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The Seaforth News, 1961-05-11, Page 6He. Cot Ingrid Down To Size "I know it will sound odd," said the . pretty Swedish girl, "But, Doctor, can you make me about 4 inches shorter?" When she walked into the of- fice of surgeon Lars; thander- Scharin hi Harnosand, Sweden, back in: 1958 and made this bi- zarre request, 16 -year-old Ingrid Westman was 6 -feet 1 -inch tall and utterly miserable because she "felt like a big bear" among her smaller classmates, Today, however, -after having undergone two of the most controversial operations in Swedish medical history, Ingrid is 2'(not 4) inches shorter. And while a couple of inches might not seem like much, she is happier than she has ever been before, The unique operation was per- formed last summer when Dr, Unander-Soharin cut 2 inches (more he thought would have made Ingrid "disproportionate") from the upper thigh bone in her left leg and joined the pieces with a silver plate, Six weeks later he did the same thing to her right leg. The muscles were left untouched and gradually adjusted, by themselves, When the story of the case was pub- lished in the Swedish press, the medical controversy began. The dispute was still simmering last week. "Young people often experi- ence difficulty in accepting themselves as they are," said Dr. Elsa-Brita Nordlund, a promi- - Hent Stockholm plastic surgeon. "However, this is a transitory stage," Dr. Arthur Engel, chief of the Royal Medical Board, which has authority over all of Sweden's 6,602 physicians, in- sisted that "a doctor must not act according to a patient's re- quest, but must be motivated by his own experience," In his own defense, the 43 - year -old chief surgeon at the Institute for the Crippled in Harnosand (a lumber port in northern Sweden) points out that he deliberately waited two years before performing the operation to see whether Ingrid would change her mind. But even Dr. Unander-Scharin is having sec- ond thoughts. "It was a danger- ous operation and I hope I will never have to perform another like it," he said. Ingrid, herself, is undisturbed by the flurry of controversy. Back home in the small northern town of Ornskoldsvik, Ingrid, daughter of a local grocer, said that she "feels no pains" and has oven gone out on the slopes to ski. Does being 2 inches shorter really make a difference? "When I used to go to a school dance," the attractive young brunette recalled, "the boys sel- om asked me to dance. But at he last party I had a partner for "very dance. l�- Jiffy Halter Lau. wheso Varied flowers lend colorful touch to this jiffy -wrap halter that tops shorts, slacks, skirts, Little yardage—use remnants, Pattern 572: pattern pieces; transfer of embroidery; misses sizes small 10-12; medium 14-16; large 18-20; directions. 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 Tor- onto, Ont. Print planly PAT- TERN, NUMBER, your. NAME and ADDRESS, +Ct9ST OFF THE. PRESS! Send now for our exciting, new 1961 Needlecraft Catalog, Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew, embroider, quilt, weave lash - ions, bane -furnishings, toys, gifts, bazaar hits, Plus x"REB—instrue- lions for six smart veil caps. Hurry, send 250 now! • • NOTABLE VISITOR MAKES BRIEF VISIT — Winston Churchill, 86, surveys New York harbour from the deck of the Christina, left, as two nurses look on. Churchill, cruising aboard the yat+ht owned by Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, made a one -day stop at the port following a tour of the Caribbean and a short stop in Florida. An impromptu welcome by harbor fireboats greeted the grand old man of England's finest hour. Having Lunch At The White House Newspaper women may be blase about a lot of things, but not about going to the White House! An invitation to lunch with the First Lady sent excitement through the whole feminine press corps recently, There was the usual feminine comment on "whatto wear," how to reply to the invitation, and so on. "Never use a ball point pen," advised one purist— the implication being that this would be as gauche as using a pencil, Almost at the last minute, a rumor swept through the Press Building that "the girls are,n't going to wear hats!" There was consternation until it became evident that the rumor stemmed from a small contingent averse to mussing their hair -do, most of whom don't wear hats anyway. One newspaper woman sport- ing a bright flowered number confessed she had bought it . "about half an hour ago." There is a special aura about the White House. It is hard to define. It is not so much what one sees there but the way one feels about it, My first visit to the White House was during the war when I arrived in Washington in time to attend some of Mrs. Roose- velt's last press conferences there. We congregated upstairs in the now off -limit family rooms. One has a feeling of awe on entering the White House for the first time. It is an emotion pe- culiar to Americans, I suppose. I don't know that I agree with Mrs. M Kennedy that the White House has