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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1979
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URBANA, Ill.— Over the years,
the children have come and gone.
They were teen-agers and babies,
retarded and handicapped, sexually
abused and abandoned. In all,
Winifred Micks cared for more than
300 foster children in her home.
Micks, 82, often thinks about
them and the 100 other children she
helped raise in a children s home in
Pontiac.
“We had a lot of fun together. We
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had a lot of sadness,” said Micks,
who has retired from her duties as
mother to the homeless and un
wanted. She now lives quietly with
one of two adopted daughters — a
sharp contrast to the many years of
shouts of laughter, tears, and skin
ned knees.
Micks’s foster-mother story began
in Indianapolis 41 years ago when
her husband and SVfe-year-old son
died within a few months of each
other. She remembers those years
at the end of the Depression as very
tough times.
“I didn’t have much time to feel
sorry for myself, though. I had to
get down to the nitty gritty and get
to work,” she said.
She opened a nursery school for
children and also took in money for
doing laundry, sewing, babysitting
and other odd jobs. “I did a little bit
of everything, anything I could find
to do,” she said.
With the beginning of World War
II, she started taking in foster chil
dren — offspring of some of the
mothers who were called to work for
the war effort. She received no
reimbursement from the state, but
some small compensation from the
parents.
In 1944, her sister who lived in
Urbana became ill and Micks and
her daughter moved into care for
her.
“And I got right back in business
again. There was one little German
girl. Her mother came in with some
soldier and left her with me. She
(the mother) went off and we
couldn’t find her. I went to the pro
bation officer to see if they could
find the mother and he persuaded
me to work for them,” Micks said.
“These children were children
who were abandoned. They were
taken away from the parents be
cause they were mistreated.”
“I’ve taken ’em right out of the
hospital. Some were teenagers, but
not too many because my own
daughter was a teen-ager and I
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didn t want some of the things they
do to reflect on her,” she said.
“That was an experience I had al
ways wanted.”
Foster parenting, Micks said, is a
rewarding experience for adults who
have love and a home to share.
“It takes a special kind of love. It’s
a love that encourages, but doesn’t
take over,” she said.
Deepwater
port impact
under review
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GALVESTON — The Corps
Engineers will take about nine
months to review an environmental
impact statement the Port of Gal
veston has submitted in support of a
planned deepwater oil terminal, an
official said Wednesday.
District Engineer Col. John Van-
den Bosch said it would take that
long to respond fully to the 3,000-
page report submitted Tuesday for
the $349 million project, one of
three terminals currently promoted
by various Texas interests.
The Texas Deepwater Port Au
thority plans an offshore “super
port” off Freeport. Corpus Christi
has plans for an onshore facility
called Deepport. Each is subject to
federal approval.
Vanden Bosch said his office
would conduct a public hearing to
gather comments from other agen
cies and then issue its own report.
Port of Galveston Director C.S.
Devoy said the project is crucial to
the prosperity of a port that lost
tonnage and income last year due to
a grain elevator explosion and an ac
cidental crane wreck.
“It’s a big project and it’s very,
very meaningful to Galveston,’’
Devoy said. The plans call for a 55-
foot-deep channel and a Pelican Is
land oil terminal capable of unload
ing two supertankers at one time.
The channel would make Galves
ton the only deepwater port in
Texas if completed before
Deepport.
United Press Internaliiml
HOUSTON - Relaxation,
eminent efforts to phastou
mercial use of natural gas®
short-term, even if disrup
Iranian oil exports continiies
alternate fuels, a private
economist said Wednesday
John H. Lichtblau, exeni
rector of the Petroleum
Research Foundation, t 0 |
Natural Gas Supply Commj
relaxation conflicts with L
government policy anditj
on a miscalculation.
Lichthlau said a govern®
tempt to revive the nowsit;
policy of reducing gas salesti.
trial and electric utility®
can be expected soon.
“The National Energy Ada
requires the phasing ouldi
these customers,” he said.
Lichthlau said the renti
commercial gas sales limit
might come despite (heia
substitute fuels causedbyth
cal disruption of Iranianoilp
tion.
He said government mis
tion of a temporary gas surpl
long-range policy demands
be additional factors causing
controls.
“Right now, the Iranian!
could make it (the surplus]
short duration if Iranian oil
remain totally unavailal
another few months
shortage can be expected
velop," Lichthlau said.
“In that case, any fuel
displacing oil would havr
mobilized to reduce ourned
imports, he said.
Lichthlau said supply
exceeds demand, but Eneip!
tary James Schlesinger’s
zation of the situation as
misleading.
Lichthlau said the
tration’s estimate of the
trillion cubic feet —about5|
of annual demand — was
“The figure has been
both directions but then
doubt that many gas prodis
currently operating \vi
capacity,” he said.
Lichthlau said industrial
gas users would have to suit
to oil in a relatively shorttfe
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