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Tuesday, April 18, 1972
University Daily Kansan
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Tourists View Odd Ball in Cawker City
Editor's Note: This is the first in a two-part series on landmarks in Kansas towns.
BY GARY NEIL PETERSON
Kingson Staff Writer
Kansan Staff Writer
The Kansas tourism bureau of
the state economic opportunity
department is using in its
Truly a must on any travel
promotional campaign this year, the slogans, "Take a swing through . . . Kansas" and "Kansas Has It." Here then, is a look at what Kansas has while swunging your way, through
Kansan Photo by GARY NEIL PETERSON
itinerary is the famous, or infamous, "World's largest theatremuseum." In New York City, the town named after Commissioner Cawker who won the
Garden of Eden Is Alive and Well in Lucas, Kan.
Garden of Eden Is Alive and Well in Lucas, Kan
Cawker City is a town of about 900 people located 75 miles north
The Menagerie was founder Dinsmoor's life work
Indians Examine Exhibits KU-Haskell Interrelations
By MARSHA LIBEER
Kancan Staff Writer
Commanche, a stuffed horse that stands in a glass showcase on the fifth floor of the University of Washington, is also a museum. Museum, was for a long time mistakenly referred to as "the sole survivor of the Battle of Mt. Olympus."
The University of Kansas Committee on Indian Affairs pointed out to museum officials that many American Indians also survived the battle and a change in the Indian craft exhibit was started.
They did and Commanche's new legend appears beside him at the museum.
The museum offered the group or American Indian students the opportunity to take inscription for Commanche that would be "historically correct" in their own language.
The work of the committee has expanded into several areas, while continuing to work on the museum. Indian artifacts at the museum.
Mzhichkeno-Keltcher called the museum "very cooperative" in its efforts to work with the Indian group.
THE COMMITTEE on Indian Affairs was begun last fall by five students concerned with Indians and Indians' relationships with the people of Michigan, Mich州kelcher-Keltler, Lawrence senior; Wanda Wahnee, Anadarko, Okla. graduate student; Tom Beaver, Lawrence junior; Jeff Kidwell, who took KU graduate courses and now is an instructor of social sciences at Haskell Indian Junior College; and who was a special student but has moved to Albuquerque, N.M.
SIX INDIAN ARTIFACTS from the museum were shown to Haskell students to see if any of the buildings would be offensive to Indians.
the answer was no," Steve Edwards, administrative assistant at the museum said.
Mzhicktenko-Keltcher is receiving five hours of credit from the School of Education for a project she is working on. She is a teacher who has been rearranging the displays on the fifth floor of the museum. Her
Campus Bulletin
"Many children think that Indians are just whooping, hollering, feather-wearing people." Mzickhut-Koelcher
"I have a dream about the museum project," she said. "I would like it worked in as an educational package. Lawrence schools have poor selection on American about American Indians."
She would like for groups of school children to eventually tour the fifth floor with a Haskell student acting as tour guide.
TODAY
EISC: 9 a.m., Regionalist Room, Kansas
COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES, apart from the museum, include the proposal of an American Indians Studies Program.
Union:
Women's Coalition Workshop: 10.30 a.m.
Parkers A, B, C.
Kidwell said that such a
kidgiver was present in pubs,
because there we were. 200
Indians at KU; Kidwell said the
committee was primarily set up
to prevent homosexuality.
A tentative theme for her project is "Indian-non Indian Relationships."
"Many think of Indians as one group, but there are really very different ones," she said.
Mzhichteko-Kelcher said that this theme will show how "different groups of invaders related to Indians."
S.W. Bell Telephone Co.: 11:30 a.m.
English Room
SUA Formats: adn., Alcove A Cafetera.
History Adv. Comm.; noon. Alcove B 'C'
The purpose of the program would be to provide a meaningful education for both Indian and American students. The students would be provided with a program tailored to their needs, and students would have the opportunity to become more aware of the "Indians' awareness of the
Mhichiceno-Keltcher also has plans for a display of pre-Columbian in North America that includes the ancient cultures of American Indians.
