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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-05-12, Page 6tea tn` th ells - ve* wo sot ba° aP le. the lt,.. Le A. lhe wr. Sae flow Los Angeles aures the Smog To anyone flying into Los An- geles, the sight of a vast pillar Of yellowish smog hanging oven The city is unforgettable. To the people who live there, Los An- geles' reeurrent layers of smog are also unforgettable. On some of the hottest summer days, An- gelenos drive with their ear win- dows closed rather than breathe 'throat -searing air. Wags walk up street and do w n, sniffing from tanks labeled "Pure Air," and a downtown department store once displayed an asbestos fire -fighting suit, complete with glass-enelosed mask, as a "Smog Suit." A few years ago, a Los Angeles hen laid an egg, watch- ed the smog turn it green, and kicked the egg out of the nest. On the worst days, as the mur- ky mass descends on the city, the switchboard at City Hall lights up with hundreds of calls from irate citizens. Once, a Los Angeles resident scrawled a note to his wife, ". . Try to live where there is plenty of fresh air," walked into the next room, and shot himself. For decades, Los Angeles and other California cities have been trying to do something about their smog (which is created by a peeuliar photochemical reac- tion that occurs when hot sun beats down on thin smoke in still air). Los Angeles ordered incinerators scrapped and made it a misdemeanor for industry to burn oil from May through Octo- ber, when natural gas is avail- able. But the masses of autos—puff- ing sett exhaust—remained be - Yowl the reach of enforcement authorities. In L o s Angeles County, for example, some 3 million automobiles and truck, pour 3,000 tons e4 fine carbon and smoke particles into the air every day. Last month the Cali. fornia Legislature decided the state had had enough of this, and it passed the first law in the nation that requires all cars and trucks to be equipped with anti -smog devices. As soon as possible, a special board will test and certify at least two acceptable devices out of the twenty types that have been proposed (most re -burn engine exhausts). Thereafter, motorists buying new or used cars in the state must install such a device within a year. Present owners of commercial vehicles will have two years to do this. is hile all car owners in u s t conform within • three years. The cost: Anywhere from $50 to $150, depending upon the make and type of car, Only exceptions are motorists in counties whose boards of super- visors rule they have no smog problem (expected to be about 15 per cent of the state's 7 mil- lion vehicles). Easy, Easy, Easy PRINTED PATTERN 4526 SIXES 10-20 SIeek, simple, SWIFT - TC) - SEW ! No waist seams, fitting problems -- cinch waist with graceful tie. Whip up spring's favourite scooped sheath in fluid shantung, airy cotton, linen. - Printod Pattern 4520: Misses' Size:, 10, 12, 14, 16, le, 20. Sire. 16 take:; 3 yards 30 -inch fabric. Printed directions an each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Sand FO11,T1 CENTS (stamps re.u'uir•I be artepled, use postal not: for Stkfc1.511. for this pattern. print p la i n l e SITE, NAME, A D D ll T S S, STY'I,T3 Send ercler to ANNE ADAbiS, 'BOX 1. 121 E!t.;ht.r-nth- St., New Toronto, Ont. KIDNAPPED — This is a recent portrait of Eric Puegeot, 4, who was kidnapped in Paris and later returned unharmed. He is the grandson of auto magnate Jean•Pierre Puegeot. Mari 4. J �' rise ew ercto1 r --e P. Cta;r,".e You just can't win with the weather. Friday I mailed a lot• ter to a point 70 miles north of here saying how glad I was the snow had got away so nicely. And then, coming back from the post office I ran into a small blizzard! By the next morning the ground was well -covered, even here. What would it be like where my letter had gone? And today, just look at it — bright., warm sunshine once again. Friday night the weather didn't stop Dee and family corn- ing in after shopping, the boys greatly excited because they were bringing presents for Grandma's birthday. Dave had a big parcel in one hand (an, L.P. record) and in the other a small white candy bag. He was giving me the candy bag first. Daddy, thinking he was making a mis- take said, "No, Dave, the other parcel is for Grandma." Poor little chap, his mouth dropped and he was ready to cry. I realis- ed he probably had something in the little bag he wanted to give me and came to the rescue. It was an all -day sucker! The boys had been givep a nickel each to buy candy. Dave had spent his en Grandma. He wanted to choose my birthday present for himself. And then Eddie began to have ideas. "I want you to come to our house," Ile said. "Oh — why?" "So we can give you a birthday cake." Maybe this all sounds very in- significant, Actually it was not. Little incidents like that are real- ly highlights in a child's life and shouldn't be treated lightly. They point the way to character development and can well be a guide to parents as to which way a child needs encourage- ment to bring out the best that is in him. Sunday our Junior family was here — first trip out for Ross since his bout with pneumonia. He was greatly excited because joy had baked a cake for Grand- ma — but I wasn't allowed more than three candles on it! And now here is a touchy question, Do any of you have any over -weight problems? 