Banner Graphic, Volume 17, Number 90, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 December 1986 — Page 4

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC, December 16,1986

Calendar of events Wednesday The Learning Castle Preschool prekindergarten classes will have their annual Christmas program at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17. Refreshments will follow. Cloverdale O.E.S. No. 369 will have a family Christmas supper at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the lodge hall. Those attending are asked to bring a covered dish. The Greencastle Garden Club will have its Christmas party at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at Sunset Manor Nursing Home. Temple Lodge No. 47, F. & A.M., will have a stated meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17. The agenda will include election of officers. Refreshments will be served and visitors are welcome. Singles Euchre Club will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the home of Mary Skidmore. For more information, call 653-4857 or 653-6081. Thursday Cloverdale Masonic Lodge, No. 132, F. & A.M., will have a stated meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18. The agenda will include election of officers. Greencastle Presbyterian Women will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, with Ida Mae Youse, 715 Terrace Lane. Friday The Putnam County Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons (A.A.R.P.) will meet at 1:45 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19, at the Senior Center in Greencastle. There will be installation of officers and Christmas caroling. . Greencastle Commandary, Knights Templar No. 11, will meet at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19, at the Masonic Temple. Meat and drinks will be furnished for a pitch-in dinner. Women are asked to bring small gifts for bingo. There will be election of officers. Saturday Owen Lodge No. 655, F. & A.M., Quincy, will host Temple Lodge No. 47 and Cloverdale Lodge No. 132 for the conferral of Past Masters degrees on Saturday, Dec. 20. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. All Past Members are invited.

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MR. AND MRS. GARNETT LEONARD Mr. and Mrs. Garnett Leonard to mark 50th anniversary

Mr. and Mrs. Garnett Leonard, Route 1, Tangier, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary during an open house 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 28, at the community building in Tangier. The Leonards resided in the Morton area for several years. Mr. Leonard and the former Bonnie Hall were married Dec. 31, 1936 by Rev. Lucy Sharp at the Methodist parsonage in Kingman. Mr. Leonard is a retired farmer. Mrs. Leonard

Saunders-Bright vows set

Sue Saunders and Chris Bright will be married at 2:30 p.m. Dec. 27 at First Baptist Church in Greencastle. The bride-to-be, daughter of Nina R. Saunders of Greencastle, is employed at IBM. The future groom, son of Walter C. Bright Jr. and

Dear Abby: Unborn child also will never feel world's pain

DEAR ABBY: So “Hurting in Fort Worth” and her husband have decided not to have children because “there’s so much wrong with the world.” And now he insists on an abortion, presumably to “save” the child from all those wrongs. Yes, indeed. That poor child will never see a butterfly. Or a rainbow. A waterfall. A smile. A dog wagging his tail. A tree. The Grand Canyon. Rio. A baseball game. A rose. Grazing sheep. A Raphael painting. The love in a spouse’s eyes. “Swan Lake.” A parade. A jet stream. A flame in the fireplace. A bicycle. An emerald. A sailboat. A snowflake. A fishing village. A cathedral. That poor child will never hear a babbling brook. Or rustling leaves.

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has worked as a postal clerk at Tangier for the last 12 years. Hosts for the Dec. 28 reception will be the couple’s five children: Robert Leonard and Vivian Bartley of Kentland; Virginia Van Hook of Willard, Ohio; David Leonard of Marshall and Gary Leonard of Crawfordsville. The couple also have 14 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Family and friends are invited to attend. It is requested that gifts be omitted.

Oressa A. Bright, Route 5, Greencastle, is employed at Tractor Supply Co. No invitations will be sent, but family and friends are invited. The couple will reside in Mechanicsburg, Pa.

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A bell. “Rigoletto.” The patter of rain. Another child’s laughter. A piano concerto. A hooting owl. The “silence” of a desert. A foghorn. A church organ. That poor child will never read a

Mom determined: Strike is under way

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) “Mother On Strike Until Contract Is Signed,” reads the sign in the front yard of Michael Dunlap’s home. Mrs. Dunlap, 45, mother of seven, says she went on strike Sunday because her children don’t give her respect and she’s tired of doing everything for everyone. “I guess there comes a time when every mother gets fed up with her kids,” Mrs. Dunlap said Monday. “It used to be that each of the children had chores they were responsible for doing. But after a while, they figure Mom is home and she can do it. “You would be surprised how fast a house can go downhill.” Mrs. Dunlap said her her husband, William, is taking it all in stride. She said her walkout at Christmas time should help end the strike early. That’s because she hasn’t done any Christmas shopping and won’t until things change. “If they wake up Christmas morning without presents, it will be their fault,” she said. Three of her four grown children live in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Mrs. Dunlap said she will stay on strike until the children (there are three at home ages 9 to 14) sign a contract stating: —They will pick up after themselves. —They will treat her with the respect she deserves. “I can’t stand the way they talk to

Families making comeback?

