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The Brussels Post, 1960-12-08, Page 2-ratstese, I less I:zee ' (z-/-stre"ssf,../za'seee.fiel ONICLES 1NGERFARM even,doLin,e, P. ctatke Week's Sew-thrifty PRINTED PATTERN 4945 SIZES e 2-10 ' Three to mix-match happily every school day, Pop-over-top and skirt are sew-easy, and so gay in plaid or checks with sim- ple, white cotton blouse. Printed Pattern 4945: Chil- dren's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Size 6 top, skirt We yards 54-inch; blouse Vs yard 35-inch fabric. Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, BoX 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. SEND NOW! Big, beautiful, COLOR-IFIC Fall arid Winter Pattern Catalog has over 100 styles to sew - school, career, half-sizes. Only 350! •r. I .e.rees- How Nwspaper Ruriour Start 14.t ' /4- 33ass. morning .. eeentlY. 42eleal neesissman Rary .1 4 Jaelason was sitting et the Ass(' vieted Press foreign desk in New York, near battery Of Teletype machines when.. a need-. Van1(1 Clattering over the Wire from the AP's London bits*" seen: ..f.4 NY Vicuna hears remours .Krushe elseSe imprisoned and anti-party greets, taken power, Zhulcov new preSidents Melenkov premier. Asked them for story 'end put: .urgent call tos Moscow, >+Q.17 more than a half terns. Jackson and Arthur Wolf, she stocky, able Nebraskan who are rived to tales over the daytime desk, sat awaiting developments. Another advisory from London reported: Moscow says by phone absolutely no sign Moscow of upheaval. And then, at 7:47, the Teletype chattered with the Vi- enna. bureau's story. Taking the Vienna copy, Wolf penciled in the fact that the rumour was completely uncon- firmed -- and finally, at 8:05. Telt the 200-word story on the wire. Sent out as a routine item-.- without so much as a "Bulletin" slue - the report ,was treated by some U.S. newspapers try WV- thing but routine. flearet's New York Journal-American,. for .;?7.t =pits, ran the AP etevy miler a double-deck headline: Rnnwur eeveepe Vienna-, Itepert Krush ousted., Pictures of dirt ::link, Malenkov, and Zhukov eseera spread across five. contains. • AB the while,•the• AP's major rivals United Press' interna- tional and Reuters - held their fire. Reuters at first carried only a brief advisory to editore, say- ing that it was checking out ate - rumour. (It later began carry- ing the full story-.) UPI. despite pressure from client papers, sat firmly on the story until 11:23 a.m., when it was able to (twee the official Soviet news (sem*. Tass as calling the rumours 'ett • ter nonsense." The Vienna rumour. nevcee theless, touched off a flurry of speculation around the wend, The New- York Daily News re- ported that 3.000 telephone in- quiries about K jammed its switchboard. The New York Times noted that the unsupport- ed rumour, Implying. a harder Soviet line toward the U S„ touched off a brief spurt in elec- tronic and defense stocks on Wall Street. How had the rumour started? The AP reported that its man in Vienna —34-year-old Hans Benedict - had picked up the gossip when ten different trian Government officials tele• phoned him to ask if the story was true. UPI said a man repre- senting himself as a Tele-printer operator at the Soviet Embassy had walked into the wire ser- vice's Vienna bureau, claiming that he had learned the contents cf a coded message from Mos- cow. The rumour mills were also speeded up by Abend-Presse, a five-day-old evening newspaper published by Fritz Peter Mol- den, the heir of the old, respect- ed Vienna publishing family. Three hours after the AP's first report, Abend-Presse bit the streets with a slightly different version, listing Lazar M. Kaga- novitch as the new Soviet Presi- dent. Molden, a wartime OSS'opera- tive inside the ranks of the German Army (and former son- in-law of U,S. Central Intelli- gence Agency director Allen Dulles), insisted he had picked' up the • story from "one of the -most reliable sources in the Western world" and then had checked it independently with Western diplomatic sources and with someone "very close to the Austrian Government." Indig- nantly denying any connection between the coup rumours and his desire to attract attention to his new Abend-Presse, Molden said: "If this story is true-and considering our sources, the pos- sibility seems extremely strong - it is obviously the biggest story