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-1 Ann Landers THE STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1972 D-13 She Hitched Ride to Rape It's a fact that older men prefer younger women, perhaps to reassure themselves (and -others) that they are still attractive and that age has not done them too much violence. Another well known fact: Young men prefer older women. It's a relief to be free of the strain of the emptyheaded and egocentric chick on the make. Older women are less demanding and more understanding. Younger men respond to their warmth and maturity with gratitude.

Strange as it may seem, I am NOT referring to sex exclusively, but to business relationships as well. I take a dim view of the theory that younger men like older women because they don't swell, they don't tell, and they are grateful as hell. Let's face it, older women are just nicer to be with. Over Forty And Relaxed Dear Over Forty: The reader mail, as a result of that column, made It abundantly clear that plenty of women told, yelled, and swelled after forty. Thanks for writing.

Don't flunk your chemistry test. Love is more than one set of glands calling to another. If you have trouble making a distinction you need Ann's booklet, "Love or Sex and How to Tell the Difference." Send a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope with your request and 35 cents in coin to The State Journal. road; in shock, my face badly bruised, but lucky to be alive. Fortunately, a police car came by and picked me up.

I've made an appointment with a psychiatrist so I can talk out my horror story and get rid the nightmares. The image of that man's face, those woods, the car they haunt me night and day. One final word to every girl who reads this: If you are assaulted as I was, report it at once to the police. They will try to find the man and put him where he belongs, away from society. Rapists are sick people and they need help.

I had heard that the police get their kicks from listening to the lewd details but I didn't get that impression from the police who questioned me. They were very kind and helpful, and they did everything possible to calm me and reduce my humiliation. Please print my letter, Ann. It took a lot of guts to write it and maybe SOMEBODY will listen. Thanks.

Learned From Experience. Dear Learned: Here It is and my thanks for writing it. The first moral of this story, girls, Is DON'T ACCEPT RIDES WITH STRANGERS. Dear Ann Landers: May I share something that came to me after several years of thinking and re-thinking concepts of love, sex, and why certain people seem to gravitate toward each other? Nancy Stahl Normally I never watch TV in the morning. But normally I don't step in a five gallon bucket of scrub water or receive three nasty phone calls in a row, two of which were from perfect strangers.

By 10 a.m. I felt that it was time for a little sit down. Since the only reading material handy was a melodramatic little medical epic entitled "Goodbye, Tonsils," I turned on the television. There sat a woman in a blue leotard with her ankles clasped primly behind her neck. "TRY TOUCHING your nose with the tip of your tongue," she trilled gaily.

"You can't do it, of course, but it does tone up those naughty neck muscles." I have news for you, lady. I've been able to touch my nose with my tongue since I was eight years old. Licking your nose isn't a particularly attractive ability. If I had my choice, I'd rather be able to play the clarinet. I mean, even if people knew that you could do -it, it's nothing that you are ever likely to be called upon to do at parties.

Even dull parties. And as for toning up naughty neck muscles, my neck muscles have been carrying on in a shocking, even scandalous way, regardless. "GET DOWN on your hands and knees," she exhorted. "Stick your chin out as far as It will go, bare your teeth, and sway your head back and forth." When I tried this, I upset our dog so badly that he shoved his favorite slipper into my mouth, crawled under the sofa, and sulked. Unfortunately, before I could drop the slipper, the children came home for lunch.

Now, it's a bit of a shock for a child to see the Rock That They Cling To, Their Invinci-. ble Buffer Against Life's Vicissitudes, obviously in the grip of some horrid malady that has reduced her to groveling on the linoleum and gnawing a red corduroy slipper. I suppose that under those harrowing circumstances they had every reason to resort to shock therapy. I just wish that the bucket of scrub water hadn't been quite so handy. spent 37 of my 73 years in Los Angeles County and still don't feel at home." I have also heard from Mrs.

Helen T. Bardo of the Lusk Woman's Club, herself the author of the leaflet. "The Lusk Woman's Club," she writes, "has received from one of your readers a request for information about employment in Lusk, due to having read in your column a story about Lusk. Her comment is that Lusk possesses what she is looking for in a town, as related by you. "OUR CORRESPONDENT and your reader," Mrs.

