24 - EVENING HERALD. Thurs . Jan 8. 1981 Dear Abby notes 25th birthday BEVERLY .HILLS, Calif. - Abby employs eight full-time are worih saving” ); counseling ("I Katie. Beal, her chief assistant, York, Houston, Dallas and New Twenty-five years ago today — Jan. assistants and two shifts of senior learned people need an objective opi­ joined Abby two weeks after the Orleans. It took off like wildfire.” 9, 1956 — ‘ ‘Dear Abby" made her citizens to open and sort the nion. Those close to you will just tell column sUrted. Four other staffers Abby gives approximately 100 first appearance in The San Fran­ avalanche of mall. you what you want to be(u-"); and have been with her at least 21 years. ilaurIlfHtfr speeches a year. cisco Chronicle. Today, with nearly As Abby celebrates the 25th an­ sex therapy (‘ ‘I hesitated to recom­ The mall and the column aren’t Ab­ A recent trip to Jhcksonville, Fla., 1.000 client newspapers, Abby’s niversary of hejr column, and reflects mend sex therapy until I went to St. by’s only ways of communicating drew this response from Jacksonville appeal and influence continue to on her achievement, did she ever an­ U)uis in 1966 to study first hand the help. Journal Managing editor Dick Snow grow: ticipate becoming a national figure Masters and Johnson’s method” ). ” If I think someone’s suicidal or Bus^rd: t.;- • A midsummer, 1980 tetter from as “ Abigail Van Buren" and Why the changes? ‘T hope I’m needs immediate help, then I call. I Chance of snow "Tired in Lincoln, Neb.,” who con­ recipient of millions of letters? more tuned in and knowledgeable make at least a hundred calls a ” Our personnel director said your WEATHER developing late today. fided to Abby she was tired of sex at “ No, absolutely not,” responds the than I was the day I started. I’ve had month. People are overwhelmed., visit was the best single-event shot- Details on page 2. age 50 and asked Abby to poll her diminutive 62-year-old wife of the great opportunity to learn from they can’t believe it’s Abby calling,” in-the-arm to employee morale she readers to see if they agreed, drew successful businessman Morton the experts in the various fields,” Abby says. has ever seen. And I agree! The per­ sonal attention and interest that you 227,606 responses in three weeks Phillips. says the woman whose words are ’The first column appeared Jan. 9, lyOL C, No. 64 — Mancheater, Conn., Friday, January 0,1081 VOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER • SInca 1881 • SIngla Copy 25a • Home Delivery 20a | (114,005 supporting the writer and “I never went into this for fame — read by some 65 million readers dai­ 1956. gave to everyone here has won you many new friends, as well as U3.601 opposed). An additional 30,000 or money. I have nothing now> ly- ” 1 took the name Abigail from the readers.” | letters trickled in later. materially that I didn't have before. Abby, who grew up in Sioux City, Old Testament and Van Buren from • Since 1959, when Abby first I’m still the same person I always Iowa, gives her husband Mort the eighth president,” she says. ” I Does she plan to retire? In her 25th wrote about "The Living Will,” more was, and the kindest thing people can Phillips much of the credit for her copyrighted the name and away I anniversary column, she meets the say to me is that I haven’t changed.” success; went. than four million requests for the subject head-On: “ Please don’t ask “ He’s been my guiding light. He’s document are attributed to the Only her views have changed. In 25 "About 10 days later the publisher me when I plan to retire. I have no Food costs, jobless rate down been my live-in editor. I’ve never had of the New York Mirror c^led and column by Right to Die officials. years of giving advicfe, she’s altered such plans. I intend to continue her position, for example, on divorce a press agent or a business manager; said he’d like to use my column, but • A plea for "forgotten” U.S. writing this column just as long as WASHINGTON (UPI) - The overall inflation in December. produce in 1967 now cost $254.70. remained in a 7.4 to 7.6 range since looking for jobs because they believe soldiers in Korea last March brought (from "hang in there for the sake of with Mort I never needed one. that I’d have to be syndicated. In a was about 1.5 million above the my readers and the Good Lord let government said today declining food The seasonal adjustment factor In a separate report, the bureau that time. they cannot find any. Their number