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ped away and sought sanctuary
in the Weet German Consulate.
Next day, Brigitte Tschirner, 27,
a draftswoman, and her fiance,
Hans Busse, 42, a DEFA flint di-
rector, were among the fourteen
more who defected in Rabat.
"When the bus stopped," said
Brigitte, "I said i ,was going.
across the street to buy oranges.
Flans moved slowly away, tee-
tending to take pictures." Soon
the Rabat crowds stall ;wed
them up.
The Fritz Heckert's' captain
promptly announced that the ship
would return home. But the rest
of the passengers protested, and
the Fritz Heckert duly weighed
anchor for Tunis. There, three
more passengers escaped.
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gecit ..,,goici" Weather
In California
San Franciscans are finding the
weather a brisk conversation
piece; in fact so are most all Calls
fornians. Normally, one hesitates
to call it winter, so crisp and
benign are these California Jan-
uarys,
San Francisco's "cold" snap
got down to 33" which is-Within
six degrees of the all-time record
here. That was in December
1932. when the mercury "sank"
away down to 27° Above zero.
Official records go back 96 years.
This cold snap brought "traces"
of snow but nothing like that
"big blizzard" of 1887 which
blanketed the city with 3.3 inch-
es. The worst of that snowstorm
was that the weather came off
cold afterward so that the snow
hung on for hours and hours. In
fact it wasn't until the afternoon
of the seccnd day that the cable
car tracks didn't look like tobog-
gan slides.
Now that the high arctic air
fallout has dissolved and the mer-
cury is coming up out of its glass
shelter, a good many Califoriana
are hoping that all this talk about
the weather will fade away, too.
Los Angelenos, in particular fig-
ure folks in Florida must have
had their fun by now and it's
time the Miami Herald let up and
let the Los Angeles Times re-
sume its daily reports on Cali-
fornia's rising population.
These impromptu California
freeze-ups are hard to figure out.
If the experts could get to the
bottom of it, then the, local. Cali- .
fornia Chambers of Commerce
would be only too happy to take
4FRUITNI.WMONSTRATION — KAY Biellgrfir Ilelps
singer Roberto MacDonald demonstrate her enthusiosm over
'the •cotnilig 'jiff-Broadway musical, ."The Golden 4ple."
Special Plane To
Catch Rare Bird
His face resembles an owl's
but he is not an owl, Nis col-
ours are bright green and yellow
and he has large wings, but he
cannot fly. He is big, savage,
mysterious, with a loud, boom-
ing voice.
What is this strange creature?
He is a species of parrot known
as the kakapo of New Zealand.
Soon he may be seen no more
for he is dying out. He lives in
such remote areas that natural-
ists must travel across some of
the toughest country to try to
find him and bring him back
alive for breeding purposes.
For there is only one kakapo
in captivity today. Since 1958
there have been several expedi-
tions to the mountainous wilder-
ness of New Zealand. Five of
these birds, each standing about
2 ft. high, have been captured
but four of them have pined
away and died.
In the Tutoko Valley where
kakapos have been found in the.
Past, a special aircraft has been
used to fly above the 4,000 fl, al-
most vertical rock walls which
hem in on both sides the area
they inhabit.
New Zealand's Wild Life De-
partment officials have had to
brave natural booby-traps and
hack their way through dripping
forest areas so that humane
traps of wire-netting could be
set. They fear that the flightless
kakapos, despite their formidable
beaks and claws, are losing the
never-ceasing battle' they must
wage for existence against wild-
cats, dogs and stoats and other
natural enemies.
It is known that years ago
the kakapo flourished over much
of the high ground and forest in
New Zealand. As his numbers
have s dwindled .he has retreated
to remote places.
When they were more plenti-
ful they gained a reputation for
killing •sheep in order to feed:*
on the fat round the kidneys.
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Sti1L f.4 Find /Holes- In. .
West German Wall
t . n the man s since Wal--
tei,'IlltitioTit's' wall sealed off
East Berlin, the flood of 4,000
refugees a day has dwindled to
trickle. Btittbi Wade; is per-
sistent, and slineiriefiers Peopree
Police have beet uriabry IP stem
Its Some. East Gettrians berm cut
the' wire•s some have• di:tubed' its
some have jeuerpade avers efeeseilll ,
more have• rammed' thraugle fit fin
tip kiride. ref: veljecies: farm! ernierr-
ederabes commantreered" raill-
road trains.
Last month the' refugees; founds
two new exit's: Err a• enter wet'
night in Frohnau; rnsuninielirtlir
French sector, a startle& West;
German border guard' was: ems
fronted by a grimy Ease German'
whose teeth chattered' as he
spoke. "I've come ' from over'
there," said the refugee.. "There'
are more. Is the way clear?'".
The Wit Berlin survey-
ed the barbed wire a few yards
away.
"All clear," he said.
For the next hour West! Ger-
man police stood by while 27
more refugees squirmed uplecim
the end of a 90-foot tunnel whose
entrance began- .basement
of a small cottage a, few yards
away from the barbed -wire, in
the Soviet zone. The tunnel,
which had been dug in two weeks
by two families working in
shifts, went down to a d'ep'th' of
6 feet and was only.2 feet high.
