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Friday, December 3.1976
University Daily Kansan
Agencies urge using creativity in gift buying
By STEVE FRAZIER
Ah, the jovs of Christmas.
Normally wise consumers make bad choices in last-minute rushes.
A gift-giver buys another "safe" present, and the gift-giver receives his fourteenth matched pen-and-pencil set, eight prismane plant hanger, or twisted brown tie.
Students, dazed by term papers and finals, can make some of the most foolish and redundant gift purchases, but area merchants and merchants yesterday offered help.
The Consumer Affairs Association (CAA) and Better Business Bureau of Northeast Michigan avoid passing on their own mistakes as Christmas gifts, and Lawrence merchants suggested gifts that are not given by the Aunt Edna's of the world.
"YOU SHOULD BUY like you're buying for yourself," Judy Kroger of the Lawrence CAA said. "Sick with major problems." Their customer satisfaction is usually better.
"If you buy a demonstration model, make sure you get a warranty card—get something in writing. Watch for any low-price item for which extraordinary claims are made. There's probably a reason for an unreasonably low price."
Kroeger said that toys were a special problem because “there's so much absolute crap on the market.” Toy buyers should be careful about brands” and potentially dangerous toys.
"OBVIOUSLY, IT'S ALWAYS best to
Cyclo Crossers will pedal, run in annual race
The fourth annual Lawrence Cycle Cross races will be this weekend at West Campus
David Conrad, Lawrence junior, the current unofficial state Cyto Cross champion, will compete against national riders. Theiders include Tiger Johnson, Dakota III, the defending Lawrence Cyro Cross champion, and Dennis Scott, Gladstone, Mo., the winner of the first two Lawrence Cyro Crosses.
iwo Massachusetts riders, Eric DeRivera, Worcester, and Thomas Smith, Princeton, also will compete in the events. He was the junior read champion in 1975.
Cyclo Cross racing is a combination of bicycle racing and cross country running. The races aren't run on roads but across fields.
"The racers ride until they can't ride any more, and then they get off their bikes and run, Gene Wee, Lawrence graduate coach, Bicycle Club coordinator, said yesterday.
Each event lasts about an hour.
Saturday's events will begin at 1 p.m. by the pond west of Moore Hall on West Campus. Sunday's events in Martin Park will begin at 11 a.m.
trade with firms known to be reliable," Marty White, operations manager for the company said.
White said Christmas shopers should check a store's refund and exchange policies before buying, and keep sales receipts to ease returns.
The races are sponsored by the Mount Oread Bicycle Club.
"We always suggest that a buyer look over purchases before he wraps them," White said. "It's easier to take them back now later. Also, we always get a lot of questions and requests from customers are incomplete. Christmas Eve is a bad time to find that needed bolt or screw."
White predicted that citizen's band radios would be hot items this Christmas. She said that new 40-channel sets would go on the market after Jan, 1, 1977, and manufacturers and dealers were now trying to sell all their remaining 23-channel sets.
A buyer will be able to find some excellent CB buyers before Christmas, she said, but he should be aware that a 23-channel set will have less value because of the switch
"NO 23CHANNEL SET can be legally sold on the premise that it can later be converted to 40 channels, because there is no legal add-on kit." White said.
A Venus Fly Trap would be a perfect gift for the student who loves plants and hates
files, Parth Evans, an employee at the Garden Center, 151st and New York St., said.
"YOU COME OUT to the greenhouse and watch them eat flogs," she said. "In your home, they'll catch gnats and flies for themselves. If necessary, you feed them plain hamburger—never sausage—about once a week."
"You can get matching his-and her long johns, and long johns with anything you want printed on the seat flaps," Ann Shoemaker. an employee at Rag Tag, said.
For $17.99, a shopper can buy "red one-piece long johns with drop-seat backs" at Starbucks or Walmart for $35.99.
A student could give three friends a two-hour airborne tour of the Kansas Flint Hills for $36. An Miller, a pilot for Lawrence Aviation, said he and his plane would fly other gift tours with three passengers for $18 an hour.
STUDENTS WITH MORE money and a desire to give gifts with certain lasting value can order gold British Sovereigns through Howard Boyd, owner of Boyd's Coins and Antiques, 731 New Hampshire St. Boyd said the coin contained about one-quarter ounce of gold and would cost about $50.
"A great variety of gold bullion coins are"
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available for about 10 to 12 per cent above the market price of gold," he said. "The advantage of gold coins over gold bars that can coins be immediately recognize as being what they are. A dealer will be able to easily determine if the coin you are trying to sell is really gold, and you won't have to pay assay costs."
IMPORTED LIQUIER ARE A welcome change from the usual Christmas boarbor and scotch, Green Retail Fendley, an employee of Green Retail Liquor, 801 W. 23r St., said.
"Ilquiers are something most people would not buy for themselves, but people who are buying them."
Bengal's Ltd., 803 Massachusetts St., offers ivory jewelry in sterling silver settings made from mastodon and walrus tusks. Rob Amborn, Bengal's employee, said the wood was retrieved from arctic ice by boat, and is from 40,000 to 400,000 years old.
Manufactured jewelry pieces cost from $15 to $12, he said, and larger, hand-carved scrisshaw ivory pieces cost from $50 to $1,000.
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