The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 23

(Section LEWIS MUGUID Tk A The Kansas City Star MidAmenca Life without big-ieague baseball is quite bearable for some: C-2 I im School days at hospital Inoculations mar first day at KC schools Young patients continue learning at KU Medical Center Parents complain they were not warned Officials disagree By LYNN HORSLEY Education Writer By JED GRAHAM Staff Writer Largely because of the inoculation problem first-day attendance was 27799 only 74 percent of projected enrollment Last year 30961 students 84 percent of projected enrollment attended class on opening day The immunization snafu apparently surfaced because schools did not get enough advance notice from the data processing office about the large numbers of students needing proof of vaccination Some of the schools in turn did not notify parents in time about specific immunization requirements for teen-agers About 425 Paseo High School students half the student body started out Tuesday morning See INOCULATIONS C-2 About 2400 Kansas City high school students missed at part of their first day of school Tuesday because of a new state rule requiring all students to be properly immunized before they are allowed in class The new rule and resulting annoyance for parents and teenagers marred what otherwise appeared to be a relatively uneventful and successful opening day in the Kansas City School District Foreign students lose eligibility Dylan Foreman strapped on his new Batman backpack Tuesday said goodbye to his mom and ventured off to his first day of kindergarten His teacher Kathy Davis trailed behind E)ylan guiding his intravenous unit as he slowly walked down the hallway from his hospital bed to the pediatric classroom at the University of Kansas Medical Center Dylan has lived at the hospital for most of the last two years since he was diagnosed with leukemia He was readmitted about five weeks ago and recently finished a round of chemotherapy treatments said Lavonne Ridder a registered nurse in the pediatric unit trying to get him back into remission to prepare him for a bone marrow Ridder said just happy he can go to classroom is like one-room country Davis said going all the way to 12th grade Activities she said range from playing with Matchbox cars to completing physics assignments The classroom is part of the Kansas City Kan School District and when children are hospitalized Davis works with teachers in their home schools to develop courses of study One of the difficulties she faces is not being able to plan far in advance because the medical needs take priority over edu-See MEDICAL C-S Col 1 Kansas bars some from school sports because of national list By DONNA McGUIRE Staff Writer wrong Nemet cannot compete in Kansas because of a problem involving the exchange organization that arranged his visit He even practice with his Blue Valley Northwest High School team was about to make friends and fit into the said Nemet a 17-year-old Hungarian from Budapest felt bad Sports are part of my Nearly 150 exchange students are affected in Kansas alone They came to the United States through the American Institute for Foreign Study Foundation Inc a Connecticut-based agency founded in See SOME C-3 Col 1 Thrilled to have survived tryouts for his high school soccer team exchange student Alex Nemet rushed home recently to model purple-and-black game jerseys for his host parents Delight turned to devastation when Nemet was stripped of eligibility after six practices and zero games Although he do anything RICH SUQQThe Star companied by Kathy Davis his teacher at the University of Kansas Medical Center Dylan Foreman began kindergarten Tuesday Dylan a 5-year-old leukemia patient was ac- How much Security stability are the keys to a happy family is the land worth? By DONALD BRADLEY Stability not biology they say is the key to a safe happy and secure home say the nuclear family is always best is going out on pretty shaky ground because we know that sometimes nuclear families trouble growing up in a single-parent home or a blended family meaning with a stepparent Other examples of non-traditional families are children who live with grandparents or with a gay or unmarried couple last week talked about their lives seemed happy most made good grades said they did not feel cheated by not both natural parents at home They they felt loved They and having said Janelle Bestor a senior said a divorce often makes children grow up faster makes you stronger on the inside and maybe mature a little faster than friends with both parents at she said I think you learn to discipline Dylan Moore 1 7 another senior said his mother worked hard and gave him all the See SECURITY C-4 