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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-04-25, Page 3'SCREEN TEST-Droplets of rain water, caught in the mesh of a screen, act as tiny lenses to produce the film-strip-like sequences, above. Blank white square at left is one in Which no droplet lodged. Photographer Clarence Leino, made the picture at ultra- close range. "Screen star" is his wife, La Verrie. AN, new project to establish an approved source for fruit trees from which all parts or the North, American continent may ultimatelY obtain planting met- erial, is being organized in the United•States with Canadian cc- „operation. Accerding to Dr. M. Welsh of the Plant Pathology Division, Canada Department of Agriculture, this project will en- sure the distribution and plant- ing of trees free from diseases .sit,ss..ne by bun , 'nd or 7 Ilno• Partieular atter), Lion will be given to the virus diseases present in a high pro- rortion of Canadian orchards, Many Canadian fruit growers still remember the days when hundreds of acres of orchards were being planted. in new areas, and orders placed with nurser- ies were simply. orders for any trees available regardless of var- ley or condition. In recent years the demand has been restricted to a few commercial varieties and often to certain improved strains, or specified sources of these. varieties. Most fruit grow- ing provinces and states in North .America are now providing more reliable propagating material for the nursery industry. Also, nur- seryment are exercising greater care in the selection of mater- ial and are discarding abnormal and diseased trees from their plantings. The headquarters for this new project dealing with the preser-' vation of disease-free tree fruits, is in the heart of the dry lands of central Washington. This or- chard which is being established will be isolated from the near- est fruit plantings by a distance of about 15 miles as the crow flies. Trees of all varieties of temperate tree fruits having either commercial or experimen- lel value in North America will be accumulated in this repository orchard. Each tree will be giv- en a series of rigid tests for all known virus 'diseases before it is admitted to the orchard. To en- sure that• the tree remains free from disease it must be re-test- ON PURPOSE - What looks like e near-fatal accident, isn't, Auto is being lovyered into a con- structioh hatch of the tunnel which will run under the North Sea Canal, at Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Test runs will be made to determine type of light- ing needed for safe driving, SEE tiott-tAttit: —1141.e's no g'beiratitee it the i datot, the addicts insist 'they'll see. later, :HOW-ever, fife'. alligator "hat" it tleffnite beaux chose, A gift with a live alligator fora fief is enough. . WO make any fellow rock beck en his heels and roll in high gear for .other poets: Madeline'. Herrittatini is only niedeling the reptilian headpiece. She atefeet Into shoes and handbags, A Lasting Garden For a summer -long supply of bloom, ck fresh vegetables, we must know how long it takes from the time of planting until we have the first bouquets or salads. To 'keep on, having bou- quets and salads right through, the summer, we make several plantings two or three weeks apart, and we also may use an early, a medium and a late ma- turing sort. Today's garden is no longer a. feast and famine proposition, with more peas, beans or corn than we can eat for a week arid then none at all, or with a great , showing of bloom in July but not a single flower in August. With. a little planning and a good Seed catalogue there is no reason why flowers or vegeta- bles should not be yielding something every day from the 'first blooms and greens in' the spring until long after the ground is frozen hard next fall. Suitable Tools Fors:getting in close to tiny flowers or vegetables, for weed- ing and a few other delicate jobs, it may be necessary to get down on knees or knee pads but with a little care a great deal of the ordinary garden cultivating and planting jobs can be han- dled with a minimum of stoop- ing. Spades, forks, dutch hoes, aptidders and many of the hand -ctiltiyators can be purchased With geed' long handles which permit Operation without any back bending at all, All " of these,. and other tools too Meted- mg. the lawn mower, it should be teinentbeted, will Work ear= ier and fatter if theit nutting edgeS are kept thatv For this purpose an old file Will be handy Mid a Tittle 611 Will also Knoell "Vent Enemy As for special !Sesta,' one Should Oki:wide himself with a good bulletin that any trouble can be. identified arid the proper' du d or spray applied, It is hot a bad idea tti take your troubles to the• neatest Seed store and let the experts thete PreStribe treatment. 