THE SUMMER SESSION
KANSAN
FANTASTIC
Vol. 89, No. 150
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Women protest rape in march See story page eight
Airfare coupons attract travelers
Staff Reporter
By JEFF KIOUS
Some Chicago residents have been taking a train from Chicago to Milwaukee, only to return that night on an 18-minute United Airlines flight.
Sound crazy? Not at all. Although the travelers will have spent $5.50 for the train ride and $25 for the flight, they will have a tripion potentially worth hundreds of dollars.
These Chiangcao are only part of a growing number of U.S. travelers taking advantage of a promotional offer by United Airlines,
United began the promotion May 30, to recobust business it lost during a 58-day strike by ground crews during April and May. Through June 17, United is offering every passenger on its flights a coupon good for a 50 percent discount on any flight taken July 1 and December 18 to anywhere United ties except Hawaii and Canada.
For example, a round trip coach flight from Chicago to Moline, III costs $72. A round trip coach flight from Chicago to Los Angeles costs $56. By making a superfluous trip to Moline and meting a discount coupon, you save $108 on the regular cost of the flight to L.A.
CATHY STEPANEK and Khylla O'Connell, both of Chicago, said their only reason for going to Milwaukee was to return on a United flight and get a coupon.
Other coupon hoppers such as Mrs. John O'Connor Jr., from Lake Forest, III, and her son, were driven to Milwaukee by car they could take the flight and get the
Harry Smale, ticketing agent for United Airlines in Milwaukee, said an evening flight to Chicago, which started June 8, was booked solid until June 17 because people were taking advantage of the inexpensive flight to get a coupon.
United started the flight to re-route beacon traffic between Milwaukee and Pittsburgh by flight through Milwaukee.
In Kansas City, Mo., United passengers were taking advantage of their stopover to get to the airport.
COLIN CLINE, United customer service supervisor in Kansas City, said that Kansas City was an intermediate站 for many westbound and eastbound United flights.
"Plane loads on intermediate segments of United flights have been higher here," he said.
intermediate flights to their destination as possible to get more coupons."
On a flight from Kansas City to Milwaukee, many passengers were collecting coupons. This flight was a continuation of one that originated in Holonulu with stops in San Francisco and Kansas City.
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Elkiness, Milwaukee,
who were returning from a trip to Hawaii,
had collected three coupons each. Mr.
Elkiness said he had no previous intention of collecting the coupons, because the trip to
Hawaii was scheduled before the United
However, Sharon Hess, Kansas City, said she surcouraged the flight to get a coupon.
"I CLOUDS HAVE FLOW Braniff at a lower
she said, "but I wanted to get the
United."
Cline said some passengers had switched their flight from another carrier to United to get the coupon. United passengers who received a coupon but did not want to use it could give the coupon away or sell it. If it was sold, Cline would make the coupon transferable. Cline said
"We feel this will give us more customers who might not have otherwise flown there."
Because the coupon is transferable, some people will be to buy a coupon from a wholesale warehouse who sells the coupon.
In Chicago, people waited in the United terminal to ask passengers if they wanted to sell the coupons. Although the coupon has no monetary face value, the going rate is about $20 per coupon, according to Paul Gaura, United boarding airmark in Milwaukee.
AND FOR THOSE United passengers who did not use or sell their coupons from the Milwaukee flight Saturday, there was a man dressed as a priest waiting in the United terminal in Chicago to ask if they could fly to San Francisco this summer.
American Airlines, a major United competitor, has now joined with a 50-percent discount coupon of its own. American Airlines does not serve Kansas
EDITOR'S NOTE:
Jeff Kious, staff reporter, took a round trip United Airlines flight from Kansas City, Mo., to Milwaukee, Wis., last weekend to obtain information on United's half-fare promotion for the above story. When applied to future Kansan business trips, the two coupons Klous received will result in $7.50 to $12.50 savings for the paper.
Downtown rally tests area running abilities
By TONY FITTS
Staff Reporter
Runners of all ages and abilities, from five-year-old Holly Levi to 47-year-old Edlgniks, from those who jog for recreation to those who run for the KU track team, showed up on a sunny afternoon yesterday. Merchants' first Massachusetts Street Run
About 150 runners turned out for the race, which was staged to "show people that activities happen in downtown Lawrence on Wednesday," a Warner Lewis, organizer of the race said.
The Downtown Lawrence Merchants Association, according to Lewis, is a group of businesses, open on Sundays, which are located in attracting people downtown on Sundays.
