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CAPITAL 150 women catch up on consumer affairs Crofton Women's Club hears Esther Peterson CONSUMER AWARENESS Esther Peterson, consumer advisor to the president of Giant Foods, is presented a basket of goodies by Betty Carr, outgoing president of Crofton Women's Club and Karen Austin, incoming president. Naomi Watkins is married Mr. and Mrs. McKinley Watkins- of Mayo Road, TOTAL IIMK 1 1 WOMEN MEN i REGISTERED EiKTROlOGiSrS FREE CONSUU4TION BY APPOINTMENT mEMBER M.E.A. 768-0800" MERU NORMAN COSMETICS Edgewater announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Naomi Elizabeth Watkins, and Elder Danile K.

Johnson of Brooklyn Park, son of Mrs. lillie Johnson of Andrews, S.C. Bishop Leslie Owens performed the ceremony in the House of Prayer Church at West River. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a light blue gown and carried a white bible topped with orchids. The matron of honor.

Mrs. Ruth Izetta Pinkney, chose a pink gown and carried a bouquet of pink and white tulips. The best man was William Pinkney. Ushers were Wilbur Makeil, John Watkins, Reginald Pinkney and Roy Campbell. The reception was held at the home of Bishop and Mis.

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Johnson as well as head of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor, Mrs. Peterson told more than 150 women present that she is "not an expert and not an economist." "My degree was in physical education," she confessed. "When Kennedy was President, he asked me to be his assistant on consumer affairs," she said, "and I told him I wasn't qualified. He said that 1 was in a good position to be aware of coasumer problems and should try it anyway." Recalling her first White House press conference, Mrs. Peterson said she told reporters she wanted to make the best practices of marketing the common practices of marketing.

"I told them I would use my own experience and depend greatly on ideas from the public. They asked me if I meant letters and I said, 'Yes, "That was on Friday. When I arrived Monday, there were boxes and boxes and boxes of letters, and that was just what I needed to get started." Mrs. Peterson said she hsd no secretary at the White House and was forced to ask friends to come in and help sort the letters. "One of my first concerns was packaging," she said.

"That got started when I was shopping with my daughter and she took out her slide rule and started figuring things out. She said she never go shopping without her rule and that encouraged me to try to get a packaging bill through Congress. "The roof would fall in if we told people how much they were paying for quantities they're getting. There's a certain kind of bread crumb seasoning people buy that costs about $1.57 a pound, but of course, you do get a plastic bag thrown in with the deal. It's a great seasoning, and if you want to use it, fine, but 1 just want you to know what you're doing." Mrs.

Peterson said she is frequently asked how she can be a consumer advocate working for a food company. "All I can answer is that I am," she said. "This job with Giant is one of my favorite jobs. I want to be a consumer advocate on the inside." "1 get so ticked off when I see people buying all those expensive items," she said. "I don't condemn expensive foods, but they have to be worth it.

"I have won one battle. We have unit pricing at our stores now. Unit pricing gives the price by amount, so it's up to you to make the quality decision, knowing what you're paying for. We have little stickers on the shelves giving the unit prices. It's not as good as I'd like it to be.

The type is small." Giving examples of how unit pricing can assist the consumer. Mrs. Peterson said paper napkins range in price from 46 cents to 14 cents for packages of 100. "This is an expensive way to buy tomato juice," she said lifting a four-ounce can of juice from a basket filled with canned goods that members of the Crofton Women's Club had created as a centerpiece for the head table. She said Giant Foods is currently working on making open toting available on their products.

"We want to put dates on goodi in simple terminology," she said. "Not things like L-2-20 or other fancy but something like 10-3, meaning October 3, after which we would not sell that product. "What I'm working toward is to have at the point of purchase, the information the intellegent consumer wants to know. We're not pushing just for Giant. We want everyone to do these things, but since we're smaller, we do try harder." Mrs.

Peterson said her company is also pushing for percentage labeling on products. "This would increase competition for quality," she said. "Take soft drinks for instance, they're made up of nothing more than sugar, water and artificial coloring. The best drink is orange juice. 1 just don't think people should be buying these things and not know what they're getting.

"Nutrition labeling is the most exciting thing we've gotten started," she continued. "The FDA says now that food cornpiiies can do this voluntarily. The most heavily advertised foods are those that are the least nutritious. Chicken is better than beef nutritionally, and chuck beef is just as nutritious as sirloin steak -you pay for the difference in flavor and tenderness." At this point in Mrs. Peterson's speech, members of Crofton Women's Club became so interested that they nearly drowned her out with comments of their own.

