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Home Family DAILY SPECTRUM THURSDAY, JANUARY 16. 1986 PACE I 1 Face new year with optimism, look for promise, opportunities Parham, Fisher Imlay, Bulloch Here we are, well into another year with all of its promise and opportunities before us. To some of us, it may be a comforting thought to know that we may put 1985 behind us and start anew. To others, perhaps we just hope for another year as good as the last. Whatever our feelings as we embrace this new year, I suppose most of us do so with at least a touch of optimism.

Janice's Journal J. F. DeMille LlSSh. safely stored away until next year, it still seemed like the holiday season. Finally, everybody else in the family went back to school and work, but here I was still feeling like the holidays.

Holiday Lag, for sure! This Monday morning I decided it was about time to break this cycle, so I got up ready to set the world on fire. My intentions were good, but by noon I had slipped back into that holiday routine of feeling like it was the perfect day for a nap. Tuesday was a little better; at least, I didn't have a nap. I just wished I could. Finally, I have come to the point where I'm working all day and enjoying it.

That's the key. After such a disastrous Monday what with naps and all I decided I had to push myself into keeping on the go all day, but my heart wasn't in it. After all, that's one reason I'm working for myself so I can pace myself and really enjoy my work. Just when I was about to lose hope, I awoke to TODAY. Instead of feeling that old Holiday Lag, I woke up feeling that I could hardly wait to get the breakfast dishes done so I could get to work.

The only problem now is to decide which phase of work to tackle first. There are so many things clammoring for my attention that I'm not sure where to start. I'm sure of one thing, though. I'm over that dreaded holiday disease Holiday lag. Whew! I'm glad that's over glad to feel like my old self again so I can tackle with vigor whatever this new year of 1986 brings! Here's hoping that 1986 is full of satisfying work, good health and much success not only for me, but for all of you, my friends here in southern Utah.

Hopefully, we have had time by now to get over what I call Holiday Lag. You've all heard of or experienced jet lat that uncomfortable feeling when passing through several time zones at today's jet speeds. For a person experiencing jet lag, it takes a certain amount of time to adjust for the changes in time. Holiday Lag is not all that different. We may not have physically left home, but as we passed through the holiday season and into the new year, I'd bet that most of us have experienced a degree of holiday lag.

As the New Year dawned, I kept telling myself that it was time to stop celebrating and get back down to business. However, although I knew just what I needed to do, it seems to have taken me a good week to get everything in gear again. Even after I got the tree down and all of the decorations i Janet Imlay, Scott L. Bulloch Candi Lea Parham, Beau Donald Fisher ST. GEORGE Mr.

and Mrs. Joe Parham of St. George announce the upcoming wedding of their daughter, Candi Lea Parham, to Beau Donald Fisher, son of Norm and Pat Fisher, also of St. George. Candi and Beau will exchange vows Friday, Jan.

17, at the LionsVHF Building in St. George. A reception will follow at 6 p.m. The bride-to-be attended Jeffrey City High School in Jeffrey City, Wyo. The prospective groom graduated from Dixie High School and attended Dixie College.

He is self-employed in St. George. The Parhams will live in St. George. CEDAR CITY Dallas and Pat Imlay of Cedar City announce the marriage of their daughter, Janet, to Scott L.

Bulloch, son of Scott M. Bulloch and Lois L. Bulloch, both of Cedar City. Janet and Scott will exchange vows Saturday, Jan. 18, in the Fiddlers Canyon LDS Chapel.

A reception has been planned in their honor that day at the same location from 7 to 9 p.m. The bride-to-be is a graduate of Cedar City High School and has attended Southern Utah State College. She is employed by Paiute Social Services. The prospective groom is also a graduate of CHS who attended SUSC. He is employed by Las Vegas Paving.

The couple will reside in Las Vegas. For senior couples, wedding bells chime different tune McLaws, Houchen Frank, Bowler by Bill Lohmann 1 ures were not compiled in past years, there is little chance for comparison. Nevertheless, Social Security officials say older marriages should be affected little if at all. "(The law) hits roughly only about 10 percent of the 36 million people on Social Security, and usually Social Security benefits aren't a big portion of your income if you're in that bracket anyway," Loman says. "It would probably be fairly irrelevant to people in those income brackets to take drastic steps like getting a divorce or living together without getting married." But such steps could be attractive to lower-income elderly people, for Supplemental Security Income as well as food stamps remain more rewarding and available for non-married senior citizens.

