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The Brussels Post, 1956-02-29, Page 3?M00% MON SALLY'S SAWS 554 .1.4.444 4**,4.4 ......4.4 44444,44.444 "You sure have"elot of brass. General, and it's not all on your hat and uniform!" Marriage Agency Run From Jail Wattett,...P.A. mr,4444,, +4m, Christ Confronts tile ,Ivledera, World Ptho I9 ;31-48 iYlemerY Select/OP-4f thou hatlot known, even thou" At least is this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace I Luke 191;42. 5,555551,55,51,515111, Istm. MINK CATCHES HER EYE - Attracted by a caged mink is "Con- supermouser in the Seabord & Western Airlines hangar., The, mink is one of 580 that-were being flown to Copenhagen, Denmark, for breeding purposes. self so that you will net fall if the tool should slip. Avoid use of extensions such as pieces: of pipe placed On wrench handles to gain lever- age. This causes jaws to spring. Wrenches with sprung o r rounded jaws May slip and re- sult in band and finger injuries, Never use a file without a good handle. See that the tang is inserted far enough into the handle so that it will net work loose. Do not strike a file against anything to knock off the filings. Use a file card for gleaning, Do not strike a hardened bushing, pin or similar object with a ordinary hammer. Use a soft hammer, or place a piece of soft metal over the hardened surface before striking it, When using a screw driver, do not place your hand where it will be gouged if the tool slips. * * * When using a hack saw, tighten the blade rigidly, so that it will not buckle and break, and saw away from yourself with long straight strokes, using practically the entire length of the blade. To avoid dulling the teeth, ease,pressure on the back- ward stroke. * Avoid the use of chisels, with mushroomed Weeds. Iti striking them, pieces of steel are' apt to chip off and become imbedded in unprotected parts of the body. The heads should be care- fully dressed on a grinding wheel, * Use only hammers made of nonsparking metals in the pres- ence of flammable materials or explosive dusts, gases, or Vapors. When yOu want concentrated heat for some building or re- pair job, there is no better way of getting it than With a blow- torch, If used right, a torch is entirely SEife. Most danger comes from carelessness with the fuel. Here are a few things to watch out for; Fill terch outside if possible, Avoid spilling fuel.. 4, * * Do net overfill. One-half to three-quarters full is better, Wipe off tank. * Ayeicl building up excess prest sure, After lighting torah, be sure game is kept away from inflammables. Don't use a leaky torch. When soldering overhead, use care in preventing hot solder from falling on skin or into eyes. Use goggles. * * * When removing paint, use care in not -leaving' flame too long in one spot which may burn and start a fire. * There are two simple and im- portant rules for effective use of metalworking (and wood- working) hand tools. First, use a tool only for the purpose for Which 'it is designed. Second, make sure that it is in good con- dition before using it. Simple these are, they are 'often overlooked,' with resulting dant- age to work or personal injury. Other, good peactices and pre- cautions in the use of metal- working tools are: * • There are, many types of wrenches, each intended for a specific kind of work. Use the type best suited for the job. Pull, don't push, when using a wrench so as to avoid, hand in- juries if the wrench should slip. Place a monkey wrench or other adjustable wrench so that the open end of the' jaws is fac- ing the same direction as the direction of pull. * When pulling on a wrench, get a secure footing and brace Your- World's Deepest Hole-Man-Made Thirty-five miles southeast of New Orleans in the Mississippi Delta marshes is the world's deepest hole - a record 22,559 feet. The hole has been drilled by Richardson and Bass of Fort Worth, Texas, Whether it pro- duces oil or not, it will have cost more 'than $2,000,000. The Richardson-Bass outfit consists of two barges sunk in- to nine feet of water at the end of a channel dredged out of the Louisiana marshes. The actual drilling barge is 140-feet long, 54-feet wide and 12-feet high. On top of the barge 'is a 136- foot derrick. Beside the drilling barge, and connected by a walkway, is the boiler 'barge. Located on this barge are five 150-horsepower boilers which provide the steam to drive a huge rotary engine. The boilers are fired by natu FASHIONABLE? - It is, on a chilly, beach. This terry, cloth tent-robe is designed to keep milady warm after a swim. Size of the London, England, creation makes it appear use- ful also as, a dressing tent. Jr and sorrow are seldom. far apart, The crowd of disciples, gathered into the city for the. annual feast rejoiced as Jesul rode into the city Seated on a colt, the foal of an ass, The haughty Pharisees were dis- pleased, As the procession rounded a -turn from which Jesus looked down upon the city he stopped. He wept. He saw into the future. In a few days the people of this favored city