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Wednesday, March 8, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Day Care Strives for Interaction, Safety
Editor's Note: This is the last of a three-part series on child care and day care centers in Lawrence.
Rv MARTI STEWART
Kansan Staff Writer
A whirlwind of activity greets and opens the door to the infant's room. All members are checking diapers, washing toys and carrying babies on the floor.
"This is a fairly slow day," a staff member said.
On the floor a staff member plays with a n infant, who is not yet crawling to ask talks to an adult, in a high chair in the feeding area.
The infant day care center is located in a Meadowbrook apartment where only center in the afternoon day care is offered for infants.
The program is under the direction of Todd R. Risley, associate professor of human development, and is sponsored by the Children's Institute Program on Early Childhood Education and the Kansas Center
on Early Childhood Education.
KANSSA LAW stipulates that children under two may not be cared for in groups. It is possible to obtain a license for day care and that they are kept in a private home.
The center is able to operate because it is under the auspices of the state and as such does not require a license.
Mike Catalo, who is assisting Risley on the project and who represents the National Program's project aid, said, "While most of the state's licensing regulations, there are areas in which it differs. We feel that these differences represent a practice and just as acceptable to day care center operation.
Catalo said Shirley Norris, a licensing agent, had rated it three stars for improvement. The result of this visit, he said, was that she sent him an email with suggestions for improvement.
that she asked members of the infant center staff to serve on a state advisory committee to establish licensing regulations for Kansas.
CATALOG SAID the aim of the project was to study the best management center. The center structures the environment to guarantee safety and efficiency to allow for maximum interaction with the child, he
The outcome of the study will be to software materials, a collection of plans and equipment for use in setting up and operating day care centers across the country. Catalogs that materials will be tested by people who have not worked with the project to insure that its methods are effective.
One example of the equipment to be included in this package is a cart for the safe transportation of luggage from the parking lot to the center.
A MOTHER bringing her child to the center must supply the
staff with all food, diapers and supplies the child will need to wear for a day or two in her car in the parking lot. you must jungle her packages and try to make it to the receiving area of the center without losing the child
To make this transportation easier, members of the center would often go to a shopping cart. The sides of the cart are of pliable material and its center of gravity is low to prevent it from falling out or be hurt. Underneath the basket is a shelf on which the child may place the child's supplies.
Cataldo said the center had purposely avoided issues of child development and "education" programs because it was important to first develop a safe environment healthy day care environment
BEFORE ENTERING the two-bedroom apartment that is now occupied, the visitor must remove his street address. The windows and shutters supplied by the center.
"This is a health precaution," a staff member said. "The children crawl around on the carpet and this keeps it clean."
Nine-month-old Macros stood at the low barrier separating the two groups. He watched the staff members as they walked back and forth with him, taking breaks Occasionally he would make a comment to Bob, a staff member of the hospital.
Another staff member said the requirement for graduation was that a child could walk or that he be taught to interact with the adults at the center. The center is specially designed for non-walking children and when they begin to walk, it requires them to different environment, she said.
Rezoning Action Deferred
Rv MARSHA SEARS
THE WALLS of the feeding area and corridors are lined with charts. Staff members record all needs he or she need about the child's activities during the day—when the child slept, when and what he ate, how often his diapers were changed and any problems he encountered.
By MARSHA SEARS Kansan Staff Writer
The Lawrence City Commission Tuesday deferred until next week's meeting a decision concerning the rezoning of four blocks at 20th Street and State Street, which will be housed to duplex dwellings.
Richard Zinn, the attorney who represented Western Home Builders, asked the commission to defer the decision until next week when hopefully, all building companies present. Nancy Ham堡ton was absent from Tuesday's commission meeting. To approve
Zinn said that rezoning of the area from single family housing to multiple-family housing or between single-family housing and multiple-family housing or
the reoning, four of the five commission members would have to vote in favor of the reaming.
