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Pig* TW^f"' THE MeHENBY PUUNDEALER Thursday, April 25,196$ ' UNDER ifxz* << X cohimn lor ftttn-agars By Dm Halligat DEAR DAN: There's this girl I go to junior high with who has ::ie puzzled. She's in 8-8 and I gave her my ring but I never see her with It on her finger. I like her very much but how can I find out if she likes me? I won't give you her Dame. G. K. DEAR fl. K.: Ton have to Mmme this girl likes you because she took. the. ring and the reaabn she doesn't display it la because it's either on a chain around her neck or hidden In her bureau drawer. She would be embarrassed to show it. . DEAR DAN: I would like a pen pal from the west and a boy of 9 or 10. Craig Whitacre, 86 Crestwood Drive, RFD 1, Box 141, Edgewood, Md. DEAR DAN: There's nothing more tiring for a girl than j waltfrig for a boy to call back. Tonight isn't the first time a S boy has called when I wasn't home, left no name but only a j message he would call back which he didn't do. Girls some- j times give up their evenings waiting for these second calls j because they don't know whether the caller could be that special boy or not. | Gosh, haven't boys any consideration? I think most of them are just plain obscure to the fact that a little thing like ar^pll6ne call can ruin a perfect evening, -r- Phone Worrier. * DEAR PHONE WORRIER: Educate your family, even your kid brother, to tell the caller you'll be home b«'tw<fn such and such a time. More important, educate them to a»k "Who's calling?" If the boy doesn't want to leave bin name, then you shouldn't rain your even In* waiting for his call back. If, he does leave a name, you can go from there. • • DEAR DAN: My girl and 1 have been steady daters for more than a year and the only thing we disagree about is my lack of jealousy. I see her on weekends and she thinks r should be jealous when she tells me she went skating or dancing during the week and met some boys. I'm an easy going guy and I base our relationship on trypt, Is this wrong? -- Just a Boy Friend. . . DEAR B. F.: Your girt friend's feeling* are hurt because you do trust her and have faith Hi her. She doesn't know It but you're a living gem and should be treated as such. (Dan Halligan will answer all questions submitted by teen-agers and children. Address him care of this paper. For personal replies enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.) DEAR IIAN: My boy friend insists I give up smoking but the habit is much harder to break than I thought it would be. The same goes for drinking although I did break that habit. As far as smoking goes, I don't think it's, fair when he refuses to quit himself. But if I don't, it means the end for us. What should I do? -- S3." DEAR S. B.: Read 44 . . . And Slow Death" In February Bender's Digest." If that article doesn't make the two of you •top smoking, go ahead then and enjoy your lung cancer. DEAR DAN: I'm 16 and going steady with a boy from out of town. I love him very much and Wish never to break up but hardly a weekend passes that we don't quarrel. What can be done about this or is it to be expected? -- Worrier. DEAR WORRIER: Continuous arguing means lack of interest and as lone «* you say you still like the boy, apparently he has lost Interest In you but hasn't yet found the right words to break up. He could be starting the arguments hoping you'll be the one to call It quits. It's something you two should talk' over. Going steady has its problems. DEAR DAN: I'm 18 and out of school. I live in a different town than the girl I used to go with but she still likes me. I see her a lot but I'm going steadily with a girl from my own town. The common term for the first girl, I believe, is that She's "chasing" me. What should I do? -- Chased. * DEAR CHASED: You've done all you can. You're no longer dating the girl and if she wants to make a fool of herself and chase you, I suppose that's her lookout. As long as you don't encourage her, don't worry. She'll eventually realize running after a boy d<»esn't pay. DEAR DAN: What do you do al>out a jealous boy Mend? Every so often a boy from my high school will offer me a ride home and usually I aceept. That's all it is, a ride straight home. My boy friend graduated last ye&r and doesn't want me to accept these rides. I think I would have agreed with him if he had asked me not to, but he practically ordered me. He demands so