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T r boat trip across the lake from the resort Last year running water and electrici- cents a day per child. That is still more kind of image in the pictures."
<br /> i town of Panajachel. They seek bargains ty were added to their rented dwelling than many can afford" The Erririchs have made peace with
<br /> .% from the withered Indian women who one end of a five unit stone house built the Indian attitude on death Intellectual-
<br /> "' )$ spend hours weaving intricate costumes around a communal yard where a pig UNDERNOURISHED INFANTS ly, they know that many babies could
<br /> like those worn by their ancestors for and chickens forage. come in daily for six months- Mrs. Fro- have been saved with more food and
<br /> I generations. Every morning Emrich walks two rich selects them on the basis of need better medicine. Emotionally, they ac-
<br /> But sales are few, so even infants have blocks to the out-patient curse he over. and the willingness of their mothers to cept that they can't change the world by
<br /> sees on the west side of the town plaza. follow her menus. She judges progress themselves.
<br /> learned to beg from the visitors. P ) g P � �'
<br /> tl lip to 50 patients already crowd his wait- the child's monthly weight gain. "When the people you live with say
<br /> THE. POVERTY AND primitive living ing room and spill over into the street. "In the States most 21,�,-year-olds 'This is the kind of world we live in, one
<br /> of hunger er and illness and poverty,''- ' -- �; don't seem to affect the Emrichs. Their He begins his day with a brief conference weigh about 3.5 pounds. Here mine weigh anB po rty,' then
<br /> house and clothes are clean lit simple. with two paramedics he trained to follow between 18 and 22 pounds. I have a 5%- pretty soon you start to take on that
<br /> Their food is the same as their neighbors' up on tuberculosis patients' treatment year-old who weighs 25 pounds. But I attitude too," said Mrs. Emrich "Indi-
<br /> - refried beans, tortillas and a few ve- and their year long series of shots. figure that by the time they're G they've vidual fife isn't really a big deal here.
<br /> getables — but they can afford eggs and Mrs. Emrich takes the family van to made it. It's really survival of the fit- "If one family member is hopelessly
<br /> wr meat twice a week. her one-room nutrition center a mile test." sick with something that's going to cost a
<br /> from town. The center has a hammock, Dr. Emrich's next project will be to lot of money, they just let him die. If you
<br /> a Except for a few Guatemalan military wood burning stove, a small crib and organize a children's outpatient clinic. become psychotic, you've got two weeks
<br /> officers and government officials who woven mats on the concrete floor. Twen- He also wants to train more paramedics to get over it before your faintly stops
<br /> have palatial vacation homes on the edge ty to 30 infants eat, sleep and play at the and add classes in family planning. San- feeding you Often relatives won't send
<br /> a of the lake, the Enuichs are among the center during the day Mothers take tiago Atitlan, despite its high infant mor- someone to a hospital because N the y
<br /> town's most affluent resMents turns, supervising tality rate, has a 3.5 per cent annual died them it would cog a hot of money to
<br /> Emrich earns $950 a month from Pro- "Thurty per cent of the population here growth rate. tribe the officials to bring him home and
<br /> ' x ject Concern, a San Diego-based non- is under six years of age," says Mrs. "The hag problem is illiteracy," says buy a box to carry the body in.
<br /> profit humanitarian agency which also Emrich. "I try to teach the mothers how the doctor. "Less than 10 per cent can "They figure the Sick person will die
<br /> supports Susan's nutrition clinic and the to get enough calories and protein into read. You can't even depend on visual anyway, it might as well be a cheap
<br /> town's 17 bled hospital. their kids to keep them alive on rune or 11 aids because they fail to decipher any death"
<br /> 'ADORATION' is sculptor Robert Brown's contemporary recreation, as a CONVENTION CHAIRMAN Joyce Zielinski arranges porcelain figurines of
<br /> nine-inch collectors' plate, of a 39-inch round plaque by I Sth Century artist Laszlo Ispanky at Watson's store. Ispanky was a special guests at the plate
<br /> Andrea Della Robbie in the National Museum in Florence, Italy, collectors' convention in 1976 and created a sculpture there.
<br /> Watson's store and was hearing the innumerable ques- tors, but there remained a thirst among both for more.
<br /> Plate collectors lions which collectors asked about plates. Audrey Traxler believed that a national convention,
<br /> With new plates being issued every month, mforma- with manufacturers and importers exhibiting new edi-
<br /> (Continued from page 13) lion derived from the dealers' grapevine was some- lions and telling about their future plans, would be of
<br /> times inaccurate. Louise Witt's "Wonderful World of great value to everyone concerned
<br /> occupied by the Masons who held a Wyear lease," Plates" with annual supplements was reliable as the Watson's Collectibles and Watson's Collectors Club
<br /> says Mrs. Watson. "We were lucky, however. The basic source of information for both dealers and collec- made plans to co-host the first convention and looked y i$
<br /> lease ran out last year and the Masons decided to build
<br /> new facilities across town.
<br /> "Our staff has grown from seven people in 1974 to 3..5 !' "
<br /> today. We have 10 phones, each with 10 buttons. And g ^
<br /> I'm happy to say the buttons are lit from the time we
<br /> walk in each morning to when we leave at night."
<br /> In 1972, the Watson's Collectors Club was organized.
<br /> As the collectors became better acquainted, it. was
<br /> obvious that they enjoyed being together and discuss-
<br /> i
<br /> ing their hobby.
<br /> "I held off on organizing the club as long as I could," e
<br /> Winnie laughs. "I thought it was a good idea, but I also
<br /> knew it would mean a lot of extra work writing a club
<br /> bulletin and conducting a meeting every month On the A
<br /> other hand, I was often telling the same story over and a
<br /> over each day as customers asked about a new series g c
<br /> being produced, so I thought I night save some energy
<br /> by making one speech a month to a larger group." , v
<br /> Since then, members have met in New Carlisle on a xY
<br /> the third Tuesday of every month to see the latest
<br /> editions of plates on display and to show each other I a
<br /> some of their more unusual ones.
<br /> Glen Watson deed in 1973. Two years later Winnie �'
<br /> closed the drugstore business, forged ahead in her new
<br /> enterprise and branched out into selling plates by mail
<br /> order. As her mail order business grew, so did enroll- F t J �
<br /> ment in the club, and as enrollment grew, so did
<br /> business. Today Watson's Collectors' Club has more i V ` d t ,, w.� M ; • e
<br /> than 2,800 members.
<br /> "Interest was beingexpressed From all corners of
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<br /> the world," she sai "and we felt that we had to do 6+"d d in Watson home were +- R
<br /> t.
<br /> something to bring these people together." x "` •s�
<br /> painted by a local
<br /> THE IDEA FOR the first plate collectors' conven_ artist to resemble SUSAN EMRICH GREETS village women and children at the nutrition center she runs in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. Mrs. Emrich and her husband,
<br /> tion came from Audrey Traxler of LaPorte, one of the scenes from limited Dr. John Emrich, have traded the American way of life for a rustic life style among neighbors whose world is one of hunger and illness and poverty.
<br /> club's charter members. She had joined the staff at edition plates. go But, say the Emrichs, "the people are friendly, the need is great."
<br /> FOURTEEN The South Bend Tribune, Sunday, July 8, 1979 The South Bond Tribune, Sunday, July 8, 1979 ELEVEN
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