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from $5 to 0. These numbers, reP-
restns cents. Affixed to this dial
is a large hand that starts from
the position of 12 o'clock 'and
runs anti-clockwise.
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(3) The lower section of the
machine is much the same as
the top section with the excep-
tion that the -numbers are those
pre-arranged for the buyers,
There is a number for each buy-
er,
AFTER-SKI ENSEMBLE consists of a hooded blouse and "Slim
Jims'' fastened with tiny gold hooks and worn with a full split
skirt. The navy blue fabric is 50 per cent terylene and 50 per
cent viscose and the skirt is lined in lime green jersey and ap-
pliqued with felt.
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The buyers are seated be•
hind narrow desks or tables, di-
rectly across this sales ring from
t h e mechanical `auctioneer,
There is an individual seat for
each buyer with a desk on
which is a button connected
with the mechanical auctioneer.
There are facilities for 48 sepa-
rate buyers.
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The starter of the clock sits at
one side of the ring and is
equipped with a public address
system, In front of him are the
buttons that stop and start the
mechanical auctioneer, control
the starting price, and allows
the Commission Agent to de-
clare "no sale." a a *
The consignment is driven in-
to the ring. The Commission
roan instructs the clerk at what
figure to show on' the upper part
of the machine (probably $24.00
if he thinks the actual value is
about $22.00). The Clerk starts
the dial (center part of the me-
chanical ,auctioneer), It goes
from 0 to .95 to .90 and so on
dropping down in units of 5
cents, It takes 6 seconds for the
hand to make one complete
revolution. step in any time and stop the
clock, For example, if he be-
lieves a calf is worth 23 cents
and the clock has gone below
that level he' can immediately
press number 49 thereby ad-
vising that there is "no sale."
The calf is then run out of the
ring and may be returned later.
Ancient Forgerss
Mint Found?
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MINIATURE !
During Mark Twain's report-
ing days in Virginia City, fame
and fortune 'were still very much
in the future, The wire of the
owner of a big silver mine met
him on C Street one day with
a cigar box held tightly under
his arm, "Mr, Twain,"- she re-
proached him, "you promised me
you were going to give up
smoking cigars." "Madam." re-
plied Twain with great dignity,
"this box does not contain Ci-
gars. I arn moving my posses-
sions from one abode to an-
other."
POOR EXCUSE
Upsidedown to erevere. Peeking
Erskine lounged into. the of-
fice an hour late for the third
time in one week and found the
boss awaiting him, arms akim-
bo. "What's the story this time,
Erskine?" he asked sarcastically.
"Let's hear a good excuse for a
change," Erskine sighed. "Every-
thing went wrong this morning,
boss. The wife decided to drive
me to the station. She got ready
in ten minutes, but then the
draw-bridge got stuck. Rather
than let you down, I swam
across the river (look, my suit's
still damp), ran out to the air-
port, got a hitch hi Mt. Harri-
man's helicopter, landed *on top
of Radio City Music Hall, and
was carried here Piggy-back by
one of the Rockettes,"
have to do better than that, Ers-
kine," said the boss, obviously
disappointed. "No woman can
get ready irr ten Mintites."
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Archaeologists in Prague have
stumbled upon a 500-yeat-old
secret underground mint be-
lieved to have been used in a
form of "economic warfare"
during the. Middle Ages.
Their theory, is that the mint,
found in a large, cavern about
65 feet below ground, belonged
toe group of Czeck nobles who
were trying to overthrow the
ruler of Bohemia.
It is believed that they em-
ployed a band of forgers, work-
ing by lanternlight in this dingy
den, to flood the country with
valueless coins in a bid to de-
base the' currency and cause
economic chaos and unrest.
The cave is one of a network
in a 'hill called the "golden
horse" at konsprosy, 22 miles
'train Prague, 'Its name dates
back before the Christian eta
when Celts inhabited the area
and used to make sacrifices to
'a horse god on the hill.
