The Daily Spectrum from Saint George, Utah • 10

PAGE 10 SPECTRUM THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1980 Applehead dolls, an old craft gets better llllil Apple dolls characterize whimsy, laughter of life by Sharon Ahern Staff Writer ST. GEORGE The puckerish faced characters that fill Faye Gunnell's home look back at the visitor with unwavering pride, dignity and a glint of amusement in their bright eyes. The highly individualistic histories of these smiling miniature people go back further than their creator's. Faye Gunnell, whose livliness betrays the fact that she's a grandmother and greatgrandmother, seems to have perfected an old craft and perhaps one of the first toys the apple head doll. Although the eyes, nose, cheeks and chin impart such unique charming character to each, the nobbiest only began her craft just more than four years ago.

Self-taught, Gunnell made her first doll when she was recovering from a broken leg. "Well, I had to do something to keep from losing mind," she says with blue eyes twinkling. Since the creative drive took hold it hasn't let up. She's created a cast of about 20, including a woodsmen, Little Miss Muffet, a dance hall girl, an Indian chief, an oriental couple, and a cowboy who, she says "looks like just like a guy down the street." Doll making hasjn't helped her I decide on a new character to make, I just can't stop thinking about it until it's underway." Making a doll is a slow and time consuming process. Beginning with a large delicious apple, Gunnell carves and sculpts the features and hair and lets it dry for six to eight weeks, shaping the features daily to meet the image in her mind.

She points to an old lady in a rocking chair, originally quite beautiful, fashioned after commedienne Joan always come out a little differently but that's half the fun," she says. Her painting method imparts a life-like quality to face and hair, a method which she's developed and keeps as a trade secret. The flexible body is made of wrapped wire covered with cloth and dressed in appropriate costume and accessories, all of which she makes herself Gunnell likes to make an action setting for each doll. The dance hall girl grins from a black stage trimmed with glitter, a slit skirt revealing red pantaloons trimmed with black lace. A fisherman shows surprise as he catches a fish out of the log he's been resting his feet on that turns out to be an, alligators.

The door of a wooden outhouse hangs open waiting to hold a woman, who frightened by a mouse has jumped up on the seat, lifting her dress but forgetting her drawers around her knees. Gunnell personifies whimsy in her creations and in her own apple colored cheeks and animated conversation. "If it wasn't fun, I wouldn't do it it's too much work." Even though her creations are born with a 75 dollar price tag, it's hardly a profitabe hobbie. She can only roll her eyes and raise her hands when asked how many hours go into making one doll. The dolls have created one problem.

Her seven children and 27 grandchildren each want one. "That order would keep me busy forever so I refuse to attempt to fill it." Nevertheless, the little lady will never be bored. One apple head is taking final shape on a nail and threemore grinning from glass cases await bodies. The dark haired one wearing the tailed knit hat might become a lumber jack, she says squinting at it. The fate of the two white haired gentleman, similar yet distinctly different, she hasn't quite decided.

But from the squint of her eyes and lips pursed on her cigarette, it's obvious that it's just a matter of selecting an idea from the multitude floating in her head. What character would the craftswoman most want to immortalize in a dried apple? "I'm just dying to do Charlie Chaplin," she answers without pause, tapping a finger on a newspaper clipping of the silent movie king. The short mustache, round eyes, bushy eyebrows and bowler are certain to metamorphose from a common apple one day on Faye Gunnel's kitchen table. TL. ST.

GEORGE Faye Gunnell has been creating a cast of unique characters in applehead dolls for over four years simply because it's fun. The surprised fisherman shown above is one of her favorites. He has just caught a struggling fish out of an alligators mouth. (Spectrum PhotoAhern) doll while her own leg was in a cast. She fashioned the cowboy after a neighbor who lives down the street and claims she captured quite a likeness.

