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PAGE TWO — Sopulpo (Oklo ) Herold, Tuesdoy December 31,
1968
The Best Of Dear Abby--Year-End Review
Abigail Van Buren. America’s most widely read
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personal consultant, offers you a holiday package of the
most delightful letters she received in 1968.
DEAR ABBY Every year my husband gives a "birthday
party" for Ruby, his first wife who has been dead for 12 years
now All their old friends are invited and they have a regular
party for "Ruby"—food, drinks, birthday cake, and everything
Then they all go out to the cemetery to "talk" to Ruby and
leave her a piece of birthday cake
I have no objections to my husband visiting Ruby's grave
on her birthday, or any other day, but this "birthday party’
really gets me I’ve gone to two Do I have to go to any more”
And what do you think of such parties? WONDERING
DEAR WONDERING: I think your husband is digging
pretty deep to find an excuse to give a party. You don't have to
go to these parties unless you want to. And neither does anyone
DEAR ABBY What do you think of a married couple
who have their MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE framed and hang-
ing in »heir living room? They have been married for eight
years and have eight kids INo twins 1 A FRIEND
DEAR FRIEND: They probably want the world to know
that they’re not practicing without a license.
DEAR ABBY Is “The Pill" 100 per cent foolproof*
MUST KNOW
DEAR MUST: Nothing is 100 per cent "fool proof" in the
snds of a fool.
DEAR ABBY First let me explain that I am 46 years old
and my husband. Rube, is 52 I have a dear friend about my
age who lost her husband 4 years ago. and she's had a bad case
of nerves ever since She told me that her doctor told her that
all she needed w as a man
Now I hone you won’t think I’m c terrible person Abby, but
when my friend kind of hinted around that she would like to
borrow my Rube once in a while to quiet her nerves. I really
didn't see anything so wrong with it.
To tell you the truth, I never was very affectionate, and I
always fell like Rube got cheated in that department
somewhat
No one would have to know Do you think I'm crazy’
RUBE'S WIFE
DEAR WIFE: I don't know whether you're ’’crazy" or not.
but I do think your generosity is unbelievable. Perhaps, you'd
better consult Rube You could be playing a dangerous game.
If Rube is going to be "lent out" for therapeutic purposes,
maybe he knows some other needy cases of "nerves" that need
"quieting.”
DEAR ABBY: There is a handsome new teller at the bank
where I deposit the company checks, and he has me so
fluttered I hardly know what I'm doing.
This morning after I made my deposit he touched my
hand when he gave me my receipt, and I nearly fainted He
has the most beautiful smile, Abby. and he seems to light up
when he sees me coming One of the girls who works at the
bank said he asked her if I was engaged or going with
somebody, so he must be interested in me How can 1 let him
know I would like to know him better without being too
forward'*
DEPOSITOR
DEAR DEPOSITOR: Just keep making Ihose deposits, and
watch the interest grow.
DEAR ABBY: When a man marries a girl fresh out of
college he doesn t expect to get the world's greatest cook and
housekeeper But how brainy does a girl have to be to know she
shouldn't starch her husband s underwear’
UNCOMFORTABLE
DEAR UNCOMFORTABLE: That's a pretty stiff question
Give her time
DEAR ABBY. The lady who signed herself “FLAT IN
BACK" and wanted to know where she could find a foam
rubber fanny is lucky She has all her problems behind her
Those forward looking engineers ui the foundation industry
seem to have dedicated themselves to the proposition that “it’s
what’s up front that counts ”
Not so A few years back, several manufacturers came out
with-b ' falsie derriere ’’ [OneTiuch Item, appropriately named
“FANCY THAT," is still on the market )
I won’t say that the demand for such an item hit bottom,
but almost no one makes them anymore So it would seem that
these "bras" for the fanny were a bust.
Sincerely, WILLIAM B GLEESON,
[Powers, Knollwood, Hopkins, Minn.)
DEAR ABBY Maybe YOU think it’s all right for a
husband to give his wife an electric toaster or mixer for
Mother's day. but if my husband ever showed up with a gift to
remind me that I was kitchen help, I'd probably strangle him
with the cord
What kind of Mother's day present does your husband give
you, Abby? And what do you give him for Father's day’
NOSY IN PITTSBURGH
DEAR NOSY: Every Mother's day my husbaad gives me
the kids. And every Father's day I give 'em back.
DEAR ABBY: What kind of a husband would encourage his
wife to line herself up with dates with other men while he is out
of town? NOSY
DEAR NOSY: One with a guilty conscience.
DEAR ABBY When my husband drove me to work this
morning I noticed that his right ear was perfectly clean When
he picked me up after work, I noticed there was lipstick on his
right ear What should I do about this? ELSINORE
DEAR ELSINORE: Tell your husband either to have his
friend kiss him on his left ear, or to start driving a British car
so you will he seated on his left! Ilf this doesn't work, kirk
him out either door. |
DEAR ABBY: I am in the service and have a little
problem The night before I left TTie States I surprised my girl
with a diamond engagement ring.