The archaeologists .found prim-
itiVe equipment and heaps of
glittering coins, just as the for-
gers had left them. The coins
Were made of copper, but coated
With silver to ".make them look'
like the silver coins; called
patvis, which Were at that time
the official currency et Bohemia.
Like the genuine coiris,, the
forgeries bore' the imprint of a
lien in a circle. The archaeolo-
gists found the stamp which the
forgers used for this
There was also a wooden
Minting block' covered with
copper cuttings. an oven for
Melting silver, strips Of copper,
arid pike of half-finished coins
and rejects. tight star] balls of
different sizes, made of talc. are'
believed to have been used as
measuring weights.
The archaeologists belieVe
that the forgets got the corner
for the coins" :train kettles. They
cut the. kettles' intri strips,
Melted these into sheets, and
then, cut but the coins,
they hainineted the shapes flat,
statriped them with the lion, inY-
print, and coated there With
inoltetr„ silVet. Then the dritiS
Were circulated iti nearby tOWti8
end villages.
The entrantb to the cave was
a Vertiele 'Shaft. 33 feet deep,
sunk' 'horn en easily certain-,
flaged circular Mile at the silt.
fade'.. the forgers are believed to
hai,a. used a ladder 'to coin&
and. go,
At first', the cave was 'thought
to lie the hide-Out of d' bandit,
gang: which turned to forging as,
lucrative sideline, ThiS eery
probably had its Origin in a local
legend' dating back to the- 15th
century but never considered to
have any foundatitiii iii 'fact itli-
td the discovery of tiv, cave,
the legend' tells of sliepherdS
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The .Mechanical. .Auctioneer,
a form of the Auction Method
of Selling, was started, on the
Ontario Stockyards Toronto,
Wedeesday, August 10th, Actin
ally it is the first time that this
has been tried in North Ame-
rica, This innovation was greet-
ed with widely varied opinions
and the majority of the old
timers are predicting an early
death, Mr, Fred •Campbell, Man-
ager of the Ontario Public
Stockyards is convinced that it
will be favourably received by
both livestock shippers and pro-
ducers.
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This new, method varies from
'the standard form of Selling
by the Auction Method in that
bids are registered, on a clock
like arrangement, by buyerS
operating a button. The price is
started, by the Commission
Agent at a price higher than
actually expected and then any
buyer may stop' the dial, by
pressing .a button, at the price
he is prepared to pay. The es-
teblished proceedure of raising
the 'price, by auction until the
selling price is arrived at has
been .discaded, Under this meth-
od the buyer has to decide when
to "step in" because there isn't
any second bid.
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vie .mechanical auctioneer is
on the opposite side of the ring.
from the buyers arid is about 3
feet wide and 8 feet high. It is
divided into 3 sections of ap-
proximately 1/2 each.
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(1) The upper or. top third
is a series of number approxi-
mately 21/2 to 3 inches high cov-
ered by opaqne glass.. These
numbers represent dollars; The
starting price is controlled by
the Clerk of the Sale who lights
up the• Board at the amount
named by the Commission man.
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(2) The second, or middle
third of the machine, is a dial,
similar to the face of a large
clock; numbered, in units of 5,
Jesus Meets Iluglair Needs
Luke 5:12-15, 27-32
Memory Selection: They that,
are whole need not a physi-
cian; but they that'are sick.
I came not to 'call the right"
eons, but sinners to repen-
tance. Luke 5:31-32.
Jesus was concerned with all.
Of ,man's need. He was moved
with compassion, when he saw
men, smitten, with disease. When
the leper approached his saying,
"Lord, if thou wilt, thou, canst
make me clean," Jesus put forth
his hand and touched him and
said, "I will: be thou clean" He
touched the untouchable and
healed him.
'Wherever the gospel goes' so
does the ministry of healing.
Missionaries without medical
training can do something to al-
leviate suffering. Doctors and
nurses follow. There are still in-
stances of what is called miracur
lous healing. Who can limit
God's power? But hospitals all
over the land bear testimony to
the efforts of man to, care for
the sick and assist nature in its
processes of healing. Many things
are accomplished here which but
a generation ago would have
been termed miraculous. As
man's knowledge and skill ad-
vance, his dominion over, siek-
ness and 'disease is increasing.
