The Odem-Edroy Times (Odem, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1971 Page: 6 of 8
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HELPFUL^^^ABOUT^^NTS
SELECTING A BABYSITTER
Almost as important as car-
ing for your child is the care
with which you select a baby-
sitter. This person, after all,
will actually replace you from
time to time when you cannot
be at home. Careful selection
and instruction of a baby-sitter
can help remove many fearful
afterthoughts which otherwise
can ruin the parents* “night
out.”
Obviously, choosing a baby-
sitter you can'trust fully is not
always an easy. job. Chances
are, the person you finally de-
cide on will not meet fully all
your stringent requirements.
The following suggestions
should, however, aid you in
obtaining a baby-sitter worthy
of your trust.
SITTER SEEKING—Three
factors influencing your sitter
searching efforts are: where
you live; family needs and bud-
gets; and, your child’s individ-
ual needs. Usually, relatives,
aieighbors and friends, or teen-
agers you know are your prime
candidates, in-that order; This
selection may be very litriRe’d,'
however, for the newcomers to
town. Your family physician
may know “Nursemaids”
(usually used during mother’s
first few days home from the
hospital).
Newcomers to larger cities
may find professional baby-
sitting services provide excel-
lent pre-screened applicants
(often bonded), but perhaps
more expensive than your bud-
get will handle. Nursing
schools, usually attached to
larger hospitals, may be excel-
lent sources for trained baby-
sitters. You may try commun-
ity organizations, houses of
worship or young women’s
clubs, (but don’t begin looking
here at the last minute). Place-
ment bureaus at high schools
and colleges are always eager to
find part-time jobs for students
(caution: age does not always
ensure maturity or ability to
handle children).
SITTER - SELECTION—Rule
No. 1 in selecting a sitter is:
never hire any sitter “sight
unseen.” Whenever possible, ar-
range an interview and possibly
a practice session with any new
prospective sitter. During the
Interview let the applicant talk
about his/her spare time activ-
ities, hobbies, family back-
ground, previous work exper-
ience. From mere observation
you can score the applicant on
cleanliness, grooming and gene-
ral health. Present a few hypo-
thetical situations (such as the
children wanting to stay up
late and watch TV), and ask
the sitter what action he or she
•would take. Request opinion
on child care, etc. and note the
sitter’s attitude in such areas as
obedience to instruction, disci-
pline of children, hidden griev-
ances against past employers.
SITTER’S DUTIES—The sit-
ter should be introduced to the
child and shown where the
child sleeps, eats and plays.
Show the sitter where you
keep first-aid equipment, cloth*
ing, diapers, bathing materials,
clean bedding, favorite toys.
Demonstrate for the sitter
food preparation, if any, feed--!
ing techniques, diapering meth*;
od, soothing, favorite games,;
etc. Some modern infant form- j
ula products provide consist- i
ently sound nutrition—with
varying degrees of convenience.:
Enfamil Nursette® prefilled
formula bottles, for example,;
require no refrigeration and no
warning: simply attach a sterile
nipple to be ready for feeding.:
Enfamil® Ready-To-Use may
be poured directly from the 8
rfl.uid. 0z. or 32 fluid Oz. can
into a sterile bottle. Attach a
sterile nipple and feed. Forms
such as these help assure con-
tinued safety regardless of
circumstances.
Let the sitter know all your
home safety rules, and what
your child is likely to do at his
particular age.
BEFORE YOU LEAVE—
Decide baby’s menu. Lay out
dll feeding materials, bathing
essentials, clothing, etc., that
baby will require for the night.
Always, if your child is old
enough to understand, tell him
that (1) you are going out, (2)
that the sitter will take care of
him, and that (3) Mommy has
told the sitter exactly what she
has to do. Make sure you leave
the sitter a written schedule for
play, meals, bath and sleep.
The , following ' information
should'be written near the tele-
phone: name, address and
phone number where you can
be reached; name and phone
number of another responsible
adult to call, if you are unavail-
able; phone number of your
physician; emergency phone
numbers (disaster unit, fire and
police departments).
