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Road to Happiness Adventures in Business Magazine California
She Fights .Hardships She Burns Green, Rosie! We're Rich! Notes
By Helpi.00 Others
By MARY WILLIAMS
PATTERSON--By bringing happiness to others, Sylvia C.
Grischott has managed to bravely conquer the sorrows of being
handicapped as a bed-ridden rheumatic fever patient.
She conceived a simple relief for herself and other handi-
capped individuals by putting her own talents to work on a
colorful project that will bring
Shields Garden
Spot Features
67 Rose Varieties
One of the garden spots on
the desert that will attract hun-
dreds of the celebrators who at-
tend the annual Riverside Coun-
ty Fair and National Date Festi-
val is located at Shields Date
Gardens in Indio.
Among the stately palms of
unsurpassed beauty is a rose gar-
den with 67 different beautiful
varieties, proof that the desert
can yield a splendid assortment
of flowers as well as the usual
CFOIS.
At the date garden, the trav-
eler will see 119 different kinds
of grapes, too, each as individual
as a human being with a per-
sonality and flavor of its own.
The highlights of "The Ro-
mance and Sex Life of the:Date"
is shown in sound and color at
the theater of the Shields Date
Garden, and it will give the
desert celebrators an opportun-
ity to get a firsthand.
Shields also specializes in gift
packaging dates for users in al-
most any size. They also send
along recipes on how to best pre-
pare the dates for the dinner
table.
happiness and joy to the ut-
ins.
Sylvia was stricken at the age
of four, when she had an attack
of rheumatic fever. Unfortu-
nately for her, at the time, it was
not diagnosed as such. The fever
apparently left no after-effects,
for she attended school and led
a normal life until she was 11.
The doctors then detected a
slight murmur. Sylvia was able,
however, to finish classes and
graduate from high school in
Yonkers, N. Y.
During the war years, she
worked the midnight shift in a
defense plant producing aircraft
radio equipment.
Medical Career
Sylvia became interested in
radio and studied it. She also
decided upon a medical career
and tied radio in with medicine
by training for X-ray in a large
hospital. The strain proved too
great, and in 1947, Sylvia's family
brought her to California's cli-
mate.
Her health tmproved and she
worked as a nurse's aide in San
Francisco. Doing this work, she
suddenly decided that she
wanted to become a physician.
She returned home and en-
rolled in Modesto Junior College
as pre-medical student. During
the college year subsequent at-
tacks of rheumatic fever forced
Sylvia to temporarily discon-
tinue her much loved medical
studies and become one at the
University of Califoraia Mlical
Center.
Bring Cir
V/hile spendhg many tedious
hours receiving little mail, lying
in pain and going through count-
less tests, again a thought sud-
denly occurred to her; why not
plan a project that would bring
cheer and much sou=,flrt for mail
to lonely patients and shut-ins.
Slowly the plan matm-ialized a
little more each day until it be-
came a reality.
One morning Sylvia was un-
able to sleep and tuned in to a
radio program at 3 a.m. She was
quite surprised to hear the sta-
tion on so late, as Modesto usu-
ally closes down earlier. How-
ever, they were handling the
flood reports.
One hour later Sylvia, under
an oxygen mask, wrote the sta-
tion and commended them on
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DAY and EVENING CLASSES
Also HOM TKAINING
By NICHOLS FIELD WILSON
The name of Aaron Winters deserves its modicum of With this issue, Magazine C
fame. He was a prospector, well past the prime of life fornia celebrates its first birl
when he made the "strike" of which all prospectors dream, day. Started ust a year ago b!
The year was 1881. Winters and his half-Spanish wife, a group of California week]
Rosie, were far wthin the weird and forbidding depths newspapers as a hi-weekly
of Death,Valley. Behind them lay long years of toil and plement, the magazine now
privation and scanty reward, every other week to more thai
80,000 subscribers of 44 Calif0t
Years of experience and lessons learned in the "hard nia papers.
way" had ade Winters familiar with many of the min-
. These m e m b e r newspaper
orals found m the West. On that momentous day as the blanket Rural California alm
old prospector and his wife trekked across the dry desert from the Oregon border to M
marshes on the floor of ico and from the Pacific Ocea
Death Valley, he suddenly to the Arizona-Nevada line
paused. His trained eye From the towns of Alturas, Tule
had caught a trace of an lake and Arcata in the far nori
outcropping which showed to Blythe, Hemet, Indio a
Vista in the far south, the Maga
promise. Trembling with zine reaches into the fabulot
hope, he fired the chemical hinterland of always fabulot
used to identify borax, California.
