Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 110

4C Kingsport Times-News Thursday September 9 1982 Briefly reading? Teen girls still go for boy catchers clubs Pilot Club elects Mrs Cartwright: Eiva Cartwright 1430 Linville St has succeeded Ernestine Morelock as president of the Pilot Club of Kingsport Inc Mrs Cartwright will serve until next June due to Mrs recent relocation Mrs Cartwright attended the convention of Pilot International in Chicago earlier this summer as a representative of the local women's service club lifestyles By ROSE DeWOLF Knight-Rldder Service Last year parents fretted because their young lovelies were reading books with plots centered around incest child abuse and revenge The books Flowers in the Attic Petals on the Wind and If There Be Thorns are paperback novels by (for Virginia) (for Cleo) Andrews and her audience is largely teen-age and female The three books tell the continuing saga of the Dolleng-anger children who when first introduced have been locked in an attic by their weird mother They live there for three years during which time 17-year-old Chris falls for his 14-year-old sister Cathy In the second book the kids escape and Cathy tries to forget her brother by having other affairs including one with her second husband By the third book Chris and Cathy are together again living as husband and wife while her older son gets involved in assorted other strange doings Literary critics called the Andrews books trashy (when they bothered to mention them at all) Some public libraries did not lend them And many parents complained publicly that the stories were and Even so 37 million Andrews books were sold last year alone and continue to sell The publisher Pbcket Books Inc says 60 percent of the buyers were and are teen-age girls Psychologists wondered why this would be so Were adolescents attracted by the idea of being trapped by and breaking away from parents? Was it something to do with growing sexual awareness? Or are they jurt taken with tales that terrify? Salesmen for Dell Publishing Co believe the latter They noticed that teens mostly girls are the best customers for all books of horror why they suggested that their company put out a line of books that would scare the kids without upsetting their parents As a result Dell will be publishing something called Twilight this October These will be scary stories that avoid religious themes minimize the violence and exclude Explicit sex Plot lines dealing with teenagers and sex explicit and otherwise were exactly what caused another brouhaha over the reading habits of the junior high set In that case the author involved was Judy Blume Some parents were aghast when they discovered that in book Deenie junior high school girls pass around a book on sex and ask questions like: What does sexual intercourse feel like? They were ever more outraged about Forever in which the teen-age heroine goes to bed with a boy and then instead of dying from shame or childbirth goes off to college Teens are still reading Blume Some parents are still complaining Which brings us to this controversy At the recent American Library Convention in Philadelphia there was a debate about whether librarians should aid and abet teen-age girls in obtaining paperback romances The particular paperbacks popular this year are emphatically innocent romantic tales featuring a teen-age heroine She is usually a small-town girl of 15 or 16 The boy involved is usually older maybe 17 They meet they kiss all) and the Big Question is: Will they end up going steady? (The answer is usually yes) Even when the plot is more complicated not by much One book tells of Marcy who has known good old Brian since she was a toddler She is dazzled by Roy the sophisticated stranger from the big city But in the end she realizes that Brian is a better bet Another is about Beth who gets a crush on her young good-looking English teacher worry They part as Beth goes off to college and also no doubt to a more meaningful relationship What fault could a librarian find in such fare you ask? Well according to Evie Wilson a Tampa Fla librarian and president of the Young Adult Service Division of the American Library Association some oppose the books because they Others are uncomfortable with their common message that the only goal for a girl is a guy The Council on Interracial Books for Children has called the books sexist But most librarians Wilson insists share her own view that it is better for young people to read than not to read And if these books lure teens into reading then other failings must be forgiven (The librarians incidentally tend to agree with her critics about Andrews but generally defend Blume Cuyahoga County Ohio librarian Vivian Wynne claims most of the Blume uproar was stirred by a of parents) But it seems plain that whether the debate is about an innocent romance a not-so-innocent romance or a downright horrible romance the fact remains that all of these contretemps involve teen-age girls not boys According to Christy Tyson of the Spokane Wash library teen-age boys read adult adventures mysteries sports stories and science fiction In other words boys want to read about men catching crooks spies and spaceships Girls (still) want to read about