WHILE YOU ARE AWAY—
If you have confidence in your
sitter, phoning should be un-
necessary. When you return, a
serene household and a smiling
sitter with children asleep
usually indicate a successful;
sitting engagement. Your sitter
should tell you of any hurts,
spills or unpleasant exper-
iences—such as a nightmare—
the child might have had, (and
she will if at the outset you
convey belief and trust rather
than blame or suggestion that
the sitter is unreliable).
As a courtesy, pay your sitter
promptly in full, and make
sure that the sitter gets home
safely. Don’t forget to thank
her and give her credit for a job
well done.
Sketching
Bv
J. L
taw Passed
On Lass Of
Credit Cards
College Station, — Each year
up to a million credit cards are
lost and three hundred thousand
are stolen. To protect a consum-
er plagued by disappearing
credit cards, Congress has pass-
ed a new law, effective Jan. 23,
reports Doris Myers, Extension
specialist in home management.
The new law states that an in-
dividual will not be liable for
any loss from unauthorized use
of his card after he has reported
its disappearance to the issuer.
Notice may be by telephone or
by letter.
Most companies will cancel
use of the card once they have
been notified. If the notice is by
letter, cancellation is effective
the day the letter is postmarked.
For losses occurring before noti-
fication, liability is limited to
$50.
The $50 liability applies sep-
arately to each card that is lost.
So, if a billfold or purse contain-
ing five credit cards is misplac-
ed, the potential maximum lia-
bility is a total of $250. If a hus-
band and wife lose their cards
on a joint, account, however, the,
total liability is limited to $50.
The law also prohibits banks
and other firms from mailing
out unrequested credit cards.
Companies must inform the user
of his rights and potential liabil-
ities, plus they must assume the
legal burden of paying for lia-
bilities the card holder may suf-
fer. _______
A very wise man once said,
“Vanity of vanity, — all is van-
ity”. Of course, I wasn’t around
when he made that sage obser-
vation, but my educated guess
would be that there wasn’t as
much vanity sticking out then,
as appears to be now. In fact,
in my short span of earth citizen-
ship, I can recall quite a few
manifestations of this charac-
teristic of humans that the wise
king, in effect, called empty.
Statisticians have come up
with very impressive figures
about how7 much money Ameri-
cans spend on their bodies, so
that they won’t smell bad, look
bad or feel bad. They don’t lay
anything out that tells how much
we spend to keep from being
bad, which ought to give some
of us something to think about
while we are waiting for the
styles to change, or some new
moisture cream to be invented.
They tell me now that there
was a time that women who
wore face powder were consider-
ed to be daring. If that is true,
we must exclaim, “You’ve come
(or gone) a long way baby.”
The perversity of the thing is
this: back in those days when
women spent a lot of time in
the cotton patch, milking cows
and doing other woman’s work
of like nature, they might have
actually needed a little face
whiteing to hide the effects of
over-exposure to the sun, and
yet society was denying them
the thing that they so sorely
needed. (Makes me want to join
the woman’s liberation move-
ment, -almost.)
Of course, men are not exempt
from these scathing remarks.
They too, lay down a lot of the
long green so that they won’t be
repulsive by having their B.O.
detected. Some of us go so far
as to buy the magical stuff from
the barber that conceals the
fact that we would be white
headed were it not for the oxi-
dizing effect of this miracle goo,
that as we defensively put it,
allows our hair to return to its
natural color.
Now as I see it, is just might
be the thing that we need, if
we allowed ourselves to retain
our natural body odors, like hali-
tosis, B.O. and smelly feet. It
might keep us further apart,
and in some instance, I know
. that would be for the best.
There was this couple that
passed me the other day, who
were going so fast, and sitting
so close together that I couldn’t
tell who was driving. My first
thought w;as that they had been
using that tooth paste that has
the wrong appeal, and my se-
cond though was that for coup-
les a courting, the speed surely
had changed since I was a
youngster. In those days, when
there were no irresistable per-
fume that attracted women to
men like flies around sugar and
no toothpaste that had this base
appeal, courting couples always
were identified by how slowly
they drove. I am told that boys
became experts at driving with
one hand in those days, and the
story is told of a policeman
having stopped such a couple,
and admonished the boy by say-
ing that he should use both
hands. Obviously the swain mis-
understood, and replied that he
had to have one hand with which
to drive.