WASHINGTON (AP) The longawaited comeback of the oldfashioned, two-parent family may be under way. The number of married-couple families with children increased by 420,000 this year, reversing a decline that had been in progress since at least 1970, according to the population newsletter The Numbers News. “The long-awaited reversal in the fortunes of the nation’s nuclear families has occurred because many Baby Boomers are marrying and having children after postponing both for years,” reported newsletter

poem by Burns. Or a love letter. Tolstoy. A science magazine. Victor Hugo. A name on a boat. A Christmas card. Mark Twain. The Bible. That poor child will never feel excitement. Or warmth. Love. Anticipation. Awe. The atmosphere of a jazz concert. A cold shower. The satisfaction of a job well done. A friend’s handshake. Reverence. But it seems the parents have never seen, heard, read or felt any of these things either. That’s why they’re willing to deprive their child of them. Maybe that’s the real “wrong” in the world. GORDON BARRETT, GRANADA HILLS, CALIF. DEAR GORDON: True, an unborn child will never experience any of the wonderful things you so eloquently described. But neither will an unborn child feel the pain of poverty. Or prejudice. A Hiroshima. A holocaust. Or a nuclear accident. That lucky child will never be terrorized by youth gangs that kill innocent bystanders in random acts of violence. It will never have to fear disease from polluted air or drinking water, or the deadly consequences of playing in a schoolyard unthinkingly located precariously near a toxic waste dump. An unborn child will never be seduced by drugs, or die before he’s had a chance to live because of a drunken driver. He

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me,” she said. “They tell me what to do. Their tone of voice is like they’re talking to some other kid. ‘I want you to do this now.’” The children haven’t taken the strike very well, she said. “My 11-year-old daughter said she wasn’t going to school today. She is so embarrassed. “My 9-year-old son said I must really hate him to do something like this to him.” Along with not providing household services such as cooking, cleaning and washing clothes, Mrs. Dunlap is not speaking to the children. “That part is really driving them crazy,” she said. The children ate cold cereal Monday morning and searched the house for clothes and other items they couldn’t find. “It got to the point where they would drop something, and it would stay there, or they would spill something and not clean it up,” she said. This isn’t the first time Mrs. Dunlap has gone on strike. Four years ago, while living in North Carolina, she was on strike for three weeks. “It took that long for them to decide they were tired of eating cold cereal and washing their own clothes,” she said. “Things really improved for a long time. But now, they are getting worse again.”

editor Martha Farnsworth Riche. Population experts refer to the twoparent family as “nuclear” because it consists of a small nucleus of parents and children. This increase in married-couple families with children is not surprising, considering the maturing of the Baby Boom generation born after World War 11, she said. “What is surprising is that it took so long.” When that giant generation entered the normal ages for marriage and childbearing, a sharp increase in married couples with children would have been anticipated but it did not occur on schedule.

will never kill or be killed in a senseless war. (Is there another kind?) And finally, he will never know the pain of being born into a family that doesn’t want him, cannot provide for him and resents his presence. DEAR ABBY: Since you published the age classification of dogs to humans, will you please settle the near violent discussions my friends and I (all cat owners) have been having? We hope that you will make similar data available concerning cats. And by the way, “cat owners” may be properly referred to as “cat owned.” RALPH IN LOMITA, CALIF. DEAR RALPH: According to Dr. James Isaacs, my veterinary consultant in Encino, Calif., cats live an average of about four years longer than dogs. In cats, the first two years count for more “human years,” but each year thereafter counts for fewer “human years” than for dogs. The first six months equal 13 years, the second six months equal eight years therefore, the first cat year equals 21 human years. The second cat year equals 10 human years, and each subsequent year equals three human years. Thus, a 10-year-old cat has achieved 55 human years.