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Hints from Heloise A8 Daily News Leader, Monday, July 20, 1992 fteforms since chicken plant fire could make N.C. a leader in safety tory that you can call up to be on the top of the first page whenever you are typing a fax note. It can include all the important "to" and "from" information, plus the date and the number of pages. You can also save paper if you keep fax cover forms in your computer directory and print them so that you have two forms per page instead of using a whole page for a cover form. Most of them don't have writing on the whole page anyway.

J. Griggs, Portland, Ore. SOUND OFF Dear Heloise: My pet peeve is aerosol cans that won't spray when I get them home. Even if I remove the nozzle and clean it, it still doesn't work. So aggravating! A.

Dolgen-er, San Antonio, Texas Limit long-distance calls by placing a timer near the phone. Combine errands so gasoline isn't wasted. Clip coupons for items you always need or buy; they can add up to a significant savings. Turn off lights when you leave a room. ARMCHAIR COVERS Dear Heloise: Please tell me how to keep armchair covers on the chair.

Evelyn, Louisville, Ky. Here are a couple of suggestions: Put a small piece of self-gripping tape on the cover and one on the armchair. Or sew the cover in place with small stitches along the back edge. Good luck. Heloise FAX MACHINE HINT Dear Heloise: Save paper by storing a header in your computer direc Death toll climbs to 24 after car bombing LIMA, Peru (AP) The death toll from a guerrilla car bombing climbed to 24 Sunday, and more than 2,500 residents marched for peace.

A pair of car bombs ripped the facades off half a dozen buildings in the upscale Miraflores neighborhood on Thursday night. The timing, placement and size of the bombs indicated that the Shining Path guerrillas, in a change of tactics, intended to cause scores of civilian casualties. More than 25,000 people have been killed in political violence since the Shining Path began its armed struggle in 1980. At least half were peasants caught in the crossfire between security forces and the guerrillas. Residents from Miraflores and neighboring districts marched around Kennedy Park on Sunday, shouting "Shining Path, the people repudiate you!" They waved signs that read "Miraflores is for Peace." Dr.

Alejandro Olivares, the city's health official, said the death toll from Thursday's attack had climbed to at least 24 by Sunday after some of the seriously wounded died in area hospitals. The toll was expected to climb even higher, Olivares said. At least 16 people were listed as missing and feared dead. More than 100 were wounded, and at least half of them were in serious condition. In a speech Friday night, President Alberto Fujimori said the attack caused him "profound consternation." He said he was confident city residents would unite to repair the damage.

Fujimori closed Congress and suspended the constitution on April 5, claiming he would stop corruption and guerrilla violence. He has asserted that the rebels were losing hope and would soon be put down. But marchers Sunday complained about what they said was a lack of support from the federal government, which did not send representatives to the demonstration or to a Mass that followed. "Where is the president? Where is his support?" asked Guillermo Allison. RALEIGH, N.C.

(AP) When 25 people died in a chicken plant fire in Hamlet, N.C, was used as an example for reformers who said government wasn't doing enough to protect workers. Now the state is becoming an example again this time, of workplace safety reform. "It will have policies as good as any state in the country," said Joseph Kinney, director of the National Safe Workplace Institute in Chicago, a group that ranks states' worker safety programs. "Certainly it would be one of a handful of states that are leaders instead of followers in this arena." When fire struck Imperial Food Products Inc. on a morning in September 1991, fire exits were locked a violation of state safety codes.

But the plant never had been inspected in 11 years of operation. At the time, North Carolina ranked last in the number of worker safety inspectors among 23 states operating their own inspection programs. The state had just 16 inspectors. That's changing. The Legislature already has enacted a law funding new inspectors.

The law will add 61 inspectors, giving North Carolina the second largest state inspection staff in the country, said Charles Jeffress, assistant commissioner of the state Labor Department. Lawmakers are considering a measure that would require some high-risk companies to form worker safety committees, making North Carolina one of four states that require such panels, Jeffress said. That measure also would make North Carolina one of seven states to require some companies to establish their own safety programs, he said. "As tragic as the fire was, it was an opportunity to make the state aware of all the health and safety problems," said Mark Schulz, director of the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project, a worker advocacy group. Schulz said worker advocates didn't get everything they wanted, such as safety committees in every workplace with 10 or more employees.

And because the state will use insurance industry ratings to target companies for some of the new rules, businesses may escape the scrutiny by dropping insurance policies for self-insurance programs, he said. Union leaders said the changes aren't enough. "What North Carolina is doing right now is tinkering around the edges," said Debbie Berkowitz, health and safety director for the United Food and Commercial Workers union. She said federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration laws need an overhaul to give workers more participation in workplace safety issues and to strengthen inspection programs across the country. North Carolina's example may help congressional supporters of legislation that would do just that, said Ross Eisenbrey, general counsel for the committee considering the bill.

"Here's the state that recently has come to terms with tragedy, and they have found that the best way to deal with it is through OSHA reform," he said. Ms. Berkowitz agreed. "The fact that North Carolina OSHA is making these kinds of changes is very significant and will probably help clearly it will help the passage of federal OSHA reform," she said. AN ORGANIZED VIDEO LIBRARY Dear Heloise: Our family tapes many movies each month, and we have quite a large video library.