(Spectrum photoAhem) ST. GEORGE The two dolls above exemplify the unique charicatures and distinct facial features of Faye Gunnell's craft. The nobbiest created the old man with a broken leg propped on a footstool because she made her first Shangai's youths draw concern one year olds To Westerners jaded by the likes of Sjfc SHANGHAI, China (UPI) To hear bewildered city elders tell it, Shanghai's trendy youth is in virtual open revolt against China's strict moral code. Young people hold "candle-lit parties with weird guests" and "move their bodies sensuously to baffling dances." angs of youth dressed in garish "red and green clothes and even military uniforms" roam the city parks playing "decadent and pornographic Western musjc" on imported tape recorders. And, newspapers report disgustedly, "Some young girls have photographs taken of themselves with cigarettes in their mouths" while youths "fight, get 1 drunk and thump on restaurant tables." i More seriously still, some communist officials say there are increasing numbers of unwanted pregnancies among Shanghai's switched-on women.

Shanghai, the world's largest city with a population of some 11 million, is China's trend-setter in everything from sexual attitudes to fashion. What happens here eventually affects I the attitudes of China's youth even in the capital of Peking, which is far more conservative than this bustling seaport where Chinese communism was born. inundating the city Ironically, the authorities currently appear be using a second-rate American movie to ram home the lesson that foreign films are harmful and American society deeply flawed. The film has been playing to packed audiences throughout Shanghai, where movie houses open as early as 7 a.m. and have at least five daily showings.

It tells the tale of two American girls, one white and one black, on a journey through the South where they are robbed, raped and imprisoned. Shanghai newspapers several times have attacked the movie, which authorities nevertheless alllowed to be publicly screened, as pointing up that the United States is not Utopia and that Chinese communist values are best. City authorities have taken steps to try to curb youthful freedoms which, they claim, are "wooing the young away from correct socialist morality." Chief among them has been a ban on Western-style dancing, public or private. Foreigners working closely with young Chinese, however, report teenagers are still indulging one of their favorite passions and there is an active black market in smuggled cassette tapes from Hong Kong and Taiwan. America's Hell's Angels and Britain's "mods and rockers" and who take sexual permissiveness in stride Shanghai's elders might appear to be crying wolf at the modest changes underway here.

But there is no doubt they are bewildered about what is happening to their youth and how to handle the situation. Although only 28, Miss Wang is a former Red Guard, a Communist Party member and an activist in trying to control the youth movement here. "I am disgusted to see all these butterflies" along Shanghai's waterfront, she told a visitor recently. By "butterflies" she means prostitutes. She brands the many hundreds of young girls who nightly hold hands and cuddle with boyfriends along Shanghai's famed "Bund" as prostitutes.

"I don't know what we can do about these people," she said somewhat helplessly. "Education. Educating them is the only chance we have." Strident newspaper articles blast everything from loose sexual morals to pornographic music and decadent Western films which reportedly are SANTA CLARA Matthew Blaine Gubler celebrated his first birthday on July 18. He is the son of Blaine and Colette Gubler, of Santa Clara. His grandparents are Orwin and Velda Gubler, of St.

George, and Richard and Roxie Beaumont, of LaVerkin. He has three great grandmothers Sue Beaumont, of Washington, Hazel Bringhurtst, of Toquer-ville, and LaFaue Leahy, of St. George. i HURRICANE Joy Ella Taylor celebrated her first birthday on July 6. She is the daughter of Nedra and Allan Taylor, of Las Vegas.

Grandparents are Ornelda and Abraham Postura, of Hurricane, and Jack and Ella Taylor, of Magna. BLOOMING TON Cassidy Brett Larson celebrated his first birthday on July 10. He is the son of Sam and Jan Larson, of Bloomington. i His grandparents are: Mr.and Mrs. LeRoy Larson, of St.

George. ENTERPRISE Tyler Alvin Hunt celebrated his first birthday on July 10. He is the son of Steve and Gwen Hunt, of Enterprise. His grandparents are Reed and Mary Hunt, of Enterprise, and Alvin and Vera James, of Mansfield, Texas. He has four great grandmothers Agnus Hunt, of St.

George, Gwen Thomas, of Enterprise, Texoma James, of Lubbock, Texas, and Buelah Vance, of Louisville, Kentucky. Cooking fish in microwave ovens Robin Hood lasted one day MID-WAY SPECIAL water to complete the thawing. For whole fish, rinse the cavity with cold water. Use low or defrost cycle to thaw fish in original packaging or whole fish, and turn over at the halfway point. Individually frozen fillets, steaks and small shellfish such as shrimp, scallops and crab legs should be spread on a microwave-safe baking dish and defrosted quickly to avoid overheating.

