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The Seaforth News, 1962-02-15, Page 2The Earl Of Snowdon Gets A New Job "Jones the Camera" has a new job. This is how Wales would re- ceive the announcement that Princess Margaret's husband, the Earl of Snowdon — the former photographer Antony Armstrong- Jones—was going to work on a Sunday newspaper when he re- turned from his three-week holi- day in the West Indies. Lord Snowdon was to take up his duties Feb, 1 as artistic ad- viser to a new color section of the Sunday Times. "This has never happened be- fore to a member of the Royal Pamily;" said Maj. John Griffin, press secretary to Queen Eliza- beth, the Queen Mother, He was referring to the fact a member of the inner Royal Family was taking a job on a newspaper. Queen Elizabeth II's cousin, the Earl of Halewood, was found- er and former editor of the maga- zine Opera, and other members, like the Marquis of Carisbrooke, a grandson of Queen Victoria, served on the boards of certain companies. Lord Snowdon's first duties would be with the new polor section of the Sunday Times, the first issue of which was to be published Feb, 4. He will later be associated in a similar capacity with other publications issued by the Sunday Times Publishing Company, (London's Sunday Observer raised an editorial cry of pro - Snow -Queen Sets Cae.W . Two -in -one gift! Knit the gay bonnet for a child — ear -warmer for a teenager or yourself! Jumbo -knit! Use large needles, 2 -strands worsted for cable - trimmed cap or ear -warmer 'n' mitten set. Pattern 745: direc- tions small, medium and large, Send THIRTY-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 PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS. FOR THE FIRST TIME! Over 200 designs in our new, 1962 Needlecraft Catalogue — biggest ever! Pages, pages, pages of fa- shions, home accessories to knit, crochet, sew, weave, embroider, quilt. See jumbo -knit hits, cloths, spreads, toys, linens, afghans plus free patterns. Send 25e. Ontario residents must include le Sales Tax for each CATA- LOG ordered. There is no sales tax on the patterns. ISSUE 6 — 1962 test over the decision of: Prime cess Margaret's husband, Lord Snowden, to join the staff of the Sunday Times. The two news- papers are rivals. (The Observer was quoted by the Associated. Press as criticiz- ing Buckingham Palace for al- lowing him to take the job, con- tending his name. will unfairly boost the advertising revenue of the Times, (Both the Observer and the Sunday Times are in competition for Britain's "quality" Sunday readership. The Times, owned by Roy Thomson, Canadian news- paper magnate, is running ahead with a circulation of over 1,000,- 000 in comparison with 725;000 for the Observer,) For the color section he will prepare special picture features. He may even take photographs himself, which will raise the question of whether he should join a union, writes Mehta Knowles in the Christian Science Monitor. Lord Snowdon gave up his job as a profeasional photographer when as Antony Armstrong - Jones, according to the editor of Debrett, he became the first com- moner to marry into the British RoyalRoyal Family in 457 years. He has since taken an unpaid job as artistic adviser to the Design Council, a stale -sponsored organ- ization to promote good design in British industry and manu- facture. The new appointment carries a salary. The amount has not been officially announced, though Fleet Street is busy specu- lating on the figure. Lord Snow- don will not be expected to keep office hours, and his duties will not interfere with official en- gagements. The color section announced by the Sunday Times, though well - known in American jour- nalism, represents a new devel- opment in England. 1t is so novel in fact that it has already run into trouble with the retailers and the newspaper sellers. The latter object to the extra weight. The former are quibbling over the pay for extra work involved in putting the two publications together, since they come to them from different pririting presses. The format of the Sunday Times will remain unchanged, the color section being added to the present news and magazine sections to make a three -in -one paper. Folks Stay Away Just Like In Ontario To hear granite -ribbed New Englanders tell it, the town meeting remains as staunch as Yankee frugality, as sacred as the flag on the Fourth of July. Sacred it may be, among local historian's and starry-eyed artists like Norman Rockwell, but .staunch it no longer is — at least in the state of Maine. "Town meetings are poorly at- tended, manipulated by minor- ities, unrepresentative of the