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The Brussels Post, 1961-01-12, Page 6time they 'had been pretty well picked over. I am telling you this because just recently I read-an article. which said among other things, "If you are pleased with the ser- vice or product you get from any particular store write and tell the management about it. It will' be -appreciated. On, the other hand if you have any com- plaint, let them know that too, Any repUtable business will lis- ten to all reasonable complaints." So that's that. We finally did get our Christmas dinner -- af- ter alot of extra work and wor- ry for Dee, Now about Taffy. Christmas morning, about eight o'clock, we put Taffy outside for a run on his rope, as we always do. He has about thirty feet of rope and that way can get all the. exer- cise he needs. As we sat at breakfast I hear d a peculiar squeal. "What's that?" I exclaim- ed and. ran to the window. There I saw Taffy on his back, legs pawing the air, with two bigger dogs attacking him. One 'was a German shepherd (mongrel) the other a pure-bred blue terrier. We Chased the other dogs away and called Taffy in, He managed' to come but was limping and had ' blood dripping from a deep gouge in his shoulder . . . and, shaking with fear. Although the wound was deep it did not seem big enough to require stitches. I dressed it and when we left home we gave -him an aspirin— thought he would be better quiet than to come with us. Today he seems a let better. What is the best way to keep a dog — let him loose to annoy people, or keep him under eon. Ixol, thus avoiding trouble with neighbours but depriving the dog of natural means of defence? Of course we do take Taffy' out on a leash for 'exercise but it seems to me a dog should also be safe in his own backyard. Taffy certainly wasn't, If I hadn't heard him he might have been killed. The "picture-in-seconds" type of camera appears to be a valu- able aid 'to parents this season How else can they get an im- pression of their "home-from- college" Members as they spend a brief moment or two at the family fiteside? 'deli the ttii this bird yell 'SOU rile raves like iticit" Why lhose. Rockets. Soniqtimo, Fon IA a big VOCIfiet like the Mies, there are Some 300,000 parts that must sing together. Only one: need, go wrong by total failure. A couple of liewecle,ssie ..clinkers; One Second after ignition in an important Mercury shot last Noe vember, an electrical plug was • disconnected twenty millisec- onds toe soon. An .automatic signal to the rocket engine ore tiered it to shut .deWn. The mis- sion, failed, The correction was simple: The cable leading. from the plug was made a few ,inches longer, On Thanksgiving Day 1959, an Atlas-Able .reeket blasted off with a payload intended to orbit the moon. During the upward rush through the atmosphere, the nose fairing or shroud pro- tecting the payload was ripped Apart, It turned out that wind- tunnel tests of various air pres- sures or "loads" had missed the spded at which the peak "loads" occurred. A solution; Holes were punched in the fairing to equal- ize internal and external pres- sures. Not all errors are mechanical, The recoverable capsule from Discoverer II came down near Norway, instead of its intended. Hawaiian landing area. A ground controller had . informed the eatellite's automatic timer that it was orbiting the world once every • 95. minutes. The actual time was 90,5 minutes, a trifling difference that totaled half a world in distance after seventeen orbits. belts tmay 11: somewhat $1: 101: taaill,Lion front $2 to V. But this $12 each, mid the charge for in, surance cite:. are cut for"beit- equipped cars, a step now being. .contentplated by several OM-, pania-7. :Meanwhile there is. evi- dence that some of this resist ,. once nissotviug, Auto acces, sory chain stores report increas- ing purchases of, the belts, parti- cularly by Women—mostly Mae them. ieebylotte need is a real education program.. Be'errit e e y, California, Health 1:).pa talent showed what , 'tan be accomplished through .such a program. On the 'theory. • that .education begins at home,: the department started with its Own employees. No pressure was applied, • but employees were thoroughly briefed on the ad- vantages of this equipment, through -recluses,. films, etc. As ai .result 106 seat belts, were 'purchased by 30 employees, A similar program conducted by • employees of the Berkeley Pub- lie School System, with the ob- jective' of selling 100 seat belts to teachers, went over so suc- cessfully, that more than 45D belts were purchased. Students in the adult driver training program purchased' an additional 206. So far .automobile manufac, turers have not yet begun to in- clude seat belts as standard equipment. Only about 3 per cent of new cars have them, al- . ...though two 'foreign cars, the Volvo and the Jensen, are instal- ling bells in their new models, Apparently someone "sold" the royal family in Britain on this type of equipment, for seat belts are being installed in all of the palace care, inchiding Prince Philip's Lagonda and Princess Margaret's two Rolls Royces., SEEING RED MAKES HIM HAPPY — Mrs. Skelton looks on as Red Skelton laughs after his pet poodle leaped onto his lap as Red was wheeled out of Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Holly- wood Dec. 28. Red entered the hospital Dec. 3 to ee 'ergo surgery for a diaphramatic hernia. POPE JOHN'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE - Standing before a lighted montage of St. Peter's Square, Pope. John XXIll records his third annual. Christmas message. The Pope called on the world's Catholics to fight what he called a "diabolical conspiracy against truth' being carried out through all forms of art and mass communications media The Pontiff's 5,500-word a,0,4ess was broadcast around the globe by the powerful Vatiearri lidio and by a link-up of national stations in other countriesr. ...tt Illio 1 p . ... ,.. i %...