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2N-K THE DES MOINES REGISTER July 17, UK5 aOVEQ THE I FENCE letters; Coordinator of child hospital program likes helping the disoriented liBSHBQH OF THE KIEBL the various suburbs. Yet, even with these additional funds in our own libraries, most suburbs will still not have the reference resources that the Des Moines library has built over the years. The Des Moines Library Board is now being forced to charge $65 a year for a non-resident card. Many people cannot afford to pay this fee. I wonder if the Central Iowa Regional Library Board considered the following: Divert one-half of the supplemental funds to the suburbs and leave the remaining one-half in the Des Moines library fund.

I would be disappointed to lose access to one of the best sources of learning that I have the Des Moines public library! I appreciate Des Moines' many resources so much that it will be a pleasure continuing to live in the area for many years. Alberta Rae Bowler, 510 Railroad Carlisle. Need fair patrol It has come to my attention that, as an economy move, the Iowa State Fair Patrol will be stripped of its police powers. They will no longer carry guns, or be able to make arrests. The law-abiding citizenry of Iowa needs to be able to count on the police for protection and help.

The Fair Patrol is a small force with a big job, and they need these powers to do their job properly. Furthermore, I feel that without these powers being restored to the patrol, the fair will not be a safe enough place for me to exhibit in, or for me or my family to attend! This may prove to be a false economy in the long run. Mrs. James L. Christiansen, Rt.

2, Box 906, Waukee. and running with it so late in the game. Those of us who were involved are fully aware of the sacrifices they made to insure that this event took place. We thank them for their determination and dedication. The Robert Ruch family, 84)04 Maple Urban-dale.

Where to Several years ago, when I was a tourist in London, every block or two I noticed a plain white door with large black letters "WC" printed at the top. We soon discovered that these white doors led to public restrooms with all the necessary facilities. I have not discovered any such public restrooms in Des Moines. What do people living outside the city do when they have to The Courthouse, the City Hall are a mile away and not always very choice facilities. If strangers had access to public toilets, there might be fewer complaints about indecent exposure.

After all, if you have to go, you have to go, but where? Clay C. Treadway, 600 E. Fifth Des Moines. Library use lost For many years I have used the Des Moines public library as a vital supplement to my hometown's library. On July 1, this opportunity will be gone.

The Central Iowa Regional Library has for many years provided additional funds to the Des Moines public library so that the suburbs of Des Moines could have free use of the city's library resources. Effective July 1, those funds will be diverted to Fund activities In the article that was in the June 26 edition of The Register, Walter Gal-vin, executive director of the Des Moines Teachers' Union, may have missed the point as to why the Des Moines School Board funded extracurricular activities in Des Moines' transitional schools. I'm sure it was not the school board's intent to make glorified babysitters out of our teachers, but rather an attempt to do some good for our children. Since money has already been provided for these activities, it would be a shame if the administrators and the teachers couldn't work together and put this money to its best possible use by coming up with a quality program. I hope that the Des Moines Teachers' Union can look at this positively and help develop some good after-school activities.

Ms. Denise McCaaley, Box 4985, Des Moines. Soap box derby This past weekend saw the completion of another Soap Box Derby in Des Moines. Once again many youngsters and their families had the pleasure of watching these homemade cars go from a shop project to a gravity-powered vehicle that really raced. A big thank you to Mike Ross and Chuck Hilsenbeck for taking the ball Today, dentists are kids' friends' naraese family of six and in the past has helped other Southeast Asians.

Osterlund said the immigrants suffer considerable culture shock when they first arrive in the Midwest, but they arc eager to learn and to work. The church helps the families find housing and establish contacts in the community, and church members are available to help with difficulties. "Of course, learning English is the first big problem," Osterlund said. A member of the board of the River Hills Child Care Center, Osterlund described herself, even in retirement, as "career gal." But, people who have observed her caring attitude and energy, like Nancy Shafer, call her "an open, giving person." Tell us about your Neighbor of the regular features of Your Page is the Neighbor of the Week, which is written by our staff writers, but at your bidding. If you know somebody you th nk should be a Neighbor of the an unusual or outstanding person of any age who deserves recognition for being a good neighbor let us know.

