NO LICKING: Forget about the cellular phone...

NO LICKING: Forget about the cellular phone or the automated teller machine. Technology has finally come up with an important breakthrough--the self-adhesive stamp (B1). . . . In the Valley alone, 4 million self-adhesive Christmas stamps were sold last year, and the new designs are “selling like crazy,” said a Postal Service spokeswoman.

WATCH THE TRAYS: When Barndance started six years ago at the Little Nashville, musicians had more to worry about than striking the right chords. “We had to put a few of them on the floor because the place was so small,” host Ronnie Mack recalled. “Waitresses would run into them with their trays.”. . . Barndance, a weekly haven for original country music, keeps going strong at the Palomino in North Hollywood. See Valley Life! Page 3.

BEFORE TRAFFIC: The Valley used to be the boondocks. Don’t believe us? Just ask Barry Wolfe, who originated a weekly bicycle ride during the early 1960s. “You could go from one end of the Valley to the other,” said Wolfe, 62, “and hit maybe two stop signals. It was fantastic.”. . . Traffic or not, biking in the Valley is big these days. See Valley Life! Page 10.

ALL-AMERICAN: Jagos Medenica, a College of the Canyons hoopster from Yugoslavia, certainly owns some pretty good credentials--he was born on July 4, 1972. “They had fireworks in America for my birthday,” he joked. . . . They almost had fireworks at his school earlier in the year when, against orders, he attempted a three-point shot. His job is to go for rebounds, which he does very well (C12).

EXTRA ESCAPE: In reel life, Corky Parks plays the role of bum, wino, suspect, perpetrator. But instead of making $65 a day as a Hollywood extra, that could easily be his real life. In fact, it once was. . . . Twenty years ago, Parks, 44, slept in Skid Row alleys, watching scavenging rats. Today, he belongs to the Screen Actors Guild (B1).