Page 14, The Herald, Tuesday, December 19, 1978

Consider giving your children a record —

TORONTO (CP) How
many times have you bought
your youngsters a Christmas
toy only to see it gathering
dust before the holiday
season is over?

Let's face it, a child's
attention span is fleeting.
Too often the novelty of a toy
wears thin quickly.

Now consider children's
records.

Parents of today may

’ recall a wonderful product of

the late 1940s and early
*593—the storybook album. A
set of 78 r.pm. records
recounted the adventures of
such popular figures of the
day as Hopalong Cassidy,
Bozo the Clown, Bugs Bunny
and many others.

Many of these albums
have since been lost,
However, longplaying
children’s records, featuring
either stories or songs, still
are Syailable,

Assuming that the children
are not allowed to play with
your own expensive toys—
the souhd system, for
example— these records will
last until they are outgrown,
As long as you are operating
the set, both it and the
records will survive.

Three recent Canadian re-
leases are notable. Two are
soundtracks from the
Nelvana animated specials
broadcast earlier this year,
and the other is a novelty
product from Anne Murray.

These were popular gifts © None of these albums has

which never ceased to en- an accompanying illustrated
thrall the kiddies. One play book, but all nonetheless
was never good enough. should amuse the young folk

through numerous playings.
THERE'S A HIPPO IN MY
TUB, Anne Murray; Capltol,
ST-+4454

This product might never
have been conceived had it
not been for the institution of
motherhood,

When Anne Murray and
husband Bill Langstroth had
their first child about two
years ago, the singer decided
to slow down her musical
career, She wanted to devote
some time tobeing a mother.

It was during this lull, in
1977, that Miss Murray
recorded a series of
children's songs. The sound
is highly personal,
seemingly a collection in-
tended for her own little boy.
But in fact it was an album
that Miss Murray wanted to
share with children
worldwide.

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Capitol, her’ distributing
label, didn't feel that a
children’s product was right
for their catalogue at the
time, and refused the record.

Since then, however, Miss
Murray has experienced a
resurgence in popularity
with her current pop album
Let's Keep It That Way. With
a Murray best-seller in both
Canada and the United
States, Capitol took a new
look at the children’s album
and released it in November.

While aimed at children,
There's a Hippo in My Tub is
one album that should be
added to collections of all
Murray fans. Splendid
production values and
musical arrangements
aside, Miss Murray’s ob-
vious love for children comes
through on vinyl, making

this album a candidate for
one of the singer’s finest
musical packages.

THE DEVIL AND DANIEL
HOUSE; Nelvana Records,
NEL 7802

This album is an offering
of the successful animated
features aired earlier in 1978.
Based loosely on Stephen
Vincent Benet’s novel The

Devil and Daniel Webster, |

thestory tells of Jan. a young

“®: TORONTO (CP) — Shirley

' Desroches received a shock
oe she took her nine-year-

old mentally-retarded
daughter for a routine
medical check-up.

The pediatrician was
aproceeding with the
examination of the retarded
child when he casually said:
“By the way, you will be
considering sterilization of
your daughter, won't you?’*
"'E was aghast,"’ Mrs, Des-
roches said.

“‘He went on to say that we
hed to consider the interests
of society and not run the
risk that she'd produce more
retarded people.

“And he suggested I

should have it done while -

Julie-Anne was young and

EDMONTON (CP) —

School officials answer

quietly when they are asked

about an antihomosexual

resolution passed last month
by the Alberta School
Trustees’
convention.
“It is like suddenly being
asked to take Archie Bunker
(of the television program
All in the Family) at face
value,” said one official who
did not want to be named.
The resolution, passed on a
vote of 329 to 318, asked the
Alberta government not to
enact rights
which would restrict the

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legislation

folksinging mouse who finds
her career foundering in an
era of disco and rock 'n’ roll.:

Unwittingly, she signs a
contract with B, L, Zebub,
the devil, who watches her
career peak before coming
to collect his fee,

It’s up to Danie] Mouse to
save his former folk partner
from the demon’s clutches.

