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Classified Pg.C2 Crossword Pg. C6 Horoscopes Pg. C6 Sunday. January 22, 1539 7 i727f to educate psopfa' Ul! mi5 GJIGGQS YkiaV CO 61 I sveal your live awoy touts yov know that they are not alone" and: that there is "a place to go," would; help those with eating she says. Road To Recovery McDannold has been bulimic for nearly five years.

She entered a remission-recovery stage of the disease in 1985. She explains what life is like when you live from one binging-and-purging session to the next swearing every time to yourself, "I'll never, ever do that again," and then living with the guilt of having let yourself down once more, as you do indeed binge-and-purge again, and again, and again, in a cycle that doesn't seem to cure itself, and for reasons you do not fully understand. "Eventually, you give in to self hate," McDannold says, and then life loses its glimmer and shine. Sho Wcnts To Intervene By PATRICK MITCHELL MINI -CASSIA "It's self starvation, and it can result in death," says Debra McDannold, relaxing in her home on Conant Avenue, in Burley, three years after entering into the remission phase of an illness that stole part of her life from her. She sips a cup of almond-vanilla coffee in her tastefully-decorated living room; her young son sleeps 1 quietly in another room.

Talking directly, and candidly, about her five-year bout with bulimia, McDannold paints a self-portrait that is speckled with torment for her past obsession with things she did not fully understand at one time. Eating disorders are for real, and Debra McDannold discusses them with a sincerity that seems admirable when one considers her plight She has suffered from the eating disorder. Bulimia, since 1979. She is recovering now; it has been three years since she had symptoms of the disease. Today, she wants to help other people cope with their eating disorders.

She wants to help Mini-Cassia residents who are afflicted with bulimia, and its cousin eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, to overcome the destructive behavior that the diseases lend themselves to; among those, shame, ill J. V- Mi "I would like to see intervention and prevention programs here, in Cassia and Minidoka counties, in the schools and in the cities. There is a very real need to educate school faculties and staff about eating disorders. I would like to see some support groups put together. "I met with Minidoka School Superintendent Gene Snapp, and I presented a plan to (Minidoka County) principals.

I've had one school counselor call me about a bulimic person already, "I want to help provide education and support I know how very alone these women feel when they face an eating disorder," McDannold said. "I want the individuals who are dealing with eating disorders to know that there are other people here who have eating disorders. I am an individual who can help them. "There's a lack of knowledge in this area, and I don't see any reason why the community cannot be educated about it I am available to-teach them have speken to optimist groups, to groups of women and to groups of men about this. Groups can contact me.

I'll come and speak with them," McDannold said. Providing "support, eduction and treatment options" is important she says, and "letting them ins tiawre DEBHA McDANNOLD- mrmrsh i guilt and self-hate. America Finalist A former top-ten finalist in the 1982 Miss America Pageant McDannold is a very attractive woman. She says she is in a "recovery phase" of bulimia. The emotional and physical trauma of the disease is still in her mind; she says to her and to educate people with eating disorders about what they're up against "I want to educate people.

High school girls, girls who are cute, girls in track, girls in gymnastics and cheer-leaders are especially susceptible to the disease," she says. Murdor caso is an unsolved Idaho mystery POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) Brenda Walker has been searching for clues to her father's mysterious murder for almost two years. She may soon get some help. An NBC camera crew from the program "Unsolved Mysteries" was in Idaho recently, interviewing the Pocatello woman on the baffl wesympm The first two steps to recovery; for people afflicted with eating dis-; orders is to "recognize that it is problem," says McDannold, and; then to "seek treatment for problem." "I was Miss Arizona. I was in' the top ten in the Miss America' Pageant and I was bulimic.

I felt a need to be thin," she says. And that; was enough incentive to make her, try almost anything to do it "I would take from 50 to 60 laxatives a day. I wanted to be in the Miss America padgeant at the; local, state and national level. it was very important for me to; win. "I got worse and worse as time went on.

In march of 1982, 1 got help. I was confined in a mental hospital for one week," she "I learned to control the depression, but I learned nothing about" binging and purging. I went on to become Miss Arizona in June," she: says. "I continued to I made the top ten. I felt lucky to bin in the top ten in the Miss America Pageant But the disease slowed her down.

"I think that if I wouldn't have been concerned with the bulemia at taht time, I would have been a stronger contestant," she says. In 1983, Debra gave up her Miss Arizona Title. I kept purging, and once I attempted suicide. I was in out-patient treatment at that time," she says. Debra also worked as a flight attendant for American Airlines.

