The Evening News from Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan • Page 4

THE EVENING NEWS, SAULT STE. MAJUC. TVCMMV. 1TO "Drink, Dammit!" R. O.

A man who has maintained a close eye on the fiscal picture in Sault Ste. Marie and Chippewt County is retiring Nov. after more than two decades of public service. He is R. 0.

"Dick" Gustafson, who long has been an accountant and busi- man as well as serving the public as recently as Chippewa County's equalization director. Gustafson, who has an intimate knowledge of property values in the eastern Upper Peninsula, has long been known as an authority on problems of taxation. He helped to modenize prop- erty equalization practices not only in Chippewa County, but as a sUtt officer in various city and township officer associations he helped promote taxation and equalization reforms throughout the state. As a pubtfc servant Guttafioa also ably served on the county board of supervisors and was chairman of Otis group. He has served dfflfoftry and wisely and has been a true and faithful puttie seTvant.

We wish him well years of retirement. HOLLYWOOD (NBA) Ever though she's only made two Victoria Principal has had a lot oJ publicity. You'd think she was a big stat already. Maybe it's because she has beauty that doesn't stop. Maybe it's because her name has been linked with many eligible men.

Whatever the reason, she's considered in Hollywood to be a girl most likely to succeed. And she's going about her career intelligently. She's not rushing into things, but, rather, proceeding slowly, picking her parts carefully. "I believe," she says Chat a built slowly lasts longer tfian one mat starts out like a house-a-fire." She has been cautious about accepting parts. Her first film was "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean." Now she's in the current release, "The Naked Ape." That's all.

She says lately she'; been getting itchy to do more. Her name is her own. Victoria Principal is the daughter of an Italian father and an English mother. Because of her coloring and her features, she can play any nationality. She says if she's going to play an American girl, she just stays out of the sun for a while and pales herself up.

Her father was an Air Force officer. As a result, she has lived all over. She was born in Japan, raised mostly in London and the Bahamas. She had to work hard to lose her English accent. Her father retired after 33 years service and he and her mother now live in Florida.

"They have been on a honeymoon all their married lives," she says. "I'm not even sure mey realize tneyre manned. Even today, they'll watch TV in the living room and my mother will sit on my father's lap." Despite coming from such an unbroken home, Victoria is not strongly pro- marriage. She says she believes in the institution emotionally, but not intellectually. "Because of my life-style, my dedication to my career and my other habits, such as traveling a great deal," she says, "marriage is definitely not for me.

If I do get married, it will be because I've fallen in love with a man who believes in it, and I will accede to his wishes against my better judgment" And, she says, married or not she will have no children. "First, there is the overpopulation thing. And, second, as an actress, I dont think I could do justice to raising a child. If I feel the need, later of being a mother, I will adopt a baby." Acting is all she really wants to do. As a child, she says, her first words were "daddy" and "and not necessarily ia that In kindergarten, she was asked what she wanted to do when she grew up, and she said she wanted to be an actress.

The same thing happened ia each succeeding grade. Her parents bowed to die inevitable. And the inevitable has happened. (Newspaper Eaterpritt Michigan Mirror Barbs By ELMER E. WHITE More than half a century ago, the Michigan Farm Bureau set about fighting what considered unfair taxation of those in agriculture.

The group's first battle, shortly its founding in ma, was against a road tax on farms. By 1925, that tax was replaced with the gasoline tax. Today, the Farm Bureau still battles taxes. Its most recent goal, listed ia its annual priority book for the past several years, has been agricultural assessment of farmlands, "Fanners are the victims of ao insidious "real estate says one priority statement. It contends that many farmers cant pay the taxes on their lands and are, therefore, forced to sell out to land developers.

Gov. William Milliken's recent proposal for a tax break for fanners seems to follow the Farm Bureau theory, at least ia concept. Milliken's proposal, unveiled just before lawmakers returned to Lansing for the fall session, offers farmers a state-paid rebate on their property taxes. The rebate would be granted if the farmer's property tax on farm acreage were more than 8 per cent of his income, ff a farmer agreed to keep his land in agricultural or horticultural use for at least 10 years, he'd be eligible for the rebate, up to a maximum of $2,000 a year. The Farm Bureau had sought a "rollback tax." Under that system, a farmer would agree to keep bis land ia agricultural or horticultural use for a certain period of time.

In return for that, be would pay taxes on the actual agricultural assessment of the land- not on the potential assessment if the land were developed commercially. If the farmer sold his land, he would be liable for the roll-back tax. In effect, he'd pay the difference between the agricultural assessment and the other assessment, for number of years. A bill along those lines passed the House earlier this year and now awaits action in Senate committee. Which way the Legislature will go, with the governor's proposal or that In Senate committee, is anyone's guess.

