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Pase 6A I Sunday, September 13, 1971 News Summary Baby's Price Tag Is High New Dentonites Cost $778,000 Annually The World WEST SOVIETS AGREE The leaders of West. Germany and the Soviet Union agreed Saturday that nonaggression pacts linking Bonn with Poland and the Soviet Union have ushered in a new era of peace for the three countries. The optimistic prediction came in a communique issued in Bonn and Moscow after two days of talks by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and Soviet Communist party leader Leonid 1. Brezh- nev. IRENE OX THE MOVE Tropical storm Irene headed for the banana-shipping port of Bluefields on coast of Nicaragua Saturday with five-foot tides and winds near hurricane force.

The National Hurricane Center said Irene is expected to make landfall near Bluefields late Saturday evening, after buffeting the Caribbean island of San Andres with gale force winds Saturday morning. By PATRICIA COUCH Staff Writer "Babies are our business, our only business," claims one very i a infant products company, and with a total of 11,100 babies born to Denton County parents in the 10 years ending in 1970, it seems likely that babies are also big business. Despite the steady drop in the national birth rate since 1957, i spending on the pail of anxious there is no shortage of local parents, relatives and friends, toddlers, According to the U.S. According to recent figures Census Bureau, the Denton the Health Insurance County birth rate represents an I Institute, the financial outlay of average of 16.2 new Dentonites annually for every 1,000 people. From the standpoint of local retail and service establishments that cater to these blessed each one is economically important as it sets into motion a flurrv of a first offspring is nearly $700 not including medical and hospital expenditures.

Estimates suggests $517 for the baby's equipment and supplies with the remainder going for mother's maternity wardrobe. The Nation JURY TO BEGIN DELIBERATIONS The jury in Capt. Ernest L. Medina's court-martial will begin deliberations this week on one murder charge and manslaughter in the death of 100 civilians at My Lai. The charges against Medina have been substantially reduced from 102 counts of premeditated murder -by a judge who says the government failed to prove Medina intended for all the civilians to be Col Kenneth Howard said in an interview, "In my mind I did not feel that it was fair to expose Capt.

Medina to a murder conviction when, in my opinion, there is insufficient evidence." GROWTH RATE DANGEROUS World population is growing so fast that it will double within 30 years despite slower growth rates in the more indus- tralized societies, Census Director George Hay Brown say. Even if births were to decline so that families were barely replacing themselves within the next decade, it would take another 60 years before the population would stop growing, Brown said studies indicate. "It is a matter for serious attention and serious he said in an interview. UPRISING WILL HAVE POLITICAL EFFECT -New York Republican and Democratic leaders are certain the tragic Attica Prison rebellion will have an impact on national politics. Spokesmen for both parties say the prison uprising which ended in the killing of person 10 employes and 30 inmates -should not become involved in political wrangling.

They mean it. but it is out of their control. "A lot of mistakes were made and someone is going to get the blame," a Democratic leader said. "However, I do not feel we, as a political party, should try to take advantage of them until a complete and impartial investigation has been completed." NEW CLOTHES FOR EVERY SEASON HELP RAISE BABY'S EXPENSE Mr. and Mrs.

Jerry Sparkman Shop For Kevin The State PROBATED SENTENCE FOR MURDER A former federal narcotics agent has been given a 10- year probated prison sentence by the same jury in Dallas which just 24 hours earlier convicted him of murder with malice of stewardess Mary Morris Mead. James Laswell Lander went to each member of the 7-man, 5-woman jury panel and thanked them for assessing a sentence that will keep him out of Huntsville prison subject to his good behavior. Police found the pretty 20-year-old stewardess lying on the floor of her apartment in Northwest Dallas with a gunshot wound in her head in October two years ago. CHEMICAL FIRM ENJOINED A federal'judge, saying Texas residents should have the same if not better treatment as the citizens of Ohio, has permanently enjoined Armco Steel from disposing of toxic untreated cyanide wastes in the Houston Ship Chanel. U.S.

