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Wednesday, September 6, 1978
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Octoginta sign-up sluggish
Sign-up has been slow for the ninth annual Octoginta, Gene Wee, program assistant for SUA and coordinator of the event, said yesterday.
The Octoginta, a weekend of bicycle activities held by the Mt. Oread Bicycle Club, an SUA-sponsored organization, will take place Sept. 15, 16 and 17.
The event will include a moonlight ride, breakfast run, Palmyra Hill climb, bicycle orientering meet, baking across Kansas Octigenta evening get-together and Occipita
About 160 riders, more than half from out of t.vn, have participated in Octoginta the past two years. Wee said. About 30 riders have signed up for the event so far this year.
Octoinita means 80 in Latin, Wee said. The race was started in 1969 by a Latin professor but enthusiasm for the race waned until Wee reorganized it in 1972.
People who suffer hearing and speech difficulties can get help at the Hearing and Speech Center.
Speech clinic offers help
The clinic, 290 Haworth Hall, has begun enrollment for the fall semester, according to Lorraine Michel, clinic director. The clinic is the public and to KU students and faculty.
Evaluations of speech, language and hearing disorders are conducted at the
The clinic offers therapy for articulation problems, delayed language development, stuttering, voice disorders, such as shrillness or nasality, communication difficulty resulting from a stroke and articulation problems caused by hearing loss.
PROGRAMS ARE designed with each individual's problem in mind. Michel said. Lip reading students start by observing the position of the lips, tongue and teeth during speech before they go on to more difficult tasks. They watch television with the sound turned off.
Lip reading also is taught in small groups. Background noises may be introduced to help clients increase the concentration skills necessary in lip reading.
Clinic services are available for preschool and school-age children and adults.
Fees for the services are based on the client's income.
Two evening programs for adults are available. An individual therapy program for adults who stutter is available at 7 p.m. Wednesday. A group lip reading program for senior citizens is held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Self-referrals as well as referrals from medical and social services are accepted by
The clinic is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, and evenings for the adult stuttering and lip reading groups. All evaluations and therapy are supervised by trained staff. The guidance of personnel certified by the American Speech and Hearing Association.
THE RIDES in the race will be at least 10 miles long except for the 8-mile Palmyra Hill climb and the bicycle orienting meet, an n-in-town relay by map and bike.
The Octogonia will be broken midway for a lunch service of homemade soup, bread, fruit and cheese, and refreshments of water, ice cream and fruit will be provided along the way.
An effort will be made to keep riders together and to make the event more social.
The orientering ride will require a bike, map, watch and penill. Bikers will be given a map and will locate markers at control points indicated on the map.
OCTOGINTA IS never canceled because
One rider will be flying in from Chicago to participate, he said, and a loyal following of bikers from Wichita attends the event every year.
of bad weather. "It's a rain or shine event," Wee said.
September is considered in biking circles to be the month for century, or 100-mile bike rides. Although the Octoginta traditionally is an October event, We decided to change it to September this year. His major concern was that the event was the foothall schedule, he said.
Deadline for advance entries in the Octoginta is 5 p.m. Sept. 12. There is a small fee for each event, and T-shirts with the logo for this year also will be on sale.
Clinton developers file suit
A group of Lawrence developers seeking to get higher prices for their land along the right-of-way to Clinton Parkway have filed an appeal in Douglas County District Court.
The land in question is 18 acres along the western end of Clinton Parkway that county-appointed appraisers listed last month at a value of $38,000. Lake Estates is seeking to hear jury decision on whether the land is worth more than the county's appraised value.
John Brand Jr., a Lawrence attorney and also a partner in Lake Estates Inc., said yesterday the suit was filed because the group thought the price offered by the county was not just compensation for the land.
Brand declined to say how far Lake Estates thought the county's price was under the fair market value, but he said the town agreed on an amount to ask the jury for.
The county already has paid landowners along the right-of-way the purchase price set by the appraisers, technically giving the land owners all of the appraised prices can be appealed.
Brand said that no court date had been scheduled for the appeal, but that he expected some kind of decision within three months.
The land purchase is part of the county's condemnation proceedings in conjunction with the parkway project. A total of 52 acres had to be condemned.
Although landowners can appeal the appraiser's purchase price, the proceedings will not delay the construction of the parkway. Any jury awards in excess of the price set by appraisers will be added to the final cost of the project.
The appeal filed by Lake Estates is the first filed since the appraisers set purchase prices. The county has spent $765,000 purchasing right-of-way land.
How long you live may not be as important as how well you live when you reach old age.
Staff Reporter
Michael Crawford, KU professor of anthropology, reached that conclusion yesterday after participating in a joint mission to Iraq from the United States and the Soviet Union.
By JEWELL WILLHITE
During a visit to the Caucasus region of Russia, Crawford met with a group of elderly who lived in a community in the northern part of Europe in age from the late nineties to 108, he said.
