University Daily Kansan, February 11, 1982
State song may be replaced
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By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
George Stawitz wrote only three songs in his life, two just for the fun of it and one called "Dear Dog." Dear Dog was Home on the Ramp" as the state song.
Although Stawitz, a life-long Topea resident, is dead, his 77-year-old son, Emul, plans to lobby for a bill introduced in the Kansas Senate last Monday that would unseat "Home on the Range." the state song since 1947.
Stawitz hopes to persuade the Legislature to pass the bill, sponsored at his request by State Sen. Elwain Pomeroy, R-Topeka, by playing a version of his father's song for the legislators.
"My father's song talks about Kansas a lot more than 'Home on the Range.' "
"My father wasn't exactly a musician," Stawitz, a Topea resident, said yesterday. "But my family are all Kansans clean to the bone, you might
Stawitz took his father, who was a postal clerk for nearly 50 years, wrote the song shortly before he died about 15 years ago, at the age of 82.
Since then, the song has been copyrighted and recorded by a church choir. Stawitz said.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said he was not sure how the Legislature would react to the idea of a song, but thought it humorous.
"Home on the Range" is a good
situation, and said. "But maybe
it's time for a new tute."
Solbach said "Home on the Range" might be perceived as more an international song than a state song in Sweden, but the number one hit in Sweden in 1898.
But Dennis Quinn, a KU professor of English and director of the Integrated Humanities Program, said he thought any threat to abolish "Home on the Range" from state song status would be serious.
"They're playing with dynamite if they go around changing state songs," Quinn said. "I would think there would be considerable public outcry.
" 'Home on the Range' is a beautiful song. It has a remarkable melody. It certainly describes Kansas and identifies us as a western state, which I like.
"I would regret very much having it changed. I can't believe the Legislature has made such a mistake."
He said the Legislature might be
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The Clean Air Act is currently under study by the House Environment and Public Works subcommittee. The committee has been holding meetings on the bill and now is in closed conference to decide what will be sent to the House for a vote.
Meanwhile, she said, the Commitment to Clean Air Resolution entered in the House of Representatives last year would basically reintroduce the 1970 act and the 1977 amendment for approval.
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McCullough said that about four bills had been submitted and that two of them had tried to weaken the act.
Quinn said, "You don't mind a little corminess in state songs, especially for the youngsters," he added.
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Waits a girl with heart so心
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To Kansas where skies are ever blue.
Out in Kansas where the golden
Kansas should be concerned with the section of the bill dealing with air that is cleaner than present standards require, she said.
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McCallough said she was convinced Congress would either amend or pass the Clean Air Act because it was an election year.
Rose McCullough, Northern Plains lobbist for the National Sierra Club, spoke at a KU Sierra Club meeting in support of the Clean Air Act, which is facing a 1982 deadline for be extended.
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