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Wednesday, July 11, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Cowboy Dives for Calf in Bulldogging Event in K.C.
'Ride 'Em, Cowboy' Fills Arenas As Rodeo Circuit Gets into Swing
By JAY CURTIS
Kansas Staff Writer
Spectators waited anxiously for the Brahma bull contest, traditionally the final event of the evening. A red light shone on the number six and all eyes focussed on the gate.
The gate swing open. Wadde and two thousand pounds of lethal bracle砌 and a slew of guns.
The first contestant was a cowboy named Waldie from Enid, Okla. He had drawn a ball called Highnoon, "the omeriest Brahawk of the Crow," Cimarron, "according to the announcer."
WITH ONE HAND the cowboy clung to the huge bull through a series of bone jarring spins and leaps. One second, two seconds, three seconds. Waldie's body slammed to the ground.
He lay in the dirt for a moment as the clowns drew the bull away. Then he rose slowly, picked up a crumpled straw hat and limped out of the rodeo arena.
"Three seconds," said the announcer, "tough luck. Ya know, some of these fellas
THE BULL RIDING contest was only one of six professional rodeo events presented at the 18th annual Kansas City Rodoe last week in Kansas City, Mo.
travel several hundred miles just to enter this one event. Let's give him a big hand."
The rodeo, a charity event sponsored by the Kansas City Junior Chamber of Commerce, was typical of many professional and semi-professional rodeos that can be seen throughout Kansas and Missouri during the summer.
Kansas alone will hold at least seven professional rodeos this summer including the Phillipsburg Rodeo, the Cowtown Days Rodeo at Baxter Springs, the Cheyenne County Rodee at St. Francis and the Flint Hills Rodeo at Strong City. Stafford, Cocteville, Council Grove and Hugoton also hold annual summer rodeos.
CONTESTANTS FOR THESE rodees are often drawn from states other than Kansas, such as Colorado, Oklahoma and Wyoming, of the contestants are Kansas residents.
Kansas claims the current Cowboy
Rookie of the Year, a 21-year-old named Dave Brock from Goodland. Brock won $9,123 in calf roping in 1972.
Like many of the 3,400 professional rodeo cowboys in the nation, Brock is a college graduate. The Rodeo Cowboy Association estimates that as many as one third of all professional cowboys are college graduates.
A TOP PROFESSIONAL cowboy can earn from $25,000 to $50,000 a year, according to the Rodeo Information Foundation in Denver. The number one rodeo owner is year-old Phil Lee of George West, Tex., had his earnings in excess of $48,000 last year.
Rodeo fatalities are surprisingly rare. The first in five years occurred May 24 in a saddle bronce event at Vernon, Tex. Broken ribs are common and ligaments are frequent among contestants.
County to Offer Bus Rides to Aged
By DAGMAR PADEN Kensan Stoll Writer
Kansan Staff Writer
Douglas County will start a federally funded transportation program for the elderly about Aug. 1, according to Gary Conra, member of Douglas County's Planning Council on services for Aging, Inc.
Lake Lawrence, Baldwin, Eudora and Lecompton.
Lawrence will be divided into six areas for this program, Condra says. A minibus carrying a maximum of 12 passengers will be used by the staff on half day a week in each of these six areas.
The federal government will provide a decreasing proportion for the funding of the Douglas County transportation service for the elderly.
The first year the federal government will provide 75 per cent of the funds; the second year, 60 per cent and the third year, 50 per cent. With the start of the fourth year, the transportation program will be totally dependent upon local funding.
SERVICES TO THE aging, which have been a neglected area in the nation, are the subject of a recent Congressional directive, Constraa said.
Douglas County officials tend to see the new area council on the aged as more red tape, according to Condra. The Douglas County council on the aging will not be abolished with the establishment of an area council.
Congress decreed that each state must set up area councils on services to the aging in population, and fund from communities. These councils must serve several counties. There is to be an area council that will include Douglas, Owensville and Jefferson counties, Concord said.
Condra also said the area council would provide many benefits to local communities. It will provide assistance in determining what the greatest needs of the community are given community. It will even help a community write an application for federal funds.
HOWEVER, THE DOUGLAS County council now must have its applications for federal funds approved by the screening committee of the area council. Coorda said,
The new area council has yet to meet. It will probably have its first meeting later this month and meet once a month, according to Conda.