community, and cumbersome to the point of rendering town gov- ernment unresponsive," reports a Bowdoin College study releas- ed recently. Analyzing the town- manager system, the Maine col- lege's bureau for research in municipal government says: "The farcical nature of the town meeting is accentuated in the towns with over 5,000 popula- tion. A sampling of their town - meeting attendance for the past five years revealed that only one attracted as many as 15 per cent of the potential voters, The rest had to be content with much less." Modern complexities in local government, of course, have forced many a Maine commun- ity — even though annual town meetings are still convened to switch important decisions to either elected officials or ap- pointed town managers. This evolution is inevitable. But the likes of Daniel Webster would no doubt grieve at what time has wrought. ALTAR BOUND---Artist-designer Natalie Raymond Owings of Son Francisco will wed John Fell Stevenson, youngest son of U.N. Ambassador Adlal E. Stevenson, on Feb, 17. is "i:a�4ti�3 PUP TENT—Concentrations of up to 100 per cent oxygen can be achieved with this new, portable small -animal inhala- tion therapy device. It is used in the treatment of respiratory distress, heat prostration, shock and especially in the core of newborn jitters. Jackie Walker is shown above removing some pepped -up pooches. HWJNICLLS INGER ARM '3wr .oli.ne P. Clazitte Well, we have had quite a session! Our daughter and her family were moving from one house to another in the Park - dale area last week and wanted to know if we would have the two smaller boys here on Fri- day and Saturday to keep them out of the way while the mov- ing van was there. Of course we agreed willingly. So they came out ,Friday night and when it was bedtime they settled down without any trouble at all and slept right through the night It was Saturday morning when the fun began. Overnight we got our first heavy snowfall of the winter. Two of aur neighbours were 'taking their children to- bogganing and wanted our two boys to go along with them. Eddie was quite willing but Jerry was far too occupied and wanted to stay home with me. So that's what happened. Eddie and Grandpa went with the neighbours and Jerry spent two whole hours trotting up and down stairs with logs for the fireplace — carrying them from a pile downstairs to the chimney nook in the living room. Their mother had t o.l d me they wouldn't need much locking af- ter Saturday morning as they would sit and watch television hour after hour if they were al- lowed to. So 1 turned on the TV but they were not the least bit interested. Which goes to show that if there are active counter attractions TV doesn't really have such a hypnotic effect upon children as we sometimes are led to believe. • We all had a rest after lunch following which 'the two of thein amused themselves in the base- ment again. Grandpa's tools were a great attraction. They were allowed the use of a small ham- mer, nails and a hacksaw, with plenty of odds and ends of wood to play around with, and I'm telling you, they were two busy boys for the rest of the after- noon. It was nine o'clock betnre Mother and Dad came along to take them and by that time we were all a little on the tired side. The deep snow made it an awful day to be moving. Dee bad been busy all week cleaning the hardwood floors, She might bet- ter have left them alone as you can imagine what they loa,ced like by the time the movers had finished tramping in and out. The next morning we were pret- ty busy cleaning up our own house! Sometimes I wonder how mothers stand up to it — l mean looking 'after their children day after day, week in and week out. But then we did it ourselves years ago and thought nothing of it. I suppose that is where the difference in age comes in. As a mother with young child, en you take it in your stride, Grand- parents are naturally consider- ably older and uiotined to be somewhat over-anxious, — more alive to the things that can hap- pen when or if, little tots are left without sufficient supervi- sion. That results in our getting physically over -tired and in a state of nervous tension. We see quite a lot of our own grand- children but their parents very rarely ask us to "baby-sit" for any length of time — although we did our share each: time a new baby made it necessary for Grandma to take - o v e r while mother was in hospital. Na, we cannot say we have ever been imposed upon by our children but with some grand- parents it is a different story. I k no w several instances where grandmother looks after the chil- dren so their mother can go out .to