Bardo continues, "seems to be a bit out of the ordinary, for she signs herself and her note is written-on UNICEF stationery. This may not seem of greatest importance to you but it does say a bit about her and her interests." Mrs. Bardo asks how I got the leaflet, and explains that it was written because the woman's club was "tired of wives of men who might want to move here, and who would insist they wouldn't be caught dead in a little place like Lusk Mrs. Bardo's leaflet certainly makes Lusk sound nice, even if the wind does blow the children off the sidewalk. But if I were a woman who called herself "Ms." and wrote on UNICEF stationery I wouldn't go near the place.

She might get herself thrown off a railway boxcar. (C) 1972, By The Let Angeles Time Dear Ann Landers: I was told at least 2,000 times the very thing I'm going to tell others and I didn't listen because I always believed terrible things happens to other people. Not me. I'm talking about rape. Two weeks ago I was hitchhiking, a practice I developed three years ago as a college freshman.

It made better sense than waiting for the bus I thought. For three years I hitchhiked and never ran into trouble 'til a week ago Sunday when I was picked up by what appeared to be a pleasant, middle-aged fatherly type. I had always heard that If a man tries something funny you should kick him where it will do the most good and run. Well, I didn't have a chance. This man seemed so nice and respectable.

Suddenly he turned on to a back road which he described as a shortcut. The next thing I knew he was dragging me out of the car, ripping off my clothes and choking me. I realized the guy was crazy and a crazy person will kill if he runs into too much resistance. I figured I'd better not fight him. An hour later I stumbled back on the main BERRY'S WORLD 1972 kr MA, VWell, I think I'll call it a day.

This is Larry O'Brien signing off." Jack Smith Life in Lusk Not AH Sweet If you were to open a map of the United States and stick a pin in it with your eyes shut, there would be no place the pin could go that someone living in Los Angeles wasn't from. The other day I reported on the virtues of Lusk, as set forth in a leaflet put out by the Lusk Woman's Club to disabuse other women of the idea that life in a Wyoming town of only 1,495 people is necessarily harsh and dreary. JLTHE LEAFLET, I noted; was lyric as well as factual, with allusions to "cool summer nights, golden falls, bright, mild and open winters, spring's towering white masses of clouds, and dark blue midnight skies seen from horizon to horizon The first former Luskan to check in was Royal Stigile of North Hollywood. On first reading about his hometown, Stigile had an attack of nostaliga, but on second thought it went away. "Your article about Lusk brought back memories to me," he writes.

"Now that I'm practically retired and am thinking of some place away from the big city with its smog and traffic I thought that description of Lusk sounded real good. Win at Bridge By OSWALD AND JAMES JACOBY Al Sobel was a tournament director by profession and in his prime he was the greatest. XORTJS 32 A Void V432 97 KJ876543 "WEST BAST A3 A Void VQW8S VAKJ975 KJ52 AQ8643 AQ109 2 BODTU (JO AKQJI09ST 6542 Woid, 10 ef Void 37odb TufecraMe West Korfla, Sooth Pass Tut Taat 2 Pass 4 NX Pass 5 Pass Pass Pass Xfela RedtfePaaa Pass 6 DU Paa Pass Past Opening leerlV Senior Forum V4- By TOM COLLINS My wife says I always bragged too much about how much money I had or how much I So with retirement coming on, she contends I'm bragging again about what we'll have'and that we'll wind up living off our children. We have $25,000 invested in savings and we'll get $350 in combined Social Security while I get a pension of $150. We own our home.

Just how poor are we? See if you can set tw straight. C.W.D. A You are rich. Tell your wife to find something else to fret about. As it Is with budgets, savings habits and most other things of life, people of retirement age wont switch gears on their security, thinking.

And it's the Ume to switch. Why you are rich: On your $25,000 savings you are probably getting 5 per cent or roughly $100 a month. Youll get a total of He to peaks know but happen. 12 He by redouble. In slam better clubs.

contract on it but enough. He trumps. and, heard alike $500 means $125,000. $125,000 to cent. wife savings, That's hay.

