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The Brussels Post, 1957-01-30, Page 7WNW 1111i NI ii111111101111111111111111111181111 1111111111111111111111.11111111411 itielii11111111111111111141111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111151111111111 *•••‘4; +4.: • _ 7TO - THE BARONIAL"' - Breakfast in bed is only one of the baronial privileges accorded Baron and Lady Wolfschmidt, the two white Borzois seen above being, served chopped filet mignon at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel. But the Russian hounds don't,always •have it so good. It was just a stunt set up to plug a new brand of vodka. 00Wered and ladies fainted at risk ]nalaly phYSkitle, I am not Put noted as an. athlete. PIM I do think the night I beat the M Stars sheltid go dawn in history! comparable, at least, to the time I was playing left field and made a put-out at home plete. These two events, togeth, er, should assure me some fame In the annals of sport, The fact that these noteworthy achievements thok place in the minor leagues, so to speak, should not detract from their 'significance. The baseball event, alone, is a world's record never even attempted in any league. I •was on the high school team at the time, playing left field be- cause I had rubber boots. The man who laid out our baseball diamond had to blast a ledge away from the shortstop posi- tion, and he used up all the ap- ,propriation before he got into the outfield. A boiling spring 'came from under the ledge, and it exuded into left. Playing left field was jtist a token position, because it was so hard, to field a ball out there the teams had a gentlemen's agreement nobody would hit there, and if by acci- dent anybody did, the advance was limited to two bases. So I was standing out there ankle deep when Red Peaks came up to bat. He hit a Balti- more chop, and our infield be- came confused. There was a good deal of throwing around, and we, had him in three separ- ate run-downs - between sec- ond and first, third and second and home and third. As he ad- vanced, slowly but surely, it seemed wise to me to come in and lend ,a hand. Thus the play went from 4 to 3 tol to 3 to 4 to 5 to 3 to 2 to 6 to 4 to 3 to 6, ete,„ete., and finally to me, and I tagged Red out as he slid home. It was not only an unusual play, but it was exciting to watch, and the crowd enjoyed it. They continued to cheer and laugh long after the play was .completed, and now' and again they would subside and go limp until somebody guffawed, again, and, then they would go off into another round of hilarity. For a time it, was a famous incidnt, but after I was graduated and went into other pursuits people sort of forgot about it. Of late years my athletic in- terests have been confined to cribbage, popping corn, and shaking condiments on my meat. But recently I decided I was get- ting flabby and out of trim, so I undertook being secretary of our 'community bowling league. This gets me to the bowling'alley 'one night 'a week, but the job is en- tirely clerical, I have to, keep individual sheets on each bowl- er, compute averages, and show total pinfall and high scores. I took the job because nobody wanted it, and I:qpit, the frater- ' nal aspects of 4tliel!aVoWlingJleagtte shouldn't be peopardied_by.hit-; or-miss 'records. The casualty 'rate in secretaries had, beep, high. Some men Wad to give LIP' the job because, they„,inov,edi out, • of town,' and some moved out of t`,M1171, 'WAR-EGYPTIAN VERSION-Future historians may believe that the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt was repulsed with heavy losses to the invaders if they judge by this new Egyptian stamp. It commemorates the recent fighting by showing three Egyptian wresistance" fighters, one a grenade-toting girl, charging for- ward as enemy parachute troops are slain on the Port Said beach and an enemy ship burns in the background., CROSSWORD PUZZLE 62; Conjunction 63. Pay out bawls; 1. Reser sharpener. 