The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 38, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 4, 1981 Page: 4 of 8
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PAGE 4—THE NORTH TEXAS DAILY
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Dolls become family
at adoption centers
By VALERIE MAURER
Daily Reporter
The party invitation read that the occasion was
the arrival of adopted family member Atlanta Faith
and listed the baby’s life history.
After signing a guest list, guests could see that
baby Atlanta was seated on a stool with a bunch of
colorful balloons tied to her tiny wrist. Her new
mother, Amy Eppard, had dressed her in a pretty
party dress and white baby shoes. Atlanta’s brown
hair was tied in two pigtails and matched her spark-
ing, alert, brown eyes.
Freckles shone through her rosy complexion, and
she had a dimple on the left side of her mouth.
In fact, Atlanta is a doll. . . literally.
She is one of the Little People, the soft sculpture
babies that Dr. Xavier Roberts of Cleveland, Ga.,
created and designed.
Though Atlanta came from Troy’s Little People
Adoption Center located on Central Expressway
and Forest Lane in Dallas, she was "born” where all
these life-like babies were, Babyland General
Hospital.
The hospital is in the foothills of the Appalachian
Mountains in Cleveland, Ga. The babies (dolls) are
delivered (constructed) from the Cabbage Patch
(factory) to Babyland General, and from there they
travel to adoption centers (stores that sell Little Peo-
ple).
The soft sculpture babies can be bald, have curls,
Afros, braids, or pigtails like Atlanta.
Their faces are as varied as the limitless combina-
tions of genes (stitches) allow.
They have elbows, knees, belly buttons, freckles,
dimples and most important, a birthmark. This
birthmark is the signature of their creator, Roberts.
According to a promotional brochure, the con-
cept of the Little People is simple: “Treat the babies
in a life-like manner, with realism and sincerity.”
But before you rush out and “adopt” one of these
lovables, you had better check your finances.
Atlanta Faith’s adoption cost a jaw-dropping 5125.
Amy Eppard and Jimmy Randel, owners of com-
bined resale fashion store "Walk In Closet” and
card and gift store "Hurrah,” on the corner of
Hickory and Fry streets in Denton, adopted Little
Person Pamela Myra and renamed her Atlanta
Faith. "I understand that it is not unusual for
parents to change the name of their adopted child,”
said Eppard, with a tongue-in-cheek grin. “Adults
forget how to play,” she said. “And Jimmy and I
really have fun with her.”
Eppard said Troy’s Adoption Center looks like an
ordinary store from the outside. But when she and
Randel stepped inside, there were Little People
everywhere.
She said that the center was divided into different
rooms; a nursery, sleep room, class room and
playroom. The soft sculpture darlings were seated at
tables, in sand boxes, on slides, in trees or in
playpens. She said they even had “preemies,”
premature Little People babies.
After looking at each doll’s face, and there were
VH) in all. Eppard and Randel still were undecided
Eppard said one of the adoption center personnel
told her, “Wait, I think there are some more in the
back,” then added "yard.”
And that’s how they met Atlanta Faith.
Part of the adoption procedure is receiving adop-
tion papers and a birth certificate that has the
adopted baby’s footprints and the nurse’s (creator’s)
thumb prints on it.
The new parents then have to raise their right
hands and recite an oath of adoption.
They are given a prescription to fill — administer
large doses of TLC as often as needed — and are
told to give their new baby a vaccination of Scotch
Guard to protect it from the dreaded “Dirt
Disease,” to which they are susceptible.
Photo by VALEHIE MAURER
Eppard and Atlanta
Courses offer
information
for writers
“Education 650, Basics of Academic
Publishing, is a must for those who need or want
to publish," said Dr. Barry Lumsden of the
education faculty.
"It provides an honest, practical view of the
academic publishing world and the odds you face
as a writer,” he said.
The course will deal with major issues and
problems that affect academic publishing, such as
the difference between literary works that get
published and those that do not, coping with the
shock of rejection, how publication can help
careers and what financial rewards to expect,
Lumsden said.
The course will consist of laboratory and lec-
ture, and students will undertake several
writing projects leading to literary products
suitable for publication, he said.
Charles Nease, a former student of this course
said, “In this course Dr. Lumsden demystities the
publishing industry by providing a behind-the-
scene view of what happens after an author sub-
mits a manuscript to an editor.”
Education 690, Advanced Academic
Publishing, will deal with learning details that af-
fect the writing and preparation of acceptable,
manuscrits, submission to publishers, and con-
tacting of publishers who might be interested in
manuscripts, Lumsden said.
Both courses will be taught by Lumsden, who
has published numerous books and several arti-
cles, in the spring.
Mayor attacks 'zona roja'
Border town improves image
MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) —A
radio station owner with a grandfatherly
face, a handlebar mustache and an easy
smile is turning this border city upside
down with his maverick brand of pop-
ulist politics.
Since taking office Jan. I, Mayor
Jorge Cardenas Gonzalez has closed
cantinas on Sundays, donated his
$12,000 salary to illuminate crime-
plagued neighborhoods and told
barkeeps in the infamous “Boys’
Town" redlight district to move out
or shut down.
His campaign slogan was "Jorge es el
cambio” — "Jorge is the change” —
and he says he's trying to change
everything wrong with this city across
the Rio Grande from Brownsville.
“When we started the campaign, we
found out that Matamoros was a sick
city, politically, morally and financially.
It was terribly bad,” he said.
CARDENAS, 55, challenged the can-
didate backed by Mexico's establish-
ment party, Partido Revolucionario
Institucional — the party of President
Jose Lopez Portillo and most elected of-
ficials in this country.
Cardenas bolted PRI several years ago
to join the opposition PARM, Partido
Autentico de la Revolucion Mexicana.
Despite his middle-class background
and ownership of grocery stores, import-
export companies, orange groves, a
hotel, a rope factory and two radio sta-
tions, he has become a folk hero to many
impoverished supporters — "Jorgistas”
who helped elect him by a 2-to-l margin.
His popularity contrasts starkly with
feelings about his predecessor, who three
years ago was dragged from his office by
a mob enraged over the death of a teen-
ager w hile in police custody.
The mob burned the municipal palace,
which houses the mayor’s office.
Cardenas remodeled the office. He tore
out a wall, replaced it with glass “to let
everyone see who is here” and removed
all door locks.
HE PROMISED AN open govern-
ment and has set aside daily office hours
to meet the public. On a daily talk show
on one of his radio stations, he takes
questions and complaints from listeners.
Unusual events
NT has been the site of some unusual activities
in its history.
One event seen in late September of 1927 was
when Col. Charles A. Lindbergh circled low over
the campus three times in his monoplane “The
Spirit of St. Louis.”
Lindbergh used the silver aircraft to become the
first man to cross the Atlantic solo.
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Clark, Karen. The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 38, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 4, 1981, newspaper, November 4, 1981; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1002818/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.