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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-01-16, Page 4HRONICLES R%F.FArel BATTLE .OF • THE STREET- tORNERS'r- Chitago*,Bociecireif Health mobile ino6ilatian.team-setr street ailifiarirof the polio- stricken, West, Side, as,the city fights to curb the outbreak' before the peak of the polio season, which ,usually occurs in mid-Au- gust. Door-to-Doar sblicitation was used to bring people to the makeshift clinics as:pplio cases topped 600 in the city's worst siege of the disease. Previous worst season; 1952, with 170 cases totaled during the same period of time. Hardest hit; chir- dren under five, wiLlt peitio of 89.5 polio cases per 100,000, children, compared14;7•atio of only 25.8 cases per 100,000 in children between the agesof five and 15 — the group previously most inoculated with the Salk vaccine. 100-ft Yourself Prefers. The Dough To The Titles "Let Middlecoff, Huelse and ;he others have the titles,. I'll !ettle pis the money," Thug -.did Ted Icoroil, the man -With ;'the $100,000 gelf ieecribe his feelings after Win- elm?, the "World" title at 3cOrge S, May's Tam O'Shanter ,curse. This Was about an hour after Kroll had received a cheek for 50,000 for using only 273 strokes to get, around the spec tatOrelined Tam course, and a contract for another $50,900 by making himself available for May-sponsored exhibitions dur- ing the coming Year. "Money is money," the chunky player said with simple logic, when asked if he would trade this title for the National Open or National PGA crowns which, he so, narrowly missed winning this year. "I was, disappointed when, lost out on those two tiles and my wife had tears in her eyes both times when I came off the course. But I play this game for money and that $50,000 check today more than made up for those near misses." Kroll had written the "hard luck" story of the sports year earlier this season: He needed four pars to beat Cary Middle- coif for the National Open crown: but took a triple-bogey seven on the 16th hole to finish in a tie for fourth, More recent- ly he led Jack Burke by three strokes 'after 19 holes in the final of the PGA only to lose to Bueke's red-hot putter, 3 and 2. Kroll's $50,000 contract with May calls for 50 to 100 exhibi- tions with, a straight salary to be, paid in 26 equal installments over'' the coming 52 weeks, May has plans for exhibitions in such areas as Central and South America, Canada, Europe i(n- eluding Germany and Switzer- land), and Mexico. The husky Kroll bears a strik- ing recemblances to Bing Crosby and, in fact, is often mistaken for Der Single. Ted grew up in New Hart- , ford, Conn., and got his start in gole as a caddie. Wounded four times in the infantryain Italy and France, he took a fling at the winter tour in 1947 after he got out of service. That first winter he earned p225. Kroll took the next three years to get his name straigh- tened out, then went on the tournament trail full-time in 1950 and earned $7,000. He's been at it every since but had never won a major tournament although he was twice on the US. Ryder Cup team, The crowd the final day at O'Shanter was announced as 61,000. In any event the fair- ways were mobbed, to put it "You had to be alert to the crowds but at the same 'time I felt they were pulling for me and it gave me a lift," said Ted, who was cheered at practically every turn on his way to a final- round 66 to tie Ben Hogan's 273 victory total set in 1951. Most of the golfers, as they finished their rounds, tossed their golf ball to the spectators seated in the stands surrounding the 18th green, When Kroll sunk a seven-foot birdie put on the final green to' finish three strokes and $40,000 ahead of run- ner-up Fred Hawkins, he waved his yellow cap, turned, and threw his golf ball to the mob still standing on the 18th fair- way "They had the guts to follow me out On the course," said the grateful Mr. Kroll "I just want- ed to show them my apprecia- tion," '.0,ASHION WITH A BELT — Mas Ave half belt On this coat might Come in handy to 'tie ones Self Ile a lamppost' on gusty frill and Winter days. Shown first in reitis, if is a grely-and black tkaticed tvVeed, fecitures a roll- ed, tforidoWdy ISSTIE; 1956' NEW DAt1GIErElt-IN4AW TELI.4 A NAPPY WALE. Instead of the forlorn recital of marital woes that usually starts this peltimn, today I quote from a bride's paean to a mother-in-law whose under, standing presente a pattern that others could well follow. "Please print this, Anne Hirst," the joyful girl writes, "to show your readers that all mothers- in-law are not like those they write you about, "My new husband earns a small salary, so his mother offered us her upper floor until we get a place of our own. She added a bath and kitchenette, and we have private lock on our door. We live in such seclu- sion that sometimes I feel em- barrassed. Our privacy is corn- plete. She never comes up with- out telephoning first; she goes marketing with me only when I ask her, and never advises what to buy nor tells me how' her son likes things cooked. She is more like an old friend than an in- law. "Our friends run in and out as they like and, though some- times they stay late, she never lets on that she knows it. If she finds we expect company, a cake out of her