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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-11-16, Page 3xtwez LEE tarp imm: POMP NI IP ........ 111111111F:iilii Mil 1.4ii About Bermuda TIE FARM FRONT BRIEF GLORY—Eitel Mere, II, Grand chonipion Steer of the Amer- ican Rdyal LivestockLand ,Horse Show, is bid goodby by owner Kerinetly Eitel, left. ,T1?9Bleek Angus was auctioned to whole salerrEddie - Williams, :right: ..1u4d Pufsch, eenter', will, ftature Titel Mere on his reStaurarifmelitY, 'Once' the chomp' is trans- formed into •juicy sfeake'ethd 'thastsee Ate$6.12- a pound, the animal brought a iurcy-$66845.50,' ;4- r Slow Boat To China Went Straight Down since the support was lowered. At the rate they are going, Americans Will eat an average of 9.3 pounds of butter per cap- ita this year, while margarine is taking its first dip in con- sumption in six years, At the same time government stocks are headed downward, . — Another better way has been demonstrated by the Florida orange growers. Instead of cal- ling for support .prices, they have taken full advantage of modern marketing method S. First canned orange juice and then frozen juice have increas- ingly taken care of the surplus fruit. The use of frozen juice has quadrupled in five year— . Butter has not run that way'.' Packaging has been improved, in neat quarter-pound wrap b - pinas, over the old cut-it-out Of a tub selling, But the progress in that direction has been slight. The possibilities of fresh, un- salted butter have not been ex- plored. Spreads like butter and honey or butter and maple su- gar have not been developed. Support prices are the worst possible answer to a surplus. New and attractive uses give far greater hope. Some Uses For Plastic Bags olio As you probably know, the rn nrehle of farm surpluses is -veil more bothersome south of the Border than it is here, and the deciding factor in the next Presidential electien is very likely 'to be just how .inueli aid the government should give farmers by subsidizing goods produced in excess of demand. (By that I mean, of course, de- mand, at prices which will give the farmer a fair living.) * o Early this year the U.S, Gov- ernment cut the support on but- ter, and the retail price of that commodity dropped, As the butter vs margarine question is a very live one in Canada, too, I thought you might be inter- ested in the following article from The. Boston Herald, which tells what happened over there, with some suggestions as to how butter producers might better carry on the battle. * The article was headed "BUT- TER IS TO EAT"—and here it is; In April, 1954, Secretary Ben- son cut the support price on butter, amid a great clamor of protest. At that time, years of support at 90 per cent of parity had combined to cut down the consumption of butter and in- crease the government's aging and deteeiorating store of it. People were eating margarine and butter was flowing into government storage at the rate of two to two and a half million pounds a day. In 12 years, the average Amer- ican had cut his annual butter use from 16.7 pounds to 8.8 pounds. Margarine consumption went up from 1.9 pounds to 7.8 pounds in the same period. Some of this was the result of better advertising and distrihu- tion methods for margarine, but most of it certainly was the price appeal of the unsupported pro- duct. Butter was being suppor- ted out of the market. But look what has happened Barettp", Warren, B.A., Evidence of Jesus' rower Luke 7:11-33 Memory Selection: Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen ,end heard; hour that the, h/thd, pee, the fame walk, the, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are rats, ed, to the poor the Gospel is preached. Luke 1:22. Jesus did many mighty works. We can picture the funeral pro- cession at Nain with the widow leading the way, Jesus had cora.. passion on her. He always cares when our loved ones are 'torn from us. He bade her not to weep. He halted the procession and Ohi, to the corpse said. "Young man, I say unto thee, Arise." And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother,. No wonder that there came e fear Dwell. This was a most un- usual' happening. John the ,Baptist from his pri- son cells heard of the works oic Iesusand wondered. He sent two of lrks disciples to ask, "Art Than He that should come? or look we for another?" Perhaps John was a little depressed in hits gloomy prison. He may have questioned, "If Jesus is really the Son ef god, why am I left its this hole?" Jesus