University Daily Kansan / Tuesday September 2. 1986
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Memorial to farmers unveiled
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BONNER SPRINGS — A national memorial honoring U.S. farmers was unveiled yesterday in a dedication ceremony at the Agricultural Hall of Fame and National Center west of Kansas City
The Agricultural Hall of Fame said the National Farmers Memorial was the first national monument built outside Washington and the first built mostly with donated materials and services and without any government funds.
The dedication ceremony included comments from Gov. John Carlin; Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole; Harland Priddle, former Kansas secretary of agriculture; and Peter Myers, deputy U.S. secretary of agriculture. Also scheduled to speak were Rep. Jan Meyers, R-Kan.; Donald Senterfilt, president of the American Bankers Association, and Kevin Coffman, vice president of the Future Farmers of America's central region.
The memorial features three high-relief sculptured panels, each measuring 10 feet by 11 feet, that depict the farmer of the past, present and future. Yesterday, the panels were erected on three walls carved into a mound, which resembles earthen domes used by farmers years ago to store goods.
Using the representative likeness of five farmers and one farm woman, Watkins hammered out an 11-foot-high by 33-foot wide high-relief bronze and steel mural.
Before doing the farmer sculpture series, a countrywide search was conducted by the American Ideals Foundation and the Hall of Fame for faces most representative of U.S. agriculture, past, present and future, to be used as models for the farmers included in the mural. Six were chosen of the more than 100 nominated.
They are. Elizabeth Scholl of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Harry E. Jackson of Eureka, Kan.; Frank King of Greenback, Tenn.; Thomas Heath of Troy, Wis.; Alfred Hettinger of Manchester, Iowa; and Clarence Lee Adkins of Bethany, Mo. Scholl, 93, is the only woman in the mural and thought to be the only woman ever featured in a national monument, said the Agricultural Hall of Fame.
Featured music at the ceremony was "Farmers Prayer," a piece written by Robert A. Moffa, the son of a New Jersey vegetable grower and author of what was called the world's first orchestral music honoring the farmer. The orchestral suite, called "The American Farmer: Past, Present and Future," was performed Sunday night at the Midland Theatre for the Performing Arts. Kansas City, Mo.
The Agricultural Hall of Fame is about 20 miles west of Kansas City.
Moffa and Florida sculptor Lewis Watkins, who cast the memorial in steel and bronze, led the effort to establish the National Farmers Memorial, and both are members of the American Ideals Foundation Inc. of Brooksville, Fla., a non-profit organization promoting cultural events in art and music.
The orchestral suite was performed Sunday night by the American Ideals Orchestra, which is comprised of members of the Kansas City Symphony.
The memorial project was started in 1982, and groundbreaking ceremonies were held Sept. 18, 1985.
Dan Ruettimann/KANSAN
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Vets fast to protest aid to contras
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WASHINGTON — Two Vietnam veterans began a "fast for life" yesterday in opposition to U.S. aid for contras in Nicaragua, and said two others would join their protest later this month.
Three of the veterans assembled on the east steps of the Capitol to declare they would eat nothing and drink only water, offering their lives in a statement of ultimate protest against the $100 million Congress approved this summer in military and humanitarian aid for the rebels.
Charles Liteky, 55, of San Francisco, spokesman for the group, read a statement to reporters that said, "As veterans, we will not remain silent — we will not sit passively by — while tidal politicians lead us into another Vietnam
"The principal goal of our prayer and fasting is to inspire the protest movement in this country to save lives — now."
Liteky, a former military chaplain, wore a button in his lapel that read, "Fight truth decay."
in the Vietnam War, began their fast yesterday Brian Willson, 45, of Chelsea, Vt., a former Air Force officer and Vietnam veteran, and Duncan Murphy, a World War II veteran from Arkansas, will join the fast Sept. 15.
Likedy and George Mizo, 40, of Wilmington, Mass., who also served
All but Murphy were present for yesterday's news conference.
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