Toomey J Gazette (Vol. 9, No. 1, 1966 - Polio Place

Toomey j 

Vocational Rehabilitation *Wheelchairs.1966

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he TOOiY j GAZETTE is ~"bli~h~d once a year by a staff 

or [hori znntal] severely dtsabled and their Ever? i ra i] 

"on-disabled volunteering friends. It is incorporated as 

a non-profit, tax-deductible organization vnder the name 

of Iron Lung Folios 8 1.4uZtigZegics, Tfic. 

IOhiol. Ron Perrv 11!.Y. 1. Sue iiilliams lchcorin FalZsl 

ARTIST: Bob Tanton [kZa.l l.l,4Ri?ET PLACE: Etickie McGraw [Ohio] 

COFRRESPOI!DENTS: Elargaret Anderson [!!inn. I, Helen Bourne [If.?. 1, 

Peter Collie IS. Africll, Jane Cornstock [0kZ1.1, Yary Ellen Davis 

[Colo. I, Ralph Dosch [Cal. I, Paul Driver [Eflglmdl, Nary Jane 

Paul1 [Tei.], Sack Fuller IAZa.1, JoAnn Goodin [i.!ic-h.1, Ira Holland 

(11. Y. 1, A1 Hollowap [Ohio]. Vince La Mielle [l.;icir. I, Charles Lyser 

FREE io respos. other wads and all severely aiiabled. 

QUADS are quadriplegics (or terraplegics) - - those 

whose four limbs are paralyzed or useless because of 

disease or injury. RESPOS are respiratory polios -- 

LCnZ.1, Jean Mead ICana&l. mrgaret Norris [Fia.], Betty O'Leary 

[Ohio], Gene Prichard [Ohiol; Juanita Pusareri [CaZ.l, Sally 

Russell [Kg. I. Jan Service [llriz. I, Bob Smith [I1n. I, Dana Sranton 

[Cnlo. I, Betty Weisensel [El.?. I, Nancy Wesrean [FZo. 1 

i'EClCAL C9IlilLThEII: Duncan A. Holbert, M.O. [CnL.] 

qvads who require mechanical breathing aids, such as FF31.'3TiCV: Bud Blitzer [CrrZ.], Ben Gerson [OGio] 

iron lungs, etc. Lt?ILTIPLE'IICS include all who have 

two or more paralyzed or useless limbs because of injury 

or cerebral palsy, rheumatoid arthritis, rnuscular 

dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, etc. 

\'eitical [!!on-diiasied] itcf f 

:.:allA:lI:5 EPIT:": Gini Laurie [C;inprii! raZls] 

Cl?TULPTI?N: Louise BarCholomew and Kay Tenney [Chql?,in ?ails] 

CiAGPlll FALLS !TACFESt: Bette Close, Dorothy Khadder, Sally Schmidt, 

$1 minimum donation delicately suggested to ncn-aisaoled 

Xary Ann Svec. ;LfI.':!EL: Suzy 6 Janet Bartholornew, Cindy Close, Josie 

Elarch Konicky, Sally March, Debbie Pettibone, Kristie Williams. 

TECH:'IICPL kD\'ICGG: Paul Schmidt STAFF SECRETAD'(: Ruth Carlton 

TjG AIM: To reach, to i,lfonn, md to dignify all EDUCAT!C#N: Paul L. Essert, Ph.D. ID.?.] H'lilSiilG: Ginny Hamann [i?k:ii] 

respi~ator~ polios, rmd all othe~ severely disabled Fno!?oilO~l: Bill Close [Chqr,iii FoZlsl, pearl ~sserc [z. i'. 1, xa:ancy 

you* adults, throughout the world. 

Hoover [Sw;tzerlandl, Frieda Hutchins, R.N. [Fia.], ~rooke owens 

[DeZ.],.Dr. 6 Mrs. H.B.C. Sandiford [ErigZo,~d]. Bea Schmock [Cai. 1 

. Africa: Ian Eonpas, 2 Usvie RoaC. Gleneiliey, Curtan, :out5 Atiica 

m Australia: liax Rarson, ';lard I:. Fairfielo H,zsp:tal, iair'ield, Victoria 

. Canada: k b Gordon, Fea,r;or nclio ?avilisr, 700 W. 57th P~a,,~V~ncou~er 14, 5.C. 

. Czechoslo.,it.ia: 5iIadinir KvapiI, BLIC'IY, !.$rain; 344, c

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ZFECiAL TZATJRE: '1 0 C A 7 1 ? '! k L R E M k E 1 L 1 7 7 I

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NEW Legislation.. .NEW Potential 

Tremendous rehabilitation potential merit services and ~~pervi~ian of small ing; equipment and licenses; and the 

opened to the severely disabled with businesses operated by the disabled. ~peciali~ed guidance of a trained counthe 

enactment of the 1965 Amendments to selor to help you ro live to capacity.m 

the Vocational Rehabilitation Act. m In addition to direct services to 

For all our disabled readers, we express 

our special gratitude to Pliss 

nary E. Switzer, Commissioner of Vocarional 

Rehabilitation, whose dedicated 

efforts implemented the passage of this 

the disabled, the Act is designed to improve 

and expand rehabilitation facilities 

and to provide training services 

and training allowances. 

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constructive legislation. m We suggest that you study the bill 

(P.L. 09-33]) carefully. You can secure 

m One of the most significant proui- a summary and a helpful pamphlet, "For 

sions of the Act is that a State reha- the Disabled: Help Through Vocational 

bilitation agency can provide services Rehabilitation," from: REHABILII,\IIO?: 

before vocational rehabilitation poten- RECORD, \'ocational RehabiliLaCian Adcia1 

is determined. ministration, 1;ashingron. D.C. 20201. 

Another change of fundamental signi- 

ficance is the elimination of the Feder 

a1 requirement chat an individual's fi- 

nancial need be determined before cer- 

tain services are provided. 

m The new law includes support far 

special projects to expand the numbers 

of the disabled vocationally rehabilitated 

and for special State agency projects 

to develop innovative efforts to 

meet the needs of the severely disabled. 

The Amendments also include manage- 

We urge you to analyze the vocation- 

al rehabilitation experiences of other 

severely disabled in the follarring pa- 

ges and to rake a new and buoyant look 

at your olrn potential. 

Consult or reconsult wifh your local 

rehabilitation agency to determine what 

services you may need provided. These 

services mag include: medical or sur~i- 

cal treatment; braces or assistive de- 

vices: tuition far college, training 

school, or home study; costs of board, 

room, and transportation during traio-

A Word 

from the Commissioner 

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Thc 1963 ,\mendm?ntr to rhr hnriooal Rrhnbilitation Art mflcct the 

v~c,~. and practicai~y crcn. p~pmcnt mi the rchrhi:itaiion r~olr in thr 

Cniied States tday. Thus, it is not rimply r rl!anee in a Federal larr or in 

the Federal-Scate prapm ai \-ocacional rchahiliration. Rather, rhc new 

act is a rallying ,,"i,,t lor roluntrr\ a,,d puhlic a.cncier. rehahilitalinn ernterr 

irorkrho~r. ,,nir?riilini, and all who are ronrelclrd i.,,h roosruc,irr 

Ilro.ras,s iorhirahled jro~,le. 

I hope that our '-rehahilitation community" $rill make lull itre oi the new 

provi~ioni oi law within &is spirit of common eKon. 

The Federal-State proamin is crnain to gio,r markedly in rhc ncrt few 

yearr-in the voli~me of re~~ices ii renden to rltarply increased nrirnkn d 

dirahled people. in thequality and effmriveneaoiirr work. in io ~~wcial skill. 

~n dralins r.ith rnnoul handicappine conditiot~i. in thc dcrelolm~esr and 

ue of facilities and \vorbhopr. and in ca-inj out its miponxibiliris for 

leadcnhip and ririrtancc to all mhzbiltntion proorami. It is vital that rhe 

number, of disrhlcd people rcrrlipd zncl rchrhiiitalerl by the State aqencicr 

be expanded thin th? Con?reri fully expcti oi for ,his %%.a 

certainly one ai its renrnl obiccrires in prrrinr the 1963 nmmdmcntr. 

But the Administration md tbc Connrcr5 listened to, rlld le..irlatcd for. 

v~ltmrq ar~anbrrions and initirutions ar \irIl. 1.11~~ "01 oiily izhimetl 

le?irlation ~,~Ilich will pio\idr morc finac?rial anistmcr in a ranety of ways 

to puhlic and priilte prosrams: lhcr did ir Grh rhc clear iilteniion oi ">ins 

there aitillonricl in lutr to hriik puhlic arid volunti17. aaerlcie5 clorcr 

to~erilcr on hehall ai Ihc diiahled perrnn %. ,rho 

pmxcnted testimony and m imprcsrivc array ai facts and eypeticncc before 

conqresional camnlitleei. and who maintained an u8ifla55inq interest until 

the le$rlr,ion qa.rigncd into laic. 

If ,no,r becomes our nluioal rerponribility to ao iron! legislatire action tn 

pm%ramin~. \Ye 'must do thir nithour delay. ior the Conrrerr ,rill be re- 

%?CII.~C~R the rerule of tlii. Iel.ir1ation in a ren- short rime. It rill emect. . , 

and \rc murt iunlirh. a rcrord oi outstandin. rcliicrcment. psnicularly 

rrithin the next ? ycm. Pmbleml of "~paod~d ~t~ffi"~. orgmirarion oi 

new nrocramx. enahlislm~enr of I~PI~. relaciunxbil~r-the 

lllinlr must he worked our with $kill and dirpltch. 

and manr other 

Ahcad of or lit drr~ of rrer~~endao. potniiial-rimer ~%llen rchahilitnion 

work ior the dirableil \rill hc mmiur iully mi rrr is, tlic L-nitcd Starer. I 

hope crcly penon in rcha1,iliratinn sharer n,y rcnx "i excitcmcnt a 

xrc nlore inio this faicinrtir>e and ~hrilet~ginc neu rrxze oi dcrcialm,enr

REPORT ON A STUDY OF 

REHABILITATION OF THE SEVERELY DISABLED 

by Donna WcGwinn (respol Ohio 

For many years rehabilitation workers have looked with 

despair at the severely disabled. Their need for rehabil- 

itation was obvious, but their handicaps were so forbid- 

ding that they tended to squelch even the boldest hopes. 

Some believed the severely handicapped were hopeless, 

while others thought something could be done, but they 

weren't quite sure what. To answer this question, and to 

test the belief of possibility, the California Division 

of Vocational Rehabilitation launched a program in 1955 

to rehabilitate a group of severely disabled persons. 

With the help of federal funds, a broad,liberal, explora- 

tory study was set up. 

"Nan's venture into the darkness of the unknown often 

is preceded by the glimmer of a light which may only ex- 

ist as an idea." 

These are the words that introduce the report on the 

California study. They are pertinent words, for the prob- 

lems and possibilities of rehabilitating the drastically 

handicapped have long been enveloped in the darkness of 

ignorance. It was into this darkness that the counselors 

participating in the program penetrated the light of 

their hope and ideas, shining them on the most challeng- 

ing cases. Free rein was given their imagination,and the 

results were inspiring, living tributes to their crea- 

tivity. 

Each of the counselors was assigned to a different re- 

6 habilitation centex, with assisting medical and para- 

medical personnel. They worked with 254 persons with severe 

disabilities between the ages of 16 and 44. Vocational 

goals were not specific or limited, but a vast 

spectrum considered and evaluated. If one idea didn't 

work, another was tried. There were fe,~ restrictions an 

imagination, services, or expenditures. 

The results were astounding. Of this heretofore "hopeless" 

group, 100 were rehabilitated. This definition included 

those who became capable home-makers or simply 

partially self-supporting. On the study follow-up 12 to 

18 months after the cases had been closed as rehabilitated,the 

average earnings of the clients were $81 weekly. 

The maximum pay was $220 a week, and the minimum $5. 

Fifty-six per cent of those contacted had been promoted 

within eighteen months. 

There were other interesting conclusions from the 

study. For instance, the mast important attribute of the 

severely handicapped client in achieving rehabilitation 

is motivation. Not adjustment, acceptance of paralysis, 

or emotional maturity as popularly theorized, but the 

client's willingness to use his remaining capabilities 

to accomplish something. 

The most important quality for the counselor was the 

ability to see things not as they were but as they could 

be. This imaginative vision is also essential in the cli 

ent. It is especially beneficial in determining what mechanical 

devices might make the client more productive

and independent. If the counselor or client can define a 

problem and set up specifications for the solution, even 

a handyman or local mechanic can build the needed item. 

It was found that mechanical assistive devices make it 

possible for many to perform competitive tasks. 

It was also concluded that the attractiveness of equip- 

ment and assistive devices was important. If the client 

refused to wear or use an ugly, bulky brace or device, 

it would be of little benefit. This confirmed what the 

severely disabled had known all along, that we persist 

in being human with all the accompanying vanities and 

foibles of that state. 

Assistive and adaptive devices frequently decide the 

success or failure of rehabilitation. One typical diffi- 

cult problem in modification of devices was the vocation- 

al need of one man to use a tape recorder simultaneously 

with a telephone. Both instruments had to be operated 

with knee movements because the client's upper extremi- 

ties were completely paralyzed. When a satisfactory set- 

up was established, this man was prepared to handle a 

magazine subscription agency. 

This particular problem, and many more, were solved 

through the imaginative mind of Mr. A. G. Garris, one of 

the counselors on the projecc. Elr. Garris's interest in 

the severely disabled is profound and sincere,and he has 

extended a generous offer to help any GAZETTE readers 

who have mechanical assistive problems. He states chat 

he can usually give help to enable the handicapped per- 

son to tackle the problem in a way that will give de- 

sired results. Stressing that he is nor an electronic 

expert, he requests that any letters seeking mechanical 

assistive help contain as much information 

as possible.He suggests~reading the letter 

to an intelligent listener and then incor- 

- , g porating the listener's questions in the 

1etter.Address: Mr. A. G. Garris, Dept. of 

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t - - Rehabilitation, 107 South Broadway, Los 

ingeles, California 90012. 

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Home environment is exceedingly important in the re- 

habilitation of the severely disabled. The home that is 

well-equipped to care for the client promises to con- 

tinue as a stable, functioning unit. Xeglect in consider- 

ing those who care for the client can destroy the best 

vocational plans. 

Another optimistic finding of the study was that every 

client benefited in some way from the rehabilitative ef- 

forts. The 145 who did not achieve employment gained in 

self-care, better home care, or greater and happier self- 

acceptance. 

The method of rehabilitating the severely disabled was 

made evident in the study. Xeeded was proximity to a met- 

ropolitan area where a complete evaluation could be made 

by a team of experts and where there would be available 

specialized rehabilitation facilities, training, and job 

opportunities; well-Functioning home environment: ade- 

quate self-care; a rehabilitation goal based on estab- 

lished work tolerance; suitable training; and modifica- 

tion of the work area and types of durics performed. 

Shorter hours of work are often necessary. Maintenance 

medical care may be required. Rehabilitation services 

must be brought to the client. All the principles of se- 

lective placement need to be applied when rehabilitation 

services are completed. Energy needed for vocational em- 

ployment must be conserved by making home care as effic- 

ienc as possible. Axad then, anything is possible! 

One of the case studies in the report is a typical ex- 

ample of rehabilitation success. A woman almost totally 

paralyzed by arthritis required constant attendance for 

8 feeding, personal care, and transferring back and forth 

from bed to chair. Among her limited assets was a gregar- 

ious, pleasant personality,and it was decided this could 

best be utilized with a telephone answering service. 

The rehabilitation agency arranged for a ten-line key 

cabinet with toggle switches instead of plugs to be in- 

stalled by the phone company. The cabinet was placed on 

a hospital-type over-bed table, to he operated from her 

wheelchair during the day, and from her electric Gatch- 

type bed at night. She could raise herself by using a 

specially built switch to handle night calls. The agency 

arranged a zoning change, helped her obtain a business 

license,provided answering service tutoring, and invited 

various organizations to contribute services and money. 

The result was that this woman eventually cleared a 

profit of $1500 a month with her telephone answering ser- 

vice. Total expenditure was $3,242.72. Total return to 

the community was estimated at $85,000 in gross earnings. 

The successes and innovations described in this report 

were derived from one study into rehabilitation of the 

severely disabled. Another federal grant has been re- 

quested by the same agency for a planning program to ex- 

and upon the findings of this study.1t is now felt that 

it has not been only the formidable cost of serving the 

severely disabled that has allowed them to be overlooked, 

but the lack of knowing how to serve them. As indicated 

by the 1965 Amendments to the Vocational Rehabilitation 

Act, these obstacles have been recognized and are thus 

on the way to being overcome. The first filters OF light 

are opening the darkness. The beam of rehabilitation has 

expanded to include & handicapped persons, and to this 

development we say, "Tr'elcome!" t)

Tere 

is a potential area for job 

opportunities in transcribing stenotype.We 

have all seen, either on TV 

or in the movies, shorthand reporters 

taking down verbatim the testimony 

of a witness at a trial, or a 

speech at a meeting or convention. 

The reporters use a little machine 

that translates the words into a 

stenographic code of phonetic symba1s. 

The phonetic symbols recorded on 

Susan Armbrecht (respo) Ohio 

IZZustrnteC by 

Xickie >lcGraw (respa) Ohio 

and that's where I come in.^ friend 

who sells stenographic and dictating 

machines tllaught it was a perfect 

opportunity for someone who is 

severely disabled to be able to provide 

this "translatingn service. He 

contacted the local Bureau of Vocational 

Rehabilitation and they are 

giving me the necessary assistance. 

I vould be the first to do this 

in the home. I feel that it is very 

important, therefore, to emphasize 

the rolls of paper provide a record 

of the testimony; usually the reporter 

in his "spare time" translaces 

these symbols back into words 

by speaking to a dictaphone or oththat,although 

I am being trained by 

a firm of stenotype and shorthand 

reporters, it does not necessarily 

guarantee my employment. As in any 

field, being the trail blazer is 

er recording instrument, so that not always easy. It is difficult to 

they can be typed by a competent 

secretary. 

But the "spare time" is often 

very spare, and much more precious 

say what road-blocks I will run into, 

but the potentiality in this 

field will make the effort of studying 

a new "language" well worth it. 

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HOME-BASED BOOKKEEPING SERVICES 

i. ,d,,,?esa --. ~n: .l;i iizco-z :a ~ aymsri~ ~ioaid pii3 

back tile soel-eneiri wit: irtmest. . ." 

by Charles Lysei 

(respa) Czliforoia 

Disabled Seekers of work LXITE! Get your pens 

and columnar pads! You have nothing to lose but 

your Social Security Disability! Yes, having a 

bookkeeping services business even in your home 

can be most remunerative and satisfying.However, 

in this day of payroll taxes,excise taxes,sales 

taxes, depreciation changes, etc., etc., it is 

essential ta have at least a minimum of book- 

keeping training and accounting theory as well 

as some understanding of the income tax struc- 

ture. 

TO the initiated 'debits and credits,"bal-' 

ance sheets,' and 'income statements' can be 

hopelessly confusing, but if accounting theory 

is understood at an early stage all of the work 

will be accomplished with little difficulty. To 

illustrate: there was once an office headed by 

a man who had won his position through sheer 

grit plus hard work.As the years went by a good 

part of the office force had noticed that when 

their boss was deeply involved in a perplexing 

situation, he would invariably open the left 

desk drawer, glance at something contained

therein and then come forth with a decision unhesitating- 

ly. One day when the boss was on vacation, his assistant 

decided that he must have a look in the drawer. There 

neatly printed in the boss's hand were the words,"DEBITS 

ARE ON SIDE NEXT TO WALL." 

Following are the suggestions and information gleaned 

from 8 years of experience: 

m Enroll and complete a reliable correspondence 

course in accounting. State Rehab. renders liberal as- 

sistance to qualified disabled individuals by paying for 

tuition and equipment.lJhen I expressed amazement at this 

same 10 years ago I was informed that once I was a suc- 

cessful business man my income tax payments would pay 

back the government with interest and I am beginning to 

believe it. 

m Next after being trained in theory for your work 

you should plan an office in the den or extra room and 

then have a little pow-wow with the City Fathers or Plan- 

ning Commission and obtain permission to carry on a busi- 

ness in your home. The Commission was most co-operafive. 

Unless you have a good "Leg Man" you will find it 

advantageous to obtain a permit from your postmaster al- 

lowing you to print special self-addressed envelopes, 

postage being paid by you on receipt. Thus you can carry 

an a bookkeeping service by mail. I have serviced one ac- 

count for 7 years and have never met the clients. 

m Minimum equipment should consist of a good adding 

machine or calculator, a typewriter (the electrics are 

superb for a disabled person with weak fingers), filing 

cabinet, and miscellaneous supplies such as clips, stap- 

ler, journals, ledgers, etc., etc. 

m You are now ready to get to work and earn money, 

but from now on you will have many discouraging moments. 

Clients are hard to come by. You might have business 

cards printed, but do not give yourself the title of 

"accountant" as here in California there are only two 

classes of accountants, C.P.A.'s and P.A.'s. Passing the 

C.P.A. examination and having acquired experience in the 

field are requisites for this title, while P.A.'s hold 

their titles owing to their passing less stringent exam- 

inations during the war years; no new P.A. licenses are 

being issued. Another excellent way to get started is to 

contact another person engaged in bookkeeping services 

and ask if you might assist him during busy periods or 

even relieve him of some of his poorly paying accounts. 

m Don't forget that there is a tremendous difference 

in theory and practice and nothing can beat good old ac- 

tual experience. 

Except during the hectic times of tax season, I would 

be delighted to help others with their bookkeeping ven- 

tures and I could supply many practical ideas. 

I'm at 717 Liberty St., El Cerrito, Calif. 94532 $ 

Fegrirtei ,'I-0- ?#E S?G?XSsssX;i, October 1065

Respo RE-REHABILITATED To Fulltime Career 

b3 El irabeth I.'. Idorgan, R.i.!. 

(resoo) I llinois 

114 WE AUTUIviN OF 1957, just five years after contract- 

ing polio, I entered the Respiratory Center at the Uni- 

versity of Illinois Research and Educational Hospitals 

at the Eledical Center in Chicago to be "Rehabilitated." 

AT THAT TI:.li I was using the rocking bed about eight 

to ten hours a night and had enough reserve strength to 

be up in the wheelchair only on rather rare occasions. 

Hy day rocking varied with my state of health and was 

steadily increasing as I was not being properly venti- 

lated. Since I had become convinced that there really 

wasn't anything more that could be done to improve my 

condition, I have always said that I was "shanghaied" 

into the Center by an overzealous Nursing Supervisor 

and a Director of Kursing who felt that, as an R.K., I 

should be doing something mare constructive than just 

rocking. 

Ili1,:EfllATE ALTEPKTI OliS IN THE IilCLlNAT ION of my rocking 

bed vastly changed my degree of ventilation and resulted 

in my making rapid progress. I began extending my free 

time and building up tolerance to being out of bed. If I 

remember correctly, my vital capacity at the time I came 

to the Center was about six hundred. Fortunately, it be-

gan to improve slowly and a couple of years ago we found 

it to be one thousand. A few weeks after admission,I was 

given a motorized wheelchair,and the Rehabilitation Team 

began the serious business of preparing me psychologically 

and ~hysicall~ to return to work. Solving the details 

involved in being up all day in the wheelchair was a complicated 

and time-consuming project. Primary factors in 

extending my day sufficiently to make work possible were: 

the use of the positive pressure blower for day time respiratory 

aid when needed,the use of ball-bearing reacher 

and feeder to increase function and to add support which, 

coupled with good positioning in the chair, minimized 

fatigue, and learning to recline and rest comfortably in 

the wheelchair at specific intervals during the day. 

BY THE EldD OF THE SECOND 1

The AVAKIAN Story by James W. Hooper 

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(C.P.) Ohio 

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Millions of people are born each year without any problems. 

But, some, either during or in those few crucial 

ON-LINE D e P~ R ~ O C ' ~ ~ IYTI;"., ' ~ ~ ~' seconds after birth, for any number of reasons, suffer 

g,Spiny ( ~ ~ o D I ~ I c ~ ~ ' ~ ~ brain damage. Some of these have what we call cerebral 

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palsy, which deprives the victim, in varying degrees, of 

the ability to control his limbs. In most cases, the C.P. 

has normal intelligence. Once in a while there comes a- 

long a C.P. with above average intelligence that is very 

near genius. This is the story of just such a man. 

In Tabriz, Iran, around the year 1923, a baby boy was 

born to the Avakian family. And they named him Emik. At 

birth Emik was a blue baby. And thus, in his case at 

least, it was a lack of oxygen that caused the trouble, 

destroying centers in the brain controlling voluntary 

movement. The first sign of trouble came when he failed 

to crawl at the proper time. Sitting came late. And 

speech, when it came, was, as he says "deliberate and 

difficult to understand." 

In 1929, the Avakians began an emigration to the U.S. 

On the way, they sought the advice of the best medical 

men of those cities that their journey led them through, 

- . . .. . . Paris, Berlin, and even Moscow. A Professor Bezalsky saw 

;rii :~V?~:Z.TZ ez%-,~)i:i:? a sEetn;i-.Iiapm Emik in Berlin, recommending he stay in Germany at his 

of ;>is cmicept of rzow ' a surgeo,! sanatorium for the physically handicapped, and so, far 

couii use a conpi/te? several years, he did so. Meanwhile, the rest of the fam- 

in the dingoosis and treatment ily settled in New York. 