a "cold" appearance. She saw it first as an 11 -year- old when she was taken there by her mother. She recalls it as seeming austere and lacking .in warmth. That is why she is try-. ing to make it seem more "home- like" now to the thousands of school children who tour the downstairs public rooms. In a recent television inter- view she spoke of her effort to make certain that there are flowers on the tables and fires burning in the fireplaces in the winter. Through her new Fine Arts Commission, the First Lady is hoping to recover for the White House "more pieces of beautiful furniture that belonged to all the Presidents," The White House has very little antique furniture now. Most of its original furnishings were burned in the. War of 1812, La- ter, Presidents who came and went disposed of the furniture as they liked, Some of it was even auctioned off in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, Chairman of Mrs. Kennedy's commission is Henry B. du' Pont, director of the Winterthur Cor- poration. Winterthur is the famed du Pont museum in Wil- mington of fine American furni- ture and decorative objects of the 1640 to 1840 period. "Anyone who has seen Winter- thur will kow that we are seri- ous in' what we hope to do," Mrs. Kennedy stated during the television interview, "We don't really want to re- strict it to any special period because this house can't be a rigid museum. Everyone who has lived in it is a part of it, We just want to get the best things," Living in the White House has its problems, particularly when it comes to raising children in HANDLE WITH CARE "Crated for export," Paris model, Jo -nine, wears a new short spring and summer hair style of hairdress- eras Prevost i • Henry Prevost. os r v t g ves his creation a final check before Janine and other models de- part for the United States. the constant glare of publicity that surrounds the nation's first family, writes Josephine Ripley in the Christian Science Monitor. Mrs. Kennedy gave as an ex- ample her desire to take Caroline to the circus. She finally de- cided against it because sheknew it would immediately focus at- tention on her daughter and spoil it all for her. So Caroline was sent to the circus with a friend where, un- recognized, she had just the kind of a good time any child would. "I worked so hard to make her little ballet school a private thing we could do together — end there were all the photog- raphers waiting there when we got there, So it is a little' hard." So far she feels Caroline has not been changed by the atten- tion, "She is still too little," but Mrs. Kennedy confessed that she looks forward with some appre- hension to the time when her daughter will start going to school. As she put it: " ... , if she is in the papers all the time, that will affect her little classmates and they will treat her differ- ently. That is why I am so anxi- ous—we always treat her the same, but it is how otherr people treat her because they have read about her." The Kennedy children's play- ground, with the swing, jungle gym, and sand box, is so close to the street press photographers had no trouble at all snapping pictures of Caroline at play re- cently. They have been especial- ly requested not to do this again. Caroline and her brother were nowhere to be seen when news- paper women arrived for their luncheon party, Parties at the White House can.be exciting for those who attend them, Hut possibly young tenants peeping out of upstairs windows may have a different point of view. The possibility of installing stamp -selling machines on mail boxes intrigues the 13,S, Post Office, Some wives think the innovation needs a mechanical arm to tap husbands on the arm to remind them to also MAIL. the letter. GREAT RECEPTION TO GRAND OLD. MAN — U.S. dignitaries visit Churchill aboard ship Ohurohill's quiet return was in contrast to a previous visit over nine years ago. In January 1952, the then Prime Minister received a standing ovation. right, as he 'odd'ressed a joint session of Congress in Wash- ington. Churchill announced he had come "not for gold but for steel" as Britain in those days sought to relieve an economic crisis. n#6 a, .a. -BONELES IN1ReousehtiottneF M What a day — rain, snow and high winds; ditches running and. the backyard like a swamp. But thank goodness all the moisture is outside, not so much as a trickle in the basement. And speaking of moisture, we are now able to drink water straight from th tap without that awful taste and odour of phenol that was with us for over a week, The township water commission still isn't sure of the source of, the phenol, Wherever it came from we certainly hope we don't get it again. However, it answer- ed one good purpose — it made us appreciate our usually good water supply. And yet I suppose we shouldn't let such trivial matters as wea- ther and water concern us when bigger events are taking place — Russia sending the first man into space; signs of moretrouble in Cuba, and so on and .so forth. By comparison you and I are little people, aren't we . . , little