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The April 22. I9SO 6 Wise to exercise Tejas studies design Slti.M 32, shown at left on the Spanish Steps Rome, paints surreal images on in reflective street signs. Using in- dustrial sprays, the Boulder, minimalist painter superimposed a bunch of bananas on the design she painted on a road sign, right. Street signs are meduim ROME Still a flower child in heart and philosophy," American painter Sarah Drennen is roaming the world collecting road signs. For five years, Ms.

Drennen. 32, of Boulder, has been painting surreal images on reflective street signs, using industrial sprays. Her works have been exhibited in various cities in the United Stales. "You can say that I'm literally practicing what I preach: bring the art onto the 1 street and to the people," slit 1 said in an interview. A former fashion model who has painted "all my lile," Ms.

Drennen says the idea of working with an air brush and using street signs as her medium grew, out of hi'i- belief that painting on canvas does not really reach people. "I go to a museum arid it's like a cemetery. Invariably it's deserted. Art should be part of your daily life, but for all practical purposes, viewing paintings! has become an elitist thing," says Ms. Drennen.

Ms. Drennen, who is winding up a globe-girdling lour, says "a wall of ex- dusivism" has separated artists from laymen and removed artists from the main stream of life throughout the world. "It's the same story all over in Amsterdam. Berlin, Madrid, Istanbul, New York, Paris and Seoul," where she has bought and collected road signs. Using bright colors, she paints swirling images often superimposing yellow bananas or red apples on triangular yield signs, no parking squares, one-way arrows and stop circles.

She describes herself as a minimalist painter pursuing the idea of finding the most elementary things that produce artistic effects. Most of her works are so striking in color and design that she says it's "almost impossible" for motorists not to notice them when they drive- by. Ms. Drennen says she is not concerned about people pulling graffiti on her roadside paintings. "II would be interesting.

I am always prepared for graffiti when I.place a piece up, at which point the graffiti will become a part of I he piece. That act of pulting graffiti removes the elitist status of the arlisl," she says. Would paintings on road signs disturb traffic and be Kids never too young for music an imposition on Ihose who are not interesled in lhat type of art? Ms. Drennen concedes that her lype of paintings should nut be put up at busy intersections or other congested areas. But she disagrees that displaying roadside paintings would be an imposition.

"Would you consider these Roman monuments an imposition? I'm sure there are people who couldn't care less a bout them," she says. "The streetside paintings will evoke 'all kinds of arguments and in the process stimulate people. Tension is created in the viewer passing an art image. Ah. what is this? Bananas on a road sign? This shouldn't Ix 1 here, and that thought will lead to a discussion at home and at work, and the people will be talking about art." What began as a "counterculture." she hopes to make a popular culture, she says.

Born in Russellville, Ms.j Drennen studied painting at the University of Alabama, the School of Arts Institute and Marion College in Chicago. She took part in the civil rights movement, helping with black voter registration in Green County, Ala. She now lives in Boulder, where tesides an art studio she and her husband run a yoga school. Tejas Garden Club members studied free-form and abstract designs and the design principle "contrast" during the regular monthly meeting Thursday in the home of Mrs. Roscoe Jones, with Mrs.

V. Earl Jackson, co-hostess. Mrs. J. L.

Jopling, president, presided over the meeting as Jackson displayed a free-form design she had exhibited as a study feature for the Flower Show School the previous day. Using a 27 inch oriental male figure whose hand rested on the head of a small child, she called the design "Mystical Wisdom" because the figurine, dominant as a feature in the design, seemed to be in the quiet of the garden, imparting his knowledge as a philosopher to the child. Giving his concepts of life gathered from the environment, with the road of life portrayed by curved, sculptured pine branches in natural line, with the beauty of life and nature symbolized by the oriental native azalea. She discussed free-form designs as those using plant material in their natural state. Mrs.

Orleta Coston displayed the free-form she had also used in the school, using a smaller oriental figure, bare branch and multi-color tulips in a gold container on a matching base. An abstract design was made by Mrs. Printis Ellis, using a black multi-opening container, tall branches of mitsumata, dried white poinsettia bloom, and pear blossoms, with a smaller fresh white poinsettia bloom. Mrs. Ellis reported on the state convention in San Antonio where the Tejas Garden Club's flower show schedule for 1979 had received an award.