girls catching boys As to why there are no controversies raging over what boys read Wynne believes it is "because boys read a greater diversity of books than the girls There are books aimed specifically at boys that are criticized by librarians she says The Conan the Barbarian series for example And the same parents who are upset about the Judy Blume books may also be upset about JD Catcher in the Rye But somehow when it comes to teen-age males no one trend seems to loom large enough to get much attention Walking most popular sport: Walking is a nice sport Other than decent shoes you need a lot of fancy coordinated gear or costly equipment It bother your ears or your knees like swimming and running and you need to pay for an expensive court or battle crowds at a health club All of which has combined to make walking No 1 activity according to American Health magazine More than 5 million Americans walk to and from work without depending on cars or public transportation according to United States Census data Always a solution: This story evidentally has made the rounds but it just goes to show that creativity sometimes pays off it seems that an unnamed university professor somewhere out West was fed right up to there with the whims and of her department chairman When the last straw finally came she scanned the help-wanted ads in the Chronicle of Higher Education the Chronicle reports although she herself did not feel in a position to leave After studying the ads she decided which openings would be most suitable for her unpopular supervisor She then secretly copied the resume and shipped copies of it off to various academic search committees Then I just waited and hoped and prayed they liked this creep enough to take the she is quoted as saying Evidently someone did and is now a highly placed official at another institution out of state Problem solved and everyone lives happily ever after No cooking in space: Even the Russian male is feeling the sting of liberation these days Although the official reason for sending a woman to join the cosmonauts on Salyut 7 was because presence of a woman exerts an enobling effect on the microclimate of the small the cosmonauts thought there might be another reason No they thinking of a little cosmic hanky-panky or at least they talking about it if they were According to Aviation Week Space Technology the formerly all-male crew thought it was gaining a built-in cook and bottle washer Station commander Anatoly Berezovoy greeted Svetlana Savitskaya with a terrarium of flowers and the suggestion that she cook meals for all five cosmonauts But the answer was a quick Savitskaya pointed out details are the responsibility of the host and went about her assigned business Kingsport clubs host to Spartanburg woman BE A FOOL SUDS YOUR DUDS WHERE COOL! new Center St not only a fine dry cleaner but we are Kingsport's most comfortable coin laundry vided for both the luncheon and the coffee Call Melinda Cox 245-6025 or Becky Boyd 288-5668 for nursery reservations These meetings are interdenominational have no formal membership and are open to all women THE CLEANING CENTER 246-5943 1505 Ft Henry Dr (grand opening Or 4 Shoe-a-Rama Church Hill Shopping Center Church Hill TN 357-3561 Mon-Fri Sat Try the most comfortable shoe ever worn for a 10 DAY WALK TEST Women get their own Jockeys: One of the biggest names in underwear has decided to er well not exactly get into women's underwear but at least to start marketing a line for women Jockey International has decided that most underwear is simply impractical and is therefore introducing its own line of basic cotton briefs called Jockey for Her according to Daily News Record Video games go X-rated: something that society have gone on much longer without the X-rated video game There have been a number of X-rated programs and nteractive games for home computers so dirty electronics is nothing new But this is supposedly the first line for the once-innocent programmable video games which have always been the domain of sports and chase games and watered-down arcade games such as Donkey Kong and Pac-Man Advertising Age reports that MystiqueSwedish Erotica will market a number of games with titles such as "Bachelor and and others too clever to print blame the sun entirely: The sun the only villain in the rapid increase in skin cancer the last 30 years reports Science News magazine The bad news from researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is that there could be a strong link between melanoma a particularly vicious form of skin cancer and office fluorescent lights According to researcher Valerie Beral and her colleagues their Australian studies show a doubling in skin cancer risk among people who work under fluorescent lighting with the risk increasing with duration of exposure Bad news bees: bad news for beekeepers in sunny California It seems that bee-napping has been increasing in the state at an alarming rate according to Produce News Thefts not only wreak havoc with the bee industry they also hurt the agricultural industry because many of the purloined insects are working bees that pollinate crops Bee rustlers are being warned that their crimes are being compared with cattle rustling of yore although to