And then there are the children. "Men and women beyond 65 who are in their second marriages elect to get married as much for companionship to have somebody around, somebody to talk to as anything else," Gilmore says. "They often have accumulated small but significant estates and want their children to get it. "I've run into several situations recently where a man and woman agreed to marry but also agreed to not fully disclose to each other what they each have." But problems can arise when an elderly couple decides to keep finances separate and file separate tax returns. In that case, there is no $25,000 ceiling and each can lose up to half of their Social Security benefits to taxes.

Prenuptial agreements in which older people and their future spouses sip documents waiving inheritance rights in the event of the other's death are another growing fad. But many states require each party to fully disclose everything they own before they sign the contract. Such arrangements can be traumatic experiences and may not even hold up in court. "(Another) of the traps people fall into, whether it's a second marriage or growing old in the same marriage, is to begin gifting too early," Gilmore says. "While the tax laws encourage gifting, there's a tendency to give away the estate to children in such a way (that the elderly) become dependent on the children and overly dependent on Social Security and Medicare." Gilmore offers simple advice to senior citizens who want to tie the knot make sure marriage is something you really want and do not give away the farm too soon.

"I'd say: Live together for a while to see if you can get along with each other," he says. "Does he like to sit at home and wtch TV, and does she like to prowl around the mall and drag him along? Does he like to eat at 5 and she like to eat at Things that appear minor can become major." ATLANTA (UPI) Wedding bells chime a different tune for couples in their golden years, when companionship and financial considerations often rival unconditional love as the best reason to get married. But with fixed incomes, ever-changing Social Security and tax laws, and a desire to leave something for the children, marriage after 60 can be a tricky proposition. Experts say it is imperative for people to carefully plan their financial life after retirement and be cautious of every move they make including marriage. "There is a demographic trend to live longer and longer," said Alden S.

Gilmore, professor of gerontology at the University of South Florida. "People are underestimating the length of their lives and what their financial needs are going to be." As the population grows older and the older population grows larger, more 65-and-older people are tying the knot. The U.S. Division of Vital Statistics estimates about women and 41,000 men in that age group were married in 1980, representing a 42-percent increase over the number of women married in 1960 And a 15-percent increase for the men. The Social Security Administration actually has made conditions more conducive to sefior weddings.

Until the late 1970s, widows and widowers lost their Social Security benefits if they married someone else drawing Social Security. "That was forcing many senior citizens to either live in sin or not get married," said Bill Loman, a Social Security spokesman in Tampa, where 30 percent of the population is retired. "They couldn't financially afford to get married." But a change in the law in 1979 allowed widows and widowers to continue drawing their own Social Security benefits after remarriage. However, according to Gilmore, who teaches courses on the economic issues of aging, another recent Social Security change throws up a similar roadblock and could encourage older couples to cast aside the wedding vows. If a married couple earns $32,000 or more in annual income, up to 50 percent of their Social Security benefits are taxable.

A single person can earn up to $25,000 without having Social Security benefits taxed. The implications of the new policy are not yet apparent. The Bureau of the Census espimates that only 3 percent of 65-and-older couples who lived together in 1984, when the policy took effect, were not married. Because such fig Janet Lynn Frank, Charles Milton Bowler ST. GEORGE Shirley Ann Frank of St.

George and Donald Frank of Warren, Ohio, announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Janet Lynn Frank, to Charles Milton Bowler, son of Lorna Jane Muir of Elko, and Elwood Holt Bowler of Veyo. Janet and Charles will exchange vows Monday, Jan. 20, at 6:30 p.m. at 95 S. 800 E.

in St. George. A reception will follow the wedding. The bride-to-be is a graduate of Warren G. Harding School and a former nurse's aid at Friendship Living Center.

The prospective groom is a graduate of Dixie High and works for Shanley's Private Club. The couple will be living in St. George. Towanda Dawn McLaws, Jeff C. Houchen ST.

GEORGE Mr. and Mrs. Robert McLaws of Joseph City, announce the marriage of their daughter, Towanda Dawn McLaws, to Jeff C. Houchen, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Houchen of St. George. Towanda and Jeff exchanged vows Monday, Jan. 6, at the Chapel of Love in Las Vegas, Nev. An open house for the couple will be held at 1329 W.

