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A-8: Alton Evening Telegraph Tuesday, April 25,1972 May be trapped air Mysterious snapping sounds DEAR DR. LAMB I am 25 years old and have had a problem with my chest for several months. I have had T8 tests, chest rays and a gastrointestinal series. All that was found was a duodenal ulcer, which was active and treated. When I take a deep breath, I get a dry, snapping sound near the bottom of my breast bone.

It is irritating and worries me. My family doctor, whom I have a lot of faith in, told me it may be the ulcer causing the snapping, but he has never heard of such a symptom in 30 years of practice. Could it be the cartilage or could it be the ulcer that is causing it? The doctor said it might be psychosomatic, but my wife also can hear this dry snapping when It occurs. By Dr. Lawrence E.

Lamb Once it snaps, I have to move around about three minutes and then draw another breath before it will snap again. Your advice would be appreciated. DEAR READIER I can't be sure what you have, but there are not very many things that will cause a snapping sound in the area you are talking about. The most likely explanation is that there is some air trapped somewhere in one of your To be wed in June Sivingy Sun Smock PRINTED PATTERN Summer's Love is this swinging sun smock with a trick up its airy cap sleeve. It turns into a jumper when daughter adds the turtletop.

Check it cheerfully! Printed Pattern 4872: New Child's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8. Size 6 sundress yards 35-inch. Seventy-Five Cents for each pattern add 25 cents for each pattern for Air Mail and Special Handling. Send to Aiine Adams, Care of Alton Evening Telegraph, 177, Pattern 243 West St, New York. N.Y.

10011. Print Name, Address with Zip, Size and Style Number. Mrs. Arva Lou Bell of 2717 Shoredell, Gidfrey, is announcing the engagement and forthcoming marriage of her daughter, Cynthia Lou Bell, and Keith Robert Gabriel of Fosterburg. Miss Bell is also the daughter of the late Orel Bell.

The couple is planning to be married on June 9 at the E1 Street Presbyterian Church. The bride-elect was a January 1972 graduate of Alton High School and is attending Lewis and Community College. Her fiance, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gabriel of Fosterburg, graduated from the same high school jn 1969.

He is employed at Shell Oil where he received a coop scholarship in electrical engineering, and is attending the University of Illinois, Urbana. MISS BELL Creases in drapery fabric causes reader a problem Today's Problem DEAR POLLY Your readers always seem to have the answers so perhaps my problem will not seem as difficult to them as it does to me. How can I remove creases from drapery fabric that has a rubber backing? I have tried just about everything but with no success and this fabric is useless the way it looks now. RITA Dooley and Hambleton vows said Mrs. LaVerne Hambleton of 534 Hamilton Wood River and Dale Dooley of 622 Washington were married in a double ring ceremony on April 15.

The Rev. Walter Amick performed the ceermony at the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Wood River. Mrs. and Mrs. Rudy Sowders Jr.

attended the couple. Mr. Dooley is employed by Jay Russell Waterproofing Company in East Alton. After a wedding trip, the couple will make their home at the Wood River address. DEAR wrote that the magnetic catch on her new breadbox has lost its oomph.

I was in the same situation. The lid to mine would not stay shut until my husband put a round magnet about inches in circumference and thick on the inside where the latch should be in the center and this holds the door shut beautifully. We did nothing to the latch or the breadbox. Some of my ash trays were rather slippery on the bottom so I cut out pieces of bonded material I had left over from sewing and glued them to the bottoms of the ash trays. Now they set well on any table.

ELAINE DEAR POLLY My Pet Peeve and irritation is that when I badly need to use my telephone I find children talking on the line and they may continue for an hour or so. Parents, please, discipline your children and set limits on their conversations when you have a party line as the other party is entitled to its use, too. I cannot afford a private line and find this most annoying. MRS. A.C.S.

