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4EDES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER September 3, 1989 1 .1 with considerably less fat and sugar than a traditional pecan pie. Pear pecan tart 1 stick piecrust mix 2 eggs Vi cup packed brown sugar Hi tablespoons flour teaspoon vanilla extract 3 IT' 2 r- i-s 5 i 'I I vt J- teaspoon cinnamon I large fresh bartlett pear Vi cup pecans, chopped Ice cream or whipped cream, if desired Prepare pie crust stick mix using half the liquid called for. Line 9-inch pie plate with pastry. Prick bottom and bake at 425 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Beat eggs with sugar until light.

Mix in flour, vanilla extract and cinnamon. Slice Dears into bottom of pastry-lined plate. Pour beaten egg mixture over all. Cover top with pecans. Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes.

Cover top loosely with foil. Reduce temperature to 300 degrees and bake 45 to 50 minutes longer or until pears are tender when pierced with fork. Serve with ice cream, if desired. Garnish with mint. Makes 6 servings.

clude a craft show from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday in the activity tent at the balloon launch site at the Altoona Sports Complex east of town on U.S. Highway 6. The festival itself will run Friday through next Sunday.

The Mid-Iowa Train Show will be from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 17 at Valley High School in West Des Moines. Admission is $3.

Nationally known basket-maker Martha Wetherbee. will teach Nantucket basket techniques from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 3 and 4 at the "antique barn" by the water tower in Grimes.

Contact Kay Iversen at (515) 986-3485. Rental space is available for the 9th Annual Parks Festival for Highland, Oak and Union Park areas on Sept. 30 at North High School in Des Moines. Call (515) 278-1879. Information is available for exhibiting and for attending workshops at the Art Store Product Show on Oct.

19 and 20 in Des Moines. Free exhibits and seminars will be at Hoyt Sherman Place, 15th Street and Woodland Avenue, where manufacturers will display art materials, furniture and framing. Artists will conduct workshops in airbrush techniques and calligraphy at the Drake Inn, 24th Street and University Avenue. Call (515) 244-7000 or (800) 652-2225 or contact the Art Store, 600 Harding Road, Des Moines, la. 50312.

In the shops The Mole Hole, 857 42nd St. in Des Moines, now is carrying pottery by sculptor Sandra McKenzie Schmitt of New Jersey. The unique cookware and until golden and ensp. CINNAMON CRISP1ES: Substitute Vi cup granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon for parmesan cheese, garlic powder and parsley. Follow remaining directions.

Out and about The Des Moines Women's Club is sponsoring "Showcase of Kitchens III," a tour of six kitchens, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $6 on tour day at the homes or $5 in advance from Vilimek's, Maxine's Limited, Brandywine Designs or Hoyt Sherman Place, all in Des Moines. Proceeds will benefit Hoyt Sherman Place.

Kitchens open include those of Kathy and Kurt Brewer, 4513 N.W. Beaver Drive; Diane and Dennis Young, 4515 N.W. Beaver Drive; Beth and Beryl Black, 6528 Colby Karen and Steve Eddy, 1701 Cedarwood Circle in Clive; Sally and John Long, 4712 Colt Drive in West Des Moines; and Mary and Steve 2409 Fuller Road in West Des Moines. Fort Dodge Area Quitters will have their annual quilt show from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. next Sunday at the Women's Club, 915 Second Ave. South. The theme is "Childhood Memories." The show is part of the Oak Hill Arts Festival.

Admission is $2, The second annual Stitch-Away Weekend is scheduled for Friday to next Sunday at Ewalu's Stone Center at Strawberry Point. Catherine Robin-der of Moline, 111., will teach several classes. The cost is $95. Contact the Backstitch at (319) 245-1020. The Altoona Balloona Fest will in The September syndrome: seeking new twists for lunch box.

