THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Tuesday, May 8, 1979
Vol.89,No.147
Lawrence, Kansas
This is the last Kansan for the semester. The summer Kansan will begin publishing June 11. Interession hours, the finals schedule and special finals hours are on page six.
Staff photo by TRISH LEWIS
Tan man
and talking with students. He returned to Lawrence Sunday from Corpus Christi, Texas.
The Tan Man was back in front of Wescoe Hall yesterday, sunning
Tan Man returns to Lawrence
By ROBIN SMITH
The sun-toasted man has returned
John Schneider, alias "Tan Man," came from Lawrence Sunday and he said he
"I'm getting a fine welcome here and I'm glad to be back," he said yesterday after
Schneider returned from Corpus Christi,
Texas, to relax in his old sunbathing
grounds by Wesco Hall. He shook hands
and wished them a lovely get-together,
and well-wishes by flashing a smile.
"I didn't like Corpus Christi because the
police were always harassing me," he said,
"I guess they didn't like me running around without my shirt—ah-it's an old Confederate state anyway."
After living in Lawrence for 10 years, Schneider, 38, moved to Corpus Christi in December 1977 to follow the sun. He said that Lawrence winters were too cold.
SINCE HIS return, Schneider has been looking for a night-time jaucer job on the show.
Numerous KU students responded to schneider's appearance on Wesco benches both before and after the study.
Mark Cohen, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore.
recalled when he first met the bare-chested Schneider.
"I think that Tan Man was the very first Kansas that I met here during freshmen
"It's good to see him back, he's an institution in himself. Why, the Tan Man is a landmark. He's more important than that stalemate in front of old Green Hall."
Brent Rezuk, St. Louis sophormore, said, "Brent, he adds more to Lawrence, and his brother's has always been a big part."
Indeed, Tan Man still treasures his tan.
"Just tell everyone," Schneider said, "that I still have my tan."
Switch may move patients
By MARGARET BARRY
Staff Reporters
Cherry Manor nursing home is considering switching to an intermediate care program, which would force its 36 skilled care patients to move to Lawrence Memorial Hospital or nursing homes in Topeka or Kansas City.
In a letter sent to Lawrence physicians March 26, an administrator at Cherry Minor, 3015 W. 31st St., requested responses to Lawrence's only skilled care home "
A skilled home has to have licensed nurses 24 hours a day and at least one registered nurse on the day shift. As an intermediate nursing student, you are required to have licensed nurses at all times.
The letter, signed by Brenda Paul, the Cherry Manor administrator, stated that a lawmaker in New York
However, Charles Pomeroy, part owner,
said, yesterday. "We're still waiting for feedback from Lawrence physicians before
making our decision."
Paul was contacted several times in reference to the decision but refused to
Pomeroy said he was considering the change from sitted to intermediate wheelchair.
THE HOME suffered a drop in the number of patients, he said.
The letter said, "During the six years Cherry Manor has been in operation, only three months have actually been in the black, these being the last three months of 1977. Just as we were beginning to see that the manor was vacant, the sudden and drastic decline in our census.
Captain K. Gray, a Lawrence physician, said, "I Cherry Manner shuits its doors in the near future to skilled patients before the transition period could be unfortunate."
"PUTTING THESE patients in Lawrence
Memorial is a grand idea," Gray said, "but I don't feel the hospital can be ready in a short amount of time. The hospital must stay on schedule, and this could take weeks even months."
Robert Ohien, Lawrence Memorial Hospital administrator, said housing skilled-care patients in the hospital would be more expensive than Cherry Manor but cheaper than building a new home in Lawrence.
"Lawrence Memorial would have to charge the maximum rate for a skilled care nursing home, approximately $36 a day," Ohlen said.
THE NATIONAL average charge for
skills care is $36, according to Olien's
website.
However, Robert Carnahan, Lawrence
practiced, said he thought Oleon's $3 a day
"That wouldn't even pay for one aide, much less for medication, food and extra clothing."
Care by aides questioned
See CHERRY MANOR back page
Bv GENE BROWNING
Staff Reporter
Severe coccock infection was found in one Lawrence nursing home. In another, the coccus was found in a second home was still sitting in the dining area at 4 p.m. with food spilled on his table.
