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Page 2 NORTHWEST HERALD Section B Tuesday, August 6, IMS Advice Century Bound Where, oh, where did I put them? ByBurtGarnett Scripps Howard News Service Some of my mental deterioration is not due to old age. For instance, long ago I used to put things -- usually papers of some sort -- away in places where I would be sure to find them. Then I would forget where I bad hidden them. I thought I had outgrown such feeblemindedness, but right now I'm busy going through shelves and drawers and piles of stuff trying to find some notes I had written. It was only about six weeks ago that I stashed the things away. Now I can't find them. Previously when I have done such a silly thing, the hidden stuff would appear right where I had looked a dozen times before. But this time I'm baffled. I just can't find the darned stuff. If I don't find them, I'm going to have to do a lot of tedious work -- a prospect that I find gloomy. Welf, now, a young person would get excited and frantic and start going through files and very soon destroying what little order might have been established. And after pulling, Jerking and upsetting things, finally become desperate. An older person, of course, would be telling himself not to get excited, but to consider his problem calmly. It becomes clear that scurrying about jerking things out of shelves stuff that should have been thrown out years ago, and put everything in order and label them, and make certain that you haven't overlooked anything. Then when you've done all that, you still haven't found out where you put the stuff -- I mean where you had thoughtfully put things right where they ought to be; you still haven't found the material you need so desperately and so calmly sought. Obviously there's an enemy around who has broken into the apart­ ment and burglarized the place. But no spoons or collar buttons, or watches or bottles of gin have been removed. Obviously some demon who is jealous and hates you has invaded your quarters and messed things up so that you'll be distracted. He probably wants to prevent you from getting to be 100 years old. That sounds a little silly, doesn't it? But where are those typewritten sheets? In the part, when I have glven^up all hope of finding things I have ; may" stuff all over again carefully put away, I open suppose that iwer and there the things are. I happen after I've gone to the trouble of writing the But here's notice to that enemy: do your darnedest, you miserable creature! You can't stop me from being century bound. (Burt Garnett, 98, is a retired newspaperman living in Key West, Fla. He writes a weekly column about trying to live to be 100 years old) Tommy Kramer, the Vikings quarterback, tucks a chaw in his mouth during practice and has been chewing tobacco for the last 12 years. "I'll just do it on my own," Kramer said. "No, I don't agree with it." Said Grant: "We can't control their private lives." The Vikings already forbid smoking by their players at team events and at the training tables. "First and most important, tobacco is not good for your health," Grant said. "Second, I don't think the image of a Minnesota Viking we want to portray for young people is of a person who is walking around looking for a spittoon. "You're seeing more and more of this among professional athletes. I feel very strongly that it is totally the wrong image to present to the most impressionable of our fans, and those are the young people." Grant said he has spoken with Dr. Elizabeth Craig, a St. Louis Park pediatrician, who had written to baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, urging him to condemn chewing tobacco in his sport. Grant said he and Craig feel they "should not wait as long as we did to discover the dangers of smoking. In effect, using a smokeless tobacco is like maintaining nicotine. "To walk around with a bulging lip and a cup is not macho," Grant said. "It's deadly." Grant, 58, said of the 12 people be knows who died recently, 11 were heavy smokers. "I don't dislike people who smoke," he said. "(General Manager) Mike Lynn smokes. (Public relations spokesman) Merrill Swanson smokes. But if I can influence people, and I can certainly influence the players, then we'll get them not to smoke or use snuff." DEARABBY By Ab iga i l Van Buren Son, girlfriend cuddle too close .DEAR ABBY: My mother and I have a dif­ ference of opinion over the following matter: I am a 16-year-old boy and I am well respected by my relatives, teachers and friends. I do not have the problems that many teen-agers have (alcohol, drugs, sex, etc.). My girlfriend is also 16 and she is a respectable young lady. Most of our dates consist of staying home and watching movies or TV. On occasion my girlfriend and I "snuggle up" under a blanket on the couch. Between my little brother and my mother, we