•-• .ii*IfIft.i 1 s."....Z.Z._:".. -.--'." r''''. 1.'9, /1/1040/410; The office staff eagerly awaits the arrival of the 1961 calendars —how else can, they accurately line up their vacations for the coming year? Worm-Up Wonders ONICL L 1NGERR FA eortvioliti P. CIA:0.e • Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. When giving an informal dinner in the home, is it all right for the hostess to say, 'Just sit anywhere you wish" 2' A. N'a, The hostess shouRI al- ways designate specifically the seating arrangement of her ,guests. Q. Is it all right for a young man to smoke his date's cigar- ettes? 'A. It is excusable to smoky one or two if ,he happens to be out of cigarettes: But' certainly not all evening. He must, as, soon as possible, buy some fresh cigarettes for himself, and his girl. ISSUE R —,1961 1000 Segt Bells For SvIety The Average inotAist may not be interested in seat belts for his car, but the U.S. federal :govern- ment is. The .goveronient is now M. the process of twang seat belts in- .. stalled in all official cars, The program has come about grad- ually. Seat belts were tried out in some cars of the Forest Service, and proved so effective as a safety factor that .the govern- ment is even urging employees to add this equipment to their private automobiles, The government is actually the nation's largest operator of cars, having some 250,000 in operation in thiS country and abroad, Financial responsibility for in- furies to those driving, or riding in government cars amounted, in 1950, to $2,500,000, So it is na- tural that officials should take an interest in the use of practical • safety measures such as this, The Forest Service Installed seat belts in some of its cars as far back as' 1954, By 1956, it had proof that, in one case at least, the use of a safety belt had been effective in prevention of injury where a vehicle overturned, Today the record Shows that at least 100 persons can give similar testimony. The Forest Service now has about 13,500 seat belts installed in 6,300 vehi- cles—and says the belts, are worn at least 80 per cent of the time.. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare is taking the initiative in a government- wide drive to increase the use of these devices. They are already in use in Cars of the Internal Rev- enue Servicee the Atomic Energy Commission, and the National Park Service, writes Josephine. Ripley in the Christian Science Monitor. Over the past year, the Public Health Service joined forces with the National Safety Council and the American Medical .Asso- ciation in A.campaign to educate the public as to the value of au- tomobile seat belts and to en- courage their use. Extensive research at Cornell. University has shown that...seat belts do represent a considerable safety-factor, and statistics show they would provide additional. security , for as many as 5,000 persons a.year. Seat belts "nave not-been wide- ly popular-with motorists so far • for two reasons: one is the cost of belts and their installation, and the second is diSlike of the device because it may "wrinkle clothing," is, cumbersome and "too much bother!" • • Cost is -no small item. Seat TR UM PE TIS - Clara, Heidt dresses up a White Angel, Trumpet tree in Cypress Gar- dens, Fla. Jacket Tops Plaid Jumper — Fun To Sew. (et/ rhttiVies Wlitevat Warm, smart, easy-knit! All men — from the college crowd up — love these cozy chill-chas- ers. Ideal for sports, snow ehovel- outdOor workl Pattern 506: dieections for helmet, cap, mite tens, wristlets in men's sizes small, medium, large included. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use poStal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 119 Eighteenth St., New. Tor- onto, One Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. JUST OFF THE PRESS! 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"Lots of energy, kids, 'cause this may be it — and it had better be." And with that, the ,taping of the musical scene — in which Miss Merman plays a Presidential candidate out on the stump — resumed again. It was late in the afternoon, and Miss Merman, currently ca- vorting in "Gypsy," had been on hand since 8:55 that morning 'to rehearse, and tape a,nine-minute_ segment for CBS's "The Gersh- win Years," e,,90-minute look at U.S. life in the 1920's and '30's, set against a backdrop cif some. 60 George Gershwin songs. Conceived last summer under the egis of executive producer Leland Hayward, the January special, which was also to star Eileen Farrell and. Julie London, had been entangled in frustra- tions. Two hoped-for performers —Nat Cole arid Ella Fitzgerald— had been unable to make it be- cause of commitments. Its narra- tor, writer-director Mosi Hart. had been forced out by a heart attack and replaced by composer Richard Rodgers. Only a few days before, a disastrous me-' chanical error had erased half of a ten-minute taped "Porg" and Bess' sequence shot on loca- tion along a shantytown street in Rockaway, N.Y. And now it looked as if a, promise made to the lunchless Miss Merman — that she would be sprung by 5:30 so she might rest before her evening performance .'of, "Gypsy" — would not 'be 'kept,- "This is a bitch of a show and you can quote me," rasped pro- ducer Hayward as he gazed dolorously at the proceedings. 