District Judge Allen B. Hannay Friday cited the ability of an Armco plant in Ohio to treat properly its wastes and said the company had not shown "why the citizens of Ohio should be given more favorable than citizens of Texas." Deep injection ells under construction by Armco as an alternative Disposal site were forbidden for Armco's use until 18 oil and gas wells near the injection site could be plugged according to government specifications. SOUTH TEXAS DECLARED DISASTER AREA -President Nixon Saturday declared a major disaster area in eight South Texas counties which suffered an estimated $25 million in flood damages caused by Hurricane Fern. Gov. Preston Smith, who requested the President's declaration last week, said he received the telegram from Nixon Saturday declaring the area eligible for federal disaster relief.

Counties involved are Bee, Nueces, San Patricio, Jim Wells, Brooks, Refugio, Aransas and Duval. Rains of up to 30 inches, along with hurricane winds and tidal wave flooding, caused extensive damage in those areas. Recreation Signup Under Way For Fall registration for the 1971 fall Swafford said he is very recreation program sponsored by the Denton Recreation Department will be under way until the Oct. 15 deadline. Bob Swafford.

recreation department superintendent, said those wishing to register for the wide range of fall recreation activities may do so at the Community Building between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Activities are scheduled to get way Monday, but satisfied program with plans the and 1971 feels fall the activities slated will get more people involved in recreational activities. A brochure describing the fall activities is expected to be off the presses soon, according to Swafford. When the recreation department finally receives the finished copies of the brochure, the booklets describing the fall activities will be distributed to Swafford said other persons may all children attending Denton register deadline.

up to the Oct. 15 public schools. Among the special activities Town Topics Byron Rice, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Rice, 2209 Archer Trail, is living in Liberal, where he has been employed distinguished professor and chairman of the biological sciences department at North Texas State University, has been to the University of Texas jp rolection Agency.

He will join i a site visit team which will look The Weather by Radio Station KSCB as a Wisconsin at Madison where he radio announcer. jwUl look over a program sponsored by the Environmental Byron attended North State University where majored in Radio and Speech. over the university's four He has recently graduated from i trainee grants which are sup- Elkins Institute in Dallas where ported by the EPA. Dr. Silvey jhe received his First Class also went to Chicago 1o a in Communications i meeting of a section of the I from the Federal Communica-: National Academy Sciences, 'tions Division.

i of which he is a member. Linda K. Landers Green, The father of Mrs. Melvin daughter of Mr. and 1 1 of Denton Rov Landers of 1005 Carroll, i Gre one-time resident: of has" been named one of Denton now at home at 1808 planned include a Boys Club for! boys 14 years old and a bicycle club: motor' bike rally; a teen council that will aid in setting up activities for teen groups': a college council that will aid in bringing the Family gifts and usable baby clothes worn by a previous child could bring this cost lower.

Assuming that the general average applies to Denton, the county's annual crop of babies represents an expenditure of some $778,000, exclusive of medical costs. When asked if she thought the average pair of potential parents invested $700 in their first child, Debbie Gonzalez, assistant buyer in Russell's infant department, said, "I'm sure they do if they've got it. It's expensive. could do without some of it, but if you have the money, you get it anyway." Miss Gonzalez says that families expecting a new member "get excited, especially grandmothers. Grandmothers get more excited than mothers." The Russell's department offers baby blankets for as high as $34 and imported christening gowns for $30, both of which are good sellers.

Silver rattles at $8.95 and silver baby cups, all potential heirlooms, range in price from $5 to $13.95. Baby lamps, wall plaques and crib music boxes also make 'their way into many nurseries. Theda Charles, manager of the Sears infants department, estimates that would be the average outlay for baby items in Denton. "People don't seem to think much about the pries if they want something," she says. Musical crib mobiles at $6.99, baby scales at $8.99 and stuffed Pooh bears at $6 each are big sellers at Sears.

