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Perry Daily Journal, Page 2
FEATURES
Friday, Jan. 29, 1998
Talk About Moving Is Cheap
For Living Room Freeloader
by Abigail Van Buren
© 1999 Universal Press Syndicate
Hints from
Heloise®
No More
Mold Stains
+ DEAR ABBY: I have been living
in a three-bedroom house with two
0 other guys since May. Last Septem-
ber, one of my roommates (“John”)
i. allowed one of his friends to move
bi into our living room. We all agreed
it would be only until the end of the
month — less than two weeks
J ’away.
“Alan” had been having trouble
9 with the people he was living with
brand needed to get out before the sit-
uation exploded. He said he would
move in with a co-worker in a week
and a half. Well, that apparently
Is fell through. So have four other
gl “possibilities” he has since told us
( about. I’ve talked with my two
roommates, and they are also tired
of Alan’s continuing to “hang out.”
Yet they do nothing about it.
yanus Abby, I’ve tried everything I can
think of As the only early riser in
the house, I’m usually up by 6 a.m.
. I have told Alan that it’s past time
1 he moved on and have left the
’ "Room for Rent” section of the news-
paper open and circled. I’ve even
collected “roommate wanted” infor-
mation from the bulletin boards at
the university I attend. I’ve blasted
my stereo, turned on the TV, left
the front door open in the winter
air, pulled the blanket off him, and
“banged around the kitchen. He
‘"’doesn't seem to get the idea. Short
i
OtherViews
of changing the locks, I don’t know
what else to do. How can we get this
thick-skinned freeloader out?
FED UP WITH OLD FISH
DEAR FED UP: It’s time for
the three of you to confront
Alan. It would be best if you did
it together. Give him one week
to be out of the house, then be
prepared to hand him his be-
longings and change the locks.
Expect no expression of grati-
tude for the time he has spent
under your roof, and you won’t
be disappointed.
***
DEAR ABBY: My problem is
that I have a brother who lives
across the country who is planning
to visit us and bring the 5-year-old
daughter of a friend of his. He
befriended an unwed mother and
witnessed her daughter’s birth, so a
bond was formed between him and
the baby. The natural father isn’t
even in the picture.
I want to write him a letter and
explain what a burden this would
be on his hosts, my husband and
me. Abby, a child this age requires
constant close supervision, not to
mention entertaining, waiting on
and cleaning up after, etc.
I know he’ll be upset with me if I
write him this letter, but I feel I
have a right to be upset with him.
He never once asked our permis-
sion; he just announced his inten-
tions to bring her and stay with us
for two weeks. Two weeks is too
long for any company, especially
when a youfig child is involved.
Before I write him, Abby, I
would like your opinion.
WORRIED SISTER IN ATLANTA
DEAR WORRIED SISTER:
Your brother apparently feels
that the child is part of his fami-
ly. Be diplomatic; write to your
brother expressing your con-
cern about entertaining a
5-year-old for two weeks, noting
that she may get homesick. If he
insists on bringing her anyway,
research ways to entertain a
young child in Atlanta, includ-
ing finding children her age to
play with. Or make him respon-
sible for the little girl’s care and
entertainment.
***
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than ours. They have many free flowing oil fields and they don’t face any oil severance taxes.
It is time for lawmakers to step up to the plate and do the right thing and roll back the oil severance tax.
We owe this to the oil producers that have supplied so much tax revenue over the years and we owe it to
ourselves to protect an industry that provides so many jobs for so many state citizens.
This is the right thing to do and by acting swiftly we can send a message to the rest of the country that
we need to protect our domestic oil producers.
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Dear Heloise: I would like to book. Look under Appliances to for the local hospital, making
know if anyone has a solution for find a dealer near you. Call several walker bags for patients who use a
mold stains on the rubber gasket to shop for the best price. Note: walker. These bags are used to
around the refrigerator door. — The cost of a new refrigerator carry items that are hard to handle
Marilyn Ferrara, Royal Palm gasket can range between $30 to while using both hands on the
Beach, Fla. $50, depending on the brand, so be walker. We solicited the local up-
sure to call around. — Heloise holstery and drapery shops fortheir
scraps, resulting in some very us-
able material.
There is a simple solution that is
easy to use. All you have to do is
mix 3/4 cup bleach to 1 gallon of
water. Wearing rubber gloves to
protect your hands and nails, use a
sponge or rag to apply, then rinse
well and dry.
When the mildew is gone, be
sure to clean the gasket at least
once a week with a weak deter-
gent solution. Just add a few drops
of mild dishwashing detergent to
hot water. Always be sure to rinse
well and dry thoroughly each time
you clean.
If the gasket is very mildewed, it
may need to be replaced because it
could be worn. If that’s the case,
cold air can escape, causing the
refrigerator to work overtime to
cool.
If you need a new gasket, check
the Yellow Pages of your phone
SEND A GREAT HINT TO:
Heloise
PO Box 795000
San Antonio TX 78279-5000
or fax it to 210-HELOISE
DID YOU KNOW...