The main concern in some quarters, however, is that both will get lost. One follower of the action says: "We've got a couple of trains on the same track and both might be derailed." Backers of either proposal will argue that the concept not only gives fanners a tax break, but it helps insure that farmlands wont disappear from the Michigan landscape. In this atomic age, keeping up with the Brezhnevs seems to have supplanted keeping up with the Joneses. Autumn is the time when oldtimers recall scent of burning leaves was on the wind: the present generation identifies the aroma as coming from the incinerator next door. He who laughs had better be sure he got the point of the boss' joke.

We have a new deal in the neighborhood: every family buys the quota of its own kids' cookies for the team benefit, and no one is bothered by door- todoor callers. ITS SEE THEM JUMPING BACK ONTO THE Scrambler Answer to Previous Puzzle BERRY'S WORLD hr MCA, foe fm ifrvtf of own Chrittmat no nomT ACROSS 1 Edifice locale 5 Plymouth Rockers 13 Arabian gulf 14 Of the western hemisphere 15 Disembark 16 Mineral spring .17 Father iFr i ft Turkish dtgmtarv (vac 20 Devotee 22 English 23 Indistinct ZSToddter 27 Primate 30 Feathered scarf 32 Disturbs 36 Girl's name 38 Sacred music torn position 40 After-dinner courses 42 Spanish community 43 Western cattle 44 Related by blood 46 Indian weight 47 Request 49 Purpose 51 Sharp sound 54 Small flap 56 Drinks to excess 60 Poems 62 Legal point 64 African hartebeest 65 Colleagues 67 Verbal 68 Alienate 69 Take a breather DOWN 1 Foot par 2 Mohammedan priest 3 Polynesian god 4 Concluded 5 Dance step 6 Kaffir warrior 7 Smallest amount 8 Greek (ab i 9 Tear 10 Frosted 11 Female equine 12 Koko's weapon 19 Chest bone 21 Civil wrong 24 Secure a ship 26 Implement 27Putsto 28 Versifier 29 Gaelic 31 Crafts 33 Angers 34 Method 35 Fly aloft 37 On the brmv 39 Continent 41'Fonnerly 45 Bridle part 48 Feminine appellation 50 Engine 51 Bishop of Rome 52 Harem rooms 53 Forward 55 Ice mass 57 Skin orifice 58 Epochs 59 Seasoning 61 Steamer (ab.) 63 Compass point 66 Symbol for sodium OR LAWRENCE E. LAMB Dear Dr. Lamb Could you please write an article on hypoglycemia low Mood sugar? A friend of mine has had it for over a year and even though he is on a sugar free, high protein diet, he feels no better. He sleeps only three or four hours a night and feels so drained of energy he can hardly move.

Do you publish any material on it? Is there any hope for his recovery at all? He is ready to try anything. He cannot go on much longer feeling so bad. Dear Reader Yes, I have written several columns on this subject. Perhaps it would be helpful to point out that there are many other factors that cause low blood sugar (glucose) besides the diet. The blood glucose level is kept within narrow ranges by the action of the liver, which is a kind of blood glucose thermostat.

Whenever the blood glucose gets too low the stores of animal starch (glycogen), or even body protein from muscles and otner cells, are simply processed to form more blood glucose. That is wny a person in a starvation situation doesn't collapse or die immediately from low blood sugar. Through the action of the liver and fat cells excess amounts of blood glucose are converted to fat. If the buildup or absorption of sugar is faster than the body can process, the excess is eliminated through the kidneys. All of these mechanisms are then controlled by other glands in the body.

Whenever the liver is damaged there may be a low blood glucose level. Simply put, the liver loses its ability to release glucose into the blood. Any factor that causes liver damage can be responsible for this. Other people have true hyperinsulin- ism where the pancreas regularly forms excess insulin unrelated to the food they eat. Rare individuals with disease of the adrenal glands, sometimes called Addison's disease, also have a tendency to low blood sugar Add to that the point that fatigue is a symptom of many things, not a diagnosis of low-blood sugar.

It can be caused by anemia, tuberculosis, and a host of medical problems as well as being caused by psychological factors. Because many of the symptoms of low biood sugar are the same as those caused by anxiety reactions, many individuals with psychological problems end up being told they have low blood sugar or thinking that is their problem when they really need help in the psychological You can see why I can't really tell you what to expect for your friend. If be has faithfully followed a proper diet which may include more than avoiding sugar then it is hard to see how his problem could be a diet related one. If he is still eating lots of starches (breads, rolls, potatoes) he should stop these and limit his carbohydrates to bulky vegetables and use tomatoes to replace citrus fruit He could also try eating small meals at more frequent intervals. To this I would add eliminating tobacco, alcohol, and developing a good fitness program.

