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THE SUN, Sunday, July 2, 197? The National Challenge Even addresses can be creative What U.S. woman's face will grace new $1 coin? I HONORABLE MENTIONS: "Chicken stew" becomes "Stick Chew" Kentucky Fried Caramel. N. J. Ahera, Woodbridge, Va.

"Tight slacks" becomes "Slight tax" -(There's no such thing.) Caroline Pitman, Harrlsburg. "Money bag" becomes "Bunny mag" -An illustrated magazine of unclothed rabbits. Diana Boehm, Blasdell, N.Y. "Worm gear" becomes "Germ Wear" -Fashion magazine for viruses. Fred Dinan, Hamden, Coon.

"The Maltese Falcon" becomes "The False Teeth Malkin" My husband. Elaine W.Malkin, Chicago. "Ball Four" becomes "Fall bore" Foot-ball. Chris Doyle, Terri Ross, Denver. 'touchdown" becomes "Dutch town" -Where I live.

Ron Welch, Nederland, Texas. "Chopsticks" becomes "Stop Chicks" A birth control device for hens. Bruce S. Canham, Upper Marlboro, Md. "Razor blade" becomes "Blazer raid" -What happened in Portland In 1977.

Roger Gettler. Tucson, Ariz. "Star-Spangled Banner" becomes "Bar tangled scanner" A loner seeking company In a singles saloon. Marie Ungard, Leesburg. Fla.

"Fireplace" becomes "Plier Face" A Dick Tracy character. Richard Sabine, Phoenix, Ariz. "Funny bone" becomes "Bunny phone" iUU WAN I VOUR KITTY SNACKS? tSeY KNOW?" Ml By J. BAXTER NEWGATE Means of communication between rabbit ears. Lloyd Harrington, Angola, N.Y.

"Bacon eggs" becomes "Achln' begs" A masocblst's modus operandi. Barry Anderson, Washington. "I Write the Songs" becomes "I Cite the Wrongs" Hit tune sung by Leon Jawor-ski. Spencer Ueske, Timonluro. "Shelly Baker" becomes "Belly shaker'' -What I turn Into on the dance floor.

Shelly Baker, Southbridge, Mass. "Boy meets girl" become "Goy meets Berle" Gentile (an shakes hands with Mr. Television. Len Elliott, Auburn, Wash. "Hollywood Squares" becomes "Woolly squid hairs" My favorite dessert.

Marge Kastner, Santa Clara, Calif. "Arm and Hammer" becomes "Ham In Armor" An Inept thespian playing Sir Gaianaa. Carl W.Caeke, Dayton, Ohio. "Hockey stick" becomes "Stocky hick" -A chubby country bumpkin. Earl Goebel, St.

Louis. "Doghouse" becomes "Hog douse" A cologne for pigs. M.R. Kelly, Salem, Va. "Spinning wheel" becomes "Winning spiel" Political victory speech.

Andrew MacCoUom, West Sutton, Mass. "Blood and thunder" becomes "Thud and blunder" Our new government energy program. Donald L. Fink, Towsoo. "Pouring rain" becomes "Roaring pain" What I have from laughing at the latest National Challenge.

Beverly Ann Rosatl, Kenmore, Hadley V. Bazendale, Baltimore. "Grilled cheese" becomes "Chilled grease" What you get when you order grilled cheese. CarlH.Savit, Houston. "Health, Education and Welfare" becomes "Wealth.

Education and Hellfire" The government agency charged with teaching rich people about damnation. Doug Murray, Tucson, Ariz. HAVE REACHED AGREEMENT Many people could be more creative in choosing a place to live. Your challenge this neck Is to match any well-known person or persons with a suitable mailing address. Examples: Joe Namath: Wounded Knee, S.D.

Pearl Bailey: Oyster Bay, N.Y. Mario Puio: Horseheads, N.Y. George McCovera: Liberal, Kan. Don Knottc Muscle Shoals, Ala. First Prize: A National Challenge T-shirt and Requisite, the National Challenge word game.

