PAGE 12, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8,1987 Brooijl roil ROXANNE REVELER News & Features Editor Phone 655-3637 Downeys celebrate 5Oth-anniver&sarýy Friends and relatives gathered at After their marriage the the Oddfellows Hall on Bagot Street Downeys nioved to Allan's gran- to help celebrate the 5oth wedding dparents' (Brown) farm where anniversary of Florence and Allan they worked the land. In 1956 Allan Downey.- worked for Bell Canada, although The Downeys have been well- the couple stili lived on the farm un- known in the Brooklin area for tii 1974 when they 50151 and moved to many years. Allan was born on the Whitby. family farm in Myrtle on June 14, The Downeys have seven - 1913. Florence, also a local girl was children and 15 grandchildren, and born just east of Columbus on Mar- although they were kept quite busy ch 18, 1914, and on March 30, 1937 between their family and farming, the couple was married in the they always found time to be active A Brookhin manse by Rev. P.L. Juil. in the church and their community. STEPHEN ROBINSON puts the known outdoors photographer and her fmnishmng touches on the carvmng of a many works are featured along with Mallard hien he recently completed the pottery of Deanna Jones of Green- with a burning tool. His demonstration wood at the former Wilson House was part of an open house featuring Hotel, at the four corners of Ashburn. work by himself and sister Carol The open house will continue this Robinson of Ashburn. Carol is a well- Friday and Saturday from 1-6 p.m. -Myrtie news By LAURAL HAMER be held ,Saturday, April il at 9:30 time friends and stayed over with Achievement day for the 4-H a.m. in Burns Church, Ashburn John and Laural and visited, in project "Surviving with Style" will hosted by the Myrtle group. Bokio rdy We hear news of Dorothy Man- Bokio rdy Wrong date given dersonaing FloridahShe is Breakfast April 12 LAST MINUTE finishmng touches out of the way. Loascusilbecnctg looking forward to being home in A pancake breakfast will be held Loca scots ill e cnducingMyrtle soon. She received cards, from 9:45 a.m., Sunday, April 12, in Florence and Allan Downey were prepared to meet their monthly paper drive This words of cheer and prayers. the Christian Education Building of thefr many friends and relatives who attended Saturday, April 11. Locations as Beula and Don Duncan of Oak-. Brooklin United church for young celebrations at the Oddfellows Hall in Brooklin on the specified in last week's newspaper ville visited with the John Hamer people who have attended youth occasion of their 5th wedding anniversary. are still pertinent. We apologize for family thîs week for an evening of ministry meetings.. For more in- any inconvenience. square dancing with many long formation caîl Bilan at 576-0595. How many of you out there forgot to t urn your elocks T -u' W T'ix 1.Tr' The toughest opponents to DST are farmers - always ahead one hour last Saturday night before retiring? How V II V JF I~ 'have been and probably always will be. Daylight. saving many of you showed up for church at the appointed hour 'J P O IN T time doesn't brighten their day one little bit because théy only to find you were the only ones there? Probably more use the early morning hours to do their chores. Elsie the than one if any other years are a criteria. And good old cow and Rusty the rooster don't give'a hoot what time daylîght savings is to blame for all the confusion. humans set their watches for. They rise with the sun, wuhenevearit hà nappns to pop out onfthe astefrn sky. A Canadian named Sanford Fleming stepped into lveaby eyour onfsntrdsif ytou wvetish.sButthere She married the stern von Trapp, a highlydeoae hsoy(and earned himself a knighthood en route) with arayeog ofso rigt ovr iepud submarine navigator a year later in 1927 and together hisplnto ptteyrd errpialyit ye and Farenheit to their metric equivalent, so who wants they had three more children. bispln o pt heword eograhialy itosye.the additional hassle? In 1938 the family escaped the persecution of the Nazis In 188, Fleming persuaded 50 million North Americans Daylight saving time, although apparently popular with and arrived in New York with a mere $4 to their name. to set their dlocks on what he called Standard Time. Soon the government, bas always met with some fierce For the next 15 years the Trapp Family Singers made a after the rest of the world mimicked their actions. resistance. In 1974, when the energy crisis raged, the living tbrough their world-wide concerts. Daylight saving time clocked in during World War I American government ordered DST in mid-winter to con- when fuel-starved nations discovered that by pretending it serve energy, only to have it repealed after the move was In 1942, the family set up a permanent home in Stowe, was later than it really was they saved money as well as blamed for the accidental deaths of 13 children on their Vermont, because it reminded them so much of their precious fuel. way to school in the early morning darkness. home in Austria. Maria lived their until her death on Mar- The Canadian goverument enacted the Dayiight Saving In 1980, 17 European countries simultaneously jumped ch 28 at the age of 82. The Baron died in 1947 at the age of Act in 1918, a few months prior to the armistice, and then the dlocks ahead, but Yugoslavia and Switzerland refused 57. turned around and repealed- it a short time later. to budge the hands of time. You see some government ac- Maria's story was dramatized in a book, Broadway When the world was plLinged into yet another war in tually listen to what their people have to say and bend to musical play, and finally portrayed by Julie Andrews in 1939, countries were quick to get a jump on t.he sunshine their wisbes. the 1965 Academy Award winning motion picture.