On being a farm wife -And other hazards Joyce Bupp Slowly, my heart has begun easing back out of the pit of my stomach. And, the quivering is disappear ing from my knees. The panic has resided. Life has slid back to normal. All this emotional commotion unraveled my sensibilities in the space of about IS seconds. When I turned on my computer system, all I got was a blank, gray : white screen. Not the usual black screen against which the system displays its memory capacity in bright, white numbers. Or the familiar bleep which sets it searching for the introductory information on the system itself. And not the direction to install a system disk, and get busy. Or instructions to that effect, anyway. Just that blank screen. FRANK A. FILLIPPO, INC. - WANTED - DISABLED & CRIPPLED COWS, BULLS & STEERS Competitive Prices Paid Slaughtered under government inspection Call: Prank Fillippo - Residence - 215-666-0725 Elam Cinder - 717-367-3824 C.L. King - 717-786-7229 It’s a fact! 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