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Monday, February 25, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Expanding Services Increase Help for Elderly
By NANCY SMITH
Kansas State Reporter
New services are being combined with established programs in Douglas County to meet the needs of our community.
The two-year-old Douglas County Planning Council on services for the Aging, located in the Cottonwood building at 3145 W. 31st St., is coordinating area programs, says John Donnoe, council administrator and Lawrence graduate student.
The council, a private, non-profit organization, is one of the first groups in the state to develop an anti-crime agency.
Local programs are beginning to tackle the basic needs of Douglas County senior citizens. The needs, determined by a survey of elderly county residents, include transportation, nutrition, medical aid, recreation and information. D朵oe says.
CENSUS DATA FOR 1701 show there are about 4,500 senior citizens in Douglas County. About 66 per cent live in the city, according to Donnee.
The elderly living outside the city have, for all practical purposes, new services to help them maintain their independence. Funds don't stretch far enough now to extend efficient service to rural areas, he says.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Moses are among the county's rural elderly. Mrs. Moses, who will be 81 in July, says she and her 88-year-old husband are dependent on family and friends to provide the services that allow them to remain in their farm home.
A retired teacher, Mrs. Moses says formal contacts have never been made to her. "But but she
knows of some projects from listening to radio station KLWN.
"If we needed them, it the services would be available to us," she says, "but our children have been able to do the necessary things for us so far."
The Planning Council initiated mini-bus service Aug. 14, 1973, to help transport the workers.
ABOUT 50 PERSONS are transported daily, Monday through Friday, from
wherever they are to where they want to be for 25 cents, according to Dan Evans.
There are two buses, each seating 11 persons, but only one is being operated. The other will be used for a new congregate meals program, says Cal Broughton, a mini-bus driver and Lawrence graduate student.
Average age for the mini-bus driver is 75.
They are regular customers and others use
Senior Citizens
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Charles Bartz' problems aren't as severe as Smith's, but he also years for the attention that his lifetime of experiences demand.
does, she said. This week she is reading the autobiography of Charlie Chaplin.
Although he suffers from sugar diabetes and foot and eye disorders, the 67-year-old Barts plays the stock market and intends to solve the energy crisis.
Bartz resides at Babcock Place at 1700 Massachusetts St., which is a federally-financed apartment complex for senior citizens who can take care of themselves. His fellow senior citizens have elected Bartz president of Babcock Place.
His small but modern apartment rents for one-fourth of his income, which for Bantz is $125,000.
He moved to Babcock Place from his home at 103 Connecticut St, because the
dirt and noise around him were "about to drive me crazy."
Bartret zircuit two years ago after working seven and a half years as a janitor at the University of Kansas. He has also worked as a nurse and as a traveling salesman.
Bartz said his life had been devoted to studying America and its economy. So, when Bartz isn't cooking, playing pool or cleaning his apartment, he is playing the stock market and working on a solution to the energy crisis.
Disney stock is next on Barris's purchasing agenda, he said. He is waiting for approval.
Bartz seemed most concerned about the fuel shortage.
"I'm going to write to all the auto companies and tell them if they'll make the electric auto, they'll be able to make the electricity," Bartz said. "I think we'll be able to drive a car at least 200 miles without recharging."
Carrman taught romance languages at KU from 1918 to 1967. He had no intention of teaching, but in 1918 he received a call from the KU French department, where he had earned his B.A. degree in 1917. He left his job as a French teacher to KU to teach French to members of the Student Army Training Corps who expected to fight in France during World War I.
The J. Neale Carman Memorial Library in the University of Kansas' French and Italian department was dedicated Friday, day Carman's last book was published.
Carman received his master's degree from KU in 1920 and his Ph.D. from the University of California.
the service occasionally. Riders have to be at least 62 years old.
Carman was chairman of the KU department of romance languages from 1967 to 1962. He taught only at KU until after his retirement in 1967 when he taught for
Carman Memorial Library Named for Former Prof
On Friday afternoons the bus goes to Eudora, Evans says, and sometimes special trips are made to places like Crown Center and the Eisenhower Memorial in Abilene.
three years at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
After Carman died on Nov. 25, 1972, at the age of 75, Mrs. J. Neale Carman gave his collection of books to the KU French and Italian department in New York. He also gave the J. Neale Carman Library. Carman's last book, "From Camelot to Joyous Guard," was edited by Norris J. Lacy, associate professor of French and Italian. It is a translation of the final cycle of the medieval Arthurian legend. Its theme is the legend of Sir Knights of the Round Table, Lacy said.
Bartz has written several congressmen explaining his ideas. He said he would gladly go to Washington if he were asked to help design an electric auto.
