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D4 LIFE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010 DECATUR, ILLINOIS www.herald-review.com Minority births on track to become majority WASHINGTON (AP) Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the United States, part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years. In fact, demographers say this year could be the "tipping point" when the number of babies born to minorities outnumbers that of babies born to whites. The numbers are growing because immigration to the United States has boosted the number of Hispanic women in their prime childbearing years. Minorities made up 48 percent of U.S.

children born in 2008, the latest Census estimates available, compared to 37 percent in 1990. "Census projections suggest America may become a minority-majority country by the middle of the century. For America's children, the future is now," said Kenneth Johnson, a sociology professor at the University of New Hampshire who researched many of the racial trends in a paper being released today. Johnson explained there now are more Hispanic women of prime childbearing age who tend to have more children than women of other races. More white women are waiting until they are older to have children, but it is not vet known whether that will have a noticeable effect on the current trend of increasing minority newborns.

The numbers highlight the nation's growing racial and age divide, seen in pockets of communities across the United States, which could heighten tensions in current policy debates from immigration reform and education to health care and Social Security. There are also strong implications for the 2010 population count, which begins in earnest next week, when more than 120 million U.S. households receive their Census forms in the mail. The Census Bureau is running public service announcements this week to improve its tally of young children, particularly minorities, who are most often missed in the once-adecade head count. The campaign features Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer, the English- and Spanish-speaking Nickelodeon cartoon character who helps "mommy fill out our Census form." The population figures are used to distribute federal aid and redraw legislative boundaries with racial and ethnic balance, as required by federal law.

"The adults among themselves sometimes forget the Census is about everyone, and kids should be counted," said Census Bureau director Robert Groves. "If we fail to count a newborn that is born this month, that newborn misses all the benefits of the Census for 10 years." Whites currently make up two-thirds of the total U.S. population, and recent Census estimates suggest the number of minorities may not overtake the number of whites until 2050. Right now, roughly 1 in 10 of the nation's 3,142 counties already have minority populations greater than 50 percent. But 1 in 4 communities have more minority children than white children or are nearing that point, according to the study, which Johnson co-published.

That is because Hispanic women on average have three children, while other women on average have two. The numbers are 2 2.99 children for Hispanics, 1.87 for whites, 2.13 for blacks and 2.04 for Asians in the U.S. Two supercentenarians in U.S. die on same day WESTMORELAND, N.H. (AP) Two of the oldest people in the world have died on the same day.

Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, died Sunday at age 114 years, 294 days. She died at a nursing home in Westmoreland but was active until about two weeks before her death, her granddaughter Katherine Ray said. "She just enjoyed life. She never thought of dying at all," Katherine Ray said. "She was planning for her birthday party." Continued from D3 Gallington OBLONG James Leroy Gallington, 87, West Milton, Ohio, formerly of Oblong, World War II Army veteran and farmer, died Tuesday (March 9, 2010).

Services: ARMY 10:30 a.m. Friday, Pulliam Funeral Home, Oblong. Visitation: 9 a.m. until services. Burial: Oblong Cemetery, with military rites.

Memorials: Crawford County Humane Society. Send condolences: www.oblongfuneralhome.com. Manuel TOLONO- Delmar G. Manuel, 89 of Tolono, IL. passed away at 7:30 P.M.

on Thursday, March 4, 2010 at the Douglas Rehabilitation and Care Center, Mattoon, IL. ARMY Visitation was held on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 from 2:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M. at the Mount Hope Mausoleum Chapel, 611 E. Pennsylvania Champaign, IL.

Funeral services followed at 3:00 P.M. The Pastor Mark Smith officiated. Entombment was in the Mount Hope Mausoleum. Memorial contributions can be made to the American Cancer Society or the Champaign County Humane Society. Delmar was born on July 6, 1920 in Wheeler, IL.

a son of Elbert and Elizabeth Spelbring Manuel. He married Velda Mae Gossman on February 14, 1940 in Henderson, KY. and she died on February 12. 1991. Surviving children include Gary (Ann) Manuel of Mt.

