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(Bowling 'Green State University, 8-23-79 Chiang to get Summer News honor degree signs off As summer quarter at graduation draws to a close, The Summer BG News signs off Internationally-known scientist, researcher and author until next June. H.C. Chiang will be awarded an honorary doctor of The academic year BG science degree during summer commencement exercises News will return Sept. 23 at the University. with a special orientation edition. On Sept. 26, Chiang, a professor in the department of entomology, the News will resume fisheries and wildlife at the University of Minnesota, will regular f our-day-a-week be honored at ceremonies at 10 a m. Saturday on the lawn publication. west of University Hall. The Summer News staff A pioneer in the area of biological control of insect wishes all students, faculty pests, Chiang is a leader in the development of pest and staff members who management methods for agriculture. religiously read our newspaper good luck CHIANG IS also one of the leading researchers in the during the summer break. area of plant genetics, and findings from his work have The Summer News staff been used to increase per-acre yields of corn and other recalls their experiences of grains in this country and throughout the world. the past three months on In presenting the honorary degree, the University will page three. recognize Chiang as a "great humanitarian whose collaborative efforts with other scientists in the fields of entomology, plant pathology, plant genetics, soils science photo by Kyle Daaaceai inside and plant physiology have been instrumental in enabling Aenee Tena (left) and Ronny Dilsaver (right) play house, using flowers as food. Renee, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Tena, 819 N. Enterprise, Apt. A, was the Campus news and a look at American agriculture to double its production every 25 the Summer News years." baby and Ronny, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Dilsaver, of Weston, 0., was staff Page) Chiang's work in these areas have resulted in his ser- the mommy. ving as a consultant to several nations which are struggling to increase their agricultural production. He Features: University has also chaired and served on a number of United Council OK's five ordinances historian, Dr. Richard Nations' committees which have been devoted to solving Wright is playing an im- the problem of world hunger. City council passed five authorized to enter into a municipal administrator to portant role in the purchase salt for de-icing salvaging of the steamship articles of legislation contract for the installation IN 1975, CHIANG was also a member of the U.S. Monday, including one or- of a traffic signal at Cam- during the coming winter. Indiana, which sank in 1858, National Academy of Sciences Insect Control Delegation from Lake Superior. Page 4 dinance providing more than pbell Hill Road and East An ordinance amending which traveled to the People's Republic of China. $37,000 in supplemental Wooster St. The municipal the zoning map, which A native of China, Chiang received his bachelor's Outgoing Sports Infor- appropriations to the current administrator's spokesman received its first reading, mation Director at the degree in 1938 from Tsing Hua University. He came to the city budget. told council that the signal met with disapproval from University Dave Senko United States as a refugee during World War II, and The largest single ap- would cost approximately several citizens. The comments on the situation received his master's and doctoral degrees from the propriation within that or- $70,000, and that the rezoning, which would surrounding his departure University of Minnesota in 1946 and 1948. dinance was awarded to the University would donate change seven lots at Man- and his plans for the The author of more than 150 articles and book chapters, Sewerage System Revenue $5,000 toward the light. ville and Lehman Avenues future Page4 Chiang has been a member of the University of Minnesota Fund. A total of $24,743.00 COUNCIL ALSO approved from light industrial to faculty since 1953. Reporter Mike Gueulette was granted to the fund for ordinances authorizing the multiple family In July of this year, Chiang was presented with the maintenance and supplies at director of utilities to bid for classification, was opposed got lost last week and when prestigious Distinguished Service Award from the he finally showed up, he the sewage treatment plant replacement filter media at because of potential flooding said he had been out American Institute of Biological Sciences. He is also a Municipal Administrator the water treatment plant, problems in an area which shopping at garage sales. Honorary Faculty Fellow at International University in Wesley K. Hoffman was and authorizing the already has a drainage Well Mike really was, and Geneva, Switzerland. problem. Three women from his story about this strange the area told council that it phenomena is on Page S. should "go