are usually never alone for more than 30 minutes. My mother feels that it is improper for us to lie on the couch together because it creates temptations. I understand what she means, but I think she's being a little oldfashioned. What could possibly happen in my house that couldn't happen in a car? My mother and I have decided that what you Sfly goes THE SNUGGLER DEAR SNUGGLER: Snuggling under a blanket while lying on a couch is Step One, which usually leads to Step Two and so on in the case of two normal, healthy people of the op­ posite sex. I am sure you and your girlfriend are both "respectable," but you would be wise to minimize the temptation. I vote with your mother. You asked: "What could happen in my house that couldn't happen In a car?" Nothing. That's what worries your mother. DEARABBY: This is for Peggy, who wanted to know how she came to be called Peggy when her name is reallv Margaret: The British are great one for rhyming names, as in Georgie Porgy. Thus William became Will or Willy, or Bill or Billy. Robert is called Robby, or the rhyming Bobby or Bob. Edward became Ed or Eddie or Ted or Teddy. Richard became Rich or Rick and finally Dick. (Are you getting the hang of it?) Margaret became Maggie, Meggy, and then the rhyming Peggy. How do I know all this? Because when I was born, my parents named me Peggy after the Irish song, "Peg O' My Heart." Two weeks later I was baptized Margaret because ac­ cording to the Catholic Church, all children have to be named for saints. There was no Saint Peggy, but there was a Saint Margaret, so everybody calls me Peggy, but I am... LEGALLY MARGARET DEAR MARGARET: Sounds logical to me. But many readers wrote to tell me that the Gaelic name for Margaret is "Mairghread" or "Pelgl/'whence came "Peggy." DEAR ABBY: Regarding the woman juror whose husband was angry because she refused to discuss the details of the trial while it was go­ ing on: The wife said she was sworn to secrecy and the husband said, "If you really love me you would trust me enough to tell me everything." Abby, it's not a matter of the juror "telling secrets." Except for some juvenile cases, and some cases involving criminal sexual conduct, nearly all trials are open to the public, so the husband could attend the trial himself if he wanted to. A juror is instructed not to discuss the case- even with fellow jurors-during the course of the trial for the following reason: First, one side presents its entire case, then the other side does likewise. If a juror were to discuss the case before hearing all the evidence from both sides, he or she might reach a premature and unfair conclusion. After the verdict has been reached, a juror may discuss the case with anyone he or she chooses. But not until. CIRCUIT, JUDGE RICHARD I. COOPER, LUDINGTON, MICH. (Is your social life In a slump? Lonoly? Get Abby's up­ dated, revised and expanded booklet, "How to Be Popular"-for people of all ages. Send your name and ad­ dress-clearly printed with a check or money order for $2.50 and a long, self-addressed, stamped (39 cents) envelope to: Dear Abby, Popularity, P.O. Box 39923, Hollywood, Calif. 90038.) Bud Grant curbs team's chew habit By Carrie Muskat United Press International MANKATO, Minn. -- A National Football League coach, citing reasons of heaUMl^petf ance, has forbidden his players to chew tobacco or snuff Minnesota Vikings coach Bud Grant said Thursday none of his players would be allowed to chew tobacco or snuff at the cafeteria, dormitory and practice field or during an interview. Volcanoes and winter: There is a connection By DonKirkman Scripps Howard News Service Every few years, one of the world's volcanoes spews massive amounts of gas, cinders, ash and dust into the atmosphere and causes temperatures around the world to drop a degree or two. We hardly notice the change. But once a century or so, a volca­ no pops its top and causes a bone- little sulfur and remained below 40,000 feet. Local weather systems quickly scrubbed St. Helens' gas, cinders and dust from the atmo­ sphere. The world's temperatures were unaffected. Tambora's eruption had the two crucial ingredients. First, the volcano's tantrum from April 7 to 12, 1815, hurled 37 to 100 cubic miles of earth, rocks, cinders, gas, ash and dust high into the UPI photo A little to the left Spray from a water hose hits this hippo at the Dallas Zoo last week as late afternoon temperatures reached 100 degrees. Animals at the zoo are hosed down several times during the afternoon in an ef­ fort to keep them cool. 