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hills in trisco would raise our hair says stouffvillite r ire 1 cliff salmon belllngham washington friday dec 2 1949 ii folks here we are almost to the can adian border and many miles liorth of old ontario it is not enerally realized on either side of he line that a substantial chunk if the usa is really north of the jroronto area stouffvillites and irorontonians are southerners com pared to the population of wash ington oregon idaho montana fete if you draw a line straight jvest from toronto you will hit a joint on the pacific coast of oregon veiy close to the border of california ive had a lot of fun vith this fact talking to american riends who think ontario is fcynomymbus with ice snow and polar bears here it is raining cats dogs and buckets and has been 90 percent fjf the way up the west coast so four sightseeing has been at a low tebb i suppose you folks will have jneard of the flood conditions but here in your newspapers well 50 far we have managed to avoid floating and strange to say there is less mud outside our trailer door than there was in many other places to the east we hear that vancouver has been having quite fa time of it and sure hope that when we get there tomorrow that jthe water will be under control ve arent due to be on the ocean kill dec 22nd i well to continue on about our trip we left los angeles on nov l2th and after gassing up and checking over all running equip ment we followed north on the jsoast highway this took us once again through santa monica the jspot where we first saw the pacific jocean further along we saw or rather went through the famous malibu beach area we couldnt see much because in this area the beach seems to be all private property and was fenced in for miles there is hardly a beach lot that has not been built on we had lunch on the sands near ventura in our bathing suits while the kiddies played at the waters edge by 4 pm we had found a trailer park in santa barbara and after dinner went for a drive around the city santa barbara is a very beautiful place and in our estima tion represents southern cali fornia at its best the atmos phere of the town was so pleasant in more ways than one people didnt seem to be in a hurry to get someplace as in la it seemed restful to us here after the merry- goround in la and the air was the kind you wanted to take big lungfulls of a treat to us after the smog in la which at times made your eyes smart before taking off on sunday morning we visited the santa barbara mission and took some is the home town of the biggest and best clams in the world or so we were told we found a trailer park called the seafarer which was located right on the beach and was one of the nicest parks at which we have stayed at pismo beach the beach itself is excep tionally wide even at hightide and is never without clam fishermen the technique seems to be to prod the sand every few feet with what looks like a hay fork if you hit a clam you dig and thats all there is to it no hooks no line no rod and no bait sounds like a cinch doesnt it not being clamlovers we contented ourselves with col lecting used shells some of these will eventually make the trip east if the canadian border authorities dont confiscate them a clam shell is a natural ashtray an interesting chap lived in the trailer next door he was an elec trical engineer in the phillipines and was unable to get his family out ahead of the japs so they were interned by the japs for three years at manila he also was addicted to kodachrome film and had a projector so we spent the evening in his trailer screening hi pictures and ours the next hop was to old mont erey famous in song and historical romance we spent three days here and visited most of the his toric sites the city fathers sure have played their advantage to the hilt and they certainly have built it up into a major tourist attrac tion we were in robert louis stevensons house which incident ally was just recovered from private hands this month and opened to the public we also saw the first and oldest theatre in cal ifornia which is still used for putting on oldfashioned plays a novel feature of the town is the way they have laid out the route for doing up all the historic spots a broken orange line down the road leads over five miles of this scenic route and it doesnt matter where you start in so long as you follow through to where you began they call this the path of history according to reading material furnished monterey bay contains a greater variety of sea life than any other waters in the world we visited the famous fishermans wharf to have a looksee and came home with fresh salmon to cook for supper also we took a picture or two of the sailboats which were there in hundreds while staying at monterey we took in the 17 mile drive and ended up at carmelbythesea about half way in the drive there are some seal rocks to be seen off shore we heard them barking long before we came to the spot the noise never steps the rocks at this point are literally covered with seals some were cavorting the tribune stouffv1lle ont december 15 1949 second section childs foot injured in helping santa anxious to aid santa claus during his annual parade through newmarket terry gorman six left tried to help santas carriage up hill had foot run over but now terrv is the envy of brothers johnny and peter since santa paid him a special visit at his home a place called the wonder hill and it is wellnamed we are still wondering we went to see and to debunk we left scatching our heads for the reasons why old man gravity who is normally con sidered a constant at this one spot in monterey county is acting very queerly indeed there is an affect ed area about 100 feet in diameter they have installed two cement blocks at the edge of the area one just inside and the other out the guide has a spiritlevel and proves to you that the blocks