2. Self-esteem 3. Body organ 4. Dessert Ahsikoi .eledvihere.iiti-' his edge:, Escape Story Real ttwlt vh4a r p,,tvT,4;1:11;41147:stpve4ido,d. to the. Allies. Pl,(,).W.S- held 'by the Italians were taken over by the Germans and Michael Bleekrnan, a Yetillg effacer sent, ing with the ,Sherwood Forest- ers, and captured at Tobruk, de- Ogled that the time was ripe to attempt an escape„ The P.O,W,a were to be Moved from the camp, so time was im- portant, Previously, Blackman bad worked en a tunnel .under the floor of the canteen bar as a means of breaking out ,Of Bologna prison camp. Feverish ly enlarging this, he and two, companions aqueezecrinto their positions in the tunnel in 'the early hours of the morning of the day they-were to be moved. "Bach of us had a sitting space of three feet by four feet . . my knees' and ankles were in a permanently bent position in front .of Me, and my whole body was in the shape of , a flattened S. After the first hoor in this contorted position I began to feel signs of numbness and cramp. The blood seemed to be draining away from my legs and I started to. get, pins and needles in my back and feet,'" writes Michael 'Blackman in his gra- phic and entertaining account of the escape, "By The Hunter's Moon". And so the hours crawled by4. At the appoinntecl time - the three men had' deckled. to make individual' break-outs -L the author cautiously raised the trap-door, crawled out and, in stockinged feet, Made off,' Run- rang across the grass he stumbled and fell over a' Ger-. man. The man didn4 move he was dead, drunk. Then came the moment BlaCkman had dreamed about - he was over the wire! But the boots which he had tied round his neck had slipped off during the scramble. It was going to be tough 'going. After seventy-odd miles over stones, rocks and stubble, his feet were in pretty, bad shape. One day Blackman arrived 'at quite a largg Church with an adjoining priest's house 'His re- quest for food and drink was readily met. After the meal, as the traveller rose from the table to leave, the Priest noticed that his, feet were bare. He thought for a moment and then hit upon an idea. In a valley a couple of miles away' was an Italian infantry division; the priest would take his guest to see the general per- sonally. He felt sure the' gen- eral would supply some boots. Alarmed at the thought that he was so close to a whole division of ex-enemies, Blackman hast- ened , to assure the priest that he didn't want to pester the general with such a trivial mat- ter. But the priest was adamant. Threading his way through guns, soldiers, lorries, motor- cycles and other paraphernalia of warfare, he escorted his tom.. panion to where an artillery officer sat on his horse. The priest waved his umbrella at him and asked where he could find the general. At the .small house to which they were di- rected they were met by two staff officers. In matter-of-fact tones the priest addressed them: "The Englishman wants boots." . Guarded by 'three armed sen- tries; BlackMan waited until a motoring cyclist drOve up and handed a pair of boots to the guard who in turn handed them to the bootless traveller. Just as' Blackman had finished lacing them up the general himaelf. appeared. That the general was Prised to see an Englishman in the iniddle,Of his division was apparent, but after five minutes' Conversation took, leave of his'visitor with: "Au revolt., iron btatre..Bon thence:" Happy With his boOts, Blaelettian con-, tinned', on the road to freedom. dressing the Pescara River seemed a formidable prospect, He chatted to' sortie 'peasants and was', told that his best course Would be to proceed over the Pescara dam - a vulnerable keyz•point guarded by just One Watchman: Blacknien had barely Oct feet across the darn When a big then came tip,' seized him ftom• hind, dragged him into the poW., er .house, bolted the 'door arid pushed him' into a, Chair: It looked to the 'escaper es"if hit bid. for freedoM WAS over:. But .quickly the man reached for a bobk, opened it, and "' placed it before the author With the order to •Sign his baffle and add his address.ohectiotis,, :Michael Blackman . The ,big inert napped the' book Stitt; drew baelc,the belt , On.the door and sighalled to Blaeltrifiiii to carry On across tile ,dam. this he lost no time hi doing thankful t6'haVe got anYthing more: than his "atitographq President Eisenhower's recent visit to the drought stricken areas of the South-west has caus- ed considerable comment, but •I don't believe• thete are many - in Canada at least - who realize' just hew serious the situ- ation is down there. So for your information I am passing along part of a dispatch from Boise' City, Oklahoma, which will give you. an