Send a letter including the person's name, address and telephone number (including where he or she can be reached during the day) and tell us why he or she should be nominated and we'll do the rest. Our address is 715 Locust Sb, Des Moines, S0304. If you have questions, give us a call at 284-8351 or 284-8256. NEIGHBORS! THE STAFF Neighbors Editor, Tom Carney Assistant to the Editor, Veronica Fowler Staff Writer, Elizabeth Flansburg, Phyllis Bailey, Lou Ortiz, Kathy A. Bolten, Mia C.

Bush Newt Assistants, Susan Khan, Barbara Croft, Susan McLain, Ruth Gatti, Ren-ness Lonning Neighbors Advertising Director, Allen Weber Advertising Staff, Shirley Milter, Bruce Scapecchi, Virgie Nagle, Jim Holtz, Jill Rodriguez, Margaret Friedl Sale Assistants, Linda Sutton, Marilyn Brown Aquamaids enter meet The Des Moines Aquamaids, a synchronized swimming team, will compete July 16-22 in the Outdoor Junior National synchronized swim meet in San Jose, Calf. The team of girls ages 12 through 18 also will represent Iowa the National Junior Olympics Aug. 8-11 in Iowa City. i Purclum it? in Continued from Page 1 tient's hand, another behind an ear and another is wrapped in cotton and placed by the affected tooth. An electric current goes through the brain, releasing endorphin, also called "natural morphine," Renda said.

Patients can turn a dial to change the current to increase or decrease the amount of endorphin released, she said. For those who want a less radical means of relief, elaborate stereo-headphone systems designed especially for patients in the dentist's chair are also available. Iowa Dental will keep tapes updated for dentists, pro By BARBARA CROFT Register Stiff Writer Who's the most important person in a hospital? Through Iowa Lutheran Hospital's Pediatric Orientation Program "(POP), first-grade school children learn that the patient is the prime consideration, and they find out firsthand what it's like to be a patient. Nellie Osterlund, 70, of 1164 Americana Court coordi NELLIE OSTERLUND nates the POP program, scheduling hospital space and volunteer teachers for the program, then contacting area schools to arrange for the children's visits. Iowa Lutheran hopes that immediate experience with hospitals and hospital personnel will help alleviate the children's fears if they are ever hospitalized.

The program, currently sponsored by the Iowa Lutheran Hospital Auxiliary, was started In the early 1970s by Iowa Lutheran's pediatric nurses, who coped daily with the anxieties of children in the hospital. Soon, POP became so popular that nurses couldn't give enough time to the children. Volunteers took over the program four years ago, and Osterlund, a retired registered nurse who had been director of nursing and head of the School of Nursing at Lutheran for 26 years, agreed to act as the program's coordinator. The POP program is based on roie-playing, Osterlund said. Children volunteer to act as patients, doctors, nurses or orderlies; and they submit to blood pressure checks and "pretend" shots.

Nancy Shafer, the director of volunteer services at Lutheran who nominated Osterlund for Neighbor of the Week, said volunteers are honest with the children, telling them frankly that some procedures hurt. The children don hospital gowns, experience a "pretend" anesthesia mask and view X-Rays in which, to their amazement, they can identify body parts. "Some of them think that's the best part of the whole program," Osterlund said. Of course, none of these procedures makes sense unless the children understand why they are done. Often the role-playing centers around a mock tonsillectomy, and the children are shown real tonsils that could have been removed from a child about their own age.