'Dial-a-porn' under Senate's scrutiny Weather watch By Elmer W. Lammi United Press International WASHINGTON - A Senate bill intended chiefly to protect children against pornography on cable tele­ vision and "dial-a-porn" telephone messages may violate the rights of adults, lawyers say. Lawyers for both the Federal Communications Commission and the American Civil Liberties Union say the bill introduced by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., might violate a 1957 Supreme Court ruling against ban­ ning of the sale of books "tending to the corruption of the morals of youth." In that case, Justice Felix Frank­ furter said the effect of the statute was "to reduce the adult population ... to reading only what is fit for children." The court rejected the state's ar­ gument that it was promoting the general welfare by "quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juve­ nile innocence." chilling weather disaster that lasts for months, sometimes for several years. Why the difference? Why do some volcanic eruptions cause tempera­ tures so cold they generate snow­ storms in June, frost in July and August, and winter in September? Research meteorologists theorize maverick, weather-changing volca­ nic eruptions have two unique properties: -- The eruptions are so enormous they toss millions of tons of debris high Into the stratosphere. -- They contain vast amounts of sulfur. As examples, the meteorologists point to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens and the 1815 explosion of the Indonesian volcano Tambora. St. Helens was a typical, run-of- the-mill eruption that didn't have the two crucial properties. Though St. Helens' billowing plume of de­ bris was impressive, it contained stratosphere where weather sys­ tems couldn't reach it. For the next three years, Tambo­ ra's high flying garbage circled the globe and prevented a great deal of the sun's radiation from reaching the earth's surface. Secondly, Tambora's debris was heavily laced with sulfur, which was transformed into a thick blan­ ket of sulfuric acid that also blocked solar radiation. Tambora's double whammy un­ leashed the worst weather disaster of the 19th century. The summer of 1816 was unbelievably cold in the northern United States, Canada and Europe. New England and upstate New York had snowstorms in the first two weeks of June; severe frost in June killed crops from Virginia to Canada; repeated cold waves deci­ mated crops again in July and Au­ gust; and winter's first frost came Sept 12. Man drowns at lifeguard party United Press International NEW ORLEANS - City life­ guards who threw a party to cele­ brate a summer season with no drownings discovered a guest dead in the pool when the party was over. The body of Jerome Moody, 31, was found at the bottom of the deep end when four lifeguards on duty began clearing the pool at the end of the party. Moody was fully clothed and had not been swimming with other guests at the New Orleans Recrea­ tion Department Center, Director Madlyn Richard said. About half the 200 people at the party were lifeguards, and four of them were on duty during the party Tuesday night. "The lifeguards were really up­ set. It's a real tragedy," Richard said. "This was the first annual party in memory where they could celebrate a trouble-free season. "We had all been talking about it. It was the first season without a single (drowning) incident." The lifeguards failed to revive Moody. An autopsy confirmed drowning as the cause of death. The party is an annual event at the end of July when swimming pools are closed at 14 of 19 city recreation centers. Jogging in reverse United Press International JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An Indonesian student strapped on a pair of rear-view mirrors and walked backward for 492 miles across Java, the Jakarta Post reported. The paper said Syaiful Bachri, 20, took 28 days to walk backward from the East Java city of Surabaya to Jakarta. "I did it because I wanted to outdo an Australian backwalker," Bachri was quoted as saying as he strode triumphantly into Jakarta Monday night. Stu'.y. A-bomb injury estih.dtes exaggerated By Davkl E. Anderson United Press International WASHINGTON - Estimates of American lives saved by the deci­ sion to drop the atom bomb on Ja­ pan -- including those by President Harry Truman -- were exaggerated after the fact, a new study says: The study released late last week said Truman and others used the inflated figures in part to rational­ ize the atomic bombings of Hiroshi­ ma and Nagasaki. Truman and others said using the bomb in the waning weeks of World War II saved betwee*400,000 and 1 million American lives that would have been lost had the United States attftnpted an invasionof Japan. ~ But Dr. Arjun Makhijani and John Keny, In a lengthy report, "Target: Japan -- The Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki," said military estimates at the time said about 40,000 American troops would have been killed in an invasion. The research, based on formerly classified and top-secret documents of the era, was commissioned by the Kyodo News Service of Japan. 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