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Thursday, February 21, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Mrs. Dykes Likes Job's Social Life
By BUNNY MILLER
Kansas Stuff Reporter
Although the spotlight is usually on her husband, Nancy Hauk Dykes isn't a woman
Slender, dark-haired attractive, Dykes has a busy schedule as the chancellor's wife and a new manager.
"It seems as if we're on the go," she said Tuesday. "We've been caught in a situation where we can't get out."
Dykes said she and her husband have
engagement 'a good four or five
years'
"But we do enjoy it, if there's not any
Kansan Staff Photo by ALAN MCCOY
Nancy Haun Dykes
Many of her daytime hours are spent attending club meetings. Dykes is a member of PEO, the 20th Century Club, the American Association of University Women and a bridge club. She said she planned to do some volunteer work in Lawrence.
pressure from anything else," she said with a soft southern drawl,
"I've always done some sort of volunteer work every place we've lived," she said. "In Knoxville, the last place we lived, I went every week in my son's school library."
Dykes has a degree in elementary education from Memphis State University and has had training in library science. She taught for five years in the Memphis city schools in Champaign, IL, and in Knoxville, NC, to plan to return to teaching soon, she said.
Dykes said she liked to travel with her husband
"But I haven't done as much as I'd like to this year. It's been harder for me to get away up to this point because I'd have to leave my son here alone," she said. The year agoht to help this situation. Then my son will know more people he can stay with.
"I wouldn't have time as long as Archie's in this kind of position," she said. "But I probably would go back to it if he ever went back to teaching."
Dykes said that she thought that she and her husband had met almost everyone in faculty and administration and that they eventually meet with every student group.
"I see my role as a supportive role to my husband," she said. "One of the real plusses in having a husband in a position like this is that your social life is almost ready-made."
"Besides, we've been so busy just here in the Lawrence area," she said. "It seems as if we always spend the first year getting acquainted with everyone."
"ready-made" situation was especially helpful in the move to Kansas, especial help in the move to Kansas.
"Before, we always moved within the University of Tennessee system where we already had friends," she said. "But here you are absolutely cold. Everybody was new to us."
The Dykes like Kansas and Lawrence very much, she said, and they have found that the people are a lot like Tennesseans. Dykes said she thought KU students and the atmosphere of the KU campus was more like that at the University of Tennessee.
Dykes grew up on a farm in eastern Tennessee and lived there until she married Archie R. Dykes in 1953. The Dykes have two sons, John age, 18 is a student at Rice
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She likes to listen to radio music but doesn't watch much television, she said.
Dykes can almost always be seen accompanying her husband at athletic events. She said both she and her husband liked all sports.
"I don't care to take that much time out to sit down and watch it," she said. "I guess there's always something else I'd rather be doing."
Friends describe her style of dress as conservative, 'she said. But she said she was a very fun girl.'
"It's healthy that they don't put as much emphasis on dress as we did when we were grown up."
In general, Dykes said, the Dykes think their year at KU has been productive and they are looking forward to a trip to Europe in June with the Alumni Association.
Distributors Predict Shortages Of Farm Fertilizer This Spring
By DON LEVY
Kansas Staff Remitter
Farm fertilizer will be in short supply this spring, Glenn Deiker, manager of Lawrence Mobil Oil Distributors, said yesterday.
Customers of the Lawrence Farmers Cooperative Association will be able to purchase the same amount of fertilizer as a farmer on Nieder, fertilizer department manager.
Farm and lawn fertilizers are manufactured from natural gas, now in short supply. Because of the recent release of natural gas from price controls, the price of both types of fertilizer is expected to increase.
The association sells fertilizers to farmers' cooperatives in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. These cooperatives have established allocation systems to distribute the fertilizers evenly, Hoffman said.
Allen Hoffman, general manager of Cooperative Farm Chemicals Association, said the fertilizer shortage was the result of increased demand combined with an increase in farm planting.
Hoffman said the association plant had increased production but had been unable to grow enough for harvest.
The area distributor for association products, Farmers Cooperative with permission, will allocate allocation equal to the amount of fertilizer it purchased last year, according to Nieder.
The cooperative is able to sell fertilizer only to old customers and only in the amounts they purchased last year, Nieder said.
Deiker said he had been out of farm
takers for weeks and did not know when he
was back.
"I haven't been told yet. I don't think I'll get any," he said.
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