A LITTLE WARMER
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
A LITTLE WARMER
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.54
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Moon followers move to Wichita
Friday, November 5, 1976
See story page five
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Novelty man
amputated appendages to an old favorite, the whoopee cunton
Emick was mayor of Lawrence in 1968 and 1972.
John Emick, author of John's Novelty Co., has been in the novelty business in Lawrence of 1946. He sells everything from fake
Carter reaffirms pledges, suggests possible tax cut
BY LAWRENCE KNUTSON A.B. Special Correspondent
Carter said he would likely seek a tax cut for average wage earners if the economy didn't perk up by Jan. 20, the day he will be inaugurated.
Carter made the remarks in his first nationally televised news conference, from the chilly platform of his hometown railroad denot.
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) --President-elect Jimmy Carter said last night that the narrow margin of his victory wouldn't keep him out of trouble and to carry out my campaign commitments."
*Hs stated goals will be difficult to achieve, but with the help of a Lorem ipsum copywriter.*
He said that the closeness of the election Tuesday wouldn't prompt him to adjust his plan.
- HE IS CONCERNED about a possible increase in December in the price of imported oil, but can do nothing about it now except voice his concern. Carter said he didn't want to mislead Americans into thinking that oil prices or make decisions before taking office.
- Cabinet members won't be announced before December, and they will be chosen on merit, after personal interviews, and in a careful, very slow and very methodical way. If the group would try to achieve balance, including geographical balance, in the Cabinet.
"I WISH WE COULD have carried all 50 at demonstration — didn't hope to demonstrate—even before insurgation —my complete commitment to be president of all the American cities."
Carter appeared with Sen. Walter Mondale, but the vice president-elect was silent during the first major pronoun discussion in the administration. Carter did all the talking.
- Among its main points, the international continuity in American foreign policy, toward both the United States and Russia, is central.*
Gewgaws galore—John's got 'em
"It's too late in my life to make any kind
Bv RICK THAEMERT
A small boy with a baseball cap pushes open the heavy glass door and steps into a large kitchen on St. The air in the 10-by 46-foot room is thick with the aroma of popcorn and cinnamon candy. The shelves, too, are thick with thousands of novelty in all shapes and sizes.
Squirting flowers, spider earrings, rubber snakes, flavored-pepper chewing gum, Groucho Marx glasses, motorized glasses with windshield wipers, fake imputated appendages and fake ice cubes with flies within are only a few.
ALTHOUGH BUSINESS has increased through the years, he said his content with them is growing.
**THAT MAN is John Erick, the John of**
**THE Novelty, who has run the business**
**with a company**
The boy surveys the shelves and glass cases carefully, so as not to miss that one with a curious eye. Finally, crowded merchandise. Finally, he tells the man with the kind green eyes leaping over the shelf.
His novelty trade began during World War II, he said, when he sold things such as aspirin and razor blades for a company. In 1946, he moved to a lessening company at his present location, then added the novelty section in late 1946. However, he sold the vending company last year, and now concentrates on the novelty section and Hillcrest Lounge and Billiards, which he owns.
"I guess I've always been a kid at heart,"
sick said recently, adding that he enjoyed
working with the kids.
of a big movie. I'm not trying to get rich here," he said, adding with a devilish grin, "Well, I like it. I am looking for that one to sell and make a million."
But, he hasn't found it yet, he said.
Frank Masters, plastic surgeon and acting chairman of the surgery department, said Humphrey wanted to do something different. He declined to say whether he thought dissatisfaction with the Med Center caused Humphrey to resign.
Surgeon at Med Center resigns to go to UMKC
"I've been looking for a particular item that will sell like hotcakes so I can become a millionaire, but I haven't found it in forty-some years."
CONSIDERING THE cost in time and materials in making homemade novelties, Emick said, he could make a profit of only 10 cents an hour.
"i sit up nights trying to think of some novelty or prank that will sell," Erick said.
letter of resignation indicated he wanted to continue his research and do more private work.
The only items Emis has the time to make are Jayhawk buttons and cinnamon toothpicks, both of which consistently have been top sellers, he said.
Emick leaned over the scratched glass counter, smudged by the noses and fingers of small fores, and recalled a time when he clicked a button he wished he would have kent.
THE FOLLOWING day, he said, a student came in and ordered about a hundred Carter buttons. But, unfortunately, Emrick was there, keep one for a collector's item, he said.
He said he was at KU's first football game last fall when he and some other fans noticed an airplane pulling the 'sign, the sign, the sign,' they all lauded and "who's Carter?"
Except for buttons -hia No. 1 seller- and
the toothpicks, Emick depends on about 12
toothbrushes.
When Humphrey resigned as chairman, he cited problems with salary funding and insufficient office and laboratory space in the Med Center's surgery department.
"I never thought I'd hear of him again," he laughed.
