8B Wednesday, March 29, 1995 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN DICKINSON THURSDAY 6 Dickinson 6 NAT KIDD 2329 W 5th St The Brady Bunch P0-13 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Miami Rhapsody P0 4:55, 7:15, 9:30 Bye Bye Love P0 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Tall Tale P0 4:50, 7:30, 9:30 Major Payne P0-13 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 Delores Claiborne P0 4:40, 7:20, 9:00 $3.50 Adult Before Healing Impaired Aviation Crown Cinema BEFORE 4 PM ADULTS $3.00 (UNITED BY SEAING) SENIOR CITIZENS $3.00 VARSITY JOHNASSA MUNITIES 481 5197 Candy Man II 1/10 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Man of the House 69/72 5:00, 7:30, 9:30 Losing Isah 69/73 4:45, 7:30, 9:45 Forrest Gump 69/73-12 4:45, 7:45 Muriel's Wedding 69/75 5:45, 7:35, 9:30 Outbreak 69/78 4:45, 7:20, 9:45 CINEMA TWIN 3110 IOWA 841 5191 $1.25 Jungle Book **$^{10}$**/h2 5:00 Disclosure **$^{12}$**/h2 7:20; 9:45 Murder in the First **$^{13}$**/h2 4:50; 7:20; 9:45 Woody Allen Week SHOW TIMES FOR IGDAY ONLY EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX (BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK) Wed. 9:30 Thurs. 7:00 STUDENT UNION ACTIVISTER SUA FILMS MAR. 29 - Mar. 30 Offer your fellow students a service they will always need. OPPORTUNITY You can help them publish their career desires and educational accomplishments in front of over 25,000 of the nation's largest employers. AL SHOWS IN WOODPORTE & TICKETS $2.50, MINIMUM $3.00 FREE WITH SUA MOVE CARD CALL 864-584 FOR More Info Husbands & Wives Wed. 7:00 Thurs. 9:30 We will help you start your own business,representing Career Shop to students searching for a career. National On-line Career Database For an Immediate interview contact Tenkey, Inc. 800-639-2060 STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS Applications for WORKSTATION SPACE in the Kansas Union OAC Office for 1995-1996 are now available. Registered Student Organizations may pick up an application in the Kansas Union at the OAC office or the SUA Office on Level 4. DEADLINE Return Applications to SUA Office by 5:00 pm on Wednesday, MARCH 29. RUSSELL — Like the clock on the old county courthouse that has been stuck for years at 9:28, sometimes it seems as if time has stopped in this little prairie town. Old farmers still gather for coffee early each morning to discuss politics and the weather. Pickup trucks filled with grain still rumble over the bricks with which Main Street is paved. And after 114 years in business, the Banker family still owns Banker's Department Store. The Associated Press This is the town where Sens. Bob Dole and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania grew up more than a half-century ago, and by coincidence or fate, the two Republicans who still consider Russell home are running for president. Kansas town boasts two of U.S.'s most well-known senators Is there something about this windswept town of 4,800 that nurtured two boys into men who could be president? Or is it just happen- ness? "It isn't the water," said Allan D. Evans, publisher of the Russell Daily News. Dole, Specter recall Russell Three grain elevators are still the tallest buildings in town. Except for some boarded-up storefronts, Main Street hasn't changed much during the past 50 years. It's bordered on one end by railroad tracks and the other by old Highway 40, which used to be the main route between Kansas City, Mo., and Denver. Modest bungalows are decorated with platter-size, painted wood butterflies nailed to the fronts. Miniature windmills planted on front lawns somehow stand up to the fierce prairie winds. The town was settled in 1871 by Wisconsin wheat farmers who were looking for "persons of good character and sober, industrious habits" to join their colony — words used in the charter and also to describe Bob Dole and Arlen Specter by their eighth-grade math teacher. Dole was the grandson of farmers and son of a hard-working, though not always successful, businessman, Doran Dole. Doran's first **BOB DOLE:** Some Republicans want Dole to support a tax credit. *Page 68* enterprise after his return from World War I was the White Front Cafe, down the street from Banker's Department Store. It failed before Bob was born in 1923. By then, Doran had gotten into the egg and cream business. He later managed the grain elevator that now is painted "Bob Dole Country" in big blue letters. As a boy, Bob helped his dad scrub milk cans, count eggs and unload grain. In high school, when he wasn't running track or playing football, he worked as a soda jerk at Dawson's Drug Store. "We hired him because he had a following," said Bub Dawson, four years older than Dole. "He was very popular and good-looking. All the girls liked him, but he didn't pay much attention." "He was very particular about the way he dressed," said his younger sister, Norma Jean Steele, whom Bob called "sista." The Doles were so broke that they moved to the basement of their little white house and rented out the upstairs to oil workers for $100 a month. Bob's mother, Bina, sold sewing machines for extra money and made matching outfits for the girls and pants for the boys. "There wasn't anyone who didn't be flat broke sometime in the last 20 years," said Russ Townsy, retired publisher of the Russell Daily News. "Whenever someone put on airs about how much money they had, they're put right down: 'Wasn't your daddy a bootleger? It's a great equalizer.'" Then the black