Fire ends Indian girl's hopes for a fulfilling life
Bv RICK PADDEN
Three brown fees
three brown faces ...
tense—over controlled faces
in a colorless and alien world
tense-over controlled faces
created for a private ritual
DON'T
of mourning among these strangers.
WORLD.
heatre
The faces were those of three Chippewa Indians from Cass Lake, Minn., as described by William Samuelson, a professor of secondary education at Emporia Kansas State College, who saw them in a
.m.
They were the faces of Gladys Drouillard and her two sons. Oliver and Gerald.
They had gone to the home of Gary and Marilyn Hall in Toreka for a wake Nov. 9.
It was the day after Shirley Drouillard, the youngest of their family, died from burns suffered in a fire Oct. 30 that raged through the house she was renting at 2305 Haskell.
58
Shirley lived for nine days after the fire, at the University of Kansas Burn Center in Kansas City,
Kan. Her 10-month-old daughter, Dawnis, died at the scene of the Saturday night about 11:30.
looking at nothing—seeing everything
Five times lioned
six dark eyes
in constant motion
Eyes turned inward
shy smile framed in northern sunlight
to visions of a clean
Shirley was 22. Shirley joined at Haskell Indian University in Lawrence and was majoring in electronics.
Gary and Marilyn Hall were Shirley's foster parents.
"She came to us in late September of 1974," Martyn said. "She was the most beautiful and pleasant person."
do not hear the hum and buzz
Pairs of forest-trained ears
do not hear the man and t of nearby human voices
of nearby human voices
Catching instead once more
Catching instead once mot
the teasing laughter
that the world will never bear again.
Betty Notat, the manager of Winona Hall, where
Shrivel lived in the loss of 1974 before giving birth to Dawni, said, "She was only here a couple months before she decided to go back home to help her mother, but she returned for the spring semester. She was a very quiet person. She'd stay in her room by herself much of the time."
'She wanted to help her mother with her mother. Noth said, 'Her education was so poor.' She said.
Notah said Shirley came to Haskell so she could eventually get a good job in Minnesota.
Shirley was known for excelling at Indian bedwear, Notaah said, and she spent most of her free time in the summer making necklaces, medallions and key-chains out of beads.
This semester she taught a beading class at Winona Hall to earn some extra money.
lightly stroke the headwork . . .
The woman's fingers
a sort of rosary or song
as she remembers
"There was never any doubt in my mind that Shirley wanted to keep her baby, but she didn't want to marry the father," Marilyn Hall said. "She just didn't think it would work out."
"Sirley had mentioned to me that she had a "morayland back in Minnesota," Nolan said. "In '14, I was the head of the club."
a small gallery queen
endless designs in leather and glass.
In early October, arrangements were made for Shirley to stay in a locker home.
Then Shirley's life became more complicated.
Hall helped deliver the baby at St. Francis Hospital in Topeka, Dec. 7, 1975.
Shirley moved back to Lawrence and lived at Winona Hall for a short time before moving to an apartment with a woman from California named Gardenia Varsley.
GARY HALL said Shirley would continue with her education even though it would be more difficult.
"She thought Dawnla was the most wonderful, beautiful gift she could ever have," Marilyn said. "It was a big surprise."
"I took her down to the school in late December to see about getting her back there for the fall semester," Gary said. "She was incredibly excited when she found out she could back to school for
Vanley dropped out of school last summer, so Silky looked for a house and rented one at 206 Broadway.
the spring semester, which was much sooner than she had expected."
FAITH STANDSBLAACK, a PONCA, ORK
IN SEATTLE. Haskell moved, in 1903,
in September
"She was very private," Standblack said. "She rarely said very much to anyone and seldom went down to the Union where people would gather to talk."
"Dawns was her whole world. If Dawns got hurt she got hurt."
Shirley was trying hard to make things work. Gary Hall said that although Shirley received dozens of donations, the money she had
o not many if not few to help the need
See FIRE ENDS page eight
Weary legs
While other couples danced, Cheri Bliss, Shannon Mission freshman, took a breather during a muscular dystrophy benefit dance at Bugsy's. The marathon, which lasted from 4 p.m. Friday until 4 p.m. Saturday, was the second of three Gamma gorilla sorceries and Delta Tau Dell and P1 Kappa Alba fraternities.
Psyched-up hoofers pace out marathon
Staff Writer
By STEVE FRAZIER
Customes on the dance floor ignored the marathon dancers. The dancers' friends, sated at tables, watched sympathetically when dancers reached over from the floor for a quick drink of water, their feet constantly moving.
"You have to keep your feet moving. You can't dance on your knees.
See MARATHON page eight
"If you get stomach cramps or headaches, we can't give you medication. If you get muscle cramps, strains or sprains, we have a guy here who worked on a fire truck—he's a paramedic—and he'll help you.
"Readv—let's dance."
With those words at 4 p.m. Friday, Jim Miller, Kellerton, Iowa, sophomore, started eight couples dancing for the Muscular Dystrophy Dance Marathon, sponsored by Delta Children and Delta Tau Delta and P.I Kappa Alpha fraternities. The marathon was at Bugs's, 642 Massachusetts St.