The Arthurian legend was the basis of the musical "Camelot," and two books by E. B. White called "Sword in the Stone" and "The Once and Future King." Lacy said.
The KU Endowment Association helped to pay the cost of publishing Carman's last book, according to Barbara Craig, professor of French and Italian.
Bartz, a bachelor for 19 years, said living at Babcock Place was never lonesome. He said, however, he thought senior citizens could be used more productively by society.
"I would like to be on a news program and let doctors and farmers ask me questions," he said. "Yes, I'd like to be on Meet the Press sometimes."
Bartz has to watch what he eats because of his diabetes. He has shoes with special arches that cost $41. Soon, he will have a cyst on his eyelid removed.
But apart from his infirmities, Bartz said, he enjoys retirement. He said he never wanted a lot of money. "I could have married some rich woman if I wanted to,"
"If I could do it all over again," Bartz said, "I'd be an entertainer. I wouldn't care to be a movie actor, but I'd like to be a singer and comedian."
FLORENCE E. DEMERITI, a retired teacher and president of the Pioneer Club for senior citizens, says, "The mini-bus has been a wonderful help, but Saturday and Sunday they don't run. A lot of people would like to be on town on Saturday but they can't."
His social security and state retirement payments and interest on investments keep him well off.
To demonstrate his talent, Bart played "Joy to the World" on his chord organ. He played well, in spite of his inability to read music.
The Pioneer Club is for people over 60. Demerit says it meets informally once a week to play cards and once a month for a luncheon and program. Some members come to meetings at the South Park Recreation Center by mini-bus.
Average attendance at the monthly meeting is 80 persons, she says, but when the weather is good, over 100 have attended. Dues are $1 a year.
After a covered-dish lunch, members
speakers or musical groups or
watch television.
Another popular senior citizen's group in Lawrence is the Autumn Club of the First United Methodist Church at 946 Vermont St. which meets every fourth Wednesday. The church has a carrion followed by a catered $1.25 a person meal and an afternoon card of playling.
The Planning Council will start a Congregate Meal Program on March 1, to provide a nutritious noon meal and some socializing for elderly people, according to Karen Evans, project director for the meals program.
For a $1 contribution, elderly people can get the noon meal Monday through Friday at the American Baptist Campus Center at 870 North College Road, Methodist Church at 4th and Elm streets or the Ballard Community Center at 708 Elm Street. The minibus will be available to trans-
Budget limitations restrict the program to 64 meals a day. Reservations must be made the week before and participants must be 60 years old or older.
Some recreation projects will be combined with the noon meal. Plans call for films, speakers, cards and chess, Evans savs.
Othea Blevins, chairman of the Planning Council's Committee on Nutrition, says the congregate meals are designed as a com-mittee for the four-year-old Meals in Wheels program.
Meals on Wheels is a completely voluntary project that helps homebound people, especially the elderly, receive at least one nutritious meal a day. Blevs says
CAPACITY FOR MEALS on Wheels is 50 persons, she says, and volunteer drivers are required.
Doctors must authorize this service for their patients, and a visiting nurse interviews the doctor and patient to determine nutritional needs.
Computer Center . . .
"It very definitely hurts my teaching efforts," he said.
"The facilities are inadequate for this size of university," Mike Boone, Littleton, Colo., junior, said. "The computer is outdated and the repair service is bad."
"The computer is virtually overloaded," said John Peterson, teaching assistant in computer science. "It takes a long time to run your program."
Wolfe said he was aware that the computer center was overcrowded.
"We need an area where people can sit down, almost like a reading room," he said. Wolfe said his department is working on improvements that don't cost money in the center. This work is limited to equipment other than the main computer.
"This is a crucial part because the facilities we have now are marginal," he said. "For example, if we have any trouble with our air conditioner we have to shut down."
Snoothers said he tried to interest his architecture students in working with computers, but since the computer was so small, he felt that the budding interest they might have had,"
The state legislature has tabled the money needed by the department to plan for the infrastructure.
The center has a contract with Honeywell to lease the present computer until June 30, 1976. Wolfe said, and there are no plans to renegotiate the contract. A task force has been studying the implementation of a new computing system in 1976.
He said he was mainly concerned with getting a new system so he could retain the highly competent professional staff which now works at the computer center.
If "we're going to make a change in 78 we
indicate the activity this spring," Wallee said.
they get money," he said.
"We've got to give them hope that something better is coming," he said.
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General medical care for the county's elderly was improved when a free geriatric clinic opened recently at Babcock Place, 1700 Massachusetts St. A nurse and a nutritionist maintain clinic hours every Wednesday for anyone who wants to come.
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Babcock Place supplies space and some equipment, and the Douglas County Public Health Department and Visiting Nurses Association supply the staff. Some funding for the project comes from the Planning Council.
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