The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 1997 Page: 7 of 16
sixteen pages : ill. ; page 21 x 13 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
THE BAYTOWN SUN
Friday, December 12,1997
7-A
GARFIELD by Jim Davis
BRIDGE
COMICS
North
Answer to Previous Puzzle
Vulnerable: East-West
Dealer: West
Pass
Opening lead: a A
,12-IZ
ARLO & JANIS ® by Jimmy Johnson
By Phillip Alder
*01997 by NEA. ipc.
BIG NATE ® by Lincoln Peirce
01997 by NEA, Inc.
EEK & MEEK ® by Howie Schneider
ASTROGRAPH
Saturday, Dec. 13, 1997
ROBOTMAN ® by Jim Meddick
E-Mail:JimMeddick@aol.com
THE BORN LOSER ® by Art and Chip Sansom
KIT ’N’ CARLYLE ® by Larry Wright
WITH
THE GRIZZWELLS ® by Bill Schorr
UH ..WHERE?
YEAH!.
FRANK & ERNEST ® by Bob Thaves
01997 by NEA, Inc.
HE-R.E-HE
mE.5,
5ANTA WAS IN A
PLAYFUL MOOP <
EVER HEAR THE ONE ABOUT .
THE ELF AND THE BLENDER?
WHERE I6
GEJ0E7THE
AAlC'GAWUr
<70 CL06&' <
HAD NO CHOICE.'ME
HAP TO CHANGE.'
HOU?
A 3081
Ringo
(unaware
W MIKE WAS
IHTON)WS
A CRACKER."
CHRISTMAS AT THE
CRATCHITS' CONTINUES.
7 DIDN'TREALLY
5E&HIMAT
vmtfMcm.
1 JUST SOT A GRAMT TO
SW?THE EFFECTS OF (JU-
REQUITED LCVE OkJ THE
MWD0F1HE KREAED .
CANT
HELP IT
I EAT
WHEN
I GET
,„W15UoULP
5U66EST THAT,
POUT BE
RIXUWC1S
! SIGH 5 LET'S KEEP
TRYING, AVA.'
medium
39 Tint
40 Editor's :
notation
41 Possessed
42 Measurement
28 Not out of
29 Cake layer
31 Actor
Richa rd —
35 Raccoonlike
mammal
37 Ore. time
38 Refrigerant
39 Bells
42 Comedian
25 Toward
shelter
27 Houses,
churches.
PAW
600D
The reliable guideline
— most of the time
frlfbWftfT
Atfwr,
DIDN'T 16E& YOU
LOOKING IN THE WINDOW
AT VlCItflM&CKT?
BETTY ™ by Delainey and Rasmussen
IZ-/2-
£-AfW
ffW ki /Vg~4, i<c
I WA6„. AH. JU5TPACING
6Y7 I WASN'T,,, UH,., NOT
LIKE, LOOKING,Yt)O KNOW.'
A TIME-TRAVELING CHRISTMAS by Jack & Carole Bender
W* Twuve lafom
Zzh An /MPge^ive,
tfucuw, but
i X /Uki't V/Trl
QTI IMDCH9 Callfor Answers •Touch-toneorfiotcry Phones
□ I UlVirCUf 95c per minutes 1-900-454-3535 ext, code 100
‘I know you’re in bed with the flu, but I need
the keys to the filing cabinet.”
» Q54
♦ A 9 8 6 5 4
A A K 3
HE RAN OUT OF IRK.
HALFWAXTHKDUGH C
^^PWECATMDG1'
South
A J 7 6
» AJ 762
♦ K 3
East
A 9 3 2
» 10 3
♦ J 10 7
A Q J 10 9 5
CELEBRITY CIPHER
by Luis Campos
Celebrity Cipher cryptograms are created from quotations by famous people, past and present
Each letter in Iho cinhnr ctanric fnr annthar TnMn,,'n *1 .....I. Il r
6 Labor Org.
7 Mae West role
8 Talk-show
host, Tom —
9 Wild party
10 Sense
11 Partner
16 Having flaps
' for hearing
20 Female
sandpiper
22 Tie
23 Actress
Martha —
24 Future LL.Bs.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) Though
your intentions will be good today, don’t
make major decisions without consulting
your mate. His or her interests might con-
flict withyours.————.......---
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Details are
' important today and they should not be
overlooked. Be careful, however, not to
let trivial points obscure the larger pur-
pose.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Use pru-
dence and caution today in an involve-
ment where there is something of value
at stake. Foolish gambles could inflate
and distort your chances.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Even if your SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Ex-
way of doing things is far better than thejPectat'ons have 9ood chances of being
methods of your associates today, you ful,ll|ed lf the? ara pursued in a pragmatic
manner today. Be a conscientious doer
PRETTY MUCH
THE EXACT
OPPOSITE
OF WHAT
YOU'RE
DOING
< NOW. J
Mood for
Love
44 Appointment
45 Fiber
46 Taboo
item
47 Food, slangily
50 Chicago
White -
51 Roman 3
THIS IS THE FIRST
PARTY WHERE I'LL BE
PART OF A COUPLE !
I'M STRESS'N' OUT! I
DON'T KNOW WHAT TO
DO! AM I SUPPOSED
TO MAKE OUT WITH
ANGIE OR WHAT?
WHY SPWLWF MY TOAST-
ONTOtMUGS.;; 'f
NOW IT LOOKS AS THOUGH
TYE GOT ASTAN-«W
OH, IBE-LIEVE IN fH,
West
A A K 10
VK98
OH,NO. NOT 1W1$ NOTMTAMW
ANOTHER TEMWNE REISSUE OF
"BEATLES \<W BEATLES OUTTAKES.
