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WEDNESDAY, APR. 7, 1976
Page 5
By KAREN SMITH
“I can walk again,” said a patient from
the Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Center.
Despite two knee operations, that pa
tient was unable to walk or go to work. He
received treatment at the Center which
consisted of therapy and traction and now
he is able to walk and work again.
For 19 years the Rehabilitation Center in
Bryan, has been giving help to the hand
icapped and disabled, providing physical,
occupational and speech therapy. Audiol
ogy and counseling are other services pro
vided by the center.
Under the audiology program, the pa
tient’s hearing problem is evaluated. If a
hearing aid is needed the Center fits the aid
and orders it for the patient. If an aid will
not help, lip reading or sign language is
taught to the patient.
Occupational therapy utilizes activities
such as crafts and writing. Whirlpool baths,
deep heating and strengthening exercises
are used in physical therapy programs.
Counseling is also provided for patients
who have emotional problems resulting
from a physical or mental handicap.
Before a patient can begin occupational
or physical therapy he or she must be refer
red to the center by a physician because the
therapists aren’t qualified to make medical
diagnosis, said Jim Thompson, director of
the Center. A doctor’s referral isn’t neces
sary for speech therapy or audiology.
There are 145 patients receiving help
from the clinic, Thompson said.
“I’m glad that there is a place like the
Rehabilitation Center,” one woman said.
“It has really helped me to use my hands
again. They were so crippled by arthritis.”
Students from Texas A&M University
used to go to the Center to receive treat
ments for athletic injuries or tension, but
now the hospital on campus has a therapy
division which is more convenient for
them, Thompson said.
A&M students who are majoring in
sociology and therapy work can do volun
tary service at the center. The Center is
supported by the United Fund, Easter Seal
Societies, the March of Dimes and the
Shrine. These funds enable the Center to
charge minimal fees, not to charge patients
who need help but who can’t afford it.
People of all ages disabled from strokes,
birth defects or accidents can receive
therapy at the Center.
Wheelchair awareness day
Students can experience
difficulties of the handicapped
date authorities hope to vaccinate 10 million
It said.
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Tex. — State health au-
lorities hope 10 million Texans can
V 1 3 given a vaccine to protect them
PfflWMnst a feared epidemic of swine
( , u j fluenza next fall,
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1 " ink in three months is really a tre
mendous task but we are hopeful it
can be done,” Dr. Fratis Duff, direc
tor of the Texas Department of
Health Resources, told a news con
ference Monday.
Duff said pharmaceutical man
ufacturers are making the vaccine
now and they hope to have enough
for nationwide distribution next Sep
tember. Congress is considering a
bill that would appropriate $135
million for the manufacture and dis
tribution of the vaccine.
“Then it is our goal to have it dis
tributed and administered by the
end of November. It will require all
the resources of state and local, pub
lic and private health officials to do
the job,” Duff said.
Private physicians would be ex
pected to administer the vaccine to
their patients on request.
A wheelchair basketball game will
highlight Wheelchair Awareness
Day April 22. The evening game will
be played in DeWare fieldhouse.
Wheelchair Awareness Day is
sponsored by Students Concerned
for the Handicapped, a campus or
ganization, and the Rehabilitation
Engineering Center of Houston.
About 60 wheelchairs, loaned by
local rental agencies and the Vete
rans Administration in Houston, will
be available for the use of interested
students.
“People can sign for a chair, then
go about their daily routine,” said
Rick Baldwin, president of Students
Concerned for the Handicapped. By
attending all their classes in a wheel
chair, students can experience
first-hand the problems whcich the
handicapped must face in getting
around the campus. After returning
the wheelchair, students will be
asked to describe any problems they
have had, Baldwin said. He is ex
pecting at least 300 people to test
their mobility in a wheelchair.
The basketball game will feature
two teams from a national wheel
chair basketball league, the Dallas
Raiders and the Houston Easyrid-
ers. The winner will then play mem
bers of the Texas A&M basketball
team.
The reason for bringing the
wheelchair basketball game to A&M
is so the audience can see what
people can do with their handicaps,
Baldwin said.
“Our main purpose is to bring
handicapped people into the light,
and make others more aware of them
as people,” he said.
The Students Concerned for the
Handicapped attempt to improve
the physical and psychological at
mosphere in the community for
handicapped people, Baldwin said.
By working with campus planners
they have been instrumental in mak
ing the A&M campus much more
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accessible to wheelchairs. Now they
are taking a survey of Bryan and Col
lege Station schools concerning their
accessibility to wheelchairs. The re
sults will be presented to the school
boards.
The main problem which the Stu
dents Concerned for the Handicap
ped face, he said, is that people
aren’t aware of the handicapped and
their problems. By having such ac
tivities as Wheelchair Awareness
day and the wheelchair basketball
game they hope to make the hand
icapped more accepted for what they
are — people.
Moral gap
doesn’t void
black rights
Despite a moral gap between
blacks and whites, most whites do
believe in equality for all, including
the long-oppressed blacks, said Dr.
August Meier in a Black Awareness
presentation last night.
Meier, a historian from Kent State
University, directed his speech to
the meaning of the Declaration of
Independence for Afro-Americans.
He quoted such famous black
Americans as Martin Luther King,
Jr., Fredrick Douglas, and Dubois
who upheld the idea that all men are
created equal.
In the late 1700’s “only a handful
of whites saw the Declaration’s prin
ciples applied literally to blacks and
whites,” Meier said. And blacks con
tinued to have trouble getting their
unalienable rights even after their
emancipation in 1863.
They asked state legislatures to
strike the word “white” from certain
laws, he said. They based their stand
on the Declaration of Indepen
dence. In Texas blacks fought the
“white primaries” for 50 years.
Meier said the problem that still
exists is the failure of white Ameri
cans to live up to their promises.
He said the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) has made the most
headway for the rights ofblacks. The
NAACP made its greatest achieve
ments during the Depression and
World War II, paving the the way for
the 1950s and ’60s, he said.
Meier said the Black Panthers
were overrated, and they were “cre
atures of the ramparts in the Com
munist party.” He noted that the
Panthers have done little to further
the rights ofblacks.
He concluded with a quote from
Vernon Jordan saying, “The Decla
ration has just become another piece
of paper.”
—Ce Cowart
Carter, Ford,
Jackson take
primary wins
Associated Press
Jimmy Carter, in Wisconsin, and
Henry M. Jackson, in New York,
gained primary victories last night.
President Ford won his sixth Re
publican primary, winning easily
over challenger Ronald Reagan in
Wisconsin.
Tuesday’s two primary elections
point to a three-way race in the next
big Democratic test, for Pennsyl
vania’s 178 delegates on April 27.
The two Tuesday primaries put
Ford’s nationwide delegate count at
251 of the 1,130 it would take to win
nomination. Reagan had 84.
Carter led the Democrats with a
total of 239 delegates. Jackson had
180, Udall 118, Wallace 104. The
uncommitted Democratic column
now adds up to 148, with another 85
pledged to favorite son candidates. It
will take 1,505 Democratic conven
tion votes to choose a nominee.
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