Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 100, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 January 1983 — Page 4

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 4,1983

Hints from Heloise Making tapes unwritten solution to visiting with families and friends

DEARHELOISE: I, for one, hate to write letters. I love to get them but hate to write. My family is in Chicago and Colorado. So we make tapes and send them to the family. This way they can hear our voices and it’s better than a letter. It takes only a few stamps for a tape and we can talk two hours. It’s cheaper than a long distance phone call. Ann from Ala. * ★ * What a nice way to visit with family, and friends, so far away. You are right, it’s touching to hear your loved ones’ voices. Why not circulate the tapes to all the family to keep in touch? Heloise TOOTH FAIRY Dear Heloise: Have you ever had one of your children lose a tooth, put it under the pillow and find the tooth fairy didn’t make it during the night? Happened a lot in our home until we made a small sign that let the tooth fairy know a tooth was out and to please

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stop by. We taped it to the bedroom door for the tooth fairy to see.-B. Wilson CAKE BATTER Dear Heloise: After years of making a drippy mess pouring cake batter into cupcake tins or muffin pans, I- have finally discovered a better way. I use clean one-half gallon milk cartons. It works great. Simply open the carton, pour batter from the mixing bowl into the clean open milk carton. Then close it back up and pour from the spout into the cupcake papers. Less messy drips. C. Reese COLD WATER Dear Heloise: For cold water all night, just freeze water in a plastic glass all day! Nice to have at your bedside. P.M. MACRAME SPOOLS Dear Heloise: If you do macrame, you might want to save those empty spools of thread to use as decortive beads when making hanging planters. Save them for friends. M.M. Young

By Bil Keane

BREAD WRAPPER ROPE Dear Heloise: I have found a jump rope for my children that is almost free! Bread wrappers! Just save nine wrappers, cut sides only (leaving the closed end intact) and fold back (at the closed end) to make one long wrapper. Tape three of the long

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Dear Abby Restaurant tipping necessity, not gift

DEAR ABBY: Please tolerate one more letter on tipping: Beginning Jan. 1, 1983, federal law requires tipped employees to pay taxes on 8 percent of the company’s gross sales whether they actually received the tip or not! Tipping is not a way to “give the poor dear a gift.” Waiters and waitresses are not dumb clods who aren’t qualified to do anything else. They are organized, efficient people who can work the socks off the best bureau chief in Washington, D.C.! Good tippers and non-tippers alike are given good service; older couples living on a fixed income, sharing a hamburger and a baked potato, and children in high chairs who make a terrible mess are treated with the same courtesy as a high roller. Tips are not appreciated because they can be easily pocketed and remain undeclared. Tips are earned. They put food on the table, shoes on the children, gas in the car, pay for an evening at the movies and are dropped in church envelopes. Good and bad service should be reported to the host or hostess. Good and bad food should be reported to the person who serves it. Restaurants appreciate compliments and criticism. Sign us, your waitress, the restaurant owners and the chef. We’re all of those. KIM, DODGE. MARY. PAULINE, KAREN, CARL. ETC., WINDOM, MINN. DEAR KIM, DOI)Gh, MARY, ETC.: Generalizations are dangerous. All waiters and waitresses are not efficient, organized and courteous - , but most of

wrappers together. (Make three bundles of three.) Braid the three bundles together and you have a jump rope for kids. Betty Wilson GROCERY GARBAGE BAGS Dear Heloise: My mother has used this method for several years but I’m so used to it I never thought about tell-

ing you. Instead of buying plastic trash bags to put in your trash cans, use those grocery bags (or sacks) that you get from the grocery store. When a sack is full, put it in a large plastic trash bag. Replace the old paper sack with a new one. Keep putting the sacks into the

them work hard and do the best they can and should be rewarded appropriately. Whether or not restaurant owners should pay their help enough so they wouldn't have to rely on the generosity of customers to make ends meet will not be settled here. But one thing is certain: People who work for tips need them, and the paying public should consider a tip a necessity and not a gift. * * * DEAR ABBY: I am allergic to you! I love reading your column in fact, it’s the first thing I turn to in my newspaper but before I’m halfway finished, my eyes are watering, my nose is running and I begin to sneeze. Help! ALLERGIC TO ABBY DEAR ALLERGIC: You’re not allergic to me; you must be sensitive to the fresh newsprint. Stick your newspaper in a warm oven for a few minutes, or see an allergist. I don’t want to lose a reader. DEAR ABBY: So often you print letters from aunts, grandmothers, etc., who complain bitterly that their gifts to nieces, nephews, grandchildren, etc., are never acknowledged. I, too, send gifts to my young nephews, but only because I want to. Usually they respond, but not always. It has been my observation that many people send gifts for the sole purpose of getting some attention from loved ones. This is sad. I suggest that gift givers examine their own motives, and if communication is what they really want, why not pick up the phone and say, “Hello. I just want to know how you are.” A phone call is less costly and infinitely more satisfying. A word of advice: Never accuse your dear ones of neglecting you. Show sincere interest in their lives, and each call will be welcomed. It works. , OVERLOOKED BUT HAPPY AUNTIE DEAR OVERLOOKED: I agree, phone calls to keep in touch are indeed lovely, but there is no excuse for failing to acknowledge a gift.

