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A Ami Landers I I I I I IM I I I II a. Rutherford County United Way volunteer, campaign chairman as Heritage Farms Personnel Manager Jeff Phillips looks Keith Glenn Photo Employees of Heritage Farms Dairy give 100 ptrctnt to United Way for the second year In a row (127 employees and 127 contributions). Heritage Farms General Manager Bob Cosman (left) presents a check to Ken Burns, Ellison book proves honest Dear Ana Laaders I am so mad my eyes are crossing. Something has got to be done about the idiotic, stupid way networks break into the best programs to give "a special news report." Almost always the news is of no great importance and nobody gives a damn. Today they messed up my favorite soap, "All My Children." At a crucial point in the program, when the main character's entire life was hanging on what might happen in the next few minutes, some jerk from ABC cuts in with a o-called special news report.

There was nothing in that report that couldn't have waited until 5 o'clock. The only time such interruptions might be justified would be if the world was coming to an end. When that happens, we won't need to be told about it by some network clown. I'm signing myself Disgusted with Break-Ins Dear Gus: Well! I guess you told 'em. (Stay tuned, Roone Arledge.

Viewers Jike Gus determine your ratings!) Dear Ann Landers: It is no secret that everyone is feeling the pinch of inflation. I am not an economist but I've figured out ways to stretch the dollar and I can tell you they work. Please share them with your readers. It has made a big difference in our lives, and these days people need all the help they can get. Here they are: 1.

Buy quality. In the long run it's cheaper. Junk doesn't last. You will find yourself replacing interior merchandise often. Some "bargains" turn out to be pretty darned expensive.

2. Pay cash whenever possible. Get rid of all your plastic cards except one that should be used only in an emergency. People who run up charge accounts and buy with credit cards end up paying a great deal more than they realize. 3.

No matter how tight things are, you should have a savings account. Put it in your budget, and stick with it. Empty your pockets every night and put the change in a bottle. At the end of the month whatever is in the bottle goes into the bank. 4.

Watch the ads and shop around. Use coupons. They can save you money. Take advantage of sales but don't bo ridiculous, A two-year supply of shampoo is foolish. 5.

Take care of what you have. Shampoo your rugs, wash your, curtains, polish the furniture, remove spots before they set. Clean every appliance after you use it, then put it away. Everything will last longer if your take care of it. We Live in Providence Dear Providence: When I started to read your letter, I just knew it was from Maine, Vermont or Rhode Island.

Thanks for the splendid advice. Dear Ann Landers: Our 25th wedding anniversary will be in 1983. We had a small wedding back in 1958. Would it be in good taste if we had a lovely church wedding, involving our children and grandchildren, and invited family and friends? We would like to renew our vows and have a gala celebration. Sentimental In Washington Dear Of course! With so many marriages breaking up it would be a refreshing change.

A renewal of vows is a wonderful idea! A no-nonsense approach to how to deal with life's most difficult and most rewarding arrangement. Ann Landers' booklet, "Marriage What it Expect," will prepare you for better or for worse. Send your request to Ann Landers, P.O. Box 11995, Chicago, 111. 60611, enclosing 50 cents and a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope.

concretized myths and provincial This wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare." Ellison speaks best when angry and Ellison is always angry. The book, as the author explains in the introduction, is about mortal dreads. Not the horror movie fears, but the "fear of Huck finding his dead father on the houseboat." The theme he uses, as he walks the reader through his stories with each mini-introduction, is "writers take tours in other people's lives." Ellison writes about a boy who is always five, even when his best friend, once five beside him, is 22. In "Jeffty is Five" the past comes bitterly to terms with the present and is destroyed. "Flop Sweat" was written hours before a radio broadcast for which Ellison had been given the story idea, that of a woman disc jockey.

"Shoppe Keeper" is the story behind the old myth about the magic store that appears to give its customer whatever his heart desires only to disappear again. The two finest stories in the collection are "All the Lies That Are My Life" and "Count the Clock That Tells the Time." Each story deals with the idea of waste. The first story took about 12 years to write and is about the falsities of friendships. The second story describes what happens to people who have wasted their Ellison writes with honesty and a controlled but pervading sense of desperation. He has morals and warnings and messages to impart to his readers and he does it fiercely, pressingly, fearfully.

His messages are modern. He speaks to the world about insensitivity and insecurity and loneliness with the sober voice of a man who has seen the future and despises its ugliness. Though the book will no doubt be found in the science fiction section. Ellison is no science fiction writer. Like "Shatterday" By Harlan Ellison 282 pp.

Berkley Books, $2.75 Reviewed by D. Michelle Adkerso Press Reporter Harlan Ellison's newest coljection of short stories, recently released in paperback form, is as daring and hon-. est a series of gutwrenchers as his miniature masterpieces have always been. I Sixteen tales fall under the title, "Shatterday." The stories have previously appeared in magazines from "Playboy" to "Cosmos." One tale was written to be read on the radio and another was created to be read on television as a warning against television. Almost as wonderful as the collection that follows is Ellison's customary introduction.

His books are worth buying for the sake of his introductions and this one is no letdown. Entitled "Mortal Dreads," the introduction reveals Ellison's intentions in the tough-spoken, starkly honest style that is his trademark. "I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your Sci-fi book makes for exciting reading "The Cyborg and the Sorcerers' By Laurence Watt-Evans 248 pp. IBallantine-Del Rey, $2.50 Reviewed by Greg Bailey "The Cyborg and the Sorcerers," Laurence Watt-Evans' latest book, is a pleasant combination of science-fiction and fantasy set in the distant future when Earth is known as Old Earth and Mars is used as a military base. Futuristic society has its problems: the ultimate war has just occurred, devastating the Earth's population, and only a few spaceships have survived the holocaust.

These carry remnants of Earth's militia. Computer controlled, these ships follow the programmed orders to find anything that may be hostile to Eartkand destroy it. Each ship is manned with only one occupant, a cybernetically enhanced human, and one such "cyborg" is Slant. Slant occupies a ship, much to his displeasure, as the ship dutifully carries out its orders even though the war has long since ended. Sensing what may be a hostile life form; the computer orders Slant to investigate a planet inhabited by powerful sorcerers.

Slant decides to enlist the sorcerers' help in releasing the computer's hold over his ship and himself. Laurence Watt-Evans is famed for his science-fiction works, and "The Cyborg and the Sorcerers" is a well-written and exciting book. It ranks with the best in recent science, fantasy. Disability benefits get cap "Convert your 'All-Savers' into high, insured tax free interest!" Ray Bradbury, only moreso, Ellison writes human stories, with human emotions, human pains and fears and weaknesses. If he must be classified, Ellison is a fantasist, though even that term is misleading.

Ellison's tales are not fantasies, they are too honest and too angry to be shrouded over with terminology connoting escapism and illusion. If his stories seem fantastical or extreme in their portrayals of man, Ellison writes to shock, to communicate the idea that "you are not alone" with the directness and insistence of a man who knows loneliness. The writer best describes his purpose and craft. He creates life anew out of the rubble of the mundane and the harried, providing man a truth-telling mirror. "Things often seem clearer in the silver light of the extraordinary.

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