frlday, teptember 21, 1979
paga 6
dalfy nebraskan
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'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,
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He almost quit baking once. When he. then from beer joint! and taverns,'' he said.
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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
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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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- 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.
