Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 45, Ed. 1 Monday, May 6, 1991 Page: 2 of 12
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2 Altus (OK) Times, Monday, May 6, 1991
life Times
Dear
Thank you! John and Mary" (Not
their real names.)
ANONYMOUS
were born. She trained Gray one of those "dead fish" hand-
problems in 25 lines or less.
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West
Pass
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East
Pass
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We have a special lunch planned for you and
your family Sunday, May 5th. Choose either
Roast or Baked Horn with all the trimmings and
desserts.
Matinees
$1.99
to ap.m.
Bring your church
program in for an
additional 10%
discount......
North
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Pass
"It's a sign of good character and
sincerity." Dad used to say
Is that right, Abby? I hope
not, because our son-in-law has
Holiday Inn
2804 N. Main
Altus, OK
405-482-9300
WEST
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Limp handshake shouldn't -
be a rigid test of character;
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or
482-9040
Everything you always wanted to know
about Dear Abby but were too wrapped
up in your own problems to ask
3917 N. Main 482-0;
609N.Main
across from
Post-Newsweek
Cable
ALTUS TIMES
Published afternoons Monday through
Friday and Sunday mornings except Christ-
mas Day, By Donrey, Inc., at 218 West
Commerce, Altus, Okla. 73521. Second
Class Postage paid at Altus. Okla. Identifi-
cation Number USPS 015-0140
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
C. RRIER DELIVERY
We will be serving Breakfast from 7 a.m. * 11 a.m.
1113 N. Main. Altus 482-8787 _______
Coming
586 9
n July
DEAR ABBY: I received the
enclosed message along with a
wedding invitation. It did not set
well with me. and I would like
DEAR ANONYMOUS: If you
had asked "John and Mary"
what they wanted for their
wedding gift, the above
message would have been
appropriate, but a blatant’
request for money is in very
poor taste.
d2. Burgers Half-Price!
and — BUY TWO, FOUR OR MORE
It just isn’t Sunday
without Lunch at
Julia Roberts
NEW HOURS
Tues Thins...............1 1a.m. to 9 p.m.
Fri. & Sat................11a.m. to 10 p.m.
Hope to see you soon!
BANANA SPLITS *119
Save 80c Reg. '1”
CLIP A BRING IN COUPON
220 S. Main
Lola's
at the----
Crossing
(Formerly The Railroad Crossing)
Steake & Seafood
Fantail Shrimp :
‘Special" :
12 MONTHS............*8100
POSTMASTER
Send Address Changes To:
ALTUS TIMES
P.O. BOX 578
ALTUS, OK 73522
All Prices Include Tax
Member Of Associated Press
Oklahoma Press Association
Locally Operated
Member Donrey Media Group
Cactus Jacks
Old Town Restaurant
BBQ: Ribs, Pork,
Brisket, Sausage,
Steaks
OPEN 11A.M.-12 P.M. Mon.-Thurs.
11A.M.- 2 A.M. Fri.-Sat.
Kitchen Closes: 9 P.M. Dolly
"To Go" Orders Welcome
477-3816
HOLSEY’S
Hot Tickets
A Big Sunny -Day Offer From ESTEE LAUDER. A
Super-Size Tote, Plus A matching Mini Purse and
Five Sun-Smart Products. Yours For $16.50 With
any ESTEE LAUDER Purchase Of $12.50 or More.
6 MONTHS..
FRED W. ANDREGG, D.D.S.
Orthodontics Exclusively For
Children and Adults
announces the opening of his office
at
812 E. Broadway, Altus, OK
405-482-3975
Office Hours: 8:00 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday-Friday
*************
HERITAGE PARKA
$5.95 - Mulls
$2.95 - 12 & Under
(Tea and Coffee Included)
and, as her mother advised,
finding "a nice Jewish boy who
would marry me and take care of
me." But both twins wrote for
their high school and college
papers, including a gossip
column, the "Campus Rat,"
bylined "PEEP"--for Pauline
Esther, Esther Pauline. Just
short of graduating from
Morningside College in 1939,
the twins were married, in a
double ceremony.
Abby, as we now know her,
has been married for more than
50 years to Morton Phillips, an
investor and venture capitalist
who is also a lively 72.
Abby first lived in Eau Claire,
Wis., where her two children
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DEAR ABBY: My father taught would receive more generous
my brother at a very early age treatment than if the IRS
that on being introduced to "caught" you. The longer you
someone, he should always look wait, the more severe the
that person straight in the eye penalty, so call the IRS and
and deliver a firm handshake. PD9.
located 1-1/2 $7795 . . .
miles north : includes :
of Blair : Salad & Potato:
DEAR ANONYMOUS: Get in
touch with the Internal
Revenue Service. It is listed
in your telephone directory.
You can expect to be
penalized for your failure to
file, but if you were to come
forward voluntarily, you
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Now Open Nights!
Open Tues.-Thurs.7:00AM-7:30PM
Fri. & Sat. 7:00AM-8PM
Closed Sunday
Serving You Breakfast
Through Supper!
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communicating by phone,
letters, and (hey, it's the '90s) fax DEAR ABBY: I have never
mail. written to you before, but I really
"Being a twin," says Abby, "is a need your advice now I can't give
blessing that only a twin can you my address because 1 feel
know." It means "never being like a fugitive. Here goes:
lonely, having someone to share My husband and I have never
with-secrets as well as worldly paid taxes. We are in our early
goods." 30s and have been working
Based in Beverly Hills now, since we were 20. When we were
Abby works at home, rising very young, we were ignorant
early, and getting in a brisk half- about how to pay taxes and file
hour walk donning a Jogging and such. Then we Just got
outfit, on the wood floor around careless and never filed. Now we
I knew from a previous decades.
encounter that Abby is far too Van Buren first urged readers
modest to talk about such to write to service members in
rarefied concepts as being a 1967. at the request of Navy men
Living National Treasure, so serving in Vietnam. Since 1983,
when 1 got the opportunity I Abby's effort has been
asked instea 1, Wh it like to coordinated by Army Reserve
have virtually every body know Sgt. Donald P. Grimes, chairman
your name? How do you feel of America Remembers.
about being a household word?" An unanticipated but
"A household word--you rewarding result of Operation
mean like Drano?" asked Abby, Dear Abby is that many
chuckling. "I feel as though my correspondents have met and
life has not been wasted." become more than pen pals.
