Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 31, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 October 1986 — Page 4

THE BANNERGRAPHIC, October 7.1966

Angela Eileen Johnson, Route 2, Cloverdale, and Robert Renos Haltom, Route 2, Cloverdale, are planning a midOctober wedding. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David W. Johnson. The future groom's parents are Renos and Freda Haltom.

Brown Co. extention tour Oct. 23 Town and Country Club has planned a tour to Brown County for all Extension homemaker club members on Thursday, Oct. 23. Extension homemakers interested in going on the tour should call Mrs. Dorothy Lawler, Roachdale, 5221998, for more information. First U.S. shopping mall 30 years old EDINA, Minn. (AP) Americans by the millions eat in them, hang out in them, and shop, shop, shop in them. It’s been 30 years this week since the indoor shopping mall made its debut, and retailing hasn’t been the same since. Southdale Center opened Oct. 8, 1956, as a totally enclosed, climatecontrolled complex of shops, stores and restaurants in this well-to-do Minneapolis suburb. “People came in and looked and their mouths opened. The impact was phenomenal. There was nothing like it,” said Herman Guttman, who supervised Southdale’s construction and worked with the architect, the late Victor Gruen. After Southdale, thousands of suburban malls sprang up across the country and changed the shopping habits of a nation. About 3,000 enclosed malls the size of Southdale operate in the United States and 100 in Canada, according to John Riordan, executive vice president of the International Council of Shopping Centers. Altogether, there are between 26,000 and 27,000 malls and shopping centers in North America, he said. In 1985, malls and shopping centers accounted for S6OO billion in sales, or 55 percent to 60 percent of all U.S. retail sales, excluding automotive sales, Riordan said.

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Calendar of events Wednesday The West Floyd Home Demonstration Club will meet at 1: 30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at the home of Susie Lyttle. Letha McCloud will be co-hostess and Virginia Miller will present the lesson. Chapter 22, R.A.M., will have a stated convocation at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8 at the Greencastle Masonic Temple, followed by a stated assembly of Council 107, R.&S.M. Refreshments and a social hour will follow. Veronica Club will meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, with Lorene Allee. Thursday Alpha Gamma Delta alumnae will entertain undergraduate pledges at a dessert buffet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at the home of Mrs. Neil van Zwoll. The Jefferson Extension Homemakers will meet at 1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at the home of Jean Bennett. Ruth Owens and Sharon Skinner will present the lesson, “Accessorizing Your Wardrobe.” The Putnam County IBM PC User Group will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at 309 E. Seminary St., Greencastle. Officers will be elected and a club charter will be discussed. Product demonstrations and discussion of PC software and hardware are planned. For more information, call Jim Lake at 653-2972 after 5 p.m. Tri Kappa Sorority will meet in the Schultz parking lot at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, to board a bus for a trip to Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis. Those attending are asked to have $3 to cover the bus charge. Members will stop at Chi-Chi’s for dinner after the hospital tour. The Beech Grove Ladies Aid will meet all day Thursday, Oct. 9, at the church. Ham, beans and cornbread will be furnished by Betty Galloway, Iva Heizer and Merle Moore. Men are welcome to attend too. Al-Anon Serenity Group meets at 7:30 p.m. each Thursday at First Baptist Church in Greencastle. Friday The Century Club will meet at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, at the home of Mrs. Harold Spicer. The Woman’s Study Club will meet at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, with Mrs. Clinton Gass. Saturday Groveland O.E.S. will have a smorgasbord 4-8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. at the Groveland Masonic Hall, located on U.S. 36 about 10 miles west of Danville. The Friends of the Putnam County Library book sale will be held from9a.m. t04:30p.m. in the library garage. Women of the Deer Creek Coon Hunters Club will have a euchre party at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, at the club house. Sandwiches, pie, salad and coffee will be served at 5:30. Sunday The Greencastle Branch of NAACP will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Newton, 501 Arlington, Greencastle.