After I record a movie or other special event on a VCR tape, I put the title and the maj or character of the show on a small sheet of paper and attach it to the box the tape came in. When I have a few spare minutes, I add it to my video library. D.M., Colorado Springs, Colo. SEND A GREAT HINT TO: Heloise P.O. Box 795000 San Antonio, Texas 78279-5000 FASTFACTS Here are five handy and easy money-saving hints: Take a sack lunch to work instead of eating out.

daine urging AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -Maine, a state where voter turnout usually is among the highest in the nation, is trying to increase the rolls even more by seeking out and registering homeless voters. Led by Secretary of State G. William Diamond, Maine is making the nation's most ambitious effort to get homeless residents to vote, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless, which is trying to register 300,000 homeless Americans this year. "Maine's the only state where a public official has taken a public stand on the issue of whether homeless people should be enfranchised into the political system," said the coalition's Michael Stoops. "It's a very positive sign." Diamond, the state's chief elections officer, wrote in 1989 and again this month to the state's municipal registrars, saying people without "traditional" residences can register to vote, even if they declare their home is a park bench and mailing address a shelter.

AQUAFRESH TOOTHPASTE 4.3 T0 4 6 0Z. PUMP OR 6 TO 6 4 02. TUBE 89 TYLENOL PM TABLETS OR CAPLETS 50S 51 register, vote someday. He said it's his job to head off "subtle messages" from some election officials and voters that homeless people shouldn't vote "because they don't have 2V2 kids and a white picket fence around their homes." "Probably the homeless should be the least disenfranchised because their survival depends on political decisions that are made. They should have a voice in who's elected," he said.

Daniel Coombs, 43, who registered after attending a registration meeting at a Portland shelter, said he was motivated by "civic pride duty." "Every vote counts. That's what we've got to get across to the people here," said Coombs, who is homeless when he can't find work as a deckhand living on fishing boats. Maine is one of only 11 states with written policies sanctioning registration of the homeless. A bill to be introduced in the state Legislature as early as fall would guarantee voting rights for the homeless. Find Every Day Of At Dear Abby rv By Abigail Van Buren 1 992 Universal Press Syndicate homeless to He visited shelters across the state July 9 to encourage homeless people to register and ask shelter directors to offer voter registration forms and help.

His efforts to locate all kinds of new voters helped give Maine the nation's best election turnout in November 1990, when 57.7 percent of the state's voting age population cast ballots. Diamond created a "motor-voter" program to allow people to register when they get drivers' licenses or car registrations, and mock elections for high school students accompanied by a parent or guardian, who is encouraged to register. But state figures show that as many as 250,000 people about a fourth of the voting-age population still are unregistered, Diamond said. Diamond, a Democrat often mentioned as a potential gubernatorial candidate in 1994, dismissed suggestions his search for homeless voters is meant to pay political dividends Saviini Are What You 7 COPPERTONE TANNING OIL SPF 2 OR LOTION SPF 4 4 02. 3 99 BOX FAN 3 SPEED 20 INCH 16 99 GARDEN HOSE 5S" 50 FEET tUtttlMRKTKM Till Hi IMODIUM A-D 2n2.

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(Maybe you could have suggested plastic surgery, or dermabrasion?) Abby, please reconsider your reply in how to respond to insensitive remarks about freckles. I learned to appreciate my special-ness due to the support and love of my parents and grandparents who said, "Your freckles are angel's kisses, and God must love you very much to have given you so many freckles." Even at age 41, 1 continue to get unwanted advice on how to hide my freckles. CATHERINE DYBALL, CORCORAN, MINN. DEAR CATHERINE: It's wonderful that you have grown to appreciate your "specialness" and can now regard your freckles as "angel's kisses." But the 17-year-old girl who wrote to say that her freckles had caused her "plenty of stress" needed a solution to her problem not a pep talk on how to learn to live with it. I routinely urge people to learn to live with things they cannot change, but freckles that are regarded as "not so cute" on a 17-year-old girl can easily be concealed by Covermark or Dermablend which I recommended.

I have already heard from grateful Dear Abby readers, thanking me for informing them about products they did not know existed. Here's another reader who has learned to live with freckles: DEAR ABBY: Everyone with freckles has had at one time or another some comment made about him or her that has been unpleasant. (I remember being asked if I had stood behind a rusty screen door when it was raining.) But not all the comments were bad. My freckles have been called "cinnamon sprinkles" which is my personal favorite because that's what my husband calls them. What "Spotted On Long Island" really needs to do is either learn to accept the comments graciously, or to ignore them, since she will probably be faced with hearing various comments about her freckles all her life.

(At least, I have for these past 40 years.) Anyway, there are far worse things in life to have, like a personality that compels one to make comments about other people's physical ffi El til 16 SPRINKLED IN KANSAS CITY DEAR SPRINKLED: I have had letters from men who tell me they think freckles are cute and sexy on a woman. And the combination of freckles and flaming red hair is a genuine turn-on in Dublin, Ireland. P.S.: When my twin sister and I were about 6 years old, we memorized a song titled "Freckles." We learned the lyrics from a 78 rpm phonograph record our parents played over and over again. I think the flip side was "Rockabye Baby" with the vocal by Al Jolson. Problems? Write to Abby.

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