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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1954
HOW TO SAY IT—Jimmy Blaylock, who comes to the children's speech and hearing clinic once a week from Olathe, is being helped by Mariean Sullivan, education senior
1953 Hospital Use Up by 2,694 Calls
Use of the facilities of the KU Health Service is on the upswing, statistics released this week from Watkins hospital show.
KC Couple Named For Movie Leads
Kansas City, Mo. — (U.P.) A handsome 26-year-old dentist, John Marsh, and his attractive 23-year-old wife, Betty, were named today for leading roles in a Cinerama movie and a three-month, "dream-come-true" trip to Europe.
It will be the first professional dramatic experience for the Marshies and their first travel of more than a few hundred miles from their Kafka City home. They have been chosen for principal parts in producer Louis de Rochenon's "The Thrill of Your Life."
The Marshes will spend Friday night in a suburb of New York City without even a glimpse of Manhattan, because Mr. De Rochemont wants them "unspoiled." The next day they will board a plane for Paris, where the first of the European sequences will be shot. Paris night life will interest the Marshes only as spectators, they indicated. Neither drinks—nor smokes.
The Locarno treaty, signed Oct. 16, 1925, provided that peaceful means be used to settle all disputes between the contracting states—Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.
The clinic of the 62-bed hospital was busier by 2,694 calls in 1953 than during the preceding year. The staff took care of 41,875 clinics in 1953 compared with 39,181 in 1952. The number of persons registered in the clinic increased from 6,165 last year to 7,042; and the daily average number of calls increased from 125 to 134.2. The average number of calls per person, however, dropped from 6.36 to 5.55.
An enrollment increase from 6.003 to 6.177 students on the Lawrence campus accounts for only a small part of the greater use.
However, the number of actual hospital admissions dropped 264 from 1,466 in 1952 to 1,202 in 1953, with patients spending an average of slightly under four days in the hospital.
The hospital employs a full-time staff of eight doctors and a staff of nurses and technicians. Besides its 62-bed capacity and dietary units, it has complete laboratory, clinic, and physical therapy facilities.
Tibet, almost twice the size of Texas, has rich deposits of coal, iron, and gold, and may have copper and uranium. There are no roads, railways, or wheeled vehicles there. The average altitude is more than 15,000 feet, making it the highest country in the world.
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Training speech correctionists and assisting children who have speech problems are the services performed by the children's speech clinic in Strong Annex F.
Speech Training Is Task of Clinic
Although the clinic assists children who have speech defects, it is primarily used to teach speech correctionists, said Richard Schiefelbusch, associate professor of speech and drama, and director of the program.
Children from surrounding towns, including Olathe, Leavenworth, Garnett, Topeka, Onaga, and Humboldt, come to the clinic for assistance.
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Now in the fourth year as a fullscale project, the clinic is officially known as the children's speech and hearing clinic.
Prof. Schiefelbusch pointed out that another University clinic, the speech correction clinic, works with University students who have speech difficulties.
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Children with speech problems may be referred to the clinic by the division of special education of the State Board of Education, school nurses, teachers, or parents. About 100, usually ranging in age from 4-11, come to the clinic each year.
Prof. Schiefelbusch said 3-to-5
Strong 3rd Floor Gets New Colors
The redecoration was done on the west half of Strong hall third floor. One of the walls in the third floor hall was painted gray. The opposite wall was painted a shade that George Long, painting foreman, called "pop corn" yellow.
As an extension service of the clinic in Annex F, speech correction students also work with children of the Lawrence elementary schools. Graduate students may get further experience at the University Medical center, which cooperates in the training program.
Another part of the training program may include research projects. Prof. Schiefelbusch said one graduate student was doing research for a thesis in a project with children in Colby.
per cent of public school children need special speech training, adding that if these few do not get help early in life they may be subject to severe maladjustments in later years.
Painters from the buildings and grounds departments are finishing the redecoration job for the design department this week, after completing much of the work during Christmas vacation.
All ceilings in the department were painted white. Doors were painted a distinctive French rose color. Classroom colors, when the entire job is finished, will include such hues as Vienna rose, Speciific sky blue, gray, yellow, and cocoa brown.
Diagnosis is the first step in clinical assistance, Prof. Schiefel-busch said. Speech correctionists first must look for deviations in articulation in order to determine the corrective therapy which will follow.
"Definite occupational opportunities exist for speech correctionists," Prof. Schiefelbusch said. He explained that there is need for five times the number of people now available for this speech work.
A larger training program is needed to handle the demand. At
Dave Hicks, college senior; station manager; Caroline West, college senior; program director; Glenn Bethany; college senior, business manager; Edward Smith, journalism senior; chief engineer; Glenn Yancey, business junior, chief announcer.
New Staff Named By Station KDGU
The following students have been chosen on the staff of station KDGU for the spring semester:
Judy Ferrell, graduate student,
news and special events chief; Sue
Epperson, fine arts junior, office
manager; Barbara Sutorius, college
senior, traffic; Patricia Mitchell,
college senior, record librarian; Joan
McClure, college senior, continuity
director, Patricia Howell, college
senior, production manager.
present 25 undergraduates and I graduate students are participating in the correction training at the University.
Speech correctionists may major either in education or speech and drama, although a major is not offered in the program itself. Students also may do graduate work in speech correction.
Graduates with a bachelor's degree might get jobs in large towns working as speech correctionists for public schools, the Veterans administration, or hospital clinics.
Since they work on a supervisory level, graduates in the field usually get the same pay as an elementary school principal, Prof. Schiefelbusch said.
West Germany to Be Topic
The refugee problem of West Germany will be the topic of a talk by Ulrich Diesing, German exchange student in the School of Medicine, at a meeting of the German club in 502 Fraser hall at 5 p.m. tomorrow. He will show slides on the subject and also of the Rhine valley area. The public is invited to the meeting.
A study by a major steel company has revealed that its employees are nearly three times as safe on the job as they are at home. Statistics for 1952 showed that off-the-job accidents serious enough to cause layoffs amounted to 45 per thousand, while on-the-job accidents of that type totaled only 17 per thousand.
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