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Show She Salt Lake Tribune J2 SUNDAY,October 31, 199% Washington ‘Post Magazine Crossword THE BACK PAGES Dy Ana Baratan Prepare for a Scare Snapshots of Utahhistory from the archives of The Salt Lake Tribune Se “ 1 Tea veat 50 6 Shot 10 Le., yesterday 57 even 58 14 Retire debt jointly 19 Detective “ 63 61 20 Is cautious 2 23 Patiot Hatioveen Instructions: 26 Beteigouse or Dened 27 Mossad 6 68 mn 72 Cohen 2B “Tootsie's” Garr a Leibovitz 73 4 ry 30. More — 33. Comedy Central's money man 36 Its qusan 6 80 a1 vished Solomon 39 Speting of 82 a“ 86 83 91 83 7 8 99 100 The snow-covered MountLoaferis the focal point of Spanish Fork's Main Street in this tum of the century photo. The old city hall, just to the left of center, eventually became the city library.In frontof it a monument calls attentionto an incidentin the travels of Father Escalante and his party. From thatincident the town was named.The winding stripes on a telephone pole at right marked thelocation of a barber shop then operated bythe contributorof the photo, H.B. Robertson.This picture ranin the Sait Lake Tribune November 1947. 101 7 95 Merchant 127 Penney and Under lease 128 Give out 129 At the bottom Watts 130 Very, 96 Pats of instructions. 102 Cousin, e.g. 103 6 331 Wi 132 Basil and Boris ‘: Terrenn reseen eaiales 108 no 35 Spineless Checkmate 36 Replenish 37 Board, as a bus 38 Come after i 12 11 40 Spout off 4 44 Videre, for Virgh 46 Vietnam's capital 47 Snout's spot, often 48 Column variety 118 chines,he claims,stifle 1g 120 121 mium on memory.Indeed, the chess databases now available contain a seem- 123 124 of information. “Amadeus” role 12 Cartoon bark 1 Srs. often take them 2 Blood may do this 13 Princess's problem 4 Chili partner 15 Two cents 16 Printer's job 41 Bright Puzzle answers can be found on pageJ-6. us 122 a BEGINNER'S CORNER Onseveral occasions in 9 Partner of 105 Across 10 Bitterty written ‘ 105 Partner of 9 Down 106 Assad's capital 109 Pryor film of 1982 112 He was Mr. Chips 83. Pansma 31 Went nuts 32 — speak 34 -—-com title 104 Stumble 79 Dross 107 7 They follow Lact 8 Half a Heyerdahi recent years, Bobby Fis- cherhas decried theinfluenceof computers on the gameof chess. The ma- creativity by putting a pre- ingly unmanagable amount abedefgh Irecently received a CDrom containing1,250,000 gamesplayed from 1485 to WHITE WINS A ROOK Solution: 1. BfSch Kd6 2. Be7 mate. the present. Ifa human ONCETG Find the word held in common by the three words in each puzzle. ‘The three solution words will form a fourth puzzle. The numbers indicate each answer's length, and the cod + tells you its Example: The solution to +flower, Wailing+ . int \s Wall. 1. 2. 3, 4, Use only single numbers, 0-9,in blanks. Calculate each row across to equalthe total atthe right. Calculate each column to equalthe total atthe The numberdown the right column must be the same as the total numbers acrossthe top. + x arco O- a/0-. hes aa raat a] res GI. C tito pay - eS us FINAL ANSWER [i Cie tothe total Length infeet of the Golden Gate Bridge ANN LANDERS lawsstill own the business,al. Halloween. Shewastrick-or- though they are no longer involved in the day-to-cay coe tions, Bill has discussed with them. They ‘ismiseee brother anda friend. As she turned to leave a neighbor's house after being given candy, concernsandinsist that Jared will always be welcomein the business because,“after all, he is our son, too.” the hem of her costumewasig: nited by a lighted candle that wasinside a pumpkin placed on the steps. Thefire spread quick ly, and although the homeowner tried to put out thefire, it was in vain.Erica died the next day. Noonein the family had con- sidered the possibility of such an accident whenErica went out that evening. The children were cautioned to watch fortraffic, strange people and openedcan. dy, but no one mentioned lighted candles, I wouldliketoalert parents to be very careful and watch their children when theyare trick-or-treating. If you plan to have a pumpkin with a lighted candle, please putit inside the house, where it can be viewed through a window,Andparents, please be sure your children's costumes are flame-resistant Our entire family has been devastated by Erica's death, She was our little angel, a wonderful girl, and we miss her every day. Texas Aunt Dear Texas Aunt: The death of achild is always sad, but to have lost your adorable niece in such a bizarre accidentis heartbreak ing. I hope it will give you some measure of comfort to know that knows when Jared is going to comebackto theoffice and try to take overhis position. My in. treating with her younger your letter will be read by mil. lions of people, several of whom may neverhavegiven thought to the dangerofalighted candle in a pumpkin. You may have saved some young lives today, and I thank you. a Dear Ann: | am 26 and am married to a wonderful manof the sameage. We both havesuc cessful careers. My husband, “Bill,” works inhis family’s business. Our problemis Bill's older brother, “Jared.” Heis a cocaineaddict andhas been the source of endless grief for the entire family. His parents have had toraisehis children and payhis bills, and they even bought him a house, Jared has beenin and outof prisonfor four years because of his drug dealing, but is always welcomed backintothe family business whenever he shows up. Bill works unbelievable hoursand has put his wholelife into the business, Everyone has reaped the benefits of his hard work. Lately, Bill has been Stressed out because he never Every time Jared comes back to work, hecreates problems andsteals so much moneythat Bill is beside himself. He makes drug deals while on the job, which upsets my husbandto no end. Thedilemma weare facing is this: Should Bill leave the family business, after all the years of hard work and personal investment? We don't want to do this, but we can't takeit any: more. Fed Up in the Fast Dear Fed Up:So long as Jared