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Shortage of primary care doctors likely to get worse
AN EAR FOR HISTORY
By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com
Jon Stewart has a mission: to make family medicine cool again. “In the United States, we make TV shows about the emergency room,” said Stewart, the CEO of Lawrence’s Heartland Community Health Center. “We don’t make TV shows about primary care. By comparison, it’s not edgeof-your-seat excitement. It’s very routine and boring. But it’s the difference maker.” Lawrence, like many communities, faces a shortage of primary care providers, a problem that could worsen if, as expected, the Afford- Stewart able Care Act adds millions more people to the health-insurance rolls. As doctors from the baby boomer generation get set to retire, health care providers in Lawrence are working overtime trying to recruit young physicians to the community. Please see PRIMARY, page 2A
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MARTHA SUTTON, WIFE OF THE LATE FLOYD SUTTON, sits among a few of the record players in her husband’s extensive collection, which is now on exhibit in Blue Rapids as “Fib’s Collection of Record Proportions: 94 Years in the Making.” Floyd died earlier this year. See the photo gallery of “Fib’s Collection of Record Proportions” online at LJWorld.com.
One man’s meticulous labor of love preserves record players for posterity By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
The collection looks something like an expensive department store from an earlier century, dropped into our world through a time warp. Carefully arranged on the showroom floor are dozens of finely polished cabinet Gramophones and springpowered Edison phonographs, including a Model A record player that sold for $20 in 1901. Like all of them, it looks
brand new, and plays music if you know how to work it. Elsewhere in the inventory are older, stranger musical machines: hand-cranked contraptions that play songs on wax cylinders, phonographs with earpieces like stethoscopes and giant multi-colored horns, player harmonicas, and otherworldly stringed instruments such as pianolas, harpanolas, and pianoharps. There are hundreds Please see COLLECTION, page 2A
Willow Springs, a one-room school in Douglas County
Countless lessons learned in area schoolhouse’s single room
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Collector Floyd Sutton in 1999
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f you were looking for an easy bit of class credit at the school newspaper that Sharon Dwyer ran in the 1950s, she had just the job for you: circulation. You could deliver a paper to everyone in the school and never leave your classroom. For the first eight years of her public schooling, Dwyer went to one of Douglas County’s oneroom schoolhouses, where the entire school’s enrollment — grades 1 through 8 — seldom topped 20 students and the school’s faculty numbered just one. Maybe the idea of Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com needing a newspaper to keep up with the happenings of a school that occupied just a few hundred square feet seems odd to you. But maybe you don’t know much about the happenings of a one-room schoolhouse. First of all, students had an hour lunch break every day, and a lot can happen in an
Lawhorn’s Lawrence
Please see SCHOOL, page 6A
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