Women's Coaltion Workshop: 10:30 a.m.
Parlom A, B, C
Italian Table: 11:30 a.m. Meadowlark
Cafeteria
Educ. Psych.: noon, Alcove D Cafeteria
Crespi-Project 3049 noon, Curry Room.
Law School 12:30 p.m., Alcove C
Cafeteria.
AMAS: 1 p.m., Pine Room.
College Faculty: 4 p.m., Forum Room.
SUA Board: 7 p.m., Governors Room.
SUA Presidential Forum: 7 p.m., Forum
Room.
Finance & Auditing: 6.30 p.m., Oread
Room.
SUA Board: 7 p.m., Governors Room.
College Faculty: 4 p.m., Forum Room.
SIMS: 6 p.m., Council Room.
Finance & Auditing: 6:30 p.m. Great
Presidential Forum. 4 p.m., Forum Room.
Psych. Clinic: 7 p.m., Jayhawk Room.
Alba Chase : 7 p.m. Japwa room.
Alpha Chig Sigma : 7 p.m. International Room.
Student Services, Job Comm. : 7 p.m.
Student Services Sub-Comm.: 7 p.m.
Regionalist Room.
Women in Law: 7 p.m., Parlor C.
Delta Sigma Pi: 7 p.m., Centennial Room.
Delta Sign A Pt: 7 p.m. Centennial Room.
Housing Comm.: 7 p.m. 305 A.
Senate Communications Comm.: 9 p.m.
Beaver said that the studies program "provides three goals: to give us more financial stability, to help more Indian students at KU, and to start a financial aid program."
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Divine Light Mission: 7:00pm, Parlor A.
Friday Saturdays: 7:00am, Parlor A.
Pam Salisey: 7:30 p.m., Woodruff.
Warren's Coalition: 8 p.m., Big 8 Room.
SUA Poetry (Ed Dorn): 8 p.m., Kansasan
Educations Comm.: 9 p.m.
Art History: 7:30 p.m. Pine Room
German Room 8:30 p.m., Council Room.
Wretched. 8:30 p.m., Governors Room.
Baptist Student Union: 8:30 p.m., International Room.
HE SAID THAT the proposal had been presented to Chancellor E. Laurence Chailmers Jr. and he gave a matter of implementation.
The ball of twine, started in 1853 by Frank Stoecker, 79, of Cawker City, now sits under a tree on the town's main drag. Directly across the street from it are several buildings where the towns people sit and watch the tourists come to see the oddbit.
This town would be enjoyed by anyone, but especially by trivia experts and those who like to take photos. We saw rear windshields of their cars.
Both Beaver and Wahnee are part of another committee formed by the college program and to facilitate cooperative efforts between KU
THE BALL measures over nine feet in diameter, weighs more than 4½ tons, and could be stretched about 310 miles if unrolled. However, the ball receives no air to travel through.
of Salina on highway 24:
The Inter-Institutional Committee selected five representatives from KU and from Haskell. Chalmers selected the KU committee members and Haskell Superintendent Wallace selected those from Haskell.
Geraldine Garrett, president of the Cawker City historical society, said she has visited very few people ever came to Cawker City specifically to see her work.
Garrett did say, however, that the buses on their journeys to the east and west, stopped to allow people to see the giant ball. She said that people were mostly in how the ball got startled.
"There is a definite need to get some kind of good working relationships going between the teams that has used Haskell, "Beyer said.
Beaver gave an example of KU professors using Haskell facilities for research purposes while working on degrees.
The bail was started when Sboeber, while walking through the backyard, over some of the bailing twine had left on the floor. Disgusted, he began rolling it up. When the twine fell out, the neighbors noticed it and started bringing any extra twine they had to Sboeber who had made it.
"Haskell hasn't received anything in the deal." he said.
Marti Stewart, Redmond,
selected to be summer editor of
the University Daily Kansan
Monday by a vote of the Kansan
Referring to the committee, Beaver said, "We've made people sensitive that there are Indians on campus."
