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University Daily Kansan, August 19, 1982
More women getting tattoos; process safer
Tattoo artists once spent their days eghaving battleships and women on the chests of sailors, but now they also wear high-tech devices on the shoulders and hips of women.
The number of women getting tattooed has increased dramatically over the past five years, said Diane Lowe, Clyde's Taitoo Parlor, Kinsna City Ma.
Eighty percent of her customers were female, she said.
"It adds to their looks and attracts attention," she said.
it's like having a traditionally man's job like a welder or auto me chanic. It's an ego thing."
THE QUALITY OF tattooing has changed in recent years along with the trend of body art.
"You see the old uncles with the big, black designs on their arms. Now the lines are more defined and the colors don't fade as fast." Lowe said.
Tattoos can cost anywhere from $20 to $120, depending on the artist, and can take from 20 minutes to five hours depending on the design.
Tattooing is done with an electric needle that can puncture the skin 2,000 to 3,000 times a minute. There is an outlining tool that can hold up to three needles and a shading tool that has five to nine needles to ink the skin up in ink and implants it under the skin.
Ed Turner, 123 Brook St., has 13 tattoos. He said that modern tattoos throughout the world were different than older ones.
Lowe said that the ink did not fade as fast because it had a metal base instead of the vegetable base of the old dyes.
Turner said that the sum would fade tattoos, but that the only places where there was a chance of the skin sloughing off were the tattoo was on the palms of the hands.
IN ADDITION TO the improved quality of the dyes, new methods to sterilize needles have lowered the risk of infection. There has never been an infection reported from work done in her shop, Lowe said.
But Lee Bittenbender, a Lawrence dermatologist said that the way most tattooists sterilize their needles, was "not adequate to knock out the hepatitis virus." He said most use the cold sterilization technique, but the only way to kill all of the germs was to use the hot method.
But, Bittenbender said, "For a vast majority of the people, it is a safe pro
According to Jack Cox, tattoo artist at the Illustrated Man. 2 West St Street, Kansas City, M., tattooing does not hurt. It stings a little," he said.
Turner said the wound caused by the process is usually covered by a bandage for 24 hours It heals in about 2 weeks.
THE ONLY REAL risk is in making a mistake. Lowe said.
"You have to be totally prepared and really know what you want," she said.
really know what you want," she said. Bittencen said that some people are genetically susceptible to forming thick, hard scars called koloids and others sometimes develop allergic reactions to the dyes.
"I've taken off a lot of tattoos," he said.
Lowe said that it costs about three times as much to have a tattoo removed from the leg.
Bittenbender said that superficial dermabrasion is used with a local anesthetic. The skin layers are sanded down to the tattoo pigment, which is then soaked up. Sometimes this process must be repeated again and again every few months, until the dye is removed. The amount of scarring depends on the depth of the tattoo and the skin's healing properties.
The tattooing profession is closed, according to Cox and Lowe. Cox learned from a friend and Lowe married into it. Lowe said that the art was usually done in a studio.
"It is easy enough to get the equipment if you have the money," Lowe said. "But to be good enough to open a shop is something else."
"It is hard to get in and hard to stay
with you. You have to be inter-
faced, developed and caring."
Milton's: a little politics, a lot of jazz
By KATE DUFFY Staff Reporter
Stepping into Milton's Tap Room is like walking into a vintage 1940s Raymond Chandler detective movie.
Low-slung black-cushioned chairs are situated easily around the room's darkened periphery. The sound of a saxophone backing up Eila Fitzgerald's crystal voice pours out from the stereo system behind them, and the conversations and the splash of soda water fills the silence between albums.
This is Milton Morris' home away from home.
MORRI, THE OWNER of this venerable Kansas City, Mo, tap room at 3241 Main, is 70 years old. Tall and dark-haired, he moves easier than his years would lead you to believe. He has been in the business since 1930, and during this time he has owned six clubs, run for governor four times and helped numerous jazz musicians cut their teeth on the Kansas City scene.
To Gilton's after 3:30 p.m. and you'll probably get to meet the proprietor himself. If you're a jazz louzer, you should buy one of their album from the stack behind the bar.
Stay a little longer at the bar and talk politics with Morris. You may learn something from the man who use to be Harry Truman's driver in
That stack represents only a small portion of the 5,000-album collection Morris put together over the years.