much of me but how do I know what he's doing when he's not with me. He could be riding girls all over the county for all I know. Don't you agree? -- Amy. DEAR AMY: What you say is true and what I say is also true: Going steady Is only right and proper when the couple involved can trust and respect the other. An extremely jealous boy friend usually means an extremely jealous husband. , DEAR DAN: I'm 19 £nd my divorpe from my husband becomes final in July. I want to date between now nod then but my parents say it wouldn't be proper. Would it? My husband is dating other girls, so why shouldn't I date? In fact, we were married for two years and he dated others more than he did me -- his own wife. -- Soon to be Free. DEAB SOON: When you come right down to it, just !MM*r proper la divorce? How "proper" were your parents letting' you get married at 17? Frankly, I think you sholild stick close to home until you're free. *" (Dan Halligan will answer all questions submitted by teenagers and children. Address him care of this paper. For personal replies enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.) (Capitol Report Last week, in company with thirteen other members of Congress, I visited Cuba. In a Navy plane, we flew from Washington to Guantanamo Bay, our nation's 45 square miles of territory within Cuba, which serves as a strategic naval base. When we were still 200 miles from our goal, two jet fighter planes met us and escorted us on a circuitous route to avoid flying over Castro's Cuba. We landed at night, amid a blaze of lights framing the fortifications and airfield on shore and the warships in the harbor. Guantanamo Bay is the subject of a perpetual lease from the Republic of Cuba to the United States. The agreement reached in 1903 when Theodore Roosevelt was President was implemented in 1934 by a formal treaty executed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. At Guantanamo, the preparations for the defense of our nation and of the Western Hemisphere appear to be overwhelming. The planes, ships and arms, as well as the detailed and coordinated plans involving all of our armed services, provide a comfortable reassurance to one coming in close contact with Jhis military installation. Within this community of 10,000 military and civilian population, there is an atmosphere of confident determination that our nation and its free institutions shall prevail. As approaches the barbed-wtr? fertces marking the boundaries between Guantanamo Bay and Cast re's Cuba, one senses a feeiing of tenseness. Within the base, our U.S. Marines patrol the fences, prepared to welcome any refugee who dares scale the fence to freedom. Beyond the fence, Castro's troops have planted cactus, Intended to deter escapees. Indeed, the presence of the haggard, poorly equipped guards who patrol the other side of this "cactus curtain" appears to be solely for the purpose of preventing Cubans from escaping to the bastion of safety and freedom which Guantanamo Bay provides. More than 500 Cubans have secured permanent refuge at Guantanamo Bay. Another 2,- 400 Cubans commute daily between their work on the base and their homes outside the cactus wall. They must travel some distance when leaving for their homes, as Castro has removed the civilian population from the area surrounding Guantanamo. Occasionally, a commuter will decide not to return, but only rarely, since friends and families must be left behind when such a break is made. All so-called Cuban commuters require two passes, one from Castro and one from the American forces in Guantanamo, Rear Admiral J. W. Davis, Jr., Commander of the Base, reports there has been net a single act of sabotage or subversion by these Cuban nationals. One of the disadvantages these commuters must endure is the Cuban requirement that they exchange their American wages for Cuban pesos. The "official" rate is one dollar for each peso, when the true value on the black market is about one dollar for ten pesos. This "requirement" is reported to net 6 million dollars per year to the Castro government. The writer spoke with several Cubans from beyond the cactus wall and was told of the poverty, unrest and bitterness so prevalent in Castro's Cuba. Recently, the soldiers of the Cuban Army, as well as some of the Russian "technicians," were all conscripted for service in harvesting the great sugar crop. But there is a limited market for sugar -- and little trade between beleaguered Cuba and the outside world. A year ago there were more than 150 ships serving Cuban ports each month. Today there is scarcely one-third that number. Without the cooperation of the United States and the rest of the free world, Cuba seems doomed to be a nation of destitute people. If there is unrest among other Latin American nations, it is not the result of any Cuban strength. Rather, it would seem to be that the destitution, frustration and hopelessness of Castro's Cuba is spreading like a plague of evil and despair. Helicopters, jet fighters and seaplanes roar overhead at frequent intervals. Great plane carriers, cruisers and destroyers --• as well as small craft -- swarm the harbor, Meanwhile, the men, women and children of Guantanamo go about their daily tasks. One person exclaimed to me: 'This is the safest place in the world." And, so it may be - - this outpost of the United States, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. NO FATALITIES Park Forest, a Cook County suburb with a 1960 census population of 29,993, was the largest city in Illinois not to record a motor vehicle fatality in 1962, Francis S. Lorenz, director of the Illinois Department of Public Works and Buildings, has announced. TRAFFIC TOLL Illinois traffic accidents took 363 lives during the first three months of the year, Francis S. Lorenz, director of the Illinois Department of Public Works and Buildings, has announced. This year's traffic death total is an increase of 16, or 5 per cent, from the 347 deaths during the same three month period in 1962, statistics compiled by the Division of Highways disclosed. MARIAN SENIORS GIVE "MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER" Speedster Remains Number One Killer On Road During Year Nearly nine out of every ten casualties on the nation's highways in 1962 were caused by human error and lack of judgment. And the speedster still ranks as the Number One Killer on the road. Of the 40,500 persons who lost their lives in traffic accidents last year, 2,300 died in accidents caused by driver error and traffic law violations. Moreover, according to the report, nearly 3,000,000 persons were injured in auto mishaps blamed on drivers' mistakes. The fast driver continued to be the greatest menace on the highways. Nearly 13,000 deaths and more than 1,145,000 injuries were directly attributable to excessive speeding. Like the majority of accidents, most highway casualties could have been avoided. They were caused by human failure and one of the biggest tasks is to get this message across to the American driving public. Australia has trees and flowers comparable to the temperate zones on other continents, but birds and insects of the tropics. Most native flowers have no odor, but leaves of many trees do. Ben Franklin All First Quality SEAMLESS NYLONS • Beautifully Sheer In I5< Denier, 400 Needle Extra value in bareleg flattery at a sperial low price. Popular coio?: 8^ to 1L Aluminum LAWN CHAIR Aluminum FOLDING ROCKER Some 150 years a^o, 200 offenses were punishable by death, according to English law. Now, only four are- setting fire to i;overnment property, treason, murder and piracy. THANK YOU For your generous support at the polls in the City Election held last week. BILL BOLGER LARRY HUCK H££RY CONWAY SPECIAL SPECIAL • lightweight. 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Jane Hughes, Ken Stilling, Rick Nebel, Mary Lynn Lanphier, Francie Klocek, Ann Haverly, Judy Johnson, Jonne Woldt, Mary Ann Lortie, Mike Welcome, Harlam Dam, Regina Grennan, Val Sellinger! Bob Pauley, Bob Schmitt, Neil Freund, Gary Vycital, Kiara McCarty, June Endee, John Corse, Wally Bowman, Bill Hart, Chuck Thillman, Mike McEnery, Mickey Ganshirt, Phyllis Boppart, Jim Gallagher, John Desmond, John Carroll, Ken Marton, Bill Riley. Bill Leahy, Scotty Karas, Steve Sexton, Duane Diedrich, Dennis Birmingham, Ardee Lanphier, Jim Gates, Chuck Mc- Guire, Edward Crowley. The off-stage crew will be headed by Student Director Mary Jo Grass and Stfej# Manager Jim Stendebach. "The Man Who Came To Dinner" will be presented in the Marian Central high school auditorium on the evenings at April 27 and 28. When a vacation resort takes down the shutters, it also usually puts up the prices. Try Your Luck each and every week by registering for the Sweepstakes Drawing. 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