In 1963, the ball was brought to town at the request of a town organization not unlike the ones in the past and has been in town ever since.
Stewart said summer news staff applicants would have until Wednesday night to file their applications in the form of a letter and may be turned in either to Stewart or to Chip Crews, Lawrence senior staff.
Kansan Names Summer Editor
The summer business manager will be Doug DeTray Independence,Mo. senior.
MOVING SOUTH from Cawker City about 40 miles on highway 18 is Lucas, home of the Garden of Eden.
Stewart plans to conduct interviews for summer staff Friday.
The description, "You've got to see it to believe it," will say the most.
There are no markers except the one on the highway to entice the occasional tourist and to draw a passing traveler salesman
Turning south off the main highway and proceeding toward town, one is apt to think the town is lifeless. This is proved wrong because you speed out of town with the feeling that all eyes are upon you.
If you ret out on a search of your own without inquiring of local service stations where the company is, it won't take long to find it
You're driving along, trying to look inconspicuous in spite of your long narrow car, long narrow street something undesirable. This is it, you
TURNING THE corner and approaching, but still two or three blocks away, you can see the reel you think you have come to see, but as you come closer and to the corner lot where the saw-horse is lying, you have the desire to call the day quits and head for home.
However, something magnetic pulls you on, and before you can on hold, you have to concrete structures and people that will either make you burst or leave.
The tour guide who waits for long hours a day in anticipation of a customer, said that people tell her they see landmarks. "Oh my God! She said that she didn't like them or that they didn't it," they liked it or that they didn't.
It costs $1 to tour the house of the creator of the menagerie. His name was S. P. Dinsmoor. In addition to the tour of the house where Dinsmoor and his wife were living, he found the tomb where they are buried.
THE TOMB. bearing
Kansan Photo by GARY NEIL PETERSON
'Traveling Salesman' Grave
Near Lincoln, Kan.
Police Report 3 Thefts At McCollum, Ellsworth
A daring burglar or burglar uses a sixth floor window ledge to gain entrance to a room in the building. campus police said Monday.
While the inhabitants of the room were away for the weekend, the burglar entered through a screened window and took a stereo tape player, five minutes later. The several smaller items valued at
$10 for a total loss to the owners of $410.
A Schwinn 10-speed bicycle valued at $100 was stolen from the Ellsworth Hall parking lot Friday evening.
Campus police also reported the theft Sunday night of an FM receiver and a turntable worth $160 from an Elworth room when the owner stepped out for a fire, and left his room unlocked.
resemblance to the Attee's step pyramids of southern Mexico, is accessible only from the house itself. Its walls are along with the other objects we are seeing.
There in the tomb, in a cone casket, let Dinsmoor, separated from you only by a piece of glass, which keeps him from reaching out, shaking your hand and coming are coming to visit his life's work.
who was mad at his wife for taking so much time looking at everything."
"This was his purpose for building this joint," the guide said, "to let people come visit and what he made, he his and his."
"I've had only one dissatisfied customer in all my years at this place, and it was an elderly man
It won't wonder that she knew of it more disasserted tourists, but I don't. She's sometimes later that the initial shock waves off and you become familiar with her presence.
unique feature. Lincoln has the brave of the "Salesman."
ACCORDING TO records at the site more than 10,000 people are involved in including two bus loads of University of Kansas art
The grave site is located on the eastern outskirts of town in the public cemetery, one of three in town.
From Lucas, proceed east along highway 18 about 25 miles is Lincou. It's another small town with a small Kansas towns, but it has one
Unless you know where the plot in your chances of finding it are, you can be unaware of people are unaware of its presence or because they are not.
In any event, it does exist. There, among several burial piles, a large mound dating back to the early- and mid-1800's, stands a headstone in the shape of a suitcase fully carved in wood. Here is where he stopped last."
OUTSTANDING WOMEN SCHOLARSHIPS
Applications for scholarships for outstanding women students may be picked up at the Dean of Women office 220 Strong Hall. Applications due 3:30 p.m. April 18,1972