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LIFESTYLE Monday, May 1, 1995 Battle Creek Enquirer Performance by Girls Chorus exudes polish and panache beautiful rendering of Francis Pou- and Sing to the Lord in particular By Marcia L. Groat lenc's Sonata. had a good, clear, crisp conclusion. Special to the Enquirer Mark Major, a Senior Boychoir A. Girls' Chorus tradition of perThe Battle Creek Girls Chorus member, also was featured, pri- forming a song's lyrics in sign lanpresented a challenging, audience- marily in the rousing closing num- guage remains intact; Janine Woods pleasing concert Saturday night, ber of the evening, a medley from and Katie Wood did a beautiful job delivering with flourish on its Joseph and the Amazing Technicol- signing during an American song, promise of harmonies from around or Dream Coat.

Also, he and Heath- The Water Is Wide. the world. er Higbee did a fine job on Dvorak's Another American number was Songs from Japan, Nova Scotia, pretty Wasser und Weinen. performed beautifully: the Shaker Brazil and South Africa, among oth- Truly capable Beth piano support and was hymn Simple Gifts. This er locales, provided by Draper, spe- ment, by John Coates features cial numbers were further embel- some beautiful harmonies for the Review lished by double-bass player Tom piano, which Beth Draper handled graced the chapel at the First Galley and percussionist Terri Kel- superbly.

Marites Eldred perCongregational ley. formed her solo in this song with a Church Saturday. Under director The evening opened with You clear, sweet voice. Dixie I Hamlin's guidance, the girls Shall Have a Song. It was a solid The Chorus was at its most thecapably handled the various lan- beginning.

From there we were atrical with the Joseph and the guages, performing with panache taken, via song, through several Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, and obvious pleasure. countries and several languages. which Roger Emerson It is certainly pleasing to witness The girls did a fine job with the from the Andrew Lloyd Webber arranged the girls' musical-performance de- Hebrew, Japanese and Portuguese, work. Complete with velopment. With each concert, to name a few.

and a little help from Mark Major as choreography their stage presence improves, While few harmonies drove the Joseph, the af with girls presented a lively, poised smiles and apparent joy girls sharp in their pitch, there is fun-filled It was obvious in evidence as they share their mu- improvement this time around. rendering. sic. Harmonies what a good time they were having. were particularly adept The Special guests graced the perfor- in the South African Suite, the concert was performed Sunday afternoon as well.

mance. Pima Indian song The Black Snake Flutist Andrew Paulson accom- Wind and in an English song, I Marcia L. Groat is a public speakpanied to wonderful effect on You Must and I Will Get Married. er and a longtime stage and musiShall Have a Song by Harriet Zie- There was a crispness and clarity cal performer who teaches genhals, and provided a strikingly of enunciation in the girls' work, piano in Marshall. Sealy.

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Many are crowding into the market with private-label jeans. "There's lots of product out there. That's forcing prices down," retail consultant Howard Davidowitz said. "The name of the game is who can sell it cheaper, faster." Jumping into the denim fray: The Gap, which began selling $22 jeans in the Old Navy stores it launched last year. Now, it is rolling out $16.50 Old Navy jeans.

Sears, Roebuck and which is slated to introduce a new line of Canyon River Blues jeans in September that will sell for $20 to $25. "People will just not pay extra anymore for anything, including jeans," said Wendy Liebmann, a retail marketing consultant who heads WSL Marketing. Many of the designer jeans that five to 10 years ago were big news in the industry and sold for $60 or $70 a pair are now licensed goods that go for $30 at discount stores, said Alan Millstein of the Fashion Network Report. Still battling at the top of the nation's jeans industry, which sells $7.8 billion worth of denim products annually, are Levi's and Lee. Their pants typically sell for about $40, but often go on sale for as low as $29.

Nipping at their market share: a growing wave of private-label jeans selling for about $25 at such retailers as The Limited, Millers Outpost and County Seat, Millstein said. Women's Wear Daily, the bible of the fashion industry, reports that private-label brands have captured 25.6 percent of the denim market, a jump from 14.9 percent five years ago. Robbie Ellis, a spokeswoman for J.C. Penney, said revenue from sales of its Arizona men's jeans alone, which range from $21.99 to $28.99, rose to more than $270 million last year from $17 million in 1990. The growing trend in casual attire at work, driven largely by baby boomers, is the force behind burgeoning competition in the industry.

Baby boomers "were the first group of kids allowed to wear jeans to said Brad Williams, senior marketing specialist for Levi Strauss. "They're in senior management now, and in many cases they're running the company. Their attitude is more toward a casual lifestyle." Warren Hashagen, The Gap's senior vice president of finance, acknowledged that with more jeans makers getting in on the niche it carved, there's little, if any, room for jeans prices to go up. 'Good Housekeeping' increases consumer info from product testers By Skip Wollenberg The Associated Press NEW YORK Good Housekeeping magazine plans to get more mileage out of the work of researchers who have helped make its seal a symbol of reliability. The Hearst Corp.

magazine, which turns 110 years old on Tuesday, created the Good Housekeeping Institute at the turn of the century to make sure that products advertised in the magazine lived up to their ad claims. Manufacturers whose products met the standards and bought the requisite ad space got the right to the Good Housekeeping Seal. The institute, with a staff of about 60 chemists, engineers, nutritionists and other researchers, still does that work. Publisher Alan M. Waxenberg said 50 to 60 pages of advertising are rejected as a result of the reviews each year about 3 percent of the 1,560 pages of ads carried last year.

