20 — MANCIIKS'^KR HERALD, Siiturday, Aufi, 13. 19H3 Early training Love after 50 can boost — it’s worth it Pohl confident he’ll get Pope at last has state files suit signatures by deadline \mass at Lourdes ¥s. Coventry continued from page 11 children’s IQ X disputes the idea that the elderly have no sexual page 3 page 7 page 10 By Sharon Rutenberg desire. United Press International Love is good therapy in the post-60 years, she says.- Special problems the elderly face — aging, senility,' CHICAGO — Parents can helpraiselheirchildren’s sickness — do not render them incapable of loving or intelligence level permanently by using early being loved, she says. learning techniques with 3-and 4-year-olds, says author Joan Beck. BUT WHAT ARE the odds of people finding mates in This may involve leaching toddlers a second later years? language or reading skills at home. Pretty discouraging, actually. Fair tonight; Mrs. Beck, a Chicago Tribune editorial writer and Women, especially those past age 6S, are at an Manchester, Conn. best-selling author of "How to Raise a Brighter extreme disadvantage. sunny, warm Tuesday In a recent census of those 65 and over, there were Monday, Aug. 15, 1983 Child." points the way in her recently published "Best — See page 2 Beginnings: Giving Your Child a Head Start in Life." approximately 145 women per 100 men, or 14 million Single copy; 25<t (Putnam. $14.9.5). women to ten million men. lUanrteatFr Mrrali "It was the thing that was missing when I had my Among the widowed, there are five times as many own children — because I saw in them an eagerness to widows as widowers. learn which is not generally acknowledged in books How did the couples meet one another? for parents." the author said in an interview. Two of the couples, the Feeneys and the Tedfords, She said studies show the Japanese have raised met at retirment parties. One was Francis Feeney's their IQ levels 11 points since World War II. own retirment party at a local pub. His second wife "A tremendous amount of attention is paid to early had been invited by a mutual friend! learning in Japan." she said. " I f they're building After dating for 10 months, they married. Heat wave better brains in their people, this is really serious and The Tedfords knew each other when they were kids we really need to pay enormous attention to these back in 1931. They both visited Rau's Pavilion on ideas.” Crystal Lake in Ellington, where they danced ail night Parents are a child's first and most influential for 50 cents. Back then, though, they never formally teacher. dated. means higher "They're a loving dimension. We've often confused He says that they both ended up working at United learning with sitting still in a classroom. Technologies. Their paths crossed at least a couple of "Children sort of have an innate, built-in desire to times a week. Then, one evening, after both their ' "id CONm iJ please their parents. So they're also more receptive to spouses had died, they ran into each other at a ORl . OF M i CO ONN. U> the learning parents provide than they would be from retirement party. ITEL.WO' O’’ somebody else." ^si orr ■4. food prices "Instead of seeing themselves as someone who TEDFORD SAYS: "I was fortunate to be able to 0^ ’1 CONN. UNION i TEL changes diapers and spooning cereal, (parents) see experience someone I knew for a long time. I knew iSTRKE themselves as really a guide to child development. what kind of a person Rose was so it made sense to get iS T R 1 TEL. WORKER CONN. UNION By United Press Internationa “ It points out to everyone that And the response they get — a real excited, interested married. She was someone I was comfortable with.” OF they should have participated in feedback from a child when they do these things — Americans will eventually pay Mrs. DuPont met her future husband at the 3,.A ON « T E L . WORKERS 1 P IK ,” said Illinois Agriculture makes parenting more rewarding.” Manchester Senior Center. She was working there as higher food prices because of the Director 4Larry Werries. Language learning is an example. a secretary at the time. STRIKES heat wave that has scorched the While farmers in the feed-grains "Children really do it at an incredibly young age She says she waited on him when he came up to the nation's corn crop. Farmers en­ PIK program are clear winners, (between 3 and 4). And they do it primarily with the desk for a gold card. "W e hit it off right then,” she ON rolled in the government’s the consumer is sure to be one of