Todds to celebrate 50th

Rev. and Mrs. Warren Todd, Route 1, Cloverdale, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary during a Jan. 9 reception at the Cloverdale Community Building. All friends and relatives are invited to attend the 2-5 p.m. gathering in their honor. They

Rogerses to honor 45th

Mr. and Mrs. Russell Rogers, 404 W. Liberty St., Greencastle, will celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary on Wed-

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same plastic trash bag until it’s full then set it out for the garbage truck. N.G. PET POINTERS Dear Heloise: It’s the neatest thing: The lids of ten nis ball cans fit perfectly on the standard-size dog food cans and they survive the top shelf of the dishwasher and fit the cans of other products as well, i.e., baked beans, string beans, some cat foods. J.Taylor ★ * * Got a hint for recycling any item? Let Heloise know about it so she can spread the word. You write Heloise, P.O. Box 32000, San Antonio, TX 78216 and although she can’t answer you individually, she will use the best letters whenever possible.

request no gifts. Rev. Todd and the former Pauline Fischer were married Jan. 9,1933. They are the parents of two children. Warren E. Todd, Charlottesville, Ind., and Barbara Hall, Indianapolis. There are eleven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

nesday, Jan. 5. The couple has four children, 13 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

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Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Kendall, Greencastle, are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, Lisa Marie, to Daryl Robert Taylor. Daryl is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taylor, Greencastle. An Aug. 13 wedding is planned.

Calendar of events Tuesday Tri Kappa will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 4 at the Episcopal Church. Putnam County Singles have been invited to the Terre Haute Singles meeting at the Methodist Church. Poplar Street (across from Meadows Shopping Center) at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 4. Everyone is asked to bring a covered dish for a pitch-in. For information, call Bill Gould at 653-9625. Theta Chapter of Delta Theta Tau Sorority will meet at the Public Service Building, Greencastle, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 4. Please bring donations for the food pantry. Wednesday Parents Anonymous, a self-help group of parents under stress, will meet 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 5 at the Charterhouse Library, Gobin United Methodist Church. Arrangements for child care of transportation can be made by calling CONTACT at 653-2645. Fathers Auxiliary Post No. I will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 5 at VFW Post No. 1550. Associate Tri Kappa will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Jan. 5 at the home of Mrs. Paul Harris. The League of Women Voters of Greencastle will meet 6:30-8 p.m. at the home of Marge Smith. 613 Anderson. After a soup-and-sandwich supper (each member bring one sandwich). members will participate in making grassroots decisions about local and state League programs for 1983. Members are urged to bring their January bulletin. Give your pre-school child a break in his routine. Tots Time offers little ones the opportunity of forming friendships with other children as well as learning to adapt to an environment other than home. Meanwhile, you can enjoy some free time of your own. Tots Time is open every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon and is located in the First Baptist Church on Judson Drive (behind Marsh). Greencastle Chapter No. 255 of the OES will hold its stated meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Jan. 5 at the Masonic Tern pie. Adahs will be honored. All members welcome. Thursday The Putnam County Singles will have a card party at the home of John Jones. 805 Crescent Drive. Greencastle. on Thursday, Jan. 6 at 7 p.m. and is for adults only. Refreshments will be furnished. John Jones is the host 653-6081. The Moose Lodge will be open to everyone 16 years of age and older for game night eVery Tuesday and Thursday night at 7:30. Free coffee will be served. Men’s interdenominational prayer breakfast is held Thursday at 6:30 a.m. at the Double Decker Restaurant. Order from menu. Saturday The Cunot Can-Do’s Square Dance Club w ill hold a dance 811 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 8 at the Cloverdale Community Building. The guest caller is Ron McPherson and the club caller is Jerry Workman. Applegate Lodge No. 155 F & AM. Fillmore will hold an open installation of officers at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Jan. 8. The public is welcome. Refreshments will be served. Sunday Putnam County Singles will go to church at the Limedale Missionary Baptist Church. Services begin at 11 a.m. There will be a pitch-in dinner at the home of Bill Gould. Route 6. Greencastle, after church. Members will be swimming 4-6 p.m. at the DePauw Center. The cost is $1 per person. Hostess is Nina Saunders 653-5597. Monday The Fillmore Volunteer Fire Dept, will hold its regular meetings the second and fourth Mondays at 7 p.m. in the firehouse. The public is welcome. Putnam County Singles will have a skating partv at the Greencastle Skating Place 7-9:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 10. The cost will be $1.50 plus 50 cents for skate rental and $1 for watchers. The hostesses are Nadene Burks 653-9635 and Loretta Fowler. Tuesday Putnam County Singles will have their monthly officers meeting at the home of Leotta Smiley in Cloverdale at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 11. The main courses will be furnished. Ladies bring a side dish or dessert and men bring soft drinks. Wednesday Parents Anonyomous, a self-help group of parents under stress, will meet 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12 at the Charterhouse Library, Gobin United Methodist Church. Arrangements for child care or transportation can be made by calling CONTACT at 653-2645. Greencastle chapter No. 22. Royal Arch Masons, will hold a stated convoction at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12 in the Masonic Temple. The stated assembly of Greencastle Council No. 107, Royal and Select Masters, will follow at 8:30 p.m. There will be installation of officers. Thursday Putnam County Singles will have a card party at the home of Joy Flynn in Cloverdale at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13. Refreshments will be furnished. Hostess is Joy Flynn. Beech Grove Ladies Aid will meet all day Thursday, Jan. 13 at the church. There will be a potluck dinner at noon.