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University Daily Kansan, November 16 1982
Eastern hunters banned for severance tax
By VINCE HESS Staff Reporter
HAYS—The hunters sat in their four-wheel-drive vehicles at the edge of a field. The sun had not yet eisen.
As the first rays of sunlight turned the sky from black to orange, the eight oceans
— ranging in age from 13, to 50 — left their warm vehicles for the biting cold of the November morning.
It was opening day of pheasant season.
These hunters and others across the state Saturday awoke at 5 a.m., ate breakfast and went to the fields hoping to return home by sunset with a catch.
PHEASANT SEASON, which opened statewide Saturday, ends Jan. 31. According to regulations set by the Kansas Fish & Game Commission, a hunter may capture only four cocks, or male pheasants, a day. The capture limit increases gradually to 16 cocks after the third day of the season. Law prohibits the shooting of female pheasants, or hens.
Randy Rodgers, wildlife biologist for the Hays district office of the Fish & Game Commission, said yesterday that most of the hunters in the Hays area experienced good hunting during the first weekend of the season. The average was two birds a hunter a day, he said, and most hunters reported seeing birds.
THE EIGHT HUNTERS, all Hays residents, saw many pheasants, as well as deer, quail and rabbits, in the fields hunted a few miles south of Westport.
After loading their 12-gauge shotguns in the light of dawn, six of the group spread out in a line on the edge of the field. Then they walked through the field of wheat stubble, cocklebur and tumbeewel, trying to stay in a straight line as they waited for pheasantst to fly out of the heavy brush. A bird dog, a Brittany spaniel, ran around the middle of the line, sniffing
The other two hunters drove the vehicles to the opposite end of the field
to block for the walkers. Their job was to shoot any pheasants that flew out of the field but out of the range of the walkers.
THE WALKERS were about halfway through the field when suddenly three birds flew up in front of the dog. A hunter, Warren Niedling, only a few feet away, hesitated a moment, then shot them at gunight of the birds and fired.
The phassant fell and lay dead on the ground while the other two phassants,
The dog grabbed the dead bird with its teeth and carried it to Niedling, who stuffed the bird in a specially-designed pocket in his jacket. He and the other hunters resumed their walk through the field.
From distant fields they heard noises that sounded like camon shots. Other sounds were much more subtle.
Two KU students said they enjoyed hunting pheasants and other animals because the sport involved the outdoors.
"I like walking around in the middle of nowhere," Mike. Lewis, Grand Jury Prosecutor.
HIS ROOMMATE, Bryan Graven
Grand Island, Neb., freshman and president of the KU Gun Club, said he hung and outdoor photography.
Graves said hunters did not destroy the wilderness but helped preserve it by preventing poaching.
"The hunter is very much concerned with conservation of wildlife," Graves said. "That's why I don't like to call it killing."
Rodgers said strong winds last weekend tended to make birds wild. Some pheasai its ran on the ground, and hunters are forbidden by law from shooting cocks that are not flying. Rodgers pointed out fields of at least the first sound of hunters.
The IICY GUSTS continued throughout Saturday, but the hunters did not forlunch. For lunch, however, they got out of their car and stumbled into a barn. The landowner joined the
BURGLAR'S STOLE $1,305 worth of items Saturday night from an apartment in the 2400 block of west 24th Street, Lawrence police said yesterday. A color television set, two three-piece items, and four items were stolen from the apartment.
A group of farmers in the Hays area announced last week that they would not let hunters from eastern Kansas hunt on their land. Hunters must obtain the permission of the landowner before they can hunt in a field.
"EASTERN KANASN hunters beware!" one ad read. "You have kicked us in the teeth again, and now we shall return the favor. With the hunting season only a few days away, we want to inform you that you are no longer welcome west of Saline County. The best hunting will be at Smolan which will also help you financially to say goodbye to schools and highways. The money saved on fuel and lodging could be used for your schools and highways."
BURGERS STOLE $403 worth of stereo equipment Friday night from a car parked in the 1400 block of Prospect Avenue, police said yesterday.
BURGLARS STOLE $520 worth of
stereo equipment between 5:30 and 9:30
p.m. Sunday from a KU student's
workday at the Louisiana Street, police said yesterday.
BURGLARS STOLE $650 worth of stereo equipment Friday night from a car parked in the Hashinger Hall parking lot, KU police said yesterday. The burglars also caused $350 worth of damage to the car.