DEAR you find it necessary to hang things on the back of a bathroom or bedroom door but you can see them through the crack when the door is open or back against the wall, lightly nail a piece of or round along the back edge of the door from hinge to hinge. When the door is open the quarter round fills the crack and nothing is visible as it hangs back there. My bathroom is opposite the opening from my living room to the hall that leads off the bedrooms both ways and everyone could see the towel racks on the back of the bathroom door until I did this. AGNES DEAR hammering delicate or upholstery tacks, put an adhesive-backed bandage over the head of the hammer. This will prevent making horrible marks on the woodwork or walls if you miss the tack or nail.

JOHN DEAR POLLY Save that bread! Meke a big cut like an or a cross in the plastic lid from a coffee or shortening can. Take up the ends of the bread bag and push through the cut all the way down to where the slices start and have no more looking for or keeping track of wire twists. HELEN You will receive a dollar if Polly uses your favorite homemaking idea, Pet Peeve, Polly's Problem or solution to a problem. Write Polly Cramer in care of the Alton Evening Te'egraph. Flack-Wallace nuptials said Dennis L.

Flack and his bride of Friday, the former Miss Ramona Kay Wallace, are residing at 206 W. 4th Hartford. The couple was married in a candlelight ceremony at the Faith Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Albert Gillespie officiating. The bride is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Louis H. Wallace of 602 Porter St. Mr. and Mrs.

John L. Flack of 128 W. 3rd Hartford, are parents of the bridegroom. After the ceremony, the newlywed couple received their guests in the church annex. Ruffles of chiffon and lace accented the high collar and gathered skirt of the bride's gown fashioned of chiffon over taffeta.

The same design ornamented her long sheer sleeves at the wrists. She wore a tiered shoulder length veil of bridal illusion secured by a bow headpiece accented with flowers and seed pearls. Her cathedral bouquet contained white carnations and white streamers with a cross ojt pink baby rosebuds. Audrey Wallace, who attended her sister, appeared in a gown of ice pink chiffon over taffeta trimmed at the collar and wrists with white lac. The gown featured an empire waistline and long sheer sleeves trimmed with self ruffle at the wrists.

A pink flowered bow secured her short matching veil. She carried a colonial bouquet of white carnations and pink rosebuds accented with greenery and pink streamers. The bridegroom was attended by Danny Evans. Todd Wallace, nephew of the bride, was ringbearer. Guests were shown to their seats by Raymond Wallace, brother of the bride.

Deborah Kay Wallace, niece of the bride, was can- 1 1 i and DaShelle 1 niece of the bridegroom, was flower girl- Nupital music was provided by Miss Marsha Bernhardt, soloist, accompanied by David Cox. The bride, a 1971 graduate of Alton High School, is employed by Play'n Learn Nursery School. Her husband, a 1069 graduate of East Alton-Wood MRS. FLACK River High School, recently returned from a 10-month tour of duty in Vietnam. He is employed by Union Tank Car Company in liiver.

body cavities. I would suspect it may be some air in the pericardium, the sac around the heart. This usually causes no pain. In such cases, there apparently is a small leak Into the sac around the heart from the air sacs in the lungs. When the heart beats, it causes a knocking sound called pneumoperlcardium.

Sometimes they are not very loud and can only be heard with a stethoscope. In other istances, they can be heard clear across the room. They are usually fairly consistent and your history of only noting it with, a deep breath suggests that, in the process of taking a deep breath, your heart and the accumulation of air in the sac get in the right position to make this sound temporarily. Usually, air trapped in the pericardium this way is absorbed and only lasts a short time. Therefore, if that should be the cause, I am surprised that it has lasted for several months.

Incidentiallyj there is usually no disease or illness associated with the finding und, once the air is absorbed, the sound goes away. Of course, people can make sounds in the joints of their shoulders and other places and you can make joints pop, which may also be associated with the accumulation of small gas bubbles, in this instance nitrogen. Still, none of these seem to fit what you are describing, so my best bet would be that it is a little air pocket trapped in the sac near the heart, which would cause the sound to be at the bottom of your breast bone. The diagnosis is usually made by looking very carefully at the outline of the sac around the heart on chest rays and finding a narrow band of air. it is often missed, particularly if the air pocket isn't situated in the right location to be demonstrated by the chest ray.

