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Monday, November 13, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Park could save prairie, endangered tallgrass
By PATRICIA MANSON
The creation of a national park in the Flint Hills is the only way to preserve the tallgrass prairie, Charles Stough, a Lawrence attorney and president of Save the Tallgrass Prairie Inc., said last week.
Staff Reporter
Stough said a tallgrass prairie park would be a "real monument to the essence of this country."
to the essence of this book.
Conservationists have been advocating the creation of a tallgrass prairie for more than 80 years. Save the Tallgrass Prairie Inc., formed in 1973, has been lobbying in Congress for a bill that would establish the park.
SUPPORTERS OF the park have been opposed by ranchers who own most of the land on the prairie. The park, the ranchers say, would force several hundred families off their land and cut back beef production by taking up valuable pasture land. The park also would lead to more involvement in Kansas by the federal government, they say.
ment, they say.
Proponent of the park say it is the only way to preserve the lake endangered species. Although tallgrass once covered 400,000 square miles from Canada to Texas and central Kansas to Indiana, most of it has been converted to crop land. There are only 4,000 square miles left, and the only large area is the 187,500 acres in the Flint Hills.
IN THE FIRST YEAR
THE CREATION of a tallgrass prairie park was first discussed in the 1924. The Illinois Legislature in the 1930s considered establishing a park until the members learned that all the state's tallgrass prairie had been converted to crop land. Several bills for the creation of a park were introduced in Congress in the late 1960s and 1970s, but none passed.
Almost half the land would be designated as a national preserve, which means oil exploration would be allowed in that area.
and 1908), but it did not last. Last spring, Larry Winn, R-Kan., introduced a bill that would supply 187,500 acres in the Flint Hills as a national park. The park would include parts of Chase, Lyon, Butter and Greenwood counties. Most of the land in the proposed area is privately owned.
THE TALLGRASS prairie would be preserved in its natural condition. Animals native to the prairie, such as buffalo, deer, bison and elk, would be returned to the area. A fence would be built around the prairie to protect the animals.
around the practice room. When he reaches the floor of the House during the last session, Hwynn has plans to reintroduce the bill in
Supporters of the national park say the bill eventually will be passed by Congress. The chances of the bill's passing will be better than in previous years, they say, because Joe Skubbta, representative from Kansas' 5th District, will retire this year. Senior Republican on the House Interior and Interior Affairs Committee, where the bill originated, is a strong opponent of the law.
parta.
THINK one of our chief points of obstruction was voluntarily removed when Congressman Skubitz decided not to run again.⁴
The organizations supporting Winn's bill include Save the
Opponents of the bill include the Kansas Livestock Association, the Kansas Farm Bureau and the American Farm Bureau. The campaign against the park has been directed by the Kansas Grassroots Association, which was formed in 1972.
Tailgrass Prairie Inc., the Kansas Sierra Club, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Parks Service.
Supporters say a park is necessary to preserve the tallgrass prairie because they think the ranchers have destroyed much of the tallgrass by converting the prairie to pasture land and crop land.
E. RAYMOND HALL, professor emeritus of systematics and ecology and a member of the Tallgrass Prairie Inc., said last week "The ranchers have already ruined about one-half of the tallgrass prairie. They destroyed all the animals that belong there. All the big animals—elk, bison—are gone. Some of the plants have become rare."
Elaine Shea, director and information officer of the group, said ranchers would not preserve the remaining tallgrass prairie.
*Many of the birds are taking good care of their pastures,* she said, *but there are big differences in caring for pasture and*
natural prairie
Ranchers in the Flint Hills area say the tallgrass prairie is not disrespectful because the prairie's flinty soil prevents them from converting the tallgrass to crop land. They say many of the prairie's native animals are left.
JIM HESS, a rancher from Alma and chairman of the Grassroots Association, said last week. "The taggars are being grazed by thousands of horses."
mature and can win on many occasions. Also, they also say they object to the park because land owners, whose families have lived in the Flint Hills for more than 50 years, do not want it.
"The research the grassroots organization has done shows that between 700 and 800 families would have to move," Hess said. "Of course, the number is much greater when you consider the number of people whose way of life will be changed."
of people who want to use the park are living in the proposed park area would have to move. The families in the preserve would not have to
Winn's bill would allow homeowners to live on their land for 25 years or until they are old. They also would keep the rights to old, barn-grown (fourth generation) homes.
SHEA SAID the purchase of land for the park would be negotiated with each landowner on a "willing buyer, willing seller" basis. The government would acquire the land gradually, not all at once, she said.
Stough said the land probably would cost the government up to $500 an acre.
"The price is escalating daily," he said.
Despite disagreement over the creation of a national park, however, ranchers and conservationists agree about the need to preserve the tallgrass prairie, which is part of the heritage of the Midwest.
"We would like to leave the treasure of a natural prairie to the next generation," Shea said. "We feel we owe it to them."
'Candide' brings chuckles, leaves audience teary-eyed
By MARK L. OLSON
Reviewer
Ship's rigging reaches from the ceiling to the stage and two gangways stretch across the orchestra pit to the audience. On each of these stages, the musicians pick which the racous, fast-paced musical begins.