idea. Five years of extreme drought have left an economic scar that threatens 'to become as lasting as the wind-gouged erosion of this normally fertile, produc- tive country. It is a natural disaster that has struck primarily at agriculture. But, like an Octopus whipping its tentacles out and lashing at every- thing- within reach; the economic dislocation • caused by the drought now threetens the 'un- derpinnings of this entire high plain, 'and even` of the whole Great Plains area itself, some- thing like one-fifth of the area Of the United States. Cattlemen, wheat growers, cotton farmers, sheep raisers all are facing economic ruin - ex- cept those fortunate few, ‘a Piti- fully small percentage, whO hap' pen to be in position to tap un- derground sources of badly need- ed moisture or the few river reservoirs built in the last two or three decade's by the federal government. Here in this area are concen- trated the problenis of the Great Plains, aggravated by a drought now in its sixth yeat. The air itself is dry. It's the kind of atmosphere that keeps wood from rotting: It dries every- thing up. Houses which have stood as landmarks on the flat- lands for more than a decade bear the marks of grinding sand blown frem the earth's surface by a wind that never stops. There is more than irony in names of landmarks, natural and man-made. Running Water Creek, which rises northwest of Clovis, doesn't even show' any permanency on the maps, where the broken line indicates a stream that disappears almost before it gets started. Old' set- tlers. along this stream don't know where it got its name. Somebody had a bitter sense of humor. "Else he fried to cross it in a flash flood," one old-titnet sug- .gests. But these people out here have courage, syni oath y, deterrnina- lion, arid pride. It's different from the dust bOW1 deys of the 1930's. There are no ling lines of jalopies, bearing families and their few' PnsoessiOno westward • to Califor- nia. Wes IZZard, ptiblishet of the Amarillo, Texas, News, recalls those daya. They wei'e roitg Wegt on Highway 60 by the thetiSaticiO, Cities like Amarillo, as well as small towns, could do more than give than 'a meal of hot soup, some bread, maybe a gal , ion of gasoline, a pat on the baCk, and send them on, The westward inhltation Of 25 yeall ego Wa8, by farm tenants from Texas, OklahoMe, Arleen- :tee, Mississippi, NOt all were fleeing from the drought They were trying to get but Of an economic ; tra'n of tailing, farm rie"iiierketS 'pro- ddetai and climatic reVetaea. They had no pride of '6Wiiet, .Ship. Fe* Owned anything more than Mi• iron bed, Sto'Vec a Model T Ford, and a fete • ciiithese All theY .had An do was'' +A. bile lii'tliO,Cati:and head west. Today, tlibbglt, ,great ithingo htie, talcen Place7-,.` UNDAY SCHOOL LESSON 1$y Rev, It, Harela> Warren 11.D. Our Mission as pisciples Matthew 9:35-10:9, 34-35 Memory Selection; The har- vest truly is plenteous, 'but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the har- vest, that ho will send forth labourers. Into Ills harvest. Mat- thew. 9:37.38. Jesus ministered by teaching, preaching and healing. He min- istered not just from, a sense of duty but because he felt for the people. He had compassion on them, But the task was too big for him alone, He urged the disciples to pray that the Lord of the harvest might send forth labourers. Some of those who attended on the ministry of Jesus came to share his vision, They saw the need and felt for the people. They. prayed for God-sent lab- ourers. Twelve of these ardent souls. Jesus called to himself and sent forth to help answer their prayers.They were given power to cast out unclean spirits and to heal all manner of sick- ness and all manner of disease. They put no price on their ser- vices. Jesus said, "Freely ye have received, freely give." He warned that they would receive persecution, Nearly all denominations are crying about this shortage of ministers. Too few are sharing the vision of the need of the people, 'We are too money-min- ded. The spiritual needs of people about us do not impress us deeply. We do not feel for ,Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking mann con cup MIMEO NO0 EVO MEM ODUREUE MO BED MINI MOM EOM OBOE MECUM MOO MOMDCM MEMO EOM 00E1000 IMMO DEW MEM IOW OUR um mammon MEMO EE N COB M 100EMO11021 M them