The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 25, Milford, Kosciusko County, 11 July 1979 — Page 14

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Soap Opera Fever

‘As the dishes wait, The World turns’

Each weekday afternoon while the dishes soak themselves clean and as the dust collects on the coffee table, thousands of area women (and some men, too) sit in front of their television sets watching soap operas. They watch these daily serials to find out if Bruce will die from an incurable disease, or if Ed will go on another drinking binge, or if Rachel will deceive the world again. And most important: Will Mike and Nancy Carr ever find out what happened to their best friends the Caprices, who just disappeared when the writers Iwil] I VAljl- | (H THE MONTH A I Master 44 7 t nV VI I MECHANIC® ' Wood not incl PAIR i While Supplies Last SAWHORSE BRACKETS Make a sturdy sawhorse with these steel, hinged brackets and your own wood. Flanged nail holes. 300 Quantities Limited I > —f f now\ ill ( 3« / * fi While x Supplies 0 EMPIRE 24-In. GARAGE BROOM Heavy-duty Palmyra bristles. ; Molded plastic block won't absorb water, splinter or crack. 54-in. handle.2s-3819 Quantities Limited 1

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made i efinemi snts in the script. Soaj ies have been making suds for net rly half a century. Will you f|ver f irget si ch forgettables as Follow Your Heart, ” “Concerning Miss Marlowe,” “ Three Steps To Heaven," and “Portia Faces Life?” Or will you ever remember thsm? Soap Operas are just as popular today as they were vhen the first one, “Just Plain Bill” premiered on radio. Why have these shows remained ‘■o successful? Outlet For Daily Ho-Hums Mary women claim the soaps make them realize how lucky they ere when they see how bad off the folks n these shows are. Also hey gve housewives an outlet for the daily ho-hums of cleaniig bathtubs and sweeping floors Still more reasons for the soaps’ popularity are that they’re n five times a week, some for a half hour, some for an hour, and eventually >ne will last 90 minutes (“Another World”). The characters become such a part of the viewers’ daily routines that They seem lite old friends. (Or enemies. Sone of these shows’ baddies have been known to be attacked in public by angry viewe's.) “As The W< rid Turns” was and still s the king of daytime television. First in its 30 minute form, and now in its one hour fjrmat. “World” just keeps spinning along. This particular soap eenters around the perils .and tribulations of the Hughes family. Chris Hughes is a lawyer; his w fe, Nancy, is the Oakdale busy body. The Hughes’ home town s located somewhere in the Northeast. A id besides, if you’ve watched “World’.’ and seen what goes on in Onkdale, you wouldn’t want ogo th' ?re anyway. The H ughes Family The writers of “As The World Turns” (and all the soaps, for that matter) never give their audiences any conception of time ]>assi ig. Just listen to the history of the Hughes family and you’ll see what I mean. Nancy and Chris had three children and Grandpa (Chris’ father). Granipa would always go down o his works lop in the cellar. The Jugties’ kids are all grown now. The eldest, Don, followed in his Pop’s foots eps and became a lawyer. Os course, he didn’t have much choice. Because in Oakdale there are or ly two professions — law and medicine. Don doesn’t stay in Oakdale; he comes and goes And each time he returns, he fas a lew look. (Possibly because he’s been played by seve i differ,mt actors.) The youngest of the three Hughes ch Idren is Bob, the doct ir. He married Lisa, and they had a son, Tom. After Tom was born, Bab and Lisa divorced because she was rotten to the core Penny was the first to find out wha: a bad girl Lisa is. (By the way Penny is Chris and Nancy’s seco id chile and only daughter. > One day, after Penny found out whas a liar < nd cheat Lisa is, she beat Lisa up Then Penny told her victi m that ( he was going to spill the 1 eans to Bob, to tell hinrabout Lisa s bad habits. But as luck would have it, that same night Penny was in an automobile accident and lost her memory Well, Bob finally wised up anyway, learned of Lisa’s lousy

ways, and they split. In the meantime, Grandpa is’still down in his workshop in the cellar. Penny: Unlucky In Love Back to Penny: She’s never been lucky in love. She has had three men and they have all been weirdos. You wouldn’t know they were weird to look at them. But they all had this strange compulsion to put themselves in front of moving cars and get killed. Her first boyfriend was run over; her first husband was killed in the same accident in which Penny lost her memory and hubby number two was also run over. Well, after all of that, Penny decided to stay single. But her bad luck continued. She was convicted of murder, lost her sight and finally went insane. But miracles do happen and she was suddenly cured of everything. Penny then moved to England while Chris and Nancy forgot she existed. Remember Tom, Bob and Lisa’s kid? Tom (who was bom 18 years ago) is now 35. And Bob and Lisa are still 33. Like I told you, they have no conception of time on these shows. The kids get older, while the adults stay the same age for 10 years. In his 18 years Tom has practically doubled his age. (Please don’t try to figure it out.) He has also been in and out of the army, went

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Successful Flotilla on Lake Tippecanoe

