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Friday, April 2, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Staff photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
Mammoth task
This 13.000-year-old mammoth skull was found recently near Ness市 in Western Kansas. John Lawrence, Lawrence graduate student, cleans dirt and plaster from the anatomy of this ancient mammal.
Student finds fossil skull
BY CHERYL HAWLEY
All Richard Rogers was looking for during spring break was paleo-Indian sites. Instead he found a 9,000-13,000 year-old mammal tooth.
Rogers, Larsen graduate student, said yesterday he had been looking for evidence of ancient man in an area between Utica and Ness City to use in his doctoral thesis.
Instead of finding evidence of man, however, we found the four and one-half foot man on the island.
"At first I thought it was log sticking up out of the ground." Rogers said. His "log" was so heavy he had to have five other persons help him dig it up and move it.
The skull weighed about 500 pounds after an application of plaster of plaster and water (3.4 kg) in the lower jaw.
Larry Martin, assistant professor of systematics and ecology and curator of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, said the process to preserve the skull by adding artificial hardeners would take about a month.
At the discovery site, Orville Bonner, Museum of Natural History paleontologist, Rogers, cut and paleontology students in the museum. Harrison pushed the skull down an incline into a truck. At the museum it had to be lifted by a host and rolled by cart into a
The skull, found on pasture land owned by Leonard Norton, is the third one for the
museum. It has been at least 30 years since one has been found in Kansas, Martin said.
"It is fairly rare to find such a complete skull." he said.
Rogers said he had found pieces in Kansas of camels, horses and elephants.
The skull, Rogers said, was from the Pleistocene or Glacial epoch of the Quaternary period and Cenozoic era. He explained that at that time, vegetation was also, probably, extinct animals had begun dying. Also, evidence of man was beginning to appear.
For his doctoral thesis, Rogers said, he is putting evidence of ancient man in ecological perspective. His search for records from the region formed by land rises or river settlements.
Rogers has found parts of other mammoths and a horse in the same area where the skull was found. Rogers said that because only the mammoth's skull was found there, it probably died somewhere else. He said a river probably had washed it up and then the animal died. The skull now was exposed because of a gradual land rise, he said.
If the skull had rolled to area more recently, it would have fallen apart, Rogers said. Careful handling of fossils, Martin said, can protect them because they dry out and flake off.
"People without professional help would wind up with a lot of rubble," he said, adding that the company was not responsible.
Wildlife projects face budgetary problems
Staff Write
Proposed budget and position cuts of the Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission could mean curtailment of a subcommittee on reports according to same people on the commission.
Bv CAROL LUMAN
However, Fred Warders of Pratt, assistant director of the commission, said Monday that any statements about where he might be made were "premature."
"Of course you can't help but discuss it," he said. "I don't know if we have no official decisions made as yet."
Govern Robert F. Bennett suggested a cut of about 81 million and 41 positions from the job market.
The bill containing the budget cuts is now before a House-Senate conference committee that is discussing changes made in the original bill by the Senate.
Those changes, however, don't deal with the imbuition but with other agencies included in this study.
If the legislation is passed and signed by the governor, the Surging Ahead for Skippers, Nimrods and Anglers (SASNK) program would be the one most severely affected. The program is the northeast regional office of the commission in Manhattan, said last week.
Among the subdivisions of the SASNAK project are the wildlife habitat improvement program, hunter safety program and a boating safety program.
SASNAK was designed to establish more and better hunting and fishing areas in the
If the budget and position cuts pass, the positions would be eliminated from the
Warders said that even if the legislature cuts the 41.5 positions, not necessarily that they would be cut, but rather
Some commission positions are already vacant, he said, and other employees might be part-time positions. That could mean a need to have would have to be dismissed, he said.
The Manhattan biologist said that although no definite plans had been made about where staff reductions would come, it would be fishery and game biologists I.
commission July 1, the beginning of the next fiscal year, he said.
"We're hipening it (the legislation) doesn't pass, or it gets unended, or whatever he does."
He said the budget cuts might also require the commission to eliminate its 18 mm film library, and call for curtailment on magee. It also could mean limiting the employee's time at phone and pay phone usage, which might hurt the employees' abilities to do their jobs.
There may be an alternative to the situation even if the legislature does appear to be in favor.
The Senate Way and Means Committee just week ended a bill to increase hunting fees.
The profit from those increases, which still must be approved by the Senate, reportedly would make up for the money lost in the budget cuts. That would allow the commission to retain the positions tenially slated to be dropped by the budget outs.
Resident hunting and fishing licenses would increase from $5 to $150 annually, and the antelope, deer and turkey permits would increase from $15 to $20 annually.
Events...
TODAY: R.T. AAGEENBRUG, associate professor of geography, will speak on "Lifet in夹丹Dinam廊Chasel as part of the Unity of Faith and Human Dignity Series. ROBERT SCHOLES will speak on "Semitic Approaches to a Fictional Text: Joves's 'Eveline'" at 4 in the Court Room of the Kansas Union.
SUNDAY: The INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL will begin at 2 with the opening of exhibits in the Jayhawk and Big Eight Rooms of the Union. The festival will also feature a banquet at 5 in the Union Cafeteria and entertainment at 7 in Woodruff Auditorium. COLLEGIUM MUSICUM will give a "Medieval-Renaissance concert." PHIHONARY society will initiate new members at 4:30 in the Forum Room. THE CHICAGO CHAMBER ORCHESSTRA will perform at 8 in Hoch Auditorium.
TONIGHT: A 24-hour dance marathon for the EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA will begin at 7 in the Hawk's Nest. WILLIAM JOHNSON of Stanford will speak on "Recent Progress in Biomimetic Polyene Cyclizations" at 8 in 411 Summerfield. The KU FOLK DANCE CLUB will meet at 7:30 in 173 Robinson.
SATURDAY: THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY will present an educational program for children from the ages of 5 to 7 on "Animals of the Earth."
Salaries are commensurate with education and experience. These positions offer a wide-range benefit package, flexible working atmosphere, and modern office facilities. We invite all interested applicants to write Information and Research Division, Department of Planning and Development. One Civic Plaza, Kansas City, Kansas 66101. An Equal Opportunity Employer, M-F.
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Information and Research Division is expanding to include the following positions which will be involved with a wide variety of applied research and systems activities as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
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This position requires a through working knowledge of FORTRAN and or COBOL. Programming experience in business applications is required.
Announcing:
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Presents
THE CHICAGO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Sunday, April 4 8:00
Sunday, April 4 8:0 Hoch Auditorium
Tickets '3° at SUA Offices
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1 oz. Southern Comfort
% oz. tequila
Orange juice
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