Boy who had womb surgery is longest survivor

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A team of surgeons seeking to correct a fetus’ urinary tract defect opened the mother’s womb and pulled out the baby’s legs to perform a bladder operation. The baby was only the third to undergo open-womb surgery, and, at age 1 year, is the longest survivor of such an operation, according to surgeons at the University of California at San Francisco. The operating team was headed by

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Dr. Michael Harrison, who in 1981 helped pioneer surgery within the womb. Harrison said the latest operation, which involved actually opening up the womb, partially removing the fetus and then returning it to the womb, took place quietly last year on an unidentified Texas woman. Harrison said fetal blockage of urine was preventing the formation of amniotic fluid in the mother’s womb, threatening to collapse her

Dear Abby: Teens take, don't give, grandmother says

DEAR ABBY: When I didn’t even get a phone call (except one wrong number) by 10 p.m. on Grandparents’ Day, I called my son’s house. His wife answered and I said, “How come nobody called to wish me a happy Grandparents’ Day?” She said, “I didn’t even know there was a Grandparents’ Day. When was it?” (She is generally up on those things, so I’m wondering why all those retailers are so anxious to push their merchandise months ahead of time for other holidays, but they slipped up on this one.) Grandparents give more in a lifetime than anyone else, and they certainly deserve more acknowledgment of their day. Please print this with some comment. It’s time teenage children woke up to the fact that you. don’t just take you learn to give, too. If it’s only a phone call to someone who’s old and lonesome. GRANDMOTHER

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Governor reserves judgment

Koch backs contraceptives distribution at N.Y. schools

By JANE PERLEZ c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK-Mayor Edward I. Koch, the New York City teachers’ union and a leading Protestant church group expressed support Monday for the distribution of contraceptives at nine high-school health clinics. But Gov. Mario M. Cuomo said he wanted more time to consider the question. And a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, the Rev. Peter Finn, said a detailed statement opposing the distribution of the contraceptives in high school clinics would be released today. “I WOULD PRESUME we would be consistently Catholic in our response,” Finn said. He said members of the archdiocese had been involved in a Mass commemorating the third anniversary of the death of Cardinal Terence Cooke Monday and had been unable to “digest the information as published.” In programs financed by the state, the contraceptives are dispensed as part of the general health-care services at the schools or at affiliated clinics, according to a report to the Board of Education. Two schools, both in Manhattan, distribute the contraceptives on campus-Louis D. Brandeis High School and West Side High School, an alternative school for dropout-prone students, where the average age is 18. A spokesman for Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones said the chancellor supported expanding the program, within budgetary constraints. LATER THIS MONTH, the members of the Board of Education plan to consider a policy endorsing the distribution of contraceptives with parental consent, Quinones said. Both he and Robert J. Wagner Jr., the board president, said they would favor such a policy. Koch said the premise of the school birth-control programs should be to encourage abstinence, but he added, “You would be an ostrich if you believe that if you simply advocated abstinence that every teen-ager is going to to that.” Citing the “terrible” fact of pregnant 12- and 13-year-old girls, Koch said it was correct policy for the Board of Education to “provide contraceptive information and devices.”

uterus and preventing the normal growth of the fetal lungs. The operating team opened the uterus and moved the legs and lower body of the fetus to the outside of the womb. The upper part of the fetus’ body remained attached to the placenta inside the uterus. The surgeons made an incision in the fetus’ abdomen, created an opening in the bladder and stitched a flap of the bladder to the abdomen so the urine could drain without passing

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P.S. If they can teach music, sex and sports in the schools, they should add a course in “etiquette.” The kids of today could sure use a few lessons. They don’t seem to be getting them at home anymore. DEAR GRANDMOTHER: Children shouldn’t need an act of Congress or an ad in the

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"I SUPPORT the Board of Education in this matter, although it is not a city program,” Koch said. Cuomo said, “I’m not prepared to say yea or nay to it.” The governor said he was concerned about giving students the impression that sexual activity was condoned, and added: “Parental involvement is important. Professional health involvement is important. Distributing birth-control devices-I wouldn’t get involved in that in the public schools until the parents had had a chance to be .heard.” The president of the United Federation of Teachers, Sandra Feldman, said through a spokesman, Bert Shanas, that she supported the dispensing of contraceptives at the school clinics as long as parental consent was given. AT A NEWS CONFERENCE to call for a compulsory sex-education program in the city’s schools, Dr. Robert L. Polk, the executive director of the the New York City Council of Churches, said he, too, endorsed the distribution of contraceptives at schools as long as parents were informed. The council represents Protestant and Eastern Orthdox churches. But another member of the council, the Rev. Carol Matteson Cox of the Fordham United Methodist Church, said the devices should be distributed without parental con-sent-it is “unrealistic” to expect consent, she said. The distribution of contraceptives at the high school health clinics came to light in a report by Board of Education staff members on the status of the sex education curriculum in the city schools. THE REPORT, which said that parental consent was required before students could participate in clinic services, was presented last v/eek to the seven board members and Quinones.

