Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-08-01, Page 7'' ' .................. *J.:4 EQUINE MINIATURES - "Maggie," 11/2 -year-old miniature mare, above, is bracketed by a three-week-old Dexter calf, left, and a five-week old Guernsey calf for comparison of size, "Bobolink," below, is a nine-year-old miniature stallion, only 28 inches tall. Both animals are owned by Mr, and. Mrs. N. Clarkson Earl, who stock their 50-acre estate-farm with several types of small-size animals. The stallion is an import from England, where a Lady Hope has developed a strain of tiny horses. If the Earl's Lilli- putian horses ,breed true, the foal will be the first of the tiny strain to be born in the United States. that outboard manufget•rea should try to outdo melt other in the search for more ]rower, greater re- liability, more eonveolent RentralS essential iu racing, At the sane time, the marine llet,rOdderfl ...lode a few dlecoveries of their ' own, The `stoelt" underwater snits -,,,.gettr44/X, liettaing and propeller '• liouslog Wore ea using undue tfliileeys found,a,emr, ryw a edith tettke- agws, drivers improved streamlining. They also invented, remote eon- trids. When you put a fairly heavy engine Arid a well-muscled driver at one end of a very light, flat-bot- tomed skiff, the bow goes up in the air and the stern Senate. This Causes lees of control and Speed. So Seine unknown genius illstalled an automobile-type steering wheel, forward in his boat, ran airplane- type cables through pulleys to swing the tiller to and fro, Some- body else came up with the spring- loaded safety throttle: if the driver is tossed out, the spring closes the throttle, and the man in the water Is saved from being run down; at least by his own boat, Titus today's outboard, is almost as simple to operate as a car engine. Even starting can be done electri- cally. A separate, pressurized tank can hold enough gasoline for a full day's cruising, One firm even sup- plies an attachment by which the engine bails put the bilges„ The modern motor has been quietened considerably. The exhaust is con- ventionally underwater. Quieter 'gears are used, and there are air- intake silencers, rubber seals be- tween the engine underpan and the hinged hood. Oil •companies have kept pace with the improved en- glues' and provide special lubri- cants and greases done up in screw- topped or specially-sized packages. One development that has brought joy to those in the out- board industry has been the in- vention of the outboard cruiser. This is a small craft, up to about 22 feet long,"with a forward cabin and most of the comforts of home- , bunks, toilet, galley. Prices start at $400 for a "kit' and the most pop- ular class will cost you around $1,200 although you can shell out $0,000 for something special. The advantage of the outboard cruiser against the inboard engine jobs, is chiefly that the outboarder is all boat, no space wasted on engine compartment. Also, the outboard cruiser is • usually built light enough to be hauled from' the fam- ily garage to the lake by trailer be- -411101 'the 'family car. As yon 'might ,„-e...zgeet, families are taking -tb;;the like ducks - it's peaceful, atinade:yweavye.rybody , wants- to be a tailor, And what ,of tomorrow?' More outboards?' Yes. More power? Yes- chiefly because the outboard cruis- er Is getting bigger; people are find- ing that 20 feet isn't very big for a boat, and would't it be' nice if we had some place to stuff Mother? Am the ,cruisers get bigger, they need more power. This year's biggest Evinrude is a 30-horsepower unit, up' five from last year. More out- board marinas? Yes. 