slowly and Mailbox system receives award seriously consider" the proposed rezoning. Classifieds and The installation of 7,040 on-campus thus saving postage costs, he said. the Registrar's Office of their new Two other ordinances doonesbury Page! mailboxes for commuter students Duane Whitmire, assistant to the addresses," Brewer said. received their first readings. received honorable mention in the 1979 registrar and supervisor of the system, Before installation of the mail box One of those proposes the 'weekend' concludes with a issuance of $910,000 in in- look at the new Led Zepplin National Association of College and said mat in the first quarter of system, hundreds of items mailed by album Page 7 University Business Officers-United operation the boxes saved the his office to students off campus were dustrial development States Steel Foundation Cost Reduction University and student groups nearly returned by the U.S. Postal Service revenue bonds by the city. Incentive Awards program. The award- $9,300. That figure, he said, is based on marked "address unknown." The bonds would assist Sports: With autumn winning system, which was introduced an estimated mailing cost of 15 cents Marathon Special Products rapidly approaching, the last year, was proposed by the students per item for 61,930 items distributed Although the system is only a year corporation in financing 9 aura of football is in the air. themselves, according to University through campus mail boxes to students old, it has already received attention proposed facility. Falcon coaches are already Registrar Cary Brewer. living off campus during the fall from other institutions. Miami The second ordinance preparing for the new Having the mail boxes enables quarter in 1978. University and Ohio University ad- would amend the city code season and reporter Mary University offices and student groups to ministrators have expressed interest in concerning motorized McCarthy asked them to distribute class registration materials, "IN ADDmON TO saving postal adopting a similar system, and one bicycles so that it will assess the team's chance validation cards, meeting notices and costs, the system also saves staff and national profession journal has comply with the state for a successful other information to students without student time, since commuter students requested information for publication, regulations for safety and season Page I utilizing the U.S. Postal Service and frequently move and neglect to notify Brewer noted. licensing of mopeds. opinion, Here's to a job well-done Editor's goals, results examined I also feel that we mixed the news that we did discover As the summer and my tenure as editor of the Summer however. Summer News' staff discovered that Tom with features, entertainment and other information that BG News draws to a close, I can't help but reflect back on Misuraca officially had been named director of appealed to the Summer News' audience. the past three months. programming for the Union Activities Organization (UAO). Soon the news began to flow in. Upon assuming the editorship, I drafted a list of goals A FIVE-PART SERIES on some of the city's more that I wished to meet during the summer. These goals prosperous businesses ran periodically throughout the included publishing ten issues of the Summer BG News, WHEN THE UNIVERSITY called off exploratory merger discussions between representatives of WBGU- summer. The "weekend" column, provided tips on what I uncovering news at the University; blending this news hope readers found to be interesting leisure-time ac- with feature articles in order to provide a balanced TV and Toledo's WGTE-TV,the Summer News was there. When the monsoon rains of July 9, 1979, hit Bowling tivities. newspaper that would reflect the casual atmosphere of There were feature articles on some interesting people these lazy days of summer, and giving anyone who ap- such as a Bowling Green native and contender for in- plied an opportunity to do some reporting or photography. ternational honors, figure skater Scott Hamilton; I have assessed the Summer News' performance by Paul Cleveland broadcaster Wilma Smith, a University comparing the final results-the ten issues of the graduate; the many nuns enrolled in the University's newspaper-with my initial goals. O'Donnell summer school, and "King of the Nudies," filmmaker Russ Meyer. THE PUBLICATION OF this final issue of the Summer The usual summer stories about Buckeye Boys State the News means that the first goal has been accomplished. University's sports and summer workshops, the National There were many Monday mornings when I wondered Green, the Summer News was mere. And when fire destroyed Hope House, the Summer News was mere. As Tractor Pulling Championships, the Wood County Fair whether an issue would be published that week but and Alumniweek were found among our pages. And everything seemed to fall in place when it came time for we should have been. Summer News staffers also found time for some in- despite the space limitations