are both the same height which they certainly are then doris stood on one and i on the other facing one another dpnt think im lying or crazy but lo and behold she was taller than i which all of you know just isnt so then we switched and i was so much taller than she that it i wasnt a bit funny with this for a starter we went on to see the rest of the demonstrations it got worse and worse to stand feeling comfortable at all we were stand ing at an angle of 45 degrees with the outside world all of us the children doris and i and the guide there was a large iron weight hanging from a rafter in the ceil ing of a room now everybody knows that any hanging weight can be pushed in any direction with equal pressure this one didnt though one way it was like pushing feathers the opposite way my whole weight could hardly budge it the weight was hanging by an ordinary piece of cord which i examined after which i wondered whether i should go and be examined myself the experience didnt have muchi effect on me other than upsetting my confidence in my reasoning powers but it made both doris and peter quite sick at the stomach having everything around them so topsyturvey to some extent it was like being aboard ship only with the motion constant in one direction if you get what i mean that the direction in this case was not down as it is every place else i am positively sure of but why it is so is quite beyond my compre hension the guide told us that a famous physicist from a neighbor ing university visited the wonder hill a short time ago and when asked for comment he replied take me to a psychologist the story goes that the owner of the property wanted a cabin built on this hill not knowing its screwy properties the carpenter went to uxbridge man found not guilty a verdict of not guilty was returned by a jury at general sessions court in whitby last week following hearing of evidence from two crown witnesses in a theft charge which had been preferred against clifford rodd of uxbridge judge d b colemon instructed jury that there appeared to be insufficient crown evidence to proceed with the trial ciown evidence in the case was adduced by alex talil kc the investigating constable was frank gotlley opp rodd was defended by a w s greer kc austin husband 23 of uxbridge told the court that on the night of april 29 last ho was coming home with a party from the drivein theatre after leaving highway no 12 lie had a flat tire and had to stop being unable to make the repair then lie hailed a passing car and drove into uxbridge returning to his car next morn ing he found that his car radio antenna and rear view mirror had been removed subsequently husband saw the accused in uxbridge and saw his mirror in rodds car it was found that rodd resides close to wfiere the car had been parked on that night and upon investigation the radio was recovered work but before long nearly drove himself crazy everytime he had something erected vertically it fell over i am enclosing a little pamphlet we got at this place which you can read over i should also mention that even the trees on this patch of land were growing out on an angle after this exper ience we were glad to drive on through a familiar world and find a trailer park near santa clara here we ran into fog and rain and it has been fogging and rain ing most of the way ever since there were some occasions when the sun brightened the sky accidentally and if it happened to be near anything photogenic we snapped a picture we had a look around frisco saw the docks continued on back page jmmr pictures we landed there as the about in the lagoon between the folks were leaving church along the side of the building under a covered balcony quite a crowd was gathering this included several of the franciscan brothers dressed in their distinctive brown robes we went to have a look and found the people buying choice fruits scrumptiouslooking homebaking flowers beautifully designed child rens clothes etc we bought some cakes which we enjoyed very much apart from really lovely ocean scenery the trip from santa bar bara to pismo beach was unevent ful we passed through several nice little towns each with its quota of pretty homes schools stores and parks we stopped to search for sea shells on a piece of beach that was close to the road pismo beach is a quite spot it beach and the rocks but we couldnt coax one of them close enough to have him pose for us carmel is positively the quain test town i have ever been in almost every home and building has been designed to be different from the usual the town is built on a hill overlooking the ocean and a beautiful beach the sand on this beach is the whitest ive ever seen we had lunch here and all took off our shoes and went for a walk barefooted the kiddies spent about an hour collecting sea shells then we watched the sun sizzle into the ocean before start ing for home on the way north again on nov 17th we ran point blank into one of the most mysterious and un explained things about 8 miles from the town of salinas there is wd4a it it t 41 f tt it o it it all veterans children accompanied by their parents are invited to a christmas party monday dec 19 veterans memorial hall at 730 pm clowns movies singsong make up a portion of evenings entertainment santa claus will be there with a rift for each one of the children present transportation provided to and from hall phone 38j3 it it it it it it a it it t it a it it it it s i whiteonwhites pastels choice of collar and cuff styles tfhsm give him a new shirt wardrobe in his favorite style shirts a welcome gift always come in early select his most becoming style from our wide assortment of whiteonwhites and pastels in finest broadcloths cottons and pure silks hell appreciate your thoughtf ulness youll appreciate our downtoearth prices choose now we lay away till christmas len wilkes phone 24wl stoufiville clothes shop next ratcliffs grocery i