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Orono Weekly Times, 14 Dec 1961, p. 6

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peais ta the 'unequivocal etbi' et the Sermon on the M,,ounit." But he wrote: "I do not apologize, for the arti- cle . . . lnceed, 1 arn bappy that, ffy controversial discussion--, by eývoking. the 'JnwýAelcomie thought that some of us may be driven ta. iquidating auIr neiglbbr even befare Mr. Khrusbchev's bomrbs cau incinerate him, hielpe t highlight the essentiaily mtoral aspects ai the Great Sheolter De- bate ... "i Reached by Newsweek in re- treat lu Evanston, Ili., the Jesuit editor said the only citicism af bis stand fromi within lis own church had been directed against "thie psychological prudence ai raising such a quesýtion in the public area at thisý tirne." The shelter debate also raged on in the world ai science. Seven University af Iowa phys-icists, Iled by Dr. James A. Van Allen, th-e mari vbise studies gave lhis nme ta the radiation beits girdi'ng eýarth, took issue with Dr. Wiiiard Y, Libby, professor oi chemistry at UCLA, for is recent syndi- cated series of ah"icles wicb car- ried the titie "You Cani Survive Atornic Atta,3ck.'" "It is extremely dangeraus," w/rate the Van Allen group ln a letter ta The Iowa City Press- Citizen, "1ta give the impression to the publie that the building ai .iallout shelters will enable the average citizen 40o survive a nu- clear jwar." Dr, Libby replied: "lt is aý mat- ter aif judgment .. . My message LÎ: It is well ta bave ursurance against fallout because ýit is a great potential killer in case of as - esuWlts SUPER VACUUM-Dirt, stones and' other foreign abjects whiých could damnage the skins and engines of planes ore sweept up by this big matarized vacuum cleanier at Hanscom Field. The nine-tan machine does its job wvhife moving along at 35 ta 40 m.p.h. over the almost six million square feet of romps, runways and taxiways at the field. An eight- cylinder engine powers the 30-foot-long vehicle; a similar engine whirls three giant fans thot suck matjerial into hoppers which are oble to hald six cubic yards of sweepings. You folk who read this calumun - do yau ever feel sorry for yourselves? Wbeu' trouble carnes do yý"ousametjmes say - "Now why should all this bappenta t me?" I arn sure you have said it maore than once -- just as I have. But baven't yau also look- cd around arnd7 cnsidered how lucky you are can'iipared wîth samne ai your frîends and neighi- bours? 1 hope so because that is the best way ta cure anseif ai sli-pityý. And yet an interest lu ather peaple's warries soametinnes creates a prablemn for ourselves. If yau become tco sympathetie about the troubles ai others yau Mnay become sa invalved tbey be- camne y'aur troubles toc! That is gencrally what happens ta me. A friend couf ides that she is baving trouble wi1tb ber 'teenage daughter and 1 lie awake at night wondering wbat I eau say or do ta bip ber. Or maybc a yaung wife gets word that bier mather iving along acrass the sea is seri- ous1y iii, She wonders should. she ý2fiy over ta spe what she eau do to Jheip. Another couple may be having trouble witb acio their chldren at schaol. Accord- io t the school nurse psycbhia- ilri, treatment rnay lie necessary. Othen fricnds may be financialiy '-enbarrassed. Tbcy bâve a biouse for sale on whicb they are pay- ing mortgage interest. But the preseut tàn is nat a slicr's mar- ket sa the house stands ernpty - every day it 'rernains unsold add- ilng ta their difficulties. Or again the problcrn ai an aging iarm couiple. The work is taa much furftbcm but tbey cant- not afford tahrpo elp. Fi- ualiy the farmer cnds up' lu bas- pital -- probabiy for a leugthy session. Ris wife wvornders wbat she had better do - persuade him ta sei aut oýr try ta carry an herseli ai ter gettîng rid aifrnost oi the livesta-ck. These are ail vcry real prob- lemns - as arce'rnny others that have come ta my attention. It seems that at some timre or other every one af us bias some sort ai prablernâ ta face - ill-hcalth, '6in-1aws', financial and sa an. Sai, if you or I are callcd upon for advice and assistance what shaIl we do)? That is quite a question. Noue ai us is possesscd af the wisdom ai S>olomon, sa, lu aur desire ta bell, wc may quite possibly give the wrong advice simrply because we are naot alvways lu f ull possession ai thie facts, Na matter wbat the trouble there are aiwayvs two sides ta every storyv. That we are inclined ta forget sa we should learunat ta be hasty lu judgment. I1ai ten -wonder bow any wornan bias the courage ta run 'a correspoudence colurnu. I wouid nieyer slecp at nigbt for fear I bad givenj the wrong advice ta someone. But anc thing we eau always do - lu persan, or on paper - show; sympathy and undcrstand- ing. Wc can also safely advlse that the parties invalvcd take more time ta