These were a few of the violations found in Lawrence intermediate care homes taking Medicaid patients by health inspectors in the last two years.
One of the factors contributing to these violations is the lack of training and the high turnover rate among aides, said Petery Cet, president of Nurseries for Improvement of Nursing Hospes.
The aides are the people who take care of the patients on a daily basis, who clean, wash and dress them.
some of the hardest work in the world," she said.
Aides who tend patients with little or no supervision, combined with understaffing may result in poor treatment of patients; Ceri said recently.
"THE MAJORITY of the care done in nursing homes is done by aides, aides that have no training whatsoever. You could be a nurse or an assistant, but you would get paid minimum wage and have
"Manicurists have to take six weeks training before they get licensed. Beauty operators have to take eight months but you only need a facial and someone who is dying of cancer right now."
"In a majority of nursing homes, aides care for patients two thirds of the day."
BILL SCHUTZEL, who worked as an aide in Wakara Manor, 1800. W. 27th S., a year ago, said the lack of supervision sometimes resulted in less care for patients.
"They weren't as strict as with most jobs and we were pretty lazy sometimes. Sometimes it would be a while before we got things done," he said.
He said that because of the laxiness, Wakaura Manor was "not the clearest place" and that there was always a strong smell of urine in the air.
Jeff Pike, who also worked at Wakarausa Manor, said that during the night-shift residents were not watched as closely and in the mornings, it would be "just so dirty.
Jody Winchester, Douglas County health
"THEE are very few benefits a lot of times. Aide work is very hard work and they're paid very little. I don't think some people really realize what they're getting into when they take that sort of job," she said.
nurse, said that not everyone could fit into the job of being an aide.
Rose Morton, head nurse at Lawrence Manor, said some of the people who applied for aide jobs had misconceptions about what the job required.
"SOME GRILLS come in and think of all the residents as their grandmas and grandpas. They think all they will be doing is writing letters and pouring drinking water for them." she said. "But they find it frustrating to see the patients and change their beds," she said.
Lillian Ghramm, administrator at Wakarua Manor, said she thought it took a special type of person to work in a nursing home.
"If you're not geared for it, you just can't do it. I feel that if a person can do it, then usually it kind of grows on you. I think the payoffs in on itself is more than the pay." she said.
See NURSING back page
Non-fluoridated water has natural fluoride
Staff Reporter
By TAMMI HARBERT
Staff Represent
Non-fluoridated water from a newly installed spigot at the Lawrence city water station.
It may be because the water still has fluoride in it.
"I tastes terrible." I "Lewis McKinney,
professor of history, said yesterday. It's
nothing wrong."
The spigot was installed at the plant as a compromise made by the Lawrence City Commission between fluoride opponents and proponents. The purpose is to make nonfluoridated water available for those who want it.
The installation, which cost $1,300, was completed April 28, according to Gene Vogt, director of utilities. As of Friday, eight plants were from four to 10 gallons home with them.
K. T. Joseph, chief chemist at the water plant, said that the spigad had an antracite coal filter to remove murky silt and sediment from the water, but that the filter did not remove any fluoride that was naturally present in the water.
He said Lawrence city water met all U.S. Environmental Protection Agency safety standards, although some people might not like the taste.
Most of Lawrence's water comes from the Kaw River and naturally contains 3. to 15 parts per million fluoride, according to Joseph, and 15 percent comes from wells, which contains .9 to 1.0 parts per million fluoride.
THE WATER THAT is diverted to the spigot, he said, undergoes the same treatment as the other water, except for fluoridation.
"Treated water will have some taste that may not be palatable to some people," he
ALBERT BURGSTAHLER, professor of chemistry, said he thought the water from the spigot tasted worse than regular city water. He said he had tested the water three times and found it to be per million fluoride, which could adversely affect people who are sensitive to fluoride.
Fluoridation in regular city water ranges from 8.0 to 2.1 parts per million, he said.
Mary Creeper, professor of chemistry, said she was sensitive to chemicals in water and added that the chemistry lab staff
stomach trouble She tried the water from the sippe, and it made her sick, she said.
"If I use the town water it takes three to four days. With this effect the longer took."
