Representatives students fight bill
By CAROL BEIER and GENE LINN Staff Reporters
TOPEKA—Two Lawrence legislators got the silent treatment yesterday when they asked Gov. John Carlin to tell the Kansas senate that there is still a possibility Carlin will vet it.
"Carlin didn't say a word the whole time we were talking to him," State Rep. John Seibold said.
Sobach and State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Daventry, met with Carlin yesterday afternoon to voice their objections to the bill. They have said repeatedly that the bill spills the KU student vote by taking the Oread University of Kansas, out of Glover's hand at the University of Kansas, of Glover's hand.
Hoch said Carlin probably would decide next week whether to veto the bill.
The reapportionment bill would add another district to Lawrence, bringing the number of Douglas County state representatives to four.
The bill places all of Glover's 4th district west of Massachusetts Street and places the KU campus and the Oread area of Glover's current district into a new 4th District.
Bill Bhoo, Carlin's press secretary, said,
"The meeting with Glover and Solbach didn't change Carlin's mind because he hasn't made it in vet."
GLOVER WOULD pick up heavily
republican districts in west-central
USA
While Solbach and Glover talked to Carlin, two KU students presented a petition opposing the bill to to an administrative assistant in the governor's office.
The students had wanted to see the governor personally to present the petition, and the senator agreed.
The other student, Tom Pickford, Topeka
junior, said he was a little disappointed that they did not get to see Carlin.
The students' appointment had been arranged by Hannes Zacharias, executive director of Associated Students of Kansas, a student lobby group. However, Chanay said the opposition to the reappointment bill was not an official ASK position.
Zacharias she did not expect Carlin to veto the bill because of what he described as a strong show of support in the House. A motion to approve the bill, with minor issues inserted by the Kansas Senate, was placed on the Weekday meeting by a wide margin.
"THAT DOESN'T mean, of course, that students should come in and let him play."
The letter that prefaced the petition's signatures said, "We, as students of the University of Kansas, believe the bill, as amended, is a blatant political attempt to disfranchise KU students and divide the student voice.
The decision is now yours, Mr. Governor,
and we strongly urge you to serve the best
interests of the entire electorate of Douglas
County and veto HR 2620."
Chanay said that signatures for the petition were still being sought and that he would deliver them to the governor's office as they were collected.
Sobbach said he hoped the Supreme Court could declare the bill unconstitutional if it violated the rights of citizens.
According to the Kansas constitution, all reapportionment legislation must be approved by the Supreme Court. The court has ruled that splitting the vote of a racial group is unconstitutional.
"We'll just have to see if they extend that ruling to cover students," he said.
Non-Union vendor supplies machines at 3 schol halls
Staff Renorter
By JULIA GOPLERUD
A McClennon Hall Senate program to sell food to residents was halted this week by the Kansas Union's exclusive right to all concerts at the University of Kansas, but another vendor has been supplying concerto three scholarship halls for several years.
Another scholarship hall, Battelfen Hall,
owns and stocks its own non machine.
Candy machines in Grace Pearson, Stephenson and Sellards halls are owned and stocked by B and B Vending Co., 1045 New Jersey St.
Larry Schmidtberger, business manager of the Union, said yesterday that he was not aware of the situation and did not know if the Union's contract was being violated.
Jac Hafele, branch manager of B and B Vending, said he had a candy machine in
Sellards about 10 years ago because his daughter lived there and the women in the hall wanted a machine. He said he did not know how long the other machines had been built.
"I imagine the only reason we can operate in the scholarship halls is because KU has a lot of people with them." Hafeeel said. "If it wants them it can certainly have them because they like them."
"Most new machines cost $1,600 and it takes a long time to get that money back. If it costs $200, you can."
He said the machines were on a regular route and were restocked every two weeks.
John Young, a Batterie resident, said there were two pop machines in his hall. One is owned by the hall, he said, and one is operated by KU Concessions.
