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Show VEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, NORTH DAVIS LEADER. DECEMBER 25. 1980 A m HE THEREFORE Is there life after motherhood? Like many people who retire from jobs, the woman whether its through volunteer work, a job, going back to college, starting a new craft or taking up new interests. Yet many women are reluctant to change their patterns. "A lot has to do w ith how they see themselves," he says. They see themselves as old, not attractive, as not well informed. We live in a culture where women are made to feel beautiful only a short period of time. 1 want to help them feel that to grow old is to grow beautiful: it means wisdom and who watches her children leave home may consider herself unwanted and unneeded. I GUESS you could look at or it as the empty nest emptiness, says J. Richard Connelly, director of the Gerontology Center at the University of Utah. "Its the feeling of loneliness, loss of status and role identification, the What am I going to do now? Connelly discusses the Empty Nest Syndrome as part of a parenting course offered through the Division of Continuing Education. He says many women who have lived strictly for or through their children suddenly feel their usefulness is over once they hit their 40s, when actually they and still have half a lifetime to usually their prime years go. ITS NOT really the experience. TO INAUGURATION SYRACUSE 55 fourth-grad- e A group of students at Cook Elementary school are planning a trek to Washington. D.C. and hope to be there in time for the Jan. 20 inauguration. THE CLASSES of Lucille Garrett and Audrey Francis began jogging in November and have already completed a trip around the perimeter of Utah. Technically speaking, what the children actually do, is jog around one of five trails ranging in length from 'h mile to I 'h miles, located in Syracuse, as part of their physical education and social studies curriculum. A MAP IS set up in the school and the miles marked off. The total miles' of all 55 students, plus the teachers, are deducted each day from the mileage figured for the trip. In the case of the Utah trip, that involved 1220 miles. "We had to run an extra mile one day so we wouldn't have to spend the night at Bear Lake." said one of the teachers. The group plans to notify Mr. Reagan of their plans to run to the inaugural, and are hoping for a response. THE STUDENTS are eager each day to begin running." said Mrs. Garrett. We are all in better shape and can run much further than when we started." added Mrs. Francis. son too, day-to-da- THE CAUSES and effects of a developing energy shortfall bave been well documented, and proposed women woman to reflect upon her life and purpose, but it often comes at a crucial time. Her children are leaving at the same time changes such as chronic illness and the prospects of nursing homes are occurring with her own parents. "She feels a tremendous amount of burden, Connelly notes. She wants to help, yet shes being rejected by parents who still view her as a child. And shes still trying to be a parent to her own children who are saying let go! h ' Iw A Jodie Payne, left, and Oscar Martinez show the distance that will be covered when they run to the inauguration after the Christmas holidays. . ethanol-for-gasoh- GASOHOL itself is available in only about 3 of the nations 175,000 service stations. Many of the gasohol outlets are in the midwest where consumption was established by usage in farm vehicles. NOW, ALL of a sudden, the kids are gone and the couple is left alone to face each other and the marriage. Often they find they are strangers to each other, which is also part of the Empty Nest Syndrome, says Connelly. What often contributes to further alienation is that the woman has sublimated her feelings and suppressed her resentment over the years. With the kids gone and time available, past resentments begin to surface. ACCORDING TO Connelly, divorce rates increase at certain peaks in married life: the first year, the third year 5 and then about years of marriage. We find early late-lif- e divorce of those couples who can't work through the he says. adjustments, While research shows that the empty nest years can be trying ones for women, not 22-2- much has been said about mens reaction to them, notes Connelly. Most research with men has been done on adjustment to retirement, which can be similar to adjustments of a retiring from motherhood. Clinical observations, however, show that children have largely been the responsibility of their mothers. men often feel What did mean to them? My kids are gone and I didn't even know them, says Connelly. While empty nest years can bring on depression, Connelly doesnt like to simply dwell on the bleak realities. He prefers to give encouragement and 1 PME: SUB FOR SANTA urges women to seek self-- I worth and personhood. want to help her think of things to do and make the empty nest a positive thing, he says. Shes at the prime of her life. She can embrace her existence, reach for a richer and more satisfying and productive life. DEMAND FOR gasohol today involves output of some 60 million gallons of ethanol yearly, with a projection of up to 600 million gallons by middecade. To reach the projected 1985 goal, using corn as feedstock, it will require nearly twice the current production. Even this will attain only n a 10 reduction in the consumption of gasoline. ethanol-for-gasoh- grain-for-foo- d near-toke- IN ADDITION to the tenfold increase in com, a factor must be included to provide the energy for conversion of the corn into alcohol. As to the conversion process itself, the technology is well known, but the cost of production in terms of energy is about equal to the energy value of the end product, thus resulting in a zero gain in this respect. IN FINANCIAL terms, the combined cost of production of ethanol and unleaded gasoline on a basis will exceed the cost of the gasoline by itself. It should be noted, however, that what is in effect a production subsidy comes from many states and the federal government in the form of various tax exemptions. 