A Little Bit of Everything...

Babies, babies and more babies. The Stratford Press has been flooded with baby photos over the past two weeks after we decided to search for the district's cutest baby. Nearly 50 babies have entered the contest, with over $300 worth of prizes up for grabs. Prizes have been generously donated by several Stratford businesses. This week we feature the babies in the under 6 months category. On the double page spread is a voting form for the public to choose their favourite baby. Each entry will go into the draw to win a $20 book voucher for voting, but remember only one vote per person. Next week we will print the babies entered in the 7-15 months category. The public will have until May 21, 12 noon to get their voting forms to the Stratford Press Office.
Winners will be published in a special children's feature on Wednesday May 23.
* * * *
$2m Scheme for Egmont
(Stratford Press, January 18, 1968)
"Gondolas to the summit would be a world attraction," said the chairman of the investigating company, Mr L C Harrison.
"To our knowledge there is no such facility on any major mountain in the Southern Hemisphere. It's the top or nothing."
He added that the complex would benefit the whole of Taranaki and it would take little imagination to realise what could happen to Stratford. It is planned to build a 200 bed motor-hotel and a dude ranch in Stratford. The facilities in and around the town will receive a boost. Mr Harrison then paid a tribute to Mr D N Thatcher for the most efficient and thorough way he had persevered with the idea since 1964.
'Truth' hits Stratford - but is it the 'truth' of Stratford (Stratford Press, January 25, 1968)
Decent folk in the town were rocked to the foundations when the national newspaper 'Truth' reported that Stratford has a well established wife-swapping circle and another has been formed in New Plymouth.
To outsiders, the town must wreak with depraved and immoral citizens. Still vivid throughout the country is the 'wood-pile' incident and not to mention our plague of 'rats'. All these have appeared in the newspaper, 'Truth'.
* * * *
Did you know?
? There are radar detectors specifically for motorcycles?
? The Siberian Tiger is the largest cat in the world?
? The blue whale can produce sounds up to about 188 decibels?
? Cigarette smoke contains about 4000 chemical agents?
? The human body has about 2.5 million sweat glands?
* * * *
Two zebras pondering
Two zebras are talking and one asks the other, "Am I black with white stripes or white with black stripes?" The other replies, "Well I don't know. You should pray to God about that and ask him." So that night he did and God replied, "You are what you are." The next day he said to the other zebra, "I still don't understand what I am because God just said, You are what you are." The second zebra responds, "You must be white with black stripes or else God would have said, Yo is what yo is."
* * * *
Commit to your goal!
Calculate - determine the risk factor.
Team with winners.
Take a leap and come from strength.
Claim victory - you've earned it.
Don't stop - success breeds success.