Morris began his love affair with politics when he "was just a kid." He has entered every Missouri governor's list. He voted for the 70 election, he elected 40,000 votes.
"We don't have any good politicians any more," Morris said. "They either get framed or tossed in jail."
"I ONLY PRINTED 500 bumperstickers and 100 fillers," he likes to remind other political candidates. He's in the million dollars and Bond close to that.
Why does Morris run?
"To prove a point," he said. "This state needs money, and they send it every which way."
Morris insisted the money easily could come from legalized horseracing—just like his bright red, white and blue bumperstick claims. In fact, he has never been asked to position drive to have the question put on Missouri's November ballot.
But Morris' political career goes further back than his gubernatorial aspirations. He was a Democratic committeeman in Kansas City's 8th ward in the '30s, when being a Democrat meant working with Tom Pendergast, the city's famous political boss.
"During the Hyatt Regency tragedy, a reporter from the Village Voice called me and asked what I thought of it." Morris said.
MORRIS GAVE Pendergast credit for the city's early vitality and economic strength. The Pendergast machine ruled the Kansas City political scene for almost 25 years in the first half of the 20th century.
"I told him the hotel would still be standing if Pendergast had built it. He had a cement company and he built the City Hall, courthouse and Municipal Auditorium. And they're all still standing."
In the late '20s, he owned a drug-store at 26th and Stroet streets. This was during Prohibition, when the only liquor store he had to get a prescription for whiskey.
MORRIS BOUGHT the prescriptions from the doctors and sold both the prescriptions and whiskey to his customers.
For lunch in those days, he would often go to the nearby 12th and Vine streets area for barbecue.
"I was bootlegging," he said.
"The doors would always be open, and I could hear jazz being played," he said. "There was 'a white-owned club in town where blacks could play, except for the after-hours where houses. So I decided to open a club."
Morris started his nightclub career in 1890 with the Hey-Hey Club, 4th and Cherry streets near the ASB Bridge. The building had been used as a feed barn, and Morris was also the manager on hay bales and drunk out of whiskey barrels, he said.
About that time he met a young pianoist playing the background music for silent movies at a local theater. Count Basie, the pianist, began
"IT COST ME $200 to start it," Morris reminisced. "I made $1,100 the first day."
working at Morris' club in 1834 and they've been good friends ever since
When Basie was seriously ill in the hospital recently, Morris sent him a get-well telegram.
"I talked with him after he received it," Morris said, "and he told me, here he is, supposed to be dying and he gets this telegram that reads, 'Not now, I will tell you when,' and all he can do is laugh."
A STREAM OF famous and not-so-famous jazz musicians have passed through Milton's six clubs Billy Hallie, Charlie Parker, Bennie Moten, Lester "Pres" Young and others stopped at Morris' along their way. But that was during the city's "punk era."
Milton's Tap Room, 328 Main, Kansas City, Mo., has been a popular spot for jazz fans since it opened in the 1930s. The club moved to its present location in 1950.
"This used to be a wide open town," Morris said. "You know there used to be 200 joints between Broadway and Troost streets. They cleaned up the city too good. We need a swinging city, not just a livable one."
AND WITH THE CITY recently passing an ordinance allowing a 3 a.m. closing time for bars, that might happen again. or so Morris hopes
"I've had three goals in my life," Morris said. "Legalize bingo, the 3 a.m. closing time and horse-racing legal here."
A member of the older generation himself, Morris, who partially attribits his good health to Cutty Sark and five cigars a day, works the after-hours shift at his boutique says he goes every day because he likes people.
"I wanted to get bingo legalized so old folks could do other things than just watch TV," he said.
So far Morris has accomplished the first two.
Morris himself is not worried about getting older.
"Age is mind over matter" he said.
"If you don't mind it, it don't matter"
Milton Morris
TOPEKA
Fairs. music highlight fall entertainment
Sept. 2-6: Sunflower State Expo Fair,
17th Street and Tooea Boulevard.
Sept. 10| 12] *Buff n' Muff Hot-Air Balloon Rally*江苏钻石, Diamonds, 20th Edition; Ripley, *Ripley*.