With regard to leprosy new
drugs that have been discovered
have proved effective, and there
are reports of discharges of cured
patients from lepet colonies on
an unprecedented scale. There
are increasingly successful 'op-
erations which help to overcome
some of the handicaps and de-
formities that lepers have ac-
quired. The taking away, of ba-
bies born to lepers from their
parents until the parents are
cured or can no longer transmit
the disease has prevented many
new cases from developing
among the young.
In the second half of our les-
son Jesus meets Levi's spiritual
need. Levi becomes a disciple.
He invites Jesus to meet his
friends at dinner, a thine which
Jesus is pleased to do. He went
where there was need end rein-
istered to it. John Wesley and a
friend were meeting a man who
was drunk and unpleasant in
aPpearance. The friend said,
"Let's turn aside; that man's a
sinner." Wesley replied, "Let's
talk to him. That sinner is a
man." If we have Jesus we will
share his comnession for all The
needs of man, We will minister
to those needs as we can.
heading Straight for him as, he
'hung helplessly beneath his
parachute, Grabbing his shroud
lines, he hauled with all his
strength, in the desperate hope
of side-slipping out of its path.
The doomed empty plane
droned past, three hundred
yards away, but Lindbergh was
riot out of his danger, He saiv
the plane was spiralling gently
around him, He could only jug-
gle with his shroud, lines when
it came too near, and hope that
no sudden gust of wind would
carry him helplessly to be
broken against the plane which
he had abandoned.
No less than five times did his
plane spiral around him before
he landed, providing him with
an adventure as hazardous as
any he was to encounter flying
alone across, the Atlantic.
Grave Robberies
Something rare in the annals
of crime in Britain occurred re-
cently—it was discovered that
the coffin of a Shropshire noble-
man's ancestor 'who died in the
seventeenth century had been
stolen from the family vault in
a village churchyard.
Lead thieves are believed to
have been responsible for the
theft. The leaden coffin they took
was the oldest in the vault.
Graveyard robberies are rare
because many thieves are super-
stitious. They believe that to
rifle a tomb inevitably brings
bad luck, but the lure of gold
and jewels has sometimes caused
thieves to defy this superstition.
When an eccentric and im-
mensely rich Irishman died, at
the age of ninety-four in 1860,
the story ran that all his, wealth
in gold was, by his order, buried
in the coffin with him.
A thief, who heard of the
story sixty-three *years later,
forced an entry at dead of night
through the stone walls of the
tomb and rifled the coffin. Local
belief was that the raider got
away with a fortune in gold.
Gravediggers opening an old
family tomb near Geneva in
preparation for a new burial in
1923 found that thieves had
stripped the body of a woman
of the precious jewels with
which she had been buried.
These included a collar of price-
less pearls and some diamond
rings.
In an old vault in a Surrey
churchyard a strange rite is
performed every August—a rite
that goes back to the grim times
of the body-snatchers in Britain.
This family vault, built by a
rich London merchant in 1777,
has been formally opened every
year since 1793, an accordance
with the will of two women
members of the family.
Fearful --that after death their
corpses might -be carried off by
body-snatchers, they arranged
for the tomb to be opened regu-
larly to make sure they were
still there !
'he doctet was astonished',
Jump from a plane without
an automatic parachute?" he
queried. "My good man, you,
:must be crazy. You'd be uncon-
scious before you had a chance
to open itt"
But. Leslie Irvin was far from
crazy, 'Though this was 1919,
and no, parachutist had yet dared
to jump without a release line
attached to his plane, Irvin was'
convinced ha could improve on
the method.
"I've done high-diving in ,a
circus, and that' never affected
my senses," he told the doctor,
"so I don't see why a longer
jump should, The only reason
man Might faint would be out
of pure fright, and I don't be,
lieve in being frightened,:"
On April 28th, together with
a panel of Service experts, he
walked out on to. Dayton Air-
field, to put his 'theories to prac-
tice, Shaking hands all round, he
climbed up Lehied his pilot.
