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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, May 9, 1968
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Single bedroom apartments in Lawrence run from plain, unfurnished apartments at $110.00 (average) to a more elaborate, furnished apartments at $160.00 (average monthly).
In Kansas City there are unfurnished apartments available for $85,000 and thought they are nothing elaborate, they are clean.
The average unfurnished apartment in Kansas City costs about $100.00 per month. The average furnished apartment in Kansas City in which students live costs anywhere from $125.00 to $150.00 a month.
One student pointed out what he considered an advantage to living in Kansas City rather than Lawrence. In Kansas City, he said, landlords try to keep apartments up and most of them are grateful for your patronage. In Lawrence, he said, landlords don't seem to care about making repairs and could care less about whether students stay in their apartments. He called it a "pay your rent or get out" relationship.
The cost of living infringement also is felt in foods stuff. Certain
brands of canned foods are higher in a few Lawrence supermarkets than in the same supermarkets in Kansas City. In Lawrence one brand of corn was 22 cents a can while in Kansas City the same brand of corn was 18 cents. In both cases the supermarket was owned by the same company.
Some of the items costing more in Lawrence than in Kansas City are certain cuts of meats (T-bone, sirloin and porterhouse steaks), frozen foods, most canned goods and practically all lunchmeats.
Many Lawrence merchants feel their prices are competitive with other Lawrence businesses, while others were surprised to find some food prices in Lawrence higher than in Kansas City.
Laura Kitchen, Mission Hills junior, said she was aware of the high food prices in Lawrence, but what really bothered her was Lawrence's lack of entertainment places such as theaters. Currently there are two indoor movie theaters in Lawrence and one drive-in theater serving more than 40,-000 people.
Gunn pointed out, however, that a triple theater complex to
From pots to riches
Rv Dick West
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—During his undergraduate days at the University of Wyoming class of '63, Harold A. Krause made $30,-000 selling cooking ware to housewives.
He did this by appealing to their cultural, rather than culinary, instincts. His pitch was made in rhyme.
"Girls," he would say, "if you don't buy my pots you're liable to end up cooking out of thin pans and tin cans and red pans and bed pans, none of which look alike or cook alike. . .."
Once he sold 7,000 items in a single week. But his feat was
Arthur J. Boynton Scholars are James Klumpp, Topeka; James P. Merchant, Leawood; and David McClain, St. Joseph, Mo. The Arthur J. Boynton Memorial Scholarship Fund was established in 1928 by former students of Dr. Boynton, a long-time professor of economics at KU.
Seven seniors majoring in economics at KU have been awarded grants from three memorial scholarship funds to complete their undergraduate educations.
KU seniors get grants in economics
The outstanding senior in economics annually is named to receive the Domenico Gagliardo Scholarship. Kenneth Gray, Ulysses, is this year's honoree, Gagliardo taught in the School of Business from 1923 to 1955. The fund was established by his colleagues, the Kansas Library Association, and by personal friends.
Proceeds from a collection of his articles and speeches, "The American Way," provided the base for the John Ise Memorial Scholarships. Recipients of this year's grants are John S. Caldwell, Dallas, Texas; Roger A. Lake, Spokane, Wash.; and P. Lawrence Peterson, Newton.
largely unappreciated, even in his own family.
Criticize achievement
His relatives began saying things like, "Why doesn't Hal get a job?" The implication being that selling cooking ware was beneath the dignity of a college man, poetry notwithstanding.
Krause resented that attitude.
"Selling is the most lucrative of all professions, yet people are constantly putting salesmen down," he noted.
Subsequent enrollment in law school helped him see more clearly the injustice of it all. And it was then that he conceived his true mission in life.
So he dropped out of law school and formed American Salesmasters, Inc., an organization dedicated to elevating salesmen in the public esteem.
be located in the Hillcrest Shopping Center is being planned. It should be completed soon.
Krause was here this week holding a couple of seminars on the virtues of selling, which gave me a chance to check with him on the progress of the upliftment campaign.
"It's going great," he said. "People are beginning to realize that selling is the last frontier of the American Dream."
The sheer beauty of his words brought a lump to my throat. I said, "No wonder you made $30,-000 selling pots and pans door-to-door."
"Please," he said, looking pained. "Don't say door-to-door. I prefer to think of it as person-to-person."
"The product doesn't matter," he said. "All salesmen sell the same thing. They sell people. In fact, I don't call it salesmanship; I call it 'humantics.'
"Either way," I said, "that's a lot of pots and pans."
"Lawrence is a dull little town with nothing but a university in it," Elizabeth Nystrom, Uppsala, Sweden, special student, said. "If it weren't for the University, the town would die."
I looked at it that way and it made me regret those nasty things I said about the used car assistant who helped me buy the lemon I'm driving. I now realize he was a last frontiersman practicing humantics. Which rhymes with mechanics.
"Look at it this way: a salesman actually is an assistant buyer. He's helping you buy it."
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Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., junior and retiring student body president, said many students think they are a burden to the city. Of course, he continued, most persons realize that students contribute much financially to the city. Craig said he believes Lawrence prices were in line with any other college town.
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Rusty Leffel, Prairie Village sophomore, who was one of the KU students at a meeting March 6 between the Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce and KU student leaders, said there was a lack of communication between students and Lawrence residents. He did not believe there was a split.
"A lot of ill feeling was generated by the students toward the city after the Phi Gam fire," Craig said. "The Lawrence fire department did not get water on the fire for 15 minutes after it was reported and students got the feeling the city was not concerned with serving them."
Leffel said if city officials would visit the campus and speak with new students, explain the history of the town and perhaps organize a tour of the city, students would not feel they were complete strangers in the community.
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The FLIPPERS are shown here on a movie set in a scene from "The New Wave" soon to be released.
Friday, May 10 — The FLIPPERS last performance this season at the University of Kansas Don't Miss It
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Saturday, May 11—STUDENT ID NIGHT FREE ADMISSION to any student with an II in their Student Identification Number.
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