1'11 bet half of you have whether you know it or not. If you do, and take the matter seriously - as you should—you are probably trying to cope with the situation. Perhaps you think you are a small eater. So did I. But you may get a shock if you start cal- orie -counting, as 1 did. 1200 cal- ories is the liinit for a reduc- ing dict. The only way to find out how many calories you are consuming is to take a typical day's intake and honestly ap• praise the total number of cal- ories. Being a little hazy about how many calories are contained it: various foods i hunted up a little diet book that I knew was scmewhere in ray home library but whieh I had almost forgotten I got :such a kick out of it I mad 11 over ru'd over. It mentions many led ter- you have to fight when you hose finally managed to take eft a few pounds. (1) Your husband says he doesn't like thin women. (2) Your sister says you look older. (3) Your friends say don't lose another pound — it doesn't become you. On the other hand it mentions one woman who got so fat her husband threatened to get her a set of freight scales. The book contains much good but whimsi- cal advice. This for instance: "Remember, you will feel good in your little heart if you resist temptation to over -eat, When you don't you won't feel good anywhere." The author gives a number of reducing menus and ends by saying — "Finished but not Famished°" Joking aside any thinking per- son must realize there are far too many over -weight people around — especially if they are living a sedentary life — driving more than walking; sitting more than moving around. But even among active people you find over -weights. On farms, for in- stance, because 'farm women are noted for being, good cooks, mak- ing cakes and pastries that lit- erally melt in your mouth. And you know it is an absolute fact that the more you eat the more you want. One time I was at a hairdres- ser's down town. There was a woman there who must have weighed 300 pounds. I don't know where she came from but she was in a great hurry to get home. Said she was hungry -and intended to have a good, big steak for her dinner and a wedge of homemade pie. I felt sorry for the poor misguided soul. She must have been an awful bur- den to herself. A little more and she would need a derrick to get her on to a streetcar. According to the latest ideas of reducing there is no need to go on a diet. Just eat less of everything — although it does help to figure out what foods give the most or the least cal- ories. For instance one wedge of pie accounts for 300-350 calories. That doesn't leave much for other foods on a 1200 reducing schedule. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. Are the dessert spoons or forks placed on the table at the beginning of the meal? A. No; these utensils are brought in with the dessert course, Q. What can a briclestnaid do when site has been asked to wear (and pay for) a dress whose style and color are definitely unbe coating to her? A. This is not an unusual site. ellen. But there is nothing the bridesmaid can do about it ex cept to wear it, and later per- haps have it dyed and remodel. ed, If she consents to serve as a bridesmaid, she must accede to the bride's wishes. NSF!). 18 — 111139 Ever Heard Of Napoleon Comeau? For rt long time, new, T have had no good answer or those who burst upon my country read- ing with stylish literary ap- proaches and say, "Oh' have you read 'Dolly's Folly' by Paddy Capucci?" I never had. Over the fleeting years I've read quite a bit, and can often astonish everybody with the variety of lore I can lift from my literary limbo — but some- how it always turns out that whatever the current "Dolly's Folly" is, I've missed it, Never having read a book merely be- cause it is popular, I know I've let that develop into a pattern— 1 resist, Let two or three people speak of "Dolly's Folly," and there's a book 371 never read. It happened with `Anthony Adverse." I've never read "An- thony Adverse." There was a time everybody was reading it, and five or six times a day somebody would asic me if 1 had. I'd say no, and they'd sneer. That was the era of the round-shouldered reader. One man boasted he was so ..strong he had read it with one hand. You couldn't get sugar at the store furless you had read it. I wouldn't have read "Anateny Adverse" then if it had been the only book in print and beguil- ing the time was my only duty. At the time I read "ltollin�s History," all eight -volume con- rlensalion of everything, and a twelve-vahune vituperation by somebody called Brann the iconoclast "No." I would say to these people. `But have you read Braun the Iconoclast?" This was no good. Nothing I had read could complete with the pre- valent "Dolly's Fully." And alter this goes on for year after year, it gets ridiculous.. The cumulative evidence is that I've never read anything. It might just be that I have read a great deal more than they have, but it doesn't count. It isn't impressive. It isn't in style. Well, I now have the answer. Toss at me any current model, and I will toss back "Napoleon Comeau." Have you ever read "Napoleon Comeau?" I imagine it's the man's name. Somehow it stops book lovers in their tracks and teases their minds off their present emphasis. 