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The Seaforth News, 1961-11-09, Page 2Wedding Looked Like A 3atilefield As the 180 wedding guests settled into their seats, the or- ganist's hymns soared to the top hf the nave in Bournemouth's 30 -year-old Holdenhurst church, i, hen came the wedding march • ram Lohengrin and oh's and +ph's from the. audience as the. bride and groom moved down the aisle and stood before red- Carpeted altar steps banked with cqthrysanthemums and dahlias. The Rev. William Stedmond, a pink- cheeked gentleman who has mar- ried more than 1,400 couples in his 355 years as an Anglican clergyman, cleared his throat, "Dearly beloved,' he began, "we are gathered together here in the sight of The vicar got little further than that, "As if he had been poleaxed," the best man, Geoffrey Farwell, dropped to the floor in a faint, his head striking the altar steps with a thud. "I was horrified," the vicar re- counted last month, "but I went right on." He didn't go on for long, though. Thinking that the best man had fallen dead on the sport, a young choirboy in a white sur- plice keeled over in a faint and had to be carried out of the choir loft. Shaken, the vicar continued, But again: Not for long. The bridegroom, 20 -year-old Alan Farwell, suddenly turned pale, swayed momentarily, and then collapsed to his knees, His bride-to-be, pretty Gillian Scare, helped hint, to his feet and held firmly to his arm until the 'mo- ment came when she was to re- ceive her ring. At this point the bride's father had to rummage through the pockets of the best man—still prostrate—to retrieve it, "On humanitarian grounds," Vicar Stedmond omitted the usu- al address to the wedding couple and raced through the rest of the ceremony. "Same wedding cere- monies do have their troubles," he told a reporter. "But I've never known anything like this one—the church looked like a battlefield." . Was there any explanation? Some parishioners believe, the vicar said, that ancient spirits may have reappeared to cause mischief, But the vicar himself Eiscounted this. "It was a chain reaction," he said, "Mass Hy- iteria." Simple Seaming PR iNTED PATTERN 4-404e-744.4 -746$, Pocket-ful of flowers—colour- ful touch for a perfectly plain (and plainly perfect) sheath, Easy enough to sew in a day — smart enough to wear every - v -here, Printed Pattern 4846: Half Sizes 14%, 161A, 181/2, 201/2, 221/2, 241/2. Size 161 takes 31/e yards 39 -inch, Embroidery transfer. Send FIFTY CENTS (50¢) (stamps cannot be accepted,use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly, OOZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE UMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St„ New Toronto, Ont, FALL'S 100 BEST FASHIONS — separates, dresses, suits, en- sembles, all sizes, all in our new Pattern Catalogue in celour, Sew for yourself, family. 350, Ontario residents must include le Sales Tax for each CATA- LOG ordered, There is no sales tax on the patterns. MQTHER'S LITTLE HELPER — This little cutie is Debbie Sue Brown, 5, and doing dishes is fun for her. Debbie Sue is 1962's U.S, March of Dimes poster child. she was born with an open spine which was corrected by surgery, made possible by March of Dimes funds. Today Debbie Sue can walk without braces but wears half -leg braces for cor- rective purposes following the operation. CHRONICLES OF Ginger Farm.. Here's one for the record. On Sunday morning, October 15, we saw snow for the first time this season. It was very fine, never- theless it was snow. And that after a record high of 80 degrees earlier in the week. But we still haven't had a killing frost. Last night we thought there would be one and at two o'clock in the morning I remembered a very special begonia was still out. So I got out of my nice warm bed, went outside and brought the plant in, It was already potted but it is such a huge plant we wanted to leave it outside to the last minute. I don't think I ever saw such a huge begonia — great, big leaves and stems — and it all grew from one small slip I plantecl last spring. Well, I suppose everybody has been in a mad rush just recent- ly. Doesn't matter how long the good weather lasts there are al- ways last minute chores to do when the weather changes, We have rescued what was left in the garden — flowers, bulbs and vegetables. Everything except the geraniums. One of the plant- ers is even now a mass of red, geraniums still blooming as ii it were the middle of summer. The plants have grown so big I can't possibly handle them in the house. We are still on the run in other ways too — entertaining