Zion, Loretta (Charlie) Hopkins of Davenport, Florida, Ronald Manuel of Champaign, IL and Cheryl (Jim) Stewart of Champaign, 10 Grandchildren, 12 Great-Grandchildren and 2 Great-Great-Grandchildren. Also surviving is a brother-Burl Manuel of Tolono, IL. He was preceded in death by his parents. Delmar worked for Meadow Gold Ice Cream from 1941 to 1958. Delmar served in the United States Army as a MP in WWII stationed in Hawaii.

After his time in the military he moved back to Champaign in 1959 and bought Manuel Sanitary Hauling Route where he worked until he retired on July 1, 1986. He was a former resident of Neoga from 1991- 2007. He was a member of the Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church, Champaign, IL. Roux-Hinds Funeral Home, 348 N.

Piatt Bement, IL has been entrusted with the family's loved one for Delmar's services. Obituary written by family members. Online guest book at www.legacy.com/heraldreview/Obituaries.asp 4iJ Actress Nan Martin had fond memories of Decatur By BOB FALLSTROM Community News Editor Nan Martin left Decatur when she was 5 years old when her family moved to California during the Great Depression. A noted stage, film and TV actress, she died March 4 at age 82 at her home in Malibu. She visited Decatur at least once after becoming established in the theater.

She was a student at UCLA in California when she was chosen for a role in a campus production, launching her career. Her Broadway debut was in 1950. She returned to Decatur i in 1967 when she was starring in "The Subject Was Roses" at the Gateway Theater in St. Louis. She said she accepted the part because St.

Louis was within driving distance of Decatur and she had always wanted to return here. "My father didn't really want to leave," she was quoted. "He was driven west like so many other people by the Depression. He had a German band when we lived in Decatur, and I remember one time, he serenaded me while I stood at a window upstairs in our house. "I was just like a kid when I found out I was really coming to Decatur," she said.

"The cast of 'The Subject Was Roses' kidded me about being so excited." She remembered Pugh School and Millikin University and Grover Jenkins, who manufactured percussion musical instruments. "The reason I remember Pugh School," she said, "was because my father, Clarence, ran a little malt shop, The Blue Goose, across the street. Every day, the school kids would come in for chili and malts." During her Decatur visit, she spoke to Theatre 7 members and was given a tour of the city. Perhaps her most memorable film role was in 1969 as Ali McGraw's snobbish mother in "Goodbye, Columbus." Beginning in 1955, she had dozens of TV roles. 421-7981 Ray died just hours before Daisey Bailey, who was years, 342 days, said L.

Stephen Coles, a director of the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks and studies old people and certifies those 110 or older, called supercentenarians. "It's very rare that two of our supercentenarians die on the same day," Coles said. Bailey, who was born March 30, 1896, died in Detroit, he said. She had suffered from dementia, said her family, which claimed she was born in 1895. Ray, even with her recent OBITUARIES Kelly SHOBONIER Brenda Jean Kelly, 55, Shobonier, former city police assistance employee, died Sunday (March 7, 2010).

Memorial services: 11 a.m. Thursday, Miller Funeral Home, Vandalia. No visitation. Burial: Griffith Cemetery, Brownstown. Memorials: Crossroads Cancer Center, Effingham, or Fayette County Hospital second-floor cancer unit, Vandalia.

McDivitt ASHMORE Loleta M. McDivitt, 85, Ashmore, died Tuesday (March 9, 2010). Graveside services: 10 a.m. Saturday, Enon Cemetery, Ashmore. No visitation.

Arrangements by: CaudillKing Funeral Home, Charleston. Memorials: Coles County Animal Shelter or Enon Baptist Church. Menin NOKOMIS Larry L. Menin, 77, Nokomis, barber, died Tuesday (March 9, 2010). Services: 10 a.m.

Friday, St. Louis Catholic Church, Nokomis. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sutton Funeral Home, Nokomis, with 7:45 p.m. wake service.

Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Nokomis. Send condolences: sutton memorialhome.com. Member: St. Louis Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus. Survivors: wife, Shirley; son, Frank Menin, Gilbert, daughters, Teresa Stephens, Nokomis; Tamra Stone, Springfield; sister, Olga Vittone, New Lenox; five grandchildren; one greatgrandchild.

Preceded by: parents, one son, two brothers and one sister. Online guest book at www.legacy.com/heraldreview/Obituaries.asp 2lJ Trimble HINDSBORO Eleanor Trimble, 85, Hindsboro, died Monday (March 8, 2010). Services: 1 p.m. Friday, Edwards Funeral Home, Arcola. Visitation: two hours before services.

Burial: Van Voorhis Cemetery, Hindsboro. Memorials: Hindsboro United Methodist Church. BIRTHS Decatur Memorial WEYMAN, Nichole, Decatur, boy, March 5. St. Mary's RUSSELL, Sharee, Decatur, girl, March 2.

MANNS, Cameron and Tania (Mora), Decatur, girl, March 3. RENKEN, Jonathon and Denise Purcell, Forsyth, boy, March 3. SIBLEY, Clennon and Anejhia Doss, Decatur, boy, March 5. decline. managed an interview with a reporter last week, her granddaughter said.

Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second-oldest in the world, the Gerontology Research Group said. She also was recorded as the oldest person ever to live in New Hampshire. The oldest living American now is Neva Morris, of Ames, Iowa, at age 114 years, 216 days. The oldest person in the world is Japan's Kama Chinen at age 114 years, 301 days. Ray was born May 17, 1895, in Bloomfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

She moved to the United States at age 3. She lived for 60 years in Anson, Maine. She lived in Florida, Massachusetts and elsewhere in New Hampshire before she moved to Westmoreland in 2002 to be near her children. Ray's husband, Walter Ray, died in 1967. Survivors include two sons, eight grandchildren, 13 greatgrandchildren and five greatgreat Morris, the Iowa woman now believed to be the oldest U.S.

resident, lives in a care center. Fawcett omission from Oscars no accident LOS ANGELES (AP) The executive director of the film academy said Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star. Bruce Davis said it was a difficult decision for the committee that assembles the segment to omit Fawcett and that he's not surprised that some fans and family members are upset. Fawcett and actor Gene Barry were omitted from the necrology sequence. Davis said he and his colleagues thought the two were best known for their "remarkable television work" and would be more appropriately honored by the television academy at the Emmy Awards.

Condition appears to be bladder infection, but isn't Dear Dr. Donohue: I have suffered with interstitial cystitis for the past four years. A urologist treated me for two years by instilling heparin into my bladder. He dismissed me by saying, "I don't want to see you again." Unbelievable, but true. I am at my wits' end with having to urinate so frequently.

Is there anything that can be done for this condition? J.M. Urgently and constantly running to the bathroom to empty the bladder is the principal sign of interstitial cystitis. Painful urination is another sign. It can make intercourse uncomfortable. Many women have seen doctor after doctor and have been treated for bladder infections, when the actual problem is interstitial cystitis.

It often takes years before a light comes on to a doctor who finally makes the correct diagnosis. It's something that can happen to men, but women are the predominant victims. Something disrupts the protective layer of the bladder's surface. Irritating substances in the urine bathe the bladder surface to cause the symptoms. Helpful in making the diagnosis is a direct look into the bladder with a scope and finding changes typical of interstitial cystitis.

One way to treat it is through dietary changes. Eliminate any food that seems to make matters worse. Acidic foods are the ones most often not tolerated. Citrus fruits and juices, tomatoes, chocolate, carbonated beverages, coffee, tea and alcohol frequently appear on lists of foods to avoid. Prelief tablets buffer the acidity of food.

This product is made by AkPharma: 1-800- 994-4711 and on the Web at www.akpharma.com. Elmiron capsules (prescription required) have helped many. Bathing the bladder with heparin is another often-used treatment. It hasn't worked for you. Elavil, an antidepressant, can control pain.