The oldest refugee was a semi-
paraly'ze'd *Oman of 11; the
youngest, a child of 8.
While the East Berliners were
digging their way to freedom,
another group of refugees were
holiday-bound aboard the good
ship Fritz Heckert, on a cruise of
East Afrega,Ate gatenteneeeetep
of the ship's 350 passengers; slip-
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ISSUE 7
BIG 'BABY A 16'-pound
daughter was born to ,-Mrs.
latien Hubert, '37.,• a farmer's
wife-who lives near Monawaki,,
Quebec It's their 12th.
one day.'Physically she was well
and determined t, mated the best
of ifrinds!. She fiad:noedeeneilairres
-.said the feed was goad, she ,•
was well 'looked after and the
nurses and attendants were kind-
ness. ItseIE spiteci: hex re ser-
ent cheerfulness Cfslt she
holding - soir'ethiliie • Feel: 'From
other sourcesl.lednd' ant what
it was. As tong as she was able
to,• get around she. wassa• very •
active per o n. prominent in
Church and W.I. activities.. It was
this lost association with. old
friends that she missed because
she had very few visitors:
Before we start criticizing let
vs consider the reasons.. Many of
those in her age group have pass-
ed 'en.' Younger friends with
whom she had' been associated
are still active - in. the W.A.,
the W.IVLS.. and the W.I. They
have not ,forgetien her but they
know she is being well cared
for. What they have failed to'
realize is hoe Tcrictiness; her
longing to see °Id friends; to be
kept informed and to chat about
the various organizations to.
which she used t' belong - and
in which she is still interacted.
I brine, this tittle matter to'
your attention because there
must be many readers who have
eleerly relatives or friends in
some home far the aged. Re-
member, their days are limited
self aq occasional visit from you,
an old friend, can brighten those
devs, isn't it worthwhile to take
a tittle time and make a special.
eff*.ri to bring eamfort a'd' cheer
where it is .most needed?*
1962 Tibrontoe /ante
s•"! I. 4 4.3 ''.1!-V111:i
The thought just occurred to
me ... in moving from one place
to another. wouldn't it be awful
if. one _ left one's old neighbour-
hciad undee-a hictecieln that ease
one couldn't be sure of a wel-
come so there would' be •no
pleesure in , making a re-urn
vita. 'I ore tharifefel to
tfer . and' I were rrSeent'y ien'en
every evidence that we need
have. 'no 'worry -art' that =ore.
Last Thursday was a Oval- eay
so we look a run we to Milton
and visited several of our old
friends. and neigheoure. each
Gate ogr !visit was anenneurcsd
but that didn't seem to make any
difference to our welcome. We
had .a weederhn Wise and .cur
friends appeared to be. equally
happy. Our only regret - we
couldn't visit enough place: in
one short day.es, of course, ee
lied to say SHutlo" th.oue grant:I-
s:Ms ten But vie got' lett h.-cube!
with their mother be:ause the
first thing Roses said teas - "'Did
you bring us any presern:r The t
didn't please Joy at all so we
were asked to corn° empty-hand-
ed-next time so the boys wouldn't
gef the 'habit of locking for any-
thing. A wise ruling het a hard
one fon grandparents to follow.
But, came to think of it, gener-
osity is just a form of selfish-
ness. We like to give partly be-
cause of the eatisfactiza v.'e let
out of seeing . the . ehilesseo's:
pleasure.. • •'• • "t2
4,1
up Mark Twain on his: classic
sugeestion anti see that Something
was done about it. As it is. genial
Corday Counts, meteorologist at
San Francisco's Weather Fore-
casting Center. can only attri-
bute this disagreeable pherionse-
enon to. a "high arctic air mass"
that seems to have gripped "al-
most the entire North American
'continent" within the past week
and extended even down moss
Meeticoand into Guatemala.
Transplanted New Englanders
are now peering out of their up-
bernedtbat collars here and look-
ing hopefully for the customary
`California counterpart ,.to that
good, old - fashioned relenting
Down East condition known as
the January thaw. Here it mani-
fests itself around the approaches
of February at open windows on
Market Street and among crowds
of shirt-sleeved folk. spreading
lunch on the noonday' grass in
Uniory,§cosesres ins. CrowneZelleees.
bash's plaza, as on the forlorn
old sehgef near the sabandoned
Oakland' feerY t "Wheie tithe
helicopter texteseend,.s
The outlying signs of "win-
ter'eh' Welcome departure. dome
in to the tunes of croaking frogs
in a golden blaze of Acacia and
endless carpets of new green
grass and yellow mustard weeds
flung out through the walnut or-
chards, writes Harlan Trott in
the Christian Science Monitor.
Throughout California the
birds' migrations revolve around
a different calendar than, say, .
New tE.ngland's. :Normally, Jan-
uary has brotight the retains in
full force. This year they must
have ..taken ,up their seasonal
Work welt ahead of seliedttle:Vez
eanse it was tare whem aesubur-
benne lamented the robins' mid-
elekiniber +aids on his Pyracan-
tha bushes (the Veining firethorn
that is the all-winter glory of the
-*Pacific West) that another sub-
urbanite didn't rejoin: "The.same
' here, we won't 'have a red berry
• left for Christmas either!".