Second Prize: A National Challenge T-shirt. Send your entry (only one per person) on a postcard to: National Challenge No. 79, care of The Baltimore Sunday Sun, GPO Box H40, New York, N.Y. 10001. Entries must be received by Monday, July 10.

Decisions by the editor are final and all entries become the property of the National Challenge. Your name and address must be readable and they must appear on the same side of the postcard as your entry. Typewritten postcards are preferred. In National Challenge No. 72, you were to spoonerize any word or phrase and provide a brief definition for it.

There were lots of spoonerisms of "popcorn," "crackerjacks" and baiter newgates." As they say In the V.S. News and World Report ads, "Not funny." The ones below, however, were. I think. FIRST PRIZE of "Requisite" and a Na-tional Challenge T-shirt goes to: "Putting the cart before the horse" becomes "Putting the heart before the course" What college girls sometiaies do. -Melleo Morrill, Southbridge, Mass.

"Red, white and blue" becomes "Bled white and rue" Symbol of the honest taxpayer. Mary Ellen Close, Salem, Wis. SECOND PRIZE of a National Challenge T-shirt goes to: "Fat red heel" becomes "Fred Hatfield" Self-explanatory and Interchangeable and I get my nine in the paper twice. Fred Hatfield, Baltimore. "Trustbuster" becomes "Bust truster" -A man who has confidence in bis girlfriend.

Anthony R. Mendenhall, Springfield, Ohio. "Bird's nest" becomes "Nurd's best" -Tba funniest entry I could think of. Chris Jennings, Colon, Mich. AAAA "LINPAmiSME "CAN'T I LEAVE VOL) TWO ALONE FOR A By JAK MINER beiig considered te appear ta lew $1 ceil; Subcommittee member Mary Rosd Oakrr Ohio) chlded those in the Treat; ury Department who have been pushing for a "Miss Liberty" on the new cojs "Must we retain a mythological there any reason why we cannot honor a woman who actually lived!" Senator liam Proximire Wis.) has made if clear he strongly favors putting Susan An; likeness on the coin.

Behind the controversy is the Treasury. Department decision to replace the famiU iar 1 bill with a coin. Although it costs i cents to make compared with the bill's l. cents), the coin is expected to last IS; years against the bill's life expectancy ot II months. One of Abigail Adam's descendants; Thomas Boylstoo Adams, casting a stem' Yankee look at all the hullabaloo, ofcf served drily: "My only comment is tha would be very sorry to tee Abigail'! fare on depreciated coinage." CVitlitn Sci.nct MoftMr Htwt itrtlct moan the end of the old Camden produce center and the need for trucks to go to Jet-' tup, now that the product market has been relocated.

"I liked the old market things were a lot cheaper then used to be able to buy a whole truckload of watermelon can't do It now," says one of ut driver salesmen In the low-key, moody and sometimes barely comprehensible (because of the driver's lingo) film. One driver tells how his father worked in the tame business and bad a regular route and customers. Nowadays, according to the arab, you change routes frequently and roam all over the place. He doesn't think his son will take up the business but will go to school and "amount to something "There't just the two of us now; we don't eat much," a regular customer tells one driver, There is always a "they" in city living and "they're trying to push us off the street I don't think H't right," complains one of the arabt The most trenchant piece of fotkore we heard and under-, stood was a phrase that would honor anybody's Great American Black Novel. One arah says: "By the time you get up the road, it's time to come back." But has Archie Bunker seen it? Our department of priceless Information is blooming and received a Grade-A entry the other day in the form of an elaborate notation on where card-carrying union members are.

Did you know that Maryland and the District of Columbia are actually bttow. average in union population? Or that more than one quarter of Alaska! 22,000 non-farm workers are unionized? Or that North Carolina is Ihc rrost open-shop state in the union? Well, they are, according to the Directory of National Unions and Employee Associations whose survey comes to us via "Congress Today" official publication of the National Republican Congressional Committee, The most unionized states are Michigan, West Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, Hawaii (a lurpriM there) and Illinois, with Ohio and Indiana tied for eighth place. Maryland's 21 per cent of unionization among nonfarm workers compares to a national average of 26.2 per cent. The state ranks 20th In the na: lion in the percentage of unionization. The survey covered 20.5 million workers employed during 1974.