"I had two roommates who were bulimic," she said. "It is not uncommon in that Gods Can Ccuso Stress "Often, people set goals that are (Continued on Page C6) or nun no wiui cumuli was won. lWCMy with AC was the bicst THE NATURE OF THINGS by Miriani Spencer 'The world is so full of a number of things 'I'm sure we should all be as happy as of failure," and the belief that "they are inadequate as individuals," and that they "have an unconscious desire to delay the physical maturing of the body" cause some people to pick up the symptoms of eating disorders, McDannold says. And some candidates for the disease are afraid of their body shape changing. And stress can cause the onset of the diseases, too.

"Stress caused by the divorce of one's parents, the death of a parent or loved one, a broken love relationship, and ridicule by others, regarding weight," for instance. Stress in the home, brought by following "patterns set by others in the family, such as ones mother, or sisters," can lend itself to eating disorder behaviors. (A relatively high incidence of anorexia and bulimia is shown to occur in familiar patterns, such as the home environment). And a person with "low self-esteem" is particularly susceptible to (SIP Photo by Patrick eating disorders. SYMPTOMS OF ANOREXIA 1.

Intense fear of becoming fat 2. Disturbance of body image. (i.e. claiming to feel fat even when 3. Refusal to maintain body weight 4.

Loss of menstrual cycle. 5. Psychological obsession with food, resulting in compulsive and destructive eating behavior. SYMPTOMS OF BULIMIA 1. May be slightly underweight, of normal body weight, or overweight 2.

following self-induced vomiting and-or abuse of purgitive agents. 3. Body image disturbance. (May not be as severe as 4. Obsession with food, resulting in compulsive and destructive eating behavior.

d'Alene gal who liked to drive a voiKswagan to tne ski slopes as ot-ten as possible gave me mis one," said Meyer, pointing proudly. It reads: BUG SKI. Others are DEBIT, WINE POPPY and LUCKY all Idaho plates. From Texas, his prizes include: CAT NOl, (an oil driller?) FLY DC3 (probably a pilot) and a lonely cowboy's plate reading: HI CHIC. A Massachusetts plate reads DIVER 1.

And from Montana, Meyer has plates reading SAINT and DIRTY. Some are kind of hard to decipher. He has a Wyoming plate which reads X-RDS. He thinks this could stand for X-rated. Or could it crossroads? Idaho licenses have pushed spuds ever since 1928, when the picture of a huge tuber with "eyes" was embossed on the plate.

Then there was a non-potato lapse of 20 years. And, in 1948 a spud returned to the plate, this one baked and complete with pat of yellow butter. The slogan "World Famous Potatoes" appeared in 1953. In '57, the phrase was shortened to "Famous Potatoes." Eatingxfii BURLEY The prevalence of eating disorders in the 1980's, says Debra McDannold, is "unparalled in medical history." And potential candidates for the disease include "children as young as age seven, and adults in their 30's and 40's," and older. People are most susceptible to the diseases, anorexia nervosa and bulimia, just before or just after puberty, and when an individual is contemplating a move away from home, or has just moved away from home, McDannold reports.

Nationally, she says, nine-out-of-ten cases of anorexia and bulimia are females. There are both biological and psychological explanatins for eating disorders. The biological reasoning suggests that brain tumors, central nervous system lesions, and glandular disorders bring about the symptoms, and that the behaviors associated with the diseases. And, psychologically, "feelings Hang onto could make COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) If you have a 1914 Idaho auto license plate nailed to the wall of your garage, hang onto it. Collector Cecil Meyer, 69, of Post Falls says it's worth real money.

"These plates sell for $1,500 apiece. I found a 1914 Idaho recently in Oregon and I'm trying to buy it," said Meyer. If Meyer gets his hands on it, it'll have plenty of company. The plate will join the 2,500 other automobile license plates and other old auto memorabilia at Meyer's house. His residence is home to an eclectic collection of things right out of Gasoline Alley, including old oil cans, glass gasoline pump globes, motorcycle license plates, outboard motors, a restored 1937 Ford sedan and even vintage gasoline pumps.

"My wife sort of goes along with this," said Meyer. "But she thinks I'm nuts." "I like it," said 69-year-old Meyer with wry grin, serving up excellent coffee he brewed himself. "It sure beats sitting in a chair and looking at television all the time." If collecting license plates seems like an unusual hobby, Meyer you a fortune como doy You flip a switch. Magically there is light in the room. It doesn't seem like magic to you, of course, because you know you started the flow of electricy to the light bulb by doing it But put yourself into the shoes of one of your more distant ancestors.

