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Tuesday, January 20, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Shirt shows feelings of'Hawks fan
By JENNIFER WYRICK
Staff writer
Darcy Chang/KANSAN
Stanley Sterling, associate professor of social welfare, affectionately refers to his wife as a wild Jayhawk fan of 17 years.
But when Gloria Sterling heard rumors that Coach Larry Brown might be leaving KU to coach the New York Knicks professional men's basketball team, she decided to make her feelings for Brown and the team apparent to more people than just her family.
Gloria Sterling displays the T-shirt she designed in an attempt to show Javhawk loyalty to Coacharry Brown.
"We are former New Yorkers, and our son is presently living there." Gloria Sterling said last week. "So when he sent us headlines from the New York Times, of all papers, that said Larry might leave us I decided to do something to let him know that we want him to stay."
To send her message to Brown, Gloria Sterling designed a blue, Ghostbusters-type prohibiting circle with a slash through a big, crimson apple, symbolic of New York. She surrounded the white T-shirt's design with blue letters saying, "Keep Larry in Kansas."
"I haven't inquired about opportunities," Brown said. "But I guess since I haven't ever flat out denied the rumors, it leaves some doubt in people's minds."
"No one can say for certain what they're going to be doing in the future, but I have no desire to leave you. I just want to do the best job I can here."
Brown said last week that he had seen the T-shirt design and appreciated the fact that people liked him enough to do something like that. He said he hadn't thought about leaving KU or instilled any of the rumors.
Gloria Sterling worked with Midwest Graphics, 308 E. 23rd St., on the T-shirts and recruited her husband to
work out the marketing details
All money from the sales of the $8 T-shirt will go to the Audio Reader Network, a non-profit organization that is a closed circuit radio service for the blind and reading impaired. Both Gloria and Stanley Sterling are longtime volunteers of the organization.
Because Brown rarely comments on the rumors circulating about his leaving KU, Gloria Sterling did not want the T-shirt design to make him mad so she had someone show the design to him. She said word came back to her that Brown was flattered by the T-shirt.
"I know the T-shirts won't keep Larry in Kansas if he's planning to leave," she said. "I just wanted to do this to get the sentiment out in the public."
Gloria Sterling said she was a fan of Brown's because she admired the way he instilled values in players and taught them to play together as a whole.
"There is an excitement to what he does," she said. "He looms as large as his ability to make his team win." She said, "that's why that's the pro are looking for."
Gloria and Stanley Sterling said they both felt an affinity toward Brown because all three were native New Yorkers.
"He says things in a way that is very familiar to us," Gloria Sterling said. "One time we even heard him say, 'What is it!' which is an old Brooklyn saying."
Not only does Gloria Sterling admire Brown, but she also has a special place in her heart for the family. She's a Jayhawks whether they win or lost.
the jayhawks play at Allen Field House.
Stanley Sterling joked that he was so sick one night he was on his deathbed, and his wife still to see
"I believe she would have left one of her children if they were sick that day."
"Well, what could I have done?" his wife replied. "It was KU versus K-State."
Diana Frederick of the Audio Reader Network called Gloria Sterling a big Jayhawk fan and said she was donating all the proceeds to the organization because she was also a very generous person.
The Sterlings ran into a few knits that slowed sales when trying to find a place to sell their T-shirts. But Stanley Sterling said they have since made a deal with the owner of McCall's Shoes, 829 Massachusetts
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The tail end of a serious winter storm blamed for 25 deaths slashed across the Midwest to the Northeast yesterday with blinding snow and freezing rain that brought traffic on many highways to a standstill.
"It's moving rapidly eastward and also spreading north from the mid-Atlantic coast into southern New England." National Weather Service forecaster Reynolds said. "By daylight (today), you're looking at mainly flurries from the Great Lakes to northern New England."
The leading edge of the storm moved off the Eastern Seaboard, but the large system spread snow early yesterday from Oklahoma, across the Midwest and into New York and New England. By yesterday afternoon, the storm had moved out of Illinois, after dumping 10 inches of snow at Quincy and 6 to 8 inches across the central part of the state.
"The main interstates are all down to one lane now," an Illinois State Police spokesman in Springfield said late yesterday morning. "The roads are just bad everywhere."
Strong winds whipped up the snow and reduced visibility to near zero, making for hazardous driving conditions. Gale warnings were in effect for Lake Erie and the northern Atlantic Coast.
"Everything is in a ditch," said trucker Joe Belotti, who was forced to cut short his run from Chicago to the Springfield area. "You're just blinded out here."
Many drivers in central Illinois were forced off the road by the blinding storm and waited it out in roadside cafes.
The storm has been a problem since the middle of last week when it swept into the Rockies from western Canada and buried parts of Colorado under 5 feet of snow and gave Oklahoma City its heaviest snowfall in four decades.
Some schools scheduled to hold classes yesterday despite the federal holiday in Missouri and Indiana were forced to shut down because of the snow.
Freezing rain added to icy conditions, glazing parts of Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Maine
The storm also spread heavy rains and high winds throughout the weekend and again yesterday from the mid-Atlantic states to the Southeast, prompting flood warnings and watches in parts of Tennessee, Louisiana, the Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.
The heavy rain may have contributed to a CSX Railroad freight train derailment north of Montgomery, Ala., yesterday morning.
Winds were clocked at 64 mph at New Bern, N.C., and 63 mph at Jacksonville, N.C., while 1.68 inches of rain fell at Ocena, Va., and 1.36 at Norfolk, Va.
