The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 67

Tuesday August 23 1994 The Kansas City Star KSHB news wait to follow lead with switch next month Youthful approach will not be changing but the ratings might The sabers are rattling and ready to rock at KSHB Channel 41 says News Director Mark Mardnkiewkz (are weekend anchors) lighten up the set a little bit because going to be expanding into day parts he adds been toning it back a little over the last year anyway still do our weather the same way doing it unless weather is the lead story Then be all over it We do 30 seconds to tell you what to wear tomorrow and tell you what the forecast In sports: got one guy now that hired (Bill Boronkay) and real close on another one be all over the Chiefs We also hired Kristen Schot-tenheimer (daughter of Chiefs coach Marty) She started last Monday and teaches women how to watch football news fantasy: To put the grabs on Channel current viewers think going to have any problem doing he says Hippo shock Goodness gracious: great ball of fire the big he says the May rating book and we are across the board got ratings from 18 to dead I mean On Sept 12 KSHB becomes an NBC affiliate taking over from WDAF Channel 4 which assumes place on the Fox Network Despite adding some older viewers Olinger plans to hang with his current anchors very happy with Pam Davis and Jim he says Bumside who was a weekend anchor is (now) our executive producer of special projects And Linda Hamblin and Amy what a KY-102 radio crew appeared to encounter during a recent live remote from the 75th Street Brewery in Waldo had a truck sitting in front of the building at curbside and had a tower antenna on it and of course they were using electricity inside the says Monte Leone KC Fire Department Battalion 107 chief officer that night hit one of the (overhead) wires somewhere and what caused the The result: touched a 7200-volt says KYYS chief engineer Gary Liebling remote engineer was well aware that there were overheads and as a result he did not fully extend Apparently there was hydraulic pressure in die thing and it hung up and about an hour-and-a-half later it decided to accu-jack Luckily the engineer is OK hap-ied to be pretty much leaning back tening to the show and not touching anything not in physical contact with any of the metallic Liebling says could have been a bad situation He got a minor lecture from me and just ensure it happen One brewpub patron spoke of an 18-feet-in-diameter fireball think it was that big maybe 3 Liebling says have a picture of a wall where our equipment was plugged into and a 3-foot diameter circular totally blackened area still there We offered to fix it and the brewery said is an interesting thing just leave Walt Bodine is in back-to-school mode planning to teach again this fall at UMKC going to be teaching talk shows and he says waiting to see how the enrollment goes because I need enough people in this to do Bodine will cover TV as well as radio bet just like he says somebody gets 100 million viewers a week better be studying How does local talk talent stack up against national chatterboxing? you ever listen to the talk stuff at night on the Bodine asks about three times better than most of On the downside are talk show hosts sure who never open a he says one thing real professionals in broadcasting believe life without a newspaper is running in very scary heard Punch: The local boxing scene grows a bit more glamorous not to mention expensive Nov 17 at the Hyatt Regency when Overland Park businessman Jim Yoder teams with the Dallas firm Fight Night for a black-tie benefit bout already sold nine $5000 tables and just making the announcement he said at a PR schmooze at Fedora Cafe Bar on the Plaza last Thursday Attendees for the charity bash include boxers Muhammad Ali and Jake La Motta be betting but not gambling Yoder says And the ringside models sorry ladies Yoder says Rumor control: Hie elegant Midland Theatre as a mega-movieplex and shopping centef? No way says venue manager Jerry Donohue all wrong I know where anybody picked that he says Bryant Gumbel Midland Theatre is going to stay the Midland Theatre as a performing arts center period End of story We will maybe do some classical movie series sometime you know things of that Ollie sighting: He may not be everywhere but barbecue honcho Offie Gaits definitely gets around Take his recent appearance on a barbecue-themed edition of the show with host Bryant Gumbel he pull it off? uncle Elton Gunbel is an optometrist on 31st Street right across from my old nightclub Gates says from New Orleans but been in Kansas City for many years and Bryant used to come up to visit him so known the family for quite some time So (Bryant has) eaten Gates and we send a lot to him sort of like a member of the The tipline awaits at 234-4441 or on StarTouch at 889-STAR (7827) 1 enter 1951 Talk KC radio talk godfather The KSHB crew from left: Pam Davis Bill Boronkay Jim Condelles Mark Olinger Linda Hamblin ZONTA Continued from E-1 high school and still friends with In the course of her worldwide work Yeckel served as international president from 1972 to 1974 She currently serves with foundation raising money Closer to home More recently she has stayed a lot closer to home due to a big change in her family life Although her three children are grown and have largely been out of the house for 20 years or more Yeckel became a mother again five years ago She took custody of her youngest 2-year-old twins Her daughter was coping with a drug problem and a troubled marriage and care for the children herself The children will shortly leave town to join oldest child Judy who is adopting them Yeckel is now active on the local level currently serving as chairman of the round table leaders want something i really wonderful and no problems and they can move right into that McCall said gladly took on responsibility of reviving it and going back and retrieving old members She knows how to organize and set the standards and I values by which that group would grow sat on boards with many 4 women Harriette in my opinion tops them all She gets everyone working of unused Next year Yeckel may go to Beijing for the fourth United Nations World Conference on Women waiting to see how she feels though About 18 months ago she had a quadruple bypass surgery And since then said the previously vivacious Yeckel get up and go has got up and When she had the wherewithal to jet about Yeckel said she preferred to spend her time overseas always felt the stork dropped me on the wrong side of the Atlantic always felt very at home in Europe and Asia It was more international The conversations around dinner tables to me were more Eventually she bought an apartment in England It had to be among Enghsh-speakers she pointed out as you can tell a really is an international citizen rather than in any way said her friend Susan Everson who initially met Yeckel 10 years ago through a book club that they both still attend is part of why she is an interesting friend open-minded She is encouraged and maybe even inspired by diversity She is open to friendships