then shouted: The first year, it is said in the
"She burns green, Ro- publishing trade, is the hardeSi,
sie! We're rich!" and now that Magazine CalifOe|
The Winters sold their nia is out of the cradle its pU|
claim to W. T. Coleman, of lishers expect it to go place
San Francisco, retiring to like ever-growing California.
a- life of well earned ease If you haven't figured the littl
for the years which re- man at the bottom of the front
mained for them. Coleman cover, he is "California Arab/
established the Harmony just day dreaming. Fritz Miller,
Borax Works near the our staff artist, was asked to
mouth of Furnace Creek. do something on the National
His immediateproblem Date Festival at Indio. "DO
was transportation. Get- something wild," we said. Tl
ting the borax from Death Valley to the railroad, some 165 is it.
miles distant, was an almost insurmountable problem. Alfred Ames, who doeg the
Temperatures ranged to approximately 130 degrees, garden column in each issue d
and the trail led across barren wastes and scorching sands Magazine California, hit o
through rocky gulches that were fraught with the dire "strawberries" for this week 1
danger of sudden cloudbursts, entree. Even if you dont li¢
to garden, you should get a
Abandoning all known methods of transport as ira- out of the Ames trek to the berrJr
practical the 20 mule team caravans, destined to become, patch.
as the years went by, one of the world's most famous
trademarks. The transport consisted of two 8000-pound Helen Veill,e ed of the fasl
wagons carrying ten tons of borax each and a water tank ion department, tells the girl
trailer containing 1200 gallons for the use of men and about "faces" in this issue. There
animals. The combined load of wagons, mireral, water are faces and faces, so it ez
and some can be purchased l.
and supplies approximated 60,000 pounds, a store. Wicked commerd
Each caravan was handled by two men, the driver or thought!!
"mule skinner" and his helper or "swamper." The driver --
rode on the nigh wheel animal, controlling the team with MAGAZINE CALIFORNIA
a gle "jerk line." The lead animals were frequently Bi-weekly magazine supplement M
out of sight when making turns on the mountain roads. s canforn newspera
It took from 22 to 25 days for a round trip. Sixteen to Published by Magazine .Assoelas d
eighteen miles a day was the average. California weekly newal.
The history of the Pacific Coast Borax Company (in- eaul c. ewe ,,ager
corporated in 1890) has been the story of the search for n.ne, o.ice:
new and richer ore deposits; the improvement of refining, 18th Street, Bakersfield,
Telephone 3-4444.
mining and marketing methods; the development of effi- ----
cient transportation. New deposits of borate of lime were
discovered in ledge formations which was purer and more
easily worked than surface deposits. Upon this discovery
the company moved its headquarters to Borate, Califor-
nia. This was convenient to the Santa Fe Railroad in the
Calico Mountains southwest of Death Valley.
Here was established what was probably the first
calcining plant in California. Ore was hauled from mine
to plant over a narrow gauge railroad in small cars drawn
by a sturdy midget of a locomotive affectionately called
"Francis."
"The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps
with it."Joubert.
by HOTOSOUD WATCH FOR NEXT ISSUE'S FASCINATING
(Recordings tneluded 'witJ lessons their help in the emergency.
sent to Student's borne'at no ad- "ADVENTURE" BY NICHOLS FIELD WILSON
ditional ¢,) In the letter, she introduced
IN lglF.a-JT|ON FOrt FCC herself and asked if it might be ......
KADIOPHONE AND igADIOTGH
lvs.- so AMAT*U. possible to request listeners to --"U----=/n-----------D-'--" !. llATE$. __ilIET
LSSU send her their used greeting
For full parlculars write
Eleetremic Tecimiei Imltute cards, in order that she could
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RaO---oi.stata_P._|| Pd, |.. Four days before Christmas, " A derso
zr to Sylvia finished two {lorful
.oo. ,et,t . ,. scmDbooks. She sent one, eom-
ine--.. bor, z ¼" .. z-e of restful w oens to qmmmm
, sped ,,op. o .. , ooe COVALDA DATE CO.
m e.aw, ..m ,. her feLw patients at the Medl-
ty vJe, throttle, EaUge. 45-watt
t. t, a m cL Center--the other made up • - J. P.O. Box 208
ro r,, mo,., tot,. t "'x" Of KaY cUt-OUt ardma]s to Del
• ,. town. Patterson. books
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