oven,appears, or a tray of assorted sandwiches; she never joins us unless we especially invite her. We all go to the same church, and when my husband, wants a round of golf early, she never says a word. There are things .we don't agree about, of course,' and by consent we don't discuss them. Iier son worships her, and I am beginning to. "I was the daughter of par- ents who got a, divorce, and now I often think if my mother had been like her, they wouldn't have. "My husband and I have our differences, too, but we've al- ways had too much respect for each other to let it come to a quarrel. Persaps this is just a continued honeymoon phase and our marriage may descend to such things later, but I don't believe it. Since I've known his mother, I see why he is so sweet and thoughtful. I am happier than I ever dreamed of, and all I want is to deserve it. 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Send THIRTY 41841 CENTS (stamps cannot ha accepted, use postal note for saliety)' for 'this Pattern, Print fittitily NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NtiMi8Elt, 8end Order to ANNE AbAIVIS, 123 Eighteenth New Torontde On t. * knows. her. 9e,s ri er.i $11upladegc), understands * so she minds her own affairs * and lust stands by if Yell need * her, If= fortunate yeti are, * and how wise to be humble! * She has her reward too, in * Your appreciation and grow- :trig devotion, Let us both hope that poe- * sessive mothers-in-law read- * ing, your tribute today will * resolve to cut the silver cord * and let their sons and wivse * live their own lives, too, How * splendid their reward would * be! * * BOY PROBLEM "Dear Anne Hirst: Since my freshman year, I've like, a boy very much. This year we'll both be seniors. He has never dated me, and twice backed out at the last minute from, going to girl; and-boy dances with me, But I can't forget him, and when- ever I see him (which .is sel- dom),, I like him more, "Another boy has been fairly interested in me this summer, but whenever another girl comes along, he turns his at- tention to her. He is, very popu- lar, and -I like him a lot. I see, him almost daily, since he is a lifeguard at the pool where I swim. I've never dated him. "A third boy has been dat- ing me, but I wouldn't want him as a boy friend. I know he's going to ask me to go steady; how can. I refuse with- out hurting his feelings? He gets too familiar, "I don't know what to do about the first two, and I res- pect your opinion, I know one girl whom you have helped very much. Thank you. MIXED-UP TEEN-AGER" * Your experience with these * boys is characteristic of teen- * age friendships, You will be * smart (and avoid disappoint- * merit) if you do not take any * of the lads seriously. Never * forget that the initiative he- * longs to the male sex, and e they will run like everything * if a girl assumes it. * Tell the third boy you don't * approve of going steady with * anyone — and avoid being * alone with him hereafter. * Share your dates as they * come, for that is the best way * to learn how to enjoy young * men without getting iains * fully involved. * 0 * If you have faced problems like those that appear here, tell Anne Hirst how you solved them. Other readers will ap- preciate sharing your experi- ence. Write Anne Hirst at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New Tor- onto, Ont, How Supermarkets Trap Your Dollars An efficient supermarket op- erates at a net profit of only about one percent of sales. Thus when a super fails to make, money on the bargains that pull you into the store, it must see to it that you also buy some high-profit merchandise like candy, jellies, spices, gourmet items—and all non-foods. How is that dime? You sell these things to yourse12, You drift around the self- service super in a kind of trance. Touching, feeling, pick- ing up the merchandise, you buy on impulse—ear more la- vishly than in a clerk-manned store. The average supermarket customer makes seven unplan- ned, impulse 'purchases for ev- ery three planned purchases, a study of shopping habits has shown, Have you ever gone.' into a supermarket, for a pound of coffee and come out with two jars of olives, a new anchovy spread and a gadget can-opener as well? If so, you're only be- having normally in a market astutely designed to turn your visit into a buying spree, For example: lend down at the dairy case for eggs. Sudden- ly your eyes come level with jars of fresh trriiit salad, or cel- lophene - wrapped, imported Swiss cheese. You can't resist sliding these Isigh.matkup deli- cacies into your basket, Super- markets rarely make you stoop for impulse items; only for sta- ples. You steer around a corner and nearly collide with a red pyratbid of tomato-kdtChtip bet- ilea. Hypnotized by the mass display, you take a bottle—even thohgh you may have had: no notion. of buying ketchup. pore have found that any item erected into` solid display Will sell perhaps ten times faster than the Seine Rene set Out On regular sheiVea. Another stratagent is to spot tertain big-Markup Heins in several different plaees. Count IOW Many times you see' This has been the most. insec- tivorous summer I •ever remem- ber. Look where you .will -the air is full of bugs of some kind — things that hop, fly or crawl. Some that do