is free to come andgo as he pleases, moochoff his pare ts, take drugs and steal money causeheis “their son, too,” he will continueto do it. Too bad his parents don't see that they are enablers, crippling their son insteadof helping him. Your husband shouldleave the business andstrike out on his own. I predict that in due time, his parents will be begging himto come back. He can then decide whether he wantsto. Q Gom of the x minutes on each one — it (Sentin by Lou and Sue in Philly): Only in America can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance. OUxg Ue) Jayj0g :7UTH and the repertoires of their anomaly notlikely to hap- opponents, the data-bases pen in the age of computers. would take him 104,166 are powerful preparatory hours or 13,020 eight-hour days or more than 50 years and analytical tools. As a result, grandmasters and withouta single day of vacation.If printed out, the collection wouldfill over 1,300 paper volumes. Sadly, by the endof his exemplary life, a much larger numberof additional games would meanwhile havebeen generated byhis chess-playing fellow humans (and computers) whichour diligent friend would not have had a chance to view. Keep candles awayfrom Halloween costumes Dear Ann: Halloween is no BLACK TO PLAY contained on the disk — spending a meagerfive C)+(8)+C«)()-C*4)-O- +squad ba longer a fun holidayin our family. My great-niece, “Erica,” died in an accident twoyears ago on player today attempted to play overall of the games Brain Numb Polerio..acs other players have enthusiastically embraced their use, Byfreeing them from the laborious gathering and shuffling of data, computers have created the basis for enhanced creativity — despite the ever increasing number of games that are played and gathered into databases today. And by making essential data inexpensively available to play- But, Fischer'spessimism andour example notwithstanding, such databases can be used selective. ers all over the world, the machines are a democratiz- ly. Because users can with from anold-fashioned book lightning speed pinpoint gamesrelevant to their own openingrepertoires played about 1580. Apparently, only the mage ing force for chess. Below is a game — taken surnameshavesurvived, an . Ke7 21. Re6 resigns(a) nee (a): If 21. . Qh5 or . Qd2 or 21...“O65, then 2. Rxgich with an easy win. Latest reportfrom the safety committee @ In September,Pinellas County, Fla., officials unveiled what they hope will be a cutting. edge traffic safety program as a NEWS OF THE WEIRD main motivation was to see how areal planeflew,after all the flight-simulation video games he had played. @ West German criminolo- modelfor reducing pedestrian deaths and calmingdrivers’ road rage. The program asks pe- atta to extendtheir right hands(as if shaking hands) continuously through an intersection, while smiling,to get the at- tention of drivers. Said a worker in Clearwater,Fla., when the program was explained bya St Petersburg Timesreporter: “Nobodyis going to walk across the street with their arm out I'm not goingto doit. Are you?” DUI: The Next Level In separate incidents in the sameweek in September, Debra Rodriguez, 41, of Ames, lowa, andKristin R. Smebak, 4, of Su perior, Wis., both of whom had been drinking, forced their young kidsto drive their cars home so the mothers would avoid DUI tickets if they were stopped. Rodriguez's inexperienced 11-year-old daughter causeda rollover, injuring both occupants, but Smebak’s inexperienced 8-year-old son made it safely over the bridge connect ing Duluth, Minn., to Superior before being spotted by a patrol man, whoarrested Smebak Compelling Explanations @ According to police who ar rested Fairfax (Va.) High School math teacher Fred Benevento, 47, in April during a drug sting, Beneventosaid the 13 plastic bags of crack cocaine in his car Nippon Airways Boeing 747 in July and killed thepilot before being captured, told police his gist Christian Pfeiffer, writing in the weekly DieZeit in July, CHUCK SHEPHERD “cameflying through his open blamed East Germans’ proclivities for post-war Nazism and thuggery(they are four times more likely to engage in those window” andthathe “was just looking at them whenthepolice officers arrived.” activities than West Germans) @ Failed Murder Defenses: In May, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled 5-to-4 to reject Brad manualson toilet-training for kindergartners, requiring virtually synchronized movements Stone's “automaton”defense, that he was ableto stab his wife 47 times on! y because he was in arobotic state brought on by the traumaof being called a bed- room failure. And in June, an Atlantajury rejected ChristopherStobbart’s claim of self- defense for shooting his boss in the head 14 times, then walking to another room, reloading and shooting him 10 more times. @ Of Course!In July, justaf: ter the end of the war, Yugosla via's ecology minister said the uncomfortably warmand rainy spring and summer weather was caused by NATO aggression. And in May, a motherin St. Cloud, Fla., told police that the reason shelet her teen-age daughters smoke marijuana was so they wouldn't become alcohol ies like their father. And Yuji Nishizawa, who hijacked the All on too-rigorouspotty training. After World War II,the East German governmentissued thatstripped the kids oftheir in- dividuality and reinforced gov: ernmentcontrol. The Litigious Society @ Muriel Milne’strial began in Aberdeen, Scotland,in September against the Westhill Golf Club for maintaining a badly designed course, an opinion she cameto in 1994 aftera ball she hit struck a 2-inch-high rock and bounced back, hitting her in the eye and causing severe damage. (Thetrial is recessed until November.) @ Escapee Jimmy Haakansson, in court in Stockholm, Swe: den, on a theft charge and who broke a foot leaping through a courthouse window before being recaptured,filed a lawsuit against the police in September for failure to prevent his foolishness. |