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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-09-07, Page 7nEnrs SEGRET Reminded shat Henry T'Orct had left an estate of over a hun- dred million dollars, an Iowa deacon shook his head slowly and observed, "atrikea zee he must have had an AWN]. SP.V40 Weme;a" No Man can read with profit that which he cannot Learn to read with pleasure. —NOAH PONT,g3 WELL SHOP — A recent heat spell drove little Lynn Ann Berry down to the beach But 'judging from the two-year-old's foot- wear, she must have gotten cold feet about going into the coal- ing water. Sea Breezes Average depth of the sea is about two miles. And it has been calculated that the farce Of average waves breaking on, the seashore is seventeen tons to the square yard, One of the biggest waves ever recorded in the Atlantic fell up- On the promenade deck of a &9,- 000-ton liner in April, 1928. The wave extinguished a search- light '140 feet above the water, Tidal waves travel at 500 tri,p.h, They are Calmed by sea- quakes — earthquakes on the ocean floor. The actual colour of sea-water is blue. That so-called "sea green" colour is due to the pres- ence of yellow impurities, say scientists, A mathematician once calcu- lated it would take all the sea- water in the world two million years to flow over Niagara, An analysis revealed that 1,000 grains of sea-water held twenty- seven grains of common salt and eight grains of other saline 'mat- ter, The Mediterranean and the Red Sea contain more salt than the larger oceans. It's a fallacy that drinking sea- water makes you go mad. It merely aggravates thirst. Veal Ors-The-Hoof Soldltutomatically At the Ontario Stock Yards, Toronto, a new method of re, calving bids in the calf pen was tried recently for the first time on the North American contin- ent, Patterned after the Dutch method of selling live stock, the system employs a large electri- cal dial, nine feet high by three feet wide. The upper section of the mechanism uses lights to show the dollar price, A centre turning hand ticks off the cents in Ove cent graduations, Revol- ving counter-clockwise, the cents hand makes a complete revolu- tion in about six seconds. Speed of the cents hand can be stepped up or slowed down, The lower Section. of the calf bid receiver shows in lights the registered number of the buyer after a sale has been made, Seats for fifty buyers are provided in a small amphitheatre, When the machine reaches the figure he wishes to pay, the buyer presses a button in front of him, The clock is automatically stopped and the buyer's number flashes on the bottom section of the dial. The mechanism is so rigged that af- ter a buyer touches his button, the buttons of other buyers are disconnected. As a protection to the seller, the commission agent retains command of the sale throughout. lie instructs the clerk operating the dial where to start and when the price has dropped to the figure the commission man feels the animal should bring, he can stop the sale if no buyer shows interest up to that time. Stopped sale animals are driven from the ring to be brought back at a later time. Let's witness an actual sale made through the sales ring on a recent trading day. The animal is driven into the ring. After examination, t h e commission salesman instructs the operator to start the machine at $24.00 per cwt. The figure flashes in lights on the upper face of the dial. The centre arm, represen- ing first 950 (offering price $23.- drop counter-clockwise register- ing lrst 95¢ (offering price $23.- 95 per cwt.) and moving down in units of five cents. No buyer presses his button and the cents indicator, reaches zero, at which time the lighted figure at' the top of the machine changes to 22 and the cents hand drops to 95. As this hand reaches the half- way mark, a buyer presses his button. Instantly the machine stops and the buyer's number lights up on the lower section of the dial. The sale price of $22.50 is clearly shown on the machine. Details of the sale are entered, by the clerk and the calf is driven to the weigh scale to be weighed. When buyers and sellers' agents become more fa.. miller with the new system, it is believed sales will be made in a matter of seconds. The new method of receiving bids at the Toronto Stock Yards, makes it possible for every in- terested buyer to see each ani- mal offered at the market, and assures that the buyer willing to OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEN. AND WOMEN "BE A HAIRDRESSER JOIN CANADA'S LEADING. SCHOOL Great Opportunity Learn Hairdressing Pleasant, dignified profession, good - wages. Thousands of successful Marvel graduates. America's Greatest System Illustrated Catalogue Free Write or.Call MARVEL HAIRDRESSING SCHOOLS 358 Bloor St. W , foram Branches: 44 King St., Hamilton 72 Rideau St. Ottawa MAKE money with a profitable hob-by. Correspondence watch repairing course, Cost only $75.00. School ap-proved. Wholesale prices on Jewellery, Watches, Rings, Expansion Bracelets. etc.. Detailed brochure from: Suite 1603, 330 Bay Street, Toronto. 