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Features, Editorials faction Ii Monroe Morning World Sunday, December 17, 1961 Holid Books, Sports Page On i By JANICE CLARK rossett, Ark. Correspondent There will be a baby in (he Gordon Ilartrick home in Hamburg, this Christmas for the first time in six years. That's how long it has been since Gordon and Alma ninth child was a baby. There have been other babies since six-year-old Robin was born, but they have been summer foster babies, and have all gone to other homes before the celebra bon of the birth of the Holy Child at Christmas time. Though Baby Kim will not remember this Christmas, surely the warmth generated by the l'l Hayricks in their roomy home will be a part of turning him into La happy baby: one who will develop to his full potential by the time he is old enough for adoption at six months.

And that is why Rim is there in that home which one would think had had its share of diapers, croupy crying in the night, formulas, and all that goes with caring for small babies. NEEDED A HOME Recently, as Alma, in her late forties, stood in her kitchen battling the dark-haired little stranger, a friend commented, just keep needing a new baby in the house, you, She replied, I need a baby. Foster homes ore just so very crowded; and it takes lots of low to bring out some children. I had really thought that this year I'd get to a hobby I ve had in mind then they showed me this baby; and it needed a home, She added that many Child Wei fare Agency workers feel that the best possible foster home situ is one baby to a home, with preferably a big family always someone to love So now, just when Alma has all of her children in school except Robin, and was really planning about her hobby, finds herself taking one baby after another to see what she and her family can do toward developing them into babies whom childless couples will want to adopt, and whom the Child Welfare workers will feel sure can adjust in Unhands of less experienced, child hungry parents. HOBBY Alma, before her marriage, earned her masters degree in zoology at the University of Michigan, here Gordon wa awarded his masters degree in forestry.

Her is gathering biology and insect spec ens oral school supply firms. She manages fo slip in an hour or two at her microscope even now, but with the baby, her walks in the woods and along bayou edges looking for lichen-; and mosses are rare Young Robin is big enough to go with her, but the baby keeps her close to the house. At best, leisure time i very limited and precious in the Hayrick home. In order to enjoy the luxury of so large a family in these days of sky-rocketing prices for food and clothing, the couple nas planned carefully so that salary will cover everything and still allow for some thing to be put aside for the chil college. Gordon always has a garden which is the envy of his neighbors, lie can reap five times the harvest of any of JT7 Zeus NOTE In a bullet speeding toward a Now imagine a man with a pa the size of a football field sv mg at the bullet That, ancor to technicians, is a rough pi lei to the problem of internet.

an enemy ICBM with a noel armed Nike-Zeus. Can it be th Some say yes. Some say yes. I some say no. By BEM PRICE AP riter WASHINGTON For years the U.S.

Army has I together the Nike-Zeu missile system Jm in 4 the army says un pi the system will work. The Defense Dep i al on the grounds there are tc technical and operating Dill unsolved. REPORTS I here are reports, that President Kennedy mara have decided to a gress next year for rnone; tooling up for duction, Reportedly they ilueneed by the recent sui a series of test launchings. 9 amotion of a Meanwhile, the United has no defense against i. tmental missiles not begin to have one in It live years even if produce gun tomorrow.

The debate un the merit Nike-Zeus picked up an ae note of urgency this fall jut Marshall Rodion 3 icy told the 22nd Common Congress in Moscow 'J "The problem of de in flight has been meant im that the Russians I intercept one low with another, then nothing worrisome friends from a small plot of ground. Alma and the girls freeze and can like mad during the summer as the tomatoes and other vegetables ripen. They raise chickens and geese, and freeze them, too, as they reach maturity. NO VIDEO The Hayricks suffer from the common complaints of many problems of movies of which they disapprove and how to know where their children are at a given time. They rarely go lo the movies, and there is no television in the home.

But most of the children are bookworms, and they scour the of the local library for books. A hi-fi record player keeps the house tilled with music. Group and individual hubbies keep the children busy either indoors or in the big yard of their home. They are a complete community within themselves. Vacations are camping trips last summer into Ii Ouachita mountains.

