Thursday, April 22, 1970
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Prof selected for trip to China
By DOMINIC D'ASCOLI
Staff Writer
Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian studies and Oriental languages and literature, has been selected by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to accompany an American delegation of nine american scholars to the People's Republic of China.
"This delegation of mathematicians is all associated with computers," he said. "I happen to be interested in computers and have done some work in this area, so I was
Leban said Monday that NAS made its selection largely on the basis of a mutual interest in computers between Leban and the visiting delegation.
Leban's work with computers includes his invention of an Asian language computer-
But Leban quickly pointed out that his connection with the church in no way supported his inviigation.
HE SAID that during the 25-day trip, from May 3-27, he would act mostly as a cultural adviser. He said the Chinese would provide their own intermitters.
"I'll be like a cultural shock absorber," Leban said. "Most people who visit China don't realize just how many of the country's customs are traditionally Chinese in nature. They think everything stems from Communistic doctrine. This simply isn't so."
Communist socialism, but essentially it's the Chinese way of making the most of their abundant manpower resource. They've always thought this way."
Besides acting as the group's cultural adviser, Leban said, he will also present books from the University Press of Kansas to various Chinese libraries.
LEBAN SAID he was looking forward to the trip and said it should be beneficial in his future.
"These exchanges are important to the people in the sciences, humanities and social sciences because of the long absence of contact between the two cultures," he said.
"There have been tremendous changes in attitudes about education in China," he said. "There is ideological conflict on who should educate and what kind they should get."
'Now, we can actually go to their universities, sit in a classroom and talk to them.'
Whatever excitement Leban has for his upcoming trip seems to run second to the excitement he generates about his invention.
He said that he hoped to have a model of the computer-typewriter ready by August for presentation to the convention of the International Congress of Humanistic Sciences in Asia and North Africa, to be held in Mexico City.
Clinics aid smokers in kicking the habit
LEBAN EXPLAINED that his invention reduced the complex Chinese writing
By DEBI TOMLINSON
Staff Writer
For people who are continually trying to quit smoking, two area clinics say they have been successful in methods of helping the smoker kick the habit.
The Johnson-Wyndote County chapter of the American Cancer Society holds four-week clinics consisting of eight sessions. session last an hour and a half to two hours.
Sandy McDonald, education director for the Kansas City chapter, said the clinic gives group support to the smoker and tries to prevent smoking of smoke with a more positive habit.
At the first session each person chooses a partner for support during the rest of the clinic. There are usually 10 to 18 persons in each group.
"We don't use fear tactics," she said. "At one session a doctor or inhalation therapist informs the group on the physical harm of smoking."
"WE TRY TO make the person feel that dropping the habit of smoking does not harm you."
The method used by the clinic was developed in California in 1970 and has been used elsewhere.
The Johnson-Wyandotte County chapter charges $10 for the clinic; $15 is refunded if the person attends all sessions. The county doesn't support any smoking clinic that charges more than $25, McDonald said, and many groups charge more than that.
McDonald said most of the people attending the clinic had tried to quit alone, but were unsuccessful. She said it to 50 per cent of the people admitted to the clinic smoking or cut down considerably.
"Of course, the method is always being improved," she said.
THE SHAWNEE Mission Hospital holds a different type of smoking clinic. The Rev.
Hugh Campbell, the hospital chaplain who helps run the clinic, said, "We use a five-day plan supported by the Seventh Day Adventists, pastors of various churches and doctors in the Kansas City area. Our plan has been in effect since before the surgeon general issued his warning. We anticipated the need for such a plan."
In each session a doctor gives a 15-minute talk on the physical aspects of smoking and a pastor gives a similar talk on the emotional and spiritual aspects of smoking.
Short films stressing smoking's adverse effects from the American Heart Association or the American Lung Association are shown to the group.
The clinic also has question and answer periods along with a social period to give the patient time to reflect.
"THE MAN thrust of our program is to build up will power. We urge people to I choose not to smoke. and not say 'I promise not to smoke.'' Rev, Campbell said.
"We encourage people to cool turkey and not just try to cut down," he said.
Fifty to 125 people attend the hospital's clinic. The money is used for buying medical literature, new films and orange juice.
"It is a popular clinic," he said. "People from all over the city attend and at almost every clinic we have some out of town people."
In the first few days of the clinic, persons attending are urged to drink large amounts of water and fruit juices to clean their systems of the physical desire to smoke.
CAMBELL said $10 is charged for the clinic. The money is sued for buying medical literature, new films and organe juice.
For those who feel the urge for a cigarette there is a smoker's Dial spongeboy phone number with a tape recording origin, person calling to keep up his will power.
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Leban said he began work on the system in 1959 and received his first patent in 1967. Since then, he said, he has been working to refine the system.
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