all three. And I should know! Some kind of lit- tle black fly has nearly driven me crazy — and I am -the only. one It bites. The flies are so small they can get through the screen nettine They have tiny wings, they also hop and they are almost black. You wouldn't think anything so small could be as vicious. The aftermath of. their bites has given me resta less nights for the last fortnight — except the last two nights — and then. only . because I have been buying and spraying in- on your next visit. You'll find them on the relish shelf, next to the cold cuts, the 'crackers, and near the hardware where male shoppers tend to be. , Some markets bait the lowest shelves with cereals, cookies and candies advertised On chil- dren's TV programs, When todss dlers help themselves, harassed mothers often buy rather than risk tears. • Aisles are sometimes ar- ranged to direct you . into sec- tions you didn't intend to visit, tempting you to go on buying. One new supermarket has a of short diagonal aisles between the long front-to-rear shelves and the checkouts. You hit the diagonals and deflect in- to the main, food-packed corri- dors, Meat-selling frequently comes in -for special attention, In some supers the chrome rail of the rearigereted meat case is warm-, ed just enough so you can rest your arms on it in comfort. Re- laxing there, .,you' ponder the goodies spread before you and convince yourself that the rib roast for „1.c4,25 is a sounder in- vestment than the frankfurter's for 49 cents, Steaks and chops are often -entwined with green leaves or green plastic ruffling. Green creates an after-image of red in the eye which makes the meat look redder and more ap- petising, "The right colors put women in a buying mood," says Verne B. Lane, consultant for a Taxes chain, Turquoise, yellow and pink are the colors, experts , think, with most appeal for women. But whatever the super's: de- cor, 'the checkout is ,the pay Off. Here the customer's Medd abruptly changes. Suddenly; als let a leisurely tour of the pees, Mises, she's in e butts,. To keep het patronage, the: market Must. avoid a bottleneck. Big Markets put On extra clerks at peak (rout's; and packs; While the other rings up, In some supers moving belts slide the Merchandise into position for stowing. MbSt markets Price,, Stathp revery pOsSible itein id prevent errors and wed' this.. A neW 'eash register ballY toinputes1 city-'ect char ge; secticide with reckless extrava- gance. I thought 'if I got bitten up much more infection might get into the blood stream, and then dear knows what might happen. Some folk tell me these insects are grass fleas. Could be as' there is a hayfield right next to the house. But we have never ,been bothered with them before. However, bites or no bites; I have been very. busy . mop- ing house. Until now, with eleven, rooms to play around. in I seem to have managed to spread myself and my belong- ings all over the' house. And if there is anything that clutters up a place like old papers. books, clippings and so forth, have yet to meet it. So, after a Consultation with Partner, it was decided I should take over a room upstairs — it used to be Bob's bedroom. First it had to be cleaned and a new place found for boyhood's remaining treasures. And, wills Partner's , help a double bed to take down and remove, to the boxroom; and cupboards and shelves to set up in its place. And then began the grand job of collect- ing my belongings and carting them upstairs, In the middle of this things began to happen outside. 'One man came in to cut a field of hay at the back of the farm. Another man was busy m the frobt field;' Then came, the hayloadee and after him a big rig -from: the Department of Highways. I never saw any- thing ,'with ,such, huge rubber wheels — all four of them. It was a soil-testing outfit, sent in to take samples Of the soil for construction purposes. The men ,used a 12-inch boee, Went down about eight feet, took a sample of the soil, and then filled the hole up- again. I think they made four holes. While this was going on I was busy with my job — taking twenty-five vol-, ernes of an encyclopaedia up- stairs. Two volumes at a time was all I ceuld carry with com- fort. Later I got into trouble for , . Bonnie Scotland Comes With Us Our vacation was Over. We bed already Said good-by to Peter's family, Now, the time had Scotland,,to say goad by to sti4 Peter And I stood 'on the deck 01 the Transylvania, anchored. 14 Ole Clyde, our elbows on the rail, watching twilight thrust- lag .her lengthening fingers into the lanes and, streets of Glas- gow-town, But our thoughts were far awayse-up wild, glens to the north, down' pleasant countrysides to the South, soil- ing out a hundred memories, mentally packing them into neat bundles to store in 'mind and heart. • .Memories are riches, and we had great riches, in store--the memory of Oban,,where we ate fish and chips on a red-checked tablecloth, where we lingered long over the woolens for sale, soft as a baby's cheek to the finger tips; Oban, where, the sea air was cold sharp with the pungency of salt, spray and the , rotpance of the .Western Isles just over the tumbling horizon;' Oban, where the lone piper on the Esplanade issued an invite- • tion hard to resist.: ' How could we ever forget the magic, of "the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond" where P` had stooped to pick up a pocketful of smooth milk-white pebbles, in an effort to carry some magic away with me; or the banks of the River Tay and the River Tummel, Inverurie, Pitochry, Drumlithie — places whose very names were music? On some distant night on a farLoff• shore, we would unpack and dust off these memories, and find them untarnished by the years. Once again we would be standing on a swinging bridge in Inverness, watching the sun sinking in., a soft glow of Turnerian colors behind the 'chimney tops, turning the River Ness into a painter's palette. And in the distance we would hear again a woman's deep- throated laughter and the haunt- ing strains of the bagpipes. Or we would be seeing again the wistful ruin that is Melrose Abbey, with the fragile lacework, of its Crown of Thorns, window, open to the wind and the rain, its 'cobwebby traceries silhouet- ted against a darkening sky. We would not soon'forget the jewel-like setting of Dryburgh Abbey, with its yew trees and hawthorne hedges, or that per- fect moment when two wee las- sies asked us the time of day and then disappeared like frightened deer toward a cot- tage among the trees, from which smoke curled lazily up- ward; . . or the beautiful cop- per beeches, the rose trees, pink and yellow and salmon; the del- phiniums of an intense, heaven- ly blue. I .. 'would.remember inconse- quential things, like hotel con- ridors Suddenly someone took me firmly by the arm, and a fami- liar voice with a burr to the "r's" said, "Come on, Kate, you've dreamed long enough. Let's go below and unpack...." And I knew that already Peter had left Scotland behind and was thinking of the new reponsibilities that a wait e d him in the city of Washington. —From ."A Man Called Peter," by 'Catherine Marshall. There's one good thing about ignorance—it- causes a lot of interesting argunients. doing the job myself. If I had known it was going to pour with rain so soon I would have waited for help as the storm very effectually put an end to all outside activity for the rest of the day. However, the job' is done now and I am settled down — more or less — in my new quarters, But I have run up against another problem. Until I get used to it I won't be able to' write for looking out of* the window! I didn't realise what a grand view I would have frail upstairs, The win- dow faces north-west, overlOoks our driveway, lots of trees and green fields, No. 25 Highway, tu riudite.Wkegt.' Easy as 1-2-3, to make rickraci jewelry! It's so dramatic, so ex- pensive looking, you'll want 41 set of 1 earrings, pin, necklace Combine pearls with rickrack-, se thrifty! For bazaars and, gifts Pattern 605: all directions fop rickrack jewelry—easy to make Send TWENTY-FIVE CENT (stamps cannot be accepted, us( postal note for safety) for thil pattern to Laura Wheeler, 121 Eighteenth St., New Toronto Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD. DRESS. Our gift to you—two wonder. ful patterns for yourself, you' home — printed In our. Lauri 1956 Dozens of other new de. signs to order — crochet, knit- ting, embroilery, iron-ons, novel- ties. Send 25 cents for yom copy of this book NOW — witty gift pattern's printed in it! and, in the distance the "moun- tain." And of course, the setting sun. What more could anyone want? But I was careful to place my typewriter desk well away from the window, where neither birds nor scenery • will distract my attention When I really settle down to work, Of course this new set-up has. its disadvantages too . „ the stairs for instance.. Sometimes no sooner have I got upstairs than the deor bell or telephone rings. And the phone rings five times before I can get to in Daughter says — "Put in an ex- tension phone." Good idea, but that costs money and I don't think we have .. enough calls - coming in to warrant the ex- pense. Outgoing calls I can ar- range to make when 1 am downstairs. Partner says it looks as if we have come to the part- Mg. or the ways — lie living downstairs and I on the second. floor! But we do have our meals at the same table and. in the evening we share the television together! It isn't even as bad es when we had a lot of cattle., Then I did used to think we led separate lives — with Partner ,at. the barn most of the time and I at the house. But come to think of it there is• nothing extraordinary aboutthat, A professional or busineastrian'a work is usually away from home isn't it? On a farm it just . seems queer because far- men's wife is used to having her menfolk within earshot most. of the time. • Yesterday We had a lquiet day until about four o'clock, Theo things began to pop. First a very welcome caller; then' Bobur Toronto family, and finally B and Soy. And they all wanted eggs to take home with.. therm, With ,eggs selling at 730' they are glad to get thetti at whole- get better and bigger eggs, but at a lower price. EGYPT: GIRDS. FOR, SHOWDOWN This picturey"transmitted by radie shows tericheriy retetiiteti „ . . finder Egypt's National Guard mobilization prOgrarri, being initrUdied in.usit of rifles at Geiiria, Egypt, Egypt's president, Gamal Abdel Nasser; has threatened all-out resistance should esrrtl ottehipt by' force be made to take• over the vital Suez Canal,