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Jackie K. Cooper
. Entertainment
Last week 1 told you that
"The Longest Yard” should be
quite a movie. Well, I saw it
and it is quite a movie - quite
awful. 1 really went expecting
it to be one of the better
movies of the year, I consider
Burt Reynolds to be one of the
best actors around and the
movie was being produced by
the same people who did “The
Godfather”. Somewhere
something went wrong. Burt
Reynolds is good - as Burt
Reynolds, 1 never for a minute
forgot that that was Burt
Reynolds on the screen. He
never came close to getting
into the character he was
—portraying. He made the same
'•tunrvy wisecracks and
gestures that are his
trademark on the “Tonight
Show”. On the plus side, the
movie does spend its last
forty-five minutes on a foot
ball game between the in
mates and the guards and it is
the funniest game since I saw
the one in the movie
“M.A.S.H" But one segment
does not a movie make and the
game is not enough to turn a
loser into a winner.
I also went to see
“Juggernaut” last week. 1
went with my brother-in-law
and father-in-law. My brother
in-law is in his teens, I am in
my thirties, and my father-in
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# Bargains Still Can Be Found If
You Know When To Look
Are bargains obsolete? No, but if you
try to save money by shopping prudently,
you may think so.
A man who hasn’t bought a suit in a
couple of years may be shocked to discover
that the price has gone up as much as 25
per cent. His wife may balk at paying 1 5
per cent more for a pair of shoes.
Few of us, however, are going to throw
in our charge cards and give up in the face
of rising prices. But it would probably
pay all of us to sharpen our wits for the
shopping game.
Bargains do still exist if we take the
time and have the know-how to find them.
The most obvious place to find a bargain
is at a sale. Clearance and seasonal sales
can offer many items with sizable and
legitimate reductions in prices. Savings will
£ range from a modest 10 to 20 per cent up
* to 50 per cent (mostly for end-of-season
merchandise that can’t be carried over to
next year).
CALENDAR OF SAVINGS
But if you know when these periodic
sales occur, you can plan to make your
purchases at sale time. Here is a listing of
usual dates for sales:
JANUARY: After-Christmas clearance
of gifts, clothing, and novelties; white
goods; baby clothes; yarn; lingerie; acces
sories; cosmetics; stationery; furs; hosiery;
dishwashers; ranges.
FEBRUARY: Furniture; housewares;
law is in his fifties so a wide
spectrum of age was
represented. We all three
enjoyed it fully. It is
suspenseful, well acted and
the outcome is hard to second
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The View From
Carole's Corner
By Carole Bloodworth
“Lord Help Me;
I’m A Mother”
This week's column is part
of a little booklet that I keep
adding to. It’s entitled “Lord
Help Me; I’m a Mother”.
Oh Lord, there’s a well-worn
slogan that since you couldn’t
be everywhere you invented
mothers. The implication
being 1 suppose, that mothers
can fill in for you when your
back is turned. Well, Lord, if
(hat’s true, thank you for the
compliment, but if it’s all the
same to you I’d rather youi
didn't place so much con
fidence in this mother. I’d just
as soon you stayed right
beside me all the time.
Maybe other mothers can
gel along o.k. on their own for
a little while, but I seem to be
always needing you for one
thing or another.
You have blessed me so
bountifully with the gift of
motherhood that I hate not to
be able to manage it by myself
when 1 know how busy you
are. Hut I can't do it alone so
my prayer is this; Lord help
me, I’m a mother.
Standing as I am now beside
my sleeping son, I feel the
need for your guidance and
books; lingerie. Some stores have Wash
ington’s Birthday sales with sharp reduc
tions in clearance merchandise.
MARCH: Sports equipment; baby
clothes.
APRIL: Cleaning and gardening tools.
MAY: Some stores have special or anni
versary sales this month, often featuring
home furnishings.
JUNE: Furniture.
JULY: Clearance of summer clothes
begins; baby clothes.
AUGUST: Summer clothes clearances
continue; white goods; furniture; furs; tele
vision sets; stereo equipment,
SEPTEMBER. Appliances,
OCTOBER: Clearances of fall clothing,
clearances of appliances, especially refrig
erators, freezers and air conditioners.
NOVEMBER: Final clearance of fall
clothings.
DECEMBER: After-Christmas sales of
decorations, cards and wrappings (look for
these sometimes a few days before Christ
mas.)
ASK YOURSELF THREE QUESTIONS
As you can see, a year’s worth of
seasonal savings will cover many necessary
buying needs. It may be a little hard getting
used to buying bathing suits in August and
fall clothes in November. But that’s when
the real savings can be made.
Don’t forget, however, a basic rule of
shopping: don’t buy something just because
it’s a “bargain.” It has to suit you and
your needs.
Ask yourself these three questions be
fore buying:
1. Do 1 need this item?
2. Would I buy it if it weren’t on sale?
3. If it is clothing, are there at least
three places I will wear it?
Three “yes” answers are good bargain
insurance. e
guess. You are so engrossed in
the movie that you forget that
the popcorn is lousy (at “The
Longest Y'ard” the popcorn
was BAD and that added to
my non-enjoyment of that
direction. I am frightened
when I consider the influences
which will touch his in
nocence. You know that if I
could 1 would wrap him in a
protective covering of
motherly love to shut out all
hurts, all disappointments, all
disillusionments.
But you and I both recognize
this as a mother’s foolish wish.
And because of the im
possibility of it, 1 pray that you
will show him and me your
way for living in a difficult,
sometimes unpleasant world.
Lord help me not to tie the
apron strings 100 tight. As he
grows upward, let me be
ready for him to grow outward
as well.
When 1 give him the
physical freedom to run and
play and climb and in the
process to fall and get hurt
give me understanding so I
won’l place blame on him or
me or even you. Remem
bering that the falls like the
upswings are part of the
game.
