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Wife's Singing EmbarrassesBy OBERT PETERSONQ.“My wife sang insome operettas as a girl. Now a half century later she’s been reading your advice about using talents and has decided to shareher vocalwith theworld. We can’t go to aparty or to anyone’s house without her telling folks she’s resuming her singing career. Ten seconds afteranyone asks her to sing, she’s croaking away on the ‘Indian Love Call’ orsomething. How can I get her to realize folks arelaughing at her? She ac tually thinks she’s great.”A.— If she can make people laugh she’s a better entertainer than mostsingers. Personally, I get a kick out of anyone who displays a willingness to entertain. Most parties and gatherings need a bit of live talent, whether it’s good or bad. Remind yourself that you’re probably oversensitive, and that others may react more favorably to your wife’s talents. Give her some credit for sensing audience reaction. If she’smakincr a fnnl nf h*rsplfwouldn’t take a job on abet. Just not having to get up in the morning till I feel like it makes oldworthwhile. Iage love music,reading, plays, movies, baseball, and football. I getmy own meals and bet onthe horses. I haven’t timefor a job and hope to hit 100 just ambling along the way1 am.ft2\.— You’re a lucky dog to savor your leisure! time, and to have enough money hitting your postboxyourmonthly to give you peace of mind. More power to you. But a great many olderpeople don’t enjoy just sitting around. They wantspecific chores or part-timejobs to keep the cobwebsAll 4 EscapeesCaptured, BackIn Sheridan JailRushville lt;#)FourescapeesSheridanCounty jail have been captured and returned to the jail, officials said Friday.The quartet broke out Sun-from their minds. Andhandsofandmanyneed the extra moneythemQ. —“My husband neverdrank anything strongerthan sherry until he retired.Now he’s at the bourbon adozen times a day, and when I remind h i m it’scostly and harmful snaps that it’s his money and his health and he’ll do as he pleases.What can I do? He just sits there in a blue fog and won’t go anyplace.”A. — Not much. Retired folks who find hard liquormore comforting than carpentry or canasta are hard to rehabilitate. It’s not uncommon for retired men and sometimes womento start drinking excessively simply to banish theboredom of emptv hours.Try to talk Old Grandad into going back to work, or see if you can’t get him in volved in local clubs orplane is “somewhere between Arnold and O’Neill.”community activities to keep his mind off the bottle.If you would like a booklet, Basic Health Rules for Older People, writeThe search the weekend of arch 29-30 will cover 16,000miles of the stateto Robert Peterson, c/o Dispatch Letter Service, 15 W. 45th St., New York, N.Y. 10036, enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope and 10 cents to cover handling costs.squarewhich will be dividedareas, he said.No Ground Unitslieilig said he search willunitsnot use ground units since“we could easily lose more people if the search were on the ground because of t h e terrain in the area which willbe searched.”He said the plane had a capability to fly another 470 miles after it passed over North Platte, “which leaves a lot of area that it conceivablycould be in.”lost whileThe plane was returning to Sioux Falls, S.D., from a debate tournament inColorado Springs, Colo.An intensive search was launched for the plane after itbutwas lost, but snow cover greatly hampered the search efforts.theMissing are the plane’spilot, Frayne D. Anderson, 43, debate team coach K, Donand studentsTibbetts, 34,Estwick of Milan, Linda Heideman ofJoyceMinn.,Rapid City, S.D., At Jensen of Pipestone, Minn., and James Housek of Mission, Kan.
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Lincoln Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Mar 08, 1969
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