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NEW CIVIL DEFENSE WRINKLE— Leslie Palmer, civil• defense director of Woukeshg
County, Wis scurries out of the way after setting off a small aerial bomb as a civil
defense signal. Palmer suggests, using .fireworks bombs to warn parents their children are
being sent home from school because of an emergency. Bombs can be heard three miles,
their smoke seen farther, Palmer considers his plan instant mass communication.
DON'T TAKE MY HOOP— _
Little girl in Lima, Peru, dings
to her precious possession" —
rim, of ern old bicycle' wheel
she uses as a in fear
that- the' photographer i;s; going,
to, take' i,t from her. She's orre'
of the many children the world
around' whose impoverished`
rot- is the concern) of UNICEF.
— United! Nations.. C:birdrents
Fund,
Mc-",,2rrt Etiquette
t, Astrl'ex
Q. Are, e--iresondenee, earns:
consielereff irr gocrIntasteer
A, Yes;. and they are very page
eller fat- the; short„ irtfornyali type'
of note, rit is. becoming More and
more customary for men and wo
men to, use, these cards,. but they
are not acceptable for any strict-
ly formal correspondence.
QL Is it proper to mail birth
announcements t o all o n C's
friends, even to these whom one
has already telephoned the good
news?
A. It Would seem foolish to
mail announcements to those who
have already been told the news..
But to all others- whether in
town or far away mailed an-
nouncements are proper.
Q. Should a Waffle with butter
and syrup be cut with the. knife,
or must it be cut only with the
fork?
A. Like pancakes, waffles are
usually- cut with knife and fOrk.
Ct. / have been invited to a
bridal .shower in honOi of a good
friend, but I have a 'hellions
commitment ..that will :,prevent
my' attending. Should I send a
gift to the shoWer?
A. ThiS is the proper and
thoughtful thing to de,
Q. foes a woman ever rise
When a trian extends his hand
either to greet her or to ma her
good,bY?
A, Asa hostess;' but tot
othereeiee, tinleeg the Man i§ ad
important personage. or very
.tio4r,..,40.0 pep introduce
One's ehildren..y) other 01'0'10
A. You introduaa your Children
to Yont friends, "Helen, this is
niy claughter, -Stisan,I' and then
to Susan; I 'Mrse Carter." Only if
daughter is Married do yOu
give' her tea tiarbei. as; "Mr. Faii
this is KY daughter, Susan
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TOAD HALL---inspired by' the ancestror haute Of Mr. Toad
in the children's Cla'Ssid, "The Windi in t'ie' Wi I iiiY94," "Ralph'
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It Wee the kind, of dazzling
winter day that is Colorado at
its best the sky pale blue and
feathered with cirrus; the tem-
perature a dry and invigorating
10 degrees'. in the fertile farm-
ing district of Auburn, some 50
Miles northeast of Denver, the
evil glittered on a fresh snowfall
.that covered the sugar-beet fields;
but the road from the PrOeleer-
ous Auburn farms to the schools
of Greeley, eeven miles distant,
was plowed clear.
In such stimulating weather,
and with only three classroom
days left before Christmas vaca-
tion, the 37 children in the school
bus from Auburn to Greeley
were at their most exuberant -
joking, laughing, shouting, carol-
ing. The cheerful din was
enough to cut off sounds from
outside 'the bus, just as the mois-
ture of the children's breaths
fogged the side windows, When
23-year-old Duane Harms, the
school-bus driver (since last
September) approached the Un-
ion Pacific grade crossing just
southwest of Auburn, unmarked
by warning flashes, he was en.
joymg the children's merriment,
And he knew no scheduled train
passed there between 6:15 a.m.
and 10;30 a.m. It was then 7:59
a.m.
Creelly, what Harms did not
know was that from Chicago all
the way west the train that
should have passed at 6:15 am,
- Union Pacific's streamlined
-City of Denver - had been
thrown further and further be-
hind schedule because of the
volume of Christmas mail it was
picking up. By the time the train
approached the Auburn grade
crossing that morning, Herbert
F. Sommers, an engineer for 22
of his 64 years, had his giant
diesel moaning across the prairie
at 79 miles per hour.