answered the disciples by continuing his work of healing and telling them to report to John what they had seen and heard, concluding with, the words,, "Blessed is he, who- soever shall not be offended hi, Me" But. the greatest evidence of. Jesus" power was his ability to forgive sin. 7136-50. This is still his greatest work. He can heat the body in answer to the prayer etfaith.:Buttne‘sarne body will ultimately go back to earth. But when He forgives the sins of any He transforms the person and sets him on his way to hea- ven. This is still God's greatest triumph. Nearly two milleniums have gone since Jesus trod the shores of Galilee. Still people come to Him and confess their sins and find peace. He is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. Berniticia is improbable in its geography, remarkable In its history, and famed for its color and climate and the pleasure people find here, With the ex. ception of 5t. Helena, Bermuda is Perhaps the Most isolated in- habited place in the world, but thousands seek it out annually. It is semi-tropical and never has snow or frost, yet it is far north of Florida which can and does have both, It is coral atoll (the most northerly in the world), but instead of being inhabited by lotus eaters, its citizens make up a busy conservative British colony; 'proud of the Empire and mildly devoted to its pomp and ,circumstance- These con- trasts are startling, hut perhaps most amazing of all is that al- though Bermuda sells nothing to the world except Bermuda (and a few' Baster lillies), the colony has no income taxes, no inheritance taxes and no public debt. Bermuda is a happy geogra- phical accident. The Colony is not one island, but a cluster of over a hundred islands which, combined, have 'an area of only twenty and one-half square miles, about the size of Mont- gomery, Alabama, Actually it is a Mountain of 15,000 feet, al- most as high as Mr. Blanc, but with eternal flowers instead of eternal snows. These ' tiny is- lands and the reefs that sur- round them are the heads and shoulders of a volcano, extinct a million years ago, that rises abruptly from the ocean floor, Travel a few miles from Ber- muda in any direction and the ocean is thousaands of fathoms deep. Minute coral insects built their homes about the peaks of the dead volcano' and brought the Islands to the ocean sur- face . . . Coral • reefs ring the Islanels, some eight miles off shore Jenhe north, but fre- quently legs than half a mile frOrn 'the ''south ishore. e "The highest point is •only two hundred 1i„ and, „fifty-nine feet abtive sea leYel. Increase sea by • a -feiv fathoms and Bei...Mita *would: be nothing but ;:. Menace.to •mariners. Lower the level sixty feet and the ex- posed reefs would make Ber- muda ten times larger but still only half the area of New Or- leans:. Bermudians -like to say that it is "alWays spring in the Is- lands.° -Perhaps they are right, :but there can. be an "early" spring; a "late" spring or when there, is an odd period Of bad 'weather, "an unusual spring." Bermuda's houses are as col- orful as her Mowers. All are built of, sandstone and, except for roofs which are always lime-washed; ;tinted in pastel shades of blue, pink, coral, gray, yellow or green. The roads are narrow, winding lanes, often cut deep into a• stone hillside. There isn't a billboard in the Colony. — From "Bermuda Holiday," by 11,/ary Johnson. TAKE STOCK Put in a little extra work on your new gunstock this fall, and find out how much longer it will hold up under rough treat- ment. Most gunstocks come from the factory with a varnish fin- ish. This mug be first removed with a piece of glass or fine steel wool followed by a cloth damp- ened, with varnish remover. When the stock is slick and smooth, apply boiled linseed oil„ rubbing ,it in with the hands, Set the stock away for a day and repeat the operation. One or two such treatments and the stock will take on a smooth, dull finish that makes it impervious to scratches, mars and weather. WET SMOKES A fisherman fell off a river bridge in New Mexico. It was 41 feet to the water and only 18 inches of said water to break his fall. As he rose' to shake off the water, fellow fishermen swear he said: "My cigarettes got wet!" Injuries? A scratch on the head and a slightly sprained ankle. 