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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-08-22, Page 3,1( Ativ .t...0" . irk 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. metrist, During time course of cow Versation 404 my doctor if he thought watehing television was harmful to the eyee. "Not a bit," was the ansWer,„ "got n bit you can't hurt your eyes by using theta," 0 So there you have the opinion of 4111 expert, Bat remember, he was re- ferring only to the eyes • pot to the mental attitude of viewers or to tactthe lllo4?taoto toot tem physical iteeal v ;l ee git cise opt of thaerst stayed overnight with: Dwight. er and found our new grandson, growing Me a weed - and a Ow chubby weed at that Next day while waiting for my glasses. I went to a matinee performance "Oklahoma" the first show I hoit been to slime the Coronation, It, is a two and a half hour OW enjoyed every ,of it, It 'has been changed a little from the stag. show bet of course the music is the same and the scenery is out of this world. When the show starts tour- ieg. the PrOrhice, 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 411 in "Oklahoma," Well, X had better tied Out what David is doing. lie is out with, Grandpa, at the moment, enjoying his last week on the farm. He is quite happy with me until Grtunp goes out and then away hepea, to fix fences, doing such important jobs as carrying the pliers or a box ofste!.herlgetsbk tlee5 I afradllVll11tish dIed - -a:rioa;groitd, 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 previously. 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 he 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 more thaQ 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 now 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 Id. Prevent Peeking IMUO MUM VIEU ON MEM Immo ono mum °IMMO HERM UUM 0013 U0 UU8 OU DEIMMU UOOMOM MOO EUlla MUM EUMUUMEO MUM OWD MUD MEDD MEI BRUM CUM Boy of the Forest It is More than %no years Since the amazing creature kneWn as Peter the Wild' Boy was brought to England, and the mystery of his. origin is still unsolved. Peter was discoYered raining. Wild in the forest of Hertswold, near Hanover, Gernmey, M 1725. Aged about thirteen, he Waked on all fours, climbed trees like a monkey and ate grass, Meas. and wild plants,. When Queen Caroline heard about hair she requested that lie be brought to this country and the ablest leaaters provided for him, But he remained untamed:: amount of training could wea' this strange young savage from his wild habits, Ile could only titter grunts and could not be taught. to speak a single s-sylable He wore a bress. collar With his IMMO; Peter. the 1§0, on it. hater he was' granted a pension Of $105 a yea: and a effilifortable holed WAS found for him at a 'feria- ,Berkbailisted, fl liked anti- 'tobacco rind woad kisa the band of aaybody Who ktiVe him looney, . Peter \Vag very SetialtiVe. to .ellanges. In the Wee:thet - a:ad nada' to' hod just before It Thai& .the church at North- cinitel4 Ifortsi, near 'Berklitiiiiated, Is a 'brass, Vete. 'whieii records' that he ,'tiled on February itSk oetipposed to be aged •Sefelity- "86 far ire My Wife is concerned it's a ease of Mind 'titer' Matter, Slie doesn't 'Mind and 1 don't Mat- teiVi They, do say that 'recently 8 fun- Wing U.S.. citizeil 011101).01 on .out. board. Motor to the stern of an old bathtub the stopper hi). and navigated this .east-iron Volitrap- tite3 (101511 part of the !Visas:dont, And a Couple of years, ago„ an dy entiluslaStic but more yr:taloa. •marther named 1)e lideney, piloted an outboard-powered scow about 1,200 miles from 041Hk Ont. to • Florida.. Dubbed a "Mingaboat" Decease it was half boat and hag bungalow, the De Meetly craft was a husky 32-footer, Powered, by a 25-horse- power Johnsoe, the Betty putt. Tatted at a comfortable. seven 01' eight miles an hour down the Trent Canal, across stormy Lake Ontario, navigated the various locks of the Erie Canal, slipped down the Heil. son river to New York and finally arrived in Florida by a route known , as the Inland Waterway, Troubles.?' Once in e while 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 Pleasapt cruise; thank you.. These two little incidents will help to make. n couple of points one, that the great joy of the out- board is that you coo clamp it 10 one edge of a washtub • and lo, you've. got a boat and two, that to- day's ()aboard is a highly reliable box of tricks, and a fine piece of engineering. 