AS PAYING customers filtered in Friday evening, they were met at the door by an empty wheelchair leaning against a cigarette machine, a reminder of the muscular dystroph cause. Six marathon dancers, all clad in T-shirts that read "Help Schick Deef Feet Muscular Dystrophy."
The dancers said participation was painful. One couple dropped at 7:30 a.m. Saturday because the woman had a swollen ankle. The seven couples who remained until the end sported a variety of blisters, strains and cramps.
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS later, seven couples were still dancing. They had raised $2,939 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and Miller, marathon coordinator, said the marathon had been successful.
Pat Turner, Bugsy's disc jockey,
started the marathon dancing with
"You Should be Dancing." Some of the
dancers, themselves, cased into their dance
steps. They were to take 10-minute
breaks each hour, and half-hour breaks
every four hours, except from 8 p.m. to
5 p.m., when they was to dance nonton.
The music and the dancers stopped for a midnight break. The dancers lay on the floor in silence or sat, taking in the water and drinking ice water or orange juice.
Overlooking the marathon dancers and regular customers was a large poster that read: "Help Schick Fight Muscular Dystrophy: Dance For Those Who Can't. Schick Injector, Schick Super II. Schick Double-Edge."
clambered onto the stage and danced in unison as the sound system blared "Shake, shake, shake—shake your boote."
But as one song stopped and the next began, another difference from the regular customers appeared. No matter how many people joined, one song into the next, regular customers would pause for a few seconds to catch the beat of the new song. The marathon dancers, although equally unsure of how to dance to the music, were able to move and moved into more active dancing after they had heard a few bars.
Bill Oster, a muscular dystrophy National Youth Committee representative from Springfield, Mo., explained, "Schick saw the dance parenthood," a good way to get parity, so they supply the posters and the T-shirts.
ONE OF THE dancers had unbuttoned the straps of his overalls. They dangled behind him and slapped his jes when he whirled.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.60
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Lack of KU help killed bike plan
Monday, November 15, 1976
By JOHN MUELLER
Lawrence didn't get federal money for its proposed Pedalplan bikway system primarily because it didn't rely on the University of Kansas for help in preparing the plan, a regional official of the U.S. Department of Transportation said Saturday.
Staff Writer
The official, Terry Isaacson, Kansas City, Kan., said he rejected Lawrence's application for $85,572 in federal funding largely because Manhattan, which will get bakey money, used students from Kansas to help write the city's funding request.
Wichita, the other city in Kansas receiving bibway money, did a better job than Lawrence in tying its planned downtown business district, Isaacson said.
MILES SCHACHTER, Pedalplan project director and an employee in the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Office, wrote the letter below. The city city manager, have said they don't know
why Lawrence was denied its request for federal money.
Schachter said last night that he was the only person assigned by the city to work on the report because the city was notified of the report only a month before it was due.
CHACHTCHER SAID K-State had offered a course in engineering analysis that related to bikeway planning, and had been better prepared for the availability of federal money camp.
The federal money is awarded as part of a $6 million demonstration program under the Federal Highways Act of 1973. Programs began in cities receiving grants will be models for other bikeway programs in the country.
Schachter said recently that a regional agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation decided to award bikeway development funds to Wichita, Fort Scott
and Manhattan. However, Isaacson said
cities setting menu cut from the list of
 cities setting menu.
THE DECISION TO Cut Fort Scott was made at a national level, according to the school board in the nation's 41 demonstration projects. Isaacson said other cities in his region getting money were Kansas City, Mo., Springfield, Mo.; Lincoln, Neb.; and Iowa
Isaacson said that Manhattan's funding request was "a whole lot better" than the one written by Schachter. This wasn't because the Lawrence Pedalplan was written, he said, but because Manhattan had used many people to write its report.
"I'm a KU graduate myself," Isaacson said. "I favor college towns, and with K-State, they had the whole university in the background of engineering students, studies, the works."
MANHATTAN ALSO had committed itself more strongly to investing matching funds, Isaacson said. Federal funds pay for 80 per cent of the city's bilevel development
Veterans to investigate election
Staff Writer*
program, but finding the rest of the money is up to the city.
By STEVE LEBEN
A committee to investigate alleged irregularities in last May's Campus Veterans election will be formed as a result of a general veterans meeting Friday.
Pedalplan was to have included bicycle paths and lanes across Lawrence. It would be difficult to imagine a current bikway system, which has two major routes on two sides of Mt. Orcad, and connected the Deerfield area of northwest Lawrence with the central business district.
These charges include:
After a 45-minute discussion of charges made by Mike Dixon, Lawrence senior, and Claire McCheney,校对 16-1 to establish a committee to investigate the charges.
—That one ballot was changed after voting took place.
The project was estimated in the report to cost $230,926. The first phase proposed 8.6 miles of bikeways, costing $106,909, which would have been completed by spring 1978.
— That last year's officers, including a candidate in the election, counted the bats.
Lawrence's Pedalman, according to a city report, would have comprised five phases. Each phase would have taken no longer than five years to complete, and the entire project was to be completed within 20 years.
