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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1964-07-09, Page 7PERSONAL NOTES • » Mr, and Mrs. J. J. Kerr returned home last Saturday from a 15 days' trip to La chine, Que.. , and visited at Montreal and the Laurentians. On their return they visited with Mrs. Kerr's brother, Mr. • Russell Bunker and Mrs. Bunker and daughter at Cornwall and stopped at Oshawa, Mrs, Kerr's home town, and visited with her brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts. -Dr, and Mrs. K. M. Mac- • Lerman, Mr, and Mrs, Lloyd Casemore and Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cruickshank are attend- ing the Lions International Con- vention in Toronto this week. -Mr. and Mrs, Mac Sewers and family, Miss Annie Keith, • Mrs. Terry Nethery, Elizabeth, Ruth and Esther and Mrs. Eliza- beth Keith attended the Mc- Pherson picnic held at Walker- ton Town Park on Sunday, -Miss Nancy Slosset, Reg.N. of Simcoe spent a week's r. vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Slosser. -Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Gib- • t" • 0 0 • f• • 0 • • • 0 • • • • • • r • • M1 • • 0 • • • • • • 0 bons and daughters, Vicki, Francine and Patricia of Lon- don, visited over the week -end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs, James Gibbons. Miss Ruth Gibbons accompanied them home and will visit with them for a week. -Mrs. Sam Vanstone return- ed home last week from a three weeks' visit with relatives in Iloiland, -Miss Anne Childs of Wood- stock is holidaying with her grandparents, Mr, and Mrs, Paul Vanstone and her great grandmother, Mrs. S. A. Mur- ray, -Mr, and Mrs. Robert Mc- Intyre arrived home last Thurs- day evening from Germany where they have been for the past several months, On their way home they travelled through Austria, France and England. -Mr. and Mrs. Jack Alexan- der and John of Waterloo spent the week -end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Alexander. -Mrs. Gerald Gerrie, Jeff- • • • • • • Points, picas, agat.. lines, an ABC rey and Janice of Stratford are holidaying fora few days with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. C. McIntyre,. -'Miss Rollo Sanderson of London spent a few days last week visiting friends in Wing- ham. -Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Wareing of Hensall spent the week -end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Parket Campbell, -Mr, and Mrs. LynnCruiek- shank of London visited over the week -end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cruickshank. -Attending the graduation ceremony at the Wingham and District Hospital for the gradu- ation of Miss Mary Ann Sou- tham were her great -grand - mother, Mrs. Alex MacSween of Kincardine, Mrs, Lloyd Keel- er and Peter of Mitchell, and Mrs. Arthur Burrows of Walker- ton, -Mrs. Faye Brown, Toronto, is spending a holiday with her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gilmour, Centre Street. -Mr. and Mrs. George C. Allen of Wyndotte, Mich, , vi- sited over the week -end with his sister, Mrs, D. B. Porter. 0 0 • • • • • Wingham Advance -Times, Thursday, July 9, 1994 - Page 1 An American in Sneakers The first Turk I ever met was an exquisite young actress, Yildiz Hanim, from the Ankara National Theater, Semih was the second -- trustworthy, re- sourceful. And Huseyin, a man of heart, the third, The place was Izmir and the times were testy. Cyprus had exploded once that suuuner and would again; down the coast of Adana, the United States Air Force was strengthening its Kase; marines had gone ashore at Beirut. But Yildiz was bubbly the morning we bounced into town side by side on the airport bus. She was to open the following evening in "Twelfth Night," in one of the lovely old amphi- theaters along the Aeeeau Coast, Olivia was hLr favorite role, she said, and tl.: her fa- vourite part of the co,,utry. Both delights she foci, ,ed on One in a series of messages to advertisers • 0 0 • • 0 In Christian Science Monitor me, her seatmate, an Ameri- can in sneakers. We were skirting the coast now. The sea was deep blue, the sky high up, with feathery white clouds, the sun not yet hot. Olive and almond trees covered the rocky slopes. By the time we reached the town's marketplace, Yildiz was promising sunlit ruins,lamb and rice savored in the cool of a grape arbor at high noon, an acropolis to scale atPergamurn temples at Ephesus, And she was right, There was all this in the long summer days that followed, But first there was Semih. In immaculate khaki shirt matching his blond hair, Semih looked young to he a guide and interpreter in the European tra- dition, as indeed he was, But he proved resourceful beyond his years. • • 0 • • • • • Along about 1886, publishers joined with representatives of allied trades in voluntarily adopting common standards of printer's measurements. This is called the "point system." Today, point, pica, and agate line are rigidly defined units of measure universally understood and used in our industry. In 1914, publishers joined with representatives of advertisers and advertising agencies, and once again voluntarily adopted a common set of standards — this time, to measure circulation values. Further, publishers cooperated in setting up an organization to maintain these standards, and to use them in measuring and reporting the circulations of publications. In helping to set up this organization, publishers willingly gave advertisers and advertising agencies majority voice in its operation, its standards, and its application of these standards in measuring circulations. This year the Audit Bureau of Circulations marks its fiftieth year of