The Vidette Valparaiso, Thursday, January 1985 Page two People loved the jaunty MG Dale McFeatters chose to get wet. snow or rain by refusing to -Howard News! Service Under the long, start the car in inclement There was a time in this made a throaty rumble that prone to playful short circuits Just Dessert coffin-shaped bood, the engine weather. The system was country when people driving promised untold power. In that would cause, say, the foreign cars waved to each fact, 90 of the to stop if the born was other. In combination with belpful percent space engine regulators, under the hood was and consumed bonked.
Chances were they were edicts from U.S. succeeded in by driver's legs feet, The MG added a driving an MG, a jaunty little they finally and the was, well, sort touch of British sports car that was the developing a car no one would engine much-needed the MG disappeared of cute. One automotive adventure to even the most first foreign car imported into buy and this numbers. five writer was moved to describe routine errands. country any Now, the the MG as a sheep in wolf's in years ago.
Before there was Honda, according to With the earliest MGs, you VW, Mercedes, import British press, there are plans clothing. couldn't even be sure your of restraints and domestic afoot to revive the MG and in The speedometer and destination. They had high, content there 18 months reinvade America. tachometer weren't little narrow wire wheels that legislation, was the Morris Garage. It was The prototype, to be honest, digital things with sliding red precisely fit American trolley popularized in the late '40s looks like a vacuum cleaner lines; they were the size of tracks, and the careless city schoolroom clocks and labeled driver would occasionally find and early '50s by GIs with no handle.
Great Britain. The original MG, as it came with numbers just as clear. his MG had assumed a life of MG's shores 1950, There was a large, its own and was chasing a returning from The popularity caused to these in, say, pearly profound consternation in the represented the pinnacle of vertical steering wheel, street car. and British auto industry, which outdated technology. the doors were cut down so People loved them; they sell seemed embarrassed at It had clamshell fenders, a you get your elbow out for for more now than they did making a car somebody would windshield that folded down leverage.
Dew. buy. flat, a gas tank strapped on Remember the old saw If the British are smart, The British auto industry the rear with the spare tire about a dog chasing a car: they will dust off those old could never really come to strapped on top of that and, in What will he do with it when blueprints instead of doing grips with the idea of supply common with the Model it he catches it? With the MG's what they seem bent on and demand. Management eschewed wimpish fripperies cutdown doors, there was a doing: building a Honda that seemed befuddled by the like roll up side windows. good chance the dog would get leaks.
whole concept of dealers, There were plastic side his teeth on your left arm. To paraphrase, a couple of sales and service, and the curtains one could put up in. The MG had an electrical advertising slogans: The 1 MG unions reacted to increases in case of rain, but they were so system that kept the driver wasn't a car; it was an demand by going on strike. exasperating most owners safe from road hazards in adventure. The public's record Obituaries Boyer correction monds Funeral Home, ChesHospital notes Chesterton Inez Smith In an obituary Tuesday, terton.
Kouts Mrs. Nancy New- He was born April 26, 1947 Births land and baby Prof. Margaretta in Michigan City. A Sackvilleshipping Jan. 30 LaCrosse Muffley infant Tangerman was incorrectly clerk at Sullair ManufacturAyres, Kevin and Melody, Porter George Millet Sr.
identified as the daughter of ing Michigan City, he Portage, girl Wanatah Towhid Khan Ruth Boyer of Munster, who was a Porter resident since Gerber, Terry and Linda, died Monday. 1982, moving here from MiSouth Haven, girl Arrests Prof. Sackville-Tangerman chigan City. He was a U.S. Michael of Michi- is Boyer's sister.
Army veteran and a member Birth elsewhere Price, 33, with a sus- Keith Knapp of Church. Fairhaven Johnson, Peter and Cynthia license; James T. On April 25, 1982 in Chestergan City, driving (Evans), Oswego, Ill, 30, Doelling, 48, of 923 S. County Former LaCrosse resident ton, he married Mary K. BodJan.
boy Road 250W, Boone Township, Keith G. Knapp, 57, of Crystal jack, who survives. Dismissals drunken Porter River, died Wednesday Also driving in Florida. surviving are a son, Jan. 30 County Court.