14 qf brain disorders. When Emik left Iran, he knew only the Armenian lan-

guage. And in 1935,when he rejoined his family, he spoke 

German only. But he soon learned English with the help 

of his parents and sister Jema.He went through the first 

six graCes in two years under Dr. Earl Karlsen at the 

Keurologieal Institute located in New York. Dr. Karlsen 

was also an athetoid C.P. Moving to Evanston, Illinois, 

Emik atte~.ded Sabin Elementary School where he finished 

his elementary education. Sabin had a special class for 

the physically handicapped.The Avakians mo~ed to Chicago 

so that he could go to Spaulding High School far crippled 

children. He~e, the students are treated as normal 

humans with an ability to learn. If there is something 

they cannot do, there are attendants. But this is a high 

school and the students are expected to learn. On graduating 

from Spaulding, Mr. Avakian found Eureka College, 

Eureka, Illinois, a small liberal arts college, where he 

earned a combined Bachelor's degree in mathematics and 

physics. As was said before, this is a small college, 

and did not have elaborate laboratory equipment.hd what 

they didn't have they designed and built themselves. 

This, he feels. helped him learn more. 

When he graduated from Eureka Nr. Avakian discovered a 

new concept in a branch of science then called "cybernetics," 

dealing with the study of, as he puts it, "the 

mechanisms of control and the cornon principles involved 

in the processes of accomplishing these controls." The 

simple act of a person picking up a glass and taking a 

drink, as far as control is concerned, surpasses anything 

a computer can do. But this act and that of guiding 

a rocket to the moon have principles common to bath. 

In the last decade, two new branches of scientific inquiry 

have evolved from cybernetics. These are: "infor- 

mation theory" and "goal-seeking machines." And this is 

the general area in which Mr. Avakian is working. Infor- 

mation theory has to do with the kind of information 

needed in controlling complex mechanisms and the best 

use of that information, whether the mechanism is a hand 

lifting a drink or a computer-directed rocket going into 

its correct orbit. Goal-seeking machines use information 

in purposeful work. The brain uses learned behavioral 

patterns in telling that am to bring the cup slowly to 

the lips. Goal-seeking machines use information which, 

either they gather themselves, or a human operator feeds 

into them. 

Of course, we are a long way from understanding the 

communication networks between the brain, where the or- 

der to pick up the drink of water originates, and the 

many muscles brought into action by these commands. 

In a voluntary action, smoothness of movement depends 

on opposing pairs of muscles. Ihe degree of smoothness 

is called "tone." The smoother the movement, the more 

tone. To bend an elbow, one muscle tenses while its ap- 

posite number relaxes but offers the right degree of re- 

sistance to control the speed and to stop the movement 

at precisely the right spot.This is accomplished by what 

the engineers call "negative feedback." An analogy of 

this would be the thennostat on the home furnace. As it 

is turned up in the morning to 72 degrees the furnace 

comes on. And, as the temperature rises, the fuel intake 

to the furnace is reduced. This reduction in fuel as the 

desired setting is neared involves negative feedback. 

Elr. Avakian, as a result of his work, thinks of his 

damaged nervous systeminterms af information theory and 

the design and understanding of goal-seeking machines. 15

The damage to Mr. Avakian's brain occurred in the very 

center of the skull, destroying nerve centers called 

"caudate nuclei." Being very sensitive to the lack of 

oxygen, these centers are quickly disabled, causing a 

condition known as Athetosis. As we tune our TV sets to 

a very weak station, the piccure is snowy and almost non- 

existent. The snow is what is known as background noise 

which is always present, but which a stronger signal 

would drown out. Considering these caudate nuclei as TV 

stations, for a moment, the fewer centers active, the 

weaker the signal; and, by comparison, the stronger the 

background noise. This makes it difficult to receive or- 

ders from these derve centers. The movements of an athe- 

toid appear as spontaneous and aimless motions of the 

limbs that increase when he attempts voluntary movement. 

As the communications engineer would say, "the trans- 

mission of the signal "causes noise" in the communica- 

tion channel." If this noise could be reduced, it would 

be easier to get the orders through. One way to do this 

is to destroy parts of certain caudate nuclei. This is 

complicated by the location of these cencers in the mid- 

dle of the skull and it is necessary to get to them with- 

out damaging intervening tissues. 

xr. Avakian has patented an apparatus using a laser (a 

device that produces a concentrated and powerful 

beam of light) accurately aimed by a computer. The com- 

puter would also control the exact amount of power re- 

quired to reach che desired nerve center. It should be 

emphasized that this is in the experimental stages, and 

not available anywhere as yec. 

16 xr. Avakian envisions that the same computer could be 

used by several hosnitals and could be used far different 

purposes, thus reducing the cost. One interesting 

use that could be made of such a computer is as a voice 

for those who cannot talk.Not only would it make a sound 

but it would be programmed to use words, phrases and e- 

ven whole sentences characteristic of that person! And 

several such persons could use the same computer at the 

same time. Such a computer would be used, where necessary, 

to receive and analyze physiological data, such as 

respiration, blood pressure and the like. All these functions 

would be carried out via telephone lines possibly 

up to 100 miles from the recipients of the services. 

After receiving his Bachelor's degree at Eureka, Eh. 

Avakian went to Columbia University for his >laster's degree, 

specializing in applied mathematics with a minor 

in physics. Row he is a supervisory engineer at the 

Bunker-Ramo Corp.,Stamford, Connecticut. (Formerly known 

as Teleregister Carp.) 

He is co-inventor of a machine to ~erify signatures 

which have been electronically scrambled, and printed in 

a bank depositor's passboak.The teller ~uts the passbook 

in a decoder and thus verifies the signature. He is also 

inventor of a unique digital data-to-voice conversion 

system for announcing stock quotations. 

He was named Handicapped American of the year 1961 and 

in April 1963 the Shah of Iran conferred on him the 

Crown Eledal, the highest honor of the land of his birth. 

An especially talented man? Yes and fortunate too. But 

we all can and must contribute what we can to society. 

And we all have something that we can do, no matter how 

small it may seem to us.

HOSPITALIZED RESPOS: 

COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS 

T li"lE IiAGhZ I &IE'i cover story a feu months back concerned 

the new science of computers, or "cybernetics." And no 

one, we feel sure, read the story with greater interest 

than a group of seven respiratory polios in Edmonton's 

Cniversity Hospital. For cybernetics, to them, offers a 

very real hope of useful and gainful employment. 

Hod IT CAI

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&, :.~ ;

the spirit of cooperation which animates all their ac- 

tivities, they had come through with flying colaurs. 

By this time, Spring had sprung and Summer was in the 

offing, so the whole project was hung on the wall. The 

biggest question was still unanswered: could the knorr- 

ledge and training which the boys had acquired he turned 

to their useful and commercial advantage? The whole idea 

had been to provide them with an opportunity for gainful 

employment, and until they proved that they could cope 

with the tough demands of computer programming in a reg- 

ular setting, then all they had was knowledge but no 

chance to use it. 

The opportunity came when the Alberta Provincial Labo- 

ratory decided to set up its operation an a computer ba- 

sis, and the Department of Computing Sciences decided to 

put the boys to the test.They have done 50 well that the 

people who run the program through the machine are hard 

pressed to keep up with the material that has been re- 

layed to them. This contract has not yet been completed, 

but enough has been done to satisfy everyone that the 

boys can handle the job. 

:i+E;)E DG iiEY GO FPOi, HERE? Idell, they believe enough 

in the future to have set themselves up as a company, 

called "Canadian Programmers." In time, they may be able 

to get enough jobs to work full-time, but for now, they 

can only expect to get what the Department of Computing 

Sciences can refer to them and this may be a pretty ir- 

regular basis. They hope to continue their training, so 

they can add at least one other programming language to 

the one they now know. 

In a sense, what the boys have accomplished is a break- 

through that may open doors for others as seriously dis- 

abled. You have to hedge a bit, because the situation 

here may have been unique and it might not be possible 

to duplicate the circumstances elsewhere. 

Two main reasons may be put forward for the success 

here. The first is that the group of boys, while in a 

hospital, were also in effect on a university campus. 

This made it possible to set up a training program, with 

the use of university personnel and equipment. 

The second reason, and perhaps the most important, is 

that the Director of the Department of Computing Sci- 

ences, Dr. Scott, was such an enthusiast from the begin- 

ning. No sales talk was needed to solicit his support. 

He was convinced at once that the project was feasible 

and should be pursued. \,%en he flashed the green light, 

the facilities of his whole department were made avail- 

able. Only because of his wholehearted support was it 

possible for a teacher of Mrs. Payne's qualifications to 

be assigned to the project. She brought to her task, be- 

sides her skill in imparting the necessary knowledge, 

warmth and understanding and a genuine affection for her 

charges. 

FII'IALLY, YOU CAN'T FORGET THE @OYS THEi4SELVES. Ulti- 

mately, the project had to fail or succeed on their abil- 

ity to learn. That they made it, and convincingly, is a 

tribute to their determination. They want to succeed on 

their awn so much that they can taste it. As computer 

programmers, they have a chance to make their taste buds 

salivate regularly. b

A PHYSICIST-PROGRAMMER 

by Elwr I. iariels, (LA-5 riuicl :'iisacncs;i-i 

As a r-s~ilt oi an injury in Decenber 1960, 1 became a C4-5 

quadriplegic. After a jeer of hospitalization and subsequent 

marriage I returned to college to finish the last semester of 

my senior pear (Colby) and continued on for txo mare "ears in 

graduate school ta attain a >laster's in Physics (Tufts). 

>I? transportation problem as salved by !having a EelloI! experience has been with IB:l equipment, the l6Z0, 

7090-9L, 7040-44 and time-sharing, programming in FORTRAN I1 

and IV and in machine languages. I have also had significant 

experience with time-sharing rihich may be isaluable in some 

situations and for some problems, but in any case, its potentialities 

are far from realized in the academic or business 

i.arlds. In the main, time-sharing brings an expensive and versatile 

machine to the user r:ho could not other~.>ise afford or 

get to a large data processing installation. 

As far as using an 1B:I 1050 in the home is concerned, it is 

being done by stuff from >l.I.T. on a regular basis snd there 

is no reason that a disabled person coul6 not take advantage 

of this technolog). as long as he could get ti.= training and 

subsequent uork to make the venture financially ~iorthahile. 

Houevcr,I xiould like to odd that in the programing ficld the 

association vitb others doing the same type of work is a val- 

uable asset and home cvplo>menr should be tried onl? when all 

else fails. 

he programing field is a wide open one far the able as 

ve1l as file disabled and offers a rriiarding career fron the 

personal sarisfaction standpoint as :.:ell as the financial as- 

pect, bur jasr as all blind persons should not be telephone 

ope~ators,all disabled should not be programers for it takes 

a certain ability to take a problem and analyze it and con- 

vert it into a ?working program. m

The 1050 Tango (C4-5 

n 

un or about the end of August 1965, 1 started an "ex- 

periment in learning" through the use of an IBN 1050, 

printer keyboard. 

The Education Research Department of International 

Business Elachiaes located in Paughkeepsie, New York, sup- 

lied the equipment and instructors associated with the 

project. 

The experiment really began a short time before August 

The Education Research Department asked if I would be 

interested in taking a few technical courses and in do- 

ing + small amount of computer programming. Of course, I 

was very interested and willing to attempt anything the 

Department wanted to try, and thus the experiment began 

The local telephone company installed a separate tele- 

phone line and a device called a "data-phone" in my room. 

The 1050, printer keyboard, better known as a terminal, 

was then connected to the data-phone. Sormally, the ter- 

minal can be connected, via telephone lines, to almost 

any computer, but in this instance, an lB\l computer in 

Poughkeepsie was used to start the experiment. 

The terminal is really nothing more than a glorified 

typewriter.li%en it is connected to a properly programed 

computer, it can receive instructional or other types of 

quad) *-nperry !Le* Yorr information as well as send appropriate answers or other 

data. If the computer is set up to teach, say a math 

course, it first types information or questions on the 

terminal and then waits for some sort of response from 

the student. The student, upon receiving and studying 

the information, simply types a response (usually the 

answer to a question). The computer then checks to see 

if the response (answer) is correct or incorrect. If the 

answer is correct, the computer will continue with the 

course, but if the answer is not correct, it usually 

types suggestions or other information to help the stu- 

dent make a correct response. 

One of the big advantages with this type of teaching, 

is that the student is able to work at his own speed. 

Also, the services of a teacher are not usually needed, 

because in this instance, the computer program is really 

the teacher or instructor. 

The main point I want to make at this time, and in 

fact, the main reason for the experiment was to see haw 

much I would be able to learn without receiving the usu- 

al training given to an individual interested in this 

field. 

The first thing I tried in the experiment was taking a 

course somewhat like the math course I mentioned earlier. i

I found that learning via the terminal and the computer 

is a whole new experience. First, I was able to work as 

fast or as slow as I wished without being bothered by a 

strict time limit. Next, the way in which the machine 

operated and the attention it comands was very interest- 

ing as well as very fascinating. I don't ever remember 

getting bored or losing interest in the course simply 

because the method of training was always fresh and to 

my liking. I am quite sure, however, that I would have 

lost interest in the courses if the subject matter were 

not presented correctly, if it were boring, or if I were 

not able to grasp the meaning of the subject matter. 

I was able to take four courses using the terminal.0ne 

of the courses, I was nor able to complete because it 

was much too technical and beyond my range of knowledge. 

In any case, considering I had very little prior know- 

ledge in the areas covered by the courses, and consider- 

ing the method in which I was taught the material.1 feel 

that I learned as much and probably more by using this 

method over the usual teacher-student method, and I feel 

I learned much faster. 

After doing as much as possible an the four courses, I 

started simple computer programming.In order to do this, 

a computer in New Yolk City was used. This machine was 

equipped to handle "Quiktran," instructional information 

which is much easier to write than the usual complicated 

computer instructions. Quiktran enables a programmer to 

use a (+) far addition, a (-1 for subtraction, a (*) for 

22 multiplication, and a (I) for division. These four in- 

structions, along with other information concerning 

printing formats, are really all an individual need lolow 

to begin simple programming. 

As before, I was supplied only with information con- 

cerning the procedures to use in order to correctly op- 

erate the terminal and material explaining the Quiktran 

programming intructions and operations. I was, however, 

able to use a few pre-tested programs, which gave me a 

little practice on the terminal. In a short time, I 

wrote and executed a few of my own programs,and in doing 

so, I learned most of the steps required in this type of 

programming. Seedless to say, I felt very pleased when 

my programs worked and very unhappy when they did not. I 

am by no means an "experts' in this field, but I was able 

to compose and execute actual programs within only a few 

hours after I heard the word "Quiktran." 

As you probably remember, I said that I started the 

experiment by taking courses via the terminal. I am now, 

however, in the process of writing a course of my own. 

Since there is no course available explaining how to 

write a course, I have had an expert on this subject 

helping me, and I have been supplied with reading mate- 

rial on this subject. This man has written a few courses 

and is showing me what instructions are used and what 

procedures are followed in order to write a worthwhile 

and interesting course. My only regret, is that I do not 

have enough knowledge in a subject to create a course 

based on my ow, material. I am roughly following the 

format in a hook that has already been written by some-

Left: ". . . the 1050, printer 

keybomd, better known as a teiminal, 

is in the center of my desk. The 

data-phone is on its left rmd the rest 

of the data-phone is on the shelf 

beLm. Tihe bos in the Lower right 

holds the transistors, diodes, etc. ." 

". . . I found that Learning 

~ight: 

via the teninat and tk computer 

is a whole new experience. . . 

I don't eoer remember getting bored 

or losing interest in the course 

simpLy because the method of training 

was always fresh and to my Liking. ." 

one else. Of course, I am not copying this material, but 

I am using the main ideas presented by the author, I am 

enjoying writing the course, but I think I will really 

feel I have accomplished something when someone takes my 

course and gives me their comments and opinions. 

The type of training 1 have taken aver the past four 

months would be of great value for people like myself. 

Physically handicapped individuals could learn in their 

ow, homes and possibly earn a good living using the ter- 

minal as I have described. Also, people who are already 

employed as programmers could continue their work, if 

only a few hours a day, despite injuries, long-time ill- 

nesses, or other reasons that might keep them at home. 

At this time, however, I want to state that this ex- 

periment is just an "experiment." I am still involved in 

the project and it will probably go on for a few mare 

months. There are no definite plans for any wider use of 

the experiment at this time. There is a peat deal more 

to do and there is a great deal more that has to be 

learned before anything concrete can be attempted. e 23

From DON CRAIN, Editor.. . 

, 

I was born "out in the 

sticks" in the eastern 

Appalachian region of 

Kentucky in 1936.1 was 

the oldest of five 

children, four boys, 

one gal. I spent my 

first seven years on a 

small hill fern. For a 

year, we moved to the 

County seat,Frenchburg 

(pop. 350), where my 

father worked for his 

brother at a sarmill- 

-- - - . , 

loeeine iob. Then. mv 

fanily moved to a rented farm and I attended a one-room 

school where I completed the eighth grade. 

In 1950, at the age of 13, I contracted polio and I 

spent 28 days in an iron lung and was hospitalized for 

10 months. I was sent home, paralyzed from the neck down, 

with the expectation that I would "vegetate." Until 1957, 

24 I did just that. 

GEORGIA \JAR21 SPRISGS 

Then the \larch of Dimes gave me the opportunity to go 

to the Georgia !'am Springs Foundation and a new world 

opened up there. With a motorized wheelchair, feeders, 

braces and other equipment, I developed a new outlook on 

life. Despair was replaced by hope. However, then GWSF 

had one lack. It was a treatment center, not a rehabili- 

tation school, and I was ready for work. (Now the state 

of Georgia operates a rehabilitation center on land ad- 

joining GWSF and the two centers cooperate to provide a 

complete rehabilitation service.) 

After four months at Warn Springs the doctors sent me 

h-ome and. contacted the Kentucky Rehabilitation Bureau 

with the hope that They could find a rehab school to 

train me in a "productive occupation.'' Rehab schools 

for quads were then, as naw,not easy to find. During the 

years of searching, I took several correspondence cour- 

ses in creative and newspaper writing from the Writers 

Digest and the Newspaper Institute of America.1 was most 

fortunate, too,to have a retired teacher who volunteered 

to tutor me in English, American history, math, algebra, 

current events, business letter writing and spelling.

I~'OODR0W WILSON REHABILITATION CENTER 

Finally, in 1963, an opening was found at the Woodrow 

Wilson Rehabilitation Center (hlTRC) in Fishersville, Vir- 

ginia, and I went there under the sponsorship of the 

Kentucky Bureau of Rehabilitation Services. 

My stay at WWRC was a year filled with good fortune. 

Having arrived an June 30, 1963, I graduated on June 26, 

1964, with an A average in: Accounting, Business English, 

Business Procedures, Business Law, Business Machines, 

Business Math, General English, Filing, and Income Tax. 

Also I had therapy during this time. Too, I was fitted 

far and obtained a new EhJ electric power drive wheel- 

chair, new handsplints, and ball bearing feeders. 

While there I also had an opportunity to participate 

in many worthwhile extracurric"Ea activities: I was e- 

lected treasurer of the Student Body Association; was 

selected to be the chairman of a newly-founded Chapel 

Fellowship organization; was chairman of our graduation 

dance and of the first annual Street Carnival and Chick- 

en Barbecue; was selected Honor Man to represent the 

student body on WWRC's annual open house day. Then, on 

graduation day, I was given the greatest honor any stu- 

dent can receive at NNRC. I was the recipient of the 

first Frank 0. Birdsall Award for "outstanding scholar- 

ship and citizenship." 

WI4RC is a former VA hospital which the State of Vir- 

ginia purchased for $1 from the Federal Government in 

1947. The old buildings are not "scenic," but the whole 

Center is undergoing a massive rebuilding job and in a 

few years it will be the most modern in the world. The 

first new structure on the program was a large, modern 

men's dorm. Quads like myself, who need nursing care, 

stay in the 50-bed infirmary. 

The Center is composed of about 30 schools, including 

business, watch repair, drafting, radio and TV repair, 

general mechanics, food service, nursing aide, etc. The 

average daily enrollment is 350. 

Applications for admission are processed and submitted 

by the District Supervisor, Virginia Division of Rehab- 

ilitacion (or the counselor who is his counterpart in 

another state). lo be considered for admission, a dis- 

abled person must have a reasonably good prognosis for 

benefiting from Center services and some means (or spon- 

sorship) for defraying costs. For instance, my Kentucky 

Rehabilitation Bureau sent me for vocational evaluation 

and then followed the I\lTRC recommendation that I stay 

for training. 

PRODiiCTIVE OCCUPATION 

After graduation, I moved into the local Presbyterian 

mission hospital, The Jane Cook Hospital, in Frenchburg. 

I was a "living in" staff member, helping the hospital 

secretary with general office work. Then, in early Octo- 

ber 1964, came a very challenging opportunity. Dr. D. L. 

Greaves, who was the medical director of Jane Cook and 

the County's only doctor, was also the principal stock- 

holder of the EIEXIFEE COUNTY JOURNAL. He agreed to let 

me try out with the paper. The JOURXAL, a weekly and the 

County's only newspaper, was editorless at the time. 

There was, and still is, much to learn and many problems 

to be ironed out. But, after a trial period, Dr. Greaves 

appointed me Editor and >Tanager effective January 1,1965. 25

LOVE and MARRIAGE 

~uring my $ray at the Jane Cook Hos- 

~ital, an attractive young staff member 

began to hold much of my attention. A 

native of Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, 

&ma Nae Wackey, a 21-year old Licensed 

Practical Nurse, had been a member of 

the staff less than a year when I moved 

in.At the time I wouldn't have admitted 

my growing fondness far her, but in my 

heart there was no doubt. That summer 

and fall we enjoyed many pleasant ourings 

and scenic drives together, at 

first with friends,and then alone. Soon 

I knew chat my attraction to her was 

into something deep and lasting 

and it was obvious that the feeling was 

mutual. 

~r was early September when we became 

engaged. Elarriage, however, 

seemed a long way off until my appointment 

as editor of the JOURNAL. 

1965 began for us with a flurry of activity 

and a multitude of decisions to 

make about our wedding, our work, and a 

lace to live. 

~efore we would journey dawn the 

aisle of the United Presbyterian Church 

Frenchburg, the wheel of our '59 

Ford, "Jitney,"would make many turns as 

we searched for a mobile home in which 

to live, a new printer for the JOmNfi, 

and, of course, many pleasure trips and 

evenings together in addition to the 

work trips. Finally, after thorough 

shopping and a bank note secured with 

the help of friends, we became the own- 

ers of a 1965 12' x 46' white and cur-- 

quoise Champion mobile home. 

After weeks of searching for a place 

to park our home near the office, our 

problem was solved when the good people 

of the Frenchb~rg Firsr Chvrch of God 

granted us the rent-free use of a site 

in back of their church, which is lo- 

cated across from the JOWAL office. 

Then came a race with the calendar as 

we endeavored ro have our home set up 

and ready to move into, and our wedding 

plans all finalized by April 8.B-t with 

the help of family and friends, warer 

and sewer systems were installed; gas 

and electricity hooked up; a 150' board- 

walk from street walk to trailer was 

built; Anna Mae completed her wedding 

gown, veil, and attendant's dress: and 

by 2 a.m. the day of the wedding she 

finished iciog the cake. 

If the preparations were nerve-rack- 

ing and suspenseful, the wedding went 

as smoothly and as beautifully as we 

had hoped.The open church wedding began 

with the congregation participating in 

a short devotional which was followed 

by a double-ring ceremony. After a sim- 

ple reception in the basement of the 

church, we departed amid a shower of 

rice for Jenny Wiley State Park where 

we enjoyed a brief bur happy honeymoon.

MY COCKEYED CAREER 

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.-, 21C YOL EVE? THIN< IT 

TOCK CCCLLEGE >ESREE 

h1lE.b LA?: CESZEE T9 

4 . -* I T 

Or have you 

T-> . ever heard of a tele- 

vision monitor who 

was too busy to watch 

television? Oi course, 

the answer to bath 

~uestions, . lo~icallv. - . . 

s:.7 ,.uli bi a loud, emphatic "60". . and, 

up until about two and a half years ago. 

this would have been my answer, too. 

But, then, I was placed in contact wirh 

Elr. Rabt. A. Damers, of the Lynch Transcription 

Service, through the good offices 

of the TO~!..Ei j's om "verrical" 

Editor,Genial Gini Laurie; and my "cockeyed" 

career began. 

To briefly fill the readers in on 

what happened to me the first three decades 

of my life, I was born wirh Cerebral 

Palsy, birth injury, which left me 

with very little coordination, hound to 

a wheelchair for life, and seriously impaired 

in speech. I artended a special 

28 grade school far physically handicapped 

by Dave Ingeiion, (C.P.1 Oregon 

children provided by the school system 

in my home row, Portland, Ore.,and pro- 

ceeded to take my high school work with 

a home teacher, also furnished by the 

Portland Public Schools, because steps 

and transportation problems barred my 

attending the neighborhood high school. 

85 happens to most maturing young men. 

my first conscious consideration af how 

I was going to satisfy my financial re- 

quirements, in adult life, came during 

either my junior or senior year in high. 

