The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 29

THE FRESNO BEE 1-C Tuesday August 6 1968 Halcyon Utopias Lone Survivor Of States Is Little Noticed Likes It By Reuben Borough Special to The Bee HALCYON San Lula Obispo Co All but one of utopian colonies are gone Socialist anarchist theo-sophist spiritualist born of humanist dreams they succumbed to internal dissension and the 'hostility of an alien world: Llano del Rio Fountain Grove Point Loma Icaria Es-peranza Kaweah Cooperative Altruria Only Halcyon remains It is not on the map According to automobile clubs It is a place of ISO population six or seven miles from Pismo Beach The post office gives the mail address as Arroyo Grande Little known today Halcyon was for many years the center of a vivid if somewhat bizarre community life Temple Group Halcyon was settled in 1903 by a theosophist group the Temple of the People which had split off from the Theosophical Society then under the command of Katherine Tingley of the Point Loma community Mrs i g-ley it was contended had misinterpreted Helena Blavatsky founder of theosophy Out of the Temple of the People grew the Temple Home Association which functioned as a cooperative and embraced the socialism of Eugene Debs and Upton Sinclair Its membership was around 50 a claimed membership of 140 in 1906 probably included the tem Braille Institute Instructs Blind By Telephone LOS ANGELES (AP) Blind students will learn to read Braille by telephone in a unique arrangement which the Braille Institute of America has begun here Russell Kirbey executive director of Braille Institute said new equipment will enable a teacher to instruct 20 students an hour or 100 a day By comparison a home teacher can handle only four or five students a day or about 20 to 25 a week The telephone instruction system developed by Pacific Tele-phone Co already is used to teach sick or handicapped students in the Los Angeles city school system By placing a plastic card into the slots of a card-dialer console a teacher can dial students automatically Using an arrangement of buttons and lights the teacher talks to the students as a group or isolates some for private in-truction Two or more students can be tied into a secondary line to work together while the techier helps a beginner A teacher can play taped instructions to one group while directly teaching another part of the class Lights flash when students are talking Classes for the blind will include Braille reading typing home management and portions of a class in of daily where the blind learn such things as identifying money grooming and organizing and labeling clothes The Bee Want Ads thrifty habit way a who drink and smoke and have wild parties" Is the temple where the religious services were held open to the public? except for the services Sunday at 3 pm nothing secret about Is the graveyard open? Annoyed by the question Forgostein said: graveyard is closed to the public The gate is locked When we left it open vandals did too much damage You can see it from the How many colonists are there now? too he said without bitterness not growing the young people move away We prevent a member from selling now and then The new owner will move In maybe cut down the trees and build another house We're not asking for At small county branch library housed in a room off the village grocery store the visitors requested information about the colony They were handed a small oblong slip of white paper carrying this typewritten message: and when are halcyon days? to an ancient belief among sailors the days are the seven days before and the seven days following the winter solstice the shortest days of the year Sailors noticed that during that period kingfisher birds also called halcyons built their floatnests on the seas and that their eggs had time to hatch out during a period that seemed to be invariably calm They were good days for the sailors as Well as the birds so now the term Tialcyon means any period of happy carefree ists of Oceano and the sand dunes A weekly newspaper the Dune Forum with Chester Allen Arthur as editor printed articles on art and philosophy but no news Mrs Schindler says she went there in 1927 seriously ill and recovered her health At Arroyo Grande a party of three searching for a 1 was directed to to the first stop light then left to the first stop light then about a mile to a store on the On the way a circular domed building set back on a commodious lawn and bordered by flowers gleamed in the sun: The long-time temple of the Halycon colony Off cm another road is the aged community graveyard covered with grass and desert growth some of the tombstones tilted and all cordoned off by a tightly woven wire fence Along the streets are the occasional cabins of which Mrs Schindler had spoken: Small frame cottages painted white like the temple At frequent intervals the visitors passed picturesque densely covered with tall slender eucalyptus trees interspersed with pines Quiet People Beside one of the cottages three men in work clothes were digging a shallow trench to uncover a water pipe Reticent but not hostile they consented to questioning 'Their spokesman was Harold Forgostein the colony's leader who said: encourage outsiders to come here We like newspaper people coming to write us up they distort us a quiet people We want to be left alone We want people coming here to live AP WlraDhofo The Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co of Chester Pa has released this drawing of a two-man submarine which the company says it is building Officials say the craft will be capable of cruising at depths of 2000 feet It will be used primarily for inspecting underwater oil rigs pipelines and oceanographic explorations The first submarine is expected to be completed by March 1969 Britain's Partners Plan Parley not to invite the association of seven Caribbean states to at tend the January meeting of prime ministers and presidents The Association of Carrib-bean States comprises the four windward islands Grenada Dominica St Vincent and St Lucia and the three leeward St Kitts