If people what they'll space, Earl Wils on Arthur Godfrey Hasn't Retired NEW YORK Arthur Godfrey seized me by my beautiful lapels at Count Basie's reopening of the St. Regis Roof and said: "Make clear I have NOT retired. I've only quit CBS." Recounting that he's on Chet Huntley's radio syndicate with 1,500 outlets, with 3 TV specials due, plus his auto commercials, Arthur said, "I ain't about to quit work, goddam it, I like it!" Wm. B. Williams, introducing him to the Count Basie fans including Artie Shaw (wearing a bolo tux tie) and Mrs.

Tony Bennett, celebrating her 22d (uh huh, 22d) birthday, said "Arthur's such a salesman, he could sell Martha Mitchell." Beautiful singer Lorna Thompson of West-field, N.J. went to an agent at 10 a.m. to audition for a toothpaste commercial and was told to take her clothes off. Strip for a toothpaste commercial? She thought it strange, too, and didn't Godfrey Cambridge had a heart attack in LA but is recovering though still in intensive care in Mt. Sinai Reprinted by popular demand: My only poem: iris who wears slacks-Please by all means-Make sure your end-Justifies your jeans." (1955) The U.S.

is preparing extradition papers for Meyer Lansky figuring Israel will boot him "Ping pong brought America and China together, chess is keeping Russia and America apart," noted Harry Hershfield. Publicist Bernie Kamber said Bobby Fischer's press agenting and promotion of himself and chess was greatest in world history and he's not even a press agent. Mrs. Ted Lewis, back from Circleville, Ohio, where they'll have a museum for Ted, The Doctor By LAWRENCE LAMB, M.D. Dear Dr.

Lamb I would like to ask you about your statement that "frankly psychotic behavior often occurs after open heart surgery." My daughter is scheduled to have surgery at age 5 or 6 to correct tetratoiogy of Fallot and I would like to know if we should watch for behavior other than normal at this time. I am a nurse and we are rather strict with her and I am afraid that if we are unaware of possible changes, we would think it was "sickly child syndrome" and become even more severe. Dear Reader The psychological problems that some people have after heart surgery are commonly noted immediately after surgery, before they leave the hospital. For the operation your daughter will have, I should think that if she were going to have any problems of this nature they would be recognized by the hospital staff. It has been my general impression that these problems are more apt to occur in adults than they are in children.

Perhaps this is because adults often have a number of other medical problems that have accumulated over the years and as a nurse you probably realize that young children often tolerate even major surgery far better than adults do. For the benefit of our other readers, a tetratoiogy of Fallot is a birth defect of the heart which is associated with a hole between the lower pumping chambers of the heart (the right and left ventricle) and a displacement of the artery that carries blood to the Ask Andy Andy sends a complete 20-volume set of the Merit Students Encyclopedia to Aaron Maynard, age 13, of Boys Town, for his question: Isn't it true that oxygen does not burn? Several young science students report that they have read or been told that oxygen is not flammable and will not burn. This startling statement is a sloppy job of translating the language of science into everyday speech. It is misleading and dangerous. For example, suppose a student tried to prove it by poking a lighted match into a sample of oxygen gas.

This innocent experiment would start a fast and furious blaze that might burn down the building including everything in it. In everyday language, burning is a hot, bright blaze, rapidly consuming its fuel to ashes. In the language of science, the same process is a chemical reaction called oxidation, or more precisely, oxidation-reduction. The substances involved either gain or lose electrons. In the process, their molecules are converted into other substances.

Oxygen is an energetic electron grabber because it needs two more electrons to complete its outer shell. It can do this by forming chemical bonds or in the process called oxidation. Chemists refer to a fast blazing fire as combustion. In everyday language, a flammable substance is prone to burst into flames. Certainly pure oxygen gas is both flammable and highly combustible.

This is why hospitals allows no sparks or flames near patients in oxygen tents. One little spark could start a fierce fire. The result is just as disastrous whether we call it oxidation, burning or cum-bustion. Fancy terms can fool people, but they make no difference to chemical I I Pandas Putting Piles of "THEN I went into my bedroom and looked up an old picture I have of Main St. Lusk taken April, 1920.

