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3 a ee ee 10 THE OSHAWA 'TIMES, Tuesday, September, 11, 1962 BACK DOING LEG WORK Mrs. Ann Mord, whose legs appear on packages of Bear Brand stockings manufactured by her husband's British hos- iery firm, posed in her Lon- don office Monday after re- turning to work as marketing director. Mrs. Ford, who re- signed in a policy dispute Aug. 24, said her disagree- ment with the firm's board of directors has now been re- solved. Her legs have been credited with selling an esti- mated 12 million pairs of stock- ings manufactured by her hus- band, Philip, who is board chairman. --(AP Wirephoto from London) via cable Dairy Queen From Britain Tours Canada LONDON (CP) -- Heather) Bomford, Britain's 18-year-old) dairy queen, now is on a month- long tour of Canada that will take her from Montreal to Vic- Since Britain never has and probably never will export a single drop of milk to Canada, the trip is described as a good- will visit. Heather, who comes from Droitwich in Worcestershire, has already proved herself a good advertisement for milk. At a champagne teception last July she persuaded the presi- dent of the Chamber of Com- merce in Boulogne, France, to sip milk. "More than anything else I 25 Months In P To the north and east, across a sea of grey tile roofs of the one and two - storey houses which fill Peking's residential areas, are more new factories and apartment buildings. The new national art gallery, opened last May and of cream- colored stone with gold and green roofs and trimming, 1s one of the best examples of the marriage of ancient and mod- ern architectural, styles in the new Peking. Some who remember the Pe- king of the past, when it was a quiet town of university in- tellectuals and officials, lament the changes which have turned it into a busy national capital and industrial centre. Great sections of the old city have been ripped down. Narrow streets have become wide bou- levards, with houses cut by half and courtyards eliminated to make room for them. Few cities in the world can match, for size and grandeur, the Avenue of Perpetual Peace, which crosses the city from east to west 'across the main Tienan- men Square. OLD AND NEW Within the 20 mile circle| around Peking which is open to} Westerners, you come across frequent examples of old and Clare McDermott, leaving Peking after 25 month, as .Reuters .correspondent there, reviews in the follow- ing story the changes he has seen during his assignment. McDermott is a native of Edmonton. By CLARE McDERMOTT PEKING (Reuters) -- Peking, the capital of China, combines ancient splendor with new vital-| ity, making it, for its few for- eign residents, one of the world's most fascinating cities. Like Paris, it has the quality of bringing a misty look to the eyes of even the most hardened travellers long after they have left. : After living in Peking for 25 months as Reuters correspond-| ent in Communist China, I feel I have joined those ranks and have little doubt that in future years. It too wifl lapse into a faraway silence when anyone mentions the unique beauty of the "summer palace," or the "temple of heaven," or the ex- quisite taste of Peking duck. From the rooftop patio of the house where I lived during the last months of my assignment, I looked upon a wide panorama) of new and old Peking. | The "forbidden -city" id the fe Manchu emperors, overthrown : : : se in the 1911 eck looms to|_,Factory chimneys and mages the west, just across a narrow|°! wofkers' apartments Ss and moat. Beyond its golden roofs above ancestral graves and an- and fiery red walls, new fac- cient temples in the western tories and public buildings stand) Suburbs, ee Pg Bango et out against the timeless A ees does still ag owager em-| quillity of the western abe |" In the new dipiomatic quarter {outside old Peking's eastern ANTIQUE CAR EXPERT || wall, only the modern architec- MONTREAL (CP) Mrs.| ture of the Polish and Czecho- |Robert Turnquiet of Morris-| slovak embassies enliven the town, N.J., a visitor here, lives) scene. The other embassies, on the upper floor of an 1896) built by the Communist Chi- carriage house. On: the ground nese, are all alike. floor are her five antique Pack-| Newly - planted trees are just ard cars and one modern car,| beginning to break up the grey She is the membership secre-| pattern of brick, stone. and grey tary. for the 3,000 - member earth. Vegetable gardens. take |Classic Car Club of America. | UP the space between the dip- | | lomatic 'buildings and there are RICH FILLING no playgrounds for the dozens AUCKLAND, N.Z. (CP) --/of foreign children who live in Dennis Cross, 17, eating a pie| the apartments. for lunch, put in his thumb and| Life in the non - diplomatic pulled out a four-sapphire en- residential areas is more pleas- gagement ring. A check showed| ant. Chinese neighbors are it belonged to a woman on the friendly and talkative and chor- pie company's staff who had) uses of happy children crowd been searching frantically for) around my apartment's big red it, and Cross got a $9 reward.| street door, greeting every ar- rival and departure. BUSY STREETS Only 50 yards away is the Chinese equivalent of an Eng- lish "pub," where pedicab driv- ers and residents gather to drink good draught beer, soda water, or tea. Grocery stores, where house- want to get a real pair of leather cowboy boots,'"' she said before leaving for Canada. "They'll be just the thing on daddy's farm." Heather was crowned the 1962 queen after becoming Bristol's dairy princess earlier this year, | friend." Reuters Man Reviews most endless list. Standing out among them are: Perfect days of boating on the "summer palace lake," under! « oy clear blue skies, with bese i wall," and animated dis-| 'Those wonderful meals with -- from several nations. cussions on the patio of our|Chinese friends at the Peking Picnics in the shadow of the| house, with a full moon shining Duck restaurant, and . spicy Ming tombs, or along thelon the "forbidden city." food from Szechwan province. ccaaanninl eking holders line up for their rice rations, are farther down the street and vegetables are sold from carts which stand on. the corner morning and evening. The street hums with life. Itinerant barbers and_ knife grinders, tinkers and cobblers, announce their arrival with loud, wailing cries, or a mis- cellany of improvised cymbals|f and horns. On the banks of the moat sur-| rounding the "forbidden city,") students sing airs from Pcking operas. The most rewarding experi- ence is to walk in the narrow } | Photo Co-op 3 Star Salesmen AUGUST 1962 _ lanes, called hutungs, winding between main streets, | These dirt tracks pass be- tween the dusty grey walls of closely - packed houses, each) buil round a tiny, enclosed) courtyard. | PERFECT BOATING DAYS Open gates afford glimpses into these homes, while the! lanes themselves are the play- grounds for Peking's thousands. of children, who follow a for- eigner of any nationality calling out: "Russian friend, Russian The memories which will al- Les : JERRY COADY Uriah Jones Real Estate LORNE HARTFORD i % ' 5 & teas taal tau IRWIN CRUIKSHANKS . 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