through the obstructed urethral canal. Harrison then returned the fetus to its proper position and closed the uterus. The infant, called “Baby Mitchell,” was born in a Texas hospital nine weeks later. Harrison said the birth was normal. Last week, the surgeon closed the flap in Mitchell’s bladder and removed the obstruction blocking the urethra so the baby could urinate

newspaper to remind them to honor their grandparents on a special day every year. A gift or impromptu telephone call to say, “Hi, Grandma and Grandpa, I love you,” would seem far more sincere and meaningful. But for others who did not know, Grandparents’ Day falls on the first Sunday after Labor Day. * * * DEAR ABBY: I wish to express my concern and dismay about two phrases that I hear and read more and more often in the media. I refer to the words used to inform the public about terrorist activity: “takes responsibility for,” and even worse, “claims credit for.” These phrases denote respectability for despicable acts. In my opinion, such phrases as these are changing our feelings and attitudes toward terrorism in a very subtle but frightening manner. The Random House Dictionary defines terrorism as “the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.” To imply that the afore-

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Quinones acknowledged that the distribution of birth-control devices had not been formally announced. The co-ordinator of the city’s adolescent pregnancy and parenting services, Alice Radosh, said Monday that the parental consent form given to students at the nine schools did not list birth-control distribution as one of the services. NEW CONSENT FORMS had been drawn up, she said, that include “pregnancy prevention education, counseling and dispensing of contraceptives and appropriate laboratory testing,” along with physical examinations, treatment of illnesses and other services. “We have drafted a new parental consent form that reflects more accurately the services at the clinics,” Radosh said. She said the decision of whether to distribute the contraceptives at a school-based clinic or at an affiliated clinic near the school had been left to the medical professionals in the school clinic and to school officials. AT WEST SIDE High School, the principal, Edward Reynolds, said he and the teaching staff had urged the 550 students-28 of whom have infants from 2 months to 4 years old in the school nursery-to use the clinic in the school, which opened in the spring of 1985. Situated just inside the front door of the school at 140 West 102nd Street, the clinic is run by the William F. Ryan Community Health Center. Arrayed above the inner door of the clinic Monday were four rows of condoms. In the examination room was a standard doctor’s examination table, file cabinets and charts of the female and male anatomy. Posters on the wall outside warned about the perils of being a single parent. “ANYONE WHO THINKS the schools are not social service agencies are fighting a rear-guard action,” said Reynolds. As he walked through the school, a pregnant girl walked by. Reynolds said this was her second pregnancy-the first child was in the school nursery and lived with the mother in a hotel, he said.

normally. Harrison also corrected the child’s undescended testicles. However, Harrison said the boy still has a kidney defect and if his kidneys fail to function properly he may need a kidney transplant to survive. In 1981, Harrison performed open surgery on a male fetus who died immediately after birth. A second baby lived for a year after the operation and died of an unrelated birth defect.

mentioned is honorable, or something to be proud of, or claim credit for is, at best, ludicrous and, at worst, a form of insidious brainwashing. It would be far more factual and accurate to state that a specific group or organization is “to blame” for acts of terrorism. One of the meanings of the verb “to blame” (Random House Dictionary, again) is “to censure or condemn.” This seems a more fitting description of terrorists and acts of terrorism. I would urge that people in the media give this serious thought, and make the appropriate changes when reporting terrorist activities to the public. JUNEAL REITAN, EDINBURG, TEXAS DEAR J.R.: Thank you for pointing this out. I immodestly accept full credit for passing this on to media reporters. (Problems? Write to Abby. For a personal, unpublished reply, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Abby, P.O. Box 38923, Hollywood, Calif. 90038. All correspondence is confidential.)

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