My teachers and parents had already be- 

gun nudging me towards a career in jaur- 

nalism; because they thought they recog- 

nized a reasonable bent in that direc- 

tion and reasoned that I could even 

write from home, therefore would be the 

least hanpered b~ my physical lirnira- 

fions. However, my "independence of 

youth" set in, and decided that "just 

being a writer" did not hold enough 

challenge far me, would be too "normal" 

far a handicapped, and--most of all-- 

did not seem Lo fit the image I had of 

myself. Far some inexplicable reason, 

in my mind, the legal profession em- 

bodied everything that journalism lack- 

ed; so I determined, during my senior 

year in high, to become a lawyer, re- 

gardless of my physical and speaking 

impediments. 

So, upon graduation from high school 

and a par's intensive speech therapy-- 

which actually bore little fruir--I en- 

rolled at the "ewly opened Portland 

State College, a state supported cal- 

lege in downtown Portland. A5 was my 

talent, much against my course counsel- 

or's better judgment, I signed up for 

the full 15 hours, in-----you guessed 

it-----Pre-law. 

Portland Stare was made to order for 

me because it was 5 blocks from my fa- 

ther's restaurant; so I had a ready- 

made chauffer to drive me to and from 

classes, morning and night. Also, the 

school was right on the city bus line 

for hone; so, with permission of the 

faculty, my mother came down whenever I 

had an exam to Cype it, becavse I was 

too slow OD the keyboard myself. 

It was during my Freshman year ar 

P.S.C. that I first met a Division of 

Vocational Rehabilifatian counselor and 

learned what a marvelous assistance 

D.V.R. could be to any handicapped seek- 

ing to fit himself to be self supporr- 

ing.P.1~ grade school principal had heard 

that I was attending college that year 

and turned my name into the Portland 

D.V.R. office, as a friendly gesture. 

Normally, the handicapped, or his fam- 

ily, applies: but we actually didn't

FULL-TIME EDITOR 

We came home to a lot of work, but ir 

is work we enjoy doing together and I 

am glad that Anna Mae decided to work 

at che JOURNAL with me rather than at 

the haspiral. A few days before our mar- 

riage, a much more favorable contract 

was established with a new printer. The 

new printer necessitated a standard 8- 

page weekly rather than the previous 

4-6 pages. The additional pages meant 

chat we could now carry much additional 

news, editorial matter, and advertising 

--and this meant much more work. 

I do most of the ryping, all bookkeep- 

ing, selling ads, correspondence, lay- 

out, general management, etc. Anna 

does headline making, paste up, rakes 

the paper to the printer (a 150-mile 

round trip), and the circvlation work. 

My cousin helps on Saturdays and my 

folks, as volunteers, help address, bun- 

dle, and wap for mailing. 

A week after our marriage another new 

adventure began.1 started a five-minure 

five day a week local newscast aver 

mST, an area radio station. I do it 

live over the office telephone. My pro- 

gram has been going almost a year with 

the same sponsors. I like radio and 

someday would like to expand. Ely maga- 

zine subscription business has been 

graving steadily and recently received 

a big boost with a $225 sale to the lo- 

cal Job Corps Camp. 

Because so many people have helped me 

along my way, I would like to mention 

that in October I received a Cerrificare 

of Merit for my contribution (by 

example) from the Governor's Conmission 

on Employ the Handicapped. 

EQUIPMENT 

We have two Hoyer lifts, the Kartop 

and the new light Travel Lift for use 

inside rhe trailer. I use rhe Georgia 

Warn Springs type ball bearing feeders 

for just about everything.My wheelchair 

lapboard is built like a box, with a 

lid and a convenient storage space. The 

Sparr Telephone Arm, a gooseneck receiv- 

er-holder, is an invaluable aid.0ur bed 

is the standard trailer model which we 

raised with Sears' leg extenders so it 

would be easier for Anna Mae co do my 

dressing and bathing. Our chief un- 

salved problem is a standing table that 

would fit into our limited space. Per- 

haps some TjG readers miphr have a $01"- 

tian. Now, my father gets me up once or 

twice a week, but we would like to be 

able to handle this ourselves. 

HOBBIES AND SPECIAL INTERESTS 

Anna Mae laves to sew and cook. She 

makes many of her own clothes and has 

made some of my shirts. She plays the 

piano and enjoys music and singing. Now 

we have a small portable piano in our 

,, - ~ 

. L .~ ~. ~ . . 

. ,7.'r. AS . .. 

know what D.V.R. could do, so didn't 

bother. 

Nr. Wipple, my assigned Rehab counsel- 

or and--coincidentally-a University of 

Oregon law graduate, listened patiently, 

though somewhat incredulously, to my 

plan of becoming an attorney and, then, 

tried his level best to calk me into 

Journalism. However, when he saw that I 

couldn't be swayed in my avowed course, 

he slowly shook his head, said---"see 

what I can do." and left. In due time, 

Mr. k'ipple happily informed me D.V.R. 

wovld underwrite the remaining 7 of my 

8 year Pre-law and Law course. 

A few years later, Wipple confided to 

me: "I personally didn't see how you 

were going to make Law; but you were so 

cock-sure that I thought you must know 

haw you were; and thar was good enough 

for me." He added thar Vocational Rehab 

never backs a client in a project un- 

less "the client really is sold on it 

and wants to do it." 

For the rest of my college and law 

school days, I paid strict attention ro 

holding my grades up as high as possi- 

ble because, not only would high grades 

be vital to my landing a job after 

school, they were part of the package 

that D.17.R. insisted upon for its con- 

tinuing help. In this high grade endeav- 

or, by the grace of God, I was quite 

successful, finishing first in my class 

of 72 in college if..fmima CZT Laizdel and 

solidly in the upper third of my class 

in law school. 

Due to two consecufive years of ill- 

ness, first of my mother and then of me, 

right at bar examination time, I didn't 

pass the state bar and fully realise 

my ambition of being a practicing attar- 

ney. Although, I do still have plans, 

in the back of my mind, of reviewing 

and passing the exam--someday. 

The yeare 1960--'63 will always live 

in my memory as the mosr frustrating 

years of my life because they were the 

years when I, fresh from a college and 

law education, combed the job market in 

vain for work. Certainly, everyone whom 

I asked was impressed with my academic 

record, sympathized with my wanting a 

job, and wished me all the luck in the 

world in finding one----somewhere else. 

I was really at low ebb the fall of 

1963, when Gini----with whom I had been 

corresponding for about a year----wore 

to ask if I knew any handicapped in 

Portland who would like to join some of 

the other 7jS readers who were working 

as TV monitors for the Lynch Transcrip- 

tion Service. 

Despite my non-existent bank balance, 

I still had some reluctance about wrir- 

ing for the job, myself, because I had 

heard of handicapped being paid 5c per 

hour, or getting their pay in box raps 

or products, on these monitoring jobs. 

However, I finally decided that even 5c 

per hour was mare than I was making by 

sitting at home doing nothing; so I 

wrote to Nr. Robt. A. Darners, Lynch 

Transcription Service, an Long Island, 

New York. Nuch to my surprise, I received 

a reply from lr. Darners telling 

me he'd like to have me work for him, 

as Portland monitor, at $1.50 per hour 

for all the time I'd put in on his projects. 

From this initial exchange. I 

not only received a source of income, 

which has steadily increased in the 

past 2-112 years and gives promise of 

developing into a supporting one, hut a 

true friendship, which I value as much. - !ly initial job was to locate 

various TV and radio spots, 

in the Portland area, and I// have a local film lab shoot 

a :hssr:pe (a sound on film recording 

of viiai comes over a Tl' set) or have a 

recording company make a tape of a radio 

commercial; and, then, have a transcription 

shipped back ro Bew York, for 

the advertisers' scrutiny. However, because 

the lab or recording studio needs 

precise time ro record the desired spot. 

the job did not merely entail idly 

watching TV until the right commercial 

came on but it involved contacting the 

stations for the rime at which the spot 

would run, or even to see if the spot 

were running at all.with this procedure 

and luck in timing, I zould have a kinescope 

or tape done and in the mail wirhin 

an hour after receipt of an order 

from New York, which I have done on sev- 29

era1 occasions; and, under this arrange- 

ment, too, there's no need for long, te- 

dims hours of TV watching. 

Far the first year and a half, I han- 

dled only one order every month or six 

weeks and earned very little money. HOW- 

ever, in March '65, >lr. Darners asked me 

to find and supervise handicapped moni- 

tors in Seattle and Spokane,Uash.,which 

I did for the next two monchs,getting a 

couple kinescopes out of these cities. 

Then, in Hay '65, he asked me to super- 

vise the entire western third of the 

U.S., From the Rockies to Hawaii; he 

has a disabled girl in the same capaci- 

ty in the Midwest. 

Each raise in responsibility has en- 

railed a proportionate increase in paid 

time, hence income. Moreover, as time 

passes and the West develops, therevs 

a good probability that I may be put- 

ting nearly full rime at this typewit- 

er or beside my phone helper, chasing 

a commercial from Seattle, Wash. ro Al- 

buquerque, New Xexico or from Los Angel- 

es to Great Falls, Mont. Hence, the 

paradox, the l'V monitor who is too busy 

Co watch television; as it is, I rarely 

have Lime to turn my TV set on, even 

for pleasure. 

However, as I mentioned above, Mr. 

Darners has not only been an employer to 

me, but a friend as well. Last spring, 

he advised me to buy my own tape record- 

er so he could buy tapes from me in- 

30 stead of the recording company, thereby 

increasing my income. This I've done 

and am learning. Then came the day he 

learned that I was interested in srarr- 

ing my own advertising agency to aug- 

ment the income I'm getting from him, 

but needed money for special camera e- 

quipment for the new venture. He ad- 

vised me to apply for an equipment 

grant from D.V.R.; and, when I was re- 

luctant, he turned my name in to the 

Washington, D.C. office of the agency. 

Within a couple weeks, I had a call 

from the director of the Portland of- 

fice of D.V.R. wanting to come our and 

discuss the equipment grant his superi- 

ors in Washington had said I wanted. 

After examining my ability to "parti- 

pace" (pay a token amount an the pur- 

chase or buy supplies for the proposed 

business), scrutinizing my physical a- 

bility (including a complete physical 

examination) to do the work, and look- 

ing at my success possibilities in ad- 

vertising, my new Rehab counselo~ has 

my application for an equipment grant 

in "channels" being processed. 

So, there you have my "cockeyed ca- 

reer," thus far. From law student to 

non-watching TV monitor to budding ad- 

vertising man, it has been a circuitous 

one; but it has been one heck of a lot 

of fun. 

ED: Western wouZd-be rnonito~s, Dane's 

oddress: 4624 SE 4gth, PortZand, Ore. e 

A SUGGESTION ON VFA ASSISTANCE "I have just graduated from the U. of Nebraska. 

mzjoring in Speech and Hearing Therapy. I plan to do graduate work in the iield 

oi Audiology and Deaf Education ... My involvement is that oi the upper extremities 

(polio '59). 1 have lost the use oi my left hand and have limited use of 

my right ... 1 drive a 1962 Ford Galaxie 500 equipped with Cameron Enns' Foot 

Controlled Steering ... Because of the VRA I have been able To go on to college 

and get my degree, without them this would net have been possible ... They paid 

for Tuition ~lus S50 monthly partial maintenance...One of the major difficulties 

I have ioirnd with the VR4 assistance is to know or to Find out what they 

will and will not assist a disabled person with. For example, I 'begged and 

>orro~ied' money for the foot controlled steering. 1,iot until aiter I made the 

purchase did I find out that the VRA would have paid +or the installation. A 

suggestion I night make would be for those receiving VRA assistance, they 

should make cure they know where they stand with the VkA and what is available." 

Marvin Pekny, Route I, Box 108, Clarkson, Nebraska 68629

C5-6 Quad, 

Re-Rehabilitated atfendants rushed into each room and about for my glasses awhile, I cry in 

After Six Years 

curfew. "~11 inpatients are to be 

FRC',' WAD C2LICHAI':T TO OUAC RRKPAI!T 

I*: SIX :.'O?Iih5 AT A ?EEHAB CEI:TEP 

.eobert E. Tontan, Jr., tnlented TjC 

stz.:.? cnrtit, n'zp-lcts $is pnogress at 

the otary Foundation Diap~ostic 

Citnic e .?ei?a;silitati.cn Center 

in Xobile, Alaima. 

3ob &s bem 2 quad since mi accidsnt 

in 1839, at age 15. Siz noilt:!s ago, 

:.is,! %B enters6 the Cgnte?, ha termed 

. . omself I "quad est~aordinai~e" for 

i-,- c02ili barel? sPmve mc' bmsh his 

teeth. E.ier3 hard-omking dog siirce 

;ZE 1-0s Seen learning to do things 

..>' -. ..ca - hi. had neller helieiied a CS-6 

quad could do. 

-. . . . S !L.-ornus wd hopey^ul smrlry of 

!!is re-rehabilitation cowld be 

r q m i g l by 3ob into n manual for 

;.! csnlieol pads. If anyone u;?nts 

:i -ic? ur, tire to*, his home add~ess 

;-. ilCf msy St., Dothan, #.labma. 

he hour is quite late. The night dress, drag ourselves out of bed, and set 

became "officialr' several hours ago about this strange business of getting 

when promptly at fen o'clock the rehabilitated. After rising and groping 

politely yet firmly enforced the vain to rearrange the unruly mop of hair 

that anchors my equally scrambled brains 

in bed and the lights turned off by and, then, with a speed that would make 

ten o'clock!" It is the rule and a tortoise gasp, I race to the cafeteria. 

must be obeyed. Ihe lights closed . 

their eyes and the radios and i I 

television sets fell silent. It ,%; 

was the time far sleeping. Unfortunately 

the night is for me a time 

for study and contemplation; I simply 

don't like to sleep. So I do the only 

thine anv honorable man vould do. A 

Eventually morning brings the sunstline 

and with it comes the day's unchanging 

routine. At six-fhirty the attendants 

rouse us grumbling from our slumber (or 

meditation) and with their assistance we 

~frer 

a gigantic breakfast follows my 

daily drinking orgy; four glasses of 

fruit juice and two steaming cups of hot, 

bitter tea. Perhaps it is a lirrle 

eccentric, but my liquid intake has 

few equals. pardon my idle boast, I have 

a mild Napoleonic complex. . ,( ,

32 

Af eight-thirty our working day "offi- xy lunch hour begins ac eleven-thirty 

~ially" commences (in a Rehab Center and I make full use of it. Eating is 

"officially" is an oft used word). For one phase of life in which I need absome 

it starts in the Pre-Vocational D e lutely no rehabilitation of any sort. 

partment. As its name implies, this de- The simpler joys of life, however, 

partrnenf was designed to assist the be supplemented by other equally 

handicapped individual preparing hi- important activities and in some of 

self for earning a living. This is done, these a quad needs a great deal of help 

first, by testing his mental, emotional, For chis reason I find my Activities of 

and physical aptitude in order ro deter Daily Living classes so important.There 

mine for what sort of profession or for an hour a day I practice the practitrade 

he is best suited. Ihen the de- cal aspects of self care. Dressing, unpartment 

undertakes to train or retrain dressing,grooming, getting into and out 

the individual in the basic skills of of bed and my wheelchair are things I 

that particular made or profession. I mvst do for the rest of my life. If I 

discovered, much to my delight, that my am to maintain my independence as an 

aptitudes and my chosen profession were 

not entirely incompatible. Although the 

individual I have to learn to do them 

and do them well. !%%en I entered the Re- 

Pre-Vacaiional ~epartment is neither hab Center just over six months ago I 

staffed nor equipped to provide formal could barely shave and brush my teeth 

art training, it does possess a superb and considered myself something of a 

Ceramics Department where I spend much "quad extraordinaire." Big Deal!! After 

of my time. 

.% 

my first ADL sessions, my self-satisfaction 

was rudely and magnificently shattered. 

"Boy," said I to me, "what have 

you been doing for the past six years?" 

/--- 

find ceramics somewhat 

Fragile than painting. 

I have since learned to do things that 

I had never believed a C5-6 quad could 

do. Each day I learn more. Where is the 

limit? 

After every rigorous session in ADL I 

drag myself up a long,bleak, and perpet- 

"all? uphill corridor toward the gymna- 

sium. Host of US have encountered Physi- 

cal Therapy in some form or another. 

Far me P.T. means an hour and a half of 

delightfully stimulating, wholly ex- 

hausting exercise while strapped to a 

tilt-table at the ungodly agle of eigh- 

ty-five degrees. To this is added far 

recreation,of course, a pair of fifteen 

pound dumbbells which have the nasty ha- 

bit of gaining weight at the impossible 

rate of a pound every three and a half

Honest! 

DO^'^ lei my words fool you, my rhera- By the time I leave Occuparional Ther- 

pisfs with their brand of apy for my second session in P.T. I am 

mayhem have added twenty pounds of some- too tired to even be aware of my fa- 

thing other than fat to my altogether tigue. Somehow for another hour I man- 

too prominent skeleton in the past four age to wallow through a few more exer- 

months! cises an fhe gymnasium floor. 

FO= an hour afrer my first P.T. ses- At four-rhirry I undergo a strange 

sion I am in the competent hands of an transformation. With a fantastic burst 

therapist who works pa- of energy I charge again toward the caf- 

fiently to rescore movement to my most eteria. The day has ended and, 

uncooperative fingers. The Occupational by the time my belly is amply filled, 

Therapy Department has its own little the evening has descended. ily time is, 

collecrian of exercises and craft prc- for awhile at least, my own. You may 

jecrs designed to improve the strength be sure I squander ic most judiciously. 

and coordination of the hands, arms,and 

shoulders. I might mention, far example. 

the "Galley" which is a roughened plank 

upon which, with a weighted sanding 

block, I "row." If isn't really a bad 

exercise at all, hut it does get a bit 

fiuafrating to row so much and get no- 

where. One of the most enjoyable craft 

projects I have undertaken in O.T. has 

been the making of a mosaic from tiny 

pieces of ceramic tiles. These I smash- 

ed unmercifully with an almost morbid 

sense of ati is faction. 

The week is but a repetition of the 

day. It passes with little variation. 

The routine is broken only by the week- 

ends and by the knowledge that with 

each day will come new skills,increaaed 

strength, greater self-confidence, and, 

most important, hope. now, in the night, 

1 consider the days rbar have passed 

and the things that are to come and I 

am happy. e 3

Sue Smithh winning entry in DG's 1965 

MONEY-MAKING JOBS BY PHONE CONTEST 

(1, ilprrate answering service for doc- 

tori or salesmen. (2) Sell Christmas 

cards, greeting cards, stationery, 

wedding invitations, address labels, 

favors, etc. (3) >Lake appointments 

far salesmen.(4) Take orders for busi- 

nesses of advertised products. (5) 

Sell advertising for programs, erc. 

(6) Take "trouble" calls for utility 

companies. (7) Plake appointments for 

insurance representatives. (8) Run 

baby sitting service. (9) Be corres- 

pondent far newspaper. (10) For clubs, 

civic organizations, and churches: 

(a) Schedule and plan programs. (b) 

Call to remind members of meetings. 

(c) Sell tickers for card parties, 

dinners, etc. (d) Sell raffle tickets. 

(el Plan and arrange fund raising e- 

vents. (11) Take orders for homemade 

bakery goods. (12) Do typing at home, 

taking dictation over the phone. (13) 

Make TV and advertisers' surveys. 

(14) Call ro get out votes in politi- 

cal campaigns. (15) Check on "skipr' 

accounts for collecrian agencies.(l6) 

sell magazine subscriptions.(l7) Plan 

for students and organizations. 

(18) Solicit orders for floral shops 

before holidays. (19) Take appaint- 

mects for beauty shops. (20) Run a 

"llake appointments 

for photographers. (33) Run a rental 

agency. (34) Operare a travel agency. 

(35) For dentists, oculists, erc., 

remind of appointments due. (36) For 

teachers, grade rest papers. (37) Ar- 

range parties far children,plan games, 

etc. (38) Sell cosmetics, candy,etc. 

(39) Do public relations work for 

businesses. m 

>ULLARS % 

by Sue Smith 

Pa=' 

(polio quad) West Virginia 

ever surprised 

pleased when I received 

the $10 check tor 

winning the "$$-making 

iobs bv ' ohona" contest! 

- . . . 

8 r 5 r,:, :~und a bit exaggerated, but 

I b . 

irieii all the jobs except two. 

Let me say +his: each and every project 

is money-making, it just boils dawn to 

the fact that you have to accept that 

it usually depends on how much time you 

are willing to give. 

Naturally, on certain jobs, you can't 

predetermine your income; you have to 

work cheaper in order t o make people 

even consider using you. 

In selling things, you make about I/: 

the price of the item; but I, personal- 

ly, lean toward "seivices."in that way, 

you can earn more IF you want to work. 

Me, I have to keep busy! I have been 

a quadriplegic polio :or 26 years. For 

the past I I years I have worked tram my 

bed and,because !recently got a pinched 

narve, i am now in traction, but anyway 

I can work. I work 24 hours a day, 7 

days a week, but if I am not doing sev- 

eral things, I am restless.

- 

The tirit sieo for anyone 

intereitsd in starting 

an enirering service 

is to call the sale5 reoreientative 

of the phone 

. :re hin cane out and dis- 

C~;I :- -:i I' equipment and extensions 

Tnzn, ctcitr what hours you car work-then 

go after your customers. 

About the customers, I wrote letters 

to doctors, electiicisni, plumbers, cantractor~, 

the power and gas companies, 

and anyone I thought of who might not 

have saneone in Thsir office fall time 

or neeced txir phone answered at night. 

1 ibarg~ 510 a month minimum for 130 

calis an; 100 a caii for all additional 

~211s (this includes calls coming in 

2-i any made out for the cuitomerJ. The 

:;stcm?ri pay +or their own exteniion5. 

! use two key set pnonei, eacl 3: which 

has iive lines. The cost is small and 

ir is so n~ch easier +or me si~ce I 

have very little use of my right nand 

a10 none of rv left. 

5e~retarial work is piece~urk-priced: 

ir a oiiect mail addreis: 256 a letter: 

5C a csrbon; 236 ior identicai copies. 

- ~ 

To give an idea oi the 

variety of my phone jobs, 

here's a reisme of whzf 

I have worked on since 

list Jsne: 

1 i ioi the Power Carnoany 

. .~. .s:omerJ from 10 pm on Fri- 

m - = 31 

day unril 8 am on Monday. I give out 

work assignments, keep overtime records, 

etc., ior fne rztiie district. fill ips 

WOT~ ~lesrs thiodph n4. 

m Take cal Is icr a plumber, i,,:o 21ectricai 

companies, a building cnntizctor, 

ind an anusernen: c~moaoy. 

m CzI I 11 1 Kiwanis inC lotar! members 

each weak, then make rtservationi ior 

their meetings. 30 the sane monthly icr 

the retail merchants. . Sell advertising by phone for prcgrams, 

calendars, etc. . ., ,,'irk f~r an ersl;y.ienr agsnq i;c; 

. 

Texas riiih is ;i-icy an; iraiqifi~ ;ecplf. 

;,Sr% 3" " ~ 

agency, tracing peo-e whc 'ac not 

paio t-eir >ills. . iielzed find iavmi izr boys mTing i; 

tc play a :curnament foottail ?me. 

m Helpec iird people to nap rsireshme*? 

stands at the Caw iesfival an3 to 

mzn the Salvation Arny kettles. 

m Run a secret?rial zervice far people 

dho cox in ara mi, idch 2s salesmen. 

m yak= orders fiin aci p1a;ed frar cut 

oi town iiraz ir cur loczl pzoir. 

Fili out incme rix turns II tochii, 

accounting co~rse). 

There is j ~ s t no enc 

to i h ~ ac~sitiiities ii 

you wart to work. 

I was a newspaper renortei 

icr nine yezr; 

far an 

write! 

out of town paper. I love to 

"537 :ef~-e last, I startsd and Tan a 

I irclth Education Prlgrac ior a 

Year ax3 1 an ?nu rezdy to open a kin- 

&;;a-t?r for in* rsiarss?, ,,hiit, I've 

piall*: ane ;r;nstsc tor the ~ss: year. 

Cn- 5' tr? :1?3 rzising piojec+i 48s a 

91_~,_ , . hco" a;:-h nerted 5160. 1 am in 

the :rcirsi o: compiling a clokbaok To 

rarse more funds land I would like to 

havs recipes from TjG-ers). So if anyone 

doesn't want to earn money, he can 

itill 'SBD bus1 anc help his iellow ma?. 

I jusr iiniihec my seconi 290k on la- 

CEI iisiuif znd hope to rake 11,000 proiii 

on it

telephone ansurering service. . . 

A 

COMMUNITY 

PROJ ECT 

bz ?d~i.i~ S05i 

(rsspc) !~.ii:t Cir;l in: 

When I graduated from high school in 1964, 1 was faced with 

the problem of what to do next. There were few employment ap- 

portunities for me since I onlv have the use of my left leg. 

I had my bout with polio back in 1954, spent many months in a 

lung at Vanderbilt, then came home to my parents' farm. I was 

tutored ac home and graduated with my hiin class. 

I have a very useful left foot. I can write with it, work 

my ham radio, turn newspaper pages, hold a fishing rod, and 

dial a phone. 