of the, year." As for the U.S. wire services, AP general manager Frank Star- zel defended his agency's action, pointing out that AP had made exhaustive checking efforts and. had labeled it as completely un- supported. Starzel said: "You look sort of foolish not carrying a story on the wire when a ru- mour is as widespread and mov- ing in such high circles as this one .was." • But as •the flurry of excite- ment subsided - and K showed up in. Moscow, clearly as much in command as ever - UPI was taking bows for its caution. - From NEWSWEEK. A last-minute date - and where's dem golden slippers? One way of solving this Cinder- ella problem is to use enamel spray paint on an old pair of summer sandals - and you're on your way to the' ball, Isn't it great that we are still having such wonderful weather - wonderful for getting last minute jobs done and for going places? Tuesday I went to Mil- ton to help my "alma mater" W.1. in that district with a quilt they were doing as a money- making project. It was spitting with rain when I started but it was a regular deluge before I got there-and even worse com- ing back - thunder and light- fling. But we were not worrying about the weather while we were quilting. You know how it is, you are far too busy talking - and working, of course. It was so nice to be back among my old neighbours; as I told them it didn't seem ,as if we had ever moved away. Actually we don't ever feel that we have. After all, what's twenty miles these days? The quilting was at a remod- elled farmhouse which I remem- ber from its pre-hydro, furnace and plumbing days, Now it is the last word in charm and .conven- ience and yet is still a genuine farmhouse, functional but at- tractive, with room for every- thing arid a kitchen that chil- dren and the man of the house can come to and feel comfort- able. To my idea that is essen- tial for happy home life. Generally at a quilting the women take a sandwich lunch and the hostess provides tea or coffee. At this quilting the lady of the house insisted on provid- ing the lunch. She said she hadn't gone 'to any trouble. (Isn't that what a woman al- ways says?) In this case maybe it was true because the lady is a born cook and housekeeper so, what might be hard work for some folk - including me -- may have been just a pleasur- able chore for her, Anyway the lunch was almost the last word in good taste and simplicity as the entire first course was ar- ranged on a seven-section "Lazy Susan" set in the middle of the family size kitchen table. There were jellied savouries, two cold meat dishes, relishes, potato and a tossed ..:lad. And it was all there within reach of everyone, just by giving "Susy" a quick flick around, I am telling you this because it may give other housewives a few helpful ideas. But it could not very well he done without the help of a Lazy Susan. However, if there isn't a "Susy" in your house, don't forget Christmas is coming and Santa might get the idea. It would also make a lovely gift to a young couple setting up house. Thursday joy and the wee boys were here and we went to a very special shopping centre, rncstly to look around. After lunch, while I was, choosing ma- terial to make shorts for Dave, Ross and Cedric started playing hide and seek around the dis- play counters, shrieking with laughter, The department wasn't busy at the time and the sales- lady see TA to gel quite a kick out of watching them. Another time, in the toy section, we'iniss- ed Cedric. He had managed to wriggle out of his go-cart and had dumbed into a toy motor- car. Friday r went .alone to a less exclusive shopping centre and got some rat try Christmas Shopping done, Saturday Dee and her boys went out toesee the Santa Claus parade. In the afternoon they came here and stayed for supper as it was Partner's birthday. When the candles on the cake were lighted the three boys stood at the end of the table and sang "Happy Birthday" to Grandpa. Sunday Bob and family arrived and we had another birthday celebration, Partner had quite a birthday but next year will be even better ... D.V. ! Why? BeL cause on his next birthday Part- ner will be eligible for the Old Age Pension, Getting back some ' of our hard earned tax money will really be worth celebrating. Right now, Partner looks as if he has been anticipating the event as he has a very blood- shot and inflamed eye. Cold I suppose, but it could be consid- ered bibulous if it were not ex- plained. For the last ten days we have had an unusual and interesting visitor almost every morning. A huge hawk, no less. We have not yet been able to identify it but it must be either a 'Red-tail or a Rough legged hawk. It has a lot of white and a tremendous wing span. Whatever the spe- cies it is good to have around as it feeds mostly on rodents, And there 'IS good hunting here for cats and hawks alike. Ditto has an unwelcome habit of catching field mice and then bringing them home - alive - as an of- fering to Taffy. 