By CAROL McGARVEY Reenter ttoM Writer Full of good intentions, parents everywhere are in the throes of the problem of what to put in the lunch box. Here's a tasty idea that's sure to draw smiles from little lunchers. Frozen bread dough makes things easier. Animal cheese crisps I loaf (16 ounces) frozen bread dough (white or honey wheat) legg Vi cup grated parmesan cheese OR 1 cup shredded Cheddar 1 teaspoon garlic powder (optional) 1 teaspoon dried parsley, crushed Let frozen dough thaw until pliable. Roll out dough to W-inch thickness.

Cut out animal shapes with cookie cutters. Place shapes on greased cookie sheets 1 inch apart. Brush with beaten egg. Mix cheese with garlic and parsley and sprinkle generously over dough shapes. Let stand 15 minutes.

Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes I 4- Pears a healthful alternative to decorative accessories are safe for use in conventional and microwave ovens. The Accent, 222 Fifth St. in Valley Junction, is carrying imported French ribbon, which is inconspicuously wired for ease in bending and draping for crafts, sewing or decorating for holidays, parties or weddings. To send for With the popularity of cows in full swing, Karen Logsdon, a pattern designer from Des Moines, has come out with a new design for Freida and Ferdinand, soft sculpture cows. The duo won a blue ribbon at the recent Iowa State Fair.

Pregnant Freida comes with directions for clothing and a cowbell necklace, while Ferdinand wears bib How to stay out of homework business: Use room, hot the kitchen, as study area Braids, tassels, buttons highlight fall fashions By EUNICE FARMER DEAR READERS: Look for scrolls of braids, tassels, woven passementerie trims and decorative braids and edgings in fall fashions details. Many sophisticated suits and dresses have fur cuffs, and there are fur edgings on suits and dresses as well. Vests are found in the office or the ballroom, depending on the type of fabric. Look for quilted vests, brocades, fake fur, leather, flannel or challis. Buttons, buttons, buttons.

Where you normally had two to three buttons on a jacket, today's fashions often include five to nine, more closely spaced. Also, find three to four buttons on the cuffs of jackets. Most buttons today are gold, and chain trims are also popular with the designers. Decorative and important belt buckles complete the picture of the Midas touch. Frog closings as well as toggle closings replace the buttons in some garments.

Fall literally sparkles, and you can custom design your own wardrobe with trims and details. These are the fall '89, highlights: Include a scarf in your wardrobe to coordinate or wear separately with just about everything. They're new; they definitely add pizazz. A vest in just about any fabric and pecan pie overalls. Patterns for dolls and clothes are $6 each plus 73 cents postage.

Completed 28-inch dolls are $32 each plus $1.50 postage. Wholesale inquiries are welcome. Order from Twice as Nice Designs, 3913 Valdez Drive, Des Moines, la. 50310, ortelephone (515) 270-6966. The U.S.

Department of Agriculture has published a 168-page, full-color book, "Complete Guide to Home Canning," with more than 100 recipes. For a copy, send name, address and $1 to the Consumer Information Center, Dept. 168V, Pueblo. Colo. 81009.

Pearfect choice Are you a pecan pie fan? Then here's a healthful alternative, pear pecan tart, Set a time limit on homework. kitchen table sits in a position of power, at the center of a potential cyclone which he can set to swirling simply by acting incompetent. It's not that the child wants to be incompetent, it's that he can't resist the temptation. The attention he gets is addicting. The more he gets, the more he thinks he needs, the more he wants.

The only way to get it (or so he thinks) is to act helpless, so he acts increasingly helpless. The parent should stay out of the child's homework unless the child asks for assistance. Don't ask, "Do you need help with your homework?" or, "How can you do homework with the music playing?" or, "Do you have any homework tonight?" This is not to say that you should never help, because you can, but only if the child asks. When you help, it should be for only one of two reasons: because the child government, on the grounds that it might jeopardize the men's survival. My mother ignored the request, believing it was a veiled attempt to halt publicity about the spread ofthe illegal war from Vietnam to Laos.

