The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 5, 1984 Page: 5 of 78
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Wednesday, December 5, 1984
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Meg Whitcomb
THE JOBLESS AND THE POOR
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Dad, boyfriend surprise woman
Rates level off
UNEMPLOYMENT
RATE
POVERTY
RATE (change)
Well, the other night I came that I don’t know what to do. ment is mine. —
After waiting six years for POINTED IN DETROIT
Spence, I don’t want to break up
with him. And my dad’s
behavior really shocked me.
(change)
DEAR MEG — Spence and I
are waiting for his divorce to home early from work to bake a
come through so we can get mar- cake for Dad’s bithday and
ried. He’s been separated from found them “entertaining” two
his wife for six years. i girls from the local bar. Dad was
Last April my father asked if passed out pn the couch, Spence When mother was alive, I never
knew him to pull an act like that.
DISAP-
5.8%
1979
11.6%
13.0% ( + 1.4)
14.0% ( + 1J0)
15.0% ( + 1.0)
15.2% (+0.2)
DEAR DISAPPOINTED -
Don’t throw anybody out. Accept
their apologies and let bygones
be bygones. If this is the only
time in six years Spence has
gone on a toot, you’re in luck.
Meg Whitcomb is a columnist for
Newspaper Enterprise Association
7.1%
(+1.3)
v (+0.5)
(+2.1)
1980
7.6%
1981
9.7%
1982
he could move in with us until he was asleep In the bedroom
found his own place. Mother died (alone, thank God) and the girls They both apologized and con-
a year ago and he’s been very were having a ball baking a cake sider the case closed. But I don’t
lonely all atoned the big house, in the kitchen. know how to deal with it. Should
so we said yes. I am so hurt and disillusioned I kick them both out? The apart-
9.6%
1983
(-0.1)
Color me in and bring me by
Baytown Paint & Carpet
and you could
WIN A BIKE
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carpet remnants
We sell to the
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or we will install
Your not just another
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DEAR DR. LAMB — Nine of taste or smell, or both, to
months ago I came down with a undergo a complete medical
bad cold. I had several bad sinus evaluation. Often the loss is
headaches and a cough. I lost my related to a zinc deficiency, but
sense of taste and smell with a that may be from a tumor that
plugged-up nose. traps available zinc. A surpris-
I thought this would only be ing number of patients with loss
temporary, as it has happened of taste do have underlying
with other colds. But after five medical problems,
weeks I still cannot taste or
smell. My cold and cough are mineral is lacking, then supply- !
gone. I took antibiotics for 10 ing it is helpful. Zinc deficiency *
days, but to no avail. My doctor is the most common problem,
said it might last for a year
I have been under terrific ten- taking zinc without first seeing
sion jn the last three months, your doctor for an evaluation,
taking care of a retarded child
and of my husband, who had a * know about taste and smell in
heart attack. I wonder if all this The Health Letter 20-4, Taste
might tie in together. I am 60 and and Smell, which I am sending 4 YOUR FULL SERVICE DEALER
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of the people who write me about stamped, self-addressed
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a cold or flu. One of the most this newspaper, P.O. Box 1551, [ ‘
common causes for a loss of Radio City Station, New York,
taste is a previous virus illness. NY 10019.
Why this is true is not clear.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 5, 1984, newspaper, December 5, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153557/m1/5/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.