Jacob, and two A resident of Crystal River daughters, Valparaiso Carl Berndt," Mariam and Ruth, all at Jean Blachly, Sherry County one year, was a home; his mother, Wilma Court 'he former Fiedler, area farmer and electrician Chambers, Kelly dispositions and was a member of Wana- Livings, and a sister, Cheryl Mary Hardin, Amy Ingram, tah American Post 403 Carder, both of Michigan Duane Kuehl, Mrs. Carol Ku- Valparaiso Legion City; and a brother, David of zemka and baby, Bert Law- Donna L. Newman, 50, of Valparaiso Lodge Arkansas. and Moose son, Mary Lockwood, Russell Michigan City, resisting law and Veterans of Foreign Morgan, Edna Reed, Sophie enforcement, dismissed on Surviving are a daughter, Charles Weekley Wars. Sexton, Mary Sievers, Steven state's motion.
Wilson Jr. Walter R. Newman, 54, of Doris Benson of San Pierre; CHESTERTON Charles Portage Trilby Dunn, Michigan City, resisting law two sons, Rodger of Wanatah Weekley, 55, of 820 W. Porter, Wanda Thomason, Mrs. Kim enforcement, dismissed on and Michael of San Pierre; died Wednesday in a South Thusing and baby state's motion.
three grandchildren; and Bend hospital. De Motte Joann Fogle, Phillip S. Matesic, 19, of 171 three brothers, Donald and Arrangements pending at John Hill, Agnes Lacefield Eagle Creek Road, South Dean of LaCrosse and Alden White Funeral Home. Wheatfield Sheila Crow- Haven, underage drinking, of Texas. nover, Jamie Davis fined $25, two days in jail.
Kosanke Funeral Home, Death Arrangements pending at elsewhere Kouts. Mary Eckley Short take Livings rites DEL RAY BEACH, Fla. PORTER Services for (AP) Mary M. Eckley, 63, Robert D. Livings, 37, of 2806 food editor of McCall's for 4-H members plan drive for funds Porter County 4-H members will conduct a penny drive during Indiana 4-H Week, Feb.
3-9. Funds raised in the drive will be used for equipping the 4-H exhibit building at the new fairgrounds. Collection jars will be placed in stores, restaurants and other businesses throughout the county. Members of 4-H will also make individual solicitations. Wabash, who died Wednesday in a traffic accident, will be at 1 p.m.
Friday at Fairhaven Independent Baptist Church, Chesterton. The Rev. Donald Voegtlin will officiate; burial in Chesterton Cemetery; visitation 2 to 9 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. two decades, died Wednesday.
Miss Eckley worked as a be food consultant to American Airlines and associate food editor of Good Housekeeping before joining McCall's in 1960. Miss Eckley was the author of The McCall's Cook- to noon Friday at Carl Ed- book. Sifting through the mail A few basic rules can be helpful by Mark Patinkin don't pay soon, we'll have to Falwell's day. in one company. I didn't open Scripps-Howard News Service charge a late fee.
I come across an old New the envelope until after the There are some basic rules Delinquent notice, says the Yorker. deadline. Now, whenever in opening mail. fourth. Pay.
I spend an hour reading the dividend time comes, I get 14 First, envelopes claiming to The fifth is from their New Yorker, then pull out my checks for 90 cents each. contain important documents, lawyers. I take out my high school alumni news. I I kill another hour reading Second, letters that say checkbook. have to see what my back issues of Time.
don't. this is your last chance will be Companies like the classmates are doing. I hope Next, I save a chain-saw followed by five more. Book-of-the-Month Club take most are more unsuccessful catalog although I've never advantage of people like me. than I.
The only people who used one and don't to. Finally, any time a letter says They are too smart to ask send in messages for. class plan urgent required, to mail in for what want. notes say, "Franny and I There are over a hundred action is it you you I have just spent a night Instead, they send you a book coincidentally had our second personal letters. I am the through a two-month when they don't hear from child the same day Harvard am worst now between correspondent one I and know.
I sifting backlog of mail. you. books I have four unwanted gave me tenure. Hi to all." three behind. It is a Every like most on my pile.
