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Show Page A 1 6 THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HartTheHerald.comX Provo, Utah, Friday, August 1 8, 2000 Declaring war on fire ants Dear Heloise: Here Sacramento, Calif. Note: Please make in the South, we wage war with pesky fire ants every summer. I can usually see their hills when I mow grass, but found that I had a hard time finding them again later when I went back to treat the mounds. Now, as I mow, when I spot a mound I just toss a bright-coloreplastic yarn cone near it. I keep several stacked on a handle on my mower, where they stay put. They stand out on the lawn, and I can go right to the mound when I am spreading ant bait. Bob Rollings, Jefferson, S.C. sure you don't blow .any of the vent system apart! This warning is from my husband, David, a licensed plumber. - Heloise stricken area. I have found it helpful to keep two milk cartons at my kitchen sink, and when I need hot water, instead of letting the lint r Dear Heloise: My helpful hint is as foldryer are located in the Up balm uses garage with a vent to the outside for the dryer. I occasionally get out my leaf blower, open door up the lint-trathe lint (remove trap) and proceed to blow at full speed. It does a credible job of getting rid of all hidden pockets of lint. Of course, if your dryer is located in the house (with no outside vent), this would probably not be workable Dear Heloise: I have found extra uses for those little tubes of lip balm. I spread the balm on cracked, dry fingers. Also, I trim off any hangnails and spread the balm on the skin. It is quick, soothing and .. portable. Mary Lou . . O'Brien, Vancouver, Harris Ault, Wash. i -- i Faulkner, who'd won a 2 Bridge connecting the United Today is Friday, Aug. 18, the day of 2000, There are 135 days left in the year. Today Highlight In History: On Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify became the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi. the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed the right of all American women to vote. On this date: In 1227, the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died. In 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be bom on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C. In 1846, U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearney captured Santa Fe, N.M. In 1894, Congress established the Bureau of Immigration. In 1914, President Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I. In 1938, President Roosevelt dedicated the Thousand Islands In 1983, Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 22 dead and causing more than a billion dollars' worth of damage. s In 1991, Soviet launched a coup aimed at toppling President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who was vacationing in the Crimea. (The coup collapsed three days later.) In 1997, Beth Ann Hogan became the first coetj- in the r Virginia Military Institute's hard-liner- - 158-yea- history. Ten years ago: A U.S. frigate fired warning shots across the bow of an Iraqi oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman apparently the first shots fired by the United States in the Persian Gulf crisis. Five years ago: Shannon Ernie vats a man rSp QtitftecL ee & fnetrtision of AUV1 Vln-- L IPop 2- W A Do I HAVE TO? cC) -- r?- pLr , C 3 y I PjElR IslClHMjO "ft" i T EAP IBTEiL tTs" TroIn Na" eTr c a rts" 0 VlElR Eame,AUttse4 hints. Each day the code letters are differeaL ' S QUE I MT, ff WpW E A HS t" fa anothcLhmis C H A P OZ'V trTo :: CRYPTOQUOTE MLP'GW BQWC VSIW sent Z Q S Z Q L X W S Z M LP 32 Car take-bac- k, tor short 33 Bad time in the rs nr"!rsr r 34 Boxing -ploys 38 Diminish 38 Koran s SCLCMXLPV STHWCZPGW. 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