The narration and song-
writing are the work of John
Sebastian, known to the
youth of the ‘60s as founder
of the Lovin’ Spoonful, and to
TV audiences of the mid-'70s
for his Welcome Back Kotter
theme,

Sebastian's music on this
album will mean littl to
followers of his more serious
writing, but it is melodic and
basic enough to appeal to the
young audiences for which it
was intended,

The album is a perfect fol-
lowup for children who
enjoyed the film, but the
narration is complete on
record, so that the dise can
stand up for youngsters new
to the story.

A COSMIC CHRISTMAS;
Nel-vana Records, NEL 7801

Also a soundtrack trom a
popular cartoon feature, A
Cosmic Christmas mixes the
current space fad with a
traditional Christmas
theme.

Three space wanderers
land on earth to learn the
meaning of the bright star in
the sky. A youngster tries to
explain to them the Star of
Bethlehem and the whole
idea behind Christmas, but
the aliens can see only crass
commercialism and self-
ishness around them.

The little plot unfolds to a
happy ending. At the climax,
the aliens learn that the true
meaning of Christmas is
based

8
on helping one’s fellow
being.

Naturally, the im-

: plications of commercialism

will be lost on youngsters,
but the over-all message of
the story will be clear,

a
Singer Sylvia Tyson
provides a pleasant
narration as well as two
original songs—Why Don’t
They Look to the Stars and
The Way That’ Christmas
Used to Be.

Miss Tyson has demon-

strated a knack for
songwriting through her solo
recording career, and her

contributions on Cosmic
Christmas suffer only In
their brevity.

"Hold still.”

Parents shocked by suggestion

we still had control over
her.”

The incident happened two
years ago but the tramautic
episode was recalled for her
this week when an Ontario
report studying the
sterilization of mentally-
retarded persons touched off
a controversy among
specialists in the field.

On one side are those who
claim that sterilization of
children and adults with the -
sole consent of a doctor or a
guardian is a violation of
basic human rights. Their
opponents say that without
this safeguard, the number
of mentally-retarded per-
sons would increase alar-

mingly.
The ‘stady, conducted by
Zarfas.’ of: ‘the

Baca tetas re

University of Western On-
tarlo, showed that in 1976, 303
children under 18 years of
age were sterilized in On-
tario.

In most cases, the
operations were carried out
by physicians acting on the
approval of parents or
guardians of the retarded
persons, . ,

The study're-dienedi'an old
and bitter controversy over
the rights of the mentally
retarded versus the risk to
their offspring and society
from unlimited procreation.

As a result of the report,
Ontario Health Minister
Dennis Timbrell ordered a
nine-month halt to further
sterilizations on anyone

under,.i6, pending a gav- .
ernment review of the issue. _

“The focus should not be
on the rights of the mentally
retarded, but on the rights of
the children that would be
produced if there were no
sterilization.”

Dr, Zafras, author of the
report, said that until recent
years the question of ster-
ilization was partly hidden
because many mentally
retarded persons were in
institutions where males and
females were separated.

His report recommended
that sterilization be allowed
only after careful con-
sideration of the alternatives
such as sex education and
birth-control methods.

Hf all else failed, and ster-
ilization was necessary, then
it should be carried out only
with the approval of an in-
dependent tribunal with

ANTI-GAY LAW ON BOOKS ©
It is a question of rights

Trustees’ president Scott
Saville of Calgary said in an
‘interview Friday the stand
does not reflect his personal
views, but said the close vote
probably indicated the Jack
of agreement on the issue
among Albertans generally.

“It (the résolution) will be
presented with other
resolutions to the executive
council when we meet with it
Wednesday,” he sald.

“That is the extent of our
obligation, It is not a
resolution that we're going to
be spending time and effort
on.” .
Local school boards now

power of school boards to . seem to have considerable

deal with “proven instances
of homosexuality” among

employees, students and

board members.

leeway in dealing with
homosexuals, said Saville. A
person fired for being
homosexual would likely

have tofight his schoo] board
in the courts, which would
have no Jaw to guide them.