Clean filters and proper fluid lev-
els are necessary to maintain a
The bags are made by cutting a
rectangle 20 by 15 inches and hem-
ming both ends with a 3/4-inch
hem. Then hern a strip 15 inches
long by about 4 inches high, hem
one long end, and sew it across the
well-running vehicle? width of the rectangle to make a
Do you drive 10 miles or less pocket on the outside of the bag.
each trip, do a lot of stop-and-go The next step is to sew the side
driving or drive in extreme tem- seams, and overcast the edges,
peratures? If you answered yes to turn right side out. The ties are
any of these questions, the Car made by cutting strips about 1 1/4
Care Council suggests that the inches wide by 13 to 15 inches long,
service interval may be shorter Turn the edges inside and top-
than you thought. With the price stitch. They are attached on the
you pay for a vehicle today, it inside of the bag as close to the side
really saves a lot if you take care of seams as possible.
it, and proper maintenance is a The bags are given to every
simple key. — Heloise walker patient to use and to take
WALKER BAGS home as a gift from the hospital. —
Dear Heloise: I do a lot of sewing Frieda Wilson, Salem, Ohio
Today's ~| Designers announced for
By The Associated Press
Today is Friday, Jan. 29, the 29th
day of 1999. There are 336 days left
in the year.
Today’s highlight in history: On
Jan. 29, 1820, Britain’s King
George III died insane at Windsor
Castle, ending a reign that saw both
the American and French revolu-
tions.
Ten years ago: West German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Christ-
ian Democratic Union suffered a
major setback in West Berlin mu-
nicipal elections.
Five years ago: Japan’s Parlia-
ment approved watershed measures
to stem political corruption. In
South Africa, Nelson Mandela
kicked off his party’s campaign for
the country’s first multiracial elec-
tions.
One year ago: A bomb rocked
an abortion clinic in Birmingham,
Ala., killing Robert Sanderson, an
off-duty police officer working as
a security guard, and critically in-
juring Emily Lyons, a nurse.
Today’s birthdays: Comedian
“Professor” Irwin Corey is 87. Ac-
tor John Forsythe is 81. Actor Noel
Harrison is 65. Author Germaine
Greer is 60. Actor Tom Selleck is
54. Actor Marc Singer is 51. Ac-
tress Ann Jillian is 48. Rock musi-
cian Louie Perez (Los Lobos) is 46.
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is
45. Country singer Irlene Mandrell
is 42. Actress Judy Norton Taylor
(“The Waltons”) is 41. Olympic
gold-medal diver Greg Louganis is
39. Actor Nicholas Turturro is 37.
Actor-director Edward Burns is 31.
Actress Heather Graham is 29. Ac-
tress Sara Gilbert is 24. Actor An-
drew Keegan (“Party of Five”) is
20.
Thought for today: “I hold that
a long poem does not exist. I main-
tain that the phrase, ‘a long poem,’
is simply a flat contradiction in
terms.”—Edgar Allan Poe, Amer-
ican author and poet (1809-1849).
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Friday, Jan. 29, 1999
Oklahoma City National
Memorial Center
By JESSICA HALLIBURTON
Associated Press Writer
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — In
a building still showing the rav-
ages of a truck bomb, visitors will
experience sights, sounds and emo-
tions that Oklahoma City residents
lived through after the federal
building bombing.
The winning design team of the
Oklahoma National Memorial
Center promised those who come
to see it will agree with the rally-
ing cry “We will never forget.”
The team made up of Dou-
glas/Gallagher, Hillmann & Carr
and C.H. Guernsey & Co. was an-
nounced Thursday to be the de-
signers of 24,000-square-foot
Memorial Center, to be housed in
a portion of the Journal Record
Building. The center is the second
component of the three-part
memorial.
Work is under way on the outside
portion of the memorial on the site
where the Alfred P. Murrah Fed-
eral Building once stood.
“The purpose is not only to cre-
ate a story about contemporary his-
tory, but also a story about some-
thing that is very alive today and
that is the issue of how a commu-
nity came together,” said Patrick
Gallagher, president of Dou-
glas/Gallagher.
“There are a lot of physical arti-
facts that will be valuable for the
storytelling process,” he said. “But
the most important are the living
artifacts — the storytellers that
lived it.
“The story will be told on mul-
tiple levels,” Gallagher said.
Visitors will have access to in-
teractive stations where they can
view news coverage, oral histories
of people who survived and those
who responded. Multiple, large,
projection monitors will show a
variety of funeral services. A
“Memorial Registry” will allow
visitors to leave a message for the
people of Oklahoma City.
“The way they’re going to be
able to guide the visitors through
the event step by step is amazing,”
said Bud Welch, whose daughter
died in the bombing.
“I think when the visitor exits,
they will have felt like they went
on a journey much like that expe-
rienced during the bombing,”
Welch said.
People In The News
Tobias hopes for
confirmation
NEW YORK (AP) — Being
treasurer of the Democratic Na-
tional Committee entails a lot of
responsibility but no remunera-
tion beyond a dollar a year.
Andrew Tobias says if his nom-
ination for the job is confirmed,
“I am really gonna hang tough.
1 am determined to get that dol-
lar.”
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