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GIRL BUFFALO PROVES PROBLEM TO PUBLICISTS

SEATTLE, June 6 — Note to press agents: maiden bison and show business don't mix. Not hardly, anyway.

Take the case of Miss Sunflower, a 500-pound yearling brunette from the plains of Kansas, who came out here to add a touch of femininity to Kansas Day honor ceremonies Thursday at the Seattle World1s Fair.

She made the trip in a truck specially fitted out for here by the Kansas Fish and Game Dept. She was scheduled to be trucked onstage to be presented to Washington Gov. Albert D. Rosellini by Kansas Gov. John Anderson, Jr.

She had been slated to have a news conference in a suitable enclosure at the Woodland Park Zoo, where she will take up residence at Governor Rosellini's request. Hospitality at the Executive Mansion in Olympia is difficult to extend to quarter-ton lady buffaloes.

But, the fellows from the Kansas Fish and Game Dept. had to suggest that her news conference be cancelled. "It took 12 men to load her on the truck," one Kansas official said, "and we're not looking forward to doing it again."

Moreover, the fish and game people did not feel Miss Sunflower would add anything very appropriate to the Kansas honor day ceremonies at 11:30 a.m. Thrusday in the Pair's Plaza of the States.

"With all the noise and excitement," one of them said, "she might panic and break a horn against the side of the truck."

So another appearance had to be cancelled. It looked as though Miss Sunflower's show business career was finished before it began.

But compromise is nearly always possible when a lady's future is at stake.

Since the bison can't get to the governors, the governors have agreed to come to the bison.

Thus at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning at the Woodland Park Zoo, Governor Anderson will present the shaggy lady to Governor Rosellini.

And she will be turned out of her truck into her pen. Introductions will be made all around according to rules of protocol and public safety.

Press agents handling the affair hope that Miss Sunflower, having been ruled off the stage, may yet make it as a television personality.

MNMy/6/6/62