The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 38, No. 194, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 20, 1964 Page: 17 of 26
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fHE ALTUS TIMES-DEMOCRAT, ALTUS, OKLAHOMA
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1964
PAGE SEVENTEEN
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many years ago. My hair was!
brown-what there was of it. Our
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Davis and Mrs. Bob Hinton.
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how good the impulse feels. We
to the principal. the superintend programs, and who doesn’t get cult to cut a straight edge
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DEAR ABBY I laughed when
I read the letter from the woman
tthree or four kinds each week.
When the boxes are almost
more time not to bother him
with my worries I am going
to ask him for a separation.
The worries he doesn’t want to
be bothered with are our three
children Last night when I ask-
ed him to look over some sum-
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as it was during the Easter sea-; don’t hold hands or anything like
son The rabbit did not look that We are 14 and so are the
childish in my opinion My son boys
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tivated." DEAR POLLY — My daugh- or eccentricity but passivity. It
And the doting mommy who ter received as a gift a pair is felt by the woman as an ag-
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go to the same beauty shop as Is careless of a friend’s feel-
the woman who owns and man- ings, thinking that a friend will
ages the apartment building I understand or forgive anything
live in. My problem is that this ignores a friend for long
woman tells the beauty operator Does all the talking-wanting
all my business while she gets friends only for listeners.
her wash and set. It’s a neigh- Feels free to ask personal or
borhood shop, and many of my prying questions.
friends go there, too, and they Repeats what she knows a
all listen in while this landlady friend wouldn’t care to have
blabs all my personal business told, even when she isn’t asked
and especially about the family to keep a matter secret,
arguments she hears. The beau- Gives unasked-for advice.
ty operator not only eats it up. Tells a friend something un-
but pumps her for more. What complimentary that someone
can be done about this? else said about her
ANTI-BUSYBODIES Expects her friends always to
whose child didn’t look any-
thing like her or her hus-
band. which was a constant
source of embarrassment to her,
I went through the same thing
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This is Dr. Karl Menninger cure nothing and only compound
speaking out on the problem of the problem. I urge you to call
America’s immature men in on this neighbor (even if you
his book, “Love Against Hate": know her slightly! and try to
"The chief sin of men with ref- convince her to take her boy
erence to their wives and chil- to a doctor and to heed his ad-
dren is not harshness, not par- vice.
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Alibiing opponents take
wind out of a victor's sails.
sentment of a husband's abdica- DEAR LIVES: This woman is
tion from manhood is not only more than "cracked.” She is
a passionate appeal for its res- cruel and ignorant. Bed-wetting
location to him but an equally is a sympton of an emotional
passionate demand for the res- problem, and to humiliate a
,____________________r— DEAR ABBY Is there any-
. n tion last March When he started thing wrong with my girl friend
know that if he tells me one to feel a little better I brought a and me meeting two very nice
, large stuffed rabbit (about 22 clean boys from school in the
inches talK to the hospital! movies? All we do is meet them
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think I need professional help. DEAR ABBY: Could you COURT STREET, S.C., IOWA
Suddenly after nearly 14 years please tell me if 1 did wrong?
of marriage I don want to go My son had a serious back opera
on living with my husband I
NEW YORK (UPI) — In re- her complaints — without giv- school. Anything is better than sion kitchen table just far have given ourselves a chance
storing metal lawn furniture, ing the teacher a chance to ex- apathy. If these parents only enough apart so a razor blade 0 be fatr sure that it ls a
look for cracks in the existing plain, realized what their indifference can slide through the opening thatcanbedone._____________
I The gullible mamma who be- is doing to their children, per- Make marks on the plastic along
Paint, Varnish and Lacquer As- lieves every garbled story her haps they would wake up be- the line that is to be cut. Place manners b\ millsit
—------------- Susie brings home from school fore it’s too late. them over the opening in the 1 -
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—and repeats it to her friends! Thank you for letting me table and run the razor blade;
moisture to get under the paint —runs a close second. speak my mind. along the marks through the!
film and start rust and corro- Then there is the mother who —JUST A TEACHER table opening for a nice straight
sion Once found, all traces of frequently drops in on classes ANSWER: And think you for edge. —MRS W K
rust or corrosion should be sand- unannounced, seemingly only to writing! I’m sure that thous- DEAR POLLY — My children
ed with steel wool and all loose criticize the teacher’s methods, ands of teachers share your all like cereals for breakfast
or cracked paint should be re- techniques and discipline sentiments,
moved with a wirebrush. The Add to these the overly am- if parents could see them-
Thursday
9 30 a m — Chrysanthemum
Unit of Altus Garden club
breakfast and installation. Lake
Altus Lodge.
12:30 p m. — OWC luncheon,
96th ARS sponsored Officers
club. Reservations with Mrs. G.
Rogers.
12:30 p.m. — L’Aiguille club
luncheon Mrs. J. Link Haws,
1512 N. Hudson.
1:00 p.m. — Alpha Mothers
club luncheon and installation.
Cattleman’s cafeteria.
7:30 p.m. — Duplicate bridge
(open). Sano’s Pizza.
7.30 p.m. Airmans birthday
party. Base Service club.
Friday ,
2:00 p.m. — Annual Garden
Club Council tea. Garden Cen-
ter. , . .
