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THE KANSAS & BURGE UNIONS
University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 30, 1991
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Callers, carver energize duck exhibit at museum
By Michael Graham Special to the Kansan
Bill Thomas, veteran duck hunter,
blew a feeding call yesterday to demonstrate one of the many duck calls a hunter uses to attract ducks.
Thomas, 47, who has been blowing calls since he was 7, was one of several exhibitors at the opening celebration for "The Duck Stamp Program: Fifthieth Anniversary" at the Museum of Natural History.
Bill Thomas demonstrates duck calls at the Museum of Natural History.
Duck stamps, which are issued annually by the U.S. Department of the Interior, are supplemental hunting licenses. Duck hunters must purchase a duck stamp every year and paste it on their hunting licenses.
*Duckcalling gives an added dimension to the duck stamp exhibit* "Hold"
The traveling exhibit opened yesterday and will remain at the museum until Jan. 16. About 200 people visited the exhibit yesterday.
The exhibit consists of all of the original duck stamps, from 1935 to the present, as well as the original art work of the stamp designs.
"There are a lot of people interested in ducks and there are a lot of duck hunters, so the exhibit just seemed to Philip Humphrey, museum director.
The Federal Duck Stamp program was created 50 years ago to establish wildlife preserves. Revenue from the sales of the stamps have helped preserve more than 4 million acres of wetland spaces for North American waterfowl.
There are 450 reserves nationwide, three of which are in Kansas.
have an annual duck stamp design competition for the art on the stamp.
Originally the artists for the stamps were commissioned by the government. In 1949, the decision was made to
Other features of the opening celebration included a duck decoy collection, an expert on ducks and a duck decoy carver.
Duck carver Marlin Downing of Vassar, who demonstrated modern duck carvings at the celebration, said that decoys originally were used by
hunters to attract wild ducks to land in a pond or a lake
These first decoys were simplecompared to what modern carvers are making, he said.
Today, most decodes that hunts users are plastic and made by machines.
Wooden hand-carved ducks are purchased as art by people who sometimes do not hunt ducks, he said.
Cheney's non-alert order surprises air crews
The Associated Press
McCANNELL AIR FORCE BASE, WICHTIA — When the Cold War ended for the nation's Strategic Air Command, the crews of the long-range nuclear bombers and support aircraft Air Force Air Force Base were surpised
When they learned what it meant for
them personally, they were aston-
ished.
For 29 years, crews had kept a
round-the-clock alert at McConnell, home to 15 of the nation's B-1B bombers and 16 K-135 refueling planes. At all times since 1982, a pair of four-member B-1B crews and two K-135 crews had been prepared to get their planes in the air within 15 to 30 minutes.
An executive order by Defense Secretary Dick Cheney on Saturday ended the SAC alert.
we were colonel who told us we would be serving on alert tours for the rest of our lives, and then our children would be doing it,"said Capt. Dana Garavey, a B18 defense systems officer with the 384th Bomb Wing at McConnell.
"When we were lieutenants, there
"Now we can all go home to our families secure that what we had an impact and relieved that the world is a little safer place today than it was yesterday," said Garvey, one of the estimated 200 bomber men relieved.
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