St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 36

2D Fri 31, 1969 ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Ann Landers Jerry T. Baulch G.L Question Box or Billfold After a DEAR JERRY: I retired as a reservist after 20 years of service and am now drawing military retired pay. Can my military service count toward Civil Service retirement credits? Dale St DEAR A.YV LW'DERS: I've been dating Joyce for six weeks She's attractive, not educated, but she really knows how to make a guy feel important. On our third date Joyce told me she had been in a detention if, 1 4 VI J.H.W., St. Louis A CAREER military man who retires after 20 years of active duty and draws military retirement pay cannot credit his military service for Civil Service purposes unless his military pay is based on a disability incurred in line of duty in wartime.

But you apparently are a reservist whose 20 years is 'based on both active and inactive duty. Such persons may count for Civil Service credits over their active duty periods wartime, two-week training duties, except when these periods came if home for picking up items in a department store. Last week we visited my brother in the hospital. The next day the nurse called to ask if I had taken Hal's watch "for safekeeping." It was on his night table and now they can't find it. A--i' isiir Si I 4 1" Baulch Jerry T.

1 tU fevUnlit" 4 Last night when I got home from a date with Joyce, my wallet was missing. I'm not concerned about the $40. It's the credit cards and driver's license I need. I could fall in love with Joyce if I let myself go. So far we've Ann Landers while he was also on the active Civil Service rolls.

DEAR JERRY: I plan to retire In a few months, at which time I will receive a Civil Service annuity and I think I also will qualify for the minimum Social Security benefits. Will that income in any way affect my eligibility to continue receiving 30 per cent rated compensation income for World War II-connected disability? A.O., Wentworth, Mo. INCOME FROM other sources has. absolutely nothing to do with eligibility for service-connected disability compensation. So your's won't be affected a bit.

DEAR JERRY: My husband has -n a Specialist Fifth Class since April and is presently serving in V.etnam. He has been told he owes 'he Army $695.20 because I was supposed to have stopped Bob Dylan end Joan Baez getting allotment checks each month. What we don't understand i. my checks should stop. He sends me $324 each month, but aren't I entitled to an allotment check also? Another words as well as the music.

question. We had a daughter Aug. 24 and my husband, when he apparent narcissism, jred about told we could get some- she beautifully sustains "Sad- Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" for for her by claiming her at the end of the vear on our income more than 11 minutes? tax return- Is this true? MRS. I.D., St. Louis Other highlights are a re- APPARENTLY vou were Eettinc the mandatory automatic Baez Byiuu markable a cappeila perform By Harper Barnes Of the IVt-Dispatrli Staff just exchanged a few kisses.

I hate to think what I'm thinking. Any advice? NO I.D. IF YOU'VE been exchanging kisses with this girl I suggest you count your teeth. Joyce is either a kleptomaniac or a thief, probably the latter, since kleptomaniacs steal items they have no use for. Before you propose, I hope you will consider what life would be like for the kiddies when their mother is in the klink.

DEAR ANN: I am 15 and already 38-24-38. My aunt gives me her nice clothes when she gets tired of them. In the last batch was a beautiful cocktail sweater. I took off the beads and it looks great. The only thing is, Ann, the sweater is cut sort of low.

It's not too tight and I am careful not to betid over, but like I said, it has a low neckline. I wore the sweater to school last week and two of my best friends said it looked "cheap." I don't know if they are jealous or if they said it for my own good. It's a very expensive sweater and I'd like to keep wearing it, but I don't want to wreck my reputation. Can you advise me? JACKPOT JANE WEAR A white blouse under the sweater and you'll even be able to bend over if you want to. Cocktail necklines are not appropriate for school.

DEAR ANN: I'm a girl, 1G, not beautiful but better than average looking. Everyone says I have a nice personality. The trouble is I don't get asked out because I live in a dump. This neighborhood is so crummy you can't believe it. Several guys at school seem to like me but the minute I give 'them my address they disappear forever.

Mom and Dad are divorced and we have trouble paying the rent, so please don't tell we should move. I know we should but we can't afford to. Just tell me what a girl is supposed to do when she can't get dates cause she lives in a slum. CHICKEN POX MANY A GAL who lives in a swanky suburb has given her address to a boy and never heard from him again. Buys are interested in good company and" they'll go any place to dale a girl who is a pealing.

The problem is you, Toots, not your address. Take inventory and find out what's missing. Do you feel ill at east out of it? Is everybody having a food time but you? Writ for Ann ance of "Tears of rolling country power on "You Ain't Coin' Nowhere" and is Just a Four-Letter Word" and more traditional folk treatment of "Girl From the North Country" and "Boots of Spanish Leather." All in all, it is her best album in quite a while. allotment given the wives of all men in the three lowest grades. When your husband was promoted to grade 5 this mandatory allotment was supposed to stop.