Sommers and his fireman,
Melvin C. Swanson, 48, saw the
bus clearly as they bore down on
the intersection.
"I sure hope he stops," Swan-
son said. "There are children in
that bus." Sommers blew three
warning blasts on his air horn
and slammed on the train's em-
ergency brakes. "The bus slow-
ed down like it was going to
etop," he said afterward, "I guess
It slowed to about 5 miles an
hour. Then he stepped on the
gas . , ."
The City of Denver sliced the
bus almost in half, shunting the
front off to its left, dragging
the rear section fora quarter of
a mile. It strewed the right-of-
way with the broken bodies of
Children and scattered among
them the Christmas presents
they planned to exchange, their
schoolbags and lunch boxes, their
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In 01,4 nightmarish aftermath
Of the tragedy, grizzled state cops
wept as they picked up the silent
dead and the wailing injured,
and mothers and. fathers grew
hysterical as they studled the
small, shattered features and
recognized the faces of their
children,
When the toll of the worst
Yebiclelar disaster in Colorade'e
history (and one of the worst in
the nation's) finally was counted,
it was: Twenty children dead;
thirteen seriously injured, -Five
escaped with minor injuries, four
children - and driver Duane
1-larms,
After two days of hearinga and
investigation, Harms was charge
ed at 'the weekend with invol-
untary manslaughter, a misde-
meanor, that is punishable by a
year in jail. Under intensive
questioning, he finally had ad-
mitted that: (1) He might not
have brought the bus to a full
stop at the crossing; (2) he might
not have opened his door to
look out; (3) the visibility was
poor because of fogged windows,
Harms, in palpable misery,
said: "I should have gotten clear
out, because it's at such an angle
there . , because in order to see
anything at all, a fellow really
should get out of the bus , ."
Joe Brantner, whose sugar-
beet farm as half a mile from the
crossing, was one of the first to
arrive at the scene, searching
for the two of his eight children
who had boarded the bus min-
utes before - Kathy, 9, and
Mark, 6. "I found Kathy right
away," he said numbly. "I knew
she was dead. I couldn't find
Mark . . I looked and looked,
but I couldn't find him, Then
I went far my wife and when we
got back I found him right away.
He was tore up so bad I hadn't
recognized him at first."
Brantner's neighbors, Ruben
Alles, just kept repeating of his
10-year-old daughter, Lind a:
"She was going to decorate the
Christmas tree tonight .
-From NEWSWEEK
U.S. Hoodlums
Fleeing To Canada
One thing the 87th Congress
can really blow its trumpet
a b o ut - and there are few
enough things - is the legisla-
tion it enacted to help bust big-
time crime. There was, as At-
torney General Kennedy re-
minded everyone (recently)
more fresh legislation against
major crime passed by Congress
this year than at any time since
the era of Public Enemy No, 1
John Dillinger, which means
about 1934.
Already the effect is being
felt, The attorney general claims
gamblers throughout the nation
have been curtailing their ille-
gal activities so they will be less
vulnerable to federal proseeu-
tion, Hoodlums are reported by
the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police to be fleeing to Canada.
"The new laws are well known
to the hoodlums and racketeers
in this country, if not to the
general publice.! Kennedy said,
Nearly all the new laws touch
in some way or another on inter-
state aspects of racketeering -
crossing state lines to establish
illegal "business enterprises"
involving gambling, liquor, nar-
oo tics, prostitution; interstate
wire communications for gambl-
ing, interstate shipment of fire-
arms, and so on,
The point the attorney general
has made is that much of 'his
big-time crime can be stopped
- if the public wants it stop-
ped. The public got tired of
Appalachin mobsters openly
flouting the law, and the outcry
helped bring about these new
laws. Just as the outcry in the
murky 'Thirties brought a new
vigor to law, enforcement, thirty
years ago.
