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Mrs. Weindorf, 84, says she plans to “nag” her husband as much as necessary. “I wouldn’t feel married if I weren’t nagged,” said Weindorf, who in his working days was a state police motorcycle trooper, county and state engineer and local political activist. The couple were first married on Valentine’s Day in 1924 and since then have been married a total of 37 years and divorced 24, said Sue Nea- vill, 40, the youngest of the couple’s four living children. “The reason I finally decided to go along with (the third wedding) was because I realized they never loved anybody else,” said Neavill, herself a grandmother. The two were acting “like a couple of 20-year-olds,” she said. The Weindorfs are the oldest cou ple to take out a marriage license in Logan County — and were the old est to have won a divorce when they were granted their second in 1972, Neavill said. She said numerous Lincoln mer chants, as giddy over the wedding as the bride and groom, have donated “everything you need for a wed- ding.” 1 he Weindorfs’ first marriage lasted 21 years and produced seven children, three of whom died soon after birth. They were divorced in 1945, but saw each other occasionally while dating others, the two said in a re cent interview. They remarried in July 1956. But the marriage soured again, and in 1972 they divorced once more. Neavill said her father, no longer able to care for himself, in 1980 en tered the Countryside Health Care Center. She said she had to put her mother into the same nursing home last year after her diabetes, arthritis and other age-related ailments be came too severe. “I didn’t want to send her out there, knowing Dad was there,” Nea vill said. “But there was no other place to put my mother.” Mrs. Weindorf said she “didn’t care a thing about him (Des)” when she entered the nursing home, but, giggling, added: “He started bring ing me a banana every morning.” One thing led to another and, last month, Weindorf popped the ques tion. “I don’t know what 1 said but it was beautiful,” he said. “1 didn’t get down on my knees though. I wouldn’t have been able to get up.” Solar homes undergo changes, refinement Associated Press NEW YORK — In the wintertime it is cold, damp and windy in the Long Island resort community of East Hampton, but Tom Smith lives with almost no artificial heat in a lovely, warm, pleasantly airy house. It is a simply designed house, es- thetically appealing, bright and with a view, but it is the indoor climate, “like Waikiki in February,” that makes it rare It is the ultimate refinement of what used to be called the solar house. For Smith, this prototype is THE house, the better mousetrap he has worked years to perfect — a simply designed structure of standard materials that needs almost no artifi cial heat and which is more healthful than most other houses. Some people think of passive solar as intricate, complex, difficult — needing fans, vents, ductwork and gadgetry to make them work. Some houses, says Smith, “looked like they were taking off for outer space.” In truth, says Smith, who operates in East Hampton under the cor- orate name Positech, a good solar ome can be achieved with a south ern exposure, plenty of glass, access to the constant (50 to 55 degrees ev erywhere below the frostline) heat of the earth, and skillfully placed doors, vents and windows. He stresses eight points to anyone who will listen. • Standard cost. The three-bed room, two-bath Easthampton house of 1,300 feet was built at standard cost, or for about $60 a foot. • Standard construction. Many builders avoided solar because they felt it was complicated. “The builder is too hardnosed to get into that sort of thing,” he says. “He’s the most no- nonsense guy in town.” Smith says his East Hampton contractors didn’t even know tney were working on something special. • Standard architecture. “Solar shot itself in the foot with unusual architecture,” he says. Such houses now can fit into any neighborhood. • Standard materials. “People had been looking for super materials and technology breakthroughs,” he says. “It isn’t going to happen. Spe cial materials and technology run up costs.” • Superior esthetics. “We em phasize south glass without being ob sessive about it. The sun room is like a 3-D mural for the house.” • Superior function. The sun room, an integral part of the house, serves as the setting for dinners, par ties, bridge games and candlelight dinners, says Smith. • Superior health and comfort. The environment in winter is like the outdoors in summer. The sum mer environment is comfortable without air conditioning. • Superior energy efficiency. Smith claims his houses are 80 per cent self-sufficient. He estimates it costs about $1,500 for heat in East Hampton houses of comparable size. Cerebral palsy victinn not a typical mother Associated Press WACO — When Sandy Bailey says she’s “not your typical mother,” she is referring to her child-rearing philosophy. But Bailey is an atypical mother lor a more obvious reason. She has cerebral palsy. While Bailey was pregnant with her daughter, people asked her how she would take care of the baby. “I’ve never dropped this child yet,” said Bailey, who describes her gait as that of someone who’s done too much partying. But she admits to facing the problems of all new parents. “It was just one panic after an other,” she said. She found a friend to call “six times a day” for those or dinary crises, and she and Jamie, now 21 months, made it through the first year. “I refuse to think of her as a baby,” Bailey said. She talks to Jamie in a logical, grown-up fashion. She politely asks Jamie if it’s all right to change her diaper. When Jamie has a crying fit, Bailey puts her daughter on her lap and asks, “Can I help? Do we need to talk?” Jamie is sensitive to her mother’s needs, Bailey said. “I find that she responds to me differently than other childre.n re spond to other parents,” she said. She also gets help and encourage ment from her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Van Wyk. “Grandpa’s the best baby-sitter in the whole world,” she said. And Richard, her husband of three-and- a-half years, encourages her and boosts her self-esteem, Bailey said. Bailey has worried about Jamie’s speech, since children usually learn from mimicking others. “My speech has been my biggest problem,” she said. “When I’m tired, nobody can understand me.” Bailey, 34, has had cerebral palsy since birth and was unable to speak until she was eight or nine. Bailey said her worries about Ja mie’s speech apparently have been unfounded. “I can tell her a word and she’ll say it correctly,” or at least as correctly as any 21-month-old can, she said. Bailey also worries about keeping up with Jamie as she gets older. “She doesn’t like anything uncomplicated, she said. Bailey has an associate’s degree in mental health from McLennan Community College. She is now studying computer sci ence at MCC. She also is taking an acting class. “Acting is feeding my soul,” she said. 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