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4A—Burleson Star, Monday, July 24, 1989
Features
New Direction weight loss program helps participants
Win at the Losing game
New clothes for a new look!
Six models, all participants of the
New Direction Weight reduction
program available at Huguley
Hospital, proudly displayed their
slender new looks during a fashion
show Thursday, July 20 at the New
Image amphitheatre.
Q’Zella Petty, Martha Morris,
Joyce Zacharias, Colleen Johnson,
Barbara Bryant, and Colleen
Johnson have shared the unique
experience of seeing less of each
other every week over the past few
months, and Thursday evening,
shared the gratification of showing
off their weight loses in exciting
new fashions.
Mickey Rawls, owner of Hold
Everything, provided the fashions
from her "Expressions" line.
Assisted by her daughter, Robin
Rawls and Harriet Brock, she
narrated the modeling. "Expres-
sions" came about after Rawls met
the original designer, and began
marketing the one-size fits all,
individualized fashions two years
ago. The company has grown from
the the two women, employing
two sewers, to a nationwide
operation with over 3,000
distributors.
The New Direction weight loss
program has been available at
Huguley since January. According
to Director Sharon Bryant, the 200
calorie per serving, nutritionally
complete beverage was developed
by Ross Laboratories. Bryant, a
registered nurse, has worked with
the system since moving to this
area from North Carolina, and is
also currently working on her
masters degree.
"There have been some
patients on the program for as long
as a year, because the beverage
meets aii of ihc recommended daily
allowances,1' she stated.
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Looking slim and trim..,
is Burleson resident Susan Mendenhall in the "Expressions" fashions
she modeled during a recent fashion show conducted by six ladies who have
lost weight in Huguley’s New Direction Weight Loss program.
The program offers three
servings per day for women, 600
calories total, and four for men, 800
calories. However, two of the
models confessed they had increased
their servings to four per day, also.
But how did theyfeel after not
chewing anything for months?
"Great," was the unanimous
response. Crowley resident, Colleen
Johnson, stated emphatically she
had not suffered any hunger or
cravings during the more than five
months since she has been on the
program. She has lost 96 pounds
since January, and wants to lose
another 50. A clinical psycologist
who has "always been heavy,"
Johnson said She was suffering
from high blood pressure and
cholesterol before starting the
program. >
"The hardest part was de-
programing you brain to only
having liquid. So much of our
hunger is in our head. I still think
about food, but because there is no
measuring, as long as you do as
you’re told, it works great!" she
slated.
The support meetings once a
week and doctor's visits every other
week help keep the participants on
track, as does the exercise workouts
which are stressed in the program.
. For Que Petty, the most
exciting tiling since dropping 50
pounds, is sharing her daughter's
size nine clothes. "And recently,
when I was writing a check, the
cashier did not recognize me from
my driver's license photo, 1 loved
it!" she said.
Susan Mendenhall, of
Burleson, has lost 30 pounds over
the past 8 1/2 to 9 weeks. Because
she is tall, she said it was hard for
her to admit that she had a weight
problem. "But I felt that I looked
bad. I had a terrible self-image.
Underwoods celebrate 68 years together
Fond memories of a Texas farm girl
BY JOHN FLORES
Oscar and Ethel Underwood are
remarkable people not only because
they managed to stay married
through 68 of their 86 years on this
earth, but also because they had 11
children—six boys and five
girls—all still living.
Both were bom in Ellis county
in 1903, according to their
daughter, Eunice Moser, of
Burleson. Moser credits her parents'
long, healthy lives to "love and
hard work...they had plenty of
both," she said.
Today, in the evening of their
ASKANURSE
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Question of the
Week
Summer is here! Gardening,
rollerskating, and blisters! We
rceive calls regularly about what
you can do for blisters.
Blisters are usually caused by
friction. The sheering force of
friction causes the skin cells to
produce a watery fluid to protect the
underlying tissues. As long as the
skin covering is intact the risks of
infection are minimized. Never
open a blister!
You can apply "aperture pads"
(com pads) to relieve the pressure.
Clean the area by soaking and then
gently pat it dry. The fluid will
absorb and the dry skin will peel in
about a week. If the area remains
unhealed or if signs of infection
appear, you should see your
physician immediately.
Remember that blisters are
caused by friction, so make every
attempt to eliminate the source.
Wear thick protective gloves or
socks when needed. Always check
children's shoes for proper fit.
If you develop a blister that
was not caused by frictior you
should see your physician
immediately. This is a sign of a
more serious disease condition.