Behind North Carolina among the least unionized states are South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Texas. New Mexico and Georgia, in that order. Soulh Carolina has a mere 80,000 nonfarm workers; New York state almost 2.7 million. The Maryland figure Ls based on 462,000 workers in the urban and manufacturing sector. Quincy, Mass.

Question: What Is larger than a quarter, smaller than a half dollar, tells (or 1 but cost less than cents to make, and Is stirring up a hornet's nest In Washington? Answer. A new "silver" dollar, which Is expected to replace the dollar bill In a few yean. Actually, It won't be silver, It will be a special alloy. The debate Is not so much whether or not there will be such a new dollar coin. That question seems to be settled.

The controversy Is over who will be pictured on one side of the new coin's face. Treasury Department officials, saying they want to avoid controversy, would like to put Miss Liberty on one side. They say the would symbolize the role of women In the growth of the nation. Others, however, want an actual woman's likeness on the coin. Here In Quincy there is no question as to whose likeness should be on the new coin Abigail Adams.

Quincy actually a part of Braintree at the time is the hometown of the second and sixth presidents of the United States, John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, respectively. In a poll by a local newspaper, 2t out of respondents favored the likeness of Mrs. Adams, the Revolution patriot, colonial feminist, wife of John and mother of John Quincy. on the new silver dollar. "I think she deserves it," says Beatrice Bothelo, a tour guide at the red taltbox house in which Abigail bore John Quincy.

"She characterized a strong. Independent spirit; she was intelligent and politically astute; she typifies what we're tup-posed to feel about those early Americans men and women," Miss Bothelo said. But although Abigail is tint In the hearts of Quincy residents, she is far down the list of candidates especially among members of Congress. Another Massachusetts figure, Susan B. Anthony, born in Adams In the Berkshire Mountains, has a big lead over all other names that have been advanced.

The Bureau of (he Mint compiled a list of the names of women suggested (or representation on the coin. Miss Anthony, with the most support, topped the list. Abigail Adams was No. 26. Others included Nellie Taylor Ross, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Adams, Grandma Moses, Pocahontas, and Belle Starr.

Some members of Congress are up in arms over the suggestion by Treasury officials that a "symbolic" woman. Miss lib- Crab Imperial and Tennessee Williams We caught the last two days of the Spo-iia mini (Mtival down in the holv cltv of Charleston, S.C., which offered chance to hruth nn an our seafood redoes and to ogle the kind of audience that goes to mu sic festivals in the late mt. First, crabmeat "gullah" style, which ii the Charlettonlan equivalent of New Or leans Creole food. It's a composite of hot-ter-thtn-Maryltnd seasonings and sauces that escort your seafood to the table in cooked and sometimes overcooked form, never steamy out of the pot and never hard in the shell. Soft thtll crabs Charleston-stvle are little different from their Maryland coun terparts, except mat iney are aimosi always batter-fried, rather than butter-tau-teed, which Is our preference.

The hie difference comes with the South Carolina version of Crab Imperial. At Henry's (a down-to-earth, fairly expen-iiv seafood haven In a market section of Charleston that is a dead ringer for Balti more's Croat street market aistncti, uey bring you your imperial ta a casteroie, ik.n Ml out on toast noints. The Charlestonlan seasons his Imperial with lemon and pepper, lacing wun pimienw and what looked like tender, early toma-ion. finelv diced. It doesn't come close to the Maryland original.

