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by Scott McCullar Battalion/Page 11A September 3, 1982 Knee health important United Press International A healthy knee is quiet — emitting little sound — but a dis eased joint makes distinctive is bills. he CBO very i s elicits anj : V could h and unlike! noises. Now doctors are using sophisticated electronic equip ment to eavesdrop on the knee in the hope of detecting prob lems without resorting to surgery. Researchers at the University of Akron have developed what they hope will prove a reliable way to decipher the language of the knee joint. Current surgical methods of detection can be painful and do present risk to the patient. But acoustical diag nosis is believed more simple and safer. During clinical tests, a mic rophone was attached to a pa- dis- tient’s knee that detects the tinct sounds of a damaged joint and translates the pops and creaks, via computer, into a three-dimensional pattern that resembles a mountain’s peaks and valleys. Doctors can then zero in on which part of the knee looks abnormal — where the sound has come from — and prescribe treatment. 'I ^citofji. e the di 9 and argeas [Forest Service needs volunteers le parts ofty e open«5 Tuesday, H ermined r-keepin[ •red in United Press International I WASHINGTON — The fed eral Forest Service is looking for more volunteers to help shepherd visitors through Un ited States forest lands. I Volunteers help visitors in terpret what they see during na- abc ture walks. They guide ab out 4,000 elementary school chil dren a year on educational field trips. They maintain trails, oversee campgrounds, help research sci entists, keep office records, plant trees and patrol wildernes ses, among other things. The volunteers come in all ages and from many back grounds, said Forest Service Chief R. Max Peterson. Some are students, who sometimes get college credits for their work. Others are retirees. Their work helps hold down government costs. Stan Gaylord, the agency’s national volunteer coordinator, said their numbers have grown dramatically since 1972, when Congress passed the Volunteers in the National Forests Act. Work hours are flexible, and the jobs are full-, part- or one time. pond iy in Poland's vc no mountain mosaic o dwarf Rushmore ante, Loire y would manufs >the day. 5 30S< David entcomi >osals the dan suit | United Press International [ GRANITE, Okla. — The famous presidents carved in lount Rushmore in the Black ills of South Dakota may soon e dwarfed by a granite monu- ent nearly twice as tall. The granite carvings of eorge Washington, Abraham incoln, Thomas Jefferson and eddy Roosevelt, known world- ide as Mount Rushmore, stand 0 feet tall. The mosaic of Will Rogers, |Jim Thorpe and Sequoyah plan ed for the mountains overlook ing Granite will be 116 feet high, aid monument carver Bill to' I j'Ml* 5 - | The Oklahoma project, enti led “Giants of the Great Plains,” [temporarily has been placed on hold while Willis, 58, tries to soli cit hundreds of thousands of dollars to complete the monu ment. Willis began carving and ssembling Rogers’ portrait in 1979 and unveiled the 28-foot- mosaic bust, containing the ended,‘Bhtmiorist’s head and shoulders, ! during ceremonies on the 100th J anniversary of Rogers’ birthday ea 8 a L np S in November 1979. Willis said he spent $20,000 of his own money and $30,000 in contributions to complete the bust and will need an additional $300,000 to complete the Ro gers portrait and put it on the mountain. The entire project, including all three figures, will cost more than $1 million, he said. Much of the cost will be level- ingoff the mountain and build ing an elaborate wind-resistant steel frame to support the mosaic, which eventually will in corporate all three figures. fVtl Willis, who studied architec- C/Jl ture but has made his living pro ducing granite tombstones and historical monuments, based his design on paintings of the three Oklahomans in the state Capitol. He said he chose Rogers, famed athlete Thorpe and Se quoyah, the chief who invented the Cherokee alphabet, because of their apolitical image and In dian heritage. Working from a photo of the paintings, Willis will use scale drawings to enlarge the design. Willis etched the pattern into the 195 blocks needed for Ro gers’ head and shoulders with a rubber stencil. The two-foot square blocks, each two inches thick, were carved individually and assem bled into a steel frame. Each block was numbered according to its assigned space. 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