McKinney said he knew of two people who had become ill from drinking water from a faucet in the basement of their home.
McKinney said that the level of fluoridation present in the Kaw River was too high for some people, and that the quality of water in Lawrence might improve when the city started taking its water from Clinton Reservoir.
JOSEPH SAID that people who became ill from drinking the water might be allergic to some of the chemicals in it, much like some people who are allergic to milk or meat.
The water in Clinton contains about .1
per million fluoride, according to
McKinney.
"Once you get over, 3 parts per million,
my body notices," he said.
"The water, she said, does not taste bad. "It is different, and I like it better, especially when its been in the rejuvenator."
He said the spigot was "a terrible way of compromising."
Bette Baker, 412 Rockledge Place, said she had bottled water delivered to her by a company in Topeka for drinking purposes and for her clients.
“This way people have an alternative,” Drives Cox, Cox Hill Drive, “and it’s easier.”
BUT OTHER residents think the spigot is a good idea.
"I certainly don't think it solved the problem," he said.
John Huston, 2008 Vermont St., said he had tried the water and thought it tasted all too good.
"If it's not good for plants, then it certainly isn't good for me," she said.
But, he said it was quite a bother to go to the plant to get it.
Lawrence residents can get water from the spigot at the city water plant from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day. There is no charge for the wate.
Staff photo by BARB KINNET
Metal master
Elden C. Tefft, professor of art, stands next to the six bronze sculptures he and two assistants have been working on. Five of the sculptures have been restored to their original forms.
By RHONDA HOLMAN Staff Reporter
Bronze ornaments on campanile door polished, replaced
After more than 20 years of exposure to Kansas weather, their burned gleam has turned to a burnished black.
But the solemnity in the eyes of such figures as the slave and his chains, the braves who had been slaughtered and his rifle still are evident in the bronze door panels of the World War II Memorial Campaign. The panels were sculpted in 1964 by Bernard "Paco"
Arrangements were made for Frazier, sculptor-in-residence, to recast a replacement for the lost panel, Lawton said, but he died in May 1976 when the work could be done. Tefft was asked to take over the project.
This week, five of the 12 sculptures are being restored to their original coloration to match a sixth sculpture that has been reproduced by Elden C. Tefl, professor of art. Only the north door sculptures are being worked on.
Keith R. Lawton, director of facilities planning, said, "Several years ago two of the sculptures on the north doors were moved and they were replaced but the other has never been found."
FRAZIER WAS commissioned by the state to do the panels when the campain was built in 1951. He designed the campain and worked in Kansas. He used the expressive faces of Kansas men and women and the tools of their work to depict elements of the state's history, agriculture, violence and exploration.
The lost panel showed the state as a center for education and intellectual freedom.
"My work is a little bit different from
Tefft, who helped Frazier with the original bronze-casting in Mexico, said Frazier loved to tell stories about Kanaas bertage in conversation as well as in art.
Mr. Frazier's," Teft said." I tend to be a little more structural. He's a little bit more poetic."
BUT THE WORK being done on the sculptures by Tefft and several of his students is not without poetry. They carefully cleaned each blackened piece with fine bristles, commented on the deep emotions expressed on the faces of Frazier's works. They proudly smiled as their sculptures looked to look more and more like the others.
Tefft said that he started working from Frazier's design more than a year ago and that the actual casting work had been done this semester.
Teft said he began with a clay model of the design, which he used to make a plaster mold. He then pressed hot wax into the mold and later poured a mixture of plaster, silica, which is finely-grained and then laid on the wax figure to form the heat mold.
THE WAX IN the mold was burned out in a furnace and then the bronze was melted and poured into the space where the wax had been. When the bronze cooled and the mold was chipped off, blisters on the surface were criedless.
Tefft then used various acids to create the patina, bringing out the most beautiful color of the bronze. He did the same on the existing panels to insure that the bronze was a consistent color, he said.
The original casting process in Mexico was similar, Teft said, although the techniques were more primitive.
Tefft said recreating the sculpture's details—a tribalite, a tetrahedron and a lighted lamp symbolizing the state's roles in paleontological research, science and education—was important. But he added that he felt Frater had wanted to denit.
"I was more concerned about trying to get the feeling," Teft said.