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Sunday. August 28, 195S
Old
House at Cape Cod Could Be
0 Bf A. OBERT SMITH
Ttibunt Correspondent
5f Cod, Mass. In a clear
ly 37 the jlnes here near the
lb(B!fl falmoSth stands a mon
urrif before which the Ameri
can lumber industry might kneel
irmost reverent appreciation
a wood constructed Cape Cod
house nearly 200 years old.
his oldest dwelling on the
cape, built entirely of wood (and
without benefit of nails) during
t'(2$ the colonial days, still stands
sturdily on its foundation since
the day it was -erected by Miss
"Virtue Gifford's Quaker fore
bears. But this is not a restored tour
ist attraction. It is the house
in which Miss Gifford still lives
as she has for over 80 years; its
cedar shingles still defying time
. Cftd the eroding character of the
4$a air.
Unlike the houses that are
tirelessly advertised throughout
the East as Cape Cod type houses,
Miss Gifford's residence is as
authentic as any could be. It
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has a mark of authenticity that
has died out in contemporary
building even on Cape Cod a
bowed roof that looks like an
overturned ship's bottom.
CaDt. John R. Peterson's 20-
year old home also has a bowed
roof, but later Mrs. Peterson had
dormer windows punched into
the sloping sides to make the
second floor more practical with
lighting and ventilation. When
an addition was put on the orig
inal house, it had a gambrel or
Dutch-style roof with dormer
windows something the archi
tect wouldn't hear of two decades
ago.
These variations on the Cape
Cod house are now commonplace
here. There are even a few con
temporary houses, but so few
that a daring modern house built
during ; World War I days by
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright
still looks daring in a setting of
"salt boxes," as the simple Cape
Cod is often called.
But everyone, with scarcely an
exception, builds with, wood,
Even the wealthy.' It's not be
cause the cape has a thriving
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SO NEAR TO FREEDOM Members of the Russian farm
delegation visiting the United States are shown aboard a
ferry boat on its way to the Statue of Liberty (back
fjround). They remained aboard the boat for the round
ffip instead of disembarking at Bedloe's Island.
Green Flash in Sky
r J- HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer. Extension Division
Ortfrm Higher Education System
Two readers in widely separ
ated Pacif jf Coast localities have
recently asked me to repeat my
discussion of the ."green flash"
' published a few years ago. This
refers to the verdant blaze of
light fight on the horizon just
asHhe upper rim of the sun sinks
fom view in the west'. For
this green flash to be visible,
the sky must be unusually clear
and free from haze, and the ob
server must be very patient and
not look too directly at the sun
until it is practically gone. Avoid
a bright sun through field
glasses. Eye injury could result.
This phenomenon finds its ex
planation in the greater bend
ing, absorption and scattering
of the rays of light of short wave
length than that of those of the
longer. The explanation is not
difficult, but we are more con
cerned here with the appearance
than with the. theory.
Blend of All Colors
It is sufficient to state that
sunlight is a blend of all colors
of the rainbow, and the order of
wave length goes from red, the
longest, through orange, yellow,
green and blue to .violet, the
shortest.
A distant horizon gives the
best opportunity for seeing the
green flash. Watch the setting
un rather indirectly so that
your eyes will not be blinded
by its glare: Then when only
the final dot of the yellow disk
gremains, turn your attention
more fully to 4t. If conditions
are then right, the green will
blaze forth with startling sud
denness and be gone in a
second or two.
In '-ery dry climates the green
flash, is quite often seen. The
Egyptologist, Dr. W. Groof, saw
it many times when in the Nile
country, and reported evidence
that long ago the people of that
land were familiar with it.
Made Special Study
With optical aid this phenom
enon may be seen much longer
than a second or two. Prof. Don
Hunter of the University of Ore
gon has made a special study of
it for many years. On one oc
casion he viewed it through
binoculars for fully 20 seconds.
Then after the direct light was
gone, he saw the trees on the
distant mountain crest glow with
(i the green coming from below his
horizon.
Three of us two years ago saw
the green flash twice within a
few minutes. Motoring north
ward we watched the sun set be
hind a high place in the distant
Coast range and finally saw a de
lightful blaze of green. Driving
on, soon again we saw the sun
over a lower horizon and once
more were rewarded with the
verdant flash.
Jules Verne, the noted French
author, mentions this effect in
his Le Rayon Vert (The Green
Ray). He has two young lovers
going often to the top of a hill
to try to witness this phenom
enon. But when j others wtth
them saw it, the lovers never
could for they were not look
ing toward the sun.
The green flash can also be
seen at sunrise when conditions
are right.
MOST VALUABLE
Louisville, Ky. (U.R) The
Baseball Writers of the Amer
ican Association today an
nounced the selection of Ranee
Pless of the Minneapolis Millers
as the Association's most val
uable player of the year. The
29-year-old slugging first iase
man has been a strong factor
the Millers' race to the Associa
tion pennant.
ROGUE VALLEY LEAGUE
Rogue Valley league got off
to a good start with 10 full
squads. John Compagnoni, City
Hall, took the honors for high
series with a 534 and Vern Al
len, Klievers, turned in the high
games with a 205. Since Thurs
day was the first night of the
season all scores were scratch.
Dead line for Sunday Classified is
at noon Saturday.
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lumber industry, for its scrub
pines aren't very productive of
building materials. It's just that
Cape Codders are sold on the
durability of wooden houses.
Even the hotels, from the
smallest to the largest, are made
of wood, most of them covered
with cedar shingles. Most were
built decades ago and were mod
ernized inside to suit the fancy
of changing times. '
Slick modern conveniences
don't seem to count for much
Monument for Lumber Industry
here. One hotel owner seems
to have standing proof of that.
His barn-like inn, painted an un
becoming umber color, has made
only two concessions to the 20th
century electric lights (bulbs
dangling from cords) have been
installed, and a measure of in
side plumbing has been hooked
up for the guests, for the ladies
at one end of the hotel and for
the "gents" at the other.
The old clapboard hostelry is
filled all summer.
Although the well-to-do : are
plentiful here among the 200,
000 who inhabit Cape Cod for
the summer, this resort was
never in the class with Newport,
R. I., or Lenox, Mass., where
the rich of a bygone era built
veritable castles equipped with
gold lined bathtubs and battal
ions of servants to keep them
from tarnishing. While those
castles crumble or give way to
commercialized use as hotels,
the more modest but still ex
pensive homes of Cape Cod are
maintained by their owners from
Boston and New York in blissful
seclusion.
In some areas of the cape,
estate owners have protective
associations, employing peace of
ficers to keep rubbernecking
tourists from invading the priv
acy of their summer way of life.
But whether the Cape Cod
residence is a $100,000 country
estate or a $10,000 salt box, it is
still strikingly similar in archi
tectural "design, faithful to the
Cape Cod tradition to a great ex
tent, and always built of wood.
Montgomery Ward
To Use Credit Cards
The Medford branch of Mont-
Lgomery Ward company will in
augurate a credit-card system as
part of its montly payment plan
it was announced recently.
N Store Manager J. J. Materie
said a customer will be able to
purchase up to $35 worth of
Wards merchandise on terms, by
showing the credit card to the
sales clerk.
The Ward credit system was
initially tested in Baltimore and
Denver. Present credit customers
here wffl recehr thefcr ctrdi
through the mail by Aug. 25.
New credit customers may apply
for cards at the credit desk, Ma
terie stated. .
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398
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498
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C90
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' Sizes
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398
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' ,. .3-6
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..4.98
4.49
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With NON-SCUFF TIP
4.98
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4.98
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