The race, which was divided into four heats, covered two miles. The runners made a circle through downtown, starting on Massachusetts Street between 8th and 9th, going south to 10th, then over to New Hampshire St., up to 8th, over to Boston, then down. After the circuits of this loop, the races ended at 9th and Massachusetts.
SOME FAMILIAR Lawrence and KU people won or finished near the top in their heats. The race's four heaties were divided according to age and sex to enable people to compete against runners of their own caliber.
Karen Fitz, a 1979 KU graduate who ran distance events for the 'stunt team' track.
Jogger and KU trackster compete in Lawrence run
See RUN page six
The racer stretched her harmsmits one final time while eyeing the competition. She double-checked to be sure the laces on her aged running shoes were tight. The starting gun went off and the racer's nervous energy was tearing. She was to be rebalanced by a dull ache in her thighs.
While many of the competitors at the Massachusetts Street race ran the two miles through downtown Lawrence as though they were after Olympic gold, Eileen Luddy, Waterbury, Conn., graduate student, entered the event just for the fun of
"I'm not running to win," Iuddy, 23, said yesterday while logging in for the event.
Although many of the runners took the race seriously, Luddy, who described herself as a "cautious jogger," had finishing the race as her only goal.
THOUGH SHE down-played her competitive spirit, she sprang off with the leaders and eventually finished seventh out of 28 runners in the Women's 16-34 category. Her time of 13:15 was about three minutes slower than ex-KU distance runner Karen
SHE HAS BEEN running on a regular basis about six months, she said, normally two to three miles every day, but the exact distance varied.
"I was too anxious when I took off. When I got to the point where I forgot about everyone around me, then I ran my own race."
After the race,between deep breaths,
Luddy said it may have been a mistake
that he didn't care.
Fitz, who literally ran away with the women's race.
That distance is typical of the recreational jogger. It contrasts sharply with the training regiment of Fitz, who has been running competitively for five years.
Although several runners were experienced with competitive events, it was more difficult for them to win.
"It depends on how I feel," Luddy said. "My rumping fluctuates with my mood."
Fitz, who was second in the 10,000 meter run at the Big Eight Championships, said: "I really love this sport."
Staff photos by KEVIN KING
Karen Dell, Shawne, wears a mask and sign to illustrate her concern over what the Wolf Creek plant will do to utility rates. Hallow, a group demonstrators dance in front of the plant, said it was one of its biggest concerns.
Power protest
Rally draws wet protesters to Wolf Creek
By RICK JONES Staff Reporter
BURLINGTON -More than 1,500 nuclear energy protesters, including a contingent of seven bicycle riders from the group that was attacked at Burlingen's John Redmond Reservoir Saturday to rally against the construction of the Wolf Creek nuclear plant.
The demonstrators, many wearing improvised raincoats made of tran-can liners, gathered in a swamp field north of the reservoir for an afternoon of live music, anti-nuke speeches—and lots of bad weather.
"It may beraining on us, but it'sraining a lot harder on nuclear power."William Ward, attorney for the Midwest, argued in *Million for Energy Alternatives*,said.
Despite the weather, the rally went on as planned. The crowd's spirits seemed far from dampened as they danced and trumped through the ankle-deep midst
The schedule of events for the rally, which was sponsored by the Sunflower Alliance, an umbrella organization encompassing many of the protesters on the ground, once when the bikers from Lawrenpur pulled into the gathering at 1:15 p.m.
RUNNING ONLY AN hour behind schedule even though they had to pedal through rain for much of the 80-mile trip. The man greeted by a cheering throne of people.
One of the bikers, Lawrence City Commissioner Marci Francois, said she enjoyed the cooler weather—especially when which helped push the bicycles along.
Another rider was Al Nelson, a member of radioactive-free Kansas, the local chapter of the Sunflower Alliance. He said the riders decided early in the trip that they would have to take a stoic approach to the rain.
"We all just put our heads down, kept on pedaling and tried not to think about the weather."
The group left Lawrence Friday and camped overnight at Lake Pomona. They rode back to Lawrence in cars.
ONE OF THE MOST popular speakers of the afternoon was Francis Blaustus,
ONE OF THE MUSS' POPULAR BIGS "of the afternoon was Francis Blaucas, who became an instant hero last January when he laid down on the railroad tracks with his drill GWLL plant. plant in an effort to block the nuclear of the nuclear reactor vessel.
"Doctors have determined that one-million of a gram of radiation can give a person cancer," he said. "When the people at the plant told me they could control leaks to that extent, I told them they were cray."