Ahiftuil Van Ruren 50.000 letters to the Gls. the children" to “ not all marriages Abby also is proud of her staff. matter of 30 days, I was in New eliminates changes that nomqally oc­ DMember, 1979 figure. The bureau me.” prices helped to moderate inflation in said the nation’s unemployment rate The rate in December 1979 was 6 jumped to 1.1 million in the fourth cur at about the same time and in the said adult men accounted for two- December and unemployment dropped for the second consecutive percent. quarter of 1980, up 100,000 from the same degree each year, such as thirds of the increase. y slipped a notch to 7.4 percent. month in December to 7.4 percent, The bureau said the decline in previous quarter and nearly 300,000 weather patterns, production and The Labor Department's Bureau of but discouraged jobless workers not December from the 7.5 percent rate over the year. The bureau said the 0.6 percent in­ Labor Statistics said the Ihroducer marketing cycles, seasonal discounts counted in the rate jumped to 1.1 in November was reflected in vir­ Total employment in December as crease in finished goods prices last Price Index for finished goods rose at and holidays. ^Battle of Britain’ veterans recall the war million during the final quarter of the tually all categories except adult measured by the monthly household month reflects a 0.4 percent decline a seasonally adjusted 0.6 percent in The December increase, com­ year. *8^ women, where a slight 0.1 percen­ survey was 97.3 million, down 57,000 in consumer food prices and a 0.9 WASHINGTON (UPI) - The During the rescue operation at allowed the battle-weary RAF time marked the first major setback for timating RAF casualties, making the December, the same as in pounded for entire year, translates shooting down 23 German planes, Revised jobless figures for 1980 tage increase occurred over the from the previous month and about percent rise in non-food prices. famed "Battle of Britain,” in which Dunkirk — from May 26 to June 4, to rest and regroup in anticipation of into a 7.8 percent annual rate of infla­ the Nazis. Nazis "over confident.” was captured in Aug. 1941, after his November. placed the year's high at 7.6, rather month. 500,000 below the peak of last the outnumbered British Royal Air 1940 — 338,000 allied personnel were the next German attack. tion. The RAF success led Prime Although feeling German and plane collided with an enemy fighter. But it said food prichs declined at than a previously reported 7.8 per­ However, the figures do not include February. Force defeated the German evacuated to England but had to Although outnumbered, the -RAF Energy prices rose more than 1 Minister Winston Churchill to make English pilots were .equal in ability. “ When I bailed out I left one (ar­ all levels of manufacturing during The index now stands at 254.7 cent in July. The 7.6 percent rate so-called discouraged workers — Luftwaffe, may have ended different­ abandon their equipment. It was downed about 2,300 German aircraft, Unemployment of 7.8 million was percent in December for the second- his oft-quoted remark that, “ Never Tuck praised the British Spitfire - a tificial) leg behind,” he said. He said the month, helping to moderate which means items that cost $100 to first occurred in May and has those who want to work but are not ly had Germany followed up their England’s darkest moment in the mostly bombers, between Aug. and down 161,()IX) from November, but month in a row. in the course of human endeavor main RAF fighter aircraft — as a he ultimately received a spare right victory at Dunkirk. war. Oct. 1940 — the “ Battle of Britain” have so many owed so much to so better plane “ fighter vs. fighter” leg, courtesy of the RAFN by This is the opinion of two former Battling the Luftwaffe over the period — and lost 900 of their own air­ few.” over the German Messerschmltt. parachute. RAF fighter pilots who were in the beaches of Dunkirk, the RAF suf­ craft. “ The Few” became the nickname “ Absolutely wonderful aircraft,” Sent to the POW camp at Colditz, thick of it. fered “ quite appreciable losses ” 1 don’t think the Germans were of the RAF pilots and ground crews he said of the Spitfire and Hurricane Sir Douglas Bader, 70, a former which he termed “ a very good Most unhappy which we could ill afford,” Tuck ever winning the battle,” said Bader. — numbering only several thousand fighters which both men flew. camp,” Bader spent the remainder RAF Group Captain, says he was said.