410 N. in St. George Jan. 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. The new bride graduated from Joseph City High School in Joseph City, and the National Academy of Names, Inc.

She is employed at Denny's Restaurant. The groom graduated from Dixie High School and is also employed at Denny's. The couple is living in St. George. Bustamante, Smith Slack, Currie Spring clothes now hitting department, specially stores CEDAR CITY Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Slack of Cedar City announce the marriage of their daughter, LoriAnn, to Christopher M. Currie, son of Paul Currie and Betty Currie of Albemarle, N.C. LoriAnn and Christopher exchanged vows Sunday, Jan. 12, at Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington, where both are stationed.

The bride is a 1979 graduate of Parowan High School. She entered the Air Force in 1979 as an Administrative Specialist. The groom is a 1982 graduate of North Stanley High School in Albemarle. He entered the Air Force in 1982 and is an air conditioning and refrigeration mechanic. The couple will reside in Spokane, until April 1, after which they will be stationed at Charleston Air Force Base in Charleston, S.C.

and have lived in Corona most of their married life. They are members of the LDS! Church and have one son, Ronald, of Corona, and two grandsons. PAROWAN Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bonella of-Los An-.

geles, announce the marriage of their daughter, Jennie Bustamante, to Tracy Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glade Smith of Parowan. Jennie and Tracy exchanged vows Saturday, Jan. 4, in Henderson, Nev.

A reception for the couple will be held Saturday, Jan. 18, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Parowan High Commons. The new bride is a former employee of the Utah Department of Transportation and a former resident of Parowan. The groom is employed by Centrel in Las Vegas.

The couple will be living in Henderson. Corry, Wood CORONA, Calif. LaRue Corry and Max J. Wood of Corona, formerly of Cedar City, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary recently at an open house in Moreno, Calif. The Woods were married Nov.

22, 1935, in San Pedro, by Melissa Sones upi Fashion writer Yuffies: The Yuppie backlash by Susan Seager ers are banking on Donna Karan, the former Anne Klein co-designer who went out on her own with her first collection this fall. For spring, Karan continued with snug and sophisticated body-dressing, especially the jersey bodysuits and sarong skirts she began for fall. Karan's bestsellers, all in navy jersey, include a slinky jacket that ties in front, a skinny pencil skirt, a new version of her tie skirt, a crewneck bodyshirt, and a seven-eigths cardigan coat. She has sold approximately 2,000 pieces of each item, a tremendous number, Simple, dark, and fitted made Oscar de la Renta popular, especially his fitted navy jersey daytime dresses that are shirred through the torso. The simple dress has also put Mary Ann Restivo, a sportswear designer known for sophisticated career clothing, on the map.

Her double-breasted silk doupioni coat dress in black, red, or white is all the rage with retailers, "It's an easy dress far people to wear," Restivo speculated. "It takes women from their offices to a restaurant in the evening." Many of those simple, easy dresses or skirt and jacket or tunic combos for work-to-play will be knit. "We're (doing knits) far more than a year ago," said Cass. From coast to coast; retailers are backing Rebecca Moses, Andrea Jovine, Adrienne Vittadini and Cathy Hardwick. Vittadini does cotton doubleknit cardigans that go over turtleneck dresses for day into evening.

Moses's white rayon and cotton ribknit dress with bare back is a winner. Hardwick sold 3,200 pieces of a long-sleeved white cotton lattice-cable dress. The overriding career look for the less daring is a slim skirt with longer, leaner jacket, typified by the expected popularity of Anne Klein and Anne Klein II clothes with retailers. The quintessential Anne Klein spring suit combines a red linen belted blazer with draped, wrapped white silk blouse and a slim black wool gabardine skirt. Anne Klein II, the company's less expensive sportswear line, has sold a whopping 12,000 pieces of a plain knee-length, slim gabardine pencil skirt and V-neck cardigan jacket.

They come in navy, black and ivory. In keeping with wintry colors, fabrics include year-rounders like gabardine and jersey and are generally low on that springtime staple, linen. NEW YORK (UPI) Starting this week, as winter reaches its depths in much of the country, spring clothes hit department and specialty stores. "Fall was not the best of all seasons," said Kal Ruttenstein, Bloomingdale's senior vice-president for fashion direction. "But we think the clothes are exciting for spring.