Mrs. Marshall Nichols discussed the design principle of contrast, achieved by placing elements together in such a way as to emphasize differences. Contrast provides variety in a design and can be achieved by a contrasting line, different forms, shapes and sizes, as well as texture and color. Plans were made to attend the April 23 council meeting at the Army Reserve Center, and the yearend luncheon meeting, May 15, at the Golf Club with Mrs. Walter Bassano, Mrs.

Elton LeHew, Mrs. Edgar Wright and Mrs. Nichols hostesses. DEAR DH. LAMB I'm a 2-l-year-okl female and I'm very concerned iilxJiil my health and preventing heart problems.

IVIy grandfather and uncles had histories of heart attacks at very young ages. My father died of a heart attack at age 52. He was in excellent health and had tio previous heart problems. With this family background, I want to do as much as I can lo prevent these. I know thcat exercise and diel are important.

I jog three miles about three limes a week and swim three lo five miles a week. I try to keep as active as possible. Please advise me about a sensible diet, especially Foods thai are wise lo ceil down or avoid. What are the chances of iny developing a heart problem with Hie family background I have? DEAR READER You're wise to take cognizance of your family history. It's true that some families have a tendency to have heart attacks early in life.

You have one big advantage being female. It's uncommon for women during the childbearing years to develop heart disease. The exceptions are women who have diabetes, high blood pressure or kidney disease Lawrence E. Lamb.M.D. usually associated with high blood pressure.

Nevertheless, once a woman passes the child- tearing years, her tendency to develop fatty-cholesterol deposits in the coronary arteries often increases markedly. Eventually, she has just as much of a problem as a man does. You are wise to exercise. The real value of exercise is that it helps in weight control. This, in turn, often helps lo lower cholesterol and blood pressure two important risk factors in causing heart disease.

I'm sending you The Health Letter number 15-4, Diet To Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes. It includes the general principles of low-fat, low-cholesterol diets that people should follow for dietary help in lowering cholesterol to help prevent heart disease. Other readers who want this issue can send 75 cents with a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope for it. Send your Gordon has family buffet request to me, in care of The Paris (Texas) News, P. 0.

Box 1551, Radio City Station, New York, NY 10019. The ultimate measure of whether the steps you're taking to prevent heart disease are successful or not really are the effects your life style has on your risk factors. If your diet and exercise program is adequate for you, you should have a normal or low normal blood pressure with normal or preferably low normal cholesterol level. In addition, of course, you should not smoke but I presume that you don't. In the event that a person's blood pressure and cholesterol or either one remain high after adequate dietary and exercise measures have been initiated, then medicines may be in order.

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Plus SI.75 free pattern coupon. Send for Catalog.127- Afghans 'n' Doilies $1.50 Transfers J1.50 1 J1.50 Originals J1.50 The monthly family buffet was served last week at the Gordon Country Club. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Whitaker, Cae and Jay Crowell, Mr.

and Mrs. Vic Ressler and son, Mr. and Mrs. Verlin Stewart, Mr. and Mrs.

Gene Thielman, Mrs. A.B. Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Don Bonham and Vickie, Sheryl and Brent, Mrs.

Jim Owings and Elizabeth and Marc, Mrs. Mary Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Coker, Mr. and Mrs.

Joel Casey, Mr. and Mrs. William St. John, Mr. and Mrs.

Billy Hurley and Mitzie, Mr. and Mrs. Frank 0' Brien, Mr. and Mrs. Ilendrix, Mrs.

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Sue Beard and Laura, Deanna Shank and Dan Bratton. Sheryl Bonham and Chad Johnson won the door prizes. Methodist circle meets at Bogata Paris News Service BOGATA Circle 3 of the United Methodist Women of Bogata United Methodist Church met recently at the church. Jesse Holmes, chairperson, conducted the meeting which opened with a hymn. Mrs.

W.C. Barnard gave the devotion and prayer. M'rs. Worth Hood presented sketches of "Women in the Bible." Nine members attended. The benediction was repealed in unison.