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 1955 there were 4,173,000 out- boards in the U.S., sonic 700,000 in Canada. Each 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 the 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 rainchecks for bap- tisms because of lack of water." The spring crop that we thought Would uovor get seeded is ,now coming up in the fields and Who knows, it may be just as Pod crop as usual, 'you don't know, I don't know, nobody knows, Bat One thing is certain, it was semi with faith in the old promise that seed-tirae and harvest shall never fail, ',There may be regional fail- sires of course- as there often are - but never fiance 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.erops 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- to 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 Arne 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 thinking there are going to be a lot of very tired farmers and fatness' 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,,Mota and Dad while they take N. -vacation job for the sole purpose of getting spending money for them- selves. 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 term- 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 - "Well, 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 car. 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 carnbat 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. liouseWife. 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. 1 al- ways think it wise to consult an eye specialist rather than an opto- GET A HORSE Rider' In Central Park biVe• the 'horse IciU'gh tai the driver of a three-wheeled utility car. Named the "Star," the tiny vehicle has a Strearrilined body of molded fibeitlat and a ofie-cylindet Oetentin j.1.0.. engine. The rat has a itiaxlinUni speed Of 70 6,1163 ber hour, and said ta. get 80 trillet te the galldn, tes3'than three feet high, the Star is 10 feet,, five ihcket long' SO mitres Wide4 and Weighs only 400 pOUnda. CliatbOord Motors. Rim Most Arlythito that outboard mattufactares shouid try to Outdo each other in the tie/Itell for more power, greater re, liability, more convenient controls " milt boas, 1 the essen t ia l t i a l marine rill° rj hot-r ' At otd d ter'same es maden.The it f,elcl, u is, cotvuelielilvIttsoef their yr units --gear-box Maiming arid propeller ldWraLigS,Itigthe;—• foli‘i-en10e, ScaoUswillig th undue saws, files and emery elith the drivers unproved Streamlining, They 4180. invented remote eon- trols. When YOU put a fairly heavy ,engine and a Well-muscled, driver et one end of a YOU light,, fiat-bot- tomed skiff, the bow goes up in the aim: and the stern squats, This causes loss Of control and speed, air unknownanzioemobile .t) nne stalled. leeedl forward in his boat, ran airplane- type cables through pulleys to. swing the tiller to and to, Some- body else came up with tile spring- loaded safety throttle: if the driver is tossed out, the spring closes the throttle, and the man 14 'the water is saved from being run down; at least by his own boat. Thus 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 out the bilges. The modern motor has been quietened considerably. The exhaust is con- ventionally underwater. Quieter gears are used, and, theree, are air- intake silencers, rubber seals 1)e- . tween the engine underpan and the hinged hood. Oil companies have kept pace with the improved en- gines and provide special lubri- cants and greases done up in screw- topped or specially-sized packages. One dev elopin en t 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 $6,000 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- hind the 'family car. As you might expect, families are taking to the water like ducks — it's peaceful, and everybody wants to be a sailor, anyway. 