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Thursday, June 20, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Meade Hall Actors Incorporate To Finance School by Plays
Bv C. S. GROOM
Kansan Staff Writer
The Meade Hall Players will present "Puss'n boot's" and "Aventures of Nyfrm the Sprite, Part I," at 1 p.m. for the next two weeks to build a new street building at 11th and Vermont streets.
Admission for the children's plays is 50 cents. Adults will be permitted "only when needed."
Meade Hall is a profit corporation designed to finance the non-profit Kaw Valley School of Arts and Crafts and Performing Arts. The school will present Shakespeare plays, children's theater, and several other forms of creative art.
At this time, the players in Meade Hall productions are outpressed the founders.
Meade features a performance hall in a comfortable atmosphere with refreshments, an art gallery, small shops and a children's theatre.
In the future, however, they hope that children will try out for the productions.
Both corporations have been formed only recently.
Various activities have been planned for Meade Hall, including playing music for the KU Shakespeare Festival, and a weekly television show, Meade Hall Presents.
"We seek to provide a place in Lawrence for people to develop their creativity and to watch the expanding creativity of others," said Terry Foster, former KU student and one of the founders.
Averill is the author of "Adventures of Nyfm the Sprite," which will be a continuing series throughout the summer. He graduated with a degree in music composition and is now studying electronic music.
The Kaw Valley School will feature an art music studio and a community theatre for the
"We want to provide local artists and musicians with a place to show their work and to keep them within the community," Averill said.
A schedule of classes for the Kaw Valley School's first summer session, beginning the week of June 25, should be available online or by phone. Equipped in a bix yellow house at 17 W. 4th St.
artists, and Jean Averill, who is studying for her masters degree in theatre at KU. Kathy Url, Richard Linker, Mona Habur and Caroline Garrigues will present July presentations in the Children's Theatre will include Averil's 'Nyform the Spire, Part I' and a Chinese fair tale titled 'The Lion'.
Kansan Photos by A. B. Solsky
The founders of Meade Hall are Sandy Dale and Bernard Baker, both free-lance Children Are Captivated
Meade Hall Players Warm Up the Afternoon's Program with Singing Before the Play Adults:Only with Children
Sandy Dale and Bernie Baker, as Queen and King in 'Adventures of Nyfrm the Sprite,' Take Their Bows
Elderly Lack Money, But Are Rich in Experience
Editor's Note: This is the last of a two-part series on the elderly.
Cansan Staff Writer
By DON ASHTON
The elderly. Senior citizens. Old people.
How are they?
Some are well and some are miserable. A few are wealthy and many are poor. There isn't much statistically to distinguish them from any other group of persons, except age. And their age has allowed them to adopt a special wisdom and value all their own.
A Kansan writer visited with four local citizens recently. All of them were over 70
LEO BEUERMUN IS an old man. He was born in 1902. It is the least of his problems.
Leo is a dwarf, a cripple, deaf and completely blind. He is not wealthy. For Leo, life itself has been an overwhelming struggle.
But Leo Beuerman is truly a rich man. He has done more than conquer life. He has celebrated it. With heroic courage, unshakable faith and a spirit that has soared higher than any seagull. He has managed with a sharp intelligence and a Rube Goldberg inventiveness, but with more purpose.
LEO'S HOME has been in the Wakauras
lamp since 1960, when his vision failed
to see.
In the corner of his room is his bed, a 3-foot 1-inch mattress with bolsters. When he closes the door, the room fills up.
Storm Damage to Field House, Stripped Roof, to Cost $1,000
Last Saturday's storm caused damage to several roofs at the University of Kansas and possibly 80 per cent of the trees on campus were either damaged or destroyed, according to Harry Buchholz, director of the physical plant.
One-third of the south wing roof of Lewis Hall was stripped to the concrete, Buchholz said, and part of the roof on the east side of Allen Field House was also stripped to the insulation. Damage to the field house was estimated at $1,000-$1,100.
Other damage included a roof blown off the south traffic control station in O Zone, roof damage at Moore Hall and the Continuing Education building, several broken windows in cars and buildings, including some at residence balls.