Forty-one cars, including eight engines, of the 121-car train jumped the track in a rural area near Deatsville. There were no injuries. CSX officials said the track bed may have been washed away by rain.
The latest winter storm has been blamed for at least 25 deaths from coast to coast.
Staff writer
By PAUL SCHRAG
The phone rings and a friend answers, but he sounds remarkably like Sid Vicious. He has a punk rock band with him, too. Before you can say anything, guitars begin screeching.
A voice shouts, "I'm not home now,
but if you leave your name and
message at the sound of the beep, I'll
return your call."
Kris Kurtenbach, Paola senior,
and her housemate appreciate a
great Christmas.
"They're great if you need to take off a lot, and people need to get ahold of you," Tom Moore, Mission junior, said. "And they're fun if you have a great message to put on them."
Devices that play a taped message over the phone when the owner is not home and then record callers' messages are popular with some KU students both for their practicality and the opportunity to be creative.
"We'll be back at 7:30. If you're going to rob our house, please do it while we're gone," was one of Kurtembach's favorites, she said.
Dave Eversole, a clerk at Radio Shack in the Westridge Shopping Center, said people under age 35, including many college students, bought 60 to 70 percent of the telephone answering machines sold at the store.
"It's a status symbol, kind of like a cordless phone or a VCR," he said.
Eversole said pre-recorded comedy tapes for the machines were popular, including the one with a punk rock message.
Kurtenbach said people sometimes called her just to find out what message she and her housemates had left on their machine.
"Sometimes we just end up with several beeps followed by people calling for help."
But Kurtenbach said the humorous messages had a purpose beyond comedy.
"Most people are infuriated by answering machines," she said. "But if you can make the person laugh, you can get by that inhibition that people have about talking to a machine."
Gordon Woods, Lawrence graduate student, said that during Christmas he put a "bah, humbug," message on his machine.
He said he changed his message frequently because "there's nothing worse than calling somebody several times, getting their message memorized.
10 Kansans bid for GOP national office
State party chairman interested in finishing Boyd's term on committee
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TOPEKA — At least 10 prominent Kansans are said to be considering bids to fill the unexpired term of Republican national committeeman McDill "Huck" Boyd, including the current state party chairman.
Boyd died Jan. 9 after holding the post for 20 years. Members of the GOP state committee to nominate a successor to Boyd on Jan. 31 at their annual Kansas Day gathering in Topeka
Kansas' two other delegates to the national committee are Marynell Reece of Scandia and Vern Chesbro of Ottawa, who automatically is a delegate because of his position as state chairman.
Chesbro, however, will step down as state chairman Jan. 31 when his two-year term expires. Gov. Mike Hayden has thrown his support
for the chairmanship to Fred Logan, an Overland Park lawyer and Johnson County GOP chairman
Chesbro said Monday that he was interested in serving the remaining year of Boyd's term. However, Eric Rucker, executive director of the state Republican Party, said any of the 10 candidates whose names had been mentioned could win.
Those names include former state chairmen Dave Owen of Stanley, Jack Ranson of Wichita, George Nettles Jr. of Pittsburgh and Morris Kay of Lawrence. Former House speakers Duane "Pete" McGill of Topeka and William Mitchell of Hutchinson also are said to be interested.
Rounding out the list are 1st District Republican chairman Calvin James of Jewell, former gubernatorial candidate Rick Harman of Fairway and Kansas Insurance Commissioner Fletcher Bell.
Although Boyd's successor will be picked by the 125 party delegates, the opinions of Kansas' leading Republicans will have a big influence on the outcome.
Owen said he thought the candidate who received the endorsement of either Senate minority leader Bob Dole or Gov. Mike Hayden would have the edge.
"I would think that the state committee would take seriously the recommendations of the governor and U.S. senators," Owen said yesterday.
At this point, neither Dole nor Hayden has openly endorsed anyone for the post.
The national committee must confirm the state committee's selection for the post, but that usually is considered a formality.
By a Kansan reporter
Student is semifinalist for Truman scholarship
Frank Partnoy, Overland Park sophomore, has been named as a semifinalist in a competition to receive one of 105 Truman scholarships available to sophomores planning careers in government service.
Truman scholars receive up to
$6,500 annually for tuition, books,
books, and supplies.
years of undergraduate study and two years of graduate work.
Nominees are required to have a 3.9 grade point average, rank in the upper one-fourth of their class, be two more students and be U.S. citizens.
Partnoy, who is studying math and economics, plans to study economics in graduate school and to attend law school.
"Eventually I would like to work for the World Bank or a government economic agency, such as the Treasury Department," he said.
The nominees' applications, which included 600-word essays on public policy issues, were evaluated in December by a regional review panel.
"My essay dealt with the
economics of illegal immigration." Partnoy said.
The five Kansas semifinalists in the contest were selected from 25 state nominees. Partyn will compete against two Kansas State University students, a Manhattan resident attending Tufts University in Medford, Mass., and a Shawnee resident attending St Peter's College in Jersey City, N.J.
On the Record
A 27-year-old Lawrence resident is in custody for an attempt infrared and aggravated burglary that occurred early yesterday in East Lawrence.
A Domino's Pizza delivery man was struck from behind and had two large pizzas and an insulated pizza delivery case stolen from him at 1:20 a.m. Sunday in the 900 block of
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Missouri Street. Two suspects were arrested in their home in the 900 block of Missouri Street. Police found a pizza box and the insulator in the trash and the second, unfinished pizza in the suspect's 'refrigerator.
Two Lawrence pharmacies reported attempts by an unknown person to obtain a prescription by fraud on Sunday.
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