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Jimmy Carter You sure can't call him a 'jun By KANDY STROUD C) New York Times NEW YORK John F. Kennedy had a passion for Piesporter, a light Mosel. Lyndon B. Johnson loved soft drinks. He even installed a tap for Fresca outside the Oval Office.

Richard M. Nixon cottage cheese with ketchup Ford is an English muffin man. And President-elect Carter is wild about dairy products. The daiiy industry should be cheered by the fact that the next President does not particularly watch his cholesterol. He eats eggs and he's a milk drinker.

Hardly a meal goes by that he doesn't have a glass of milk sweet milk by day and buttermilk by night. Frequently during the campaign he had a glass of milk and a bowl of fresh fruit waiting for him on his plane, Peanut One. And although he doesn't have sweet tooth, Carter has always had a hankering for homemade peach ice cream. Adores cheese Carter is also a cheese fiend. His fa- is good old hard American "rattrap," or store cheese.

He favors other sharp cheeses as well, but actually, except for Swiss cheese, which he's allergic to, he'll eat almost any kind with enthusiasm. "Cheese sandwiches," Carter's sister, Gloria Spann, recalled, "were Jimmy's favorite growing up." And Amy, the Carters' daughter, reported that "Daddy makes grits for breakfast, then breaks a couple of eggs into it and adds some cheese, and it's yummy." Rosalynu Carter said that her husband craves a cheese ring made with a pound of grated nuts, a grated onion, mayonnaise, a dash of pepper, chilled and filled with strawberry preserves. Another of Carter's favorite appetizers is a shrimp mousse that Mrs. Carter makes with sour cream and cream cheese. Carter consumes quantities of butter, especially as a snack, and he'll use crackers to cut it instead of a knife.

Friends who have dined with him say that Carter will often eat a plate of saltines with butter before dinner, either at home or at a restaurant. It goes without saying that Carter enjoys peanuts. He eats peanut brittle when it's available, enjoys peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, rice with coconut and peanuts, and peanut butter chiffon pie. Best of all he likes salted, deep-fried fresh peanuts. He recently brought a deep-fat cooker down to the family warehouse and keeps a supply on hand for visitors.

Still likes fresh vegetables Although the country boy is leaving the farm for the White House, Carter still has a yen for fresh vegetables and meats. He's partial to eggplant (casserole), yellow neck squash and collards, but he also likes icy cold tomatoes, turnips, black-eyed peas and corn fresh from the garden, and is known to miss the vegetable patch that his family maintained until Carter moved to At- Five generations Infant Gina Marie Wolford, held by her mother, Mrs. Russe) Wolford (Jill Petersen), Kearney, is the first great- great-grandchild of Mrs. Mamie Brown (seated at left), 330 S. 12th.

Standing, from left, are Gina's grandmother, Mrs. Allen (Sylvia) Petersen, 719 Martin, and great-grandmother, Mrs. Joe (Nina) Fournier, also of 330 S. 12th. The baby was 3 weeks old when the photo was taken.

Mrs. Edna Guthrie, Norton, observes her 101st birthday NORTON Norton county's oldest resident says she has no formula for longevity. Mrs. Edna Guthrie, who came here as a 2-year-old with her family by covered wagon in 1878, observed her 101st birthday last Sunday at the Andbe home here, where she has been a resident since Jan. 7, 1964.

Mrs. Guthrie has lost the sight in one eye and uses a walker, but is reported 50th jubilee for Fosters OSBORNE The 5 children of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Foster. O.sborne RFD will fete the couple with a pre- golden wedding anniversary reception Jan.

16. Hosts for the public celebration from 2 to 4 pm at the First State Bank community room, Osborne, are Mrs. Eugene (Imogenel Tharnburg. Alton: Farrel, Mrs. Clifford Hahn and Raymond, all of Osborne.

and Mrs. Jay (Sandra) Hudson. Franklin. Neb. The honorees were married Jan.

18. 1927, in Osborne. and since have lived in this area. Foster is a retired farmer. Their 16 grandchildren are expected for the festivities.

Mr. and Mrs. Foster request no gifts. in "remarkably good" health for her age. She still reads with her other good eye.

watches some selected television shows and enjoys jigsaw puzzles and various games, according to an article appearing in the Norton Daily Telegram. In 1918. she became Norton city clerk and held the post until retiring in 1941. She is a member of the Norton Christian Church and the PEO Sisterhood and is a former member of the Avon club. The celebrant was boni Jan.