,These- premature ornithole,gical
depredations were duly reported
in the.provincial press: The •sob-
!ueban Palo Alt Times topped
them all:the. day an excited sub-
scriber, in eo loped
that a 'flock had lusteaided her
premises and now they were all
acting strangely; reeling and fall-
ing down sideways and tripping
over their own wings and other-
wise misbehaving themselves like
denizens of some feathered skid
row.
University experts at Stanford
explained that it was not alto-
gethee unusualewesen. a migrating
flock 'overfed on overripeberriese
thus turning some astonished
suburbanite's back yard into a
squawking Bacchanalia of inebri-
ated robins. The cold snap was
pieceded by high 'galls:to that/in .
Walnut Creek the 10-acre pond
that laps against our suburban
homesite was visited by a stray
flock of wild geese of the sleek-
plumed kind known as "white
fronts." Evidently the high
screeching erne air mass was too •
much for even these swift sure-
winged fellows. Their arrival in
our. haven•andeonly 50 feet from
our breakfast nook bespoke some
remote lofty turbulence as
".... when the tumultuous west
Roayed on this granite coast for
days 'together
And billbws: rolled she channel
under crest
White all the hurt swans shelter-
ed from the weather."
One by one, and in pair; and
in flockss these handsome smooth-
plumed itinerants have been.
dropping into our silvery little'
California sanctuaries, We , are
enjoying the new wildlife that
has come in the wake of our
unusual California "winter."
Letlha Whfu
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_Modern Oitinefte
By Anrie Ashh','
CL Is it proper for a girl to
invite n boy into her home after
a date?
A. This depends' opon the
hour. If around midnight, it
would be all- right: Be pure . that
; his visit in syourchonie doesn't
last more than a half-hour or
so.
FROSTY MORNING
"Is this still earth, or have trey
. , .strotted too jar
And made in the moon's duel
fallen like our sneeze?
if these are trees, whoever saw.
trees giow
With silver boughs? On which
exotic star
Do. Welles' bud in flame? What -
birds would nest
in such bright candelabra?
Would they learn
That fire that tinkles is too pay
• 'to• burn:
And-by ;on answering rapture be
possessed?
If 'this should be our world, then
Ariet
Hai charmed it into crystal„ and
'decreed
Sky! mixed . with earth, until no
man ,can tell
What part is heaven and what
but last year's weed.
I think I saw his wing-flash!
Nay, 'US gone
Beyond those hemlocks with the
diamonds strewn."
Marl SA'.UO
The' friends we vi itcd :ester
some of those 'whem 'We knew
mild not visit us- co =cunt. er
age and Rinses. One dear z old
is 87,. restieg emset. ci the Erne
but mentelly just as alert re. ehe
was twent3 year; ago: She ha.;
been a staunch 'Liberal her
life so • we: were kidding her
along saying she would have to
change her views maw Mr. Diet-
enbaker had promisetteereniEr4ken
dollar raise ,in her pension.
"Note on your eifeee else 1.etert-
ed, "just 'wait entil • the fleet
electiore Mike' Peeks:on 'WM be
just et :gene rouste dhcidentally.
she is personally acquainted,' with
Mr. Pearson, seI. expect her al-
legiance to him is einshekeeble,
This lidsde'Circupistances also
point - an . Whet hteighbelltilinks
can meanS'Sfie Ts a ,wiceette tieing
alone''-.: resseept !far her cat -•
and she has a hear: condition.
that has to be watched very care-
fully. 1110144-tiOnle. ste1,41/1I:hea:ted.
by a ,.seal-burning kitchen, stove
and a Quebec heater in the liv-
ing-room - toe mesh for a
wenian of her age -had rendition
to look after. So what Ssapeens?
Neighbours one side come in
veers' day to stoke the fires and
taint put the aches. Neighlseute
the other side arc in and out
every das making- sure see is
all right and doing whetever
• shoeping is neeeesare. Tee o'd
lady is str;:tilt11 to teem all be-
cause (Ley mete it pes iles for
her to ILIUM her is:refs riseire
- to etee ien her %MN iiaa* to
the a rest of dass. In her ea.e.
it weuld sem, a crime to eseei
suggest that she should ge to
the heel home tor aged.
One other ease we know was,
very diffeeent. Tie. elderly lady
bad a rented roam and was par-
tially crippled. She was elgute-
ly dependent on the liinchiess of
her friends. And they were kind
- but looking after her when
she was ill was just too much to
expect. Her doctor advised that
she go to the Manor Home. It
was there we went tet• see her
TICK TOPPER Keeping track of time for the 50 years
since' his wedding., Herrmann Hirschberg of Niehl, West Ger-
many, used the fop hat he wore on his wedding day as the
ease for this unique wall clock, a fascinating novelty.
eelea. Dull, Zeta la Dr. bums
brabt ese si diet. You ought
to knew him"
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