This is an exceptionally rare finding except following heart surgery. I have, however, seen it in healthy young individuals and the only evidence of their illness was the disturbing sound" and the little band of air that outlined the shadow of the heart. When it occurs In this setting, it is clinically not important. If it occurs as a complication of some other disease, then its importance is the underlying disease that causes the problem. Write to Lawrence E.

Lamb, M.D., in care of the Alton Evening Telegraph. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Schmidt, 3203 Agnes Alton, first child, Sarah Marie, 6 pounds and 3 ounces, 6:37 a.m. today, Alton Memorial Hospital.

Mrs. Schmidt is the former Barbara Staehle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Staehle of 2133 Norside Drive. Paternal grandparents are Mr.

and Mrs. Paul A. Schmidt of 705 Royal. Mr. and Mrs.

David Penrod, 163 A Rue De Chateau, Bethalto, a son, Billy James, 8 pounds, 3:40 a.m. today, Alton Memorial Hospital. Elder sons, Jeffrey Loyd, 4, and Matthew Allen, 1. Mr. and Mrs.

Herbert Copo 3516 Wickenhauser, Alton, first child, Tabatha Lynn, 6 pounds and 15 ounces, 9:21 p.m. Monday, Alton Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Cope is the former Jo Ann Carroll, daughter of Mrs. Donna Proctor of East Alton and Joe Carroll of Cottage Hills.

Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Cope Sr. of 3516 Wickenhauser. Mr.

and Mrs. Arland Sparks Rte. 2, Bunker Hill, a son, Arland Udell 7 pounds and 14 ounces, 12:27 a.m. today, Alton Memorial Hospital. Elder daughter, Amie Jo, 4.

Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Kunz, 108 Elble, Alton, a son, Todd Jeffrey, 7 pounds and 10 ounces, 10:14 p.m. Monday, St. Joseph's Hospital.

Elder son, Tim Dwight, 3. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Parsell of Jerseyville, a daughter, 6 pounds and 2 ounces, 1:31 p.m. Monday, Jersey Community Hospital, Jerseyville.

College notes Miss Reid Reinhardt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Reinhardt of 3100 Edwards Alton, has been received as a pledge of Sigma Kappa social sorority at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston. She is a freshman psychology major at EIU. Plan YWCA home tour Clothing which will be modeled during the Young Women's Christian Association's House and Garden Tour on May 17 is selected by, from left, Mrs.

Fred Chamberlain in long striped dress; Mrs. Richard Vandegrift in black dress with polka dot trim; and Mrs. Ralph Dickson in golf outfit. DEAR ANN: I was greateful for your wise counsel to "Uneasy In Pennsylvania" and to others plagued with guilt feelings because someone near and dear committed suicide, I have been down that lonely road and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I was barely 19 at the time already married to a man much older than myself, I had no inkling that my husband was so unstable.

His certainly was not the classic suicidal personality. Never once was there a hint that he had self- destruction in mind. I'll spare you the details, but the method he chose kill himself was skillfully designed to make me suffer. For years I carried the guilt of his death. I blamed myself for not being wise enough to recognize the signs.

I kept telling myself that, somehow I could have saved I know now, of course, that nobody can save anybody. A person who would put a loved one through the hell of such a nightmare is unspeakably selfish and very sick. Your compassion and understanding was a source of strength to me. I appreciate your daily column more than I can say. Thank you for it.

A FRIEND IN BROOKL1NE. DEAR FRIEND: I didn't realize so many people suffered with guilt resulting from the suicide of a loved one. I received dozens of letters from readers who expressed similar sentiments. Thank you for your generous comments. DEAR ANN: You have created a terrific problem in our family and I hope you are satisfied.

Do you recall the letter from the woman who mamed a widower with grown children? The kids moved in like a herd of locusts and helped themselves to the silver, china, paintings and lovely heirlooms, The second wife was horrified. She called them avaricious, grabby kids. You said if the mother had had' a will in which she stated her wishes it could have eliminated a lot of hard feelings. That night at dinner I brought up the subject. My husband became very annoyed and yelled, "Don't bury me so fast.

