Women urged to take active role in own medical care
Bonnie Marx reports feiminist health centers urge women to be informed self helpers. Shelley Farber and Claudia Sperber of the Los Angeles Feminist Women’s Health Center visit Carbondale for workshops on self help. They highlight gaps in knowledge about normal body functions and doctor communication.
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Bonnie Marx
Southern Illinois
Shelley Farber
Claudia Sperber
Los Angeles
Feminist Women’s Health Center
Carbondale
Ms. Farber
Ms. Sperber
Women urged to ask doctors and choose own treatment
Feminist health centers push self-exam with plastic speculums, offer cervical caps, and promote patient rights. The movement stresses informed consent, education, confidentiality, and shared decision making, while self-help clinics may form in Carbondale, with contact at 536-6641 Ext 27.
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Jan Slagter
Disabled professionals plan conference in Carbondale
The Illinois Alliance of Physically Disabled Professionals with 20 members from law, social work, computer tech, education, library science, government and rehabilitation will attend a statewide conference Friday to Sunday at Southern Illinois University Carbondale Touch of Nature Center. New officers for Carbondale Business and Professional Women's Club will be installed at 6 30 p m Wednesday at the United Methodist Camp Makanda Jacqueline Goepfert incoming president also secretary to SIU Center for the Study of Crime Delinquency and Corrections Fidella Doolin to be installing officer. A Murphysboro Business and Professional Women's Club meeting at 6 45 p m Thursday at the VFW Hall will hear Inside Out and Upside Down What Would You Do If presented by the Displaced Homemaker Project committee. The Women's Center of Carbondale will hold a volunteer training session 7 to 9 30 p m Tuesday at 408 W Freeman St for receptionists and crisis intervention workers.
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United Cerebral Palsy of Illinois, Inc
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Touch of Nature Environmental Center
Carbondale
Illinois Alliance of Physically Disabled Professionals
IAPDP
Jacqueline Goepfert
Liz Schill
Betsy Brown
Doris J. Brown
Vivian Agent
Gwen Peyton
Fidella Doolin
Displaced Homemaker Project Committee
Murphysboro Business and Professional Women’s Club
Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall
Women’s Center of
W. Freeman St
Love Is Hell in Dixie discovers a workplace romance
A 26 year old man writes to Ann Landers about falling in love with a male coworker, 21, who has a steady girlfriend. He seeks guidance on how to handle the same-sex attraction while insisting the feelings are nonsexual. He fears rejection if he reveals his true feelings.
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Ann Landers
T. R
T.R
Ann
Couples mark 50th anniversaries in three area families
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Malkovich of Johnston City plan an open house from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Eastern Star Hall to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. They are parents of three daughters and six grandchildren, with no gifts requested. Also commemorating 50 years are Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Kessel of Ava, married January 25, 1931, at Campbell Hill, hosting a buffet at the Murphysboro American Legion Hall, with five children, 17 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. In Herrin, Mr. and Mrs. Havis Graham mark their 50th with an open house at First United Methodist Church, spouses married May 16, 1931, Crainville, with three children and 12 grandchildren.
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Mike Malkovich
Johnston City
Eastern Star Hall
Malkovich
Julia State
Shirley Galli
Martha Galli
West Frankfort
Karen McClusky
Harrisburg
Herbert H. Kessel
Ava
American Legion Hall
Murphysboro
Kessel
Mary Ethel Browder
Campbell
Havis Graham
First United Methodist
Herrin
Graham
Elizabeth Stewart Woodford
Crainville
Havis
Buster
Zeigler
Cod salad and other notes from a kitchen column
A cod salad recipe features fresh cod or thawed fillets with mayonnaise chili sauce lemon juice pickles and scallion served on lettuce with cucumber and lemon. The page also includes Dear Abby and Dear Ann Landers style letters giving household and etiquette guidance.
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Cecily Brownstone
Associated Press
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Herbert Kessel
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