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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, March 24, 1977
By KERRY KELLY Staff Renorter
By KERRY KELLY
Shoplifters displaying variety in local stores
A 55-year-old Lawrence man shoplifted a bottle of milk of magnesium from a local grocery store. His excuse—he was too embarrassed to buy a laxative from a
This is far from being an isolated incident. Shoilfishing is a large problem for Lawrence merchants. Losses run into thousands of dollars a year, and a national sales loss of 3 per cent is estimated for shoilfishing in the grocery industry.
In "1974, the national sales loss was estimated at $3 billion." James Meyer, manager of Rusty's Hillcrest, 909 Iowa St., said recently "it's hard to say what it 'at' us
In the last two months, 15 shoplifters have been caught and prosecuted at Rusty's.
"Ninety per cent of those we have caught in the last two months have been KU students," he said. "That probably is why he said, 'with KU students and faculty members.'"
SHOPLIFTING, Meyer said, is difficult to control or stop, but Rusty's tries to do so by using off-duty policemen and store employees.
Meyer said he didn't think shoplifter was concerned by people who were too poor to buy. "We had a lot of them."
"I've caught only one shoplifter who didn't have enough money to pay for what he stole," he said. "I don't think it's a matter of being out of work. I sometimes ask people to come in as supermarket. Saying it 'it's too damn fagg' is an excuse for doing it."
Meyer didn't think people realized the seriousness of shooflifting.
"SHOPLIFTING IS NOT just something that you go down to court and pay a $25 fine and leave, because if you want to be a doctor, you won't be accepted to medical school."
Leatherman said losses resulting from shoofling indirectly affected prices.
About three-fourths of the shoppliers caught at Failley's Discount Foods, 2525 Iowa, are college-age, according to Jack Lowe, manager. Those caught are consecutive.
"If we catch a shoplifter today, we aren't going to mark up items tomorrow. But the consumer can just about figure that one out." The store manager, all he is paying is because of shoplifters'.
The use of employees and mirrors at
Debaters to go to nationals
KU has qualified three teams to participate at the National Debate Tournament. However, intercollegiate rules allow two teams from one school to KUWB(2).
At the district tournament last weekend at Wichita State University, KU had two teams place high enough to qualify for competition at nationals.
Margaret Michels, Des Moines, Iowa, sophomore, and Charles Fairchild, Leawood senior, took second place in competition with 24 teams. Jeff Brinton, oppenka, Sophia Tavares, took sixth. The top six teams win the right to compete at nationalals.
This is the first time KU has qualified
seasonal opponents, but KU has always
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"WE HAD A lady try to get out of the store with a half gallon of ice cream underneath her dress and between her legs. She was very cold. The lady and she got kind of chilly," he said.
All types of tricks are used to shipfill,
according to Kathleen Lu, manager, the
school's security staff.
"Everything from putting it under their dress, between their legs and walking out with it, to putting it in clothing or bringing in their own baskets is done," Lucas said.
"The people who come in with a diaper bag or a shopping bag are asking for people to watch them and be suspicious. We try to teach them not to look at the camera, to check it in at the check stand," he said.
Lucas said Dillon's prosecuted shoplifers that each case was evaluated individually.
Fallasl doesn't *always* stop shoplifters, but they have helped, be said.
"NOBODY IS going to tell you that they have been shilofing a for long time. Every time that they are caught they are going to say that it's the first time. Occasionally you can't help but to catch somebody who shilofied for the first time."
However Brunton and Griffin won't be
Lucas and the other grocery managers agreed that the shopkeepers they had caught
Professional shoplifters are people who steal high-priced items that are not intended for them.
"MOST SHOPLIFTING in a clothing store occurs in the fitting area where a customer will come in and try something on. Leave it on under their regular garment."
Prosecuting professional shoplifters can be time-consuming, he said. One case the Jay Shope is prosecuting is now before he Kansas Supreme Court.
"In our case, the professional shoplifter is the one who is the most devastating to us," Jim Schubert, manager of the Jay Shoppe. 835 Massachusetts St., said. "They go for merchandise that is marketable and that they can fence."
Schubert said he relied on employees to ston shoilfing.
"We have a signal system in the store to alert employees in the store that we have a problem," he said. "Then we just kind of surround the people that are involved."
The $185 worth of merchandise that is evidence in the case is now worthless, Schubert said, because styles have changed.
George Carlin, comedian, has been signed by SUA to give a concert at 8 p.m. April 24 in Hoch Auditorium. It will be the first SUA concert of the semester.
The national tournament, April 16-20, is at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo.
Tax form help available free
competing because of the two-team limit. Frank Cross and Robin Rowland, Lawrence seniors and defending national champions, have already received an invitation to nationals as one of the top 16 teams in the nation.
Help in preparing simple tax forms will be available free every Friday beginning this week through April 15, Gayland Accounting Club spokesman, said yesterday.
THERE IS A BILL now before the Kansas Legislature that would allow merchants to photograph merchandise held as evidence for the sale, and then be returned the merchant to be sold.
Carlin will perform both old and new material in the concert, the first SUA concert with an intermission and the first with concessions available.
"But we do have the incidental little high school or college girl who shoplifts," he said. "They prey on T-shirts, sweaters or swimsuits."
George Carlin to perform here
Student volunteers will assist in filling out tax forms from 24 Friday afternoon in the building.
A total of 3,700 reserved tickets will be available at the SUA office in the Kansas City area.
Students may also receive free tax form assistance, he said.
The Accounting Club assistance is given in conjunction with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program set up by the Internal Revenue Service.
Oeikers said the volunteers weren't trained as tax specialists. For tax returns dealing with special exemptions and charges, the Club will refer a taxpayer to the IRS.
The toll-free number in Kansas for assistance on federal tax questions is 800-215-7643.
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Rare bird collection obtained by museum
"SOME OF THESE are just too elegant to take off their mounts." Mengel said.
Mengel said that most of the birds would join the museum's scientific collection, contained in drawers, which already occupies the specimens, but that a few might be displayed.
"There are quite a few new species that we don't know." Mengch and. "That is no problem."
carrier pigeon and the ivory-billed woodpecker, Mengel said.
The birds are mounted in perching positions, so before storing them, the birds must be taken off their perches and relaxed, she said.
The arrival of birds is a usual sign of spring and this year, in addition to the usual live birds flying overhead, 1,500 dead ones have come to the University of Kansas.
The Goss collection of mounted birds of the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka made a trip to Lawrence by bus this month to become part of the ornithology collection at the Missouri Historical History. The Historical Society had sufficient space to keep the bird collection.
Relaxing the birds, a process that Mengel said could take several years, involves exposing the birds to certain temperature and humidity conditions for several days so they can grow faster with more energy. It's impossible to store them in their early stiff positions, she said.
The birds, captured and mounted a century ago by Colonel Nathaniel Stickey Goss, a naturalist and ornithologist from Neosoha Falls, are interesting because they were among the first to observe time. Marion Mengel, adjunct curator of ornithology at Dyche, said yesterday.
GOSS HAD planned to collect a male and female bird of every North American species, Mengel said, but the task was too great to be completed by one man. Goss however got a fairly complete collection of Kansan birds, she said.
The 1,232 birds in the collection represent species from North and Central Asia.
THE BIRDS are stored in drawers to protect them from light, she said, because they are most damaged by fading.
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