when we lose. A victory is worth $1,000 on a Saturday night." Rice said. "If you'd take a look at my books, you'd see the difference between a win and a loss."
JIM TAYLOR, manager of the Lawrence Holiday Inn and Holidome, 200 W. Turnpike Access Road, said televised football games and the recession discouraged fans from attending games.
"We had a rash of cancellations because of broadcasting of football
games." Taylor said. "The NFL strike encouraged networks to broadcast more college games."
Home games against Texas Christian University and the University of Tulsa were regionally televised by CBS. The game with Kansas State University was nationally televised by WBTs, and the television station based in Atlanta.
Rice blamed the broadcasting of the K-State game from Manhattan for a disastrous loss.
"They played on national television during the dinner hour," he said.
TAYLOR ALSO blamed the lagging economy for sagging business. He said the Holldone did not sell out as expected.
"The crush never came as we had anticipated," he said. "It was not a total disaster, since we usually had at least a 90 percent occupancy."
This was the first football season for the Holiday Inn and Holidome, which opened in March. Taylor said that when he managed the old Lawrence Holiday Inn, it had always sold out for home football games.
MIKE SWEENEY, manager of Cornuopia, 1801 Massachusetts St., said the broadcasting of the Texas Christian game hurt his business because the game started an hour earlier than usual in order to accommodate CBS's sched-
Restaurants at the Holidome did well on game days, he said, despite slow turnaround. "I know it's a long time."
"Those who do come to town for games spend money," he said.
"People didn't have time to eat before the game, and they left town early after the game, so my business dropped," he said.
Sweeney said that other than that game, his game-day trade was off only 8%.
"We've usually done a little better on game days in the past, and the recession has affected us a little more than in the past." he said.
SOME BUSINESSES came through the season unscathed.
Mark Rimmerman, manager of Mr. Steak, 920 W. 23rd St., said that his business and customer count had been steady
Dennis Ritchie, manager of the All
Seasons Mets, 2300 Isole, and he had a
million dollars in the deal.
"Our business has been fantastic," Ritchie said. "I think football is recession proof. The teams still come. The fans still come. It's still an important event to people. I think people will save money in other ways so they can continue to go to football games."
Baby kill may hurt Chinese balance
PEKING—Chinese peasants are killing newborn baby girls at such a high rate that the nation's balance between males and females could be upset, an official publication said yesterday.
"Is there anything on earth more heinous than this?" the report said.
The China Youth News newspaper said female babies were being drowned or abandoned in the streets at such a rate that the authorities have trouble finding women to marry.
China's tough birth control policy allows only one child a couple in urban areas and a maximum of two in rural areas, without the risk of economic penalties, and in extreme cases, forced abortions.
In a study of rural communes, the report said three out of every five babies were boys. Because of reports of widespread killing and abandonment of unwanted female babies, the male-to-female ratio should be artificially damaged, it said.
FOR YOUNG couples clinging to "feudalistic thinking" that favors men over women, the pressure is to have a baby born on the same day as baby born first, the newspaper said.
By United Press International
The Chinese traditionally think a son can provide more labor as he grows up and take better care of his parents by taking care of the attire and carry on the family name.
A daughter often is viewed as a financial burden who eventually would
change her name once married and care for her in laws first.
Infanticide is illegal under Chinese law, which provides long imprisonment and in some cases the death penalty for such killings. But the government has not recently publicized any prosecutions for infanticide.
Statistics of communes already indicate an imbalance in the sex ratio in the last two years because of the infanticide, Youth News said.
"IN TWO decades, if this phenomenon goes unchecked, there will appear a serious social problem in which a person who will be unable to find spouses," it said.
By United Press International
"The law governing human development and propagation requires the rough balance between men and women in society."
WASHINGTON—Angry environmentalists tried yesterday to lay the blame for an oil company's invasion of the Salt Creek Wilderness in New Mexico squately on Interior Secretary James Watt.
Watt blamed for wilderness drilling
U. S. District Judge Juan Burciaga of Albquireau issued a temporary restraining order yesterday halting further drilling of the well and
Testifying at an emergency House hearing called by Rep. John Seiberling, D-Ohio, spokesmen for environmental groups said Watt did not move quickly enough to halt the baiting of Biter Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
They also charged that Interior Department officials failed to protect demonstrators threatened with being run over by a bulldozer operated by an employee of the Yates Petroleum Co.
The charges were disputed by Robert Jantzen, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, who said the department was seeking court action to stop the company from drilling in the refuge.
The order prohibits further drilling but allows Yates to keep a few people at the site to maintain the bore hole, pending a hearing, said Smyle.
THE CONGRESSMAN also voice "profound dismay" at the refusal of Garrey Carruthers, assistant secretary for land and water resources, to testify because his schedule was "too tight."
Seiberling, chairman of the House Public Lands and National Parks subcommittee, said there had been efforts to prevent the land and harassment of the demonstrators.
Spokesman Tom Smylee of Albuquerque said the wilderness would be closed to the public, protesters and "everybody except for Yates" minimum crew and Fish and Wildlife Service people. They were on route to late yesterday, when were on route to the site to serve the oil company officials with the court order.
scheduled a hearing on the order for tomorrow.
If such "lack of cooperation" continues,he said, he will use "a
THE FISH and Wildlife Service yesterday made preparations for an emergency shutdown of the wilderness area at 9 a.m. today.
Bob Burnett, vice president of the New Mexico Wildlife Federation, accused Watt and other department officials of "a shocking violation of their obligation to protect citizens who were legally on the wildlife refuge."
The harshest attacks on Watt came from national spiesmen for the Skiera Club, the National Wildlife Federation and The Wilderness Society.
"The courts will decide this, not the TV cameras," Young said, pointing to cameras on one side of the crowded hearing room.
compulsory process" to get officials before the panel.
TOM MAHONEY of the Sierra Club said the organization, based in San Francisco, would file suit against him for attempting to force him to stop the drilling.
Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, denounced the hearing as "a dog and pony show" called for political reform in an environment group raise money.
Republican subcommittee members said it was unfair to blame Watt before all the facts were in.
Surgeon general's words 'personal'
Official retracts video remarks
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Surgeon General Everett Koop said yesterday he was giving a "purely personal judgment" when he made an "off-the-cuff" remark indicating video games might incite children to violence.
In remarks to the University of Pittsburgh's Western Psychiatric Institute Tuesday night, Koop said games might be to blame for including violence.
"Everything is 'zap the enemy,'" Koop said. "There's nothing constructive in the game."
In a written statement yesterday,
Kayle said her comment did not
represent official policy.
speech on family violence at the University of Pittsburgh, I indicated that some video games may tend toward violence in their tone," he said.
"THIS REPRESENTED MY purely personal judgment and was not based on accumulated scientific evidence, nor on any other visual view of the Public Health Service.
"My off-the-fuff comment was not part of any prepared remarks. Nothing in my remarks should be interpreted as implying that video games are per se violent in nature or harmful to children."
"In reply to a question following a
by a trade group representing video game and pinhole machine manufact-
Jim Buchan, a spokesman for Koop, declined to comment beyond the written statement. Buchan said he did not know what Koop said in Pittsburgh and had been unable to get a transcript. Koop was criticized for the remark
Glenn Braswell, executive director of the Amusement Game Manufacturers Association, wrote the surgeon general evidence to support his statement.
"AFTER STATING your views, you publicly agreed that you had no scientific evidence on the effects of video games," Braswell said. "Re-engineering them will allow you only official mandate and authority is to develop scientific evidence."
Braswell said many psychologists said the games improved motor skills, increased concentration and introduced millions of children to computers.
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