This touch of realism brings the pretending into focus. Osterlund said the children often get their ideas about hospitals from watching television, and volunteers get some funny responses when they question children about hospital practices. The children always have lots of questions, though, she said. A new and strange environment can be intimidating to adults, too. Osterlund is one of several members of First Lutheran Church, East Fifth and Des Moines streets, who helps immigrants adapt to life in North America.

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Outspoken people promote debate and reduce smugness, and they're more fun, at least for us in the media. Stockman follows a long line of outspoken people who weren't tolerated in the federal government. Earl Butz, the former Secretary of Agriculture, and James Watt, former Secretary of the Interior, are notable examples. Butz said some outrageous, maybe even stupid, things, and continued doing so long after leaving office. But he provided tons of copy for newspaper writers and in so doing stirred up lots of debate, which is a good thing.

Making Watt secretary of the interior was like naming the Pope to the board of directors of Playboy. A known "developmentalist" who believed environmentalists had put shackles on industrial expansion, Watt liked to attack "environmental extremists," on one occasion likening them to Nazis. But he also made people on both sides examine the limits of expansion and the maximum price for preserving the environment. Thank God the Des Moines-area has its share of Watts, Butzes and Stock-mans, though many of central Iowa's outspoken people wouldn't want their names to appear on the same page with the three or each other. Here are some outspoken area people who come to mind.

Mayor Pete Crivaro, who said he thinks the city's new convention center "looks like somebody dumped a pile of rubble on the corner. Architecturally," he said, "I think it's lousy." Larry Carter, who as the area's best-known atheist, seemingly has lots of fun tweeking the noses of us believers. He has debated Crivaro at council meetings about opening the meetings with prayer and once argued against prayer in schools with the argument: "Schools are not sanctuaries of superstition." Bill Knapp, well-known Des Moines developer, who recently chid-ed the City Council about not backing John Ruan's world trade center plans. "If you really want something, you go for it," Knapp told council members. "I don't see that here.

You mouth that you want it, but I don't see that fighting spirit." Ruan, president of the Ruan Transport Corp. and developer of Des Moines' largest downtown building which bears his name, is not outspoken in the sense that he says outrageous things, but he has never attempted to be low-key when it comes to community issues. "The question that remains," he once wrote in a "Guest Opinion" in The Register about transportation in the state, "is whether our elected and appointed officials do their job when it comes to serving the public interest." The Rev. Frank Cordaro, who for years ran the Catholic Worker House in Des Moines, spoke out often on peace issues and several times was arrested for demonstrating at the Strategic Air Command Base in Omaha. No sooner had he been ordained a priest last month than Cordaro spoke against the Church's position on a celibate, all-male clergy.

"We have an ordination" problem in the church, he said, and need "women in the priesthood, married priests and provision for people to serve in a temporary way." Long-time South Side Councilman Archie Brooks, who lost a match against a group of women mud wrestlers from Chicago after winning reelection in 1983. Before accepting a bid to wrestle, Brooks said of public officials, "We're just regular guys. Heck, the first time I threw cow chips I had deep reservations, but it comes with the territory." Kalonji Saadiq, a talk-show host on radio station KUCB-FM, a former Black Panther, a Socialist candidate for the Fourth Congressional District seat in 1980 and a 1983 candidate for Des Moines 'mayor. He once said "white Des Moines is unaware black Des Moines even exists." L.J. "Sam" Wise, mayor of Altoona and one-time Polk County Sheriff, who amid a controversy over smoking at Altoona council meetings said about a suggestion to divide the cham-.

bers between smokers and non-smokers: "I don't give a damn if they want to split the room." He said an attempted ban on smoking amounts to "discriminatory action against a single group of our citizens." These people deserve a pat on the back for making us think by saying what they think. There are undoubtedly lots of others around Des Moines who are equally outspoken. You know who you are. Keep up the good work, and don't worry about what happened to Butz, Watt and Stockman. Des Moines area residents value those who speak their Tom Carney viding them with a steady stream of "middle-of-the-road music," such as Barry Manilow; or Sesame Street and Walt Disney for the baby-tooth set.

