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University Daily Kansan, September 28. 1983
K.C., Mo., outbreak is worst in six years Lice in Lawrence schools not as severe
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
Head lice, the small creatures that have recently plagued the Kansas City. Mo., school districts, are also in the Lawrence schools. However, health officials said, the problem in Lawrence is not as severe as in Kansas City.
According to health officials, lice has shown up in several different places in Lawrence. Residents of Colonial Manor Nursing Home, 3015 W. 31st St., and Lawrence school officials have reported lice.
Three residents in Colonial Manor Nursing Home have head lice, said the nurse.
Tinius said one of the never residents must have come to Colonial Manor with lice. He said he did not know where else the lice could have come from.
THE RESIDENTS ARE being treated with a special shampoo, but it takes about a week before the lice are completely gone, he said.
No other area nursing homes have reported lice among their patients.
Some students in the junior and senior high schools also have bicep, but it is especially common among the younger students, said Jeanne Dicker, health coordinator for the Lawrence school district.
"We have had it in the elementary schools mainly. The kids are more in contact with each other. They rough it up and exchange hats," she said.
Lice are not limited to one group, Dicker said. Anyone can get them, and they are not indicative of poor hygiene, she said.
MANY CASES HAVE already been reported, but the school nurses are keeping the problem under control, she
said. And, so far, the problem in Lawrence has not reached the severity that it has in Kansas City, Dicker said.
In Kansas City, more than 800 students were sent home during the past two weeks because they had lice, said Gerald Hoff, director of communicable diseases of the Kansas City Health Department.
The outbreak is the worst experience in the schools in six years, he said. And, the problem is probably worse than the illness reported reporting the lice is voluntary, Hoff said.
Head lice is a parasite that needs a warm area to survive, so the lice and nits are often found in carpeting, clothing, upholstery and hair, said Maureen McGuinness, director of nurses at the Douglas County Health Center.
DEVICE USUALLY DO not transmit
disease, Hoff said. They suck blood and cause skin irritations, and if they remain on the skin for a long period of time, they can cause sores, second degree bacterial infections and even hair loss, he said.
Tinus said lice were highly communicable and were transmitted on plaques.
If a teacher notices that a student has lice, the whole class is checked, Dicker said. Usually, the nurses find it in a classroom in a certain classroom of students.
"There is a problem in Kansas with lice." Tinius said. "Every year we have it. If you live in Kansas, you have to get used to it."
"It is the kind of thing peole get really upset about," he said. "They think it is because of dirt and filth. They relate it with poverty."
Two Massachusetts churches will bless animals
By United Press International
ATHOL, Mass. — There will be some barking and meeting and maybe even some bleating and neighing Sunday at two churches that have decided to take the traditional blessing of the animals literally this year.
Parishioners at St. John's Episcopal Church and Our Lady Immaculate Church were invited to bring their pet poodles, kittens and birds to be blessed in remembrance of the feast of St. Assi, a traditional friend of animals.
"I haven't really been very fond of animals myself in the past," said the Rev. R. Vander Flocken of St. John's. He quoted figure out how to bless a chicken. "He
BUT FLOCKEN SAID that he thought the blessings would increase interest in the day.
About 40 parishioners have already said they plan to participate, he said.
Because people have said they would bring assorted animals to be blessed Flocken has moved the ceremony outdoors.
"Someone said they were going to bring a goat and someone else is bringing a pony," he said.
Flocken said he got the idea for the animal blessings from his father-in-law, the Rev. Ward Smith, who has held a position at St. St. Andrew's in Longhame康。
"It thought it was the craziest thing. But people respond," he said. "It's one way of impressing on people the stewardship of all God's creations."
"If any of the dogs don't look like they're enjoying it, I'll bless them from a distance with holy water," he said.
The Rev. Peter Joyce, associate pastor of Our Lady Immaculate, said it was a coincidence that both parishes had attended the ceremonies on the same afternoons.
Flocken said that although he personally had become more accustomed to the work of his job,
Joyce said he had warned members of his parish to make sure they did not forget leashes and cages "so we can keep them safe, rather than have it destroy each other."
couple of years, he still harbored a slight fear of dogs.
Nicaragua army troops battled escalated attacks yesterday by U.S.-backed guerrillas on towns and bridges in northern Nicaragua, and government troops raged across northern and eastern El Salvador.
By United Press International
Nicaraguan soldiers repelled a rebel attack on Ocotal, the provincial capital of the northern Nueva Segovia province, and drove guerrillas from EI on the Honduran-Nicaraguan border that was overrun Sunday by rebels.
Rebels attacked three bridges Monday in an apparent attempt to block government access to El Espino, witnesses said.
Nicaraguan army halts rebels; battles in El Salvador escalate
THE REBELS TRYING to topple Nicaragua's leftist government belong to the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Democratic Forces, or FDN, and launched an offensive called Marathon over the mountain of liberate" parts of northern Nicaragua.
Heavy combat entered its third day around Tenancingo, a town 17 miles northeast of San Salvador, military sources said, and government war jets arrived at the position at Masacelo bridge and Canton Rosario, just south of Tenancingo.
In El Salvador, leftist rebels fought troops of the U.S.-backed government in intense combat that raged across six states and occupied provinces of El Salvador's 14 provinces.
The rebels' Radio Farabundo Marti reported that 206 soldiers had been killed, wounded or captured in the heavy fighting since Saturday.
AS THE FIGHTING escalated in the two countries, Panama announced that Central American countries agreed to a series of ground rules for peace talks. Also, Nicaragua's junta leader accused the United States of waging war on his country.
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Papananian Foreign Minister Oyden Ortega said that the chiefs of state of five Central American countries had endorsed the rules of a peace plan that could lead to negotiations that would be followed by a peaceful peace group — Colombia, Mexico.
In a key address to the U.N. General Assembly, Nicaraguan junta leader Daniel Ortega accused the United States of waging war against Nicaragua to crush all city of change in Central America.
Ortega
The U.S. government "declared war on the Nicaragua in" January 1981.
"The strategy was a clear one: military aggression, more economic aggression, more slander campaigns. The United States uses us internationally." Ortega said.
Henry Kissinger, head of President Reagan's bipartisan commission on Central America, is set to start a regional tour in October and should visit Panama on Oct. 9. He is scheduled to travel to Nicaragua on Oct. 15.
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