Last summer, Xr. I?. B. Eudy,a member of the Jaycees (Junior 

Chamber of Commerce) suggested that I could put that foot to 

work and operate a telephone answering service if I bad all 

the proper equipment. Ibis would take money and a lot of work 

and planning to get the equipment installed and put the ser- 

vice into operation. 

The Jaycees joined vich Rev.Jernigan of the Lvcheran church 

to finance the project by holding a "Pig In A Poke" %ale on 

36 Labor Day. Letters were sent to about 2,000 people asking for 

packages to be auctioned.The 600 packages that were sold were 

sent by famous people from all aver the world. To name a few, 

Bobby Kennedy, Strom Thumond, Sandra Dee, Bing Crosby, David 

Brinkley, Jimmy Durance, Barry Goldwater, J. Edgar foover, 

Lawrence Yelk, John Iiayne, Joan Crawford, Jack Sicklaus, Al 

Hirt, Rep. James I. Broyhill, and Gov. George Romney. The auc- 

tion was quite successful and raised about $5,000, part co be 

used for my equipment and the rest for a playground for my 

town of Mount Pleasant. 

As of the first of January 1966, my phone service was actu- 

ally started. I have a wall phone at the foot of my bed and a 

receiver arm at the liead. I flip tine switch and dial with my 

toe and write the messages on a clipboard. I have eight sub- 

scribers and hope to add more in the future. *

TEACHING: A CAREER FOR QUADS 

. I builr For my con,.cni.nrc. 

. . 

:..;vLog sciiaal steadily since 

since then. 1 have paid back 

rxeni in rams rhan the irate 

paid far ry college Luirion. 

"aching oriers grear p esibili- 

cies for the severely handicapped. I vuulf like 

to "ee rim orher ciladi rho are planring to 

acten* college. Perhaps I can ,\el> Wiih a ir*. 

liicle problecs. l:lg address: $A18 tinoop :ire., 

Eugene, Oregon 97602.1 

?> i3r31: L. ":i?13, JOiSi 

,rj.: ? --, 

.. . --=., .re?;-

-. ~ ~ ". . . . .:* 2.: .2easibZe mzg fo? 

me to -.?:u-il jionia pemmentZy 

lj~m z:ie Veterm~s XospitaZ) 

woaZi be ,for me to find a job in 

wizfci I couZi earn enough to pay 

jbz m; attenhi. I m uo2'kir.g 

on this at ppesent. .!&?re is 

38 iikt hos 3eveZopet. . ." 

Paul Hess (respol New York 

NUCLEAR PHYSICIST.. . 

Russian Translator and Tutor 

>ly Family 

( met my wife while going to college; 

$he was a student nurse at a hospital 

half way between the fraternity house 

and the campus. We were married in 1953 

~hile I was in the Navy. Cathy was born 

in 1954 in the Naval Hospital, Pensacla, 

Florida. David was born in 1955 in 

the Navy Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia 

creg was a civilian baby in 1956. 

The children now are in the 4th. 5th, 

and bth grades in St. Patrick's school 

in Watervliet. Cathy is an ovtstanding 

student, spending mosr of her time out 

of school reading and helping at home. 

she also has a normal girl's activities 

and recently received a trophy for be- 

ing a cheer leader an a load Pop War- 

ner football ream, which won the cham- 

ions ship. Dave is a good student,active 

in Cub Scouts and busy being a boy. His 

brother, Greg, is similarly occupied 

but can easily be recognized by his coo- 

stant chattering as distinguished from 

his mare reserved brother. 

Liz, my wife, is busy as mother and 

hame-maker. I come home regularly on 

weekends and rhis takes a large part of 

her rime. she is also involved in cub 

Scouts and several other activities.in- 

to which mothers seem to he trapped. 

She is thinking about returning to work 

as a nurse, part-time. 

The mosr amazing and satisfying thing 

about my family, in my estimation, is 

that I sfill play a very integral part 

in my family. Considering that the old- 

est child was three when I got polio 

and that I have been away nearly half 

the time since then, rhis always sur- 

plises me. I am treated as a normal Dad 

which is very nice and a great tribute 

to the wonderful way my wife has main- 

rained the family unit during this dif- 

ficult and unusual time.

My Work Efforts 

(had the good fortvne to have a good 

education before I got polio. I had a 

B.S. and was just two courses short of 

an H.S. in Physics at Rennselaer Poly- 

technic Iostifufe when the bug bit. At 

the time I was employed as a nuclear 

physicisf by the General Electric Cow 

at Knolls Acomic Research Labora- 

to~y ~erforming experimental research 

an advanced submarine reactors. 

when I first returned home in 1959, 

after two years in hospirals and polio 

centers, I thought of ways to put my 

training to use. Since we were camplete- 

ly without aid my wife found caring far 

me, the home, and the children more 

than a full job and we never successful- 

ly investigated any of these jab ideas. 

The work load on my wife was so heavy 

that my wife's health began to fail in 

1962. I was admitted to the Albany Vet- 

erans Hospital for what we anticipated 

would be a short stay until she had her 

strength back. As it turned out. this 

was a much slower process than original- 

ly thought as she really was not rest- 

ing and was still caring for her home 

and three young children. 

we then took a long range look at the 

whale situation and decided the only 

feasible way for me to return home per- 

manently would be For me to find a job 

in which I could earn enough to Pay for 

an I am working on this at 

present. 

H~~~ is what has developed. In the 

fall of '62, 1 decided translating foreign 

science articles offered the best 

bet. mere was an acute shortage of 

translators, in Russian, 

who had a science background sufficient 

to handle this type of work. I started 

working with the educational therapist, 

Mrs. McKensie, on a general program to 

increase my work tolerance. I also occasionally 

assisted her in some of her 

teaching projects with other patients. 

My desire to learn Russian became 

known to members of the Volunteer Ser- 

vice in the hospital. Through this 

arrangaents were made for a volunteer 

to tutor me in Russian under the direc- 

tion of the educational therapist. 

This man was a retired engineer and a 

native of pre-communist Russia. He re- 

ceived his initial education in Russia 

and did further engineering study in 

this country. His avocarion was lan- 

guages and he had considerable tutoring 

experience. This man, >lr. Siniopkin, tu- 

tored ;pe twice a week for two hours at 

a time for nearly a year and a half. I 

studied about 40 hours a week. I do not 

have a flair for languages but with 

this intensive program I have learned 

translating with precisian. 

Incidentally, if I never used the Rus 

sian, I would consider this one of the 

finest experiences in my life.He is one 

of those pezsons whom ir is a rare ex- 

perience to know. He instilled an en- 

thusiasm far life which is priceless. 

In 1963 it was realized mine was a 

long range program and I was trans- 

ferred co rhe chronic medicine section 

of the hospital. This was an excellent 

move as the ward philosophy, set up, 

and training were keyed to my needs. 

Although the actual operation of my 

program was continued with valunceers 

and the edilcational therapist, the 

chronic medicine personnel arranged for 

working space and established my rou- 

tine Far maximum outpuf.1 currently use 39

a respirator 14 hours a day and of the 

remaining rime I spend b hours in a 

wheelchair. Hy general health is good 

aside from the paralysis. Physicians 

recommend a 30-hour work week. I use my 

left hand and my left-am with some sup- 

port. I have a mauch device for turning 

pages which is adequate. I am able to 

use a dictaphone with ease. I can do a 

limited amount of typing with my elec- 

tric typewriter. 

In early '64, when 1 had mastered Russian, 

I contacted translating services 

with the help of the vocational counselor. 

With the help of other volunteers 

for typing services, New York 

State Rehabilitation for a tape recarder 

and dictionaries, and many other pra- 

~ l for e the many small things char came 

up, I have reached a point where I can 

several English abstracts of 

Russian articles each week. 

The prajecc I work on is connected 

wirh the government's program of ab- 

stracting and cataloging of all major 

foreign scientific rrork and storing it 

in a computer for ready reference. I 

put the abstract an tape (I use an IBX 

40 executive magnetic belt recorder) and a 

secretary types it up in my presence. 

Problems are: the work is not regular, 

I require other people's help, and the 

pay is relatively law. I enjoy it great- 

ly and hope it will lead ra better 

chings, but I could nor recommend it as 

a program for everyone. 

I also do same tutoring. This started 

wirh helping friends and by word 05 

mouth. It grew to the present level of 

four high school and two college stu- 

dents. I have tutored in all the scien- 

ces and marhs at the high school level 

and also Latin. I have also tutored 

freshan college math and eventually I 

hope to concentrate my artention in 

this field. There are approximately 

eight colleges in this immediate area 

50 rhere should be enough students. 

I like this work best and find it 

rakes no outside help.The disadvantages 

are: it is hard to k assured of a 

steady supply of students and the hours 

they wish to come--after school and before 

supper--permif only a limited load. 

I am exploring the possibilities of 

using the telephone far tutoring. This 

program would be sponsored by the Sew 

York State Education Department and I 

would be paid by the State. 

I am now seeing if there is a marker 

for my services in correcting papers. I 

have thou~ht about contacting a correspondence 

school to see if I covld handle 

some of their material. 

None of these by rhemselves would 

give me the necessary income, but I am 

hoping a combination might. I must em- 

phasize that I started with a good edu- 

cation, had fine professional help,'ouc- 

standing cooperation and encouragemeni 

by the chronic medicine personnel and 

the help of many volunteers far long 

hours. 

I should add that this all had an in- 

direct consequence at least as valuable 

as the direct object hoped for. This 

fallout was a new attitude of mine to- 

ward life. I feel almost like a normal 

person who operates differently because 

of a handicap.1 enjoy meeting schedules. 

overcoming obstacles, learning new 

things, etc. I realize economically all 

the effort might not be warranted but 

I'll be eternally grateful it was made. 

m

A plan aimed at bringing self-employment to quadriple- 

gics and other severely disabled has been successfully 

developed over the last three years by the 3M Company 

working closely with the State rehabilitation agencies. 

The rapidly growing business network is called Commun- 

ity Business Services Associates (CBSA). The 3M Company 

provides four machines (infra-red process copier, dry 

photo process copier, overhead projector, and lighted 

display box) whose total cost is $1,995, training manu- 

als covering every capability of the machines and sug- 

gestions for operating the business, plus in-the-home 

training of about 80 hours. 

The State rehab agency selects capable handicapped per- 

sons from among their clients. Where appropriate, the 

agency pays for the machines as part of the cost of re- 

habiliration of the individual who is to take on the 

business. A client may pay for all or part of the unit 

if he is able to do so. 

The program is directed toward small cities and towns 

and is currently in operation in more than 20 States. To 

assist in launching the business, the 3M representative 

and the vocational rehabilitation counselor meet with 

local business people, describe the enterprise, and seek 

the support of the local business men. 

Each CBSA operator becomes an independent business man 

providing many kinds of services to his community, such 

as the following: 

Make copies of letters, documents, newspaper clippings, 

or laminate them in plastic. 

Send out monthly statements for small businesses. 

Make up and sell current mailing lists. 

Make color transparencies of newspaper ads for display 

in a lighted display box in the merchant's window. 

Provide a projector - and accompanying illustrated ma- 

terial prepared by the 3M Company - for meetings that 

train store clerks or waitresses or teach the operation 

of vacation Bible schools. 

Many operators have branched out on their own and add- 

ed other services and products. For instance, some are 

operating tax services and selling magazine subscrip- 

tions, Christmas cards, etc. 

For more information, contact your own vocational re- 

habilitation counselor and write to:Mr. Hugh J. MacLeod, 

Visual Products, 3M Company, 2501 Hudson, St. Paul, 

Minnesota. B 4

Edu a'tion 

PLAN WISELY 

----. 

'Many of the letters I have received from readers of 

the TjG are from paraplegics, quadriplegics and respos 

who want to go on with college education. This article 

is intended to pass on a few suggestions that will help 

you plan more wisely. 

FIRST, be assured that if you really mean to work hard 

at it, do some initial research, letter writing, and per- 

sonal investigation of your own, and if you have a good 

enough high school scholarship record tdmake you eligi- 

ble for college entrance, you have numerous examples of 

"pioneer quads and respos" who have made good records in 

college in the face of their physical handicaps and many 

obstacles. Read the back issues of the TjG, particularly 

the Spring-Summer issue of 1962 and the Education Sec- 

tion of the previous issue of Spring 1965.If you are not 

willing or able to meet these preliminary requirements, 

you'd better not try to go to a college campus, since re- 

search, writing, the inquiring mind and evidence of pre- 

vious scholarship are requirements of making a success 

of higher education anywhere and for any student. This 

does not mean that you can't continue your education in 

profitable and interesting home-study not aimed at col- 

lege credit.There are numerous ways of doing this. Later 

I will write a little article about them, but let's stay 

42 with the campus-bound student here. 

FOR COLLEGE 

(@ bg Paul L. Esser?, Ph.D. TjG Educational Consultant 

SECOND, IF YOU PIANT A SCHOLARSHIP FOR TUITION, hoard 

and row, and other aspects of scholarship grants, you 

will have to compete for them as any other student has 

to do. Consult your local high school Principal andlor 

your State Department of Education about types of schol- 

arships and student aids for which you might compete. 

Handicapped students should never assume that their hand- 

icap is necessarily a factor in scholarship competition. 

THIRD, STUDY THE FACILITIES AND SERVICES of colleges 

and universities that are designed to help the handi- 

capped student in carrying on his studies. The best help 

available to you to make this study is a monograph en- 

titled Higher Education and Handicapped Students, edited 

bv William V. Tucker. and available from Tic. This lists 

by states all the higher education institutions in the 

USA that appear in the College Blue Book and have more 

than 1000 students and which responded to the question- 

naire.1t lists for each one, according to its own report 

at the time of the study, the following: housing ramps, 

cLassroam ramps, library ramps, beveled curbs, reserved 

parking areas, modified toilet facilities, special coun- 

selors, vocational rehabilitation service visits, adap- 

tive physical education, and numbers of wheelchair and 

blind students. After reading this monograph, select two 

or three that seem to meet your needs and write to "The 

-

Registrar" for a catalogue and ask to whom you should 

mite regarding the institution's program and facilities 

for handicapped students. Then write to the latter for 

any detail not covered in the monograph described above. 

FOURTH, many of you will be able to get along fairly 

well by yourself. Others will need to make careful in- 

vestigation of the possibilities of student-attendant 

services. My best advice is that if this is an important 

factor, do everything you can to get the arrangements 

made definitely before you go to the campus.Few colleges 

make special dormitory or housing arrangements for the 

handicapped. Few of them arrange to employ students as 

attendants. Even if you have the money to employ a stu- 

dent assistant, you may find that some institutions have 

trouble in recruiting the kind of person you need. When 

you write to the institution about this be sure to be 

specific about the exact duties you expect from the as- 

istant, the amount of time and times of the day you need 

the assistance and any other information that would be 

useful in recruitment. Some of the institutions or pos- 

sible attendants may be worried about their responsibil- 

ity to you, legally, and suggest that you sign a waiver. 

Be very reluctant to sign a waiver; or, at least, con- 

sult a friendly lawyer in your community before doing 

so. Some have advised that you should not absolve a per- 

son from negligence, and, as long as a person exercises 

reasonable care, that is all that is asked of him and he 

cannot be held liable for anything that happens while he 

is exercising reasonable care. After all, this is gener- 

ally the requirement that employees or assistants you 

have in your own home are charged with. 

IF YOU NEED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR ATTENDANTS, in- 

quire from the institution with which you are planning 

to study whether it is operating under the College-Work- 

Study Program of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 

and whether your needs for student assistance could be 

financed, or partially financed, within the limitations 

of this program. Also write your own State Office of Vo- 

cational Rehabilitation, in your State Capitol, and ask 

them whether you can secure financial assistance for 

student assistance. Both of these agencies have limita- 

tions, but you may be able to come within them. You also 

might try your local Service Clubs, such as Rotary, 

Lions, Kiwanis, Altrusia, etc. Very often, if they under- 

stand the situation, they will get back of an occasional 

need of this kind. 

FINALLY, DON'T GET DISCOURAGED with a few set-backs; 

you're used to them and you're after a good thing here. 

Do all you can for yourself along the lines I've suggested.When 

you've done that and there are still road-blocks, 

write me (core of TjG) and we will try to do what we can 

to go on from there. Much of this effort of higher educational 

institutions to make better provisions for physically 

handicapped students is new to many of them.l.lany 

innovations and break-throughs are occurring, and the 

picture is changing slowly but favorably. Every effort 

you make along this line helps define- (the institution's) 

task and problems. So, even in t h e m , you 

can help. B

QUAD on a south African QUADdranI~e 

u niversity was always a "must" even before I was disabled 

by polio during an epidemic we had here in 1957. 

Psychology had long interested me before I decided to 

make a career of it. 

It was unfortunate that I contracted polio shortly before 

my school days were to be over, far when I was able 

to Start picking up the threads of the matriculation 

syllabus some three years later in Salisbury, Rhodesia, 

I found that I had got right out of swing with academic 

work. It was a battle to cope with work which looks so 

simple now! 

I left Cape Town, my home town,for Salisbury two years 

after my admittance to the Isolation Hospital. After a 

brief session of two weeks in an Iron Lung my time was 

divided between physiotherapy and sleeping. Sleep was a 

welcome release from what was then tor me an unacceptable 

situation (almost total paralysis). The idea behind 

my trip up North was to move from a hospital to a hostel 

and to attend the Red Cross Polio Clinic every day for 

further treatment. Although I did not realise it at the 

time, what could be done for me by way of physiotherapy 

had already been done. Today I feed myself, read and 

write with my right am. 

About the time I turned 21, I obtained a job as an Invoice 

Clerk in a large sized firm. This kept me busy until 

I came back to Cape Town to commence studies for a 

44 B.A. degree at the University of Cape Town. 

by Peter Col l i s 

(polio quad1 South Africa 

Salisbury is a beautiful city with its long avenues of 

flowering trees, huge gardens and several parks. As al- 

ways with small cities, (only 120.000 people) the tempo 

of life is slow and peaceful. Everyone walks about very 

casually - no-one need hurry - and no-one ever does! 

Quite different to the teeming, bristling city of Johan- 

esburg! 

I spent my second year of university life in Johannes- 

burg - there because I wanted to have one last crack at 

intensive physiotherapy to establish whether or not 

there was still room for improvement. There was not,but 

Johannesburg was an interesting experience. I carried on 

with my degree courses and met a large number of inter- 

esting people, including Ian Bompas, a TjG Horizontal 

Foreign Correspondent, who has recently moved to Durban. 

That year (1964) my African attendant Girivas returned 

home to his Reserve in Rhodesia to marry and start a 

family - an event of considerable significance to him - 

as by this means he was recognised by his Tribe as being 

truly a man with all the social prestige and improved 

status which accompanies it! 

In January 1965 I visited Rhodesia to fetch Girivas in 

time for the commencement of the academic year. The cir- 

cumstances under which I found him make a goad story. 

After driving through the "Bush" with an African guide 

for miles on end, we eventually arrived at the little 

kraal of half-a-dozen huts. Girivas had hurt his eye and

was receiving treatment for it from the local witchdoc- 

tor who, incidentally, was making a reasonably good job 

of it! Before bringing Girivas away with me, I paid his 

"bill" for the treatment; the witchdoctor was most im- 

~ressed by the ready availability of cash, and after 

lengthy discussion it evolved that I would be further re- 

quired to pay (dearly) for having a special spell cast 

over Girivas' wife's hut to protect her from all manner 

of evil: 

I am entirely dependent upon my attendant to get me a- 

round and about and generally take care of me. Perhaps 

the greatest boon about living here is the availability 

of relatively cheap African labour. Girivas stays with 

me wherever I choose to live and takes me wherever I 

wish to go. University with its hundreds of steps would 

certainly have been out of the question were it not for 

my attendant. I have travelled many thousands of miles 

around the country with him. Together,as a team, we are 

free and independent. 

We have a very small portable transmitter and receiver 

with which to contact each other when separated; he can 

thus leave me to attend lectures and be free to go where 

he pleases until I need him again. 

Much of my spare time is given aver to promoting and 

organising our local paraplegic games; part of this work 

is to produce "The Chairman" - an alternate monthly news- 

letterlmagazine, and make an occasional "after-dinner" 

speech.It is very interesting and often great fun.0ther- 

wise I enjoy playing bridge, going 'to operas, ballet. 

concerts and plays; also parties, braai's (barbecues), 

swimming and boating, dating and swilling down much cold 

its hmdreds of b 

steps would have 6 

bee? out of the 

him. Together, as a 

tern, we are free 

and independent. -K\ j 

-1 

. . We have a verg 

srna7.2 portab7.e 

transmitter and 

receiver with which 

to contact each 

other when 

separated. . . ." 

beer in these hot summer months 

The future looks good. I plan to obtain a Master's de- 

gree in Clinical Psychology, after which I may well con- 

tinue study with a view to eventually specialising in 

Vocational Guidance. 

I would like to make a trip to the States to enrol at 

one of the Universities for a graduate course in Psychol- 

ogy. (Perhaps some of the TjG readers could put me wise 

as to a suitable campus.) In the meantime, I would like 

to correspond with other "TjG-ers." My address: Corner 

Cottage, Union Road, Milnerton, Cape Town, S. Africa. @

AUUL? 'kTiZ4, hospitoZized siiicp 

1361, coniinued his eiucotion b3 

tuto~. in 1365 he wn8 mong the 

.five best secondard sc>iooL g~ndu- 

oies of the ~il02e 0: Bmm~io. His 

hopes to achieue a higher educa- 

tion and become n teacher were 

thwarted b!i the medieval faciZities 

of Cem.a?i u?!-I.~e?sities. After 

finding ?g aniiversity thot would 

accept n ~espo, he arriiiea in tie 

U.S. in i!arch 1966 to study at U. 

C. L. A. (Llniuersiia of Call.?ornia, 

Los AngeLesJ. Hls ezpenses are 

46 

being dsfrayzd by schoLarshipa 

nni ti!e an~nrian Csoen?mzr;t. 

by Adolf Ratzka 

ODYSSEY of a BAVARIAN SCHOLAR {iespo) BavariaICaI i tornia 

In July 1961 I contracted polio. After 

having spent three months in an iron 

lung I was able to breathe an my o m 

d-ring the day. For sleeping pvrposes I 

am still dependent on respiratory aid. 

I" 1963, after learning to sit up in 

a wheelchair with the aid of a leather 

and steel corset and to write legibly, 

I felt like continuing my education. 

~ ~ ~ ithe n next g years some teachers 

came info the children's hospital, the 

place where I am still living, and tutored 

me in the main subjects. In July 

1965 1 was lucky enough to pass the final 

exams of the secondary school with 

a good average. 

If had always been my plan to attend 

a university after secondary school.But 

after this seemed impossible. Because 

of the great age of German universities 

they contain many architectural 

harriers to wheelchairs. The buildings, 

which are dispersed over the city area, 

are narrow with smal1,overcrorrded rooms. 

