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Northern Life Indian women meet in June Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks, Alaska, Wednesday, May SHOWTIME--Raquel Inman, front, and Shannon Dooley, back, are two performers in "The Golden Era of Kn- tertainent" presented by the Golden Heart Dance Studio on May 26 and 27 at 7:30 p.m in the Alaskaland Civic Theater. A small admission fee will be charged with all proceeds going to the Alaska Muscular Dystrophy Foundation. IPtiotobyKcnMeyerl One wedding and one engagement announced Ostrem Thomas Mr. and Mrs: Norman K. Thomas announce the engagement of their daughter Laurie Lynn to Roger D.

Ostrem, son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis T. Ostrem of North Pole. The bride-elect is a graduate of Lathrop High School and presently employed with Systems and Computer Technology at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.

The groom-elect is a graduate of Lathrop High School and Northwest Bible College in Kirkland, Wash. He is employed by Golden Valley Electric Association. Morales -Nutall Kriday, May 6 marked the wedding day of Kathleen Nuttall and Juan Morales. The wedding took place in the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

James Nuttall of 16 mile Richardson Highway. Kathleen is currently employed by McCauley's Reprographics in Fairbanks. The groom is the son of Juan and Maria Morales of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is currently employed by NANA Security. The maid of honor was Jane Mitchell and Jeff Maurer served as the best man.

The honeymoon is planned for Hawaii. The HAMILTON ACRES BAPTIST SCHOOL is now accepting applications CHILDREN'S SUMMER PROGRAM Ages 3-12 Supervised games Field trips to places of interest Boat rides (with parents permission) Bible stories Refreshments every day Movies Hot lunches Contests and prizes Tours Picnics Arts and crafts Watermelon cuttings Our special Summer Program includes all this and more beginning May 31st. Ages 3-12 School is open dally, Monday thru Friday, 6:45 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. for the convenience of working parents.

There is a limit on enrollment. For information call 456-5995 or 452- 7422 or visit the school at 138 Farewell Ave. CHILDREN'S SUMMER PROGRAM FOR AGES 3-12 June 13 to 13 marks the date for (he seventh annual national conference of the North American Indian Women's Association (NAIWA) set to take place at the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma. The theme for the conference is "Betterment of Health and Indian women from across the nation, including Alaska, Canada, Mexico and South America plan to attend. All Indian women are invited to participate in this conference designed especially for the American Indian woman to express her opinion in those matters which 'directly affect her village, home and personal life.

According to National NAIWA President, Mary Jane Fate of Fairbanks, this conference will focus on special needs of Indian women and families. Nationally known experts will speak on three main topics: The NAlWA's national project entitled "Special Needs of Handicapped Indian Children and Indian Women's "Betterment of Health" and "Betterment of The keynote address will be delivered by Mrs. Hotona Roebuck of the Choctaw Tribe from the Indian Health Service in Tucson, Ariz. She wll speak on the utilization of heatlh facilities available to Native people within Iheir area. NAIWA's national project deals with a proposal written by NAIWA last year to conduct surveys and studies on the reservations and native villages- across the United States to determine the quality of education and care delivered to handicapped individuals.

According to President Fate, Congress has directed that by 1980 all schools in the United States provide a program for handicapped children. Fate believes that no one is prepared to deliver such a program, especially the American Indians. Therefore, NAIWA plans lo conduct surveys and research in the reservations to determine the quality of existing programs, why they are succeeding or failing and report this to advisory boards who will set up programs for the handicapped In the reservations and native villages. Fate stales that the information gathered by Ihe Indian women will be more accurate and useful because the women have a deep understanding of the pattern of life in Ihe reservation or village. Fate emphasizes Ihe family unit as the basic structure on which the strength of the village rests and says that NAIWA will emphasize this in Iheir research.

She desires that all rehabilitation for handicapped individuals be as "close to home as possible with parental involvement. The real problem arises off the reservation, when the child is taken out of the home and sent to an institution 500 miles away for 15 years of his Hie." She also emphasizes the Importance of training the parent while the child is treated. When the parent Is aware of the nature of the child's handicap or Illness the parent can cope with the problem and the child spends less time in a clinic or hospital. The session dealing with the betterment of health will feature several speakers on a variety of topics. "High Risk Maternity "1977-How Healthy are Your "One View of the Ideology of Oppression in the American "Working Toward Better Health Care 'of Ihe "Majority of the "The Indian Female Mystique--Myth or Reality?" and "Cross Cultural Perspective" are the names of talks to be presented during (his session.