She acted like she was thrilled to pieces, and of course I
was happy, too. Her mother took me aside and asked me if I
could get a refund on the ring—well, I couldn't.
Now I get a letter from my girl telling me that she and her
mother "traded" in the engagement ring on another one which
is bigger and much “nicer." She said her mother paid the
difference and I can pay her back when I get home, but for me
not to worry about it .....
I am not exactly “worried" about it, but 1 don't think it
was a very nice thing for them to do If you were in ray place
•’hat would you do? G. I.
DEAR G. I.: Nothing for the moment But when you get
stateside, size up the situation and make sure your girl and her
mother don't have a WEDDING ring waiting for you that’s big
enough tor you to jump thru.
DEAR ABBY The letter about the gal who was “FLAT IN
BACK" reminded me of a friend of mine
She had a beautiful figure At least she looked like she had
She went to one of Playboy clubs for an interview because she
wanted to be a “bunny.”
Well, she didn't make it. The reason was. she was "flat in
back." too, and she’d always worn one of those foam rubber
fannies Guess they want all their “cotton tails" to be for real.
LOTTIE'S FRIEND
DEAR ABBY: Maybe you’ve never heard of a "false
fanny," but I know there must be such an item because I saw
one advertised in a catalog It was called, believe it or not,
‘THE LIVING END" MARCIE
DEAR ABBY: I have been married for exactly one month
The other night I discovered that my wife uses MAYON-
NAISE on her hair before she goes to bed She has the
preposterous idea that it makes her hair grow faster She
claims that lots of women use it.
I have never heard of this before, have you? I would like to
find out if what she says is true, as I don't care to smell
mayonnaise all night NEW HUSBAND
DEAR NEW: I am informed by my hair-raising experts
that mayonnaise contains a protein properly which is beneficial
to the hair. But there are hair conditioners on the market
which are more effective, and smell better. Tell your wife that
when you go to bed with a tomato you prefer to do without the
mayonnaise.
DEAR ABBY I am 30 years old, not married, and 1 work
to support myself I'm not bad looking and live a fairly normal,
happy life, but I'm beginning to wonder if maybe I'm foolish to
work the way I do What I'm trying to say is, I have a girl
friend who works part-time—like maybe two days a week She
has had four husbands and she's single again She has boy
friends for everything One pays her rent, another lets her drive
his car. another painted and papered her whole house and she
bragged all she gave him was lunches and a few daughterly
kisses
She sees the rent-payer on week-ends and she also has a
truck driver staying with her off and on when he's in town. I
don't know how she gets away with it Shouldn’t someone tell
these chumps the score’ HER FRIEND
DEAR FRIEND: Don’t worry about the chumps. Some
men don t care what the score is as long as they’re in the
game.
DEAR ABBY: How does a 20-year-old gir! who has just
announced her engagement with intentions to marry in the
summer tell her parents she thinks she had better get married
as soon as possible’ WORRIED
DEAR WORRIED: In English \nd a» soon as possible!
DEAR ABBY: 1 am a divorced woman in my late thirties
1 am secretary to a very successful, prominent family man
who has a very fine reputation He is always telling everyone
what a wonderful wife he has, but you should see this bird
operate behind closed doors
I do receive an excellent salary, with many fringe benefits,
but it seems that being mauled goes with the job He simply
cannot keep his hands off me I have threatened to walk out if
he doesn't cut that stuff out He promises he will, but the next
day he is right back, locking the office door, and starting the
whole thing over again
I know you wiR say WALK OUT. but it 's not that easy I am
the sole support of myself, two children, and an invalid mother
This job is five minutes from my home, no carfare, no lunches,
and as I have said, the pay is wonderful. Now what’
MAULED IN PHILLY
DEAR MAILED: Walk out. anyway. Your next job mu
not have as many fringe benefits, but neither will it require
combal training.
DEAR ABBY What do you think of a president of a
multimillion dollar business who comes to work with holes in
his socks’ This didn't happen just once, it is a regular thing
with him
He wears custom made suits, and drives a Cadillac car,
but he goes around with great big holes in the heels of his
«<wks WORKS FOR HIM
dear WORKS: I'd say hr must be married to a woman
who doesn't give a darn.
DEAR ABBY: We have an old-maid neighbor who thinks
she is smart She named her cocker spaniel "Lester" knowing
perfectly well that was my husband's name
In the evening when she calls her dog. my husband goes to
the window and barks just to confuse her.
There have been times when I have called my husband
when he's down the road somewhere and that dog would come
running.