Two things the Hartricks always have money for; a clutch of memberships in the Crossett Community Concerts Association, and faithful tithing in their church. The Hamburg Methodist Church has seen the Hartricks grow rom the young couple who came to Ashley County 20 years ago, to gradually include their increasing brood, ranging from Holly, who is 20 and in her senior year at the University of Arkansas. past Susan, wiio is a sophomore at Hendrix, right on past four her rls and two boys to the third son, whatever foster children are old enough to accompany the family to church. And one entire row of seats in the Crossett Auditorium is always filled with Hartricks and foster- Hart ricks at concert time. LEADERS in spite of the tight budget of their time, both have been community leaders, first in Fountain Hill where they lived until two years ago, and now in Hamburg.

At present Gordon is chairman of the Board of Stewards in his church, where he also teaches a class of teen-agers, vice-president of the Hamburg Rotary Club, an ident of the Parent-Teachers Association, and president of the Ashley County Industrial Development Council. Alma is active i ad a Sun da; School class between babies, along with other church work. i Hartricks started making room in their home for extra babies long ago. The first came when Alma and Gordon wore beginning to have their own children, Ile was a little baby who needed to have dangerous and radical surgery in order that he might Jive. Not mony people will assume the responsibility for a baby which faces not only possible I at al sur gery but incalculable mc heal expenses.

The Hartricks took the baby and were doing all they could to build it up for when they lost the battle They have had teen aged girls in their home, whom are now married and in homes of their own, Then there was an 1 cl I boy fur a few months, Then, just when the family was moving from Fountain I. ll to Hamburg there came a four months old baby weighing ooh five pounds. Alma remem- bei that the baby slept in a ciab in hall while the new house was being remodeled to make room for the big family, 12 of us slept in three LITTLE MISS When the prematurely born Little Miss was brought to the Hartricks there was some tear that her eyes had been damaged by oxygen while the two- pound mite was in the incubator. When, after having cared for her four months, Alma returned the baby to the Agency for adoption, she says laughingly, got a money-back guarantee. I told them, If she proves defective I want her Little Miss Baby was not defective, and is now permanently in a home of lier own.

attitude about the steady stream of new babies is that it's up to Alma; she has the real care of them. Alma says, wasn't going to have a baby this year. Then last summer along came the Child Welfare worker, Maurice Caldwell, with an eight- months-old baby in his arms. I made a mistake and held it! I was still trying to make up my mind when the baby looked over at Gordon and said, Gordin grinned and we kept the That baby came to them described as possibly retarded. By the time he had spent the summer in the Harwick home he was using seven words at ll months is better than any of mine ever Returned to the Agency for adoption, that little boy tested and is now in his own permanent home.

BUILD UP Christmas has been building up for weeks in the Harwick home. The children, according to Alma, start months ahead making colored paper chains. Then comes a mad pasting. always doing dishes or tending a baby, but I have to come in ever so often to Gordon, who is an area cr with Tho Crossett Company, always spots the cedar in the and the entire family makes the expedition to the forest to bring in the tree. Gordon.

as head of the family, always carries the tree, with several children holding up the trailing end. All other members of the family will bring in arm-loads of greenery for decorating the house. This is so that everyone, no matter how small, will bring in something from the forest. On a little shelf mid-way up in the heirloom grandfather clock in the hall of the Ilartrick home is the Baby Jesus, lying in a box of a manger, with angels and reindeer and little lambs placed around Him by the children. From the time the Baby Jesus is placed in His manager the children are allowed to fill his bare crib with straw one piece for each kind or thoughtful deed accomplished.

The going slow' at first, but as the spirit of the thing catches on. the straw cushion grows, and mysteriously, along with it the very essence of Christmas, MUCH PRETENCE Alma states firmly, this house no one ever believes in Santa. I once a child who could tell you all about Santa. but had never heard of the baby, Jesus. But much among us all.