They're different than what a woman has in her closet." "It will be a hard fought season," admitted Lee Ho-gan Cass, vice-president and fashion director for The Broadway stores in southern California. "I think you have to be very smart and up front with your customers and be thinking with your headsets on to their needs." The biggest change from last spring, as in fall clothes, concerns shape. "This spring we believe in clothes that follow the curves of the body, but don't hug or constrict" said Ruttenstein. "In other words, the pendulum is swinging the opposite way from man-tailored clothes for women, from where we were a year ago." Joan Kaner, Macy's vice-president and fashion director agrees. "Clothing will be belted at the waist or nipped in at the waist," she said.

"Even if she's wearing a big circle skirt, the top she's wearing will be very lean and close to the body. The color story for springtime is wintry with a predominance of black and white followed by neutrals. "After the explosion of psychedelic color over this past year we think this is what looks fresh and new for the spring season," said Ruttenstien." "We do extra well with black and white," said Marilyn Kaplan, senior vice-president and general merchandise manager, Neiman-Marcus. "We've never been a great pastel store." All in all, spring is shaping up as a stream-lined and less than daring season. Long or short, skirts are slim in pencil, tube or sarong styles.

Jackets are lean and still have padded shoulders. Pant3 are skinny from tailored trousers to new capris, cropped styles and tight bicycle shorts. There are some newer wide pants for evening. Among American "couture" designers, many retail They also have a Yuffie hotline for updates on group activities. A Yuffie song is in the works, written and performed by Marie Cain, a piano bar singer the two men met while bartending.

The lyrics go like this "Forget the brie And come with me I'll put you in the finest kind of company We don't act stuffy We don't get huffy We haven't got names like Skip, Chip or Muffie." Like the Boy Scouts, Yuffies will get their own handbook. One chapter is titled, "Phrases and words Yuffies either don't know or don't care to: "T-bills (Could it be the way Londoners keep track of their afternoon tea "State-of the-art (Used only to refer to a party that has a keg). "Six-figure salary (Personally, no woman's figure is worth that much)." The Yuffies handbook also tells members how to dress (shorts, flip flops, T-shirts and baseball caps); what to read (Recycler, Biker and Hustler); what to drive (a Ford Pinto or recycled U.S. Mail truck). Yuffie founders concede they are not the first to coin the name.

It has popped up in an Ann Landers column and in the cartoon strip, "Crock." Markell and Murashko, however, think they are the first to form a group, which they hope will attract thousands of members across the country. But, the pair already has encountered a stumbling block in the word, "failure." "To some people, the word is so negative that people are offended by it," said Markell, who is proud of his status as a two-time college dropout. Adds Murashko, "But I tell them, the only thing we've really failed at is to reach Yuppie ideals." ORANGE, Calif. (UPI) If you've decided you'll never be able to afford a BMW or otherwise gain Yuppie status but hate feeling left out, you might consider joining the Yuffies, a bunch of losers who like it that way. To be a Yuffie, or young urban failure, you must accept the heady goals of having lots of mindless fun, accepting your own limitations and enjoy drinking Schlitz out of the can.

Co-founders Jeff Markell and Alex Murashko, a pair of "retired," 29-year-old bartenders from Orange, view the group as sort of a low-brow, low-tech backlash to the consumerism glorified by young urban professionals known as Yuppies. "I was sick of reading the hype about Yuppies," Murashko said. "They're too perfect." More than 500 self-proclaimed "decadent dreamers," most of them Southern Californians, have joined the group since its formation a few months ago. Membership is gained simply by buying a $7 T-shirt that entitles members to sporadic newsletters and invitations to tailgate parties at California Angels baseball games. Markell and Murashko say they are out to save the world from rapid, vapid materialism, but they quickly add they are not opposed to making a little money while preaching the message of slobbism.

They decided they had to do something since quitting their bartender jobs, which they described as "much stressful." To pay the rent and spread their anti-Yuppie gospel, the two are marketing Yuffie T-shirts, $5 baseball hats, and a $13 Yuffie kit, consisting of a Yuffie shirt, hat, bumper sticker and button..