"The grandmothers buy the most expensive stuff," Mrs. Charles says. "The grandmothers and husbands don't quibble over the prices like the mothers do. If the parents are students, they buy more i practical things and the mother goes all out." Gift-givers can find a world of goodies in the Sears store. iFor they can chose from a diaper set or baby carry-all.

$7 they can buy a pillow jand comforter set and for $3 I more they can purchase a Pooh a i "which everybody really likes." Printed crib sheets are BABY FOOD ADDS TO THE GROCERY BILL Other Items Also Increase The Total Spend Your Money, Says Mrs. Mitchell universities and together: hiking packing; and a for women so city and closer back- football class they can be taught the rules of the game. Outdoor activities include hula pitch golf, football, trail building soccer, and a canoe club. Other activities that will be getting under way at the Community Building include volleyball, pre-school for four and five-year-old children, beginning bridge, slimnastics, i decoupage, adult drawing and painting, ceramics or leather tooling, gym and tumbling for boys and girls, jazz, lap dancing, modern dance, ballet, elementary arts and crafts, modeling and charm, baton, folk dance, competitive gymnastics, guitar lessons, ballroom dancing, choir and duplicate bridge. popular, diaper bags are essential, thermal crib bankets are useful and the largest Winnie the Pooh bear is $30.

Busy Boxes, a colorful toy that attaches to the crib, range in price from to $9 at Shepherd's Toy Land. According to Mrs. Gletinis Cu-bb, a Shepherd's employe, animals, musical mobiles and balls that rock and make music "sell all the time." Mobiles start at $3 and may I go as high 35 if they makej music. Approximately 480 jars of strained baby foods are sold at pjggly Wiggly No. One week," says Manager Paul Ray.

"In all stores baby food is a big item," he reports, with "quite a number" of baby products powder, baby oil and disposable diapers being sold. "ft may cost a lot, particularly for the first one," says Mrs. Jerry Sparkman, mother of 10-montn-old Kevin. "But there's no doubt in my mind that it's a very rewarding WASHINGTON (UPI) Following President Nixon's appeal for cabinet wives to speak out in support of his economic policies, Martha Mitchell had this advice for American women Saturday: "Go out and spend your money and enjoy yourself." Interviewed in the living room of her Watergate luxury apartment on the Potomac, the wife of Attorney General John N. Mitchell said she was doing her part by ordering eight new dresses from a New York City! designer.

"I think everybody should; have a good time," she said. "Entertain as much as they! want to and buy as much asi they want to, but just keep it ati home. Let's have America for! Americans for a change and! forget the rest of the world." Mrs. Mitchell, returned from a summer vacation in Europe ready to "preach America," and emerged with enthusiasm and some new facts after a two-hour White House meeting i the President held Monday with cabinet members and their; on his efforts to halt; inflation and stimulate economy. "I think that the average housewife should now appre-j ciate that President Nixon's the best friend she's got," Mrs.

Mitchell said. "I think theyj should have a great deal of' faith in this country. "They should be going out and spending their money. We are in a period of prosperity, and all we need is a great deal of confidence because everything's right there-for us." Mrs. Mitchell freely concedes she is no economic expert.

"The only thing I remember is 'the law of diminishing'margin- al The reason I remember the law is because in order to explain it to us they used ice cream sodas and I've always adored chocolate ice cream sodas." rdallas 1 northparkinn motor hotel Car Radio Sales and Service Riney'sTV and Appliance 387-2018 his you'll hivi ts in it t8 believe it. Afi overnight stay or a business meeting will Je enjoyable at Northpark in business ts serve you. 300 Texas size, air-conditioned juest -rooms with direct dial telephone, TV.radio; 13 individus! rooms accornrnodatinglQ to550. (Total meeting for more thin 1000). 2 swimming pools.

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Ample free parking. tytct lOli NORTHPARK INN 9300 N. Dallas, 75231 America's Outstanding Young Women for 1971. Friends and relatives recently visited Mrs. Edgar Davis, who celebrated her birthday.