tbink things out themselves, or, Iýf necessary ask advice fromf those bohst qualified ta el-xinstrdctor, ïschool DrInciol or i&u.ac-nA itte soul.. NEW- MEDIUM -- Successful as a n1ovelist while stili a teen- ager, Franicoise Sagan is now trying her harid at the stage. Peering through scenery, she's shown here backstage in a Paris theaitre where her f irst play, "Violins, Somnetimes," is going in rehearsal. wihnourselves. Do you know I1 amn acquainted withitwo girls - miarried women now with grow- ing familles - who exchange gifts every Christias for themn- selves and al the children. And ye4 neither mother wouid kný(w the other's children if she met themn on the street. Whxv do they, continue this farce - because each molther -is ai raid it looks mean to quit!r How stupid ean one get? Well, what shouid we do to' help make the festive seasaona littie happier for those7 with whomn we corne in contact - bidren, aduits and old people too. We may 'have' ta stop and think as it may flot be possible to be as generous as wve have been other years - timies being what they are. But we can stili be generous in aux thoughts and maybe a littie more generous with aur timie. Maney isn-'t ai- ways necessary. Hornemnade gifts' are always welcom«,e and a visit to a shut-in or one living lnaa borne for the aged means more than an expensîve gift. Li tact a simple gif t'ta anyone, yaung or aid, that shows an interest in that partïcular pra is bound ta be appreciated. it isn't bard to fiud, sanething to please a elbild but for a person in a homne or hospital iU is somtetimfes %- prablein. Here are a fe sug- gestions: A box of natepaPer and envelopes wih a book of stamps; a special cake oýf toilet soap; a pipe and pouch of tobacco; sub- scription to whatever local news- paper the pterson rnayý be inter- ested lu - thase -aa fromr once farniliar -urroundings love to read the local news. Those are just a few suggestions but dan't forget nothing takes the place of a vîsit- - or if that is impossible a f riendly letter ta prove a, ur genuinie interest. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q.U cake lias beeni served at "oie socia lfunctîin, and no forks are provided, how-, should cite go about eating It? , A. Do not lift the entire slice ua. cake u-) the mcuth. instead, break !t 1tta indîviduai pieces, much as youi would a sce i They Keep Twisting' Ail Over TheMap luI a few briefimionitbs the twTist bas become mare than a dance; itL bas turned into a national ex- cursia1n into no-mind's land. In The New York Timnes last rnta fi-ae $6,000 ad seized a siack-jýawed public by the lapel and proclaim-ed: "manu- factureýrs, attention: A tiew na- tionwide naine ta pres-eil your product . . . The T-wist witb Chubby,Checker (the king of the twist) who created the greatest nationwide dance craze in years!! LICENSES AVýAILABLE! 'BIG NAMES MNEAN BIG BUS- INESS'" it cancluded, quotîng noa one in particular. Harold Bell, Checker's agent, reported that by the very next day be bad received inquiries from nmakers 0f jewelry, bats, scarves, sweatshirts, and blue jai.One 'iucky eariy bird was the f îrm af Thom MeAn, wbicb wan-a license ta make a uine ai Chubby Cbecker Tw1ist sboes. Bell said he had turned down toy manufacturers, not because he was worried about tne tender sensibilities ai tbe kiddies, but because, "we bave a symbol; i's an image, and I tbink we would do harm ta aur image ta get the pre-juveniles lu on it." Bell said that he was bopeful thi's would do as well as the Presley boom, lu wýhicb, at the height _fi the craze, 42 manufacturers sold $30 million worth of retail rubbisb witbini a three-miontb period. But there wvere others getting. into the sacnoili-act. At New York's Metropolitan Museumn af Art, recently, the fashion indus- Year featured Joey Dec, Mi. Twister af the Pepperm-int Loung-e. Dee and bis gang piayed for $150 an haur wbile tbe lead- ers ai fashion flung their farrns inta' the bip-1ip-swinging ritual. James J. Rarimer, the mnuseurn's director, shocuted vain l 1 d not invite themi. tiw , ot aware oa'Ft1hi s, " %ý iile, a t te samie momnent, MnL. -fl r.rof,' in a discreet cornei, vwas leat o- ing how ta twist. ,The pa)ýrty raised $70,000 to-ward aà new wýýýing fo-r the YMuseum i Costume ý,Art. Meanwhile, mnoralists debated, the propriety af the dance. in ber columui, Elsa Maxwell con- fided that Pri-ncess Olga of Yugoslavia had agreed wvith h-erý at the Polish Bail that the twýisýt shouldn't be danced in public places, but onily at private par- ties. Then La Maxwell went an ta confuse zuatters by making. public a private party-Afdiera Fanda'sý blow-aut for bier sîster Lorien and brother-in-law Lobo Gaetani. Descri'bing, the doinigs, Miss Maxwell carefully iisted who bad and who hadn't twisted. The derangemrent was hardly confined ta -New York. Li ke an epidemic, it had swept tie