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Thursday, May 24, 1984
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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Jft& Rusty Brown
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wave of relationships means change
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NEW YORK — Four years ago
That’s, not always the case The woman I am comparing the playground after work. He In Bie evening, she liked to My sons are strong and Indepen-
in her book, “The Girl I Left with older women whose journey her with is Linda. A brilliant col- vacuumed the house on Satur- play her, guitar. “But my hus- dent. I have control over my
Behind,” Jane O’Reilly re- to self-realization has been a lege student who majored in days.” band would complain, ‘I haven’t life.”
defined marriage this way: In- long path, often walked alone. economics and languages, in- Frankly, I was surprised to seen you all day. Why don’t you
stead of saying someone must Sheila Gant is 41 — a Ph.D., eluding Russian, she was a sue- learn how much of the family join me?”’ she says. "I soon onherown.
take care of the children, we psychotherapist, management cessful manager in a large cor- responsibilities her husband had learned that his idea of compa-
should start saying some two. consultant and head of her own poration by 25. Now 31 and a taken out.
must take care of the children. Denver firm, Gant and mother, she’s in nursing school, That’s quite a contrast to together.” ,
Associates. Companies and a career she feels means more to Sheila Gant’s story. To bring in After nine years, they
universities ask her to teach her personally. more income when her boys divorced and she began the
management skills in seminars 4Hh0mnm»nt were 3 and 4, she took a job. “My single parent role: working by
around the country. . „ ? . ’ t1® s qm*e un‘ husband was willing for me to day, taking care of her children
After one such workshop, we ™s°a"a 5 “ work, ” she recalled, “if it didn’t and attending classes at night. None of us is naive enough to
talked privately. I was in- ,/. , "T, hihT ^ h jh!6 Interefere with my taking care A second marriage also ended think this goal has been achieved
terested in how she became an “ ,u"u tn.e e , .of the children, getting his shirts in divorce. She says her husband in any vast measure yet. Never-
authority on woman power, how . , , . ’. h.no on ^ ftat ironed or having dinner on the was unable to cope with her theless, marriages are in transi-
One typifies younger women she developed into someone snes pining tor ms companion- tableat6» prestigious job as director of a tion.
who assume they will realize capable of teaching success to p‘ When the children were in bed state agency and because she There will come a day when
themselves, and realize what others. “I can hardly keep up with at 8, she went off to work at a made more money and got more both wives and husbands will
they want in life. The men they She told me she was married school, my child and the pizzeria just around the corner, community recognition thah he feel free to change and grow
live with seem to respect and ac- at 19, on the afternoon she housework,” she says. “Jim Several years later, she became did. with, their needs. It will be ac-
cept their yearning — often- graduated from junior college, always took the clothes to the a social worker and hired a “But don’t misunderstand,” complished without resentment,
times smoothing the way for By 22, she had two sons and a laundromat and ironed what neighbor to take care of the boys says Ms. Gant. “I don’t dwell on without guilt and without hurting
needed ironing. He took Cindy to after school.
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Sheila Gant had to find herself
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Yet today more and more
young couples are doing this
together. It’s part of what author
O’Reilly called “a redefinition of
male and female roles, a
reallocation of responsibilities."
nionship was watching TV
ten-
I thought of this recently when
listening to the words of two
women. There’s only a 10-year
difference in their ages, but
they’re worlds apart because of
the new wave of man-woman
relationships.
the
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the hardships. I love my work, the marriage or the children
B.A
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Consumer Reports
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'Cable-ready' TV doesn't mean you'll get all the channels
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see a movie or show over that computer. That capability was subishi and the Sharp 19-inch rented movie tapes that had not discern on the screen, the
restricted channel, you’d have to checked by Consumer Reports color sets tested delivered an been protected against copying. sharper the individual
call the cable company to have electronics engineers when they unstable — and in some cases, If you’ll be using your TV as a characters will appear. Sets
evaluated 19-inch color TVs. unviewable - picture that “roll- computer monitor, you’ll want with separate jacks that receive
ed” despite all efforts to one with good resolution — the a direct video signal from the
stabilize it. However, neither greater the number of clearly computer may be best for that
model had trouble playing visible vertical lines you can purpose.
By THE EDITORS
Of Consumer Reports
Many new TV sets are con-
I sidered “cable-ready” — that is, the code unlocked.
