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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-03-01, Page 6Real "Cold" Weather Mn California Sari Fianciseans are AnclIng the WeathiR a brisk conversation piece; laleet so are most all Cali- fOrnians. Normally, one hesitates to call it 'winter, SO crisp and benign are these California Jan - 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 90 years, This cold snap brought "traces" of snow but nothing like that "big blizzard" of 1887 which blanketed the city with 3.8 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 second clay 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 Calitorians 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 tine the Miami Herald let up and • let the Los Angeles Vines re- sume its daily reports eh. Cali- fornia's rising population, These impromptu California freeze -ups are hard to figure out. If the experts could get to the Made in Embroidery * lty Sitte, M144 This ancient picture of "Our Lady of Perpetual Help," dates back to the 13th century and is renowned throughout the world. This picture has been trans- lated into embroidery, partially in gilt thread, Pattern 546: transfer 15x19,4 inches. 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 Catalog — biggest ever! Pages, pages, pages of fash- ions, home accessories to knit, crochet, sew, weave, embroider, quilt. See jumbo -knit hits, cloths, Spreads, toys, linens, afghans plus free patterns. Send 25. Ontario residents must include, le Sales Tax for each CATA- LOG ordered. There is no sales tax on the patterns, bottom of it, then the 10e41 Cali- ornia Climbers of Comineree would be only too happy to take up Mark Twain on his classic suggestion and see that something was clone about it. As it is, genial Corday Coigns, meteorologist 81 San Francisco's Weather Fore. casting Center, eats Only attri- bute this disagreeable plienome- non to a "high arctic air mass" that seems to have gripped "als most the entire North American coatinent" within the past week and extended even down across Mexico and into Guatemala, Transplanted New Englanders are now peering out of their Up- turned coal 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 meal- 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 Union Square, in Crown Zeller- bach's plaza, as on the forlorn old wharf hear the abandoned Oakland ferry slip where the helicopter taxis land, • The outlying signs of "win- ter's" welcome departure come 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 England's, Normally, Jan- uary has brought the robins in' full force. This year they must have taken up their seasonal work well ahead of schedule. Be.;cause it was rare when a subur- banite lamented the robins' mid- December raids on his. Pyracan- tha bushes (the flaming firethere 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. ornithological depredations were duly reported in the provincial preis. The sub- urban Palo Alto Times • topped them all the day an excited sub- scriber telephoned in to report that a flock had just raided her premises andnow 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 Stamford explained that it was not alto- gether unusual when a,migrating flock overfed on overripe berries, thus turning some astonished suburbanite's back yard. into a squawking Bacchanalia of inebri- ated robins. The cold snap was preceded by high gales so that in Walnut Creek the 10 -acre pond that laps against our suburban honaesite was visited by a stray flock of wild geese of the sleek - plumed kind known as "white fronts," Evidently the high screeching artic air mass was too much for even these swift sure - winged fellows. Their arrival in our haven and only 50 feet from our breakfast nook bespoke some remote lofty turbulence -as • ".... when the tumultuous west Roared on this granite coast for clays together .And billows rolled. the channel under crest While all the kart swans shelter- ed from the weather." One by one, and in pairs and in flocks, 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." RETORT When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" —Sydney Flarris. te, ,FRUITFUL DEMONSTRATION — Kay Ballard, right, helps (singer Roberta MacDonald demonstrate her enthusiasm over the coming off-Broadway musical, "The Golden Apple." ,et TICK TOPPER -- Keeping track of time for the 50 years since his wedding, Herrmunn Hirschberg of Niehl, West Ger- many, used the top hat he wore, on his wedding day as the case for this unique wall clock a fascinating novelty. HRONICLES INGERFARM 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- ' hoed under a cloud? In that case one 'couldn't be sure of wel- come so there would be no pleasure in 'making a return visit. I am thankful to say Part- ner and I were recently shown every evidence that we need have • no worry on that score. Last Thursday was a lovely • day so we took a run up to Milton and visited several of our old friends atisd• neighbours.In each case our visit was unannounced but that didn't seem to Make any difference to our welcome. We had a wonderful time and - our friends appeared to be equally happy. Our only regret — we could:* visit enough places in one short day..as, of course,we had to say "Hullo" to our gran. sons too. But we got into trouble with their mother 'because the first thing Rose said was'— "Did you bringeus any presents?'