Masters told that a new surgeon would be recruited, but that there were enough people to fill the positions.
Loren Humphrey, general surgeon and former chairman of the surgery department at the KU Medical Center, resigned yesterday for excessive Jan. 31.
"The cost of operation has picked up to beat the devil." Emrick said.
For that reason, he has to be careful when buying novels in bulk. he said.
Hammhey, chairman of the surgery department since 1971, resigned from that position Sept. 29 but stayed as a professor and in charge, he said he wasn't looking for another.
"You got burned once in a while," he said. "We've had to throw away hundreds of dollars."
HE SAID THAT it was very hard to predict what new novelties would sell, but that some standard novelties had always "sold like mad."
"We sell wigs and masks year round," he said. "We're the only place in town that carries expensive masks, sometimes as much as $14."
by Halloween, and that he had to order as early as August to get any, because masks are not available.
He said that he always sold all his masks
Popping matches, hand buzzers, whoopee cushions, and KU Jawkypuppies are some items that always have sold well, so. Occasionally, he witnesses a fad that sells big, such as the hula-hop or skateboard. Emick said. \
EMICK SELL$ make-up year round also.
"A lot of the students come in and buy
them."
However, he has now accepted a position with the Harry S. Truman Medical Center at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine.
"We get little bites on up," he said, "but it's surprising that we have a lot of attorneys and professional people come in looking for gags to play on each other.
Emnick said it was surprising how many different types of people bought novelties. All ages seem to be looking for things to add humor to their lives, he said.
Lawrence Klein, a University of Pennsylvania economist and a top Carter economic adviser, has recommended to Carter a $10 billion to $15 billion tax cut or a
*Someone comes in everyday asking for something weird they expect to have, and asks them what to do.*
BUT, HE SAID, he doesn't carry some kinds of novelties.
He said the cut would try to increase the purchasing power of the average American family, and would be oriented toward lower-income taxpayers.
Rober Kugel, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said that Humphrey's
"I've tried to stay out of pornographic stuff," Emick said. "It's not that I'm a
Carter again thanked President Gerald Ford for his offer to cooperate in the investigation of the bombs, ministration, and said he hoped to meet with Ford and the President's top advisers.
campaign promises, including an overhaul of the government and the welfare system, tax reform and a new, comprehensive energy policy.
Humphrey was out of town and unavailable for comment last night.
See GEWGAWS page 10
CARTER SAID THAT if the current economy slowdown persisted he might seek to cut the cost of insurance.
The night was cool and crisp for the news conference. Newnes sat on folding metal chairs in the street in front of the railroad building, where 400 looked on from behind roar barriers.
quick increase in federal spending to stimulate economy at the start of the decade.
CARTER SAID THE news conference would be the first of many.
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"I hope that I can have at least two full-scale press conferences a month when I am ready."
He began the conference by thanking his supporters, and said, "No matter how anyone may have voted on Tuesday, for me or for President Ford or others, I deeply disliked you." American people as we approach the day for a new administration next January."
See CARTER page two
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
Demos' effect on KU now only speculation
Effects on KU of the power turnover are only speculation. But University administrators are unsure of what repercussions to expect when the budget is presented to the House in the 1977 session. The legislators convene in January.
The Democrats gained 12 seats in the election Tuesday and hold a 65-80 advantage.
The fate of KU's fiscal 1978 budget now lies in the hands of the first Democratic-controlled House of Representatives in Kansas in 64 years.
Some legislators agree that there will be differences from past years because of a Democratic majority and a Republican governor.
There is still a two-seat Republican advantage in the Senate. 21-19.
Partisan lines could be drawn on issues such as tax reform, State Rep. Mike Glover, former Republican House leader.
State Rep. Wendell Lady, R-Wichita, and past chairman of the House Ways and Spaces committee, would definitely be partisan voting in the next legislature. There's going to have to be if Republicans are to have any control over who goes on. We're going to have unity.
STATE REP. LLOYD Buzi, R Lawrence, said, "It might make a difference on how far some of the proposed legislation would go, as a majority of Democrats in the E-use, the Senate is still controlled by Republicans. With a Republican governor, it's going to make it hard for any program that might be with Republican approval to get through."
A solution for dealing with state funding will be decided this legislative session.
The source of state funding seems to be the key that will determine whether the University budget request will be given a close shade in the legislature.
KU has requested $50 million for the Lawrence campus operating budget and about $90 million for the KU Medical's operating and construction budgets.
TAX REVENUE and money in the state general revenue fund reserve are important sources of revenue. These funds come from universities and other state agencies. How Democrats and Republicans use those sources is discussed in this chapter.
"I don't think any major party will be in favor of tax increases." Shankel said.
Lady said there would be no tax increases this session because Gov. Robert Bennett is running for reelection because there will be a projected $120 million in the reserve fund at the close of the month.