'The hawk perches motionless on top of a pole or tree and then when the time is ripe swoops down on its unsuspecting prey, Naturally I am sorry for the poor little mice but I am thankful for any- thing - cat or hawk - that will keep them from setting up head- quarters in our house. Farmer Strikes "Parsnip Gold" One Canadian prairie farmer Who became tired of growing surplus grain now has his en- tire countryside talking about the way he struck it rich seek- ing a partial escape from the glut of wheat. Trying a crop foreign to the dry-land IVIurison district south- east of Red Deer, Alta., W. E. Williams is cashing in on it to the tune of approximately $2,000 an acre. And his only regret is that he devoted but seven acres to the outlandish pursuit of raising parsnip seed. The crop was no more work nor trouble to him than his regular grain opera- tions, which this year returned between $30 and $5 an acre. Early last year, casting about for something else to grow besides more surplus wheat, Mr. Williams decided to give a whirl to some cress that no one else it those parts was raising on a commercial scale, And he struck upon parsnip seed, With More hope than confi- dence, he planted the drop to it seven-acre plot of his rich loaM soil in rows 11 inches apart with a Common grain-seeding etttfit. He left the vegetable drop in the ground over the winter, and this year it attracted much attention as its 'foliage grew to a height Of around -30 inches -and present- Macmillan chats with Macmillan as a states- The Pontiff expressed the "noble British peo- b GABLE'S FUNERAL - Mrs. y Gable, wife of Clark trzoble, cries after viewing 7'body at a mortuary in Los Angeles, Calif. ed a strange sight, states a writer in the Christian Science Monitor. Passers-by, not accustdmed to seeing a parsnip seed crop, could not identify it as any grain or forage crop. Many dismissed the plot of grbund as "just having gone to weeds." But when harVest time came along this fall, it Set the cash register clanking for Mr. Wil- liams - even 'though .there was no proper equipment in'the ter- ritory for garnering the parti- cular crop. Mr. Williams went right ahead and harvested the crop with his ordinary wheat swather and combine, hoping he would obtain a good recovery of seed. The harvest gave him more than 7,000 pounds of cleaned parsnip seed. And then came an even more fabulous surprise for the happy farmer as he learned the price for this seed ranged from 1.49 to $2.25 a pound, As a result of his pleasant dfx- perience in seeking some escape from growing more surplus wheat, Many other farmers on the Canadian prairies now are entertaining plans of producing parsnip seed. How you can tell whether the honeymoon is over? - if he helps With the dishes or if he does them all himself. The King Is Dead --- Who Will Succeed? Poe o lly wood, the beginning tvf the 1930's was a time of even bleaker uncertainty than for tee rest of the nation. Those ware the days when the advent of sound Was beginning to topple many a filmdom. throne, most notably that of the reigning idol, John Gilbert. The silent kings were dying; for a new one who Mid talk there would be rous- ing welcome of "long may he live," And when the new king did come, early in the decede, his reign proved the longest, and most lucrative, in the up-and- down. history of the movies - from 1931, in fact, until recently, when Clark Gable died at the age of 59. Back in that year of ferment, 1930, few people would have ex- pected the mantle to fall on a skinny young actor with big ears who was then in a West Coast road company, He had al- ready appeared as an extra in a John Gilbert silent film, "The Merry Widow" - and had got- ten nowhere. It was the distinguished Lio- n el Barrymore who urged him, to try again. "There's