strange lint True min. is. IlncArt.isiir '!'iiere are 36 circuses in America. they employ 5,000 persons and per- form before 10,000,000 persons ev- ery year. Payrolls according to Billboard Magazine,' exceed 31.1.- 000,000 a season. which is about 25 gr 30 weeks lonZ- ' 1: costs the Ringling Brothers ,2; ooo to operate one day in New York City. Ringling Brothers is the 1argest mobile amusement enter- prise on the face of the earth. The big tent contains 38,560 yards of n';g-pl'0ClE canvas which has to be yeplaced every second year; while ,n the road the employees eat in the world's largest tented dininl- mom. Jack Hall. Salt Lake City. was born on March 23; his wife was born on March 23, they first met on March 23; they got married on March 23; and strange but true their baby was born on March 23. Here's another news item to prove ymw dates play quite a role in the lives of some people. on October 13. 1929, Mary Carl- son, of Grand Rapids. Michigan. et her future husband. They went Egethcr for 13 months. Theyigot married Nov. 13, 1930, and lived iogether for 13 years. Mary s lius- hand was a fireman. All his equip- ment. coat, helmet and boots bore the number 18. However, the pmarriage ended on the rock of grief and the couple were divorced May 13, 1943. He then joined the navy and was given number 13 on everything during the 13 months he served overseas. Upon his return home he was again given number 13 in the fire depart- me-nl. After being divorced 13 months Mary married a florist who had been in the business 13 years. Nature and junkyards would take care of you if you wanted to live like Manuel Mayer. 64. of Spring- licld. Ohio. ' ' His home is a cave, his bed an aid sleeping bag. His furnace and packing range is a five gallon can. 1 nearby river provides drinking water and baths. ' lnsurnmei-he eoollhlahulsiri the shade of beautiful trees which grow about his cave. In winter, he retires farther into the natural cave and closes its entrance against wind and snow. C O O A few dollars picked up from the sale of junk keep this nature man in food. Berries, mushrooms, etc.. are provided by nature. You and I might call Mayer a tramp. Mayer doesn't care a tinker's dam what anyone calls him as long as they let him live the way he wants to. Trash dumps have provided Mayer with a bit of spending money and also with the conveniences which his cave boasts, including the clothes he wears. Nocturnal birds and animals and fish living in the dark depths of the ocean nften have unusually large eyes, better to catch the faint light. A bull moose can weigh as much as law pounds. stand 8 feet tall at the shoulders. and have a six-foot spread of antlers. The incisor teeth of a pocket gopher grow almost an inch a week. The animal can keep them rea- sonably short only by constant gnawing. Oontinueti from page 3 British Women look like mannequins," says ling. "I haven't". The outfits include a plain-grey terylene and wool akirt. straight- cut with shaped waistband and pocket, a pale blue rayon skirt in Prince of Wales check, slim with dark blue petorahsm trimming on the waistband and pockets and a pure white terylene skirt with wrap-around iront and side button- Tin- ing. "A golfing skirt must be flat so that there is no movement. between the eye and the ball," said Tinling POCKET MOTIF There are matching white and blue cotton shirts with high pointed collars. cap sleeves and fitted bust and with pocket motif of the Eng- IINDEII NEW be maintained and visit. CHOICE BEEF HAMBURG .. . . SUNNY SPAIN COLD CREAM oz. .. IilX'St GROGETERIA I have taken over the business of Rlx's Groce- teria and trust to have the support of .old and new customers. ' The highest quality of goods will always rsonal attention will be paid to everyone. 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The answer hinges on the la- senibly of the World Council of glint-char opening here next sun- ay. "It will be a initial test." says Dr. W. A. Vaaurt Hooft, the coun- cil's general secretary. "We shall see which is stronger-the force of unity or the force of division." 1119 meeting will be the most representative Ohrlstian gathering lish rose, Scots thistle, Welsh daffo- dil and Irish Shamrock. For colder days there are two boxy sweaters in cashmere, one white and one blue. Both are long-sleeved and hip- length with pockets sporting the floral motif. ' A saphhire blue fitted doeakln flannel blazer tops the lot and there are. terylene socks with lace tops, blue and white mocaasins and gloves. church council Opening Sunday crucial Test Faces World ever held in the American con- tinent. In range of subject, purposes and participation. it may well be the most comprehensive christian assembly ever called. MEETING TIIMID CIUOIAL M1 irhlnl-I considered. says Dr. hum” 91113 1"1'Y. head of the United Lutheran church and vice- cliatrniui of the council's central Wmmlitee. "it is the most crucial lnterchus-cu meeting in cm-ml.” history." Fundamental theological ques- tions, buried through the yearg in the ashes of denominational cleav- Btes and regional aloofneu, will be raised in the first such broad attempt to cement Christlanity's scattered forces. "The -asembly will deal with -5Ub.i60i-5 3133,10 to the very helrt of the faith,' Dr. Fry says, -an is a daring thing to an, M0" than 1.500 representatives from 181 denominations with ap. nroximntely 17o,ooo.ooo members 1" 45 countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain will take part in the meeting. Althoush the world council met once previously-at its founding with and 3 7-” I00 I AI!lUIID-l1 1- iluinc for the out time into basic and potentially shattering- 91' 90m9"d5i-H18-matters of faith. Dr. Samuel Mcllea Covert, the council's American secretary, be- lieves that the churches, "instead of finding themselves ru gm,-g will ”' over that they are on com. 3101! Kround to a for greater extent. than they have known." such discoveries. on less tickligh theological matters, startea gnd 'P""'9d 011 the present-day "ecum. enlcal movement"-to rebuild ,, firm alliance of the world's Chris- tion churches. roman riinovon YEARS It was dreamed, discussed ma designed at succeeding meetings of Christian leaders in Stockholm in 1925. in Lausanne, Switzerland, in l927, at Oxford and Edinburgh in 1037. In 1048 at Amsterdam it cui- mlniited in the world council. Although Roman Catholic churchmen have attended some previous meetings at world council groups, none will be present in Evanston under a ruling by sam. uei Cardinal stritch of the Chicago archdiocese. 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