Col 1 no such thing as the perfect family said Dian Buckley president of the Independence Council of PTAs and a third-grade teacher whatever works Every family has a strength to build on The important thing is that children know that somebody is there to really care for The real experts children who live in non-traditional homes agree A group of Ruskin High School students just Roberta Ezell director of the Metropolitan Council on Child Care said Tuesday Some parents are uncaring Family life may be ruined by problems ranging from constant bickering and poor communication to domestic violence and chemical dependency Living in a home with mom and dad may be the ideal but advocates insist children can thrive do well in school and stay out of Staff Writer read too much gloom into the US Census new report that barely half of American children live with both biological parents Debate no doubt will rage over the moral implications But most child and family experts think the family may have been overrated in the first place Tense faceoff over 94 Indian acres ends and appraisal begins ByJOHNTDAUNER Staff Writer Out of one hangar come two awards and both planes win Wright By JED GRAHAM Staff Writar It was a tense moment Jimmie Oyler Sr pistol on hip faced four armed deputy US marshals on the road in front of his Johnson County home Tuesday The marshals had come to protect three appraisers appointed by the federal court to put a price on 94 acres of Indian land on which Oyler has lived for 20 years Oyler a Shawnee Indian descended had put out the word that anyone who came on the property did so at his own risk But the tension eased and Oyler the lawmen the appraisers and a half-dozen reporters and photographers relaxed around a patio table while the appraisal process began Deputies said it is legal to carry a gun in Johnson Country as long as the weapon is not concealed The property being appraised is a rugged heavily timbered tract east of De Soto It is what remains of 357 acres the federal government granted to Newton and Nancy McNeer Shawnee Indians in 1859 Some of the land was sold before the turn of the century Apparently no one lived on the remainder until 1975 when Oyler a McNeer heir ending a career as a US Navy flier moved onto the property Since then he has built a large home He installed his own water and sewer system erected a spring house barn garage and Shawnee See APPRAISAL C-4 Col 1 get into a plane this Hayes says put it on The two men lock into place the clear plastic canopies over their heads and radio their flight information to passing traffic Then they race down the runway and take off into the perfect blue morning Not only do Hayes 49 and See TWO C-3 Col 1 Like guiding a bird from its cage Mark Burrow leads his Pulsar by the nose out of hangar K-14 at Summit Municipal Airport Ron Hayes pushes his slightly heavier Thorp T-18 out of the same hangar and eases his way into the narrow cockpit SCOTT INDERMAURSpecial to Th Star 1994 Wright Brothers Award for his airplane which was built from a kit Mark Burrow flies his Pulsar airplane over the Lee's Summit Municipal Airport Burrow won a heading for Channel schedule By BARRY GARRON TV Critic pm to a less-preferable daytime hour Phased in over the next couple of weeks is a weekday schedule with cartoons from 6:30 to 9 am and from 2 to 5:30 pm These will be followed by reruns of at 5:30 pm and Prince of Bel at 6 pm means that advertisers who want to reach kids will turn to us MacDonald said it would carry the Fox Network It also will carry the entire four-hour Saturday morning Fox Network schedule from 7 to 1 1 am: the and Is Carmen and That meant bumping Channel previously scheduled Saturday morning cartoons to Sunday morning and scuttling the 10 am Sunday movie Three other weekday Fox shows will be carried but have not yet been scheduled and A spokesman for Fox confirmed that an arrangement with Channel 62 had been reached in principle He said the details would be worked out in the next few days Reruns of Howser will be bumped from 5 Another popular show will appear on KSMO at 7:30 am weekdays The two programs along with other popular shows are part of the Fox Network which will not be carried by WDAF Channel 4 when it switches to Fox on Monday Tlie last hope for the shows was independent station Channel 62 which already had developed its fall schedule On Tuesday though Channel 62 said The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers biggest superheroes have been rescued from local broadcast oblivion The live-action high-kicking heroes who rank first among all TV shows were about to be extinct in Kansas City Instead found a new home and a new time on KSMO Channel 62 at 5 pm weekdays 4.