We have no idea how long it
will be before the $2 bet is ef-
fectively outlawed, but when
enough people get mad enough
to raise the roof about that, too,
we shall see some even more
radical changes. For it is the
little people, the small rackets,
the "harmless" gamble that pro-
vide the base on which the big
rackets are built,
That sort of outlawing begins
right here, in out own constrain-
ities —not in Washingan, D,C,
- Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune.
Queer, how the sound of a
voice can take you back years
and years. I turned on the radio
Saturday morning in time to hear
Dr. John Brown secretary of
the Ontario 'Fruit and Vegetable
Growers' Association: I haven't
seen or spoken to John for years
but he and our sep.„Bolewere
great friends when tthey_ were
boys. They used to have a mar-
vellous time, mostly at John's
home because up there they had
lovely woods for camping and
an ever-running stream that
could be dammed up in places
to make a swimming hole. And
for years John's mother and I
were closely associated in W.I.
work-right up to the time we
sold the farm. Mrs. Brown is still
active in the same Institute I
always think of the Brown's in
connection with strawberries. We
always got our berries there and
they were the best in the district.
Now to pass on to other sub-
jects. Just recently when the tem-
perature dropped to five above
I thought it. was time to get my
fur coat out of storage. That was
easier said than done, Do you
know it took me two days to get
through to the department store
where I had it stored! All on ac-
count of the Christmas_ rush. I
finally got through one morning
at 8:30, Then Partner asked me
to order him some light-weight
woollen underwear which could
only be bought in one particular
store and - it wasn't the one
where my coat was in storage.
So I started phoning again. This
time all I got was Santa Claus,
When he got through "Ho-ho-ing"
then I got a busy signal. I was
almost tearing my hair before I
was through with those two little
jobs. And I still haven't got my
coat.
Saturday morning I got a ride
down town with a neighbour
and did a bit of last minute shop-
ping. We were in Sitnpson's at
nine o'clock and through in less
than two hours. So it paid to go
early. And oh! such lovely things
to look at. I could have been
carried away, a dozen times but
all I bought in b. big way Was a
good pair of snow-boots. By the
time they were paid for there
Waen't much left in my purse.
Unfortunately I can't wear cheap
winter boots but I certainly
wasn't prepared to pay $20 for
them! Isn't that a terrific price?
After lunch Partner and .I got
Ourselves dressed and went to
"Open House" at the home of
the gentleman who got in for
council at the last ToWnshiP
election. He has a beautiful
estate =-• 65 acres - with a lovely
house that overlooks the ravine
With the Credit River running
through it, I won't be satisfied
unless I can take a look et it in
the spring. I arts etire the view`
must be breath-taking.
Well, ;fat-mail letters and Cards
have been, coming ire Setrie
dannot answer because there was
no address but I do thank You
One and all for your- good` 'Mahe,
Uzi yout- Continued interest in
my column. YOU know I :often
think about the variety of
homes into which this deittiliti
goes - rich and poor, big and
*malt. f wish I, knew mores about
YOU ill-your hotnee, yoUr en-
Virotitrierit find your Problertie-
because as you know everyone
has problems. Right around it
is new babies right new. One
mother has just given birth to
a baby after being three months
in hospital. Today her neighbour
across the road also' had a baby
girl-and got to the hospital with
only fifteen minutes' to spare!
Among my mail yesterday , was
a letter from .a nephew in Eng-
land whose wife is expecting her
fourth in February. I am hoping
it will be a boy as Desmond and
his wee son Roger are the last
of the line in our branch of the
Fitz-Gerald family so another
boy will improve the chance of
family survival.
Then of course there ale letters
concerning the other side of the
ledger -people passing away or
going into hospital due to illness
or ,accidents. Too bad when the
necessity arises but on the other
hand how wonderful that We have
such good 'hospitals to, care for
them. One letter gave me quite
a scolding. It said-For a per-
son who is supposed to, take it
easy I am wondering if you,
know the meaning of the, wordy"
You and my doctor too, Mrs. M.t
But then you know the saying
-"It is better to wear out than
rust out." Look at Grandma
Moses-see what a full' life she,
had_ She started painting at the
age,ynheir a lot, of elderly people
spend most of their time nursing
their aches and 'pains which
don't become less by receiving
undue attention, And' there are
other kinds- of worries-problem
children, uncongenial in -laws,
houses you want to sell and can't,
and other finarielal: problems.