Rather than listing all the medicines used, let me direct you to the Interstitial Cystitis Association at 1-800-435-7422 or online at www.ichelp.org. The association can provide you with the latest information on treatment and with valuable tips on control. NUTRITION 10 PAUL DONOHUE By SAM McMANIS allowance of vitamin is 15 McClatchy Tribune News Service Writer mg, but you need less if you Have you given much exercise vigorously or have thought to vitamin Did- sun exposure. n't think so. Not to worry: Despite the average per- 4.

Eating 1 ounce sunof flower seeds will meet the son's indifference, this potent antioxidant contindaily requirement. ues its valiant struggle 5. Studies have shown against those harmful free that skin fortified creams radicals. with vitamin are ineffecTake our true-false quiz on tive in improving skin vitamin E. appearance.

1. Deficiencies in vitamin ANSWERS can cause sensory neu- 1: true; 2: true; 3: false ropathy, a loss of feeling in (you need more vitamin if the hands and feet. exercise to extremes or you are exposed to the sun or 2. Deficiencies in vitamin smoke); 4: true; 5: false are rare. Sources: About a Linus Pauling Institute Research Report; 3.

The recommended daily University of Florida Extension. COLLEGE GRADUATES Area students receiving Emden: Andrew DeJarnette degrees from universities, Lincoln: Chelsay Browning colleges and technical Macon: Joseph Carr schools: Ramsey: Krystal Rhodes Toledo: Katie Black, Stephanie Elmhurst College Deters Decatur: Kathryn Alexander, Courtney Castelli, Seth Durbin, Carroll College, Helena, Mont. Paige Tsuda, Tyler Wernecke Oakley: Tyler Phelps Nutty confusion Dear Dr. Donohue: I am 75 and in good health. I love nuts, groundnuts being my favorite.

For years I have eaten my oatmeal with flaxseed, oat bran, six or eight prunes and a small handful of walnuts. I hear almonds are better for you than walnuts, and now they say pistachios are the best. Please set the record straight. It's about to drive me nuts. B.W.

Most nutty experts put walnuts in first place. They've been shown to reduce heart disease. Other nuts are just about as good almonds, macadamias, pistachios and peanuts. It seems to me to be a matter of preference. About groundnuts, I am ignorant.

In some parts of the country, peanuts are called groundnuts. But there is another kind of nut that sprouts from the roots of a plant called Apios americana and is called: a groundnut. I don't know if this qualifies as a real nut with the same benefits of those I mentioned. The sound of music Dear Dr. Donohue: Please address musical ear syndrome and its causes and remedies.

I have a 93-yearold friend who hears music playing, but no one else hears it. His doctors haven't heard of this syndrome. My friend is afraid to tell others out of fear of being institutionalized. J.T. Musical hallucinations, hearing a song or a series of songs or music almost without stop, afflicts more people than you might think.

Many of them have poor hearing. Dulled hearing puts a person in a soundproof environment. Background noise that assaults our ears constantly suppresses sounds that the brain generates on its own. That's one explanation for musical hallucinations. A hearing aid might do away with the music.

Having a radio playing, day and night, is another way to drown out the inner music. Medicines that reduce anxiety can help afflicted people get to sleep. When this topic comes up, readers write about loose dental fillings capturing radio waves and broadcasting them to the brain. Repairing those fillings, they say, stops the music. Dr.

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Our goal is to include as many essays as possible from people in the communities we serve for our Outlook sections, which publish Sundays, March 21 and 28. If you have a vision to share, send it to: Dave Dawson, Managing Editor, Herald Review, 601 E. William Decatur, IL 62523, or e-mail it to Essays should be less than 300 words and st should be in our possession by 5 p.m. Friday, March 12. Include your daytime and evening phone numbers.

The stories do not have to be limited to individuals. If your community, school or business has a vision of the future, share that, too..