Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 August 1973 — Page 4

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Banner-Graphic, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, August 21, 1973

30 th Anniversary Observed Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. York, R.R. 4, Greencastle, observed their 30th w edding anniversary earlier this month. No open house was held. The couple celebrated their anniversary with a weekend trip to Jolliet, III.

New Maysville Club Meets With Alice Hatfield

The New Maysville Club met for their August meeting with Mrs. Alice Hatfield in the home of her son, Ed Hatfield, in Roachdale. In the absence of the president and vice president, Mrs. Eileen Gowin conducted the meeting. She opened the meeting by reading the “Thought of the Month.” Mrs. Eleanor McMullen read from “The Upper Room,” based on Jeremiah 18:4. Roll call was answered by giving each member’s birthstone and an interesting or amusing incident. Minutes of the July meeting were read and approved. Mrs. Eleanor McMullen read poems; “Measure,” "Greetings From the Country Kitchen,” “Stop! Count Your Blessings,” and “Ain’t God Good to Indiana.”

Mrs. Crystelle Bertrand was a guest.

Refreshments were served following the meeting.

Fern News

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Clark and daughter, Tammie, and son, Jimmie, entertained with a birthday party Friday evening, August 10, in honor of their daughter, Kimberly, on her 10th birthday. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Roland Clark and son, Paul, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Miller of Greencastle, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Greg Sanford, and daughter, and Eric and Lauralee Albert of Greencastle. Mrs. Nadene Burks and daughter, Patty, were in Terre Haute and visited Mrs. Robert Targett of Brazil Saturday afternoon. Markie Hutchison spent Mon-

day afternoon with Robbie Burks. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Chew and daughters of Reelsville called on Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Heber Sunday afternoon. Mike was home on a three-day pass from the National Guards in Virginia. Barbara, Beth, and Jerry Mains are visiting their grandparents at Lebanon this week. Mrs. William Aker and children and Ray Burk of Reelsville called on Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Heber Monday afternoon. Mrs. Joy Cummings spent Saturday with Mrs. Frances Nelson at Greencastle. Mr. and Mrs. Veto Griseto of Chicago called on Mr. and Mrs. Joy Cummings Sunday morning.

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Bridge

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Questions upset childless couple By Abigail Van Buren fe If73 >7 CRicato TnbMM-N. Y. News Synd., Inc. DEAR ABBY: I have a problem many others have, and if you answer me in your column, maybe others will benefit from it. I have been married for nine years and am childless. Our first child was born so severely brain-damaged he had to be institutionalized. Then I had a miscarriage. [Twin boys.J A year later I miscarried a baby girl. After that, I had a hysterectomy. We put in for adoption, and finally got a beautiful baby girl. At eleven months she died. Crib death! A beautiful, healthy child simply died for no apparent reason, leaving us heartbroken, frustrated, and filled with needless guilt. Obviously, we have no children, and we probably never will have any. We both have been thru a great deal. My problem: Well-meaning strangers ask upon meeting me: “Have you a family?” Or: “How many children have you?” This question throws me into a state of depression. What do I say without going into my whole tragic history? I avoid going places where strangers may inquire about my “family.” Have you an answer, Abby? STILL TORTURED DEAR STILL: Before you are asked, meet the expected question head on. Say: “We have no children, which is such an unhappy subject, I am not yet able to talk about it. so let’s talk about something else.” Then change the subject. DEAR ABBY: I was one of 10 children in a very poor family so I had to quit school in the 6th grade. I always wanted to get a better education, but I never had the chance. I feel so bad when my 8th grade son asks me to help him with his homework, and I am too dumb to help him. My husband can’t help him either, as he never got thru the 7th grade. I asked around and found out there is a night school for grownups. I could go four nights a week from 6 to 8. My husband laughed at me and said he never heard of a 32-year-old woman going back to school. My heart is broken. Please tell me what to do. WANTS TO LEARN DEAR WANTS: Your husband should quit laughing long enough to learn a few things. Adult education has been a lifesaver to many who have decided to complete their educations in their forties, fifties, and sixties. You are to be commended. DEAR ABBY: I have often been tempted to write to you in rebuttal to certain letters, but simply never found the time. Now I am so incensed, I must make the time. In reply to the self-righteous ex-reader signed “Believer in Buffalo,” who states that: “God determines who shall die and when, not you or anybody else.” Are the physicians who maintain a human body by needles, tubes, and machines long after the human being in that suffering body is gone, God? Having seen both my parents in this situation recently, I do not believe it is humane or even moral to allow it. When they finally died, they no longer even looked like human beings. I do not believe that kind of suffering is the will of God. Furthermore, I believe those people who are so quick to tell you what God’s will is are being very presumptuous. Thank you for taking a stand for the dignity of man in his final hours. Sign me. “ALSO A BELIEVER IN NEW JERSEY” CONFIDENTIAL TO M. N. IN LAKESIDE, ORE.: No, I am not encouraging permissiveness, but what has been done is done, so why carry a grudge for a lifetime? The past is but a bucket of ashes.

Card Reading

North dealer. East-West vulnerable. NORTH ♦ K Q 7 4 ^ K J ♦ 9 6 4 3 + A K 7

WEST ♦ 5 V A 10 7 4 3 ♦ Q 10 2 *Q8 42

EAST ♦ 6 2 V 8 6 5 2 ♦ A K 8 7 ♦ J 9 3

SOUTH ♦ A J 10 9 8 3 V Q9 ♦ J 5 + 10 6 5

The bidding:

West Pass

North 1 NT

East Pass

South 4*

Opening lead - two of diamonds. Cards tell a story, but it is sometimes difficult to read the story. Take this case where it would be easy to go wrong. West does not have an automatic lead and, let’s say, leads the diamond deuce. East takes the king and continues with the ace, South contributing the jack and West the ten. Too late East realizes that partner led from the Q-10-2

and shifts to a club, but the damage is already done. A few plays later, South ruffs the six of diamonds, felling the queen and making the nine a trick. As a result, declarer loses only a heart and two diamonds and makes the contract. The villain of the piece is East, who should not play the ace of diamonds at trick two. He should return a low diamond instead, and, if he does, South goes down one. Once declarer follows with the five at trick one, East can diagnose West’s diamond lead as one of these two holdings: 1. a singleton; 2. precisely the Q-10-2. A low diamond return covers both possibilities and is therefore correct. It is impossible for West to have started with four diamonds, for he would have led the queen from the Q-J-10-2. In the same way, West cannot have J-10-2, since he would have led the jack in that case. The low diamond return is therefore clearly best, as South cannot have the doubleton queen. The number of hands where card reading of this type is possible is quite enormous. To be a good card detective one must be willing and able to stop and figure things out. Bridge is not for the lazy mind.