A complete estimate of the damage will not be available until a later date, Buchholz
Dean Reveals Nixon's Intent
Crews began to clean up campus immediately after the storm and continued all
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Dean as saying that the White House, on Nixon's orders, successfully torpedoed a congressional investigation of the failure prior to last year's presidential election.
"Nixon said William E. Timmons should get on the Patent hearings and make sure he got the REE nomination CRP, Committee for the Re-Election of the President, blocked the Patent hearings by
The official summary says Dean reported:
Connally Hopes . . .
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While saying he is eager to return to his Houston law practice, Connally said, "I'm not going to sit on the bench."
By some account, Connally found his access to President Nixon restricted after offering advice on Watergate-related matters that the President found inimitable.
The former Treasury chief denied, among other things, recommending to Nixon that the U.S. go into a state of emergency.
to leave by saying "I believe I've given all the advice that I have to give."
ASKED IF NIXON had been receptive to advice he had given him, most of which he said dealt with economic affairs, Connally reported, "he's spoken a great deal of it."
bringing pressure on people to vote against subpoenaing witnesses."
Rep. Wight Patman, D-Tex., chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, sought to stage a full-scale investigation of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters. Timmons at the time was a White House lobbyist with Congress.
On Oct. 3, Brown's forces won. The committee voted 20-15 not to grant subpoena power for the investigation. Patman tried to persuade the judge to allow executive privilege and refused to appear.
The indictments referred to were the conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping indications handed down against the seven Waterate defendants last Sept. 15.
A White House log obtained by the AP shows that Dean's only substantive meeting with the President in 1972 was on Sept. 15, when he were returned in the Watergate break-in.
Patman became embroiled in a heated struggle with a Republican member of his committee, Rep. Garry Brown of Michigan, over whether the probe was to continue.
That was three days after Patman sent his committee a confidential preliminary report indicating Nixon campaign funds used to finance the break-in had been routed through a Mexican bank, possibly illegally. The report was leaked to the press.
A cabinet lies against the opposite wall. It contains his work, the things he makes and occasionally sells. Things like cases for toys or change purses, strings of wooden beads.
wooden platform fitted with the casters that are his lees.
FROM 1962 TO 1968. Leo薪 his odds and downstown. His work still is very imptu-
tive. He works in the office.
During the school year, Pearson College students set up a shop displaying his wares in the Kansas Union. Some shops downtown carry his goods.
There is a Bible in the cabinet, one whose well-worn pages he can no longer see. Leo believes in it absolutely. Many of the tapes in his cabin, with large impressions of letters which he can feel, are Bible passages.
Lee's tractor was a familiar sight here. He drove it downtown every day to sell his wares. It was fitted with a hoist Le rigged so he could mount and dismount the machine, not an easy task for a man about 3 feet tall who could never walk.
crenge gives LEO the trophy that sits on the cabinet. It is a trophy topped by a man on a tractor. A testimony on the trophy reads. "Best actor-1968."
LEO'S FILM EXPERIENCE is well-known, too. Centron Corp., a Lawrence firm, made a short documentary in 1969 starring Leo Beaucran. There was no buyer for the work when it was filmed, but since then it has been nominated for an Oscar (in 1970), has been seen by hundreds of school, business and military audiences and television audiences. It has been translated into German, French and Spanish.
ABOVE LEO'S CABINET is a chart which describes the two systems persons use to communicate with him. One system invites visitors to write large letters by hand in a splay and continuous movement over Leo's entire back. The other intructs persons to arrange a message from letters on a lap board that rests on Leo's low table.
It is a slow and tedious process, but coupled with strokes on Leo's head, or taps on his shoulder, a pull on his ear lobe or a shake of his arm—all codes which have meaning to Leo—communication is possible.
Communication is necessary for Leo. He is interested in the news, how much his wares are worth, religion, his friends, the people he becomes lonely if visits are frequent.
Leo can talk, although the sound of his own voice is a mystery to him. He and a friend recite the Lord's Prayer together every time they part.
"HE'S MORE ALIVE than any of our other patients," an aide at Wakauras Manor
For Leo Beurerman, old age itself is a miracle.
LOYD CRAIG IS 74 years old and he's a been a farmer almost every one of them.
He was born near Vинил, 10 miles southeast of Lawrence. To take his 8th grade examination he walked 22 miles. The survey that distance to graduation exercises.