'A marina is a sort of motel-by-the-sea (or lake) where you can park your boat or your trailer, get accessories and re- pairs, gas up, shop, or go ashore and sleep in a bed that doesn't sway. Even the Outboard Boating Club of America doesn't know how many there are, but -there un- doubtedly are thousands. And the future? Well, when the first rocket ship lands on our near- est neighbor in space, a couple of the crew will be seen Unloading a folding boat. To the stern , they'll attach -a small motor, then go hap- ily putt-putting,along the Canals of. Mars. By John Largo In Imperial Review Boy of the Forest It is more than 230 years since the amazing creature knOttn ae• Petet the Wild Boy Was brought to. England, and the mystery of his. origin is still unsolved. • Peter r was discovered running Wild in the Porest of Itertswold, heat Hanover; Geienany, in, 1725. Aged about thirteen, he Walked On all tate, climbed trees like it monkey and ate VASS, moss and wild Plants: When Queen Caroline heard about. hint She requested` that he be',.brought to this tonntry and -the ablest Masters- proVided for Bitt he . remained untamed: ne amount of training eotild Wan this strange young ':savage from his wild lutbit'S.• could' only titter grunts and Mad not be taught ,to speak s ingle viable. Ho Wore as b3ASs collar with his. name, Petet the Wild Boy, on it.- Later lie was granted it pension of $105 a yeat and a coinfortelde hilitie Wee' found 'for bibs at n farm- Midge alt Huts, He liked Alt and tobacte and would kiss the herid of anybody who gate hill tricritO, Baer- WaS, terY '8611811We- te• CliangeS iih the Weather Mid ttsed to .11oVid .eis't beton' it Inside the chnith at Nett& .1161iSi Pear BerklitiniStek is it .lititat -Plate 'Which "Wads. that he died on .1-febriittit 1]85,'ostippoSed to be aged geteat .- tiVOP' "Se far at ray' Wife Is a nate or mind over Iuatter, She doesn't blind *don't Met, teri 12. -4 z 3 13 a 7 l 0 17 `e'ex,zo 15 la 19 42 22 4 24 za 26' 29' 30 351 N4. 39 40 50 53 a 25 fi. .8"&xeie .ti 49 5z $5 riswctr niseWhete eh aagc, 'GET A HORSE, Ridets Centra Par ..g we, the horse laugh tar the delve .64 a three-wheeled car: "sfarfi the. tiny Vehitio hdi tfeeamlined litiay of. Mcildediberglal and' a German ILO.. engine. The car has hid-kW-UM ritSieti of 76 per and saidta. get: 80 miles to" the', galfoo,,'LeSi than' three' feet the Star feeti. five, ]lychee' long", 50 tithes wide, a od 'Weighs The spring crop that we thought would never get seeded is now coming up in the fields - and who. knows, It may be just 45 good at crop as Usual. You don't know, I don't know, nobody knows. But one thing is certain, it was sown with faith in the old promise that seed-time and harvest shall Dever fall, There may be regional fail- ures of course as there Often are - but Dever since the flood has there been a time when crop failures have Occurred the world over. Na- ture has a way of establishing a balance drenching rains in some parts of the world, drought in others; good crops here, poor Crops there. We con't see the overall pat- tern and so we can't be expected to realize that our allotment, good or bad, may be necessary to fit in the pattern as a whole. But now as I look around at the promising spring crop, I foresee another problem. I am wondering how on earth it will ever get into the barns. Farm help is so scarce and the farmer needs some assist- ance even if high - powered - and high - priced machinery Is used for haying and harvest. Because Of the acute shortage of help I'm thinklog there are going to be a lot of very tired farmers and farmess' wives before the crop is in the barns. It is to be hoped 'that high school boys and girls will be of some assistance at home and not leave all the work to Mom and Dad while they take a vacation job for the sole purpose of getting spending 'money for them- selvesd• Remember, although we have the promise that seed - time and harvest shall never fail we have never been given the assur- ance that labour will be provided to deal with them. That is a prob- lem we have to work out for our- selves - and right now it is the toughtest problem the average farm- er has to face. We are offered help and advice in so many ways-but Seldom where it is most needed. For instance, the report got around that we had sold our ,farm- which we haven't.; not yet anyway. So, on the basis of that report an investment company sent two of its agents • out to advise us as to how and where we should invest our money. But the• Joke was on them . .. they called at the wrong farm and talked to the wrong farm- ers. This the other farmer