ED COLLISTER, the attorney who represented the home owner opposed to rezoning, said many home owners in the area had purchased homes because the city was not housing. Unless, Collison said,
Campus Shelters Lack Provisions
Kansan Staff Writer
the proposed rezoning is for community benefit instead of private gain, the area should not be rezoned.
By BOB EVANS
Colliser said a large market for cheese was growing, and he gave several examples of single family homes in that area which had so quickly when put on display.
Questioning the buffer zone argument, Collier asked, "Who is buffered from what?"
There are failout shelter facilities on the KU campus for about 18,000 people, but there are no emergency storage. Stone, plant modification analyst, said no emergency supplies were available on the campus.
The shelters were designated about 1960 and were then stocked with a supply of water and a type of biscuit, Stone said.
When the tunnel system is connected again, Stone said, emergency supplies for 16,000 persons will be restocked.
Lawton said the three main reasons for the shelters were for protection against nuclear disasters and natural disasters.
Last year, the University was too small to handle because they were 10 years old and had become stale. Since then, the supply must be made by the building at Wesco Hall has interrupted the tunnel system and cut many roads.
Stone said that there was enough space to store food and water for persons in the shelters for up to two weeks.
He said the main need for the shelters now was for protection against local disasters such as an explosion due to a gas leak. The national pulse indicates no pressure in national needs, Lawton said.
One and one-half cubic feet a person or 24,000 cubic feet was needed to store the two week supply of food, he said.
ABOUT 30 AREAS on the KU campus have been designated as fallout shelters by a Corps of Army Engineers and volunteers, said Keith Lawton, director of operations, planning and operations.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Pioneer 1, streaking toward Jupiter at 20,500 miles per hour completed two critical maneuvers after passing the moon or space of fictional said Sunday.
The shelters could also be used for protection against natural disasters such as tornados.
Pioneer 10 Completes Critical Maneuvers
The spacecraft successfully tested the GPS system, used for Tuesday's planned midcourse change, and spacecraft navigation refraction system that keeps Pioneer linked to earth with a thin radio beam, officials said.
Scientists also turned on the sixth of 11 instruments in Pioneer 10. The mission included maneuvers, a spokesman for the California Institute of Technology and laboratory said. The instrument is a cosmic ray telescope that began back data on the galaxy's high-energy particles detected by the telescope.
Pioneer 10 was launched on its 21-month odyssey to Jupiter from Cape Kennedy, Fla., last Thursday.
He said there was no need to delay the deployment of that area and that share '1986 that area had been protected by a policy of the commission to deny any additional sharing'
WHEN A STORM is sighted the take cover warning is given, he said.
The warning system starts when an observer contacts the Douglas County Civil Defense Department.
The sounding system for the city of Lawrence and the city of New York has KU and downtown mill whistle sound a series of four short blasts followed by a pause. The signal is repeated every minute, minutes, Haskell and a food machine company have whistles that would sound continuously.
When the warning is given,
Stone said, classes are dismissed
and students should go to the
nearest permanent building,
and move there and go toward the lower levels.
In the event of a storm,
students should turn radios to KLWN AM and FM for
music or radio news. Head of head
of the Douglas County Civil
Defense Department said.
BELOTE SAID that campus buildings were for the protection of students and those working for the institution, said he should seek city shelterers.
Emergency power is also available, he said, and that part of the power is for KLWN FM broadcasts.
According to his latest listing o
university fallout shelters
Belolet said shelters were located
in the Lake Michigan area.
Murphy, Malott, Marvin, Flint
Lindley, Fowler, Snowy, Dyce
and Green Jails, Spooner
Ocean and Northern Military Science building,
Watson Library, Watkins
Memorial Hospital, Robinson
Green Jails, Robinson
Lewis, Ellsworth, Hashingh,
Oliver, J. R. Pearson and Corbina
halfa, Alpha Delta Pi and Alpa
horizons, Sigma Chi fraternity, Grace Pearson and Douthart halls.
THE TRAFFIC INCREASE would be an additional problem if the area were rezoned, Collister said.
Also, he said that there is a 200 bed portable equipment equipped with emergency supplies for 14 to 30 days.
