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Show October 26. YdDiriniDinig We are used to it now, but many people thought it was "contrary to nature" in 1883 when the United States joined other countries in dividing the world into 24 time zones, each hs,h spanning degrees of longitude. Everyone reset his or her watch, and it was about time, 15 says the National Geographic Society, for in those days nobody ever really knew exactly what time it was. People followed the clues of nature to sunrise, high noon, and sunset tell time. Jewelers took their own readings of the local sun time, and it wasn't unusual for neighbors' timepieces to be many minutes apart because they had set them by the different jewelers' regulators. In fact, 100 years ago, Michigan had 27 local times in different communities across the state, Wisconsin 38, Illinois 27, and Indiana 23. IK Sun time changes at the rate of one minute every 13 miles as the sun seemingly slides across the sky from east to west. It didn't seem to matter much that the time was different down the road apiece until railroads came along and started to move passengers far out of their hometown local times. Oct. 28 Adding to the confusion, trains ran on the When TricExsttors tfo combafl Eiillor make "trick-or-treater- the nations, all year round. That killer is impure water. In third world nations s" neighborhood rounds this Halloween, many youngsters will carry small donation boxes provided by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The money these Halloween hobgoblins collect will largely be used by UNICEF to combat a killer which haunts much of the the world, particularly children of developing where clean water People started to say that this was not the nation. way to run things in an The railroads soon backed an idea put forth by Charles F. Dowd who had worried about the problem while principal of a ladies' seminary in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. His idea was to split the land pretty much the way North America is divided today, into Atlantic, Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Yukon, Alaska-Hawai- i, and Bering standard time zones. At first there was. a children, has pinpointed vital area for improving youngsters' quality of life worldwide, So important is water that the United Nations has designated the 10 years expectancy in some countries is less than 40 years, and infant mortality in others is extremely high. WHY KEEP FIXING YOUR ' OLD TV? GET A NEW ONE WITH A SHOPPERS LOAN FROM HFC. I. beginning in 1980 as the U.N. Water Decade. Thus, when this year's witches, demons and devils go home to revel in their Halloween loot, the "treat" collected for UNICEF by these youngsters will be a clean drink of water and life for countless perhaps of numbers their counterparts elsewhere in the world. (AFPS) IflVIVIVIVIVIVIVIVlVIVIVIVIVIVIVIVIVIVIVIVIVIVIVITIVIVIVIVIVIViriYIVlVIVmVlTIVIVlVIVITITITlTITITmYI h w I 4x4 v x . ' WW WW If 1 I ill lis HV Page 3 The nation's most recent tinkering with time on a grand scale was set by the Uniform Time Act of 1966 which established daylight saving time setting clocks forward one hour from the last Sunday in April until the last Sunday in October. (AFPS) accessible pure water as a make it beyond infancy. Partly because of the lack of life water, potable lot of pulpit sermonizing, streetcorner debating, and newspaper editorializing. But on Nov. 18, 1883, Americans adjusted their timepieces. studying and remedying the needs of the world's 1.5 billion inaccessible, UNICEF has found many children do not HILL TOP TIMES local time of the biggest city on the track. Acr. the country, railroads used some 100 such local times, A traveler from Maine to California would have to reset his watch 20 times to keep up with the local railroad time. UNICEF, the lead agency of the United Nations for is 1979 i BRATS OVER im DEALERS CARD HOUSEHOLD FIHAKCE conponnTto: AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY LENDER Utarirjfl WMJe R'l I 1 I I I I 11 1 I I I I I I I I I II I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 I I 1 II I I I ITffaejj JLaastU II I.I JJJJJJJJJJ.IJ.IJ.IJ.IJ.I.I.I.I.I.I.IJ.IJ.IJ.I.MJ.I.I.IJ.I.I.I.Li.i.i.i.i.i.iJ5T LOANS ABOVE $t 0.000 ARE SECURED BY REAL ESTATE SEE YOUR PHONE BOOK FOR THE HFC OFFICE NEAREST YOU. |