Sept. 10-12: Superbatics Air Show, Forbes Field, South Highway 75. A precision flyer team and stunt flyers in antime airplanes will perform.
Oct. 3: Apple Festival, Ward Meade Gardens, 100 Fillmore. Apple cider will be made on the site at this old-fashioned barnvest-time festival.
Oct. 9: Kansas State Chili Cook-Off,
Sunflower State State Parks, 17th
Floor, State Parks Grounds
KANSAS CITY MO
Aug. 20: Bobby Goldsboro with the Kansas City Philharmonic, concert at Starlight Theatre. Call 816-333-9481 for time and ticket information.
Aug. 21: Glen Campbell concert, Starlight Theatre.
Aug. 21: Kansas City Royals vs Chicago White Sox, 7:35 p.m., at Royals Park. (Andrew M. Brunson)
Complex, Call 816-923-8000 for ticket information.
Aug. 22: Doobie Brothers concert
Starlight Theatre.
Aug. 22: The Mexico Folkioric Company of Guadalajara will perform at 7 p.m. at Penn Valley Park, Pershing Road and Main Street.
Aug. 23: Rickie Lee Jones concert,
Starlight Theatre.
Aug. 28: Kanaas City Chiefs vs.
Miami Dolphins, exhibition game at
7:35 p.m. Arrowhead Stadium, 170 and
49th Street Call 818-924-9400 for ticket information
Aug. 24-29 "The Best Little Wheres-
tle Texas" staring Barbara Eden
Ender's House
Through Aug. 29: An exhibition of photography by Henry Carlri-Bresson at the Nelson Art Gallery. A 50-year perspective of people, places and things.
Aug. 28: Muddy Waters concert, 8 p.m. at the Uptown Theatre, 3700 Broadway. Call 816-756-3370 for ticket information.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through saturdays, and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays. Admission prices are $15 for adults, 75 cents for children 6-12, and children younger than 6 are admitted free. All visitors are admitted free Sundays. Call 886-561-4000 for further information.
Aug. 30: Kenny Loggins concert,
Starlight Theatre.
Aug. 30: Kansas City Royals vs.
Kansas Rangers, 7:35 p.m. Royals va
Aug. 31; Air Supply concert, Starlight Theatre.
Sept. 1: The Go-Go's in concert, Starlight Theatre
light Theatre.
Sept. 3: Manhattan Transfer concert,
Sept. 3: Manhattan Transfer concert,
Starlight Theatre,
Sept. 5: B.B. King concert, Starlight Theatre
Oct. 22-12. 12. An exhibition of 20th century paintings from the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, will be displayed at the Nelson Art Gallery
Oct. 3-Nov. 8: An exhibition of photographs by Edward Weston will be
HUTCHINSON
- Sept. 10: Beach Boys, at 6 p.m. am
8:30 p.m.
Sept. 11: 19. Kansas State Fair, Kansas State Faregows, 10th and Poplar. The following people will perform in concert:
Sept. 4-6 Opening weekend of the Renaissance Festival, a re-creation of a 18th century marketplace. Attractions include entertainment and crafts and foods of the period. The festival will be open from 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. every weekend through Oct. 10 at the Agri-Cultural Hall of Fame, 218th Street and State Avenue. Call 816-563-8005 for ticket information
- Sept 12. Statler Brothers, at 6 p.m.
and 8:30 p.m.
- Sept 15: Ray Price, at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
- Sept. 16. Barbara Mandrell, at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
sown at the John Art Gallery Weston is known for his close up studies
MISSION
Aug. 28-29 The Mission Art Festival at Mission Mart Shopping Center, will feature arts and crafts by 100 artists German food and entertainment will be outdoors. Call 953-262-2441 for further information.
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Through Aug. 22 The Leavenworth County Fair, featuring a demolition derby and livestock contests, will be at the Tonganoxie Fargounds
TONGANOXIE
A play "The Ballad of Black Jack",
which is the story of a pre-Civil War
battle that took place near Baldwin
will be presented both nights.
Oct. 16-17. The 25th Annual Maple Leaf Festival will feature a *parade* horseshoe pitching contests, live music arts and crafts and historical displays
- Sept 18, John Schneider of "The Times of Hazard," at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. (Saturday)
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- Sept. 19: Willie Nelson, at 7:30 p.m.
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