For more information, or if/
you have other health questions,
call Ask-A-Nurse at 551-2555
(Cleburne 641-3438).
lives, Oscar and Ethel live together
in a room of the Silver Haven
Nursing Center in Burleson, where
they have both been for about 10
months. Both are still in
remarkably good health for their
advanced age, though the process of
aging lias taken its toll on Oscar
more noticeably dian his wife.
Eunice said hjfr ^ parents,
grandparents— and as far back as
she knows—her forebearers were all
farmers. "Yes, I worked in the
cotton fields, corn fields...picked
cotton, pulled weeds and sprayed in
fields all around Grandview,
Maypearl, and Venus," she said.
"People don't farm nowadays
like they used to," she added,
recalling die days when she would
watch her father plow a field with
"a "double buster"^(pJowl jtnd..a .
mule," she said.
"I was born in 1927, and I can
barely remember diat Daddy worked
for 75 cents a day sometimes. It
was hard times. He’d put me and
my brother on rows beside him and
we'd work the fields together?* she
said.
"Sometimes when daddy would
be plowing along, us kids would
follow along behind him and get
worms out of the earth and go
fishing with them," she said.
Ethel Underwood was burned
badly two and a half years ago
while cooking in her kitchen,
Eunice said. The doctors at Scott
and White hospital in Temple gave
her a 2 percent chance of surviving
the burn.
But she survived, and today
watches over her husband, getting
around quite well for her age, her
daughter says.
Eunice remembered that there
were many times her father would
have to take to the woods to get
something for them to Jtave for
supper.
"There's been lots of times
when money was getting scarce and
Dad would go out and kill a rabbit
or a squirrel for supper...we
especially liked it when Mama
made chicken and dumplings with
them, I guess you'd call that squirrel
or rabbi; dumplings,” she said,
smiling.
"And we'd have a big garden
every year," she recalled.
Like kids today, she and her
brothers and sisters would often find
time to amuse themselves. While
kids today can go to the store to get
what they want, she remembers
playing baseball with homemade
bats and balls.
"We’d take string out of flour
sacks and feed sacks and made a ball
out of it, and took limbs out of a
tree and the boys whittled it and
made a bat out of it," she said.
Today, while they may be
scattered about the country, Eunice
said she is thankful that all her
brothersand sistersareallaMve.
"I credit that (the fact that they
are all alive and in good health) to
hard work, I really do. Hard work
and just being thankful for
everything we've had in life," she
said.
Now my little, tiny petite daughter
tells me, 'I can’t believe you borrow
my things without asking, Mom',”
she laughed.
Martha Morris, of Edgecliff,
also cited a poor self-image as the
motivation behind her loss of 60
1/2 pounds. "This is the most I
have ever lost. I was desperate. I
felt fat and ugly. One of the real
problems in today's society is that
people discriminate against fat
people."
Barbara Bryant, a R.N. from
Keene, says she has learned more
about nutrition since being
involved in the program. Since
dropping 30 pounds, Barbara is one
of the lucky ones who has gone
back to eating regular food.
However, because of the education
she has received in the classes, she
now is very careful shopper. "It
takes me forever to go through the
grocery store because I am reading
every label."
Martha also shared that she had
always thought her biggest problem
was sweets, but through the
nutritional classes she has learned
■that fat is the real culprit. She also
likes the exercise program that is
advocated.
The ladies recited cholesterol
readings, fat content and nutritional
requirements like most of us recall
phone numbers. Joyce Zacharias,
also of Keene, began the program
on her doctor's recommendation
after suffering as a diabetic and with
high blood pressure. She was one
of the original participants,
beginning in January. She has since
lost 56 pounds, and reports "I am
not taking any medicaiton at all
now, and Dr. Ingleking thinks the
program is wonderful!"
Although Sharon Bryant said
die exercise program is • probably
die hardest to insult in patients, it
was given credit by the ladies as
one of the most beneficial
requirements.
All die women were very direct
in discussing dieir problems. And
all displayed a zest for a healthy
lifestyle, which has long been the
trademark of the Huguley health
system. In fact, Colleen stated that
was one of the reasons she chose
Huguley over other weight loss
programs. "I liked the idea that
Huguley has a history and traditon
of offering preventative health
care," she stated.
For more information on the
New Direction Weight Loss
Program, call Sharon Bryant at 551-
2656.
Bus Stop is flawless
production for Fort
Worth Theatre troupe
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Weathering
the Ages
Oscar and Ethel Underwood recently celebrated 68 years of
marriage. Their lives were detailed by daughter Eunice, of
Burleson. As a sharec.opper, her father's life was filled
with labor, but life was good she said.