It shows a young man walking down the sidewalk with snow piled at least five feet high on the curbside. I changed my mind about going back. "My father was in business in Lusk and I went to the school on the hill. When my father's place burned down in the middle of the winter because the water pipes were all frozen we left for California in a snowstorm in September 1920. "It took us two weeks to get here and our first thrill was to see a paved road at San Bernardino and when we arrived in Los Angeles we saw a dummy being thrown off a railway boxcar and realized we were seeing a movie being made." LUCILLE WILEY, now of Monrovia, lived 16 years in Wyoming, about 50 miles from Lusk.

"I've seen those beautiful clouds," she writes, "but I've also had them turn our back-country fishing roads to mud after I had the lunch packed and the children dressed. "I've seen those cloudless skies where you can see for 70 miles, but they didn't mention they are swept clear by wind so strong they would dismiss the seventh graders to take the kindergarten children home so they wouldn't be blown off the sidwalk. "BUT ITS a wonderful way to live. I've proudly recalled that Ted was the first "king of jazz" at Rector's in '17 and the Bal Ta-barin in '18. Bobby Fischer's a great says Mike Manuche with the worst pun of the year Long John Nebel, who has cancer, says nevertheless he's in good health, hasn't vacationed in 16 years and will be on another radio station after leaving WNBC Aug.

11. He's departing because sports preemptions hurt his ratings. The Automat on B'way near 46th now has "live entertainment" plumpish "The One and Only Edna Thayer," 65, singing "Don't Dunk a Doughnut If You Don't Know How to Dunk" and other numbers at an upright piano, loud-speakered to the street. One couple danced near their table, then Edna played the tambourine. It's B'way's newest night spot no cover, no minimum, no headwai-ter.

Shows 9-11, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Sam Goldwyn here with his movie, "Come Back, Charleston Blue," remembered when his father, who made lunch an event, with his own chef and butler, went to lunch with Howard Hughes. The latter reached in a drawer and pulled out a stale sandwich and carton of milk. THE MIDNIGHT EARL. Joe Namath'll "sign one of the biggest contracts yet," and "it not be with the Jets." says our Secret Source, adding that there'll be vdst excitement For a ticket to a major rock concert, some fans are offering $500 worth of cocaine Tony Randall got a raise for this TV series, "The Odd Couple." Marty Ingels'H be a regular on "The Super" TV show playing a B'klyn guy interested only in girls.

"I can't imagine," smiles bachelor ex-B'klynite I 1 "why they picked me." Chubby James Coco's good news: He has to gain weight for his Fatty Ar-buckle role. (e) J72. Field Enterprise, Inc. Says body and the artery to the lungs. The combination of defects often causes a child to be cyanotic or blue.

Many of these, as with other birth defects of the heart, can be corrected with modern heart surgery. Heart surgery has been an absolute miracle for children born with defects that would otherwise pose a handicap for them. Of all the marvelous things that have been done in heart surgery, I am inclined to believe that what has been done to eradicate the birth defects of the heart is one of the brightest chapters. Dear Dr. Lamb I had rheumatic fever when I was a baby but my parents didn't know it.

I had a high fever for a couple of days and it left me with a heart murmur. I have to take penicillin until I am 21 years old. I am 19 now and planning on getting married soon. I would like to know if I will be able to have a baby. My heart murmur is much better and I can do anything in the line of sports as long as I don't overdo it and get tired.

Dear Reader If you are able to be active In sports, without difficulties, you shouldn't have any trouble having a baby. Many women who have rheumatic heart disease have had several pregnancies. The decision is, of course, dependent entirely on how severely the heart is damaged. Women who have trouble with their pregnancy because of rheumatic heart disease usually have enough damage that they will also have clear-cut limitations in their ability to exercise or engage in sports. Newspaper Enterprise Association by Moreio Course (Color thi Piew banks Pennies in Pink Piggybanks Obviously the statement that oxygen does not burn, is a mistranslation of scientific terms.

