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Thursday, June 16, 1977
University Daily Kansan
'Gas-guzzlers' are still popular
Staff Writer
By DONALD WALLER
Despite uncertain gasoline prices and recent proposals by President Carter to tax gasoline, the Federal Highway Administration dealers recently said they have recorded record car sales this year.
Several factors have helped to produce record sales.
Apartments offer commuter bus
By DONNA KIRK Staff Writer
The summer commuter bus service to campus provided by Gatehouse and Frontier Ridge apartments has attracted few riders.
About 40 Frontier Ridge tenants and about 14 Gatehouse tenants take the bus to and from campus, according to the management of both complexes.
But it's still too early in the summer term to know exactly how many riders will use the service, which runs every weekday, seven hours a day, until August 15, Karen Hartmann, Frontier Ridge receptionist, said yesterday.
Each rider gets a bus pass from the apartments management and schedules in advance.
Both Gatehouse and Fronter Ridge apartments are owned by Executive Affiliates, Aurora, IL., which contracts with a private institution, 941 Pennsylvania St., to charter a bus.
The management provides the charter service at no cost to the tenants, Hartmann
"KU doesn't have a bus service to apartments in summer, so the management must hire."
Bennett to inaugurate Girls' State officers
The new Girls' State governor will be inaugurated tonight in a ceremony highlighted by a speech by Gov. Robert Bennett.
Barbara Bichemeyer, Shawnee, was elected governor yesterday on the Nationalist party ticket. The election followed three days of campaigning after the high school seniors-to-be divided into the Republican parties—the Nationalists and the Federalists.
The inaugural and the addresses by both
barn-meyer will begin at 8 p.m. in Terminal
2.
Girls' State, a citizenship training
camp in Kansas high school girls, will
end Saturday.
"Scaled-down models have helped the General Motors Corp. immensely." George Schuler, sales manager at Jack Ellenna Buck Oldmobile GMC, Inc., 2121 W. 29th St. Ter., said. Sales have been much better this year than in the past, he said.
Research by automobile manufacturers to improve fuel economy for big cars has been studied.
The big cars now on the market can get about 25 miles per gallon on the highway
Arthur "Blacky" Sanders, owner of Sanders Motor Co., Ninth and Mississippi streets, said that people who bought big care were concerned with comfort.
"THESE PEOPLE FEEL that they won't be hurting the nation's fuel supply," Sandie
Large families were also cited as a reason for higher sales figures.
"Some people can't afford a small car because they need to carry four to six people and have a need for a larger luggage area," Schuler said.
"I think Carter's proposals weren't well-based or constructive criticism," Dale Willey, owner of Dale Willey Pontiac-Caddiell Inc., 1116 W. 23rd St., said. "But we've got more response because of his proposal."
Some of the car salesmen said that *carro's proposal* to tax bigger cars had been approved.
Sanders said that he could have sold more cars if he had had them available after cars were put on the road.
"It scared them into buying big cars," said Sanders.
He said that his agency had sold more Lincoln Continentals than sales for the smaller Bobcat, Capri, Comet and Monarch models combined.
SOME DEALERS SAID they thought the Carter proposal was not very specific.
Gary Bennett, salesman for John Haddock Ford, Inc., 23rd and Alabama streets, said, "Since Carter didn't make any specific proposals on taxing bigger cars, the
Willey said that Carter's proposals weren't well planned. He said the proposal slowed business for about six weeks but the big cars were starting to sell again.
scare will pass and we will see an increase in sales "
Some dealers and salesmen said they thought the people who bought big cars weren't concerned with the price of gasoline.
"It's my observation that the price of gas isn't amothering the public," Bennett said.
"The prices have remained stable over the past year on gasoline. Once the prices had stabilized, there was a big influx of people buying big cars," he said.
Sanders said he thought that the big cure was here to stay in spite of gasoline prices.
"Gasoline costs have no influence on the purchase of a bigger car," Sanders said. "A person who can afford that kind of car can afford the high gasoline costs."
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