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'Monkey Man' and Muffin perform for fair crowds
By Jen Deselms
Senior Reporter
Children and adults gathered in a
circle leaned over as a monkey scur
ried across their backs.
A small boy stood next to his
mother away from the crowd looking
scared. She told him not to feel bad;
she didn't want a monkey crawling
on her back, either.
Children squatted holding nick
els and dimes in their palms. The
monkey put the change in the pocket
of its vest, shook each child's hand
and gave some of them a kiss.
Jim Howd's belt buckle says it
all. Monkey Man.
Howd and his monkey, Muffin,
have performed at state fairs, home
and garden shows, Christmas shows,
and shopping malls for six years.
Howd and Muffin are performing
six shows daily at the Nebraska
State Fair. An Akron,' Ohio, native,
Howd said he and Muffin usually
travel to 18fairsduringthesummer,
Traveling with a monkey doesn't
really cause any problems, Howd
said. He and Muffin usually camp
when t hey travel, he said, but when
they do, staying in motels is no
problem because he keeps Muffin in
her cage.
Howd said he became interested
in starting a monkey show through
his uncle, Robert Howd, who has his
own monkey show. Howds' uncle
gave Muffin to him, he said. Howd
said he taught Muffin all her tricks,
but competing with his uncle helped
him to teach Muffin new tricks.
"What we'd (Howd and his uncle)
do is I'd teach Muffin a new trick
and then he'd take his monkey,
Pete, and try and teach him a better
trick," Howd said.
The competition between Howd
and his uncle lasted for about a
year, and they both came up with
quite a few good tricks, he said.
Howd and his uncle have per
formed together several times.
"It's (performing together) okay,"
Howd said, "but we both like to be
the star of the show."
When he and his uncle combine
their acts the show gets to be too
long, he said.
During shows Muffin dresses her
self up to go shopping or take a trip
to Mexico, plays basketball and
roller skates.
Even when Howd and Muffin aren't
performing, people stop to talk, ask
questions, or just look. A young
couple with a small child stopped to
watch Howd and Muffin as they took
a break between shows.
"Look at him (Muffin). He has a
diaper on," the man said.
Minutes later a woman stopped
to tell Howd how much fun monkeys
are and that she used to have one.
Even though Muffin couldn't
answer questions during a recent
interview, she made her presence
known. The curious monkey occu
pied herself with a sucker or what
ever was handy. After looking through
this reporter's notebook she stole a
pen and autographed a page.
Family hoofs it to fair the old-fashioned way
By Jen Deselms
Senior Reporter
Marquette is about 80 miles from
Lincoln, but it took UNL graduate
Barry Denning and his family a little
more than four days to complete the
trip. Barry, who graduated from UNL
in 1976 with degrees in electrical
and mechanical engineering, his
wife Denise, their children Justin, 6,
and Denae, 4, and a group of horse
back riders began their trip Aug. 25,
and arrived on Aug. 29 for the open
ing day of the Nebraska State Fair.
The trip to the state fair and the
covered wagon display at the fair
were to make people aware of Tim
berlake Ranch Camp, a Christian
camp in Marquette.
f The Central City farm family
volunteered to ride in the covered
wagon because they thought it
; sounded like fun, they said.
The sight of a covered wagon tra
veling on Nebraska highways caused
many different reactions from peo
ple in passing cars, the Dennings
said. Some people stopped and took
pictures. Others didn't even look,
Barry said.
"You find out that some people
are so busy, so wrapped up in their
own world that they can't share
somebody else's world," he said.
The Dennings said they also met
many friendly people during their
trip. The amount of attention they
received increased after they ap
peared on Channel 101 l newsv Peo
ple honked their1 horns,! flashed
their headlights and waved as they
passed the wagon, Barry said.
"We'd meet a school bus full of
kids and you'd see about 50 faces
plastered up against the window
looking out," he said.
The Dennings entertained them
selves by singing and talking to the
Outriders, Denise said. Denise said
she and the children would some
times get out of the wagon and walk
for a while. The outriders passed the
time by roping weeds on the side of
the road, she said.
The children never took a nap,
Barry said. The trip was unusual for
them so the stayed awake and
watched the scenery, he said.
"It's amazing what all you can
see at three miley an hour that you
can'fat SBartf said;5
Scientists stumble upon rare
fossils in Lake McConaughy
By Janis Lovitt
Staff Reporter
What started out as a fun scuba dive
for four scientists more than a year ago
has turned into one of the most signifi
cant fossil discoveries in Nebraska's
history.
UNL Paleontology and Parasite De
partment members George Corner, Greg
Brown and Martha Nelson and Seward
High School science teacher Jim Lan
don decided to combine their hobbies
of scuba diving and their interest in
fossils by diving in Lake McConaughy
last August.
There had been several reports of
fossil findings on the beaches of the
lake, so when someone suggested that
the group get together and dive for fun,
they chose Lake McConaughy.
Brown, chief preparator in the
research division of the State Museum,
said the divers were surprised with
what they found during that first dive.
There were more fossils buried there
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than they had expected, he said.
Those early findings spurred inter
est in the fossil beds of Lake McCo
naughy. In August, the original scuba
diving team, returned to the site for
another exploratory dive.
After five days of diving, the team
surfaced fossils that were nine million
years old. More importantly, one out of
every 10 fossils they found were meat
eating animals' bones. Michael Voor
hies, curator of vertebrate paleontology
at the museum, said the remains of
meat-eaters tend to be rare in the fossil
record. Usually only one bone in 100
will belong to a carnivore.
It is still a mystery why there are so
many carnivorous bones in Nebraska,
Voorheis said, but the museum staff
with the help of other state paleontol
ogy clubs will continue researching the
finds.
See FOSSILS on 7
Shorts
The National Student Congress in
Boulder, Colo., has designated the week
of Sept. 22 as a week of Student Action
for Education and Voter Registration.
Issues in Washington D.C., include
the reauthorization of the Higher Edu
cation Act of 1965 and the Tax Reform
Bill, legislation on Gramm-Rudman-Hollings,
the budget, sanctions against
South Africa and Senate consideration
of the nomination of William Rehnquist
to the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court.
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