NOW it is time fo fell of the key figure 

in my post polio life, Mrs. Vollmar 

manager of the "Pfennigparade E.V. ." an 

~~~a~isation for the aid of polio vic- 

tims. Mrs. Vallmar, the most unusual 

and charming person you have ever seen, 

had encouraged me to conrinue my sec- 

ondary school. She had the idea that in 

the U.S.A.there might be better chances 

£01 me to attend a university especial- 

ly adapted fa the needs of the disabled 

someone told her of the Toomey j Gazette 

$0 she wrote for the excellent 1962 edi- 

tion, "Quads on Quadrangles," and in 

December 1964 we began our inquiry for 

a university which would take me. 

During this rime of hope and set- 

backs, Mrs. Joseph S. (Gini) Laurie, 

managing editor of Toomey j Gazette,was 

happy with me when I reported success 

and encouraged me, gave me new ideas, 

and some more addresses when I told her 

about disappointments. 

During the last year, I contacted the 

following schools: University of Illi- 

nois, Southern Illinois University, Uni- 

versicy of Nissouri, University of Cal- 

ifornia (LO* hgeles), university of 

California (Berkeley), City College of 

New York, and Hofstra university. 

Hofstra and the City College of New 

York replied that they had no residence

halls for me. he u. of Xissouri rejected 

my application for admission because 

I not self-sufficient--I have only 

"se of both hands and the right arm below 

the shoulder. The u. of Illinois, 

which seems ro have the best facilities 

for wheelchair students in the world, 

also handles mostly iadependent students. 

Although it has a program for a 

few non-self-sufficient students, this 

is still in rhe pilot study stage. 

Saufhern Illinois U. admits the more 

severely handicapped student, but makes 

his admission dependent on his already 

having secured an attendant. 

I turned to California where the climate 

is said ra be favorable for respos. 

At Berkeley, there are two lloornay 

readers living in the university's infirmary 

and 

hilly campus. 

doing well despite the 

In September 1965, Mrs. Vallmar visited, 

on her trip through the U.S.A.. the 

V. of Illinois and U.C.L.A. At U.of Illinois, 

she was informed that they covld 

not take me because of my kidney rroubles, 

on account of their lack of surgical 

facilities. At U.C.L.A. she was 

told that my polio disabilities would 

constitute no obstacle to my academic 

admission if I covld work our arrangements 

for my housing and attendant. 

In California, Mrs. Vollmar also met 

Toore? reader, >lr. Ralph Dosch of Long 

Beach, of whom she had heard through 

~ ~ l ~ pen h 'pal s in Zlunich, Toomey read- 

er Eliss Ingrid Leirner. On my inquiry 

for a university I asked many Toomey 

readers far information and they helped 

me in every way possible and encouraged 

me a great deal. I would like to rake 

chis opportunity to thank them all. I 

found out that Toomey readers stick together 

like a creJ. 

As 500" as Ralph heard of my plans to 

attend U.C.L.A., he starred doing everything 

possible as to getting infarmation, 

contacting firms and organisations, 

visiting places and meeting persons. 

~ly final arrangements are: the 

first few months I will attend English 

courses as an auditor and will live in 

a nearby Convalescent Hospital (Beverly 

West Hospital, 1516 Sawtelle Blvd., Los 

Angeles 25, Cal.). In the summer session 

I will start regular study and 

will live in a Residence Hall, if possible, 

or find a suitable apartment and 

live with one or two attendants. 

Without Ralph's and his mother's help 

it would have taken me much longer to 

find such accommodations in Los Angeles. 

Since I how that I "ill have a real 

friend there,I am even more happy about 

the thought of going co L.A. 

Soon after I had begun my correspondence 

I realized that, using a rocking 

bed,ir would be difficult to get a room. 

So I looked around for a less bulky r r 

spirator. First I tried out a Thompson 

pnevmobelr which Toomeg reader,Mr. Charles 

Froelicher, European Thompson repre- 

sentative, lent me. After if turned out 

that I covld not sleep with the aid of 

the pneumobelt, I tried a chesr-abdomen 

cuirass. After original difrii-ulties I 

am now used to it.1 also iomr-;rl nut that 

my chances of getting adnitled by a 

school would be better if 8y medical re- 

part did not contain "kidney troubles." 

Since my iron lung period I had had a 

big kidney stone which always caused 

troubles. After cxarninafions and consid- 

erations, the surgeons finally took the 

right kidney out in December 1965. 

But all endeavors would have been in 

vain if Mrs. Vollmar had not solved the 

main problem--the finances.Because I am 

a war orphan the Bavarian Government is. 

sponsoring me. But to convince the au- 

thorities that there was no way for me 

fo attend a German university and to in- 

terest them in financing my study in 

the U.S.A. was Elrs. Vollmar's work.This 

was in the summer of 1965. Then, in Feb- 

ruary 1966, the officers of the Bavar- 

ian Government--all are nice people-- 

were ready to sign the necessary papers. 

After getting the visa and making all 

preparations, I am today (March 25, 

1966). three days before my rake off, 

the happiest man in the world. 

I wovld be happy if these lines would 

be of some value to other respos who 

are looking for a suitable school or if 

they covld even encourage others co 

start i;,e Odyssey from university to 

vniversity applying for admission. B

PORTRAIT. 8 

. 

T 

e following excerpts from our local 

newspaper 

my life: 

summarize the bare bones of 

,rm~. 

-rce .forf>cs~ing Csnne Ezhi&b-:tion u - ~ 

zrri-Je ;^ram o x1-2 succassfi~i sl~nwi,~ 

- I,. .. ro~ot:fc, 9.1 ;lr;/ 25 119651 at the Ton 

--~ .r:craav Irr SIZZ~.P;/. 7x6 is a w.e-nan 

a;!aw, slt;to~g;l in this case t:ze artist 

is a jomg Go?=, wife of 3r. I. Ceims, 

LOCI% &,!tist. 

,,?~ ~rniegz kr.. I.: Rig?, Llt~ia. in 1949 s,le cmne to 

ccn7-c;~ mt zrfized in :'!o,:t-oeai, 

;.:. i.!m trea2 ti

Tree years ago a car accident left 

me with the use of my head, two weak 

arms (no finger movement), and an ordi- 

nary wheelchair (junior, ro avoid dis- 

tress in other people's homes, as well 

as easier to handle myself). 

Ir$ar have I done since chat dreary 

day three years ago?Almost two of these 

were spent in hospitals, The Toronto 

General, Lyndhursr Lodge, and finally, 

thank goodness, Highland Vie&.. Cleve- 

land, Ohio, where for the first time I 

got some real physiorherapy. An ortho- 

siS (a hand brace utilizing the wrist 

flexors to give grip and pinch) was 

ready within a week, and I was learning 

how to put it on, fake it off myself, 

and how to use it. For the first time 

in all chis eternity I was able to pick 

up a paint brush in a closrto-normal 

way!This was a grear thing (before this 

I had attempted to paint wirh the brush 

strapped to my wrist). 

Housework hadn't even occurred to me 

until I was introduced to fhe facili- 

ties in the experimental kitchens by my 

occupatianal therapist. Now, rhough I 

tire easily.1 manage to do a fair share 

of housework. lie have reproduced in our 

new home many of the ideas of kitchen 

planning I learned at Highland View.The 

kitchen counters are loirered; there is 

leg room under the sink and the counrer- 

top stave; there are pull-our shelves 

and things slide or open easily 50 that 

I am able to operate everything myself. 

Plastic dishes are used for preparing 

and serving. Oo a spike-board I can cur 

most things, rhough it all rakes rime. 

>ly built-in oven opens (which 

certainly cuts down on burned fingecs). 

1 have a front-loading dishwasher and 

washer and dryer. 

I do have a reliable housekeeper, who 

arrives about 9 a.m. and stays until 

midafternoon, depending on what's to be 

done. Saturdays I cope uith all things 

myself (sometimes wit17 the help of my 

seven year old son, Peter), as Iuars, 

my better half,usually has to look inro 

people's mouths. One thing I now know I 

cannot do, is to make beds, unless I 

wish to land in one myself. 

As For gadgets--the orrhosis (I nor- 

mally wear only the right one) is all I 

need. 1 am a reckless soul--born under 

tile Taurus sign--and have managed to 

mutilate this little miracle a few 

tines, attempting to do things beyond 

its capacity. Luckily, hubby possesses 

some knowledge in an allied field, name- 

ly orthodontics, and he has been pretty 

good at repairs. 

Sow the painting--I have as 

far back as I can remember, been swing- 

ing the brush. After graduating, I did 

exhibit now and then, but being at- 

tached to a dental school undergraduate, 

I did not have the tine I needed or 

wanted for my painting. 

Since my accident 1 an more able to 

Concentrate on ny paincing because I no 

longer hold an our-af-rhe-home jab nor 

even teach privately at home. I believe 

that I have grown,aged a good deal, and 

my painting seems to reflect chis. I 

have so much more to say wirh greater 

audacity than before. My technique has 

chan~ed and kerps on changing, but it 

has no connection whatever with my use 

of the orthosis. There is no denying 

that to execute a painting, especially 

a large one, involves a goad deal of 

physical energy; you cannot as easily 

go back and forth to observe its progress 

as betare. Ac times it is difficult 

to reach. At times I approach a 

painting frw all possible angles, including 

working upside dam, if the 

finished prduct is clearly outlined in 

my imagination. 

I keep my vheelchair condition cancealed,whenever 

I am not present or the 

public has only seen my photograph, for 

I wish to keep my work and my physical 

condition as two separate entities. I 

am a painter in my om right, and my 

physical condition has nothing to do 

with it. IT has always bcen an integral 

part of my life, and my present physical 

difficulties are not the public's 

business, nor do they determine the 

merit -- of my efforts. * 

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Association of Mouth and Fo lot Painting Artists 

iiy =etei tielson Spencer. Enqlard 

1 can't even draw a straight line, and 

I have bath hands."This remark i s often 

heard when pictures painted by members 

of the International Association 

Xouth and Foot Painting Artists are be- 

ing discvssed at one of their exhibits. 

The sentiment behind such a remark is 

quite sincere and is meant as a compli- 

ment to the artists concerned, but how 

much more they appreciate hearing--and 

they do hear--such comments as "What a 

fine piece of or "This pic- 

ture shows great understanding." But 

nothing pleases them more than having a 

painting selected far an open exhibi- 

tion.rhe judges nor knowing that it was 

painted with the brushes held between 

the teeth or the toes. 

Who are fhese artists, and what is 

their Association? 

It was founded in 1956 by Ericb Steg- 

man", a German arrisr and sculptor, who 

is the president of the Association. 

Like many of the present members, his 

arms were paralysed by polio--when he 

was just rhree years old. He went to 

school at the usual age,using his teeth 

to hold the pencil to write and the 

brush to paint. He continued his education 

at a College of Art, after which 

he painted and painted and painted. 

His pictures sold and he became very 

well knom--nor because of the way in 

which he painted, but because his work 

was of a very high artistic standard. 

With similarly handicapped artists, who 

put their work before their disability 

the Association was formed. From its 

small beginnings with just a few mew 

bers in Europe, there are now nearly 

100 members and student members in such 

far away countries as South Africa, Yew 

Zealand, Australia, Canada, U. S.A. 

Japan. 

and 

Behind every arrisr is a story--a 

S~OL-y of "human interest" as the newspapers 

say--and each one would tell of 

the handicap that had been overcome and 

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a new world by being able to be 

creative. The biographies of many of 

fhese artists, with their photographs 

and colour rep~odvctions of their paintings,have 

been told in the book, "God's 

Second Door." There have been two volumes 

and a third is being readied. 

These mouth and foot painting artists 

are continuing and developing cheir artistic 

work with the strength of the 

Association behind them. This strength

Peter Nelson Spencer lost one mm md 

t%e xse of the otker in m aircraft ca- 

cideat i;hiZa semiiq iiiih the R.A.F. 

lBeloul Relozing with his wife, Jvne,an 

actress and singer, mi their children, 

Jill ad Robin. Right: Putting a finaZ 

touch on his portrnit of "i'innie. " 

depends cn the number of artists, the 

quality ai their work, the sale of orig 

inal at exhibitions and the 

sale of reproductions of their paint- 

ings and designs in rhe form of greet- 

ings and Christmas cards,calendars, and 

other prints suitable for framing. 

The Association has a Skholarship 

Scheme £01 beginners whose work has not 

yet reached the high standard required.

Arrangements are usually made for these 

Student Nembers to attend a local Art 

School, or if this is nor possible be- 

cause of the disability, an art reacher 

will visit him or her at home or in hos- 

pital. During this time the student re- 

ceives a generous allowance to cover 

the cost of artists' materials and tui- 

tion fees. when the work has reached 

the required srandard (ajld this is de- 

cided by an Independent Panel of k- 

tists), the student becomes a full ilem- 

be=, with voting rights. 

His work is reproduced for sale. He 

receives a regular monthly salary and, 

in most cases, an annual bonus. He is 

earninR his living and is reasonably 

free from financial worry. He can truly 

describe himself as an w, and, a- 

bove all, he knows che sarisfaction of 

being creative. He has gained "self- 

respect ." 

And so our Association grows, contin- 

ually looking for--and fi"ding--"e" ar- 

fists and potential artists in many 

countries rhroughouf the world. 

iiould-be members,seeking information, 

shovld write to one of the following: 

(1) Association of Handicapped Ar- 

tists. 1735 Rand Bldg., Buffalo, N.Y. 

(2) Rehandart Canada LEd., Suite 107, 

160 Bay St., Toronto 1, 0°C. 

(3) V.D.M.F.K., Kasperigasse 112, 

Vaduz, Liechtenstein. 

(4) Peter Relson Spencer, 94 Clare- 

mount Rd., Idallasey, Cheshire, England. 

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NEW ZEALAND SPORTSMAN and ARTIST 

ESt of all I ,la., 

these same friends helped considerably 

in my rehabilicarian by taking me with 

rhem as though I were no different.This 

helped more than they will ever know, 

as if developed my sense of balance to 

a remarkable degree. 

Today 20 years larer I can leap about 

in a ~itshing boar as sure-footed as a 

mountain goat. 

For the last 7 years I have been a li 

censed Speed Boar racing driver, and 

drive in competition regularly in my 

ow foot controlled Speed Boat, "Gada- 

bout 11." 

It was this interest in boating that 

was responsible for my being asked if I 

would write far a local newspaper, and 

not long after I accepted a part-time 

job as Power Boat Correspondent for a 

- Xational Boating Magazine also. To clar 

fy this, i have to hark back to 1950 

when the Dunedin branch of the New Zea- 

land Crippled Children's Society pur- 

chased for me a ser of Distaff Xechani- 

cal Arms, which not only enabled me to 

feed myself, but also use a typewriter, 

hence my ability to write. Today I'm in 

a position to employ a secretary, but I 

still type with rhem occasionally. I en- 

1943 at the age of 12. \ joy my meals much better when feeding 

I spent my 13th birthday in hospital myself, and I use them daily. 

and two months later was discharned. . .. - 1 

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I'm still working in a part-time ca- 

During my childhood I developed a . k? pacify for both of these Organisations. 

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lave of the sea and boats, and used to L - - I enjoy this work and my job with the 1 

spend my weekends messing about with -. Nagarine has grown to the stage where I 

boats and fishing on the otago harbour jm kivtr, ~ni:a?.-~c

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Approximately 4 years ago I was ap- 

pointed Publicity Officer to the South 

Island Speedboat Association. 

Although my interest now is mostly 

comected with Power Boating, I have 

far many years been assaciated with 

Yachting, also having owned a couple of 

Yachts, one in partnership with my 

brother,and have held office in various 

positions including President or Como- 

dore in several CLlbs;and am at present 

Secretary of the Yacht Club at Broad 

Bay, and also President of a Class Assa- 

ciation. 

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Occupational Therapy was responsible 

for my raking up painting by holding 

the brush clenched between ny teeth. I 

had been painting from 1946 until 1960, 

rhe latter part of this time supplement- 

ing my invalid pension with the sale of 

my work. Then in 1960 1 was invited to 

Submit work to the Mouth 6 Foot Paint- 

ing Artists Association, and a few 

months later received a scholarship 

from them. For rhe last 5 years I hawe 

been fully employed by the Association. 

buz still find time for my writing. 

It was the added financial security 

which enabled me 3 years ago to pur- 

chase a "Holden" Hydromatic station wag- 

on far which I designed my 0%- foot eon- 

trols. I travel all over the South Is- 

land to Regattas and Art Exhibitions. 

On these trips I get ideas for my paint- 

ings in which I specialize in New Zea- 

land scenery. 

For relaxation I turn my attention to 

Ballrow dancing in which I have been 

interested for a,nmber of years. Al- 

though never having been taught. I'm 

reasonably proficieor, and have never 

had much difficulty in acquiring part- 

ners. I also enjoy a good movie and, 

when the occasion warrants, enjoy a 

drink with the boys. 

Over the years I have had many girl 

friends and a few romances but none 

very serious vntil last year.Theo I met 

a very nice girl and have recently be- 

come engaged to her and we're planning 

to marry later this year. So now my fu- 

tvre is looking brighter than ever.with 

prospects of a hwe, a good job, wife, 

and family. B 

INTERNATIONAL ART SHOW 

@ DISABLED ARTISTS 

Th9 Kenny ienabilitaticn Institute 

Auxiliary sponsors an annual show 

in October. Chaiman o' the shor is 

I.!ergaret Anderson, a respo. 

The 19" show exhibited th- works 

of nlre thzn 100 artists iron 20 

diifsrent countries. Aboui $1700 

wortb ni pintingi were sold. 

Dezdline +or eriry iq this year's 

show is September 1, 1966. 

The categories include: (I) mouth, 

:cot, and forehead artists; and 12) 

those with disabled hands or arms. 

Entimi5 msy submit: watercolors, 

oils, or other media. 

Proceels from the sales ci paint- 

ings gothe artists (after a I05 

deduction to cover expenses>. 

For further details an3 entry 

tornis, write in: !:ri. "aul 0. Ander- 

son, 432 Lefsyette Ave., Excelsior. 

I+innesots 55331.

THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING 

is one of the 

first and most 

uatued editors o f 

the GAZEYTE. 

Edito? of the 

Ilnrket Ptoce, she 

designed the correr 

of this issue m d 

iZZustrated sea- 

ern2 of the 

artictes. 

In June of this year I graduated from 

the Cleveland Institute of .Art and am 

now looking forward to a job at Cleve- 

land Metropolitan General Hospital. The 

opportunify to actually attend classes 

was exciting, yet a little frightening, 

since all of my junior and senior high 

school education had been accomplished 

via tutors. In fact, at the time, if I 

considered too long the immensity of 

what I proposed to do, slight apprehen- 

sion verged on near panic - the prob- 

lems involved seemed innumerable and im- 

possible! But they weren't and the rw 

tal experience has been vastly reward- 

ing both professionally and personally. 

~!y own thoughts on these past six years 

are just now gaining some form - per- 

haps a few may be of interest to some- 

one going in a similar direction. 

By fhe end of high school I had de- 

cided to become an artist (if it is POS- 

sible to "become" such an amorphic en- 

tity) and had also decided to attend 

the C.I.A. As stared here this seems 

terribly simple and uninvolved and yet 

I really believe these initial deci- 

sions are among the most imp'ortant. 

since your confidence in them more or 

less dictates another's confidence in 

you and thus the ultimate success of 

your endeavor. Since my formal art edu- 

cation had been sadly lacking, I attend 

ed the Institute part time for one year 

LO prepare a portfolio which would rain 

me Full-time acceptance by the school 

and in turn full tuition aid from the 

Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation 

from which organization I received much 

support and to whom I am most grateful. 

I did not carry anything resembling a 

full load this firsr year, so I was in- 

troduced gently to those problems which 

somehow eventually, and almost gently, 

disappeared! 

Telescoped into quick succession: I 

gained acceptance by the school ... my 

b$ Mickie McGraw (respn) Ohio 

case passed the eneptians camittee of 

the B.V.R. and I was awarded full tui- 

tion for a four year diploma program ... 

I learned the Munsell Color System ... 

I fovnd transportation to and from 

school...I learned distal cues and 

Focillon's theory and Van Gogh's brush 

stroke...I successfully oriented myself 

to the school's lavatory Facilities ... I 

went from figure drawing to fashion 

drawing, from photography to typography 

... I received a motorized wheelchair 

which really increased my independence 

... I went on a "toadstool" to the 

school's Nasked Ball and a Greyhound 

bus to a Pittsburgh art show ... I major- 

ed in Graphic Design and won a fifth 

year scholarship through which I was 

able to participate in an exciting new 

student program providing art services 

to welfare organizations of Cleveland; 

I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine 

Arts degree in Graphic Design and a mi- 

nor in Printmaking. 

A friend at school had a personal for- 

mula for creating order out of chaos 

and he frequently used it at times of 

mass confusion and frusrration.The more 

I think abovc it, the more I realize 

the wisdom of his words: Think about 

what you're doing - and it! 61 55

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and job placement. Industrial home- 

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all the oddments and endments 

just conldn't be squeezed on 

two pages. So, a helpful 

article on Elexican attendants, 

Sponsoring an Alien," by Millie 

Alexander of California, had to be 

postponed to next year's issue. Meanwhile, 

mimeographed copies of the 

article are available from Tic. 

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~~ndon \dl. Price per year: 11s. (From the 

If you live in New York City, you should 

buy the excellent guide they publish for 

only $1.50. It is titled; "Resources for 

the Orthopedically Disabled in New York 

COPH BULLETIN ... has been revitalized!!!!! 

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IDA DAL Y 

n In the northwest corner a£ the United States there 

is a busy place known as the Seattle Handicapped Cen- 

ter. Here the physically disabled join in social and cre- 

ative activities, make friends, and exercise their tal- 

ents in constructive work. Directing chis bustling and 

happy social junction is the charming Ida Daly, a woman 

of great warmth, ingenuity, and efficiency. She has used 

these atrributes generously and productively in service 

by Donna IblcGwinn (respo) Ohio 

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to the physically handicapped, and the GAZETTE proudly 

welcomes 

. 

her to irs Hall of Fame. 

Adapting to the gradually increasing restraints of 

muscular dystrophy since early childhood, Ida has 

succeeded in living a full and productive 65 years. She 

is so alive and energetic that everyone who knows her 

forgets that she is almost totally paralyzed. One Center 

member, Betty Marion, says, "Those of us who see Ida running 

the Handicapped Center, zinging around in her electric 

wheelchair and managing a hundred things at once 

with her trick telephone, soon forget that she is a quadriplegic 

with very limited use of her arms and no 

strength or movement in her hands ..." 

m Ida wisely takes advantage of all the mechanical help 

she can get. With the use of her electric wheelchair, 

Hoyer lift, special telephone dialed by elbow, special 

dictating machine, and an electric typewriter operated 

by mouthstick, Ida sees that about 175 events a year, in- 

volving at one time or another hundreds of people, run 

smoothly. An indication of just how efficiently the Hand- 

icapped Center is managed is its complete self-support, 

free of financial assistance from any local, state, or 

federal agency. Main support comes from sale of the GOOD 