of our tabloid format we did paste-up on Wednesdays. manage to find room for three photo features. I also feel we have met the second goal of uncovering vestigative reporting. The merger of UAO and Student news at the University. Many people had told me that this Activities was discovered accidentally and reported long before the University had intended its announcement. An THESE HUMAN INTEREST features, mixed with the was a next-to-impossible task to perform during a hard news reporting provided, I think an even blend for Bowling Green summer. in-depth look at the 1979-80 educational budget cuts took two weeks to complete. most summer readers. It took only one week before some real news surfaced, My final goal of giving anyone who applied a chance to /"^l 1 T"aT"l d Tl "fr be a reporter or photographer was included because I LIllJLiIlclll L didn't think two staff reporters and a staff photographer could fill a weekly newspaper. This goal seems to have been met best of all, and I can cite statistics to back up this claim. Twenty different student writers received by-lines from the 61 articles that were credited. The work of 10 different photographers also appeared in the Summer News. The volunteers included not only undergraduate journalism majors, but also a geology major, a 33 year-old transient student and several graduate students. I'm not claiming that we always succeeded, however. We didn't. And what we did produce was accomplished only through much hard work and long hours of planning and organizing. I'm thankful for the opportunity to be editor of the Summer BG News. I even made about 13 cents an hour while doing it. the summer- Urban, rural, suburban flies B*G Slews ■ Brut «•*«» 'J ■ i Page 2 Vol. M, No. 2J3 Thursday, S-2J-7S Fly facts help humans respond Editor Staff Reporters by Pam Roberts bred in the city are fast,very fast This general vicinity. Paul O'Donnell MikeGueulette comes from being swatted at from On the outskirts of the city, a> Pam Roberts I was sitting at the front entrance to birth. These flies must be quick enough hybridizing of flies is occuring. This Copy Editor Marc Hugunin Staff Writers the Student Recreation Center one day to elude the human hand, lest they be could be the most dangerous trend of Holly Bericchia last week, alternately checking for killed. all, for the result is the Suburban Fly. SueDurso . proper I.D. and dodging the onslaught These are the Urban Flies, and they Photo Editor Kyle Danaceau Mary McCarthy of strafing flies. know no fear. THE SUBURBAN FLY will be the fly Diane Mast They were buzzing around-about The Urban Fly is the plague of to reckon with in the years to come. It The BG News is published daily Tuesday through Friday eight of them, jut out of my reach. modern man, for with each generation wiU be quick, it will be smart It will during the regular school year and weekly during summer They seemed to know just how far my they breed out the slower members of know the ways of men and it wiU not be sessions by students of Bowling Green State University under fly-swatting arm would extend. They their species. The time is coming when wary of our race. the authority of the University PublicaUons Committee. were never in danger. all flies win be faster even than the Yet it will maintain a certain Opinions expressed by columnists do not necessarily reflect When it finally struck me that there average fly swatter. aloofness; it will be apathetic and the opinions of the BG News Editorial Board. The BG News and Bowling Green State University are equal was no way I would win the battle THESE FINDINGS have been born egocentric. It may even be opportunity employers and do not discriminate m luring against fly narrassment, I began to out in research that even supplied a materialistic.. It may no longer be practice*. notice some interesting fly facts. Since control group—the Rural Fly. Rural satisfied to light upon the refuse of our The News win not accept advertising that is deemed the little buggers are cvaj where, I flies are more laid back; they hover world. It may begin to create its own. discriminatory degrading or insulting on the basis of race, sex or national origin. thought it would be a public service to instead of harms. They bus around Urban, Rural and Suburban flies- AD rights to material published la MM BG News are like flies used to, and barely rmwnhta mark my words, these wiU become reserved. the SST version inhabiting the modern increasingly important to your comfort .you think ctty. in the coming yean. IMUatversttyHal If you try, you can catch the Rural Fly in your hand simply by sneaking up And don't forget that you first read it that flies bora and behind it and grabbing at the air in its in the Summer BG News. («»> Aagut 23, MTO Tee Sun raer BG Newt Page S Reflections Staff looks back on the summer past With the completion of the final photojournalism major, hopes to work "The interview and especially the issue of the Summer BG News well for the Key this fall. She said her out- film were more thrilling than walking within its sites, the staff has finally standing moment at the News was into the newsroom one day, and having had time to reflect back on the past ten listening to a three-way phone con- someone tell me that two people showed weeks. versation about edible panties. up at a Skylab party wearing Star Each staff member was asked what Junior Linda Nissley, a radio-T.V.