2, 1876. in Coshocton. Ohio. On her birthday in 1901. she became the bride of Gadi G.

Guthrie. who was in the cattle and loan business in this area. Mr. Guthrie died in 1916. Mrs.

Guthrie has 2 living daughters. Frances Harris. Lawrence, and Hoyland Sever. Blue Springs, Mo. There is one grandson and 2 great-grandchildren.

Another daughter, Lorene, is deceased. lanta as governor in 1971. "The first thing we do svhen we get home is to go to the grocery store and buy fresh vegetables," Mrs. Carter once noted during the campaign. "We didn't get many on the road." The Carters eat very little bread and almost no sauces or store-bought condiments.

Mrs. Carter is a stickler for a balanced diet. Although she took only one home economics course in high school, she said that the basic food groups were drilled into her by her mother. "My mother was always very careful to see that we ate correctly," she said. "I always thought my family needed meat and vegetables and fruit for dinner." But, especially in the Summer, the Carters do enjoy an occasional meatless meal of fresh vegetables.

Catches a good meal Like many Southern men, Carter enjoys hunting or fishing for a good meal once in a while. Catfish abound in the region, as do bass and bream. Carter prefers to catch and cook his own. For privacy, he'll fish at a close friend's farm outside of Americus, or at his mother's pond house. In the past he has driven to Cordele, 30 miles from Plains, for a fried catfish dinner at Daphne's Lodge.

Before the Presidential campaign, Carter occasionally drove to Panama City, for a king mackerel fishing expedition with friends. Sometimes he would catch 50 to 75 pounds of mackerel that he would freeze until the family had a party. It is not unusual for Carter to drain the pond at his farm and then have a large fish fry. Carter likes to shoot quail and mallard and Summer duck with a 16-gauge shotgun at Jenning's Runaround on the Kinchafoole Creek. Carter does his own duck plucking.

First, he pulls off the heavy tail feathers by hand, then dips the duck into hot paraffin wax and peels off the underpinnings. He eats his duck with wild rice. The President-elect is also fond of chicken, especially Southern fried chicken with potato salad, or a chicken casserole. And like any native of the Deep South he has a weakness for Brunswick stew or barbecue. According to his friend, John Pope, Carter lias even been known to join a crowd at brother Billy's service station to barbecue pork, beef or even goat.

Pope recalled Carter's fondness for ham and red-eye gravy. Pope and his first wife, Marjorie, often spent weekends with the Carters in Atlanta. They took in a Georgia Tech football game on Saturday afternoon, then dined and danced and stayed at the Heart of Atlanta Hotel. On several weekends. Pope remembered, they would drive 12 miles outside of the city to Aunt Fanny's cabin, an old slave shanty that is now an expensive restaurant.

Its decor includes framed ads for slaves, and young black waiters sing the menu to the customers and perform "buck dances" on table tops. There Carter would dine on ham, red-eye gravy and er rp a variety of his favorite vegetables. But Carter's favorite meal is meat and potatoes. Give him a juicy broiled sirloin steak (rare), a salad with Roquefort dressing and he's in hog heaven. Not just any old sirloin.

Only the best. Carter especially likes a 12-to 14-ounce two-inch thick strip. The Joel Thomases, lifelong friends from Smithville, entertained the Carters the night before Thanksgiving and served the President-elect steak, baked potatoes and coffee. "Usually when he comes down, he'll say just fix me some sausage," said Barbara Betsy Thomas. "He loves that, and he loves salami, but I declare, the reason I had steak that night was because i was having other people and I reckoned that would be the quickest thing." But Carter Is basically neither a fussy nor a big eutcr.

"He ate whatever was put in front of him on the plane," said an aide, Greg Schneiders. The President-elect likes small meals and usually nothing more than coffee and juice for breakfast, except on weekends when he is likely to eat eggs and grits, sausage or bacon and biscuits. Carter is also a light drinker. He is know to enjoy one or 2 Scotches with water before meals, occasionally takes a daiquiri, and once returned from Mexico with a hankering for marga- ritas. But he did not drink during campaign and plans to banish hard liq-' uor from White House receptions.

A though he and Mrs. Carter celebrated i their anniversary last July with a glass of champagne, and although she enjoys cooking with wine and plans to serve it in place of liquor for White House so- i cials, wines almost never pass Mr. Car- I ter's lips. He has coffee or tea or milk with his meals instead. Recently, while staying at Blair i House in Washington, Carter subsisted on a very uncomplicated diet.