No teacher is known to
have been fired in Alberta
for sexual preference but
teachers and members of the
Alberta human rights
commission worry about the
possibility.

The commission has asked
the government to protect
homosexual teachers, Labor
Minister Neil Crawford has
sald that providing such
legal protection is not worth
the political risk.

The Alberta resolution
goes beyond the principles of
Anita Bryant, the Florida
crusader whose stand
against homosexual
teachers helped convince the
school board from Cardston,

The prize is just a

JOHANNESBURG (AP!
— A South African tribal
chief is offering a bull as a
prize ta whichever region
under his jurisidiction can
produce the most virgins.

“There is too much im-
morality. illegitimacy and

prostilution among our

young people and we must
root it out,’ Zulu Chief
Vulindaba Ngcobo, of (he
eastern province of Natal,
lold reporters during the
weekend.

“And | think the best way
to doit is by having virginity
tests.”

The chief has ordered what
he calls Operation Test One
in which hundreds of un-
married Zulu women in his
territory have been
examined by seven trusted
elderly women in the last
week. Al least 297 have been
certified as virgins, he said.

Alta,, to present the
resolution at the convention.

Willard Brooks, a member
of the Cardston board and a
retired teacher, said in a
recent interview the Card-
ston board: wrote the
resolution after reading a an
article in the Alberta
Teachers’ Association news-
letter.

The article said. teachers
were among 300 persons who
demonstrated against Miss
Bryant during her visit to
Edmonton earller this year.

“That was sufficient to in-
dicate to us that teachers
were not anly sympathetic to
the protest marchers, but
actually joined them and
probably were included
among the gay population,”
said Bronks.

legal, medica) and other
representatives and with the
patient represented by sepa-
rate counsel.

Dr. Zafras also questioned
the legality of some of the
sterilizations that have been
performed in Ontario
recently— with surgeons
going ahead on the strength
of approval from parents or
guardians.

“Say a parent and doctor—
thinking they were acting
properly—decided on a
Sterilization for a child
around 12, Say the child
should marry, and in her
early 20s go to another
doctor to ask why she can't ©
have children. ‘

“In those circumstances,
there might be a suit browght, -
about the sterilization.”

parti

He said the school board
has authority under the
provincial Schools Act to be
a “moral guardian” for
those in its jurisdiction.

The human rights com-
mission intends to discuss
the resolution in January.
Chairman Max Wyman says
the commission has no
power beyond writing to the
trustees and the govern:
ment,

But commission director’
Conrad Boyce said he hopes
the body takes a public
stand:

“As far as the actual
resolution is concerned, the
best thing the commission
could dois to make some sort
of public statement con-
demning it.”

lot of bull

The examiners are being
paid about 30 cents for each
subject tested,

“The tests are compulzory
and any girl who does not ar-
rive at the testing hut must
pay a fine of 40 rand ($50
U.S.)," the chief said.

“Any girl who fails the test
must pay a fine of 10 rand if
her seducer cannot be found,
said Ngcobo, who governs
the tribal reservation of
Mafunze.

prize-giving ceremony
scheduled by the chief for
presentation of a bull from
his own herd to the sub-chief
who can produce the most
virgins.

“There will be tribal
dancing, plenty to eat and
other activities,” the chief
said, without specifying
what the activities might be,

Ancient traditions of the
Zulus, the dominant black

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tribe in South Africa,
demand that women remain
chaste until married. But
these standards are
breaking down with a drift
by y young Zulus to urban cen-

“If they can trace the
seducer, and he admits
deflowering the girl, he must
donate two head of cattle to
the girl's parents.”

Hundreds of girls from vil-
lages in his area were
reported to have fled to the
nearby town of Pieter-
maritzburg, saying they will
return home after the July

“The parents are most!
behind me,” said the hie.
“They feel their daughters
must be protected,"’

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