Craig has lived either in or near Lawrence since 1915, except for a few harvests in western Kansas and a short-lived job on a railroad crew in Mobery, MO.
HE AND HIS WIFE have raised two children of their own and three nephews.
"A hay baler put them all through college," Craig said.
I, ought a 166-acre farm near Vinland. I decided if I was going to raise a family, them on a farm. There's no use in bringing them on a farm. There's no use in bringing them on a farm. And they've all done dam well," he said.
CRAIG WORKED FOR THE Constant Construction Co. here as a warehouseman for five years.
He hasn't retired, unless rising at 5 a.m. to milk goats, doctor calves, feed horses, tend a 20-acre garden, plow and plant someone else's land, sell organic fertilizer and do more chores than anyone can list or remember sounds like retiring.
Craig doesn't fancy the idea of apartment houses, and rest hopes for the elderly.
A LARGE PART of Craig's money comes from social security. All of it goes toward paying for the farm behind his home on Lindenwood Lane. He said he would starve
"I'd say that anybody who's still capable of doing something for himself should be on a little spot with a garden," he said. "The fresh air, exercise and decent food they eat would do them a world of good. Doctors don't get much of my money."
The pasture land Craig has turned into a bountiful garden has never been touched by fire or human activity.
an organic farmer ever since he was a farmer. He referred to chemicals as poisons.
"The horses I board will eat my hay before they'll eat bagh buy it. It's got more food value. Animals are smarter than we know what's good and what isn't." he said.
The Craigs belong to only one senior citizens club. They play pinchone once a month.
"I BELIEVE IN earning a living in this world," Craig said. I worked my life; I was a teacher.
Summer days are filled with order, simplicity and repetition for Mona. Oma Mzhickteno. She has seen many days come and go. She is 77 years old.
Mrs. Mizchkiteko spends much of her time sitting on the porch of her home, sewing, reading a book or a newspaper, waving from the porch at an offending insect flutter, five weather.
A HOSE RESTS against the side of her aurea. A gray cat rubs against her leg. A brown cat rests on her back.
Mrs. Mizckenhoe, who worked as a cleaning lady at the University of Kansas for 12 years, lives alone. Her husband has three children, and her 13 grandchildren come and go.
"I'm one person who never leaves the house, except for necessities," she said.
HER HEALTH, she has, always been good. Social security and retirement checks
Mrs. McHicktenko came to Lawrence from Oklahoma at the age of 14 to attend school at
LADIES' DAY TODAY
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THE BALL PARK
Hillcrest Shopping Center ★★ Open 'til Midnight
BIKE TOUR
→ MT. OREAD BIKE CLUB ←
22 mi. OVERNIGHT BIKE TOUR to LAKE PERRY
2 p.m. Sat., 6/22—Sun.
Sag wagon provided
He knows, and is known, by hundreds of Lawrence citizens. His memory of local names, addresses, dates and athletic teams is encyclopedic.
BRING MONEY AND SIGN UP Int'1 Rm. Union, Fri. 7 p.m.
$2.50 includes supper and breakfast
what is now Haskell Indian Junior College. She is a Choctaw.
Independent and well-informed, Mrs. Mzhickten subscribes to two newspapers. She has opinions on issues such as Watergate and Wounded Knee. She said she never did have any faith in President Nixon. She also described the siege of Wounded Knee.
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Eligio Winn was born in Lawrence and had bested his for entire 84 years. He looks wise.
WOODY RETIRED in 1954 after 35 years with Railway Express. He said he started to work for businessmen on Massachusetts Street when he was 19 years old.
Involved for many years in community sports, Woody used to coach and sponsor
Woody was named the local Kiwanis Club's Substantial Citizen in 1656. His wife died 10 years before. She was noted for her work with young persons.
Woody's income comes from a pension, social security and a part-time job with the Sanders Motor Co. He said the checks don't pay very much.
"THAT'S ALL RIGHT," he said. "I've got my health."
1973
Present
"JULIUS CAESAR"
June 21, 22, 23
University Theatre
Murphy Hall
Curtain: 8:00 p.m.
Refreshments and Entertainment in New Murphy Courtyard at 7:30 p.m.
Ticket Prices: $2.00 - Students $1.00
Reservations: Telephone: 864-3982