Then they took off and circled
up to 2,000 feet.
On the ground there was dead
silence among the group of
watchers, each of Whom feared'
that probably he was going to
witness an unpleasant tragedy.
High above, Irvin looked' down
and saw the bunch of white
faces concentrating upon him.
He turned and grinned at" the
pilot, gave him a cheerful wave
of the 'hand—and then diVed.
For a few seconds nobody on
the ground saw his movement.
Then someone yelled: "There he
isl" and the tiny silhouette of his
figura was seen somersaulting
down the sky behind the air-
craft.
Irvin fell head over heels for
200 feet, for 300, and went on
felling. Among the group on the
airfield a man croaked: "My
God, he's fainted! He'll be
killed." Irvin fell 400 feet —
500. It seemed that the doctor
had been right, after. all. A grim
tragedy threatened to be the
eliding of months of careful
work and scheming.
Then, when he had fallen
more than 600 feet, a flutter of
white silk was seen breaking out
above Irvin's plummeting body.
The silk spread out above him,
turning into a spreading mush-
room ; and a few seconds later
he Was swinging gently on his
open parachute, coming down
securely and comfortably, to
land without a bruise as the
yelling group of delighted ex-
perts raced towards him across
the airfield.
To-day, Irvin's free-type pare-
chilte is used by most of the
world's air forces, including the
R.A.F„ and has saved more than
forty thousand lives-. These are
the --members of , the exclusive
"Caterpillar Club" which Irvin
founded. -
Among their number are a
flying' officer who suffered
nightmare moments when his
parachute opened inside the
fuselage of his aircraft; a pilot
.f.ficer who was soaked with
petrol when be jumped, blazed
throughout his descent, landed
on his head, broke his arm, and
greeted rescuers with: "Nice
work,. chaps! Fielded on the
first bounce!": and a sergeant
who jumped into •Japanese oc-
cupied jungle because he mis-
took a shout of "All right" for
"Bale out!"
Their stories; and many others;
are told in "Jump, For It!" by
Gerald Bowman. One of the most
hair-raising concerns Charles A.
Litidbergh the Man Whose lone
flight from New York to Paris
caught the imagination of the
'world in 1927.
But eVen before this he held
an unique position amongst
eaviators of his day as the Only
than to have four parachute
jumps from doomed aircraft to
his credit; and this distinction
earns him a eliaPter.in towneari's
bOok,
Lindbergh's third jump was in
1926, a year befete his solo Ate
lehtic crossing. Unable to land:
because of thick flag; he climbed
Up to 6,000 feet, away front any
glow that denoted a tietere and
until his petrol.'tanks had teni
dry, The, engine spluttered and
died, Lindbergh unclipped his
safety belt 'arid slid over the
Side into the darkness.
As he pulled the tip -cords and
the. pato -chute opened tip With
s. jerk, he litaiel an unpleasant
sound. The engine of his aircraft
suddenly picked tin again and
Started running, And it Wee
perilously close at hand .
Being quite certain the tanks
were dtv, he had negleeted to
switch Off the ignition. What he
had 1641,etteri was that there
Would be a gallon or so 'of 'fuel'
left in the tank, Which could
'riot reach the carburettor feed-
line owing to the .arigle of his
elinib. Now the Plena had taken
tipits normal glidine 'angle, With
its Pose down, and the re-fuelled
engine had started rafting
tioairt.
Suddenly, through a OP in The
tog, lie' eAW the' Plane. In the
niocnilight he judged it tb he ti'
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automatically changes from $24
downward circle.
complete turn the number on
the. upper third of the machine
to $23.00 and the hand on the
center section continues its
When the band has made one
When the hand reaches the
figure at which the buyer
wishes to purchase (his estima-
tion of market value) he presses
a button that automatically
stops the machine. This could
be at $22.55, that is, 'the figure
22 on the top section would rep-
resent $22.00 and the hand
pointing at 55 represents the
cents, Thus the calf would sell
at $22.55.