! they can be connected to a cable-
; TV system without a converter
! box. In fact, all of the 19-inch col-
j -or TVs recently tested by Con-
: sumer Reports electronics
engineers have that capability.
However, making a TV
“cable-ready” doesn’t
i necessarily mean that you can
automatically receive all of the is scrambled
cable channels in your area the
momentyou hook up the set.
The engineers explain that if a
Bata®. .....
or more of its channels, you’ll before you can be really sure if playing back commercially
have.to have a descrambler pro- your TV is, indeed, “cable- recorded tapes,
vided by tfie cable company to ready.” V The engineers paid particular
get a usuable picture. attention to the performance of
One technological innovation WHEN CHOOSING a new col- )aPfs that have.af “anti-copy”
that could make a set not cable- or TV, it’s also a good idea to Qdes’,gned to dlscourage
consider how well it will be able taPePiracy-*
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With most TV sets that have
The signals from VCRs and
remote control, you can’t use the computers are often less stable
control to select a cable channel than the signals from a TV sta-
that’s scrambled. However, a tion. Even so, a TV set should be
few of the TVs tested have radio able to deliver a satisfactory pic-
frequency (RF) switching, ture.
When viewing cable with them,
you can use the remote control,
even if one of the cable channels
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of
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of
RUTH MILLEDGE, MA, CCC
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The engineers tried the TVs
with three different video
cassette recorders. Each model
was tested for a deficiency call-
Because of continuing changes ed “flag-waving” — the bending
in cable-TV technology, you may * of vertical lines at the top of the
have to check with the cable TV picture. Each was also
SPEECH PATHOLOGIST
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They found that, with those
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DEAR DR. LAMB - I’ve been you don’t quit at once,
smoking about a pack of
cigarettes weekly for 22 years tinued smoking can cripple your
and have been exposed to smoke lungs. You may not be able to un-
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..mokes.a.pa^andahalfdaily. .......
I donT believe I have a ybufSSIf fey kicking the habit
smoker’? cough, but for more
than two years my throat has
tickled' and I’ve been coughing
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You must understand the
L . .. dangers of your habit, so I’m,
up small blobs of phlegm sen(jing you the Health Letter 17-
resembling colorless gelatin.
Should I cease smoking?
DEAR READER - Of course
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8, Chronic Bronchitis and Em-
physema. Others who want this
issue can send 75 cents with a
you should stop smoking. You jong( stamped, self-addressed
should have stopped 22 years enve]0pe for it to me, in care of
a§°- . j .u . this newspaper, P.O. Box 1551,
A lot of people try to deny that station, New York,
the symptoms they have are NY10019
related to their favorite bad '
. . habit, so you’re not unusual. ........
You certainly should see your the age at which girls reach
r physician You could very well puberty dropped throughout the
1 . : have chronic bronchitis. years? I’ve heard this is dye to
- , Almost anyone who smokes the hormones used in the cattle
for a reasonable length of time, industry. I’ve also been told this
,develops this problem. Any can affect- masculine
smoker who .jias a cough for characteriestics, such as facial
’ more than three months could hair and muscle mass;
have chronic bronchitis. I’d like to know as I eat a lot of
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DEAR READER — No, it’s
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DEAR DR. LAMB - Hasn’t
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passageways of your lungs, nar- not established that girls start
rowing these passages. As it pro- puberty earlier today. And no, >
gresses you can develop chronic you can’t attribute changes in
obstuctive pulmonary disease either men or women to the
• • and have serious problems with estrogen used in the cattle
1 your breathing. dustry.
You could also have irritated Diethylstilbesterol fDES) is
from tobacco an estrogen used in cattle. It’s
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In this competitive market, a retailer needs an effective way to reach the
community. The Baytown Sun does just that. Since our opening, they helped us
develop a productive advertising campaign. We appreciate their personal
professional assistance. They really care about their customers, v
Paula & Duffie O’Brien
Owners of The Floor Gallery _ ,
Baytown 1
nasal passages ...... ...
smoke that cause you to have a supposed to be fed to cattle
constant postnasal drip. In any seven days before slaughter. f
the cough and the And if there are any traces,
it’s apt to be in the liver, not the
rest of the meat.
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case,
substances you bring up are a
clear warning of trouble ahead if
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 178, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 1984, newspaper, May 24, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153886/m1/5/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.