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Atop Mount Dubose, )3.c,
(NEM -- Talk about round pegs
in round holes, Herb Slattce and
his wife take the eake,
Their job is to sit up on this
mountain, guard' the new of wa-
ter through the intake of the
19-mile tunnel to the gigantic
power plant of the Aluminum
Co. of Canada's new smelter at
Kitimat, give daily weather re-
ports and be ready to shut off
the reservoir water if necessary.
'The Skuces have been up here
more than a year and have only
had a handful of visitors. They
consider this an ideal working
condition, The helicopter which
brings up supplies and mail
every two weeks frequently
doesn't even shut off its engine,
thus making conversation un-
necessary.
"It's just that I don't have
much hankerin'., for people,"
Herb explains, "That's some-
thing we don't have much of
up here, which makes it real
nice for the few of us concern-
ed," he points out,
* *
One chore of his unique re-
sponsibility is chasing away
curious pilots who land sea-
planes on the big lake-reservoir
near the tunnel intake. He has
great talent for this.
"We're really not anti-social,"
explains Mrs. Skuce. "It's just
a that we find we like this kind
of private life and don't need
a lot of people around for com-
pany."
Herb is 55 and a native of
Vancouver. He got the job from
having been a guide in this part
of Canada, slightly south of
Alaska, when the Alcan first de-
cided to build a new smelter five
years ago. He was the first man
on the job.
Mrs. Skuce is a native of
Wyoming and has two married
sons there and a married daugh-
ter in Colorado. She was a wi-
dow when she met Herb on a
hunting trip several years ago.
Their" mutual interest in soli-
tide, the outdoors and hunting
and fiShing makes it the ideal
match.
In addition to relishing iso-
lation Herb's special talents for
the, job include being an excel-
lent mechanic, a good weather
observer and a radio technician.
He has a telephone connection
with the power houSe but also
has to relay many radio mes-
sages between distant points of
the whole complex smelter pro-
ject, which includes 5,500 square
miles of lakes and mountains.
As far as Mrs. Skuce goes there
is only one small annoyance
about the i assignment.
"At least twice a day I go
fishing or out to inspect our
traps, and when I return I fre-
quently find a bear on the f#nt
porch," she explains. "I don't
like to shoot them when it's not
necessary, but sometimes I have
to get in the house," she says.
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LOOK, NO HANDS — That's the
main feature, of this new
"direct reading" Elgin watch
shown recently at the National
Jewelry Fair. Instead of hands
moving around to the figures,
the new' idea it to have the
numbers move toward a fiXed
point, easing time reading.
ISSUE 32 — 1955
DARK VICTORY— Blind Farmer Michael Dively feeds , and raises
his pigs'even tha.ugh he can't see them. The 62-year-old farmer.
who lost his sight when he was 12, 'runs a 100-acre farm.
With help from the Council for the Blind, he bought machinery.
Wedding, rings are never long
Out of the news. For instance, did
you hear about the bad luck Of a
slim Londen housewife, who lest
her very Valuable wedding ring. In the garden while taking in
washing a short time ago?
After a vain search, she had an -
Idea. ,She asked some men Of the
Royal' Engineers stationed, not
far Off if 'they would come with
their mine-detectors and search
the garden.
Obligingly they came, unload-
ed equipment, and after dividing
the lawn hit° sections with
marking tape, got busy, An heur
later they had found a fine selec-
idan of.screws, rusty nails, nuts,
washers and old clothes. pegs —
but still no ring.
That young 'wife need not de-
spair, for lost wedding rings
have a habit of turning up —
sOmetimes years later.
A, farmer's wife tells the story
Of how she was One day feeding
a calf when the animal sucked
her wedding ring off her finger
and swallowed it.
Foui%years later the animal,
grown to a line bullock, was
humanely slaughtered in the
normal course of the farm's ac-
tivities. Curiosity prompted the
tanner and his wife to make a
search and, sure enough, the
ring — little the worse for its
adventure awas. found firmly
embedded in the animal's stom-
ach.
Another authentic story of a
wandering wedding ring was re-
COOL SIGHT — Lovely Verne
O'Hara looks through rose-
covered sunglasses to watch
the races ,.at Royal Ascot track
in England. She says peering
through the "foliage" makes
things look cooler.
Roses For Safety
'tests are now being made to
reduce road accidents with walls
of roses. Dangerous corners,
especially where speeding is pre
valent, will be lined with roses
of the climber type rising to a
height of about ten feet by' eight
feet wide.,
Andrew White, a road safety
expert, who devised the plan,
said that a rose bush, of these di-
mensions will stop a car at any
speed in almost perfect safety to
the passengers and driver. He
drove into an experimental bush
at fifty m.p.h. and again at sixty-
five m.p.h. and came out of his
car completely unscathed. .It
stopped 'dead within fourteen
feet after hitting the bush.
The bushes are being planted
on corners where there ate in-
clines and where brick and other
walls and cement blocks have
failed to prevent cars from tum-
bling down the slopes. White
claims that if one small snip of a
certain type of rose 'tree is plant-
ed there will be a solid "wall of
roses"ain ten years.
TOUGH GOING
A buxom lady tripped on the
stairs and broke her leg. The
doctor put it in a cast and warn-
ed her 'that she wasn't to at-
tempt going up or down stairs
until it came off. Four months
later he removed the cast and
pronounced her well on the way
to recovery.
