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9-A Message about drinking hit the mark PRESS-TRIBUNE Tuesday, November 30, 182 2 Aw Ann fa Landers i 1 SMU. Dear Ann Landers: You have said more than once in your column that alcoholism is the No. 1 health problem, not only in the United States, but also in many other countries in the world. Please print the enclosed message that came in the mail anonymously. It was, I am sure, sent by someone who cared enough to let me know he (or she) was concerned about my drinking.

I am taking the message to heart and hope others will, too. Thanks, Ann. Received And Noted In Corning Dear R. and N. I like it.

Here it is. Positively Negative We drank for joy and became miserable. We drank for sociability and became argumentative. We drank for sophistication and became obnoxious. We drank for friendship and made enemies.

We drank for sleep and awakened exhausted. We drank for confidence and became afraid. We drank to make conversation flow more easily and the words came out slurred and incoherent. We drank to diminish our problems and saw them multiply. We drank to feel heavenly and ended up feeling like hell We drank to cope with life and invited death.

Dear Ann Landers: Recently my husband and I traveled several hundred miles to see a musical comedy. We paid a great deal of money for those tickets. The songs were from the '30s and '40s. We remembered them well. An older gentleman seated next to my husband also remembered them.

In fact, he knew all the lyrics to every song in the show, and sang (off-key) along with the vocalists and chorus. My husband was visibly annoyed so I offered to change seats with him. I suffered in silence because I didn't want to interfere with the old gentleman's pleasure. When the show was over, my husband told me that changing seats didn't help much because he could still hear the old goat singing his fool head off, and it spoiled the evening for him. I didn't tell him my evening was spoiled, too.

How would you have dealt with the problem, Ann Landers in case there's a next time? Traverse City Readers Dear T.C.R.: After the first rendition by the man with the marvelous memory, I would have turned to him and said, 'i think it's remarkable that you remembered every word of that song and I'll bet you know them all, but I hope you won't sing anymore. It isn't fair to the performers or to the audience. Thank you for being so considerate. Field Syndicate 1 We drank for strength and felt weak. We drank to feel exhilaration and ended up depressed.

We drank for "medicinal purposes" and acquired health problems. We drank to get calmed down and ended up ith the shakes. Vfc I (Doily Press-Tribune photo) Church boutique A Christmas boutique is an annual event at the Foothill Community Church in Roseville. Jeanette Grimm (left) and Marilyn Redding get ready for the boutique which will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Friday at the Sunrise House, next door to the church at 202 Bonita Ave. There will be a turkey dinner with all the trimmings from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. For dinner reservations call 783-5257. Asleep at the Wheel coming to Roseville Asleep at the Wheel will appear at the Lonesome Armadillo in Old Roseville Saturday night for two shows, one at 7 and one at 10 p.m. Tickets are available at the Lonesome Armadillo, Dimple Records in Roseville and Ticketron outlets.

There's that edge of craziness to Asleep at the Wheel that can be both bewildering and exciting at first listen. For the uninitiated, a taste of Asleep at the Wheel is much like a replay of the various idioms of Americam music at high speed. Start out with country-rock, shift into western swing, boogie, the blues, and then slide back into some thumpin' honky tonk. "Eclecticism is not out of place, in my opinion, as long as it's done well," points out Ray Benson, Asleep's six-foot-six bandleader. It's Benson (a man who always seems to be having an adrenalin rush) who first formed this musically hip aggregation 12 years ago and has piloted it down some pretty strange roads.

"It's a hard line to walk: the kind of music we play. A lot of people are so factional in their tastes that they tend to 'isten to one sound or another. What we offer them is a gift pack, assorted flavors. The first and foremost thing that I do is to be a bandleader, tying fhe various elements together," Benson continues. "I'm the one who primarily tries to keep the consistency in the band as new people join and others leave.

Asleep is always progressing and evolving, but at the same time the focus of it must be maintained. "We work in the same way as the Ellington band, or the swing bands of the '30's and '40's. They used books so that they could change personnel without losing that consistency. My book's up here in my head." But while it's Benson and Jann Brown who front the band vocally, according to their press agent, there wouldn't be a band without the high calibre of musicianship that has influenced the band over the years. A statistic that might be startling in one respect also shows the common denominator of proficiency and professionalism that the band has shown in another.

