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Tuesday, April 24, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Burn...
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You remember that you used to walk, but you just can't do it," Anderson said.
He said that he was in constant pain after the nerves in his skin regenerated.
"It hurt so bad ... especially when they changed the bandages, because they would stick to your skin. Normally they gave shots to the pain, but sometimes they didn't." he said.
ANDERSON SAID that after he left the burn unit he stay inside his apartment for a year. He bathed and oiled his skin three times and exercised constantly to increase his probility.
"My skin would draw and I'd have to tear it loose, I made a game out of the pain, seeing how much I could take before I was able to see that it was better than being cut on." he said.
He said that when he wasn't bathing, he wore a Jobst body suit, a tight elastic suit that prevents scar tissue from forming, 23 hours a day for nine months.
He said he did not go outside his apartment because his skin tore and bruised.
"I couldn't fall or bump up against it, and my coordination was off from lying on my back for so long," he said. "My blood circulation always I stood up to m
"I BURNED my hands really badly, and I had to get used to touching things again, like steel, metal and flesh. At first my hands were insensitive that it hurt to touch anything."
Anderson said he had little sensation on the back of his hands, but that he had some feeling.
Anderson said that during his recovery he kept himself motivated.
"I've always been a leader. I've always been the best in what I did. I did and I like to do it."
"I decided that I was going to do what everyone told me. The encouragement came on my own. I didn't want my parents to see me crippled."
Mani said a patient's state of mind was crucial to his complete recovery.
"OUR FAILURES we can analyze and see that it is mostly the patient's fault. A man will refuse to exercise or wear the Jobst body suit and be scarced and crippled. Yet he will tell you it's everyone else's fault but his own."
He also said that patients go through different states when they arrive at the burn hospital.
"First they ask, 'Why me?' then, What am I going to do?" They may feel guilty if someone dies in the accident and they survive. Children have a feeling of punishment. They think that God is punishing them for something," he said.
Mani said that emotionally stable patients dealt with their injury, but that neurotic or psychotic people could not adjust and sometimes attempted suicide. Patients often refuse to leave the burn unit and face the outside world.
"WHEN THEY'RE out of the hospital is the hardest time for them," he said. "Here
they're used to people not staring at them.
When they get out, people do stare."
Anderson said people stared at him when he finally went outside his apartment.
"I was very self-conscious. My physique was totally gone. I had no muscle tone or
Anderson said he depended heavily upon his girlfriend and his roommate while he recovered. His roommate kept him from feeling sorry for himself, he said.
Although his roommate helped him do things such as change his dresses, cut his meat and get into and out of the bathtub. He did he not feel as if he had hardened him.
"I DID NOT want to be a burden, so I did all that I could do by myself. I left home at 17, and it hurt me to have others do stuff for me."
Anderson said the accident had created a strong bond between his girlfriend and him,
He said he visited patients in the burn unit whenever Mani asked him.
Anderson shows the patients his skin grafts and tells them how first, second- and third-grade patients use it.
Most patients are worried about their appearance, and said, and are amazed at his appearance of disfigurement.
Anderson said, however, that he did not want any recognition from the burn staff for his actions.
"I FEEL LIKE I'm helping someone like someone helped me. I can never repay them for saving my life, so whatever I can do for them, I will," he said.
Anderson, who draws disability insurance, said he was trying to get a job.
"I have to be really cautious because I can tear my skin or bruise it so easily. I can get too hot but because I can only sweat in certain places. I also have to bathe constantly and use ointments to keep my skin soft or it'll dry out, crack and it," he said.
Anderson said he thought he had completely adjusted to the accident and its consequences.
He said his skin always felt tight and frequently itched. He compared the itching to the feeling that most people get when they roll around in the grass in the summer.
He said that before the accident he was interested only in clothes, women, money and parties, but now those things were not important.
"I BELIEVE. IN mind power and in dreams. I had dreams as a kid that I'd never have to work in the future, and that I could live the lifestyle I chose. I also had dreams that I'd be hurt in an accident but that I'd still be attractive to women, and I am."
"I've changed. Girl looks at me like I'm a down-to-earth individual. I know where I'm coming from. I know where I've been," he said, because they know what I've been through.
Anderson said that in some ways, the accident had benefited him.
"I was living a fast life before. I believe that I tasted death, and I can relate a whole lot to the Bible from what I experienced. I was 'm part of a strong, positive power.'
KU insurance is 'luxury model'
By PATRICIA RICE
Staff Renorter
KU students pay more for student health insurance than students at some other universities, but according to Kyle Ward, the insurance agent, it's because they want more.
"insurance is like a car," Ward said recently. "You can buy it either the economy or the war."
The yearly premium for KU students is $215.40. At Iowa State University students pay an annual premium of $49; at Kansas State University, students pay $123.60.
And, he said, students at the University of Kansas have chosen the luxury model of insurance provided by Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
But each of those plans offers different benefits and each is sponsored by a difference.