'With the modern' dusts' end sprays that handle all sorts of huge and diseases, dithee singly at lit ecinibitiatitin, it is, 'xGREEN THUMB qatAos-ttkinc no trouble to check pests, and especially if we get them early, Help Them Stand It is a shame to see fine plants tangled and sprawled over the: ground, when it is so easy and simple to provide the necessary support. ,Little thine of course can stand by them- selves, but the bigger and bush- ier flowers, and such plants as tomatoes cannot, and especially in seasons of heavy rain and , wind. For the bushier flowers like delphinium, zinnias, marigolds, peonies and so on, support can be furnished that will soon be virtually invisible. Before the big growth starts we place the support and simply let, the plant grow around and through it. For this purpose we may use metal rings, hoops or a foot or so, of chicken wire arranged in " a loose cylinder about the plant. Another good plan is to• place some brush firmly in the ground arid close to the main stem. Iris a fewq,weelcs'lhe plant cemple, tely hides the brush but the sup- port is there. ' - For tall, individual • plants like dahlias, lilies, tomatoes and similar things we use stakes stained brown or .green perhaps; and lhesc are haminered firmly -in the grOund within ,a couple Of inches of theplant first thing-in the spring, so that the roots will =net be disturbed. . FOr climbing plants like sweet peas, morning gloriet, pole beans and so on, chicken wire netting, old tennis net- ting,;strings,;,:er brush will serve ands here again' the' support should be placed early, so that roots and plants will not be damaged. First Aid For Your TV Set , The wire-and-glass jungle in- side a TV cabinet, is a chal- lenge. to any handyman. So, next time your set goes on the blink, here are some pointers on finding your way around in there. First, and best advice is: DON'T. Just don't. Call a com- petent serviceman. Despite all these Do-It-Yourself columns, and their simple diagrams, a TV set's innards remain a dan- gerous expensive place for elec- tric babes-in-the-woods to wan- der. But, if you "must," you'll need a "cheater" and a "bleed- er.' Removing the back panel of your set cuts off the power. This safety protects you from interlock, protects you from your own curiosity.. To cheat yourself of this protection, you buy a "cheater" cord', less than $1 at any TV shop. With it, you can 'apply power to the Open set, and live dangerously, A "bleeder" is just 18" of in- sulated wire, with 1/2 " of insula- tiori scraped off each end. Tape on short wooden handles; leave the bare Wile ends protruding. High voltages build up inside your set, and linger on long after it's been turned off, TO discharge them, after you've get the back el your Set removed, touch one bard end of the bleeds et to the charged part, the ether end to the set's metal ehasia. Watch Out for high voltages at: 1 The metal caps et any tubes in, Ot near the high voltage cage (that's the little closed metal box just inside the beck). 2. The high voltage lead% eariiiiig from the cage; Or going tO the piettite tube. 3. „The' Miter rrtiatiiig Of the picture tube, 4, The poSitive leads of the filter condensers (Underneath the cliaSSIS)S If n on't 'ktive w Yelfre you d bleed' tiff * vet* hit 17 143 13 ' 14 40 39 "Little Paradise" lr TheSahara Ali Aiistiedn 'explorer claims, .in'a letter 'published in (Vienna ethnologist • new, On his third have .discovered "a 'little the Sahara.purer 0 Dr. ,peter er Flichs, a I Viernia expedition to the Sahara, wrote from Fade, ,a French oUtPest on the 4,750-feot-high ,plateau of gnnedi, in the Chad trritory in the • southeest of th Great DeeSert; abont 159 miles west 'of the-, Sudan, herder, ;'! Dr, Fuchs went by !may of .1Tibesti rangektbarren Oacts pis- te oyets 9;009 feet. Ht e tray- - elpd somee200 miles sbutheast to Fade, where' the French commandant lei* him: camels *,-and e.,.geide e)iplore the lit- tle-known Ennedi` country, first • eNplored in, 434. Tjt Fneiis„ edict that instead of desert Motintatris like fthose of Tibesti, to his great surprise he found a land which "'pith its red hills and fertile green vat- * leys must- without doubt be one "sit the mbst ',beautiful (parts of "the Sahara," - Dr: Ftichs wrpte thatphe plan- ned to ,sspend some weeks ex- ploring the Ennedi N plateau, which is about the size' of Aust- ria. The inhabitants, ntimbering about 20,000,, live as=' nomads with their great herds' of cam-s . 