2 00 p.m. — Amigas club.
Mrs. Ryan Kerr, 1000 E. Elm
7.30 p.m. — Games night.
Base Service club
8:00 p.m. — Westernaires squ-
are dance club. Ross Lingle rec-
reation room, 1000 Hickory.
Saturday
8:00 p.m. — Record hop. Base
Service club.
that it is a resentment felt by lack of enthusiasm against him. disease and can’t last more than
increasing thousands of other *** a year. Her husband plans to
keep it from her as long as
American women who have DEAR ABBY What do you possible. Abby, I want la make
been afraid to acknowledge it by think ”1 a mother who would put up with her, and help to make -------- uapet. aen ~
. popularized, hall . baked andimnkenhimniparadr -is X wsatmonthsrbaplerahy do- DEAR ANTI: You can’t shut do everything at HER conven-
Freudianism which has equated the school yard for punishment family. I am afraid if I sud-
all female protest with bad, un for wetting his bed’ This lady denly go to her and offer my
feminine aggressiveness „ must be cracked friendship, she will suspect the
feminine aggressiveness. LIVES ACROSS THE STREES truth about herself. Yet,idon t scraps of others.
And a pity it is. For our re-' —------ --------- ------------
The two-piecer is big with little girls this summer play season For the pint-sized,
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Mrs. Felton
Mrs. Bob F elton gave the pro- veteran teacher express her he is not being “properly mo-
gram. "On shadowed.Thresh- views about parents’
olds when the Christian Through the years I have
men's Fellowship of the First ’ . orocsion rne mon a not roci
Christian church met Monday found that most parents a re expects the teacher to turn her of unlined wool slacks. The wool inadequate or unmasculine
in the church parlor, friendly, co-operative and sin- wild Indian into a model of de- irritated her legs so we cut the they are too busy being very
vHostessesinortthemend vrs cere in their desire to help their portment, even though she can't feet out of a pair of leotards masculine, very manly in the
E. W. Cole. children do well in school. I control him at home, deserves which she felt were too small meaning ofsthose terms asthey
Mrs. Phil Carson led the wor- enjoy knowing my pupils par- a passing mention and she wears them under her which prizes success in every.
ShMembeVrse present were Mrs. ents and working with them to- Yet, though perhaps misguid- wool slacks. They are nice and thing but mature sexuality.”
Oletha Hinton, Mrs. Nell Bos- ward common goals. ed, these parents are at least warm and prevent sore legs. What I‘m trying to do, of urown-wnatulerewasu.vur
well, Mrs. Stanley Highlander/ However, each year I am fac- interested in their children and _pEcc course, is to encourage you to son had a head full of reddish-
Mrs Bobby Jones, Miss Katie ed with a few parents who can the school. I can excuse them. trust what you yourself know gold curls. My oil man who
Dotson. Mrs. Burley Roe. Mrs. really ruin a teacher’s day - The parent who does me no GIRLS — This idea will cer- about you rneea by going and showed up every now and then,
Bill Turner. Mrs. Bill King. Mrs or even her career The pat- harm, but disturbs me most of tainly be copied by my grand- getting that professional help had hair exactly the same color
Francis Kirchner. Mrs. Virgil terns keep repeating them- all, is the one who couldn't care daughter Kit, who always com- you speak of. as my son's, and he looked more
Tucker, Mrs. George Longley, selves: only the faces change less. This is the parent who plains about the feel of wool Breaking up a 14year-od mar like the boy’s father than my
Mrs. Lyman Lewis, Mrs Rich; Perhaps the most destructive fails to appear for conferences, against her skin. — POLLY rage isn 1 something to do sud- own husband Some stories got
Davis and Mrs. Bob Hinton, is the mother who runs straight is too busy to come to school DEAR POLLY — It is diffi- deny on impuse, no matter back to me that were postively
to the principal, the superinten-t programs, and who doesn’t get cult to cut a straight edge on1owgood the impulse 1eel8 we outrageous. I finally had to
dent, or the school boara with up to see her children off to clear plastic I pull mv exten-break up marriages when we change oil companies to shut
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mer camp folders our older barrased and insisted I take the
boy had collected, what I got rabbit home. Do you think this DEAR IMPORTANT: There
wase"Can t.ounener eaye left was 3 babyish gift MAR. is absolutely nothing wrong with
alone, he "taM"never have mar “ MARS ■ «« get your mothers
married • • • DEAR LE MARS: Stuffed an • . .
ANSWER: I could not more imals are usually for young chil- DEAR ABBY: My sister and I
heartily agree. dren. (Most 44-year-old men pre- had a serious falling out four
I think that vour resentment fer live bunnies.) A postopera - years ago over some lies she
of vour husband's detachment tive patient is in no mood to spread about me, and 1 haven’t
o y ur hus a mint split his stitches over an Easter spoken to her since .1 just learn-
is fine. What's more, I think rabbit, so don’t hold your son's ed that she has an incurable
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DEAR TORN: Go to her and forr friendship never never -
offer her your friendship. It is iscusses the faults of one
not unusual for relatives to friend with another friend
"bury the hatchet” during times Belittles the accomplishments
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• ♦ • Tries to monopolize a friend.
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