The' buyer's number would
show up in the lower section.
For example,' if a buyer operat-
ing from a seat number 10
presses the button the figure 10
would light up in the lower
section.
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The mechanical, auctioneer is
so wired that it is impossible
for 2 buyers to register the
Seine bid. Iinmediately any buy-
er presses the button in front
of him the current to all other
buyer's buttons is automatical-
ly cut off.
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The Commission Agent in' the
ring assumes the same reapori-
sibility for accepting or reject-
ing the final price as he would '
under the Private Treaty meth-
od or under the ordinary Atte-,
tion Method. of Selling. If he,
believes the bid is below the
Value of the calf the Commis-
sion 'man can press a button,
aVaildble to him at the ringside
Which registers the number 49
on the loWer :section This is his
tnearia Of declaring no sale."
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The Commission Agent May
PAISLEY CHARM—One of he
elegant items receiving a fall
showing is this high-necked
sheath jumper fashioned of a
Paisley-patteened cotton print.
In muted gray and almond-
green, it is seta off with traces
of black and crimson. Black
woollen blouse makes perfect'
foil for jumper.
in the area being frightened by
smoke coming from holes in the
ground. One day, a shepherd
peered into a hole and saw a
man sitting on a heap of silver.
According to , the legend, the
man gave the shepherd a hand-
ful of silver coins and he &came
very rich. •
Because of the size of the
mint, its apparent efficiency, and
other factors, however, the
archaeologists reject the <bandit
gang theory.
It is a matter of history that
about the middle of the 15th
century, a group of Roman
Catholic nobles were waging a
political struggle against the
Protestant ruler of the kingdom
bofradByohemia, George of Pode-
The Hussite wars between
Roman Catholics and Protes-
tants earlier in the century had
ravaged the kingdom and left it
short of goods and money. The
archaeologists ,,believe that by
circulating spurious currency
the nobles probably hoped to
add to George's economic diffi-
culties and, bring about his
downfall.'
The mint was ideally situated
for such a 'purpose, near the
border of the territory con
trolled by George and that over
which .the nobles held sway.
According to the archaeolo-
gists' theory, when George fin-
ally overcame the nobles' efforts
to unseat him, the mint. was
abandoned and lay undiscovered
until three years ago,
The first clue to its existence
came in 1950, when bfasting
.,operations in a nearby chalk
quarry uncovered a horizontal
shaft in the hillside leading to
another cave, about 160 feet
under the ground. Archaeolo-
gists, headed by Dr. Frantisek
Prosek, found in this the skull
or a Neanderthel Man and skele-
tons of bears, a tortoise, a tiger
and other ice-age animals,
Later, they f011owed a shaft
leading to an tippet cave gild
found the mint there. The ar-
chaeologists believe that the
forgers knew nothing of the
cave below them, A third cave,
about 230 feet down, also was
discovered but, nothing of at-
elvieologleal value was found
ih it.
rather e ticklish question,
but did you ever wonder how
a bed got,
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prefeaser V. of the
Vniversity did. He'
decided to find but. After king.
study of Worker bees Which
Were encased in glass-,sided
hives, the . professor Said that
bee is able to OldaiiSe roost of
the pollen frOM its body by
brushing it Off With his legst
antennae and pollen combs. But
there. are Still' parts 0f his body
he can't reach, So 'the' bee: gohs.
Ihto a 'grooming deride" the
eqUivalent o.f a6k:ifig SOinetilie
sctateh. your back.
If the dance is etniviheing
tinotirth. the_ "berbet' bee Will
CA14 a lined. by brushier off Pol4
ten frein the intiereSsible spot.
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CAMEL MINE—Sgt. Herman H. Lee, right, takes,tirne from &Mei
with the Army Explosive `Ordnance Disposal Unit station at
Heidelberg, Germany, to check an ailing circus camel with a
mine detector fat bits of stray metal whith the animal might
have swallowed along with food, 'Na metal was indicated,
and 'the animal's indisposition was Of down, as plain, oNdY
fashioned tunimy-ciche,