If that had happened to say in 1850, it wou'd indeed have been magic. They only knew candies and kerosene lights. After that period (that is in the big cities), but before electricty, there were gas lights. Gas jets lighted the homes and streets. Gas was piped into homes just as it is today for heating.

Cities had to hire a man to walk around every evening lighting the outdoor lights with a firs brand. People were comfortable wish their gas lights. When electricty was introduced why should they change. 'After ail it was expensive to install gas, why, only a few years later, go to the expense and bother of chafing over? Thomas A. Edison knew he had to overcome that reluctance if his electric business was to thrive.

He collected every story of gas main explosions, fires and asphyxiatiorts and publicized them far and wide to frighten people out of using gas. It worked. More and more pcopS i switched to his direct current electricity even though it meant having to have a generator in their basement Engineers knew that direct current was not as usable as -current but know one had come up with a AC r.r r. kept up inventing electrical devices all based on C'szzi ctrrcr-t Then came Tesla. Ills Erst job in America was vkcAieg Lr 17 He went to him all ready to build the 'great man' an alt: rratvg cl motor.

Edison wanted nothing to do with it He felt it would 1 all his inventions. Tesla left to work on his own. He patented his first two altemaiin electricity motors in 1887. George Westinghouse bought his patents 1888. He pomised to pay Tesla royalties at the rate of $2.50 per horsepower sold.

(If he had been able to go through with the payments Tesla would have been a billionaire in a few Edison was furious. He felt he had to put a stop to this i 1. meant money out of his pocket He set up some crude electric motors and went to work creating adverse publicity. had worked against the gas companies. It'd surely work with AC a r-rent He payed little boys 25 cents for each cat or dog they What did he do with all those animals? Electrocuted them.

Then he -tributed pamphlets labeled with large letters proclaiming next time it may not be your pet that is electrocuted, it may le cu is "Westinghoused" to death. He gave Saturday afternoon demonstrations to reporters ho came see the animals die. He developed the electric chair for executions to help put a negative picture in people's minds of what AC could do to you. When the Whitchouse was wired for AC electric current in 1891, the President and his family were not allowed to touch the switches. Ed'isca had said it was too dangerous.

Westinghouse perservercd. He got the contract to provide electricty for the 1893 Chicago's World Fair. President Cleveland agreed to turn on the switch. It was a great success. With that behind him Westinghouse got the contract to provide AC innrfrm f- T.nm.n TT, 5 ing circumstances surrounding the 1987 homicide.

The segment which was filmed in Blackfoot Springfield, Buhl and Twin Falls, is scheduled to be aired in early March. Ms. Walker said she had almost given up hope of finding the man who killed her father, 55-year-old Donald Edward Smith, until she was contacted by NBC in September. Now she believes the search will resume. "I'm sure somebody, somewhere has seen this man.

He may live next door to someone," the 31-year-old State Hospital South employee said of the murder suspect "He can change his identity by growing his hair or a beard, but somewhere along the line someone is going to say, 'I know that man." The suspect is a hitchhiker who was traveling with her father. The black male was described as being 5-feet 10-inches tall and weighing 160 pounds. He had short hair, was clean shaven and was wearing sunglasses. A composite sketch of the man was circulated in the Twin Falls, Las Vegas and Denver areas, but police failed to locate him. Ms.

Walker last saw her father in a Springfield bar on May 11, 1987 when he came to visit her during a summer vacation. Ms. Walker was living in Blackfoot at the time. His decomposed body was found two weeks later in a gully northwest of Buhl. The Hemet, resident had been struck on the back of the head with a blunt object.

Smith's pickup truck was found in Denver and his 24-foot travel trailer was found in the parking lot of a Las Vegas casino. The truck had been abandoned (Continued on Page C6) claims it isn't Folks have been collecting them almost since 1903, the date the first license plate was bolted onto a horseless carriage in Massachusetts. Now, there are over 2,500 men and women from every, state collecting them, he said. The Automobile License Plate Collectors Association, which puts out an illustrated magazine, lists a dozen collectors in Idaho. The association recendy awarded a plaque to Gov.

Cecil Andrus because the Gem State's red, white and blue centennial edition was chosen as America's best license plate of 1987. Meyer concentrates on collecting Idaho license plates. He has examples of just about every Idaho motor vehicle plate known, except for that elusive and precious 1914 edition. And he collects the tiny plates used on Idaho motorcycles. Meyer has lots of plates from neighboring states, such as Montana and Washington and the bucking horse plates of Wyoming.

He also has a fine collection of so-called vanity or personal license plates. Some of these can be funny. Others are clever. "A Coeur iuviaiui3 iui iiiuid laiu. ius years later Edison admitted his fight his career.) AC was in ww.