"One rode horseback for an hour to come and to talk to us," he said. "Another had already picked his quotation of tea on the collective farm for the day before he talked
The purpose of the study, which began in 1977, was not only to determine why such people lived as long as they did but also why they seemed to age more slowly. Crawford
In order to determine more accurately which factors affect the aging process, three factors were examined. Backgrounds, are being studied, he said. They are the Soviet Union's Akharians; a group of Kansas Memonites living north of Oklahoma, a group of Kentuckians from Appalachia.
Crawford said some of these aged persons also performed in a dance troupe.
RESEARCHERS STUDY the geneology, nutrition, work, handling of stress and how old age is regarded in each cultural group. Crawford said.
He said the group from Abkhakia probably was living the longest, although records of age have not been kept as accurately by this group as by the Mennonites, who migrated from Germany to the Soviet Union and then to the United States.
Professor studies aging
Although heredity is an important factor in longevity, the environment and living
"These people have fine records dating to the 1700s." Crawford said.
Citizens discuss hospital changes
The Public Building Commission was created by the commissioners to issue
REASONS CITED by the public for renovating the wing were the lack of space the agencies now have and the need to improve working conditions for better service and care. The building commission and the Commission would pay for the renovation.
Staff Reporter
Most of the comments were in favor of using the building commission to issue bonds for renovating the wing to be used by the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department and the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center.
Lawrence City Commissioners hear almost one and a half hours of public comment on the proposed use of the city's Public Building Construction last night for a $500,000 renovation of the 1956 wing of the Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
revenue bonds for the building of the new city hall. Under state law, commissioners were allowed to form the organization and appoint themselves as members.
Jerry Harper, a Lawrence resident, supported the idea of helping the two students to learn about the source of revenue. He said it added to the bureaucracy of city government, and said he thought the public should have more of a voice in its matter, such as a law.
By JOHN FISCHER
"All we are doing by using the PBC is to issue revenue-sharing bonds to the project moving," Clark said. "We are using it only in this very, very limited way."
BARKLEY CLARK, a commissioner, disagreed with Harper and said the commission was interested only in issuing a report to the legislature part of established city government.
"If we wait on other possible alternatives, the costs are going to increase."
Another controversy before the commission was the property and design of a 130-unit Sunrise Apartment complex to be built at Ninth and Michigan streets.
Other alternatives for the commission would be issuing industrial bonds or inhabits of the people also play a significant part, Crawford said. The group from Abkhania has a low fat diet that also is low in calories, he said.
AFTER MUCH debate, the commissioners approved the property and site plan for the complex. They said, however, that the developer must pay for two-thirds of the cost of a proposed third lane from the complex exit on Michigan to Ninth Street.
In other business, commissioners decided to delay granting a 4.5 percent rate increase of natural gas utilities to the Lawrence District. Commissioners were talked to four proposed consulting firms.
Crawford said the goals of the study, which may continue for three to five years, were to determine the relative contributions of genetics and environment to longevity; to develop biological measures of aging based on neuromuscular performance and to
Commissioners want to talk to the firms to determine which one would be able to do the task.
define some of the environmental factors that contribute to aging and longevity.
Those involved in this research from the U.S.S.R. are the Soviet Academy of Science, Moscow, and the Russian Institute of Georhology in Kiev; the Institute of Experimental Morphology in Tbilisi. The U.S. groups are the Research University of Kentucky, New York; the University of Kentucky and KU.
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Sunday only memberships available
at the Eldridge House—Lower level 701 Mass.
Sorority Open Rush
Informational Meeting
7:00 p.m.
Wed., Sept. 6
Big 8 Room, Union
For all eligible women, including transfer
women & KU non-freshmen.
For more information Panhellenic Office
864-4643
Chamber mixer set to welcome KU faculty,staff
Food and beer await new University of Kansas faculty and staff members at the annual KU Affairs Mixer tonight sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
Although the picnic is intended to welcome new faculty and staff members to KU, a chamber spokesman said the public also was invited. The cost is $6 a person.
The picnic will be from 5 p. to 7:30 p.m. under a tent on the lawn southwest of the Meadowbrook Apartments office building, across two blocks west of 19th and Iowa streets.
Barbecued ribs and beef, ham, rolls and relishes will be available. Beer and soft drinks also will be served, and the KU Alumni Band will perform.
CASA DE TACO Mexican Food 1105 Mass.843-9880
Watch the Kansas City Royals play their traditional rivals, the Oakland A's
Monday night, Sept 11 $7.50 admission
- pop to and from the game
- air-conditioned bus transportation
includes 1 reserved seat ticket
Box seats also available for $10.50 Deadline this Friday September 8.
First Fall Meeting:
Wed. Sept. 6th----7:30 pm
Walnut Room
Kansas Union
at SUA
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