people who understand our small everyday problems better than problems of space and revolu- tions. And isn't it better so — that is, better for our peace of mind? In our immediate family Jerry has developed German measles — right after the three of them had just recovered from chicken- pox. Gustav, the new pup, is still is still providing Dee with plenty of exercise in her attempts to get him house-broken. And we have had dog difficulties of an- other nature. Last Wednesday two black retrievers were frisk- ing around outside with Taffy. They were lovely dogs, friendly and full of fun but came to us directly when -they were called. Obviously they had escaped cus- tody from someone or some place. Between us Partner and I Managed to catch them and tie them up we were so afraid they would Eet hit on the road. We fours , they "carrie,l tags giv- ing iving the name, r edress aac. phone number of their owners — - wise precaution — making it a simple mater t:. cons -t them which we didThe f'eedotn of the dogs wassoon explained. The lady of the house had gone shopping, leaving the ten - months -old dogs in a fenced -in enclosure, They had climbed it and jumped over the top. To get here they had crossed the busy '.Dundas Highway, so you can imagine how delightful Mrs. — was to get them back again, safe and unharmed. Our next excitement was watching the N.H.L. hockey tele- cast. The finals were the most exciting of any series that we - remember: Now hockey is over for another season and in their play for the Stanley Cup, the Chicago Black. Hawks have won a well-deserved victory. Workwise I have been busy catching un on household book- keeping. Which leads to a cru- cial question . is it, or isn't it, worthwhile to keep track of day by day expenditure? One person whose opinion I asked replied — "It is bad enough spending the money without worrying about where it goes" Another couple told me they al- ways live on a well-balanced budget. As for us we don't at- tempt to budget but we do keep an itemized account of every- thing we spend. That way we know if we are spending too much in any one direction. I'm the book-keeper in our family. I find it fun — and full of sur- prises. Ihave my own system of book-keeping — which probably no one else would understand! I keep a rough, everyday record which at the end of the week I break down into separate head- ings and enter into a three -col- umn account book. It was with the weekly account book I was behind, but it was quite easy to bring it up to date. And here is what I found. During the first fifteen weeks of 1961, in com- parison with 1960, we spent more on fuel but less on food, gas and drugs. And Partner is strutting like a,peacock because during that seine period he has smoked one can less_ of 'tobacco! Other thing's were more or less equal so that the overall picture show- ed a decrease of about three dollars weekly. Now, in view of all the public- ity there has been just lately about what it costs to live it might inturesl you t', .cpow that our total outlayfor food each week averages'$12',94• That hi eludes meat; groceries, .bread, milk andeggs--fol ourselves, one cat, one dog and any company that we may have. Last year it was $14.44 so either we arc eat - sod less or the cost of some of the items we buy has gone down. I'try to buy economically but we ' certainly, have all we want of good, plain food, We could live on less if I did more baking. But at this stage of the game saving work is as important as saving money. The most important thing as I see it is to, live within one's income — and to pay cash right across the board. Installment buying is something of which we have never approved. If we haven't got the money for what -we want we do without it, Years ago I heard a lecture in which the speaker said — "If you earn 95 cents and spend a dollar you're in trouble." That is as true today as it was then, and always will be, Q. Would it be all:. right for a girl to send a young man, a birthday card, even though he has never sent her a card or giv- en her a gift of any kind? A. There is never anything wrong with a gesture of thought- fulness and friendship such as this, Sun-Sational PRINTED PATTERN 4822 SIZES 2-8 U�- Yt►i� - get Cool, pretty and quick to sew —it's the muu-muu! No fitting problems—pop it over daughter's head to wear as sundress, smock, beach cover -all. Pattern includes pretty panties. Printed Pattern 4822: Chil- dren's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8. Size 6 dress, 2% yards 35 -inch fabric. Send FIFTY CENTS (504) (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. ' ANNOUNCING t h e biggest -fashion show of Spring -Summer, 1961—pages, pages, pages of pat- terns in our new Color. Catalog— just out! Hurry, send 350 now! ISSUE 18 -1961 HISTORICAL MURAL — Former President Harry S. Truman and artist Thomas Hart Benton pose in front of Benton's large mural, just cornpleted in lobby of Truman Library at Inde- pendence, Mo. Months of research and eight months of actual painting went into the project.