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Handicap-accessible theaters scarce in Lawrence, several residents say
by Angela Clark
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Going to a movie at a theater is a routine experience for most Lawrence residents. But for those in wheelchairs, the experience poses a problem.
Just ask Jerry Vogel.
Just 84 Jerry Vogel.
Vogel likes to go to the movies, but the problem of finding a theater that is handicap accessible keeps him from some movies. He is in a wheelchair.
"The downtown theaters are just too hard to get to," said Vogel, Lawrence resident. "There are no handicap spaces for people to sit in, or they are on such a slant it is hard to sit balanced."
Trent Sloan is not wheelchairbound, but he sees the problems that face the handicapped in Lawrence theaters.
theaters.
Sloan was at the Granada Theatre,
1020 Massachusetts St., this summer
when he saw a handcapped man ask
for help to go to the upstairs bathroom.
The manager had to ask two
members of the audience to carry the
man to the bathroom.
"Handicap access is desperately needed," said Sloan, Lawrence resident. "The east part of Lawrence is full of the elderly and handicapped, and this is the closest theater that they can go to."
However, because the Granada and the Varsity Theatre, 1015 Massachusetts St., were built in the 1830s, handicap access was issued in the building applicable.
19th-century Kansas Park, coordinator of the Topeka Resource Center for the Handicapped, said that Kansas adopted the access laws in 1972 but that buildings built before that time did not have to comply.
"Unless they make extensive renovations, they do not have to comply with the Kansas access laws," Karr said.
Rance Blann, manager of the Granada Theatre, said that such renovations would be too costly for his theater.
"We try our best to deal with the handicapped here in town," Blann said. "But it would be quite expensive to take our upstairs men's room and place it so it is accessible. I'm not sure where we would put them."
"We would have to close the theaters before we could do it because the renovation would cost so much. We
would have to start over."
Gene Shaughnessy, city building inspector, said he thought that the Granada and Varsity theaters were the only ones that were not handicap accessible.
"To my knowledge, all other theaters have been built or renovated since that law was passed." Shaughnessy said.
Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St., installed a handicap-accessible restroom when the hall underwent renovations three years ago, said Maurice Simpson, a Liberty Hall employee.
But these are the exception in Lawrence, Vogel said.
employee. Vogel said he wished that all Laurence theaters were designed like the Hillcrest Theatres, Ninth and Iowa streets, or the Cinema Twin Theatres, 31st and Iowa streets. They have enough space for three or four people to sit together, and the space is level.
"In the Dickinson, you get boxed in," said Vogel. "You can't sit with the person you came with. Other theaters, it is too steep to sit or you sit right next to the doors and stick right out."
For some patients, a good laugh is just what the doctor ordered
The Associated Press
CHICAGO - Doctors can help relieve patients' pain by tickling their funny bones, a doctor said in today's Journal of the American Medical Association.
Journal of the American Rheumatologist.
Six outpatients at a Swedish medical center got significant relief from painful symptoms of muscle-bone disorders and from depression with a course of "humor therapy," said the center's Lars Ljungdahl, in a letter in the journal.
the journal,
a star, three nurses participated in a "humor group"
wil the patients, aged 26 to 48, at Lyckera Primary
Health Care Centre in Motala, Sweden, Ljungdahl said.
The group met 13 times, he said.
**Tale tip-up.**
"We used funny books, records, and videofilms and learned to give higher priority to humor in our everyday lives," he wrote. "The program also involved lectures on humor research and the regular use of relaxation programs, with suggestions that stimulated humor and joy."
The result was that fun correlated with relief from symptoms and the greatest reductions in symptoms of their illnesses occurred in people who had greatest degrees of amusement, Lijngdahl said.
Degrees of amusement and relief were graded by the patients on separate scales, he said.
patients or separate individuals. Independent psychological tests before and after the humor therapy also revealed an overall improvement in general psychological well-being, he said.
The Associated Press
Ljungdahl acknowledged that his results were only preliminary because of the small number of patients involved, the lack of a comparison group of healthy patients and the uncertainty of measurements. He called for more research.
"The study suggests that a humor-therapy program can increase the quality of life for patients with chronic problems and that laughter has an immediate symptom-releiving effect for these patients." Ljungdahl wrote.
State Republican party to celebrate Kansas Day this weekend in Topeka
at a downtown Topeka hotel.
TOPEKA — More than 1,000 Republicans are expected to gather in Topeka this weekend as the state party celebrates Kansas Day, the annual observance of the state's entry into the Union in 1861.
entry. Highlight of the activities, which begin today and continue through Sunday morning, is the annual Kansas Day dinner Saturday night at the Kansas Expoceintre. Most events are
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The top event today is the annual Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas dinner, honoring Marianna Beach
The main speaker for the dinner will be former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, but Sens. Bob Dole and Nancy Kassebaum also will speak. Kirkpatrick will not have a news conference while in Topeka and has said she will not speak from a prepared text.
of Havys as Kansan of the Year and U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Larry D. Welch as Distinguished Kansan. Welch is an Oklahoma native who graduated from Liberal High School in 1952.
The three GOP congressmen, Jan Meyers, Pat Roberts and Bob Whitaker, will be hosts at acceptions, will attorny General Robert T Stephan and Insurance Commissioner Fletcher Bell.
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