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818 Vine (409) 846-4180 for your convenience monograming can Be dropped off at the Curiosity Strop i There is Stiff a Monogramer in Town Barineau Monogram % Page 6E/The Battalion/Monday, August 27, 1984 System needs 'special' teachers One-room schools still alive St. Mary’s Church Inquiry Class beginning Monday, August 27 7:30-9 p.m. in St. Mary’s Student Center For all who want to learn more about the Catholic Faith— Catholics and Non-Catholics 103 Nagle N. 846-5717 RAINBOW CLEANERS & AGGIE BALLOONS wants to welcome back the Ags! Bring your laundry and dry cleaning or send a friend a balloon... 3602 E. 29th (Across from Dairy Queen) 7:30-6:00 M-F and 9:00-3:00 Sat United Press International HIGHMORE, S.D. — The one room school has no running water, children still use outhouses and par ents are called in to shoot rabid skunks. But the small white building, 20 miles from the nearest town, stands as a monument to generatiions and is the center for a traditional Christmas holiday reunion. A fast-moving prairie Fire threat ened one of the district’s rural schools last year but ranchers mobi lized to battle flames that burned to within a few yards of the building. “The Fire nappened on a weekend and all the parents and everyone came running,” one parent said. “The parents saved it. There’s com munity pride in those one-room buildings and a lot of opposition to closing them.” He said, however, the system also needs a special teacher. “It really re quires dedicated individuals. It takes a certain breed to go out there.” Janna Larson, 29, appears to be one of those individuals, despite her initial surprise. “I moved from central Minnesota and never heard of rural schools,” she said. “I was looking for some thing different.” But she has spent the last seven years as teacher, nurse, janitor and nandyperson to an average class of 10 students ranging from fourth to v" * Janna Larson has spent the last seven years as tea- ^m0dt^janitor and handy person to an average m| tanging from fourth to eighth - eighth graders. Coping with the everyday chal lenges of a one-on-one education system apparently suits Larson, a working mother. “The outhouses blew over one year, both of them,” she said, chuckling. “I called in and reported it and they all got a charge out of that.” On occasion, a skunk also wanders into the school yard. “When skunks come that close in the daylight they are usually rabid,” she said. In such cases, she does not bother the school district. “I keep the students inside and call one of the ranchers,” she said. “Somebody comes out and shoots it.” Her sense of pride in a job well done is reflected in her students’ ad justment to the high school in High- more. Two of her former students continued their education to become engineers. “Most of them go on to some type of higher education,” she said, “ei ther vo-tech or college.” Larson said, however, she could not manage without the strong sup port of her husband, Scott, a rural telephone cooperative employee. He entertains their 2-year-old son, Jarred, during the evening when she must prepare lessons and correct pa pers For the four separate grades. The job of a rural teacher involves long hours. “We teach everything they teach here in town,” she noted. She said to overcome the wide age variety students have to be more sell sufFicient in country schools. The students must have the incentive to work on their own when she switches her attention from one grade level to the next. Overwhelming support from par ents and the family atmosphere of the schoolhouse helps. “Students have to play with each other, they have no choice,” said Mrs. Larson, who on occasion also delivers mail and groceries to the ranches on her trips from the city — population 1,173. There are some fringe benefit! not included in the starting salaryol $12,500. “Sometimes we get speck! gif ts from the ranchers, inaybeaboi of steaks or hamburger,” Larsoc said. Or it may be corn, applesori watermelon. “It’s their specialwavof thanking us." An overly friendly bull snake and noisy woodpeckers have bothered Pat Crackel the most. Crackel,28 ( teaches a neighboring one rocn, school for younger students —kin dergarden through grade three. Sk shares the 40-mile round trip will Larson. “The First day of school a snake took up residence in the doot way,” said Crackel, whose classesav erage about 1 1 students. “I hate snakes!” One of her older students, expen enced in such matters, removed the visitor. Crackel has her own technioueii offset the difference in gradelevek "I ask older students to help outtht younger ones and they feel impoi tant,” she said, speaking in the soft hut firm voice that commands ato lion in a classroom. "I catch the younger students lit tening when I teach older student and they seem to pick uponit/’sk added. B I L L t A F D S NOW OPEN 32 Pool Tables 4 Shuffleboard Tables Arcade HAPPY HOUR 4-7 Mon.-Fri. 