The session dealing with the betterment of education will feature a youth panel. The panel, made up of high school, reservation, city Ivy league, junior college, stale college and handicapped students, will speak on their educational experiences and how Iheir preparation in school helped or hindered them during Iheir studies. This conference will also include NAIWA's annual meeting during which amendments to Ihe constitution and election of officers will take place. All women are invited to attend this conference. Tribal costume is encouraged and Indian women may bring their crft items to sell.

The registration fee for adulls is $15 and $7.50 for children under the age of H. This covers meals for three days including a banquet and lodging. Meals will be available for those arriving Sunday and for those staying through Thursday. The registration fee should be mailed lo Mrs. Neldean Gallaher, NAIWA Conference Chairman, Route 2, Box 270, Norman, Okla.

73071. Her phone number is 405-329-1458. Chilocco is located on Ihe border between Kansas and Oklahoma. The nearest airports are in Ponca City, Okla. and Wichita, Kansas.

Both have dally flighls. If driving, Chitocco is IM miles southeast of Wichita, 25 miles north of Ponca City, 7 miles south of Arkansas City, Kansas and 130 miles north of Oklahoma City, Okla. For more information concerning the conference Fairbanks area residents may write S. R. Box 30586 or call 4566861.

Ann Answers Your Problems Dear Readers: Recently I printed a letter from a woman whose husband enjoyed dressing up in her clothes. 1 said, "Some psychiatrists say ail transvestilcs are either homosexual or bisexual." Thai sonlence unleashed a flood of angry responses from hundreds of Iransvestiles, I i i and sweethearts. I was lold in no uncertain terms (and unprintable language) thai I am "off my nut," "crazy as a loon," "ill'informed," "living in the Dark Ages," and to "crawl back under that rock." From Tucson, Take it back. Vou made an awful lot of trouble for me. I enjoy dressing up in women's clothes--have for years.

My wife loves to see me put on a fashion show. I am neither bisexual nor am I homosexual. Our sex life is great. After your column appeared, my wife kept me up halt the night insisting lhat I tell her what guy I am seeing on side. Please print this letter so she will get off my back.

1 swear I am straight. From Louisville, Ky.i Listen, you creep, I have been cross-dressing for 20 years and anyone who calls me homo gels a fat lip. It's a great way to relax and have a lillle fun. No one has seen me in my outfits but my wife. She thinks it's O.K.

and it's nobody else's business. From Orlando, My wife and I have been married 12 years and I have never looked at another woman--or a man. 1 resent your statement lhat just because I enjoy dressing in ladies' gowns and slippers lhat 1 am a ho mo sexual. We play Ihese litlle games about once a week in the privacy of our home. Once in a while we invite another couple in who enjoy Ihe same thing.

But we never swap partners and I have no desire to make love lo a man. Please get your facts straight. From Berwyn, 111.: My boyfriend is beautiful. I wish I were halt as good- looking. He surprised me one day by bringing a complete female wardrobe along on a weekend trip.

The two of us decided to go to a first-class restaurant for dinner wilh him wearing his best dress. It thrilled me when heads turned to look at the gorgeous ME--him. He Is straight as a rail and is a fantastic lover. If a man makes a pass at him when he Is dressed up he becomes very indignanl. I can't speak for others, but 1 can tell you my guy is no homo.

Hun a retraction, Kiddo. So now, Dear Readers, I will repeat my original statement: "SOME psychialrisls say all Iransvestites are cither homofwxual or bisexual." Please notetheworld "SOME." 1 have checked further and have additional opinions from two of i a most i i i psychiatrists. Both Dr. George Pollock, i of the I i of Psychoanalysis in Chicago, and Dr. Harold Visotsky, Chairman of the Deparlment of Psychiatry at Nor- thweslern University Medical School and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said as follows: Approximately 20 per cenl of the cross-dressers are either homosexual or bisexual, but Ihe majority are heterosexual and have no interest in other males.

They gel their jollies dressing up and that's as far as Ihey go. When 1 asked Dr. Pollock if such behavior was "normal" (a word mosl psychiatrists deplore) he replied, "Not if the cross dressing produces an orgasm." So--now you have an idea of what my week has been like. How was yours? What kind of wedding goes with today's new life styles? Does anything go? Ann Landers's completely new "The Bride's Guide" tells what's right for loday's weddings. For a copy, send a dollar bill, plus a long, self-addressed, slamped.

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Juan Morales and Kathleen Nutall, married May 6 Rhubarb an Alaskan spring 'fruit' at ByERMABOMBECK If there is anyone more sanctimonious than a person who jogs I don't know who he is. They all act like they've just run from Garden City, L.I., to Innsbruck with a torch in their hand. My husband has been jogging for five years now and I'm sick of it. Every morning, he comes into the kitchen after his run, a lowel around (he neck of his warm-up suit and grins, "Look at these muscles. And I'm not even breathing give me that," 1 said.

