Duck's indiscretions like an episode from 'Young and the Featherless' By LUCY BOONE_ Standard-Examiner staff MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE The mayor's lawn ornament duck has eloped to Las Vegas, and the little town is aghast. But Mayor Keith Butler and his wife Jerri are getting used to it. The duck's latest indiscretion is only a chapter in the plastic poultry's life that reads like an episode from the Young and the Featherless. Lola, as the Butler's duck has been dubbed, was plucked from her grassy perch and simple existence earlier this year and flown to Washington D.C. From D.C. she sent the Butler's post cards of the White House and Mt. Vernon for a week before landing back on their porch wearing an "I Love D.C." T-shirt and a miniature camera around her neck. Two months after her D.C. excursion, a baby rubber duck came in the mail, with a card confessing the duckling was a result of Lola's liaison with a handsome drake in the nation's capital. Now, this same handsome drake, who quacks to the name Elvis Mallard, has whisked Lola to the marriage capital of the world and wed her. "She didn't even ask permission," said Jerri, who gets asked about her famous duck everywhere she goes, from the grocery store to the hair dresser. While it appears the mallard bears some responsibility for their duck's latest escapade, Keith and Jerri still have no idea who the human culprits are. "I'm not sure I want to know," Keith said. "That would end it all." But whoever filched the Butlers fowl returned her in style -wearing a veil, a pearl necklace and a pink wedding bouquet. "I can't put her out on the lawn like that. She's too pretty," Keith said. So, for now, Lola is hanging out in the house where curious visitors come to see latest apparel. The ducknappers also returned the lucky groom - a plastic mallard dressed in a black top hat, white ascot and flower boutonniere. "Isn't he handsome? I'd give him a second look, too, if I were a lady duck," Jerri said. When the wedded pair flew home, it was with a large basket containing plastic cat tails, a mock waterfall made from blue cellophane and sign reading "Home is where you build your nest." The newly-nested Lola also brought home her journal of the elopement. In it she records that for their honeymoon, she and Elvis visited Disneyland where Donald Duck put the moves on her but her husband "put up a fight." Besides, "I'm a Utah Duck and he's from Hollywood. It just wouldn't work out," she wrote. On their way back from Disneyland, the journal records, the couple returned to Vegas where Elvis lost their money gambling. Lola had to find a job to buy bus tickets home. Lola became a show girl, revealing a few more feathers than what she's used to. Jerri said she hopes Lola's "cleaned up her act," since she is a "married duck." But with their plastic bird's impulsive elopement and risque job choice, the Butler's are seeing ...and continues... October 19, 2000 17