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SHE'D RATHER ROLL THAN ROCK -Miss 011ie Itoliinson, 75,M
pilots a tractor-sprayer rig through a cOttori' field on the
son farm, which is operated in its entiretY by cCquintet* of sisteri•
who range in age from 61 to 80. Children, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren of Lillie, the only sister who ever married,
are learning farming under tutelage of the five self-sufficient
sisters.
Home vegetable storage may
be marked by extensive spoil-
age during the long winter
months. This problem is usually
traceable to a lack of knowledge
of specific storage requirements
for the several classes of vege-
tables,
To See CurseIves
our earth swipe so large, so
substantial and $U much with
us,. that we tend to forget the
ruiner position it occupiee in
the solar family of plapete,
Only by a small. margin is it
the largest of the other similar
planets. Tree, it does neseees
moderately thick atmosphere
that overlies a thin patchy lay-
er of water and it, does have a
noble satellite, about one fourth
Its ,diameter. The pair, as view-
ed from a suitable position in
space, say from. Venus ,
would undoubtedly provide an
inspiring Pie* , .
Unfortunately there are no
large mirrors in space to em-
power us, to see ourselves as
others might see us, There is,
.nevertheless, one very poor ap-
proximation to the mirror in
space - the dark side of the
new Moon. At this phase of the.
Moon, when it lies almost in a
line with the Sun, the light re-
flected from the Earth illumin-
ates the otherwise unlighted
black hemisphere. . . . Measures
of the earth-shine on the Moon
indicate that the Earth is a good
reflector of light, as, are the
other planets with atmospheres
The Earth, therefore, when
viewed from outer space must
be a bright planet, almost as
bright as Venus:
Whether an outside observer
could recognize the continents
is somewhat uncertain, but
surely in time, by carefully'
plotting the positions of all the
surface features, he wouldfind
that the huge cloudbanks moved
and ,changed, while certain
areas remained fixed. . . .
One peculiarity that we can-
not observe on any other planet
could be seen by our hypotheti-
cal astronomer outside the
Earth. He would be able to ob
serve the direct reflection of
the Sun from our oceans, when
the Earth was properly turned.
The phenomenon might be a
great surprise for a Martian
astronomer, who had never en-
countered large bodies of wa-
ter. He might very well at-
tribute the bright pointlike re-
flection to a smooth crystalline
surface on the Earth, as the
early astronomers visualized the
Moon to be a perfect crystal
sphere. - From "Earth, Moon
and Planets," by Fred L. Whip-
ple.
preparers, bar-tenders, water-oar-
riers, dealers In empty bottles, Xtt„
a truck.equipped with wireless
transmitter sat two white 141400
In khaki, lookil4 rather drowsy
alter a night playing =est*
with their clients,
Last of all, in a sky-blue Amex,
lean ear, sat two men and twa
women, The two men wore ifs,
waiian shirts printed with pine,
apples or palms and hula-hulas
girls; each •chewed grimly a black
cigar, The women were in apri-
cot sharksisin coats and skirts,
with complexions like milk,
mouths like blood, hoarse voices
that swore magnificent oaths in
quick succession.
They had come to select tbs
scenery for the next big Cinema,e
Scope film of the wilds, about a
white hunter who endangers his
reputation to save Ava Gardner
from (1) a rhino, (2) Frank Sin-
atra, but finally falls a victim to
one of Frank's dum-dum bullets
during a lion hunt,
After which. Ava withdraws to
a nunnery on Mount .Kenya and
has found peace when Frank
suddenly pops up, hotly pursued
by Jomo Kenyatta, the Flaming
Spear, and his Mau Mau terror-
ists. Ava hoists the Stars and
Stripes over the nunnery, Frank
fights at her side, and with his
last shot drops Jomo as he's
climbing the flagstaff to replace
it with the hammer and sickle.
But the nunnery is now on fire,
and the two, reconciled, sit side
by side on the organ bench, with
the flames licking at their feet,
playing with four hands "The
Bells of Mount Kenya"-and die.
In the final scene, Strandberg
was told, we would see Ava in
nun's habit walking in, a cloud
across a savanna full of zebra,
rhino, leopards, Watutsi dancers
.and lions.
"We have tried to utilize and
fuse the experience gained by
'King Solomon's Mines,' Joan of
Arc,' and 'Mogamboe " said the
man with the pineapple shirt.
"If we can squeeze religion, gla-
mour, un-American activities and
a complete zoo into the same
film, it's bound to be a success-
but we must have a wide screen
if we're to have room for it all
at the same time."
