Dear Ann Landers: | hope you can locate a letter you ran a white back about inherited money and how It can ruin a person's life. It was from a kid whose brother was named erry. They lived In Scarsdale. Please try to find that fetter. It would mean a great deal to me right now. Thank you very much. Aik — Another ‘‘Jerry’’ (Beverly Hills, Callf.} Dear Jerry: | found the letter, and here it Is: Dear Ann Landers: | heard you say Ina radio interview that kids who have a steady Income as a result ofan inheritance often become loafers and bums. | couldn't agree with you more, because | am a loafer and my brother Is a bum. t am 21. My brother Jerry Is 25. Since my 16th birthday | have been going downhill. Jerry is In worse shape. He has let a pack of leeches live off him and calls himself ‘‘popular."” Our troubles began with inherited money. I'm sure our grandfather believed he was doing us a favor. He was a poor boy and had to work hard. He didn’t want our lives to be as rough as his. Dad died when he was 44 — an alcoholic who ‘never *\ was able to stick to anything. His father’s money wrecked his life. Dad got married when he was 19, and he never had to work. So he drank, gambled and ran around, Now, Grandpa’s money Is ruining a couple more llves. | anvy kids who have to make it on their own. They seem to have time for everything. | have NO time, and I'm not doing a darned thing. Keep talking sense, Ann. Maybe someone will listen. — Silly And Stupid In Scarsdale I replied: Dear Scarsdale: You don’t sound silly and stupid to me. You sound lke a guy who needs help and knows It. What you are saying Is that you were deprived of motiviation early In life because everything was handed to you. | suggest you use some of Grandpa's dough to buy some first-class therapy. Too much lelsure time and lots of unearned money can be a lethal! combination. With some solid direction, you might find your way. Good luck to you and your brother. | wish you weil. And now, having printed. that letter and my response, | nope you wili forgive me if i take this opportunity to add a word or two to parents and grandparents who are busy setting up trust funds for their and as an to “giving It to the government.’’ You would be doing those kids a far bigger favor If you left Just enough to Insure them a tine education — and the rest to a worthy charity. If you would like the names of some fine Institutions that naed money, just ask me. = Dear Ann Landers: | am 25, pretty, ‘and considered sensible. Last year | fell madly in love with a 28-year-old dreamboat. This guy Is so terrific, so bright, so gi him. jorgeous, so tender, so everything, I'm really nuts about \ We dated steadily and | was sure he'd ask me to marry him. Well, last night he suggested | date others to make sure I'm as much in love with him as | think. I’m devastated and can’t figure it out. Can you? f alsy Dear Daisy: What Dreamboat [s saying Is thls: ‘| would like to take out other women because I’m unsure of my feeling for-you.’’ Don't fight it, Honey. When a love affalr Is lopsided, it’s a bummer. _ Meeting in Vancouver - to look at gambling West Kootenay high rollers, take heed. Amarillo Slim, the na- tionally known gambling man with rings the size of quar- ters, a $20 gold piece holding a string tie and snake-skin cowboy boots on his feet, and Washington State Gambling Commission director William Bjork met with other en- thusiasts in Washington State recently. They were there to dis- cuss how they might improve gambling’s image in the state. Their recommendations included: © Present a united front to the Legislature on prom- oting issues such as slot machines, casino gambling or cardroom rules. e Provide regular cam- paign contributions to friend- ly state legislature candi- dates, sponsor youth groups such as Little League base- ball teams, create a scholar- ship fund out of gambling revenues for struggling ‘young artists, sponsor tour- naments and other gimmicks to attract public interest and make public relations efforts to point out the tax revenue gambling can generate, or the advantage of slot ma-- chines. These suggestions came as cardroom owners from around Washington gathered in Vancouver to launch a group aimed at improving their industry's image and liberalizing state gambling laws. The group indicated it would be pushing for legal- ized slot machines and ‘higher betting limits in the state cardrooms.. ~ Their message was the same: unite, and clean up your act. Speaking of Track down Your Health By Lester L, Coleman, M.D. For a few months my feet have begun to swell. At the end of the day I can barely get around, If I take my shoes off in the late afternoon, I can’t get them on again: I can't afford to go to a doctor. That's why I’m writing to you for some help. — Mrs. J.N., W.Va. Dear