Gould in Fort Worth recuperating from his July 29th auto accident. Speed Reading Course Set To Begin In Denton Navy Lt. Vincent J. Feuer horn, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Vin- crtit F. Feuerborn of i The Burden, Jones. Var- recently graduatd from Naval Nix and Bums reunion i Destroyer School at Nevrport, i will be held Sunday in the R.I. He is a 1966 North Texas! (Aubrey Community Building, state University graduate. Persons attending will bring a THE FORECAST Snow is forecast for Colorado with rain and showers in the Southern Plains.

Rain is expected from the Middle Missippi Valley through is expected, from the Middle Mississippi Valley through Coast. Temperatures will be slightly warmer in the North Central Plains with little change elsewhere. TEMPERATURES: Atlanta 80, Boston 67, Chicago 63, Cleveland 68, Denver 58, Duluth 56, Denton 76, Jacksonville 87, Kansas City 62, Little Rock Angeles 79, Miami 88, New Orleans 81, New York 68. Phoenix 97, San Francisco 74, Seattle 75, StT-Louis 66 and Washington 74. basket lunch.

The reunion was- begun in the early 1920s by Mrs. Mahulda Burden. Dr. Don Smith of The Board of Directors of the American Red Cross, Denton biological sciences faculty at North Texas State University recently returned from a meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Highlights of the meeting were on symposium on the role of biology in land use policies and a symposium on the use of water.

also heard papers read on botany and statistics. Dr. J. K. G.

i County Chapter, will meet in the Community Room of the the i Denton Coimtv National Bank at 4 p.m. Tuesday. Two Denton residents are attending Kemper Military School and College of BoonvilJe, Mo. They are Donald W. Cotbern, son of Dr.

and Mrs. Forrest W. Cothcrn, a school junior, and bcffrcy W. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Russell Miller, a college sophomore. Miller is beginning his fourth year at Kemper and is now the battalion supply officer. Arrangements have been made to conduct a 21-hour course in speed reading. The course is open to anyone above the age of 13 and guarantees every graduate a reading speed over 1,000 words per minute and with at least a 15 per cent increase in comprehension. After the seven-week program a person can read any- average length book in less than an hour and understand it better.

In addition to speed reading, the course also emphasizes improved study techniques, better test taking skills, and increased concentration and retension abilities. The course requires a person to attend one class per week on the evening of their choice. For those who would like more information, without obligation to enroll, a series of FREE one- hour orientation lectures have been scheduled. These meetings are free to the public and the course will be explained in complete details in- Pollution's Pied Piper It only takes one person or one group within "a city or town to take the lead in a good pollution fight. Just one group or person that knows what it takes to beat the problem.

Like keeping in close touch with local budget and zoning matters; or establishingclean-up or beautification committees; or urging local support for' sewage treatment plants; maybe driving for more trash receptacles and better "street furniture." There's one more thing you can do to start your town's anti-pollution fight: Write for a free booklet, "71 Things You Can Do To Stop Pollution," Box 1771, Radio City Station, New York, New York. People start pollution. People can stop it. eluding entrance requirements, classroom procedures, tuition, class schedule and location. You need to attend only one of the meetings whichever is most convenient for you.

These free one hour orientations will be held in Suite 200. 525 S. Locust, Demon, Texas at the following times: Wednesday, September 22. p.m.: Thursday, September 23, p.m.; Friday, September 24, at 6:30 p.m.; Monday, September 27; at 6:30 p.m. and at the final meeting on Tuesday, September 28, at 6:30 p.m.

The course is offered under the auspices of the Texas. Reading Clinics whose statewide headquarters is here in Denton. The guarantee is a bare minimum as the average graduate ends the course reading between 1,500 and 2,000 words per minute and much better comprehension. This course is also available to industry and other groups upon request. (adv.) Keep America Beautiful Advirtliinc contributid Iff public tood in ceepintlon with fki Advtrtisiqf Council ttit Niwwpir Mvirtitim Cxtcutlvit.