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12D DETROIT FREE PRESSTHURSDAY, JULY 9, 1981 eeting a new challenge hotostory See story on Page 1A. by David C. Turnley rr At this rate, the 20c stamp will probably be a bargain "i I 'v QUESTIONS ANSWERS as the Innerman and the Outerman harmonize on the song dearest to their hearts these days "I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas" i (u Q. You really wouldn't want it to snow In the second week in July, would you? A. Don't tempt the autumn harvest by giving me my druthers.

Incidentally, some years ago I wrote an KM' off-handed snippet to the effect that it never snows in Michigan in July, whereupon a constituent in the Upper Peninsula responded by swearing that he had 1 vv. witnessed a small blizzard in the Copper Country on Independence Day. So hang in there, ol' bubber. In the nick of time the Lord will spare us from this inferno I visited upon us by the Devil. Q.

Are you trying to tell me that the Lord is a snowstorm, whereas the Devil is a heat wave? A. Of course not. The Lord is snow, yes; but He 7 4 also is many other lovely things April showers, May flowers, June and croon, gentle breezes, new grass up to your ankles, robins back-hoeing worms out of the garden, flowers in the full pride of bloom, strawberries for shortcake, cherries for pies, seven-iron shots hit from soft turf and stopping next to the pin and the Camp counselor Janice Higgins (in boat) gets some tips from boating instructor Lisa Kolodisa at Camp Metamora in Janice, 17, plays with seven-month-old Em-northern Oakland County. In the foreground. Girl Scouts are on a "trust hike." ber Ajuziem, the daughter of two camp sound of rain drumming on the roof at two o'clock in the morning.

In contrast, the Devil is 90 degrees in the shade, only you can't find any. Q. Man, I'm going to have to keep an eye on you or one of these days you'll be wearing a frock coat and a string tie and you'll be going around trying to spread the Fundamentalist Fever. Let's jerk this conversation back to reality. Do you think 20 cents is too much to pay for a postage stamp? A.

That's reality? On second thought, maybe it is. Reality these days seems to be whatever is relevant to the society we have created. On that basis, 20 cents is defensible and this comes from a geezer who remembers the penny postcard, two cents for first-class mail and home delivery twice a day in the larger 'I MIIWIM1WUIIM 111 t-J, WU-M-'" 'I JIUII! -LI! jHIHI m.t mW 11 IJl HJi II 111 mill I IIII1JUI1IMIIIH II ijl.i i I. II. hui.iwiji I II HIM.

i i if a 2 ni; I I i In the role of counselor, Janice checks to see if one of her charges has heat rash. Janice, whose legs 1 l- I 1-. are partially paralyzed, always keeps her crutches nearby. t-jrvj i If lit; towns and cities. But listen! Everything else has soared in proportion.

The bottle of pop you guzzled a few minutes ago cost seven or eight times what it once did. A pair of summer shoes I have been eyeing are listed at $61. Holy Toledo! When postage was two cents you could have purchased a whole ward lor Janice Higgins, being a counselor at Camp iJ Metamora has opened up a whole new world. It is 11 hpr fi ret inh and hpr firct timo awai frnm hor notrnit home. It requires a lot of effort, but in a life full of If jf (V i I I challenges, it simply one more.

Like other counselors at the camp for Brownies and Girl robe and then spent a week at Cedar Point for that kind of money. Being unable to travel, we celebrated the Fourth of July by purchasing enough frozen shrimp for a couple of cocktails $9.95. When we were married in 1934, that would have been Fern's grocery allowance for two weeks. And so it goes. Q.

What are you trying to say? Money has become worthless? A. Oh, no. Not worthless. It is difficult to find the one word to describe what has happened to it. How about "de-emphasized?" That's not quite it, but it will have to do for the moment.

The more there is of almost anything, the less respect you have for it. That's human nature. It used to be that a millionaire was someone special and he was treated with deference. Now he is apt to be aced out of the cashier's line in a supermarket by someone who is paying with food stamps. Money, s'money.

Once you saved it so you could eventually buy a cozy little nest somewhere in the West, as the song went, but now if you save it at the going rate you lose seven percent a year to inflation. So money has been de-emphasized. People still scramble for it, but they think in thousands instead of hundreds. And this brings us back to the 20-cent postage stamp, now under consideration, and it will probably be a bargain on today's market. Q.

