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frlday, teptember 21, 1979 paga 6 dalfy nebraskan 1- 'You're as young as thecrowdyou run wi th' Old Bill Dy Kim Hachlya If youVe frequented the Brass Rail, the Watcrhole or Sweep Left anytime within ' the last four years, chances are you've encountered him. A hunched over old man who always wears white A shock of wild, white hair, No teeth, and eyes which peer out from behind glasses that magnify them to about twice normal size. They call him the "Bread Man the "Milk Man" or just "Old Bill," But his real name is Bill Olmstead and this 69-year-old man is the spry breakfast and lunch cook at the Delta Upsilon fra ternityHe Just hangs out at college ''beer joints to stay young. "Being around young people kind of keeps me young," Olmstead said, "You know the old saying, you're as young as the crowd you run with." And Olmstead Is young for a man who's been in the kitchen for 56 years, He started his culinary career at the age of 13 as a baker's apprentice in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, By the time he was 16, Olm stead was In charge of the 10-man bread shift at the old Standard Bakery in Cedar Rapids, 4'tm C v 1 " 1 n ni - ' " il ii " ' 11 V He almost quit baking once. When he. then from beer joint! and taverns,'' he said. if h" o u . "I Pm rtc v ilka collcufl bars ' bread2,mixT 11 cSri hand .ul '1 Ruess'l kind of like the bartenders. 1 SSTvm! have fun ,with them, Jus this last Satur- "It took 14 months to heal. The doctor day I got my I.D. card checked by some said I'd r r be able to straighten it out," numb-nut at Uie Brass Rail. Couldn't help Olmstead said. "The only way 1 can but pass though, he added ttraichten the fineers is by force," Olmstead has been married for 21 years S toUin the mid and lays he has "two kids that 1 k'now 1950s because he heard they needed bak- about. But I don t go down the street ers He had Just quit working at the Tip slapping kids for fear 111 slap one of my Top Bakery four years ago when he saw own," he said a laugh, an ad for a fraternity cook in the news. Although he has only a 10th grade paper. , , , education, he said he reads books and "I'd known several oi me ooy uciui newspapers and watcnes television. He said he figures he is a sen -educated man. "I heard a professor say on the radio once that even if a man hadn't gone to n ! fr-'il'JUJT 1 Afi'S' -V' X 7. L mi i in fH' ' ' )t f Old Bill . . , in one of his many elements. Photo by Mark Billlngsley am LUNCH & DINNER IN THE OLD TEMPO OF CHINA. Choose from over 100 dishes. We also specialize in Carry Out Service college . that by age 30 or 33 he would have the same experience and education as a man with two years of college. I would have a four year college education by this time." Olmstead is a big Cornhusker fan, partly because of his association with the DUs. "The offered to take me to a game about four years ago, and I been going ever since. I try and sit in their house block, but sometimes t sit in the seat I'm supposed to and move at halftime," he said. Olmstead says he supposes that some day he'll retire, but he said he's too active to just sit around. He has no secrets for a long life; he's been smoking since he was four years old. "First thing I smoked was a big old cigar. Some bigger kid forced me and my brother to smoke it in'the park." "Smoking has injured my health, I have emphysema. I can get down to four or five cigarettes, but I can't cut it out complete ly,"he said. "I guess a 65 -year old habit dies hard." 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And, on your time off, what a great way to spend your leisure tima off hiking In the mountains, fishing, biking, exploring through old chost towns! --- What a Hf 9.snd whst a f uturo. ri:: CcmUctyourPUCe4TOFnCEtocJai! P.O.CsxCC2 rv V i Phctnix, AHzsns tZZZZ " , 3 - ', .33 523573,;:..,' - An Equal OpportunttyAffrmtlf Action Drtoytr : By Patti Gallagher According to a survey taken by the Youth Service System of Lincoln and Lancaster County, the use of alcohol is the most common problem of youth in the ar area. "A common high use of alcohol was found in all age groups; said Sally Heald, planner for YSS. The Youth Needs Assessment Survey was conducted by the YSS "to discover unmet needs of youth in the Lincoln and Lancaster county ' Heald said. The 965 youth were polled in April 1979 and the data released Thursday at a press confer ence. The 100 -quest ion survey covered five major areas of concern, ranging from edu cational satisfaction to social relationships, and was distributed in all Lincoln Public School junior and senior highs, two private schools and four consolidated county schools. Although the use of alcohol was the major problem uncovered, Heald noted that the percentages correlated only to the surveyed students, and these percentages are not meant to represent the entire youth population of Lincoln. THE FIRST surveyed area of concern was education. An 81.1 percent majority polled said they "enjoyed school." The stu dents said they felt their schools were sup. portive of their educational desires, and served as a social center for them, Heald said. The majority of the students who enjoy school plan to pursue higher educa tioft. Most students indicated they wanted to work or had t job. The majority of the unemployed felt jobs were available but could not hold one untQ they reached the age sixteen because of federal and state restrictions. The majority tended to use parents and friends as resources for fsqCing employment, according to Heald. Lincoln youth rated recreational facilit ies as "good" and county youth rated them as "fair." When asked what their recreation desires included, both groups specified swimming pools as the top choice. Recrea. tion centers and limited tennis courts rank ed second on the list. In social relationship problems (any. thing non-academic such as, personal and family problems) a' 834 percent majority would seek help from parents and family when troubled. Sixty one percent said they would seek help from a specialized agency. However, when asked to name an agency the majority did not. HEALD SAID this lack of knowledge of available agencies pointed to the fact that many would not know where to go in a personal crisis. Only 13.7 percent have run away from home, and most enjoy the company of their families. Alcohol use outranked the use of mari juana and hard drugs. The trend of alcohol use showed a definite correlation between parent use and youth use, Heald said. In the all-schools composite, of the 78.1 per cent of parents who used alcohol, 67.8 per cent of their children did. The use of mari juana was 35 percent, use of hard drugs was 10 percent. Fifty -nine percent of the composite were against the legalization of marijuana. According to Heald the "youth of Lin coln are a good bunch of kids with a lot to offer the community.' She said generally the hurdles youth have to overcome include a place to 40 to meet with their friends, coping with life in general and peer group pressure. Heald also said that she didn't see any one area covered in the survey as the major problem of Lincoln youth, but more a series of small ones that need solving. Sessions held Sessions in assertiveness time and committee management and program eval uations are being offered by the Associa tion of College Union International Region II Conference, at the East Campus Union, until Saturday. Some ISO to 200 delegates are here from Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Ne braska. East Union program consultant Martin Wood believes around. 140 of the delegates are students, with the remaining figure represting the number of attending union staff people. The theme of this year's conference. Imagination,' involves the use of creative resources and thinking for positive action, said Wood. The purpose of the conference is to help stimuiite development on two levels-in the area of actual programs and b the personal skills of the planners.