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jj\ jfOPEKA (AP) — Alf Landon, the
|mer Kansas governor whose
sidential hopes were swamped in
franklin Roosevelt’s 1936 landslide
but became the grand old man of the
nd Old Party in a long life out-
politics, died Monday. He was
I”
tern early Monday, but said he re
mained alert and talked with both
her and Mrs. Landon during the
day.
Kassebaum had been scheduled to
speak Monday night in Hartford,
Conn., but headed back to Topeka
“He was a legendary Republican
who taught generations of poli
ticians what integrity and leadership
were all about,” he said. “Always way
ahead of his times, his life was a solid
century of achievement.”
As the decades put the 1936 drub-
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iLandon, the father of Sen. Nancy
lassebaum, R-Kan., wryly described
Kniself “a lawyer who never had a
ase. an oilman who never made a
won and a presidential candidate
W IN THE rfllohp carried only Maine and Ver-
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PtO&LENtf., |nerefused to be nettled about his
•pic loss, and in later years gave his
dchildren ponies named for the
'dstates he won.
“[They might have forgotten me if
(had been close,” he once said,
gtandon was hospitalized Sept. 28
t Stormont-Vail Regional Medical
inter after complaining of internal
Bin He was treated for a gallstone
md a mild case of bronchitis before
tturning home Saturday.
A hospital bed had been set up in
library of the family home. His
Theo, and housekeeper Rita
ight said Landon simply stopped
eathingat5:25 p.m.
wight said sne had noticed a
in Landon’s breathing pat-
“He was a legendary Republican who taught genera
tions of politicians what integrity and leadership were
all about. Always way ahead of his times, his life was a
solid century of achievement. ”
— Kansas Sen. Robert Dole
after learning of her father’s death.
President Reagan issued a
statement mourning the death of the
GOP elder statesman:
“Alf Landon exemplified the very
best in public service. He deeply
loved his country and he was moti
vated by a genuine desire to help his
fellow man. . . . Governor Landon
was a true elder statesman, whose
expertise and views were sought and
valued by many of us in public life.”
And Kansas Sen. Bob Dole, who is
seeking the 1988 Republican presi
dential nomination, called Landon
“a friend and mentor.”
bing further and further behind
him, Landon became a beloved sym
bol of his party, an elder statesman
who received President Reagan at
his home on the occasion of his
100th birthday.
Dubbed “the Kansas Coolidge,”
his campaign was symbolized by the
sunflower, his battered felt hat and
the slogan “Life, Liberty and
Landon.” He condemned New Deal
policies as “dangerous and cock
eyed,” and pledged that if elected he
would “restore our government to
an efficient as well as a constitutional
basis.”
Landon, who emerged as the
GOP’s bright hope by being the only
Republican governor to win re-elec
tion in 1934, received eight electoral
votes. Walter Mondale received 13
electoral votes in 1984, the second-
lowest number in modern political
history.
He received 36.5 percent of the
popular vote, the third-worst show
ing in a two-way race since the turn
of the century, after John Davis in
1924 and James Cox in 1920.
Long af terward, he acknowledged
that he knew on election eve he
didn’t have a chance. Yet he never
expressed any regret.
“You see, I had never planned a
political career,” he said. “With me,
politics was not a vocation but an av
ocation.”
Alfred Mossman Landon was
born Sept. 9, 1887, in West Middle
sex, Pa., the son of an oil explorer
who began drilling in Kansas near
the turn of the century.
Young Landon spent his college
summers working with the oil field
wildcatters, doing menial chores. He
graduated from the University of
Kansas with a degree in law in 1908,
then went back to the oil fields, this
time on his own.
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n South Florida with 80 mph
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stal residents scurried for
Iter, while others cleared
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bottled water.
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began heading up through
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The last hurricane to hit South
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Center for sleep disorders
treats variety of problems
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — You probably spend
more uninterrupted time sleeping than m any other da
ily activity. Unless you have chronic problems nodding
off or staying there, you probably don’t think much
about it, either.
But a Charlotte neurologist who heads the first ac
credited center for sleep disorders in North Carolina
and South Carolina says almost everyone has at least oc
casional problems sleeping. And he says many sleep dis
orders go undetected for decades, while the people who
have them are labeled lazy.