did not realize until the fellows were leav- ing and each 'of them said goodbye Mr. Clarke, we shall likely be seeing you ',again!" And still more advice: We got a card in the' mail the other day which informed us that the writer had a party looking for a car the same year and model as the one we are driving. If we were prepared to make a deal he could give us a "terrific, offer" on a new ear. Here again there was a serious error. The writer of the card gave us the wrong' telephone number ; All three were pretty smart fellows, weren't they? And still more problems: How are we going to cambat the one cent increase In the price of bread and the twenty - five cent raise in haircuts? Looks as if mother will have to get out the old pud- ding bowl and turn barber again. However, a haircut is necessary only once every few weeks but.we are dependent on bread every day of the week. Eggs also have gone up in price - which helps to balance the budget for the farmer but will hardly be welcomed by the wage- earner's housewife. But, if the far- mer should be lucky enough to get efficient hired help it will still take an awful lot of eggs to pay the hired hand's wages. Well, let's leave farm problems for instance, I was in Toronto last week to get my eyes tested. I al- ways •think it wise to consult an eye specialist rather than au oplo- 11. They (lo say ilia reeentty ht l'uu- Wriiag; U.S, Citizen clamped an out- board, iuotor to the stern of nn old bathtub (with the stotmer in) Mal .navigated this east-iron contrap- tion down part of the Mississippi. And a couple of yea y. ego, an, equal- ly • enthusiaStie but Inure Praetleal ,mariner named De liticquy,. piloted a?i .eritbOard-powered sem about 1,200 nilleS from Oillllat, Ont.. to Florida. Dubbed a "bangaborti" because it was. half boat and half bungalow,. the He Blienny craft was a husky 32-footer, 'Powered by a 25-horse- power ,I.obtisoni the .Betty K putt- putted at a comfortable seven .or eight miles an hour down the Trout Canal, across stormy Lake Ontario, navigated the various locks of the Brie Oahe], ,slipped down the Hurl- son river to New 'York and finally Arrived in Florida by a route known as the Inland -Waterway. Troubles? Once in a white the .fam- ily dog or one of the crew would fall overboard, or the big house- boat scow would nuzzle a mud bank, .but otherwise it was just a pleasant cruise, thank you. These two little incidents 'will help to make a couple of points - one, that the great joy of the out- board is that y0u can clamp it to one:, edge of a washtub and lo, you've got a boat and two, that to- day's outboard is a highly reliable borr Of tricks, and a fine piece of engineering. These These are also the reasons for the great popularity of this little power package through- out the world, and especially in North America, the home of the outboard. This year it's estimated. that abOut half a million outboards will be sold in the United States, about 40,000 in Canada. By the end of 1055 there were 4,173,000 out- boards in the H.S., some 700,000 in Canada. Bach -year,, recently, has seen 10 percent more outboards sold than the previous year. The "outboard Is used all over the world. Much of the -barge traf- fic through the canals of the Netherlands • is outbOard-powered, as are some Hong Kong fishing junks. ,Eskimos of Bering Sea ANYTHING BUT - Turn for the better is all that can be expect- ed when residents of Meade, Kan., reach this misnamed cor- ner. Definitely' no location on the nation's rain belt„and with- out enough moisture to support the "Spring Lake" allegation, Meade has experienced a years- long drought. As one waggish citizen puts it, "churches are passing out tainchecks for bap- isms because of lack of water.", CROSSWORD PUZZLE ActioSS 57. betyro•.51-ori 1. mower 6. DeParted bOWN 9. Atirottmblie•1. Ptl'lag0 • 2.110 -derietir ie. Operetta sone speaker 39, T.Icitiof. 3, A.larth Is. Peel volfstieS ' 30 of a famous Creek poet IS. Account entry trnderstand 29. reuse or ruin 6ritiOritY 20". Treated 211. 74efOre 20. While 27, Spread 23. DoWn,(tirefti) 29. finale '31. Pasture. 31. Pair tab.)'.' 