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Show AskThem‘Yourself FOR VIRGINIA KNAUER, FOR EDWARD D. JORDAN, W Presidential Adviser on Consumer Affairs | Recently, | purchased a fair-trade item in one state that was priced far lower in another date. Doesn’t fair-trade mean that there is a set price on items nation- ally?—Marge Sugfen, Bakersfield, Calif. @ fair-trade price is a price established by the manufacturer, which prevails state-wide. Not all states have fair-trade laws. Where no fair-trade price exists, the price is generally lower because retailers usually will reduce the suggested price, Director, Institutional Research and Planning, The Catholic University of America An atomic detector for suitcase bombs wasinvented by you in 1964. What was the result of this detector?—Mrs. Kay Carter, Durham, N.C. “The Junkie Priest” @ Inits original site, Village Haven was just a day center. It is nowa live-in program for female addicts at 228 W. 15 St., New York City. The New York State Narcotic Commission provides us with a good share of our funds. FOR STA ARN CARROLL,actress Why is it that your _ daughter is never men_ tioned except by name when the press is doing an article on you? —Alice R. Traylor, Risks’, Texas @ Mydetector, based on principles of nuclear radiation, was successfully tested for detection of hidden explosives carried onto planes, at Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C. It has not been adopted, primarily because of high operational costs. pletely separate from my privatelife. FOR MARLIN PERKINS, Director, FOR BART STARR, quarterback, St. Louis Zoo FOR FATHER DANIEL EGAN, Is the Village Haven for drug addicts still in the building where it first opened in 1962, and how is it funded? —Rose L’Heureux, Manchester, N.H. animals than to others. You certainly cannot catch all animals by knocking them down with drugs. On yourtv series you never give animals tranquilizers. Do you consider them dangerous to the animals?— Joyce Vaughn, St. Joseph,Ill. @ On many occasions on “Wild Kingdom,” we have shown the use of various “knock-down” drugs to auesthetize animals. They are dangerous to animals if not used in the right proportions to body weight. They are more dangerous to some @ I mention my nine-year-old daughter Suzanne, it seems, in nearly every interview. But often stories are about my life as an entertainer, and I keep that com- the greatest, but the professional football writers selected Johnny Unitas of Baltimore as the Outstanding Player of the Decade. and I’d say that he would certainly qualify as one of the greatest, if not the best. FOR DORIS DAY Can you cook, and do you enjoy cooking?— William Beyer, Yuma, Ariz. @ I can cook, but to say that I enjoy it would be exaggerating. FOR ROGER MUDD, zs Green Bay Packers CBS-tv news correspondent Marti Wolever, Council Bluffs, lowa At the conclusion of your newscasts you al‘ ways glance at your pocket watch. Why do you do so?—Louis Sayle Popick, Scranton, Pa. @ There are so many great quarterbacks today thatit is really impossible to name @ The pocket watch I glance at is a stop watch to keep close track of time. W hom do you conside the greatest quarter| back of your era?— Want to ask a famous person a question? You can through this column, and we'll get the answer from the prominent person you designate. Send question, preferably on a post card, to Ask Them’ Yourself, Family Weekly, 641 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022. We cannot acknowledge questions, but $5 will be paid for each one used. FOR JAMES CONLON,Director, U.S. . Whatin the World! Bureau of Engraving and | Printing. | Whenwill the new se_ries of dollar bills, signed by Secretary of the Treasury, David Kennedy and Mrs. Dorothy Elston, be produced?—Tom Gentile, Ashtabula, Ohi. @ On May 28, 1969, this bureau started printing $1 Federal Reserve Notes, Series 1969, bearing the two new signatures. FOR FRANK BLAIR,tv's “Today Show” Whostarted the “Today Show” and in what year?—Irene Hcpson, (A Okolona, Miss. Webster Since 1843 Is spelling a . big problem to you? Then take some inspiration from old Noah Webster. It took him 20 years, working all aione, to update the only dictionary in wide use—Samuel Johnson’s 1775 British one. In 1806 Webster adapted spelling to American usage. For instance, he dropped the “u” from honour, labour, etc.; the “k” from publick and musick; he established the Americanized “er” instead of “re” in the word thee A few poor spellers thought he went too far, however, when he tried supersimplification: @ Dave Garrowaystartedit all astle orig— inal host on Jan. 14, 1952. FOR ABIGAIL VAN BUREN, “Dear Abby” column Are the names signed at the bottom of each letter printed in your ? column made up by t you, or should the writer make up his own?—Vicki Stetler, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. @ Someare real as signed by the writer, and some are made up when the writer asks to be “anonymous.” | Noah Webster | Americanized = the dictionary. eliminating unpronounced _letters— “tung” for tongue, for example. When Webster dicd in New Haven, Conn., at 83, his family sold the rights to the dictionary he was working on—his fourth—to the Merriam brothers, whose heirs still publish revisions of Webster’s works. As for poor spellers, Webster believed, “A living language must suffer gradual changes.” Maybe When hesees ex-wife (and mother of his daughters) Genevieve “at weddings, and sometimes funerals,” he answers her complaints about his spoiling their the next revision will “sho” “tung” back in “favour.” | Fringe Benefits In a one-car family, Mom andDadget a break whenjunior goes off to college: easier access to their own wheels. Thereis, in addition, a little-known extra benefit—a possible saving of up to 20 per cent on insurance premiums. “As long as the son —or daughter—is a full-time student at a school more than 109 miles from home, when the auto insurance policy is renewed, parents can take advantage of this discount,” according to John J. Foley, of CNA Insurance.. “It is available from most insurance companies, and applies in most states.” Of course, the car must stay home, to be used by the student only on vacations. Grandpe Gleason Jackie Gleason cannot bear to see little children cry. Healso prefers to have his grandchildren think of him as rather infallible. Don't cry, © Grandpa ~ Gleasonwill ies fix it. © grandchildren with, “I have the money and I'll spend it.” This is a typical example: Gleason had given his grandson a huge Teddy bear from a posh Miami shop. Somehow it got run over by a studio truck. Melting at thelittle boy’s tears, Gieason promised, “Grandpa will fix it.” He rushed into his dressing room with it, secretly dispatched an aide to the store for an immediate duplicate. Shortly after, putting the “fixed” Teddy back into the child’s arms, he boasted, “See, Grandpa can take care of anything.” |