Thursday. Nov. 3. 1960 University Daily Kansan
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Artist's Sculpture Goes Down Drain
By Martha Moser
An aspiring young artist creates to gain fame, to express himself, or perhaps merely to eke out a living. In any case, most artists would agree that they would like their work to represent their time and pass down the history of the ages.
But KU has one artist who can't leave his work for posterity's enjoyment. Ten hours after completion his work may still be recognizable, but in 24 hours it has finished.
Is this a riddle? Perhaps, but it is not as puzzling as the artist himself. You see, Jim Linenberger, Hays senior, sculptures in ice.
Linenberger is majoring in chemistry and history, but he is going into photography as a profession.
YET HE SAYS, "I don't think of myself as an artist."
He began ice carving last summer while working as cook for a resort hotel in Estes Park, Colo.
"I just picked it up myself." Linenberger said. "It's part of the resort business."
Ice carving is part of the business called "garnishee" or decorative buffet. The ice statues are used as centerpieces for buffets. The statue may represent some seasonable object or fit in with the buffet theme. Or an original statue may suggest the theme itself. Since ice carving is used strictly for business, traditional forms are used.
forms are used. "There's not much point to a free form for it won't last," Linenberger said.
"Are you sure I would make a good model?"
AMONG THE .THINGS Linenberger has sculptured are a cornucopia and squirrel. Before Halloween, students who passed his house may have noticed an icy witch sitting in Linenberger's front yard.
"The most important thing is not to achieve a replica of what you carve," he said. "Only get a simile while leaving as much ice as possible."
Linenberger begins carving with a 350-pound rectangular block of ice and chips away almost half of this to get his form.
And what would happen if the masterpiece should break while in construction? "If you're lucky, when a piece breaks off, you can put it back with ice or snow and water," Linenberger said.
LINENBERGER CONFESSED he carved a beerstein once and the handle fell off. He drilled holes into the handle and stein and inserted dowels. Then he added flowers to the handle and brim. "People commented on the lovely flowered stein," Linenberger said. "They didn't know they were added to cover a mistake."
He said he would like to carve ice as a sideline but there is no place in Lawrence that uses ice carvings.
"Garnishee is a lost art," Linenberger said. "It's dying out and therefore I'd like to keep it up."
Airline Service Discontinued In Several Kansas Towns
Several Kansas towns were relieved of major airline service by a Civil Aeronautics Board order yesterday, United Press International reported today.
SERVICE to some towns cut from major airline routes will be continued by small "feeder" airlines.
Continental Airlines was given permission to terminate service to Dodge City, Garden City, Great Bend, Hutchinson, Manhattan, Junction City, Ft. Riley, Salina, Topeka and Bartlesville, Okla., on its Denver-Kansas City-Tula route. Continental's service to Bartlesville was also ended on its Kansas City-Tulsa route.
The order affected airline service to more than 50 communities in eight states.
American Airlines and Trans-
World Airlines were given permission
to cut Toneka from routes.
CENTRAL ARLINES was given permission to start two new routes serving Kansas and Oklahoma towns. Topeka, Manhattan, Junction City, Ft. Riley, Salina, Hays,
Goodland, Wichita, Hutchinson,
Great Bend, Dodge City and Garden
City will be served on a route
between Denver and Kansas City.
Topeka, Independence - Coffeyville-Parsons, Kan., and Bartlesville, Okla., will be served on a route terminating at Kansas City at the north and either Oklahoma City or Tulsa at the south.
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