parents' help. says. TEL.'NO" payment-in-kind program will be­ the losers. "In pre-school years, they could learn a second The pair danced at the center’s annual Valentine nefit while some others face Lyng said it is too early to say language without an accent." dance. But he waited until the St. Patrick's Day dance bankruptcy. whether the smaller crop will "It is interesting that in our society we have to ask her out. STRIKE) The heat wave and drought mean scrapping plans for an 1984 postponed learning a second language, almost Mrs. Hammond recalls the first time she met her •f'-i 0» already have pushed up feed PIK program for corn. But Mark uniformly, to high school years. There's an enormous husband. prices, which means ultimately Gold, an independent trader on the amount of evidence that shows the brain does not " I was coming through the doors of a bowling alley'" "n there will be less meat available Chicago Board of Trade, said the acquire a second language (later) as easily — or and it will cost more. chances are "slim and none.” permanently.” to meet some of my friends,” she says. Hammond, then captain of the senior citizens “ Eventually the price of feed has "(President) Reagan will have a bowling team, saw her first. got to be reflected in the price of hard enough time explaining the MRS. BECK said children must also be given many ^ "H e asked my friends to introduce him and from ‘ meat,” said Richard Lyng, deputy expense of this year’s program,” things to manipulate. then on we dated until we got married,” Mrs. U.S. agriculture secretary. Gold said in an interview. "These don't have to be toys,'' she said. They can be The latest government figures Hammond says. Herald photos by Pinto Of the major producing states, household items a child cn handle freely around the show the heat and the PIK crop estimates indicate the corn is home without danger, such as cooking utensils and As the phone company strike went into its ninth day, programs have reduced this year’s in the worst shape in Missouri, sturdy adult tools. Western Electric picketers walked in an orderly fashion about 50 Connecticut Union of Telephone Workers and today outside the 52 E. Center St. office. corn crop by an estimated 38 where a statewide average yield of Planning for substitute care is important for percent. Forecasters expect an only 75 bushels an acre was working parents, Mrs. Beck added. Births even smaller crop by the time forecast. In the best years, the "It's very important to find a caretaker who is harvest is over. yield will be well over 100 bushels interested in language stimulation and finding ways UPl photo Under the PIK program, the an acre in many Corn Belt states. provide it. It is important to train a babysitter in a Rood, Emily Woodhall, ria Poharski of Lebanon. govenment pays the farmers with Wayne Cryts, a Missouri farmer early learning techniques. Feels lighter than air daughter of David K. and Supervisors getting taste of work She has three sisters; surplus grain for holding down who gained national attention "... I am aware of lots of babies who are left with Linda Cherrone Rood of 15 Shandra, 11; Kara, 8, and their production levels. The plan is when he took his soybeans out of a caretakers who aren't as interested and certainly Astronaut Bruce McCandless moejels device allows for free flight in space and Amott Road, was bom Elizabeth, 4. a government effort to eliminate bankrupt elevator, said the state is aren't as well educated as parents themselves. 1 think July 7 at Hartford Hospi­ price-depressing stockpiles. it's a great hazard. an actual manneiJ maneuvering unit will be used to repair the Solar Max. “ facing an absolute disaster.” tal. Her maternal grand­ The smaller crop and higher She said some mothers leave their children with (MMU) which will be tested on the 11th Mission satellite. Nettleton, Valerie Lyn, normally done by SNET strikers Cryts predicted the drought will parents are Angela Cher­ daughter of Stephen and prices is good news to the farmers increase the number of farm non-English speaking women or women who turn to Shuttle flight in 1984. The backpack like rone of Manchester and in the program. child care because they cannot get other jobs. Nancy Tomaselli Net­ mortgage foreclosures. the late Joseph Cherrone. By Adele An gle Bolton sat at a desk inside, getting finding out what it’s like to work on "I'v e seen in some of the franchised day centers tleton of 86 Laurel St., was E. Center St. office, as the Her paternal grandpar­ Focus Editor an earful.