The vaunted Sea bland shrimp, tiny creatures that take as much as 20 minutes to a half hour a pound to clean, are sauced in cream and tervea wiu nominy xjim. The (Mtival itself, which has solit the Southland's "holy city" apart in terms of townspeople who are "fur" or "agin" the busloads of tourists and Cadillacs full of music lovers from New Jersey, holds forth In a variety of settings a big, characterless civic auditorium with fair acoustics, the toy-like, Eighteenth Century Dock Street Theater and a variety of college halls and outdoor plazas. A dressy "Travlata" production, with a weak leading lady, sumptuous tela and a maniripont chorus (the Westminster Choir), got mixed reviews, but there was nothing mixed about me closing concert, it wu stared on the terraces of centuries- old Middleton Gardens, a vast spread of looming live oaks, where a Maryland Hunt Cup-type crowd of about 1,000 to 10,000 congregated In the open for the evening fi nale. Tchalkowikv't "1112 Overture" boomed out of a concert shell floating In a lake, while a Confederate-attired gun bat-irv fired MMsaarv blasts, waved the Confederacy'! Stars and Ban and fire work! went off an over we puce, some oi the crowd, however, was already hyped, well In advance of the show. "Vou cot anv naner.

arandoa?" asked a wobbly young local who lurched by our blanket on the Middleton Garden lawn. He needed the paper to roll his "joint," of Pictare of Susan B. Anttesy, one women erty, be used to honor American womanhood. "I find it offensive that they don't want to put a real woman on the coin," says Representative Patricia Schroeder "What would they (men) think if after 104 years a man was to be put on a coin for the first time and tney wanted to put on a symbolic man Father Time, Uncle Sam, or King Neptune! How would men feel about that?" During recent hearings conducted by a House Banking subcommittee, there was even sharper reaction to the notion that two women Miss Anthony and black civil-rights leader Harriet Tubman be combined on the coin. "We wouldn't want to give the appearance that somehow it would take more than one woman to replace a man," scowled Eleanor Cutri Smeal, president of the National Organization of Women (NOW).

That suggests, she added, that "there Is no one woman who ran quite cut the mustard." FOCUS course, and prone figures of stoned young specimens were far from rare as the concert audience fanned out over acres of land. "It this the Manigault party?" asked another passerby who was waving a cheap, unopened bottle ol )ug wine. The interloper demanded a corkscrew from our party, then teemed more thin mildly piqued when told we didn't have one. There were 18 or so skinned knees treated at the emergency first aid center, the car of the state's lieutenant governor got stuck in the mud, and one 70-year-old woman from Atlanta lost her husband for six hours in the dark. Celebrity highlight of the festival was the appearance of Tennessee Williams, the playwright, who was launching a new show at the Dock Street.

Invited to a dressy, black tie affair with the Charleston elite, but not briefed on attire, Tennessee showed up in a beret snd shorts. Southern hospitality, however, rose to the occasion. A little old lady In lavender, by report, tottered up to him and tald: "Oh Mr. Williams you have the prettiest knees!" A new film about the city's arabbers Up in the tuburban city o( Winchester, where tney wouldn't know a Baltimore "arab" (pronounced ay-rabb) if they met one on the Boston beltway, the finishing touches have been put on a color documentary movie describing the life of this city't ancient vegetable caits. Brainstorm Films, based in Winchester, produced the 25-mlnute show, called "Arabbln' and will rent it to you lor $J5 a day for single showings.

The clfort was made possible by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, and it had Michael Tlranod, of Fells Point, as production chief. The arah show starts oil in total darkness, accompanied by the sound ol an arab calling his wares, the street songs that describe things like "collard greens" and "New York eating apples." Arabbers Larry Crappcr and Paul Wat-kins describe their life as the camera performs flashbacks Into lime, using tome of the pioneering documentary street photos made about a half-century ago by the late A. Aubrey Bodine, photographic director of The Sunday Sun aguilne. You have to have in your blood," says one of the street merchants of his lifestyle, as his horse Is groomed, watered down and and fitted with elaborately studded harnesses, complete with pommel bell The arabbers roam Ihc Head street-Tyson street area and sell to shop owners who are complimentary about their service and products produce is fresh and they arc very they unload three huge onions on a customer for II, they core a cantaloupe to show it's nice, they sing their songs Mary look out the third and they be 1 NOW COMMANDING YOU TO GET lilt I SEE NOD TWO SOME NINP-QP AN A.