She visited the base in Nakhon Phanom where my father was assigned. She landed on the same runway he rolled down on his last flight, and imagined the fear he must have felt every time he took off, wondering if he would return. The government had exploited its military to fight a dirty war, she concluded, and later she never felt disloyal protesting that war. At home, her transformation from traditional Air Force wife to anti-war activist continued. She went to demonstrations and rallies, sometimes taking us along, and spent a year campaigning for 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern.

She joined the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. Letters came from all over the country from people who were wearing POW-MIA bracelets inscribed with my father's name. They hoped for his return, and asked "let's get to know each other" questions. I viewed the letters as an intrusion and I did not answer them. Because my father was missing, I found myself in many unlikely situations.

My life as a typical "Air Force brat" was over. I spent Christmas Eve 1969 at a vigil in front of the North Vietnamese embassy in Paris. Life magazine published a photo of my mother and another POW-MIA activist in our kitchen. Frances Fitzgerald, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Fire In The Lake," came to visit. In January 1973, North and South LTZ i New autumn patterns for sewing is "stuck" at some point, has given it his all and truly needs adult guidance to get unstuck; or because he has finished his homework, but wants someone to check it.

The help should be brief and encouraging. Parental involvement should rarely last longer than fifteen minutes, with the norm being closer to five minutes. If fifteen minutes won't do it, parents should consider referring the problem to the child's teacher, even if that means the work may be late. Set a time limit on homework. The child should decide when to begin, but parents should decide when to call "time." The deadline should be consistent, say, 8 every evening, but can be temporarily suspended for special projects and when the child needs more time to study for major tests.

The shortest route to a nightly homework marathon is to tell a child when to begin but not when he must be done This teaches time-management. John Rosemond is a family psychologist in pri- vate practice in North Carolina. Questions of gener- al interest may be sent to him at the Charlotte OtK 1 server, P.O Box 32188, Charlotte, C. 28232. IMTKnKhi-RlddtrTrlbuMNtwtStrvIc Vietnam signed peace pacts and the first planeload of American POWs arrived home on Valentine's Day although the fighting would continue until the fall of Saigon in 1975.

The long wait was over for many families we knew. Their husbands, fathers and brothers were finally coming back. But there was no news of my father, and as I looked at the magazine photos of emotional airport reunions, I mentally substituted my face and my father's for those in the pictures. I wanted us to be them. I wanted it to be over.

It still isn't over, not for me or the families of 2,357 others almost all servicemen still missing in Southeast Asia. Like all but one of them, the status of Richard A. Walsh was changed to a presumptive finding of death. My mother and aunt hired a lawyer to fight the 1979 declaration, which was made without excavation of the crash site or any ground search at all. We couldn't prove he was alive, so the government declared him dead.

After giving up any real hope my father could be alive, I was shocked when live sightings of Richard A. Walsh surfaced in 1985 and 1986. The reports, from private and possibly dubious sources, were not substantiated by the Defense Intelligence Agency. But they were credible enough to motivate U.S. officials, for the first time in all these years, to ask the Laotian government to permit excavation of my father's crash site.

They refused. I don't know what to believe. Is my father dead, or is he alive? A sliver of hope is reason to keep trying to find out, to apply pressure to both governments to account for him. I also believe there are other men still held captive in Southeast Asia. COMMENTARY It's easy to remember MIA dad and lesson he left behind By JOHN ROSEMOND In a recent col- umn, I said that for a child to benefit from homework, the child must have full "ownership" of the responsibility.

Par ents should help when help is truly needed, but must careful not to cross the line between consulting and participating. Here are the ABC's of staying out of the homework business: The child does his homework in a private, personal area, preferably at a desk in his room, rather than in a family area such as the kitchen table. Homework done in the kitchen or any other family area becomes a family affair. This virtually guarantees that homework will dominate family life for much of theevening. Homework will command family attention, distract from more important responsibilities (such as being married), and reduce time available for more productive pursuits, such as communication.

