The Daily Spectrum from Saint George, Utah • 11

life tyle PAGE 11 SPECTRUM FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1SS8 s'(' ''V it, 'vX DEAR ABBY: I am very upset and hope you can shed some light on a problem concerning our son who is now 19. (I'll call him Mike.) About five years ago I found several pair of girl's panties hidden under mike's mattress. I was shocked and told my husband about it. He spoke to Mike, who explained that he and a neighbor boy had "found" them in a trash can behind an apartment building. His father told him to get rid of them, and nothing more was said about it.

All through high school Mike was active in sports, music, clubs, etc. He was very popular with boys and girls. He is now in his sophomore year at college and has been going steady with same girl for two years. (I'm sure they're doing more than just holding hands. Miauumun.imi iiymWjijmllM 4 i Mike is now home for summer vacation.

While cleanini his closet, I found a bra, panties and a garter belt stuffei into his tennis shoes! I asked him what they were doin there. He got red in the face, said they weren't his an accused my of snooping. Believe me, I was not. Abby, I am sick. Can our son be a homosexual? He seems so normal.

Please help me. I don't know how to handle this. WORRIED IN ST. PAUL DEAR WORRIED: Apparently your son has had a fascination for female undergarments since adolescence. Don't be upset.

It does not mean he Is a homosexual: Many males share this kind of behavior and function normally as men. If your son feels that be has a problem, he should get professional help. (The University of Minnesota has an excellent Human Sexuality Department. And it might relieve your mind and your husband's to look into the program, too. The more you understand about a subject, the less worried and upset you will be.

granddaughter Janalyn Tobler to Tony McClain. SANTA CLARA The Earl Toblers, of Santa Clara, will hold an open house tomorrow to honor the marriage of their SANTA CLARA -r Jill Robinson will Jesus Christ. An open house will be become the bride of Richard Ence In the held tomorrow in the Santa Clara St. George Temple of the Church of Cultural Hall. Robinson to marry Ence Tobler, McClain to wed Mr.

and Mrs. Earl Tobler, of Santa Clara. Great-grandmother is Katie Jones, of Washington. An open house will be held in the couple's honor at the home of the Earl Tobler's, 2662 West Santa Clara Dr. from 8:00 to 10:00 pm.

All friends are invited to attend. SANTA CLARA Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tobler, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee wish to announce the marriage of their daughter Janalyn to Tony McClain, son of Mr. and Mrs.

William McClain, of South Dakota. Grandparents of the bride are Mr. and Mrs. Louel Jenkins, of Newborn, Utah, and High School and graduated from Dixie College in 1979. She attended the University of Utah in 1979-80.

The groom graduated from Dixie High School and served an LDS mission in Germany. He graduated from Dixie College in 1979 and also attended USU this year. The couple plan to make their home in Logan and continue their education at USU. SANTA CLARA Mr. and Mrs.

Don H. Calton are proud to announce the marriage of their granddaughter Jill Robinson to Richard Ence, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vendon (V.P.) Ence in the St. George Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

An open house will be held tomorrow from 7:30 to 9:30 pm at the Santa Clara LDS Cultural Hall. The bride is a graduate of Cottonwood DEAR When I became pregnant four years ago at age 431 was surprised and certainly not prepared for another child. (I had three grown children.) My sister-in-law gave us an old beat-up baby bed she had had in her basement for years. My husband sanded it down and painted it, and it looked like new. We used it until our baby outgrew it, then we sold it along with some other used furniture.

When my sister-in-law heard that we had sold the bed, she demanded that we give her part of the money we got for it. Abby, that baby bed was junk when she gave it to us, and nothing was said about returning it. Do we owe her any thing? STEAMED IN DA YTONA DEAR STEAMED: If she gave it to you, all you owe her is a "thank-you." Oldest biological cells ever on earth found in Australia Does government help or jurt US families? CONFIDENTIAL TO LOVING SISTER IN BREMERTON, WASH: If you truly want to help your brother get well, let him know that you love him, are confident that he will recover and admire him for finally going into therapy. Offer no suggestions. To tell a person who is undergoing psychoanalysis that all he needs to get well is "common sense," and that permitting his doctor to probe into his early unhappy childhood is causing his depression, is doing him more harm than good.

1980, Universal Press Syndicate. delegates to determine "how government helps or hurts families." "We want to build programs on the strengths of families," she said. "We want to build a society where people don't have to choose between the responsibilities of parenting and work." In an earlier address, Minnesota Gov. Albert H. Quie said the "structure of the family is threatened as perhaps never before.

Families are hurting," the said, adding "what happens to families will determine what happens to our society." The conference is the second in a series of three which will conclude July 10-12 in Los Angeles. Earlier this month delegates met In Baltimore and passed a largely liberal agenda. John Carr, executive director of the conference, said it was hoped delegates would devote their energies to issues that haven't received the publicity of emotionally charged topics such as abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment. However, he said a walkout such as the one by approximately 30 anti-ERA, anti-abortion, and anti-homosexual delegates at the Baltimore conference, was possible at the present session. MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) A special assistant to President Carter urged delegates to the White House Conference on Families Thursday to determine how the government helps or hurts the nation's families.