Voltaire's "Candide" may be a bit too much to handle as a required reading for Western Civilization, but the musical version that opened in the University Theatre Friday night left many of the audience teary-eyed with laughter.
Dr. Pangloss (James Lyal, Eudora graduate student) enters to enlighten the people of Westphalia with his philosophy that this is the "best of all possible worlds." He does not believe in God because his views are of Voltaire and they provide the theme of the musical.
Layl'sell delivers short of the power of the Pangloss role and he depends on his good comedic timing to keep the character of the wise and noble scholar in the show.
ONE OF THE most delightful scenes in the musical involves a demonstration for Cuneogna of the gravity of the male and female voices. The monotonous, congenious Pasquette as an ever-so-willing subject.
Cungonede, played by Sean Murphy,
Topaka senior is the bright star in a cast of
16.
Murphy's awesome vocal range turns Leonard Bernstein's difficult 'Glitter and
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Be Gay" into a wonder for the audience to witness. While her dialogue at times lacked polish—and those times were rare—Murphy's manner and voice provided all that was needed to make her a stellar performance.
And then there is Candice (David Carey, Watertown, S.D. junior). Born a bastard son, his unrequited love for Cungonde is matched only by his laughable naive he. And Cungonde are separated and reunited twice during the summer when they see each other their eyes are filled with the stars found in the eyes of first time lovers. And it is hilarious.
CAREY'S STEADY tenor voice and sincere delivery make him as lovable as Candide. He and Murphy complement each other in a gentle, intimate laudery from the nearly packed house.
At one point, Candide awakens to find that a volcano has annihilated all three around it. The volcano explodes, killing Candide.
"Can it be that some slight error has taken place?" says Candie, with all
One surprising note with regard to individual performances is that of Cathy
Paddock, Merriam freshman, as the Old Lady. Her rendition of "I Am Easily Assisted" is fabulously well done, and her rich voice makes it even more enjoyable.
THE OLD LADY'S scene with the Spanish Dons, during which she sings the song, is one of the lighter moments of the show.
Add to the individual performances the costume genius of Chris Haehl, associate professor of theatre and University costumer, whose designs range from the ornate to the outrageous, and the show bright to the eye as well as to the funny bone.
"cannotne" is so fast-moving and to catch all so much to see that it is an effort to catch the action. The director and choreographer, the team of a very excellent job combining movement and song.
If there is one item in the entire musical that simply does not belong, it is the presence during the powerful choral finale of someone cormly dressed in a cow suit.
IT DETRACTS terribly from the moving number "Make Our Garden Grow," and although it is called for in the script, it should have been dropped.
For an evening of laughter, romance and
natured drama, "Candide" is the show
"Candide" will be performed Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and at Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Medical task force named
KANAS CITY, Kan. — A task force asked to study preventive medicine in Kansas will include four University of Kansas educators and a state official.
James Lowman, dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said the formation of the task force was still in the preliminary stages.
"We are mainly going to look at areas in which we can help the general public become aware of ways that they can be helped with and medical problems." Lowman said.
He said the task force would be looking for and initiating medical programs it deemed necessary.
Lowman said he was not aware of any similar task forces or committees that study issues at the federal level.
He said the task force would do research into areas such as nutrition, heart disease, hypertension and the effects of jogging on the mind and body.
For example, he said, the positive and negative effects of jogging would be studied before the task force would endorse jogging as a form of preventive medicine.
and recreation on the Lawrence campus; and Joe Harkins, director of planning for the state department of health and environment.
"We ARE AIMING at seeing if broad programs in preventive medicine can be established in some of these areas," he said. "We're not going to rush into any programs without sufficient information about all the possibilities first."
LOWMAN SAID that the date had not been set for a meeting of the task force but that the meeting probably would be this month.
KU takes 4th in debates
Members of the task force include Lowman; Richard Walsh, dean of the Wichita branch of the KU School of Medicine; Ton Chin, chairman of the department; Wayne Osness, chairman of the Center; Wayne Osness, chairman of the department of health, physical education
"It will be an enoging process, but we probably won't get any programs started until it's ready."
A KU debate team won fourth place this weekend during a tournament at Emory University, Atlanta. Team members Steve Griffin, Lawrence senior, and Kevin Fowler, Leavenworth senior, competed with 83 other teams.
Evanston, Ill., won third place and an Emory State University team won fourth.
The KU debate squad also hosted the University of Kansas Fall Tournament this weekend. Two teams from Bradley played against Ill., tied for first place in the senior division.
In the junior division, Baylor University,
Waco, Texas, won first place; the
University of Houston, Texas, was
second, and the University of Texas at
Austin and Western College, St. Paul.
She did not play for her college.
A team from Northwestern University,
Because KU was the host school, it did not participate in the final rounds of the tournament. Next weekend, KU will send teams to tournaments at Wichita State University. Wake Forest University at Winston-Salem, N.C., and Bradley University.
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