dust clouds came. Wet sheets were hung from windows to let air in on hot summer nights but keep the dust out. They'd be black by morning, and bathtubs would be filled with an inch of dirt. Doc O'Brien performed an autopsy on a cow and found so much dirt in its stomach that a plant had sprouted. At a high-school basketball game in 1935 in nearby Hays, Bub Dawson said, the dust was so thick that the players couldn't see the basket at the other end of the court. "I asked my Dad, 'Why the hell did you stay?" said Dean Banker, 70, who owns Banker's Department Store. "He said, 'I didn't have the money to leave.'" It was after the worst dust storms that the Specters moved to Russell from Wichita. Arlen was 12, six years younger than Dole. His father, Harry, had made a living selling cantaloupes door-to-door and was ready to try his hand at the salvageyard business. Just as Dole had worked for his father, Specter worked for his, picking up scrap pipe and metal from the oil fields. But to most of Russell, Dole is the hometown boy. He forever endeard himself to people of Russell when he was wounded in the shoulder in World War II. Cigar boxes at Dawson's Drug Store and every other business in town solicited donations to send the young Army war hero to Chicago for an operation, raising $1,800. He still has only limited use of his arm. Specter left Russell at 17, attending the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He got a law degree from Yale University and went on to become a lawyer on the Warren Commission and Philadelphia district attorney. After the war, Dole served as a state lawmaker, county attorney and congressman before being elected to the Senate. He still owns the family home on Maple Street and lists Russell as his place of residence in Kansas. Specter comes back to Russell once or twice a year and never misses a class reunion. A sister-in-law now owns his childhood home. Dole returns briefly several times a year and marches in annual parades. The people of Russell are proud of both men, and if they are taking sides, they're not really showing it. "I don't feel anything awkward about it," said Specter's sister-in-law, Joyce Spector, who still lives in Russell. "May the best man win." What's New This Month in THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES? New in the Online Catalog: Records for over 40,000 books and journals in KU's Law Library have recently been added to the Libraries' Online Catalog, making them searchable from offices, dorms, and homes for the first time. With these additions, the Online Catalog now contains over 1,536,000 bibliographic records. For details on how to access the Online Catalog from your computer, call 864-5300. Over spring break, staff in the Libraries and the Computer Center worked to improve the response time of Expanded Academic Index, the index to over 1400 periodicals that is accessible through most Online Catalog workstations. The database has been broken into two files: one for article citations from 1993 to the present (labelled EAI-1) and the other for citations from 1988 through 1992 (EAI-2). New instructions for moving between files and for accessing and exiting EAI are given on all Online Catalog screens. Snyder Book Collecting Contest: Each year the Library co-sponsors, along with the Mt. Oread Bookshop and Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder of Prairie Village, a book collecting contest for graduate and undergraduate students. Prizes of $200 and $100 will be awarded to the first and second place winners in each division. The deadline for this year's contest is March 31st. For more information, contact Judith Emde in Anschutz Library (4-4931), Mary Hawkins in the Kansas Collection (4-4274), or Cindy Pierard in the Watson Reference Department (4-3366). Currently On Exhibit: In Watson: "Radharc Na Gaeil: A Selection of Contemporary Irish Writing" (Jim Ranz Exhibits & Reading Area — Through April 23rd) In The Music Library: "Music From Our Faculty—and Friends" In The Kansas Collection*:"African American Jayhawks Make A Difference" In The Department of Special Collections*: "London: Flower of Cities All" (Main Gallery) and "H. Beam Piper-30 Years After" (Catalogue Room) In The University Archives*: "The African American Presence at KU" *Located on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of Kenneth Spencer Research Library A Special Presentation For Africanists On Thursday evening, March 30th, Dr. Kenneth P. Lohrentz, the Libraries' Bibliographer for African and African-American Studies, will present a free lecture on "African Encounters on the Information Superhighway." Lohrentz will describe various electronic resources relating to Africa. The lecture is at 7:30 p.m. in the Lawrence Public Library Auditorium, 707 Vermont Street. The University of Kansas Libraries Publications Office • 350 Watson Library • To Comment, Call 864-3378 Hurry! Purchase Tickets By May 15. One Price. Unlimited Stopovers. See The Midwest For $138 Discover Amtrak's America For $228 Announcing Amtrak's Special All Aboard America Fares! Amtrak's All Aboard America Fares are a better value than ever. For just one low price, stop in as many cities as you like within one, two or all three Amtrak regions. Go to the top of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis or experience the big city excitement of Chicago. Head east as far as Florida. Go west all the way to the California Coast. 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