Even a business transfer creates
a problem-moving to a district
where you don't know aSotd.
Anyway here's hoping all's
well that ends well-in 1962.
STAR GOES HOME — Actress
Greta Garbo, 56, 'shown at Ar,
land Airport in. ttOckhoim,
Sweden, Made her first visit
to her horrieland in 13 yetirS.
The Day The $(1 0
Rose 270 Feet
Tearing, grinding, crashing, it
swept along the Ilr.ltish North
Atlantic coastline leaving lode-,
scribable scenes of devastation
along every mile of its grim
wake,
That was hurricane Betsy, a
storm of unsurpassed fury which
destroyed wherever it struck,
Mountainous seas and super gale-
force winds heralded its On-
slaught: nothing in its direct path
could survive.
None who witnessed the ocean's
turbulence when Betsy blasted
will ever forget the, gigantic seas
which seemed to soar up from
the very depths,
But just how high were those
dense and craggy wails of water?
Terms such as "gigantic,"
t'numettainous" and "towering"
have been loosely used by old
salts and landlubbers to describe
those solid masses of ocean whose
spectacle and awe-inspiring pro-
portions have so much appealed
to the imagination but which
have hitherto escaped a more
down-to-earth mathematical ap-
praisal,
Winter is now on us. Storm
clouds have already become fa-
miliar. Beneath their dark shad-
ow the seas around the coasts
have risen again in all their
wrathful majesty, and before
spring and summer are with us
once more some shall have talk-
ed in wonder of the great waves
they have witnessed.
But as we button our coats to
winter's blast or sit by a comfort-
able fire we can speculate on just
how high those waves will really
be at the height of the greatest
storms.
Oceanographers are speculat-
ing too, But they are going one
practical step further. They are
making new attempts to measure
the height 'of waves and the
news has just been released that,
by means of an automatic wave
recorder they have actually meas-
ured a wave nearly seventy feet
high. This is the highest reading
they have so far taken.
So now you don't have to be-
lieve old sailors' stories of waves
which
old`
"mountain high."
But you can believe Commander
Frank Worsley. D.S.O., who
noted in 1932 that the 49-955-ton
liner Leyiathan was once struck
by a wave of extraordinary- size.
"It came suddenly ant of the'
general run of the sea,, seemed to
tower above the vessel like as
mountain,. and then burst on her rt with terrific force;"' Fie'said
"The wave threw spray over
her funnels; which. stood 130'ete
abocee sea level., It smashed four
lifeboats; bent the, heavy steel
deck supports, swept away deck
gear, rushed into the third-class
accommodation and flooded the
dining room saloon) tie the depth:
of a foot„"
A. new spectrum: analysis of -
sea waves has already resulted
hr considerable: impravement Ira
the, methods, used for predicting
waves from forecast weather
charts, says Dr: G",.E.Re Deacon,
director of. tile National' rnetitute,
at Oceanography.,
Almost incredible' damage, has
resulted' from monster' waves
breaking on the shone:. At` Bilbao,
harbour, Spain„ massive waves-
oenert tern, edl ar selliel length
of breakwater weighing; 1,700
tons..
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ancE meets, solid tesistanue it' may
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At Peterhead:, Scotland,, a Nava
is stated to have reached
height 1,20ft,
At en Alderney breakwater a
height Of;$.4()0ft. is 'believed to
have been observed, A wave
Observed by Sir James Douglas,
the lighthouse engineer, beide
the record of all properly obe
Served waves, 10(q)011114. to a mee
teorelogist who 'coodected re-
search in 1928,
"It 'threw gravel from the sea
bed on to the platform, of. the
lighthouse of the Bishop Rock,
Scilly," he reported. "The plat-
form is 120ft, above normal sea
level end the sea there is 15014
deep. As the gravel must have
been .snatched from the sea bed
in the sea's upward sweep the
total wave height from trough to
crest was therefore 2701t."
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