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'V THE REPUBLIC. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1974 PAGE SIX At Wits End i .3 Hearted Inflation Fighter Small Appliances Ear Piercing Not For Faint- "I'll watch," I said. I came to with my head in "baked goods" and my feet in "better sportswear." "Is it over?" I gasped. "Yes," said my daughter.

"You did fine. You passed out just after you asked the anesthesiologist what kind of anesthetic he used and he turned out to be the jewelry buyer. See my earrings?" She flipped back eight pounds of hair to reveal a little gold ring the size of a comma in her earlobe. It was hardly worth my scrubbing up for. "Pale people make me faint.

Is that so strange?" "No, but I don't see what bothers you about something so simple," "If it" was so simple an operation, Good Housekeeping would have put out a kit on it. Of course, if you want to defy your mother and go ahead and have Ann, the butcher, perform this primitive operation on her kitchen table, your mother will stand by through the three grades of infection." "All right," said my daughter. "I'll have it done in a department store If you buy their earrings, they'll pierce your ears." piercee." I said. "Where would you go to have it done?" "Ann could do it." "Ann! The girl who plays with her gum and never washes her hands after she plays with the dog1 Absolutely not!" "There's nothing to it. You just put an ice cube behind your ear to numb it and push a sterilized needle through.

You wouldn't have to watch." "Hah! I suppose you think that would bother me?" "You wouldn't go to see "Love Story" because they didn't have a nurse in attendance in the lobby." By ERMA BOMBECK Publishers Hall Syndicate "How do you feel about girls piercing their asked my daughter. "My feeling is that your body is your own and if a girl wants to punch holes in her ear-lobes with an icepick, it is strictly her own business. We don't live in the Victorian era anymore. Everyone is a human being in her own right and it is her decision to make." "I'm thinking of piercing mine," she said. "Over my dead body!" 'But you just said it was up to the girl." "That's before I knew you were the Remember that the size of an appliance is no indication of the amount of energy it consumes.

But using small kitchen appliances can save energy in preparation of small meals Try to keep portable rooking appliances out of drafts which reduce their efficiency. Toasters, waffle irons, electric grills and skillets, bean pots, fondues, popcorn poppers, electric coWee pots and bottle warmers usually require less energy than a stove when used correctly. Many portable appliances can double as serving dishes, which cuts down on the number of dishes to be washed. Do you have a clvr way to iav energy or fight inflation? Send your idea to "Inflation Fighter," The Republic, PO Box 10, Columbuj, Ind. Beit ideas will be used in future columns.

Mental Health Tri Kappa Again Collects Gifts By JEAN PRATHER Women's Editor lumbus center, J. Cole Men's Clothiers, A supermarket, Paul Harris, Taylor Drugs. Also, 25th Street center, Dell's, Northside Drugs, Potpourri; Eastbrook center, Happy House, Grant's, Standard supermarket, Hook's Drugs, Grecian Room hair salon; Holiday center, Warsh House, Weight Watchers, Granny's Nook, Northside Drugs. Also, East Columbus, Coff-man Drugs, Benzol Laundromat, Stanfield's; other locations, Halo Beauty salon, Thrif-T-Mart supermarket on Central. Christmas season began Wednesday in Bartholomew county when the Mental Health association began its campaign to gather its quota of at least 852 gifts for mental health patients.

As in past years, the local collection is a project of Kappa Kappa Kappa sorority chapters. Mrs. WendSl Ross is chairman this year assisted by Mrs. William Goodwin, Mrs. Ronald Gandy, Mrs.

Jack Lloyd. Mrs. Fred Risk and Mrs. Richard Wigh, all members of the charity and civic affairs committees. Gifts collected locally will be distributed by volunteers to residents of Muscatatuck State hospital in Jennings and made from washable fabric that does not require ironing.