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Hotneworkers urgently needed. Full or part time projects. Write: ADCO SERVICE, 561, Bastrop, La. FOREMAN for cold storage plant in Eastern Ontario. Knowledge of cheese and apple handling would he helpful. Please give age, marital status, edu-cation and salary expected. Box 135, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - EVERY SUFFERER OF RHEUMATIC PAINS OR NEURITIS SHOULD TRY DIXON'S REMEDY MUNRO'S DRUG STORE 33$ Elgin, Ottawa $1,25 Express Prepaid POST'S ECZEMA SALVE BANISH the torment of drY .nereiria rashes and weeping skin troubles, PoSt'S Eczema Salve will not diatift-point yeti. Itching scalltit,6 and burn- ing eczema acne, ringwoi'ni, 'pimples and foot eczema Will respond readily to the stainless, ordorless regardless of how Stubborn or hopoleSs they seem. POST'S REMEDIES PR ICE $2,50 PER JAR Sent Post .aeae ,fin' Receipt of Mee: " 9 Queen SLTOERANCT6066' of L°8111. NOTHiNG TO CRON ABOUT — 'Ellsworth", a tame crow, is 'recuperating from an experience filets strictly for the birds, His, wilig ,w,ett, broken by buckshot from a hunter's gun. Comfort.: ing his pet Is Kenneth Tobow: Police sought but failed to find the hunter, MACDONALD'S Chippewa chietidd 'didr Sky and l ds ,Wileo' Stall,.gabet chief of Rtiititet f ain dete§attort .Which ititired' Canada. OKA till tinned' Stater: What Causes The Hurriones..To Shift. from Olatime Route . - SWEET POTATO, SWEET PATOOTIES -- Meet Mr. Yam and the Yamettes, daughters of South Louisiana yam farmers and ship- pers. The Yomettes ore, from left, Ja Ann DeOhicchis, June Amy, Julia Hawkins and Yvette Martin. Mr. Yam's identity is ,secret, tion's coasts each year, there were three in 1054. Moreover, while proper ty damage last year topped by $500,000,000 the old 1933 record loss of $300,000,000, the resulting loss of life has dropped. The fury of the hurricanes last year brought death to an estimated 200,compared with 6,000 de;ths in Galveston in 1900 and 1,800 deaths in Florida in 1928. The fact that more electronic eyes have been hunting down hurricanes explains in part why more are observed, Moreover, an improved warn- ing system is an important rea- son why the number of deaths has decreased in recent years. And in explaining the increase in property damage, officials point to the unexpected shift in the storms, at least last year, to industrialized areas of the north- east states and Ontario, writes Alvin Shuster in The New York Times Service. This shift has led some ex- perts to theorize that possibly a new pattern in hurricanes is shaping up. Under the old pattern the hur- ricane, as it started up the At- lantic coast, encountered the prevailing westerlies in o vin g across the United States from west to east. These winds tended to push the hurricane out into the Atlantic. The coastal areas were spared, In recent years, though, me- teorogists have noted a pileup of air — a high-pressure area, they call it — in the Atlantic off Maine and Newfoundland. This area, they think, may be acting as a hurricane roadblock, deflecting storms from their former course and sending them inland over the United States. From past experience, meteor- ologists figure that only five or 10 hurricanes a century would be expected to hit New England. Yet last year alone two of them — Carol and Edna — pounded the six-state region. A third, Hazel, went west of New England and on up to Canada in a remarkable display of in- dependence. No one knows when the area of high pressure is expected to "leave its present home. Sonie guess it may be just about ready to fold up its clouds and silently steal away. As lbng as it remains, though, there is the possibility of more extraordinary hurricanes for the Middle Atlantic and New Eng- land coastal areas. There , have been, no ideas ad- vanced on how to get this unin- vited neighbor to move. But there have been some ideas on how to minimize the effecti" of the hurricanes. ' One proposal for, trying to switch the tracks on a fast-mov- ing swirling air mass involves oil saturation of the ocean be- neath it. Hurricanes die when they travel over land, partly because the landscape hinders the free flow of winds. The slick would be a kind of false land- scape, intended to slow up some of the air currents that may be influential in deciding the hur- ricane's forward movement. Another idea involves an ef- fort to dissipate the hurricane's rain-carrying clouds, thus rob- bing it of the moisture needed to keep the storm going. Planes Would fly aloft and bombard the storm with dry ice and mere dry ice in an ef- fort to prevent rain. The rainmaker tries to intro- duce just enough particles to collect sufficient moisture to fall to the ground. To break up a hurricane, the theory goes, the cloud-seeder would introduce so many artifi- cial particles that no single one could get enough moisture to fall. Cautious Weather bureau of- Stork Shortage 'Tis sweet to him, who all the week Through city-crowds must push his way, To stroll alone through fields and woods, And hallow thus the Sabbath-day. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge Why the swirling winds leave their traditional paths toward the Deep South and Gulf Coast is a eaprice of 1114404es that escapes In ee iSe explanation. What is known, though, about hurricanes is this: Those that occasionally visit the U nited States form in two major regions, the southeastern part of the North Atlantic, south of and near the Cape Verde Is- lands, and the. Caribbean Sea and Cud of Mexico. The average one lives nine clays, though m August some have been known to last 12 The hurricane's cloudless core, or eye, is from five to 20 miles across. The area of destructive winds along the path of the hur- ricane may be from 25 to 500 miles wide, with. winds of more than 150 miles an hour and gusts of even higher speeds. The storm may move forward slowly and sometimes—as did Hurricane Connie—stay still for a short time. In the tropics — where many a hurricane dies unobserved — the speed forward is usually 15 miles an hour or less. As the storm moves north- ward, the speed may increase to 50 miles an hour or more. The hurricane's cause" is. a con- siderably more complex matter than its appearance. Meteorolo- gists like to explain as much as they know about it in terms of convergences and divergen- ces. What this amounts to is that intersections of wind and air pressures bring about a drain- ing of air froth areas aloft, creat- ing a fall of pressure in the column immediately beneath. Warm moist air from the sur- face rushes toward the low-pres- sure area, and the effects of the earth's rotation and converging winds create the whirling mass that forms the outer rim of the doughnut-like storm. Apparently we are having more numerous and more costly hurricanes, One and a half times as many storms are spotted each Tear now as at the turn of the century, -though the total 6f 21 observed in 1933 has not been topped in recent years. And while on an average only two hurricanes reach the na- ficials are quick to say that the intense fury of a hurricane could very well bar artificial efforts to kill it or change its course. They estimate that a hurricane expends in one minute more energy than the entire United States produces in electric pow- er in 50 years. So with this in mind, the main expends in one minute more trate on locating a potential hur- ricane, mapping its expected path, and keeping the public ad- vised. cities in Ontario or any centre in Eastern Canada, the best' pos- sible opportunity to bid for the quality they desire for their trade, in sufficient volume to maintain their supply weekly throughout the year. It, in turn, offers the producer a most economical and fair method of selling and a treater assurance of competitive buying strength. How Good Is That Memory Of Yours? CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Fewer baby storks are being born in many parts of Europe, says an official report. The stork birth-rate, especial- ly in Denmark, Holland and Germany, has declined alarm- ingly. And the storks' own care- lessness in flying into overhead cables, plus insecticides and shooting (by irate fathers?), are Said to be the reasons. Nests which were normally filled with baby storks in early May were sadly empty this year. Some decline was noticed in Denmark last year when it was stated that in two seasons only about 200 pairs of storks had nested there, This was about a tenth of the number which nested in Denmark sixty-fiVe years ago when the first stork census took place. One other possible cause of the smaller number of stork babies, Professor ',Hans Johansen, of Copenhagen, has suggested, is that Western Europe's climate has become more moist. The damp harms the little storks which thrive better in the drier climate of Eastern Europe, where their numbers have been in- creasing. Storks nest high, and in. Den- mark telegraph poles aie some- times erected specially for them so that they can build homes. At Tartu, Denmark, telephone en- gineers added a pole extension and table after some storks had built a nest among the 'phone wires. Country people in Scandinavia often spring-clean old stork MN, FLESH, FOWL-Tony takes on attributes of the finny and feathered world when, he'3 at play. Towed by a fast