EACH OF THE THREE委员会 involved will be represented by five committee members in these committee members will be appointed by the respective County Commissions.
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Conda said three of each county's five representatives must be over age 60.
Condra does not expect the establishment of an area council on services to the aging to have any effect on the funding of Douglas County programs for the aged. There is no group competing with the Douglas County Council on Services for Aging, Inc., he said.
Competition with other counties for federal funds does not alarm him, he said.
CONDRA EXPECTS INCREASED federal funding on programs for the elderly. Services to the aging have been neglected across the nation, he said.
Conda said that the elderly had a growing percentage of votes in the nation and that they were becoming increasingly sophisticated about their needs.
Alternatives to placing the elderly in nursing homes are gaining support, partly because of the lack of paid care.
he said. Many old people cannot afford nursing homes. In many cases, if the community could provide a few services for the elderly such as transportation or hot meals, the elderly could manage to stay out of nursing homes.
The Douglas County Planning Council on Services for Aging, Inc., is now working on a program of federally funded funds. Plans are being made about this program, according to Conendra.
Parents Deny Prior Knowledge Of 2 Girls' Sterilization by U.S.
By WILLIAM STOCKTON Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON—The parents of two Alabama girls surgically sterilized by a family planning clinic told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday they hadn't known their daughters would be made barren until after the operation.
again.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass,
promised Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Relf of
Montgomery to ensure every effort to seize
unwanted sterilization weren't performed
The Refs, in halting and often innable words, said that their daughters, Minnie, 14, and Mary Alice, 12, were taken by staff members of the federally funded Mon-
together Family Planning Clinic to a
tubal ligation sterilization operations.
Belf said he hadn't known the girls were going to the hospital and his wife she said thought they were to receive injections of a vaccine. He said they had learned only after the operation that sterilization had been performed. Belf said his wife went to the hospital the next day and told him that：“Dad, they've been operated on.” That got over all me. I didn't want it done."
County to Pay More for Land
By DAGMAR PADEN
Kansan Staff Writer
Douglas County property owners who must sell their land to the county for public right of way or other non-federal public use are likely to receive more money in the form of a new policy bringing county land acquisition in line with federal policy.
Auto Licensing Demands Time Of Treasurer
In 1971, the state adopted a new system of staggering the sale of license plates on an alphabetical and monthly basis. According to Bessie Bennett, deputy treasurer, the system is convenient for the state motor vehicle department but not for her office.
The way the system is presently set up, the motor vehicle department in Topeka is spared the inconvenience of having license requests from 105 counties coming in at all once. It means, however, that county treasurer offices are busy every day.
"We have people lined up at the window all the time," "It's quite a job," she said.
Persons whose last names begin with M, N, or O and have recently purchased a new car may buy their new tags now. The M, N, M, or G can on general sale on July 15, Bennett said.
According to Bennet, the sale of license plates over the last few months has gone well with only a very few people buying them and paying the dollar a month penalty.
Sanderson said that the previous county purchasing policy was to offer the property owner 200 per cent of assessed market value. The company also one-fourth fair market value, he said.
Then, as now, if the property owner did not like the price offered by the county he could refuse to sell, according to I. J. Stoneback, Douglas County Commissioner. He said that the property and the owner could take the matter to court, at county expense.
The Douglas County Commission decided this week that the price given to a property owner for land involved in a right-of-way would be determined by negotiation with the owner, based on fair market price. Faired price requires a willing seller and a willing buyer, according to Dean Sanderson, director of Douglas County Public Works.
Litigation for Douglas County land purchases could be lessened by the new county ruling, and property owners could be happier to negotiate on the basis of fair market value as opposed to negotiating based upon 200 per cent of assessed value, Stoneback said. If assessed value equals one-fourth of fair market value, 200 per cent
Sanderson said the court appointed three appraisers to make a professional appraisal of the property concerned. The county would then pay the amount decreed.
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Tennis Tournament To Start Thursday
The deadlines for the Lawrence Open
Tennis Tournament are today for the junior
and senior divisions.
Entry forms, available for a small fee,
are at the Parks and Recreation Office,
and are open on Monday.