That voting ended before at least four people could vote.
-That one candidate's name was left off the newspaper advertisements announcing
THE FIRST four hours of the meeting were spent ratifying a new set of bylaws. The new bylaws didn't specify how new elections would be arranged.
McChris presented a petition of 50 signatures as a "partial petition" to request
"WHAT ARE your charges?" Evans asked.
Lawrence had counted on 80 per cent of the students to attend school without federal funding, Schachter said, Lawrence lacks the $52,572 to start Pedalplan and in the 'inscoring stage' of schooling.
Bill Evans, Campus Veterans president, said the newly approved byaws don't allow for a call for new elections. They allow only candidates with more than 50 of officers for specific charges, he said.
"There are no charges specified"
"Mchristy replied. 'We'll get charged and
we're going to pay.'"
Skip Liepman, Lawrence junior, asked McChirtt to detail "what concerns him so much" about the lawsuit.
After McChristy and Dixon discussed their questions about the May election, Liepman said, "I admit that there are some irregularities present. I like to move that a committee be established of non-work capable to study the election procedures."
LIEPMAN SAID work study personnel,
Isaacson said that Lawrence was almost, but not quite good enough to get his contract signed.
See VETS page eight
Posts open for Kansan
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager for the spring semester Karsan are available in 105 Flint Hall, the Student Senate Office in room 105B in the Kansas Union, and in the offices of the dean of women. The application deadline is 3 p.m. Wednesday.
Interviews will begin Friday.
Applicants will be notified of the time and place of their interviews.
Inventor trying to make life easier
By STEVE FRAZIER
Staff Writer
A world crammed with electric toothbrushes and disposable diapers still has needs that an inventor can fill.
"Every now and then. I wake up in the night and yell
Bill Bahr
Staff photo
"Eureka!" Bill Bahr, Hays graduate student, said. "Wad, I don't really feel well, but I do wake up in the night with a headache."
Bairn has patented a device for easy home haircuts and Air Bairn, a game that combines characteristics of footwear and gaming.
If more of Bahr's other ideas receive patents, the world might also have longer-lasting shoes, new scientific games and a device that would ensure that plants got the proper amount of sunlight.
BAHR ALSO has invented things he later discovered weren't really new.
"I reinvented the games 'Strategy' and 'Tank Commander', which I didn't know existed," he said. "I was telling a friend of mine who works at Gibson's about my new games, and he said, 'Hey, I sell those down in
"Another time, I invented a detachable belt buckle that could be used as a corsetwear, knife or bottle opener. I got all the way to the patent office before I discovered that some old gut bag in 1880 had invented the same thing."
INVENTING IS a special sort of creativity, Bahr said,
but it's "something anybody can learn."
"It all involves in the meeting of two different ideas, then merging them in to one new one," you take. "You have to talk about it."
"Whenever I run into a problem, I think, 'Isn't there an easier way to do this?' I try to remember the need for a solution and imprint it on my subconscious, then let my subconscious work on it from there.
"THIS IS MY hero," Bahr said as he pointed to a framed drawing of Thomas Edison on his office wall.
"I nurture the item by looking through technical catalogs or by just going shopping. I try to see how others have solved similar problems." "My mind moves from thought, then the idea usually comes in a flash."
When Bahr gets a good idea, he writes it down in a book that the date notarized to avoid dispairs with other inventors.
"Edison would first find a crying need, then to try for something to fill that need. He gathered around him a bunch of really creative people, and when they started tossing arms around, the inventions got to be just like fire."
"I've heard that Alexander Graham Bell substantiated his claim to the patent for the telephone with a dated letter to his wife that mentioned his work on the telephone," he said.
Bahr's invention for home haircuts consists of a pair of barber's scissors pierced by a threaded shaft, the user spins the scissors along the shaft until he reaches the desired length. The cutter then shaft against his bead and hetns lift and lock a lock of hair.
The process is repeated all over the user's head, producing what Bahr called a layer haircut of professional quality. He said he would soon advertise the device in national magazines at $5.95.
"OVER A LIFETIME, the amount saved on haircuts would be enough to buy a Cadillac." Bahr claimed. "I showed it to Revlon, Clairel and Gillette, but they're not really getting well on the market and improving them."
The Brunswick company, a large manufacturer of co-
operative appliances, had been in Ruhr's "Air Ball" era,
but said, but hasn't started to do so.
"They told me not to feel too bad--after all, air hockey
the shelf for five years before they started to deviate."
Bahr said he began tinkering in new communications devices when he was a member of the Army Signal Corps, which be entered after graduating from West Point military academy with an engineering degree.
HAIR SAID HE left the army to "pursue interests outside of a military environment." He received master's degree in psychology and business from Ball State University, where he is now working on a doctorate in business at KU.
After he gets his degree, Bahr said, he would like to expand his inventions business or work for Marvin Glass Co., an inventor "think tank" firm from Chicago. With the company, Bahr said, he would like to help other people's inventions—perhaps occasionally yelling 'Eureka!' and reaching for his idea book.