The Michigpn Daily-Thursday, October 11, 1979-Page 7 Motor Meals' devrs hot food to, elderly* By BETH PERSKY For an elderly man or woman who wishes to remain independent, the ability to eat meals at home may be the one factor preventing in- stitutionalization. "Motor Meals," the Ann Arbor equivalent of the "Meals on Wheels" program existing in many communities, has been filling this need for the elderly and homebound in the city for the past five years. THOUGH THE non-profit community organization caters mainly to its 78 recipients over the age of 75, it also provides services to 12. people who can't prepare their own meals, for various reasons. The program, which served 20,318 meals in fiscal 1978-79 costs $53,500, although only $47,500 was received from clients, said Nancy Foster, its coordinator. The additional overhead, including Foster's salary, office supplies, and the $500 a month deficit the program is incurring, is paid for en- tirely by donations from outside sources. FOR EXAMPLE, at a party-held Sunday in honor of the fifth anniversary of the program, the Ann Arbor Kiwanis Club donated $1,250, the Friends of University Hospital gave $1,000, and the Thrift Shop of Ann Arbor, donated $100 a month. Foster said $1,000 was also raised in in- dividual contributions. Those who can afford the full cost of their meals contribute $13 a week for five meals, each of which provides both lunch and dinner. Accordifig to Foster, though, 25-30 per cent of the Motor Meals recipients are subsidized to some extent by the program, even though Motor Meals receives no government assistance. THE 90 MEALS are served daily by 300 volun- teers, most of whom work once every two weeks during their lunch hours. Only 10 to 20 volunteers are necessary to work the 10 daily routes. The routine begins when one or two people pick up the meals, which are prepared in the main kitchen of the University Hospital. The meals are then delivered by the volunteers - who use their own cars and pay for their own gas - to the recipients' homes. And, according to Foster, the program provides recipients with some personal attention too, because many of the recipients of Motor Meals are "absolutely alone the rest of the day." FOSTER SAID the one goal of the program is "to help older people who wish to remain in- dependent in their own homes to do so." Marguerite Oliver, who founded the program five years ago, said she was inspired by friends and relatives involved with similar programs in other communities. I After 15 agencies turned her down, Ed Con- nors, director of University Hospital at the time, finally volunteered free office space for the program at the Parkview-Turner Hospital. Con- nors also offered access to the main kitchen at .University Hospital, Oliver said. OLIVER AND several others planned the program for a year and the first meals were ser- ved in October, 1974. Only 12 clients were served at the beginning of the program, but Motor Meals reached 30 clients by the end of the first fiscal year. Since then, the program has expan- ded t'o serve the present clientele of 90. But not everyone who wants to receive Motor Meals is able to. Because kitchen space in University Hospital is limited, there is room for hospital ovens for only 90 Motor Meals meals in addition to those required to feed the hospital's 3,000 patients daily. "You have to do shuffling and weighing action of who needs it most," said Foster. SDS, Black leaders slam Chief Krasny _, WCC handicapper fair offers career placement information (Continued from Page i)" aggressive policies were effective, he said occasional police brutality blemished the chief's record. "We had some problems with police Actions in incidents like police over- t eacting or police brutality, and some of that occurred in the 60s" he said. ROWRY SAID police sometimes over-used mace, a chemical spray used to disperse unruly crowds. But he ad- mitted that when he and other black leaders brought this problem to Krasny and the City Council, the chief agreed to limit the use of the chemical. "The police were generally acting under Krasny's policies," Rowry said. "They were, of course, given discretion. I never viewed Krasny as a man prone to violence, but as police chief, he knew what he was involved in. He authorized its (violence) use and would have used it himself wherever the opportunity presented itself." One particular incident which stood out in Rowry's mind was a shooting in- cident at the Pump and Pantry on the city's west side in February, 1975. Two young black assailants were seen fleeing the business after robbing it. Police fatally shot one o the youths and wounded the other. "THE POLICE shot to kill and it was absolutely not (justified). I don't think there was justification for use of deadly force because they (the police) had a pretty good idea who the people were." Second Ward council member Leslie Morris was critical of the lack of open- ness of Krasny's department. "It is not an open department," Morris said. "It's hard to find out what the policies are. They do what they want," she said. THE MOST visible student group in- Rothberger also said Krasny did not respect students' civil rights. "He allowed his cops to beat the shit out of the students. He was there watching it." ROTHBERGER CLAIMED that "a good deal" of the students who were arrested in the protests were later acquitted. He later recalled Krasny using "guerrilla tactics" to disperse the demonstrators "because he realized he could get away with it." On the other hand, former University President Robben Fleming-who oc- casionally conferred with Krasny on University matters-said yesterday there were some in the conservative community of the city who "thought he (Krasny) wasn't tough enough." FLEMING, WHO is currently president of the Corporation for Public Broadcating in Washington, D.C., said the conservatives "believed he should have called in the National Guard" to quell the disturbances. Ken Kelley, who in 1960 founded the Argus,. a campus underground newspaper, said he didn't like the way Krasny's officers handled the protesters. "He (Krasny) let is police run ram- Krasn w'. . . called a "reactionary" pant and do anything they wanted to," he commented yesterday. KELLEY, WHO now lives in San Francisco, said "I don't think Krasny was interested in the spirit of cooperation. One could never sit down with Krasny and talk things out