national Battalion/Page 12 February 15,1982 r Canadian furniture refinisher, group make aids for disabled United Press International PORT CREDIT, Ont. — In a small cabinet-making shop in Gene Walser’s backyard, a pro ject is underway that brings more independence to the lives ol the disabled. Walser, with a group of volunteers and persons per forming community service in lieu of jail terms, produces de vices to make the homes of the disabled more livable. Their latest achievement is an eating aid for quadriplegics. The device was originally de veloped by the department of orthopaedic surgery at Chicago University’s medical school. But the Canadian volunteers made several improvements in the last year that will allow a person with only neck and head movement to have the pleasure of feeding himself. The table-top portable eating aid — consisting of a cup, plate and a spoon mounted on short metal posts at mouth-level — is the result of more than 800 hours’ work by some 50 volun teers. Its design was acclaimed at a rehabilitation engineering conference in Washington, D.C. The National Research Council of Canada is considering its mass production. Walser, 54, who has a furni- SCHULMAN GTHEATRES 775-2468 onno 775-2463 2002 E.29th TONIGHT IS FAMILY NIGHT! Adults - $2.50 Persons under 15 FREE 7:30 9:45 WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? PG Richard Dreyfus 7:10 9:25 WINDWALKER PG Trevor Howard Nick Ramus 7:55 ONLY REI1S 7:35-9:55 SHARKYS MACHINE 7:20 9:40 Arthur Dudley Moore Liza MinneiN 7:15 9:30 Raiders of The Lost Ark ture refmishing business, has made several more of the de vices, each with added modifica tions, and intends to make more. A scrapbook in Walser’s office shows the changes his group, Housing Modifications for the Handicapped, has brought to the community’s dis abled. Among them: •Until a wheelchair lift — a small open elevator — was in stalled in one woman’s home, she daily dragged the wheel chairs of her twin sons afflicted with muscular dystrophy up and down a flight of outside stairs. •A high railing built beside a toilet enabled a 37-year-old man in a wheelchair to use the bath room without help. •A small set of stairs enabled a man with a double leg amputa tion to put himself to oed with out assistance. The suburban Toronto group operates on about 10,000 a year from corporate and service club donations and fees charged to regional govern ment agencies. The group has gone beyond construction work. With lawyers and. architects donating their services, Walser’s group carried to the Ontario Supreme Court and won a 2Va-year legal battle to allow the family of a teenage polio victim to build an exten sion to their home to hold a wheelchair lift. Neighbors had objected that the addition would block their view. Walser actively began in volvement with the disabled 8 years ago when he began mak ing modifications to his own home for his wife, Gerry, who has had multiple sclerosis all their married life. ooooooooooooo< CAMPUS THEATRE ooooooooooooooop HEATRE § STARTS FRIDAY BOB CUCCIONE AND PENTHOUSE FILMS INTERNATIONAL PRESENT CALIGULA THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE YOU MAY EVER HAVE! '^ANAUnnSFILM RHUEABinG Habla espanol? photo by Laun Han) ques If n ic Building is a familiar spot for many students. Laura Waltrip, a junior chemi- The language laboratory in the Academ- cal engineering major, listens to tapes to S WASHINC supplement her conversational Spanisk lOmiirission class. Hea to mint Teauuitit' iQOOOOOOQOOOOOOOOQOOOOQQQOQOO Teller 2 c t / i / is NOW OPEN in COLLEGE STATION ^ r Now you cun enjoy the convenience of 24-hour banking with Teller 2-Pulse in College Station. First City’s Convenience Banking Center is now open. It is located at the comer ofOOMEVIK and PUR YEAR. This new Teller 2-Pulse facility will bring bank services closer to you. Reaching further, doing more. Call 779-5402 today to apply for your Teller 2-Pulse Card. riRsrCiTY First City National Bank of Bryan Member FDIC MANOR EAST! Manor East Mall JACK NICHOLSON in THE BORDER 7:25 9:50 *,1981 TWENTIETH CENTURV-FQ* IlM-LIk 7:15 9:50 7:15 9:35 Looking for ferrets United Press International LARAMIE, Wyo. — Wildlife researchers, using scented posts, are trying to discover how many rare blackfooted ferrets are liv ing in Wyoming. <200000000000000 i CAMPUS 0 ■it there are B answered | affect the U. A variety of scents are bdiW^L ' l t