and with them. Irene** there are few called. of God and sent forth, Ministers are not paid, *I Much as those in other :Profel! Siena where a similar pitied 01 preparation is required, Thitar, have to dress better than titer can afford, But they get along, When they have extra expeno. on account of such emerge:WS as sickness there are OM. appreciative ,parishioners rally to their support, When knows he has been called God to the work he, would 110% exchange It for any other. British Publisher and multi,' millionaire Lord. Beaverlarooli said 25 years ago: "If I were in a position to influence the life of a Sinner* young man today, I would sal' to him, `Bather choose to be nit evangelist than a cabinet mini ister or a millionaire. When I was a young man. I pitied father for being a poor man and a humble preacher of the. Word. Now that I am older I envy his life and career," THE FEAST OF ST, S WITHIN The Feast of St. Swithin on. July 15 is the familiar date because of the old legend attatched to his name, but the origin of the leg- end is perhaps not so familiar. Swithin was a pious monk Of Wessex, who eventually became Bishop of Winchester, He was admired and trusted by all who knew him', and rose high in mat- ters of church and state. Never- theless he remained so humble in spirit that he asked to be bu- ried outside the cathedral,' where the rain from the eaves would fall upon his grave. A later Bishop with more grandiose ideas planned to have him re-interred. in a splendid and orate shrine inside •the cathedral. But legend has it that on July 15 in the year 971, the day apppointed for this proceeding, the change so upset the 'Saint that it rained for forty days, whereupon the plan ta move his body was given up. A minor piece of folklore attach to the main legend, and st* current in some parts of Eng- land, speaks of July 15 as "the day which the apples are chris- tened," referring to the sho,wers which may fall to help On the apples to ripeness. Drive With Care almost a revolution. More people own farms they live on, or have a big share of partnership. * * * "It will take more than a drought to get them off," said one local representative of the. Farmers Home Administration. "These people have a courage to see it through, with a deter- mination fortified by a pride of ownership that was missing in the 1930's. "And there is a sympathetic understanding for each other's problems, The farmer who hap- pens to be lucky enough to have flowing wells for irrigation realizes that• the dryland farmer is hitting .some tough years caus- ed by-conditions beyond his con- trol. • "And the farmer who can ir- rigate his crops, knows that some- where the cost of bringing that 'water up from deep in the gratin& is *going to hit an econ- omic point beyond which there won't be any percentage in,farm- ing. Then he, too, will be looking up at the skies, hoping those rain-bearing clouds get up here from the Gulf of Mexico just at the right time to run 'into a cold front.:,.heading south .from Canada."' Theid 'people need help, but they don't want charity. Most of them have have already mort- gaged their farms to the hilt just to take care of ordinnary running expenses. It costs money to buy seed year after year, put it in the ground, and watch it blow away without even sprout- ing, much less taking root. And it costs plenty to have to haul in hay and grain year after year to feed the stock. Some of the biggest landowners in the country have been selling off section after section, trying to keep themselves in business un- til the rains come.. " Local banks have done about all they can to keep the econ- omy from going under. They have stretched their facilities to make loans. But bank loans are made only to farmers who can show they are pretty good risks. And nobody is a good risk if he can't get moisture for his crops, or grass on the range for his stock.. Spare. Man On A Bowling Team Although strong-, tnen have 4-°: town gso they could give up th There is no emolument, but there is the happy consolation . that one is contributing to a ghod fellowship, The bowling league brings to-, gether every walk of life in our town, in bantering good will and in friendly competition. It was My feeling that by„„taking over the scoring I might protect the worthwhile aspects of the asso, elation from foundering for