His pay officer apparently stopped deducting the portion of his pay for the allotment but the finance office in Indianapolis didn't get the word to stop your checks. So the overpayment has to be paid back. It's up to an E5 or higher to allot what he wants to his wife. The quarters allowance of $105 is part of his pay each month to use or allot as he wants. The extra daughter entitles your husband to no extra allotment; he gets the same no matter how many dependents he has.

What the remark meant was that you can use the new daughter as an added income tax deduction. Still, they were the best of friends for a couple of years in the pastoral, neo-Wobbly past. The break and it was never a complete one came sometime alter the lf)(5 Newport Folk Festival. Dylan came out on slage with a rock band and, laughing all the while proceeded to pound to shards his reputation as the heir to Woody Cuth-rie and Pete Seeger. Some of the gentle folkniks threw chairs.

APART FROM the poetry of his songs, perhaps Dylan's most signiliratit feat has been to BY TODAY'S violent standards in pop music and pop politics, there is something unalterably square about Joan She prefers Cliandi to Che, tells the rebels at San Francisco State they are making fools of themselves, and continues to perform as if the raucous sounds of Dada rock had never been invented. Jt is strange that she ever got together with Bob Dylan half punk, half guru, probably America's best young songwriter, possibly its best poet. Bill Vauglian Says stretch the lyric line (to "break the pentameter," as Ezra Pound once said), and permit the sort of odd-shaped free verse heard in many recent pop John Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind," Jim 's "MacArthur Park," Paul Simon's "The Sound of Silence," to name a few. One of his most successful lyrics is a long, rambling, metaphor -laden love song called a -E Lady of the Lowlands." It is rumored that the song was written for and about Joan Baez. Now, Miss Baez has gone down to Nashville hasn't everyone? and recorded a loveiy, two-record album of Dylan songs.

The album is called Any Day Now (Vanguard At her renditions sci'n a bit cold for the blurs-spiritual sound of much of Dylan's later work. This is particularly true "I Shall Be Released," one of his best songs, on which she is accompanied by a choir that must have been left over from an old Kate Smith recoril-i session. Mostly, however, she comes across strong kit gontle, with feeling for the Wheels' as THERE IS nothing metaphysical about the Irish Rovers, who seem bent on having a good time despite it ail. They have a ringing styleperhaps a little les5 ethnic than the Clancy Brothers, but Irish nor.ethe'ers. Soinc 0 listening to those fine, biogues conjures a on their recent allium, nU- entitled All En (Decca DL 75037), in-elude "Whiskey on a Sunday," "Up Amm the Heather" and "Docs Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavor on the Bedpost Over Night?" Tom Shipley and Mike Brewer are a good, moirn folk duo with the mildest of rock over-ton es.

They harmonize quite nirolv on Brewer snd Shipley D'MVti in SP 415-1). the chill index was invented. THE PROPOSAL is to in-c re a congressional salaries from $30,000 to $50,000, and Congressman Sludgepump says noc even his severest critics could challenge the abilities of a man who is able to get a raise like that. THE SYNDICATED brains of Washington av stopped the Nixon Cabinet ap oi checked their credentials and told them they can go ahead with only a warning not to get in trouble. MARIANO RUMOR is the new premier of Italy.

Victory headline: "Rumor Hath It." THE POPULAR song says we don't need another mountain, but we, may get several if we don't figure out something else to do with our trash. WE HAVE our own candidate for high commissioner of baseball, but probably Charles de Gaulle would say he was too busy. GRANDPA tells about how cold its used to get when he was a boy, and that was even before anders boiddt't, "The. Key to Popularity, inclosing uilli your requent cents in coin and a long, self-addressed, slumped envelope. George C.

Thosteson, M.D. Why Weight Fluctuate her blc ANOTHER OF Miss M.B.'s difficulties in losing weight (see letter in yesterday's column) is that she has "an uncontrolla-appctite one week each month. I gain anywhere from 3 to 1 pounds and then lose it. My bhould when it should show charge" "charge By Michael Lamm DEAR MIKE: I recently painted (lie head of my engine with aluminum paint. A friend "'told me this will make the car run hotter than normal the aluminum paint ififlccis the heat downward and back into the block.

Any (ruth to Ibis? SILVER NOPE. Most new engines are painted silver at lie factory. Even black paint, which holds heat, couldn't affect engine temperature more than a decree or two. DEAR MIKE: I pur.lvised a new Tempest sedan in 10G7. At the time, the salesman told me it had a two-barrel carburetor, but actually it has the four-barrel instead.