To cook fillets uniformly, place thicker portions toward the outside of the baking dish preferably a round, shallow one or overlap or double under thinner parts. Or roll fillets and skewer them with wooden picks. If you add a small amount of seasoned liquid such as wine or water and lemon juice for seasoning, additional cooking time may be needed. Cover fish with plastic wrap and vent it by punching a few holes or turning back one corner of the plastic. Cook fillets at high power about three minutes per pound of boneless fillets, in general, and turn the dish halfway through the cooking period.

Thick fish steaks should be turned over halfway through the cooking time. If you plan to finish steaks or fillets in a broiler, microwave only 50 percent of the recommended time. To avoid overcooking, remove fish from a microwave oven when the outer edges are opaque but the center still slightly translucent. Let stand, covered, a few minutes, to finish cooking. It will be opaque throughout and flake easily when done.

For whole, stuffed fish, have the fish and the stuffing at the same temperature when you start to cook. Small shellfish cook best if arranged in a circle in the cooking dish. Oysters, clams and mussels can be steamed in their shells. Crab legs should be turned over halfway through the cooking period, whether you are cooking raw ones or heating frozen, precooked ones. Large shellfish such as lobster need a vented cover and added water to produce steam.

Lobster tails also need a vented cover, but no added water. During the one day he was in business, Chamberlain says he fed about 100 meters. Unfortunately, one of the over-parked motorists was Santa Cruz Police Chief Geno Pini, and it turns out Santa Clara lawmakers already had thought of and guarded against Robin Hood's activities. A police officer showed up at Chamberlain's house with citation for making unauthorized deposit into a parking meter. CHICAGO (UPI) Steaming and poaching fish and seafood are a cinch in a microwave oven, says the National Fisheries Institute.

For one thing, it eliminates the hazard of delicate fish breaking apart when you transfer it from a poacher or a steamer. In a microwave oven, you can steam or poach in a serving dish. Most seafood cooks in seconds instead of minutes, saving time and well as fuel energy. Because ovens differ, you may need to experiment a bit to get the cooking times right. Shape and weight determine defrosting and cooking times.

So it's a good idea to underestimate. You can always add a few seconds more, but overcooking dries and toughens seafood. Because seafood products are less dense than red meats, microwaves penetrate quicker. The institute also recommends microwave ovens for defrosting frozen seafood products, if certain precautions are taken. NFI tips include: To defrost, remove fish from oven while still slightly icy.

Rinse with cold SANTA CKUZ, Calif. (UPI) Robin Hood lasted exactly one day in Santa Cruz. David Chamberlian of Santa Cruz thought he had a new business. He dressed up as Robin Hood complete with red-plumed leather hat and billed himself as Robin Hood Rescue Service. Then he roamed town, looking for over-parked cars.

When he spotted a red flag, he'd drop a nickle in the meter and a note and envelope on the windshield. "Greetings," said the note. "You have just been rescued from a five-dollar parking ticket fine by the Robin Hood Rescue Service." The rescued motorist was asked to use the envelope to contribute one dollar or more so Robin Hood could continue his services. He pleaded guilty to the charge but was given a suspended $25 fine after promising Robin Hood would go out of business. Chamberlain said 11 people of the 100 he may have saved from a ticket actually sent him a dollar.

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IObagpcrttoesH79 Combo From the Sea Shrimp, Scallops, Fish Fillet served with Boston Clam Chowder Beverage TIBURON, Calif. (UPI) -Two men who made themselves very unpopular last week when they barbecued one of the town's unofficial mascots have been charged with cruelty to animals. The district attorney's office filed the complaint Tuesday against Joseph Azevedo, 29, and Stuart Esplin, 20, both of Tiburon, after an investigation into the July 20 strangulation death of a gander seen often along the boardwalk of this suburb on San Francisco Bay. Deputy District Attorney 1 i 5ioeetorvion5'-i5baq G.S0 1 Sve daily on frtsk local produce. 11 p.fn.eJaly closed 5afcTiW JL A.