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2 students to compete in pageant
By ROBERT A. GAVIN Kansan Staff Reporter
By ROBERT A. GAVIN
Mary Lee Hoth and Robin Loomas are University of Kansas freshmen who are attractive, articulate and friendly. In May, they contest in the Miss U.S.A. contest.
"I was thinking about all the other girls who were left and who would be most likely to get it." Hoth said Monday. Then they used my name. It just came as such a shock."
Hoth
Hoth was referring to the Miss Nebraska crown she had just won in Kansas City, Mo.
"I was thinking about the girls left and made my guess on who would be selected," Looms, the Kansas winner, said. "They were so good I freaked out, I suppose I was surprised."
Loomas and Hoth were each one of ten finalists from their states who appeared before a panel over 50 judges in evening dress, suit and personality competitions.
But both girls say they weren't really cometting.
"It really wasn't like we were competing with each other," Hoth said. "We were all very friendly toward each other. I made a lot of new friends."
Loomas agreed.
"I met a lot of really nice girls from all over the world," I am sure. I'm going to get in contact with, she said.
Both women appeared before the audience three times. Sunday evening, during the final presentation, one-minute contestant on top of the contestants' choice.
Hoth spoke about her parents' support and love and what the experience of competing for Miss Nebraska meant. Loomas said she'd had a friendship and the need to be joyed.
"Every time after we went backstage and said our little piece," Hoth said, "we couldn't remember what we had said. We could've just told her that we did not know what we had said."
Hoth said she couldn't remember whether she told the audience who she was.
"The first time I went I was placed I was even
"shaking a little bit," Loomas said. "Toward the end I became more relaxed. All I thought about was the poem. It was really kind of easy. If you can keep from getting
sure, you better job, but sometimes it's not so easy."
The contests stayed in the new side Hole. The pageant wasn't without its jibbs.
"We were constantly be catered to," Joel saws, saying of the Force冲锋队. James said all the gifts he received were from them.
Looms said that the chauffeurs would
have a few lives to escort all the
plates, the car.
"It wasted time but it was fun," Loomas said.
As winners at the state level, both women will receive a trip to Niagara Falls, NY., for the Miss U.S.A. contest. They also each won a trophy, banner and $100.
Both girls seemed somewhat leery of the populations involved for the Miss U.S.合唱团.
"We had to sign a contract saying we would sign away our lives for a year if we won," Hoth said. "It was a very binding contract."
Hoth said the contract stated that the girls were single, would not return to school if they won and would live in New York City for the duration of their reign.
Loomas said the contract was seven pages long.
How does it feel to be in the limelight?
"I'm really at the point where I'm saying,
I'm going to be on national stage."
You never know.
picture yourself up there. You remember your name and you turn around and there is someone slowly into you. I’m kind of still catching myself asking myself if it really happened.”
"I had only watched the pageants before," she said. "I never thought of being in it. I'm very excited about it and very honored. It makes me very happy. It makes my parents very happy. I'm excited to go to New York and meet more people."
Hoth agreed.
Kansans can get special arthritis treatment
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By PAULA JOLLY
Kansan Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Joe Namath and about 280,000 Kansans have something in common. It manifests itself every time Namath straightens his battered knees and sometimes when a person has trouble running in the morning. The problem is arthritis.
When Namah is able to get good care for his knees, the 260,000 Kanans who have arthritis severe enough to require medical treatment often don't receive specialized care because rheumatologists (physicians and arthritis specialists) are scarce in the state.
However, the Kansas chapter of the National Arthritis Foundation and the Regional Medical Program have done a great deal to work with the patients Together with the rheumatology section of the KU Medical Center and some interested physicians, these two organizations started the Kansas Arthritis Centers Project last month with the help of a $242,000 federal grant.
Godfrey said the nurses were taught the basics about arthritis during a three and one-half month training program at the Med Center. He said this probably was the first formal arthritis training program for nurses in the country.
The project consists of arthritis information and evaluation units in Topeka, KS. The project was conducted in Kansas City, Robert G. Godfrey, project director, said Monday. Each unit has a director who is a rheumatologist and one trained to work with arthritis, he said.
Virginia Wulf, the arthritis nurse
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specialist in the Kansas City city arthritis unit, said recently that she didn't diagnose or treat arthritis cases. Instead, she said, her nurses of patient evaluation and education.
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Godfrey said arthritis could occur with a viral disease like hepatitis. Arthritis can cause pain and swelling occurring when the venereal disease invades the blood stream and goes to some joints in the body. Once the disease reaches the joint in about three days, Godfrey said.
Recommended treatment programs for arthritis may vary from rest and exercise to experimental drugs in advanced cases, Godfrey said. One form of treatment is injectable gold which is given to the patient to counteract the effects of arthritis.
Wulf said she saw a broad spectrum of patients because arthritis involved all age groups. She has seen patients who were older and some who were in their 80s, she said.
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Use of injectable gold is carefully monitored, he said, because about 25 per
cent of the users develop a skin rash reaction to it. A few users may also develop a depression of the blood-forming organs such as bone marrow. However, gold nails work well and can produce remission of the disease in some instances, Godfrey said.
According to Godfrey, general reaction to the arthritis center project throughout Kansas had been good. He said the Salina unit was probably the most successful one, possibly because rural doctors were more willing to ask for help.
The Wichita unit handled many referral cases at first, be said, but then the case load dropped. The center might not be convenient for many people since it is located at Wichita State University instead of in the office. A possible solution would be a mobile arthritis unit that would visit Wichita's hospitals, he said.
According to Wulf, response by local physicians to the Kansas City unit has been good, with many patients being referred to the unit. The unit serves Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas and Jackson and Clay counties in Missouri.
Project funding by the present federal grant will end in December 1975, Godfrey said. Funds to continue the program might come from a national arthritis bill signed by
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Godfrey said the arthritis units did as much as they could to counteract quackery
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"About $250 million is spent each year on quark arthritis devices," he said, "while only about $25 million is spent on arthritis research. Since there isn't a cure for the disease, some people become desperate and will try anything."
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Kent estimated the cost of the program at about $10,000, which will be taken from the Employment Security Division's budget. About half that amount will be for postage.
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