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Dtt Ann Lndtrs: Divorced Mother No Expert on Marriage Bjr ANN LANDERS Deer Ann Linden: - I'm n attractive girt, II, who has dated many fellows but I've never met one I'd like to fettle down with. I figure there's plenty of time for that. My mother ha different ideai. She'i been divorced twice and considers herself an authority on men. She says I won't always be youthful and pretty and the time to grab a catch it when I'm at the peak of freshness and beauty. She has the man all picked out for me. In some ways 1 know ahe'a right and 'it's very confusing. Her choice is a widower, 44, with three children. He's kind and would be a wonderful husband. He owns apartment buildings and stores and lives in a beautiful home on a hill. He told Mom he'd -marry me tomorrow. What shall I do? I'm not in love with anyone and maybe I never will be. Mom says she married for love twice and it's the bunk. I know she wants the best for me. Is this it? BONNIE LASS I hate le tell a girt her mether wants her U marry a maa for his maaey, bat abe probably eeesa't know of any other way yea eaa get H. ' Your mother IWgbl te get the dollar signs off her eyeballs long eaoagh to eoani Us years iastead of his bankroll. She'll find that ber choice" la old eaeuga le be your father. In fact, this Isn't a Ui Idea. Ill bet this widower is a lot nearer her age thaa yaars. Since he's sack a "catch" aad she's aa "ex pert" teU her to "catch" klm for herself. Dear Ann: We have three children 11, 10 and 6. My husband's mother made her home with us for many years and we all loved her dearly.. Now she's in the hospital dying of an incurable disease and the doctors say she can't live more than another four or five weeks. Grandma keeps asking to see the children but my husband re fuses to let me bring them to her bedside. He says they'll be frightened If they see how much weight she's lost. He says it would be cruel to subject the kids to the sight of her suffering and he'd like them to remember Grandma as she was. He also says the children will not be permitted to attend the funeral. We've having some serious differences of opinion and I need some advice to fall back on. Please, Ann, give us your views, on this very important subject. Several of our friends are as con fused as we are. M. J. B. Children should not be shielded forever from the knowledge thai alckaess grief and even death are a part of life. A brief visit to see their grandmother will serve to acquaint them with a very real side of living which must be met sooaer or later. Year reaction to the situation will be highly coataglras, far children leara by example. If yea are calm, sensible aad slroag they will net be hysterical aad shakea. The 11 aad la-year-olds should be permitted to attend the funeral but a t-year-eld akoald be left with friends. He would not aider stand, aad might caase a disturbance. (Copyright 1SS7, Field KnterpriMf. Inc.) India Changing Currency to Decimal. System Siberians Permitted Time Payment Houses MOSCOW. March 20 tin-Collective farmers in the Altia region of southern Siberia now can buy houses on the installment plan. Pravda says all farmers team up to build rows of houses and only those who work bejf can buy 'them. Curiosity Satisfied NEW. YORK, March - The Pennsylvania Rail Road has un dertaken a campaign to satisfy the natural curiosity of boys and girls about railroading and at the same time keep them at a safe distance. The program calls for presentation of a film and talks by railroad police officers before schools and related groups. By EUGENE LEVIN NEW DELHI. March 20 (-In- dia changes over to decimal cur rency on April 1, abandoning an system established by the British more than a century ago. It is a switch affecting every aspect' of Indian life. Postae rates must be revised. Railway farea must be adjusted. Calculat ing machines must be refitted. The man in the bazaar must start thinking In new terms when he thinks of the rupee. The ruoee traditionally has been the Indian coin. The British put It In the regular basis of 1833, dl viding H into It annas of 12 pies esch. On April 1 the day the Indian fiscal year begins the rupee will be divided Into 100 unieah. The rupee will keep Its same value. but the annas and pies will be dropped. Instead, each unit will be a naya paisa. Plural is naye paise. ON DECIMAL BASIS For three year, annas and pies will remsin legal tender but their value will be calculated on the decimal basis. Thus, four an nas will equal 25 naye paise. The government has issued a ready reckoner for figuring out the val ue when the naya paise equivalent of the anna involves a fraction. India's Parliament adopted the decimal coinage as the first step in this country's move toward re placing the many Indian weights and measures with the . metric system. However, Parliament did not act without misgivings. Many an MP noted that India has a large illiteracy rate and that many peo ple might not understand the change from annas to nay paise. These MPs said