European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday november 17, 1985 feed kids imaginations parents told Christmas gifts should promote literacy earning group says Boston a the key to choosing toys books computer programs video cassettes and other Christmas gifts for children is to look for food for the imagination says a group that promotes learning and literacy. Among the gifts recommended by parents Choice Are a cuddly doll for boys a Charlie Brown computer program that teaches counting and a Bill Cosby video cassette that helps preschoolers learn shapes and sics. We want to offer something that really has some food for the imagination and creates a kind of sociability in children said Diana Huss Green a grandmother who founded parents Choice in 1978. We try to avoid shoddy Ness and any product that is aimed exclusively at making the organization gave Between 12 and is awards each in the categories of children s books illustrated books video cassettes toys computer software and recordings. Books that earn the group s favor include Leonardo a Vinci by Alice and Martin proven san. Published by Viking press and King Bidgood s in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood illustrated by Don Wood and published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. And when the kids Aren t playing Parker Brothers Var clue a video version of the old favorite Board game parents Choice won t object if you let them watch a Little Charles Dickens. Great expectations and a tale of two cities by a Citron video arc among the group s choices As Christmas gifts. Parents Choice is a non profit group based in suburban Newton that began giving awards to potential gifts in 1980 because of the incredible barrage of children s material said Green. The awards were set up to make our Way through it she said thursday after parents Choice announced its choices for this year. The group solicits nominations from its members and others and guest experts Are asked to select the Best of the crop she said. Green said toys that should be avoided Are those that Are widely and wildly advertised so that the child s Resis Tance is usually broken hot line a of army la. Col. James o Beirne standing and air Force senior master sgt Benjamin w. Randall Send a lest document on the hoi line the Washington Moscow direct communications link Del. The United states and be soviet Union Bate successfully conducted initial technical testing of the facsimile capability of be Del. Test documents were sent from Moscow to Washington and vice versa. Also to be shunned arc toys that Are aimed at solitary children. It just increases their said Green who once taught children s literature at Radcliffe College in Cambridge. Included among the group s honorary directors Are bar Bara Bush the wife of the vice president actress Julie Andrews poet David Mccord and Anne Pellowski director of children s cultures for the United nations. In books we wanted to give Pride to children from All types of families and also offer them pleasure Green said. Once a Book makes him or her laugh it makes them a she said Good video cassettes for children a relatively new category of children s toys should entertain teach and stimulate the imagination and Lead a child to Reading. Many of the group s choices arc based on books. Some of the products Given awards May be difficult to find Green said mostly we Don t give awards to what is pretty obvious and people arc going to pick up anyway. We try to unearth John Sparkman former senator Dies at age 86 Huntsville Ala. A former sen. John Sparkman who in 1952 made a bid for National office As democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson s run Ning mate died Early saturday. He was 86. T�7cwell t. Shepard Iii Sparkman s grandson said the for Mer democratic senator died at 12 05 . At big Springs Manor nursing Home. H apparently died of a heart attack Shepard said. Sparkman an attorney served 41 years in Congress before de Clining to seek re election in Jan uary 1978. He spent 10 years in the . House beginning in 1937. After representing the Northern part of Alabama for a decade Sparkman was elected in 1946 to fill the scat of the late h. Bank cad. In a unique set of circumstances Sparkman also was on the ballot for the House in 1946 and was elected to serve there too the Only person Ever elected to the House and Senate at the same time. He resigned the 1 Louse scat to serve in the Senate. Sparkman was elected to his first full term in the Senate in 1948, and was re elected to four six year terms. Sparkman 12-weeks-ear/y infant thrives in Kangaroo Pouch Albion Mich. A an infant born 12 weeks premature thrived because of her 10-Day slay in a Pouch like a Kangaroo s that a doctor says is As close As you can come to pulling the baby Back in the nurses and the child s Mother Louisa Jones look turns wearing a specially de signed apron that allowed them to carry the baby Ciji Jones next to their stomachs. It s kind of like an external pregnancy said nurse fran Mowrer. In an Isola Etc incubator a baby does t get a lol of handling. The Pouch allows some late Bond the baby s weight increased from i Pound 14 ounces at her birth sept. 22 to 4 pounds 6 ounces on her release Friday from Albion Community Hospital. Or. Maria Airala Ciji s paediatrician attributed the weight gain to the Pouch say ing the baby otherwise would not have been ready for release. During the 10 Days the child was carried in the Pouch she gained 20 ounces. It s As close As you can come to putting the baby Back in the womb said Airala who first saw the Pouch used during a visit last fall to a children s Hospital in Argentina. They were called Kangaroo babies she said. They showed me the growth charts. When the babies were in the Isola Etc the growth rate was Flat. But when they were carried in the Pouch the growth rate immediately took off. They gained weight an did very she suggested it Tor Ciji once she was satisfied that the baby could survive outside incubation. Ciji was in intensive care from her birth until she was returned to the Nur Sery on oct. 30. The Pouch allowed the nurses to carry Ciji and still go about their Normal work. The Pouch will go Home with Ciji to her Mother can continue to carry her in it. A new Pouch will be made for the next Prema Ture baby who would Benefit from the Simu lated return to the womb. The Little infants just develop to much better if they Aren t in an Isolele the whole time Airala said. You need that human of official expects launch of shuttle to be delayed Vandenberg fab Calif. A although March 20 remains the scheduled Date for the first West coast launch of the space shuttle a top air Force official says it almost certainly will be delayed. It will be Tough to make the March Date air Force undersecretary Edward c. Pete Aldridge jr., who will be an astronaut on the flight told about 300 military and aerospace officials attending a symposium. Aldridge who goes to Houston this week to Start condition ing was Noi specific about when discovery would blast off from Vandenberg but said we won t make it the March 20 Date exactly there will probably be some it. Thorn Connell. An air Force spokesman said Friday there has been no official change in plans for discovery to blast off March 20 from the new s2.8 billion launch Complex at the coastal military base. But if the undersecretary of the air Force is saying it s going to slip a Little bit that s probably our new official position Connell said. During his speech Aldridge repealed a suggestion he made in october that the launch Complex be renamed the Ronald Reagan space flight facilities As a tribute lop resident Reagan. Aldridge indicated he does t like the existing name. Space launch Complex six which base offic a an workers Call Slick 6. The undersecretary also repeated that he has Confidence a the construction of the launch Complex. Last year Abc new quoted unidentified inspectors As saying bad welds and wiring Altic launch Complex could Lead to a disaster at Blastoff. I