Strandberg's own safaris with.
photographer Rune tiasner, co-
vering over 60,000 miles, are the
real thing, brilliantly recorded,
`vividly illustrated and very read-
able.
gun-bearers who intervene it the
AlitlatIQP, becomes, critical.,
At tunes,
complex,
ate is nirzuedshryouandsoirnt
of
leopard ,pants, bathes where
there are• crocodiles and insists.
On sleeping in te tree,
Type 73 is the "Savanna snob"
who goes on safari for the same
reason that he has, polo ponies
he can't ride, a sea-going, yacht
he can't sail, He may be an
American, playboy requiring to
bolster up his sell-esteem and
manly
has P testlgeen to gin and big
game
at}
ii lord who
game to forget his last divorce.
Type C is the fanatical spe-
cialist who means to sheet a rec-
ord specimen of the bongo an-
telope or track down some rare
kind of buck. He measures its
horns with a tape-measure, his
great aim being to get his name
on the list of record hunting tro-
phies.
Type D is the appreciative, en-
thusiastic sportsman whose
greatest joy is not to kill, swank
or collect, but watch. He' con-
siders his camera as valuable as
his rifle, and the safari com-
panies specialize in supplying
him with subjects.
For a relatively small fee he
can have a rhino placed in the
exact middle of the savanna with
Kilimanjaro's ice summit soaring
in the background, be piloted to
a convenient distance from the
camera-blase family of Hone at
Serengeti, even photograph hippo
from below at Amboseli by get-
ting into a little glass-walled
"tide" specially built by Walt
Disney.
Strandberg adds: "It is true
that the camera hunter is the
cause of snapshots of lions and
xhinos having become appalling-
ly commonplace, but he has also
helped to bring about a more
sensible and less costly approach
to. Africa's game."
Round about Nairobi there are
specimens of lion and rhino
which have become photogra-
phers' models, and Strandberg
was himself there the day the
city's pet, an aged, magnificent
lion, was accidentally killed on
the Mombasa railway level-cross-
ing and has his obituary notice
reverently printed in the 'East
African Standard.'
He had long been a popielar
model for many a picture repOr-
tage or film "from darkest and
most dangerous Africa"-as was
also Molly, a tame rhino who will
sometimes even allow people to
ride on her.
Strandberg was south of Lu-
hero when a long caravan of
lorries belonging to a large sa-
fari firm came winding up the
road to Kabasha Gap, They
-were loaded with tents, pneu-
matic mattresses, folding veran-
das, bales of mosquito-netting.
Separate vehicles carried bath-
tub, wash-hand basin, water
tanks, then came a gigaptic lorry
with refrigerator, cases of whis-
ky, beer, champagne, and a
Danish chef.
Station-waggons conVeyed the
staff-in white suits, red tu'r'bans
-including gun-bearees; etrophy
•Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
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011e. Strandberg, the Swedish
travel-writer, has made some
scathing comments on the tour-
ist invasion of Africa.
In "Jambor-a Swahili greet-
ing meaning "How are you?"-
he says Nairobi has become the
centre of a tourist industry which
"sells" Africa to would-be specu-
lators, and big safari firms com-
pete in providing extraeordinary
facilities. The tourists-as dis-
tinct frothe genuine hunters-
f all into roughly four categories.
Type A, the "murderer" or
"sporting butcher," has an im-
pressive equipment of rifles, en-
joys slaughter, and, buys the
most expensive game licence en-
titling him to four lions, two
elephants, two rhinos, and an
immense number of giraffe,
buck, gazelles and other innocent
creatures.
He feels "red blood flowing in
his veins" when he hag himself
photographed with one foot on a
slain lion or elephant. He does
not live as dangerously as may
appear, for he has a constant
bodyguard of white hunters and
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In general, vegetables are
classified into four categories on
the basis of temperature and
moisture needs when kept over
an extended period. Onions,
pumpkins and squash must be
exposed to a ' dry atmosphere
and a temperature of 40 to 45
degrees F. Cabbage, cauliflow-
er, turnips and potatoes stored
in open bins or shelves require
damp air and a temperature of
38 to 40 degrees F. Carrots, beets
and parsnips keep best when
packed in a generous quantity
of dry sawdust at 38 degrees F.
Celery must be kept growing in
storage by re-planting it in sand
on the basement floor after 1/3 of
the foliage and some of the roots
have been trimmed off with a
knife. A cellar temperature of
40 to 45 degrees F. is best for
celery.
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Full maturity is essential in
all vegetables intended for stor-
age. This .is indicated in onions
when tete tops fall over volun-
tarily in the garden, in pumpkin
and squash when the rind is so
hard that it cannot be punctured
with the thumb nail and in
crops such as cabbage, carrots
and, beets when the tops develop
a paler color often associated
with a noticeably waxy leaf sur-
face. „ • 4 e
All vegetables placed in stor-
age should be sound and free
from bruises. Therefore much
care is required in• harvesting.
