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4CTallahassee Aug. 7, 1984 -onger visits with Dad might break up bad feelings Q-1 have been separated since October 1982, l-yl daughters (both separately and together) hav daughters (both separately and together) have to ad have two eirla, ages 2 and 8 years old. an opportunity to spend some time alone with 0 their father, and that he not devote his time to them solely to taking them to expensive places. This will not only disappoint your daughters Single parenting Stephen Atlas when they have to come home to reality, but hurt their relationship with their father, since 0 they will see him as a "good-time daddy rather than an involved parent. 1:00 3:00 5:00 9:00 Perhaps, if you take the first step, by talking ft ii fj I stay at home, doing babysitting during the and I go to college at night.

My ex-husband is unreliable with his sup-ort payments and seems to want to hurt me in ny way possible. He is only allowed to see the children on unday afternoons, and both he and my oldest lughter resent this. He retaliates by picking girls up late and dropping them off early hich disrupts my plans. I don't feel I should er my plans to suit him. I am reluctant to let ie girls stay overnight with him since he lives ith his girlfriend and never sees our daughters ithout her being there.

Also, it seems as if he spends nearly all of his isits taking them to expensive places and buy-them costly gifts. This annoys me since I on't have the money to do this. Have you any suggestions about how to solve roblems such as these when communication is a obi em and also how to handle the children and ieir feelings? A Mother in Waldorf, Md. I sympathize with your frustration and anger. It sounds as if each of you is trying to do what you think is best without letting the other parent "win" at your expense.

Might it be posible to break this cycle? Perhaps, without meaning to, you are putting the children in the middle. One thing you could do would be to consider longer visits. Each of you has the right and need to build a new life. The children don't necessarily have to be hurt by seeing their father have a close woman friend, just as they could benefit if and when you develop a new loving relationship. What is important however is that your to your daughters and ex-husband (separately) you could help their relationship while encouraging your ex-husband to develop a more cooperative attitude.

You can discuss with him his desires and your concerns on a basis of mutual respect. You can also tell your daughters that even though you and their father have different values, they still are entitled to a close relationship with him. Sometimes taking the first step can pay tremendous dividends and encourage a more cooperative attitude on the part of everyone concerned. Write to Stephen Atlas at 6105 Turnabout Lane, Apt. 3, Columbia, 21044.

3 hosts Palmer, a Dutch parapsychologist, "that CSICOP is penetrated to its core by a militant and doctrinaire atheistic humanism that has strong ideological reasons for wanting to see parapsychology discredited." rom 1C mm ADVERTISEMENT BL0C( TO OFFER TAX SCHOOL IN TALLAHASSEE the 6 p.m. news broadcast, Drew Hadwal's TV crew stayed in the house. Someone left a camera on the floor, running, unknown to Tina. Twice, when no one was looking, a lamp moved next to Tina, and she jumped back. Hadwal, realizing his videotape was running, thought he had caught the poltergeist in action.

But when he later reviewed the tape prior to the 11 o'clock news, he was shocked. On the monitor, he saw Tina warily look around to see if she was being observed, then reach up, hook the lip of the lampshade with her fingers, and pull it over. And she feigned surprise. An actress. When Hadwal went on at 11, he told his viewers that Tina had been caught cheating but that he had still seen events that sleight of hand couldn't explain.

Tina admitted her prank the next day, and had an excuse that was good enough to assuage some of her panicking supporters. She said she had gotten sick of She said she knocked over the lamp to satisfy the TV crew, so it would leave. The excuse seemed reasonable enough, given that the behavior that day of some of the journalists was something in the nature of reptilian. CSICOP hooted. On the defensive, parapsycholo-gists charged the ghostbusters had their own ax to grind.

"It is no secret," wrote John bers seeing a salt shaker slide across the floor, hit the baseboard and "defying gravity" ride four or five feet up the wall. Tina, he said, was on the other side of the kitchen. As the tale spread across the country, 5242 Blue Ash Road was summarily described as a haunted house. But the poltergeist who was stomping around Tina Resch's home ran headlong into William Roll, author of a book called, "The Poltergeist." And the first thing William Roll said was that the poltergeist in the Tina Resch home wasn't really there. It was just Tina's mind at work, he said.

