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Show TelMe FUNNY BUSINESS no me 8 Oe ve oD by Roger Bolien By Frank Hill re ae? Ei a Friday. January 4, 1980, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah—Page 19 CAPT. TROUBLE Why Do People Go Bald? LAUD IN) WASH OVER DARLING! OF KEEPING HOUSE There are many different kinds of baldness. The kind we see mostoftenis cailed pattern baldness. The hair begins to go at the temples, or there's a bald spot at the top of the head of the baldness appears in some other pattern. Pattern baldness is inherited. The inheritance of pattern baldness is influenced by sex. It appears more often in men than in women. Very often the I HOPE WE'RE NOT HAVING SPAGHETT! FOR, SLIPPER TONIGHT. woman carries the gene for this baldness and passes it on to her children. Nothing can be done about this type of baldness Premature baldness may appear in men as early as the age of 25 or even earlier. One cause of this kind of baldness may be a failure to take proper care of the scalp, keep it clean, etc. Sometimes an imbalance of the sex hormones may bring on premature baldness. If proper scalp care is started at once,it may slow up the progress of this type of baldness. tomatic baldness sometimes appears as a sign of infections or other conditions. When ia is rai Gs hair may c ~ By Bob Thaves TRAVEL [asic |(* Ae CAN Go AROUND: cases. Suddenloss of hair can result from typhoid fever, scarlet fever, 30 DAYS, OR AROUND ‘= THE CIVILIZED WoRLD IN 3 DAYS. HAVE ANEW PET WHAT'S THE AND HE'S /CRAZY GLASS OF WATER ABOUT FOR? me YOU'LL SEE : i : Tareas 1-4 By Alfred Andriola FUN TIME The Chuckle Box Teacher: If you have one .apple, two oranges, and one pear, what do you have? Student: Fruit salad. one Bill: Why did the old lady hit the boy scout for helping her across the street? John: I don’t know. Bill: Because she didn’t want to go across the street! ee HOW MANY? O HE ALWAYS RUSHES TO GREET ME T a Tie iestetnee tl Sitddm ae By Gordon Bess How many words relating to theater can you make from these letters? Use them in any order, but only once in each word. See tomorrow's paper for the answer. eee (Win a ‘Tell Me Why’’ book. Hundreds: of questions answered. Illustrated. Send your riddles, jokes to “RIDDLES, JOKES, TELL ME WHY,”care of this newspaper.Include tip code.) WHUT HAVE H GOT, MEDICINE MAN 2 This Day In History By Sounders & Ernst DIDN'T YOU GET A THRILL. HEARING THOSE URCHINS SING ByUnited Press International Todayis Friday.Jan.4, the 4th day of 1980 with 362 to follow. The moon is moving from its full phase to its last quarter. The morningstars are Mars. Jupiter. Saturn and Mercury. The evening star is Venus. Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. Sir Isaac Newton, discoverer of the law of gravity, and actress Jane Wymanwere born Jan. 4 — hein 1642 and she in 1914. Onthis date in history: In 1885, Dr. William Grant of Davenport, Iowa, performed the first appendectomy. The patient made a complete recovery. In 1937, about 10,000 Italian troops landed in Spain to help the nationalist forces in that country's civil war. In 1948, Burma becamean independentnation after centuriesof influence and control by Great Britain. In 1974, President Nixon refused to release any more of the 500 documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. ae A thought for the day: Irish poet James Stephens said. ‘‘Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.’ LIKE ANGELS ?:-- YOU YOUR SERMON WAS +++BUT LDONT mm) SHOULD HAVE K ee <i NZ TLL LEAD OFF-~ IF EVERYTHING GOES OKAY+-YOU FOLLOW, NEW YORK (UPI) — Retired CBS ITOUT SLOWLY-+ ONCE YOU CLEAR i a § YOU'RE STILL IT'S OKAY THEY STILL newsman Eric Sevareid serves a narrow of the public television special “Legacy of Genius: the Story of Thomas Alva Edison’, which will be shown on many PBS stations at 8 p.m. EST,Sat., Dec. 29.Since his retirement from the CBS Evening Newsin 1977, Sevareid has narrated several series and programsin the United States and spent two weeks on Britis> television in 1978 in his role as analyst ior London's Independent Television News : FILL YOUR LUNGS, BABY, AND LET BUT...) TODAY 16 JANUARY At RIGHT? Come en ne Te Ue on eens U VES== : THE WHOLE WORLD IN 8 in in suc! infections. When thereis a gradualloss or thinning of the hair, it may i due to poornutrition or a disturbancein the glands,especially the pituitary and thyroid glands. And, of course, ness may come from disorders in the scalpitself, such as scalp injuries or disease. (Win four ‘Tell Me Why’ books, 1,500 questions answered. justrated, Send your questions, name,age and address to “TELL ME WHY”care ofthis newspaper. Include zip code. In cases of duplicate questions the author will decide the winner. Today's winner: Lynne Taddeo, 8,Manstie! , Ohio) Y) IF WERAFTAGETRID. OF CLAUDIA! FOR DADDY TILL THIS TIGER CRISIS BLOWS OVER: pneumonia, influenza and other serious e Y YOU CLD AND E ARE SRT |