.' That didn't please. Joy at . all so we Were asked to come empty-hand- ed next time so the boys wouldn't get the habit of looking for any- thing, A wise.rieling but a hard one for grandparents to follow. But, come to think of it, gener- osity is just •8 form of selfish- ness. We like. to give partly be- cause of rthe satisfaction we get out of seeing the 'thildren's pleasure, The friends we visited were some of those whom we knew could not visit us on account of age and illness. One dear soul is 87, resting most of the time but mentally just as alert as she was twenty years ago. She, has been a staunch Liberal all her life so we were kidding her along saying she would have to, change her views now Mr. Dief- enbaker had promised her a ten dollar raise in her pension,. "Not on your life," she retort- ed, "just wail u•ntif the next election, Mike Pearson will be j us t as generous)" Incidentally she is personally acquainted with Mr. pear= so I expect her al- legiance to him is unshakeable. This laclY's circumstances also, point up what neighbourliness can mean. She is a widows living - alone — • except for her eat — and she has a heart condition that has to be watched very care- fully. Hier home is still heated by a coal -burning kitchen stove and a ,Quebec -heater in the liv- ing -room — 'too much for a woman of her age and condition to look after. So what happens? Neighbours one side come in every day to stoke the fires and take out the ashes. Neighbours the. other side are in and met every daymaking sure she is all right and doing whatever shopping is necessary. The old lady is grateful to them all be- cause they make it possible for her to fulfill her heart's desire — to stay in her own home to the end of her days. In her case it would scan a crime to even suggest that she should go to the local home for aged, One other case we know was very different. The elderly lady had a rented room and was par- tially crippled. She was abolute- ly dependent on the kindness of her friends, And they were kind — but looking after her when she was II) was just too much to expect. Her doctor advised I hat she go to the Mellor Home, It was there we went to see her one clay. Physically she was well and determined to make the best of things, She had no complaints — said the food was good, she was well looked after and the nurses and attendants were kind- ness itself. In spite of her appar- ent cheerfulness I felt she was holding something back. From other sources I found out what it was, As long as she was able to get around she was a very active perso 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 110 consider the reasons. Many of those in her age group have pass- ed on. Younger friends with whom She had been associated are stili active — in the W.A„ the W.M.S. and the W,I. They. have not forgotten her but they know she is being well cared for. What they .,have failed to realize is her loneliness; her longing to see old friends; to be kept informed and to chat about the various organizations to which she used to belong and in --which she is still interested. I bring this little matter to your attention because there must be many readers who have elderly relatives or friends in some home for the aged. Re - Member, their . clays are limited so if an occasional visit from you, an old friend, can brighten those days, isn't it worthwhile to take a little time and make a special effort to bring 'comfort and cheer where it is most needed? Memory expert: any woman who has successfully forgotten how old she is. 'SALLY'S MEWS "Mrs. Bun, nits is Dr. Dum is brain specialist.. You ought to 1inove rem," Still Find Holes In West German Wall In the five months slime Wale ter Ulbrieht's wall ealed off East Berlin, the flood of 4,000 refugees a day has dwindled to a trickle. But the trickle is per- sistent, and Ulbrioht's People's Police have been unable to stem It Some East Germans have cut the wire; some have climbed it; some have jumped over it; still more have rammed through it in all kinds of vehicles from armor- ed cranes to commandeered rail- road trains, Last month the refugees found two new exits. On a cold wet night in 1Prolinau, a suburb in the Preach sector, a startled West German border guard was con- fronted by a grimy East German whose teeth chattered as he spoke, "I've come from over there," said the refugee, "There are more. Is the way clear?" The West Berlin guard 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 up from the end of a 90 -foot tunnel whose entrance began in the basement of a small cottage a few yards aWay from the barbed wire, in the Soviet zone. The tunnel, whielehad been dug in two weeks by two families working in shifts, went down to a depth of 6 feet and was only 2 feet high. The oldest refugee was a semi - paralyzed woman of 71; 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, oh a cruise of East Africa. At Casablanca, ten ofethe ship's 350 passengers slip- ped away and sought sanctuary in the West German Consulate Next day, Brigitte Tschirner, 27,. a draftswoman, and her fiance, Hans Base, 42, a DEFA film' di- rector, were &mow the .fourteen mare who defected trn Rabat. "When the bus stopped," said' Brigitte, "I said I was ,going across the street to buy oranges. Hans moved slowly away, pre- tending to take pictures."' Soon the Rabat crowds Swallowed them up. The Fritz Hetheres captain promptly announced that the ship, would return home. But Inc rest of the passengers protested, and the Fritz Heckert duly weighed anchor for Tunis. There more passengers escaped. Modern Etiquette Fly 'Anne Ashley Q. Where does the ring bear- er stand during the wedding ceremony? A. He -stands behind' and to the right of the brides Q. Is it proper for a girl to invite a boy into her home after a date? A. This depends ti po n the hour. If around midnight, it would be all right. Be sure that, his visit in your home doesh't last more than a half -Ilse!) or SQ. . Q. When should the bride. grooro give out his ON to hia best nian and ushers? A, Usually, these gifts are put at the men's places at the be- ehelor dinner. 1± however, there, Is no bachelor dinner, then he may give out his gifts at sone time during the reception. Q. How is a formai marriage announcement correctly worded? A. 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