SANARITAN,monthly publication of the Seattle Handicapped 

Club, and the advertising it carries. Ida contributes a 

Center Report column for each issue. 

m The story of Ida must necessarily include that a£

the Handicapped Center, which she has directed since 

its opening in 1957. Ida's late husband, Frank, also was 

instrumental in establishing and generating the Center. 

Its two buildings on city-awned land were given to mem- 

bers of the Seattle Handicapped Club as a place to meet, 

conduct classes, have social gatherings, and engage in 

supervised recreation. The Daly energy and enthusiasm 

permeate the Center and account in great part for its 

success. An observation of the late ?laurine Germand, for 

many years editor of the GOOD SAAiBRITAN, describes Ida's 

influence: "I know that many members, teachers, helpers 

and visitors have felt the warm personality of the Cen- 

ter, created by the resident director, Ida Daly." 

m Besides being director Ida is one of the three mem- 

bers of the Board of Trustees that does the finan- 

cial planning and dream-realizing of the Center. Through 

its efficient board form of government the Center can 

take the quick, decisive action that is proving invalu- 

able in planning for its new residence units. Having al- 

ready gained the approval of the Federal Housing and 

H0n.e Finance Agency for a loan of $2,228,793 to build 

150 units to house the physically disabled, the Center 

is now busy raising the necessary matching funds. Ida is 

also a member of the Residence Home Committee. 

m Though these activities are time-consuming, Ida has 

a few hours left over to serve on the >luscular Dystrophy 

Board and the Washington State Recreation Society'~ 

Section on I11 and Handicapped. These were probably 

some of the services considered when Ida was chosen as 

Washington State's Handicapped American af 1965. 

m Ida speaks Spanish, has taken art courses, attended 

evening classes, and completed 3: years of college. 

Her experiences in getting an education introduced her 

to the architectural barriers encountered when the physi- 

cally handicapped try to go to school, and she is now a 

vociferous crusader in eliminating such obstacles. As 

she is usually successful in her crusades,some new build- 

ing specifications can be expected from the ir'ashington 

legislature in the future. 

m Despite her extensive paralysis, Ida is far from be- 

ing "home-bound." In 1960 she took a month's cross- 

country automobile tour with one handicapped and one 

able-bodied friend. They stopped at 22 different motels 

and hotels, and visited everything from Abilities. Inc. 

in iiew York to >lark Twain's home in Missouri. In 1965 

she broadened her already wide horizons and flew to five 

countries in Western Europe as a representative of this 

country's People to People Program. One of a party of 13, 

she compared the facilities and opportunities for the 

disabled in Denmark, Switzerland, England, Holland, and 

France with those in this country. She came away with 

some ideas, and left a £err--a fair and mutually enlight- 

ening exchange. 

m We couldn't have had a better representative of the 

severely disabled, and we salute your pioneering ven- 

tures, Ida. We are proud to have you in our wad Hall of 

Fame. 18 

ED: LJuZZetin 30md (pzge 571 dascribss Ida's sxc+lti?zg a- 

word f~on ?.jGrs CzrchosZovakian corrzspmdent!!

All apartments will have special adap- 

tations planned by Dr. Rusk's Institute. 

There will be beauty and barber shops, 

community room, snack bar, therapy room. 

small =hapel, social worker's and doc- 

for's rooms, and under-cover parking. 

he complex will be two connecting 8- 

story buildings, adjacent ro the new 

Goodwill building, and connected to it 

by a bridge over the street. Ihe income 

limitations will be those standard for 

Public Housing. 

Betty and her husband, Jerry, a polio 

para, have worked on the project since 

1960 when rhey heard of the Danish hous- 

ing experiment. The project was brought 

about by a Citizen's Advisory Committee, 

Congressman Lud Ashley, the Toledo Hous- 

ing Authority, and Dr. Robert Weaver. 

Write: Plr. PlcClinton Nunn, Director, 

Toledo Pletropalitan Housing Auchorify, 

400 Xebraska he., Toledo, Ohio 43602. 

PLANS 

. 

. 

. SE;.7-: *,,:~~~,l~+zzr- .. .. z- H . 

kE>,;,E,,:s p y >;-;,:77p Hame Finance 

approved a loan to the Seattle Housing 

Authority to construct a seven-stmy 

150-unit housing building for handi- 

capped at a cost of about $2.5 million. 

The apartmenr-type building iiill have 

25 two-bedroom and 125 one-bedroom u- 

nits, renting far an average of 548. 

Overall plans involve a S4.5 million 

complex of buildings, including the $1 

million expansion of the Center and the 

sheltered workshop of the Lighthouse 

fcr the Blind, 1nc. 

Far details, mice to Plrs. Ida Daly, 

director of the Center and TjG's cur- 

rent "Quad Hall of Fame" selection (see 

Page 60). 2525 5. Hill Street, Seattle, 

ldashingfon 98144. 

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.,:A . nJrlZCi1S -- hospitalized young adults . 

1955 to establish a residential commun- 

ity. To date, rhey have purchased 23 

acres near Farmington and are starting 

towards their future home by construct- 

ing shelters and a picnic area. 

They are planning a community-home 

for 30 to 60 ablrminded disabled, a 

central residence,ranch style homes for 

families, gift shop, auditorium, pool. 

>leanwhile, their Memorial Hospital is 

developing a dynamic New Horizons i.iing. 

The furure residents are working from 

their hospital roams by telephone, run- 

ning a variety store, and "Quad-Abili- 

ties, Inc.," which handles sub-contract 

work. Write: New Horizons, Inc., New 

Britain, cnnnecticut. 

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FLiSSfTE: I X. a1 Presbyterian 

SEXYICE r?E:ITi; Hi"% churches in Hous- 

.I . formed 

non-profit organization to build a center 

far the care, rehabilitation, and 

recreation of elderly retired and young 

disabled. Five acres of land have been 

purchased.Plans call for 120 apartments 

and a nursing care unit for 50. 

Details: Presbyterian Service Center, 

Box 14397, Houston, Texas 77021. 

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T,l2;53 - 31 iL3,i: i3LLTS 1966, DARE 

"55 lIE',ITI QL E':TE?L"l SES starred ac- ........... nu . t.". e- 

rect the first unit in Chicago. Planned 

is a 100-apartment building with shops L

U.S.A. PLANS 

and work opportunities for use of iis 

residents and other disabled persons. 

DARE'S co-sponsor, Community Renewal 

Foundation, a "en urofir group ~lr. Ayers (84 Holland 

.A".., Albany, X.Y. 12208) of their need 

of the best infornee men in the country for housing, now or in the future.

U.S.A. PLANS 

.m.mm.m.m.mm . S.B. 934, effec- 

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. I . . tive September 

:' =USLII: EELLIP, :TI-C' 17, 1965, aurh- 

s.e.m .m.mm.m. orized S550,000 

for a four-year study to determine the 

extent OF the needs of severely handi- 

capped people of normal mentality for 

residential care. 

Two areas were selected: Sacramento 

County and the Long Beach area. In Sac- 

ramento a social worker has been hired 

to vork with the handicapped, to decer- 

mine their needs, what is available,and 

what new services must be developed. 

IL i s esrimared there are currently 

20.000 severely handicapped who would 

qualify under this progran.The services 

would include medical evaluations, at- 

tendant care in the home, and residen- 

tial care in appropriate facilities. 

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area 

.. .....&,!ismi HOUSing 

Authority has promised its cooperation 

if the supporc of public and private 

health and xreliare agencies can be 

secured. The group is now in the process 

of coordinating the efforts of the 

various agencies and conducting a survey 

of interested disabled in Dade County. 

For details, write to Sol at 1366 - 

13th Terrace, >!iami Beach, Fla. 33139. 

~.m.mmm.mmm. The Philadelphia Health 

- 1 and i+elfare Council sur- 

.~.m.v.mm..m veyed about 1500 of their 

clients in October 1965, through an Ad 

Hoc Cormnitfee on Housing. 231 were I"terested 

in housiw. The .American Sacirty 

For the Physically Handicapped is 

continuing the survey and is conpiling 

a "Housing Ser.sletter.'' 1Krice to its 

energetic president, Joan E. Lambert, 

5905 Cedar Ave.,Philadelphia, Pa. 19143. 

Rev. Robert Lovering, polio para, is 

making a study for the Society to derer- 

mine what a residence center should be, 

how much it would cost, and the number 

of potential residents. Write: 2004 Lyn- 

dale Ave. S., ilinneapolis, ilinn. 55405. 

................................... 

L,.; .t-rir-L ------ ~ "PL5, 

Ph. D. is study- 

C5ICTlPTICiiS. 1;IC. ing the national 

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tern care. Nanthly bulletins, "lmere 

the Action is in Long-Term Care," are 

available free from the U.C.P., 321 W. 

44th St., New Yark, N.Y. 10036. 

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,-A- ,., Fz*;!b>L!T'? ?T!JLf EEI'!G 

SC:IOPCT:L ti 4 t"L:!T FPI' UFEAII +,:.\E;ICA 

Urban America, Inc., which is supported 

by the Ford Foundation, provides techni- 

cal assistance and professional counsel 

to non-profit sponsors of housing for 

rhe "disadvantaged." In April 1966, cr- 

ban America made a small initial grant 

to Iron Lung Polios & >!ultiplegics, Inc. 

to cond~ct a survey fo determine the 

number of disabled needing specialized 

housing. 0 65

HOBBIES 

FINNISH TAPER and F 

by ErKki Riihimaa (polic qua01 Finland 

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". . , . . . . . ;~:rc 9nE arnteur radio I cnn 

get more ?w,soiiaZ ;'i.ieiiCs ~ : l 

lam. more Engiis;?. . . " 

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1 have all alone studied English and I like ca experi- 

ment with my knowledge. I try to kill time with my hob- 

bies; especially during the colds of winter I am living 

tightly in my "dig." I stay in my brother's farmhouse. 

The country here in the "backwoods" is very flat and 

there are no big lakes or mountains. 

Some of the best ways to make out through the long and 

boring winters are shortwave listening, tape correspond- 

ence, and studying the English language. 

As I am a "man of one idea," so usually one of them 

is on at a time. If it seems, for instance, that the can- 

ditions are good in the amateur bands, I may listen to 

various bands for all the time I spend in the wheelchair 

(GMT 0800 - 1600). There is always a new station every 

now and then, so the QSL and DXCC-log are growing up 

slowly but surely. (For TjG hams: if you get a QSL-card 

OH 6-851, be sure to answer!) When I get a better receiv- 

er than the one I have right now (Lafayette HE-30) I hope 

there will be more stations coming up beyond the ocean. 

Talking about tape recorders, you might have a look at 

the picture with me and my Tandberg tape recorder; I am 

probably just listening to a page from Aimo Hatikainen, 

a 27 year old full time respa, who is my first and most 

regular tape friend. The Tandberg is a very good record- 

er. I have developed the use of the "stop" knob almost 

to an art: recording can be made word by word, without a

slightest click between then. This is good for slow talk- 

ers of English, practising in-a-one-word-in-a-minute way. 

I should like to find tape correspondence friends out- 

side Europe (Americas, Australia, New Zealand, etc.). My 

address is: Keisari, JALASJARVI, Finland.1 have two tape 

recorders, 4-tracks and 2-tracks, 3 314 and 1 718 i.p.s. 

The 3" magnetic tape reels are very practical sound let- 

ters to my new TjG friends. I have very zealous tape dis- 

cussions with respo Jerry Elfstrand of Minnesota. His 

wife speaks Finnish and they have been very kind to me. 

Respo news: the respas are undergoing a mass moving 

from hospitals to homes. A few years ago only the mast 

courageous of the 50 respos in Finland could even think 

about it, but now: This is because the respos in home 

nursing are paid a daily allowance which, at the moment, 

equals the salary of three or four nurses. However, the 

government would still pay all the hospitalizing expen- 

ses, organize yearly two vacations of ten days at home, 

also transportation to matches, shopping, etc. @ 

MINNESOTA TAPER 

by Jerry El istiand (respc) IJinntiaia 

The article in TjG (Fall-Winter 1962) prompted me to 

join the Voicespondeoce Club (Noel, Virginia) - a very 

good club and only $1. Through this and TjG I have made 

many interesting tape friends around the world. 

I bought a used 114 track 

stereo recorder for about $100 

and for the second amplifier, 

which stereo requires, we use 

the phona jack outlet on our 

older style radio. This is one 

way to get into stereo without 

a big expensive outfit. Stereo 

music on tape is just terrific. 

And you can get this from other 

club members recorded on 

your own tape. 

I have had several tape exchanges 

with Larry Duhamel of 

Universal Tape Net. He is the 

head of a small club and he also 

has a library of pre-recorded 

music, especially on stefeo. 

He will make up recordings of 

. . 

stereo. for examole. a 7" reel 

recorded two sides, for $3.50. This is reasonable if you 

consider he gives you many assorted numbers on a tape. 

I have a few ideas that may help beginning tapers. For 

instance, many of the 3" empty movie film "reels" will 

fit on tape recorders. These are usually thrown away by 

the people who take home mavies.You may buy larger reels 

of tape and make up smaller (3") reels for mailing. It 

costs only 4~ to mail a tape (3rd class), actually cheap- 

er than a letter. Also, if you join a club, you can buy 

"used" tape for a few pennies.1 would welcome tapes £ram 

TjGers. My address is: Annandale, Minnesota. 

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If you wish yow nme added to our list 

of tqespmdents, send us the foZZouing 

inionnation on a postcard: 111 me, (21 

address, (31 kind of recorder, speed e 

number of tracks, 141 subiects a which 

you wmt to tapespmd, 151 approsite 

age, md 16) Zcq~oges spoken. 

Mary W. Angel, 8 Gaosevoort St., Bath, 

N.Y. Webcor Compact Deluxe. 3 314 6 7 

112 i.p.s. - dual track. Polio para. 

General subjects--people especially-- 

prefers to tape with men-not interested 

in cooking 01 homemaking programs. 

(Divorced). Early 40's. English only. 

Harold A. Baker, Jr., 1818 S. Sumerlin 

Ave., Orlando, Fla. 32806. Concord 330 

(voice-activated) and Concertone Cara- 

velle 801. 1718, 3 314, 7 112 - double 

crack and 4 track stereo. Multiple scle- 

rosis para. Single. Kid 40's. Belongs 

to World Tape Pals h Voicespondence 

Club. Friendly conversation, boating, 

ideas h opinions, shortwave listening, 

reading, photography, travel, people, 

places and things. 

m 

Edwarc 0. Dunkeson, 421 S. Russell St., 

Odessa, Mo. ReSpO. Interested in club- 

less tape correspondence. 

Maiy Jane Faul I, 603 S. Throckmorton, 

Sherman, Texas. Voice of Mvsic - Model 

730 - 2 tracks. 3 314, 1718, 6 7 112. 

Respo. General interests and people in 

general, polio and rehabilitation, 

music listening. Late 20's. Likes to 

tape to ages 22 to 40. English only. 

Steve F~OT~SCU, 1446 Lafayefte, Lincoln 

Park, Mich. 3 314, 7 112 i.p.s. - two 

track. Late 30's. Interested in everyday 

living activities of traumatic 

quads. Languages: English & Romanian. 

A. C. :.lathers. Ji. limy), 1452 East 40 

St., Savannah, Ga. Respa. 

Ken 1,lcDonald. 39 Naples Ave., Burnley, 

Lancs., England. Paraplegic. 3 314 i. 

p.s. Has a tape library available on 

loan: travel tours of Elexico, Isle of 

Arran, Australia, Italy, Lisbon; prac- 

tice Xorse; excerpts from Paul Bates' 

IRISH ThPE iALu...Free travel programs and sound nzgsrine. 

Primarily for Irish blind and disabled wherever they pay be, 

but of interest to a1 1 Engl ish-soeaking people. Recoreec at 

3 3/4 i.p.5. on 5" spools, bu? czn be iuppliea oa 

smaller ipools recorded at 1 7/3 i.~.i. In Giiat 

Sritain, write to: Mr. bbin Earclay, 65 Eaircw Rd., 

Streatham, London, S.W. 16. In ti.;.: 1.'iii istaer Hznstn, 3139 

68 Rodman St., N.?!., Washingtan D.C. ZOO16 

book 9'Hori:ontal >la"," and music of 

any kind supplied on reqvest if possi- 

ble - bur no weirdies please! 

George . lii I lai, 11832 vade Ave., ~ e - 

troit, Mich. 48213. Polio para. 

Ya7ny Schrnid?, RR2. Box 967C. West Chi- 

cago, 111. 60185. Respa. 

Evrrerte Scn,daiir, 21453 20th me., 

Stratford, Calif. 93266. Traumatic quad, 

Roseri E. Tanton, Jr., 719 Dusy St., 

Dothan, Ala. 36301. 3 314, 7 112. Trau- 

matic quad. Early 20'5. Collects stamps 

knives, guns, rocks, books, rare photo- 

graphs; an aviation and history buff. 

Plans to be a c-ercial artist. 

i!ar:y ?leiinin, 6390 S.W. 69 St., South 

Niami, Fla. 33143. Craig model TR 403 - 

2 speed, 2 track. 1 718, 3 314. Polio 

para. Desires to tapespond with anyone 

willing to teach her more about taping, 

and with anyone in or near Fairfield, 

Iowa. May over 21: English only. 

FiEE :IIEl.iEERSH I PS TO THE - 3 I Sh?! Eil: 

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Universal izpe 'lei,#ark teadauarters, 

Mr. Larry Sunamel, Eox 50, ihin Street, 

R.F.2. $1, East Dougla~, :-:ass.

.,' KEYS TO 

A/ 

AIRWAVE ADVENTURES 

:;l-itsen md illiisrroted by 

Cias. Tzar Jr. ;i5rLri'Z ix-e6pol 

SVxte I, 3hine~, Ta=as 77984 

IImP~lA%oi.i.AL :~!DIcAPE~' IET 

?.le~.cers5io . cam . to all who ane km&ica?p~J. 

If you are a licensed Radio PPmteur, 

;.,rite: Lt. Ccm5r. RZJ E. {*!eyers 

z;:~;.-~, hi: vn~m :, , Sa7 Gabriel, California 

Key Levers for Elourhstick Keying An Automatic Keyer for Morse Code 

and give P . your calls and the extent 

IMy key design is intended for moutnstick 

operation snd ieatures iwo sian- 

From what i have read in certiin past 

-. IJG articles* it seems that the Horse 

oard hand keys srood on end and mounted code requirement iar amateur radio is 

knab-to-knob on a heavy iron bzse. Two deiinitely not an iniurmountable obstishort 

pieces of angle iron serve as cle for the handicapped - even if it 

mounting brackets. A1ternaiely,:ht keys mans keying the rig with one's dmnay 

be mounted in or on a cabinet tnzA turei one dit at a time. But there is a 

houses an automatic %eyer. better an0 more pleasani way. Here at 

In use, the mouthstick is posiiionet '?151FZ I have been using an a~~tomatic 

beiveen the Tus kn35s an0 ii move0 ei- keyer which generare5 properly timed 

+her right or lei+ to clcss ore key or 

the oiher. ?!hen used with autamztic keyer, 

one key triggers the dots end the 

othei triggers the lashes, but ihere is 

no reason why one or both keys cculd 

no: be used as siraight keys. 

The construction of hand keyi varies 

somewhat according to make, so keys having 

thin flat knobs may end up spaced 

from each other considerably more than 

the diameter of the mouthitick. In such 

a Case a plastic block of the desired 

ihicnness may be added to each knob to 

build it up. 

and spaced code by the i)SOiul, and it 

has a knob that adjusts the speed a1 1 

the way frae too slow to too fast. 

In the past ten years I have tried 

three difieren? circuits.frcm Q5T.ln my 

opinion the beit is the PW-

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ods up to half an hour. 

Before his chestpiece had been in- 

~ented, Fred had been in the big lung 

for two years. With his new freedom 

his mental scope widened and included 

the possibiliry of marriage. His choice 

to share his life was Teresa Larkin, a 

girl he had met through his sister. 

Teresa and Fred were married in August 

of 1939, a union that created three 

daughfers. 

~ecause there are many misconceptions 

about various diseases, the public 

- - ~ reacted ~ with oredictable astonish. 

ment to the news of Fred's marriage. 

To quiet and edvcate this reaction, 

Fred's doctor gave a statement to the 

press explaining away the belief that 

polio completely incapacitated. A polio 

victim's capacity for sexual enjoyment 

continves as before his disease. Unfarrunately, 

even now most people have 

not fvlly grasped this fact, and marriages 

involving handicapped people 

still bring gasps and disapproval. 

Fred lived for 18 years with artificial 

breathing. For many years he could 

stay in the chestpiece for periods up 

to five hours, but gradually his time 

out of the big lung brought him only 

fatigue. His life was devoted ro his 

family and religion, and flavored by 

his enjoyment of bridge playing and 

horse racing. He had a good, full life, 

not keeping it seclvded from fear of 

being a public oddity nor of the calam 

ities that are part of complete depend- 

ence on mechanical equipment and elec- 

tric power.1n living to the fvllest and 

most joyous, Fred Snite inspired many 

people and pioneered many actions. d 

HORIZONTAL MAN 

by: ~aul eates with ~ohn Ptllar 

IY64. $2.25. PauZ sates, Tha Coppice, 

%mer Hiii, Eorsiim, Susses, Engim-. 

In the same year that Fred Snite died, 

1954, a 20 year old English army afficer 

picked up the challenge of respiratory 

polio in the jungles of Malaya. 

he reactions, changes, and development 

of Paul Bares' life after olio consign 

him to a permanently horizontal pasition 

are shared in a book written by 

the Press officer of the Polio Research 

~und. 1t is a story similar to that of 

red Snite, but different by its subject, 

viewpoint, and position in time. 

Paul's initiation into polio was more 

harrowing rhan the usual. Wile it is 

perilous being in an iron lung anywhere 

it is decidedly riskier in an Asian village 

where the electrical power is cantinvally 

failing. Further, not only was 

six foot four inch Paul roo big ro comfortably 

fit into the only available 

PnuL antes, "o IntzZZigel-t forcs 

who can controt c?:i .$old %is life." 

iron lung, he did not receive adequate 

ventilation once inside it. 

Fortunately far him, and the others 

who were to be influenced by his life, 

two nearby servicemen who had designed 

a positive pressure machine heard of 

his distress. The army rushed them from 

Kuala Lurnpur to the village where Paul 

was struggling against 100 degree heat 

and lack of air. Cutting an opening in- 

fo his trachea, they introduced che 

tube that would carry air directly into 

his lungs. Paul continves to use this 

method of breathing. 

There is not much that Pavl Bates 

fears. He is one of the severely dis- 

abled group who really lives rather 

rhan just vegetates. Once having conrem-

plated suicide, Paul decided instead to 

live, to the grearest extent his mind 

and mobile head, mouth, and two fingers 

would allow. An example of the extent 

was Paul's participation in an England 

to France air race, when he was wildly 

jiggled over the cobbled streets of 

Paris in the attempt to set a speed rec- 

ord. This feat is regarded with high 

admiration by one who nears hysteria 

when her car goes over even a small 

stone for fear if might interrupt the 

working of her respirator. 

It was while in France that Paul made 

an observation that of 

Fred Snite's attendant, that the French 

treat the physically handicapped as men 

and women, not cripples to be pitied. 

Paul camenrs, "The French..have a very 

different kind of attitude altogether, 

accepting you as a man and by thelr 

very acceptance making you moreaf one." 

Paul is a very independent man. He 

utilizes all the benefits of the elec- 

tronic age, an advantage over his pred- 

essors in polio of the '30s and '40s. 

Living in his own home chat he himself 

designed, he operates a ham radio and 

keeps in touch with people many miles 

distant, manipulates a typewriter, and 

contrale electrical devices such as 

lights, radio, and coffee pot with a 

micro-switch. For a year he travelled 

as a demonstrator for the special bed 

which alters Paul's view of the world 

72 from horizontal to vertical.The bed can 

be adjusted to resemble a wheelchair. 

His initiative also benefits other 

handicapped people. Spurred by one of 

his letters, IBN now makes their rejuve- 

nated typewriters available to the dis- 

abled at an international discount with 

low-cost service and repair. He adver- 

tises the unfair treatment by the >tinis- 

try of Pensions to severely disabled 

veterans in not allowing rhem the free 

Q U A D R I P i i C I X P O T P O U R R I 

motor vehicle available to less handi- 

capped veterans. It is through such ef- 

forts on the part of the severely handi- 

capped that barriers against them are 

lowered and eliminated. 

Paul Bates has confirmed in this book 

that he is not invalid, but a lively in- 

telligent force who can control and 

mold his life even from a horizontal 

position. m 

UI:CEFSTAINUING PAPAPLEGIF PRlliEP FOP PARHPLETICS AND OUAOUIPLE- 

by: J. J. P.alin, i4.C. IOt4. Tc-i

Having a certain set of quad handicaps, 

I humanly assumed that this same 

set was shared by all quads, only minus 

the respirator. Vell, it seems I was 

wrong. Four books and booklets have 

taught me that my problems are not the 

same as those of the spinal injury paraplegic 

and quadriplegic. 

IT is about those with 

spinal injury that these books are written, 