- Patrol helmets and Spiderman he felt was the high point of the film major, hopes to work for the News Funglasses," Gueulette said. summer. Some staff members took the and the Key this fall. As a summer question seriously, while others took it photographer, Nissley best remembers COPY EDITOR Marc Hugunin is a not so seriously. A sample of the the concern the editor expressed over Ph.D. candidate in American Culture. responses will be offered here in an the dateline's falling above or below the Hugunin founded the Revue last year. effort to increase the reader awareness fold. He will be teaching Popular Culture of the staff and their personalities. Staff writer Sue Durso, a senior and the Mass Media in the Department Staff writer Diane Must is a junior public relations major; will continue as of Popular Culture mis fall. Hugunin public relations major who expects to publicity and public relations director said he enjoyed writing the 'weekend' continue working for the BG News this of the Student Recreation Center next column during the summer, but bis fall. After a summer at the News, Must year. The satisfaction of uncovering the fondest reward is yet to come-payday. thinks more people should get involved Union Activities Organization-Student in city government and University Activities merger was Durso's high Photo editor Kyle Danaceau, a junior management. point, along with being the only female visual communications technology photographer in Anderson Arena major, plans to shoot sports for the PHOTOGRAPHER BOB Graves, a during Boys State. Sentinel-Tribune in the fall. "The whole sophomore geology major, said that summer" was a high point, he said. photo by Jim Gordon shooting Dennis Kudnich during a STAFF REPORTER Pam Roberts, a Editor Paul O'Donnell, a junior news rainstorm was the highlight of his news editorial major, said the highlight editorial major, will join the fall News As skeletal as it was, the Summer BG News staff In- summer at the News. of the Summer News was the day sb j staff as a reporter. O'Donnell said his cluded (counter-clockwise, from front-to-back) Paul Mary McCarthy, a senior public walked into the News office and saw V ie highpoint was scooping other area O'Donnell, editor; Sue Durso, staff writer; Vic relations major, tackled sports writing editor dressed up for a change. newspapers on the cancellation of Oberhaus, staff writer; Diane Must, staff writer; Sue for the Summer News and for the sports Mike Gueulette, a senior magazine WBGU-WGTE merger discussions. Baker, advertising salesperson; Dr. Emil Dansker, information office, where she will journalism major and summer staff "AFTER THE first issue, it was faculty adviser; Linda Nissley, photographer; Mary continue as an intern this fall. reporter, will be editor of the Revue, a gratifying to see people reading the McCarthy, staff writer; Bob Graves, photographer; McCarthy's most vivid impression of weekly entertainment supplement to product we had produced," O'Donnell Marc Hugunin, copy editor; and Beth Biastro, her News experience was spending six the BG News, next year. His most said. photographer. Not pictured are Mike Gueulette and hours in the News office chatting when exciting moment during the summer But the summer staff knows that Pam Roberts, staff reporters; Kyle Danaceau, photo she should have been studying for a was his sneak preview of the X-rated O'Donnell's real ecstasy came with the editor; Margie Grim, advertising salesperson; and test. Russ Meyer film, "Beneath the Valley Aug. 9 issue, when his name appeared Holly Bericchta, staff writer. of the Ultravixens," and his interview in print seven times-once in 36 point BETH BIASTRO, a senior with the "King of the Nudies." type. University hosts creative arts program Playwright The only W.S.O.S. Creative program. Shank, a veteran The culmination of the is free and open. Arts Program in northwest of University Theatre project will be tonight and Ohio is taking place at the productions, has seventeen Friday when The Creators, a "The Family," an original University this summer. youths actively engaged in name chosen by the group, script written by Shank, is entries sought The program is part of the many aspects of the theatre present "The Family" in the based on improvisations W.S.O.S. Community Action five days a week for a total of Main Auditorium, Univer- done by the group in earlier Commission's Summer thirty-five hours per week. sity Hall. The performance work sessions. Youth Employment for competition Program and is funded by C.E.T.A. (Comprehensive Entries are being sought for an original play script Roy Rogers Roy Rogers