Anne Wexler, subbing for Carter who had ordered the conference to develop an agenda to strengthen and support families, presented the keynote address opening the 2xk -day conference. She told the more than 600 delegates from 13 Midwestern and Southern states that no institution has received more lip service or less help than the family. There is "no typical American family," she said, millions of individuals working out the timeless tasks of nurturing and loving." She cautioned them about the need for an awareness of the roles that families play in 'the world, for an understanding of the realities of families, and for building a constituency so that good ideas surfacing at the conference can be brought to fruition. Stressing that government touches the lives of families in many ways, Ms. Wexler characterized government involvement as "neither all bad or all good," and urged the different kinds of microorganisms were present in the thin slices of rock they had cut.

Some were no more than a third of a micron in diameter and others were as big as 10 microns across. A micron is about of an inch. Schopf said although the ancient microbes tended to build long chains of single cells joined together like beads on a necklace, they were of sufficiently distinctive size' ranges and patterns to warrant the identification of five different species. The significance of this diversity, he said, is that it means life had already begun to branch out 3.5 billion years ago. Had only one species been found in these rocks, scientists might be tempted to think that this was the earliest form of organized life.

"But because of the diversity, we now know that there was a complex ecosystem even 3.5 billion years ago," he said. "These five kinds had to come fom something prior to that; the origins of life now have to be pushed back appfeciably before 3.5 billion years ago, perhaps by a hundred million of a few hundred million years more." Because scientists believe the earth formed around 4.5 billion years ago, the findings suggest life started and began to evolve well within the first billion years of the planets existence. Schopf believes the creatures found in one set of rocks from the "North Pole region" of western Australia last year by Walter and in another set less than two miles away by Awramik in 1977 were probably photosynthetic microorganisms meaning they consumed carbon dioxide. Whether or not they released oxygen is not clear. These bacteria-like microbes once rested on the bottom of a shallow saline lake, where the water depth was no impediment to their reception of sunlight.

The silica sediments in the water settled to the bottom with time and trapped the single-celled microbes in a slowly forming rocky tomb. WASHINGTON (UPI) American and Australian scientists now have direct evidence of the oldest biological cells ever found on earth the remains of tiny, bacteria-like creatures that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago. Discovery of the so-called "cellular mummies" in two sets of rocks from western Australia was announced Thursday by the National Science Foundation, which supported the work along with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and by the Universities of California at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. Although the same scientists recently reported finding 3.5-billion-year-old rock formations in Australia that were probably built by similar microorganisms, those cabbage-shaped rock layers did not contain traces of the once-living creatures themselves. The team of scientists has possessed the fossils for some time but did not make their announcement until analysis confirmed their age and authenticity.

Previous studies had established that relatively advanced forms of cellular life appeared 2.3 billion years ago. The latest discovery indicates biological cells lived about 1.2 billions years later than earlier estimates. Prof. J. William Schopf, a paleobilogist at UCLA who heads the team of scientists, said the interiors of the old single-celled organisms have long since been filled in by silica and their mucous exterior coats turned to tar by the chemistry of aging.

But, he said, individual organisms can still be distinguished under a powerful microscope. The microscope magnified the images of the microbes by a factor of 1,000, 'Schopf said. Schopf and his co-workers Stanley M. Awramik of UC Santa, Barbara, and. Malcolm R.

Walter, Roger Buick and John Dunlop of Australia said they were amazed when they found that at least five One in three have used cocaine; drugs WASHINGTON (UPI) Two government studies indicate the use of cocaine among young adults in the United States is growing in popularity second only to marijuana. Sixty-eight percent of young adults aged 18 to 25 have tried marijuana and one in three have sampled cocaine or harder drugs such as heroin, said the studies released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services. They show one in three young adults aged 18-25, one in six youths below 18 and one in 17 adults over 25 are current users of marijuana. But current use of marijuana by persons under the age of 18 has stabilized, one study said. The figures are based on interviews conducted from August of 1979 to January of 1980.

They show 33 percent of persons in the 18-25 age group have tried cocaine or harder drugs such as heroin or hallucinogens up from 3 percent in 1962. The 68 percent of young adults aged 18-25 who reported trying marijuana was up from 4 percent in 1962, the studies said, continuing a trend. In 1972, the number had grown to 48 percent, it reached 60 percent in 1977 and hit the 68 percent mark last year. "These two reports show that the deep concerns of the American people in general, and parents in particular, about the rapid rise in illicit drug use over the past few years are well founded," said Health and Welfare Secretary Patricia Harris. She ordered the National Institute on Drug Abuse to "intensify its ongoing efforts on the prevention of drug abuse, specifically the prevention of drug use by young people." The NIDA said the figures in the two reports may be conservative because they were based on Interviews at households and do not include runaways or those who live on military bases, at college or in prison, all environments where drug use tends to be higher.

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HURRICANE Holly Glazier, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Glazier, of Hurricane, has been selected to be a state finalist In the 1980, Miss United Teenage' Pageant to be held at the University of Utah June 28. Glazier Is sponsored by 5M, Inc. and Is an honor student at Hurricane High School.

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