with him. He resisted any attempts by people to harmonize." Kelley said he could never under- stand Krasny's policy of not allowing rock bands to perform in West Park. He also said Krasny's officers would im- mediately break up a gathering of young people airing their views. NUKE STUDY BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP)- Argentina has been promised some $1.26 million by the United Nations as partial financing of a new nuclear- engineering study program. -The aid is part of a recent agreement signed with Argentina's National Atomic Energy Commission to expand its general development, nuclear- training programs and atomic resear- ch. By WILLIAM THOMPSON For anyone in search of a career, landing that big job is a major challenge. For the handicapped person, however, just being able to go out and look for that job may be a more im- posing task. That's why the Michigan Bureau of Rehabilitation (MBR) and Washtenaw Community College (WCC) yesterday co-sponsored the Handicapper Career Fair to make handicapped people aware of their career opportunities and how to find them. REPRESENTATIVES from 51 businesses, training agencies, and schools filled the Student Activities Center at WCC "to share their oc- cupational and vocational information with handicappers," according to fair chairwomen Patti Des Marais of the MBR. The purpose of the fair, according to Des Marais, was to allow handicappers to speak with the representatives about employment outlook, physical requirements, job qualification COMING TO THE UNION Linda Campos Pocket Billiard Champion in a FREE EXHIBITION See her Thurs. Oct. 25 at 4 pm and 8 pm. FREE requirements, and benefits for the han- dicapped in the labor market. It was not, however, intended to place people in certain jobs, she said, because that would require long interviews. "Some of these companies do hire the handicapped," D'es Marais said. "But we don't want them doing it here." TO LINK the two groups, fair' of- ficials matched handicapper interests with employers' jobs. "We've selected employers with a cross-section of jobs," Des Marais said, "from custodian to nuclear physicist." For John Brown of Canton, the fair made job hunting much easier. "It brings a lot of employers together with people who need special con- sideration," he said. "We don't have to go all over town, and I got a few leads on finding a job." But handicapper Martha King said she was unable to accomplish anything at the fair. "I thought I might be able to find the right job for me," she said. "But it wasn't what I hoped it would be." SOME OF THE employers at the fair were also surprised at what they found. "I haven't talked to as many handicap- ped people as rehabilitators wanting to know who could fit in with the cor- poration," said Kathy Van Buren of McDonald's. "This is the first time McDonald's has been to a handicapped career fair," Van Buren explained. "It's allowing us to explore and focus on the handicapped job market." Van Buren emphasized that han dicapped people are already working for McDonald's in several capacities. "We have people who are hard of. hearing, visually impaired-and even a man who only has half an arm. But he is an excellent architect," she said. CHICAGO (AP)-Former astronaut James Lovell predicts a growth in telecommunication markets over the next two decades that may rival the ex- penditures on the Apollo moon program. Now a director of the Norh American Telephone Association, Lovell said in a recent speech that the explosion in new equipment and services should add some $20 billion or more to theucurrent $50-billion-a-year telecommunications industry. POETRY Thurs., Oct. 11 7.3 p.m. Carolyn Gregory and Lou Brothers reading from their works GUILD HOUSE, 802 NOON L UNCHEON homemade soup & sandwich 75S Fri., Oct. 12 Representative Perry Bullard: "South Africa, The Draft and Students" Monroe, (corner of Oakland l 'Father' of H-bomb: nuclear power vital 1 \ . (Continued from 1age 1) ch of people that like to go on hikes in the wilderness, but don't care if people survive." Teller said Hayden and Fonda, who are scheduled to speak in the Univer- sity's Hill Auditorium next week, "are proposing social revolution based on scare stories." NO ONE HAS ever been injured or killed as a result of radiation from a commercial reactor, Teller stressed, adding that-the low levels emitted from the plants are not unlike levels of radiation from the sun and other natural sources. "My body does not know whether the irradiation domes from a reactor or cosmic rays," said the Hungarian native. After a pause, he added, "The press knows the difference. Jane Fonda knows the difference." He said the Three Mile incident showed the tolerance of reactors to ac- cidents, but also demonstrated the need for more highly-trainedc: reactor operators. TELLER SAID that nuclear energy is best suited for high-volume electricity production while solar energy is more adaptable to use near the site where the sun's rays are collected. Coal gassification is another promising alternative to oil, Teller said, but said he stressed this and other proposals will not necessarily be able to produce onergy on a large scale in the im- mediate future. Teller said even further into the future - perhaps 50 years - pure nuclear fusion may become a viable energy source. He explained that reac- tors today split rather than fuse atoms, and this process leads to- the ac- cumulation of radioactive waste. Anti- nuclear activists have cited the problem'of disposing of such material as a prime reason for closing reactors. But Teller claimed that by removing some highly radioactive plutonium from the waste for reprocessing, and burying the remainder deep un- derground in "geologically stable areas" the problem will be effectively solved. He said the waste disposal technique does not have any significant technological problems, but does cause "emotional and psychological" dif- ficulties with many people. THE ENTIRE energy controversy has dire consequences not only for the United States, but for the under- developed nations as well, Teller said. He said he sees nuclear power as a critical part of an energy program that would make oil more available to developing nations that need the easily- used fuel to spur development. "Without oil, the developing coun- tries will not develop," Teller said. 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