g £ - l^C H E ST E R HERALD. Wed,, March 2, 1983 Canoe race Virginity still good buy in love marketplace DEAR ABBY: Many letters in your choose not to risk falling into that habit Now, at age 48 I find that I am much column have touched me, but none until I have found the person with more passiohate thfin I was when I was Keiinedy Is warned: Boy meets girl: Text of ruling set April 10 moved me as much as the one from whom I can establish an exclusive a 23-year-oU- virgin. I was able to "Holding Out and Proud Out of It.” Dear lifelong commitment. exercise control back then. (I didn’t New twist at MMH In Coventry Horray for her! And horray for you know what I was missing.) Be thinking of cuts By Alex GIrelli for printing it. More people need to Please don’t think I'm an oddball. Herald City Fdltn- know that there are still some women Abby I’m not. I’m just saving myself for the As immature as this my sound. I’m ... page 3 ... page 11 page 9 The seventli annual Hockanum River Canoe around who don’t jump into bed with Abigail person I marry. And in case you’re not sure that I willbe able to exercise every John, Mick and Murray, I know I wondering — I’m straight, and I’ll be 38 Race, an event that attacts an average of 100 Van Buren that control that control now, so I just competitors, has been scheduled for April 10, have lots of guys because I wouldnt my next birthday. refuse to date until my divorce is final give in, but it was better to lose them SAVING MYSELF IN SAN ANGELO, and I can marry again. As in recent past years it will be combined with TEXAS a canoe race in Willimantic scheduled for April 9, than lose my self-respect. I feel very corny writing this, but it’s The event is held partially to draw attention to I, too, saved myself for marriage, DEAR ABBY: The letter from the a real dilemma, because I am a efforts to complete a linear park along the and so did may husband. We’ve been Christian, and the Scriptures are very married for 10 years, and nether one of 27-year-old, "holding Out and Proud of Hockanum River and to preserve the river’s DEAR ABBY: "Holding Out" that It,” could have been written by me 25 clear concerning sex outside marriage. a.esthetic and ecological assets. us ever regretted our lack of premar- However, my sex drive is at odds with tial experience. I’ll admit we didn’t she is not alone. I’m also holidingout. It years ago. Not only was I a virgin, I The event was one of several announced hasn’t been easy for me because I’m a married one. Never in my years of those Scriptures! I am not sure how I Clear tonight; Manchester, Conn. Tuesday night at a meeting of the Hockanum know much much, but we learned fairly nice- lookking, healthy guy who am going to whip this one! Help me! River Linear Park Committee, Among the others together, and our love grows stronger marriage was I unfaithful, and I had sunny Friday Thursday, March 3, 1983 than year. enjoys an active social life. my chances. HOPING THE DEVIL scheduled are — WON’T MAKE ME DO IT — See page 2 Single copy: 25« • March 5 and 12, trail cleanup days with work Tell "Holding Out” to stick to her I’m into sports and run five miles a After 23 year of marriage my' principles. I hope her letter will scheduled on the area from the footbridge day, rain or shine, I regard my body as husband decided he wanted “out’ ’ so he DEAR HOPING: The devil wont downstream along the north bank of the river to prompt more young people to do the my“ temple” and as such I have never left two years ago. To this day my same. make you do it, but the first man you the Oakland Mill. Work begins at 9 a.m. defied it with tobacco or drugs of any attitude about sex outside marriage find irrestible might. Pray for strenth • March 20. A walk around Union Pond with HELD OUT AND GLAD I DID kind. I consider sex habit-forming and hasn’t changed — but my body has! and avoid temptation.. assembly at the North School Street end of the pond at 1 p.m. Rain date is March 27. • April 17. walk from the bridge over the Hockanum upstream along the south bank to Advice conflicts on dissolving gallstones North Main Street and downstream along the north bank to the vicinity of Adams Mill DEAR DR. LAMB; I have received medicine called chenodeoxycholic acid DEAR DR, LAMB: Mydaughterwas Oil may settle Restaurant. conflicting information about the medi­ but the final results of a long-term At Tuesday's meeting Dr. Douglas Smith, cine or medicines that will dissolve advised to rinse her sore throat with study were not’ so good. In a two year salt water. My experience with this has chairman of the committee, said he plans to meet gallstones. I have consulted a medical study, 86 percent of the patients still with a representative of the developers of encyclopedia and two surgeons. Your been that the salt water ^d not help and had gallstones. And in 60 percent the I thought it actually made my throat Oakland Heights, a moderate cost housing I was told that the medicine is not size of the stones had not decreased. development on Oakland Street, to discuss the available except on an experimental Health worse. During that two-year period these What is your advice on using salt X, location of a planned play area for children of program. I was also told that such Lawrence patients had the same risk as other at $30 a barrel water on sore throats caused by strep tenants. He hopes to be able to persuade the drugs can be gotten through any \ patients with stones. As the stone got developer to move the area northward a bit from doctor. What is the availability of these Lamb, M.D. or infected tonsils? smaller, it could pass into the common DEAR READER: If a person has a Tuesday, was heading today’s its planned location. It will be on a flat place close drugs? I was told that the side effects bile duct and cause an acute attack. By Solid RIzvi major oil buyers. to the south bank. were nausea, vomiting, liver damage strep throat it is from an important United Press International The Japanese news agency, talks as the chairman of the OPEC Land adjacent to the Oakland Heights site, and stomach cancer, depending upon And there were complications such as bacterial infection and should be quoting an unidentified oil industry market monitoring committee, 3 you mention but I do not know of any which is now being cleared, will be developed as a which particular drug you took. .DEAR READER; When new medi­ treated with antibiotics. Many sore LONDON — Oil ministers ga­ source, said the iargest OPEC which includes Venezuela, Algeria corporate office park. reports of the medicine, or any other throats, though, are not caused by thered today for a “mini-OPEC” I was also told that if the drugs cal information becomes available that such medicine, causing cancer. producer is only pumping an and Indonesia. Smith said that if the committee gets a strong worked it took six months to two years conflicts with previously held concepts, bacteria at all but are caused by conference aimed at agreement on average of 3.2 million to 3.3 million Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister Also, in the few cases where it is different virus infections. Antibiotics a $30 barrel of oil that could avert Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, who feeling that the town may remove Union Pond and the stones would come back. Is this there is often a period of confusion. successful it is necessary to continue barrels of oii each day since the Dam instead of repairing it, the committee will true? I am presently on a 40 gram fat There were lots of enthusiastic have no value in treating virus an all-out global price war, oil end of last month. said Tuesday he believed a price medicine for life to prevent stones from sources said. have to mount a save-the-pond campaign. The diet. reports about using an experimental forming again. » infections, only in the treatment of ' Diplomats said the informal oil accord was “imminent,” was Conservation Commission publicly expressed bacterial infections. In Tokyo, Kyodo news service ministers’ talks would start today expected to attend, the diplomats concern about the dam when it learned of a letter reported today Saudi Arabia had at the London residence of United said, but the Saudi press agency from George A, Kandra, the town’s director of slashed its oil production to below 4 Arab Emirates Oil Minister Mana said it had no word he was coming public works, to the state Department of million barrels in a bid to hold off Saeed at Otaiba. to London. Environmental Protection. price reduction pressure from its Al Otaiba, who arrived in London Six other ministers — from the In the letter Kandra mentioned destroying the Emirates, Venezuela, Nigeria, In­ dam as one of several options open to the town.