Committee begins search for ducks
Has anyone got a duck? If so, the Spring Fling duck committee would like to borrow it for a couple of days during Spring Fling.
Ruth Rademacher, Arkansas City freshman and duck committee chairman, said her group can find no ducks to use for the Spring Fling duck race on Potter Lake April 29.
"WEVE BEEN TOLD that in previous years the committee got its ducks from a pet farm 10 miles outside of town," Miss Rademacher said, "but we couldn't find the farm listed in the telephone directory, and no one has ever heard of the farm.
"So I checked with all the local pet shops. One shopkeeper told me they usually stock a few ducks for Easter but they couldn't find any this year either. Another said they usually got theirs from the Douglas County Poultry Hatchery, but the hatchery doesn't stock them any more."
Miss Rademacher said she also talked to the Building and Grounds department to find out what happened to the ducks which used to live around Potter Lake. She was told that the ducks had disappeared and no one knew where they went.
THE DUCK COMMITTEE will need about 19 ducks, one for each KU scholarship hall and residence hall, she said. This weekend the committee will try to find some ducks in Topeka or Kansas City.
"If we don't, there goes the duck race," she said.
Bruce Barley, Shawnee Mission freshman and another member of the committee, said that in trying to use a boat on Fotter for catching the ducks after the race, he too had found difficulties.
Barley said he had to talk to the biology department, the zoology department, two faculty members, the Traffic and Security office, and Vice-Chancellor Keith Lawton before he could secure permission to use a boat on the lake.
KU concert set
Talent selected from the KU student body at large will present the regular bi-annual University Symphony at 3:30 Sunday in the University Theatre.
George Laner, professor of opera, will conduct the band.
The 75-piece band consists of students selected every semester for this concert by audition. The presentation is open to the public and there is no admission charge.
Daily Kansan Friday, March 24, 1967
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