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Show A lot of victory gardens got a bomb scare last Thursday when that cold south wind dropped local temperatures to near freezing. -0- Farmers, with their grain beginning to head and the first cutting of alfalfa already al-ready late, were also running run-ning scared. But old Mother Nature withdrew the thrust just in time and, except for minor wind damage, most local gardens came through the crisis. -0- Actually, there are more gardens, and bigger gardens than ever before this year. Without better statistics, well qualify that to read, since World War H. A war is responsible for this sudden boom in horticulture. horti-culture. The war against inflation. in-flation. -0- As many of us plant gardens gar-dens for the first time in many years, and others find for the first time whether they have inherited a green thumb, tears of nostalgia return re-turn us to our youth and the good old days when we raised rais-ed most of our fruit and vegetables. veg-etables. -0- We can't help but think of the strawberries we recently recent-ly purchased at the local supermarket at 25? a cup. Fresh berries, long before local plants had set the first i blossom. Nothing like that in those good old days. It's true of many other things. Watermelon and canteloupe have been fare of many tables for a couple of months. And there is little guess work, thumping, or plugging to insure ripe melons. mel-ons. Technology, both in agriculture ag-riculture and transportation to market insure vine-ripened vine-ripened produce, long before local crops are available. -0- There is much more. Fresh lettuce, tomatoes, onions, on-ions, cucumbers, peppers, radishes and other produce are available year around. Scurvy, and other diseases caused by the lack of fresh fruit and produce, is almost unheard of today. The variety and freshness Is more abundant than ever before. Like most, who can remember when it's great to remember the good old days but we don't want to give up watercress in our January tossed salad. -0- And if the price sticks in your craw what would watermelon in March and April have cost before WWH. Who ate fresh strawberry shortcake in April then, at any price. Fresh creamed asparagus tips was available only about two weeks of the year. Fresh picked berries, cherries, apricots, peaches, and pears were only good for about a month and many ripened at the same time feast or famine, so to speak. -0- Preserving these delicacies delica-cies required hours of hard work for Mom over the huge hot canner during the hottest part of the year. Quality was a far cry from today's freezing freez-ing methods and controlled cold storage. Give me the 'good old days' Not on your life! All we need Is the good old 60? dollar we had then - Instead of today's deflated greenback. green-back. -0- Can't help but be amused as we see the commentators, columnists and politicians bemuse the role that will be played in the 1976 Presidential Presi-dential elections by Governor Govern-or George Wallace of Alabama. Ala-bama. -0- The U. S. is in a political vacuum. Few fail to recognize recog-nize that the people are looking look-ing for a new leader. None really stands out in either party. George Wallace stands alone as a dynamic personality. -0- However, dynamic personality per-sonality is not enough. The magnitude of today's politics requires huge party organization. organi-zation. Grass roots disillusion disillu-sion doesnt stop with leadership. lead-ership. Democrats and Republicans Re-publicans are disillusioned with the respective party hierarchy. Many feel the difference dif-ference In the two major (Continued on Page 2) lenge of shaking the past, and forming a new party, bringing followers from the old American Party into the fold without also getting their present leadership. He has to reach out to the Democrats Demo-crats and Republicans and give them hope. -0- The Democrats are espousing es-pousing a Kennedy-Wallace ticket. Few Wallace people can see him In the No. 2 spot. We doubt If Wallace Is prepared pre-pared to bide his time for eight years behind Kennedy. While Teddy is young enough to wait in the No. 2 spot eight years, any Kennedy Ken-nedy ticket is likely to be em -barrassed nearly as much by Chappaqquldlck as is the Nixon administration with Watergate. -0- It seems to us that formidable formi-dable though It seems, Wallace Wal-lace will again be forced to bolt and start a new party. This time with two years to work things out, he maybe smart enough to do the job. Let's hope so. HERE'S MORE ABOUT JUST BETWEEN (Continued from Page One) parties are In name only. Many would bolt to a new party behind Wallace. -0- However, Wallace's own American Party has become too radical for most of us yes, even for Wallace who has moved closer and closer to the center In recent years. Wallace faces the chal- |