There have been over 60 members and not all at the same time of Asleep at the Wheel. With some bands, just the loss of one member makes the entire unit fall apart. Not with Asleep. It's the devotion and dedication of everyone involved that has kept the sound together. "We do boogie woogie and combo swing like nobody's ever done it before.

With guitars, steel pedal and fiddle. What we do just grew musically with the addition of every new member to the band, through their contributions and influences. I know that when I hire someone, he's got certain qualities that are going to affect how we sound. But I hire him because he's damn good and ill help carry on the tradition." Over the years, Asleep at the Wheefiias done the unexpected, the exciting. They've been a little wierd and crazed at times, which isn't hard to understand since they tour 300 days a year, virtually calling the road their home.

But what they do, they honestly love, even with the ridiculously high fuel bill for the tour bus tossed in. They've been PEOPLETALK Asleep at the Wheel will perform at Lonesome Armadillo in Roseville. doing it since early 1970 when Benson, who sounds like a Texan, but grew up in Pennsylvania, with a couple of other musicians formed Asleep. During those years, they steered a course somewhere between hardcore country and '50's rock 'n' roll. But along the way, they picked up the Western swing of Bob Wills, the rhythm of the big bands, and the various musical styles that they have since refined and made into their own.

Jann Brown is currently the lead female vocalist and the band consists of: Falkner Evans on keyboards, Michael Francis playing saxophone. Tom Anastasio on electric and upright bass, Richard Hormachea on drums, Wally Murphy playing steel guitar and Paul Anastasio on fiddle. Whatever Asleep does, it does right. That's evident rtot only by their nine previous albums but also the three Grammy nominations they've received, and the Grammy Award in 1978 for Best Instrumental Group for "One O'C'lock Jump. "What I do, being a performer, is sometimes selfish and self serving," Benson admits.

"But it's my life. I've been playing professionally since I was 9. Twenty two years now. What I do, what Asleep at the Wheel does, is take all this music that we love and translate it into commercial, listenable terms. Music's in the air and we pluck it out.

We turn it into something very special." Asleep at the Wheel is working on a new album at the Perenales Recording Studio, located just outside of Austin, Texas. The album is coproduced by Ray Benson and Willie Nelson and is engineered by Larry Greenhill. The Album promises some great new material, featuring vocalists Ray Benson and Jann Brown with guest vocals by Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris. Sunrise American Business Women Open house scheduled Jeanne Williams of Folsom gained 64 LBS. OF ENERGY As many of us know a diet is the penalty for exceeding the feed limit.

How well Jeanne Williams knows! By GLENNE CURRIE United Press International 10 NOT ENOUGH: English actor Dudley Moore says he wasn't turned on by Bo Derek while they were filming the famous bedroom scene in the movie "10." "We were both naked," he told Playboy magazine. "I was nervous, but Bo wasn't You feel more stupid than turned on. You're thinking about your lines, your timing, your camera angles not about sex." Moore said he is interested in women primarily for physical reasons. "The ability to enjoy your sex life is central," he said. "My obsession is total.

What else is there to live for? Chinese food and women. There is nothing else." THE MOOSE IN THE FOG: A moose totaled Tommy Dee Olson's car in northwest Minnesota Monday and sent Olson to hospital with serious head and chest injuries. Olson, 31, ran into the moose in heavy early morning fog on U.S. 59. The moose was hurt and had to be destroyed.

OCEAN RESCUE: Yachtsman Tony Lush was rescued Monday by fellow American Francis Stokes after his 54-foot ketch suffered heavy damage in the "Roaring 40s" stretch of the southern Indian Ocean. Both were competing in the 27.000-mile single-handed, round-the-world race. The organizers said Lush had to abandon his ketch, Lady Pcpperell, after it flipped end over end in heavy seas and was so badly damaged the keel was held onto the hull only by the yacht's fiberglass skin. Lush put out a Mayday call to other competitors who left Cape Town two weeks ago on the race's second leg to Australia. He was picked up by Stokes, aboard Moonshine.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: Vice President George Bush, talking on "Good Morning America" about his impressions of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov: he was in charge, strong. He knew what he was talking about. He didn't have to refer to others to follow through on any deviation from his own notes, and so the Soviet Union is now led by a younger very strong, very formidable man in Yuri Andropov." Bush met Andropov briefly while in Moscow for the funeral of Leonid Biezhnev. ANDROPOV SHOWS WHO'S BOSS: In Moscow, Yuri Andropov has fired Railway Minister Ivan G. Pavlovsky No reason was given for his replacement by Deputy Minister Nikolai Konarev, but the ministry has been under severe attack recently.

