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-THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS—WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1973
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Decorating With Towels
By Mrs. Zelma R. Bannister
County Extension Home
Economist
Towels can do more than
dry...they can be made into
many useful decorative ac
cessories for the home.
How about a bathroom set for
a start? Begin by making a
toilet lid cover. You need only
one bath towel and two yards of
cord for a draw string. Using
the toilet lid as an outline, cut a
paper pattern. Add 2” seam
allowance except across the
back— only 1 ” extra is needed
there. Place pattern on a towel
folded in half and cut through
all thicknesses.
Stitch around outside V’
Supermarkets
Need Baby Care
By AUDREY GELLIS
Copley News Service
Several months ago, while
recovering from a siege of flu,
1 asked my neighbor, the
mother of a 3-month-old
daughter, to buy some
groceries for me while she
took her baby out for an air
ing.
“I’m sorry, Audrey, I
can’t.”
“What,” I croaked, unbe
lieving at such unneighborli
ness.
“I can’t take the baby car
riage into the supermarket,”
Eva explained.
Zap, it hit me. Supermar
kets, where almost every
product carries a picture of a
glowing mother and baby,
have signs warning, “No dogs
or baby carriages allowed.”
Suddenly, all those dreadful
news stories of infants kid
naped from their carriages
while their mothers were buy
ing a container of milk made
sense (and wasn’t it always
the poor mother who got
blamed for leaving the baby
on the widewalk?).
(Supermarkets don’t have a
monopoly on this practice.
Practically every public facil
ity from banks to post offices
ban baby carriages. However,
it’s only supermarkets where
close to 100 per cent of the
customers are mothers.)
Eva explained to me how
the mother of an infant must
shop: hire a baby sitter;
patronize a specialty grocery
store where already inflated
prices are marked up even
higher; leave the baby car
riage outside the supermarket
and carry the infant around
(which at best is uncomfort
able and at worst invites theft
of the carriage).
Granted, baby carriages do
block supermarket aisles, but
even in space-hungry cities,
supermarkets in “family”
neighborhoods have the moral
responsibility of providing an
area where mothers can safe
ly leave their carriages. (And
what about a shopping cart
attachment that would hold
infants too young to sit up?)
Women in suburbs and
smaller cities, where space is
not that limited, have a right
to demand much more. Large
shopping centers all have
parking facilities; why
shouldn’t they offer child-care
facilities? Certainly, children
are as important as automo
biles.
A child-care center takes a
fraction of the space that a
parking lot does and requires
little in the way of equipment.
All that is needed is an en
closed play area for toddlers,
an assortment of toys, plus a
corner for carriage-bound in
fants. (I don’t want to get too
radical, but how about a place
where mothers could change
or feed their babies?)
The only real expense would
be the personnel to supervise
the children (the rule of
thumb is generally six chil
dren per adult). Since the
care is mainly custodial (for
an hour or two) as opposed to
an all-day center, Ph.D.’s in
early childhood education are
not needed. Just warm, re
sponsible people who have
good rapport with children.
Hie payroll cost could be
easily defrayed by charging a
modest fee for the child-sit
ting service. I questioned my
OPTOMETRISTS NEEDED
The American Optometric
Association points out that
there will be a need for 19,535
new practicing optometrists
by 1980, based on a projected
1980 population of 227,510,000
and the ratio of one practicing
optometrist per 7,000 popula
tion.
ZELMA BANNISTER
from cut edge. Leave back
open. Turn inside out and stitch
again 1” from edge to form
casing for draw string. Top
stitch across back edge to
close. Thread cord through
friends who are mothers of
young children and they indi
cated they would be only too
happy (one indicated
“ecstasy”) to pay something
like 50 cents an hour in order
to shop calmly and efficiently.
Moreover, they felt it would
be better for their children
since very few toddlers enjoy
riding shopping-cart jump
seats or standing on check
out counter lines.
Even if such a service did
run slightly in the red, there is
no reason for a suburban
shopping center not to absorb
the deficit. “Free” parking
costs these centers money:
expensive land is purchased
which doesn’t produce any in
come. However, shopping
plaza developers know that
without parking facilities,
shoppers would go elsewhere.