Though I know the kind of
person 1 want him to be and
the kind of life 1 want to lead,
though 1 know what I want
him to think and to believe,
movie). If it is a choice bet
ween the two movies, opt for
“Juggernaut”.
One thing those two movies
have in common is that
neither stars a woman. There
are women in a few scenes but
the stars and thereby most of
the story involves men.
Women are having a hard
time lately in the movies as
the big stars and stories are
all male. “The Sting",
“Papillion", “California
Split” and many others
feature a male-male
relationship. No w'onder Angie
Dickinson had to give up the
movies and move to TV.
If 1 was going to pick the
next big female movie star, I
would put my money on Farah
Fawcett. If you don’t
don't let me ever forget that
he is a person, a thinking
reasoning being, not a robot to
be programmed with certain
altitudes and values that I
consider to be worthwhile.
Help me to discover the
strength within me to let him
be his own man. To let him be
what he is and what he wants
to be without twisting his goals
and dreaips into a parody of
my own. Don’t let me seek
fullfillment of my hopes
through him. Grant me that
most illusive attitude, ob
jective acceptance.
I’m counting on you, Lord,
to be there when my con
tradictory nature takes hold
and 1 am templed to smother
■ him with protection one
minute and demand ex
cellence and independence the
next.
More than anything else,
Lord, I pray that he will find
happiness and satisfaction in
his life. But please don’t let
' my ideas of what constitute
happiness and satisfaction get
in the way and create con
-1 fusion if they conflict with his.
. Lord, let my life be such that
l he will find what 1 teach and
, what I live to be one and the
same. Help me to live so that
he will learn in a world full of
contradictions and in
consistencies on thee and me
he can always depend.
May we enjoy each other,
like each other, and respect
each other. And, Lord, help us
always to be the good friends
we are now.
Thank you for giving me this
task and having it, Lord, help
me be a mother.
The Houston Home Journal
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Help Us Cope
With Inflation!
Dear Bobby:
As I listen to all the
economists spouting out ideas
on how to stop inflation, my
heart goes out to the average
housewife. She listens trying
to hear something concrete
that will help her cope with
run away prices on
everything.
I believe in the power and
adaptability of the American
housewife, but she needs
direction and some true facts
on how she can get the most
lor her money.
Where are the publications
on substitutes for cooking and
baking? How to cut down on
waste? How to re-do and
recycle in a practical and
money saving way? How to
conserve energy? The truth
please! Do we have to have a
war for all of us to work
together? Example, the
shortages in the 40’s. Do we
have to have a depression
before we learn to do without?
Come on, you food editors,
women’s magazine editors
and fashion editors, get back
to basics, give the housewife
some ideas on how she can get
in this light 100.
Hive her something to grab
onto to gel over the feeling of
recognize I he name you would
recognize the lace as she is
constantly on the TV screen in
commercials. In my office we
have organized an unofficial
Farah Fawcett Fan Club.
Being true fans you can
imagine our excitement when
Ms, Fawcett turned
up on “Apple's Way” last
Sunday night as the older
woman that Paul Apple fell in
love with. Now "Apple's Way"
isn't my favorite TV program
but having Farah Fawcett on
should improve their ratings. 1
haven’t heard of her making
any more guest appearances
on other television shows so I
guess 1 will have to satisfy
myself seeing her sell tooth
paste and shampoo.
Next Tuesday, 22 October,
there is a special two and one
half hour presentation on NBC
entitled "The Law”. It is a
special movie that has been
made for TV and it supposedly
shows the true inner workings
of criminal law and its
processes. It is not being made
to show law in its prettiest
most idealistic sense but
rather to show the true flaws
and imperfections that can
and do persist and exist. It
should be one of the better
shows of the season and should
Famous
Drill Team
Here Sat.
The Golden Boots precision
drill team from Central High
School in Macon will be a part
of the “Shriners” parade
activities on Saturday, Oc
tober 19, in Ferry.
The team is sponsored by
the Bunting-McWilliams VFW
Post No. 658 in Macon,
Georgia. The “Boots” have
won the national cham
pionship honors for the past
five years starling in Miami,
Florida, 1970, Dallas, Texas,
1971, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
1972, New Orleans, Louisiana,
1973, and in Chicago, Illinois,
1974,
The parade in Perry will
start at 2:00 P.M. Saturday at
Grant Plaza Shopping Center
and terminate at Eastgate
Shopping Center near High
way 341 South. The public is
invited and encouraged to be
there and enjoy the activities.
Proceeds from this event will
go to the crippled children’s
fund.
These outstanding young
men add much to a parade of
this type with their sharp
rifles, shiny bayonets, boots
and military bearing.
Veterans will truly appreciate
their precise handling of
M 1903 rifles.
being swept along on a wave of
high prices just getting bat
tered and broken in spirit.
Sincerely,
Mrs. William Pfost
Kathleen
Sogadera
Club Says
Thank You
Dear Bobby,
We, of the Sogadera Club,
would like to thank you for
your cooperation in aiding us
with the publicity for our
annual charity project. Your
help, and the Home Journal's,
enabled us to meet our quota;
therefore, earning more
money for charity.
Thank you again for your
help.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Chris Martin
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CBS, (10) Columbo - NBC.
With these ratings in, NBC
decided to cancel “Sierra”
and ABC bumped “The Texas
Wheelers’’ and “Kodiak”.
Probably there will be more
cancellations in the next few
weeks without waiting until
January as they used to do.
PAGE 5-A
“The New Land” (ABC) is
still hanging on but 1 don't
know how much longer it can
last. It was the lowest rated
program again for the fourth
straight week. It may be low
man on the ratings totem pole
but to me it is still gpod en
tertainment.