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He said most Ameri cans get Idss calcium than they need and even the Recommended Daily Allowance falls short of his gram-a- day dose. Peck, physician-in-chief at the Jewish Hospital of Washington Uni versity Medical Center, St. Louis, chaired the recent National Insti tutes of Health Consensus Devel opment Conference on Osteoporo sis. He also recommends exercise to ward off the possibility that one’s bones will cave in as the years roll on. Jogging, walking and biking are best. Such exercise puts stress on bones, making them stronger. Swimming, while a good exercise generally, does not put the same kind of stress on the skeleton. Doc tors say bones under stress undergo less resorption. Peck said that lifestyle factors that can incrdasd a woman’s risk of devel oping osteoporosis include chain smoking, heavy drinking, and con suming large quantities of coffee da ily. There was a caveat to his calcium edict: anyone with kidney trouble should ask her physician for guidance about calcium pills. The expert talked about calcium and exercise during an interview on the risks and benefits of various strategems for treating and prevent ing osteoporosis, the degenerative bone disorder that causes abnormal bone loss. Other therapies include estrogen and vitamin D. Peck said no single therapy exists either to treat or prevent osteoporo sis. Some therapies have possible un toward effects, and doctors should help patients to be on the lookout for thbm. Peck said experience indicates es trogen can help if taken about 5 to 10 years after natural menopause and at once in the case of artificial menopause induced by removal d the ovaries. “The common view is that if joi delay menopause five years, ultim tely you reduce to 50 percent chance of a hip fracture 20 year later,” Peck said. 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That was her impression after touring the Summer Home Furnish ings Market at the Dallas World Trade Center, held for buyers from across the country. “They call it ‘Grandmother Bait,’ those absolutely irrestible — and ex pensive — nursery looks that com- oine lace, intricately designed metal cribs and enchanting reproduction children’s chairs,” she said. “But grandmothers are not the only ones these days willing to order the $1,000 cribs and the $400 chairs. Career mothers who waited to have their children later in life and whose own considerable income can give them the necessary financial cushion realize that this may be their only offspring. “They are frequently willing to pamper both baby and mother with these expensive accounterments.” Iron Design’s solid brass cribs and cradles were shown by Nollner and Associates. Made in El Dorado, Ark., the line replicates elaborate white iron beds popular during America’s earlier days, Lehr said. These $995 cribs boast removable canopies. There are matching cra dles — waist-high and costing $600. Suitable for decorating the cradle are Country Design linens — match ing sheets, dustruffle, comforter, bumper pads and baby pillows in many colors and designs. Durward Nollner said the crib sets are dubbed “Country Pleasures” and sell well all across the country. Each set is handmade in Abilene, Texas. In soft pink gingham with eyelet lace trim, a set for infant girls costs $525. Cradle and crib furnishings for boys are lower in price. A navy blue dotted group sprinkled with red, yellow and green hearts costs $360 for the same pieces. Other highlights from the show, Lehr said, include: — Iron Classics of Los Angeles’ iron nursery furniture in eight col ors, including dark charcoal and black, and a matching changing ta ble, for $550. As the child grows, the cradle can be exchanged for a crib, then the crib traded in for a daybed, all in matching designs. — Hand embroidered sheets, available for privileged babies from Raymond Gabler and Associates. Created in the Philippines and im ported by Johanna Welty of San Francisco, a daintily scalloped set with rosebud embroidery in a white- on-white design costs $50 for the crib sheet, decorated top sheet and pillow case. Straight edged sheets with tiny colored bunnies, a Noah’s ark parade of animals, sailboats or trains are $40 a set. Antique reproductions of moth er’s favorite furnishings are available for a price, Lehr said. > Samples: (Georgian Furnishing Ltd. of New Orleans offers a totsiit Queen Anne rocker for $400 ou Chippendale design forS450. Tta are of Indonesian walnut with ma hogany finish, handmade in Sonil Korea. “If the preference is Louis XI, the Besse line imported from Frans includes a tiny chair antiqued in white with deep rose-colored accent and nailhead trim, including a dam ask seat, for $425,” Lehr said. “If that is a bit steep, a Count! 1 French design is offered in beed wood, painted either pink or bltf and hand-decorated with tole t)|* designs. This toddler’s seat is ‘to gain-priced’ at $186.” Lehr said purveyors of these pint sized antique re production chairstf port that people without small chi dren buy the chairs to put in span rooms — and buy dolls to sit i» them. DISCOUNT OFFICE FURNITURE 20”x 40” Student Desk $114.95 Hon #34001 a4» , x 84” Desk: $175.78 Kon #34081 File Cabinet $49.99 #112L with lock 183 East 29th Bryan 822-3154 Cliairworld stack Chair w/arms Black 6* Brown $39.93 Folding table 30x48 $64.99 30x60 $69.99 30x72 $71.99