Editor-in-chief Ellen Levine, who took over in October, said the magazine has drawn on the research for stories but never highlighted it. She decided to make even greater use of research and unveiled a new symbol in the May issue to call attention to it. The red-and-white oval emblem with the words GH Institute Report will mark reports based institute research. In the May issue, the emblem marked reports on vacuum cleaners are our 7 long-lasting lipsticks long is and fast-food fast-food survival The emblems also marked reports on how metal cookware may affect health. Levine said it would mark stories in which the institute researchers make sense of conflicting scientific studies does fish oil prevent cancer, for example.

offers the perfect competitive advantage," Levine said in a recent interview. "Not only is it good for the reader but it gives the reader a vision of this magazine that is uniquely different and a reason to buy it." Where it stands I Good Housekeeping ranked second last year in circulation and third in advertising pages among the seven best-selling women's magazines. I Its circulation for the six months ended Dec. 31 was 5.2 million a month, trailing only Better Homes and Gardens at 7.6 million, according to figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Good Housekeeping's 1,559 ad page total was down 1.9 percent from 1993 but trailed only Woman's Day at 1,694 pages and Family Circle at 1,602, according to Publishers' Information Bureau.

Some readers may fault the magazine for featuring the best without warning consumers away from the worst in the product comparison reports. Levine makes no apology. "We are not Consumer Reports. First of all, we don't have the space for it. And second, I don't think it is what a reader really wants to know.

She wants to know what to buy," she said. She said most women are already "on information overload" and look to Good Housekeeping for sound advice on how to make life easier. "The day I tell them something is good and it turns out to be bad then I have a problem. I hope we'll never get into that situation," Levine said. Good Housekeeping pledges to replace or refund the price for any product that bears its Seal and proves to be defective within a year.

Consumer safety commission more activist, but faces cuts By Darlene Superville The Associated Press BETHESDA, Md. One of Ann Brown's first acts as the government's chief productsafety regulator was to phone a Michigan woman whose daughter strangled when her coat drawstring became stuck in a playground slide. Four months later, the girl's mother, Thelma Sibley of Ann Arbor, stood beside Ann Brown when the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that 21 makers of children's garments had agreed to replace the potentially hazardous strings with buttons, zippers, snaps and Velcro. Sibley said she was surprised the issue had been dealt with so quickly; her only child died that January at age 5. She was told that agency staff knew of the problem for some time, but hadn't formally presented it to the commission.

The issue was one of Brown's priorities after taking over as the commission's chairwoman in March 1994. Brown's work in her first year as head of the independent regulatory agency has helped shake it from a slumber that some critics say was induced by years of Republican presidents. But whether she continues the activist role depends on a Republican controlled Congress that's cutting spending. doesn't believe her agency will be a target. "I think product safety, particularly the safe- LOCAL FUNERALS DEJUNE, MICHAEL Friends are being received today 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m.

at the BACHMAN HEBBLE FUNERAL SERVICE, 223 N. Bedford Rd. Services will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home with Rev. Dr.

Kingery Clingenpeel of Central Christian Church officiating. Interment Ft. Custer National Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation. DYAS, MRS.

DAVID H. (RACHEL M. Friends may call at Richard A. Henry Funeral Home, 703 Capital S.W. where Vigil Service will be held 7 p.m.

Monday. Funeral Mass 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church Rev. Fr.

James O'Leary officiating. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery. PRICE, NELLIE Friends may call at the Richard A. Henry Funeral Home, 703 Capital S.W. where services will be held 1 p.m.

Tuesday. Rev. Delmer B. Case officiating. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be given to Good Samaritan Hospice or Visiting Nurse Services of Southern Michigan. Envelopes available at the funeral home. FUNERAL DIRECTORS Member N.S.M. BACHMAN HEBBLE Funeral Service 223 North Bedford Road 965-5145 Farley -Estes Funeral Home 105 Capital Ave. N.E.

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49017 (Watties Park Jr. High School) 7:05 p.m. Planning Commission, Emmett Township, 620 Cliff Street, request a Rezone for Verona Addition Lots 1 3, 8 20, 41 58 94 104, 110: Bushee's 119, 148, Addition 153 Lots and 23 56 included from MF Multi Family, Article 14. to RU Residential Urban, Article 13A. Individuals with disabilities requiring auxiliary aids or services for this meeting dhould contact Emmett Township Supervisor James Demarest, at 620 Cliff Street, Battle Creek, Mi 49017 (616-968- 0241) seven days prior to the meeting.

Andy Sims, Chairman Charter Township of Emmett Planning Commission ty of children, cuts across party lines," the longtime consumer advocate said But Rep. Jerry Lewis, chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee overseeing the agency's budget, said cuts were likely. The agency's budget has been reduced substantially over the last 15 years. Its staff of 486 is down from a high of 978 in 1979 and its $42 million budget is about the same size as 20 years ago, Brown said. Congress is debating legislation that would require regulatory agencies to analyze costs and risks of the rules they impose on business.

Brown says her agency already is doing that. She chooses to negotiate with industry rather than regulate it, since the latter process is costly, time consuming and often lands in court without solving the original problem, she said. The agreement with the makers of children's clothing is one example. Another agreement with industry eliminated the loop from most window blind cords, which are blamed for at least 12 child stranglings a year. The CPSC has authority over 15,000 consumer products.

The commission also has worked with industry to obtain 300 voluntary recalls 1 for items ranging from lead-tainted crayons to defective metal bunk beds and faulty coffee makers. Included was the largest clothing recall ever of 250,000 sheer rayon Indian-made skirts deemed dangerously flammable. BINGO DIRECTORY American Legion Post 298. 228 N. 20th St.

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