1 am grateful to the man who in- troduced me to "Napoleon Com- eau," for I now am able to turn aside deftly, immediately, and with total effect every disciple of every "Dolly's Folly." The man was Dr. Armand Al- bert of Van Buren, Maine. I had dropped in socially to watch him tie a few trout flies, at which be is good, and during the visit he said, "Have you ever read "Napoleon Comeau'?" It sound- ed just like the usual literary opener, but its coming from Dr, Albert made me pause. It wasn't likely. Dr. Albert is a special person. He makes you think of those old "vrais honnetes- hdmmes" of the French Philoso- phers who studied affairs and their causes, and detested the specific. Dr. Armand would not be one to. read a book merely because somebody else had read it. He is a "character" in the good senses of the word, beloved in all northern Maine. He studied medicine at McGill in French, and came down to Maine to take his state boards in English — something of a stunt if you dwell on it. Passing them, he set up shop in remote Van Buren and has been there unto retirement, passing his time now in reflecting on all things and making trout flies, permit- ting the unrelated to pass by on the other side. Corning from him, "Napoleon Comeau" didn't sound like a "Dolly's Folly." The upshot was that he loaned me his precious "Napoleon Com- eau,' and I have now read it. Napoleon, a hundred years ago, was a French-Canadian boy growing up in the rugged wilds on the North Shore of the Saint ieawrenee Rivet.. tie peter heard English until he was in his teems, and his only formal schooling occupied ten Months at Trois- Rivieres where Ills morality was' enhanced mare by. stealing . melons than by the books. While stealing melons, he was apprehended by the owner, a minister, and brought into tite minister's parsonage where he was stood in his shame before two beautiful daughters about his own age _- a wonderful op- portunity bad 11 occurred under other circumstances, "I would introduce you," the minister said to his lovely daughters, "but this young enan hasn't told enc Itis sante!" Out of this; Napoleon learned a great lesson, and says se. But - schoolieg was short, and rte went back to the Indians, where he became while still young a "guardian" of the fisheries, a post lie held. always after. He. trapped, fished, hunted, and ex- plored all that great region and beeane one of the truly great Canadians, One day he would trail poochers, the • next he would guide British aristocracy on sporting trips. IIe represented Hudson's Bey, was an agent of Canada. As custodian, judge, missionary, guide, explorer. and everything else he became a legend in his own time, and has been likened to Dr. Grenfell. His education beeamc enormous, thoroughly catholic, and as a naturalist and. biologist he has no peer in Can- . ado. And his Warne was Napoleon Comeau, I think it's the name as mueli as anything that steps pees pie. Then, alter the name, I rip off some small anecdote of his, end the "Dolly's Folly" folks veer off. Such as his camp, far up, where they had no stove and built around an open fire with a hole to let out smoke, and how the aroma of baking bread at- tracted an owl. Housewives, surrounded today with conven- iences, buy bread at the market, and this yarn makes there think. And the book is in the smooth- - est, simplest, most wonderful English prose, a kind unattain- able by many great writers. I. am indebted to Dr. Albert and Napoleon Comeau. They have proved my answer to those who invade my rural reading habits with the "Dolly's Folly" ap- proach. — By John Gould in ,the Christian Science Monitor. DRIVE CAREFULLS; — The life you save may be your own. "You're charged with throw - leg your Mother-in-law out of a third -floor window. Guilty or not guilty?" "Guilty, your honour. I did it without thinking," "That's no. excuse You alight have hit somebody on the head." Crossr$titch Beauty 70"3 j. .�' F1r • • Pretty, practical! A variety of arrangements and sizes are givers for this colorful cloth Easy 6 -to -inch cross-stitch flowers create a gay setting. Pat- tern 753; charts, two ()ij x 17 - inch motifs; six 2 x 71a; four corners 7 x 7: four sprays 31a x 41e. - Send TIIIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted. use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. • New! New! New! 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