Poltergeists, said this man who had been studying them for 26 years, are the product of Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis (RSPK), a paranormal phenomenon in which a person involuntarily causes objects to fly around. RSPK, Roll said, is often associated with adolescents like Tina, who are under stress. No one understands it, he said. Roll himself saw a tape recorder and pair of pliers sail through the air in a bedroom when Tina was near, he said. His experience convinced him that Tina needed more tests, so he took her to his home in Durham, N.C., for testing at his laboratory, the Psychical Research Foundation.

"In my opinion this is an apparent case of RSPK," Roll announced in Durham after the tests. "There are occurrences that I could not ex Tina Resch spent three weeks at Bill Roll's house in the woodsy south end of Durham, N.C. being scrutinized by the ghost expert and a gaggle of psychotherapists. Only once did something kooky happen, Roll said. A candle sailed from a table top to a spot underneath a desk.

Tina was near, but not within arm's reach, he said. Psychotherapist James Carpenter said, "Tina is ingenuous on the one hand but kind of tricky on the other She likes jokes and surprises and magic tricks. She likes to see people fooled in some way, it delights her." But a hoaxter? He didn't know. When she went back to Columbus, the poltergeist made only a few brief appearances. After that, the phones and candlesticks never left their tables, the eggs remained inanimate in the fridge.

The house was no longer besieged by newspeople, the letters slowed to a trickle. As he has throughout time, the poltergeist had gone back to the murky depths of his bog to wait, of course, not to die. For as long as there are little girls and old believers to scare, he will not die. Thousands of people are saving money at tax time and earning money in their spare time as income tax preparers. Block, the world's largest income tax preparation service, is offering a basic income tax course starting September 4th and 6th with morning, afternoon and evening classes available.

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And the tape mished. In the middle of this reakdown of normalcy, John and ian had to leave the house tempo- rily to pick up the dog, leaving iggett to deal with the poltergeist. Claggett didn't trust Tina. He ade her stay by his side as he ilked around the house, resolutely ping down the lights, resorting at point to Bandaids. But this, he scovered, was a crazy day.

Every ne he made a trip around the ouse, he discovered more light -itches that had been flicked on. ma remained at his side, he said, he only other humans in the house ore little foster children, all youn-r than 5, babies practically, lolling ound in the family room. "I was beginning to doubt my nity. I had never heard of this pol-rgast or poltergeist, or whatever. I id never gone to those movies," laggett said.

"I know it wasn't ina, because she was right with me. believe in spirits or whatever, it I know there was some force in at house that was able to do some-ing that I couldn't explain After Claggett left, things got rely hairy, according to the Resches. he poltergeist took aim at any ob-ct that wasn't bolted to the ound. A crib leaped into the air. lacemats flew.

Chairs shifted ound the table. A table tumbled id over end through the living om. John Resch finally decided mething supernatural was going i when a champagne glass came trtling out of the dining room and lashed against the kitchen stove, as it Tina? No, he said, he had en watching her, on the other side the room, stepping into the bath-om. The family had no choice but to 11 the police. The dispatcher raced that a 16 a disturbance is in process at 5242 Blue Ash Rd.

officers arrived and searched ie house, pulling out their guns at ie point. When they put Tina to bed, the lenomena ceased. The next day, Sunday, the chaos anew. When the Resches' andson, Aarin, showed up, he saw erything in the entire living room berserk. Remembers Joan, "He saw this air roll around the room and chase a dining room chair came irough this door into the living om.

Everything moved very fast, just skid. Candles were flying rough the room. Pictures on the all were rocking, and some of them 11." Little Aarin vowed to never me back. The next day the Franklin ounty Children's Service took the ster children out of the Resch me, for their own safety. Joan esch called various departments at hio State University seeking ad-ce.

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Most academics dismiss poltergeist events as merely proof that people so crave the praeternatural that they gleefully suspend their disbelief. Other observers have been more alarmist. "I think there is a kind of paranormal craze that is sweeping the country at the moment," warns Paul Kurtz, another philosophy professor who heads the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSI-COP). "There is a reversion to a kind of primitive thinking. It's a flight from reason It's almost a religion of the paranormal.

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