lack of computation. But I am not much of a bewl- er. They tell me I have a smooth delivery, excellent form, and a natural follow-through of good quality, 1 would make high scores if I could just hit the pins,. In my official capacity I am not on the roster of any team, but if some regular bowler has to be out of town or for another rea- son defaults, I sometimes stand, in, for him and see what I can do. I enjoy this, And the other night the team from the Wor- umbo Mill lacked a member, be- cause Johnny Galgovich was working three to eleven. Upon due application I was prevailed upon to substitute for him. The Worumbo team was match ed, that evening, against the All. Stars, The. All Stars have been league champions more times than I remember off-hand, and are the team to beat. Four of their team are averaging over 100--and as we bowl candlepins with the three small balls this is a most satisfactory average• and should not be compared with the misleading figures of the much easier game where they bowl two balls with bottle- pins. The captain of the Worum-, bo team, when asking me to bowl with them, explained that they had no chance of winning anyway, and the eVening would be little more than a cruel slaughter. But you can't tell about me. The spark was struck. It wasn't my bowling, because I got my customary 78 the first string, but it must have been my radiant personality and my bonhomie. The other members of the Wor- umbo team began knocking down pins they didn't even hit. Nothing was wrong. One lad managed to beat down six spares in a row, and after the third ,one his eyes were glazed and• he was tottering with emotion. He would hit off to one side and get just as many pins. His score ran' up like the cash register at a meat counter, and the All Stars„ he- came. visibly dismayed. The All Stars were hitting precisely, beautifully, perfectly. But nothing much happened. The more they tried, the better they bowled, and the poorer their score. In the end they all went home without saying goodnight, hardly, and seemed to be sad. They congratulated us, but their hearts were not in it. And in the record book, it shows that I bowled on the winning team. I inked it in a little heavily, to emphasize it, because r felt it was an important item, and since I am secretary I felt it mina up to me to do it.=-Bv John Gould in The Christian Science Moni- itor:, .4, r: , Adno8s, 1, bividovilth the grain 16. Flap '9. Came together 12. InStant 13. Days long gone Affirmativet4. vote 16. Toth' 13: Mode leee , tense AS, Lyric. 99. Label IL Biblical high Priest '22; Sriliby 24. IlatietiSe '26:,WOrd'of assent,, '29. Ptibild speaker 82: SWISS canton '83 Stripe .86: Nrittirat 88, Windmill sail .32. 'Threaten .41. Beeertlit.ifrete 43: Complement of a 'belt 44: Sever 48 Ptirlitige '60. thilt i'ditiattifiee 55 Piltelike•fiSk • 53.'ShaeltleS SO FtittY fruit ;63 Hate dolite -to 'sr, isoot.t Or..PhYSICItin ".61. Place of 1•011tike., Portable- shelter 6. Mark , 7. Stage of life E. Tree trunk 9. Mat ' 10. Organ of sight 11. Spread to" dry 17. Armpit 20. Arouse 23.Drive at an angle 25. Present 27, Period of time 23. Nothing 30. Male sheep 21. Myehica'l bird 33. Weaken 34. Pair 35. Told 37. Twilled cloth 40. Healed the sick 42. Came to rest 45. Nimble 46. Black bird 47. Tendency 49. l'ableland 51. Felled trees 53. Watch pocket 54. Sheep 55. Went swiftly 57. Lick up PRICELESS -- Most precious animal in the world is the appealing mite pictured above in the Columbus Municipal Zoo. It's a girl baby gorilla, precious because she represents a triple triumph- first gorilla breecting in captivity, first conception and first birth. Her arrival 'tossed an H-bomb in world zoo circles. Theories, some 100 years old, said it never could happen. "Sweetie Face/' 16 days old when, this picture was snapped, has a wizened face, a head the size of an orange, is 15 inches long and weighed four pounds at birth. She lives in an incubator and is fed human baby formula. tRAGEDY AT NIAGARA the neWS Camera catches the prelude to 'a wintertime fi•Ogd` , Niagara s, nt e e deer strugg Golfe icy rapids leading to Horseshoe AA, they are Three of four that were trapped in the'swirling' .tUrreiiti., They battled idt ,more than ti Mild and got ashore; but were frightened heck into, the' *wet', 'they were swept to their +deaths oVer the fall*, 14.