At some time on Christmas Eve everyone has sky meant the Rus- leveloped a workable missile and are now an if ig the Rtis- vould have an enor- advatange. Department has is in publicly assess- ificance of the Maliet nee has said Jtereont mental no effective ive yet been die Nike-Zeus -av capability, is mis-ile sys- lon-Communist the designed to tly of all oth- and is a point- at is, its fune- nuny missiles the target in shion as anti- i ANGE as reportedly has a of IOO miles and a Ti of 15 miles, ality, tile Xike-Zeus ber operating capa- terring to its anti- rteri.stuns, the Army that it can be used leu in low a low ion in the c1 ovem Ordnance Huntsville, cost $1 I Laboratories, Western ompany. Douglas like! Chemical and prototype of the Nike-Zeus system exists at the White Sands, N.M., missile testing range and, the army claims. has demonstrated it will work, SECOND PROTOTYPE A second prototype is under construction at Kwajalein Island, 2.5tK) miles west of the United States, for use in flight tests actual next summer. Although the Army has been asking for money since mid-1958 to begin production of long lead- time items for the incredibly complex system, anticipating its operational use, none has been forthcoming up to now.

The Defense Department has been reluctant to spend money on anything as uncertain as its top brass considers the Nike-Zeus. Defense Secretary McNamara gave the reasons to the Senate Armed Committee last April 4: are widespread doubts a- to whether the Nike-Zeus system should ever be deployed. There still is considerable uncertainty as to its technical feasibility and. even if successfully there are serious operating problems yet to be solved, "The system itself is vulnerable to ballistic missile attack and its effectiveness could be degraded by the use of more sophisticated preened by multiple naturation of the target is another possibility as become easier and cheaper to produce in coming years. Finally, it I a very expensive system in relation to the degree of protection it can furnish," Dr, Herbert York, scientific adviser to the defense in the Eisenhower administration, lias said think that SIS billion worth of Zeus would protect that area occupied by only 4o cent of the population." York also said: the case of Zeus it, is almost essential that it be BKI per cent 'accurate and effective! because it is soft.

Appropre N. ais fk ROBIN HARTRICK loves holding the baby while his mother works nearby. He may hold him. hut not walk with him because he is only six. (Photos by Clark) gets very quiet and makes a great to-do in running around the house making Santa It wasn't until the children grew old enough to notice and insisted, that Alma and Gordon began to include their own socks along with the ever-increasing number hung each year along the fireplace.

Then, mysteriously, Santa fills the socks first of all before the children go to bed. most important part of Christmas Eve is when we ail sit around the fire and sing all the carols we can think of. been practicing plays the violin. This year we should have a few harmonicas, because two or three are learning that. the very best part is when Gordon reads the Christmas stories, first from Matthew and then from Luke, on the Eve of Christmas.

Then we go to The best part this year will be the Baby in this house that has known a steady succession of babies for 20 years, yet has room for a strange little baby boy at Christmas time. ate enemy tactics would he to first attack the Zeus and get rid ut it so that all the rest (of the have a free ride. I am not particularly op The scientist also said he was not particularly optimistic that a defense against ballistic missiles would ever he achieved. protecting the York said, people think that shelters are, on a dollar basis, mere effective than Zeus. The Army is not at ail reluct tin! to argue these points.

QUESTION Ll Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau, chief of the Army bs research and development, was asked in an interview if the Nike-Zeus could cope with a saturation attack said Trudeau, some missiles would get through. There has never been a BKI per cent defense yet, but the same individuals who have argued against deployment of the Zeus on the grounds that it cannot achieve a BM) per cent kilt, have always conceded that 50 per cent of the bombers would get through our best air dc tenses. They didn't recommend that we give up air defense.

Why this inconsistency Is it safe for the United States to assume that Malinovsky did not mean the Soviets had developed an anti-mo Me missile? he say they had a deployed system, he did say they could destroy rockets in flight. I see how we can assume less than a solution to the an ti-ICBM Opponents of tile Nike-Zeus have asserted the radar controls of the system can ho jammed. Has the jamming problem been licked? people, Trudeau said, been contused by the lfiSB tests in the Pacific, The jam ming was limited principally to radio communications. Radar was affected to a much lesser extent While no system is perfect, we flunk the jamming business has been overplayed ALMA HARTRICK ti I rom house work to I I Ile the little Christmas baby I tm PLACING three pieces of straw it) the a ne? MHS Robin Hartrit t- v- I A I ie Holy Child, representing three kind.