Isn't there something we can do about this’ There surely
must he laws to protect respectable people against being
humiliated publicly by people like her I'd take her to court if I
thought I could win LESTER'S WIFE
DEAR Wilt: If you have a bone to pick with your
neighbor over her dog. better do it out of court. A grown man
who would "bark” to confuse a neighbor who's calling her dog
is in no position to find fault with a practical joker.
DEAR ABBY: I am a freshman at college and have a
serious question to ask you When a boy tries to get you to go
all the way by asking, “You wouldn't buy a pair of shoes
without trying them on, would you?" What is a girl supposed to
“y' STUPID
DEAR STUPID: “I’d rather buy a pair of shoes without
trying them on. than get stuck with a pair that's been worn by
everybody in town
DEAR ABBY: My husband is well over the age ot
collecting social security, but would you believe he is so vain he
won't put in for it because he doesn't want to admit his right
age’
He is still running after women, too Believe me. if he ever
catches any it will be perfectly harmless I should know
I have been touching up his hair for years, otherwise it
would be snow-white Lately 1 have been telling him it is time
he let his hair go "natural," for it is no crime for a man his
age to have white hair, but he says, no. he still wants me to
touch it up for him. If you were me, would you? ELSA
DEAR ELSA: No. Tell him as long as there is no fire in the
furnace hr may as well leave the snow on the roof.
DEAR ABBY What do you think of a husband who retires
each night very early, except when a very attractive friend of
mine is visiting me for the evening’
He will stay up, and try to be in her company, showing off
and being very clever, witty, and charming all the while
Yet after this guest leaves, he will tell me that he thinks
she is conceited, selfish, and not at all pretty—which certainly
is not true according to everyone else's evaluation of her Then
he says he cannot stand her, and wonders how I can Even my
children noticed this. PERPLEXED
DEAR PERPLEXED: Actions speak louder than words.
DEAR ABBY: 1 went to a cocktail party where there were
about 50 people just milling around making small talk
A rather sexy looking gal spotted me from across the
room and pretty soon she was beside me starting up a con-
versation When I realized that she had more than a casual
interest in me, I thought I'd better put her straight, so I told
her I was a married man She then asked. "Happily?" I
think that was an extremely personal question lor one stranger
to ask another What do you suppose she had in mind’
CARL
DEAR CARL: Some enchanted evening
DEAR ABBY: You always tell girls that men in uniform
are O K I would have agreed with you a few years ago, but not
any more I learned my lessons with a guy in the Air Force
Boy. was he ever a wolf! I never saw a guy work so fast in all
my life.
He was a perfect gentleman as long as he was in uniform,
bul the minute he got out of uniform he was a changed person
ANNIE LOU
DEAR ANNIE: You never should have let him take bis
uniform off.
DEAR ABBY What would you think if your husband could
hardly wait for the hunting season to open And then he took
oil in the middle of the night for a four day hunting trip and
forgot his rifle? 1 thank you WONDERING
DEAR WONDERING- I would think that he did not intend
to shoot whatever it was that he set out to hunt.
DEAR ABBY: That guy who said his "eye had tie gun to
rove" because his wife made breakfast every morning for him
in her nightgown, barefoot, with her hair uncombed, had better
find a better excuse
My wife has been getting my breakfast in her nightgown
with her hair uncombed for 20 years, and to me she’s
beautiful
I know lots of husbands who fix instant coffee and grab a
store bought donut and call it breakfast because their wives
are too lazy to get out of bed
My doll prepares a breakfast for me that’s fit for a king
It's either fresh juice. French toast and maple sirup, or
pancakes and sausages, or eggs and bacon and home made
biscuits And plenty of REAL coffee
So she doesn't comb her hair? Who needs Elizabeth Taylor
at 6:30 in the morning? LOUIE IN FLATBUSH
DEAR LOUIE: Richard Burton, maybe*
DEAR ABBY Do you think a man who would cheat on his
expense account would cheat on his wife? CHRISTY
DEAR CHRISTY: Only a man who can't resist nice round
figures.
Hawks, Doves .
Set To Renew -
War Bickering
HASH'NGTON (l’P!)-The
hawks and the doves are about ,
to migrate back to the Senate to
bicker anew about the war in
Vietnam.
The hawks are still numerous
and powerful in the Senate
aviary but the coming session
could well turn out to be the
year of the dove.
Neither the end of the - *
bombing over North Vietnam
nor the first feeble moves .
toward peace in Paris is ...
expected to silence the debate
which has dominated the Senate ,
almost since the war began. -•
When the United States and .
North Vietnam began procedur-
al discussions in Paris May 13,
most senators—hawk and dove
— imposed a moratorium which ^
held fairly firm until the end of •*
the session. It did not, however,
apply to re-election campaigns.
