University Daily Kansan, July 24, 1985
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Fans of teddy bears gather for honey of a celebration
Bv Gina Kelloa a
Staff Reporter
Children were barely able to control their excitement Sunday as their parents sit nearby in the cool of the Spencer Museum of Art, away from the unbearable heat of the midday sun. The room, generally barren at that time of the day, was packed with people.
It was a day of bears.
The "Anyone for Bears?" program, sponsored by the museum, offered a variety of events for both children and adults. The program began with a talk by a teddy bear-colored Overland Park Harrier Denebeek
Denebie brought part of her personal collection of bears to show and described the background of how teddy bears came to be.
"They weren't originally called teddy bears," she said to the crowd of bear enthusiasts. "It began in 1902 when Teddy Roosevelt was president."
Denebee said that one day Roosevelt and some friends had gone on a hunting exhibition, when he became separated from the others. When they finally became reunited, Roosevelt found that a mother bear had been tied to a tree, her cub nearby.
Roosevelt refused to shoot the bear, saying it was unsportsmanlike. Others heard the story and soon a
"When bear collecting first began, you could get some very good bargains. . . But now there's been a bear rush."
Harriet Denebeiim, Teddy bear collector
storekeeper in New York called the White House to ask for permission to name the bears he was selling teddy bears.
Denebeim said that collectors could tell a bear's value by looking at its condition and its age.
She said it was difficult to determine when a bear was produced because tundra bears did not have the marks that regular dolls did. If the tag around a bear's neck or in its ear must determine it, we must determine its age other ways.
"Some years the legs were longer, other years the arms were longer and the noses were in different places. There's no real evidence to work with."
"When bear collecting first began, you could get some very good bargains because people didn't know what they were worth. But now there's been a bear rush."
After Denebeim described her collection, a singing panda bear sang two Winnie the Poo songs and then conducted a sing along of "The Bear Went Over the Mountain."
But children attending the day's activities were much more excited by the production of "A Teddy Bear's Picnic" by the Lawrence Arts Center's Popcorn Co.
The Popper Co., consisting of children wearing bear ears, gave several renditions of the play, based on a song written in 1967. A version of the song was once released by Bing Crosby.
The young actors frottled across their makeshift stage dancing with stuffed teddy bears, bear masks and skirts, puppets that were as big as they were.
A parade followed. Children waved their bears over their heads as several judges determined the winners in the biggest, smallest, best-dressed and most unusual bear categories.
A large pink-and-white bear, almost as tall as its owner, received the largest bear award and a tiny, brown bear just a few inches in length was awarded the honor of smallest.
A pair of bears in bonnets and bow ties proudly claimed the honor of best-dressed.
Children jammed together to show off their bears during the "Parade of Bears" portion of "Anyone for Bears?" Sunday afternoon at the Spencer Museum of Art. Their bears were judged in four categories: largest, smallest, best-dressed and most unusual.
Enough pot to fill truck confiscated
By The Kansan Staff
more than a dump-truck load of marijuana plants worth nearly $1 million was confiscated Friday two miles northeast of Baldwin City.
No arrests were made. Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, said yesterday he did not expect to file any charges, but the case was still under investigation by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
"Our top goal is eradication, to get drugs off the street, and we accomplished that." Flory said. "Of course you would like to have the persons responsible arrested, but surveillance in these remote areas is almost impossible. Sometimes you can make an arrest with the evidence at the scene, but I understand there's not too much to go on there."
About 15 to 20 law officers representing the Douglas County Sheriff's Department, Lawrence Police Department, the KBI and Federal Drug Enforcement Administration made the early morning
Fliory said 459 plants, which might have reached a street value of $2,000 each, were removed from 15 plots that were cultivated well and ranged in size from 8 feet by 10 feet to 29 by 35.
"It was high-quality Colombian marijuana," Flory said.
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