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The Coral Gables Times

Thursday, March 1, 1962, page 19 (of 43)

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POUR SPRAY Sta-Flo now in 2 forms especially made for easy ironing

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Mrs. Jeanne K. Barnett, of Alexandria, Virginia, writes to tell us about a government employee friend of hers who has found an ingenious way to avoid morning-traffic jams on the bridges leading from his Montgomery County, Maryland, home to his office in Langley, Virginia. He simply bought a canoe. Now each morning, while others fight the traffic, he parks his car near the Potomac River, paddles across in his boat, and strolls leisurely through the woods to his nearby office. • • The automobile, according to a Westbury, New York, reader, has proved to be a great moral force in America because it has stopped a lot of horse stealing. • • Here's a great idea that should comfort any Dade County and Broward County, Florida, mothers who may have to spend some time in Miami's Mercy Hospital. Although the rules against children visiting in their parents' rooms are still strictly enforced, the hospital has rigged up a closed-circuit television system whereby a child takes a seat in the reception room and a tv camera in the ceiling picks up his image and beams it to a set by his mother's bedside. He and Mom then visit on the telephone, while Mom watches him on the screen. The youngster, in turn, sees himself on a monitor, so it's great fun all around. • • Although he's in Japan with the U.S. Air Force, Airman 2-c William H. Blakely, of Randolph, Massachusetts, won't feel lonely for a long time to come. Whenever he misses home, all he has to do is whip out his letter and read it for a few days. It all started some time ago when two of Airman Blakely's pen pals decided to start a letter to him on a roll of wallpaper. Everyone who came into the house was invited to add to the letter, which finally turned into a long chronicle of recent events in the lives of Airman Blakely's family, neighbors, and contemporaries. The pen pals then rolled up the wallpaper, put it in a cylinder (after filling the empty space with a candy and nut dividend), and sent it off to the lucky serviceman stationed way around on the other side of the world. • • A Sneden's Landing, New York, reader tells us about the youngster who eagerly coughed up 50¢ to join the Red Cross because, "in war it gives us blood and in peace it gives us disaster."

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