a thing called sound in pictures now," Barrymore told. Gable, who was then 29. "These actors out here can't talk. You can," The great Irving Thalberg, of M-GeM took one look at a test and snorted to Barrymore; "You can't put this man in a picture. Look at those ears." Gable kept trying. He got a part as a bearded "heavy" in a Western called "The Painted Desert" With William Boyd and Helen Twelvetrees. Then came the turning point: Irving Thai- berg had a change of heart and Gable stayed under contract to M-G-M for 24 years. In "A Free Soul" he slammed N o r in a Shearer into a chair with a verve that both shocked and titillated 'the film-going public. It became apparent that this young actor had a vibrant mas- culinity that thrilled women and yet appealed to men. Gable's parts got fatter and fatter and then in 1934 came his big break: As the lighthearted hero of a low-budget sleeper called '"It Happened One Night," which won Oscars both for Gable and Claudette Colbert. (It was the only Oscar he ever won; ironic- ally, he was on loan to Colum- bia at the time.) By the time "Gone With the Wind" was ready 'for the ca- meras, in 1939, the public had made it clear that only one man would do as Rhett Butler. Gable reluctantly took the role, and of course the film made his- tory. (It is being reissued next year.) At last there could be no doubt that Gable was king. Born. William Clark Gable in Cadiz, Ohio, the new ruler had spent his youth working at odd jobs and hungering for the stage. He was 23 when he met and married Josephine Dillon, a teacher of dramatics seventeen years his senior (who lives alone in Hollywood), Seven years la- ter, he married Ria Langham, Who was 11 years older than he (and still lives in Houston). Theft came the. first really great romance of his life, Carole Lom- bard and Gable were married in 1939 -- and three years later she was killed in a plane crash. His last message from her was a telegram: "Hey,.Pappy, you'd better get into this man's army." Shattered though he was, Ga- ble obeyed, He entered the Air Force. After the war, he resum- ed his career, and in 1949 he married Sylvi a. Lady Ashley (ex-wife of another king, Doug- las Fairbanks). In 1955, he took his fifth wife, and friends agreed that attractive, witty Kay. Williams Spreckels w a s markedly like Carole Lombard, 4 short 1:irtle ago., Liable ished a film .railed "The Miss fits" With Marilyn .1‘learoe.. TY1t0. days later he suffered a heart attack, In Holly wnod's Prosily. terian Hospital, at 11 o'cloelt night last month,. ciao/ (4,14,1„. died, The king was dead. .Wlir ars filmdom heir would be was guess. But his .actual to the great lover who had .ittv -ivs. wanted but never had a chdo 4 his 'own - would. be born to nix fifth wife next spring. Mod?. rn Etiquette by d.nne Ashley Q. When is the peoper time f the guests at a wedd trg to leave their seats alter 1.1,o ceremony? A. Not until the very end "t• the recessional, It is very ppr manners to break into the wt. h to offer congratulations, Q. Isn't it considered poPe manners for one to sip voil,,e or tea \011ie chewing on 4n article of food that is already 'o the mouth? A. Yes. Only one item of 1.eal or drink should be in the motels at any one time, Q. When applesauce is secs ed with pork, should it be eaten with a spoon or fork? A. It is better to use:the fork. Q. 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ISSUE 50 1900' ,Seseb' 'MISTER' AND MPS..Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. and Swedish a:dress May Britt beard for photographers following, their Jaevisit derenneety in Hollywood, Calif. Singer Frank *Ina-fret welt' heel Mein. MACMILLAN CALLS ON POPE JOHN - British Prime Minister Harold Pope John XXIII during a visit to Vatican City, The Pope welcomed man "inspired by the great ideals of freedom, justice and peace." best wishes to Queen Elizabeth and the royal family and saluted pie which is dear to our heart for their high moral qualities." PROTECT MARCH IN LOUISIANA Parents and students of New Orleans' two integrated' schools nittith, Op the Steps of the LOUIsidnd Sidle Capitol Building in Baton Rotrgd, 'they Ore tarrying. 0 einali .djffiri with a doll in Whirl they said was SuppOsed to re 'resent Federal Judge J, Vir who. Ordered integratiert, The marchers Were pi•ofemititi thette.a. Legisticifure which 'at in. 'special- sessions..