That could help him unless he has some problem more complicated than simple low blood sugar related to diet Barbs Those are not leaves drifting they're shingles from the roof you put off fixing last summer. Auto insurance companies keep track of their sales on crash registers. Comfort for the lazy: look what the worm gets for getting up before the early bird. Now is the time when you can't get the furnace repairman in two weeks that you could have had, panting on your doorstep, in two hours last July. Penny candy hasn't disappeared.

You can buy it in any vending machine for 10 cents. Burn thecandle at both ends, and you'll have an awful time trying to set it down. For those who don't like the smell of 'em, there is no such thing as a little cigar. Some folk who grow green at the thought of eating snails will pay $4.75 for a plate of escargots. Ann Landers Dear Ann Landers: Today I did something I could kill myself for.

I was walking through a bookstore and spotted a book on sex. I am only 15 years old and was sure they wouldn't sell it to me so I slipped it under my jacket and walked out of the store. The minute I got on the street I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was the store manager. He asked to see the sales slip for the book.

I knew I was caught. He 'Invited" me to come to his office, asked for my name, address and phone number. I begged him not to call the police or my parents. He said, "All right, if you promise never to shoplift again, we'll keep it between the two of us." I took an oath on my life. He said, "I believe you." Ann, when I think of how close I came to wrecking myself over a rotten $1.95 book I could just die.

How lucky I was that the manager was so understanding. Please print this letter for every kid out there who has ever toyed with the idea of lifting. It's a a real Fool Dear Lucky: Good letter. Good advice. Thanks for sharing.

Dear Ann Landers: As an amateur astrologer in my fifth year of study, I am accustomed to hearing people who know absolutely nothing about the subject tell me what a lot of garbage it is. These individuals are completely of any knowledge of such elementary things as the Twelve-House System, the Ten Planetary Influences, Lunar Cycles, and so on. They feel they are eminently qualified to deride an art that dates back to the time of the Chaldeans. In the face of such presumptuous arrogance; the only answer that seems to quiet the vehement clods is a quote from Sir Isaac Newton, who was a prominent astrologer in addition to his other pursuits. When asked why a man of his intelligence and scientific accomplishment believed in such "disreputable nonsense," he replied, "Because I have studied the matter.

You have not." Thank you for equal time, In The Ninth House Dear Sun: Several readers have written to say, "A plague on all your houses," but I am not so quick to pass judgment on a subject that has so many supporters Thanks for writing. Dear Ann Landers: 1 married a man my parents didn't like. I was sure I could change him and that he would be the perfect husband. He had been married twice before and swore that he had learned from his past mistakes. Immediately after the wedding he got into a big argument with my dad.

He was drunk and struck my father with his fist. Dad told him never to come into the house again. I said, "That means me, too, Goodbye." When our child was born I never let my folks know. Dad died the following month without ever seeing his only grandson. I went to his funeral and nearly collapsed when I saw how old and frail my mother had grown in only two years.

I was sure I had contributed to it. My husband left me for another woman a few months later. I am back home now, living with my mother, trying my best to make up for the lost years, but it can't be done. Olive Branch Withered Dear Friend: If ever a letter said it all, yours does. Discover how to be date bait without falling hook, line and sinker Ann Landers's booklet, "Dating Do's And Don'ts," will help you be more poised and sure of yourself on dates.

Send 35 cents in coin along with a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope and your request to Ann Landers, 0 Box 3346, Chicago, Illinois 60654 (Copyright 1973 Field Enterprises) Days of yore 10 Years ago A little family store which has helped satisfy the sweet teeth of at least four Sault generations will close its doors at 440 East Portage after Lucille and Ralph Vorase hand out treats to youngsters on Don Ogden has resigned his position as executive vice president, cashier and member of the board of directors of the Newberry State Bank to accept a position in Kalamazoo. James Miller was elected cashier to replace him. 25 Years Ago A special meeting was to be held today by the Chippewa County Republican Committee to select a candidate for sheriff in next Tuesday's general election. The meeting, called because of the death of Sheriff Jack Armstrong, is provided for by law in the event of death of a candidate before the election. A Junior National Rifle Association of America was formed in Algonquin with Charles McClain as executive officer and Rhiner Groendyk as instructor.

Sault High's football loss to Alpena last night marked the first time in Sault history that a school team dropped more than six games in one season. 50 Years Ago Walter H. McKinney, for a number of years general manager of the P. T. McKinney and Son grocery firm, leaves the Sault tomorrow for Washington, D.C., where he will receive final instructions and his appointment as U.S.

consul. A masked bandit is being sought after he robbed the ticket booth at the international ferry dock of $33. Dora Moron of 330 Mapk Street and Margaret A'Hern of 1100 Minneapolis Street were on duty. Miss Moran grappled with the armed bandit and tore off his mask which is now in the bands of tin police..