"He's made no special requests like some of our other guests," a spokesman for the guest house said. Jimmy Carter ate the standard American fare: beef consomme, lamb chops, filet of beef and broiled chicken. "He skipped breakfast half the time and just had toast and orange juice and black coffee upstairs in Die red library," the spokesman said. "The other mornings he asked for. a soft- boiled egg.

He doesn't care about cat- ing very much. He's a light eater." But the President-elect probably won't be a stranger in the White House kitchen. According to Mrs. Carter, before it became fashionable for men to share the cooking, Jimmy Carter rolled up his sleeves and pitched in. "When we were first married, Jimmy cooked as much as I did," she said.

"The family always cooked together." Lifestyles Magnetic Henry Cabot Lodge dislikes labels By Marian Christy The woman at the next table sua- denly swivels in her chair to point an extemporaneous question to a stranger: "Who," she asks increduously "is he?" She is nodding toward the tall, handsome Brahmin loping powerfully across Boston's Ritz Carlton hotel dining room, a 6-foot-3 cosmopolite in impeccable Establishment clothes, a gray-haired man whose aura is breeding, wealth, Harvard. Instantly obvious is a crusty toughness that somehow meshes electrically with the image of privilege. That is the man's charisma. He is part debonair, part daredevil. When his mouth doesn't laugh, his eyes do.

The woman is mesmerized by this magnetic, vaguely familiar, "somebody." The man-in-question is 74-year-old Henry Cabot Lodge. He has the kind of stage presence usually associated with Hollywood stars. But his oyster was -and is the rarefied world of top- drawer politics, which he studies from a French villa in status-y Beverly, Mass. He is a great man who likes to talk about the great men he has known. "Eisenhower," he is saying about ike whose presidential campaign he masterminded in 1952, "had tremendous charm so much so that people didn't think he was very bright.

But he was very, very bright. The point is that he didn't need to be bright. Eisenhower could have coasted on his charm alone. But he had great Sew simple Make By EUNICE FARMER Dear Eunice Farmer: Quite often when reading the fashion pages. I come across "water-repellent" rain suits, coats, or pants.

Yet. it is almost impossible to find fabrics that actually are water-repellent. What can we home sewers do? Mrs. P.A.M Dear Mrs. P.A.M.: Manufacturers can have any fabric treated for water repellency.

but since our needs are more varied, it would he impossible In market a huge variety of such fabrics. However, you may take any fabric that you love and would like to use for rainwear and make it water-repellent yourself with Scotchgard fabric protector. It comes in a spray can with full directions included. I have put this product to other uses that have been very successful -men's ties, scarves, collars of dresses and even silk shoes. So let your imagination go and find uses for this product yourself.

There are very few i i a tions, but as usual. I would suggest testing 3 sample pieced of your fabric before any application. intellectual power. You never had to tell him anything twice." Lodge a 3-time senator, an ambassador to the United Nations, South Vietnam and Germany, the man who ran unsuccessfully as Nixon's running mate in 1960 only to be defeated by John F. Kennedy, is talking about another friend, Winston Churchill.

"He had a great gift of the English language," says Lodge, who has written a new critically acclaimed book, "As It Was," his view of power politics in the '50s and '60s. "Churchill spoke eloquently. He wrote well. This talent for communication helped elevate him to great heights." In 1940, Lodge, the consummate politician, whose family tree includes 7 U.S. senators, a secretary of state, 2 secretaries of the Navy, 2 admirals and a Revolutionary War general, resigned from the U.S.

Senate to join the Army. To ditch politics for a stint as a lieutenant colonel in the Army was, he said, one of the most difficult decisions he ever made. "Getting elected almost kills you," says Lodge, a blunt man who developed the habit of "talking back" to the Russians when he was ambassador to the United Nations (1953-60). "The pressures are enormous. You fight to win.

You win! And then you leave it all for another kind of battlefield. Gnawing at your insides is the terrible thought that you may never get another chance." Lodge, a liberal Republican who has had no dealings with Richard Nixon since the "scandalous" Watergate affair, says he's "not surprised" that Jimmy Carter defeated incumbent president Gerald Ford. Carter raked in an estimated 90 percent of the black and ethnic vote. It's a fact Lodge doesn't take lightly. Henry Cnbot Lodge "The Republican party," he said with a voice tinged with regret, "has not made itself attractive to the minority voter.

