Triplets Brought “Lot Of Fun” Into Weathers9 Life!
By Jalyne Strong
--Peat Staff Wrltei
:■ it’s funny how things
happen when least expect
ed. -For Mable Weathers
this statement is expound
ed threefold. Weathers
found she was pregnant
when she had thought she
couldn’t have any more
children. And so it hap
pened, she gave birth to
triplets.
Born February 4, l»/i,
Weathers’ three boys,
Antoine, Anthony ^bd An
tonio, are seven yews old.
They are handsome, pre
cocious young men who,
according to their mother,
have brought a lot of fun
into her life.
_“1 would not have it any
other way,” assures Wea
thers. Yet she recalls feel
ing "numb” when first in
formed that she was car
rying three babies. She was
confined to the hospital for
the last three months of her
pregnancy and delivered
her triplets through na
tural childbirth.
“Many people think it’s
hard- to raise triplets but
I’ve found it very enjoy
able,” Weathers admits.
“As infants they •were no
trouble to me. My mother
and father helped out a lot.
Now I never have to worry
about finding playmates.
The boys are very protec
tive of me and help me with
Mable Weathers with her triplets (I-r) Anthony,
Antonio and Antoine.
the housework.”
It appears impossible but
Weathers maintains that
her boys are easily dis
tinguished from each other
by slight differences in fa
cial structure, voice tone
and distinct personalities.
“Antonio is the smartest
and also the bossy one,”
she reveals. “He usually
tells the others what to do.
He is also very good in
math and helps his bro
Hunt Proposes Plan To
Reduce Nuclear War Threat
Calling for “dramatic
steps to end jhe nuclear
arms race,” Governor Jim
Hunt today proposed a
four-part arms control
strategy to lessen the risk
of nuclear war.
In a major policy address
before the Caroiina Council
on World Affairs here,
Hunt noted that for the first
" Qihe Th'20 'years', there itis
no serious arms talks
underway between the
United States and the
Soviet Union.
Hunt proposed four
initiatives to break the
arms cohtrol deadlock:
First, merging stalled
arms talks and negotiating
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significant, mutual
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arms.
Second, reopening
'comprehensive test ban
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existing arms control
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intro, reducing tne nsk
of war by accident or mis
calculations.
* Fourth',' Stopping s new"
nuclear arms race in
space.
I am convinced that the
four initiatives I have pro
posed today can move our
nation far toward a
reliable, mutual and veri
fiable end to the arms
race,” Hunt told the World
Affairs council.
Earlier Thursday, in a
Raleigh press conference,
Hunt • noted ..tbal. the.
“nuclear arms race has
intensified and threatens to
spiral out of control. We
need to take dramatic steps
today to contain the arms
race and turn this nation
back to the pursuit of peace
and stability."
Hunt also said that North
Carolina’s U.S. Senators
"have stood as obstacles in
the path of reasonable
efforts to less the risk of.
nuclear, war.
"Theirs is the wrong
approach. With guts,
patience end persistence,
we can hammer out
equitable, mutual and
TOHfttblA Agttenimts with
the Soviets. And we owe it
to ourselves, and our
children, to try/* be said.
“I believe skilled and
persistent American
negotiators can sit down
across the table from the
Soviets and find a wav to
reduce the risk of nuclear
war,** Hunt said in his
Charlotte speech. ,
“I support arms control
because there is no other
course to follow when the
world sits on a hair-trigger,
when a conflict in one
comer of the world can
ignite world-wide horror,
and when 50,000 nuclear
weapons sit poised for
destruction,’’ he added.
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there in that subject. An
toine is good in reading.
Spelling is Anthony’s best
subject, he is also the mis
chievious one.”
In the tradition of twins
or identical triplets, the
Weathers boys, of course,
love to play tricks on peo
ple. “They began in Head
Start, switching around to
confuse the teachers,”
their mother tells. The
triplets attend Hidden Val
ley Elementary now. •
“I believe they are mu
sically^ talented,” Wea
thers deduced. “They like
to sing gospel music.’1 The
boys’ grandfather man
ages the Mighty Golden
Crowns and at this time
they aU agree that they
“want to be like him."
The Wea there family
attends East Stonewall
AME Zion Church.
Difficulties have arisen
for Weathers in tho way of
expenses, she relates. She
is employed with Cannon
Mills, tywever, she’s only
able to work three days per
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two years of age were
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week. “I do have a little -
difficulty supporting theofc—;
Clothes are very expen
si ve and I have to buy three
outfits at one time. Food is
a major expanse.” To il
lustrate, ail three growing
boys responded simultane
oulsy that their favorite
thing to do was “eat.”
Problems aside, Wea
thers is the first to admit
she is thankful for her
triplets. She also adds that
she is not thinking about ■
having anymore children.
Weathers has one other
son, Kendrick, who; is <
TOW 14. __
For her triplets" future
the mother projects, "I
want them to go to college.
How I’m going to pay, is a
different story.’’
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