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Bess Lenz and Shorty Grisham
admire a 3G pound yellow cat
they caught in Lake Mathis near
Lenz’s Camp the morning of De-
cember 30th. The catfish is un-
usual for its deep; yeisQW colora-
tion. It was caught on a irotline
baited with perch, "
we are not surprised that they
don’t, but what we didn’t expect
was the garb -that they refer to.
to as the pants suit. Frankly, I
don’t see anything about this cos-
tume that even reseumbles a
suit, but the pants are all there,
— and how- ■
If 1 were a young man, and.
had a girl friend, and she met
me at the door dressed in what
they call a pants suit, I wouldn’t
evey get close enough to smell
her Chanel number 5, I’d just
pitch her a “Dear John” note
and be off. What I’m trying to
say is that if my switches were
working properly, and I know'
the meaning of the phrase, such
a garb would turn me complete-,
ly off, — if it didn’t short me
out completely.
My only consolation in this,
lamentable situation is, I’d have
a very good memory, and I can
remember when women didn’t
wear pants suits.
Now dear reader, you can
think this over whilst I go and
smear on some wrinkle re-
moving cream, apply some co-
logne that is guaranteed to
make me smell like saddle lea-
ther or a pine tree.
Winter Weed
Central Helps
Cotton Yields
But back to the more ex-
pensive item of vanity, and that
would have to be clothing, I no-
tice that women have turned on
the mini skirt like a mad sow
on an intruder in her farrow-
ing pen. In other words they
don’t even wear dresses or skirts
of any sort anymore. Of course,
College Station — Next year’s
cotton yield can be influenced
by soil management and weed
control practices during the win-
ter months. Timely land prepar-
ation, says Fred C. Elliott, ex-
tension cotton specialist, is the
first step for a successful weed
control program.
Uncontrolled winter weeds, he
adds, are moisture and plant
food robbers, both vital to top
production. In addition to regu-
lar land preparation, Elliott lists
as major weed control methods
those that can be carried out
with machinery or through the
use of chemicals:
The mechanical methods in-
clude bedding and rebedding,
bed shaping, Roll N’ Cultivator,
row disk, hippiri’ ridger, do-all
and in West Texas the bed knif-
ing tool does an excellent job.
Ellliott says cotton producers
have a wide choice of materials
available for chemical weed
control. Two are soil incorpor-
ated herbicides, Planavin and
Treflan. Many growers, he adds,
look with considerable favor on
these materials and they can be
applied beginning in late Novem-
ber or- in December in -South
-Texas-. A popular methods of ap-
plication is with the roto-tiller or
roto-vator. They may also be in-
corporated into the soil by
broadcast disking with the tan-
dem disks. These herbicides
keep winter weeds under control
if conditions are normal until
planting time.
Under high moisture condi-
tions, he adds, it is often neces-
sary to treat again just before
planting for the control of early
Johnsongrass. DSMA alone or
in combination with a material
such as Karmek is excellent.
For those who do not wish to
use soil incorporated herbicides,
mechanical methods are recom-
mended.
Elliott offers these cautions if
fall applied incorporated herbi-
des are used. If lower amounts
of water are used, calibrations
are very important. Applica-
tion equipment should be check-
ed daily for nozzle wear and ac-
curacy of pressure gauges. Ex-
cellent tools for applying Plana-
vin and Treflan on a band basis
are the roto-tiller incorporator
used in combination with a bed
shaper, thus doing two jobs at
the same time.
Elliott notes that local county
agricultural agents have avail-
able a revised publication on
weed control in cotton and also
fact sheets on other subjects
dealing with cotton which grow-
ers should find valuable.
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Winebrenner, Mary Cornett. The Odem-Edroy Times (Odem, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1971, newspaper, January 7, 1971; Odem, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1044637/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Odem Public Library.