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From: Cynthia Zieber <>
Subject: John Glenn
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 12:56:18 -0700

>Well, one thing I know about Western Australia - or Perth, at any rate - is
>that everybody turned their lights on to salute John Glenn. I think that
>was marvellous!! What a fantastic idea.

I would like to thank the people of Perth for their light/salute that they
put on again, as they did years ago on John Glenn's first flight.

>My father, who was a Methodist missionary in China for 30 years, upon my
>asking when I was growing up, "Dad did you ever do any bad Hallowe'en
>things when you were growing up?" His reply: Well, in Webster City,
>Iowa, in the 1890's we considered loading neighbors' outhouses onto
>outbound flatcars down at the switchyard to be the ultimate prank."

In my father-in-law's youth (WWI) the thing to do in the rural US was to
tip over outhouses (sometimes occupied ones) and to put wagons on top of
barns. My father also talked about tipping outhouses so it must have been a
common prank.

Cynthia in Santa Rosa, California

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