Employment and Training Salad Bar Salad Bar competition sponsored by the University Theater, which Act) of 1973. will produce the winning play next May as part of its Joe Master's degree candidate E. Brown Theater season. Bob Shank is in charge of the The competition is open to all University faculty, staff, group of area high school students and alumni as well as all residents of the city of students involved in the Bowling Green, according to Richard Groetzinger, a doctoral candidate in directing and staging, who will direct the production of the winning play. Deadline to enter the competition is Jan. 15 and the THE winning play, which will be selected by a three-member University faculty committee, will be announced in COPT SHOP March. Entries should be either full-length plays or a series of related one-act plays requiring no more than two- PRINTING & and-a-half hours of performance time nor less man one- TYPING SERVICES and-one-quarter hours of performance time, and the entries must not have been previously published or produced.

PLAYWRIGHTS SHOULD submit two typed copies of each entry with a cover sheet listing the title of the play, the playwright's name, address, telephone number and the number of years the playwright attended the University, if a student or alumnus; the number of years • Wedding Invitations the playwright has been employed by the University, if a • Business Cords faculty or staff member, or the number of years the • Rubber Stomps playwright has lived in Bowling Green. • Resumes • Research Papers The name of the playwright should not appear on the •Data Sheets script itself, and if a playwright submits more than one •Thesis-* Forms script, each entry most be submitted in a separate en- Moo-Fri 9:30-5:30 Roy Rogers Roy Rogers velope with a cover infoi ination sheet. Sat 9:30-12:00 Salad Bar Entries should be mailed to BGSU Playscript Com- 352-4068 Salad Bar petition, Theater Program Unit SB South HaTL 117'/* E. Court Page 4 The Simmer BG Nr» • Aaffait 23. M?t University hosts 34th fire school Ohio's 34th annual State firetraining coordinator in Fire School will be held Aug. the trade and industrial 27-31 at the University. division of the Department of This marks the fifth Education, the school will consecutive year the hold classes in emergency University has hosted the medical care, pump school, which is sponsored operation, fire service in- by the division of vocational structor training, heavy education in the State rescue and auto extrication, Department of Education water movement in and the division of the state firefighting, fire brigade fire marshal in the Depar- organization and training, tment of Commerce, in fire ground tactics, fire cooperation with die Office investigation, and of Continuing Education. photography for fire in- Approximately 400 spection and arson in- firefighters from throughout vestigation. Ohio are expected to attend this year's school, which will Fire Safety Inspector offer 13 courses in Certification will be offered specialized and newly for the first time. The course The propeller from the earliest-known steamship propulsion system sits on the deck of a derrick barge developed practices to will cover such topics as fire after being raised from the Indiana, a 350-ton passenger and freight ship built in 1848. The ship, along supplement instruction and building codes, use of with the propeller, sank to the bottom of Lake Superior 121 years age. provided at the regional and fire prevention tools and the local levels. proper handling and storage of hazardous materials, and UNDER THE DIREC- will provide certification as University historian Wright, playing TION of Frank C. Potts, a fire safety inspector. Accepts Holy Cross post important role in salvage project Senko leaves "You just can't imagine the thrill involved in wat- the importance of the find, and began looking for a ching a 131-year-old rusty boiler break the surface." museum that might be interested in raising and That was the way Dr. Richard Wright, a marine preserving the propulsion system. sports info historian at the University, described his feelings as he The only museum large enough to handle such an by Mary McCarthy American Conference saw the first piece of the earliest-known, steam-driven operation was the Smithsonian, which eventually Schools. propulsion system being lifted out of Lake Superior and became interested in Wright's proposal. The chance to move east "It's impossible to ac- onto the deck of a derrick barge. proved to be more than Dave complish everything," he When the boiler settled on the deck, it marked the IN THE END, representatives from the Smithsonian Senko, University sports said. "It shouldn't be like beginning of the end of an 18-month project led by Institute, the U.S. Navy, the Coast Guard, the Army information director (SID), that. It was hard with two Wright to raise the historically-important propulsion Corps of Engineers, and the History Division of the could refuse. He will soon major sports, hockey and