The annual Lake Tippecanoe Flotilla, sponsored by the Lake Tippecanoe Women's Auxiliary, Mrs. George (Judy) Paton 111 president, was held Saturday afternoon with, excellent participation. The flotilla of colorful units began their formation in front of the dance hall and went counter-clockwise around the nine-mile shoreline. Judging was in front of the Paton Park where a country music band was set up Boy Scouts go bock to basics The Boy Scout handbook has gone back to plugging such old fashioned virtures as chilvary, preparedness and the abiltiy tc cope in the woods. The newest edition of the handbook is filled with Norman Rockwell illustrations and carries such admonishments as “The knights of old were pledged to protect women. The Scout of todiay treats them with the same high regard.” The last edition, published in 1972, was designed to relate to city youths, with pictures of Scouts in such urban settings as basketball courts and skyscrapers. However, the manual’s 78-year-old author, William Hillcourt, says that “Boys lose the romance of Scouting hanging out in cities they’ve got to get out in the country.” In the last six years, total US Scouting membership — including Boy Scouts, Cubs, Explorers and Leaders — dropped about two million to 4.5 million.

through medical school, then discovering that being a doctor made him ill, went to law school. Now Tom is a top-notch lawyer who has solved two earth-shaking murder cases. His expertise in the courtroom makes F. Lee Bailey look like an amateur. Tom has also enjoyed the thrill of marriage ‘ and the agony of divorce. But there’s nothing unusual about that. Everyone in Oakdale gets divorced at least once, except for Chris and Nancy. While all this was happening, Grandpa is still down in his cellar workshop. Lisa, Tom’s mother and Bob’s ex, is still a naughty girl, but she has mellowed over the years. She’s still young and glamorous, with about a half-dozen exhusbands under her belt. And believe it or not, Lisa still finds time to get pregnant at least once every three years. Bob, Tom’s father and Bisa’s original ex, has only married once since Lisa. Unfortunately, his second wife died of an incurable disease. (Every soap has its incurable disease.) If “As The World Turns” had time spans like us real-life humans have, here’s what the approximate age of the Oakdale folks would be: With Tim 35, Bob and Lisa would be around 55.

to play for picnickers, bathers and viewers. There were five categories from which the following judges made their selections: Joyce Smith of Syracuse, Arch Baumgartner of Milford, Rita Eller of Swayzee, Ward Stevens of Huntington, Dawn Harding of Bel Rohr Park, and Doug Flory of Leesburg. The complete list of winners follows: MOST ELABORATE - Ist, King Tut; 2d, Bam Dance. UNIQUE AND MOST UNUSUAL — Ist, Christmas in July (Santa Claus); 2d, King of Sports and Queen of Lakes. MOST COLORFUL - Ist, Aloha; 2d, Flag Ship. FUNNIEST - Dance Fever; 2d, Tippy Has It (Octopus). CUTEST - Ist, Yellow Sub; 2d, Red Baron. Members of the sponsoring Women’s Auxiliary besides Mrs. Paton are Mrs. Jerry (Edith) Carr, vice president; and Mrs. J. R. (Ann) Lynch, secretary. Reports items missing Mary Schlotterback, 425 South Lake Street, Syracuse, advised police on Wednesday, July 4, that her ex-husband, Jack Schlotterback, had a key to her home and went in and took articles he thought should be his. He left a list of the things he took. ENTERS GUILTY PLEA A fine of S3B was paid by Brian S. ‘Brandon, 19, 707 Medusa St., Syracuse, in Goshen city court. He pleaded guilty to illegal consumption of alcoholic beverages. Brandon was arrested June 16 by Goshen city police in the 100 block of W. Clinton St. in Goshen.

Penny would be about 58 (if someone would remember her), and Don, 61. Which would make Chris and Nancy well into their 80’s. And Grandpa would be about 110. By the way, Grandpa is still down in his workshop in the cellar. — Mickey Sinardi Hanging containers popular Both flowering and nonflowering plants are being grown in a wide assortment of hanging containers these days as their popularity continues. Proper plant selection is important to the successful design, and durability is important. Other things to be considered such as design, color, form, container selection and soil preparation. For more information about these and other things applicable to hanging baskets contact the Cooperative Extension Service or write to Mailing Room, AGAD Building, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Ind. 47907 and request a copy of publication HO-126.

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'/Monopoly' makers steal game ideas

A Manhattan attorney is charging a multi-million-dollar suit against Parker Brothers, the makers of the board game Monopoly, that the corporation is involved in a conspiracy to steal game ideas from inventors. Attorney Carl Person says that three years of investigations for several clients have led him to believe that Parker Brothers has systematically microfilmed ideas of game inventors, then forwarded the ideas to the Chicago design firm of Marvin Glass and Associates. At the Glass organization, person charges, the game designs are changed “just enough "and then sent back to Parker Brothers to be marketed as original ideas of the company. A Brooklyn jury last month awarded one of Person’s clients, Christian Thee, more than $400,000 in royalties that Parker Brothers paid to Marvin Glass and Associates, the nation’s leading designer of toys and games. Thee had charged that Parker Brothers had conspired with Marvin Glass to use his ideas to

YELLOW SUB — Ist Place, Cutest

develop “Masterpiece,” an art auction board game that had sold more than 3.5 million copies for a total of sl4 million. In the present suit, in which there is also a plaintiff, Person charges that prior to Thee’s trial, Parker Brothers and Marvin Glass and Associates had in their possession documents which would prove that Parker Brothers has for years maintained a secret collaborative relationship with the Glass organization. The suit asks for $lO million in punitive damages. Person says he has three other cases of

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alleged “idea” theft currently pending against Parker Brothers and Kenner Products Division of General Mills, the Parent Company. Dana acquires Wix Corporation The Dana Corporation, Toledo, Ohio, announced the completion of the acquisition of Wix Corporation of Gastonia, North Carolina, recently. The announcement was made jointly by Gerald B. Mitchell, Dana president and L. 4J. Alexander, chairman of Wix.