hig _ CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thuireday,. ‘April 29, 1965 ANAT A “> SUGAR AND SPICE Untouched. By Progress Despite the changes In society i in the past 20 years, swift, vast, ,tvlentless, frightening, there Is ‘one social unit that has proved ,, impervious and oblivious 'to the {/ march of “progress,”” |. While it may have changed its terms of reference slightly, oth- erwise It has altered almost not \ at all sinco man first crawled out of the ooze. I am talking eT we stock.a full selection of belie) SAVAGE SHOES ¥ difference, a 68,006 years, was . ny for children’: that the first guy merely had to Maddocks Shoe Store. THIS WEEK AND NEXT Kootenay Builders — and Suppliers — LINOS — SASH AND DOOR __ ALL SIZES OF GLASS CANADA CEMENT -—. PLYWOOD | GLIDDEN PAINTS: gi ABDI ARE Di: $9 i eH BA iy Ac id +t iSCUSSeS ome CCl en s ; ivirs. (1. Johnson, Ph, 965-8294 |ton. and Lt, Jack Ford’ of Hall- _ Gas containers and home E. Newman and L, Acker-;hospital| ravealed that in. the f lerie S | fax, avers high on the ag-| man: were. appointed to investl-| month of March there were 26 oneal Tast Sammepnote: Kes Mr. Ford is a Patient in the ale" Catogar and" Bs | ane" govenmnt "aogs | seen, Homes, sven at] atin hot beatang i? | aragarhomi wey Gem Adee iy ten Pome tok SRC? at he 2 thas siran: Mulan | Mas setelnbarg ay: at:the Kin Bel pom dseda ae i ile lace ithe highways, The day of the Me! and Mrs, Nick’ Stooch-| trom UBC, She will’ be dol oat 0 aj eda nded ‘meeting there had. been: nine | noff and. amily, returned home| 5.0, ‘ gas ch il a Sn geeldenty Jocatly. Sunday from visit at the council woul a purchase | ‘motion was passed to pub-| the const. While there a they were af aa htetzd* the fact that care can | the house guests of Mr. Stooch- carry some bones and hides out- side. I had to make eight trips s the dump, and then white wash the cave, Three thousand years ago, So- crates told his wifc, Xanthippe, that he was going to a sympos!- um, “You mean you're gonna : get stoned with all them bums Castlegar City Contre Motel Blueberry Grossing To the very young, an event which occurred 20 years ago” seems Jlke something which happened a very long time ago. - To those who are older, it might have been only yesterday, There will thus be many shades .of reaction to‘next ©‘: week's 20th anniversary obser- vance of the.end of the war in Europe. While VE- Day did not ~” mark the close of World War 11, May 8 still stands out as the cli- mactic date of the war years from 1939 to 1945, » Twenty years may be only a flick of time in history. But it is also a large period of time in the average person's life. And so much has happened in the past 20 years that had its seeds in those six years of war, that it has taken-the world nearly a gencration to recover, It is beginning to appear that the recovery is almost complete. The cold war has come to an end. The “new war” between the West and Russia, which the defeated Nazis hoped would fol- low the collapse of Germany, never materialized. European colonialism, pros- trate at the end of the war, nev- er rose again. Tremendous scientific forces set’ in motion under the stress of battle have ~ reshaped our lives. The struggle | between - ideolo- gies goes on, but a new set of rales has been superimposed on the old struggtes between states. * World war has become unthin- kable (although not impossible) because all nations would have A too much to lose.’ " All countries suffered heavily in World War Il. Military casu- alties among the belligerents exceeded 15 million, nearly twice those of the first great war. The greatest losses were sus- tained by the Soviet Union. Nearly eight million men were killed in battle. Another three percent. of the population. Vast areas of the land were laid waste, A region as great as the Canadian prairies hed become scorched earth. These figures are worth re- peating at this time because the extent of Russia’s losses are still not generally realized in the Western world. Out of this devastation was borne the determination of Rus- sia’s leaders to render Germany incapable of fighting another war. It is this which accounts for the hardness of the Russian line on Berlin and against the reunification of Germany. . This also is why Russia has enforced pro-Soviet satellite governments on the states of eastern Europe. While only the naive would suppose that the Communists have given up their hope of con- verting the world, the survival and defense of the Soviet Union — itself has been the main preoc- cupaticn of the Kremlin leader- ship all these years. The defeat of Germany. left Russia the master of eastern Europe in the spring of 1945. At- tention then turned to Japan, with the fear that much bloody fighting still reniained before the fanatical Japanese would sue for peace. Looked at from the perspec- tive of 20 years, it can now be seen that the U.S. and Britain were anxious to secure Russia's participation in the war against Japan, but also fearful of invit- ing the Russian bear south from his Siberian compound. ‘The sotution was as dramatic as it was deadly., It is now ac- cepied by competent historians that Japan was ready to quit two weeks before the first A- bomb was dropped on Hireshi- ma. But the Americans went ahead so- as to knock Japan quickly out of the war before the ” Russlans could claim a share of - the spoils, The world may stili be in a terrible mess, but