Well, not unlike Drano, she Van Buren has received dozens
has cleared up a lot of things for of wedding invitations from
a lot of folks since she started couples who met in this way,
corresponding with people as from the Vietnam era right up
Dear Abby in January 1956, at through Desert Shield.
first for the San Francisco There may--or may not-be
Chronicle and soon afterward patriotic implications in the fact
for a nationally syndicated that the Friedman twins, who
audience, grew up to become Ann Landers
So what's Abby up to now, as and Dear Abby, were born on the
she starts her 36th year in the Fourth of July, 1918, in Sioux
advice business? As usual, quite City, Iowa. Neither twin ever
an assortment of activities. sought a career: Abby, like most
Like many women in the '90s, women of her generation, had
Abby Juggles a lot of concerns modest goals-a good education
and commitments at once. (not for anything in particular)
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Ladies for the American Red shakes, and he rarely looks a your thoughts on this matter:
Cross and worked as a volunteer person straight in the eye. "As we join our households
in the local hospital. Being a RICHMOND, VA together, our gift needs are few.
Gray Lady gave her a chance to If you wish to give us a wedding
"give patients something most of DEAR RICHMOND: A firm present, please consider a
them hungered for--someone handshake and the practice monetary gift that we can use for
who would listen to them." The of looking a person straight our wedding and honeymoon.
Phillipses moved to San in the eye make a good first
Francisco with their children in impression, but they're not a
1955, where Mrs. Phillips reliable index of one's
approached the Chronicle, character or sincerity. There
offering to write an advice col- are people who can deliver a
umn. The Chronicle took her on firm handshake and look you
for $20 a week, and the rest is straight in the eye while they
history. lie through their teeth.
No matter what you think Character and sincerity
you've heard or read, Abby and are revealed only by
her twin sister remain close, performance.
wy the perimeter of her living room are afraid to admit that we never
Br O Q e before tackling her mail. She filed because we fear the conse-
11AM-2------------- uses an IBM Selectric III quences. We are born-again
. typewriter (she has two, plus Christians and don't feel right
c A \ / A LT A A | | | A T A r one in storage), not a computer. hiding from the law. We want to
V 0V C 1 01 When you write "Dear Abby" make things right. Abby. Please
c/o your newspaper, the letter is help us. Where do we begin?
By Phillip Alder leads the two of clubs After forwarded to Los Angeles. The ANONYMOUS IN THE USA
The major difference between winning the first trick with The mail is received and sorted in an
an expert and a less good player ace of clubs which card do you office, staffed by six, a half-mile
is the time each spends in lead at trick two? away from Abby's home,
counting An expert always adds The counting starts during Daughter Jeanne Phillips, who
up everyone's highcard points the bidding From the auction, serves as Abby's editor, directs
and suit lengths An average you know South has four hearts the operation. Letters requiring
player doesn't and at least five diamonds From an immediate response and
True it sounds like a tall partner's opening lead which those with a self-addressed,
order, but anyone can do It You shows a four-card suit, you stamped envelope are given
Just have to be willing to make know declarer has three clubs priority,
the effort Start by counting the This means South probably has While some letters are life-or-
trump suit Then look at declarer 1-4-5-3 distribution death situations, others are
s high-card points Finally once Does this point you to the matters of etiquette or settling
you are doing those two almost right answer? Correct — you an argument as weighty as
subconsciously include any switch to the king of spades, just whether a dog can serve as ring
other critical suit in case declarer has a singleton bearer, or who should walk the
Cover the South and West queen Having diamonds under bride down the aisle if her
hands in today s diagram and control your side should be able parents are divorced and she
plan your defense Against three to win five tricks before South prefers her stepfather to her
no-trump, your partner West collects nine Even if partner has natural father. Often, one letter
the K-J of clubs, the suit can precipitates a whole flurry of
wait correspondence; that's the
With the given layout, that's interactive nature of the
exactly how the hand pans out business.
Declarer ducks a couple of
spades in dummy, wins dummy's
ace on the third round, and tries
to run the diamonds When they
don't break, he has to dislodge
the king of clubs to get out for
one down
By Mary A. Pradt Family and friends are her
In Japan, certain uniquely highest priorities, yet she
talented craftsmen, such as manages to be active in such
master wood-carvers and activities as Planned
Kabuki performers, are Parenthood and the American
designated by the government Foundation for AIDS Research,
as Living National Treasures. If and turn out 365 columns each
the U.S. had such a tradition, year.
one such treasure would be Right now, Operation Dear
Pauline Esther Friedman Abby/America Remembers is
Phillips, much better known as one of the projects closest to her
Abigail Van Buren. heart. This operation is a highly
"Dear Abby,” who reaches successful campaign to get
millions of readers in more than readers to write to American
1,200 newspapers, is servicemen and women
celebrating her 35th stationed abroad. This year's
anniversary as a master of her campaign was launched last
craft. At 72 (that's not a typo), November and took on a special
she's going strong, helping and urgency with more Americans
entertaining her readers as she deployed overseas--half a
has since 1956, tackling real million in the Persian Gulf
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