Gifts in glass bottles and other items which might produce a safety hazard should be avoided. Gifts for men are in greater demand bathrobes, shaving lotion, shirts, slippers or washable scuffs, sweaters or sweat shirts, belts, tobacco, cigars, pipes, shaving cream or shaving kit bags are all needed. Suggested gifts for women include cosmetics, dresses, hand lotion, panty hose, play shoes, slacks or sweaters. Tri Kappa members have placed the collection boxes, decorated appropriately by Girl Scout Cadette troop No. 225, in the following locations: downtown, Dell's, Irwin Union Trust main bank, Tovey's, Brunings, Citizens Savings and Loan, Countryside House, Sears Roebuck and Village Shoppe; Co SICKLE CELL CENTER Technicians ot the Sickle Cell Anemia foundation, 3549 North College, Indianapolis, Eleonora Moreland, left, ond Deidra Ervin, explain the technique of testing which will be conducted at the first free sickle cell information a nd testing center in Columbus from 1 1 a.m.

to 2 p.m. Saturday at the North Christian church. It is estimated one in 10 black Americans has the inherited sickle cell trait. county at parties on Christmas day. Over 35 designated boxes have been placed in downtown Columbus and shopping center places of business for the convenience of donors.

Collection dates are Nov. 6 to Dec. 6. The goal is to-make sure that no patient at any state mental hospital or training center is forgotten at Christmastime. As more and more patients are being transferred to nursing homes, they are also being included.

"Let Love Shine In" is the 1974 campaign theme announced by Billy Keller, star of the Indiana Pacers basketball team, state Christmas gift campaign chairman for 1974. Individuals, sororities, church groups, homemaker clubs and civic groups are reminded to buy extra gifts as they do their Christmas shopping to remember mental health patients. Patients have been asked about the sort of gifts they would like to have at Christmas. Volunteers working on the Christmas program then make every effort to fulfill their wishes. Unfortunately, members of their families cannot or will not be with them at holiday time.

The Mental Health association advises that gifts should be new, wrapped, unbreakable and identified on the outside of the packages. If clothing is purchased, it should be a size larger than the donor ordinarily wears, Chicken Storage Home frozen fresh raw chicken should be held in a zero-degree freezer no longer than four to six months. Home-cooked chicken, about two months. Sponsors Montsho Suhuba Sickle Cell Clinic offering complete MUSICAL RUMMAGE SALE I've said it before and I'll say it again I never cease to be amazed at the new ideas groups in this town have for fund-raising projects. On Saturday the area chapter of the Choristers Guild, in which members are junior choir directors of about 20 churches in Columbus.

Seymour, Greenwood, Blooming-ton and Bedford, will have a music rummage sale at the First United Presbyterian church in Columbus. Hours will be 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. in the gymnasium. For sale at very reasonable prices will be music scores from church and personal music libraries which no longer are used, including anthems and other choir music, vocal solos, organ and piano music, perhaps even some secular music.

Individuals are invited, too, but the sponsors think those most interested will be musicians and choir leaders from other churches, especially those with small budgers but lots of enthusiasm for their music program. The price of printed music is going up along with everything else. School choir directors also might be interested. On a national basis, about one-third of the membership of the Choristers Guild includes directors of public school choirs Music that remains at the conclusion of the sale will be donated to missions, according to John Burgeson, president of the area Guild chapter, and choir director at the North Christian church. Other officers are David Shreve, vice-president, of the First Baptist church in Seymour.

Sam Chizmar. secretary, First Christian church, and Ramon Hass. treasurer. First United Presbyterian church Proceeds from the sale will help defray the expenses of the Festival of Youth Choirs which is planned in Columbus next March 9. Burgeson has announced that Ronald Nelson of Minneapolis, national board member of the Choristers Guild, has agreed to serve as director.

Mrs. John Burgeson is chairman of the festival which will include the youth choirs of eight or nine local churches. PLEASANT REUNION Opal Cutsinger of Newsom road was visited Monday by her stepsister. Mrs. Carlton McDonald of Indianapolis, and her stepfather.

Leo John Hart. 92. who is Mrs. McDonald's father. Mr.

McDonald and the McDonalds' daughter Diana, all of Indianapolis. This was the first I I 1 1 .1 and PRE-SCH00L 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. 3 and 4-year-olds 2 or 3 mornings DAY CARE 6:30 a.m. p.m. full or part-time enrollment openings Saturday can in Indiana," WJAN, national public radio.

