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X,’* 3 ' ■' 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. Sterling Jewelry By Towle V 2 Price 0 ||||| /~^V' C ©Kitfnvie Company 107 S. Hill Street Griffin, Ga. 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 r ■hub Irlr,l wMMI 1 — —JSWRjjIEIS A '"" 4&hv HH HHI B ~ * yjH Drive a beauty. or drive a bargain. FIRST NATIONAL MAKES IT POSSIBLE. A low-cost First National car loan lets you buy what you want: comfort, economy, glamour, longevity, whatever. , It can give you the sporty look you admire, the gas savings you'd like to have, maybe even both. And it's the smart way to trade an old car's repair problems for a new car's pleasures. So come talk to us about a loan. Low bank interest and fast service are standard (SERVICE) features at First National. GROWING WITH GRIFFIN FIRST R ATIRHUBI RA| HI NORTHSIDE—I47S W. Mclntosh Rd. ™ ■ ■ ■ H DOWNTOWN—3IB S. Hill St. — _ ZsV? SOUTHSIDE-1103 Zebulon Rd. OF GRIFFIN, GEORGIA MEMBER FDIC 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.” Page 3 j \vV' 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.
