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GOIYllYlUr HAVEN kzx; ill People key to Leonard Center Page 1B Indians blast past Tigers PageIC ftf i I McDonald House Ait-ii helps families cope 3 Page 1 Sunday Today's Weather: Cloudy Details, Page 7A A Gannett Newspaper Port Huron, Michigan June 19, 1983 Copyright, Times Herald Company, 1983 75 cents sn Sj caFod i mi 1 nininiiuiiiii-im hampsS If; I 1 iP iViairysville takes title 'j 'O A V. finished fourth in the state earlier this month and the football squad reached the state semifinals last fall. Approximately 150 Marysville followers trekked three hours to see the title-taking. Marysville pounded 10 hits off Ludington pitchers, whose tosses were much slower than some of the deep heat pitching the Vikings had seen en route to the finals. Ludington's pitchers were so slow that Viking Coach Jim Venia was worried before the game that his players might have a difficult time adjusting to the change.

The worry went for naught. The Vikings claimed a 5-0 lead after two innings, and turned the game into an official rout with a six-run uprising in the fourth. Even as Venia and his players firepared to board transportation or the celebration banquet at Zehnders in Frankenmuth, they still had a difficult time accepting the one-sided nature of the game. "We expected a nip-and-tuck thing a one-run game," Venia said. By KEVIN ALLEN Times Herald Sportswriter MIDLAND The general consensus was that Marysville High School's quest for a state softball championship took somewhere between several months and several years to complete.

But officially, Marysville needed just one hour and 26 minutes to blast Ludington 13-1 Saturday afternoon at Emerson Park in a Class championship game. Pitcher Heidi McLane, headed to Central Michigan University on a softball scholarship, finished her standout four-year career by grabbing the only honor that has eluded her a victory in the state finals. "I don't think they wanted it as bad as we did," McLane said in the championship afterglow. "I mean we have been talking about this since December." The state title was Marysville's first since Michigan started the post-season playoff system. It also capped an impressive season for the Marysville sports program in general: the Viking track team 1 1 If i fa Timei Herald f- Ralph W.

Polovich Marysville's Monica Miller slides home safely with her team's second state championship game at Midland. Miller also drove in the first run run in a 13-1 victory against Ludington on Saturday in the Class with a triple. Widower, three sons grow together as a family Dads receive help in adjusting to new non-traditional roles -f i 7JS- v5" 'it "After the funeral, the kids wanted to know where I was all the time. That was different. I also had never purchased food.

I was spending $150 a week for the four of us. I could make meals, but I couldn't get the costs down," he says. It also meant more direct involvement with his sons. "I didn't realize how much talking needs to be done. We do much more as a family now than we ever did before," he says.

The family also drew closer to their religious faith. As members of St. Christopher's Catholic parish in Marysville, Ryan says they became much more aware of God and religion. Single parenthood meant that Ryan had to reorganize his life so that he spent more time at home. It meant resigning from several organizations and budgeting time to get things done such as fixing meals and doing housework.

And at times, it meant letting a deadline pass and instead go for ice cream with his sons. "Deadlines and time lines aren't that important at times," he says. Ryan's sons agree that their father has changed since their mother died. "He's mellowed out a lot. Before mother passed away, he was pretty strict.

Now he takes the time to stay home and do as many things as he can with us," Michael says. And Daniel says: "I think we've gotten to See Dads, Page 2A By JIM KETCHUM Times Herald Reporter MARYSVILLE This Father's Day will be a little different for Edward Ryan and his three sons. It's the first since Ryan's wife, Joyce, died last Dec. 4 of cancer. And while sadness at the loss of a wife and mother remains, Ryan says her death has brought he and his sons Michael, 17, Daniel, 13 and Sean, 9, closer together.

Single parenthood has meant added responsibility for Ryan, 44, who has tried to fill the void left by his wife. "When a spouse dies, you don't think about how much they did until they're gone," says Ryan, director of the Woodland Developmental Center at the St. Clair County Intermediate School District. The adjustment to single parenthood began even before Mrs. Ryan died.

Although she battled cancer for four years, she didn't become incapacitated until her final three weeks. She was sent home from Mercy Hospital when doctors decided they could do nothing more for her, Ryan says. "It was tough for my kids. They thought that her coming home meant she'd get better. But it wasn't.

It was the formal realization to them that she was dying," he says. After she died, the full weight of Ryan's new responsibilities as a single parent began falling on him. It meant many changes. llfT with 11 fathers a year ago. Such courses seem to appeal most to men who are already sensitive about their roles as fathers, "but we've also worked with very gruff, 'back-of-the-hand' type men," Levant said.