22 Seconds 1"0 Cook An. Egg If, by any chance, you have been planning to set UP a tele- vision station on a 2,400,,mega. cycle broadcasting band, you, Can forget about it, The Feder- al Communications COMMiSSIOn has just assigned this as the, frequency for borne cooking. In other Words• the long awaited microwave "radar" stove is at last coming on the market. Like any other ectuIP- ment putting out an electronic signal, it had to be licensed to "broadcast by the FCC. This is the culmination of a 10-year effort to turn a war- time marvel into an everyday convenience. The Company, Af- ter much trial arid error, brought out a commercial model of the "radar" stove last year. Now the Tappan Stove Compa- ny has put the Raytheon elec- tronic power unit into a- con- centional looking oven that is ready to bring a. revolution into your kitchen. Using the same basic tube that powers radar, the new stove employs broadcast-micro- wave (ultrahigh frequency) en- ergy to achieve a speed and convenience in cooking that are already well known from test runs of this new method in a restaurant. At 'a press demonstration re- cently, officials cooked an egg in 22 seconds. A five-pound roast of 'beef took half an. hour, Bacon strips were crisp and sizzling within seconds and were cooked on a paper plate with a paper napkin under- neath to absorb the grease Without the slightest danger of the paper catching fire. You can probably name your own examples from what has been • reported previously of trial runs with this kind of stove. The show was just an- abilities--ethe difference being that; this time, the deniOnstra- tors are ready to put One into The advantages of microwave cooking come froin the fact that it puts the heat where 'you want it — in the food — in a highly efficient manner. Very little else is heated in the pro- , cess. The oven walls remain cool to the touch, while the cooking pan can be-.removed with bare hands. The microwave i.energy is identical' with that; broadcast by a UHF TV statiOn.1That is why the FCC had to, assign it a "broadcasting" frequency in the UHF band, even though the stoves are engineered "to give no interference to' TV "or radio. In fact, none Of this*, energy can escape from. ethe 'stove at all. It is held inside by 'reflec- tions from the metal walls: and a specially designed perforated metal door. In earlier experimental mod- els, the microwaves ceoleed the food from ihe inside out, which led to complaints that rare roast' beef had the rareness all on the outside. The , engineers have found a way to reverse this ef- fect and cook from the outside in. For good measure, the Tap- pan stove also has an electric "browning" grill unit that can be switched on for short pe- riods to crisp up the outside layers of a roast or what have you. The first models will be priced at $1,200. Everyone here' - agreed that this price is high, although not quite as high as the $1,500-$2,000 expected six months ago. Further research may bring the price down, al- though when that reduction will come, and how much it Will be has not even been guessed at. Don't just throw away those plastic bags your apples and carrots come in. Here are ways to let them help you to happier housekeeping. Your own inge- nuity will suggest a score of other uses for these handy, free, see-through bags. 1. Grinding bread crumbs? Fasten a bag over the nose of your grinder with an elastic band. Put in your dried' bread, turn the handle, and thrill at the absence of crumbs that usu- ally spray in a wide arc on counter and floor. When ,the last crumb is through, simply shake your grinder into the bag, snap the elastic around its top, and you have a visible, crispy supply of crumbs on hand. 2. Looking for a waterproof bib? Cut one from a bag. Leave it double for greater strength. Use tape or bias binding for neck and strings, stitched on your sewing machine. 3. No time to iron the last few pieces already dampened? Slide them into a plastic bag where they'll remain damp and clean until pou're ready to finish them. 4. Travelling? Slip each shoe into' a plastic bag. Wonderful shoe bags these, and time-sav- ing, since they.. eliminate peek- ing. ' 5. Leftover odds and ends of knitting yarn? Put them in plas- tic bags. You won't have to paw over the entire lot to find what you are looking for. 6. Having trouble keeping your stockings .sorted out? Pop each pair into its own cellophane - bag. No more snags from bureau drawer or suitcase. 7. Picnic bound? Place let- tuce in one bag, cucumber sticks in another, carrot slivers in a third, and you can enjoy non- wilted vegetables with your outdoor treat. 