I might live longer than you." Then he threw it up to me in front of the children that I am two years older than he is, plus a few dirty digs about my weight and my high blood pressure. He said if I died first he woujld not allow anything to be taken from the house "Let our kids buy their owp silver and dishes!" he shouted. The oldest daughter screamed, "I don't want your damned dishes!" Our daughter in law left the table in a huff. What I thought would be a quiet family discussion turned into the wildest family fight you can imagine. And over nothing but that lousy column of yours! Why don't you stick to advice to the lovesick? Thank you very much.

JANGLED NERVES IN MEXICO CITY DEAR J.N. In Mexico City; Sorry you feel I created a problem. It sounds to me as if the problem has been there for quite some time. If that "lousy" column of mine was the catalyst for some honest expression it served a useful purpose. Confidential to Walls Too High To Scale: I see by your envelope you live in Omaha.

That's a break. The rate your husband is going you'll soon have no friends in Nebraska. Council Bluffs is just across the river and it's in a different state, too. Maybe he can find someone over there that can meet his intellectual, financial and social standards. Is pot a drug? Can L.

S. D. and pills open new worlds for you? Stop guessing. Get the facts In Ann Landers' new booklet, "Straight Dope on Drugs." For each booklet ordered send a dollar bill, plus a long self-addressed, stamped envelope (16 cents postage) to Ann Landers, in care of the Alton Evening Telegraph. Mirror of your mind By JOHN CONWRLL Does conceit keep a person awake? Anniversary celebrants Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Bechtold of 208 W. Delmar Godfrey, will celebrate their 2Sth wedding anniversary during an open house Sunday. The couple will receive guests from 3 until 7 p.m. in the Alton-Wood River Sportsman's Club.

The Skyliners will play for dancing. Mr. Bechtold is an employe of Owens-Illinois. He and the former Agnes Budde were married on April 30, 1947, in SS. Peter and Paul's Catholic Chruch.

Their children are Vince and Fred. No invitations are being issued. IT could in some cases, and not because a conceited person doesn't want to waste time sleeping when he could be telling everyone how grand he is. Seriously, a conceited person may feel uneasy about going to sleep. If in his waking hours he believes he has full control of himself arid everything around him, the conceited person may unconsciously be reluctant to surrender himself to Mor- pheus.

Will love cool if a wife works? NO. Love may even deepen if a wife goes out to a job and there is no "maybe" about it if she is working because she wants to and is successful. Such a wife knows she has love on her side, and is able Jto do her job well because she doesn't have to prove anything. Her husband, she feels, wants her to succeed and, knowing that, the wife is able to do her job well enough to merit everything she gains. Must Mom 'mother' 24 hours a day? A I but she shouldn't forget she is, first of all, a human being with feelings and emotions like anyone else.

As long as she doesn't neglect her children, a mother should realize that she should not neglect herself. If she does, she will begin hate being constantly at the beck and call of her family, and the resultant resentment will not let her be the mother she could be, nor the one that her children need. tfs Out There Suicide leaves uneasy legacy 1072 King Features Syndicate, Inc.) Happiness is a White Home invitation Happiness is a plain white envelope with the words, "The White House" printed in gold where a return address is usually found, says Mrs. John Focht of Alton, oh her return from a visit in Washington, D.C., where her husband, Alton Evening Telegraph managing editor, attended meetings of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. "The enclosed card that bears the Presidential Seal reads, 'The President and Mrs.

Nixon.request the pleasure of your company at a reception foe held at the White House on Thursday afternoon, April 20, 1972, at 5 and gives you a mixed feeling of hysteria and ecstasy," says Mrs. Focht. "What might be considered the back door where you enter is probably the only back door in the country with a red carpet from that point on; you are in the hands of the suave White House military aides who immediately take, you a wide flight of stairs to the entrance hall. Meanwhile, ttie Marine band plays on." Mrs. Nixon, wearing a plain, light blue silk, high neck, long sleeve, just below the knee dress; and President Nixon, wearing a light blue suit, received guests in the Blue Room.