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? As 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- Hy putt-putting along the Canals of Mars. By John Largo In Imperial Review FIXED FOCUS '-i. 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. 6, Palls Into 30. Think diSuse 32. Enliven CROSSWORD 6. County le 03. Talks klibly Ohio 24. Take away PUZZLE ' 7. 11108t eseenent 36, tio t o n t o a 4 urchin it Unit or wale-11'i i tl t, goalfthelub 10. Brought ti ollght into 39. Football learn i 40. Abandon - it, Move back ',1,.,2. Article of belief 22. fla.et 17, r/Well 44, insipid 24, il, volcano oinue 47. Italian town 55 Cut oft 10 9 3 z s- 6 7 8 -4 14 1 Z. 13 ACROSS 57. bepitesSiciti Flower OOWN '5, Departed , 9..AutOthobBe 'IS. Dry 2, lilleeoeht, 13, OPetatie Soto; sneaker 14, LiCtiot . Alarre 3,5. Reel WhIstleS 35 Of to frillibes Oreelt Poet 13. keeourit entry 39. TInderStelfid 20, CiatiSe of rutty 22. Treated Iy Before 26. While 27. qjireacl , flown (Pterik)' 20. gnalc 31. RaStdre 33. Bait ('all.)' 30, Ry 37: Exist SS. Boy's nielineine • 41. withdraw '43, Reproach ehusIvelY, 146. 'So MAY' it lie' 46. BaPyletilati deity 4s. Bay In IctIkrii 19, Bull 61.. Sin-fade' it,. street St. First 'Wein rib norse feed' 14. Ttetrieri toad SC Victim 17 1G 15 Z 0 19 16 was about 10 miles an hotir. Next year, motor tuakera brought out • More powerful units, and the speed hit a dizzy 10 Miles an hour', In 1926, outboard propelled skiffs broke the 20 miles-an-hour mark. By 1935 they were hitting over 60 miles au hour..In 1954, an °aboard,. Propelled hydro-n.11106 did better: than 100 mites nn hour for the first time. Ofdourse, thiS is not the world's water speed record. Donald Camp bell, son of ,Ilegland'S finned speed Sit Malcolm Campbell, rock- eted his jet-propelled Bluebird IT last November to a fantastic 210.2 mph while .the. inboard hydroplane of 178.40- mph iii ,1052. is still held by .810-1io-Shun IV owned by Stanley S,'SaYers of Seattle, Wash-, The record for oUtboards. (100.80' to be exact) Was Set by the. Italia driver Messlino Leto de Priolo at Milan, Italy, but his Mot- et' •Wris ,eot quite the Milt to power the 'faintly eabla erillSee. It wa8 ellatoni Italia Mitt, a LeSee — feet-cycle, font cylinders and super- thage, some racing ear ell- „ gine& The Leseo developed ritliaZing 3.02-hersepower a 7,000' revolutions pet initiate. Its cylinder capacity was jrtst over '00 etible la- dies.. A car engiiie deVelophig the' siriiie poivet ternfireS •ainioSt five' • tithes As Meal Biel-using Coibinia-• Hon SOO. Dees this. Mean Italy has otitattili- Ped the tidied 'States in bat- beards? Not exactly Italian naval officers Slated for Motet tee-, IWO boat duty get their trainitigg. On siiiall hYttroPhinea POW-ered by Mercury' motors Etitainean enghided hate &nab Meat Wert at 'Coaxing- VA, PiriVer Ofit •of "einald dire, no doubt, •to. the high Cost of Wine on that etnittheilt, tlettnig hack to the rat.ing I1 ven= tries and 'i'iilrties, it WAS samurai makers,• none of Which has sur- vived. / In 1021;' Ole Eyinrude — tired of retirement. —.came hack into _the field with .his Eito. The following year, the aircraft 'a building John- son brothers joined the. outboard industry with the 'Johnson Light Twin: Meanwhile the original: Evin- rude company. had been acquired by Briggs Iied.Stratton„ well-known makers of small motors for lawn' anti garden implements and light- ing plants. Finally, in 1929, Evin- rude, Ole's. Elto and another firm named Lockwood formed the. Out- board Motors Corp. In 1036, this compapy oiequired Johnson. Today it is known as Outboard , Marine and Manufacturing, ,and its'. Can- adian affiliate, in Peterborough, .. Out.,makes all three motors — Johnsons„Ettos and -Evinrudes. Eitos are made only in Canada. There are, of course, niaby other brands of .outboard.