MONEY FROM THE REServe fund will be available this session, he said, but the legislature has to look ahead. He said a balance of about 10 per cent of the general fund budget should be held in case of a disaster or a downflow in the economy. That amount would approximately $750 million in the fiscal 1978 general revenue fund.
The legislature needs to hold a line on spending, he said, to keep a balanced budget and enough money to the reserve. The state spent $50 million more than it took in.
More than $30 million in federal revenue sharing funds, principally used for capital improvements, might be one other way of funding the state operating budget, he said. But he said he didn't think that was a very important piece of the plan to minimize the revenue sharing program and leave the state without funds for on-going programs.
Any new programs that could cause a tax raise will be scrutinized, he said.
See DEMOS' page 12
Beginners bust in Bahamas bar
Bv JOE RADCLIFE
Statt Writer
FREEPORT, Grand Bahamas—The young black dealer with curly red hair and a strong British accent had been playing Five minutes earlier. The man had lost $50 and had bid his farewell. Now he returned, tossing a $100 bill at the door.
The dealer smiled again and gave the man $100 in chips.
"Back for some more, sir?"
The man was, indeed, back for some more. Four hands later all his chips were gone. He slowly got up, grumbled a good-by and walked away from the table at the El Casino here.
The entire trip lasted 14 hours, and in that time they received a round trip flight, two meals, free drinks, a floor show at the casino and all the gambling they could afford. All for a mere $2.
SEVERAL HOURS before, on a day in late October, he had boarded a chartered DC-9 out of Des Moines, Iowa, with a group of 100 other "gambblers" that included several college students, some businessmen, factory workers and school teachers. At 8 p.m., that they had started their mind-trip to the Bahamas.
Of course there was a slight catch—each person had to bring $500. No one had to spend it, but most of them
THE TRIP WAS sponsored by Walter Allen Tours, a travel agency based in Des Moines.
Bob Bedwell, who drives a grad leader in Des Moines for a living, borrowed the $500 for the trip from his employer.
"Jim's been down here before," Bodwell said, "He plans on losing $1,000 every time he comes."
Walter Allen, the tour director, stood at the craps table looking like one of his customers.
"We get all kinds of people on these trips," he said, "businessmen, students and factory workers, just get it."
At the suggestion of any professional gamblers taking the trip, Allen laughed.
"NO HIGH ROLLERS here," he said. "We get people who don't usually do things like this."
At the bar, Bedwell stood with his friend Thomas, a
chubby, likeable man who was gulping his Scotch and
tea.
"Last time I was here, I hit four straight 60-to-one shots on the roulette," he said. "I was $2,900 ahead and I went over to those damn black jack tables. That dealer saw me come a mile off."
He ordered a double and laughed, "That dealer really burned me."
BACK AT THE craps tables, a man was swearing loudly at the dealers.
"I had my chips right there," he said, pounding the table, "and now they're gone, dammit."
A manager in a tuxedo leaned from the stand that overlapped the same.
"The man rolled a nine and you lost," he said. "And if you don't watch your language, sit, we will ask you to do it."
MEANWHILE, BODWELL had just finished a visit to the rolette tables
Most of the people on the trip had gambled before,
In reply, the man grumbled something about 'damm bastards' and slammed $100 worth of chips on the table. He said he was a 'slow cooker'.
"I'll tell you be the truth," he said. "I just came out ahead at that route wheel, and I didn't know what was going on."
This time he was luckier. He grabbed his wins
and stomped away, still stawing at the dealers.
but not as heavily. The minimum bids for craps and
blackjack were $5 or $10, compared with $1 or $2 in Las
 Vegas.
A frail-looking, 34-year-old man with horn-rimmed glasses, who works grading college entrance exams in Iowa City, said that he wasn't betting much money because the minimum was too high.
"HERE, YOU WIN or lose so much money so fast that you don't have time to think," he said as he slipped on the floor.
"I just come to have some drinks and have a good time."
He said that he had gambled a little that night but that he was going to stop before he any more needless.
"In Las Vegas, you really have to at losing $100," he said. "But here, you can blow it before you get broke."
Another person who wasn't betting much was Jane Todd, one of the few women on the trip. Todd is a 23-year-old junior high school teacher from Des Moines.
"OH, I NOT a gamber," she said, smiling. "I can't afford to lose my hard-earned money."
Toddy said that she heard some of the dealers complaining that the women weren't gambling enough.
The evening was nearly over, and Allen was selling some customers to grab a cab back to the airport. Some customers still had to leave.
He flashed a smile and said, "Luck? Sure, I had lots of luck—all had."
Outside the casino, several college students plumped into a cue. One of them asked when the next trip was, and he answered, "Don't worry."
"NEXT TRIP," he said, "Are you crazy? I have to loan the $1.25 cab fare back to the airport."