work. Unless it is absolutely . necessary that seems to me like an imposition. After all,. grand- parents have raised one family. That should: be enough. As the years go by they can do with much less work and consider- ably Iess worry. Therefore they should not be expected to raise their children's _of£spring as well as their own. Incidentally, what do you think of this for four to six- year-old reasoning, as revealed in the 'Mowing . r n 'ersetion? Grandma: "You had a little dog once, didn't you Eddie? Re- member Honey?" Eddie —nearly six. "Yes, but he died. When dogs get old they die. When rnen get old they die. And when ladies get old they die too." Grandma. "Yes, and when lit - tie boys runn across the road in (rout of cars they sometimes die too." Jerry -- four and a half years old. "No they don't - they get killed!" I let it goat that. I thought - our two little grandsons were not quite ready to know the basis difference between dying and getting killed, Incidentally we have solved our telephone disturbance prob- lem, We had a telephone man coarse in and adjust the extension bell to alinost a whisper. Now by turning down a lever on the kitchen set we don't even hear it ring — that is until we turn it up again. We are delighted with .the result. After all a telephone is meant to be a convenience — not an inconvenience. False Hair -Wigs Are Back Agacn A fashion wave that started 100,000 years ago lapped against the White House door last year when Jacqueline Kennedy tried a hairdo using some of seine body else's hair. The First Ludy,' on a visit to Paris, thus aided a revival. False hair, which reach- ed 3 -foot heights at the court of Louis XV, then fell to the level of the switch, is fashionable again. The trend began as a fad three years ago when a Paris designer put wigs on his models. This started a rash of "party wigs" in pastel synthetic fibers. Then came a boom in wigs of real hair, firmly anchored, and un- detectable. Trade sources say 250,000 to 500,000 women now own such wigs, and thia doesn't include 2 million American mere and women for whom wigs are a necessity. As.with any fashion,. the rea- soning behind the, revival is a bit vague. Most ownersargue. thatwigs are convenient.. One Los Angeles socialite said "Noss I cam swim and not have to . worry about my hair;. I cars just clap the old wig on and nobody knows the difference." The wife et an upper -bracket executive said: "It's financially worthwhile. With that 'bubble' thing we have to wear these days, you have to go to the beauty parlor twice a week." Whatever the reason, the na- tion's wiggers are delighted. "It's getting to be a question of social status now,,1i1ie mink coats,' said Max Miller, president of New York's Joseph Fleischer & Coi. 'The Conep,amy,, a 130t -year - ea producer, importer, whole- saler, and retailer;,fs turning out "several' hundred' wigs a week, expanding staff and advertising. Miller says the percentage of "problem" wigs (1,e.,. for the hairless) has fallen from 10 to 50' in the past eighteen en•onths. One reason: "We're calling therm wigs now in ads tip to ai year ago you could never do that. It was. always 'hairpiece' or `trans- formation"." Louis Feder, another Neter York wigmaker, says his velurme in the cast six months doubled sales of a year earlier, but the proportion of_"problem" business has stayed the same. "With all the publicity, mare women who have a prob- 'Well, dear, I'm turning over a new leaf for you right now!' lent are deciding it's respeetable to wear wigs," Feder said, Wtg prices range from $2.05 to $760;, the cheaper models (which cost up to about $75) are made of sy'nthetio fibers, mohair, and yalc lur. Makers of "high-fash- ion" wigs say that each takes one worker about a week to turn out, hand -knotting up to 300,000 human hairs in an indi- vidually fitted mesh cap. The best luair for, wigs Is imported from Italy, where women inex- plicabliv achieve the desired hair Colors and texture.'' Few expen- sive wigs are dyed; instead, makers blend strandsof natural colors. The results are spreading -from, haunts of the haute coutufe crowd to neighborhood salons and suburban department stores. "It's a great convenience," said Fleischei:'s Miller. "You just drop the wig off to be cleaned and set, and go shopping. Then, if your husband calls and says 'Come into town for dinner," you just put on the wig and go." Modern Etiquette .By Anne Ashley Q. When a woman is wearing: a cor'saele pinned to her wrap,. when errl ering a restaurant, what does she do with it at the' table?' A. She may transfer it to hear dress. 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