would reject Hint and crucify Him. Spurred by their religioUs leaders they would cry out, "His blood be on us and on our children." In an- other forty years it would coins to pass even as they invited. The beautiful city would be laid waste under the heel of the Ro- man conquerer. Many, many people would be slain. How would Jesus be received in the big city of today? Theft are many to give him an en- thusiastic welcome. There are a few cynics who openly mock at religion. Perhaps the majority could be described as indifferent. G. A. Studdert-Kennedy has de, scribed this, attitude in a Roem entitled, "Indifference." He flak describes the crucifixion scene at Calvary. Then he says : Mien Jesus came to Birmingham they simply passed Himh__?3, They never hOrt a hair of um. they only let him die; For men had grown more tended, and they would not give Him pain. They only passed down the street. and left Him in the rain. Still Jesus cried, "Forgive them for AtIldernilEln?twPaiWi what they (gin that drenched Him through and througlij The crowds went home and left the streets without a soul to see, And Jesus crouched against a wall and cried for Calvary. „ How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation? -Hebrews 2%3 Ostrich Farming In Africa raj, gas supplied from another well, Spudded-in last Fob, work has been 'going en for almost a year, Incidentally, the command, post'far this huge operation is; not on, the drill site but some 500 miles away in, the sky- scraper office of E. (Ed) Hill, Manager of Operations for Richardson and Bass. Here by means of telephone, Mr, Hill keeps a constant cheek on what he calls rig. No, 25. His desk is piled with reports, electric log graphs, geologic surveys, and special maps. " The biggest problem in drilling to depths greater than 20,900 feet," Mr. Hill said, "is in maintaining the proper cas- ing program that will give yOu a big enough hole size at the bottom, "If you start out too small at the top, you'll end up at he bottom with drill pipe the size of spaghetti. We have been ex- tremely fortunate," Mr, Hill continued, "in that we have yet to have a single drill pipe lailure. "Pipe failures mean fishing jobs - that is, probing by re- mote control to bring up 'the broken end, With drilling costs of almost $5,000 a day - we couldn't afford to stop many times for this sort of thing." Mr. Hill then went on to ex- plain some of the unbelievable strains placed on drill pipe at such tremendous depths. Foe. example, a string of drill pipe at such a depth will stretch about 20 feet. "I know it may sound fantastic," Mr. Hill said, "but much of the drill pipe was not new but had been previous- ly used on other drilling pro- jects." Among the hazards of deep drilling is the exceptionally high temperature encountered at great depths. The overburd- en pressure-that is, the weight of the earth-at this record depth is approximately 20,500 pounds per square inch. In fact, temperatures as high s 350 de- grees Fahrenheit have been re- corded. It is Mr. Hill's calculated guess that if trouble develops it May be in the rig's mud sys- tem, because of the tempera- ture. According to Mr. Hill the drilling mud is pumped down inside the drill pipe, emerges through the drill bit, and "re- turns to the surface by climb- ing up the outside of the "drill pipe. The mud not only cools the hole, but also brings up drill bit cuttings. The mud weight is now over 18 pounds per gallon. It has to be thickened constant- ly to maintain a hydrostatic head to counteract the forma- tion pressure. "We think we can operate at a bottom hole temperature of up to 370 degrees with our pre- sent mud system," Mr. Hill de- clared. "If it gets much hotter than that we will end up mak- ing bricks out of the mud at the bottom of the hole" Nearly $2,000,000 has already been spent to drill to the record depth, $446,000 of which went for mud. It Was an advertisement in a newspaper that started it, It read: "Are You. Lonely? Are You Looking or An Ideal Mate? Let Us Help you, Write Bor 4444 Post Office, Columbus, Ohio." Dozens of lonely folk answer- ed, and a new racket in "forlern hearts" was launched. Which, arnagirt2IY, went on, for four year until a suspicious client in- vestigated. For what the lovelorn peeple did not know was that, the line- jer hearts agency, named the "Idealists' Club," was run by a prison officer, assisted by twelve conviets! Signing himseif as the secre- tary, the officer (a fingerprint expert at, the Ohio Convict Prison) had conceived a get- rich-quick scheme in which vir- tually all the paper work was done secretly° by' convict associ- ates. Their reward was a cut of the profits. Tne initial response was so good, that soon the aclvextise.