- In fact, a North American shopper 'has hiS choice of no less than 32 different- brand . names — of which 20- are: - American-Canadian . and three are British:. Anzani, Ateo-Villiers and 'Seagull. A couple of these, Silver- trol and • Troll-King •are battery- ' operated olectrie motors, so .silent the fish are fooled completely, Two. of the motors, the lip-to-eight-horSO- ,Powet Lauson and the mighty 75- horsepower Riley (about -$1,200 U.S.) are finit-cycle moters,. similar to some auto .engines.. The others are two- cycle motors, like the gad- get that drives a poWer lawn inow- er. Each type has its advantages. 'The foal, cycle is more economical, With fuel, consaaption as low as half that- of the two-cycle. The lat- ter is lighter, with fewer Moving parts, and is simpler, although mod- ern oetbOards 'are not pereiSely simple. Ali, het they were Minnie in the old -days. Or Were they? To start put merely laid bold of a knob on the flywheel on top of the cast-iron contraption, and spun it And. spiel it' and — spell it. If you were Ricky, you got it started before you sprain- ed your Wrist. Then yOur only grub- tele was to keep It going at its lumina herve-Snattering roar, Igni. tieri Was by , coil-add-battery, but the tithing device' Was woe Mel there Was only one eylinder. If that. was 11110111g, the motor Wag' iiitsrlieg. The carburetor, at first, tvas a Sort of valve: It had to. be adjusted jerif, right, Or the der Woad either flood With NCI, or stntve to death, Still, Bess EViii- nide notated oitt, bettor than rowing, linprOVelienit• Caine grade:111Y Tit ftrat, then &Stet. Ili 191d. came the swivelling tumult, .so ,that the Meter Weald' Whet'', the iititleelViltet. Pertitin hit it rock ,Or 102.1 tame twin tyliiittera niOre POW& — and the first use of light aluminum alloys Cana the "fltiat-fetri" earbtireter like the yoUt car, or that ,Magiedi deVien that controls the nishrrig Iii the hi-Mill terileL' ThiS' Made Biel fie* ;Self.tegittatingf•110 more halgrY ,illtifork Cylinders pent- , ink for Net, Then, in 1144 (on. this Continent at least), , A§% hlways iiiiittlited the breed -Tlin best -aPeed that .yeat have taken to ataeliing elithoerds to their skill., wanks, for faster- ptir- eat of (be walrea. And seal, 14 Canada, the olitboaril has 'helped the airplane open lip the Mirth coentry, Molly pilot, Coni- Itig down unexpectedly on a IlOrth- ern lake, has clamped his trusty. kicker to a pontoon and motor, boated MS ailing plane to shore, or hailed 4 passing trapper eruishig the lake With his outboard, 31)Side the Arctic circle, wetly a mission- Airy gees his rounds with tile aid of his outboard, On Hudson Bay, Esk, imos chase white whales from big freighter canoes driven by out- boards, T.Plie Itoyai Canadian Notat- ed Pollee, working sea petrel out of Halifax, carry outboard-driven skiffs on the big patrol, boats — for chasing poachers. One of the longest outboard saf- aris ill Canada occurred in the sum- mer of 1054, when four govern- ment men traveled from Water- ways, Alta, to Tuktoyaktuk on the A.retie ocean — 2,500 miles in a heavily-laden 18-foot boat. They made only one portage, to get past the Rapids of the Drowned on Slave river. The inirty was seldom near a garage, but their outboard got them there. During the devastating Winnipeg, flood of 3050, 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 done 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 lie was. In 1876 a French- man named de Sanderal invented a sort of raft, to be held up hi 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 Daimler, 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 1896 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 perhaps 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- rude. 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 IL One Sunday lie lent it to a friend. The friend brought the onthoed back on Men- day, with orders for 10 more like it; and the Evitirudes Were In business. With Ole ie charge of production, and Bess Writing the advertising ("Don't Row! Throw . the Oars Away! Use an Evinrude Motor!") the Evinrude Detachable Rowboat Motor Co. prospered. Then, in 1014, Bess' health failed and Ole sold OUt to hiS partner. By this Wile there Were a dozen other' U.S. outboard- zx Z 1 cF 23 ' 24 31 • 37 28 ZG ZS 30 • 3.2 ptka: 33 29 38 • 39 36 a 44 -43 42 4‘, 45 50 49 53 4 2 hi 3s 56 6-30 Answer .eiteWfiere bri itita tinge;,