"You must look carefully at the labels on products and find out what you're getting," Mrs. Peterson continued. "If the consumer is not concerned, our efforts will never be worthwhile." ELDER AND MRS. DANIf I K.JOHNSON Patricia Schroader marries T.E. Dietz; Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel Schroader of Dexter, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Patricia Ann Schroader, to Theodore Emmens Dietz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore A. Dietz of Arnold.

The Rev. Joseph Skelton received their wedding vows in a ceremony performed at the Independence United Methodist Church of Dexter. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a gown of satin and cathedral length veil. She carried a bouquet of white roses and ivy. The matron of honor was Mrs.

Charlotte Nicholas, sister of the bride. The bridesmaids were Marian Dietz, sister of the bridegroom, and Sheilah Nicholas. The attendants chose gowns of pink satin accented with rose trimming and each carried a single red rose. The best man was Harry Van Meter, cousin of the bridegroom. Ushers were Rodney Nicholas and Danny Schroader.

The reception was held at the Murray Holiday Inn. The couple is on a motor tour from Kentucky to Maryland. The bride attended Murray State University. The bridegroom was graduated from Severna Park High School and has completed a tour of duty with the U.S. Air Force, He is presently employed with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

Teach chess to children ByJOYSTILLEY PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. AP Five-year-olds are perfectly capable of learning to NOW AWAKING CHARLIE BYRD year old King of France Tavern ANNAPOUS Dinner. Show play chess and, in fact, that is the best age to start them out, says teen-age chess expert Eric Schiller, who serves as a volunteer teacher to kindergarten youngsters. "The earlier they learn to play chess the more beneficial the ability will be," he says. "Chess playing helps develop more logical reasoning processes and helps them to think" ffiore clearly and evaluate decisions better." The 17-year-old senior at Schreiber High School tore teaches the fundamentals of the game to kindergarteners at the Flower Hill Elementary School.

He is a volunteer to HELP Help FRIGHTENED BY THE RECEPTION YOU'LL GET WHEN YOU APPLY FORA GOODJOB? Improve your, skills Educate Little People, a program that places high school students in an assistant teacher capacity in elementary schools. "I asked for the younger children because I feel they're easier to work with and there's more you can teach someone young," says Schiller. "I've always had the idea of introducing chess to kids and felt (he best place was on the kindergarten level. "I learned at that age and Cobby Fischer did and so did most of the other players I have come in contact with," he continues. -'In the United States it may seem early but in the Soviet Union it's normal." Schiller, who gets half unit credit per term for working five days a week with his young students, starts out by introducing the pieces one a a time and letting the kids become thoroughly familiar with how each moves.

One 6- year-old has already played in an under-13-year-old tournament. "I give them general principles that get them going," he explains. "They use basically the same opening all the time, but they are beginning to get some attacking schemes down and occasionally get into some defensive things." The youth lists int and a "very competitive instinct" as major prerequisites for the game. Though an aptitude for math often is not apparent at that age, he adds that the child who plays good chess will be good in math. Schiller recalls that from the time he was 4 or 5 he played chess with his father or guests in a casual way.

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Judith Worley recites vows The First Presbyterian Church of Annapolis was the setting for the wedding of Miss Judith K. Worley, daughter of Lt. Col. Thomas G. Worley, USA (ret.) and Mrs.

Worley, to Ensign Leander Leon Hingle son of Mrs. Leander Hingle of Galveston, Texas, and the late Mr. Hingle. -'The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Window Shaw.

pastor. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a gown of ivory taffeta, fashioned with a high collar, puffed sleeves, and empire waist. The three tiered ruffle around the bottom of the hem extended into a short train. Her chignon was entwined with sweetheart roses and she carried a bouquet of bridal roses and gardenias. The maid of honor was Marjory Semple.

She chose an empire styled gown of peach and gold print, designed with a ruffled collar and puffled sleeves. She wore sweetheart roses in her hair and carried a bouquet of peach colored sweetheart roses. Ensign Gregory B. Dies was best rim Ushers were James B. Worley and Patrick T.

Worley, brothers of the bride. The reception was held at the Naval Academy Officers and Faculty Club. The couple is living in Pensacola, since their return from a wedding trip to Gatlingburg, Tenn. The bride is a graduate of Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. The bridegroom is a 1971 graduate of the Naval Academy and is presently in flight school training.

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