If you need braces, Iowa Dental supplies rock 'n' roll, or if you believe that laughter is the best medicine, Bill Cosby and Rodney Dangerfield tapes can mask the sound of the drill. Rcnda agrees that image-conscious dentists are going for these "luxury-type items" to draw patients back into their offices "When I was little, I fought and cried" when I went to the dentist. "Today, the dentists are kids' friends," she said. Right down to freebie Star Wars and Muppets toothbrushes, Des Moines dentist are doing their best to make and to ask the city to put a couple public trash cans on the corner and near the alley," he said. Ford said Coppola commissioned the improvements once he realized that Urban Dreams was more than just fly-by-night.

"He, like any businessman, wanted to see what we were about before putting any money in the building. Anyone would do that in this part of town." Coppola said exterior windows have been replaced with a knotty-pine diagonal wood design, and he plans to repaint outside walls and add more lighting along its south side. He said that because of its location, he couldn't sell the property if he tried. The building is ou the Sixth Avenue commercial strip associated with pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers and other criminal elements. But the area also is borne for many senior citizens and others who depend DESSERT I Continued from Page 1 the community," he said.

The two-story building, which has five storefronts and empty apartment units on the second floor, just a few months ago suffered from neglect and vandalism. Coppola said good tenants are hard to find, and youths often broke the wide-framed windows as quickly as he could have them fixed. Last March, work began to bring the building's electrical wiring up to code, and new water lines and a new furnace were installed. The building was completely insulated, and dropped ceilings were installed in a few of the storefronts. Ford says people from the community did the interior painting and re-finished woodwork in the two storefronts Urban Dreams occupies.

"We're planning some tree plantings their youngest patients happy, Renda said. With this flurry of competition, patients are getting fancy notions of what a tooth should look like. Hermann said a man from South Dakota flew to him specifically to get a gold crown inlaid with a diamond. "I was flattered, yes, but I just told him I wasn't interested," Hermann said. And when one of the dentists in Hermann's practice got what normally would be an ordinary gold crown on his back tooth, it was spruced up with a drawing of the upper part of the female torso.

That seems to top it all for Hermann. "That certainly was unusual. I still have a picture of that one." on the bus for transportation, and for extended families of Southeast Asians. Ford said that's why it's the best location for Urban Dreams. Urban Dreams, he says, is a place where people with problems can get help, a brokerage house for social services to Des Moines and Polk County residents after 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.

It's centrally located, and has an army of volunteer doctors, lawyers, nurses, educators and community people offering information and referrals on everything from birth control to job training programs and social security benefits. And if its first month of operation is any indication, it's a success. Ford said about 60 persons have come to Urban Dreams looking for help, and about 80 percent of them have come back one or more times. "I never expected a success rate like that. It shows that we were really needed," he said.

"We haven't had any complaints about not fulfilling out mission here." East Polk Rotary donates to groups The East Polk County Rotary donated $2,500 to three organizations last week. The group gave $1,000 to the Altoo-na Sports Complex in honor of Jim Irish, an Altoona lawyer who died several months ago. Irish was a member of the Rotary. The money will be used to build a concession stand. The Rotary also gave $1,000 to the Pleasant Hill Youth Council, to be applied to the youth complex being built in Doanes Park, said Dick Henry, rotary member.

Also, $500 was given to the Rotary Polio 2,005 Foundation which solicits and collects funds to be used for polio research. Senior pick-up sites change Beginning Aug. 1, the Des Moines Park and Recreation Department will change the pick-up locations for its senior citizen bus trip program to the Wakonda Shopping Center, 4300 Fleur Drive and the Hy-Vee store at 2310 Euclid Ave. Pick-up sites for the Aug. 7 bus tour to Dubuque still will be the Embers Restaurant, 4805 Merle Hay Road, and the Four-Mile Community Center, 3711 Easton Blvd.

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