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Dear Abby
Too tall girl looks
down at herself
By Abigail Van Buren
??■ 1977 by The Chicago Tribune-N Y News Synd. Inc.
DEAR ABBY: I am a 14-year-old girl and I don’t care if I
ever see my 15th birthday. I am 5 foot 9 and weigh 188
pounds.
I hate being taller than all the boys my age. People say,
“Wait a few years, they’ll grow,” but what is a girl suppose
to do in the meantime?
I know I am too fat, but I don’t care. I’m so tall I haven’t
a chance with a boy anyway, so I might as well eat and
enjoy myself.
I am so mixed up and have made such a mess of myself, I
wish I were dead. Is there any hope for me?
TOO TALL
DEAR TOO TALL: A girl who asks, “Is there any hope
for me?” hopes with all her heart that there is. You have
two of the most precious gifts in the world— youth and
health—and you say you wish you were dead. I don’t buy
that. You letter tells me you want to live!
Tell your parents you want to see a doctor for a physical
checkup and a sensible diet. Go and heed his advice. It
won’t be easy, but you can do it if you try hard enough.
Once you’ve taken off that excess weight, you’ll have a
new respect for yourself and like yourself better. And I
promise you that you’ll be well on the road to enjoying life
and living it more fully.
DEAR ABBY: My cousin (I’ll call her “Carol”) is being
married soon, and because of financial circumstances, she
has invited only the members of her immediate family to
the wedding. (Since cousins are not considered "immediate
family,” I am not invited.)
Carol hinted to me that I should give her a bridal shower
and invite all her friends.
Would it be proper to ask girls to a shower that are not
invited to the wedding?
CAROL’S COUSIN
DEAR COUSIN: Nowhere is it written that everyone
who participates in a bridal shower is entitled to an
invitation to the wedding. Or because someone “hinted,”
you have to do her bidding.
DEAR ABBY: While vacationing recently, my husband
and I stayed at a lovely motor inn. When we left I took
some ashtrays and glasses. These things had the name of
the inn on them, anal thought they’d make nice souvenirs.
I was under the impression that guests are expected to
take such things as souvenirs, and the cost of the items is
built into the price of the room. My husband says I am
wrong.
Why then would they have their name on everything if
not to advertise?
Are guests expected to take souvenirs?
THIEF OR COLLECTOR?
DEAR THIEF: I would advise against taking anything.
Before checking out, ask the manager for a souvenir and
he’ll either sell—or give you one.
For Abby’s booklet, “How to Have a Lovely Wedding,”
send SI to Abigail Van Buren, 132 Lasky Dr., Beverly Hills,
Calif. 90212. Please enclose a long, self-addressed, stamped
(245) envelope.
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Youth center
sisterhood
has banquet
The Police Youth Community
Center Sisterhood Organization
sponsored a Mother-Daughter
Banquet at a local restaurant.
Mrs. Emagene Ellis, Charlene
and Darlene Gaston, and
Vanessa and Angie Henderson
were presented with awards.
The program was the first of
what will be held as an annual
event.
The sisterhood will attend the
county fair on Tuesday, Oct. 11.
Members will assemble at the
center at 5 p.m.
Mothers are requested to call
the center if they wish to go
along as escorts. Friends and
relatives who wish to go should
contact the center before
Tuesday.
L.E. Rollins
is in NATO
exercise
Navy Airman Recruit Larry
E. Rollins, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Tony Huckaby of 407 East
Brooks avenue, Griffin, is
participating in the major
NATO exercise “Display
Determination.”
He is serving as a
crewmember aboard the air
craft carrier USS Indepen
dence, homeported in Norfolk,
Va. His ship is deployed to the
Mediterranean Sea as a unit of
the U.S. Sixth Fleet.
“Display Determination” is
one of a series of annual
operations, conducted each fall
from Norway to Turkey,
designed to provide unified and
coordinated training of national
and NATO forces within the
Allied European Command.,
He joined the Navy in August,
1976.
Business mirror
Single family house
still American dream
By JOHN CUNNIFF
AP Business Analyst
NEW YORK (AP) - Little
seems to stand in the way of the
homebuyer’s desire for a single
family house on its own plot —
not money or energy prices or
attempts by builders to change
America’s living habits.
The typical new house is still
the conventional
three-bedroom plan, but it now
has two baths and is growing
larger in other areas too. It is
likely to have a fireplace and
central air conditioning, and al
most certainly a dishwasher.