Now wait a minute. Hasn't Ronald Reagan promised to turn all of this around? A. Something like that. And Woodrow Wilson promised to keep us out of war; Lyndon Johnson was going to stamp out poverty, and Jimmy Carter was going to balance the budget. History is full of pitfalls and pratfalls.

Have another bottle of eight-to-one soda pop. Scouts in northern Oakland County, Janice sleeps in a platform tent, watches after young Scouts, hikes and enjoys boating. What makes her different is the ever present pair of si' crutches. Janice, 17, has paraperesis, a partial paralysis of her legs. While riding her bicycle when she was 10, she was hit by a motorcycle and was in a coma for 31 days.

Doctors at first didn't think she would live, then said she would be a vegetable and would never walk again. She is proud of proving them wrong. "It's like a 22-hour babysitting job," At the end of a long day, the camp counselor heads to her lodge, says Janice. names 8 faees Makers of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' sued for $100 million Compiled by JEANNE FOX fit 3 1 Vif ft the neighborhood. Kirk LeMoyne Billings, a New York advertising executive who was a close friend and ally of the Kennedy family, willed his apartment on the upper east side to the late senator's son.

Billings died in 1978. BURT REYNOLDS has won a $1 million libel suit filed against one of his movies by the head of the Polish American Guardian Society. Wednesday, a circuit court judge in Chicago ruled that the Polish jokes in "The End" were probably in bad taste, but not libelous. Reynolds starred in the film and it was produced by his film company. Chicagoan Leonard C.

Jarc-zab had claimed that the film portrayed Polish rfl' Principal: says she was drugged. 1 STEVEN SPIELBERG and George Lucas, makers of the hit movie, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," are being sued for $100 million for alleged copyright infringement. The suit was filed Wednesday in Los Angeles by archeolo-gist Robert Lawrence Kuhn and two others, including Stanley Rader, former Worldwide Church of God treasurer. They claim "Raiders" is based on Kuhn's copyrighted work, "Ark," which he submitted to a talent agency that formerly represented Spielberg and Lucas. "Raiders," one of the summer's biggest moneymakers, has grossed $50 million in its first month of release.

A spokesman for Lucas called the charges ridiculous. VICTORIA PRINCIPAL, Bobby Ewing's wife on "Dallas," is suing a porno magazine over its plans to print 1 3-year-old nude photos of her in the September issue. Principal, 31, claims she was underage and drugged when the pics were shot in 1968. But Velvet magazine publisher David Zetner says they have a "legal model release" and the photographer's assurance that Principal was over 18 when it was signed. RICHARD NIXON'S Manhattan townhouse is for sale for $2.9 million.

If the former president gets his asking price, he'll clear a profit of more than $2 million. Nixon has bought a house in Saddle River, N.J., and is expected to move in August. He'll be leaving New York's east side just before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moves into Americans as "totally lacking in any virtue or redeeming quality." MICHAEL J.

CONNALLY, General Motors' labor counsel, has been nominated by President Reagan as general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. His appointment must be confirmed by the Senate. MAXIE ANDERSON plans a second attempt to circle the globe in a balloon. Anderson, who gained world fame with the first trans-Atlantic helium balloon flight in 1978, is testing a new craft in Colorado with partner Don Ida of Boulder. Anderson, of Albuquerque, first tried to fly around the world aboard the Jules Verne in March 1980 but was forced to set down in India because of gas leaks and other problems.

Anderson says the next attempt will be made this winter and the takeoff point will be Jaipur, India. 'PEANUTS' distributor Universal Features Syndicate Inc. is suing a comic book manufacturer who allegedly has created a pornographic takeoff of Charlie Brown and his pals. The syndicate claims a comic book manufactured and distributed by Edward Alexander, who owns a bookstore in Minneapolis, shows the familiar characters involved in lewd and obscene language and behavior. Lockhoins Tribute for handicapped (limbers President Reagan shakes hands with the nine handicapped climbers who scaled Mt.

Rainier last week in a ceremony at the White Hous Rose Garden. The climb was one of several events marking the International Year of the Handicapped. 5 Kennody: won't be Nixon's neighbor. 'they're home i ju6t hearp 50meone 6ay, 'oh, no. not.