'Originally, I wanted to do the Rodgers and Hart songbook, and right now I kind of wish I had." For the' 52-year-old Miss Mer- man, a veteran of thirteen Broadway hits, it had proved a particularly wearisome day, complicated by' personal prob- lems, Among them were a hov- ering appointment with her. den- Now, at last; Christmas for us, as well as for you, is over. It seemed a long time a-coming:but it finally got here. But, oh dear, Friday night we thought we were going to be done out of our Christmas dinner! And Christmas morning it looked as we might lose our ,little dog Taffy. Now those two incidents require a little, explanation. So here goes. As I told .you before Dee .and Art were holding Christmas for all of us in Toronto — the same as they have done for the last three years. We 'try to equalize things this way. We pay for the turkey, Dee chooses it and cooks it, I make the Christmas pud- ding. Two weeks before Christ- mas . 2. get that, TWO WEEKS BEFORE CHRISTMAS . . . Dee ordered a 17-lb, turkey from the chain Store at thei plaza where she does all her shOpping, which usually amounts to over $25 ,a week. They took her order, her name, address and telephone number, and the turkey was to be held and picked up' on, the evening of December 23. The weight of the bird was impor- tant. It had to be big enough to feed us all and some' left over for eating cold, But'it could not be too big' otherwise it would not go into Dee's apartment-size oven. Friday night Dee and Art went shopping as usual; asked for the turkey that had been ordered-- and presumably set aside. But the clerk said — "We don't have any turkeys left that size. The best we can do is either 13 lbs. or 22," "But," Said Dee, "I ordered my turkey — n 17 lb. bird — you must surely have set one aside." Theclerk shook her head. "We haven't got any birds left' that size," she repeated. Thee Dee -began to see red; went met to the car and got Art to mine in. Prom what I was told I gather there was quite a hot argument! The clerk had no real explanation for the mix- up, or as to why they had made no attempt tie notify Dee by tele- phone, Art 'asked to see the manager but he couldn't be found — one clerk said he had' gone out some place for a few mihutes, It finally ended up with Art saying — "Well, all right, if that's the way you do business, you can keep your groceries!" So he and Dee both walked out and left their entire• order sitting in the shopping cart, Next morn- ing Art tried to get in touch- with the general manager but, it being Saturday, the head Of- flee was closed. Art swears he will never do business with that chain of stores again. What Would you do? Naturally this little set-to threw a monkey-wrench into Dee's schedule. Saturday Morn. ing she had to start out again-ea to sleep and to hunt a Christinas turkey. She got the Sit`e she wanted but not a particularly nice bird es, of bourse by that tist and a scheduled flight to Mexico at the weekend to di- vorce her third husband, airlines executive Robert Six. Through the morning and early afternoon, she had patiently run through a "Wintergreen for P r e s i cl e n t" number in which she was hoisted up and down in a plywood heli- copter, blasted with fake train smoke, obliterated by confetti and streamers, and had to con- tend with a large chorus and a 24-piece orchestra on such rou- sers as "Strike Up the Band" and -"Who Cares?" After she blew the lyrics on "Let 'em Eat Cake," a mike bebm dropped in front of her, ruining a subsequent take. An- other taping had to be scrapped because of a traffic mix-up. "As I said before, this had better be it," called out director Campbell. And on they went— Merman belting, the chorus pos- turing, the technicians in the control booth technifying. The number went off without a hitch, but in the control booth, a minor' disaster struck. The tape — When it was spun back had several technical blips in it. There were sequences left to tape, it was almost 6 o'clock, and everyone was staggering with worry. But then One calm voice spoke up in the darkness. "They'll never know at home — they'll think it's something wrong with their sets," said the speaker. "Let's go on," And so they did, everyone fin- ally adjourning into the snowy streets at 7:20. Arid that, as they say, is show biz, FIGS FOlt A QUEEN Queens have always received Christmas gifts from their sub- jects in the past, Mary Tudor, on her first Christmas as 'Queen of England, received sir barrels of figs from on admirer and a base ket of Sugar loaves from another. Her half-sister, the first Otteen Elizabeth, announced that cloth- es and ornaments would be ac= teptable as Christmas gifts. One OE het most ehetished presents every year was silk stockings. Mom and. 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