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One way to cool it
COLUMBUS, Ga. — Jan Skellie of Richland, Ga., finds it easier to join the heat than to try to
beat it so she grabbed a pole and tackle box and headed for the nearest pond. (AP)
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Visitors welcome
in her kitchen
By Abigail Van Buren
• 1977 by The Chicago Tribune-N.Y.News Synd Inc.
DEAR ABBY: “Stay Out of My Kitchen” was a cute
verse, but you might have helped the lady more had you
encouraged her to let her visitor come on in.
Consider the alternative, with the visitor sitting there,
staring at your four walls, feeling that she had put you to a
lot of trouble and wishing she had not come.
Because of my husband’s job, we moved nine tunes to
strange towns where I didn’t know Soul One, but we made
friends easily by allowing people to know us as we were.
If you can summon up the courage to let the visitor see
the dirty dishes in your sink, it’s a good bet that shell
think, “Gee, that’s just the way MY sink looks,” and a
friendship will begin.
Instead of asking a guest to get out of the way, tell her
what you want from the cabinet and ask her to hand it to
you. People always feel more comfortable when they’re
uscfuL FRIENDLY SOUL
DEAR FRIENDLY: A surprising number of readers
agree with you. Meet another “FRIENDLY SOUL :
DEAR ABBY: May I suggest that the woman who
doesn’t want her guests to follow her into the kitchen drop
her foolish pride and wake up to the fact that her friends
do not come to see what kind of a housekeeper she is, but
to visit with her.
I have a little verse framed and hanging in my kitchen
which reads:
COME IN, SIT DOWN, RELAX, CONVERSE.
MY KITCHEN DOESN'T ALWAYS LOOK LIKE
THIS.
SOMETIMES IT’S EVEN WORSE!
Slgn me ‘ ’ ' ’ A FRIEND
DEAR ABBY: I notice from your column that you, too,
must have been brainwashed into believing that everyone
should have a will.
This is something I would very much like to know about,
but I can’t seem to get a straight answer from anybody.
Isn't it entirely possible for a couple with a modest
estate and no minor children to put all their property in
both their names and eliminate probate court with its huge
fees, delays and red tape?
My husband and I have twin wills and we’re beginning to
wonder if this doesn’t invite the courts to handle
something (for a huge fee) that would take care of itself. In
other words, wouldn't the property all go to the remaining
spouse with no help from the probate court?
NO NAME, PLEASE
DEAR NO NAME: The laws differ from state to state.
So, since your question is a legal one, ask a lawyer. I am
constantly amazed at the number of people who are
reluctant to pay a modest legal fee when it could solve
their problems and give them peace of mind.
DEAR ABBY: My pet peeve is the accepted, though
asinine, custom of seating wedding guests so that the
bride’s family and friends are on one side of the church and
the groom’s are on the other.
When the usher asks me, “Whose side are you on? I
always have the urge to say, “Must I choose sides? They
haven’t even started fighting yet.”
W ILLIE
For Abby’s new booklet, “What Teen-agers Want to
Know,” send SI to Abigail Van Buren, 132 Lasky Dr.,
Beverly Hills, Calif. 90212. Please enclose a long,
self-addressed, stamped envelope.
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They’re snooping for botulism
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Associated Press Writer
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - In a tiny
cluttered office in the Food and Drug
Administration’s giant complex here,
two men keep watch over government
efforts to protect you from products
that can injure or kill.
In a comer of the office is a chart and
on this particular day there is a
notation scribbled at the right side:
“Confirmed: Botulism.”
The chart shows the site of the out
break and the suspected cause. The
botulism entry is the first for the day
but only one of thousands of similar en
tries that send federal investigators
scrambling to track down and
eliminate the source of poisonings or
injury.
The two men who run the FDA’s
epidemiological investigations section,
Page 5
Richard Swanson and Dan Brand,
situate their desks so they can look up
and read the board at any time to see
similar developments and monitor the
discoveries of more than 800 in
vestigators around the country.
It is the job of Swanson and Brand to
size up and act promptly when a rash of
sickness or injuries occurs or appears
likely, caused by a product regulated
by the FDA.
Although they cover a variety of
problems, including injuries, their
work is probably best known in cases
involving food poisoning.
For example, Brand received a call
at home at 8 p.m. March 31 with a
report of apparent botulism poisoning
in Michigan.
More than 45 persons became ill over
a period of 10 days and detailed reports
of field investigators led to a restaurant
— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, July 19,1977
in Pontiac, Mich.
The problem turned out to be
jalapeno peppers canned at home and
served in the restaurant, which
specialized in Mexican foods.
In the past, large botulism outbreaks
often have resulted in deaths and of
ficials credit the absence of fatalities in
this case to fast work by Michigan
officials, the FDA team and the Center
for Disease Control in Atlanta.
The Rockville offices of the unit are
jammed with file cabinets in which
reports of injuries and illnesses are
classified according to products. When
a new case comes in, Swanson and
Brand can instantly determine if they
have similar cases and if there is a
pattern.
There are no computers here
because, Swanson says, they simply
aren’t fast enough.