Sen. George McGovern, D-
S. D., a leading Senate dove ...
who sought the Democratic
presidential nomination as a
peace candidate, feels the de-
bate will resume when Con-
gress convenes but that the ap-«
proach will be different.
Some of the central issues of
the debate last year are, of
course, moot now. An end to the
bombing, the key to dove
demands, is an accomplished
fact.
It remains, however, an issue
that could be raised by the
hawks— notably - 'embers of the '
Senate Armed Services Commit- ;
tee— if they decide that the end
of bombing has allowed the North
V ietnamese to push additional .
troops below the Demilitarized
Zone.
Nor is it likely that the doves
will again raise the legality of
U.S. intervention— a major talk-
ing point in the first years of
the war. nil
The debate is more likely iv '
center on demands for speedier
results from the Paris talks, a ..
cease-fire, troop withdrawals, I
and an end to corruption in
Saigon.
In the slack part of the year— -*
the months between ad jour-
naiaeot and the opening of
Congress— the sniping has been
sporadic but possibly indicative
of the debate to come.
Recently, McGovern and Sen.
Stephen M. Young, D-Ohio,
issued strong-language state-
ments attacking South Vietn’s
Vice Pnmier Ky for wrangling
too much and too long about
who should sit where at what
kind of a table when the
negotiations proceed.
McGovern called Ky a “tin-
horn” and Young accused South
Vietnam’s top personality of
being a traitor to his country.
Sen. Jack Miller, R-Iowa,
without naming his colleagues,
protested against statements
blaming Ky for the lack of
movement in Paris.
REEL
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The pinon is the New Mexi:o
State Tree.
Harlem is the largest Negro
community in the United States,
Think It s Cold Here? 36 Below In Montana
By United Press International
The coldest weather of the
season rode air sweeping out of
the Arctic today on a front
extending from the Pacific
Northwest through the plains
states and to the Mississippi
Valley.
Early morning temperatures
ranged from 75 at Miami, Fla.,
to 36 below zero at Bozeman,
Mont.
Eastern Washington was de-
scribed as a “frigid mess.”
Spokane had an all-time Decem-
ber low of 25 below. The highs
in the eastern part of the state
this morning were zero to 10
below. Seattle's 10 above broke
a 41-year record Monday.
NOTICE!!
North Mission Tastee Freez.
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CLOSED
Tuesday, December 24
Open on January 13
Remember for deliciout
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North Mission Tastee Freez
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X X X X
It was so cold as the Arctic
breath blasted throuh Seattle
that polar bears and otters at
the zoo went into their dens to
warm up.
In the Okanogan area of
eastern Washington, two ranch
hands died because of the cold.
One suffered a heart attack
from breathing the cold air and
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FREEZING
the other was found frozen to
death in a line shack where he
had been feeding cattle. A
steady snow in the area was
expected to build up during the
night to 4 to 6 inches.
The blizzard shut off Port-
land, Ore., from the east. High
winds bearing heavy snow
roared down the Columbia
gorge and closed 65 miles of
interstate 80 late Monday. Many
vehicles spun out of control on
the highway’s six lanes and
blocked traffic. A number of
persons suffered frostbi’e.
Milk companies cut home
deliveries in Portland, and
department stores closed early
Monday and did not plan to
fell as much as 33 degrees in
two hours. Denver had 25 above
in the afternoon and 2 below
two hours later.
The cold stabbed as far south
as Arkansas and Texas. Sleet
and freezing rain glazed Mid-
west highways and heavy snow
fell north of the sleet belt.
Sioux City, Iowa, had 14 below
Monday, a new record. Des
Moines, Iowa, equalled its
record for the date, and Omaha,
Neb., broke an 1876record when
it hit 10 below Monday.
Temperatures were well be-
low zero in South Dakota. But a
....... . . . . cloud cover at Sioux Falls
As the bhzzard struck Wyom- ra,sed ,he , „ure from l9
to 16 below Monday night.
Redwood Manor Restaurant
Hwy. 66 North BA 4 9813
will be
Closed New Year's Day
For delicious hpme cooked meal*
Join Oti* & Marie Simmons
OPEN SUNDAYS 7 a m. to 5 p m.
OPEN WEEKDAYS 7 a m to 8pm
Closed Saturday(.
open today as 6 inches were
expected to pile on Monday’s 5
inches.
WATCHNIGHT SERVICE
TONIGHT-9:00 P.M.
INCLUDING . ..
...THE BILLY GRAHAM FILM, "LUCIA"
...THE SINGING OF THE McGUIRE BOYS
THE McGUIRE BOYS
AN INTERMISSION OF REFRESHMENTS
. A CONSECRATION COMMUNION SERVICE
. AND . . . AFTER MIDNIGHT, A
TEEN "AFTER GLOW"*
GLENWOOD ASSEMBLY OF GOD
1200 EAST TAFT
Rov. Colvin Brannon, Pastor
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