European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes saturday september 9, 1978 new York outside on 42nd Street peo ple walked slowly through the blazing August Day. Inside the Glass walled Ford foundation building Maxine Kane sat in Cool splendor surrounded by indoor gardens hearing the sound of fountains throwing water onto the gardens but rather than spend the afternoon in Comfort and reflection is. Kane was in tense and appeared overworked. She had spent most of the Day upstairs in one of the Glass offices that Overlook the Gar Dens but she had noticed none of the Beauty she had been in Earnest unyielding talks with Ford foundation people assigned to matters of population. Is. Kane was dressed in jeans and a Blackt shirt with White lettering that said. I m a Normal  this is a memento of the lesbian conference held at Normal 111., on the Campus of Illinois state University at which theorists led by is. Kane a political Sci ence professor decided that the lesbian movement should seize the test tube babies method and produce 500,000 test tube births by lesbian mothers Over the next four years and urns dramatically change sometime in the future the political Power of Gay women the Normal lesbian conference is expected to have far greater Impact on the coun try than the 1965 Strawberry statement con Ference of the students for a democratic society the ads at port Huron Mich. That conference started the movement which placed marijuana Rock n Roll and jeans into a majority of american House  Normal lesbian conference called for a slower but More dramatic change hav ing test tube babies for political purposes. In Many congressional districts a bloc of 3,000 votes can control nearly All of the political makeup of the area. With a sudden Rise in the number of Gay children in certain areas discrimination against lesbians not Only would be ended within 18 years but would be replaced by lesbians in actual Power for at least two decades yesterday. Maxine Kane was exhausted from the Long hours of behind the scenes political work that she and her committee have been putting in since the Normal lesbian con Ference we need a $5 million foundation Grant and then a Matching $5 million from  she was saying. There is no question in our minds about the hew Grant. Our Legal people Tell us we re clearly entitled to it. It is the foundation Money that is taking  what does it look like to you she was asked. Of. Well get it eventually. Then you see we can begin the actual planning for our pro Gram. With the $5 million from a foundation and the $5 million from hew we can build our first Gay sperm Bank and gather the extensive Legal services Well need to insure that each pregnant woman will receive All Federal state and City welfare benefits due  what did the foundation people say to Day she was asked. Well the same As the population Council and in a Way the fund for the Republic. Ethics is no problem. We Are against women marrying their test tubes. Everyone under stands that. Beyond this the Ford ethicist feel that informed consent is the Paramount Issue in test tube babies. Of course All our women will be Able to give perhaps the most informed consent that test tube motherhood Ever will see. We want the babies we know Why we want to have them and we know where we Are going with them to gain control politically in areas where people refuse to treat us As what we Are Normal human be  Are the problem upstairs then she was asked. Not really a problem. As 1 say the differ posting prices May save Gas users Money Washington up american con Sumers could save up to $500 million at the Gas pump if gasoline prices were prominently displayed by service stations across the coun try according to the american Enterprise Institute for Public policy research. Posted prices help Consumers shop for the Best bargain and can often help keep the Price of gasoline Down. Less than 10 percent of the service stations in the new York area posted their prices the report found while 90 percent of the stations in los Angeles posted regular gasoline prices and 70 percent posted Premium prices. Consumer gains throughout the nation in 1975 due to Price posting As intense As that in the los Angeles area were estimated to be at least $322 million annually and possibly As much As $507 million  fences will diminish and we will get our Money. For now Ford people Are a but uncomfortable. A big foundation such As this works in contraception research. And they have been disappointed that in both Western and East Ern Europe people keep saying Why Aren t our children having children anymore now the Ford people find the same thing happening in the United states. Schoolroom Are unfilled we suddenly have an aging popu lation. The Ford people know it. The age de mos Are bad. There is definite concern Over the ability of this sort of population to sustain pension and social Security payments. And people around the country Are starting to worry about their Young people not having Chil  told the Ford people just As i told the fund for the Republic people that is exactly where the Normal lesbian conference is. We want children. This places us in the main Stream of american thinking. I told them in political terms that the numbers