Now suppose mothers orga
nized and threatened to shop
elsewhere unless the center
was willing to discuss child
care.
A few stores have experi
mented with unsupervised
play areas and “carriage
watchers,” but the idea has
yet to be accepted on a wide
spread scale with proper fa
cilities. It seems to me that
those women who have
elected motherhood as a life
style owe it to themselves to
insist that those businesses
for whom they are the pri
mary customers be set up for
their convenience.
Recently, there were some
very red faces in the execu
tive suite (all male, of course)
at Ivory Snow when it was dis
covered that the “model
mother” on their package was
actually a super-star of por
nographic movies. I must
confess I relished the compa
ny’s discomfiture, not be
cause of any personal
grievance, but because the in
cident illustrated perfectly
the calculated phoniness of
our society’s glorification of
motherhood.
Mothers don’t need paeans
of praise from advertising
agencies; they need comfort,
safety and convenience for
themselves and their chil
dren.
Whenjerry finishes Tech,
hell stay in Georgia.
Will your son stay, too?
There’s a job for Jerry in his home state. near future. If Jerry and other young people
de 11 stay. And join Georgia s work force of are going to find jobs and build homes,
more than two million. they'll need the power from plants that are
-low long employment opportunities will being built now.
ast is an urgent question. Nearly all This new construction will take a lot of
those two million jobs depend
on electricity in some way. Jk
To light offices. Supply ;
heating and cooling. f'
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Refrigerate tood
And. as technology
brings better work- TH
ing conditions, more
electricity will be neces
sary. Not just for the
next generation, but tor you.
Right now.
It s our )ob to supply the power.
Rut our present facilities won t
casing and knot ends. Place
cover over toilet lid and pull
ends of cord until cover fits
snugly. Tie in back to secure.
Complete the set with a mat
ching tank top cover and
covered waste basket.
Add color and pattern to the
kitchen with placemats, chair
cushions, aprons, pot holders,
curtains and covers for por
table appliances—all made
from towels, all washable.
Perk up a blah bedroom with
some of the more colorful
printed towels that are
available. Give a plain bed
spread pizazz by stitching a
large bath towel down the
center of the spread. Use
smaller towels for throw
pillows, chair cushions or
bolsters. Make an unusual
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STEREO - 1973 CONSOLE MODEL
564.87
Repossession. 52.51 per week will assume payments on
this stereo. Equipped with AM/FM radio, BSR 4-speed
record changer, air suspension speakers. Excellent condi
tion. Contact - Gainesville Sewing and Stereo Center.
300 Main Street - Phone 534-3425 for free home de
monstration.
SINGER SEWING MACHINE
Automatic Zig-Zag machine, monograms, sews on buttons,
makes buttonholes, 3 needle position, embroiders, and
darns. To be sold for repair charges of only $34.20. SEWS
PERFECT. Contact Gainesville Sewing Center - 300 Main
St. Call 534-3425 for FREE home demonstration.
SEWING MACHINE 519.43 call 534-3425.
FALL SPECIAL
SEWING MACHINE REPAIR - 49 cents
Qualified repairman will service your machine for only
.49 - 16 years experience. Any machine. In our store or
your home. Contact Gainesville Sewing Center 300 Main
Street Call 534-3425 for FREE pick up.
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headboard by covering a
wooden frame with a matching
towel. Stretch a towel with an
unusual design over a wooden
frame or insert towels in
casings to use as a wall
hanging. You can even
organize your closet with
garment bags and shoe bags
made from towels.
Planning a Christmas
bazaar? Use towels of various
sizes to make inexpensive
items to sell or use as gifts.
Possibilities include pillows,
tote bags, baby bibs, ponchos,
bathrobes—even Christmas
stockings!
Make those towels you’ve
been saving work for you. Not
only will you add beauty to your
home, but it is also a good way
to clean out the linen closet!
money, over SSOO million this year.
Ninety percent of that must be
■k borrowed. A small increase in
fMLfc price will enable us to borrow
HS the money needed to keep
construction going, and keep
HISR power flowing to you.
£*» 11< Tling down the price of
U electricity won’t help any
7body. It will only mean power
may not be there when you
need it.
Electricity. What would you
/ do without it?
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