"Goody, goody," gurgled the
lady. "Ia it all right for me to
walk the stairs now?" "Yes,"
said the doctor, "if you promise
to be careful,"
"I can't tell you what a relief
it will be," confessed the lady.
"It was such a nuisance crawl-
ing outside and shinnying ‘up
and down that drainpipe all the
time!"
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wearing it. Furiously, he asked
her what she 'had' done with
but she said• she did not know.
With growing, suspicions, the
jealous husband threatened di-
vorce, but still his attractive
young wife was unable to tell
him what had happened to her
ring. At length,he calmed down ,
sufficiently to attack the. home-
made sausage provided for his
supper.
His rage returned when his
teeth bit on something hard. It
was the missing ring!
' The wedding ring in the Middle
Ages 'became a token of the
wife's subjection to the husband
and , by ecclesiastical decree. a
bride had to fall at 'her husband's
feet during the ceremony and.
then kiss his right foot.
Some refused — and got away
with it.
Why the fourth finger was se-
lected fOr the wedding ring has
been debated for centuries., The
old explanation was that to that
finger came an artery froin the"
heart, but this is anatomically
inaccurate.
Perhaps a more logical expla-,
nation is that the ring was placed
where it was less exposed to wear
and tear.
Natives Prefer
"Tailor-Made"
Smokes
World war does literally in-
volve everybody — and after
reading Colin Simpson's latest
entertaining boo k, "Adam In
Plumes," one realizes just hOw
far the effeets extend. In this
instance we visit some of the
inhabitants of Central New Guin-
ea, the Mt, Hagen tribes.
o During the war the natives
were introduced by the Ameri-
cans to "tailor Made" cigarettes,
and liked thein in preference to
the sticks of trade-twist tobacco
they earned, Or the sauff they
grew and rolled into Tried ban,
aria-leaf cigarettes. Pipe smokers
also became fewer cigarette
smoking was the \regle.
This habit Set up a new ays
tett of economics when the
Americans left, the natives by
now had a definite liking for
cigarettes, and paper' covered
ones at that,.
--
Supply arid deiriand for'. paper
wrappings eventually arrived at
the rieWspapier atagea and the
established tate, of exchange for
the legacy 61 old newspapers leat
by the visitors, says Sirrinaniii
was as 16110*a:
"Poi' a quarter Sheet of 'The
ilea). 'Yet* five pounds Of
sweet Potatoes, or two six-foot
lerigtha of sugar cane; or a big
bunch of shallots; or eight' Oars
Of Corn.
For a half sheet Of neWsPaPer:
a large, &Mali ,r0f bananas
three or lama "bundles of .fire-
Weed; or a half-day's data
thig the mission static* lawns.
2 kits*
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The Hermits of Mount Dubose Wedding Rings
And Their :Ways
ThiY Guard the Water Tunnel for Kihmat k Northwest W fats,
and 'They D'On't Hay, Much Hankerin" for Posopii,
here and the snow just begins to
melt off to show green in June.
They 'have a year's supply .of
Canned food, if needed, and get
freah, tigh and meat from hunt-
ing and' otherfresh foods from,
the heliaopter every two, weeks,
Equipment available to them
includes a couple of power heats,;
two small trucks, a, snow plow,
a tractor, oil heaters, emergency
generators and a virtual arsenal
of small arms and ammunition.
Their hunting gives them a
sizeable side income The mart-
ens they trap, in great, numbers,
have top quality fur, for which.
there is a great demand, Ar,
what do they dO for vacation?
"We've never thought. about
that," Herb says, "and when you
get right .clown to it this is a
sort of a vacation all year
arOuncl,"
By Douglas ibarsen, Most of them are fairly small
NE/4. Staff Corresponden black bears but there are a lot
of huge grizzlies, too. Both Iferb
and his wife have had to kill
several of the big ones in the
Past year. • *
The aluminum company, de-,
lighted with the.couple's job,
has 'given them the, best equip-
ment and furnishings possible,
There are two two-storey quon-
set houses located about 200
yards from the lake. That's in
case one should. burn clown or
be damaged, by the storms or
snow.
The winters are severe up
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HERB SKUCE AND WIFE: "We don't need a lot of people"
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vealed during the first world war
when an English naval officer
chanced to meet in a train a
French naval officer who was in
the seat opposite him. They chat-
ted.
"Excuse me," said the Eng-
lishman. "But that's a very un-
usual ring you'rewearing."
"Yes," said the Frenchman,
"and I came by it in a very cur-
ious fashion before the war
when ships of our Fleet were
visiting England.
"We put in at Weymouth and
I saw this ring displayed for sale
in a fishmonger's shop. The fish-
monger told me he had found it
inside a fish while cleaning it.
I bought the ring as a curiosity."
The surprised Englishman de-
cided to explain his inquisitivnesa
about the ring.
"By a coincidence," he said, "I
Once owned a wedding ring exact-
ly like that and lost it while Out
with my wife fishing for mackerel
off Weymouth in 1913. It can't
possibly be the same ring, but
all the same I'd like to know if it"
has the initials A.G.M. and H.K.
M. engraved inside it."
The Frenchman took the ring
off his finger—and there inside
were the initials quoted.
Most wearers of wedding rings
take special care 'of them, and
many women never take theirs
off, believing bad luck will fol-
low if they do so.
The rather careless wife of a
farm labourer in Peterswalde,
Pomerania suddenly missed her
ring, and in spite of hours of
search .could ,not find it.
That same evening her husband
suddenly noticed she was not
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