although the terms paraplegic and 

quadriplegic usually refer to any with 

two or more handicapped extremities, no 

what the cause, whether disease 

(multiple sclerosis, polio, muscular 

dystraphy,etc.) or trauma (sports or auto 

accidenr,surgery,erc.). In the inrerests 

of accuracy therefore, we shall include 

the clarifying word "Traumatic" 

before each reference to a paraplegic 

(hack injury) or quadriplegic (neck injury) 

in the following reviews.However. 

not only should those to whom the books 

personally pertain read rhem, but everyone, 

for simple comprehension of just 

what an injured spinal cord means. 

what these books mean to traumatic 

paraplegics and ouads is expressed by 

one of rhem: "All of us just swear, 6::A 

5". when we think back a few years and 

remember how nice things might have 

been if we could have had a few of 

these books to read. So one ever 

explained what was going on, or what to 

expect, or where to ger chings, erc. 

So, far all those who don't really know 

what's going an,chese books are for you. 

Strictly by accident I read them in 

the correct order, from general to more 

specialized to ultra-technical. The gen- 

eral treatment,WDERSTtL\'DISG PARAPLEGIA, 

was Written by the Deputy Director of 

the famous National Spinal Injuries Cen- 

rre at Stake Ehlandeuille Hospital in 

England. This book does not explore too 

deeply into the workings of the nervous 

system and how spinal cord injvry af- 

fects it, but does cover the subject 

broadly, tavching lightly on everything 

from sex to where and how to buy a 

wheelchair. For these two areas, there 

are 3 112 pages devoted to sex, infom- 

ing mainly of the remarkable fact that 

each case is different, and 11 pages on 

wheelchairs. 

As this is the only one of the books 

that even attempts to explain sexual 

function after a cord injury, a rather 

imporcant concern of most people, the 

following paragraph is offered as a 

public service. This concise informa- 

tion was given by Dr. Leon Lewis in 

REHABILITATIO?I:* "The male paraplegic 

may have erections and sometimes pria- 

pism. Frequently, however, erections 

*~S:iikZI~iTil7IO:;.i irniiral f01. the Cars 

of the Discbiei or< ilierl~, ty iiirschje, 

Lewis, Tiiomm. i?E

spinal injury quads could not sweat be- 

low their injury, making hot weather 

much more threatening fo their health 

than to mine, a respo (respiratory pa- 

lio quadriplegic). 

I learned how lucky are the polio 

paralyzed to have bladder and bowel con- 

trol, relieving them of the special 

catheter and Crede care of para- and 

quadriplegics. Crede was a new ward to 

me, meaning the downward and inward 

pressure applied to facilitate bowel 

and bladder elimination. These are pro- 

1-5 not experienced when one wears a 

chestpiece with its continual pressure. 

This is an invaluable book for bladder 

and catheter care. 

The PRLILER also counsels an how para- 

and quadriplegics can become more inde- 

pendent and what agencies and services 

can best assist toward that end. This 

publication goes from vita1 point to 

vital paint along the whole line from 

onset of paralysis to social and voca- 

tional rehabilitation. You must read it. 

hen, for those who might wish to 

probe a little more deeply into nervous 

system function, there is the helpful 

anthology published by the California 

Paralyzed Veterans Association, PARAPLE- 

GIA AND YOU. And make no mistake, the 

assumption is that all paralyzed ver- 

erans are men and it is to that sen 

74 that the book is directed. I became a 

little indignant while reading it until 

I checked the publisher, and only then 

did I become slightly pacified. 

This is a collection of technical ar- 

ticles written by research physicians. 

Here you will find such tidbits as the 

most common operations for paroxysmal 

hypertension, how to categorize the 

"e~rologenic bladder, and an extensive 

explanation of the contradictory ner- 

YOUS systems that control micturition. 

If you feel like concentrating,the baok 

is quite interesting. For instance, did 

you know that in spinal cord operations 

on animals anatomical regeneration has 

been achieved, bur not functional regen 

eration? With rats, however, 44 our of 

1750 showed functional regeneration to 

an almost normal extent. This suggests 

that if the spinal cord of a rat can be 

successfully repaired, so can that of 

a human,althaugb pessimistic research- 

ers predict a good many decades will 

pa55 before the gap between rat and hu- 

man is closed (excluding those individ- 

uals we all have in mind). This book is 

an excellent guide to body understanding. 

After the physical consequences of 

spinal cord injury have been digested 

the fourth baok, THE DIVE THAT CHAYGED 

En' LIFE, awaits to describe their im- 

pact on the mind and soul. 

Wajih Aziz Sim'an was a 20 year old 

student at American University in ~ei- 

rut, Lebanon, when his neck was broken 

in a diving accident. His autobiography 

reveals if was fortunate that he was a 

student, for that circumsrance gave him 

access to the University Hospiral where 

the treatment was not nearly so lethal 

as in the alternative hospital. Unfor- 

tunately, Mjih svffered many medical 

blunders.His tales of being scalded with 

boiling herb water, severely burned by 

an irrigation solution, and scratched 

and infected by a metallic!!! catheter 

will make you forever wary of Arab doc- 

tor~. Incidentally, herb vapor is their 

favorite cure for paralysis. 

The loneliness of being left out is 

known to most quads,but life in a small 

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illa age would seem to intensify it. 

Wajih confides his sorrow at finding 

few lasting friends and also his absorptian 

~ ith his pain and catheter complications.Six 

years pass before he begins 

to write or before he is solaced by religious 

faith. It is a hard, sad story 

without humor or diversion from pain 

and despair. 

~ f two t "on-miraculous ~ ~ visits to 

rather Sharbel's tomb, shrine of healing, 

and a strange visitation by a healine 

saint that he chooses to escape. 

mjih finally recooci1es himself to immobility. 

It is then that he begins his 

christian studies with the help of Baptist 

friends. At the same time that 

these studies culminate into a strong 

belief, Wajih makes his first 

efforts to mite. This dual development 

resulted in his main occupation of 

christian writing. He has witten three 

books and many articles for Arabic publications. 

Elany handicapped people are quasigrateful 

for their affliction and a few 

"an cogently express just why they have 

such a seemingly absurd regard. Wajih 

is one of these. Raised as a Roman Catholic, 

he accepted his religion without 

~~rnprehending its implications. Rational 

awareness enters during his college 

philosophy classes and he transfers his 

belief to a logically functioning universe 

without an afterlife, in which 

man's mind was the sole guide. Because 

he was sincere in his new faith, he 

reasoned char only a drastic act could 

change his rationally and deliberately 

chosen course. And drastic paralysis 

does. He turns to Christ and finds new 

meaning for his life. 

There is much monotony, pain, frus- 

rration,tragedy, and discontent in this 

book, all the ingredients that make up 

theearly essence of physical paralysis 

and Wajih has depicted them with uniqve 

accuracy. m 

: sz%3fF(u 

RPEIDBOOK PO,? PPA7P?LECICS MID QUADRIPLE- 

GICS. 1.984. By Alma r'rost. Published by 

ilctionnl PompZegio Foundation, 333 8. 

Xichigan Asre., Chicago, Ill. €0601. $1. 

This useful pi.bZicntion has had such 

wide distribution throuflh the Fcralyzed 

Veterons of America that the majori* 

of U.S. paras m.d quo& have a copy. 

Certainly !t should be incluied in ev- 

ery collectzon of in.?omative booklets 

0boi.t wheelz7ni~ Ziiring. 

SPECIAL NOTE: Ali Those who have been 

+rustrated in their efiorts tc buy 

Peter ?.tarsha1 1's novel about wheeichzir 

loveri, RAGING NOON, ;an nor obtain it 

from Eabbi-l4eiii 1 1 Cc., Inc., 3 W. 57 

St., Yew Yoik, N. Y. 10019. A book too 

gcod to miss. 

PdEL ICAT lOl,l5 3' TRAUMAT lC PREP5 

PElD OUTUS 

PARAPLEGIA NEWS, 935 Coastline Dr., 

Seal aeach, Cali'. 90740. Editor, 

:oh Webb, viii 1 sent a free sample 

copy. t~!.!onthiy. 52.50 Der yr. 

THE CORD, Stoke i'andeviile Hospiial. 

Ayleibury, Sucrs..England. Ouarter- 

iy. 105. (51.75 from U.S.1 oer yr. 

THE CALIPER, Canadian Cara;Iesic 

Association. 153 Lyndhurst Hvs., 

Toronto 4, Oniario, Canada. Sl (95. 

+ram U.K.1 per yr. 

COKWNIQUE, Pierre Gariepy. Exec. 

D r . Canadian Para. Assoc.. 10996 

124th ST., Edmonton, Alberta. Free. 

THE OUAD-WANGLER, H. 6. McSeth. 

Exec. Dir., Canadiar Pars. A51ac.. 

Lancaster Bldg., Ciizary, Alheria. 

Free. 

PAFA-GRAPHIC, Ccug V:i 1 son. Canati ian 

Pa, issoc.. 1347 S.W. 142rine Dr., 

Vancouver 14, B.C. Free. 

BEWSLETTER --.ti l-rochurei oi rauip- 

nent and assistire cevicei for all 

quads. Trujil lc Industries, Box 217 

San Clement=. Calif. 92672. Frse.

RESPO SPECIAL 

by Robin Cavendish (respo) England 

I got polio at the end of 1958 in Kenya.Fortunately for 

me I lived just outside Nairobiwhich has a very good 

hospital far acute polio cases.It was five months before 

the R.A.F. was able to fly me back to England. I went 

straight to a hospital in Oxford which is considered to 

be one of the best centres for polio in this country. It 

soom became clear that I would have to keep my trachy 

and remain permanently on a respirator. After a year and 

a half in hospital, I went to live at home in a house we 

had bought in the country near Oxford. 

'ram the moment I got home it became apparent that the 

breathing machines and other equipment that had seemed 

so ideal in hospital were quite unsuitable at home. The 

large respirators and suckers (aspirators) cluttered up 

the limited space and made any movement from room to 

room a tremendous performance. I was fortunate in having 

living nearby, a gifted Doctor of Physics with his awn 

workshops in his garden, where he employs half a dozen 

engineers to manufacture his own successful inventions. 

It took a year to persuade him that he could really he 

of help to me, but once he had made up his mind we never 

-

looked back in developing equipment for 

ordinary life outside hospital. 

One thing was needed more than any- 

thing else. A really comfortable chair 

which was bath strong and manoeuvrable, 

small as possible and yet containing 

inside ic all the equipment required 

for breathing and sucking. The first 

chair that we vsed was an aircrafr 

movnted on wheels with the breath- 

ing apparatus in a metal container haok- 

ed on the back. We found after a year's 

use that chis had many disadvantages as 

the chair was nor sufficiently adjust- 

able, it was not very easy to push as 

che balance was bad, and there was no 

built-in sucker. After searching in 

vain for a more suitable ready-made 

chair it vas decided rhat the workshop 

would build a chair to our own specifi- 

cation wi~h all the machinery needed 

concealed within it. 

The chair consisted of a tubular 

steel frame mounted on two large pneu- 

matic wheels at the back, and two swiv- 

elling castors at the front, and the 

back of the chair was adjustable easily 

through 40 degrees. The seat, detach- 

able arms and back were fully upholster- 

ed with polyether foam mounted an 

Pirelli webbing and covered with fitted 

removable covers of special hard wear- 

ing material. The machinery was fitted 

onto two metal trays (which could be 

pulled out for ease of maintenance) fix- 

78 ed under the chair. The breathing ma- 

chine could be run off battery. mains from the Polio Research FU"~, but w= 

(dectric pover system) or manually. found the chair still had a feu minar 

battery ~ould drive the machine For shortcomings. We then obtained a larger 

12 hours and there was a battery charg- grant from a Charitable Trust co manuer 

that would automatically switch on factvre a dozen chairs incorporating 

when the machine was plugged into the further modifications to the 

and switch itself off when chair. These chairs are on a 

the battery *as fully charged. There loan to anybody in this counrry who 

an automatic switchover from mains felt they would benefit from having one. 

to ba~tery and vice versa to ensure From my om point of view, my chair 

thaf the would nexVer stop has revolurianised my life. NO^ only 

unless it was switched off. There was does it make it much easier to look 

a sucker that would work whether the after me at home, but I am no" very 

machine was running off mains or the mobile and we have been able with the 

battery and a built-in alarm system. A greatest of ease to travel extensively 

voltage regulator was fitted to enable in England and an the continent of 

the machine to work off different volt- Europe. Thanks to this chair, it is now 

ages. Small lights on a control panel no problem to stay with friends in a 

indicated that all the machinery was in hotel, visit restaurants, shops,cinemas 

proper working order. and theatres, without attracting mqny 

The chair was specifically designed stares from curious passers-by. 

so rhat it could be loaded through the The price of making the chairs here 

rear doors of a standard van, and the worked out at about2500 each. Anyone 

machinery in the chair was designed to requiring fvrther details could write 

run and charge oEf the van. to me and I would be delighted to fell 

The first chair that we made was the 

design you see pictured here. This 

them anything they want co know. My address 

is: Furlongs, Drayton st., d emchair 

was made with a grant received ard, Oxford. My phone:Stadhamron 386. B 

.U . hTW YORK TIMES, April 8, 1966. "The non-profit foundation, 

An objeroant 7;'G iECHI~!ICAL AID5 FOP THE HANDICAPPED, which produces and pla- 

~eader, Gsrtrude ces, free of charge, eleciric, curb ciimbing.indaor-outdoor 

Steinan, of Dor- wheelchairs at seriouily handicspped perions' disposal. 

chestrr, Case., 'wznti contact riith American ciiirens, who want To build up 

found this in the a sister organization ..... For information, write to Dr. Per 

"PUBLIC OOTICES:" Udden, Medics1 Officer, Kalaine Hospital, Kalarne, Sweden."

The chair is ansi.2~ nmoaul;mbte iririoi-s or out. It is pushe6 ba the 

tar rrttachei to the bgck ced the hmdZes me *sad to lift the hjsk oiier 

. -. ~ ~ 

c cirr.7. :,ie ;'sot-rest 103 bc ez2s;:cec or ?lrs.iai .?iZZy 60-2. The back mag 

. . 

31P6L L$ 3 S2ZICi)S. 

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..:r s?cisr ti? use. ';;e pol3t?olzte ?aait-loe ;.rrss;.1.-; taba is iizZi 'rii 

. . . , . . 

r.;:e t;.5 ;e*kL;iS j~.:

THE RUGG CHAIR 

ze 

Rugg Chair is literally the answer to the quad's prayer 

(no poetic pun intended here at all). Wirhouc doubt this is 

the most brilliant, the most sensible, and & most function- 

al innovarion in wheelchair engineering in this enlightened 

age of the needs of the handicapped. 

Actually, the commercial name of the Chair is "The Inde- 

pendence - A Reclining IJheel Chair;" but it is more popular- 

ly knorm by the name of one of iis inventors, Donald Rugg. 

Sonetheless, the rirle "The Independence" is certainly ap- 

ropos of the Chair's purpose. For, away Sack in 1957, Don 

Rugs and his nan-handicapped friend, William (Bill) Orr, co- 

inventor, began nurturing ideas for the design of a particu- 

lar kind of wheelchair that would afford Don both indepen- 

dent mobility and sitring tolerancr.(Don is a traumatic quad 

with C-5 injury; and his sensitive skin is subject to decubi- 

tus ulcers in even short sitting periods.) 

In 1957, in an old garage in Englewood, Colorado, Don and 

Bill began piecing together the firsr Rugg Chair. It was not 

completed until 1960, a crude, makeshift, but absolurcly 

functional device. Possibility rras no longer a dream! Real- 

ity became Don Rugg sitting in a chair he could propel and 

steer at the touch of a single switch, that he could recline 

and relieve sitting pressure, also at the couch of a switch. 

Since consfructian of that firsr rough model, the Chair

has been modified slightly, beautified 

considerably, and sophisticated so that 

any Rugg Chair omer can definitely be 

of its appearance, but more ea- 

pecially, highly pleased with its cap- 

bilities of function -- and result. 

The steering mechanism of the Chair 

essentially like thar of any orher 

power-driven chair of its kind, a sin- 

gle joy-stick action. :lerely push the 

joy-stick in the desired direction and 

voila! 

Two switches (easily controlled) oper- 

ate the reclining back of the Chair;onr, 

up -- one, down. The action is smooth, 

gentle, yet not so slow as to be nerve- 

janpling to the user. ,\"d the headrest, 

acting in concert with the back,and its 

or* piston rod, comes into position as 

the vser needs it to support the head. 

when the user sits erect in his Chair, 

the headrest drops back out of sight behind 

the Chair. No high-back problems 

when loading into the new 

much in use these days. 

vans, etc., 

he steering element (the turning 

wheels themse1ves)is in the rear of the 

Chair, the back %.>heels doing the guiding. 

~hough there is no particular advantage 

in chis sysrem,neirher is rhere 

any disadvantage in it.Rear-wheel steering 

was merely necessitated by the many 

operating and powering devices built-in 

underneath the chair seat. 

Removable armrests are a feature of 

the Chair. And the arms and switch-con- 

tra1 move back and forth with the seat 

for greater convenience. Special switch- 

es, placed wherever necessary, may be 

obtained by individuals whose reach or 

other physical capabilities are so lim- 

ited as to require these special modifi- 

cations. The swicch-concrol is normally 

mounted beside the right mlefc armrest. 

But the sheer genius of the Rugg 

Chair is in the movable seat. As the 

Chair reclines, and the back and faor- 

rests are raised or lowered, the seat 

rolls backward or forward,making it pos- 

sible for the user to, a. Dan does, re- 

cline many, many times daily, without 

losing so much as a fraction of an inch 

in sitting position. Consequently, 

there's no slipping and sliding down in- 

to the Chair, or the necessity of being 

yanked up bodily from time to time, re- 

positioned. So cleverly designed is the 

Rugg Chair that Don and other users can 

recline, relieve pressure, as many as 

one hundred or more times daily, with- 

out changing the body position in the 

seat of the chair itself. 

The main purpose of the Chair ifself 

is to relieve sitting pressures, the 

formation of decubitvs ulcers, especial- 

ly on the buttocks. This, of course, 

comes of being able to recline onself 

at will, unaided. There are other uses, 81

to be sure. Respiratory polios who 

breathe better in the reclining posi- 

tion than in the erect sitting position 

are able to rest themselves from time 

to time. Body functions are doubtless 

aided by this kind of constant changing 

of position. 

However, as the inventors have stated 

clearly, the Rugg Chair is not a cure 

in itself, but it does offer the user 

the opportunity of complete sifting in- 

dependence and mobility, ar home, at 

work, etc. Day home care of the qvad is 

virtvally eliminated for Rugg Chair own- 

ers and their familiee,friends. There's 

no necessity of gerting into and out of 

bed often to relieve sitting pressures. 

Pressure is relieved right in the Chair. 

Don sits 16 hours daily now, works 

full time, has not had a bad or serious 

pressure sore since he began using his 

own invention. Nor has he had to be hos- 

pitalized for healing of these decubi- 

tus ulcers, as he had to be many times 

prior to using the Chair. 

Don had just graduated from the Uni- 

versity of Denver, in fact had received 

his B.S. degree in Engineering only 

four days before his 1954 automobile ac- 

cident. In 1956 he scarred college-lev- 

el studies again, working toward his 

>lasters degree, and receiving it in 

1958. The two and three-hour classes 

were enough to cause his skin to break 

dorm. 

82 Now he works a full day, five days a 

week. And in addition ra this he is tak- 

ing night courses at the University of 

Denver, this time earning his Ph.D. in 

Electrical Engineering. Although he 

must have help getting to and from his 

job, college, in his Chevy Greenbriar 

van, he is totally independent as to 

his sitting, moving about, at home and 

at his work. 

Since 1958, Don has been research en- 

gineer at the Denver Research Institute, 

Elecfromagnefic Propagation Division. 

He has received the Handicap of the 

Year Award of the State of Colorado. 

And on two occasions he has been the re- 

cipient of the Presidential Citafians, 

at rhe national honors level. 

And, as it is with most successful 

men, there is a woman's influence be- 

hind Don's many successes. Hi. wife, 

?~elba, charming, witty, has been belp- 

-- 

Ine Uepontrsct of Vetsrms Affcirs 

built this ciiair for Bart iiuds'so,~, 

respo. 12 was ccnsimrciad 0,: I stm- 

&rl E 8 J ~oz?ercm.ricge, &ti? spec- 

ini seat in!t reci

PUSHUPS 

by John 2essZer 

1'T~'raumatic quodl CaZifo.w.ia 

If you aie a quadriplegic, vith limitei 

use cf yaur arms; if you would like 

ro be able to sit up ail day without 

f?ar of breaking down from sitting pres- 

. . 

sure; 8r you would 1 ike to be able to 

w~ition yotirssif in your chair; and if 

a- the same time you would be doing 

t*ese tni795, YOU wwld like to be exercising 

ma ~Trengthening your arm ano 

ilculder nuscles - then you are reading 

right ozge. 

I invented and Fir. Stewart Johnston 

built rha? we call "the pushup." The 

name ce~cribei the iuncTion of the ap- 

~ararus. Actually, fney are apparati - 

one me5 or each ~ ~ chair arm. Their ftlnc- - ~ 

4 ~ 

+ion is to hold tne quad's arm as he 

leans icmard. Leaning iarwara is the 

n55r eifeitive Nay of pushing up - it 

enzbles tie quad to use mo5t oi his muicles 

for the lift, and at the same time, 

it gives him added leverage. Pushing up. 

oi course, relieves sitting pressure. 

li you are afraid of falling foiwaid 

and 31% have had the irustrating experience 

of sitting in one position, una~le 

to have someone set you comforta- 

31y, then you are in luck. With these 

"p~sh~05," YOU can catch yourself if 

,you ial i forward, and you can position 

yo~rielf perfectly. 

but many wadi in the San Fianciico Bsy 

area use thm now. With use, no pressure 

problems occur trom sitting, and 

most lf the quads whcm I know who use 

th? "pu5hups" stay up aboui twelve or 

more hours per cay. 

I have been *sing the "oushups" sincr 

1958. 1 remember that tney were difficult 

to use because I w25 not strong, 

but it did not take long to develop tne 

correc+ muscles. Snst quzds resulting 

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, - .. - ~, 

stztrur; '.,.-.,*, 

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7trr9i9,. 

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'rom cord injury *ill heve all the mus- 

- , - .-, ciei necessary. 

;i3nia. It h ~ s beeq recommended that 2 mad 

5ut before YOU write, YOU sh~~id know push up st lesst one minute every fif- 

+hzt your chair aims must be raised in +sen minutes. Of course, this is irnposaccordance 

with ycur height. Eveiest 8 6ibls. I have yet to see any auad who 

Jennings will build a chair arm to any could stay UP 000 minute, iour times an 

specified height, but the adjustable huur, every hour for twelve bauis. I 

chair arm is just as effective. 

h2ve gotten along fine on a fifteen- 

One other point concerning the "push- Second push>p, four times an hour. Scme- 

UPS:" wheelchairs are not built to car- times, when I am very busy. I for3et to 

ry excess weight, i.e. when you lean push up :or an hour cr two, but then I 

forward, naturally, much oi your weight *are it a mint to do many pushups in a 

i5 trarsferred to the chair a m and the row, ten or twelve fifteen-second push- 

"PUS~U~S." The screri xi 11 break with up;. Either way, I have had no pressure 

remated ,~~ use. If vou weigh under 150 

pounds, it prcbacly will haopen about 

oroblems. I know one fellow rCo never 

does more than i five-second pushup. 

once a year. I weigh 170 pounds, and I but makes it a point to reposition himused 

to break thess screws about once 

every three months. To avoid this, i 

self quite o$ten.This metnod has proven 

effective for him. Either method, or a 

have one-ouarter inch chrome case hard- combinztion of the two, ii eifective in 

ened bolts holding the arm rests. I can preventing piesiure sores cauied by sitguarantee 

that this type a: bolt will ting, and both methods are made passinot 

break. It will not even bend. 

ble :or you throsgh use of the "pushup" 

I was the first to use the "pushups," arms. Q 83

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WHEELCHAIR 

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*.-, . .: lj.5. CFTAL~SS: 

Send for them all. They're free. 

LuKt m AXERICAV hllEELCHAIR CO. . 5500 Nuddy ; ":L;!zEz~c;:~;~~s" by ~ i vang ~ ~ t 