there was a chance dishonest people would cheat the. public. The Indian government, in an effort to avoid any trouble, start ed a campaign of education in the villages and the cities months ago. To meet the needs of the ex change, the government It work ing out all kinds of new tables: for customs rates, taxes and budg ets. It also is preparing to issue on April 1 new sets pf postage stamp ln the decimal denominations. ' . Dr. Adams Fetes His Lawyers With Champagne Party in British Prison By EDDY GILMORE LONDON, March 20 Iff Dr. John Bodkin Adams threw a champagne party today to cele brate the dramatic way his law yers have rocked the.proxecu lion's, star witness at his murder trial. "They Had a nice little party In his cell," said a policeman at London's Old Bailey where the case is drawing a pscked house. "The doctor even sent out. for chamDaene." The celebration took place In the prisoner's cell beneath the courtroom. Several members of his defense team were present. The 58-year-old -aoclety physi cian is sccused by drugging a rich widow to death more than six years ago. Scotland Yard got on the case only last summer and arrested the doctor for murder In December. ' His alleged victim was It-year- old Mr. Edith Alice Morrell After the third day of evidence taking at the trial, the consensus around the marble corridor of Old Bailey was that If Dr. Adams goes free. It will be due to nil chief attorney, Geoffrey Law. rence, famous tor his merciless cross - examinations. DISCUSSED EVIDENCE Lawrence wrung an almost tear ful confession from a prosecution witness that she had violated the instructions of Justice Patrick Devlin not to discuss the case. The witness waa one Of four trained, nuries who attended Mrs. Morrell. ' Accusing nurse- Annie Mason Ellis of talking over the evidence I with two other nurses who are witnesses, Lawrence demanded to know if this was true. "Yea." the nurse admitted. The defense attorney forced the nurse to resd every notation she made In a record book of medi cine given to Mrs. Morrell. He referred to notations of mor phine and heroin as "routine se dation." NOT "ROUTINE SEDATION" This was too much for the dig nified attorney general, who in terrupted to ask the nurse if she ever had heard of morphine and heroin being "routine sedation." "No, air," ihe replied. The last witness was nurse Car oline 8. Randall. Earlier, nurse Mason Ellis ad mitted that nurse Randall had told her that if she didn't testify that Mrs. Morrell' drugs were kept m a locked cupboard, "You'll get me in trouble." under cross examination, the nurse admitted the drugs were never locked in a cupboard. j Questioned by the attorney gen eral she testified that during the last few days of her life, Mrs. Morrell was being given large doses of morphine, heroin and opium. SPASMODIC JERKS "The patient began to twitch and jerk," she said, "these spasms be came so bad she nearly jerked herself out of bed." The nurse said that on the last night Mrs. Morrell waa alive, Dr Adams gave her a syringe and told her to inject the drug in the patient. "This was on top of morphia and heroin injections?" asked the attorney general, "Yes." . "He left me another syringe full," the nurse testified, "and told me to give It to Mrs. Morrell if Nixon Heads Home From Africa Trip TUNIS, Tunisia. March 20 Iff Vice President Nixon ended his African goodwill (our tonight con vinced American prestige is high er than he had anticipated in all the eight nations he visited during his 22-day trip. His special airforce DC took off from Tunis bound for Wash ington where he later will report to President Eisenhower, on sug gestions for policy changes in .this area. This conference will take place when the President returns from Bermuda. Statesman, Salfm, Ore., Thiir., Mar. 21, '57 (See. I)-7 Communists Win Control Of India State Legislature she became restless." The nurse said Mrs. Morrell did become restless and, after unsuc cessfully trying to locate Dr. Adams by telephone, she gave her the second big injection. Two hours later she was dead. said the nurse. NEW DELHI. March 20 Iff Communist! have won control of an Indian state legislature for the first tune. It was the hardest jolt to Prime -Minister Nehru's ruling Congress party since the country became independent. , The Reds scored their victory in Kerala, a new state established last fall on the tropical Malabar coast of southern India. Kerala's 13'i million people are crammed BOO to the square mile, and un employment is a perennial prob lem. The Communists professed to be on their good behavior and prom ised to govern Kerala according to the Indian constitution. Returns from India's 19-day sec ond national election, as added up today, gave the Communist party 59 seats in the lM-member legis lature and I seats to independ ents pieagea io support tne Com munists. ' Congress party candidates had 42 seats, Socialist I, the Moslem League I and a non-Communist independent 1. Two districts still were unreported. 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