The only I turn to my other favorite years day, hassle bigger than paying for diversion catalogs. The constant source of guilt. I that get a them is returning them, so I first I find is called Orbis. It absolutely must get to them. people, I handful of bills cannot possibly be place them on my shelf.
is big on duck thermometers. I make a firm decision. I a Next, I find a parking And duck pewter They Tomorrow, for sure, I will ignored for more than week. my ticket. I still have five days have duck end tables, duck wipe clean my mail slate.
I immediately put these in mugs. "Cannot Ignore" file. I then before the fine will double. No bath towels and duck take all the leftover letters reason to pay it now. I start a placemats.
They even have a and place them in a new file. ignore them for two months. I get around to them when I receive my regular letter new pile for letters I plan to phone shaped like a duck. It is "Important Documents from telling me that if I deal with later and toss the called phona-duck. I turn to I write on the file.
don't pay within 15 minutes, ticket upon it. their clothing section and "Urgent Action Required. they will cut off my phone. 1 I open a gas company order two shirts. It's much Absolutely Must Answer got it this week.
envelope. easier sending checks for Immediately." The first envelopes I pick up "Please read your meter by things you want than things Dec. 6," it says. you owe. I place it on the center of are all from my bank.
Just a I another letter The 14 letters that my desk. I tell myself that reminder, says the find open I've and appear will do it. friendly missed first your mortgage is due a second next are the symbol of the Only there is a final rule deadline. on the 15th. Have a nice day.
way I handle mail. I happened about mail I forgot to Sorry to take your time, says "If you want to make Jerry to own a few shares of phone mention. the second, but you have two Falwell's day," it says, "don't stock. Right after Anything you absolutely days to pay your mortgage. respond to this until after busted up, they gave me the must answer immediately, Please, says the third, if you Election Day." I made Jerry chance to combine my stock you won't.
People 1.2 Margaret Thatcher President Reagan Thatcher is most admired leader LONDON (AP) President Reagan is the world's fifth-most hated figure, but also the third-most admired political leader, according to a survey by Madame Tussaud's wax exhibition. Similarly, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is the fourthmost hated figure, but the most admired political leader, according to a survey of visitors to Madame Tussaud's in London last year. The world's most hated figure was Adolf Hitler, followed by British coal miners' union President Arthur Scargill and Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, said the survey released Wednesday. In the same survey a year before, Reagan was in second place and Mrs. Thatcher was fourth.
The greatest hero of all time was the late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, followed by Superman and actor Harrison Ford, who played the title role in last summer's hit movie, "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." British rock singer Boy George was the favorite entertainment hero, with American singer Michael Jackson in second place. The leading sports hero was American tennis star John McEnroe, with British Olympic decathalon winner Daley Thompson second. Fawcett, her first child doing well LOS ANGELES (AP) Actress Farrah Fawcett and her first child, a 7-pound, son, were doing well following a natural birth attended by the father, actor Ryan O'Neal, her publicist says. "We don't even know the (child's) name yet, because they're all still asleep," spokeswoman Andrea Jaffe said after the birth Wednesday morning at an undisclosed hospital. "Ryan O'Neal, 43, was with Miss Fawcett through the entire natural birth of their son," said Ms.
Jaffe. The couple is not married. O'Neal, whose most recent movie was "Irreconcilable Differences," is also the father of actress Tatum O'Neal, who costarred with him in the film "Paper Moon." Miss Fawcett, 37, who previously was married to actor Lee Majors, first starred as one of "Charlie's Angels" on ABC-TV and most recently as a battered wife in NBC's "The Burning Bed." Raymond Burr returning to stage CHEHALIS, Wash. (AP) Actor Raymond Burr of "Perry Mason" and "Ironsides" television fame says he's finished with the tube and is returning to his first love, the stage. Burr, 67, said he would return to the theater in a play on Henry the Navigator which is now being written and is scheto open in 1987 in England.
"Twenty years of years of TV is enough," Burr, on a promotour for independent insurance agents, said Tuesday. "Many demands are placed upon you. You have little time for anything else. My next seven or eight years are fairly well planned out. If I were to do another series, all those plans would be out the window." Henry, a 15th century Portugese prince, is "a man that the world doesn't know very much about," Burr said.
"He started most of the great explorations of the world." Index Ann Landers Building. 9 8 Classified. Dr. Solomon. .7 Farm.
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