Following protocol, each guest gave his name to a military aide who repeated it to President Nixon and Mrs. Nixon. "No matter how long the line was waiting to shake their hands," says Mrs. Focht, "they had the ability to make whomever they were greeting feel that the two of them were the only other people besides you in the room. There were about 700 ASNE men and wives cackling and flapping.

'What to wear' had been the pressing question and you could hear murmurs of Ifeel awfully mare in this sleeveless dress," and 'Is a long dress a daytime "A middle of the roader, I wore a red, just below the knee dress, and a black velvet ribbon with a white gardenia pinned on the ribbon worn around my neck. I carried a black beaded bag to complete the ensemble. "As always happneed, we needn't have worried about what to wear. There were low-necked silks, sleeveless pastels, and even long dresses." The only entertainment came from the Army Strolling Strings. Their bright, gay renditions of show tunes and light opera favorites won bravos from every guest in the room and helped set the tone of the party.

"What's it like to be invited to a reception at the While House? The gracious, unhurried mood of the afternoon made it like being invited to the President and Mrs. Nixon's home for lunch." Ann Peipert zciiw district art award A portrait of a little girl, done with china paints on porcelain bisque, won for Altonian Mrs. Henry Peipert the first place ribbon at the district 22, Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs' annual spring convention in East St. Louis. Mrs.

Peipert also won for her art department of the Alton Woman's Council a certificate of award "in recognition of outstanding achievement." The winning art work will gd next to Chicago for the May 2-4 state IFWC convention in the Sherman Hotel, where it will be entered in the state art competition. State winners will be entered in national judging. It is now on display in Joplin, at the Missouri State Convention of China Painters. Celebrates 80th birthday Greetings and congratulations on her 80th birthday are' being sent to Mrs. Candies Dennis of 1924 Belle who was honored at a dinner party given Saturday in the home of her daughter, Mrs.

Mattie Jean Miller, 1801 Woodland Aye. The party was given by Mrs. Miller and her sisters and brothers, Mrs. Hubert (Jewel) Williams of Buffalo, N.Y.; Mrs. Marcella Campbell of Chicago; Chester Dennis of St.

Louis; and Theodore Dennis of Alton. Guests included nieces, nephews, friends and relatives. Mrs. Dennis was born in Oxford, on April 21, 1892. She does her own housework, gardening and cooking, and remains active in family events and church work.

She has 17 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. Furthers musical career Larry Leritz of Wood River will perform as a singer dancer actor with the Jenny Wiley Summer Music Theatre, a professional summer stock theater in Prestons- bury, Ky. He will have roles this summer in each oE the three productions offered, "Once Upon A Mattress;" "Carousel;" and a new-musical, "Jenny Wiley!" Larry has performed with the St. Louis municipal Opera, the Monticello Musical Theatre and the Midland Repertory Players, producers of Opera In The Barn, Greenfield, 111. Larry attends Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, where he is a theater and dance major.

He also teaches a class in tap dancing at the university, and appeared this past year in "The Three Cuckolds" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." He will sing the role of Ferrando in Verdi's "II Trovatore" with Opera-in-The-Barn this spring. Appointed dean of students Norman Coatney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Coatney of Bunker Hill, has been appointed to the position of dcun of students at Shimer College in Mt. Carroll, 111.

Applications open to artists Applications are still available to amateur artists for the Town and Country Art Show, May 19-20-21, at Evangelical Church of Godfrey, 1212 Beltline. The Home Economics Extension Office, 900 Hillsboro, Edwardsville, has forms and information. Convention chairman East Junior High School teacher, Kenneth Van Buren, served as chairman of the Illinois Junior Classical League South Convention, held at SIUE. The convention was planned to give Latin students from schools in. Southern Illinois the opportunity of meeting and discussing common interests.

Concerts at Carlinville The Carlinville High School senior band, mixed chorus and girls' chorus will present the annual spring musical concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the high school's new gymnasium. The beginner and junior band concerts will be presented on May 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the school. LARRY LERITZ.