Thinking about a new wheelchair??? I Creek Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio 45238. Of SPe- ) and Thilde Lund. 1964. CO?ICn:xICATIONS, 

'':!E!T! 1TE iErFi "Ti I:iViST! ! : !! I 

~ i a interest, l 

two of their accessories: the publication of the Testing Institute 

I adjustable headrest and reclining bars. I of the Danish National Association for 

~efore you do anything about a 

Infantile Paralysis. Free, from: Landswheelchair, 

you should read the very = COLSON CORPORATION . 540 N. Michigan he., foreningen ~ o d sdmelamelse, ~uborgvej 

informative "ic,-cr~ rr! a Co,?.fcrzt?ce Chicaeo. ~" . Ill. 60611. Note the retractable I 5 Hell-rlln r. nenmlrk~ 

'-? >,;.OL~;:?

able. Their new 

b='-b 

EXGLISH COPIPACT . 

A gentle "to and fro" 

movement of rhe hand 

levers moves chair for- 

, wards or backwards and 

turns it within its own 

. length. Retractable 

footboard. Weight: 45 

lbs. Enamelled chassis. 

$98, plus $15 frr. to 

Atlantic 7 rt, and about 15T duty. 

(Send for catalog.) Richards Son b 

Allwin Ltd., Great Bridge, Tipron, 

Staffs., England. 

2 

2 

- 

village in Kerala, 

monies for the chair. 

'. tlrs. Kamala Simbkar of 

> 

. EKGLISH BkYT&.lS . The English wheelchairs are 

losing weight. Here are two new models for paras 

eclining quads. Brochures available. 

.'LIIRK 11 (left) weighs 28 lbs. Arms are 

removable, but can be locked in position 

so chair can be lifted by armrests. 

It has a parcel shelf and detachable 

driving wheels. Ser.(ton I.%eelchsirs, 

Blackberry Lane, Halesowen, Birmingham. 

irESSA STAYDARD weighs 36 lbs. Vessa Ltd. 

keen Ilary's Hospital, Roehampton, 

. IRISH TWO PIECE m 

Only 20" wide, this 

sturdy little para 

chair will go into a 

telephone kiosk or 

revolving doors. It 

does not fold; instead, 

its parts, chassis and 

seat, are held together 

by an instantly rcmovable 

rod. Brochures. 

Potter Invalid Appliances, 

Ltd., Love Lane 

East, Lower tiount St., 

Dublin. 

. EXGLISH TOURISG CHAIR 

The basic nodel of this . 

''TUW!i'XY" weighs only 18 lbs. 

and under Extra 

accessories: arm rests, leg 

rests, sun canopy, head rest, 

carrier handles, table tray, 

''lid seat' chairs 

€ 0 9pastics. ~ 

(Send €or brochure.) 

Darlson >lillbourn b Co. 

Tor Park Rd., Torquay, Devon. 

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CONVERTIBLES 

log! You will find many new travel- 

ling ideas: Stretcher Chairs... 

Hydraulic Cots...A Tailgate Plate 

far $10 that covers om mm urn lad. ~ l isanosri a ~ 

the space between the 

vlto ".hM.. ""dmM.gl .-ru. 

~ l ~ a , mducmi.n. , ~ ~ ~ ~ dmp. . ~kk 

floor and the tailgate in *lr-. 

to eliminate that 

drop in the gulch ... Floor 

Both foam-filled. 

Fasteners and Folds easily. Rwov- 

Wheel Cups to 

ensure oonable 

undercarriage 

has rear swivel cas- 

lacked in any position 

from horizontal to vertical. 

Small wheels: 

$360. Large: $380. For 

brochures: Mr. Lloyd J. 

development stage, it is 

~riced $675, unmotorized. 

Some features: built-in 

reclining back, detachable 

m CHAIR-LIFT . Battery-operated. Fibre 

glass body. 3-speed forward or reverse 

from a creep to 5-mile speed. Special 

Arizona. 85282 

models and attachments available. $675.

CLIMBERS 1 .:. * 

Electric-powered, it climbs 

the sreepesc stairs 

safely. khen fitted 

wiLh two main 

. ern ...... D,~~.~:-C~~T:.::,FS 

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m 

..:,~ ENGLISH STAIR CHAIRS . 

'5 '. Both are lightweight and 

strong. constructed of bent 

-3* ' ash. Useful + on winding 

c ' - 5 stairs, they can be wheeled 

. . - ._- on their four wheels. (~0th 

L;~..-Y& companies have attractive 

- - catalogs.) Lrpi: Also available, 

a streamlined fvbular 

steel model. Carters Ltd., 65 

Der :!eyra ini-Trcppro:ahrer Wigmore St., London l\'.l., Ori5 

manufactured by iilhelm thopedic Equipment Co., ~aur- 

Meyer, 4973 Vlotho A. D. bon, Ind. 46504, and E h J in 

h'eser, Deutschland. (Send 

. STAIR-CLIMBISG hVEELCWIR CARRIER . 

Lo5 Angeles. RLpht: Bencrait 

Ltd., Bencraff Ir'orks, Edward 

St., Birmingham 1, England. 

IBEX STAIR-CLI>IBER . 

Winner of the C.S. contest, it 

is not yet in 

Laboratory tested, not yet 

in production. Standard 

model is hand operated an 

the level, powered for 

climbing, etc., using electric 

motor and battery. 

Weight 85 lbs. W i l l climb 

descend stairs; "egotiate 

curbs: self-laad into 

g doors; fold rrhile 

manufacturers in producing them. For 

occupied to negotiate narrow doorways; recline 

er aver ground. price: 

Flight 2035 

Florida 33515. (~r. 

details, write: Hr. Fritz A. Deutsch, of about 2500 words 

amic Factors i n Climbing 

the whole intG 

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READERS' IDEA 

>!!:.zF L' ''IILL: (East city Limits on :1- 

142, Bad Axe, ?rich. 48413). polio quad, 

has designed and built many low-cost 

elevators for use between floors. (See 

.(;, Spring-Summer 1963, page 43). Be- 

cause of health complications, he is no 

longer able to supervise their construction. 

Iherefore, he has crysrallired 

his experience into derailed plans and 

instructions in a package of 19 pages 

far which the fee is $25. This includes 

the plans of two types of elevators and 

variations. As a preliminary, 

send $1 for a description of the plans 

and a selection of elevator pictures 

~howing the different possibilities. If 

you want to build a good elevator for 

ahout $250, that S1 will be a good investment. 

:: >IOUTHSTICKS :: 

Ti2 Spring 1964 (page 76) illustrated 

22 stick variations by readers. CWOT 

ROSESBERG (1734 Wildwood Rd. SE, ~ clan- 

, G . 30306) studied thm and t u r d 

her inventive mind to several "~icker- 

upper" ideas which she will share. HERB 

SCHLILDI, JR. (319 Marror St., Baravia, 

Ill. 60510), a C.P., has a work shop in 

which he has been making more new types 

to readers' specifications. A Texas res- 

pa, CMLES W I , JR., uses a wooden 

dowel with the biting half of a baby's 

rubber nipple taped an the mouth end. 

I I I I 

:: -,"C-I L... -3;: '~^,C~~.~,'$ :.:3: :: 

? ;,,:--> (Pearson Polio Pavilion. 700 U. 57th Ave,, Vancouver 14, 

B.C.) travelled over 2000 miles last summer, using a chest respira- 

tor with batteries in the car and deeping on his portable rocking 

bed at night. The bed, made of aluminum, can be dismantled and load- 

ed into a carrop carrier in minutes. 

-I?< by-:: (15 8. Belvedere Ave., Baltimore, )Id. (21210) travels in style in his 

Dodxe camper, rocking aviy happily wilile his driver fights the traffic. 

-..,, 

.-.I! s:,:~': (marson Polio Pa-~ilion, 700 lo. 57th AV~., vancouver 14, B.C.) has sent 

to 7.'; the plans for his bed, which is similar to H ~ ~ ~ you're ~ ' welcome ~ . ro borrow 

them. Photos of David's bed irere on page 75 of the Spring '64 YjC.

About two dozen respa readers have requested from TFS the blue- 1 

prints and instructions of the Fibre glass lung that Dr. Col- f 

"ilk designed for Soelene Heley in Australia, and which %was 

featvred in the Spring-Summer 1963 issue. l.- 

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,g 2E;,.!15 ,.* ,,,c - .;I-, 

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7. I- . I : ! (Springfield Law, 

The Park, Chelrenham, Glos., England). 

TWO netal sheet plates mounted on rhreeply 

wood.On these,rrro page keepers held 

by magnetic attraction. These are pegs 

of wood in which are inserted old clock 

springs to prevent pages from flicking 

back. Upper page keepers move from side 

to side to suit the book's width. upper 

keepers are moved by breaking che magnetic 

attraction so that a book of any 

height can be used. A book is held by 

the vertical rod that slip5 through its 

spine. A magazine is held by the spring 

loaded wire. Once mounted, a book can 

be inclined at any desired tilt. The 

liolder was invented by ?I=. Rex l:alqn 

and the drawings were made by Xr. \lethera11 

of Chelcenham.

TONGUE 

SWITCH 

IVY "GOLPEII ARI.'" was made at Rancho Los 

Amigos Hospital, where I spent 4 months 

far the fitting and training. 

NOV! IT ! 5 VI!'!E TO USE AT HWE. If takes 

90 less than five minutes to set up and 

weighs only eight pounds. It is set up 

when I first get into my chair and I 

leave it on all day until I retire. 

I can feed myself, put on make-up, 

turn pages, type, even scratch the top 

of my head. I can hold letters and news- 

papers. I can pick up anything within 

reach, up to five pounds. I can salt my 

food; cur" on and off light switches; 

lift and replace a telephone receiver. 

I could operate a TV remote control or 

a push button rape recorder. I can make 

moves in chess or checkers and throw 

dice and play cards. 

THE 'O':EP F'2' TGE ELEST'IC A'I; is de- 

rived from two 6-volt batteries in my 

wheelchair, which also supply the power 

to drive the chair and run a Thompson 

Bantam for my pneumobelt. 

At first, I didn't think I would get 

roo much use of the motorized wheel- 

chair at home. The doctor told me I did 

not how what I was talking abaut-and 

he was absolutely RIGHT! 

iE'lE!: TO!!I;l-E COIITCQL 

i!'iliCnIS operate the 

am and the chair. 

hey operate 14 movements 

for the am, 

and 4 directions £or 

the chair. This is 

accomplished by trip^ 

ping earn iw~rch il n two directions.thus 

the seven joints of the arm move both 

directions. A microswitch, operated by 

my left thumb, changes the current from 

the arm ra the chair, thus I can use 

two of the same tongue switches far the 

chair. Then, with a head switch, I can 

get the tongue controls away from my 

face and back again. 

AT FIRST, TiilGUE CO!:TROL 31C NOT APPEAL 

to me, but I was anxious to use the arm 

to start a business,so I tried it. (The 

idea for the business, incidentally, 

was inspired by TjC's article on call- 

ing the elderly.) I soon realized the 

control was not distasteful and it was 

exciting to control the arm and the 

chair since I had no orher muscles. 

ili dPI:'i SEVEII b'OTlOii5: shoulder--up, 

down, sideways; elhorr-extend and flex; 

wrist--enrend and flex; fareamrotate; 

whole am--rotate; fingers--pinch. 

THE OEFYLL PEiPO!

SIGHT & / 

SWl TC H 

~ a - - o m . . : a y 

C1*lr lo PIC& 

if interested, oonfe~ with a Technical Consultat such 

os Eonold SeZugwyn, 238 Poplor Aue., Pompion Lnkes, i:.J. 

TO salve =he problem of the astronaut 

in space who finds his arms pinned uselessly 

by g force, the Sarianal Aeronautics 

and Space Administration has developed 

a "Sight Swizch" which has exciting 

possibilities for quadriplegics. 

The device presently used for experimentation 

has a cylinder mounted on the 

earpiece of eyeglass frames. It consists 

of a tiny cylinder containing an 

infrared light source, amplifier, sensitivity 

control, and infrared sensor. 

(Two separate circuits can be controlled 

by using two "Sight Switches," 

one for each eye.) Wires, as incanspic- 

uous as a hearing aid, lead to a small 

battery pack and the control relay. 

The "Sight Swicchr' is operated simply 

by looking at it. The hasis of opera- 

tion is rhe fact that the iris of the 

human eye is an excellent absorber (and 

therefore non-reflector) of infrared 

energy. The iris will absorb up to 80% 

of the infrared enecgy that strikes it, 

even in a dark roam, and is unaffected 

by normal blinking. 

In a demonstration, a standard moror- 

ired wheelchair was modified for apera- 

tion by the "sight Swicch." Ir was corn- 

lete el^ controlled by moving the eyes 

to the right or left, thus directing it 

forward, backward, or turning it in any 

direction. 

Other fascinating possibilities: it 

could operate a mechanical page turner, 

witch room lighrs off and on, adjvst 

room temperature, change the volume and 

channel of radio and television; raise 

and lower a bed; signal a nurse; aper- 

ate a word board or electric typewriter 

by the "Possum" grid system; switch an 

iron lung from house current to battery 

or moror-generator standby equipment. 

FPTEPIT STATUS: i!L.SA encourcges tile in- 

medote comercia2 use o.T this inven- 

tim. inquiries abolrt obtaining rights 

,Tor

STAFF HITHERS AND THITHERS 

. . 

; "'g S"p 1" tie rerricai 

.raif or ::; on which i!,e 

had been working since 1959. 

Lf any horizontals live near. 

them at:P18 ::ex Yurk 

.sue.. Edeeuarer. ila. 32032. 

il....X 

ir 1056. 

d no; 

fits elvciiic sririhrr at his home. He 

is an avid motorist and i prolific correspondent. 

HIS generosity is ti-pitied 

by his donation oi the exciting cur 

%lass CUP co :?;'s Hall of Fare Ouad 

(see Bulletin Board and paee 60). 

spring "er husband. Jack, was transferred ro Sr-ifzerlanC. She is con- 

tinuing iher .;': werk and will he happy to meet ::; European readers. 

one of her iirst ,.isits was to Lurern to meer Chailcs Froelicher, rep- 

consultant an respiratory equipnenc. sancy.s ardress: Cheilia d" 

$2 Crri des Pierre. 3, 109: Belronr-sui-Lausanne. Suirse. 

Robby Cory ai Glenroe, Illinois, and 

Thomas Lee Good met fhrovgh "aice%punden=* 

~ n d xere airried pn Jul? 17. 

1965. A respo. +he was one of 7:;'s 

first horizontal corresponding editors 

meii .ddres+: 1026 >lasanic. San Franri+co 

California 94117. 

mure sew ~ari cirg 

denonstrated his har-o?era- 

CERS?:Y.. .JYCS~~ 

Erbsleben ... He and 

ie* wheelchair to rice Pres- his wife. Crrel. 

ident Humphr~? at the '66 proudly inrroCuce 

meetin* oi rhe President's 

the charminx add;. 

cow.irree on irplopenr of 

the Handiraooed. . . ihe inr.enfar. 

Don 5~1.1.371. accoroaniion 

to their 

farilv, their 

daughter. Xieke. 

: . 

ihU:CL.. .liicl,el Le Saur.. .In Septe?ber 

of 1965, 35 handicapped (includin~ seven 

requiring respiratory aid). *pent wo 

in mne, ilorence, ~ ~ ~ nie i ~ e 

j"~'"ey had been planned ior three years 

hr ~. lS-\bhd railer. . chrolain . OF 6oiral 

~ ~ i ~ ~ifrj ~ ~ arrendimrs, r e . including the 

hospital electrician. accocpanied the 

group. Highlight oi Yicliel's trip was the 

moaent camtured here "hen he received the 

1.1::p in r ieryi:~;:riy iard 

10- 10 "ears in Kenya, Ian 

,eve* with !hi5 parents do- 

to ~ ~ h ~ ~ ~ e(where s b ~ riiis r g 

was taken rich his 

neohni) and then ro rneir

Toomeg REUNION .... 1965 

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~ - . . ~ . ~ 

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iiamala .:. . 7 : , ., . 

India, eCiLmr .? I!,. '7,..X,,Ll "F 

Rel~abilitarii~ lil hsia (in ci~e 

sari): Cindr Close and ~ebbie 

Petfibone (L. seated] 

L-R, forezraund - Jim 

Hoo~er. Braeke wens 

(holding her niece) and 

>lickie >IcCrsn. Alas, 

Brooke has moved with 

rile Blaine Harts [left) 

and Tam Aaron, direczar 

of the 'X.F. Re5piratoi 

EauiDmenC Pool in A""

A BILL 

TO 

PONDER 

Srerrrrn~ ron Srvar~ B ~ So. L 1.361. 

IVCBI.IC A m \O 128 

AS ACT COXCERNIXC AID TO \'ICTI\IS OF QUhDHI- 

PLEGU ASD TOT,ALLY PHYSIC.\LLY IZC.4PACIW- 

TED PERSOKS. 

cial circurnrtancer of the liable persons. (c) The commiarioner 

of health ma\. rocure care for unv victim of qaadripleqin or 

other\~,irc toia~f: phyzica~~y inr;lpicitntcrl prrron x,~~lll is 

lonser in need if octirc hospi~nl ~r~atme~lt 811 a sr,tte Ilo\pit;~l 

or rtnte-aided hosoitd. in ;t lircnsrd chn,laic ilr u~~n;~l~~rcot 

Be it ~~taofcd hy lllr Serlotc ond HI>I~C of H~~,~re6~ntmlic~s ill 

Gewral.4rsernblu ronre,wd: 

censed chronic and conralesrnlt imr\inq lhcmvr fn~ I~IIUII. 

board and services to the prrmtls ~icti,,,; .,I rlat;tdrrl~lrgix OL 

othenrire totally physically iktcap;,c~t.~tc.d ~:l.r*ons a~drd bu 

the state under thin section. rl~;~ll 111, clutr~~ili\wal ill accordan> 

xvith rection 17-314 of the 1962 ,ltpplnnrlll 11, the general 

ntatatcs. (P) The prolisionr of this ,rctins ,I1,tII slot apply to 

pcncnls \rho are rc~eirins or i.linlld

. VACATION OR LIVE IK >lEXICO ... Specialize in care of 

the handicapped ... Services include room, board, nursing 

care, etc ... For derails write: i$ilZiari 2. Cne ... 

Circumvalacion Norte 78...Las Fuenres, Guadalajara ... 

Jalisco, Elexico. 

m SPECIALIZED TOLKS FOR TRE HAWICAPPR) including 

medical care as well as travel accommodarians, etc... 

To Rauaii. Europe, Mexico and soon around the world... 

Wrife Evergreen Travel Service ... Security Bank Bldg .... 

. JOW'S 

Box 583 ... Lynwood, Washington 98036. 

TRANSPORTATION SERVICE ... Specializing in 

wheelchair passengers ... Theatre, race track, picnics, 

ball park, museums...Reasanahle rares...New York and 

Long Island...M 6-3311. 

m OFFICE SUPPLIES ... Equipment and printed material. .. 

Greater Cleveland area only ... Contact after 11 AbI: 

hth ?.feckZer.. .469-1520. 

m TYPING Done ... Envelopes and billheads ... ?egg$ m

m FOR SALE ... Singleseat golf cart, battery parrered, 

left hand controls, 20 mile range .... incl. shipping 5300. 

Ai.t?;zr iie1:o.. .I309 Camino Real.. .Roswell, K.:!. 88201. 

THOIIPSOS RESPIRATIOY PRODUCTS ... Agent in hrope ... 

Free catalogues ... CI-miss ?ra.?:ici-8 r.... Steinhofhalde 

18 ... Lucerne, Switzerland. 

m REKDELL ESTERPRISES ... Complefe line, including 

elevating toilet sear ... Free brochures. ..2714 Holly 

Aw.. .Arcadia, California 91007. 

m SWITCH-O-\b\TIC ... Control appliances via microswitch.. 

!.!odels from 5119 to 5239.. .Idrite for brochure.. .Dourn- 

East Electronics ... 93 Depot Rd ... Falmouth, Plaine 04105. 

m KEK ?LcRIGHT SL-PPLIES ... Air cushions, hospital supplies, 

oersonel ~- articles ~~ ... ~ 3178 ~ S. Iroouois ... Tulsa. 0th. 74106. 

REHAB AIDS ... Complete line a£ self-help aids ... Catalog 

iOc...Free to :jG readers...Box 612 ... Xiami, Fla. 33144. 

m OUTDOOR WHEELCUIR ELEVATOR...Free brochure ... ::h? 

rsca ... Box 49 ... Broussard, Louisiana 70808. 

TRUJILLO IWUSTRIES ... Everything for quads: From 

vheelchairs to prostherics ... Free brochures ... 7.0. Box 

217...San Clenente, California 92672. 

a EGERTOS STOKE >NRDEVILLE 'IURXISG-TILTIXG BEDS...Sales 

Representative, hstes, Tower Hill, Horsham, Sussex, 

96 England. 

. FOR SALE ... Rock whirlpool ... Like new: used only 

five times ... Icill discount 30K of original price... 

;%SIB ilnmm.. .623 Illinois he., S.I!. . .Huron, South 

Dakota 57350. 

m FOR SALE ... E h J chrome walker ... Adjustable crutch 

attachments and seat...Good condition ... $30...Ilust be reasonable.. .::'s. i:rzncs 

.?er?Ys.. .5100 98th he.. .S. Pinellas Park, Fla. 33565. 

. FOR SALE. ..Sfarr Invalid Lifter ... Top condition... 

Pinion and Rach mechanical movement ... karrows for 

doorways.. .S95.. . :7>

fc! ;i:3 SELL! ! ! 

. RUBBER 

. FRUITS, 

. WEDDISG 

m ADDRESS LABELS ... 1000 far S1 ... Four lines in black on 

white.. .lfsrian Sqm.. ,2501 N. Eleade Ave.. .Chicago, 

Illinois 60639. 

ST&P ... One to five lines - 7 5 ~ 

to 52.00.. . 

Address labels - 1000 for Sl...r'swsi Ca1% ... 9-112 W. 

>lountain St ... Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701. 

CAmY ASD ILXGAZIh7S. ..Write for prices and 

order blanks: c*,-is lo^c mu< i'i.imls.. . creative Rehabili- 

tation ... RL. 2...Box 310 ... Sebring, Florida 33870. 

IhVITATIONS AX ATTENDANT GIFTS...Also Avon 

and Stanley Products. .. Discounts ... Jc Ann Coo:ir ... 19602 

Helen i\ve...Detroit, Elichigan 48234. 

HARTS SPECIhLTIES ... Advertising, imprints, novelties, 

cards, magazines.. . BZoir.9 Zorf.. . Fairview Rd.. .R. D. P3, 

Salem, Ohio 44460. 

a POUCHES by Louelen ... Of durable white duck. ..For 

wheelchairs, walkers, crutches - 31.50 to $6.95.. . 

Brochure on request ... ;mzs ii;;qar ... 102 James St... 

Jackson Center, Ohio 45334. 

:IOSAIC TILES Elade And For Sale.. .:.!ar?ir. isscher.. . 

199-23 21sf Ave ... l>%iresrone, Long Island, K.Y. 11357. 

m BIRTHSTOYES And Spiritual Birth Certificates ... Sl 

plus 1Oc postage.. .Dli.fs Per>.x.. ,5330 Harper.. . Chicago, 

. WI\BTED: 

Illinois 60615. 

Betty Crocker coupon from all General >lills 

products ... :fichoeZ 31,nk ... 24 Hood St .... Bromsville, 

Pa. 15417. 

m EIAGAZINES...iJon Crnin Magazine Subscription and 

Service Agency ... Frenchburg, Kentucky 40322. ILXGAZIBES.. 

-. 

;c i?~~en~oi8er Magazine Subscription Agency ... I714 So. 

Alameda ... Corpus Christi, Texas 78404. IL4GAZIRES... 

Agents wanted...;!aZter Scqer ... Box 90...Austinville... 

R.D. !;I ... Troy, Pa. 16947...>LAGAZISES...For any hobby ... 

(1. .Q. ;:i,Z

IRON LUSC ?OLIOS I. ERRIIPLECICS. ISC. 

YEaR Eh3ED DECDE!LI 31. 1965 

STATMENT OF CPiSU RECEIPTS Am OISBURSEIEKTS 

Receipts: 

Gifts: 

General fvnd $14,673.12 

Dr. Fern memorial fund 1.195.00 

A horizontal editor's salary fund 

Prize money fund 

450.00 

300.00 

~arr-rime attendant fund 150.00 $16,768.12 

Interest income 71.02 $16,839.14 

Disbursements: 

Salaries: 

General Fund 5 2.717.76 

A horizontal editor's salary fund 450.00 

Part-time artendant fund 150.00 S 3,317.76 

printing and mailing supplier 1,250.7b 

office equipment and service: 

General £and $ 916.43 

Office equipmenr fund 54.99 $ 971.42 

Postage 626.45 

Office supplies 554.20 

Bvvks and periodicals 256.63 

Prizes - prize money fund 180.00 

payroll raxes 87.00 

Insurance 73.74 

Dues 20.00 9,337.94 

Receipts in excess of disbursement 

Fund balances 1-1-65 

Fund balances 12-31-65 

STAIE.(EVT OF IISSEIS Ahm LlABlLITIE6 OX A CASII BASIS 

Alsers: 

Cash: 

Oemaod 

Savings 

Oeposic - Workmen's cornpensaclo" 

Liabilifiee: 

S 5,657.31 

5,071.02 $10,528.33 

5.m 

$10.513.33 

Payroll faxes withheld 

Funds: 

S 112.03 

General 

Or. Fern memorial 

Prize money 

audited bg, ni~iimi E. ~ozior, c.i.a. 

1 8.906.08 

1,315.22 

170.00 10.421.30 

$10.531.33 

Toamey J is ceeoly esurs;iaiile o- ilr Ersni 

arLiQC irCl ? * 5 : : ;r-ii 

GAZETTE ;em". ,,>i-i. --,s, rcFi,,. .. .,; + , 

I 2 - S T iei- 

, and 

-"" Drirfi-.; ir*-i. 

year, U " 

Foundation, Lh?ii~in-z $300.00 

The Dinsnore Foundation, !;zV i;.rk 250.00 

The O'Zeill Brothers Foundation. 0%:~ 200.00 

The Elizabeth X. & William C. 

Truehaft Faundarion, 0x0 100.00 

g!! The Cleveland Foundation, Zi~ic 500.00 

We thank our 315 generous friends, listed below 

and opposite, for rheir gifts, received from April 

9, 1965. Lo April 15. 1966. which helped pay for 

che printing and mailing of Chi. issue: 

. -- 

*usrin Hospital Finifred llalcolm . Ci.'.LLi Gloria * Riley 

A .V Brsun Or 6 Srs K B C Ssdifoid 

"ary E cannor Peter xeison spencer 

Jean Llead . ,:c>.,,;.,:. "-.,, .... ,. 

>PS S norrison Adolf Rarrita . ~zE:,~~sG;:'.Lr6 P Campbell Eileen A Harmon 

Lady Hamilron OBt >!A m 3,'X?ZZ.?:;,':: 

F f Handasvde >lrr John T Hoover 

- '- ~ 

i~1.2~ :,2 ,A:?: t~-.d~i~~:-:ilr cOci~:iu?:cr, 

ma>e check to:

. i.5:: ?~.';. 

Richard P >lellnann 

Eugene iiri . *:.; :,L-L 

Ben"? J Gardnei . .-::--!~ .=',~:.: 

Kathy *Icorn 

Jack C ilford 

'ladeline Alverson 

H .I uarneson li 

Solonon R Ber?. 

Helen ilissig 

Barbara A Bourn. 

John Bra"" 

Peter Bray 

'krilyn P Card 

Leslie ?i Clark 

Yr & ?Ir. ?lilLon i corvin 

Ralph 0 "oscb 

'larilyn Drnda 

Rev L 'fir F liarold tsseri 

Crystal iriedly 

b G Garxis 

\era L Greiffenberg 

Freda Jackson 

Leon Leuis 'SO 

J.,. I'arie Logan 

Janet A ?ic"onald 

Xoherf F >ierca1i 

Julia .> \loTtola 

R ::igra RPT 

Peninsula Temple neri El 

:;oncr erocror 

Fmr R""d 

?!rs car1tan L S!%nock 

Jerry 5cein 

Richard H S.~*.irri 

Ted Tanaka 

Oeanna Tmmsend 

:,argarer F :ia1ier 

I: Elaine Yilcox PhO 

Ezra i iiolfe 

. .?:' .=.-.:.: 

>sari. G Fen 

Sidney iichr ?In 

:.,r L :irs iennrt!: !i Palmpr 

lames B Bsmberg 

Pat Berry 

lean ?:ecxeil Cole 

>krr Lou CarheeC 

Chrin Ford 

'Ir 6 :lrs Bill F Hutchins 

Y s xorris 

>1argaret zorris 

Ruih ,'an Kirk . ,;,:-.= 

Lac? Dunaway 

Charlor nosenberg 

Fiiiel xire 

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. .-L;A-.'.'~':.- 

Diane hdler R:; 

Jene Bar1 

Grace Eurris 

Kevin Carroll 

Jerry Chisn 

verna 1 Crofts 

Ronald J 3ickson 

Rurh L Fricbel 

Hcndi-Ran? Inc 

?%s Albert Hubei 

Ivaclois kenm 

Jane laciris 

hh F ieiner~eber 

Eliiabeiii >I >,organ K!: 

Bud ::ici!olr 

Peg~y Roboke 

'larion sampra 

tlerb Schuldt Tr 

>,r L ::is J Robert Smith 

J .lilburn Smirh 

Jean siange 

Salph SLori~ 

?!rs Charles Yavra 

Gene 'Jieber 

. :.,'.-.7.IcCinty 

Ruth G >.urray 

Sirs. Clcra Rorh 

Ilr b >,rr B schepiro 

Donald Sel-n 

Or b Nrs Jack C Siege1 . SEW IEYICO 

>lrs R L ,>urst 

LO" Ann Loomis 

. :;ri FO:?Z 

JulieLta R .>rt1,ur 

!Irs 9e:::iCt C Baker 

'IT ' i,rs Charles Bast 

Richard J Bauer 

Arthur Bernhard 

!Leonard Blausrein 

Robert Darners 

.Alan Edelrnan 

Dr 6 \1rr Paul Esserf 

?I15 Isidare 5 Fausr 

Ur Leonard rausr 

?I= & xis >,onroe Fausr 

!lr 6 :irs E King Graves 

Edythe F Hoffman & family 

?Ir & ?Irs Lionel Hoffman 

:,aleline Karl 

sr 6 >irs Ldvard .I tilanit 

>,r & 'lrs Clarence Linton 

R 'laishall Loitus 

Kenneth 'lark Levis Jr !.m

Toome7 J 

::ore *: eu: CiPercus 'ric'da i.." lclpcd pal :or pr::r:#..s II.,is iuad ':,ieedri 

2 5 Lauric 

Helen xarir 

:.tar? ::nri!,a Croup of T"" 

Federated Church 

:,r i. ::rs C A r#Ue?s ir 

!. 

Roberr S-it*: 

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rn ,. . ~ 

Titelia . Carl* 

F L Crs::.aill 

Serneth !iup= 

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Susan C Ilcrro.~ llih 

Seeirle i,endica?~~l Clro In: 

Lillii" ia,ire 

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Sister >tar? Arthur i:TR 

Janet i 6erry 

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