You can chalk it up to bad management." One of the big "minuses" of running for public office is having to raise money for campaigns. Lodge is rich but, to quote him, "not nearly as rich as the Kennedys." Still, his family affluence allowed him to seek public office without worrying about personal finances. "Money-raising is a corrosive, cor- ruptivc influence," he says. "The politician who accepts money is under obligation. He is not longer a free agent." Lodge said his political career was backed by "friends." "But," he adds, "they never uskcd me to do anything." Lodge admits the current widespread anti-Washington mood sweeping America is a reality that probably helped Jimmy Carter win the election.

Carter repeatedly stated he was not a product of Pentagon bureaucracy. "Why wouldn't the everyday American look at Washington with a jaundiced eye? ile or she reads all kinds of shocking news about Washington personalities and it's not a piece of fiction, it's unadulterated fact. Shocking!" says Lodge. Lodge's roots go back to America's founding fathers, but he winces at the suggestion that he is the Establishment prototype. "1 am a controversial man," he commented.

"Certain members of the Establishment consider me an outsider. I realize labels are a convenience but 1 still don't like them." He also pooh-poohs the idea that the so-called Establishment is being strongly challenged by the Curler regime. Lodge does not feel Hits may permanently dilute its stronghold on government. "I'm not worried," says Lodge. "What we're seeing now is just a temporary shift of power." Lodge is a physically fit man who is writing his memoirs hut only from the hours of 10 am to 2 pm In the afternoon, he likes to go horseback riding.

"No man comes up with any good ideas after 2:30," he says with a broad grin. Lodge, who says that "politicians aren't tempted to have extra-marital affairs any more than ordinary men," celebrated his SOth wedding anniversary with his wife, the former Emily Sears. "She's a superior person," he says. They have 2 sons, 50-year-old George Cabot Lodge, a Harvard professor, and Henry S. Lodge, 47, president of Boston's Metropolitan Center, Inc.

"When I was an active politican," says Lodge, "I made sure I came home every night to spend time with my boys. After dinner, 1 went back to the office or to a meeting. But when the boys needed me, I was there." Does he have any regrets? "Yes," he says, "a few. lint, hell, I'm not going to tell you what they are." your fabrics water-repell Dear Readers: We've begun a nev; year. I personally hope that all of my readers (who 1 feel are my friends, too) will experience a more rewarding year ahead than they have ever had before.

Of course, I am an eternal optimist, but is there any other way to go? For these first several days of thc- new year, let's not make loo many resolutions we can't keep. Instead, make some rather serious plans that seem workable. One of the most common complaints I receive is being behind the season with sewing, instead of ready for it. 1 suggest that you only give yourself the next 3 weeks to finish off old projects. Anything that isn't done by that time should be packet) away so you won't see it and it won't bother your conscience.

Then, happily, embnrk on your Spring projects to that you can plan while selections of fabric are complete and have them ready for the first day of Spring. Fill your gloomy Wintor days by sewing bright, colorful, fun clothes and the days will fly by much faster. Decide iust how murti i you havn for your sewing, ami plan your wardrobe accordingly, remembering that some things take more time than others. Coordinate your clothes so that you get Uic most mileage out of every nrlir-lo. Above a sewing is a good deal of work, sn lighten the burden by only mnkinp garments a will give you pleasure and anticipation.

Imagine the finished garment ovpry minute you are workinp on it not every seam, gusset and buttonhole that sometimes mean problems I love hearing from you. no matter how small your questions and problems arc. If you have a problem, it probnhly affects someone else as well. Kvon though it is impossible to answer your personally. will always try to those of the most common interest in my column.

Thanks for reading my letter I'll be waiting for yours' For the leaflet. "All About Sleeves." send 10 rents and a long, stamped, self- addressed envelope to Eunice Farmer, in care of The Register and Tribune Syndicate, Hox 49'J4. DCS Moinos. Iowa 50306. This week's winner of my personalized gold blazer buttons is Mrs.

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She sent this tip: "When buying buttons, an excellent way to tell if the will look good on the article you arc making is a problem, always make a buttonhole on a scrap of the material I arn using. When I go shopping for buttons. I slip the buttonhole over the button on the card and can sec instantly how it will look on my garment." PS. Unfortunately, most of the buttons that are available today are carded: therefore, it often is i i to imagine the button on the garment as well as getting the correct number you need. This is the result of self-service, however, so we must learn In live with it.

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