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'% * National THE BATTALION WRMKKMY JANUARY IS. II Car sales crash in market Refpstennft *♦* worst year since 1961, U S antomakers sold just 6.2 million cars last year, 5.4 percent below 1900 But there was a flicker of food news on the home mortgage front, where interest rates dropped significantly General Motors, Volkswagen of America, Ford Motor Co. and American Motors Corp. suffered declines — with only Chrysler Corp. enjoying an increase. The automotive gloom was just a part of life in these days of a nagging recession and uncertain economy But in the home mortgage area, hard- hit during the past one-and-a-hatf years, there was a ray of hope The Federal Home Loan Bank Board said interest rates offered for new house mortgages fell by more thaa half a point in December, the first Significant drop in rates since the summer of 1900 It said the latest figures, for the month ending the first week in December, showed major mort gage lenders offered ap average rate of 17 54 percent, down from 18.16 percent the previous month. This positive housing development, however, was little solace to the slumping auto industry, whose 1901 sales figures were the lowest since 1961, when 5.6 million U.S. cars were sold Foreign car popularity and the shock of seeing pnce increases of up to $1,000 over the previous year were seen, dong with the economy, as reasons for the failure of domestic automakers to rebound from a 1900 slump. Ford, which reported figures Wednesday, said it sold 1,380,600 cars, a 6.1 percent drop from the 1,475,232 sold in 1900 In the wake of the poor automobile sales, a presidential advisory group begaa a yearlong study on how to cure lagging U.S. productivity “We cannot have economic prosperity — sus tained growth without inflation — unless we have better productivity growth.” President Reagan told the 33-member National Productivity Advis ory Committee at the White Housa. Productivity is measured several *ays It is the nation's output per hpur of labor, oifrput per em ployee, or, the output from a combustion of labor and capital. By almost any measure, the growth of U.S. productivity slowed in the 1970s and in 1900 showed an actual decline Dn W'all Street Wednesday, stock p rices, pum- meled bv investor fears of high interest rates and large federal deficits, fell to their lofeest level in six weeks. But the selling rased a bit after Rupert Ortner, chief Commerce Department economist, said Wall Street was overreacting to deficit projec tions and ignoring what he said was progress in the fight against inflation As a result, the Dow Jones industrial average, which had been down nearly nine points at mid day after Tuesday s 17.22 point drubbing, fin ished with a loss of 4 28 points to 861 02 Birthing doll educates I'aMad Press IntenaatSMai TALLAHASSEE, Fla — Itwas inevitable that the anatomically correct doll would be followed by the functionally correct doll — a rag doll that gives birth to a tiny baby doU They come in two styles — one that gives birth naturally and another that delivers by Caesa rean section. k Jan Alov us says she designed the first of her dolls in 1977 for a friend’s young son, who was hav ing problems figuring out how his impending sibling would arrive The idea was so well-received that other friends requested a hu man doll From that small begin ning came Natalie, the rag doll with a tiny baby inside, attached to a detachable umbilical cord, that can be delivered in exactly the way a real baby comes into the world. [Natalie is bought mostly by itors, hospital auxiliaries and -related groups for fund raising purposes Alov us, 35, a free-lance art con- |Nah edacatu heami-i sultant and art teacher, does not recommend the 22-inch fabric doll for public school classrooms But she would like to see a doU library established where people could check educational-type dolls in and out like books. Kids that benefit most, she said, are those who don’t know how to interpret a picture and are about to have a sister or brother. Akjvus, the mother of two small boys, is working on a guide to help parents decide how best to intro duce the pregnant doll to chil dren. I don’t expect to make a lot of money and this is not my principal business." she said. "I’m not try to prove anything, but to make something available to people who want it. Adults can take the doll to C ps who need it to help chil- i deal with a subject that is often difficult for parents to ex plain and children to understand." She sells the dolls or do-it- yourself kits at wholesale prices. giving discounts for large quanti- word of mouth from birth groups ties. and small articles in People learn about Natalie by magazines 500 Off (with coupon) J Good for any DINNER $3.50 or over at ALFREDO’S TACOS AL CARBON Qood thru 509 Urwverafty Dr. Jan 17, 1982 North Gala 846-38*4 Protests held to oppose jailing CARROLLTON, Ala — Civil rights activists called for an econo mic boycott and daily picketing to protest the jailing of two black women who illegally marked absentee ballots for 39 elderly and illiterate blacks Julia Wilder. 69. and Maggie Bozeman.. 51, both active in th^ movement to get blacks to vote, were taken Monday to Tutwiler Prison for Women after a tense two-hour hearing in which they were refused probation by Circuit Judge Clatus Junkin. Wilder faces a five-year term and Bozeman four years for vote fraud They were convicted in 1979 by all-white juries in rural west Alabama for illegally forging signatures on ballots for elderly and infirm blacks without- their knowledge The women claimed they were merely helping the voters cast their ballots and did nothing illegal Junkin did not give a reason for rejecting probation. The judge angered black spec tators, who let out a roar of dis approval when the decision was announced, by not letting them leave the courtroom until he had made his exit. Deputies escorted the two women away. “Either arrest us or let us out," demanded the Rev Joseph Louk ery of Atlanta, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. After the hearing, more than 200 blacks met at tbe Salem Bap tist Church and vowed to conduct an economic boycott until the women were freed “We must not reward Pickens County with our economic sup port for putting our mothers in jail, said Lowery. “We don’t want to be violent He whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad We’ve got to get creatively angry. About 100 pit lurts braved sub freezing temperatlires to begin what Lowery said syould be a daily demonstration in front of the county courthousd. He said he was asking all blacks to keep their children out of school Friday in protest, and also tofcommemorate Dr Martin laither King’s birthday “If tne childreh stay out of school, it will cost the county some money," he said AVe re going to make it very expensive to put black women in jail Lowery said a delegation of civil rights leaders would meet with Gov. 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