European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes january 1981 modern living calligraphy above spells year of the rooster with rooster ideogram at cantonese pronunciation Gailee neen san Francisco convention visitors Bureau chinese new year dragon Mascot will spread Good vibes for new year at san Francisco Parade Liu ads by Marge Booker if your new years or even if it you can catch the late show in san this ethnically involved City stages two new years Celebration every and the forthcoming one will really be something to Crow the wests biggest chinese Community is getting ready to ring in the year of the 4679 according to the chinese lunar Calendar pecking family doings traditionally preempt the first Days of the Holiday season which starts with local chinese Community members customarily staying close to the Public revelry will erupt with an imperious Cocka Doodle Doo 14 and continues for a the High Point will come on the night of sat when hundreds of thousands of Parade goers line the streets and salvos firecrackers signal the approach of the spend Ferous Golden in spite of his Birdlike the rooster ranks As one of the 12 symbolic beasts of the chinese zodiacal he will Rule the astrologically until when the dog will have his other animals in the lunar Cycle Are the ram and the chinese word for rooster is pronounced Gailee in i in feminists should be forewarned that under the Wing of this supremely or males will the word is that bachelors can strut their stuff during the coming confident of an admiring Brood and amatory family men should be treated in a manner befitting the Chin towns sages say that Many sons will be born in the year of the Ultra conservatism will be the order of the Day while the barnyard authoritarian holds the ancients called the cock the Domestic animal which knows How to Tell time and characterized him As commanding and the feisty far bred fowl was credited with shooing away demons and fending off the feathered Sentinel that signals the Dawn has close ties with the legend has it that a Golden cock inhabits the Golden it follows that we can look Forward to a lot of Sun in 81 As Well As major advances in the development of solar the prestige of the poultry King is reflected in the fact for ceremonial a rooster can be substituted for a if a bridegroom was unable to attend his it was once the practice in China to use a rooster As the a Guries Are auspicious for publishers and serious scholars because the Cockscomb symbolizes liter Ary Success and far from being people born under the sign of the rooster generally have Grade a they Are ambitious and in Birds of this Feather can be As imperious As they Are also inclined to be a trait which leads them to count their chickens before there George Patton was a the Brood also includes Katherine Barry Wil Liam Lee Fetter Sinclair Yves Betty James Dinah Shore and Alex legend has it that there were once nine suns in the the land was parched and the people so they summoned the finest Archer in the land and implored him to shoot Down the the Marksman slew and the ninth went into hiding behind a the land grew dark and the authorities appealed to the Sun to to no they sent delegations of Birds to coax it Forth with their melodious songs but finally they sent a when the Sun heard the Cocks compelling it Rose from behind the from that time when the cock crows three times the Sun heeds his sum thus the rooster came to represent the warmth and life of the that May sound like a Crockan Bull Story but its no myth that san Francisco is a fascinating place to be in Marge Booker broods Over the news department of the san Francisco convention and visitors at wits end by Ermo Bombeck this is the time of year when All the Litmak ers come out of the the Day when columnists look either backwards or forwards to list their top ten the ten Best the ten greatest moments in the ten top the ten most outrageous the ten biggest the ten top the ten bestselling novels and the ten biggest the list that has always intrigued me is the most admired every year i look at it and try to figure out what our criteria Are for this i see on it a group of prominent men and women whom we know Only through the i should like to offer my nomination for All ten places on the most admired my nominee is without age or any particular he lives in a Hospital a a rest at in a world of or a prison of his Job his Challenge live with disease and his goal every Day when god opens up a new Day for he shows up for my nominee never looks its too he never looks its a he lives for what he has this this very my nominee exists on a diet of optimism and occasionally he Falls off the emotional diet and pigs out on but returns again to my most admired entry makes those around him comfortable and goes out of his Way to help us Deal with his he allows us to see in him that nothing is As important As today and nothing As Uncertain As he offers to us a legacy of courage which will sustain us for years to he shows us the Way to laugh at the things we can do nothing about and cry at the things we my nameless nominee will never be on the cover of he will never covet a statue for Excel a prize for or make any of the but my nominee will touch More effect More stir More and inspire More respect than any other person you will meet in your c Field enterprises