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FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 117 (USPS 650-640)
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House rejects Reagan's bid for contra aid
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WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives yesterday rejected President Reagan's appeal for $100 million for the Nicaraguan government, shaking aside his offer to hold back some military aid during a new bid for peace talks.
In a statement read by presidential spokesman Larry Speakes, Reagan said the 222.210 defeat must be reversed.
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Artist cultivates images of the West
The sunflower, which Herd produced in three 105-degree
By Monique O'Donnell Kansan Magazine writer
Gigantic sunflowers were engraved into a 20-acre clover field owned by Elizabeth and Samuel Neis. Herd designed, plowed and mowed the field into a sunflower still life. It was Herd's first project in the Lawrence area.
Stan Herd thinks people working in nursing homes are doing more good for humanity than any artist ever can.
Herd is an artist. He and his wife moved to Lawrence three years ago, and a year later something peculiar happened to a farmer's field southeast of Eudora.
"I was never influenced by what other artists were doing," he said. "But that's easy when you grow up in western Kansas. Back then I'd never heard of the New York school of abstract expressionism."
August days, blossomed in summer and withered in the fall. Herd's field art is constantly subject to change Through perpetual winds, cursive snow drifts, heat and rain, the pictures reflect the seasons' moods.
Herd painted what people in his surroundings liked. When he
But Herd, originally from Protection, is not another eccentric artist. He prefers to shoot the breeze and drink a beer with the farmers. There he gets his inspiration.
flew over fields and saw farmers harvesting their crops, it reminded him of a patchwork quilt.
A 1980 portrait of Chief Satanta of the Kiowa Indians, done outside of Dodge City, was Herd's first project.
"That's when I first started thinking about doing the giant portraits on the ground," Herd said. "It's like one square of a guilt on a giant art blanket."
"I thought that was really neat to put the Indian back on the land," he said.
Herd likes cowboys and farmers, and he plays to his audience. When he was planning his second field project, he wanted to create a portrait of one of his heroes, John F. Kennedy. But because the traditionally
Republican communities around Dodge City might not have shared his admiration, he decided on Will Rogers instead.
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Herd's projects are transient, and farmers need to produce crops. So two of Herd's three huge works, 160 acres each, have given way to wheat fields. Rogers' portrait stayed on the field for more than a year, but the portrait of Satanta lasted only a few months.
Two years later, five miles from the first portrait, Rogers, cowboy and philosopher, smiled at pilots flying over the field.
Herd uses his own money as well as donations and help from the farmers who lend him their fields. The elaborate field art projects are his pride, but they
cost a lot of money and don't generate any income.
"I never really could afford to do any of these damn things." Herd said. "I never could get anyone to help with the funding, which makes the struggle all the more sweet to me."
Herd supports himself and his wife Jan by selling his other artwork, large Western murals. His work adorns many buildings in Dodge City and other towns in Kansas and New Mexico.
The high school in Protection, a town of about 700 people, did not offer art classes, so Herd had to teach himself to paint. He has been supporting himself with art all his life, but in his opinion there are many artists far more educated in art.
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