“It’s not normal to be sleepy during the day,” said Dr.
Dennis Hill of the Sleep Disorders Center at Charlotte
Memorial Hospital and Medical Center. “If you are,
there’s something going on, except that everyone gets
sleepy after lunch. Many people don’t even realize
when something is wrong.”
Hill says the most common problem he encounters is
sleep apnea syndrome, which usually strikes middle-
aged, overweight men who snore loudly. A normal re
flex that usually opens up the airway so a person can
breathe while sleeping is blocked by a fatty muscle, and
the sufferer can breathe only by waking up for five to
10 seconds every 30 to 40 seconds.
The awakening is so brief that the sufferer does not
even realize that he has awakened, Hill said.*
“So the guy is very sleepy all the next day,” he said.
“His performance at work suffers. He can fall asleep at
a red light, or in church. And he doesn’t know why he’s
tired.
Treatment of the malady can include weight loss, or
the use of a dental implant that can keep the tongue
from blocking the air passageway.
And if you fall asleep at work with any regularity,
you might have a medical excuse — a relatively rare dis
ease called narcolepsy.
“I’ve seen patients who have had narcolepsy for 50
years, but never knew it. And it has controlled their
lives,” Hill said.
The disease stems from an inherited chemical im
balance that causes people to fall asleep for no apparent
reason. The problem can be treated with drugs.
But one problem for which Hill does not usually rec
ommend drugs is insomnia, probably the most common
sleep-related disorder.
“The important thing is that insomnia is a symptom,
not a diagnosis,” he said. “It would be like a doctor pre
scribing aspirin for a headache. It might help in the
short term, but it doesn’t solve the problem.”
Sleep may seem natural, but it comes easiest when
prepared for, Hill said. He recommends abstaining
from caffeinated drinks after noon each day, not drink
ing alcohol after 7 p.m., and exercising before 4 p.m.
Artist accepts challenge to paint
Statue of Liberty on grain of rice
WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. (AP) —
Many painters think of themselves as
starving artists, but David Stevens is
one of the few who could actually eat
his work. One of his specialties is
painting the Statue of Liberty on a
single grain of rice.
“At the risk of sounding vain, I
think I’ve got a talent that’s out of
the ordinary,” said Stevens, 29, an
unemployed deliveryman whose for
mal artistic training consists of a sin
gle high school art class.
He said he discovered his knack
one day about three years ago when
he was bored and his wife, who
painted ceramics, had her materials
out.
Using a quarter-size rock for his
canvas, Stevens painted an ocean
scene with a bright yellow sunset, a
tiny island with palm trees and a gal
leon.
Six weeks and several rocks later,
he was challenged.
“A guy saw some of the stones and
he said, ‘That’s fine. But the day you
paint the Statue of Liberty on a grain
of rice, I’ll buy it from you,’ ” he
said.
Stevens obliged, though the
would-be customer disappeared.
Stevens says that, witnout using a
magnifying glass, he can paint the
Statue of Liberty — down to the yel
low torch — in 15 minutes.
To paint detail, he uses a brush
with only two or three hairs. He
glues the rice grain to a piece of
cardboard to keep it steady.
During a recent interview, he
painted a Canada goose in flight in
about 10 minutes, from its tiny black
beak to its plumage of gray, white
and black against a light blue sky.
Other pieces include 12 mallards
in flight on a single grain, artist’s sig
nature included and a tuxedo-clad
gentleman before a grand piano,
with candles burning on a candela
brum.
“What’s so frustrating about it is I
found my niche in life, but I can’t
use it,” Stevens said. “I can’t make a
living off it.
“I’ve cornered the market on a
non-existing market.”
The most he has gotten for his
works at art shows in the town of
10,000 in southern Illinois is $30 for
one rice grain, with $5 sales more
common.
In addition to rice and rocks, Ste
vens said he painted the face of a
watch for a friend obsessed with
game show celebrity Vanna White.
He painted a nude portrait of White
from the waist up.
“His boss told him he couldn’t
wear it,” Stevens said, “because he
works in a retail store.
“He brought it back, and I
painted a negligee on it. Now he can
wear it.”
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