All this despite an energy
shortage that causes operating
costs to be higher, and soaring
purchase prices that preclude
ownership by some families un
less they borrow from parents
to meet the down payment.
It isn’t the first time that
homebuyers have asserted
themselves against what might
be considered the better judg
ment of others. Planners and
builders have tried cluster
housing (small plots, shared
green areas), co-ops and con
dominiums, modular units, no
frill housing and more.
As real estate agents note,
young couples supposedly more
attuned to change often seek
conventional homes similar to
those in which they grew up or
to which their parents aspired
... only bigger and better. A
study of Census Bureau mate
rial by the National Association
of Realtors shows that the av
erage size, speculatively built
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house in 1976 was 1,690 square
feet, compared with 1,535 feet in
1971.
Fifty-nine per cent of the units
had at least one fireplace,
versus 34 per cent five years
earlier, even though the de
tailed hand labor involved
added greatly to the total cost.
Fifty-three per cent of the
speculative homes (those built
on expectation of sale rather
than to order) contained central
air conditioning, compared with
only 38 per cent in 1971, when
energy costs were much lower.
More than 70 per cent of
houses had two bathrooms,
against about 50 per cent five
years ago. And 78 per cent were
equipped with dishwashers
against only 48 per cent in 1971.
Despite the strong market for
new and better homes, a rate
that now seems to assure some
1.9 million starts for the year,
an even stronger market exists
in sales of existing or used
homes.
For the second year in a row,
sales of such units will pass the
three-million-mark, and might
even reach 3.5 million units, an
unprecedented figure.
It is this trend that perhaps
suggests some change in the at
titude of homebuyers, in that a
good deal of existing housing is
urban, whereas new single
family homes are usually built
on suburban or semisuburban
lots.
Urban buyers apparently
have heeded nobody’s advice
but their own, recognizing that
such units, even if abandoned,
often represent better buys than
new housing. Accommodations
often are larger, construction
sturdier. Sewers and water
connections exist, as do trans
portation and other amenities.
Recognizing the absurdity of
abandoning such housing — and
sensitive to criticisms that
money is being transferred
from such areas to suburbia —
savings and loan associations
this week urged a new national
urban housing policy.
The U.S. League of Savings
Associations, whose 4,461 mem
ber savings and loan associ
ations are the primary source of
mortgage money, said more
emphasis on rehabilitation and
less on new construction is
needed.
Despite their affinity for what
is termed the conventional new
home, a good many young buy
ers already seem to have that
idea, and they are asserting
themselves in rehabilitation
projects, whenever they can get
mortgages.
Such housing, of course, was
the conventional housing long
before the suburbs and the
“conventional new home.”
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New Cougar
This 1978 Cougar XR-7 is now on display at Randall & Rlakely, Inc. on the North Expressway
in Griffin. The new Cougar is among the line of new cars marketed by Lincoln-Mercury
Division.
Nobody knows how to use castle
By SUSAN SWARD
Associated Press Writer
IONE, Calif. (AP) - Up in
the Sierra foothills sits a 120-
room castle with 20 fireplaces.
Nobody knows what to do with
it, and efforts by local towns
people to restore it have hit a
dead end.
A few years ago a newspaper
article excited some interest in
the site, and a couple from
Southern California wrote that
they would like to be the
castle’s baron and baroness.
But nobody — the tiny city of
lone, the rural county of Ama
dor 90 miles east of San Fran
cisco or the State of California
— has come up with an idea
and any money to take care of
—Griffin Daily News Thursday, October 6, 1977
the castle, built in the 1890 s as
a state reform school.
“We’re at a dead end. It will
just fall down eventually, go to
pieces. It’s all just leading to
decay,” says Audrey Miller,
the mayor of lone.
The castle’s roof is falling in.
Many of its windows are bro
ken. Birds, owls, pigeons and
even a fox, are the castle’s
residents.
Years ago the structure’s fur
nishings were removed by the
state and some of the material
was used in restoration projects
elsewhere.
Back in 1958 the state decided
to quit using the old structure
and knock it down, but local
residents signed a petition and
fought the move until the state
abandoned the idea.
“It has really become some
thing people expect to see
there. It would be under
standable if it fell down in the
middle of the night,” said C.A.
Terhune, superintendent of the
state-run Preston School of In
dustry which surrounds the
castle.
“But to come in with bull
dozers and drop it would cause
some heavy concerns,” said
Terhune, who heads the Youth
Authority facility for 400 offend
ers from 17 to 24.
People get excited about pos
sible uses for the castle when
they see it, Terhune says.