Zinn said that rezoning the area to a duplex room would make better use of the land. He said that maybe existing single-family homes would sell but there was money to build a single-family home building of single-family homes.
Zinn said that instead of referring to the amorphous words, "public good," a person recognizes what was more reasonable.
Ernest Angino of 1215 W. 27th St. in Lawrence and of 1240 N. 26th St. in Lawrence for family development. The sale of single family housing is above last week.
He said the $20,000 to $30,000 range of single-family housing was in the greatest demand of any type of房ing. The vacancy is in apartments, he said, is now highest in the last three years.
In other business, the commission referred back to the Planning Commission a request to rezone the area at the corners of the street. The areas would be rezoned from residential to commercial areas. The Planning Commission had previously unanimously rejected the plan to rezone the area to a commercial area.
AFTER THE lengthy discussion, the commission deferred its decision until next week's meeting.
Goulden said about 50 books were available now, including popular authors such as H.G. Wells and Brad Bradbury.
The commission unanimously placed on first reading an ordinance to limit motorized vehicular traffic in city parks. The council is the city manager, city parks are not compatible with motorcycles.
Jazz music Herbie Mann, whose innovations have had a profound impact on contemporary popular music, will perform at m.p. 8 tonight in Hoch Auditorium. All tickets for the jazz performance have been sold.
Mann Concert Tonight
Students can bring in books to sell or trade, and the Emporia will handle the books for a 10 per cent commission.
The Emporium, sponsored by the Student Senate, is located in the basement of the Kansas University. You can pay $10 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Emporium bookstore has recently expanded its selections by opening a science-fiction section.
Science Fiction At Emporium
Gordon Goulden, Topeka freshman and manager of the store, said the expansion was made because text book sales beginning to dwindle, although many books were still available.
Goulden said the store also wanted to attract more diversified customers.
Mann popularized the Latin element in jazz by his extensive use of Latin American and Brazilian musical themes. Jazz is often developed from elements found in Africa and the black culture of Africa
the american South. But Mann's use of Latin musical elements in the Brazilian music of the Boa Nova and music of this genre. Groups such as Brasil "86 have carried the use of Latin music to the realm of popular music.
"Are you still checking diapers every half hour?" Sandy, a staff member, asked.
"Every 15 minutes."
mann also popularized the use of the flute as a jazz instrument. The musician jazz today is almost entirely a result of Mann's music. Rock musicians, such as Ian Anderson and Mick Jones, have used the use of the flute in their music.
"Every 15 minutes."
"Why? Who said so?"
The diaper check is a way of deciding what levels of care are most beneficial to the child and which ones the staff, according to Catalo.
"Todd said so.
"We're developing an across-environment study to look at the children's homes, care centers, day care homes and the childens' own homes," he said. "We want to find a solution for them, care for, instance, how often the infants' diapers are changed, to see what is best for the child. I interested in mothering, kidnapping, talking with the children."
members have some time to themselves," she said. "Taking care of so many infants is difficult. We try to give the staff takes as much as just lunch break and coffee break in the morning."
THERE ARE NOW about 13 children enrolled at the center. The model facility is designed for preschool children, but the greater than that at a center for preschool children, Sandy said, because the infants must leave before school.
DOWN THE HALL from the play area is the crib room. The cribs are placed on a shelf so the child can sit at adult eye level.
"Eye contact is one way we can tell that the child is ready to get up from a nap." Sandy said. "He's well, . . . well, of course. crwine."
Sekou, a seven-month-old boy,
was asleep in one of the crisbs. He
had socks fitted like gloves over his
hands.
"Sekou has some allergies," Sandy said. "If his hands aren't covered he may scratch himself."
The only door that remains closed in the center is the one to the staff's room. The schedule is very similar, and take frequent breaks, Sandy said.
"It's very important that staff
"We are not advocates of day home care," he said. "We are not advocates of a center or not, there are certain days we will do. There is a need for this We are interested in finding the best way to car for infants in
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