date no one has been strung up for raiding a hive Postglacial rebound shakes: Boston residents were roused Jan 9 when they felt the tremblings Of a distant earthquake originating hundreds of miles away in New Brunswick Canada It registered on the Richter scale and seismologists are certain nothing stronger had hit the northeast in decades Why it hit the northeast at all is what puzzles them The most popular theory for East coast quakes is the postglacial rebound theory which holds that the Northeast is still recovering from the last ice age The ice has obviously receded but the ground is still springing back and cracking Thus quakes Betcha know: The calories burned in one hour of running could bring roughly seven quarts of water to a boil Some snakes can strike accurately without ever seeing hearing or smelling their luckless victims Sensory organs located on either side of the creatures' head enable them to detect and locate prey by the body heat alone Every second the sun consumes about eight times the mass of a 1500 foot super tanker the largest ship ever built The process releases about a billion times more energy than a 100-megaton thermonuclear bomb How light is air? Not very In a moderate-sized furnished office with room for 25 employees the air can weigh nearly as much as the staff Fireflies may aid heart disease: Unpalatable chemicals in fireflies that deter the predators may someday help people with heart disease And one pharmaceutical company has already begun investigations The chemicals that give fireflies an awful taste protect them from hungry enemies like the thrush and jumping spider If the chemicals are swallowed inadvertently they are quickly regurgitated Cornell University researchers have discovered that the protective compounds are related to certain heart-stimulating drugs currently used to treat cardiac patients DUSTY 12099 The Impala Mrs Tom Beal Spartanburg SC will sing and speak at the September meeting of the Kingsport Christian Club and the After Five Club Mrs Beal has lived abroad and traveled extensively in Europe She returned to Europe in 1979 and 1980 to speak to Christian Women Clubs in Italy Switzerland and Germany She is presently a regional representative in South Carolina for Stonecroft Ministries and is a member of its national board of directors A native Illinoian she attended Bryan College Dayton Tenn and is the mother of three children The After Five Club will meet for a buffet dinner at 6:15 pm Sept 14 at the Holiday Inn The special feature will be about sculptured dolls Joyce May will present the music Reservations are binding and will be accepted until 5 pm Sept 11 Cancellations will be accepted until 5 pm Sept 12 Call Thelma Morrison 246-7277 or Ann Milam 323-8604 after 5 pm The Christian Club will meet at 12:15 pm Sept 16 for a luncheon at the Ridgefields Country Club The special feature will be given by Babs Chapin and Sue Wells of Balloonacy They will demonstrate the fun of sending greetings by balloons Reservations must be made or canceled by Wednesday noon Sept 15 Unused reservations not canceled must be honored Call Marth Fuller 349-4286 Lela Cole 245-6892 or Dee Lawton 239-8152 A prayer coffee will be Sept 10 9:30 am at the home of Mrs Frank Kelly 2120 Heather-ly Road A free nursery is pro- Pre-natal classes at Sevier Center The Kingsport Parks and Recreation Department has announced the addition of a new eight-week class in pre-natal exercise to be Thursday evenings at the Sevier Recreation Center beginning Sept 23 The exercise program is based on gentle yoga techniques that are beneficial for increasing circulation imprdving concentration and relaxation It is designed for the entire nine months and includes a post-par-tum tone-up Discussion topics include nutrition anatomy and emotional aspects hosptial procedure breastfeeding and La-maze Method of Childbirth Husbands are invited to attend the discussion portion of these classes The fee is $25 per person per eight-week class plus a $3 nonresident fee where applicable Classes will meet 7-9 pm Instructor is Pamela Gilmer For more information call the Parks and Recreation Department 246-8165 Ladies register for leather pocketbook to be given away free of any obligations Men register for shoe shine kit to be given away We sell the best lor a little less Self service store but Eddie and Carolyn Larkin owners will be happy to be of service charm step SHOES SHOES If you are not aatlafledthat our thoM are the beet fitting and moat comfortable shoes you have ever worn bring them back and refund your money! health Protein may stop overeating: a small protein produced tiy the intestine when it is full of food may help keep obese people from overeating The substance is called cholecystokinin and is apparently the body's most effective own appetite suppressant Recent tests by Cornell University psychologist show that people given small doses of the protein during meals consumed less food 4nd spent less time eating than they did when given a placebo Further studies will examine whether cholecystokinin can have a significant long-lasting effect on eating habits Edited by Bill Williams from staff and wire reports MATTIE 799 Wear a pair and see why charm step Is breaking sales tecords I 4.