University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 8, 1971
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Rich Hall
Performance by comedian lures crowd
The Bolivian Weed Killer Revue, a one-man improvisational comedy act, made an unscheduled appearance in front of Wescoe Hall yesterday afternoon.
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The 20-minute, rapid-fire monologue was delivered to about 150 students by Rich Hall, a traveling comedian from St. Charles, Mo. Hall will repeat the performance at 12:20 p.m. today in front of Wescoe.
Some of the featured routines in the abbreviated program included a "non-performance" by 'Jack The Wonder Toad,' a ceramic figurine, and a story by Hall on the prejudices of marijuana plants against other forms of flora.
Hall is traveling to college campuses across the state.
Milk delivery days almost extinct
By DEB MILLER
Staff Writer
The figure of the friendly neighborhood milkman叫 it as familiar as it used to be in
At one time, there were eight All Star Dairy routes in Lawrence. Now there is one.
Milk delivery to the home has been on the decline for 20 years in Lawrence and across the nation, O. A. Olson, president of All Star Dairy, said recently.
"The customer can do more shopping for prices at a store, and the price of delivered milk is usually a little higher than that bought in stores," he said.
Olson said that the All Star route would be continued as long as it supported itself.
However, Meyer Dairy Co. has three routes in Lawrence and business is increasing, Fred Benson, assistant general manager, said.
BUT BENSON agreed that home delivery was an exception and that Meyer Dairy was an exception.
The reason may be that Meyer's routes are independently owned.
"The people who own our routes also own their own equipment and trucks, and they
Schimmel leaves All Star Dairy on his route at 3 a.m. and returns to 9 a.m. after delivering 240 gallons of milk to Lawrence homes.
The last remaining All Star route has been delivered for 50 years by Raymond Schmidt. The team is
set their own prices, so they look at their customers' grocery store owner. Benson and Jensen.
DURING HIS 30 years on the job, he has seen many changes in the city.
Traveling around Lawrence in the middle of the night has given Schimmel a different view of the city than most people probably have.
Lawrence has tripped in size, he said, and there are many more shopping centers.
"The traffic is light," Schimmel said. "I hardly see anyone, except an occasional Kansas City Star delivery man, or some kids, especially on football weekends."
In the past, Schimmel said, he saw other milkmen on their routes, and everyone stopped to talk. That rarely happens now, be said.
THIRTY YEARS have provided Schimmel with a lot of memories.
He once found a drunken man in his truck when he returned from a delivery, Schimmel said, but he had no trouble getting rid of him.
Truck breakdowns and weather also have posed problems for Schimmel.
"The ice storms that we have now in the winter are nothing compared to what we used to have when I started my route," he noted, as they were to wear cloats to get from door to door.
When he began his航程, Schirmel had to adjust to unusual hours, but now they're怕水.
"I USUALLY L sleep for a while when I get home in the morning, then to go to bed about 10am."
When it comes time to retire, Schimmel,
$2, will be glad.
"I'll farm the 20 acres that I own near Lecompton," he said.
Schimmel, who says he loves to get up at 3 a.m. said his job got a little hortage at times.
"After 30 years, any job does," he said.
Wagon train bill a group effort
Lawrence and KU Bicentennial groups agreed yesterday afternoon to try to find funds to help the Douglas County Bicentennial Commission pay a bill owed to KU.
Representatives of the three groups met in Central Junior High School upon request of the county group, which had been billed by KU to pay University personnel who made preparations for a visit of a wagon train caravan in late April.
The combined budgets of the Lawrence and Douglas County Bicentennial groups don't have enough uncommitted funds to meet their needs. KU Bicentennial Committee has no funds.
AT THE MEETING, however, representatives of the Lawrence group said they would have to wait.
Joan Moffet, Lawrence Bicentennial coachman, said that funds collected from the sale of Bicentennial plates, funds allocated to committees that haven't been spent or possible public donations might be used to pay a portion of the bill.
W. Stitt Robinson, professor of history and chairman of the KU group, told the three groups' representatives that he had talked to D. Shankel, executive vice chancellor, about the possibility of finding funds to pay another one-third of the bill.
THE COUNTY GROUP would attempt to pay the remaining one-third.
other representatives who had thought KU's other Commitment would be unable
Clence Hills, the county group's chairman, said Robinson's comments surprised
Both Robinson and Shankel were out of town last night and couldn't be reached for
Hills said frustrations concerning the bill that were expressed last week at a meeting of the county group were mentioned again at yesterday's meeting. There was some concern, she said, that the state Biencential commission hadn't actively tried to override the governor because the state group originally had encouraged the wagon train to ston at KU.
THE STATE commission virtually is defunct now, she said.
No meeting date has been set for either the meeting of the Lawrence Bicentennial Commission or a meeting of representatives of all three Bicentennial groups.
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