Andropov singled it out for criticism in his first major speech a week ago, saying despite generous increases in railway employee salaries, performance had not improved. The railways have been repeatedly criticized in the Soviet press for their lack of planning. Press reports have said some trains lug thousands of unnecessary miles on duplicate routes. HARRY'S HOPE: The Hope Diamond, once part of the French cro'A jewels, went on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of wrt MoTiday night in its first appearance outside Washington in decades. The Smithsonian institution lent the gem to help the Met celebrate the 5(th anniversary of Harry Winston, founded by the finned jeweler who donated the 44-carat gem to the Smithsonian.

The Hope Diamond disappeared during the French Revolution, but rrsui faced in London in the 1830s, hen it was purchased by Henry H'pe, In-nee its name. Winston, who died in 1978, bought the diamond iin 1941J and gave it to the Smithsonian in 1958. Its display at the I Metropolitan for only three hours marked the first lime the Smithsonian ever has lent one of its gems to another museum. DOUGLAS EXHAUSTED: Actor Kirk Douglas, exhausted after a hour (light from a Thanksgiving tour of Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan, would say only on his arrival in Los Angeles, he was "im-' pressed with what I saw." Douglas, Mi, spent five days in Pakistan under the auspices of the U.S. Information Agency.

His trip was paid by the Pakistanis, who invited Douglas to tour the camps where many of the 2 7 million Afghans displaced by the Soviet invasion live The Placer Women's Center is an organization serving women and families who have suffered from family violence and sexual abuse. Like many community organizations, funds are scarce. A "Christmas for Children" open house is being held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec.

11 at the center, 215 Maple Auburn. Guests are asked to bring a new toy wrapped and ready to give. Some of these toys will go to families that are being sheltered and the rest will go to form a children's playroom at the center. Lou La Bonte and Hilda's Bakery have donated wine, cheese, cider and cookies. A Christmas tree was donated by the Meadow Vista Tree Farm and Santa will be there from noon to 5 p.m.

Take some time from the hectic seasonal rush and share some love with a family in need. Sunrise Charter Chapter of American Business Women's Association will hold its regular monthly business meeting and a Christmas party and gift exchange at the Candlerock restaurant Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. Included in the program will be an annual holiday raffle ticket drawing. Proceeds from ticket sales go towards a Scholarship Fund awarded each year.

Guest speakers for the evening ill be Sue Avila, who is a "Planned Giving Officer" of the local public television station KVIE Channel Six, and Bill Millard, vice president of "Friends of Six." Twenty-five members of Sunrise Charter Chapter and Sierra Rose Chapter of American Business Women's Association will volunteer their time on Dec. 12 from noon to 6 p.m. appearing on Channel Six, answering telephones in an effort to increase membership in the local public television station, KVIE Channel Six. ABWA is an educational association whose objective is to "promote the professional, educational, cultural and social advancement of business women." The goal of the Association is to help women in business advance through education, increased competence, and the upgrading of professional skills and business attitudes. For information, interested business women may contact Chapter officers at 446-5502 or 483-0635.

Past Presidents' Parley meets The Past Presidents' Parley of the American Legion Auxiliary No. 169 met at the home of Edna Palmer for the November meeting. Isabelle Ott conducted the business meeting. Plans were made for the annual Christmas party of the Parley to be held at Chic's, 6455 Pacific Rocklin, starting with a 5:30 p.m. dinner Dec.

12. Members may bring their husbands or guests. There will be an exchange of Christmas gifts. After the business meeting, the hostess served a dessert luncheon. Members attending were Josephine Iopez, Marie Lea Gangbin, Henrietta Kinnamon, Lenora Kingsley, Clara Dugan, Irene MacBeth, Cora Elliott, Yetive Barusch.

Alice McCarthy, Florence Sawtell and Isabelle Ott. The American War Mothers Birthday Club will meet at the Heritage Inn Coffee Shop Dec. 13 for its annual Christmas party. Members may bring a guest and gifts will be exchanged. Lunch will beat 1 p.m.

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