Boxes and pails are preferred to
gunny sacks' as containers for
conveying the produce from
garden to storage.
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Where facilities and time per-
mit much can be done to assist
the curing processes of vegeta-
bles prior. to storage. The time
....honored practice of braiding
binder twine and onion tops,
with the bulbs attached, into
long ropes and hanging these on
the sunny side of a building to
cure is conducive to good keep-
ing when placed in storage. At
UMPS' Opinions
Vs.:Rule Book
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lieSt friends are unwires,. Or
were, it seems to me this Morn-
ieg that, there is a sad lacking
of eirthoritY on the• diamonds of
tne major leagues thees, days
and nights;
Where, oh where is the -arbit-
et whie took eliarge' of ' a game
and, ran it according-rig the
• rules? -
'Perhaps, like 'the ball player,
freer', IrrApire, can .be -fseeneed for
sloNing ,down , in , the_ waning
stages of the, season. The sched-
ule 'as-."fough" a's it is
-on the" player- '- raigher, per-
haps, because the enanein blue
doesn't get to, sit in„the. dugout
,one half et,,,eYerY e lelOg.
Perhape, as„sorne players con-
, tend„, the eenr empire system
has diseouraged 'alertness and
hustle. Or 'Perhaps the rule book,
is at least partly to ,blame, if
blame there should be.
As Early Wynn, the Cleveland
pitcher, said the other day:
"They have several hundred
rules in the book, then create
one that governs them all-the
umpires' judgment." '
At any rate, there seem to
have been more "rhubarbs"
among players, arbiters and
managers this season than ever
before, a situation which has to
belong to the presidents of the
leagues.
There was that affair at Fen-
way Park Augnst 2 es the: Red
Sox lost to the Detroit Tigers,
6-3. It went like this:
In the sixth inning, with
Tuttle On second 'base, Wilseri
of the Tigers singled into short
centre field. Tuttle. slid across
the plate ,about the time the
throw arrived from the outfield
and was called safe.
White, the ,Red Sox catcher,
thought Tuttle was out and pre-
tested vigorously to the plate
umpire. As part of the protest,
White threw the ball into the
outfield. Wilson then jogged
around from first base to score
also.
White, upon throwing the ball,
was waved out of, the game.
Higgins, the, Red Sox manager,
came out to question Wilson's
scoring, but got nowhere, so an-
nounced that the game was
being played under protest.
Now, blame for the outcome
of the game is not ,being_ placed
here on the shoulders of the um-
pires. The ' Tigers scared six
runs, the Red* Sox only three.
Wilson's run made no difference.
Furthermore, White,.was entirely
wrong when. he lost. control of
his emotions and theew the ball
away, -writes Ed Rummil in the
Christian" Science Monitor.
However, the umpires later
admitted' some .interesting facts.
For example, themghe they al-
lowed Wilson to score: because
"the ball was in play, no time
had been called," 'they said that
Wilson , could' have been - retired
at the plate-by White if the ball
had come back to ,the infield
soon enough-ehis is in spite •of
the fact that White had already
been trown out of the game.
Wilson crossed the plate,
therefore, while ehe Red Sox had
only eight men on the field,
White, having been removed,
been thrown out of the game.
Can play continue with only
eight men on the field of the de-
fensive team? Could White have
retired Wilson even though' he,
White, was officially out of the
game?
Among the things said by 'the
umpires after the game was
something that sounded like
"Ydu have to use your common
sense and judgment in carrying
out the rules." If so, a manager
has the right to know how far
an arbiter can go in the use of
his judgment.
Higgins, no doubt, will see his
protest thrown out of court
(American League headquarters
in Chicago) by the judge (Presi
dent Will Harridge). It is under-
stood that no decision based on
the judgment of an umpire can
be questioned by a manager'.'
Judgment, the arbiters say, was
the key factor here.,
Perhaee it is time for - you
night say-a genera), overhaul-
log 'of the umpiting system in
the American League, or a gen-
eral anything that would give
us sounder, Mote intelligent offi-
dating 'oh the ball field.
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cuts lumber for dormitory hi Which to house th
are children of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Whyte, who
homes, becau•'''.44/1/4te: just don't Say iicie" to nee
family to New' here she'll' Make d
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WARDEN, B4., 10,
A, Vision of the Ghurelr
Victorious, Jtevelation 7:9.17
God's people are sometimes
tempted to wonder if it is vain
to serve the Lord, In Malachi's
day they said, "Now we call the
proud happy; yea, they that work
wickedness are set up; yea, they
that tempt God are even de-
livered." (3:14,15) David said,
"I was envious at the foolish,
-when I saw the prosperity of the
wicked. For there are no bands
in their death: but their strength
is firm. They are not in trouble
as' other men; neither are, they
plagued like other men.-Verily
I have cleansed my heart in vain,
and washed my hands in inno-
cency, For all the day long have
I been plagued, and chastened
every morning." This thinking
was very painful to David until
he went into the sanctuary of
God, He writes, "Then under-
stood I their end. Surely thou
didst set them in slippery places:
thou castedst them down into de-
struction.-It is good for me to
draw near to God." Psalm 73.
