Show SA 5 SU'cJ-Exarrsjne- Sat jria f DRABBLE by Kerin Fagan FAMILY CIRCUS by B3 Keane Apr4 28 13S0 ‘Faulty’ refrigerator just needed a good cleaning DEAR AB8Y: I am a rcfngrra-’to- r result He remained in the hospi-'tfor more than a week and spent several months recuperat- al with a simple repairman question: A woman called the shop and said she thought there was some kind of a “gas" leak inside her Abigail Van Eaten fridge causing a very bad odor I Prtta SOtX ent to her apartment opened the refrigerator and immediately DEAR PROBLEM: I would identified the problem The have told her that her refrigerator shelves were covered with decayappeared to need a thorough ing food particles! cleaning and would have asked If I had told the lady her re- for some baking soda and profrigerator was filthy she would ceeded to clean it — explaining probably have thrown me out of that she should thoroughly clean her apartment so I told her I it at least once a month would have to take her refrigeraDEAR ABBY: You recently tor to the shop take it apart and published warnings for senior citlocate the problem So that's ex- izens about potential poison hazards May I add another actly what I did All I did was give the refrigerWe nearly lost our father beator a good cleaning and brought cause he accidentally ingested a Because he it back the following day She garden chemical was very' pleased to sec the applilived alone on a limited income ance so bright and dean with no he felt it was safe and economical bad odor and she paid me in full to mix and store gardening chemon the spot Being an honest icals in an empty milk carton man I charged a reasonable fee One day while gardening he left for the “labor" and the cost (two one of those milk cartons on the men) of transporting it to the kitchen counter only to pick it shop and back up later and bolt down a mouthMy question: How do you ful of chemical — thinking it was milk! think 1 should have handled it? — PENNSYLVANIA Dad suffered seizures became PROBLEM unconscious and nearly died as a Dear Abby ing Abby please warn other senior citizens never to use food or drink containers for the purpose of storing poisonous substances — PJ IN SAN FRANCISCO DEAR PJj Thinks You just did DEAR ABBY: I just read your article from "Tillie W Brickcr Easton Pa" stating “My how things have changed" — and she enclosed a hospital bill from May 1946 for a stay in the hospital at a cost of $124 Well I can top that! My mother put the hospital bill for when I was born in my baby book The date was May 14 1930 at The Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis Her “room" cost $3 a day and she stayed for seven days Other expenses were: 10-da- “Child psychology might work better if the KIDS understood it" y — DOROTHY ALIPERTO MELBOURNE FLA PEANUTS by Charles M Schulz the SO I ASK MYSELF WHAT I keep Asking myself COULD BE MORE STUPID THAN SAME QUESTION OVERANP OVER STANDING OUT HERE IN FIELD IN THE RI6HT f RAIN? UJHAT emu BE MORE STUPID ? J THEN 1 ASK MfSELF AGAIN GARFIELD by Jim Davis Ivana decides to revoke y dating agreement 60-da- piy Net Vo NEW YORK — Three days after she got her husband Donald to sign a “dating agreement" Ivana Trump advised her attorneys to revoke the arrangement “The last thing I want in the world is the ‘right to date It is ' the last thing on my mind now" the tycoon's beautiful belea- guered blond wife said Thursday “I have tried to protect and spate my children and in so doing I believe 1 have subjected myself to misinterpretation and allowed what was done with the best intentions to be twisted into something else" The reaction from Donald's camp? "This is the second time this woman has attempted to walk away from an agreement that she not only signed but that she asked Donald to sign" said his lawyer Jay Goldberg "W'ill she claim that her counsel in this case were incompetent causing her to sign the agreement in the same way she claims her Counsel was incompetent when she signed the postnuptial agreement?" e The agreement requested by Ivana and signed by both parties decreed that nothing pther did in the way of dating or relationships with other parties ! two-pag- "So utilizing my rights under the agreement Donald and I ‘My concern is to protect my children nothing more — Ivana Trump could be used as the basis of a divorce action or as a defense in a divorce action The document was leaked to the press Tuesday and Ivana said Thursday she was appalled at the reaction “Men are the last thing on my mind" she insisted "My children are on my mind and I don't want Donald misinterpreting my going out socially with friends or having male employees "1 feared an embarrassment for some of them and I tried to head off that eventuality But it was a total misunderstanding You know 1 can’t be remote or reclusive I want to go on seeing my friends and living my life “1 hoped this agreement would preclude any ambivalence about social friendships and head off speculations on anybody's part My concern is to protect my children nothing more! Now this contract has caused an entirely erroneous impression to be put about signed I herewith am directing my attorneys to revoke same 1 am sorry it was misunderstood" Last month Ivana filed a court action seeking half of Donald’s $5 billion fortune Goldberg said the prenuptial agreement Ivana signed in 1987 waived equitable distribution of the couple's property in the event of a divorce That agreement Goldberg said would give Ivana $10 million in a lump sum a residence in Trump Plaza or alternatively $4 mitlion for another home the couple's $12 million mansion in Greenwich Conn the use of the Trumps' Palm Beach residence every March $650000 a year for her and her children until she remarries and $50000 a year for miscellaneous expenses "Mrs Trump and her attorney s realize that they have no case against Mr Trump and that the prenuptial agreement is but they recognize that they created a public relations disaster by y asking for the agreement and therefore decided to terminate it" a spokesman for Donald Trump said non-taxab- lc tlARVIN by Tom Armstrong I IT'S THINK important TVE SET to establish goals !N LIFE SHORT-TER-M BOTH AND GOALS MYSELF LONG-TER- M FOR CALVIN AND HOBBES by BUI Watterson I TWWC E4CE8WL 5 THE ms 6GRINS CMC M mO IWEBCEM SAWING THE OJT AIL IH m? 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