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Show Page 10 Wednesday, Fcbruory 1 1 , 1 976 by Clara Voyant When I gaze into your future, I usually fall asleep. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Expect the unexpected this week. Your pet rock will give birth to a litter of eight pebbles. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) It will do little good to emphasize your strong points, breath and body odor. PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20) Take a long, hard look at yourself and you'll realize you have a long, hard life ahead of you. ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19) In the days to come, it would be wise to remember that simple plans are best for simple minds.- TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20) A good-looking, intelligent and considerate person you admire will take a romantic interest in you. Opposites really do attract. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You want to play the field in the game of love ' but you can't even get out of the dugout. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Only a chisler like yourself could ever break your, heart of stone. . 'LW? . . ' LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ' At last, you're enjoying a stable relationship. Buying that horse was a good idea. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) . Your wealth of experience has been so heavily taxed that you are left with only a few vague memories. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You may serve as a sounding board for some persons and a dart board for others. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) S$Zonfidence is infectious and it's obvious that you have not yet been exposed. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Those who think you're nothing to crow about forget that you are what you eat. WATCH FOR THE GRAND OPENING OF THE . DOWN UNDER The Claimjumper's Private Club Membership's now available iWU U MMU ULO I. by Gerry Johnson A Most Noble Award Winner Like most college students, Fred Noble was trying to get in some last minute studying before a French , grammar exam. Like most college students, -Mr. Noble is taking a subject which will help him in the future. And, like many college 'students, Mr. Noble works in addition to going to school. , But, there is probably no other college student like Mr. Noble. He is 92, working on his fifth college degree. Mr. Noble is working for a degree in French because he ' is planning a trip to France. "1 did extensive traveling there in 1918 and 1919 and have always wanted to get back," Mr. Noble said as. he At the Award Ceremony, Fred Noble kicks up his heels with the Jacksonville University cheerleaders. took a few minutes from his preparations for an exam. "I wanted to brush up on the language before going." He . said he planned to complete his work at Jacksonville (Fla.) University, take a course at a university in France, then see the country. V During World War I, Mr. Noble worked with the .. French Army. "I picked up the language. I had a pretty good vocabulary, but did not really learn the grammar," ' he said. ;.-r . . The time spent in France has been the only break in Mr. Noble's lay practice in Jacksonville since he hung , out his shingle there in 1908. He had graduated from Harvard Har-vard Law School in 1907 after receiving his first degree de-gree from Washington College Col-lege in Chestertown, Maryland, Mary-land, in 1902. . Mr. Noble still practices law in Jacksonville. He was doing his studying between visits from clients. He received a bachelors in history from Jacksonville University in 1957, then a ; master's in education in 1974. In addition to his law practice and his studies, he also taught Greek at the university uni-versity in 1957. He was 74 at the time. Mr. Noble jokes about his "retirement." "You can't force a lawyer to retire. . Thank the Lord," he said. His wife died several years ago and he now lives alone in the same house he has lived yn for 50 years. , Mr. Ncble grew up in the Eastern shore area of Maryland, Mary-land, but decided against starting his law practice there. "The county scat was . too small and Baltimore was too large," he said. "A friend suggested Jacksonville. I , visited the place and decided to stay." Then, with a laugh he said, f vl didn't have the money to leave once I got here." ; n addition to his college studies, Mr: Noble is doing , some other preparation for . the future. He is studying to . become a lay preacher in the United Methodist Church. He has been teaching Sunday Sun-day School at Snyder Memorial Me-morial Church since 1908. : , For his activities as a practicing prac-ticing attorney and a student, ' Mr. Noble has been named the recipient of the Senior Citizen of the Month Award, a national award honoring individuals whose accomplishments accom-plishments show that life doesn't stop at 65 The Senior Sen-ior Citizen of the Month Award is sponsored by The National Council on the Aging and the Kentucky Fried Chicken Family. , , And, like most college students who receive national recognition, Mr. Noble was presented the award at a ceremony on campus with all the collegiate trappings, including the Jacksonville University cheerleaders. "THERE IS A good bit of evidence that a man or woman wom-an aged 65 today is biologically biologi-cally as young as a person of -40 to 45 years was in 1900." From Ruth Albrecht, "The Family and Aging Seen Culturally." Gam Gives Pro on seame Floor RsBHsssmiBaBn U.S. Senator Jake Garn ( R-Ut) R-Ut) last week took his case for continuing production of the Minuteman missile to the Senate floor. He also used that forum to ' criticize Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for the Secretary's position on the Minuteman outlined in his recent Defense Posture Statement. 1 In his speech, Senator Garn said the reason the President elected to eliminate funding for the Minuteman is "not yet entirely clear." "Explanations given by the President's advisors at briefings on the budget and appearing in the press, attributed at-tributed to anonymous sources, have not made sense to me," the Senator said. "Secretary Rumsfeld presents : three anti-Minuteman anti-Minuteman arguments: (1) Additional deployment of Minuteman III 1 missiles would not add significantly to our defense capability; (2) Under provisions of the Vladivostok understanding any additional deployments of Minuteman Ill's beyond the present 550 level would require offsetting reductions in Poseidon launchers: (3) Minuteman will, in the future, be vulnerable to Soviet attack and resources should he put into- the next generation missile, the MX. I will consider these arguments in turn. "First, the Minuteman III is a significant improvement Over the Minuteman II. It vV 5:30-10:30 Ay, hardened against dust and debris; it is much more accurate, ac-curate, in fact the most accurate ac-curate missile we have; it has .a longer range; it can be retargeted in 36 minutes, compared to as much as 24 hours for the II; and, it has a longer life in the silo. That, to. me, adds up to a significant improvement. ' .-'V' "there are two things wrong with the Vladivostok v argument. One is that the. Vladivostok agreements have ') never been submitted to ' Congress and are not binding on the U.S. The second one is (that, even if they were bin-ding, bin-ding, we wouldn't be violating them by producing more Minuteman Ill's until 1982 at - the earliest and much more likely, not until 1985.' My i understanding of those ac- cords is that they were targets towards which SALT ! II would work. The alter- native possibility is that there is a SALT II agreement already reached by Secretary Kissinger. If so, it should be submitted at once to the Senate for our deliberation and ratification. If there isn't, let's stop acting as if there were. On January 14th, the Associated Press reported that the Administration will not submit any new treaty to the Senate for ratification until after the November ! ! elections. 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