system. Michigan State Department, along with Wright, leave the University to basketball, at the same time gathered on the barge seven miles off Crisp Point in assume the role of SID at and no assistant. It was a THE SYSTEM WAS housed in the steamship northeastern Lake Superior to begin diving operations Holy Cross College in Boston, very trying year." Indiana, a 350-ton freight and passenger carrier which for the system. Mass. At the same time there was built in 1848 and sank 10 years later. And for nine The divers, who could work only for 30 minutes at "I really didn't look for the were some good times for days earlier this month, a 60-member team of divers, the wreck site before beginning a 40-minute ascent, job," Senko said. "They Senko. researchers and technicians worked from a barge which included decompression stops, used cutting came to me. As soon as they above the wreck to remove the system which Wright torches, wrenches and power saws to cut and rip and called I was interested. I had "FT WAS FUN with the calls "the missing link" in the technical evolution of coax the system from its 121-year-old resting spot. a notion it would be a good teams doing so well. Having the marine steam engine. job. After talking to mem I a winning hockey team was In all, more than eight tons of boiler, propeller, "THE DIVERS WERE very professional, I was very was pretty excited about it." great," he said. "Watching steam chest, rudder, engine and steering quadrant impressed with the way they worked," Wright said. A native of New York City, (quarterback) Mike Wright were raised the 125 feet to the barge's deck. The parts Throughout the salvage operation, Wright served as Senko spent four years at play football was something are now in Washington, D.C., where they will be consultant and he will be writing an article about the Yale University in New in itself. I regret not being restored and then placed on permanent display at the entire operation for the Smithsonian magazine. Haven, Conn., as assistant able to see what kind of a Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of History Wright added that, for all the work involved in SID. year he will have." and Technology. salvaging the propulsion system, the operation could *Tve got to say my new According to Wright, who is director of the not have been successful if it had not been for a long SENKO IS a 1973 jour- situation will be better," he University's Center for Archival Collections, which series of coincidences that began the day the Indiana nalism graduate of the added. "I've always wanted houses the largest collection of Great Lakes shipping went down. University of Hawaii, and a job in the east. I'll be closer materials in the country, the Indiana's steam system received a master's degree to home. Also, the basketball predates by 40 years all known Great Lakes marine FIRST, THE MARINE historian said, the Indiana in athletic administration program is big time and I'm propulsion systems. was one of only a few ships that did not sink due to from Ohio State University. excited about that." violence-a fire, explosion or storm. Senko looked back on die WRIGHT SAID the earliest know propeller-driven Wright theorizes that one of the propeller blades challenges he faced during vessel was used on the Great Lakes in 1841, only seven broke, and the imbalance caused by the missing blade his 15 months as a one-man years before the Indiana was built and equipped with created a vibration which broke the seal where the information service its primitive propulsion system. Before 1841, the drive shaft entered the ship. The ship then filled with responsible for all 24 sports sidewheel paddle steamers, which pulled the ship water and sank. offered at the University. through the water rather than pushing it, were used on As the ship sank, air pressure ripped off the deck "I'm a little disappointed the lake. cabins, leaving the propulsion system exposed. This in how things turned out," "I've probably learned as much in a half-hour of would later allow easy access to the system by the Senko said. "When you start, looking at mat boiler as I have in the last 25 years of divers, and more important, would allow John Steele of you're very enthusiastic research," he said, adding that "the same thing could Waukegan, m., the scuba diver with the camera, to about the job. But it really be said for every piece that was brought up." photograph it. takes a lot out of you. Trying to get every coach to THE IDEA FOR the recovery mission came about 18 THE SHIP CAME to rest in 125 feet of cold, clear cooperate is hard." months ago when Wright viewed a film of the Indiana Lake Superior water. The depth kept the vessel out of taken in 1975 by a scuba diver. The film caught glim- reach of souvenir- and salvage-hunting scuba divers SENKO SAID that the pses of a strange square-bladed propeller lying who might have removed all or part of the system for University offers the moat detached at the aft end of the wreckage. their personal use. Also, the cold water helped to sports but the SID has the Dave Wright said that when he saw the film he recognized preserve the metal. least help of any of the Mid- Senko August 23.1»71 The Summer BC. New. Page i Garage sales Picking through neighbor's junk

