Woman of Year honors Odessa polio survivor
Elizabeth Dowden Harned 42, honored as Professional Handicapped Woman of the Year by the Odessa Pilot Club. She contracted polio as an infant, learned to walk with braces, completed high school, and has balanced family life with college study and a library position at UT Permian Basin. She ascribes her resilience to family support and Helen Keller quotes.
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Elizabeth Dowden Harned
Odessa Pilot Club
Harned
Odessa
Ings Foundation For
University of Texas Permian Basin
Odessa College
Carla Bryant
Quilt couturier makes one of a kind designs
LA PORTE Ind Charlotte Bass bills her business as a quilt couturier and sells appliqued creations at 500 to 900 dollars for baby quilts and 2500 to 7000 dollars for standard quilts. She credits Amish influence and her own embellishments. Bass quilts quickly, sometimes 19 days for a 112 inch square piece, with hand work dominant and occasional machine seams. She signs each piece and treats quilting as a lasting legacy.
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LA Porte
Ind
Courlier
Charlotte Bass
Indiana
Bass
Dritz
Sewing Notions Company
Ralph
Judy Garland
Katharine Hepburn
Ronald
Reagan
Blacktop Driveways Need Timely Patching and Sealing
A guide notes asphalt driveways suffer from weather and car use, needing prompt repair to avoid major work. It explains two steps patching and sealing, plus prep like clearing debris, tamping gravel, and warming cold mix before filling holes.
Oil Painting Demonstration At Holiday Inn Irving
Jerry Williams of Robert Garden School of Art Irving schedules a free public demonstration titled The Ease of Oil Painting at the Holiday Inn Parkway 3001 EB Highway 89 from to p.m. today. Paint Along Workshops run 9 a.m. to p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at the same site. An evening workshop is planned. Williams is a Howard College graduate who studied at Wayland College Texas Tech University University of Texas and Sopia University in Japan.
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Jerry Williams
Robert Garden School of Art
Irving
Holiday Inn Parkway
EB. Highway 89
Williams
Williams Is
Howard College
Wayland College
Texas Tech University
University of Texas
Sopia University
Japan
Library hosts youth days at Ector County Library
The Ector County Library offers children programs on Mondays story hour on Wednesdays movies and puppet theater on Thursdays with dates March 21 and April 18 each starting at 10 15 a m Teachers and others may call 337-8815 to reserve special programs for groups of 10 or more children.
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Ector County
Health unit reaches goal for reducing tooth decay
The U S Public Health Service reports progress toward the 1990 goal of 40 percent cavity free nine year olds. A nationwide National Institute of Dental Research survey shows 61 percent of nine year olds without cavities, up from 29 percent in 1971 73. Fluoride from water supplies and products drives the decline, but universal water fluoridation remains behind targets.
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U.S. Public Health Service
National Institute of Dental Research
Centers For Disease Control
Parents' Golden Anniversary Dilemma From Dear Abby
A family coping with a golden wedding anniversary for parents. The mother is in a nursing home with senility. the father has a live-in companion. Family opts for a private catered dinner at the nursing home with close relatives as the most appropriate observance.
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Abby
Mama
Dad
Nursing Home
Dear Abby readers on dating and name conventions in families
Dear Abby responds to two letters about dating behavior and surname choices. A single man’s coercive propositions push the writer to seek higher-class clubs. A wife with a professional title prefers hyphenating her name with her husband’s, while addressing her husband as Mr. Smith and herself as Dr. Jones.
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Abby
Nazareth
Mary
Smith
Mary Jones
Jones
Johnny Jones-Smith
John Smith
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Scottish Rite Hospital
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Odessa High School
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Ed Harned
Pilot Club
Highlands Methodist Church
Bryant
Harold Bates
Sears
Helen Keller
Sears, Roebuck and Co
President's Committee On Employment of
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el Paso
Pilot Club International
Quilt Couturier
Byela Chica
Ine Markoutsas
Tribune
By Edward Edelson
New York Daily News
the Family Circus
By Bil Keane
Dear Abby
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Johnny Jones
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