- ment was appearing in scores of papers, up and down the country. Thousands .of limply people an- swered and in reply received printed leaflets extrolling the success of the agency in pairing off those who longed to get mar- ried. The leaflet stated: "We have been successful in helping many thousands of men and women to find the happiness which can only be experienced by those who have found their ideal." Those who wished to find their "ideal mate" were guaran- teed rositive results - for a mere dollar! Those who sent the dollar re- ceived names and addresses of several people of the opposite sex -'"scientifically chosen by a 'new infallible method, as their• ideal mates." How many actually did find their "ideal mates" was never diecovered. Presumably those who failed probably felt that they had expected too much for a dollar and did nothing more about it. But one man, living not far from Columbus, was not satisfied and wrote to the Idealists' Club demanding his Money back. Re- ceiving' no replies to several such requests, he solicited a friend's help and, using his ad- dress, wrote again in a disguised hand, peeing as a lonely spinster loEiking for a husband. After the usual exchange ('a dollar for an address) he was put in touch with himself! New thoroughly suspicious, he went to the post office at Colum- bus" to which all mail for the Idealists' Club was directed, and kept watch. He saw the prison officer pick up the mail, followed him to the jail - and immediate- ly wrote to the governor. So the get-rich-scheme was discovered ,and brought swiftly to an end. Inveitigation reveal- ed a lilt of over 300 names of "ideal' mates" in the organizer's possession, with masses of liter- ature which had been printed on small hand Presses within the prison by his convict friends. .He was convicted of fraud and sentenced to a five-year term, while his convict friends had an extra 'year tacked on to their sentences. VpsidedoWn to Prevent Peeking GOSSIP Here's news for wives who like to gossip over the garden fence. Gossip is one of the heal- thiest of all pastimes, say lung specialists. At' a recent conference in France, one pointed out that many human ills result from weakness or deterioration of the lungs. Intensive talking, he de- clared, strengthens these deli- cate organs. "Women love gossiping more than men," he went On. "It is fairly certain that talking makes women live longer." Enda j. ia J.-11M "dm s ?IV .L 1 olssaals soa 1-1VC 6V1-10 ogivas vas staa adoi VAV1 1121 SNI alses asItsia14.12 V swa -3211530 210IlaNNV Itlao CINS1 SIR! Mexican "Fagin" Hanged By Fate It is commonplace to speak of the irony of fate, but what bet- ter examples are there than the strange and bitter quirks of fortune which have brought re- tribution 'to criminals? ' A man was convicted of mur- der, but well-meaning people were convinced of his innocence. They launched a fierce cam- paign in his favour but, Un- aware of this, the condemned man asked for writing materials. Meanwhile, -the Home Secretary, impreased by the representa- tions, called a meeting of legal officials. The condemned man might have been reprieved had not the meeting been interrupt- ed by the arrival ,of his con- fession ! ,Peter Kurten, the eVionster of Dusseldorf" who- was executed in 1929, had at least nine mur- ders and seven attempted mur- ders against him. Only one thing lay to his credit : he had spared a girl who had begged for mercy. And this girl was the only one of his victims who was able to point him "met to the police. - It was ironical that Patrick Mahon, who killed a woman and dismembered her body at a cot- tage' at Peventey Down in 1924, should haee .been "brdught to justice by , his wife who loved him. She became worried at his habit• of staying out late, and rummaging through his pockets, found a railway cloakroom de- posit ticket.- She ,handed it to a friend con- nected with the railway, police and he found that it' referred to a bag deposited by Mahon,, which c"oritaihed- bloodstained imple- ments. r 57 ••105 5/ J0114611 ii."-^"." THOUGHFUL - Robert. Johnson, porter for a wineimportin9 firm, benefits from the thoughtfulness . of men Icing dead as he rests his wicker, basket on this "por- ter's rest" in London. It was erected in 1861 on' order's Of ' the vestrymen of St.' George's Church, "for the benefit of pOrz ters and others carrying laads." neck in front was covered with sand-hence the theory that he buries himself." Whether he buries his head or not, the ostrich is still an un- orthodox enough creature to get himself considerably talked about. He lives on lucerne ("lucerne to South Africans, clover to Bri- tons, and alfalfa to Canadians," says Mr. Harris, " it's all the same") and helps grind it up with marble-sized stones which he swallows. Being a desert bird, besides top and bottom eye-lids he has a third, side- ways, blinker to shut out sand- storms, and goes waterless 'for months, writes. John Hughes in the Christian Science Monitor. At 260 lbs., male ostriches are black and sit on the eggs by night, Females weigh 50 lbs. less and use their gray feathers for camouflage over the eggs by day. Males have a squawk - fe- males are completely voiceless. Both grow up to seven or eight feet in height, can jump up to 10 feet, but never leap the five-foot wire with which they are fenced. Why do they farm ostriches at Oudshoorn? Because of the low humidity