'els, cattle, and sheep.' • Dr. Fuchs claimed to be on the track of ancient cliff reliefs and drawings. Barelay Warren, fistie; Memory SelectioD: kaleto not chosenme, but I have .chol, ea you, and ordained you, that ye shall go and, bring forth fruit, and that your fruit Shan't", remain, Jahn 15:1Q. thing yog could'possibly touch,. Rentellaber, your set can pad; it 2%00 volt wallop. Don't push Your nose in there. Voltages lik• that command respect, and jump considerable distances to errs fOree it, •Those who set hurt are those who get careless,. Or who didn't know the Set was "loaded," Only mechanical source of danger is the picture tol3e, Handle it only as a last resort, and then gently, one hand, sup, porting the fragile neck, the other under the front face, Tap- ped or strained, in the wrong, place, you'll get an implosion, That's the opposite of explo- sion, but the face-full of flying glass will feel exactly the same, Very simply, your set Is divided into six sections: tuner; audio amplifier; video amplifier; sweep and synchronization; low voltage supply; high voltage supply: It's necessary to know which tubes are which in year set (A set has as many as 30 tubes.) A tube layout diagram is usually pasted inside, If not, write the manufacturer for one, Symptoms & Cures Here are a feW common pic- ture troubles, and possible cures ("Raster" is ,the normal pattern of the horizontal white lines on -your'screen, when tuned to an empty channel.) No 'picture, no sound, no ras- ter: Check low voltage rectifier tubes. No- picture, no sound, raster OK:-Check tuner, or video amp. tubes. No picture, sound OK, no raster: -Check tubes- in high voltage section, or horizontal sweep section; check picture tube. Picture too short, or tall: Al- ternately adjust "height" and "vertical linearity" controls on chassis; . check ,,verticel sweep tubes. Picture too wide, or narrow: Adjust rear chassis "width" control; 'check horizontal sweep, or high voltage tubes. Picture has white vertical line: Turn rear chassis "hori- zontal drive" control clockwise until line disappears. Pic to r e rolls- vertically: Check vertical sweep' tubee first, then tubes in sync. section. — From "Liberty." ed each year after it is planted, • * 4, Seed and scion sticks from this orchard will be provided to Government workers throughout Canada and the United States free of charge, These workers will eventually be able to clis- ' 'tribute the materials to interest- ed nurseryment through their own'state or provincial nursery improvement schemes. * * The project will be financed r entirely by special, funds granted by the United States Congress, The planning and organization hassbeen a joint effort between representatives of the Federal, Government and various state agencies in •the United States. Otlicials of the Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture have been given an opportunity to parti- cipate fully. Personnel of the St. Catherines and Summerland ,„ plant pathology laboratories have taken part in the planning and Dr. Welsh, of Summerfield is at preselitsei;mernber of the reposi- tory committer;. Twin Schoolboys, ,MakeaSame Errors It is nOt,enOugh to be sincere. Saul thought he 'wag doing God's will in persecuting the Church. Then as he went to Da- mascus With authority to. arrest any disciples he himself wad arrested by Jesus Christ. JesUs said, to him, "It is hard for .the. to kick against the pricks." Some think that Saul's cons science had been •troubling him since theg day he kept the gar- ments of •those who stoned Ste-- plhen to death. Stephen with a face like ,an angel had given a convincing address and then midst the falling stones had claimed to see the Son of man standing On the right hand. of God. His final words were a prayer