8. Braiding M. hooking rugs? Keep your colors segregated by popping stripd'eif each color into a separate bag. It will be easy to fill-in that leaf shading when every green, „tint is in clear sight. FORMALITY DECEMBER SAFETY -- This drav'- ing won first prize as the De- cember safety poster in the American Automobile Associa- tion's nation-wide contest for 1955-56 school' safety posters. Upsidedown to Prevere Peeking. SEARCHING -- Margaret Blancke visits the repatriation camp of Friedland, Germany, her hus- band's name embroidered on her dress. A picture, of him com- pletes her way of advertising for the man who is , missing in Russia. She feels this is more ef- fective than posting a notice on the bulletin board, the, method used by most relatives of miss- ing vets. kiigh ,Oard '"mate CROSSWORD g. ice 31, _tolerable plan 34111tilkoad tie 9. SninniOnS to 34. Dyed PUZZI1 A fine distinction between ac- qtfaintanceship. and friendship has beenestablishel by such Southern tobacco auctioneers as haven't been exported to New Yorle for radio apPearances. SeVeral:'were convening in a babkwoods bar, when a new- coiner approached.- One of the group patted him On the back and said, "Russ, you know Joe Arbuckle, don't you?" Russ grudgingly extended a hand, and allotvede,"W,e've hoe/died but we ain't shook." EOM 00000 OOM WOO 00000 WW0 0E0 m000n MOW 000 000 OW 0021'00W 00 OW0WHEOWW0B00 OOM 000E0 000 OU00 won OMWO .00E10 EIWW0 MOInEla WHOM 0E0 OUBM0 MENB OWW 00:20M OED min OD©©© EEO FOR THE'lECORD .— The: ram inside this streamlined motor's cycle is Wilhelm Noll„.who-hopes he's set new motbrcycle speed records'for both the Mile and the kilometer. Racing on the auto= balm near Munich, Germany, he made tWo rting from a flying start. His unofficial 282.. k.p.h. (170 m.p.h.)' 'far the kilometer bests The existing record by 20 k.p.h. For the Mile, Noll set up 'blurting 177 m.p.r., also believed to be a, tie* record. Her Last Leap Ever been lying under a bus, doing an odd job to the brakes, when a wild lioness hes dived under to join you. That is what happened to Pet- rick Sakala. If you have not had the et, perierice, yott May like to krieee hoW Patribk, 'dile& of the Central Afriben, Road Services,. Jived to tell the tale. He was, just getting the brakes nicely adjusted When he 'heard his passengers shouting above. He popped his head out and saw a lion and. his liOnesS bounding out of the bush :Straight et hint Things moved fast Patrick's heart theiriped hard,: bet there 'Wes no time to move befoke the liOneee, Made her dive under the the bus arid was pulled up Short it? bittirig a providential Metal Spike. Patkiek'ethen craikled Out at theebtlier side`, Made. a clash., ter hiS cab, and drove the bus away ai,last as he could from the lion and his prone Later On he Went beek for his toOls, The lioness there, dead, The Spike.' pierced her brain. . , him his command. He spoke forceibiy, dedlaring the scuttling could not in any event be con- cealed as -the crew had seen the holes. He,was told to. come back, the ,next day when both Holdsworth and' Webb' were Waiting for him. Webb declared ehe had talked over-Kelly and ,other Members.' of the crew and nothing more would be heard of the scuttling. The three "were now joined by 'Dan; elloltlawortli's ' 'and Thomas' Berwick, the owner. ' They prbduced,a faked log-book, which they tried tp persuade the Captain „to pass as the log„ of the' Severn. When he, pointed MA that 'it was, 'quite new 'and: -had obviously,never been -used -at sea,, Holdsw,Orth. and Berwick .wetted the edges of the leaves and rubbed them with dirty fingers. Captai ie Leyland persisted 'that the fraud would be discov- ered and that he would be ruined. "Nonsense," replied Holds- worth, "I'll give you $50 a week to keep you going until the in- surance is ,claimed." .In due course a claim was made on Lloyd's for insurance. Although there is no' record of the fact, there is little doubt that Captain Leyland dropped a word in the, right quarters, for Holdsworth, Berwick, Webb and Dean 'were all arrested. The charge against Webb was of casting away the vessel with intent to defraud, and- the 'others . were charged with being acces- sories before and after, the fact. 