Are there the tide is changing. The foundation Reliance on contraception research should be redirected to population construction. We can work with them on this. After All if we intend to have our greatest Impact in major cities such As new York and san Francisco then it will be the Normal lesbian conference that will in the end be responsible for saving the fireman s pension  did they listen she was asked. Of of course. They Are decent people who want to do a Job. I came away today with the definite feeling that our presentation was quite  � where do you go now she was asked. There Are some hew conferences next week. One on ethics i believe. But we have cleared up the ethical considerations of lesbians having children. I think the one Point we have to get across Down there is the value of us having this enormous number of children. Hew will be Able to conduct longitudinal studies of the question of whether Gay is genetic or environmental. We will have test tube babies by a Gay sperm Bank out of a lesbian Mother. The children will be studied. Even if the majority of children born Are heterosexual this is no loss to the Gay political move ment. The child never would turn against the  she got up and walked out into the heat. People on 42nd Street barely noticed her i m a Normal lesbian to shirt. Is. Kane is be coming a familiar figure to them c Chicago Tribune a y. News Syndicate across 1 youngest son 6 author of 32 across 12 cylindrical 13 night of the " 14 mexican president 1946-52 15 conductor Andre 16 wings 17 scottish gaelic 19 miscellany 20 withered 22 Black and 24 fishing line float 27 fat med 29 the gloomy Dean 32 novel by 6 across 35 monster 36 this up 37 Attila for one 38 freeze 40 Ireland 42 Wager 44 a famous Betsy 46 sweetheart Colloq 50 dinner dish 52 gum arabic 54 Spring Flowers 55 knotty 56 fideles 57 Backbone Down 1 prison room 2 Region 3 greek townships 4 greek letter 5 largest of the Canary islands 6 haunches 7 White Heron 8 fragrant Herb 9 Georgia seaport 10 Blue grape pigment Var 11 California Indian 12 chinese Pagoda average solution time 22 min. Answer to yesterday s Puzzle. 18 rests 21 building Wing 23 help 24 catch 25 japanese Sash 26 denigrate 28 craftsmen 30 wildebeest 31 geologic time 33 resin exudate 34 Swiss River 39 build 41 Island group near Sicily 42 Bartok or Lugosi 43 lady of Camelot 45 Platinum wire Loop 47 image 48 ascend 49 new Guinea seaport 51 ethiopian Njohn 53 filch Slang 35 42 5-0 54 25 43 26 38 2o 3 i 21 21 39 44 36 45 40 22 28 52 55 23 34 jt3 29 46 30 46 31 9-9 dear Ann our son is nine. My sister who lives in a neighbouring state has a daughter who is seven. When we go to visit every few months Mary Ellen puts them in the same bed. This started when they were much younger. Now i feel it should not continue. When i mentioned this to "m.e.," she told me i was crazy and added that s Why Chil Dren grow up with dirty  neither my husband nor hers said much. They decided i ought to write you. What s the answer Rogers daily news Ark. Dear . It is Normal for Young children to  parents should not become unhinged about the natural curiosity of children. But to promote it by putting them in the same bed creates a very convenient set up and i am against it. Cut it out. Dear Ann Landers when our daughter was a teen she kept a scrapbook of your columns. My How times have changed. For example Here s one from 1964 dear Ann Landers remember the letter from the girl whose Navy Boyfriend got. Himself transferred to another part of the world when he Learned she was pregnant she advised All girls whose steadies want to play House to ask them to sign a paper saying they had slept together on such and such a night. This she said would do wonders to diminish if not kill the sex drive. When our daughter was 16 her father gave her this advice if a boy wants you to go the limit to prove your love Tell him ill have to speak to my father be cause he is responsible for me As Long As i am a minor living under his  our daughter followed his instructions and said it produced some of the most shocked expressions she had Ever seen. The letter was signed mrs. J. You replied dear mrs. A i m not surprised. If there s anything a Guy does t want to be re minded of at a time like that it s a girl s father. Can you imagine a girl asking a boy to do such a thing in this Day and age what do you sup pose would happen looking Back dear looking nothing. Absolutely nothing. The More things change the More they Are the same. Dear Ann Landers last week on my birthday i received three Beautiful books from three different people. They were very expensive $27.50. In each Book the sender penned several lines of warm sentiments and signed his name. These books were duplicates of one i already had in my Library. A Christmas present if these Well meaning people had not signed them or had the 1 used a Little ingenuity and writ ten their message on a Sheet of Paperi could have returned the books for credit. How does this strike you Cambridge mass. Dear Cambridge it strikes me As incredible that a person who could inspire such Devotion could be so crassly commercial. You have four duplicates so what the personal inscriptions should make the books priceless. C 1978 Field enterprises inc