for his enemies. Saul couldn't ;forget that experience. On the Damascus road. Saul saw Jesus and surrendered to him, He was blinded by the heavenly light and was led into Damascus into the house of Ananias. The Lord had pre- pared Ananias for his coming. Ananias anounced to him his commission from God that he was a chosen vessel to bear the Lord's name before the Gen- tiles, and kings, and the chil- dren of Israel. Then Ananias prayed for Saul and his sight was 'restored. Saul became the foremost of the apostles. H. wrote thirteen Of the twenty- seven books of the New Testa- ment. A conversion is a miracle Of grace. It receives more atten- tion if the individual has pre- viously been outstanding in his Opposition to the Gospel. But we all}need to be converted, Jesus Sid, "Except ye be con- verted, and become as little ;children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:3. The person who has been living an outwradly good life needs to repent -of his sins and surrender himself to Jesus Christ. Though the outward change in such a case may not be spectacular the inward change is. The individual knows it, Paul wrote, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creatures Old things are passed away;' behold, all things are become new." 2 Corinthians 5:- 17. Plumber Didn't Dig Deep 'Enough ,eatt, Mary Jean Ai rsenhcekei;nseWesit' member of • 'the t:Eisenho-Wer'' family, has a yaWnAfOr photographers as she 0i-flakes Aler ddbuief before news cameras rant, the. White House Three:inlOnths old, Mc‘ry Jean •Is the, qgu,ghter of Major and Mrs. Johns Eisenhower.* . . Canadian participation will in- clude some contribution and a full share of the, benefits. Tech- niques developed by Canadian laboratories will be used when required, New varieties of tree”' fruits developed by Canadian horticulturists can be submitted to the repository for safe keep- ing, * * Materials from the repository, will be released to Government workers in Canada as readily as to workers in the United States. United States authorities have adopted this generous attitude because they believe the use of a single repository for the contin- ent will avoid unnecessary du- plication and provide wider standardization. This is a fine example of international good- will and co-operation. • * In' 1955, farmers received 46 cents:' of • each consumer's dollar speisf- on-food of Canadian farm. origin: this figure is unchanged from 1954. The farm share was 47 cents in 1953, 51 cents in 1951 and 50 cents in 1949, The aver- age for the period 1949 to 1955 was 48 cents. These calculations are based on fixed quantities of food as determined by Dominion Bureau of Statistics food expen- diture surveys. • * In 1955, the farmer received a larger share of the consumer's dollar spent on . flour, bread, • beef, chicken, eggs and potatoes, but received a smaller portion for pork, butter, cheese and some •canned fruits and vdoe- tables. Efficiency "What do you do?" An ef- ficiency epert asked a Queen's Park clerk. "I loaf!" snapped the irritated clerk, The efficiency man moved to another desk and repeated his question. "Loaf!" said the second clerk getting into the spirit of the thing, The efficiency expert opened his notebook and wrote, "Dupli- cation of jobs," Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking um sum EIMP ZO M000 MIME MDMOU SOMME HOMMO 0010021 ROU 1520 MO UOOMOMOM Olaggi ©MO IRMO MODDIgagglii DOM 03 OM 000 ODOM MOW DEIMODUO DOMMV PROM BOMB DOM An. Austrian• professor, whose name is kept secret, living near Vienna, has, 'recovered a cen- tury-old family treasure buried in the clay floor of his-cellar. For generations IA_ family had been. eellectOrs artiste and historical treasures of jew- ellery and rare coins Of Japan- ese, Chinese, •and European origin, valued at many hundreds of thousands of dollars. During World War II the pro- fessor buried the collection in the cellar of Jiis. home for safety. When the Russians came they seized the house before he had time to dig up and remove the treasure, and the professoi was sure the Russians had dis- covered the collection. But he never dared to investigate. He made a restitution claim at the Viennese Treasury Board. When the Russians left, a com- mission was sent to the house for inspection of damage' done to the property. When the basenient floor was dug up, the