recently held her first and she says, her last garage sale at VANNETT HAS attended only two garage sales in the her Eberly Road home. last year and seldom buys an thing at them. "Garage sale business" operators often force prices up to a point where he can't make a profit by reselling. "I'M NOT A garage sale goer-some people seem to hit "If I can make some money I'll stop and buy an item, them all," Sergent said. Those people include those too," he said. "interested in buying up and reselling antiques and "I've asked councilmen when will garage sales people glassware" she thought. have to get permits," he said "but they don't seem to want The early bargain hunters purchased 60 items on the to fight old ladies." first day of her sale, and among them were two University Vannett get some of his furniture indirectly from students who snatched up Mr. Sergent's old Army garage sales. Retirees often pick up items at garage sales, fatigues. repair them as a hobby, and sell them to second hand Story and art Despite a few surprises, such as selling half a container stores, he said. byMikeGueulette of butane lighter fluid for 15 cents and a thermos-less lunchbox for 25 cents, Sergent said she didn't enjoy having The other day I bought a copy of Elvis Costello's new a garage sale. "Everything not sold by the end of the ONE SUCH person is 70-year-old Kent Maurer, a retired "Armed Forces" album containing the limited edition sale," she said emphatically, "is going." farmer from Bowling Green. Since retiring from farming, "live at Hollywood High" EP. Both were in mint con- Maurer has channeled his energy into buying items at dition. I paid a dollar for this potential collector's item. garage sales and auctions, and reselling them to second That's nowhere near the price charged by any of the area CONTRIBUTING TO HER disdain of garage sales was hand and antique stores or in community auctions. "A lot record outlets, but then again, I didn't buy it in any of the the disappearance of a few inexpensive items. A call to the of stuff I buy, I've got sold before I buy," Maurer said. area record outlets. Bowling Green Police Department revealed that "Or at least I think I do." I bought it in Alexander Martinez' garage in Rudolph. shoplifting at area garage sales usually goes unreported, Maurer is upset by the idea of imposing restrictions on The Martinez family, like many families across the and that neighbors never complain about noise or garage sales. "I think we're over-governed already," he nation, has discovered that a garage sale is an ideal way trampled lawns. said. "If everybody would just worry about running their to "get rid of that stuff around the house." Although neighbors seem undisturbed by the garage own business instead of somebody else's, they'd probably sale phenonenon, some local merchants are upset with do a better job." them. The success of garage sales stems from an oversupply THE COSTELLO ALBUM was one of several sale items of everything, including money, Maurer feels. "People that Martinez received from a record club, listened to and keep getting new stuff and they have to get rid of the old didn't like. Martinez also provided the site for the sale run stuff," he said. "There's an excess of furniture on the by his sister Lydia-his Defiance Pike home. market, and it's reasonable." "I put it over here because there's more traffic," Lydia said. Among the items moving briskly at Lydia's garage sale THE SURPLUS HAS enabled retirees on social security were hanging pots and Humpty Dumptys provided by her to supplement their limited incomes by going into the mother and her fellow Milton Center Women's Auzilary. garage sale business, Maurer said. "Many people overspend at garage sales," Maurer said. He's seen customers pay three times what he "PEOPLE ARE also looking for kid's clothes," Lydia believes an item is worth. Souvenirs and Christmas said, pointing to a clothesline extending the length of her decorations often go for inflated prices, and Maurer garage. "I suppose it's because school is starting." contends, "Women are the worst at it, buying a lot of Although Lydia attends other garage sales only "once in colored glass." a while," she has been holding an annual sale for the last Still he admits, "What is junk for some people is good ten years. Upon returning from a recent vacation, she for others." decided the time was right. She advertized the sale in the classified section of the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune, and placed signs in laundromats in Bowling Green, WITH SUCH irregularities in pricing and selling Weston, Milton Center, and Rudolph, and by the road in practices among garage sale operators, the shopper front of her brother's house. should adhere to the principle of "caveate emptor"-let