Junior play will be held Thursday and Friday, and senior play will be on Saturday and Sunday at Allen Field House, Robinson Gym, Lawrence High and Veteran's Park.
M, T, W, F 10-7
Thurs. 10-9
Sat. 10-6
The county does not always buy as much as five miles of right-of-way. Sanderson said the amount of right-of-way purchased varied from year to year, but at least one mile was bought each year. He also said that although the land brought this year cost $10,000 a mile, average cost per mile of right-of-way was $7,500.
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of assessed value equals one-half fair market value.
Money spent on land for public right-of-way is a minor consideration in the budget of the Douglas County Department of Public Works, according to Sanderson. This year, he said, $50,000 is budgeted for the acquisition of five miles of right-of-way. He said that the total budget for the year was over $1 million...
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NATIONAL STANDINGS IN each event are computed by cowboys' total wins for the year. A national finals rodeo is held each January to determine the champions.
Not only do many rodeo events demand speed, strength and agility from the contestants, but skill is also a necessary ingredient, especially in calf roping.
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TO DEVELOP THE skills of a professional cowboy takes constant, manual labor.
"Most will tell you that calf roping requires more practice than any other rodeo event in order to achieve the fast pace required by Taylor, Kansas City Rodeo announcer.
The popularity of rodeo has grown in recent years and an estimated $350 Rodeo team is owned.
now held annually across the United States and Canada. The association claims to have distributed more than $66 million in prize money since 1953.
A RODEO CLUB has been active at the University of Kansas in recent years but KU participation in the sport has lagged considerably behind Kansas State, a member of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association.
The unpredictability of animals used in rodeo events makes the sport unique. Stock for most rodeos is generally provided by private contractors, who receive a percentage of the gate earnings for the use of their animals.
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Quarter horses used in modern rodeo are among the finest and best trained in the world. A cowboy generally pays one eighty-five cents per horse contractor for the use of these animals.
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As the sport has grown it has come under increasing criticism from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and other interest groups. Many of these groups have called for the use of steers, steers and saddle bends are unduly tormented and harassed in rodeo events.
"Life is here to enjoy. Tell everyone. No one has to suffer any more."
Rodeo is a uniquely American sport.
Interest in the sport is reviving in Kansas.
The majority of professional cowboyes use quarter horses provided by the stock contractor in calf roping and bull dogging events. A good quarter horse can make the difference between winning or losing time for a contestant.
STOCK CONTRACTORS AND other roode enthusiasts, however, argue that the lived better, buted better, better care, live longer and live healthier, less work than conventional farm animals.
Wednesday, July 11th, 7:30
Council Room Kansas Union
Tuesday, July 10 ... 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, July 11 ... 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, July 12 ... 1:00 p.m.
(All sessions will be held in the Oread Room in the Student Union)
No 1973-74 funds may be utilized until you attend a session and sign the Capital Disposition Contract.
All officers who will be authorized to sign vouchers must attend a training session held by the Student Senate Treasurer. Please contact the Treasurer's office and sign up for one of the following training sessions:
ATTENTION: All Student Senate Funded Organizations
The Castle was built in 1894 as a home for J. N. Roberts, a retired Civil War general. He was a man of great wealth with an income from patients on wooden containers carved in the hills.
A CASTLE IN LAWRENCE?
Each of the fifteen rooms of the Castle is finished in a different type of wood. The dining rooms currently in use are elegantly designed in birch, cherry, oak, walnut, sycamore and pine. The wood carving was all done by hand by Saley Endacott of England, a brother of Frank I of Scotland, the most skilled sculptor and artist of some work in his time in the drawing room of the Lord Holloway house.
Probably few know the legend of the enchanting Castle Tea Room that reigns compicuously on Massachusetts Street
There are five beautiful fireplaces in the house, each with a varied design with various colored panels. The walls are finished with chrome-finished steel and the cloak doors. A chest cluster of mirrors and stainless glass windows allow the fireplace to glow.
The tower, which gives the old castle appearance, has a stairway leading to the third floor. The second floor is used as a sleeping area and is decorated with used during the summer months. The bedroom with spacious windows on the third floor is illuminated by a recessed ceiling.
If you have never been inside the Castle Tea Room, and dine in the only restaurant in Lawrence with such a beautiful historical and cultural background, the only way to really enjoy it is to step inside.
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