The Paris News from Paris, Texas • Page 3

3A Tuesday, July 9, 1996 Construction cacophony is no music to neighbor ears DEAR ABBY? von tail I DEAR ABBY: Could you tell me why construction workers feel it is their privilege to have their radios and boom boxes blaring while they work on residential property? What would happen if we all felt we had this privilege? For instance, imagine what it would be like, if tellers in the bank or checkers in the markets all played their radios at high volume while they worked. I live next door to a house that has been undergoing remodeling for four months. (The owners moved out and won't return until the work is completed, and who knows when that will be?) One day I was subjected to the noise of three radios from three different construction crews. Time and time again I have appealed to the workers, the contractor and the owners to alleviate the stress of having to listen to this unnecessary noise pollution six and sometimes seven days a week often starting before 7 a.m. Nothing has changed.

DearAbby Syndicated Columnist I have no objection to the noise made by various tools they use, nor to the shouting, banging and dust attendant with the work. It contributes to the betterment of my neighbors' property and to the employment of people. But being forced to endure blaring radios is something else. I have asked the workers why they can't use headsets, but have received no satisfactory answer. BOB PROUDLOCK, LOS ANGELES DEAR BOB: Headsets could pose a danger to the workers.

They would be unable to hear a cry for help or a warning of impending danger. Also, orders from the boss would be blocked. Since your appeals have fallen on deaf ears, perhaps you should report the noise pollution to the Many cities have laws on disturbing the peace. DEAR ABBY: In reference to "Sonia in Spring Lakes," who wrote complaining about "Jake" her 50-plus-year-old boyfriend who got too chummy with the hostess of a party that he took Sonia to: You compared Jake to a bumblebee in the garden of life: entertaining to watch at a distance, but guaranteed to deliver a nasty sting if you got too close. You advised Sonia to tell Jake to buzz off, which reminded me of the following poem: "This is the story of the little bee "Whose sex is very hard to see "You cannot tell the he from she "But she can tell, and so can he.

"The busy bee is never still "And has no.time to take the Pill. "And that is why, in times like these, "There are so many sons of bees." SIDNEY ROSEN, BRANDON, Vf. DEAR SIDNEY: At the risk of appearing "waspish," that poem appeared in my column in 1988, submitted by Jim Harvel, an Arizona beekeeper. But thanks for the reminder. You're a honey! DEAR ABBY: Here's one more letter about grandmas catching bridal bouquets.

I caught the bouquet at my grandson's wedding and didn't shove anyone to get it. I am 86 and not so spry. We all had a good laugh. Another grandson caught the garter. The ladies at church have my wedding all planned.

There's only' one hitch they haven't found a groom yet. HAPPY GRANDMA off all Spring and Summer Fashions 1523 LamarAve. Paris, Tx. 78460 (903) 785-5779 9am to 5pm School district bans 32 books, many classics Associated Press LINDALE The school board in a small East Texas town has banned 32 books on an advanced placement English reading list because a trustee said the books "conflicted with the values of the community. The Lindale Independent School District board voted Monday unanimously to ban the books, including many classics Such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter' and Moby Dick.

The board also directed school administrators to assemble a "suitable" reading list to replace the banned books. A recently formed book committee will then approve the new list. Some of the books offended many school board members and parents because they contained profanity and described explicit sex acts, according to board president John Offutt, a Baptist minister. The book banning was not greeted with enthusiasm by al! parents. Some said it denied students freedom of choice and would ultimately impair their education.

Lindale has a population of about 2,000 and is located about 20 miles north of Tyler in East Texas. 2835 NE Loop 286 784-4706 Mexican Restaurant Try our WEDNESDAY NIGHT SPECIAL Enchilada Dinner Three Beef or Cheese Enchiladas, Beans, Rice, Chips and Hot Sauce -OPEN- 11am-9pm Fri. Sat. 11am-10pm Redheads and lefties cor Rump; of VT Pike's Peak Associated Press Growing up in Michigan, Michele Schimento's right-handed brothers loved to tease their kid sister about her squiggly, upside-down writing and the funny way she clutched a baseball bat. But "little lefty" sis had the last laugh when her scorned hand turned golden.

It won her a scholarship to a private Pennsylvania college she could never have afforded as a run-of-the-mill "righty" and pointed the way to a post-graduate degree and career. "It's my biggest asset," said the school social worker, who discovered the obscure scholarship for left-handed people at Juniata College in after checking out dozens of other grants-and scholarships. Juniata's gem is one of thousands of oddball endowments scattered around the country, jylany of these billions of dollars in private funds go untapped because people simply don't kjnow the money is there for the right candidate. v. For a time, the right candidate was a "lady of the night from Seattle.

That short-lived educational adventure stemmed from a judge's efforts to clear Seattle's streets by providing prostitutes tfith the financial incentive to tfrade night work for college cpurses. To be eligible, however, the jvomen had to have been convict-, ed and acknowledge it on their application likely reason the scholarship bombed. But other weird and wonderful routes to higher education abound. "Private endowments total about $9 billion a year," said David Cassidy, president of the National Scholarship Research Service, which compiles an annual "Top 10" list of wacky schol- airships. "There is a scholarship fir everyone and every interest." Take the Gertrude Dcppen scholarship, at Bucknell tjniversity in Lewisburg, awarded each year to a student from Mt.

Carmel, a town some 30 miles distant, who "shall not be a habitual user of tobacco, intoxicating liquor and narcotics and shall not participate in strenuous athletic contests." The scholarship was founded by Joseph H. Deppen, a millionaire bachelor lawyer known for his frugality and abstemiousness, who graduated from Bucknell in 1900. It is named for his sister. "We don't act like Deppen police and go into the rooms and see'if they are drinking beer," said Bucknell spokeswoman Kathie Dibell, recalling one student who worried about losing his funding after he admitted to downing a weekend suds. "And, while they can't be on the football team, we tell them a little weekend golfing is OK." To win a much-coveted United Daughters of the Confederacy scholarship, a student must prove direct descent from a "worthy" Confederate soldier and write an essay on the ancestor's exploits.

Others that have made the "Top 10" include: The Francis Ouimet Caddie Scholarship Fund: to a student who has caddied three years for a Massachusetts golf club. The International Boar Semen Scholarship: $500 to Future Farmers of America who want to study swine management. The New England chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance: $500 to college-bound high school seniors who are fat. The John Catling Scholarship, named for the inventor of the Galling gun, an early machine gun: full scholarship to North Carolina State University to students named Galling or Gatlin. The Joseph Bulova School in the New York City borough of Queens offers a $15,000 scholarship to disabled foreign students who Want to study watchmaking.

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