It also is misleading, because so much evidence seems to prove it to be true. By weight, oxygen mnkes up one fifth of the atmosphere, almost half the solid crustal rocks and more than 80 per cent of the world's water. Yet these abundant sources of oxygen are not blazing away in flames. This is because they are not in the form of pure undi-luated oxygen gas. The oxygen gas in the air is diluted with four parts of nitrogen, a lazy gas that discourages burning and other chemical reactions.

In the solid crust, oxygen atoms are combined in molecules of silicates and dozens of other minerals. Oxygen also combines with hydrogen to form molecules of water, the enemy of fire. All these chemical compounds solve the oxygen atom's need for electrons by sharing or borrowing those of other atoms. But pure oxygen gas is still hungry for elec-tons highly combustible and eager to engage in oxidation. This process may be the fast blaze of combustion, or a slower form of oxidation that creates gentle heat energy without flames.

Our body processes use various types of slow oxidation. Outdoors, jslow oxidation changes iron to rust. Combustion is more dramatic. But when oxygen is involved in either fast or slow oxidation, it takes electrons and forms oxide chemicals with other atoms. (c) Chronicle Publlshine Co.

Have a question for Andy? Mall It to Ask Andy, The State Journal, Lansing, Mich. 48919. Questions answered by Andy will receive a prize. was not a good bridge player, but he loved play the game and on occasion he rose to of brilliancy. Today's hand was set up for Al in a midnight game after the conclusion of a tournament.

The other players at the table didn't that Al was looking at 12 top spades, almost everyone else at the post-tournament party was watching to see what would THEY SAW Al at his best. He looked at his spades and passed without blinking an eye. passed twice more and finally came to life doubling six hearts. West couldn't wait to If he hadn't, East would have. late-night games after tournaments, all contracts are redoubled.

North didn't like the redouble, but knew than to take the sure loss at seven Anyway, Al just might have the heart set some way or other." WHEN AL ran to six spades, West hopped with a roar. Al thought of redoubling, decided that six doubled would be good ruffed the heart lead and led his four of West followed with his three-spot' when East showed out, you could have the roar from players and kibitzers in the next county, if not the next state. Newipeper Enterprise Association Your Horoscope By CARROLL RIGHTER GENERAL TENDENCIES for Thursday, July 13: The daytime is fine for a new approach at whatever is of interest to you. Think of new ways to expand your pet project and attain success. The evening finds you and most everyone else in the doldrums, confused and not knowing exactly where you are headed, with possibilities of big delays.

ARIES (March 21 to Apr. 19) You can carry through with creative ideas during the day, but in the evening take it easy. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Do whatever will improve matters at home and forget expensive pleasure you have in mind. GEMINI (May 21 to June 21) Showing your finest talents to others can bring fine results now. Do nothing that can ruin your reputation in the evenings.

MOON CHILDREN (June 22 to July 21) Handle monetary matters intelligently. Travel with utmost care, and show others the courtesy they merit. LEO (July 22 to Aug. 21) Take those health treatments early so you can get much more done. VIRGO (Aug.

22 to Sept. 22) Spend some time planning your future more intelligently. Evening is best time for health treatments you need. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct.

22) Look to good pals for favors you want in the morning. The rest of the day is likely to be full of delays where aims are concerned. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) If an opportunity to support an influential person comes up, be sure to do SAGITTARIUS (Nov.

22 to Dec. 21) A good day for obtaining data you need and corresponding with out- of-towners who can be of assistance to you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 20) Any problematical matters that need handling where friends are concerned can be worked out now, AQUARIUS (Jan.

21 to Feb. 19) The morning is fine for coming to a better agreement with associates. PISCES (Feb. 20 to March 20) Complete work at hand during the day and then take health treatments. Don't argue with an associate in the afternoon.

retirement Income, which In effect five times $25,000 in savings, or You can't get your hands on that but it stands there for your lifetime keep paying you the equivalent of 5 per For all practical purposes, you and your will have the $125,000, plus the $25,000 plus maybe $25,000 on your home. the same as $175,000 which Is hardly Then, at age 65, you get various tax deductions and you get Medicare. more people facing retirement would regard their Income this way: most wealthy always regard their health in terms of income it produces, not as cash realize they are pretty well off. (If your question can be answered In this send it in.) (c) im, General Features Corp..