Textile council sets lectures SIZES 8-20 2 NEW YORK (AP) A program to update textile students and faculty on developments in manmade cellulosic fibers and applications for new rayon- acetate products has been announced by the Rayon- Acetate Council Inc. The 1980 campus Guest Lecturer Program will feature presentations by industry and academic leaders on more than a dozen timely topics, according to Dr. Robert Barker, Clemson University textile professor and chairman of the council. WILMETTE, 111. (AP) Chicago music teacher Margaret Dilmore loves to tell the story of a 5-year-old student who ran away from home taking only his two most prized possessions nis teddy bear and his violin.

A disgruntled prodigy? Not really. Merely an average youngster for whom music is an important part of life, explains Ms. Dilmore. In fact, she adds, this particular child is one of the "older" students in a string instrument program that has 3-year-olds producing recognizable melodies on pint-sized instruments, and loving every minute of it. For Ms.

Dilmore, as for thousands of other music teachers across the country, the "right" age for a child to begin music study is as early as possible. According to the American Music Conference, programming for preschoolers has become an importanl national trend in music education. "There is no longer any question about the importance of musical training for young children," said AMC president Gene Wenner. "Numerous studies have proved that children who are exposed to musical concepts at an early age exhibit not only an above average musical proficiency in later years, but also perform better years, but also perform better than their peers in academic subjects, especially reading." Wenner explains that there are about a dozen different methods for introducing preschoolers to music. "Although the approaches may differ, the basic philosophies of these teaching techniques are similar," he said.

"They all aim at developing the child's innate musical ability, and they all stress rhythmic development. It's the rhythm which helps the children in language skills, vocabulary development and reading." According to the Suzuki method of instruction used by Ms. Dilmore, for example, a young child learns music by absorption, just as he learns to speak. And the sooner the better. "When a child is 2 or 3, we start training the mother on the violin with the child watching," she said.

"We want the child to get excited about playing until he makes the commitment by himself. At age 3, we start working with the child." The mother is requested to be present so that she can help the child with his lessons, or to assist in "translating" the teacher's instructions. "Even toddlers are transfixed by sound and rhythm," Ms. Dilmore said. "Sometimes mothers bring the student's younger brothers and sisters to class.

When their turn for lessons comes, they learn much more quickly than the others, almost as though the music had already been absorbed into their minds and bodies." In Walnut Creek, a city-run arts program incorporates techniques from various instructional approaches for its twice- weekly classes, which are for both children alone, and children with parents. "We start" with basic musical concepts," said program director Cathy Nelson. "The feel of a guitar being played introduces them to vibration, for example. And we play classic music to explain fast and slow, high and low, rhythm, and note values. "In the classes for parents and children, the parents participate on the same level as the children, singing and clapping and playing motion games.

In this way, the parents learn what the children are capable of doing and how to influence them." news Policeman-comedian Man's work is giving! finds laughs at work advice about giving Paris News Service Doug Vaughan of Dallas spent last week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carles Vaughan. Other guests of the Vaughans were Mrs. Lee Holbert and daughter, Dixie of Tecumseh, Okla.

and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Garren of Dallas. Mr. and Mrs.

Ed Underwood, Miss Tom Underwood, Jimmie Underwood were Sunday guests of their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Sontag of Blue Ridge. Mr. and Mrs.

Mack Jeffus of Hooks and Mr. and Mrs. Dean Jeffus of San Antonio spent the weekend here visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Mauldin and baby of Dallas spent the weekend with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lennie Wicks and Mrs. Lydia Mauldin. Mrs.

Leona Crain and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Moulton of Tyler were recent guests of their granddaughter and niece, Mrs. Helen Harper. Mrs.

Edna Kizer of Houston was a guest last week of her mother, Mrs. Lillie Mauldin and other relatives. Mrs. Bess Pope was a recent visitor of her sister, Mrs. J.

N. Quinn and Mr. and Mrs. Winston Clark in Marshall. The Bogata Book Club went on a pilgrimage to Jefferson recently.

Making the trip were Mrs. W. C. Barnard, Mrs. Weldon Smith, Mrs.