Mrs. N.: T cannot believe that some medical help is not available to you. The Medicare program for the elderly and the Medicaid program for those who cannot afford private care can always supply medical diagnosis and treatment. Hospital clinics and emergency rooms are available. No one need be deprived of medical or surgical help and support. I would be doing youa great injustice if I were to speculate about the cause for the swelling of your feet, There are meny different reasons for it. Some are unimportant; others may be serious, To delay finding the necessary help may convert a simple problem in to a complicated one. . To give you a better insight into the problem, I will list only a partial number of reasons for swelling of the feet. When you review them you will see how much wiser it is to track down the cause immediately. The causes can be: 1) «standing on your feet all day, 2) circulatory diseases of the blood vessels and the heart, 3) varicose veins, 4) liver disease, 5) kidney disease, 6) excessive heat, 7) ar- teriosclerosis, with narrowing of the blood vessels, 8) in- juries, sprains and tears of the ligaments and muscles, 9) malnutrition and vitamin deficiency, 10) allergies, 11) hormone problems, 12) water and mineral imbalance, 13) persistent use of some drugs, 14) infections. : With so many possibilities, and there are many others, imperative that you find the medical help you need. Only then can the cause of your swelling feet be found, and that cause eliminated. wee i My daughter was born with a heart defect. We have been told that she will eventually need surgery. Is it possible for her to outgrow the defect? — Mrs. HLR., Wash. Dear Mrs. R.: There are many different Five-day plan To stop The next Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking will be held Feb. 3-7, announces Dirk Zinner, local Five-Day Plan director and pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, “We have just finalized our plans, dates and place,” reports Zinner, “and are pleased to be conducting this plan again at the Castlegar and District Hospital in Feb- ruary.” Those considering quit- ting smoking can plan now to attend this five-evening sem- Peles cause of swollen feet types of heart defects. Rarely are any of these defects outgrown. Medicatlons alone are not of value. One defect, a “patent ductus,’"’ may sometimes correct itself after the first or second year.’ The unbelievable strides made in heart surgery now make it possible for a child to live a life of normal longevity in good health because of the surgical correction of a heart defect. smoking inar designed to help a person quit the unhealthy and filthy tobacco habit, as well as start on‘’a healthier and more positive outlook on life. Persons interested in participating or desiring more information on the Five-Day Plan to Stop Smok- . ing can write to Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking, 1471 Columbia Ave., Trail, B.C. The Five-Day Plan is one of the Seventh-day Adventist church's contributions to the well-being of this community and is one of the areas assisted by the Adventist church's Annual Ingathering Appeal. : CASTLEGAR, Phone 365-6923 ask for Poto D-Bar-D Flats, Turn Right in Double-wide Mobile Home. 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Lown a Lol == i pian to build (Date) Changing S Bill Smiley THERE has been a tremen- dous change in the manners and mores of Canada in the ope three decades. ‘This bril- fant thought came to me as | drove home from work today ind saw a sign, in a typical . “Canadian small town: “Steakhouse and Tavern.” Now this didn’t exactly knock me out, alarm me, or discombobulate me in any way. Tam a part of all that is in this country, at this time. But it did give me a tiny twinge. Hence my opening remarks. 1am no Carrie Nation, who stormed into saloons with her lady friends, armed with hatchets, and smashed open (what a waste) the bar- rels of beer and kegs of whiskey. v Lam no Joan of Arc. 1 don’t revile blasphemers or hear voices. | am no Pope John Paul 1, who tells people what to do about their sex lives, 1 am not even a Joe Clark, who rushes up to a barricade prepared to jump for some votes, then decides to go back to the starting-line and send in a real athlete, * Robert Stanfield, an older and wiser athlete, to attempt what he knew he couldn't do. And the'*he"’ is Joe. 1 am merely an observer of the huthan scene, in a coun- try that used (o be one thing, and has become another. Bur that déesn’t mean 1 don't have opinions. | have no- thing but scorn for the mo- _dern *‘objective’’ journalists who tell it as it is. They are hyenas and jackals, who fat- ten on the leavings of the “tions? of our society, for the most part. 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