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Friday, March 9, 1979
KANSAN
Staff Photo by BILL FRAKEZ
Vol. 89, No. 111
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Master Magician
night, combined with a personal message about Transcendental Meditation. Here Henning uses a young volunteer from the audience in an illusion with six silver rings.
Magician Doug Heining brought his magic show to Haskell Indian Junior College last
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Performer gives magical message
Staff Renorter
By RHONDA HOLMAN
His magical musk with playing cards, scarves and silver rings were the same as those in his television specials and nightclub acts—only the message was different.
Before a large crowd in Haskell Indian Junior College Auditorium last night, magician Doug Hamming combined his well-known tricks with a message about transcendent mediation.
Henning created illusions of a torn
Henning, 31, co-created and starred in "The Magic Show" for five years on Broadway and won an Emmy award for his work in four television specials. He first became interested in magic when he met the legendary girl a gesture on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
newspaper folding back into one piece,
jacks turning into a deck of cards
and a long needle piercing both sides of an inflated balloon.
"WHAT*M doing up here is illusion," he said. "Real magic is a law of nature that nobody knows about yet. It is caused by an extension of the laws of nature."
Henning used volunteers from the audience as assistants, tricking them and the rest of the audience with his illusions. He made a golf ball disappear, only to have it reappear in his mouth, and changed a yellow scarf to red and then back again.
Henning, who meditates for twenty minutes twice a day, said he became involved in meditation after the opening night of the show. He then sat down and after the first show got bad reviews, a friend convinced him to go to a session on transcendental meditation and in four days he
"Transcendental meditation is just a simple, mental technique to expand consciousness," he said. "There's nothing religious about it and there really nothing
to believe at all, except that by using your mind, your body can have a deep rest. $ ^{17} $
HE SAID that the Indian people needed meditation to "break down the boundaries" between them and the outside.
Funds approved to continue bus for handicapped
"When we meditate, the stress starts to leave and we're filled with an incredible sense of wonder," he said. "Each individual in a culture group can discover his inner self and then the culture of that group can become very strong."
The original funding for the bus ends today.
Henning told the crowd that Ted Guzzi, an executive governor for the Age of Enlightenment from MIU, would be chosen to mediate on the Haskell campus next week.
The Student Senate executive committee voted last night to fund a bus for disabled students.
The bus service, which costs $1,600 a month to provide, picks up disabled persons who have no other means of getting to work. On weekdays, 35 persons a day. The service began Jan. 17.
He encouraged the crowd to explore the possibilities of meditation.
He came to Haskell on behalf of Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, a college that teaches education and personal enlightenment through meditation. MIU arranged the show as part of its new American acquaintant American Indians with meditation.
StudEx allocated $525 so the bus service could continue until the Student Senate discussed the funding. That amount equals $68 a day for 14 days, which is what Bob Turvey, assistant director of the student database, estimated the cost of running the bus would be.
The Student Senate supplies 28 cents a mile for the service. Facilities Operations provides the bus and supplies the bus driver's salary.
Disabled students pay $3.50 a semester through the activity fee for the KU on Wheels bus program, although many cannot use it. Federal guidelines have said KU must provide a bus service for disabled incidents because they pay the fee, Turvey said.
"All you have to do is somehow get your own potential out by getting rid of stress," he said. "We are each magicians of our own destiny."
George Gomez, student body vice president, said he had some questions about the service that he wanted answered before the Student Senate fully funded the bus.
He said his main concern was who would pay for the depreciation of the bus. The administration is supposed to pay for the depreciation, but does not. Gomee said.
"I think Facilities Operations has grossly inflated the cost at 28 cents a mile," he said. "The Student Senate should not have to pay for the depreciation."
The money will come out of the Student Senate office unallocated fund, which is money left over from the Senate office fund. The office receives 68 cents from each activity fee. Keith Mulh, Student treasurer, said there was more than $7,000 in the fund.
"If we refuse to provide the service, they can use us," he said.
However, Jeff Chanay, Topeka junior, said the Senate was legally responsible to him.