35. liv 57. Exist 48. ' nicknerer Withdraw 43.lteproacll' illyealvelt 46. Sn may he' 16. Babylonian' 4 deity. etty 1 it loWit 4.9, Dell '8.iirtabO Ott eet T-TorsiteOct, ttemriti road' :Har'd'en l 156. Vidtifit have taken to attaching mithoards to their skin unlinks, for faster mu!, suit of tbe walrus anti seal, In Canada, the "outboard lads help O tire Airplane open up the north cOuntry, :Many a COM- lug down unexpeeteilly on a north- ern lake, has clamped his trusty kicker to a pontoon and motor- boated his idling plane to shore, or hailed a passing trapper cruising the, lake with JOS outboard, Inside tile Arctic circle, many a mission- ary' goes ids rounds with the aid of his outboard. 011 :11110dOlt h ay, gsk-laws chase white whales from big freighter canoes driven by oat- hoards. The Royal Canadian Mount- ed Police, working sea patrol out of. Halifax, carry outboard-driven skiffs on the big patrol. boats - for- chasing poachers, One of the longest outboard saf- aris In Canada occurred in the sitim mei. of 1054, when foot govern- ment men traveled from Water- ways, Alta. to. Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic ocean - 2,500 miles in at heavily-laden 18-foot boat. They made only one portage, to get past the Rapids of the Browned on Slave river. The party was, seldom near a garage, but their outboard got them there. Bullng the devastatiag Winnipeg flood of 1950, only outboard-power- ed small craft were able to work in the shallow waters that cover- ed city streets, doing most of the jobs usually clone by cars-freight- ing in food and medicines, form- ing police patrols. The same handy little engines pumped out basements using small pumps coupled in place of propellers, a method also used by those who fight forest fires. All this no doubt would prove astonishing to the inventor of the outboard, but nobody can say for sure who he was. In 1876 a French- man named de Sanderal invented a sort of raft, to he held up in the water by four horizontal propel- lers, with a fifth vertical propeller to push. The poor fellow had noth- ing but steam engines to work With and they were pretty heavy, so the raft didn't float too high, In fact, it didn't float at all. It sank. Then there was Gottlieb Daintier, of auto fame. William Steinway; the piano man, exhibited one of Daimler's outboards at' the Chicago World's Fair in 1803. Steinway is said to have built 100 Daimler motors, under license, and sold them during the 1890s. Near the turn of the century var- ious individuals and firms were • working on the outboard problem. In 1806 the American Motor Co. was producing an outboard With most of the major components found in today's "kickers" - such as steering by a tiller that rotated the propeller - but the company was not commercially long-lived. In 1907, however, Cameron Beach Waterman, of Detroit, secured pat- ents on a water-cooled "outboard" -it was Waterman who coined the name - and sold 3,000 in his first year. But perliapS the Man who made the biggest commercial contribu- tion was the Norwegian- American, Ole Evinrude - helped by his re- markable wife, tiny Bess Cary Evin- rtole. A Milwaukee, Wis. maker of patterns for engine castings, Evin- rude made his first outboard in 1900.- When Bess 'said, "Make it better. That thing looks like a cof- fee grinder," Ole, a shy, gentle Man, Obediently went back to his shop and produced Model II. One Sunday he lent it to a friend. The 'friend brought the outbord btiek on Men- day, with orders for 10 more like it, and the Evintudee were In business. With Ole in ehaegé of production, and Bess Writing the adVertiting ("Don't Row! Throw the Oats AwItY! Use iin Ethirtide Motot!") .the Evinthde betecheble Rowboat Motel. Co. prO8peted, Thep, in 1914, Bess' health failed and 010 sold out to his partner, By this . time there Were a dozen other U.S. outboard- • 5, Fall0 into 30. Think disuse 42. Enliven 6. County in 33. Talks glibly Ohio 39. Take riWay 7. Moat excellent 3 6. Li t b zi t o 8 Urchin again 9. Unit of *eight 37. Coif ente 10. neou eli t i rito 3th FOOtbrt 11 terun line 40. Abandon 11. Move back 92. Article of 17. Dwell belief 22. (la s er` 99, itisiPld 24. illartinimae 47. Tta.lian toWri voleatio 50' Clit oft makers, mete of which has sur- vived. • 14104, Ole Evinrude, -.tired. of retirement, _came back' into the field .With his Eite..,The year,. the aircraft - building John- son brothers joined the. Outboard industry'. with the Johnson.' bight- •• Twin. 