motor- boat, he takes to the air with aid of a kite while riding water skis, Holder of an unofficial world's altitude of 100 feet for this means of soaring, he's sittoZwrt making the sport even more exciting by wearing only one ski. IT MAY BE YOUR LIVER If Wet not worth living it 'nay be 'your liven toi latti It take', up to two pinta of live, bile a daY to: keep yoiir digultive tract in tep Shape! If your liver bile is oat flailing Ittely yatir food may not gna biretta tip, yobs stomach... you feel eoustipated 'alt the fun and sparkle go out of his. That's when you flood gentle Carter's Little Liver Pills'. These furious vegetable pills' help' itimnittte the new of liver hilt, Soon your digeatien starts funotioniug properly add You feel that happy days are here again{ Don't aver stay sunk. Always keep Carter's; Little en hand. 270 at veur driteertit. pay the most will be the pur- chaser, Average prices through the ring on the first day of opera- tion, Wednesday, August 10th, were $1.00 to $1.50 per CWt. above the previous day's sales. After its first test, buyers and sellers alike' expressed Satisfaction with the operation Of the dial Method and many 'predicted greatly in, Creased receipts to the Stock Yards. The thatige iti Method Of re- teiVing bids in the calf pen is On attempt to provide a Stroke to preducera iii offering their Veal taleee automatically to the mean-Mini ninnber Of buyers and. to publicly determine a Price on each draft Offered. The sold Of a iatge volunte of Veal calves an. a Public Market affords buyers" in ell towns and How good is your memory? Research by American scientists over a long period suggests that the memory of the average man and woman all over the world is improving and is likely to go on doing so The reasons for this are hard to explain. Memory is a most complicated business. We all find it easier to remember the things we find interesting than those that 'don't appeal to us. Some people have a "seeing" memory, others a "hearing" memory. The power of memory, however, varies widely in differ- ent people and so does the ability to use it. Very often a man who has a wonderful memory for faces, names and mathematics, has no memory at all for tunes and finds it impossible to learn a foreign language. Some experts say that on the whole women have better mem- ories than man, but Usually find it harder to forget things they don't want to remember. It re- quires , a greater effort to erase something from the mind than to memorize it. No idea that has ever been in the mind can ever be entirely forgotten, we are told. Like 'the elephant, man never forgets. But illness can interfere with the efficiency of our memories and boredom and tiredness often pre- vent a man or woman recalling • a name or an event, We've all said at one time or another, "It's on the tip of my tongue, but for the life of me I can't remember it . ." Your memory can be your best friend But it needs constant exercise. A good detective says that after five minutes in any room he shuts his eyes and can call to mind every detail there. Try it — and see how difficult it isl The sense of smell can often conjure up memories, 'A French- man tried vainly fOr a long time to recall details of a certain im- portant happenieg. Then. during a visit to Paris, he travelled by 1i/retro, the French Underground. "Immediately the whole scene had not been able to remember tame vividly to my mind," he said. "It had haPpened in a Ca- nadian paper mill — and the smell of the French Metro is Very like that of damp pater." Trusting the reerhoty serves. to strengthen it, a Lendon clortOr said recently. eXplained that it isn't Witt to depend entirely On note-taking, fee just as a litrib that it never used will waste and become tiselett, se the Mena- dry ‘liedbirrieS Unreliable tlirotigh leek of Use", nests in tile hope that the birds Will return to them. Why? Be- cause they believe that storks bear good lit& arid cause fanii- lie.s on whose premises they nest hot only to 'prosper, but to tiply so that salt and daughters Will 'be born tti help parents in their old age. llotitetopa 'in the anelerit City of Strasbourg have been the twines Of gaits from time mitt. xriemarial One householder has a cart-Wheel on hid rooftop Where the Wile Pair of storks nest every year. The birds add .twigs every,`Season and Soma tithes such old nests are two IA there feet high. . Storks are Silent 'birds, hissing only When angry or clapping , tett beaks When eXCited, They often 'live to the age' Of thirty Or forty Yeart. ISSUE 36 1955 EkOnt big!! 'lvfy Wife is a remarkable cook," said the city man: 44She'S always trying Out some rieW YeSterclaY. she met friend Wild' had lined iri the EaSt who' gaVe her a recipefor Chi- ' 'tette SO she made it." !''Whiit did it taste like'?" "'itiee Padding."