10-9- 0 TO THE motorist at the gasohol pump this means IVE OBSERVED that Senior citizens at the Heritage Center in Clearfield were pleasantly surprised when the Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory section from Hill AFB presented the center with this lovely Christmas gift, a curio cabinet, as part of their sub for Santa program. Representing PME are, right, Norma Opheikens and Robert Stump. At left is Carmen Rowse, center director. ONE OIL extender is known as gasohol, a fuel mixture for internal combustion engines containing 90 unleaded gasoline and 10 ethyl alcohol (ethanol). As in the production of alcohol for distilled spirits, the feedstock for ethanol in this country is generally corn, although other grains 'and ceri tain crops rnay also be utilized. BRAZIL, short on fossil fuels, has developed a major capacity for producing ethanol using sugar cane as feedstock. In contrast to Brazil, in the is reU.S. latively new on the scene and in limited production. ONCE THE children leave, a woman is confronted with for better or her marriage and that means adworse justments also. The husband has usually been wrapped up in trying to provide for the family and to be successful, while the wife has been involved in making sure the kids fill their obligations. Even if the woman has worked, her husband hasnt picked up the slack on the home front. Shes still the worker and housekeeper, the housewife and bottle washer and everything else. So time has been at a premium. woman solutions abound. Basically, current efforts to alleviate our energy shortage are being mainly directed at reducing our dependence upon crude oil in whatever its ultimate refined form takes. NOT ONLY does the emptying nest cause the V: lives of its y citizenry. around their children. T ; Long taken for granted as an intangible and even inexhaustible resources, energy is today given high priority in the nations economy and in the hold, for instance, center J The first step, he says, is often the most terrifying. Once women take it. however, the w hole world opens up to them. The empty nest doesn't have to signal the end. It can signal a new beginning for a woman ,4 .si rst a har iiavi.s ! Limitations chil- says Connelly. Many conversations adequate." Gasohol want to hang onto them, not because its the best thing for us or for them, but because we dont know where as adults to go ourselves. Parenthood, he says, can protect women and men from the realities of who they really are. "They can get wrapped up in their identification as a parent and forget they're a per- Kamie Andre, Carrie Knight and Kim Mikus, from left, display the map of Utah they used to mark their trip on. Running around the perimeter was a lot of fun to the children and they learned a lot about the state and its counties, said teacher Lucille Garrett. escape feeling empty and lost when the kids go, they must usually break out on their own. because there arent a lot of people to help, says Connelh "The womens movement hasn't helped, he notes. "It's tended to be a negative thing for the woman w ho dedicated her life to her children by making her feel apologetic and in- IF WOMEN are going to dren leaving that is so crucial, he says. It's what it makes us reflect upon. We CLASS TO WALK encour- ages women to get out, paying only a few cents more per gallon over the price of straight unleaded. As to energy value, gasohol has about 3 less BTU content per gallon than does gasoline alone. ESSENTIALLY, this would mean that gasohol will not reduce gasoline requirements by the desired This is based on present-da- y automobile engine combustion and carburetor systems not generally designed to fully accommodate gasohol. So, even though gasohol is 10. considered to be of higher octane content, performance may not be up to expectations. Future engine design will undoubtedly compensate for present gasohol shortcomings. SIMILAR qualifications I IH govern engine exhaust emis- sions with the use of gasohol, 1 depending on the type Of en- - 1 gine, carburetion, and calibra- tion. However, there is no que- - 1 sion but that gasohol has a 1 place in the national energy profile. Although, of course, it 8 does have some limitations and problems of cost, itis in fact further developed than are synthetic fuels, for example, from shale or tar sands. ' I i I : THESE PROCESSES are at this time still in the wings, but will undoubtedly make a valuable and economical contribution to our energy resources. In the interim, gasohol should naturally be pressed forward to the fullest practical - degree. '- Common; 1 r Colds And Affects By DR. HAROLD B. LIGON Everybody has the common cold and it affects some much more than others. Some people are more bothered by the symptoms, stuffiness of the nose, stopped up sinuses, sneezing, drainage of mucus into the upper bronchial tree, : etc., than others. I REMEMBER when I was small my mother warned against going barefooted around the house, because it would cause me to catch a cold. To this day, whenever I I take my shoes off in the house, i in a few minutes I begin to f sneeze. j This lends support to a i school fo thought in the medic-- 1 al profession today that colds i are sometimes of psychological origin. However, its generally accepted that the common cold is more often caused by a virus. THERE ARE more than :95 cold viruses, which in fact makes it almost impossible' to cure them. This explains why j there are many hundreds of different cold preparations on the market today and why there are actually millions of transactions over drug store for both counters every year prescribed and remedies. I About the best insurance against colds is to keep up ones resistance (good nutrition and vitamin balance and sufficient rest), to stay out of crowds in winter epidemics and to wash ones hands frequently. Beekeepers regard minister as father Bees thrived after their importation into America early in the 17th century, taking up residence in almost any sort of housing box hives and bee trees. In 1851 the Rev. Lorenzo Longstroth, a teacher and minister from Philadelphia, moved to Oxford, Ohio, and became known as the Father of Modern Beekeeping because he made a major y discovery concerning behavior. He established the prinbee-spa- ciple and developed the movable-fram- e beehive, now in use the world over. |