"And we've demonstrated that we can provide a worthwhile educational experience for less sensitive men." Much of what goes on in Levant's classes involves role playing: how to react, or not react, to typical situations in dealing with a child. The main message is to get to the true meaning of what a child is saying, and then respond to the feelings. Academics are studying the father's role now at least partly because it is perceived as a neglected skill. The last decade underscored the point: More mothers have jobs, and fathers have to share the parenting burden. More teen-agers are fathers.

And there are more single fathers as the divorce rate increases. By The Associated Press Today's lesson for fathers: when talking to your children, try not to peer out from behind a newspaper. Never tower over them. Listen for the true feelings behind their words. Commonly now, colleges and universities are offering such lessons in fatherhood, aimed at helping men understand their changing family role.

It's not that something is suddenly wrong with American fathers, said Ron Levant, a pyscho-logist. "There's something very right with fathers today. They're trying to move away from the traditional role of being just the breadwinner and chief disciplinarian," he said. This fall, Levant and Gregory F. Doyle will teach an eight-week course called "A Parent Education Program for Fathers of School-Aged Children" at Boston University, following a pilot study I 1 A 1 '-A i Times Herald Greg Jenson Edward Ryan became both mother and father to his sons when his wife, Joyce, died in December.

Shown with Ryan are, from the left, Daniel, 13, Michael, 17 and Sean, 9. Inside Today President reappoints Fed chief to 2nd term I I i i Frequently called the second most powerful man in the country because of the central bank's impact on the economy, Volcker and his future were intently debated inside and outside the administration for weeks. He is considered likely to follow his past policy of attempting to allow for economic growth without reignit-Lng inflation. His appointment to a second, four-year term, despite some administration misgivings, is aimed at reassuring the financial community and bolstering public confidence in the economic recovery. Volcker, said Reagan, "is a man of unquestioned independence, integrity and ability.

He is as dedicated as I am to continuing the fight against inflation." By ANN DEVROY Gannett News Service WASHINGTON Affirming his commitment to controlling inflation, President Reagan on Saturday reappointed Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul A. Volcker to a second term. The president, using the beginning of his regular Saturday radio address to make the two-paragraph announcement, joked he had news "that will crack this town wide open." White House officials said Reagan had called Volcker in New York only an hour before the midday radio announcement and got an acceptance from the chairman, a Democrat who was first named to the post by former President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Rescue drill turns into real thing FRASER A practice air rescue mission turned into the real thing Saturday when a member of the U.S. Air Force auxiliary helped locate a private plane that crashed in Macomb County.

Major Richard King, Adrian, was flying over Fraser when he received an emergency signal from a crashed single-engine plane. King was going home after a day of exercises at St. Clair County Airport, said Pam Pada-van, public affairs officer for Squadron 3-2, a southern Macomb County auxiliary division. King notified members of the Civil Air Patrol, who contacted police and set out to find the crash site. "We were pretty excited.

We had Just spent the whole day practicing simulated missions and it was amazing that it actually happened," Padavan The craft was found by the patrol about Vz mile north of McKinley Airport. The pilot, Walter Maciasz, 56, bf Grosse Pointe Shore, and his passenger, Jennifer Locke, 25, of Detroit, were injured slightly when the plane crashed Into trees on takeoff, authorities said. Builders 8C Markets 10B Classified 2D News briefs Crossword Obituaries 7B Editorials 8B Sports 1-7C Farm 1 1 Television. 1-1 6E 5B Theaters 4C Horoscope 9B Landers 2D Working World Local 1-7B 1D Spotlight 1-5D Eight news sections 88 pages Deaths reported Mrs. Corinne A.

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AP America's first Young smokers studied STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Concerned about experimentation with cigarettes by children as young as 3, researchers are undertaking a study to find out why children smoke and how to prevent them. "There are children 9 to 10 years old who are regular smokers and there's some indication that very young children do experiment," said Robert Shute, an associate professor of education at Pennsylvania State University. The university has received a $25,000 grant from the American Cancer Society for the project. Shute's study of 150 children from kindergarten through fourth grade will assess their behavior as it relates to smoking and determine their attitudes toward smoking.

I Sally Ride, America's first woman astronaut to travel into space, waves Saturday as she and crew members Norm Thagard and John Fabian, right, leave to board the space shuttle Challenger at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The shuttle's first day in space went smoothly. For a wrapup on Sally Ride's first day in space, see Page 2A. i.