re- public. In the White House, at a dinner dance in banor aoi Mrs. Kennedy's sister, Princess Radzi- wiii, Lester Lanin's orchestra played the twist, ta which Oieg CassÀini and Mrs. Phîiiip Geyelin danced. Pierre Salinger denied seeing it, but this was the green light for Wasbin gton society. Fni- day niglt, Mrs. Herbert M-ay (Mari orie Merriweather Post, Post-Toasties heiress) gave a Party for Diane Dow (Dede) Buchanan, debutante dlaughter ai former U.S. Chief of Protoco1 Wiley Buchanan. Sidney of the Mayflower played the tLw ist, which he said 18-year-old Dede "loves ta' do." (Mrs.Bucbanan swears that she saw the Duke and Duchess af Windsor doing the twist in Paris.) In Atianta, 71-year-oid former mayor William Hartsfieid was twisting at a benefit Soirée Bal at the pash Piedmont Driving Club. In the San Francisco area, where the latest wrinkle isdoing. the twist with a highbail glass, baianced on one's bead, there was a twist party at the fashionable, Burlingame Country Club, in fashionabie Hillsborough. And lu- L.A, where, the Crescendo is the locus of the fracas, the current variations include thbe Back Scratcher j (the twvi ster stands back ta partner and pretends ýta scratch his back against an fimag- inary pillar), the Fi 1ght (baxer's motions, set ta music), and the O'versway (the girl does a baek twist, and the boy a fonward twist, sirntltaneou-,sly), By the weekend there wvere re- ports from Los Anigeles of no less than' three t-wist movies ("Hey, Let's Twist " Twist Around the Clock," and "DomI" the Twist"). And there.was-naturaily--a re- cord called "Mverry Twistras." S -Fram NEWSWEEK - Q. Wouud it be proper 101 as te send a wedding glft of monSeY to soeinenewlywýedls Whe ilverIn a distant city? A. This woul!d be quite AIl night. SmalI Girl Tells Tale Of Korror There was notbing about the. taffy-haired! littie girl resting in lu Miami's Mercy -Hospital last mantb ta bint that she had seen her eleven-year-ald world camie to an end lu a 'welter af blaod ou a night'ai terror aboard the 60-foot ketch Bluebelle. She ate heartly - soip ad scrarnbled eggs for lunch-and slept nor- uially. Que day she wrate a '[et- ter ta aý classmate, 11-year-old Cathy Galloway, back home lu Green Bay, Wis., and remlunded1 lier ai a promised glit ai a kitten., "I'd like ta bave il, wben I get, bome," she wrote. For a child wbo had drifted almast four days on a flimsy lufe naft. 'Terry Jo Dupcrrault was doing flue. Evýen wben the gold- braided men frorn the Caast Guard carne ta ask ber about the sinking af the Bluebelie 125 miles narthwest af Miami, she1 toldl her haijr-raising staxry with- out tears. Terry Jo could nat krnow, of course, that ber accaunt branded as a cold-blooded lie every mna- jor detail ai the story, told by the Bluebeii's Capt. Julian Harvey, a much - rnarried, mnuclt - decorated Air Farce pilot and adventurer. ai 45. Non did she kuow, as did the -Coast 'Guard,' that' Harvey bad fatally sia'shed bis tht'oat and vey escaped ln a dinghy vwith the ,drawnied bady' aio Terry Mos sis- ter, 7-year--al Renee. -Not sa. said Terry Jo; the mas-i did not fail nar was there auy f ire. Sh-e was awalened by "sram-ing and staming," went on deck and saw ber inother and brother lying in pools ai blaod. Harvey, shle said, struck hier and sent bier below. Wheu water raise ta the level ai ber bunk, Terry Jo wcnrt toipside agal ta ask the captain If the ketchi was ulnkiug. I"Yes," h. repllcd, aud boarded -The best git of al costs se: littie - it's a wardrobe for daugbter,'sý new or favorite doIt. Includes dress, coat, hat, juinper, blouse, pai amas, petticoat audÛ paýnties. Easy, fun ta sew. Printed Pattern 4905: For dalla, 14, 16, 13, 20, 22 luches. Yardageu ln pattern. State size. Send FORTY CENTS (stamrpff cannat be accepted, use posWu note for safety) for this Pattern. Please print piainiy SI ZM. NAMIE, A0DDR E SS, STYLEt NUMBER. Send order 'ta ANNE ADAS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., Na~p Toronto, Ont. FALL'S 100 BEST 'FASHIO«8 -separaýtes, dresses, âoiits, ee- sembles, ail sizes, al lu our new Pattern Cataiog in colon. Sew _fçvr yourself, farnîly. 354. Ontaria residents must ineludei le Sales Tax for eacb CATA- LOG ordered. There is no' salea ta-i an the patterins. ISSUE '50 - 19i61' the driiting dinghy. Terry Jq said that shie frced the raf t and fboated aw%ýay in the nigbt. Terry j o apparently did not sec cither ber father or H-arvey's wife, but the Coast Guard sccmred satisilied that Harvey had killed aIl three aduits and twa eidren, cither in a murderaus rage or perhaps ta collect $40,000 ln lusurauce on a policy lie had taken aut ou bis new wife. It wasn't necessary ta tel Tcrry Jo the Coast Guard's theory ai what bad bappened; what she lier'self had seen an that night would lie enaugh ai a heri- tage ai horrar.

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