THE MAJOR MEDICAL benefit in K-
State's policy has a $15,000 limit on claims
The insurance policies offered at K-State and ISU limit the amount that can be paid in certain areas. The plan at KU has unlimited coverage.
with any single period of sickness. The same coverage at ISU has a $10,000 limit
"In the past, there have been students at KU that have had $100,000 claims," Ward said. "The K-State plan wouldn't measure up to that."
K-State's insurance is carried by Mutual of Omaha. ISU's insurance is carried by Massachusetts Indemnity and Life Insurance Co. St. Louis, Mo.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which underwrites KU's insurance, also provides optional insurance plans for students at all Kansas, Kansas, and Fort Smith State University.
ABOUT 17 PERCENT OF the KU student body carries the optional Blue Cross and Blue Shield policy. In the 1977-78 school year, there were 3,499 single student policies, 159 student and spouse policies and 103 family policies.
KU's plan is a better buy because it offers benefits that other plans do not offer. Ward said. The KU plan pays for any prescription drug a student needs.
However, that benefit adds to the premium cost.
Nineteen percent of the premium of the KU plan goes toward the prescription drug benefit. It adds $3.37 a month to the single student premium; $6.96 a month to the student and spouse premium; and $1.91 a month to the family plan.
Ward said KU students wanted that benefit.
"TWO YEARS AGO, the Student Senate took a poll to see whether the students wanted the prescription benefit removed from the student against having it removed," he said.
The benefits offered in each university plan are selected by a health advisory committee.
According to Jeff Knox, chairman of KU's Student Health Service Advisory Council, he holds hearsings at least once a semester and terminates benefits students want in the plan. The board then submits the desired plan to different companies with an acceptance rate which but to accept.
"In the last six years, Blue Cross has been the only company to return a bid for two of its contracts."
This year, the board sent specifications to 15 insurance companies and agents, including Mutual of Omaha and Massachusetts Indemnity, he said.
"THEERE HAVE been no complaints about the policy, so we haven’t had to worry."
Nies Davis, students' attorney at K-State, said the Student Health Advisory team at K-State chose limited specifications to meet those specifications met by student needs.
"We feel our limit will cover anything that occurs," Davis said. "Of course we have exclusions and limitations on honors; we feel it meets our students' needs."
Though KU students have used their medical benefits at an above-average rate in the past, Ward said, use during the past two years has not been good.
He said that when benefits are not used, the company can adjust rates.
"We analyze the policy and see if a group is utilizing the benefits. Then the rates may be adjusted up or down," he said.
Realtors see industrial land needs
Staff Reporter
A shortage of land zoneed for industrial
By DAVID EDDS
A shortage or land zoned for industrial development is holding back Lawrence's economic growth, according to several local realtors.
Sam Shipstead of Holmes, Peck and Brown Real Estate, 802 Massachusetts St., said, "We could easily solicit firms to come to Lawrence. However, lack of industrial zoned land has limited industrial growth.
"There is a critical need in Lawrence for
land zoned for industrial use that has a railroad siding."
Glenn West, executive vice president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, agreed that there was a shortage of industrial land.
"An industry almost always wants proper zoning, a railroad站, utilities and infrastructure."
West said there were few tracts in Lawrence that met these specifications. He said buying a large tract of land for investment would make the county's economy would help the city grow economically.
JACK HARRIS, Lawrence postmaster
who has served on several Chamber committees concerned with industrial development, said that there was still land available for industries.
Harris said, "Lawrence still has quite a bit of a space that is zonesed for industry that doesn't have it."
Harris said he might be prejudiced about how much land Lawrence needed for industrial development because he owned land that is owed for industry.
"I don't think one piece of property is competitive with another, though," he said.
"When an industry wants to move into a
town they buy the land they want, no matter what the price is."
However, Harris said the city should be selective about which industries should be included.
Kelley Martin, of Martin Real Estate, 1424
K. 23rd St., and lawrence had been very selective about what kinds of industry had move into the city in the past two decades.
John McGrew of McGrew Real Estate, 1650 Kasd Drive, agreed that Lawrence should work to attract industry that is a "good citizen."
"Good citizen industry provides employment, but does not pollute," he said.
Supply checks minimize aged acid's threat
If the University of Kansas has a supply of pieric acid, a potentially explosive chemical that grows more dangerous with age, the supply is restocked frequently enough to keep it safe, Jack Rose, director of laboratory chemistry, said yesterday.
Rose said he was not certain whether KU kept a stock of the chemical, but he was not worried about its getting old if it were stocked.
"We make a continuing effort to get rid of acid chemicals, dangerous or not." Rid of acid chemicals.
The chemical, a yellow crystal, has a safe shelf life of about two years, but becomes dangerous after that. If dropped or jarred, it will explode with a force equivalent to dynamite.
Lawrence High School has no supplies of picric acid, according to Stanley Roth. Lawrence High School biology teacher. We will be the week at the high school found no picric acid.
POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE pieric acid has been found in nearly 30 Kansas schools, Dale Sayer, chief of the industrial safety department of Department of Human Resources, disclosed.
