1000th baby born at Memorial Hospital in 1979
Bonnie Gamble reports Matthew Charles Porter arrived at 8 40 a m Friday as Memorial Hospital Carbondale's 1 000th baby of the year. Son of Michael and Darlene Porter, he weighs 6 pounds 12 ounces and is 18 inches long. The hospital says deliveries average two to three daily, aided by a high risk nursery.
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Bonnie Gamble
Memorial Hospital
George Maroney
Maroney
Matthew Charles Porter
Joseph
Mother
Baby
Porter House
Parents want to teach kids about birth control
New York AP reports 84 percent of parents want to be the main source of birth control information for their teenage children. The General Mills American Family Report 197879 shows only 7 percent ready for school guidance and 6 percent for doctors to provide the information.
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New York
General Mills
Cost of neatness can be too expensive
Iowa City psychologists advise that clutter is acceptable if items are accessible and not hindering others. Lynn Roney from the University of Iowa Counseling Service says perfection costs time and may not boost productivity, suggesting less strict organization unless it wastes time searching.
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Iowa City
Roney
University of Texas, Austin
Keeping a neat workplace starts with smart storage
Ms. Roney advises starting a new job by planning desk files shelving and storage to access materials quickly. Visit an office supply store for organizers and dividers and consider home offices using plain shoe boxes with outside labels. Balance matters as overly strict neatness can cause resistance in kids and adults alike.
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Ms. Roney
Dear Ann Landers six point test for deciding right and wrong
The letter cites an Oct 5 1969 column and asks for a distilled six point Fosdick test. It presents the six criteria: logic and personal sense, sportsmanship, consequences for others and self, self regard, detaching to see the other’s view, and public scrutiny before decision.
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Ann Landers
N.Y.C
D.S. Moon
Preston Bradley
The
Peoples Church of Chicago
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Birth of a daughter creates a babysitter in the making
Erma Bombeck recalls the emotional moment when her daughter becomes a live-in babysitter. She describes a long training period observing parenting tasks, the candid dialogue about handling crises, and the realization that her child will supervise younger siblings on New Year’s Eve. Field Enterprises Inc.
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Erma Bombeck
Thompsons
Field Enterprises Inc
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