with all different kinds of people had friends for years and years and years One young lady is a poet in South Africa who was an exchange student when kids were in In many developing countries Yeckel said not enough food the boy children get If there are not enough seats in a classroom the boys get them too In addition Yeckel saw women subjected to of beating and and female circumcision Her education in Third World womanhood gave Yeckel a new perspective on her life back home in Kansas City I saw the conditions in the Third World I was less interested in coming home in siblings who fought and kids who wet the she explained In 1976 Yeckel separated from George her husband of about 30 years and or terminated her psychological practice As a member of Zonta she began jetting around the world it was my consulting on matters pertaining to and Welfare In Ghana Yeckel helped to establish a network of mobile medical clinics staffed by lay people trained in the basics of medical care and driving station wagons from village to village Zonta tries to increase incomes throughout the world with loans of $300 for small businesses such as raising silkworms or tiedyeing clothes main thing is improving the status of women by helping women help Yeckel said have a huge amount shots are called for you Yeckel recalls that when she shared her medical ambitions with her parents they were not pleased Girls were supposed to grow up to be nurses teachers and secretaries not doctors they told her And besides the family have the money for medical school anyway Yeckel began studying for medical school while working at four jobs She decided the strain was too much and changed her academic focus but not before come under the wing of some women eager to help her along A couple of her college professors one of whom she is still in contact with and a doctor who mentored Harriette during high school convinced her that can help women accomplish their Indeed that philosophy has informed work with women over the last 40 years feeling is that if had a moderate degree of success you help other women up the she said The primary means through which she has done that is Zonta International a service organization analogous to the Rotary Club although it irks Yeckel to describe it in those terms have true equality when someone says and someone else says like Zonta provided Yeckel with a high-school mentor and a college scholarship and one of the Harriette Yeckel early mishap shaped her life from the Metropolitan Roundtable a consortium of about 30 local organizations dedicated to promoting welfare no person more deserving of this kind of said Corrinne McCall a member of the round steering committee of which Yeckel is chairman In addition to working very hard on behalf of local women Yeckel really gone into Third World countries and taught women there to use resources and how to best take care of themselves and move McCall explained is a terrific and wonderful For her part Yeckel said impact hoped to have is to be a caring nurturing achieving kind of woman who helps other women increase their use of their potential as well as enhancing their self-image I want for them not to think of themselves as second-class citizens but as full and equal partners in personal and public aspects of In a multitude of ways Yeckel contends society signals to women and even newborn girls that they are lesser beings than their male counterparts One study that she cites found that mothers of newborns tended to feed their boy babies on demand but their girl children according to a schedule Hie resulting messages? To boys: you call the shots To girls: the members called her a decade later to ask if be interested in joining got Yeckel figured she owed them something She joined got involved she said I got Hooked on both the problems and the pleasures of life and volunteer work overseas As she began to travel to developing nations she saw women who performed the brunt of the work both at home and away from it And she saw little girls disadvantaged from the start Trying to explain the unexplainable Absolute savings Earn Extra Money 1 4 A1-- virus that swiftly caused uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea She lay on the couch too weak to respond to her name I carried her limp in my arms into the emergency room and the miracle of modem medicine It is what would have saved the Rwandans if only each of them was a middle-class American living minutes from amedical center We are unspeakably lucky That is the reassurance we can give our children when they see pictures of things that should not exist: that they are free from war famine and cholera because of marvelous accidents of birth But I will never understand By BARBARA BROTMAN Chicago Tribune We leave the morning newspaper on our breakfast table anymore We unfurl it at the kitchen counter away from the curious eyes of our 5-year-old daughter we check it for photographs of things we know how to explain The one of the naked andan children afflicted with lera lying side-by-side in an hanage like pieces of cordwood er made it off the counter it I was too slow to prevent her seeing die photograph of a bing Rwandan boy in a refugee Some judicious editing of real-life TV and newspaper violence is wise he said but children cannot be completely isolated critical to share with them as much as you can understand yourself and hear on their he said It is crucial he said to make clear that the children did nothing bad to deserve their fate In truth it is I who crave protection from the pictures My daughter has the matter-of-fact lack of comprehension of a preschooler blessed with comforts But adults enjoy no such blissful ignorance Children like your own are dying I need no imagination to picture how cholera kirn When she was 4 my daughter was stricken by a Learn a NEW SKILL! Increase your tax KNOWLEDGE! CONVENIENT times locations! Why do people kill each other? Why do children die? Why their mommies and daddies help them? I told her the boy was ill I told her the dead people were sick and awaiting help I changed the subject The unremitting horror that is the news of the world lies on our breakfast tables and blares from our TVs And there are parents agonizing over how much grim reality to allow to puncture our lives At what point do you reveal the ugly secret of the world: that grown-ups make war knowing that their actions will bring unspeakable gony to children? 'low do you explain a world that is inexplicable? I find myself not wanting to explain at all What can I say? That children are dying in Rwanda because one group of grown-ups like another group of grown-ups? In a carefully worded way that is exactly what parents should do says child development specialist Berry Brazeiton the pediatrician and author BLOCK ly is that boy she Call 1 -800-TAX-2000 Contact our nearait office naa'i Please send me tree information about your tax return preparation course Vnd she also managed to find the mire of the massed bodies of izens of refugees trampled to ath in a panicked run into Zaire are they she ked Maybe you can answer those tesdons But the follow-ups are Hers.