and being entertained — and last week I started making six pairs of pyjamas for three of our grandsons. Saturday I went to a sort of family dinner party that Dee was giving for her Aunt Queenie. Partner wouldn't go — he didn't want to miss his foot- ball game on television! That wasn't quite so ungracious as it sounds because his sister will be back with us on Monday so Part- ner says she will have seen enough of him before she goes anyway. Anybody been watching "Ben Casey" on television — that is, a new series of dramas dealing with doctors,. hospitals and pa- tients? It is fine if you can take it but I am not too sure it is a good idea for people who are sick to watch it too closely. 1 get en- thralled with any picture of that type in fact I would love to have been a woman doctor. "Dr. Kildare" is good but I think "Ease Casey" is even more realistic -- perhaps perhaps too much so. As an il- lustration I will tell you ' an amusing incident that happened to me, We had watched "Ben., Casey" followed by the late news and then we went to bed. I was soon asleep but in a little while I was awake again and was dis- tressed to feel a queer buzzing in my ears. It kept on, nomatter which way I turned. I remem- bered people with' high blood pressure do sometimes have ear trouble but I had never been bothered before. Thinking of Ben Casey I said to myself — "Is this what happens when the carotid artery acts up?" Then I thought — "This throbbing is such a peculiar sensation. If I had to describe it to a doctor what would I say? Probably the best description would be that it was something like the buzzing of a fly," With that the thought came to me ... "A fly — maybe it IS a fly!" I sat up in bed, put on the light and looked at the pil- Ioy. No fly. But I use two pil- lows so I lifted the top one, and sure enough, trapped between the two pillows . was a stupid, buzzing fly! imagine 'hearing a fly through the thickness of a feather pillow. It- was one of those crazy shingle flies that flop around for awhile and then falls on its back and dies, -But •I'm telling you no other case of "noises in the head" 'could have been more realistic. And as you see it wasn't even imagination, The noise was there all right al- though it turned out it wasn't exactly a symptom of high blood pressure! As to that I know one thing that can raise , a person's blood pressure, and that is taking a car on the road. What road? Any road. You can't drive these days without running into detours and road construction. Friday I was shopping just two miles from home. There was a survey party right where I get on to the high- way. A little further along men were felling trees and had trucks along the side of the road. I knew No. 10, was shut off so I took a 'sideroad, only to find it unusually busy. I found out why when I got ' to the end of the road., Men were putting down new paving on a section of No. 10, north of No: 5, hitherto un- touched, That is about the busi- est . intersection around here and the Department of Highways chose Friday afternoon to work on it! I know road work must be done•but it sometimes appears that the Department goes' out of its way to find the most incon- venient time to do it. On this occasion I had to park my car and walk a considerable distance to the bank, dodging my way around heavy road equipment, Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. Is it considered proper to send a male patient in a hospital cut flowers? A, Although not "improper" cut flowers are usually sent to women, A growing plant is the' customary gift to a male patient. ISSUE44 --• 1961 HIGH 'BROW -- This hand- tooled, 18 -karat gold eyebrow pencil, studded with 'dia- monds dia-monds and emeralds, has a price tag guaranteed to raise anyone's eyebrows.. -$12,500. (That includes tax, of course.) New Hope For The Paraplegics A paraplegic since he fell six floors from a roof to the ground two years ago, Maynard (Red) Berg, 25, wheeled himself into the laboratory at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., one day last summer,'A laboratory technician attached four elect- rodes to the useless muscles of his legs. Wires from the elec- trodes led to a bank of four radio - like amplifiers on a nearby table. Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, attend- ing surgeon, approached the con- trols of the amplifiers, 'paused a moment, and said quietly to Berg: "Get ready, you're going to stand up now." The patient grasped a bar over his head provided to give him balance. Dr. Kantrowitz turned the knobs, sending elect- ric impulses through the wires to the muscles. Red Berg stood up. He was the first paraplegic in history to stand through activity of his 'own muscles, "It was kinda funny," the red - bearded paraplegic says now. "It = was a weird feeling standing there and not feeling the ground below me. I didn't feel any sensa- tion in my legs at all. At first I was really frightened because I didn't think the. electricity could hold me up. But it did." Red's ability to stand was a crude beginning of a process that may take years, but it gives hope that someday , he may be able to walk. It could mean that many of the 250,000 paralyzed war veterans and accident victims may follow Red out of his wheel chair and walk firmly into more productive lives. At a meeting sponsored by International Business Machines Corp. 'in. Endicott, N.Y., Dr. Kan- trowitz recently told what this new " bioelectronic technique portends. Someday, he explained, a complex program of "instruct- ions for walking" will be fed into a combined computer -amplifier small enough for a patient to wear on his belt. Through wires to electrodes, the computer would activate eighteen muscles in each leg in the proper order and at the - proper strength.' The patient would carry a little control box, the size -of a cigarette package, with a "joy stick" on it. When he pushes the joy stick forward, the patient would walk. Push it to the •left and he would turn left. Push it back and he would stop. Aware of the complex prob- lems facing Dr. Kantrowitz and his co-workers, Red Berg, back in his ward, pushes on with his own rehabilitation program, He spends three hours a day exercis- ing in the gym, then studies art in the hope of winning a scholar- ship to an art school, His pare - plegic wardmetes kid him about his visits to Dr, Kantrowitz, and call him "Red the Robot," "Bat- tery Red," and "Ever -Reddy," Dr. Hantrowita himself is con- fidant that someday many para- plegics will walk again. The "U.S. government evidently has that confidence too, Last month, Mai- monides received a $250,000 re- search grant from the National Institutes of Health to assemble team of surgeons, engineers, bio- physicists, and biochemists to work together onthe project. "When we get all the problems licked," Dr, Kantrowitz said, "there's no telling what we could program into the prospective computer on Red's belt. Why, we could. even program a cha-cha- cha for him to dance.'" Higher Standards For Baby Sitters Babies of America, better times are in store for you! High standards for those who substitute for mama — the baby sitters — have been set forth in a handbook just off the press, The booklet by Camp Fire Girls, Inc., is called a child care course. Ideas from many girls and ad- ults went into the handbook. Special help was given by Dr. Margaret Hanlon of St. Louis, Mo., and Agnes Fuller of the Children's Bureau, United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, "A baby sitter is in a sense many people during her work — caretaker, teacher, feeder, dresser, and, very important, friend" says June Hammond, of the Camp Fire Division of Pro- gram Services. She explains that while each girl will have her individual way of doing her best, helpful information is available for all baby sitters. The long list of do's and don't's covers getting perental approval first; agreeing on the fee in ad- vance; learning well the layout of the house where baby lives; knowing the telephone number of the nearest neighbor; thinking of the baby as "a little friend"; playing with the baby, feeding it, taking care of it; also some generalrules of safety applied to emergencies such as what to do if there is an intruder or a fire; and assuming a fair respon- sibility in cleaning -up. The trained baby sitter doesn't come with her brief case exactly, but she does come with a play kit. A whole chapter is given over to "Let's have fun" and what to bring along — such as books, paper dolls, or that old teddy ,bear,keeping in mind the taste and the age' of the child, and being ready for games and music, BABIES GALORE 797 < (ll�. /gym,. t 4tme,lk/J11. A collectionof babies to fas- cinate the tiny tots, whether carriage or crib cover, Each motif is mainly in out- line stitch. 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BEAUTY TREATMENT ? — An estimated 115 persons were injured in a huge explosion that rocked the 16 -building complex of the Helene Curtis 'cosmetic supply plant, Some 2,000 employees fled the plant following the explosion, Plant spokesman said the explo- sion, that caused this wreckage, seemed to come from ,a Chemical tank car on a rail sick ing at the plant.