Malachi had a good answer for
his generation, too. (3:16-4:3)
"They that feared the Lord spake
often one to another: and the
Lord hearkened and heard it,
and a book of remembrance was
written before him.-They shall
be mine--in that day when I
make up my special treasure;
and I will spare them.-Unto you
that fear my name shall the Sun
of righteousness arise with heal-
ing in his wings."... It is a most
heartening passage.
Today's-• lesson' gives a preview
of the great triumph of the re-
deemed. They are a multitude
which no man can number. They
are clothed in white robes and
have palms in their hands. They
have come out of great tribula-
tion and have washed their
robes and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb. God
shall wipe away all teare from
their eyes.
Kingdoms come and go. Caes-
ar, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin
have had their day. Now Nasser
wants 'his place in the sun, but
his day will end. Sooner than
we expect-the angel will sound
and great voices in heaven will
say the words of our memory
selection: "The kingdoms of this
world are become the kingdoms
of our Lord, and of. his Christ;
and he shall reign for, ever and
eve." Revelation 11:15.
ROMANCE ESPANOL-Romantic
as an old Spanish love story,
Christian Dior's dramatic even-
ing gown is a froth of delicately
etched black french chantilly
lace over layers and layers of
pink tulle. The strapless gown,
with a big bell skirt that just
grazes the ground, is worn with
a wide black velvet sash and
matching mantilla.
the Morden, Man., Experimental
Farm the onions with the tops
are harvested when -the first se-
vere frost threatens and then
placed in a blast of hot air at 85
to 90 degrees F. for 8 to 10 days.
This is an excellent method of
curing the bulbs. Pumpkins,
squash and the root vegetables
keep well if they are placed in
small piles in the field and cov-
ered with vines or plant tops to
cure before they are transferred
to storage.
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Plant breeders at the Canada
Department of Agriculture For-
age Plants Laboratory, Saska-
toon, have what they now be-
lieve to be a variety of sweet
clover adapted to the area and
almost free from coumarin.
Livestock deaths from "sweet
clover poisoning" had been
traced over twenty years ago to
the presence in the plant of an
organic compound' known as
cournarin, in itself not harmful
though it gives sweet clover a
bitter taste, but under unfavor-
able conditions in the curing of
sweet clover hay or silage the
coumarin changes to dicumarol,
a substance which even in small
quantities is toxic to all warm
blooded animals. It acts through
changes in the blood that leng-
then the clotting time of the
blood to a point where the ani-
mal will bleed spontaneously in-
ternally or from any type of ex-
ternal wound. Death often re-
sults and several animals may
be stricken at the same time.
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The new variety of sweet do-
ver is simply one that contains
very little coumarin,' but retains
oeher good qualities of the stan-
dard varieties, but it has taken
20 years of careful research to
J produce it. J. E. Greenshields ,of
the. Forage Plants Laboratory,
Saskatoon, where, the 'work .was
done, says: "Some of the early
workers, such as Dr, T. M. Ste-
venson ' and Dr: W. J. White,
would have required special
courage had they known the
years of breeding and the
amount of work required before
a variety void of coumarin could
become a reality."
In 1935 a method was devel-
oped by which coumarin was
extracted from plant material
with alcohol and the amount of
coumarin determined by the use
of an indicator, On the basis of
this test the Forage Plants La-
boratory 'produced a variety
'Pioneer" in 1940. It was soon
discovered Shat alcohol Will not
exteact ail the coumarin in a -
sweet clover plant. -What is
known as "bound" coumarin fe-
mained. When, the , tote] con-
marin was extracted by the use
- of soditun hydro)tide (caustic
soda) Pioneer proved to have as
much as the variety "Arctic"
froni which it was selected.
WHERE'D IT GO, WHERE'D IT GO? Dog-gone difficult for this
canine caddy to find the stray golf ball, but he's trying hard.
The Great Dane, owned by Dominick Colucci, was entered in
the first National Dog Caddy contest.
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lefty has 16 of t57 children to 'Watch hirn as he
e huge brood dt BOwmanville, Ontario.. Phi.
lave taken 'lit the Other 62, all from br'oken
dy children. Wt. Whyte will take her outsize
TV appeal far flfitiis o su,pleinent income of