"You almost sucked up the morning paper in your nostrils." "You should try it, you know," he said. "It firms up your muscles, gets you going in the mornings, and besides, it gives you discipline." "So does war, but 1 don't want to run to one." "I ran two miles this morning. How long did it take me?" "An hour and a half." "You're kidding." "Let me put it this way. If you were running after a beautiful girl from a centerfold, by the time you caught her you wouldn't remember why you were chasing her." "That's pretty much what I'd expect from a woman who organized a car pool to the garbage cans." That did it. The next morning, I decided to join him.

Let me tell you I have never had more respect for my husband than I did from the moment I stepped into the streets. A '71 Mustang with a bumper sticker reading "1 found God" brushed my body, making an instant convert out of me. From out of nowhere, a pack of dogs nipped at my heels, forcing me to set a record for broad jump I didn't know existed. There were crowds of people every where-milkmen, paperboys, joggers, muggers, insomniacs all milling around the streets. I expected any moment to see Ben Grauer with a microphone standing under a big, silver ball.

Finally, I yelled to my husband, "I have to stop a minute." 'Are you he asked. I forced a laugh "Tired? I just have to tie my shoestring. I keep tripping over it. "That's your tongue," he said. "OJ my shoe?" "Of your mouth," he said.

There's nothing wrong with jogging, I guess, that a car pool couldn't (ix. By. tirs. Ellen Ayotte One of the things we enjoy most about living in Interior Alaska is the large variety of garden produce is il possible to raise. If you want to grow a plant that produces a fruit, but you4iave little or no garden space, why not grow rhubarb? If you don't have a corner in your yard, then use a deep bucket.

Rhubarb can be started from seeds or roots, and the best time of the year for planting is spring. Rhubarb is usually best grown by dividing the old crowns (roots). These can be obtained from garden stores or from people who have rhubarb plants. Cut the crown of the old with a spade, leaving two or three "eyes on each section. Set the new crowns at least four inches deep and the plants should be about four feet apart.

The first year the new plants should not be harvested at all or only very sparingly as the plant may be killed. The plants should be fertilized and well watered; it is a heavy user of water. Long before berries are ripe, rhubarb offers a tasty "fruil" for sauce, pies, puddings, punch, jam and jelly. Also a good substitute for sweet candy are fruit leathers, and these can be made MOSQUITO MARKET THIS WEEKEND! TANANA VAtLEY FAIRGROUNDS 2 MILE COLLEGE ROAD from rhubarb. Stewed rhubarb stalks have as much iron, calcium and potassium as do many Ihe other fruits.

It also contains a small amount of vitamin C. The leaves of thisplant, however, are considered poisonous because of the amount of oxalic acid they contain. So it Is important that your pets or young children do not eat or chew on these leaves. One of my family favorites is Rhubarb Cake served with a scoop of vanilla icecream as a dessert or served as a coffee cake. RHUBARB CAKE Cream together: cup shortening 1 cup brown sugar (i cup while sugar 1 egg Add: 2 cups si (ted flour 1 tea spoon sod a tea spoon salt 1 cup sour milk or buttermilk you don't have these, you can use 1 tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice in a cup of sweet milk.

Allow this mixture to stand in the refrigeralor for an hour before using.) 1 cups chopped raw rhubarb 1 teaspoon vanilla Top with a mixture of: cup white sugar cup of chopped nuts 1 teaspoon cinnamon Bake in a 9 by 13-inch pan at 350 degrees for 50 mlnules. Preferably in a glass pan in a 325 degree oven as rhubarb acid reads by taking the finish off some metal pans. More rhubarb recipes and canning, freezing and jam making directions can be obtained by writing or calling the Cooperative Extension Service office on 1514 South Cushman, Room 303, phone 452-1548 and asking for a copy of "Rhubarb SOUSE WF VABRIC Seersuckers Denims Summer Specials! Great for smock tops, shorts, t-shirts and everything else for summer SEERSUCKERS $O39 SHIRT Off DENIMS yd KNITS TO am-6pm. We're still in the Gavora Mali 3rd Steese Aurora Meat and Seafood 1260 Aurora Ph: 452-7086 LOCKER BEEF SPECIAL U.S.D.A, Choice Steer, cut double wrapped LEAN GROUND BEEF U.S.D.A. Choice TENDERLOIN 6 BREADED COD SQUARES U.S.D.A.

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