BY LUC1ENBA DENSON
All too rarely, a play comes
along that is so perfectly done, the
setting so life-like, it seems to be
more reality than theatre. Fort
Worth Theatre's current production
of Bus Stop at Scott Theatre in
Fort WorJh is one of those rare
productions.
Members of the audience get
a hint of what is about to take place
with the first glimpse of the set,
designed by Richard Morrison. It is
perfection to the minutest detail —
a Life magazine picture of a mid-
1950's bus stop/cafe come to life.
The set is wonderfully authen-
tic from the attention-getting vin-
tage "Coke" vending machine and
juke box to the more subtle smoke
and hand print stains on the walls
and the broken tile in the black and
white checkerboard floor. No detail
has been overlooked, not even the
napkin and sugar dispensers and salt
and pepper shakers that sit in the
center of the red and white checkered
tablecloths on the square restaurant
tables.
Theater-goers unfamiliar with
the play expecting to see a duplica-
tion of the 1955 movie will need to
do some mental gear shifting.
Although the movie was made from
the play; the playis morecomplex-.
Not one, but two major and one
minor story lines form the plot of
Bus Stop.
The play, written by William
Inge, is set in Grace's, about 30
miles west of Kansas City.
The play opens with the Grace,
the owner/manager played by Ginny
Cutting, explaining to Elma Duck-
worth, a college student and the
restaurant's only waitress played by
Lorie Hicks, how lonely it can be
in the apartment over the cafe
without her permanently absent
husband. When Elma suggests that
Grace write him and ask him to
come back, Grace tells her that
wouldn't be much of an improve-
ment, since she was only slightly
less lonely when he had been
around.
Conversation changes quickly
to the cold weather and the winter
storm that has set in. Confirmation
of the storm's presence comes in
the chilling sound of the wind
through the opened door as Will
Masters, sheriff and occasional wise
sage played by Rex Bierko, comes
into the bus stop to tell them the
phone lines are down and the road
west is closed.
The opening scene's conversa-
tion is so comfortable, it is almost
underplayed, and sets the mood for
the remainder of the play.
The sound of the bus appro-
aching and coming to a stop some-
where outside die is followed
almost immediately by the hurried,
rather frantic entrance 6f"a lorie
blonde woman carrying a cheap
suitcase that has seen better days.
Dressed in brilliant blue pedal
pushers and wearing a white waist-
length jacket trimmed with a small
white fur collar, she announces that
she is trying to escape an amorous
cowboy determined to marry her and
take her to his ranch in Montana.
Played by Elizabeth Sexton, she
tells Elma that her name is Cherie,
and that she is a chanteuse, most
recently of Kansas City.
Another passenger and the bus
driver wander in, first the rather
drunk and worldly worn professor,
Dr. Gerald Lyman, played by Dean
Nolen, followed by the driver, Carl,
played by Morton Weinberg. Two
passengers remain on the bus asle-
ep, Carl tells Will, both cowboys..
One is off the ranch in Montana for
the first time and a trouble maker.
The entrance of Virgil Bles-
sing, played by Carroll Watts, and
Bo Decker, played by Rodney
Honeycutt, confirm Carl's warning.
Virgil, older and wiser, prevents an
almost immediate confrontation
between the impetuous Bo and
Will.
The players, from worldy wise
impressionable, must pass the
night in Grace's because of the
storm. By morning, at the end of
the third act, the characters learn
some surprising things about them-
selves and the others, and disclose
more than they intend.
Directed by Brynn Bristol, Bus
Stop is excellently cast and flaw-
lessly directed. Everything, from
lighting, designed by Suzanne
Lavender, to costumes, designed by
Heidi Cobb, to sound effects that
succeed in making stepping out
into the July evening warmth
almost a surprise — in short, every
large and small detail in this pro-
duction — work together like-
perfectly synchronized, well-oiled
machinery.
Generally described as a roman-
tic comedy, it is an also down-to-
earth, sometimes poignant, some-
times gritty slice-of-life work.
The first of Fort Worth Thea-
tre's six-play set scheduled for its
35th season, Bus Stop will be a
hard act for the remaining five plays
to follow.
The only negative about this
production is its short run. Opening
night was Thursday, July 20. Only
two performances remain, Friday
and Saturday evenings, July 27 and
28. With Scott's limited seating,
reservations should be made as soon
as possible. Call 817-738-7491 for
ticket information. Scott Theater is
located at 3505 W. Lancaster in
Fort Worth.
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