'Meanwhile: the original Evin: rude company had been acquired by Briggs and Stratton, well-known makers of small motors for lawn and garden implements and light- ing plants. Finally; in 1029, Eviu- rude, .010.: Elto and another firm named ;Lockwood -formed the Out- board Motors - Corp. In 1036, this company *acquired Johnson. Today it is khown as Outboard Marine and Manufficturing, and its Can- adian affiliate in. Peterborotigh, •Ont., makes all three motors - Johnsons, Eltos and Evintudes. Eltos are made only in. Canada. There are, of course, many other brands of outboard. In. fact, North American. shopper has his choice Of no less than 32 different, breed, names - of which. 29 are - Ameritan-Canadian and three are British: Anzanir Atce-Villiers .aud , Seagull. A couple of these, Silver- fro]. and Troll-King ate battery-' Operated electric motors, so ,silent the fish are. fooled completely,. Two of the motors, the up-to-eight-horse- power Droisen and the mighty 75- horsepower Riley (about • $1,200 U.S.) are •four-cycle,-motors, similar to some auto engines.. The others are two- cycle Motors, like the gad- get. that drives a power lawn mow- er. Each type has its advantages: The- four- cycle is more economical; With fuel consumption as logy as half that of the two-cycle. The. let- ter is lighter, With feteet Moving partS, and is el: hider, although Mod, ern outboards • are net. pereiselY Ali,. but they were simple in the' days; Or Wete they? To start You' Merely laid hold of a knob on the flYttheel on top Of the Cast-iron contraption,- and 'spun it and 'epee. it and - spen• IL If Yon Were lucky, you got it started before soil sprain- ed your -Wrist.. Then your only limb- Ion Was. to keep it going at US- normal nerve-Shattering roar. •Igni- flint Was by coil-anti-battery, but the •tinting device WAS eriide awl there-Was only one eylinder, If that • was MISS-tam the Motor- Was Missing. The carbirretor, at first, • Was it sort of valve: It had to lie. Adjusted' just right, or the cyliti- det ivmtid 'Cithet floed with ftteli• or starve to- death. Still, .Best- IVitt- rade ii-Oliited Mit,. it teas better then rowiiig improvement mine gradually lit first, theft faster- In 1015 Caine' the Swivelling iitotinf; SO that the Motor Woad tilt tip•Wheil tilideetteter pottien lilt it rock of n SWiritiner..Iii 1021 •Citirie twin cylinders Mete power arid' - the -fleet tee of light alabilhain afteya., In 1022' 'dente the 'afloat-feed" .earbitretor - like' the One en Yinit tat, or that Magical device that Controls th6 rushing' Rate the family' toilet: 'This Made. bid HOW Seit4regtillittrigl• hit more iniiigry inetork eilintter4 'pant- ing rot, knot 0lien, hi 10:4 ton this Criiithierit at least), maid; taCing As btwasl tbfg iniiirovcrl the: 404 •ffiagleatik, SPetiti' ]fiat ycir' FIXED FOCUS - He sure did: What the editor said was chimp- ly awful when 'he learned that the news 'photographer let "Tar- zan" examine the paper's cam- era. Bellows on the camera is ' in poor shape, but the bellows in the office were in top condi- tion. was about ] 10Miles an hour. Next year, tnotor makers brought out more powerful units, and the speed bit a dizzy 10 Miles ail hour, In 1926, outboard propelled skiffs 'broke the 20 miles-an-hour mark. By '1933 they Were hitting over GO miles an both.. In 1954, an otabotted- pkopened hydreplahe did better than 100 miles an honk for the • first time.. Of course, this is not the world's Water Speed record, Donald Cainp- bell,: son of England's reified speed king, Sit Maleoltii Campbell, beck, eted- his jet-propelled Bluebird last' Noveinbet to a fantastic 216.2 mph While the Inboard hydroplane record of 178,40 mph in .1052 is still held by Slo-Mo-Slitin IV owned by Stanley S. Sayete of 'Seattle; Wash. The record for •ontboardS (100.303 mph, to be exact) Wits set by the Italian driver Massimo Leto de Priolo• at Milan, Italy, brit his Met- or was not quite the unit to pottee the family cabin Critiger. It Wits a custom Italiitii Unit, a Leste - fout-eycle fent cylinders and super- charged, like softie rating tat en- gines.. .The Desett deteloped ,iii amazing. 