I'm primarily after gas economy, so can I switch my present carburetor for the two-barrel? Also, can I have this done under warranty? MISMATCHED YOU DON'T mention which engine you hav in your Tem-p t. Even so, I'm sure it's physically possible to rwap carburetors, but this will also mean changing intake manifolds. together, the tab should run around $100. including 'tbor. That means you'll have to drive at least 40.000 miles at an average improvement of two miles 111 wu MWHMIBIIWWIMBW'af8ai mother says this hunger is all in my head." These few words point out two problems that affect many folks who think they can't reduce.

One is fluid retention. Most women retain some water in the system just before menstruation, then lose it. (If this is an extreme a a physician can prescribe effective medication.) But fluid retention or loss is important in another way. PI 1 lumber DEAR MIKE: My Corvette leaks something awful under tite cb.hl: every time it rains. 1 think it's leaking through holes where the windshield wipers are.

Any idea how to stop this? WET VETTE THIS IS a pretty common complaint with 1 1 owners. Apparently, cracks develop down inside the cowl vent plenum. To remedy this, remove the cowl-vent grille (the louvered panel or pane's just ahead of the windshield). They come off; by removing the wiper armsj and undoing a few screws. Then slather plenty of body caulking down into the cracks and seams; Willi -v Dr.

Thosteson It all depends on whelhe He 5 CERTIFIED inside the plenum chamber. Fi per gallon to break even. In oth- er words, the change wouldn't nV spray the recesses care- make sense from a financial IU1IY Wlln lne new WK 01 un" standpoint. As for having this dercoating that comes in aero- If lie's slie should call him if you don't have plenty of hot water at all times for every need sol cans. Be careful not to spray any of this onto the paint above the vent, though.

You ran write to Mike Lamm in care of the If lie's she should call him if you're tired of that half-hearted spray from your shower ami want an invigorating one every morning word done under warranty, I don't believe you have a prayer. DEAR MIKE: I bought a new 12-voIt battery for my 1962 Ford three weeks ago, and it promptly went dead. I had it charged up at a filling station, and a few days later it was dead again. I totd the attendant about it, and he says I probably put the battery in backwards. I am writing to find out the 1962 Ford has a positive or negative ground, REVOLTED POSITIVE ground.

That means the battery post with the little plus sign on it goes to the braided bare -m a 1 ground Conpf'cta Lino cf MEM'S BIG AND TALL SIZES TO 60 Robert Hall Clothes 8934 RIVERVISW DR. Some "crash diets" prohibit salt or even (very unwisely) try to limit the amount of water a person drinks, Limiting salt reduces the amount of water the tissues retain, removing water can seem to shed quite a bit of weight in a hurry. But there soon conies a limit to the "drying out" process. After that, the same diet brings a much slower loss of weight. It is important to understand this, because some dieters at that point become discouraged and insist, "After the first few days, I just can't lose any more." They can but slower, and they should not give up at that stage.

As to the "uncontrollable appetite," there is no physiological explanation for it which leaves what? A psychological one. It is human nature to react to emotional stress. The means varies: jitters, losing one's temper, resorting to alcohol, and many others. Some people react to stress by eating. This is so well recognized that some experts who specialize in severe obesity problems insist that a patient on a strict reducing regimen also have some psychiatric counseling.

This is to give some insight, some understanding of the emotional quirks which lead him to eat too much. I'm not saying that everyone who wants to reduce needs a psychiatrist. Far from it! But some do. And it is important also for folks to realize how much sheer habit is involved in obesity. It may not be easy, but habits can be changed and it is vital to do so.

V. The above is a sketchy outline of a few of the topics which are discussed in detail in my new booklet, "Lost Secrets of Reduc-, ing." Whether you need to lose a lot or only a little, the booklet can make the task easier, and surer, and most important of all, it can make the results permanent. The booklet, of course, includes such necessities as a proper reducing diet, calorie charts, lists of snacks to avoid, information how to tailor a diet to fit your exact needs, and how to avoid monotony. The booklet is available by mail. For a copy, send 3a cents in coin and a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope to Dr.

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I don't know, I. don't know, if I can keep from lettin' it show, what's our plan, what's our plan, you know they won't un-der-stand, well my hair is drip-pin' wet, and ev-'ry-bod-y's in a great big sweat, 'cause We'd be delighted!) GNICKEN DEUG-NT TRY US AT ANY OF THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: Hijhay 140 260511 Ave, HMSSaO MI3 0US muim)SU Clearance tthiclis, coals, shift and juckcl. Industry Council rumi OF ST. LOUIS 230 South Bemiston Clayton, Missouri 63105 in a ce-ment pond. I hey wont a we won't take, to swim-min' S53! Olive St.

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