'lleldsVorth and BeiVvick, as priine movers in the fraud, were each sent to penal sevitude for twenty yeare; ,Webb was given ten years, and Dean five.. Would Captain Leyland haye reported the teal cause of the loss had not Kelly happened to glance at the side of the Severn as the long-boat cast off? One wonders, Certainly that brief glimpse of holes below the water-line was the lucky factor that brought four, men to justice: men who had not hesitated to risk• the lives of a crew for sordid gain. Towering Success The painting of a 7,000-ton giant known to millions, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, was com- pleted recently. Thirty tons of paint was used on the 984-ft,- tower, and somebody has esti- mated that the area covered With paint is six times the size of Piccadilly This beauty treatment takes place Once every seven years, end the task of painting is so great that it usually takes two stuninete to finish. The vast mass of metal that Makes up the Eiffel Tower is constantly On the move, for ere, gineers say it must "breathe"— contract and expand like the chest of a hemee being, Fifteen thousand pieces of Metal fattened together by two and a half Million rivets went to the Making of the Eiffel Tower for the great Paris Exhibitkin of 1889. Alexandre-Gustave' who befit . it, showed his attachment for it by setting UP heeled On 'the fourth pletftitin, 'Here he established not, Only a flat but a Small laboratory,. Where important eerodytietnia experiments were' carried but, The 'tower's height has *Vit., ably attracted some .suicides„ al, though 'the ithinber has . been relatively low. 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Verson§ of Accomplish Anierietin tner al 41, Thi blAek 4,s,. Reiioi1t.iiciurrl 4:1, Poem 44, wilting 21,114 40. Pottly 49, Rind of lint 65, rIntlrel7 Ill rtn even Z7, Lomprei, '3S. Teal., ed . Answer elsewhere on tini page. The sea was calm, but .there seemed little doubt that the sail ing ship Severn was doomed. For two weeks the pumps had' worked, for two dayi- they• had worked incessantly e end the water was still rising in the hold. Reluctantly, Captain H, T, Leyland gave order's for the long-boat to be manned and lowered. The nearest land was Cape Verde, 'about a hundred and eighty miles to leeward on the African coast. There erase no wireless in 1870. As the boat touched the water, a seaman named Kelly 'hap- pened to glance at the Side of the Severn. He saw,- below the water line, neat round ehoies. In a second 'the vision had , gone, but the memory remained. The SeVern was on ber way from London to Shanghai. She' was laden to capacity with- wooden cases which the bill of lading showed to contain rifles, swords and ammunition. As Captain had previously been in- formed, ship and cargo were heavily insured. 'He had also been informed that the. ship might not reach China, in which case he would receive $3,500 in compensation. This information had been re- vealed at a dinner given to the captain by Lionel Holdsworth, a ship's broker, and Thomas Ber- wick, the owner of the vessel: Before they parted, Berwick ad. vised Leyland to insure his • own belongings for $1,000 and added: "Don't interfere` with. Charles Webb, the mate I have engaged for you." Captain Leyland must have felt he was sailing under very queer conditions, but sail he did. He can hardly have been re- assured when Webb told him after they had been five days out at sea that he had opened one of the cases and found it con- tained salt. Wet salt is not a buoyant cargo. At six o'clock that evening Webb, who was in command of the long-boat, boarded the Sev- ern again. He told the captain quite openly that the ship had been deliberately destroyed, and urged him to leave. Captain Leyland declared he'd rather go down with the ship than face the suspicion which must stick to him, since the long boat crew now knew the ship had been scuttled. Webb laughed. He was only twenty, but he spoke with all the assurance of an experienced man of the world. "There's money to buy the whole crew aVer," he declared. "Besides, I don't think Kelly did see those holes Webb returned to the long- boat, which then sailed off leav- ing the Severn wallowing, in the slight swell, The Captain Was how elone • oh board except far three sea. men who formed the crew of the gig. At eight &dock that evening he yielded to their per- suasion and the gig was lower- . eel, They could still see the •8evern forty minutes Wee When she heeled over and Sank. At dawn the ere* of the gig sighted the lorig..hoat. Eventu- ally, they Were all picked up by the steamer Arequipa erid landed safely at Peerienehtied, South America. 0 i the way back from Perri, ambuco to Southampton, Cap- bin Leyland and the elate shared thesame dabihn, Mr. Webb, evidently believ- ing the Captain could be bought, described how lie had befed and Pledged seven holes in the Sev. ern. On arrival in England, Cap- tain Leyland reported to Holds- worth, the broker Who had given