102-horsepower lit 7,000' tooltitions per minute. its 'CYlihder eapeeity was jest over Gb Milk' in- • eltee. A eer engine developing: the ' stifhte PoWer reiptires Minot fit's' times 'AS litheit "Eifel-tieing. -Heir Spliee... HOS thiS, Mean Ifaly lhas outstrip- ted the United States titit- Wittig? Not ektittif littvny'Otridere' •slated. fOr Motet tore Peciff beat duty get thew training bit "intitill liydropliihes PtiWetdit by cl‘feeditilP , Minors. Da Entepettit &Weddle' have be, thine most hletiert: at Coating' high' power out rit ifo dthibt„ to the high oat 'of '0A- oiled Oh that tontine-tit., Betting, Welt to the racing TWeri- tlea hild Illittlek It Witt iiiithrtil inetrist, During the Course of eon- VeratItion If asked my doctor If hip thought watching' televisi011 wae harmful to the eyes. 'Net a bit"-it Was the answer, "not rt hlt yoi can't hurt your eyes by Using them,9 So there you have the opinion of te expert. But mnentber, he was re- ferring only to the eyes riot to the mental attitude of viewers or tO the fact that 'too nnieli television. may mean too little physical exer, else out of doors. I stayed overnight with DAIWA, er and found our new grandson growing like a weed - And a nice chubby weed at [bat, Next day while waiting for My giasses X went to a matinee performance of "Oklahoma" the first Om been to since the Coronation., It is a two and 4 half hour show and X enjoyed every minute of it. It has been changed a little from the stage show but of course the music Is the same and the scenery is out of [hie Weed. When the show starts tour- ing the province, and if it should Come anywhere near your locality, whatever you do, don't miss it. It, you like MUSIC, colour, romance and first rate acting, you get it alt in "Oklahoma." Well, I had better find out what David is doing. He is out with Grandpa at the moment, enjoying his last week on the farm. Ile is quite happy with me until Cramp goes out and then away he goes to fix fences, doing such important jobs as carrying the pliers or a hot of staples. When he gets beck to the city I am afraid he will :miss' his hundred - -acre playground. FiShermen's Luck Fishing from a pier at one of the Baltic coast resorts the other day, an angler brought up a woman's handbag. It contain- ed cash to the value 'of aboUt $5 and letters which identified the owner as a shorthand-typist from Coblenz. - She revealed that' she had accidentally dropped the bag Overboard from a pleasure steamer six years previouS1Y- Most anglers can tell of at least one strange catch, but there's only one angler on re- cord who had the luck to land a lump of gold. Thomas F. Foreman was fish- ing from Eastbourne Pier in 1923 when he suddenly felt what seemed to be the tug of a big fish on his line. With some difficulty he landed a weighty metal object covered with sea- weed, and was about to throw it back, into the sea when lie noticed a yellow streak under the mass of weed. He took his catch to an ex- pert who conducted an acid test which showed that mere than a quarter of a pound of the sub- stance was pure gold. Tusks and bones Of mam- moths which roamed fifty •thou- sand years ago where fishermen new trawl are •sometimes brought to the surface of the North Sea in the nets, One trawler reported catching a dead elephant in her gear; an- other hauled up two small silver anchors which were once part of the decorative work ,on the bows of a Spanish ship. They would have been pitched over- board if a lad hadn't scraped one with his knife and revealed the white metal. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking BONN BEE ENE MOE MOWER= IMMO DM© MEMO OMMMUO DOWIEU 00111 un con um DOW 000 DO DUB OD UUL PERIA&NOW MBODOMED MODE UNO DE00 OUDZ ODE BMW ENJOU Outboard Motors Rim Most An /t1 • 1