Some of it already has been destroyed locally, and arrangements are being made to have employees of the state Division of Emergency Preparedness of local law enforcement officers pick up the acid found in other schools and destroy it, Saylor said.
Last month, school officials in Penn-
sylvania and Kentucky discovered old
mortgage records.
**"WE CHECKED throughout the school- in the biology labs and the chemistry labs-"
"I went to the other teachers at our school and they just kind of laughed--there wasn't anything."
So far, there have been no reports of any of the acid exploding.
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ID card proposals discussed by AURH
Students who live in residence halls will have to wait a little longer to find out whether they will be carrying two ID cards next year, Chris Cline. former houseman, and last night at a meeting of the association of University Residence Halls.
Jay Smith, AURH president, wrote a letter to Bob Candolin, administrative officer for housing, asking for negotiations concerning posed identification systems to continue.
In the letter, Smith said separate IDs were a "seminarial unnecessary expense."
But Smith said a separate ID kept the U ID from being tied up at a hall desk. The ID was also used to monitor the door.
He said the KU ID would be freed for other uses, such as checking out library books.
THE IDENTIFICATION system also would help prevent non-hall residents from eating free meals and from parking in hall lots.
Because adequate parking has been a problem for hall residents, answers to a survey, which was mailed to residents of a nearby high school, could help alleviate the problem. Cline said.
One hall representative asked if the $75 allocated for long distance phone calls was based on KANS-A-N line or direct dial prices.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, a budget of $17 165 was approved for next year.
The KANS-A-N line is a leased, private long distance line which charges a cheaper rate than the city line.
Cline said the information in the survey pertained to car size and that hall lots would be restriped providing specific areas for large and compact cars.
Mark Myers, AURH programming chairman, said the $75 was based on directial rates and that it was the cheaper system for AURH purposes.
Housing services would incur most of the cost, she said.
She also said this would allow room for about 15 to 20 percent more cars.
Beauden a "strong increase in security" she said she did know how the system would be designed.
King to speak tonight
King, the father of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., is active in the work of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change.
King, also known as "Daddy King," is the head of a family that has matrical rights.
and has campaigned for other social reforms.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. will speak at p.m. tion in the Kansas Union Ballroom about his life experiences, his experience of the Civil Rights movement and his involvement with Baptist churches.
The University Lecture is open to the public. It is being sponsored by the office of
Lawrence police said today that they had recovered several items of clothing that apparently were worn by a man who robbed the Sizzlin Sizzlin Steak House, 2620 Iowa Avenue, Friday.
Clothes of thief recovered
The police said a T-shirt and a blue jean jacket were found near 27th Street and Ridge Court and a brown stocking cap and a black jacket were found near 28th and Iowa streets.
The police described the robber as a male in his late 20s, weighing about 235 pounds, about 6 feet 2 inches tall, with brown hair and a mustache.
The police said the items found at the two locations were similar to those worn by a man who threatened the clerk at the store. The police later fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN On Campus
TOMORROW: The French acting troupe COMEDIE FRANCAISE will present a lecture-demonstration of scenes from Moliere at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at Central University in Spencer Museum of Art. THE WEDNESDAY FORUM will meet at 11:45 a.m. at the Women's Row in the Business Affairs series, the second lecture in the Business Affairs series. WOMEN IN BUSINESS SERIES, sponsored by the KU Women's Center, will feature Jan Epperson speaking on careers in investment banking at 3:30 p.m. in room 112 C. Summerfield Hall. The KU SAILING CLUB will meet at 7 in Par轧 B and C in room 113 C. GUNG FU CLUB's weekly meetings will take place in Room H during the RECITAL KEVIN W. Crudder, cellist, will be at 8 in the Swarthout Burial Hall in Murphy Hill.
His request concerns only fares and does not ask for the deregulation of safety or insurance standards for cabs, Thompson said last night.
TODAY: THE EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION PROGRAM will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. A COMMISSION ASSISTING TERMINATION SEMINAR on numerical
geometry will begin at 2:30 p.m.
TONIGHT: THE WOMEN'S COALITION meets at 7 in Parlor A of the Union. The KU chapter of the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS will meet at 7:30 in the Jayhawk Room of the Union. MARTIN LUTHER KING SRI, will give a University Lecture titled "My Life Experience" at 8 in the Union Ballroom.
Following a request from Ward Thompson, president of the Yellow Cab Company of Lawrence Inc. and Union Cab Co., the company will discuss lifting control of the cab fares.
Commission to consider deregulation of taxi fares
Deregulation of city tax fares will be conferred by the Lawrence Commission on Taxation.
The request for deregulation came after the city deferred action on Thompson's
second rate increase request in six months, Thompson said.
The increase requests were prompted by rising fuel and maintenance costs, he said.
"I've got to raise my rates to stay in business," Thompson said. "If they don't deregulate, I don't know what I'm going to do."
The commission also will consider revising the city's sign ordinance at the meeting, which will be at 7 p.m. in the First Floor of the City Hall at Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
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April 27th, 2:30-5:00 Friday
Broken Arrow Park (29th & Louisiana)
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or
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