Wednesday, April 14, 1965 University Daily Kansan
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Sandbars, 3 Flat Tires Fail to Daunt Canoeists
The morning of April 3 was bleak and dreary but it did not discourage three KU canoeists from starting out on a canoe trip to Kansas City. Mist and 45 degree weather failed to daunt the spirits of the voyagers.
Charles Stolte, Mexico, Mo., junior; Thomas Phillips, Prairie Village senior; and Randall Woods, Lees Summit, Mo., junior, set their rented canoe into the waters of the Kaw river last Saturday morning at 6:30 a.m. It would take the trio eleven hours to complete their trip.
It was not long after the launch before the fifteen foot aluminum canoe began running onto sandbars. Woods said, "We spent a fifth of the trip on sandbars. It took a lot of energy to get off of them."
As if the sandbars were not enough trouble to the navigators, Woods detailed another problem. "At times, in the morning, we had a bad head wind. We would really be standing still or going backward a little," Woods said.
Eleven hours after the group left Lawrence they reached their destination — Kansas City. "We were kind of tired. Our knees ached." Stolte said.
STOLTE said, "The river is so shallow because of the sandbars and it is very winding."
A friend had taken a car to the Kansas City Airport during the day. However, darkness prevented
the canoeists from reaching the airport so they beached their canoe three miles from where the car was parked. When the group finally got to the airport they discovered that the car had had a flat tire on a Kansas City expressway
On the way to pick up the canoe the car had another flat tire. The students then went to a garage where they purchased a new tire, tube, and rim. They took Phillips to his home in Kansas City. And then had another flat tire. After some searching the two students found an all-night garage.
THE MEN AT the garage repaired the tire. However, between the two boys there was only 35 cents and the garage men would not accept checks.
Some students from Kansas City Junior College were at the garage and they cashed a check for the stranded students. One of them offered his home to the weary travelers for the night. Woods said they gladly accepted the invitation.
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