Lydia's past sales ran from Tuesday through Monday, the buyer beware. and netted her about $100 in spending money. When I The only city ordinance restricting the weekend mer- bought the Costello album, Lydia had sold about $85 worth chants prohibits them from hanging their signs on electric of merchandise in her recent sale. and telephone poles, according to city attorney Patrick Crowley. "We've found if we don't regulate them it's SALES TACTICS used in garage sales are low key easier and better. compared to the high intensity sales pitch of many To the best of his knowledge the city has redeved no department store clerks. Lydia entered the garage shortly complaints regarding people conducting illegal after I did and sat down in a lawn chair in the far corner. businesses, Crowley said, adding mat if someone is During the my initial browsing, she gave no sales pitches. violating zoning regulations, it should be reported to the "I like to have my brother out here, he's better at it," city's zoning commission. she commented. Unlike the department store clerk, the garage sale UNTIL THE DAY comes when ordinances are passed entrepreneur can be more flexible in negotiating a sale. restricting garage sales, Bowling Green residents should "A lot of people will pay the price marked," said Lydia, New and used furniture dealer Bob Vannett, owner of have no trouble finding operational toasters for under two "but I will go down in price to get rid of an item." Second Time Around 12836 S. Dixie Highway, said he dollars, large bolts of carpeting for $10 or so, a brand new resents those people who run garage sales on a continual kerosene heater for about $30 or a Vegomatic for only basis. $1.25. And if you're really lucky, you might even stumble THE SENTINEL Tribune ad listed a bike and a storm across a rare Elvis Costello record. door among the items for sale at a garage sale at the ACCORDING TO VANNETT, the occasional weekend Kramer Road residence of Ruth Mohn. When a customer merchant is performing a service by helping people who offered her $15 for the bike, she accepted although she had can't afford new item. Those people who are in the been asking for five dollars more. She regetted selling the "garage sale business," however, often run a commercial bike for lower price, however, because a few more venture on property zoned for residential use, pay customers inquired about it later, she said. residential phone rates instead of costlier commercial Because two women were interested in the screen door, rates, do not obtain a license or permit from the city, don't she was able to sell it for her original asking price of $7. declare the income on their local, state and federal taxes, Upon closing the deal, the woman making the un- and don't pay state sales tax, he said. successful bid for the door remarked that the other "Garage sale signs," he also contends, "hang up on woman always beat her to all the garage sale bargains. some poles for two to three weeks after the sale is over." One person seldom leading the charge to garage sale The neglect of some garage sale operators constitutes a bargains is Bowling Green resident Jane Sergent, who littei ing problem, he said. Vt*^ Page* TkeSimntrBGNew: Aagust 23,1171 classifieds people. Pt. or full time. Reply, 4 cycle, 145 degree wash. Good or house to sub-lease from Aug. April. Please call 352-6464. person after 4:30 at Domino's SEWVICESOEFgBlP Sales. PO Box 336, Fremont, OH. cond. Must sell) $55.00. Call 354- 24 Sept 2|. Reliable. Diane-352 Rmte., grad. student. Charles Pizza. Stadium Plaza. Pregnancy Aid & Under 43430. Names, ph. No. please. 1672. 1763. Must be close to campus. Apts , 710 1st. $l22.50-mo. gas Area newspaper needs persons Sitter for 2 children In my home 1977 Monte Carlo. AC, AM-FM standing. EMPA. 353-2143 & 352- Need 1 or 2 M. rmtes. "79-80. $95 paid. Move in 9-1. 2 badrm. un- to write Sports pt. time on Fri., 0620 after 4pm. 3^5:30 p.m. M-F. Starting Sept. stereo, cruise control. Best offer. mo. 372-4171. 372-3965.372-5271. furn. Ray, 372-2711 or 352-6631 . some Sat. & some Tue. Write a WANTED 24. Must be 18.352 4146. 419 385 0484. F. looking for room close to HELP WANTED letter detailing your background 1 or 2 girls as roommates for & interests in writing & or Sports FOR SALE FOR RENT campus for Fall Qtr. only. Call Drivers Wanted) Pt. time Fall. Call 352 5017. to Steve Wolfrom. Drawer C. The Homes For Sale. 856 Hamilton Preferred Property Company. 216-3643129. delivery positions art now Review Times. Fostoria, OH Ct., 4-5 BR. Assume 9>/J percent Houses St Apts. for rent. 835 High Need another rmte. for this Need 1 F. to share nice house available at Domino's Pizza 44830. loan. Also, a wide selection of St. Cherry wood Club. Ph. 352- year? F. grad students needs with other girls. '79-80. E. Merry. Must be 18, have depend, car & town & country properties. Call 9378. room or apt. Fall Spr. Call (419) Call 352 7365. Sales Field. Guaranteed$100-wk. insurance. 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