Twelve cents of the 28 cents is for depreciation, he said.
Hening said performing magic was just a process of misdirecting people's attention and creating optical illusions, saying "the magic of today is the science of tomorrow."
Staff photo by CHRIS TODE
Breezin'
While many K.U. students in class yesterday, Robert Williamson, 13, spent the afternoon enjoying the sun and riding his skateboard down the long empty sidewalks
Eudora hardware haven caters to used tool trade
By GENE BROWNING
Staff Reporter
EUDORA - A box of used screwdrivers, 25 cents each, lie on one shelf. Stacked, piled and strewn throughout the store are used and shelf marked.
Herb Miner, 66, stood in the middle of his tool-cluttered store in Eudora, 11 miles east of Lawrence. The store, Herb Miner's Bargain Center and Wedding Shop, 730 Main St., has offered used tools at bargain prices to people ranging from do-it-yourselfers to professional buyers.
"We've been open for a few days," he said with a smile
Miner, who runs the store with his wife, Helen, maintains his extraordinary selection of tools by traveling to three or four auctions a week. On Sundays, he goes to Kansas City to buy tools at swam meets.
"I don't want if I can't make money out of it," he said yesterday. "You use just a little horse sense."
From the front of the store the only clue to what lies within is a Bargain Center sign and the huge pile of electric drills which can be used for drilling.
Mrs. Miner said the store was different from other hardware stores because it was stocked with "everything."
"We handle things most stores don't handle. We have everything from skill saws to carpets and joiners." she said.
"How many stores have you seen that have that many wrenches," she said, nodding to an assortment of 60 used wrenches hanging on the wall.
MINER ALSO STOCKS uncommon tools.
"If I see something unusual at an auction, I'll pick it up. I can usually find someone who will buy it." he said.
Mrs. Miner pointed to a set of $ \frac{3}{4} $ - inch sockets.
Some football line markers lie on one of his shelves. Miner said he thought someone might need them sometime.
"These cost $100 a set new. You use these on farm machinery, caterpillars." she said.
"If the price is right, people will buy it," he said. "When I am looking at what to buy, I sometimes have to think as screw the assemblies."
Miner said he bought many tools just on the chance that people would buy them.
He said the store's main customers came from Topeka, Kansas City and small towns in the area.
He has never used much advertising. he said.
In addition to the store, Miner runs a welding shop next door. He desizes and makes special tools and nonsurgery on request.
"Word of mouth seems to be the biggest way of getting people to come," he said.
Miner has had his welding shop in Eudora since 1943. The shop is crowded with scrap metals, welding tools and tools he has welded.
He said he taught himself to weld in 1935 when he was working for an oil company.
"I decided if I wanted to get some money, I would have to have a trade." he said.
Although his father had several patents, he said, he has never bothered to get them for the tools he has designed because he said it would be too expensive.
He said he never put a design of a machine on paper when he worked for a customer.
"I do it all in my head. Sometimes I study for days before I figure out the right design," he said.
When he builds something, he said, he tries to make all the parts himself.
"I don't believe in giving people a lot of money for something I can make myself," he said.
He said his use of tools had helped him sell them.
"Knowing tools and uses and their advantage makes the business easier. A lot of people ask me what kind tools they will use."
MINER WALKED to the back of his welding shop.
"Here's some finagling," he said. "I used old ammunition boxes for that cabinet."
He stood still for a moment, apparently thinking about other items he had built and welded.
"I built the second lawnmower in Eudora without ever seeing the first," he said.
He said in the 1930s he had earned some money by mending fenders on Model Ts by welding with balling wire.
He also has built heavy farm tractors, he said, and he will agree to build practically anything a customer wants under one condition.
bould practice anything if a customer waits until the condition
"I'll build something good or I won't build it at all," he said.
Miner recently retired from a job as a steamfitter. But, he said, he plans to continue operating the store.
"I'll keep running the store as long as I'm able to navigate," he said. "I've got a lot of work I've got to do yet."