Barbara Houston is assistant director of the community services of the Sickle Cell Anemia center. She is a registered nurse, taught history at the university level and was director of nursing services at Community hospital in Louisville, Ky. Transportation to the North Christian church for the Saturday seminar and clinic is available by calling Jean Howard, 372-4144. trolled through precautionary measures and prompt treatment. Special efforts are being made to reach bi-racial families and urging parents to attend the clinic with their children.

Any person between the ages of six months and 18 years must have a consent form signed by a legal guardian before testing can be administered by the staff. Forms can be obtained by calling Mercedes Walker be- tinder-corner, inc. Final plans have been made for the first sickle cell seminar and testing clinic in Columbus from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the North Christian church.

Sponsored locally by Mon-sho Suhuba. black women's social service organization, the free information and diagnostic project will be conducted by staff members of the Indianapolis Sickle Cell Anemia foundation. Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease that primarily afflicts black people, but sometimes is found in other races. The sickle cell trait is present in about one in 10 black Americans. Through strains of heredity, about one in 400 blacks actually has the debilitating disease.

Although no cure has been found as vet. the disease can be con- 1 7th Home Ave. Ph. 376-3011 tween 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

at 372-0862. or forms can be obtained at the church prior to testing. Local workers are contacting the 18-25-year age group for special emphasis in Pr71 Come taking part in the testing as. Buy Now While Stock Prices Last sees our BRICK Geraniums To Be Sold in Spring unit uiebe iiiemuers oi ine iamny nau seen eacn otner in about 20 years. Mrs.

Cutsinger had found the name of an aunt in the Indianapolis telephone directory and corresponded with her The aunt, in turn, contacted Mrs. McDonald and the I Indianapolis group decided to drive to Columbus and sur- I prise Mrs Cutsinger. It was a pleasant surprise and she called her sons and. daughters and their families in the Columbus area to join I Members of Delta Theta Tau soronety met Tuesday for a business meeting at Donner cen-' ter Along with a report of the province convention at Vin-cennes. and a discussion of the annual Christmas dance, members voted to sell a larger num- ber geranium plants again next spring.

The sale will be conducted the week end before Mother's day at this is the age group in which most marriages take place and inherited traits in their children can be predicted. The Indianapolis Sickle Cell Anemia center deals with, education counseling, laboratory research and medical services. It is a composite of Indiana university and Indianapolis Community services. The center's board is comprised of physicians, and it operates on a grant from the National Institute of Health-Heart and Lung division. The Rev.

Boniface Hardin is director of Martin center and Institute of Afro-American Studies as well as the Indianapolis Sickle Cell Anemia center. He also is editor of the Afro-American Journal, producer and host of the Afro-American program on channel 20 WFYI. producer and host of the "Afro-Ameri- tne reunion I hey included Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bean.

Dwayne. Donetta and David; Mr. and Mrs. Noah Dile; Mr. and Mrs.

Benjamin Lewis and son. Benjamin Samuel; Mr and Mrs. Jackie Cutsinger, Sharon and Rickie; Mr and Mrs Roger Cutsinger. Stacy and Jessie Cutsinger and Gary Cutsinger. Learn how easy it is to install durable, fireproof Z-Brick to a Jj IffiHBlMllHq various points throughout tne city.

The demand was so great this past vear that a greater kinds of walls and give them that prestige touch Because it doesn't require exact precision, Z-Brick goes up quickly almost CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ART For several months now. members of the art division of the Columbus Arts Guild have been taking turns furnishing paintings for the Chamber of Commerce offices gives the offices a nice touch, and incidentally, has sold a number of paintings for the artists. At present those in the mini exhibit are by Sharon Renner, who is chairman this vear of the division. as quickly as paneling No special tools or skills required Add the charm and traditional character of brick to your home Living Room Family Room Patio Dining Area Study Siding number of plants has been or-jdered to be available on those dates 1 Seven women will be initiated Nov. 19 at the Holiday Inn motel meeting room.

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