Carlton Stanley, Mrs. David Griffin, Mrs. Gordon Allen, Mrs. Iva Hooker, Mrs. G.

H. McCIuer, Mrs. Laurel Sullivan, Mrs. George Pope, Mrs. A.

D. Stephenson, Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. A. Vaughan.

Guests of the cluo participating were Mrs. Glen White, Mrs. Paul Griffin, Mrs. William Rozell, Mrs. W.

S. Cody, Mrs. Ennis Stogner and Miss Cathy Jones. CHICAGO Phil bleeding. was the melting Centracchio laughed when roast leaking down his face, be met the kid who tried to swipe a pot roast by tucking it under his hat.

Then he arrested him. And he chuckled when a police officer confused a can of mace with hairspray and knocked himself out. Then he look the cop to a hospital. Police work and crime, Centracchio says, are often good for a laugh. So when Centracchio leaves his daytime job as a cop and heads to his occasional nighttime job as a comedian, he always has plenty of material.

One day, Centracchio recalls, a guy robbed a couple of gas stations and barricaded himself in an apartment building. "We must have had 200 police around the building," he said. A lieutenant, using a directory that traces phone numbers through addresses, called the apartment, and said, "This is it. I want you to come out in two minutes with your hands Sure enough, Centraechio said, a man came out screaming, "I didn't do it. I didn't do it." The lieutenant had the wrong number.

An officer for 22 years, Centracchio who has spent mosl of his career in Ihe juvenile division has a lot of crime stories, including the one about the pot-roast thief who was stopped by a supermarket cashier who thought his head was Centracchio has no trouble poking fun at serious situations. "Human nature is funny," he said. "Humor can be found in anything." Centracchio was born 45 years ago in a gritly area of ihe city dotted with neigh- bars and bordered by steel mills, where he says, you get "a stain instead of a tan in the summer." During college, Centracchio whose stage name is Phil Rossi began playing and singing with a band. He started doing comedy a few years ago and has performed in clubs from Hawaii to Florida. Bui home still is Chicago, where Centracchio remains loyal to his community, visiting schools as a cop and performing at local fundraisers, often accompanied by his wife, Diane.

He also keeps in touch with some of the roughest kids he met on the job, who are now family men. "They call me up," he said, "and say, 'We've got some rough kids who are throwing rocks at our Cenlracchio says he chides them, saying "The things you did and now you're calling me." And after facing drug abusers, thieves and runaways day after day, Centracchio whose routine includes imitations of Peter Falk as Lt. his comedy appearances are therapy. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) For most of us, a gift is what usually comes along with Christmas or birthday.

For Robert F. Sharpe, the'gifl and how to give it is a way of life. "I have a very enjoyable, fulfilling career," Sharpe, who heads the city's only consulting firm on planned giving, said. "People like to give. It makes them feel good.

And Americans are the most generous people in the world. In 1978 individual Americans gave nearly $40 billion." Sharpe, 53, son of an Arkansas sharecropper, set up Robert F. Sharpe Inc. in 1959 after spending 10 years in the life insurance business. His firm advises non-profit institulions such as colleges, universities, hospitals, retirement centers, youth groups and charitable organizations on how to raise more and larger gifts.

He is also author of several books, including "Before You Give Another Dime" and the "Planned Giving Idea Book." "In my career I've helped institutions raise more than $100 million," Sharpe said in an interview. "We've served more than 2,000 in- stitutions." Sharpe didn't plan lo build his life around the mechanics of giving. "I became interested in it when I became involved with a large Christian organization in Nebraska, where my job was to set up a planned giving program. VtUTUMN YOU 'fvw WklCHWAY Bur BROWNKAN'S RESTAURANT AND CLUB 3805 N.E. Loop 286 784-0628 ANNOUNCES: ALL YOU CAN EAT SALAD BAR CHOICE OF VEGETABLE Every Wednesday Night REGISTERED NURSES LVN'S TEXOMA MEDICAL CENTER M.OO per hour expansion will be Announces Increased Evening and Night Shift Differential per hour per hour Excellent opportunity for experienced RN's and LVN's.

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