at least we ; have lived through nearly..20 years of the Atomic age without. ig NOW IT's THE SEXYKINI. Last season it was the top- less for beaches, and now it’s the “Sexykini”, designed in Paris, and best described as a bikini with oodles of sex appeal. One above features gold chains to hold up halter top, and to join the front and back portion of the _ briefs. THE HOME TEAM “) happy, about the family. I became aware cf this during a panel discussion by my high schoo! students. The topic was “Early Marriages.” (You'll be glad'to know they are 100 per cent, against them!) One’ panelist .referred to the Glossy, sacckarine, phoney ver- ‘, slon :of marriage presented on - TV and movie screens, She said it gave teenagers a false idea of marriage. A boy promptly snort- ed, “Nobody's taken in by those. We all come’ from homes with married ‘people in:them, Mar- riage isn’t like that ‘at all”? Everyone agreed. And how. right ‘they. were. Those, cute, comtortable and contrived families we see on the sereen are about as much like the real thing as’ a -ketchup- splattered Hollywood war is like a real: war, with real blood, real bodies, real terror. ' Oh, I’ know. There are broken homes and teenage delinquents and all that jazz, But don’t you think there were any such in Rome 2,000 years ago, or Athens $,000 years ago? It’s just that they get a better play in the papers these. days,. Family life always has been, and still is, ‘8 down at the legion hall,” sho snarked. (This was right after the Persian Wars, and the veter- ans were in pretty high regard, the only outfit in town’ that could get a license.) The other night my wife said, “And where in‘ the hell do you erat soutre going? Pray?” replied with some digni- tys tom going to a symposium.” “You’ mean you're going to’ get sloshed with all those al- coholics ‘In ‘your’ ‘investment clab?” she amended. See? The. grammar and'diction have im- proved. But me and old Socrates got the same lunch when we got Bt home: ‘hot tongue and scold shoulder. Two thousand years ago, Ma- caronius Chesius, a Roman sen- ator, toppled into bed at three a.m., after writing a brillant speech for delivery in the senate on the morrow. At 6,15 a.m, he was voulted into wakefulness by - these’ sounds: his son practising on the bucina (a war-horn that sounds Uke a lady moose in la- bor); his daughter chanting, “Eye-eye. and ‘eye-eye makes eye-vee” (I and TI makes IV); and bis wife, who couldn't sleep, walnuts on the head of. of ft and frustration,’ comfort aud chaos. 2 Sixty - elght . thousand. years - ago, ‘this week, some’ crazy, hairy woman waded through the guck and bonés’to the back “of -: the ecve, took a look around, : went back to the fire, kicked her husband and you'd think I was the only guy who ever lost a pep fly In the sun!” "Stockings For Stuffing DEAR SUSANNA: if you are nylon’ stockings, you will have no trouble washing them if you use my method, Cut the stock. ings in 1 inch wide strips, going round and- round the stocking until it is all used up. Now cut the strips into 1 or 2 inch pieces. With this type of stuffing, not only will you be able to wash the toys quite effortlessly, but there will be no problem with their being lumpy or out of shape when they dry. Nancy Brierley DEAR SUSANNA:. Many girls find themselves with a knitted article they don't like, but are at a_loss to know how to. get, the kinks out for re-knitting. One method is. to wind the’: yarn tually washing it Don’t ‘panic, it’s quite simple, and-if you're working with white wool it will probably need washing anyway,. so let's pretend we are. First rewind the wool in skeins — you will know when you have a skein as. you'll come to a join or splice. The padded back of a small kitchen stool or chair ss ideal t for: winding, or a. “shoe box used: lengthwise will do. Tie each skein with string in 3 places, the middle and 2 ends, ” Squeeze “gently through warm “water to which a ‘nylon liquid hasbeen added — NO SOAP, Rinse well. Roll in a towel ay hang up to 0 diy. This way, ALL ‘will be! out, and-your "Old Hand” . » and if you are drying your skeins outdoors, be sure to stay that’ old. ‘sunshine fellow can create some weirdo effects on white yarn. 5 Susanna DEAR SUSANNA: Many of us do not know how to pin a fairly’ - heavy brooch onto a delicate piece of material so that the: garment won't seg under the weight of the jewelry. I do. Just hold a piece of felt under- -neath the fabric of the dress'or thickness keeps everything in its -. right place. Glenna G, DEAR SUSANNA: Flower lov- ers, do you sometimes find your lovely glass vases are left with anasty rusty-looking stein inside - that just won't come off? Hot vinegar is the answer. Soak the 4 brown marks for a few hours, brush lightly, and they will dis- appear. Kay Hanagan | Watch it there! Before adding ~ hot Uquid to glassware, don’t forget about placing a * metal: utensil inside so you won't crack’ *."" your favorite vase. No need to throw this vinegar with’ va‘ little’ water ‘and: brustt down, the’ dusty, stones, around your, fireplace to make ; them. sparkle or for'removing the rust” marks on a white sink. You'll find dozens of uses for it. . .de- pending, of course, on how much of a mood you are in for spring. cleaning! 3 Susanna oa the shady side of the street — burbled, /‘Come ‘on, Buster, we're Soing to clean this place up." And the day before yesterday, ‘my wife took me by the hand, led me. down