with the eight to •ten inches a year rainfall - very suitable for ostriches. Ostrich-farming really came into its own just before World War I, during a' boom when every fashionable lady had an ostrich-feather fan, boa, or hat, But 'the boom was shdrt dun- * lien. Ever eince, the Oudshoorn farmers have been hoping, for a new one. Queen Elizabeth II gave trade a fillip by wearing an ostrich-feather cape with which she was presented during a visit to South Africa, and. also ostrich feathers in her hats. Atid price§ have been climb- ing tO the current 64s. a lb. which farmers get for featherS at the local auctions. Hesidea the feathers, the Ostrich pro-, duces "biltorig," a traditional' form of South African dried' Meat, and its skin' iS used for expensiVe leatherware like handbags, wallets, and books, So there is the story of os. irith.. There surely will be somebody who has seen hint bury his head. But then We said at the beginning we were Stick., hi g, out neck Out. Perhaps to avoid a controver- sy we would haVe done better to go and, bury our heed lit the sand like the- But then, Of cettree, doesn't: The ostrich is pretty general- ly known as the bird that is al- ways sticking its neck out. But most everyone here feels the time has come for someone to do it for him. -It seems that the ostrich is a much-maligned creature. You ought to know, therefore, that the' ostrich does NOT bury his head. The explosion of this popular myth will likely cause some re- ' gret among politicians, journal- ists, and others who cannot seem to get along without a sprinkling of adjectival ,a os- trich like's." But then it seems only fair to the ostrich that you Should know he doesn't have a personal and private formula for getting away from it all. He faces right up to things like anybody else. All this, at any rate, is what they feel in Oudtshoorn. Ant they should know. For here they get closer to ostriches than anywrere. This is the only place they farm them. Some 200 farmers in this area keep' about 25,000 birds which produce 55,000 lbs. of feathers a year. About 70 per cent go to Britain and the United States either to grace Fifth AVenue and Bond Street salons with os- trich feather evening capes and fashionware, or somewhat more mundanely, to Make feather dusters. At Highgate Farm, three gen- erations of Hoopers, who first emigrated from Highgate, Lon- don, have been farming ostrieh- el for more than a hundred years. And they've never seen one bury its head yet. Out emphatic guide, John Harris,told us all about it: "rhere'e a very good reason why the ostrich cannot possibly bury his bead," said he, weenie ing to his Subject, "If he did, he would not be able to breathe. "The whole thing':, is this. As far 'back as 1823, we have a re., cord of ostrich feathers being sold at 6d a feather in Cape Toren, This means that more than a hundred years back. they sterted •capitalizing en the tie- trich. Hunters Weht out either to catch growh osteichee or to "steal their eggS, "Seort the ostrich was on the clefensitre. Perhaps he aireadY, knew how to do it, Or perhaPis he learited theti. But he started tette coven.• And he did not do, it by burying his heed. All he did was to squat on the ground and stretch his neck Out flat se AS not to he seen, When he got up, Of course; the length of "TURKISH'", DELIGHT - Basketball coach Peter Newell shuns pie& nuts and het dogs vvheri his tedni takes the court, Ali he travel is a' good; Wily towel: shown during a. tense Menne* in a game, is herder towels are the players. The rein of terror of Macario Gonzalez Guadarrama is over. And the mystery of Mexico City's missings youngsters has' been cleared up satisfactorily at last. Thirty-two-year-old G u a d ar- ream, a Mexican version of Charles Dickens' crook character, Fagin, made his living by forc- ing boys .of nine to twelve to "Work" for him as thieves and beggars. After many boys had been reporte t missing, detectives bore down on a man who had been seennear movie houses and city markets, always surrounded by edniiring youngsters. The attrac- tion was an electric gadget which gave a slight shock and which Guadarrama used as bait Ur` his recruiting. After,giving a youngster a good time,he would jestingly ask him to "take" something from a park- ed car for d joke.' 'Once the victim did this "Fagin" threaten- ened, to ,denounce the, child ,who, terrified,follovved his new "etas- ter.31 "Tagin" had his boys rob such trifles as car mirrors; radio an. terinae, windshield Wipeke and Other accessories. Whenever there *08- a sigti,of rebellion, the 'youngsters *bre Merdiesely beat- en iherthieatendd With death, He had at least !teen. boys working for:hint when 'aerated. BOys ,legitimate, jobs in bowling alleys or Angler exit- ploYineht had to turn. Over their •tijOgeS- to ataglii." Ware lit his eyes, he asked Pelite not ,to eeqUeet the story Of his life. idevae Very ashamed Of his actions but blamed: it on his estranged wife, Who, he" Said; had*beffiYed him With an. either Mari. 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