THEVES STOLE A $3,600 engagement ring from the knapsack of a student studying in Watson Library last summer. The student reported to KU police until Saturday.
In advertisements that ran in some newspapers late last week, the farmers, working with a committee called Citizens Against the Severance Tax, said that the proposed severance tax on gas and oil production would hurt the western Kansas economy and cause increases in local property taxes.
hunters, and the jokes ranged from missed shots to a farmers' "ban" on eastern Kansas hunters.
Smolon is the hometown of Gov. John Carlin, a proponent of the severance law.
THEVES STOLE TWO credit cards from the purse of a student studying in Watson Library about 12:30 p.m. Saturday, KU police said yesterday.
The ad also said farmers would check autos used by hunters.
"If automobiles with eastern Kansas tags are parked in your driveways, the automobiles will be impounded, sold and proceeds will be sent to your leader for use for your schools and highways," the ad said.
However, apparently no autos were impounded.
On the record
get people's attention. The severance tax will bring unemployment and depression to the oil industry. I just see hundreds of people out of work around here, and these young people need those jobs."
WALTER "PAT" TAYLOR, a Hays resident and the secretary-creaser of Citizens Against the Severance Tax, said. "I think it was just a gimmick to
Francis Polifka, a farmer who owns land outside of Hays, said a group of farmers decided on the ban during a meeting Nov. 7. The farmers, some of whom have oil on their land, thought Kansas could also xx would harm western Kansas, he said.
RODGERS OF The Fish & Game office in Hays said that no confrontations between farmers and hunters had been reported. The number of hunters around Hays was slightly lower than in other areas, but the latter reason for this was a trend in recent years of hunters avoiding the opening day crowds.
Polifka said that he and other farmers checked their fields Saturday and Sunday for eastern Kansas cars but saw none.
Larry Pabing, a Wichita resident, said he had called Polifka before opening day for permission for him and a group of Wichita hunters to hunt on Polifka's land. Polifka did not give permission.
"WE WERE all really enthused about hunting," Pabing said. "We've been out there the last 14-15 years."
Pabing said he was neutral on the severance tax but thought the ban would be a good measure.
The eight hunters divided up the birds late Saturday afternoon. As they entered their vehicles for the ride, some of them hid in the hunting Sunday or the next weekend.
Sunset came soon, ending the first day of pheasant season. But many more days — and birds — are yet to come.
International studies to center in Lippincott
By JEANNE FOY Staff Reporter
The Applied English Center and the office of study abroad already have moved into Lippincott, and the centers for East Asian studies, African studies, Latin American studies and Soviet and East European studies will move into the building after Thanksgiving. All students to the vice chancellor of academic affairs, said yesterday.
Lippincott Hall is becoming the Center for International Studies at the University of Kansas.
"The University hopes to bring all those offices closer together — to create a greater sense of cohesion and unity." The philippically closer together. he said.
THE CENTERS for Latin American, Soviet and East Asian studies are in Strong Hall, and the African studies center is in Wescoe Hall. The office of study abroad was in Strong, and the Applied English Center had been at 14th and Louisiana streets.
William Fletcher, director of Soviet and East European Studies, called the move a historic occasion because putting all the centers in the country last reflect the University's strong emphasis on international studies.
"Here on the plains, we have one of the best international facilities in the nation," he said.
KU's international studies program is one of the top 10 in the
nation, Fletcher said. He said that once all the centers for international studies were in one building, more attention would be given to them.
"I THNK IT will provide a greater opportunity for us to work even more closely than we do already," he said.
But Anita Herzfeld, director of the study abroad office, said she was not sure about the advantages of the move.
"It is exciting to think of a future in which the University will give high priority to international programs," she said.
But she said putting all the centers in one building would not really change things, unless KU gave more support to international programs by making them a more integral part of the University.
Dean Gregory, associate director of the Applied English Center, said Lippincott was a great improvement because it had been off campus.
EVER THOUGH the Applied English Center moved into Lippincott on Oct. 13 and 14, the office is now in Brooklyn. There are 45 employees to replicate, he said.
Gregory said that having the Applied English Center close to the other offices could be beneficial to students thinking of studying in the countries studied by KU's international centers.
Johnson said the $4,000 cost of renovating Lippincott and moving the offices was really quite cheap.
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