Antigua and Monserratt Although they are advancing toward full statehood within their association these islands are not yet independent and therefore do not rate for full commonwealth LONDON (AP) commonwealth partners will hold a summit conference on world affairs in London Jan 7-15 The decision was reached by envoys representing the 27-member states of globe-girdling family of nations who met under chairmanship of Commonwealth Secretary-General Arnold Smith They agreed at the same time Millionaire Store Chief Plans A New Life In Israel 238 MILLION RUSS MOSCOW (AP) Moscow News file Soviet English-language newspaper says the Soviet population as of July 1 totaled about 238 million This was compared to a 1913 figure of 1592 million What should you do If a telephone accidentally a ple's Sunday congregation For some time it successfully engaged in diversified agriculture From the first dominant personalities played an important role in the community Among them was William Dower one of the two cofound ers of the temple who as a had received from the Great White Brotherhood the original commanding the creation Dotoer set about to cure the physical ills of the residents He built a sanitarium three-story gabled Victorian structure which opened May 25 1904 and is standing today Warm Memories Pauline Schindler of Los Angeles who lived there in the 1920s has warm memories of Halcyon people were common she says lived in cabins They were poor in world' ly goods but they did not mind They had all the food shelter and clothing of a simple sort that they needed They were at peace with She remembers Fred Whitney and his bees and a beautiful girl who sang in the Sunday choir and sophisticated well-to-do Louise Auerdick who liked being affluent and yet living in the atmosphere of these simple people "They were cheerful They had serenity" No-News Newspaper -Around Halcyon in those days lived the hermits poets and art- this decision Lemer said have a wonderful life here But I love the challenge that Israel offers It is developing industrially commercially and sociologically and that really is exciting and Lemer who was born in Winnipeg and came to Britain as a Canadian soldier in 1940 added: shall offer my services to the Israeli government in case my commercial and industrial knowledge is of any use to it Whatever happens think of something to do Lemer previously was married to the daughter of the late Lord Marks boss of the store chain That marriage was dissolved neatly 10 years ago In 1962 he married Dallia Perm now 32 They have a year-old daughter Simona Karen Lemer is unable to take from Britain the capital he has invested in Marks and Spencer shares Under currency restrictions imposed two years ago by the Labor government he will be allowed to remove only $12000 to the new home in Tel Aviv "Naturally I would like to have this capital Lemer said we will still have the income from it so I guess things be too US Records 122 Degrees In Antarctica WASHINGTON (AP) A low-temperature record for a US! station in Antarctica-122 degrees below zero Fahrenheit has been chalked up while most of die United States was experiencing a heat wave the National Science Foundation reputed The new low recorded July 20 at the United Plateau Station in eastern Antarctica still is five degrees above the minus 127 degrees the Soviet Union claims was recorded at its Volstok also in east Antarctica a few years ago The previous American low also listed at the Plateau Station was 121 degrees below zero No other country having stations on the continent except the Soviet Union has recorded anything lower The National Science Foundation also reported a record Antarctic wind velocity-116 miles an it said was recorded at the station at McMurdo Sound so far as we a spokesman said the highest ever recorded in Antarctica by any The previous high of 109 mph also was listed at McMurdo swallows a dime? -LONDON (AP) A Canadian-born millionaire is giving up me of top executive jobs for a new of in Israel Dr Alex Lemer 52-year-old assistant managing director of the giant Marks and Spencer Stores chain said he would emigrate early next year with his Israeli actress wife Dallia It means dropping his $48000-a-year salary in Britain and being unable to withdraw personal share holdings worth about $4-8 million Lightly wife and I did not reach Radar Probes Northwest Face Of Venus PASADENA (UPI) Two radar astronomers have mapped three rugged sections of the northwest face of the mysterious planet Venus Drs i a Goldstein and Shalhav Zohar of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the three areas extended over thousands of square miles of the northwest face of Venus a on Venus could be chains of mountains era tors or extensive fields of said Goldstein know these features are permanent because they have steadily shown up in all of our radar studies for the past six a a astronomy has been Important in disclosing the secrets of Venus because the powerful a i o-wave beams can pierce the dense cloud cover which hides it from tele- The technique has established that Venus rotates once every 243 days The planet spins clockwise while all other planets revolve counterclockwise The most clearly defined of the three sections called Beta appeared to be circular with a diameter of 150 miles and an area of about 17000 square miles The other two features were almost as large and appeared to a triangular Area estimated at 160000 square miles which would be about equal to the size of the northeastern United States The scientists used the 210-foot antenna at the Golds tone Calif tracking station which is operated by JPL for the National Aeronautics and Spate Administration in their experiments SOVIETS AID BRAZIL SAO PAULO Brazil CAP) fright Soviet technicians have arrived to begin preliminary work on the construction of a plant to extract natural gas from bituminous rack near Taubate between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro Russian loans will finance the project which will cost between 1100 million and $150 million igyu'LUPw inuBujjipnsjam 1 BMf.