The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 50, No. 60, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 10, 1976 Page: 3 of 18
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with a long apron of white into the spirit of the historical preparation and cooperation to the workers.
eyelet embroidery.
The children learned that were used for amusement school, and had resulted in a living continually climbing and
colonial schools were not rattier than correction.
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Teachers reported the big time savings of 50 per cent or clothing, furniture, appliances,
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assorted solids/stripes
Sizes 8-18.
Mary Kruska, donned colonial Celebrate America Day at L. Mendel Rivers
type clothing also, topping her Elementary School,
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Housewives are asked to have
the bags on their front porch by
Klam Trucks will be waiting
at pre-positioned points located
around the city for the scouts to
load the filled bags.
This "Good Turn Day"
collection gives housewives an
opportunity to complete spring
housecleaning, provides an
exercise in citizenship for the
scouts and makes many added
hours of employment and
training possible for the han-
dicapped people at Goodwill
Industries Four-hundred bags
of clothing are required each
week for Goodwill Industries to
be able to serve 45 handicapped
workers. These materials are
repaired, cleaned, and sold in
the Goodwill Stores, thereby
providing income to pay wages
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Bible Preaching:
Week Nights at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday at 10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m.
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Classes Play Roles
tour third grade rooms and Mrs. Ken Joiner They During the afternoon they
joined Ihursday in a were assisted by a practice had the same kind of treats the
Bicentennial Day at Rivers teacher from Southwestern children in colonial classrooms
Elementary in which they State University, Miss Kathy might have had. They popped
played the role, as nearly as McFaddin, who is completing corn, baked gingerbread, and
possible. 9 school boys and her teaching project under had fruit balls as treats,
girls of 1776. Mrs. Thompson. Necessity required the use of
( ostumed with boys in knee Miss McFaddin was in some late twentieth century
eeches and girls in long charge of organizing games, conveniences. The corn was
dresses with matching caps and following the box lunch the popped in the classrooms with
and even knit or crocheted children went to the playground the aid of electric corn poppers
shawls, the children brought for competitive games such as and electric skillets.
Inx lunches to school with foods might have been played long The teachers also were in
such as might have been in the ago. These included relays, and costume, and played the roles
lunch box of children 200 years a ball toss into a container of the school-marms of the era,
“0. Each room had special even pulling their small size
Ihey also made hornbooks, displays representative of art, eye-glasses down on their nose
the wooden spade type reading history, and customs of the 1776 as was dore- in 1776.
implement upon which colonial period. Mrs. Thompson's room After spending weeks in
children fastened their had informed the National [reparation for the celebration
"ABC's" and other lessons. Bicentennial Commission of the Thursday, one teacher had to
The students were in the plans for the day, and a letter of miss the final event. Mrs.
home rooms of Mrs. Garland congratulation from President Joiner was bedfast at home
leather uppers Brown beige or blue blue
Men s sizes D7-12 Special 9 88
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operated like today’s classes. Songs of long ago also were for more than a hundred everyday, it is often hard to
There was a dunce cap and learned, and although their families, think about "giving ' away. But
corner for students who missed favorite "School Days" was of yrave| times between cities cost-conscious people
an assignment, and there were a later date, the children have decreased an average of everywhere are beginning to
labels hung around the necks of learned singing a cappela with 10 per cent as a result of new realize that shopping at local
those who talked or whispered their classmates in old- interstate roads, with some Goodwill Industries stores
out of turn, or who failed to get fashioned singing style. intercity corridors showing often pays off in bargains in
The Altus Times-Democrat, Wednesday, March 10, 1976 3
Scouts 'Good Turn Day1
Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Times business and finance that Goodwill Industries can
Explorer Scouts of southwest section pointed out that operate only as long as it enjoys
Oklahoma will be joining with Goodwill Industries was one of the generosity of people who
the employes of Goodwill In- the best bets" for school think of this "fix-it-up"
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DEAR DR LAMB - I read
in an advice column that
women who were married to
circumcised men had less of a
chance of getting cancer of
the cervix and I want to know
if that really is true
DEAR READER No, it's
not That s what happens
when you read popular
columns on medical subjects
by people who are not
medically trained That s an
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historical memory of this year prices increasing more
When young people are groups where the young girls
growing rapidly they need lots are supervised and premarital
of energy This may be one sex is frowned upon the in
reason why they like concen- cidence of cancer of the cer-
trated carbohydrate foods vix is relatively low By con
such as sweets The only thing trast in other groups with
I want to add here is that it s different moral precepts
important to be certain that cancer of the cervix is about
the kind of carbohydrates that the same as seen in the
growing people are getting in- general American population
elude adequate amounts of Recent studies show that
fresh fruits, vegetables and women who become active
cereals The other important sexually very early in life and
feature is that of course the have multiple partners are the
ones who are most likely to
have cancer of the cervix Let
me say at once that does not
mean that a person who has
cancer of the cervix has had a
varied and extensive sexual
life it can and does occur
even in virgins but this is
relatively rare The final
analysis of the relationship of
circumcision to cancer of the
cervix reveals that there
seems to be no specific
relationship at all if this is
the only motivation a man has
to be circumcised or a mother
has to have her male child cir-
cumcised. the motivation is
misplaced
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Mrs. Mark Eord, written on White House with a severe attack of the flu.
For Loans On:
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DEAR DR LAMB What old wive s tale The idea
is the danger in a high car- began because it was noted
bohydrate diet for a fast grow that many Jewish women
ing 13-year-old boy "’ He is 6- seemed to be free of cancer of
feet-1 and his diet is not too the cervix The immediate
varied and erroneous conclusion was
DEAR READER There made that because Jewish
is nothing wrong with a high males are circumcised that
carbohydrate diet Most of the this was related to circumci-
world has lived on it Cultiva- sion
tion of cereal and the use of Additional studies since
plant food was the major then have shown that it is
source of food energy for ear more closely related to the
ly man High carbohydrate social behavior of the in
diets include all cereals with dividuals involved The in-
needed cereal fiber cidence of cancer of the cer
vegetables and fruits which vix in Jewish women varies
are important sources of greatly depending on what
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diet should be balanced and in-
clude sufficient meat, milk
and protein foods to provide
all the essential ammo acids
for the growth process
The equivalent of a quart of
milk a day 'preferably for
tified skim milk second
choice low-fat fortified milk)
and about seven ounces of
meat, chicken or fish a day
will meet all the protein
needs
Those who want more mfor
mation on the daily dietary
needs can send 50 cents for
The Health Letter number 4
6. Balanced Diet
Recommended Daily Dietary
Allowances (RDA) Send a
long, stamped self-addressed
envelope for mailing Address
your letter to me in care of
this newspaper, P O Box
1551 Radio City Station, New
York. N Y 10019
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Gilmore, Robert K. & Hart, Sandra. The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 50, No. 60, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 10, 1976, newspaper, March 10, 1976; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2122087/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed November 16, 2025), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.