THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, March

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Waveland Museum
To Restore The Past
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Ever
wish you could turn back the clock
and live in the Kentucky of 100
ycrs ago?
Dr. Hamblcton Tapp will help
you do it.
Dr. Tapp, director 01 the IK
museum at Waveland, has bejrun
turning bark the clock, a Job, he
says, "that probably never will be

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Dr. Ilambleton Tapp, director of the UK museum
ui Wavrland, looks over part of, the collection

of historical relics which will help make the old
mansion look as it did in Civil War days.

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his finest season and he doesn't
the business.
He says he's so swamped with
orders he can't keep up with them
Just a one-ma- n
But then he's
operation and carries all his equip- ment in a padlocked box.
Standke chases starlings those
rbnoxious neurotic - acting birds
that apparently nobody loves.
For years man has fought star- l:ngs with Roman candles, repel- iant, electronics, guns, scarecrows
find nets. Methods used to chase
them usually are only temporarily
ruccessful; they're back the next
day. or next month or next year in
greater strength.
Starlings love to roost at night
in cities. During the day they us- ounymg
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They're considered a pest
loth farmers and city dwellers.
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How successful is Standke,
retired furniture buyer
and salesman, in persuaaing mem
to abandon public buildings?
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His initial triumph came
years ago when he went to work
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around the courthouse in Great Bend.
' Starlings have never darkened
the trees on the courthouse lawn
ince he chased them away in
1952." says Paul Conrad, manag- ing editor of the Great Bend Tri- bune. "His homburg, cigar, and
double-locke- d
box are his trade- marks. All of the equipment he
operation
needs for his one-ma- n
is in the box, contents of which
re a deep secret."
One of Standke's top jobs this
year has been cleaning the dirty
birds from some buildings in
Indianapolis.
; John
T. Scott of the General
Services
Administration in Indianapolis said after Standke used
his method on three federal buildings there: "It's just fabulous. One
man with a little box has been
able to do in two days what we
couldn't do in 20 years."
The bird man this year checked

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that doesn't bother Standke.
"I don't solicit any business, finger.
I don't go to people. They have
to come to me," he remarked,

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the mansion.
After that, he says, various out- buildings will be added and, om
,lav' an entire village will be built
on thc slle s,ml''' to
village
whkh Has tI,ere beforc the CMl
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finished."
The University bought Wave- land, including the mansion built
in 1847. a few years ago. Most of
the
farm is used for agri- culture experiments, but the man- sion and 20 acres around it will
become a living museum recalling
Kentucky.
Dr. Tapp explains that when
completely renovated, the house
will be just as it was when Joseph
Bryan, the builder, lived there.
The first Inhabitant of Wave- land was Daniel Boone Rrvan. a
n'Phew of the famou Kcntuckian.
He built a stone house on the site
few m,,es ,rom Lex,nton- - But
after his death, his son, Joseph,
raxed the stone house and built
the mansion which still stands on
the site.
Dr. Tapp's biggest Job is sorting
tne hundreds of items donated by
Kpnt.iirlHflnc nnH ri pcrpnH ante nf
Vari will ho IqKdIoH
and placed in Its proper setting
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in the old house,
Dr. Tapp hopes to complete tho
house by summer. Then he pl.ii.1
to restore slave quarters behind.

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scum bc "alive," that is. appear
"Mi- Just as 11 dkl in 1830-6seums where relics are laid out in
rows are a tnine of the past." he
said"Tne trend now is towatd
living museums."
When the village is built, it will
have stores, a flour mill, cobbler's
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snoP. bakery and other
business houses. And. all will be
Pen for business, just as they
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The mansion itself is an 11- room, T' shaped brick structure,
The front of the house was first
to receive attention, and part of
it got too much attention, Dr.
Tapp says.
When University workmen were
told to sand paint off the floors.
they did such a good Job they
made them sparkle. Now they'll
tn molra thom
havo fn ho rpcanrl
1vnlr no natural ac tho Ai
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Kentucky.

"That's nice.

"I tell them If there are any
Doubting Thomases, I won't chase
starlings for them. I tell them
that I guarantee my work and that
I always get rid of the birds. I
don't want to be bothered with
Doubting Thomases."
He works alone, mostly late at
night or in the. early morning
hours,
Is his business profitable?
"Evervrxxiv
wants to be my
partner," says the bird man.

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For Governor
Speak Today
Two Democratic candidates for
governor, Li. uovernor Marry Lee
Waterfield and Hubert C. Carpent- ter. will speak at 11 a. m. today in
Memorial Hall.
Purpose of the rally, which is
sponsored by
Student Congress
and the Political Science Club, is
to present candidate's platforms to
the students.
plans are being made to have
otner candidates here at a later
date.

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