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Orono Horticultural Summer Flower Sh'-ovl' CANADIAN RED CROSS Business as usual for Red Cross across Ont. Inspite of a near-drought the Orono Horticultural Society Summer. Flower Show flourlshed with considerable interest Arthur Black If you watch a game, it's Ifyouplay t, it's recreation. If you work at t, itts golf Bob Hope Old Si Nose was right -- golf is about as far from fun as it's possible to get without employing fragmentation grenades. Whoever dubbed it a 'game' must have been a card-carrying masochlst. Golf is a deadly serious- business, and so are the utensils golfers use. Th ey aren't called 'clubs' for nothing. N'ýope, golf clubs are weapons, not toys. Now Slinky -- there was a toy. You remember Slinkly? The most unilikely-lookiîng clds toy imaginable. Just a waver- lng stack of thin, colled wlre. No batteries, no wheels, no computer hookups. And kiids stilI go nuts for them. The Slinky was born 54 years ago, in the brain of a U.S. Navy engineer. Richard James was working on a com- plicated bakanclng device for a battleship engine. What he needed was a big spring that would keep the meter level, even at sea in heavy waves. As he hunched over blueprints on lis desk, his elbow knocked one of the pro- totype springs off his desk. But the spring didn't just falI to the floor and roll to a stop. lnstead,- it hit th-e floor, compressed, spiraled up and then kinda.,..sashay-ed across the floor, end over end. James went back to his blueprint, but bis mind was Thursday evening last in the Orono Unlted Church. 1Christine GIîl, Nestleton, and Lorna Atkins discuss Lomna's winning entry in the on that weird coil of wire and the way.it behaved. That nlght he took the coil home with him and showed it to bis wife. They both sensed that theyjust might have a toy fad on their hands. Betty James went through the dictionary and announiced that she had just the name for the new toy. Sinky. Slinky was a slow starter, mostly because kids had neyer seen anything like it before, but it eventually took off. More thani 250 million Sîinkys have been sold in the past haif century. Speaking of silly toys ...how about the silllest of all -- Silly Putty? That too, was an' unec- pected byproduct of a serious research projeet. Back in the Second World War it sudden- ly dawned on the- bigdomes in the U.S. Pentagon that the West was in big trouble. Japans' invasion of the Ar East meant that 90 percent of the world's rubber supply was in danger of falling into enemy hands. No rubber sup- ply would very soon mean no military and civilian compo- nents in literally millions of American machines and instruments, not to mention no tires for American cars of boots for American feet. The generals called General Electric and gave them a sim- ple order: find a chcap, syn- thetic substitute for rubber - - quick. Decorative e4ass. Mrs. Gill was the guest speaker fpr the evenlng outllning the growing and care for Delphinium. One of the GE experts assigned to the project was James Wright, a chemical engineer. Hg thought a mix- ture of boric acid and silicone oil mlght hâve promise, but when he mixed them all he got was a worthless spongy blob. Dîsgueted, he tossed it on the floor. And guîped as the blob rebounded past bis eyes! iThe, blob was definitely bouncier thain conventional rubber. it wâp also stretchier, and had the interesting abil- ity to lift imýiges off newspa- per pages. What it couldn't do was any of the things that real rubber was ýialued for. So it wâs back to the drawing boat d, and 'the blob' became a coriversatioflal curi- ousîty that Wright would bring out ta parties for the amusement ôf bis guests. Fortunately for kids around thie world, two of those, guestsq happened to be in the toy 1business.* They bought the 1iights, came up with the nainei Silly Putty and the idea -of marketing the stuff in plastýic eggs -- and have so far sold 200 million of them. By the wý-iy, just in case you thinik that Silly Putty is utterly frivolous, note that athletes use 1balîs of the stuif to strengtheti their grip, dry cleaners use il to remove lint from celothing. and head wait- ers say Silly Futty is the per- fect thing to put under a wob- bly chair or table leg. Oh yes -- and Air Force test pilots swear Chat Sllly Putty makes the best ear plugs. Nothing silly about that. RECYCLE THIS N EWSP0-APER The decision by The Canadian Red Cross Society to withdraw from the Canadian Blood System in no way effects delivery of its many other vital services and programs offered across Ontario, and upon which many people depend. 1"It's business as usual for us as far as our community services are concemned," said Ontario Zone President Gabrielle Moule. "We have thousands of people counting on Red Cross for Emergency Assistance, Meals on Wheels, Homemaking Services, rides through our Transportation Services, equipment boans from our Home Healthcare Equipment Services, First Aid courses, Water Safety cours- es, and a number of other services we provide on a dally basis." The Red Cross in Durham Region is committed to con- tinue these quality services which, these days, are need- ed more than ever. These ser- vices include Emergency Services, First Aid and Safety Awareness, Water Safety, Meals on Wheels for Oshawa, Aj ax and Pickering, International Services includ- ing Tracing and Reunion, Home Healthcare Equipment Loan Services, Clarington Medical Recycling depot, Homemaki ng, Companion Service, LifeCaîl and Blood Donor Clinicsuntil transition is completed to a new agenicy. The Society is dedicatedt to fulfilling its Mission Statement of improv,,ing the situation of the most vulnier- able throughi its numerous activities in neighbourhoods across the province. "We will continue to deliv- er our community services, working through our branch- es, and where it makes sense to do so, through partner- shîps with olther service providers, governments and communities themselves. In fact, in many cases, those relationshîps along wlth the support of our financlal donors and volunteers are key to our abllity to help meet the needs of the most vulner- able. As our Mission Statement indicates, our day to day concem ,is improving the quality of life for our com- munities and their residents," explains Mrs. Moule. "There are many vuinera- ble people and many needs to be met -- in Ontario, across Canada and around the world," says Mrs. Moule. ffhere Is still a large human- itarian role for the Red Cross to play in helping to alleviate suffering here in Canada and abroad. We have an excellent menu of services avallable today, and we will be looking to expand or modlfy that range of services as requlred and as different needs are ldentifled." Mrs. Moule, a member of the National Board of Governors, added that the decision to end The Socletys 58-year Involvement in the Blood System was in keeping with the view The Society bas held all along -- that an inte- grated blood system under one authority is the best way to provide the safest blood supply possible. As such it was in the best interests of Canadians to allow the new agency to keep aIl the blood program operations integrat- ed -- includlng recrultment. During the transition period Red Corss wlll continue to collect -and distribute blood and urges Ontarlans to con- tinue their support for their local blood dortoir clinlcs and give the gift of life. RESI DENTIAL MORTGAGE RTES Owner Occupied 6 mo. 5.10% 1 year 5.30% 2 years 6.0 0%0 3 years 6.25% 4 years 6.50% 5Syears 6.50% RA TES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE Cail us for other deposit rates and services including FREE PERSONAL CHEQUING. Rates subject to change without notice. PAUL MULLER, Branch manager 15 Charles St., Oshawa 728-4658 Office Hours: Monday to Wednesday ý9:30'- 5:00 Thiursday 9:30 - 7:00 - Friday 9:30 - 6:00