Hays Daily News, The (Newspaper) - March 5, 1999, Hays, Kansas Local forecast mostly Low High Saturday Low chance for rain or page Inside today The Hays Daily News FRIDAY March 3 30 pages 507 Kansas 785 6281081 On the Internet at Columbian mammoth will greet visitors Display at entrance of Sternberg Museum was donated by retired wife By DIANE HAYS DAILY NEWS Gene Fleharty doesnt have to watch the clock much anymore now that he is But there was one activity he made sure he made it to in time this although he could have been a lit tle late and still not missed After putting together a ma skeleton is no small Fleharty and his donated the money for the Columbian ma that now fills the front lobby of new Sternberg Museum of Natural History just north of 27th and The museums grand opening is set for March and museum and university staff are making the final preparations for the big Erecting the mammoth in its new home on Wednesday was just one of numerous final activities going on at the museum the past few weeks in prepara tion for the grand But this one was particularly special to who retired in December after 37 years of teaching biological sciences at He says that he and his wife plan to make Hays their retirement and they hope to bring a lot of visitors to which is expected to attract thousands of tourists each Some of the first visitors the will take on a tour will be their Debra and and their who will be on hand for the grand The dedicated the mammoth in honor of their who attended I was talking to Jerry Choate one day and asking him how things were going out Gene Fleharty said in reference to the museum He said he was trying to raise X amount of dollars for a mammoth for the lobby to portray the natural histo ry theme of the I talked to my wife about and we decided Fort Hays has been awfully good to so we went ahead with the donation for the Greg assistant director at the contact ed companies that specialize in casting and gathered information on and made comparisons of several FHSU decided to obtain the mammoth from which was cast from a specimen in Liggett said that this is one of the most recent mammoths its only years Thats just one of the stories the can tell their four grandchildren at next weekends grand Im pretty excited about the kids being and it seems the grandkids are looking forward to Gene Fleharty When they get the museum restaurant its going to be a really pleasant entry Fleharty said he likes the choice that FHSU made for the lobby Anything in a museum lobby gives you an impression of what the museum is going to be Fleharty I think this is a good Cami director of education at the Usually whats in a lobby of a museum is a visual image of that she adding that a lot of thought goes into the selection of a lobby For when you think of the Denver Museum of Natural you think of the Trex in their This is great for Sternberg because of the mammoths signifi cance to People still find mammoth teeth in the and this is something they will be able to relate CHARLIE RIEDEL Hays Dally News ABOVE Employees of Fort Hays State building and maintenance department put the finishing touches on assembling a 12foot tall Columbian mammoth in the lobby of the new Sternberg Museum of Natural History north of 27th and LEFT FHSU employee Eldon Jerauld tightens a screw while installing one of 17 ribs on the BELOW Employees lay out the ribs in order before A local couple donated money for the entrance display in honor of their The grand opening of the museum is scheduled for March 1314 and will open to the general public March LINE SO LONG FOR TICKET GIVEAWAY THAT MANAGER HAD TO START HANDING OUT TICKETS A FEW MINUTES EARLIER THEN SCHEDULED By DIANE HAYS DAILY NEWS Theres one thing better than a Irs a free Thats why on Thursday afternoon the parking lot at the Dillon Store at 1902 Vine was overflowing for tha second straight The local in conjunction with Fort Hays State handed out free tickets for next weekends grand opening of the Sternberg Museum of Natural The week it took a little more than hour to get rid of the tickets allotted to the Vine Street Dillons at 27th and Hall also gave away 500 tickets the same the same amounts were given out to throngs of people who came early to get their place in One of those was Del Schmidt who was in the store at last weeks but she thought she needed a flier that Dillons had given away earlier to pick up the Schmidt said she was disappointed when she learned that all she would have had to do was stand in But then I read in the paper that they were giving them away this So Schmidt showed up at a half hour before the scheduled 4 The line had gotten so long by that store manager John Lonnon told his workers to start the We had to Lonnon The people were get ting backed up clear back to the checkout Schmidt was all smiles after being handed her My whole family is coming the first of May and I wanted to go see if theyd like she kind of a sneak A lot of people must have the same At the other Dillon people were asking for extra tickets for cousins and Its two tickets per explained manager Lori who said she had received several unusual requests during the which ended about 6 when the last ticket was handed One man even asked her for free tickets for the week end following the grand I dont think some people realize these tickets are for a certain day and a certain Seron so were trying to make that real The tickets for the free guided walkthrough scheduled for an hour will begin at 1 Saturday and continue through 9 Each ticket is stamped for a certain and tickets are good only for that The tours will continue Sunday from 1 to 9 Another point that Sternberg staff would like to clear up is that anyone can visit the museum during regular hours beginning March Sternberg is booked solid for reserved group mostly with through the end of But the museum is also open to the general public during that You dont need to make a reservation to get into the muse said Mark reservations manager for For a you can go through at your own Summer hours will be implemented immediately after the grand They are 9 to 9 Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 9 Sunday and Regular hours after the summer will be 1 to 5 Monday and Sunday and 9 to 5 Tuesday through After the grand opening tickets will be avail able at the door for for adults and for those 17 and under and 60 and Crop insurance might get overhaul Supporters say reforms will help with market fluctuations By LIBBY QUAID ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Crop insurance would become less costly and more widely available to farmers under an overhaul proposed Thursday by a bipartisan group of law The legislation is an attempt to rein force the safety net cast by the 1996 farm a net that critics argue is rid with The marketoriented Freedom to Farm law replaced decades of federal subsidy programs with a system of declining payments aimed at weaning producers off the Supporters of the crop insurance reforms say farmers need new tools for handling market fluctuations as they move away from reliance on govern ment subsidies tied to crop In this time of low prices and glob al economic farmers and ranch ers deserve an effective ment tool they can depend said Pat the 1996 farm laws architect and a sponsor of the crop insurance Agriculture Secretary Dan a fellow said the proposal raises many of the ideas he has including more afford able and accessible speed ing new insurance policies to helping farmers hit with multiyear losses and allowing sored livestock I believe that this establishes a strong basis for working together toward meaningful crop insurance reform this Glickman Dole hopes to encourage peace treaty By MISHA SAVIC ASSOCIATED PRESS Macedonia Former Bob Dole pushed ethnic Albanian leaders today to immediately sign a peace plan for hinting that the deal must be settled before rebels can visit who was in the region at President Clintons had to meet the ethnic Albanian leaders in the Macedonian capital of Skopje because he was blocked from entering neighboring Yugoslavia when the gov denied him a The a longtime ally of the ethnic said the gov was growing with delays by the ethnic whose cooperation is necessary for NATO to strongarm Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic into accepting a blueprint giving the province This agreement should not be delayed one additional Dole Kosovo is a province in southern the largest Yugoslav Ethnic Albanians make up 90 percent of and most favor There are fears that Kosovo will explode in largescale war if agreement is not reached More than peo ple have been killed in a year of fighting and hundreds of thousands Before talking with Kosovo Albanian leaders said today they might sign the agreement ahead of which would increase pres sure on the Serbs to drop resistance to the plan proposed by five major Western powers and We are ready to sign the said Edita one of the negotiators at the peace echoing an earlier statement by Ibrahim the lead ing ethnic Albanian Ethnic Albanian negotiators left peace talks in last month promising to sign a deal March 15 offering the province sub stantial Serbian negotiators refuse to con sider the plan because it provides for nearly troops to supervise its