Kansas state rep. Kent Roth, D-Great Bend, told the crowd that utility companies still don't know what to do with nuclear waste.
"They told me to have faith that science will find a way," he said. "But how much does faith cost, and who's going to pay the bill?"
ALMOST ALL of the speakers who climbed aboard a truck bed, which served as a stage for the afternoon's activities, claimed that nuclear power was safe from radioactive contamination and that there was no safety level of radiation exposure.
"There is substantial evidence that even the most low-level radiation exposure is killing people," Rick Greenwood, assistant to the president of the International Machinists' Union in Washington, D.C., said.
"A plant just can't be run without a certain amount of radiation leakage."
A more localized issue which many of the speakers talked about was the faulty concrete floor at Wolf Creek, which will support the nuclear reactor.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission tested the floor after cracks appeared in it last December, but has not reached a resolution, which the concrete should be replaced.
CAROLYN HUND, one of the organizers of the rally, said the Sunflower Alliance had sent a number of petitions to the NRC concerning the concrete, but that there had not been any response.
"It's damn lucky that the concrete at Three-Mile Island didn't have cracks," she said.
Some of the afternoon's biggest crowd pleasers weren't even on the roster of scheduled speakers.
Sylvia Chester, a 60-year-old Kansas City, Mo. woman, drew friendly smiles from the rain-soaked crowd as she trumped through the mud carrying a Revolutionary War period American flag.
"We stood up against the tyrannized control of our lives in 1776," she said. "The time has come to stand un again."
A GROUP OF people from Wichita known as Sun Dance provided the crowd
See BALLY page six
Local market sprouts greenbacks
Bv MARK SPENCER
Staff Renorter
Rob Miller read about community farmers' markets in a gardening magazine four years ago. The article inspired him to help establish the Downtown Lawrence Association's Farmers' Market, now in its fourth year of operation.
"We stumbled a few times," Miller, 1296 W. 29th Court, said. "We only had two or three sellers the first time. We started by selling them to people on doors of people who had large gardens."
The Farmers' Market still is not the hub of activity in Lawrence on Saturday mornings, but the idea seems to be catching on, Miller, a member of the D.A. said.
The market open May 26 and will be
available every Saturday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
until midnight.
The first three weeks the market was open this year, it attracted about 12 sales each
week, which was twice as many vendors as the same time last year. The market, in a parking lot at 8th and Vernort street, will host parties in the middle of the summer. Miller said.
MOST OF THE people who sell produce at the market have their own gardens and grow more than they need, so they sell it, he said. Although a fee is charged to open a booth, the money only is used to defray expenses.
"We don't make any money on the fee," Miller said. "As a matter of fact, we make sure we don't. We just want to make it for sellers and buyers to get together."
Tomatoes sold for 45 cents a pound at the market last Saturday. A local supermarket
For those looking for a good buy and willing to get out of bed early on Saturday mornings, a trip to the Farmers' Market might be worth the effort.
was charging @£s at a pound. Water-
melon is available at the market
and £5.00 at the supermarket.
Bill Hake, of Lawrence, has been selling at the market since it began.
"When I first came, there was just me and this old man, he said," I came on a bicycle that I owned."
Hakte said he pried his produce by going to Rusty's IGA and asking how much the
FLOWERS, LETTUCE, onions, radishes,
rhubarb, spinach, strawberries, tomatoes
and other early season crops were available
the first three weeks. Beans, peas, squash
and sweet corn will be sold later in the
fall. Rabbits, suckers and rabbits
have been sold in the past.
A lot of these people go out Saturday morning before they come here and pick the produce they sell. It's hard to get it fresher than that," Miller said.
store would pay him for it. He then sold the produce at that price.
"THEY SELL IT for double the price they give me for it," he said. "The idea is to sell them at a higher price."
Although Hatke's 'old Plymouth Barracuda truck might not last too much longer, Hatke said he would not miss any of the upcoming markets.
"I don't have a lot to sell this early in the summer. I'm here mainly for public relations purposes, to b.s. with my regular customers." he said.
the other original seller, Eton Fenton Bonner Springs, rakes bees and sells honey
Fenton's honey provided a home remedy
to treat a broken nail; a crude version of
Edward Jopson's small recipe.
**HONEYCUMBHAM** *hAL* of pollen in it. l. f.
**HONEYCUMBHAM** *hAL* of pollen in it. l. f.
See MARKET page three