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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday. February 16. 1968
It does pay to shop around
By Kathy Hall Kansan Staff Reporter
Discount stores aren't always discount, supermarkets aren't always super and the five-and-dime may be the best place to buy shampoo.
A price versus product check of stores KU coeds frequent proved one thing most people already know: the same products sell for different prices in different stores.
But the price variance may be larger than most coeds suspect. It really does pay to shop around.
For instance, one four-ounce can of deodorant sells for 73 cents in a dime store; the "cheapest place in town" sells the same can for 87 cents and the drug stores and a supermarket sell the can for $1. For the percentage-minded, it's 27 per cent cheaper to buy four ounces of deodorant in a dime store than in a discount house.
It is also 27 per cent cheaper to buy a 13-ounce can of a nationally advertised brand of hairspray in a dime store than in a local drug store.
Prices on that brand of hairspray ranged from 79 cents for 13 ounces in a discount store to 67 cents in a five-and-dime.
Shampoo prices varied also. Six ounces of a top brand sold from $1.55 to $1.57 in large drug stores. The discount price was $1.26, but a local dime store offered the same size and brand for $1.24. A supermarket sold it for $1.21. That's 22 per cent cheaper.
Supermarkets were cheapest with creme rinse, offering a 5 per cent saving on two leading brands. The average price was 75 cents in supermarkets, while it was $1 in drug stores.
KU coed chosen Grange princess
Lynn Aaron, Carbondale freshman, is the 1968 National Grange princess.
The interior design major said she won the state title mainly on the scrapbook of her activities she had to compile for the contest.
She has held two offices in Grange, a community service organization, and participated in a national exchange program in which she spent the summer at the home of an Indiana girl.
In high school she was cheerleader and class officer for four years, homecoming queen, a 4-H member and a soxophonist in the band.
After receiving the Kansas title in October, Miss Aaron went to the national competition in Syracuse, N.Y., in November. In the national contest she competed with 32 other girls on the basis of poise and personality, personal interviews, a quiz on Grange and scrapbooks.
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A discount house did place in one category, however. Mouthwash was listed at 77 cents at the discount center; the same 12-ounce bottle sold for $1.15 at a chain drug company. The discount house offered almost a 33 per cent saving.
Although there seems to be no consistency on who's cheapest—someone is.
Three KU coeds will be giving Mademoiselle magazine the inside story on KU-that is, on the latest trends and ideas popular on campus.
Mademoiselle chooses three
Linda Keeler, Salina junior; Janis Ogrizovich, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; and Jill Wright, St. Louis, Mo., senior, have been
White socks faux pas
Some people can tell a person's home by his accent; others use the tags on his suitcase.
Others, for those of you who care, judge by the color of his socks.
named to Mademoiselle's College Board.
"You can always tell an American in Trafalgar Square," said Brian Barker, Windsor, England, graduate student and vice-president of the student body. "But I'd consider him a bit hicky."
A more corn-fed opinion comes from Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., junior and student body president, who also possesses extrasensory sock perception.
"Anybody who wears white socks with a suit is straight off the farm," Craig said, although he thinks white socks are proper with sports clothes.
The Associated Women's Students fashion board and other girls who really ought to know are equally unforgiving.
"They are never proper unless with shorts in the summer," Joyce Tinkler, Gypsum junior, and KU's Best-Dressed Coed in 1966, said.
"Boys who wear white socks certainly aren't sophisticated," Pam Ransdell, Overland Park junior and chairman of the fashion board said.
"I would more than likely refuse a date with someone who wore white socks," she said.
That will suit Dennis Taylor, Rancho Cordova, Calif., senior and president of the Interfraternity Council. just fine
"I don't wear socks very often," Taylor said.
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Notified after Christmas vacation that she had been named to the board, Miss Wright said she was "shocked to death. You enter those things but you never expect to be the one," she said. Mrs Wright's entry was an article on femininity conflict called "The Beautiful Conflict." She illustrated the article by doing page layouts for it.
As a result of her selection for the college board she is eligible to try for the position of guest editor. She had to submit a second entry showing superior aptitude for magazine work.
Her entry consisted of three parts: an article, "How Would You Give a Fabulously Expensive Jewel?" and three cards illustrating different greetings and ideas.
Although the board members
are asked to submit articles it is on a voluntary basis.
Miss Keeler described herself as being "very pleased" and flattered, to say the least" with the news of her selection, but she had "a vague feeling they picked anybody who could type."
Her entry was an article called "Should Everyone Have an Identity Crisis?" She also sent in a second entry which was an article describing influential students on campus. She said it was a satire on student stereotypes.
She plans to send Demoteiselle articles on "new happenings at KU of national interest." Her articles will be on religion, books, theater and underground movies.
Miss Gorizovich served as a member last spring and summer and will until she graduates, as all Board members do.
Her entry was a written description of college life illustrated with fashions. She designed a three-dimensional puzzle box for her second entry.
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