providing the basic measures of circulation values. Along with more than 4,000 other members, we pause with pride to salute the accomplishments of this outstanding example of self-regulation in industry. Through the reports issued by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, we, along with other ABC publisher members, voluntarily and regularly give you, the buyers of advertising, more verified factual information about ourselves than is available for any other media at any time. The distribution of your sales messages in this newspaper is a measured fact, verified by independent audit. Measured facts also provide the basis for our advertising rates. Whether you use inches or points, ABC is your yardstick for measuring circulation values. • • 0 • • • bran AN) • • • • • norzeimit • • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 • • • • We climbed to the heights above the harbor that first day, to the Citadel where Alexander is said to have fallen asleep un- der a tree on his march through Asia. By midday the heat was intense and my archaeological ardor slack. But Semih had a solution. In the shade of our own juniper tree, propped against a recumbent eolurnn, we lunched 00 stuffed grape leaves and polished off a chill- ed fresh melon, It was twilight when we drove hack to the quay, The harbor was Iit with the colorful craft of that busy Aegean port, but in the distance, a sleek white yacht, more elegant than all the others, lay quietly atan- chor, I could not make nut the flag, but a neat little row of portholes plinked invitingly, Now I knew and Semih knew that as yet I had no place to spend the night. (The few ho- tel accommodations in town at the time were booked for the week, ) But from previous travel without reservations I knew that something more interesting than a room, with or without a hath, in a three -two -or no-starhotel would present itself. So why not now? "Would you like to stay aboard a ship?" Semih asked, and shot off down the quay, not waiting for me to answer. Min- utes later, I was luxuriating in a blue tiled hath, in a cabin all my own, aboard that beautiful boat, (Most of the passengers, I learned later, were in town, occupying the hotel rooms.) ^'ow the plan based on Semih as guide included Huseyin as driver. Stocky and swarthy, Huseyin looked like an Ameri: can's idea of a typical Turk. The lines of our communication were drawn early: we would meet each other's needs in deed not words, " Tesekkur ederim" was the extent of my Turkish, and Huseyin ventured not beyond "Good Morning," For my part, I brought to our friendship countless packets of wash 'n' dries, useful for mopping a forehead afterchang- ing a tire -- a frequent occur- rence on that rocky coast -- a Thermos of ice water borrowed from my ship each morning, and an appreciation of all I was seeing around me, Huseyin brought the greatest gifts of all: good humor, a deep kindliness, and "a grace - Lowly Toad Undergoes Fantastic Metamorphosis The garden toad and pond frog change their bodies com- pletely in the course of normal development. Each begins life as an egg. This hatches into an embryo, all head and body but no tail. Then it becomes a tadpole, complete with gills and tail but no limbs, Finally it turns into toad or frog, losing both gills and tail, developing lungs for breathing air instead of water, budding out legs,, growing new teeth and -- in- credibly -- completely ma,cing over its skeleton, skull and viscera. A true wonder of physiology is the common- place little creature which hops about the garden, hoping for a fly to come along. ful respect, free of servility," which British author Freya Stark, an authority on the Levant, calls the charm of Turkish man- ners. It was to a hot, congested part of town that Huseyin took us late one afternoon, but the house into which he ushered us - his house- was cool and quiet, the antimacassar -covered chairs welcome after the dusty street, Surprised by the unexpected, Iluseyin's wife nonetheless took us in her stride and prepared a cooling drink, The children, shy at first, stayed well out of reach, over by the door, Suddenly one little moppet spied a hole in the side of my sneaker, Darting toward me, her black eyes dancing, she dropped to the floor, paused, giggled, then poked her finger in the hole and tickled my toes. We both laughed; the other children ran toward me; we were friends. With dusk came a cool breeze; we moved our to the tree -lined courtyard. Built around a central fountain, here was the center of life on asutn- mer evening. And here, with the children's help, we picked big purple plums that hung from the trees. Dripping and laugh- ing, we washed the fruit and our hands and faces in the fountain. It was late that night when I climbed aboard my harbor home. The air was still and warm. A member of the crew lazed against the rail. The water lap- ped softly against the side of the boat. I was at peace; Tur- xey had given me great treasure and I matched it with my own adventuring. Business and Professional Directory AMBULANCE Service CALL — S. J. WALKER PHONE Day - Night 357-1430 Frederick F. Homuth Phm.B., R O. Carol E. Homuth, RO Mrs. Viola H. Homuth, RO OPTOMETRISTS ?bone its I HARRISTON - ONTARIO BUTLER, DOOLEY, CLARKE &STARKE Chartered Accountants Trustee in Bankruptcy Licensed Municipal Auditor 2nd Floor, PUC Building Cor, Josephine & Jahn Sts. WINGHAM, Dial 357-1561 A. H. WASH BARRISTER, SOLICCCOR and NOTARY PUBLIC Teeswater - Ontario 'Cel. 392.8873, Teef+water Wroxeter—Every Wednesday afternoon, Z-4 p.tn., or by appointment Pearson, Edwards & co. Chartered Accountants P, R. 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