ANTHOLOGY." JINS OP HAS A HISTORIC,
< PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASEP
II— tw •' y
THIS PARKKEALLY NEEV£ A
__.SUGGESTION 6oX!
AND IFl\
AM, HOW
DO I DO
IT? WHAT
DO I OO
FIRST’ J
45 Nipping
48 Entertainer
Sumac
49 Anatolia's
place (2 wds.)
52 Insect egg
53 Din
54 Large antelope
55 Compass pt.
56 Egresses
57 Cry
5QH0WWA590UR y
VISIT WITH SANTA ( GREAT
AT THE MALL? V, . ry
Qfoit* .
J AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) You can-
TjlrtllCliiy not rely upon others today to bail you out
of situations where you are in over your
head. You must purge self-created
In the year ahead you might get involved j
in various Joint ventures . Your business
affairs .will enhance your social life and
your social life will end up advancing your
commercial, interests. ’ j
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Your
judgment is a bit questionable today and |
steps you take may have to be retraced.
Be prepared to do with your back what
you failed to do with your head. Know
where to look for romance and you'll find
it. The Astro-Graph Matchmaker instantly
reveals which'signs are romantically per-
fect for you. Mail $2.75 to Matchmaker,
c/o this newspaper, P.O. Box 1758,
Murray Hill Station, New York, NY 10156.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Usually
you like to work at your own pace, but
today you might not be able to do so,
instead of just a dreamer.
HERMAN® by Jim Unger
owing to the demands foisted on you by rna'z dave 10 make some concessions in
ottlers the interest of harmony.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Today
you're likely to be very imaginative, but
y°u may. use This splendid faculty to
anticipate negative results rather than
positive ones. —J
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Generally speak-
ing, your financial trends have vitality, but
they might be Subjected to some occa-
sional strains. This may be one of your
down days. ' —£-x.——-
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Objectives
you establish for yourself today may be
hard to achieve. Do not attribute this to
outside circumstances, but to your own
faulty tactics.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) You may have
to contend with an arrangement today
that is similar to one you handled poorly
in the past. Try to profit from your mis-
takes. '
pEFORE pavl McCartney came
UP'WtHE LYRICS FOR
"YESTERDAY," HE USEP WE
\NORDS"SCRAMBLH> EGGS'1 TO
FIIL1N...ANPTWSCDHASW
.ORIGINAL RECORDING ! \
DID HEFlMPeNOOGH
ID6A5 IN THERETO <
UST?
WHKT'37 TKCHBSIW^
THAT 7 ( CATALOG I C
\Fy 6A\EUtie£R^
Ej FOKETOHELP/
Ak HIM, MAKE. W5
;^™^u5TroK r
SANTA 4
ACROSS
1 Numero —
4 Cures
9 One — — kind
12 Car fuel
13 Like Santa's
helper
14 Aunt or uncle
(abbr.)
15 Actually
17 Salon
purchase
18 Mideast nation
19 Emotionlessly
21 Letters of the
alphabet
22 Indian
24 Cagney’s
partner - \
26 Cheese dish
30 Slipped
31 Merry
32 Kin of mono
33 Roman bronze
34 Night before a
feast
35 Mention
36 Artist’s
H.G. Wells, in discussing humans,
claimed, “Not one is altogether noble
nor altogether trustworthy nor alto-
gether consistent.” This applies in
bridge too: the first to opponents, the
last two to lines of play.
When you are declarer, if you can
take a ruff in the shorter trump hand
(generally the dummy), it is usually
the right line of play. However, there is
one well-known exception: when you
wish to set up and run dummy’s long
side suit. Then you might need that
trump as a late entry.
How would you try to bring home
four hearts in this deal? West cashes a
top spade before switching to the club
six, East playing the queen under
dummy’s king to show his sequence.
South did well to bid two hearts, thus
getting to a desirable game contract:
The first declarer crossed to his dia-
mond king, ruffed a spade in the dum-
my, and ran the heart queen. After
winning with the king, West returned
his second club, stranding declarer.
He couldn’t establish and run the dia-
monds because there wasn’t a dummy
entry left.
This was the pointless finesse in ac-
tion because West was marked with
the heart king from his opening bid.
The second declarer, after playing a
diamond to his king at trick three, led
a trump toward dummy's queen.
West had no defense. If he ducked
the king, South would win with dum-
my’s queen, play a trump to his ace, re-
turn a diamond to the ace, and ruff a di-
amond. However, West won with the
king and returned his second club to
dummy’s ace; Declarer cashed the dia-
mond ace, ruffed a diamond high, drew
MEMBER FDIC trumps ending with dummy’s queen,
and ran the diamonds.
so I uito uucweRws
(F W GOULD SPPHSE A
FEUJ MWUTESTOTALK
TO MF ABOUT IT
South West North East
Pass
All pass
DOWN
1 Citrus fruit
2 River nymph
3 Exclusion from
a group
4 Unorthodox
belief
5 Israeli airline
(2 wds.)
5miv£ {'V£ fww
^At> C^/^p/\/vy
WHAT IS WITH YOU
YOUR PARTY'S^--
ABOUT TO
START AND
ALL YOU
CAN DO IS
EAT!
F Y W Z G L L U . “
PREVIOUS SOLUTION: “The luck of having talent is not enough; one must
also have a talent for luck." — Hector Berlioz.
□□□
□□□
s
□
El
a
T“
TX
-
3
15
TT~
3OT~
33“
3B-
53“
52“
55
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 1997, newspaper, December 12, 1997; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1176178/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.