treasure was found, intact and unharmed. NoW the professor has 'heard that the Russians did actually dig up the whole of the cellar to within' a !few inches of where the treasure had been hidden. But they were not looking for it, They were trying to trace the fault in a defeltive water main Based on 15 food items, which account for about 75' per cent of , consumers" expenditure on Canadian farm foods, 1955 re- tail •prices were almost 11 per cent above 1949; for the farm equivalents of the same 15 corn- modifies, farm prices were about 3 per cent below 1949. Market- ing costs increased almost 25 per cent between these two periods while the farm share was lower by almost 9 per, cent. * Retail prices of the same 15 food items were highest in 1952 when they were 18 per cent above 1949: These items in terms of the farm equivaleht of the retail product, were highest in 1951 when they were 15 per cent above 1949. Marketing costs for these products were highest in 1952, being • above the 1949 fi- gure by 27 per cent. 0. Simko) teneei' 31, S1 1O11 bird CROSSWORD 1in1. -pu r r 38 Tennyson int. . 61 urnoler 16. Gibbon: proper ;16. AtItawle PUZZLE 13, Mealier 44 I3y ,., 211, Nuisance 4:1, 'r 'oP1 Ott 'qui. 24., rtiltat en ht4nel 41t, 'Wttintennt ,- 24,. Pack 17,t1.`eat take ' Atin.MS 3. Hindn nnese 26. So. A rnerlottli 46 Broad I, urchin 3-, tidte. (orefls .nnlitn1 110..Sneroti Image 4,:-'mat,sanreo I.Sliellstsa ., 27. 11Pie nOern n1:, Grit. • • 14;1-leacluoar- 6. 14.0)re ,v letter 28: jeWel 132. P tbito vehicle 1 12, ArfirtnntIVe 41. 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He went there, took the cable, then his face went completely white. —He swayed for a few seconds and collapsed on the deck...Io less than an hour he was dead. The cable told him that his identical twin brother had died a few hours earlier Of a heart t attack after a party. ' Research by scientists into the fascinating subject of iclentitals''' twins has. , established beyond, doubt that an extraordinary- , , sympathy exists between them. Sometimes this results in a' forni of telepathy. ' • n; Although two Andividuali such twins- seem in ,some way to be two. halves of the same individual. They not only look" alike, but even think alike. • Sometimes the likeness extends * to •the very lines of their hands;. their fingerprints are similar. A once-famous pair of twins of this kind were John and Wilbur Stite, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A. They were se alike that only their wives — twin sisters — could tell them apart. Friends would try the experi- ment of asking each brother the same question. The answer was always the same, although per,- ' haps. phrased a little different- ly. The brothers' faces, figures, voices and even their laughs, ,ivere identical. Once when. John broke an arm, Wilbur had pains in the same arm. At the age of fifty-two, John was taken to hospital. Wilbur was with him constantly. One evening; as there was no ap- pearance of immediate danger in John's condition; Wilbur left him to go' home. But on entering his home twenty minutes later, Wilbur suddenly flung up "his hLds in distress and cried to his wife: "John:is dead. I know it." It was proved afterwards that John had died at that very Moinent, Some • years ago a London' woman revealed that in a school examination her identical twin sons both made exactly the same Mistakes. The similarity was so strong that the examiner had suspected the boys - of cheating. Only when it was shown that this, was absolutely UnpOssible "was he convinced it Was simply similarity of thought. The story of two Edinburgh girls who were identical twins sointerested Frandes Galion, the authority On eugenics, that he investigated it persetially. He Verified that one day the twins.. had "wanted to buy "surprise" birthday -presents far their Me- ttler. Ankietis, to outdo each Other in choosing something aPpro- `priate,"the girls said nettling to each cithePabotit what they had ,• bought:stSierituallY it was found , • that they, Had' bought chiha tea set vices of exactly the same 'pat tern,- arid colour,al- thOugh the Pureliasea were Made :itt different shciPs. 9 10 II 16 19 fa Z5: Ye 33 31 27 29. 37 3 43 ; ,:514$03 • • 19' • 50' 51 • SZ 5.3 .54 DRIVE WITH CARE 6 61, 46 'OWN' 1. Soft ',mho HO AitsWer a sevortiere oil. thit page, 900Pvc:••,L,Y'';': 4t.7