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SECTION B 1W 3V TlICK WEST Smashed Pinkie Hampers Typing PAGES i TO 8 MEDFORDeJlSiTRIBUNE MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1981 WASHINGTON (DPI) - On Thanksgiving Day I went out side between football games to perform a ritual, familiar to all suburbanites, that is known as "putting the lawnmower away for the winter." While I had the thing upend ed, trying to remoe the blade, the wrench slipped and mashed the end of the little finger on my right hand. It was excru ciating. Besides that, it hurt. I ran into the the house where I encountered my wife coming up from the basement with a ludd of laundry. She could sense from the way I was screaming that something was wrong. My wife is very perceptive that way. "What's the matter?" she asked. "I hurt my pinkie," I said. "You poor kid," she crooned. "Come here and I'll kiss it and make it all well." Sarcasm Unappreciated I didn't appreciate her sar casm one bit. Besides that, she lied to me. This happened more than two weeks ago and my finger is still sore. Mashing one's finger is not, I'll admit, a mortal wound. But for someone who earns his live lihood playing the typewriter, it is just about the worst thing thing that can happen. Outside of discovering that one's wife can't really heal a mashed finger by kissing it, I don't know of anything more traumatic than having to change one's typing technique. Under the typing system I ( employ, the right little finger has jurisdiction not only over the Family I Council Edilnr'i Note: The Family Coun cil cnbtis ol it jutUe, a psychia trist, three clercymrn, a newspaper editor, a wintens editor, and two writers. Earn article Is a suk-mary i of an actual case history. The t-'ouncll reports on problems that nas e been dealt with by respoa- : llble agencies and counselors, tConvricltt 1963 j General Features Carp.) j Floyd D. There's no reason why We can't be married in a few w..ks. Paula N. I'd like a long en- i sagemcnt so we can know each other better. Floyd I). At the time Paula I and I became engaged we spoke of getting married in midwinter so we could honeymoon in the South at the height of the sea son. We have an apartment, ' mine, which Paula helped me to decorate. I hold a good job. ; What's the delay? Now she wants to wait till her birthday nc.t October. I don't get it. Paula N. An engagement is n wonderful period and I don't want to skip it. I've only had my ring since Thanksgiving and I can't rush into wedding, honey moon, housekeeping plans until I've had a chance to enjoy being Floyd's fiancee. He's 27, I'm 21, and we met two years ago as t amp counselors. We need time now to concentrate on being in love. The Council: There are many reasons for a long engagement, most of them good ones. The only one to worry about is one which is rarely admitted, fear of the sexual relations. If this lurks among Paula's fine-sounding arguments, it requires at tention and resolution from a doctor or a marriage counselor. Otherwise, the months between lhal romantic "yes" and the prayerful "I do" serve well in the" gctting-to-know-you depart ment. But a warning to Paula: There are some things you'll never know until after the wed ding. The engagement is a best-foot-forward period. Why not vicld to Floyd on that point and shorten the' wait, because you won't really know one another much more after a year of be trothal fuss and fluff, than after a few months of same. Will he love vou in December as in the month of May? To engaged couples, it's May every month. But don't kid yourself, and Flovd, for too many months. i colon-semicolon, its home key, i but is also responsible for the letter P, both capital and low- er case; the zero; the starboard parenthesis; the asterisk; the jdash; the margin release; the '2 and U signs; the plus and .equal signs; the question mark land slash mark; a shift key; the per cent mark and that lit tle a with the circle around it. Versatility Unmatched No other typing finger can match its versatility and none is more important, except pos sibly the left ring finger, which is assigned to the key used in X-ing out mistakes. The loss of the right pinkie is particularly hard on someone like me because I have an in feriority complex and conse quently use a lot of question marks. During my incapacitation, I devised a left hand crossover method under which the left in dex finger substitutes for the in jured digit. The result has been a steady erosion of my central nervous system. After the first w.-ek I started stuttering, which is a common affliction among ambidextrous chess players and baseball switch hitters. At the end of 10 days, I found that my eyes were crossing. Fortunately, however. She soreness is about gone now and I'll be all right as soon as my cars quit twitching. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Atas.LIFTPlNkV.THE SOCIETY DOW4C-ER, OWo THE LATEST A1O0EL 200PE17MAT1C SBVWG AIACHWE.BUT USES IT NEVER- I 7 7ME NEW P FQOCU.S AHt LIBERIE YOU MODOM.' twcmkew, ii!fcie you do a eooo JDrna 3 SaC-ETT--JUST I ON M DCAPES Y0O CAN Fi LINGERIE YOU I I POT TUEM 4w4V J :;::5,a D MV SDfiCQVERS, IF ORDERED, , V, FOR ME, 'fSK. VOU DON'T CHAROE ME L ,mooom ) nLrf please.1 ) 2 mCH "JUYTX While pjoq dupessa.whosews fdr a liwn5-sme has the model that betsy ross learned on Cows Delay tondng Of I MANCHESTER, Eng. tUPi) Nineteen cows Sunday night held up the landing of a Royal Dutch Airlines KLM Viscount i airliner when they strayed onto i the main runway of Ringway ; Airport. KLM Manager Ron Vigars I said the plane was carrying about 50 passengers and crew- Dulch Airliner men. "The cows could have caused a very serious accident, particularly as it was dark," he said. LOS ANGELES tUPI) - Fu neral services will be held Tues day for Stan Jones, 49, televi sion act or and composer of "Ghost Riders in the Sky." t'HOU IN CAIRO CAIRO, U.A.B. (UP!) - Com munist Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai, launching a two-month campaign to bolster Peking's 1 influence among emerging Afri ; can nations, Saturday called for 1 a fight against both old and new i "colonialism," U. 5. Serviceman l On Patrol Defects! To North Korea SEOUL, Korea (UPI) U.S. I Army SP.-J Jerry Wayne Par-! rish had a good service record! before his alleged defection to! Communist North Korea, a United Nations Command (UNO spokesman said today, j Parrish, 19, of Henderson, Ky., had no access to classified information, he added. Communist North Korea's Ra dio Pyongyang said Sunday that Parrish defected Dec. 6. The UKC confirmed that he had disappeared while on patrol on that date. In accordance with the usual regulations, Parrish was simply listed as absent without leave. If he does not show up within 30 days, he will be listed as a deserter. Tail Position The VOC said that Par rish had the tail position in a six-man patrol along the de marcation line between North and South Korea on the day he disappeared. When the other members of the patrol noticed he was miss ing they turned back and found his M-k carbine, cartride belt and an unsigned hand-printed note. It said, "tell my mother I love her, 1 will be back some day. Tell my friends goodbye." Parrish would be the third third delator since the Korean War ended 19 years ago. Pvt. Larry A. Abshicr, 20, of Garfield Heights, Ohio, defected in Mav. 19S2, PFC, James J. Dresnok, 21, Rlen Allen, Va., defected Aug, IS, 1962. Teung Airman Stands Chthtma$ Tree Guard COLUSA, Calif, fUPIWMi chaei Hoffman, IS, on leave from the Air Force, stood two hours of guard duty Saturday night at Colusa's community Christmas tree. Las! year Hoffman sped by the tree to a car, plucked off two large lights, and then ran a signal light. Judge Richard Patton made this year's guard duty at the tree a condition of the young airman's probation. FREE CHRISTMAS TRIES! 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