The child doing homework at the Gannett News Service missing in action since Feb. 15, 1969. year, with no news from the government, my mother decided to take action. In March 1970, she left for a month-long trip to Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. She visited embassies and asked for information about her husband.

She pressured officials to return the remains of American servicemen or identify those they may have captured. She left leaflets everywhere asking for news of my father. She sought publicity for the missing, despite instructions against it from the style is another must for fall. The Chanel influence is everywhere. The very newest jackets are collarless cardigan styles trimmed in braids and edgings, and they include lots of buttons, chains and decorative belts.

Look for unexpected, bright colors to complement the more somber ones. Straight skirts ending around the knee, and the extra long skirts, 32 by 36 inches, with the alternative of pants. You'll see luxurious fabrics, lace or satin collars and cuffs, sequined motifs and heraldic patches for jackets. It's a fun season ahead, conservative with details that add sparkle and individuality- DEAR EUNICE: I love the tailored, notched-collar suits but often find them too stiff and masculine-looking. I would like this style jacket that would bridge the gap and fit into a semi-dressy suit as well as a daytime look.

I am a very experienced seamstress so the pattern doesn't have to be "quick and easy." TaiK. EUN1CE SAYS: I have selected the very newest look from Donna Karan, one of our top designers. Look for Vogue 2340 sized from 6 to 22. It is a style that should be flattering for everyone and has a softer look than the Symbols of remembrance surround a parachute was seen. Aerial searches at 2,000 feet showed no signs of my father.

The F-4 pilot had heard the explosion but couldn't see the crash site. The report gave my father almost no chance of survival except for one detail. In his official statement, the wing man, Lt. Col. Walter E.

Stueck, said his attention briefly was diverted from my father's distressed aircraft while he tried to change radio frequencies and contact the mission coordinator. During that time, Stueck wrote, my father very tailored jackets of past seasons. This jacket calls for soft fabric such as lightweight gabardine, wool crepe or heavier silky fabrics. It could be very dressy, and although shown with pants, this jacket would be sensational with a straight skirt of any length. It is considered difficult and is for the advanced seamstress only.

If you don't have these sewing skills, it's best to choose another pattern. im Cowln Syndicate Inc. photo of Col. Richard Ambrose Walsh HI, might have ejected. That was enough for us to imagine him a prisoner of war, tortured by his captors and forgotten by the government that ordered him to go.

I learned details of the crash later. When Sharon Walsh told her five children, ages 6 to 12, the news that morning in 1969, 1 was too young to understand. My father's plane had been shot down; he might never return. My mother, then 34, was immobilized by the news. When months passed, and then a By MOLLY WALSH Ittt Gannett News Service I still think of Col.

Richard Ambrose Walsh III, missing in action since Feb. 15, 1969. His is one of some 58,000 names on the long slab of black granite in Washington called the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He is my father. I remember vividly the snowy morning 20 years ago when the blue Air Force sedan pulled up in front of my grandfather's house in Minneapolis.

We were living there while my father, a career Air Force officer, was on a year's assignment in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand. I was 9, and my brother, Michael, 11, came to my room to say a man was talking to our mother downstairs. She was crying. From the window, we watched him walk down the front sidewalk, get into his car and drive away. i My father's A-l Skyraider had been shot down over Laos during a mission to pick up a downed F-4 pilot aboutJ5 miles west of Da Nang.

As leader of the mission, he was responsible for locating the man on the ground and creating a safety zone by shooting at anti-aircraft sites in the vicinity. The Vietnamese knew the American pilot was there and viewed him as bait for bigger fish. And they were ready when three American planes and two helicopters flew in. My father swooped lower than his wing man to about 1,000 feet to sight the pilot in the mountainous, heavily wooded area. His last radio communication was that he was taking ground fire.

The F-4 pilot was rescued, and none of the other pilots was hit. Walsh was the only casualty of the mission, according to the official flight report. His plane crashed and burst into flames, it said, and no ejection or Wm.